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Was The Weekly Standard Advertising Itself for Purchase by Leftist Billionaires?

ITEM: The Weekly Standard's corporate owner, MediaDC, told it that it was not interested in continuing the magazine but permitted it to find another buyer "months" ago.


The magazine's precarious position comes after its leadership spent months searching for a buyer, the people told CNN.

The people explained that The Weekly Standard's leadership had butted heads with MediaDC, the current publisher of the magazine, and that the two parties had agreed to allow Hayes to search for a new owner.

However, MediaDC recently informed The Weekly Standard's leadership that the company was no longer interested in a sale, the people said.

That sounds like spin to me-- spin from the Weekly Standard partisans, looking to damage MediaDC for finally getting sick of floating their layabout, endlessly subsidized asses.

What MediaDC probably said was We are no longer interested in funding you while you futilely look for a buyer.

I'm sure MediaDC would unload this piece of shit if someone actually wanted to buy it. But MediaDC has been forced to pay for this failure while they're looking for a suitor. What they're not looking to do is continue flushing money into the toilet while Senorita Hayes searches for a Spanish Suitor in Barthelona.

ITEM: The Standard routinely rejects pieces that are not explicitly anti-Trump. Even pieces that simply point out media bias are rejected because they could be construed as, indirectly supporting Trump given that the media is Trump's partisan enemy.

Even pieces pushing normal orthodox conservatism are unwanted, because, I believe the thinking goes, Trump mostly supports orthodox conservatism so a piece that supports orthodox conservatism could be construed as indirectly supporting Trump.

Presenting a piece that attacks Fusion GPS can even get you fired.

ITEM: The Weekly Standard has taken a harder and harder left turn as their deadline to sell approached. For example, in July, the Weekly Standard ran a cover story hit piece on Devin Nunes by... a Democrat staffer on the Intelligence Committee. (By the way, they identified her as "minority counsel on the Intelligence Committee" instead of "Democrat counsel" because... well, it seems obvious they wanted to avoid that word, no? Maybe some people wouldn't notice.)

That's a strange career trajectory, isn't it? Partisan Democrat legislative counsel to... cover story writer for an allegedly conservative magazine?

POSSIBLE CONCLUSION: The Weekly Standard first sought out a rich moderate Republican to buy the magazine, then maybe an alleged "independent," and then, in the last few months, began trying to make the magazine 100% friendly to a full-on leftist purchaser like Pierre Omidyar or Tom Steyer or Michael Bloomberg.

Or who knows: Maybe even George Soros.

All I know is that that it became "antisemitic" to note that George Soros funds the left as George Soros began funding more and more of the former right.

These bad-faith charges of antisemitism were promulgated by Weekly Standard personnel.

As they grew more desperate, they scrambled to make the magazine more and more friendly to the left, scrubbing out anything that could even be construed as vaguely supportive of standard conservatism -- except where a clear attack line on the left's enemy Trump presented itself.

But they failed. Not even a leftist wanted to buy a tainted, failing magazine, even just to continue demoralizing the conservative movement (as the Weekly Standard has been doing for several years running).

Possibility? The revelation that Pierre Omidyar was funding Kristol & Co., and the bad press both sides got out of that revelation, spooked the intended White Knight buyer Omidyar from bailing the piece of shit out.

Speculation, obviously.

Posted by: Ace of Spades at 12:30 PM




Comments

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1 Someone should've bought it and turned it into a gay porn magazine.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at December 05, 2018 12:29 PM (4ErVI)

2 I like this hymn. GW lost it a bit there, fitting and touching.

Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate at December 05, 2018 12:30 PM (lwiT4)

3 Ace apparently isn't watching the services for GHW Bush.

Posted by: m at December 05, 2018 12:31 PM (eJj1Q)

4 >>>Possibility? The revelation that Pierre Omidyar was funding Kristol & Co., and the bad press both sides got out of that revelation, spooked the intended White Knight buyer Omidyar from bailing the piece of shit out.

It was Julie Kelly that broke that story, yes? That woman deserves a medal of valor.

Posted by: El Kabong at December 05, 2018 12:31 PM (datdl)

5 let them all drown in the saliva of their own nervous breakdowns

Posted by: bored383 at December 05, 2018 12:31 PM (zJ4nO)

6 You are the light of the world. Glory to God. Amen.

Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate at December 05, 2018 12:32 PM (lwiT4)

7 Ace apparently isn't watching the services for GHW Bush.

Posted by: m at December 05, 2018 12:31 PM (eJj1Q)


I'm not either. It seems like yesterday we watched Barbara's, and then McCain's two-week affair.

Meanwhile, this thread has me seeing red!

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 05, 2018 12:32 PM (ptqGC)

8 I am not sure which I would prefer - their demise or being forced to sell out for a dollar like Newsweek...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2018 12:33 PM (hYcqw)

9 Scuse me while I kiss this guy.

Posted by: Purple Hayes at December 05, 2018 12:33 PM (aKsyK)

10

I'd buy that for a Dollar!

And then do things to it. Terrible things...

Posted by: In Vino Veritits at December 05, 2018 12:33 PM (vzKmu)

11 I really do feel sorry for the employees at the Standard who are losing their jobs just before Christmas. I'm sure Stevie Hayes and the other NeverTrumpers will walk away with their pockets stuffed with (Iranian) cash.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 05, 2018 12:34 PM (ptqGC)

12 grammie! So good to see you back here. How are you doing, our sweet pirate wench?

Posted by: bluebell at December 05, 2018 12:34 PM (U5tDi)

13 Hopefully it's moot. Put a bullet in the head and a stake in the heart and make these cucks earn a living for a change.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 05, 2018 12:34 PM (RD7QR)

14 GRAMMIE!

(Rushes into room, big hugging commences)

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Thoughts and Prayers for RGB 🐘 at December 05, 2018 12:35 PM (LX21o)

15 Doesn't Kristol have a pretty big pile of family cash to keep this hobo hump pile going?

I always thought TWS was privately owned and basically just Kristol's rich kid plaything until last year.

Posted by: El Kabong at December 05, 2018 12:35 PM (datdl)

16 Will Nobody Fuck My Wife!?

Posted by: Bill Kristol at December 05, 2018 12:35 PM (/NB++)

17 Isn't this a common phenomenon, that a cratering company attempts to go woke because the execs are attempting to make themselves more palatable to potential employers?


Regardless, I bet you're right that the shift occurred as their search for a new funder expanded to non-conservative, and then explicitly Left sources.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 05, 2018 12:36 PM (W+vEI)

18 We have to save our phoney baloney jobs!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 05, 2018 12:36 PM (+y/Ru)

19 RED.

And linkage.

Other than that, who?

/

Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 05, 2018 12:36 PM (6qErC)

20 bluebell- My right face is aabout an inch and a half south of my left face, I can't see and I'm drooling. But I'm enjoying the sermon at GHWB funeral so I count it all goood.


Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate at December 05, 2018 12:36 PM (lwiT4)

21 Gol Dang! Goin full commie around here.. red red red

Posted by: sOME mORON at December 05, 2018 12:36 PM (ICWiF)

22 >>I really do feel sorry for the employees at the Standard who are losing their jobs just before Christmas.


...or during Hanukkah.

Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2018 12:36 PM (/NB++)

23 Would the Pierre Omidyar revelation register with someone who was planning to bail out TWS? If the person is deep enough in the tank to consider it, does that matter?

I hope so. I am cynical but I have *some* hope left...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2018 12:36 PM (hYcqw)

24 I can't read the name "Hayes" without thinking of soft fragile moist-eyed hot dog-curious demi-manlet Chris "Looking out the window and quietly crying into my sweater" Hayes.

Posted by: hogmartin at December 05, 2018 12:37 PM (IqOTP)

25 They should just learn to code and move out of their stupid hick town or, you know, DIE.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 05, 2018 12:37 PM (7TCRf)

26 Popcorn!

Posted by: clutch cargo at December 05, 2018 12:37 PM (TUU1F)

27 grammie, please rest and don't overdo it.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 05, 2018 12:37 PM (ptqGC)

28 11 I really do feel sorry for the employees at the Standard who are losing their jobs just before Christmas. I'm sure Stevie Hayes and the other NeverTrumpers will walk away with their pockets stuffed with (Iranian) cash.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 05, 2018 12:34 PM (ptqGC)



Yup. The fuckers that drove it into ground will be just fine.

Posted by: eleven at December 05, 2018 12:37 PM (NLLmE)

29 In early!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 05, 2018 12:37 PM (wQDH5)

30 The Weekly Standard first sought out a rich moderate Republican to buy the magazine

Imagine the cachet of owning your own #NeverTrump outlet! Kind of like summering in the Hamptons.

Posted by: t-bird at December 05, 2018 12:37 PM (NpvYf)

31 Aw, grammie. Did they have any idea when things might start to right themselves?

Posted by: bluebell at December 05, 2018 12:37 PM (U5tDi)

32 Howdy, grammie!
So glad to hear you're on the mend!!

Got any good pirate jokes?

Posted by: Lizzy at December 05, 2018 12:37 PM (W+vEI)

33 Even before they went cuck-out never Trump, The Weekly Standard was always near the last on my to-read list.

Posted by: josephistan at December 05, 2018 12:37 PM (7HtZB)

34 "Preach Christ at all times. If necessary, use words."

Posted by: m at December 05, 2018 12:38 PM (eJj1Q)

35 >>I really do feel sorry for the employees at the Standard who are losing their jobs just before Christmas.





...or during Hanukkah.

Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2018 12:36 PM (/NB++)


This, too.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 05, 2018 12:38 PM (ptqGC)

36 Sorry to hear about your troubles Grammie.

Posted by: eleven at December 05, 2018 12:38 PM (NLLmE)

37 Willowed, re: our discussion of the Emma Peel era of The Avengers:

456 I never saw most of the Cathy Gale Avengers episodes
Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 05, 2018

*
*
The "This" channel here ran them all this autumn, and have segued into the B & W and then the color Diana Rigg episodes. Honor Blackman was hot in a dominatrix way. I was never sure whether she even liked Steed, let alone had slept with him. The eps were also shot on videotape and almost always in a studio, so they are sort of film-noirish and claustrophobic. But they featured much more "realistic" plotting and situations than came along with the Rigg stories.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 05, 2018 12:38 PM (wQDH5)

38 grammie, please rest and don't overdo it.


Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 05, 2018 12:37 PM (ptqGC)



No worries, Jane. 'Not overdoing it' is one of my best events.

Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate at December 05, 2018 12:38 PM (lwiT4)

39 Whoa, it's grammie! Good to have you back!

Posted by: hogmartin at December 05, 2018 12:38 PM (IqOTP)

40 Bush funeral whiter than a polar bear in a snow storm.. racist much? shit wad elites!!!!

Posted by: sOME mORON at December 05, 2018 12:38 PM (ICWiF)

41 Thanks eleven. I apprectie it.

Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate at December 05, 2018 12:39 PM (lwiT4)

42 Today is the day America says 'Goodbye' to Bush.


Hardwood Floors, Forever!

Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2018 12:39 PM (/NB++)

43
Presstitutes. All of them.

Posted by: Embedded in my Pre-Frontal Cortex at December 05, 2018 12:39 PM (e7O7B)

44 Alternate explanation:

Hayes and Kristol are losers.

Also, never underestimate the power of and.

Posted by: blaster at December 05, 2018 12:39 PM (9VeU0)

45 Hi hog martin!

Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate at December 05, 2018 12:39 PM (lwiT4)

46 TWS is only useful to the left as a 'conservative' mag that shits on Trump. That's the con...getting 'conservatives' to hate Trump in order to screw with the base and maybe trick them into abandoning of softening their support of Bad Orange Man.

By taking a hard turn left and pissing off everyone but the NeverTrump Wifeswap Brigade, TWS is now completely useless to the left because conservatives are on to the game and no longer read/trust/pay attention to it.

Posted by: El Kabong at December 05, 2018 12:39 PM (datdl)

47 I really do feel sorry for the employees at the Standard who are losing their jobs just before Christmas.

On the other hand... Happy Kwanzaa.

Posted by: t-bird at December 05, 2018 12:40 PM (NpvYf)

48 I look forward to reading vivid descriptions of Ace's shaedenboner when TWS finally sets sail for the last time.

Ahoy!

Posted by: Defenestratus at December 05, 2018 12:40 PM (T1tDX)

49 Is there a Titanic gif out there?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 05, 2018 12:40 PM (ptqGC)

50 Get Woke. Go Broke.

Posted by: mikethemoose at December 05, 2018 12:40 PM (IRSBy)

51 Bush funeral whiter than a polar bear in a snow storm.. racist much? shit wad elites!!!!

Posted by: sOME mORON at December 05, 2018 12:38 PM (ICWiF)

Chocolate Jesus and Moochelle are there...

Posted by: Timon at December 05, 2018 12:40 PM (dKm4U)

52 Heh heh.

Trump curse.

Posted by: Emmie at December 05, 2018 12:40 PM (4HMW8)

53 Someone should've bought it and turned it into a gay porn magazine.

I'd bet a nickel that 30 years ago Larry Flynt would have done just that. Only it would have been the first explicit ghey magazine. Hell, I'd even grab the charter copy of Kristol in the wood with bears.

Posted by: clutch cargo at December 05, 2018 12:40 PM (TUU1F)

54 51 Bush funeral whiter than a polar bear in a snow storm.. racist much? shit wad elites!!!!

Posted by: sOME mORON at December 05, 2018 12:38 PM (ICWiF)

Chocolate Jesus and Moochelle are there...
Posted by: Timon at December 05, 2018

*
*
They represent the polar bear's eyes.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 05, 2018 12:41 PM (wQDH5)

55 "Not even a leftist wanted to buy a tainted, failing magazine..."


Sidney Harman, who bought Newsweek for a dollar in 2010, apparently had other commitments, and reportedly was unwilling to spend on TWS as much as he spent on Newsweek.

Posted by: Qoheleth at December 05, 2018 12:41 PM (iIzG7)

56 I'm picturing Kristol and Stevie standing on the bow of the Titanic, their arms around each other, singing "Our Hearts Will Go On."

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 05, 2018 12:41 PM (ptqGC)

57 30 The Weekly Standard first sought out a rich moderate Republican to buy the magazine

Imagine the cachet of owning your own #NeverTrump outlet! Kind of like summering in the Hamptons.
Posted by: t-bird at December 05, 2018 12:37 PM (NpvYf)

If by "the Hamptons" you mean "Duluth."

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 05, 2018 12:41 PM (RD7QR)

58 bluebell- My right face is aabout an inch and a half south of my left face, I can't see and I'm drooling. But I'm enjoying the sermon at GHWB funeral so I count it all goood.




Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate at December 05, 2018 12:36 PM (lwiT4)
***********************
grammie you have been in my thoughts and prayers. You are such a trooper!

Posted by: redridinghood at December 05, 2018 12:41 PM (hECVl)

59

Say, why are there so many Big Sausage Pizza boxes laying around. And mostly uneaten. What a waste! Maybe I can donate them to the hobo fuck pile charity for a write-off...

Posted by: Cock Curious Cuck Cruise Captain Crystol at December 05, 2018 12:41 PM (HgLVJ)

60 >>>1 Someone should've bought it and turned it into a gay porn magazine.

The Twink-ly Standard

Posted by: El Kabong at December 05, 2018 12:41 PM (datdl)

61 Maybe whoever paid $1 for Newsweak has some more money in their spare change jar.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at December 05, 2018 12:42 PM (oVJmc)

62 Ludicrous speed over the abyss!

Posted by: Stephen Hayes as Dark Helmet at December 05, 2018 12:42 PM (aKsyK)

63 On the other hand...


The Trump Curse continues apace.

Posted by: eleven at December 05, 2018 12:42 PM (NLLmE)

64 >>>49 Is there a Titanic gif out there?

At the very least, we need a My Heart Will Go On parody.

Posted by: El Kabong at December 05, 2018 12:42 PM (datdl)

65 OMG, I just lost it watching James Baker lose it.

Posted by: Marybeth at December 05, 2018 12:42 PM (CmURZ)

66 At the very least, we need a My Heart Will Go On parody.

Posted by: El Kabong at December 05, 2018 12:42 PM (datdl)


See #56.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 05, 2018 12:43 PM (ptqGC)

67 At least the employees are losing their jobs during the Trump years. Not that it's easy or ideal, but opportunity is knocking these days, and it will probably jiggle the window if you don't answer.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Thoughts and Prayers for RGB 🐘 at December 05, 2018 12:43 PM (LX21o)

68 The basic problem with their business model is that there is so much bullshit available for free there is no reason to lay for it.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 05, 2018 12:43 PM (+y/Ru)

69 Thansk redridinghood. I have much to be thankful for.

Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate at December 05, 2018 12:43 PM (lwiT4)

70 There are better vehicles to use as propaganda mills than TWS if you are a leftie billionaire trying to destroy western civilization.

Even if they sell TWS for the Newsweak price of $1 they're paying too much.

Posted by: Boots at December 05, 2018 12:43 PM (e9omi)

71 Looks like the Neo-Cons suck at running a business as much as they do running a war.

Posted by: William Eaton at December 05, 2018 12:43 PM (MuTTO)

72 65 OMG, I just lost it watching James Baker lose it.
Posted by: Marybeth at December 05, 2018 12:42 PM (CmURZ)

It's so full of love there.

Posted by: m at December 05, 2018 12:43 PM (eJj1Q)

73 No worries, Jane. 'Not overdoing it' is one of my best events.


Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate at December 05, 2018 12:38 PM (lwiT4)

9.9/10 and you stuck the landing.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at December 05, 2018 12:43 PM (t6MX/)

74 I'm picturing Kristol and Stevie standing on the bow of the Titanic,
their arms around each other, singing "Our Hearts Will Go On."


Yeah, I leave the second they get in the car.

Posted by: clutch cargo at December 05, 2018 12:43 PM (TUU1F)

75 TWS management probably calculated there just aren't any filthy rich conservatives willing to buy a small megaphone.

Posted by: MAGA at December 05, 2018 12:44 PM (C01S9)

76 As obvious as it was that Kristolmeth et al had been "flipped", the list of compromised names Julie Kelly published was jaw-dropping.

Posted by: kallisto at December 05, 2018 12:44 PM (DJFLF)

77 "Yup. The fuckers that drove it into ground will be just fine."

So, what you're saying is that TWS got Enron'ed.

Posted by: Qoheleth at December 05, 2018 12:44 PM (iIzG7)

78 OMG, I just lost it watching James Baker lose it.

Posted by: Marybeth at December 05, 2018 12:42 PM (CmURZ)


The same James Baker who, along with Jon Meacham, hosted Obama at Rice? That James Baker who laughed and laughed as Obama claimed credit for all Trump's accomplishments?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 05, 2018 12:44 PM (ptqGC)

79 NASA TV coverage is starting. A SpaceX Dragon is scheduled to launch at 1:16 pm EST carrying supplies and scientific experiments to the ISS.

https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html#public

It was supposed to launch yesterday, but the mouse food was moldy and had to be replaced. I'm not sure if a launch has ever been postponed for that particular reason before.

Posted by: rickl at December 05, 2018 12:44 PM (xjiRE)

80 Has anyone seen Barnara Bush, the daughter? Is she still so skinny?

Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate at December 05, 2018 12:44 PM (lwiT4)

81 " But they featured much more "realistic" plotting and situations than came along with the Rigg stories."


No young male watched Emma Peel for the plotting and situations.

At least none of the straight ones did.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 05, 2018 12:44 PM (cqNba)

82 Maybe Putin and the ChiComms can go in 50/50 to save the Weakly Standard, although it would likely be less effective than buying Facebook ads.

Posted by: ShainS -- Facial Scarring Survivor at December 05, 2018 12:44 PM (KhlhT)

83

I really do feel sorry for the employees at the Standard who are losing their jobs just before Christmas.


I don't. I've been laid off right before Christmas.

Welcome to the real world...

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 05, 2018 12:44 PM (HaL55)

84 >>The Trump Curse continues apace.

@realDonaldTrump
20 Apr 2015
More
.@weeklystandard I know your business is failing but you should try to get writers far better than @stephenfhayes.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2018 12:44 PM (/tuJf)

85
Play their theme song as the S.S. Weekly Standard is scuttled:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmGuy0jievs

Posted by: publius, the Duke of Miley's Ficus at December 05, 2018 12:45 PM (f1Vqw)

86 "Heaven just got a little kinder and gentler."

Posted by: m at December 05, 2018 12:45 PM (eJj1Q)

87 It's 2018. Is the existence of a paper magazine even still a thing?

While there might be a place in this world for actual, you know, journalism, it seems to me the whole of publishing, as with teevee entertainment (i.e. news outlets) are so infected with the modern concepts of what "journalism" has become, there can't possibly be a real market for such things. And by market I mean, actual buyers of content, who go to these people for information that can't/won't be gotten elsewhere for free.

So as tweeter further poisons the intricate, complex network of various people and publications and media outlets, something as 20th century as a magazine just has no place in this world anymore.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 05, 2018 12:45 PM (9chmE)

88 It's strange, a company like this really has no tangible assets other than the subscriber list.

And since they pretty much alienated their audience way back in 2016 and were hemoraging subscribers even back then only a maniac would float these fuckers.


It's a shame, I was so looking forward to the AGAINST TRUMP 2020 version, this time with more cuckery.

Posted by: Kreplach at December 05, 2018 12:45 PM (qxq6t)

89 That was a pretty good sermon for an Episcoplaian.

Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate at December 05, 2018 12:45 PM (lwiT4)

90 Sadly, all these traitors at Weekly Standard, still appear on Faux News.

Posted by: Jonah at December 05, 2018 12:45 PM (HrSJb)

91 The weekly Standard is toast if a Lefty billionaire buys it & I would suspect that even the subscribers it has left would flee.

Hopefully, it goes down like the Titanic.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 05, 2018 12:45 PM (hECVl)

92 A meeting room. The unidentified Lefty billionaire sits in shadows, his fingers steepled.

Hayes: "And we have our conservative cred, so if you purchase us you have attacks on Trump and populism coming from both sides."

L.B.: "Mr. Hayes, we already have a stable of writers with shall we say "elastic principles. Why should I and my consortium buy your magazine when we can contract your desperate stable of hacks when we need a hit piece in a generic publication such as The Atlantic Monthly?"

Hayes: "All is in place, the subscribers - you would not need to reinvent..."

L.B.: "Your cruise brochure has a smaller circulation than Model Railroader. Please show yourself out."

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Ho Ho Ho! Red Faced Rants are In at The Outrage Outlet! at December 05, 2018 12:46 PM (hLRSq)

93 Hillary at the GHWB funeral definitely looks like the booze is wearing off.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 05, 2018 12:46 PM (O7MnT)

94 Shorter Possible Conclusion:

NeverTrump Circle-Jerkus Interruptus.

Posted by: Sharkman at December 05, 2018 12:46 PM (k2Hcx)

95 The same James Baker who, along with Jon Meacham, hosted Obama at Rice? That James Baker who laughed and laughed as Obama claimed credit for all Trump's accomplishments?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 05, 2018 12:44 PM (ptqGC)

Yeah, I know. Not fond of him.

But the friendship between Baker & HW seems to have been genuine. As did the tears.

Guess I'm thinking back to my dad's funeral . . .

Posted by: Marybeth at December 05, 2018 12:46 PM (CmURZ)

96 Oh my gosh It's Michael W Smith.

Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate at December 05, 2018 12:46 PM (lwiT4)

97 I don't. I've been laid off right before Christmas.

That's how your management scored Christmas bonuses that year.

Posted by: t-bird at December 05, 2018 12:46 PM (NpvYf)

98

The WS is an aging whore, reduced to giving $5 toothless gum jobs to hobos behind the bus station. The WS will do anal for $10, but has been sodomized so much that there's no tone left and the WS has constant pesky anal leakage.

Posted by: Don Lemon Party at December 05, 2018 12:46 PM (HgLVJ)

99 Glad the NT fools are going under. (Sucks for the rank and file conservatives that work there though.)

Semi-related: I'm still shocked that Levin partnered with Beck.

OANN was right there waiting for a boost to the big time.

And Beck is... *sigh*

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at December 05, 2018 12:46 PM (JcPeV)

100 20 bluebell- My right face is aabout an inch and a half south of my left face, I can't see and I'm drooling. But I'm enjoying the sermon at GHWB funeral so I count it all goood.

That all sounds appropriately piratical. Take care.

Posted by: JEM at December 05, 2018 12:47 PM (8erNz)

101 It was supposed to launch yesterday, but the mouse food was moldy and had to be replaced. I'm not sure if a launch has ever been postponed for that particular reason before.
Posted by: rickl at December 05, 2018 12:44 PM (xjiRE)

That's the best reason to scrub a launch. I bet they had fun writing that one up.

Posted by: hogmartin at December 05, 2018 12:47 PM (IqOTP)

102 The same James Baker who, along with Jon Meacham,
hosted Obama at Rice? That James Baker who laughed and laughed as Obama
claimed credit for all Trump's accomplishments?




Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 05, 2018 12:44 PM (ptqGC)


no that was his evil twint!
*got nuthin*

Posted by: kallisto at December 05, 2018 12:47 PM (DJFLF)

103 78 OMG, I just lost it watching James Baker lose it.

Posted by: Marybeth at December 05, 2018 12:42 PM (CmURZ)

The same James Baker who, along with Jon Meacham, hosted Obama at Rice? That James Baker who laughed and laughed as Obama claimed credit for all Trump's accomplishments?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 05, 2018 12:44 PM (ptqGC)

Jane, GHW's priest just recounted James Baker and friends' final hours at GWH's bedside.

Posted by: m at December 05, 2018 12:47 PM (eJj1Q)

104 "L.B.: "Your cruise brochure has a smaller circulation than Model Railroader. Please show yourself out."

Hey...

I happen to like Model Railroader.

And Fine Scale Modeler, too.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 05, 2018 12:47 PM (cqNba)

105 It was supposed to launch yesterday, but the mouse food was moldy and had to be replaced. I'm not sure if a launch has ever been postponed for that particular reason before.

Posted by: rickl at December 05, 2018 12:44 PM (xjiRE)


____


Per PETA, you can't say "mouse food", h8er! /

Posted by: ShainS -- Facial Scarring Survivor at December 05, 2018 12:47 PM (KhlhT)

106 89 That was a pretty good sermon for an Episcoplaian.
Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate at December 05, 2018 12:45 PM (lwiT4)

Grammie!

Posted by: m at December 05, 2018 12:47 PM (eJj1Q)

107 Question they won't answer: Hey fucknuckles, why didn't you put out a spanish edition?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 05, 2018 12:47 PM (7TCRf)

108
Hillary at the GHWB funeral definitely looks like the booze is wearing off.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 05, 2018 12:46 PM (O7MnT)


She's probably past due for a Depends change, too. She's been a busy gal, taking notes from McCain's and H. W.'s funerals for Billy Jeff's impending one. I wonder if he'll die from "natural causes" or an accident?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 05, 2018 12:48 PM (ptqGC)

109 89 That was a pretty good sermon for an Episcoplaian.
Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate at December 05, 2018 12:45 PM (lwiT4)

I LOL'd

Posted by: Marybeth at December 05, 2018 12:48 PM (CmURZ)

110
Is the existence of a paper magazine even still a thing?


Not for news magazines but fashion magazinesand other specialty magazines are doing well.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at December 05, 2018 12:48 PM (TAmPV)

111 If Michael W Smith sang at my funeral, I'd die and think I'd gone to heaven.

Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate at December 05, 2018 12:48 PM (lwiT4)

112 Omidyar will come...

Mein Cuck...Omidyar isn't going to buy us..

Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at December 05, 2018 12:49 PM (ZVAmm)

113 109 89 That was a pretty good sermon for an Episcoplaian.
Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate at December 05, 2018 12:45 PM (lwiT4)

I LOL'd
Posted by: Marybeth at December 05, 2018 12:48 PM (CmURZ)

Clearly she meant it as a compliment--?

Posted by: m at December 05, 2018 12:49 PM (eJj1Q)

114 @realDonaldTrump
20 Apr 2015
More
.@weeklystandard I know your business is failing but you should try to get writers far better than @stephenfhayes.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2018 12:44 PM (/tuJf)



Love that man.

Posted by: eleven at December 05, 2018 12:49 PM (NLLmE)

115 "The Weekly Standard first sought out a rich moderate Republican to buy the magazine, then maybe an alleged "independent," and then, in the last few months, began trying to make the magazine 100% friendly to a full-on leftist purchaser like Pierre Omidyar or Tom Steyer or Michael Bloomberg."

Looks like Ace just explained the editorial trajectory at Hot Air, too.

Posted by: Brock Peters at December 05, 2018 12:49 PM (5RNuT)

116 I wonder if he'll die from "natural causes" or an accident?

If you're running afoul of Hillary, that IS a natural cause.

Posted by: t-bird at December 05, 2018 12:49 PM (NpvYf)

117 The weekly Standard is toast if a Lefty billionaire buys it & I would suspect that even the subscribers it has left would flee.

Hopefully, it goes down like the Titanic.

-
It has already gone down like Sloppy Daniels.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 05, 2018 12:49 PM (+y/Ru)

118 Semi-related: I'm still shocked that Levin partnered with Beck.

WHAT?!?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 05, 2018 12:49 PM (ptqGC)

119 111 If Michael W Smith sang at my funeral, I'd die and think I'd gone to heaven.
Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate at December 05, 2018 12:48 PM (lwiT4)

He lost it at the end, there, too.

Posted by: m at December 05, 2018 12:49 PM (eJj1Q)

120 Not for news magazines but fashion magazinesand other specialty magazines are doing well.
Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at December 05, 2018 12:48 PM (TAmPV)

Funny how that works. Businesses that cater to their niche market customers survive. The ones that insult them perish.

Posted by: Cato by Phone at December 05, 2018 12:49 PM (J+mig)

121 L.B.: "Your cruise brochure has a smaller circulation than Model Railroader. Please show yourself out."
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Ho Ho Ho! Red Faced Rants are In at The Outrage Outlet! at December 05, 2018 12:46 PM (hLRSq)

85% of CQ subscribers are people who are too lazy to cancel it.

*raises hand sheepishly*

Posted by: hogmartin at December 05, 2018 12:50 PM (IqOTP)

122 This song is awful.

Is that some modern Episcoplaian hymn?


Guy singing it look like Michael J Fox.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2018 12:50 PM (9X624)

123 I really do feel sorry for the employees at the Standard who are losing their jobs just before Christmas.


-------------------------------------------------------------
I don't. I've been laid off right before Christmas.

Welcome to the real world...


Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 05, 2018 12:44 PM (HaL55)


Back when I was a subscriber, which ended probably around the 2004 election, there were some writers there whose work I greatly appreciated.


I would assume most, if not all of them, are long gone.


And if you are an office worker on a paper publication, I would think long before December 2018, you had an inkling that it might be time to start looking for another job.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 05, 2018 12:50 PM (9chmE)

124 Actually, we should buy TWS and change the name to The Horde's Standards. Content would be. . . interesting.

Hey, the Horde did a cookbook. We could compile Ace and cobs posts and publish them every week.

Posted by: Specifically Deplorable at December 05, 2018 12:50 PM (6FY0P)

125 "I wonder if he'll die from "natural causes" or an accident?"
Seriously, is syphilis a "natural cause," or a "natural consequence"?

Posted by: Qoheleth at December 05, 2018 12:50 PM (iIzG7)

126 96 Oh my gosh It's Michael W Smith.
Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate at December 05, 2018

*
*
The Christian singer? I'd heard that HW was a big fan of the Oak Ridge Boys, but not of MWS. Let us know if Twila Paris shows up.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 05, 2018 12:50 PM (wQDH5)

127 I don't. I've been laid off right before Christmas.

My second patrol was over Christmas, New Years, and my 21st birthday. A few pampered magazine writers and staff can suck it up and find a new job just like the rest of us would have to without any publicized woe is me. And it's not as if we are in the middle of endless recovery summers or anything.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at December 05, 2018 12:50 PM (t6MX/)

128 113 109 89 That was a pretty good sermon for an Episcoplaian.
Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate at December 05, 2018 12:45 PM (lwiT4)

I LOL'd
Posted by: Marybeth at December 05, 2018 12:48 PM (CmURZ)

Clearly she meant it as a compliment--?
Posted by: m at December 05, 2018 12:49 PM (eJj1Q)

Yes, I think grammie did mean it as a compliment. It just struck me as funny . . . but it WAS a good sermon.

Posted by: Marybeth at December 05, 2018 12:51 PM (CmURZ)

129 I'm watching "Oculus" for the first time on the SyFy channel.
A crazy Katie sackoff (as a redhead) and Dr. Who's Amy Pond....

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 05, 2018 12:51 PM (8iiMU)

130 He lost it at the end, there, too.

Posted by: m at December 05, 2018 12:49 PM (eJj1Q)



He's such a sweet man. My daughter went last year to his Christmas concert with Amy Grant. She cried.

Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate at December 05, 2018 12:51 PM (lwiT4)

131 Leftists love to kill a thing and wear its skin, then demand the respect the thing had.

But, TWS is uglier than Sasquatch so they'll be rightly happy to simply dance on the corpse.
They are racking up victory after victory on the cultural front.
What good is that is you don't have a trophy or two? Sure, it's an own goal and TWS did it to themselves by exposing their true aims, but it still counts as a win to the left.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at December 05, 2018 12:51 PM (z79tQ)

132

Thanks for the heads-up, rickl. I shall saunter out the front door of Casa Backwardio to watch. Just one of the many wonderful reasons to live down here.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 05, 2018 12:52 PM (HaL55)

133 Why does Trump not say the Apostles Creed? He was the only one not to.

Posted by: Good Christian at December 05, 2018 12:52 PM (wbSPH)

134

Syphilitic Bill will die from accidentally falling backwards on a fork 37 times in Fort Marcey Park.

Posted by: Don Lemon Party at December 05, 2018 12:52 PM (HgLVJ)

135 124 Actually, we should buy TWS and change the name to The Horde's Standards. Content would be. . . interesting.

Hey, the Horde did a cookbook. We could compile Ace and cobs posts and publish them every week.
Posted by: Specifically Deplorable at December 05, 2018 12:50 PM (6FY0P)

And have an "around the Moronosphere" section for pithy and insightful comments, Muldoon limericks, etc.

Posted by: Cato by Phone at December 05, 2018 12:52 PM (J+mig)

136 Is the existence of a paper magazine even still a thing?




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Not for news magazines but fashion magazinesand other specialty magazines are doing well.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at December 05, 2018 12:48 PM (TAmPV)


That makes sense. The fashion stuff, I suppose if you want glossy photos, mags are still the way to go. And yeah, if you have specialty, technical information, and the publication can deliver, then its market would remain intact.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 05, 2018 12:52 PM (9chmE)

137 Hey...

I happen to like Model Railroader.

And Fine Scale Modeler, too.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 05, 2018 12:47 PM (cqNba)


They are fine publications that serve a purpose. Unlike a certain cruise brochure.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Ho Ho Ho! Red Faced Rants are In at The Outrage Outlet! at December 05, 2018 12:52 PM (hLRSq)

138 In other political media news...

The Hill is reporting that Michelle Malkin is leaving CRTV one day after a merger between CRTV and The Blaze.

Posted by: junior at December 05, 2018 12:52 PM (Fp6vo)

139 128 113 109 89 That was a pretty good sermon for an Episcoplaian.
Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate at December 05, 2018 12:45 PM (lwiT4)

I LOL'd
Posted by: Marybeth at December 05, 2018 12:48 PM (CmURZ)

Clearly she meant it as a compliment--?
Posted by: m at December 05, 2018 12:49 PM (eJj1Q)

Yes, I think grammie did mean it as a compliment. It just struck me as funny . . . but it WAS a good sermon.
Posted by: Marybeth at December 05, 2018 12:51 PM (CmURZ)

Yes, yes, I know she meant it as a compliment! I was just shaming her a bit, just in jest.

Posted by: m at December 05, 2018 12:52 PM (eJj1Q)

140 124
Actually, we should buy TWS and change the name to The Horde's Standards. Content would be. . . interesting.



Hey, the Horde did a cookbook. We could compile Ace and cobs posts and publish them every week.

Posted by: Specifically Deplorable at December 05, 2018 12:50 PM (6FY0P)

It would have more interest than TWS. I can't remember the last time I went there and was engaged by insightful or interesting commentary.
We'd have to get Schlicter, though.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at December 05, 2018 12:52 PM (t6MX/)

141 Why does Trump not say the Apostles Creed? He was the only one not to.

Posted by: Good Christian at December 05, 2018 12:52 PM (wbSPH)


I'm not watching, but that's weird. He was raised Presbyterian, and we recite it every Sunday.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 05, 2018 12:53 PM (ptqGC)

142 "whore for sale, old and abused, but will suck in any position"

They've been screwing for (GOPe) money for a long time, to the detriment of real Republicans. Then they became only useful as a pretend "conservative" enterprise that could attack Trump "from the right" ... but they were always just whores for globalists and BigMoney (and now suck up to even our enemies and commies)

But they are still out there peddling their prostituted reputations ... but are not worth much, even as leftist propaganda. Now they are bent over and squealing like a pig. /s

Posted by: illiniwek at December 05, 2018 12:53 PM (Cus5s)

143 124 Actually, we should buy TWS and change the name to The Horde's Standards. Content would be. . . interesting.

Hey, the Horde did a cookbook. We could compile Ace and cobs posts and publish them every week.
Posted by: Specifically Deplorable at December 05, 2018 12:50 PM (6FY0P)

A Horde Cruise would be epic.

Ahoy!

Posted by: josephistan at December 05, 2018 12:53 PM (7HtZB)

144 I want this played at my funeral.

https://youtu.be/4OrCA1OInoo

It will baffle my non-Korean speaking relatives, but

"Fly far away (Fly high, fly high)
Beauty that belongs only to me
(The) Moment I close my eyes, Time stops
I rise again"

seems like a good note to go out on.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 05, 2018 12:53 PM (O7MnT)

145 I really do feel sorry for the employees at the Standard who are losing their jobs just before Christmas. I'm sure Stevie Hayes and the other NeverTrumpers will walk away with their pockets stuffed with (Iranian) cash.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 05, 2018 12:34 PM (ptqGC)

Mebbe they should learn to code.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at December 05, 2018 12:53 PM (z79tQ)

146 They're singing the Our Father.

Posted by: kallisto at December 05, 2018 12:53 PM (DJFLF)

147 Its amazing how everything with Conservative Inc. gets down to $$$.

The "true Cons" are whores, always were whores, and always will be whores. Trump did us a great service in smoking these people out

Posted by: rcocean at December 05, 2018 12:53 PM (mX6ZJ)

148 Sspeaking of Xtian singers like Michael W. Smith and Twila Paris, who was the attractive redhead who was really big for a while in the '90s? (I used to play music at a Christian AM station back then.) I liked her and her work quite a bit, but not can't think of her name.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 05, 2018 12:53 PM (wQDH5)

149 Someone should've bought it and turned it into a gay porn magazine.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at December 05, 2018 12:29 PM (4ErVI)

Wouldn't make much difference.

Posted by: Surfperch at December 05, 2018 12:54 PM (tYPH9)

150 Is this the part where Skankles falls out of her seat, rolling on the floor and excreting green goo from her orifices?

Posted by: kallisto at December 05, 2018 12:54 PM (DJFLF)

151 O.k., I like Ronan Tynan's singing better on this tune.

Posted by: m at December 05, 2018 12:54 PM (eJj1Q)

152 Why does Trump not say the Apostles Creed? He was the only one not to.

Posted by: Good Christian at December 05, 2018 12:52 PM (wbSPH)

I'm not watching, but that's weird. He was raised Presbyterian, and we recite it every Sunday.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 05, 2018 12:53 PM (ptqGC)



Eh, could be that he's not a believer.

That's why he's so busy.

Trying to do his best, live his hardest before eternal night.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2018 12:54 PM (9X624)

153 135: 124 Actually, we should buy TWS and change the name to The Horde's Standards. Content would be. . . interesting.

Hey, the Horde did a cookbook. We could compile Ace and cobs posts and publish them every week.
Posted by: Specifically Deplorable at December 05, 2018 12:50 PM (6FY0P)

And have an "around the Moronosphere" section for pithy and insightful comments, Muldoon limericks, etc.
Posted by: Cato by Phone at December 05, 2018 12:52 PM (J+mig)

Yeah, and stuff submitted by commenters and lurkers who can't send it during a regular workday. Of course there would be a special edition of Ace's Kaboom post and Return of the Jedi movie review, which I've never been able to find to read. That would make a 200-page edition.

Posted by: Specifically Deplorable at December 05, 2018 12:54 PM (6FY0P)

154 The cruise ship is taking on water, Cap'n.

Posted by: Nonapod at December 05, 2018 12:55 PM (CLP9I)

155 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 05, 2018 12:53 PM (wQDH5)


Cynthia Clauson?

Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate at December 05, 2018 12:55 PM (lwiT4)

156
There just has to be a conservative black knight out there who's willing to buy TWS, just for the joy of frog-marching everyone out the door and tossing their personal shit out the window.

And then turning the rag around into profitability within 6 months by actually being conservative.

And while we're indulging in impossible fantasies, I'd like Santa to bring me Kate Beckinsale peeling off her latex vampire suit with a naughty gleam in her eye....

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 05, 2018 12:55 PM (veoSD)

157 As I kid, I was always a little nonplussed when JRR Tolkein would get his characters out of scrapes by having the Orcs fight themselves. Over and over he'd pull it, and I'd think, that's a bit of a dodge, isn't it? But looky here, TWS turns Orc and now the Orcs have turned on them.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at December 05, 2018 12:55 PM (Y24LV)

158 Which brings up National Review. Who is funding them?

Its certainly not Conservatives.

Posted by: rcocean at December 05, 2018 12:55 PM (mX6ZJ)

159 Since George Soros funds the cuck brigade, is it antisemitic to criticize the cuck brigade?

Posted by: Someguy at December 05, 2018 12:55 PM (XOBxb)

160 >>Cynthia Clauson?


Bitch makes a fine Pickle.

Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2018 12:56 PM (/NB++)

161
Is this the part where Skankles falls out of her seat, rolling on the floor and excreting green goo from her orifices?


Posted by: kallisto at December 05, 2018 12:54 PM (DJFLF)


Is she wearing a metal body brace? I honestly don't know how she and Billy Jeff can sit through a church funeral. It reminds me of seeing Nancy Pelosi crossing herself over McCain's casket.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 05, 2018 12:56 PM (ptqGC)

162 156
There just has to be a conservative black knight out there who's willing to buy TWS, just for the joy of frog-marching everyone out the door and tossing their personal shit out the window.

And then turning the rag around into profitability within 6 months by actually being conservative.

And while we're indulging in impossible fantasies, I'd like Santa to bring me Kate Beckinsale peeling off her latex vampire suit with a naughty gleam in her eye....
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 05, 2018 12:55 PM (veoSD)

You get one.

Choose wisely.

Posted by: Santa at December 05, 2018 12:56 PM (JcPeV)

163
Thanks for 'raising awareness' of this Ace. Although that's probably in the same category as thanking Bill Cosby for raising awareness about date rape.

Posted by: Embedded in my Pre-Frontal Cortex at December 05, 2018 12:56 PM (e7O7B)

164

Does Hitlery have Mongo Medic standing nearby?

Posted by: In Vino Veritits at December 05, 2018 12:56 PM (0N0JL)

165 I find it fascinating that even Google has donned their sackcloth and ashes to mourn the death of Bush.

Not overtly, but their name is all gray, and it takes you to Bush stuff when you click on it, unlike when there is something meaningful to Christians/conservatives/American history that doesn't involve obscure and fairly unimportant events with minorities.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Thoughts and Prayers for RGB 🐘 at December 05, 2018 12:56 PM (LX21o)

166 Glad to see you're on the mend, grammie! (Though aside from the face droop it almost sounds like a typical Moron Friday night...) {Kidding! I kid!} [Please don't shiv me]

Posted by: Brother Cavil at December 05, 2018 12:56 PM (AM1GF)

167 [Which brings up National Review. Who is funding them?]

Norwegian-Caribbean.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 05, 2018 12:56 PM (O7MnT)

168 The Apostles' Creed is one of those long prayers that trips people up. Hard to imagine the Chooms and Bubbas kept up.

Posted by: kallisto at December 05, 2018 12:56 PM (DJFLF)

169 Love this Irish Tenor's voice. Beautiful rendition of the Our Father.

Celtic Woman on the ONT last night.

And hubby & I are going to see Celtic Thunder in a couple of weeks. Terrific group.

This seems to be a theme this month . . .

The Irish sure have their fair share of fantastic singers.

Posted by: Marybeth at December 05, 2018 12:56 PM (CmURZ)

170 Is the funeral an Episcopalian one?
I'm a Cathoholic (according to my Russian Orthodox friend), and the service looks very similar to a mass, but not quite.


Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 05, 2018 12:57 PM (8iiMU)

171 Trump should buy it, and change the name to the "The Trump Standard"

Posted by: rcocean at December 05, 2018 12:57 PM (mX6ZJ)

172 She's probably past due for a Depends change, too.
She's been a busy gal, taking notes from McCain's and H. W.'s funerals
for Billy Jeff's impending one. I wonder if he'll die from "natural
causes" or an accident?




Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 05, 2018 12:48 PM (ptqGC)

He'll die a natural death "by thrown lamp"

Posted by: Timon at December 05, 2018 12:57 PM (dKm4U)

173 Bush was no Reagan
Bush caused banks to tighten up on mortgages
Bush lost to Slick willy
Slick willy lowered the requirements to qualify for a mortgage
Maxine Waters held off auditors from Fanny/Freddy
Fanny/Freddy gave us liars loans and sold the crap dept bundled as a 'product'.
Wall street crashed

George HW BUSH gave us Obama
all in the progressive plan my friend
I have zero sympathy for the elitist Bush family

Posted by: sOME mORON at December 05, 2018 12:57 PM (ICWiF)

174 [Please don't shiv me]

Posted by: Brother Cavil at December 05, 2018 12:56 PM (AM1GF)


Bluebell took my shiv privileges away, till my right side gets stronger. I alsways shiv with my right hand.

Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate at December 05, 2018 12:57 PM (lwiT4)

175 Navy Hymn. Apropos given Bush's WWII service.

Posted by: Bert G at December 05, 2018 12:58 PM (OMsf+)

176 "We could compile Ace and cobs posts and publish them every week."

I think we should do it online, instead of print.

It could be real time, yet have the ability to go back to prior issues, and read them as well.

Maybe even have a comment section for readers to share their thoughts.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 05, 2018 12:58 PM (cqNba)

177 Well, I don't claim to be a feminist so no sweat.

https://bit.ly/2QcvN3I

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 05, 2018 12:58 PM (+y/Ru)

178 170 Is the funeral an Episcopalian one?
I'm a Cathoholic (according to my Russian Orthodox friend), and the service looks very similar to a mass, but not quite.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 05, 2018 12:57 PM (8iiMU)

Yes.

Posted by: m at December 05, 2018 12:58 PM (eJj1Q)

179 Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 05, 2018 12:57 PM (8iiMU)

The Episcopal service is similar to the Catholic service. Very close.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Ho Ho Ho! Red Faced Rants are In at The Outrage Outlet! at December 05, 2018 12:58 PM (hLRSq)

180 This funeral was classy - unlike McCain's.
Bush was a Christian. McCain was just an asshole.

Posted by: rcocean at December 05, 2018 12:58 PM (mX6ZJ)

181 I would buy a subscription if they would feature Bill Kristol on the cover being cornholed by a well equipped donkey.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 05, 2018 12:58 PM (Hr+ZL)

182

I saw Moldy Mouse Food open up for Danger Mouse at Red Rocks back in '016.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 05, 2018 12:59 PM (HaL55)

183 Does anyone recall all this ceremony and spectacle for any other POTUS?
(excepting JFK and Reagan)
I think Gerald Ford was the last one to pass away prior to HWB

Posted by: kallisto at December 05, 2018 12:59 PM (DJFLF)

184 OK. Funeral is over.

Now deliver my fucking mail.

Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2018 12:59 PM (/NB++)

185 Is the funeral an Episcopalian one?
I'm a Cathoholic (according to my Russian Orthodox friend), and the service looks very similar to a mass, but not quite.


Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 05, 2018 12:57 PM (8iiMU)



I think it Episcopal, aka Catholic Lite: 1/3 less guilt.

Posted by: Bert G at December 05, 2018 12:59 PM (OMsf+)

186 141 Why does Trump not say the Apostles Creed? He was the only one not to.

Posted by: Good Christian at December 05, 2018 12:52 PM (wbSPH)

I'm not watching, but that's weird. He was raised Presbyterian, and we recite it every Sunday.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 05, 2018 12:53 PM (ptqGC)

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

If I had to guess, it would be that he doesn't have the words memorized, and he knows full well if he misspeaks then the MSM (who also don't know the words btw) will browbeat him over it.

Better to keep your mouth shut than invite trouble.

Posted by: Boots at December 05, 2018 12:59 PM (e9omi)

187 >>>3 Ace apparently isn't watching the services for GHW Bush.


I'm not against just putting up a link to a live video and taking the period off (like a teacher putting on a film), but this seems like too obvious a blow-off. I couldn't enjoy the time off, because I'd feel I was too-obviously goldbricking.

Posted by: ace at December 05, 2018 12:59 PM (PbpT7)

188 180 This funeral was classy - unlike McCain's.
Bush was a Christian. McCain was just an asshole.
Posted by: rcocean at December 05, 2018 12:58 PM (mX6ZJ)

Well, THAT was classy!

Posted by: m at December 05, 2018 12:59 PM (eJj1Q)

189 Posted by: kallisto at December 05, 2018 12:59 PM (DJFLF)



ya I think they always do this for presidents

Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate at December 05, 2018 01:00 PM (lwiT4)

190 I got nothing.

If that makes me a weak sister for not having something snappy and cruel at the ready, so be it.

Posted by: Hikaru at December 05, 2018 01:00 PM (pgXNG)

191 The Irish sure have their fair share of fantastic singers.



Posted by: Marybeth at December 05, 2018 12:56 PM (CmURZ)


Anthony Kearns, one of the original Irish Tenors, has performed in concert twice at our little church (he's a close friend of a member, who's a friend of mine). He's amazing, and one of the nicest people. He dedicated a love song to me and Mr. D'oh during a concert, where I was working on a reception for him. It was our anniversary.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 05, 2018 01:00 PM (ptqGC)

192 also, after the four week Extended McCain Funeral Tour with Special Added Dates in Hershey and Erie, PA, I'm pretty much done with political funerals.

Posted by: ace at December 05, 2018 01:00 PM (PbpT7)

193 If I had to guess, it would be that he doesn't have the words memorized, and he knows full well if he misspeaks then the MSM (who also don't know the words btw) will browbeat him over it.

Better to keep your mouth shut than invite trouble.
Posted by: Boots at December 05, 2018 12:59 PM (e9omi)

You nailed it.

Posted by: Marybeth at December 05, 2018 01:00 PM (CmURZ)

194 Now they've gone too far!

Principal banned candy canes because 'J' shape stands 'for Jesus.'

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 05, 2018 01:00 PM (+y/Ru)

195 SpaceX's webcast has started.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esh1jHT9oTA

Posted by: rickl at December 05, 2018 01:00 PM (xjiRE)

196 Posted by: m at December 05, 2018 12:58 PM (eJj1Q)

The Episcopal service is similar to the Catholic service. Very close.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Ho Ho Ho! Red Faced Rants are In at The Outrage Outlet! at December 05, 2018 12:58 PM (hLRSq)

Got it, thanks!
Yes, it is.


Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 05, 2018 01:00 PM (8iiMU)

197 187 >>>3 Ace apparently isn't watching the services for GHW Bush.


I'm not against just putting up a link to a live video and taking the period off (like a teacher putting on a film), but this seems like too obvious a blow-off. I couldn't enjoy the time off, because I'd feel I was too-obviously goldbricking.
Posted by: ace at December 05, 2018 12:59 PM (PbpT7)

I'm sorry, it wasn't a criticism. I was just commenting as I jumped threads.

Posted by: m at December 05, 2018 01:00 PM (eJj1Q)

198
There just has to be a conservative black knight out there who's willing to buy TWS, just for the joy of frog-marching everyone out the door and tossing their personal shit out the window.

And then turning the rag around into profitability within 6 months by actually being conservative.

And while we're indulging in impossible fantasies, I'd like Santa to bring me Kate Beckinsale peeling off her latex vampire suit with a naughty gleam in her eye....
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 05, 2018 12:55 PM (veoSD)

You get one.

Choose wisely.

Posted by: Santa at December 05, 2018 12:56 PM (JcPeV)








Santa's a dick....

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 05, 2018 01:01 PM (veoSD)

199 >>>184 OK. Funeral is over.

Now deliver my fucking mail.
Posted by: garrett

LOL

Posted by: ace at December 05, 2018 01:01 PM (PbpT7)

200 No one likes or trusts a traitor. Oh they'll gladly use them if they can but they never accept them into their inner circle or even their base.

If they'll turn on someone who has done more to accomplish what they preached for years (except the warmongering) then they'll probably turn on the left when the time comes.

I always wondered how a magazine with so few pages it wouldn't be a good choice to take to the outhouse ever was able to make any money. And frankly all it seemed to do was provide a different viewpoint to the National Review the magazine it strode to emulate.

This is a good lesson for NR. I hope they take it to heart and start calming down the anti-Trump bullshit. The left is doing fine at that they don't need any help.

And smarmy smug billy kristol can kiss my white ass.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 05, 2018 01:01 PM (wd9fW)

201 and we recite it every Sunday.



Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 05, 2018 12:53 PM (ptqGC)



You can say it by heart? I have to read it.

Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate at December 05, 2018 01:01 PM (lwiT4)

202 192 also, after the four week Extended McCain Funeral Tour with Special Added Dates in Hershey and Erie, PA, I'm pretty much done with political funerals.
Posted by: ace at December 05, 2018 01:00 PM (PbpT7)

McCain Funeral Tour, or Glenn Beck Desperate Panhandling Tour?

Posted by: Hikaru at December 05, 2018 01:01 PM (pgXNG)

203

EM LADY FINGERS FOADDY-FI!!!

Posted by: Maxine Waters' Hair at December 05, 2018 01:02 PM (GEhPL)

204 I like the "Nicene" (which has been clarified since 325). Dyotheletism ftw.

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at December 05, 2018 01:02 PM (qwEcu)

205 Principal banned candy canes because 'J' shape stands 'for Jesus.'

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Just like walking canes!

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Thoughts and Prayers for RGB 🐘 at December 05, 2018 01:02 PM (LX21o)

206 Yeah, and stuff submitted by commenters and lurkers who can't send it during a regular workday. Of course there would be a special edition of Ace's Kaboom post and Return of the Jedi movie review, which I've never been able to find to read. That would make a 200-page edition.
Posted by: Specifically Deplorable at December 05, 2018

*
*
The rants posted by "Capt.James T. Kirk" about what really went on during the ship's adventures.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 05, 2018 01:02 PM (wQDH5)

207 If I had to guess, it would be that he doesn't have the words memorized, and he knows full well if he misspeaks then the MSM (who also don't know the words btw) will browbeat him over it.
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That is likely true.
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Better to keep your mouth shut than invite trouble.
Posted by: Boots at December 05, 2018 12:59 PM (e9omi)
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We still talking about Trump here?

Posted by: OneEyedJack at December 05, 2018 01:02 PM (z79tQ)

208 MSNBC anchor tells audience all life is pointless if we're not addressing climate change

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Hey, if you can't afford rope, I'll send you some.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 05, 2018 01:02 PM (+y/Ru)

209 Anthony Kearns, one of the original Irish Tenors, has performed in concert twice at our little church (he's a close friend of a member, who's a friend of mine). He's amazing, and one of the nicest people. He dedicated a love song to me and Mr. D'oh during a concert, where I was working on a reception for him. It was our anniversary.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 05, 2018 01:00 PM (ptqGC)

How wonderfully romantic . . . Lucky you and Mr. D'oh!

Posted by: Marybeth at December 05, 2018 01:02 PM (CmURZ)

210 Hey Weekly Standard--have you heard my Norman Muntz laugh?

Posted by: Newsweek at December 05, 2018 01:02 PM (hjaPQ)

211 "OK. Funeral is over.

Now deliver my fucking mail."

Oddly enough, a USPS truck just pulled up and delivered a package here.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 05, 2018 01:02 PM (cqNba)

212 Great work by the people including ace who have been exposing this nest of vipers.

Posted by: steevy at December 05, 2018 01:02 PM (BXMxN)

213 >>>All I know is that that it became "antisemitic" to note that George Soros funds the left as George Soros began funding more and more of the former right.

*snort*

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 05, 2018 01:02 PM (/qEW2)

214 My wife ordered me on vacation this week because she gets the feeling she's not going to be compensated for my vacation days when National Review folds.

Political magazines completely disconnected from the needs of the average voter should have a government subsidy!

Posted by: The Morning Dolt at December 05, 2018 01:02 PM (76Nxz)

215 Bluebell took my shiv privileges away, till my right side gets stronger. I alsways shiv with my right hand.
Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate at December 05, 2018 12:57 PM (lwiT4)
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Good to see you, Ma'am. Any timeline on your recovery?

Posted by: Blake - tis the season for grinching at December 05, 2018 01:02 PM (qC1Sy)

216
I'm not watching, but that's weird. He was raised Presbyterian, and we recite it every Sunday.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 05, 2018 12:53 PM (ptqGC)


Maybe it's because he knows if hesays it out loud CNN's resident lip reader will analyze the footage and determine that Trump screwed up the words

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at December 05, 2018 01:02 PM (TAmPV)

217 I find it fascinating that even Google has donned their sackcloth and ashes to mourn the death of Bush.



Not overtly, but their name is all gray, and it takes you to Bush
stuff when you click on it, unlike when there is something meaningful to
Christians/conservatives/American history that doesn't involve obscure
and fairly unimportant events with minorities.
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Why does it surprise you that people who believe only in power would mourn for the deep state president?

Posted by: Methos at December 05, 2018 01:02 PM (kOpft)

218 also, after the four week Extended McCain Funeral
Tour with Special Added Dates in Hershey and Erie, PA, I'm pretty much
done with political funerals.

Posted by: ace at December 05, 2018 01:00 PM (PbpT7)


I'm with ya.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 05, 2018 01:02 PM (ptqGC)

219 >>Love this Irish Tenor's voice. Beautiful rendition of the Our Father.

He also sang at Reagan's funeral. Amazing Grace.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2018 01:03 PM (/tuJf)

220 Now they've gone too far!

Principal banned candy canes because 'J' shape stands 'for Jesus.'
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 05, 2018 01:00 PM (+y/Ru)

Will he be banning square flooring tiles because they form crosses in between them?

Posted by: Surfperch at December 05, 2018 01:03 PM (tYPH9)

221 " always wondered how a magazine with so few pages it wouldn't be a good choice to take to the outhouse "

the toilet hobos thank you for not dumping that shit in there.

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at December 05, 2018 01:03 PM (qwEcu)

222 Must be a contractor. We didn't get the day off.

Posted by: Someguy at December 05, 2018 01:03 PM (XOBxb)

223 211 "OK. Funeral is over.

Now deliver my fucking mail."

Oddly enough, a USPS truck just pulled up and delivered a package here.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 05, 2018 01:02 PM (cqNba)

I've got an order from Bezosland scheduled to come in Friday. Hopefully this doesn't push it back to Saturday.

Posted by: Hikaru at December 05, 2018 01:03 PM (pgXNG)

224 "Principal banned candy canes because 'J' shape stands 'for Jesus.' "



Dude, you're holding it wrong.

See....now it looks like a gun.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 05, 2018 01:03 PM (cqNba)

225 The rants posted by "Capt.James T. Kirk" about what really went on during the ship's adventures.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 05, 2018 01:02 PM (wQDH5)

LOL. That sounds interesting.

Before my time, it was.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 05, 2018 01:03 PM (8iiMU)

226 And the USPS wonders why it loses money.

Well actually they don't. They KNOW why. Their rate schedule is screwed up. They let the unions get some really sweet retirement deals and now they have to find a way to pay for it.

Meanwhile they take every damn holiday they can and some they make up.

If Amazon perfects it's delivery system the Post Office will go the way of the pony express.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 05, 2018 01:03 PM (wd9fW)

227 Nice benediction.

Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate at December 05, 2018 01:04 PM (lwiT4)

228 >> USPS truck just pulled up and delivered a package here.


I am going to go outside and yell at some clouds.

Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2018 01:04 PM (/NB++)

229 Don't anyone even think about getting your deposit back o on the Cuck Cruise.


It's on. It'll be bigger, badder, and it'll blow your socks off!!!!



Posted by: Bill Kristol at December 05, 2018 01:04 PM (ymnmz)

230 193 If I had to guess, it would be that he doesn't have the words memorized, and he knows full well if he misspeaks then the MSM (who also don't know the words btw) will browbeat him over it.

Better to keep your mouth shut than invite trouble.
Posted by: Boots at December 05, 2018 12:59 PM (e9omi)

You nailed it.
Posted by: Marybeth at December 05, 2018 01:00 PM (CmURZ)

Plus, there are traditional and several updated forms, so that there are slight differences in the wording, and you can easily trip up if you're outside your home parish.

Posted by: m at December 05, 2018 01:04 PM (eJj1Q)

231 "Must be a contractor. We didn't get the day off."
Nope

Real USPS truck

Real USPS Uniform

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 05, 2018 01:04 PM (cqNba)

232 How wonderfully romantic . . . Lucky you and Mr. D'oh!

Posted by: Marybeth at December 05, 2018 01:02 PM (CmURZ)


Yeah, it was pretty amazing. My girlfriend asked him to before the concert, because I was working so hard (I met him earlier in the day as I was setting things up). He NEVER dedicates songs to anyone, so it was special.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 05, 2018 01:05 PM (ptqGC)

233 Jeb shoulda been an Episcopal priest. He's loving this.

Posted by: m at December 05, 2018 01:05 PM (eJj1Q)

234
Don't anyone even think about getting your deposit back o on the Cuck Cruise.

I never return deposits

Posted by: Shep at December 05, 2018 01:05 PM (TAmPV)

235 L.B.: "Your cruise brochure has a smaller circulation than Model Railroader. Please show yourself out."
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Ho Ho Ho! Red Faced Rants are In at The Outrage Outlet! at December 05, 2018 12:46 PM (hLRSq)

Nioce! heh heh

Posted by: sOME mORON at December 05, 2018 01:05 PM (ICWiF)

236 "Principal banned candy canes because 'J' shape stands 'for Jesus.' "

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Dude, you're holding it wrong.

See....now it looks like a gun.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 05, 2018 01:03 PM (cqNba)

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Even dainty little girls who pretend to be fairy princesses and draw pictures of unicorns make them into sharp, pointy daggers when they eat them, too.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Thoughts and Prayers for RGB 🐘 at December 05, 2018 01:05 PM (LX21o)

237
So, there is NO market for an actual conservative mag?

Posted by: Glenn John at December 05, 2018 01:05 PM (LilNs)

238 Gah!


There's not a god damned cloud in the sky, here.

I had to yell at a squirrel, instead.

It's just not anywhere near as effective.

Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2018 01:06 PM (/NB++)

239 MSNBC anchor tells audience all life is pointless if we're not addressing climate change


So you know what to do...

Posted by: tu3031 at December 05, 2018 01:06 PM (sf1AO)

240 Someone should've bought it and turned it into a gay porn magazine.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at December 05

The Weekly Stand Hard

Posted by: Satan at December 05, 2018 01:06 PM (7PLM4)

241 If Amazon perfects it's delivery system the Post Office will go the way of the pony express.
Posted by: jakee308 at December 05, 2018 01:03 PM (wd9fW)

Yeah, right!
If the Pony Express had government subsidy, it would still be around.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at December 05, 2018 01:06 PM (z79tQ)

242 If Amazon perfects it's delivery system the Post Office will go the way of the pony express.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 05, 2018 01:03 PM (wd9fW)

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From what I've seen the US Post Office *is* Amazon's delivery system.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Thoughts and Prayers for RGB 🐘 at December 05, 2018 01:07 PM (LX21o)

243 I've got an order from Bezosland scheduled to come in Friday. Hopefully this doesn't push it back to Saturday.

Posted by: Hikaru at December 05, 2018 01:03 PM (pgXNG)


Same here. Yeesh.

I can't even imagine what Billy Jeff's funeral will be like. And I have a feeling it will be sooner rather than later.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 05, 2018 01:07 PM (ptqGC)

244 "I had to yell at a squirrel, instead.

It's just not anywhere near as effective."

You're doing it wrong.

Squirrel yellin' is done with a shotgun.

Go ahead...try it.

See if it doesn't make you feel better.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 05, 2018 01:07 PM (cqNba)

245 Actually now that I think about it the government employees can work the day(or any other holiday) and float the hours. That could explain why some are working.

Posted by: Someguy at December 05, 2018 01:07 PM (XOBxb)

246 Jeb is really tall. too bad he's so low energy.

Posted by: rcocean at December 05, 2018 01:07 PM (mX6ZJ)

247 Good to see you, Ma'am. Any timeline on your recovery?

Posted by: Blake - tis the season for grinching at December 05, 2018 01:02 PM (qC1Sy)



That's up to God, but the doctor says maybe tow months or so? I'll take it. Better than a stroke. I just wish I could closw my darn motuth. I need a bib to eat and drink. Little Winger says good thing we took our family christmas pictures already. He's very sympathetic o__o

Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate at December 05, 2018 01:07 PM (lwiT4)

248 Why does Trump not say the Apostles Creed? He was the only one not to.
Posted by: Good Christian at December 05, 2018 12:52 PM (wbSPH)


Maybe he's a good trinitarian. The Apostles' Creed can be affirmed by an Arian. The Nicene Creed states the concepts more precisely in order to rule this out. Maybe you're not as good a Christian as you think you are. I'm getting a whiff of troll.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 05, 2018 01:07 PM (/qEW2)

249 "Hi, my name is Bill Kristol. Do you or a loved one have a life insurance policy valued at over $100,000.00? Instead of lavishing that money on your heir's, why not talk to VultureCo about selling that insurance policy, and enjoying your last few years on this earth in leisure and comfort..."

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 05, 2018 01:08 PM (ty7RM)

250
The Irish sure have their fair share of fantastic singers.
Posted by: Marybeth at December 05, 2018 12:56 PM


Must be in the genes. My wife is an Irish blend and has a range that compares to Idena Menzel, Annie Lennox, Sarah McLachlan. She came from a tough Philly school though and got beat up by the other girls and pushed down the staircase for being a goody-two-shoes and getting the lead every year in school plays. So she walked away from it. Sad.

I never realized girls were so mean to each other, and got so physical. I thought that was just a guy thing.

Posted by: Embedded in my Pre-Frontal Cortex at December 05, 2018 01:08 PM (e7O7B)

251 "Yeah, right!
If the Pony Express had government subsidy, it would still be around."

All they did was shift to fossil fueled delivery vehicles.

Same speed of delivery though.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 05, 2018 01:08 PM (cqNba)

252 Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2018 01:04 PM (/NB++)

Get off your lawn!

Posted by: jakee308 at December 05, 2018 01:09 PM (wd9fW)

253 I saved a lot of the "Kirk" rants here on AoSHQ. A sample starter:

"...You know what I hate? Hitchhikers. You know what I hate even more? Frozen hitchhikers from the 21st century. We're warping along minding our own business and we stumble upon this fucking derelict blocking the space lanes. But it isn't a derelict. We go aboard and there are a bunch of frozen dudes looking like they got their wardrobe from Jack LaLanne's attic, all stacked neatly like they're sides of Tellarite beef on the way to Cafeteria Planet. . . ."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 05, 2018 01:09 PM (wQDH5)

254 color guard carrying casket is predictably PC. Has the appropriate number of blacks, whites,and Hispanics.

Posted by: rcocean at December 05, 2018 01:09 PM (mX6ZJ)

255 249
"Hi, my name is Bill Kristol. Do you or a loved one have a life
insurance policy valued at over $100,000.00? Instead of lavishing that
money on your heir's, why not talk to VultureCo about selling that insurance policy, and enjoying your last few years on this earth in leisure and comfort..."

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 05, 2018 01:08 PM (ty7RM)

Have you ever consider the value of a reverse mortgage?

Posted by: Bill Kristol at December 05, 2018 01:09 PM (ymnmz)

256 Joe Scarborough is back from his honeymoon with Mika, and sez Trump could be gone in less than a year. I guess he hears that from all the Smart People who share his "salon" in the mornings, including Jon Meacham.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 05, 2018 01:09 PM (ptqGC)

257 I've got an order from Bezosland scheduled to come in Friday. Hopefully this doesn't push it back to Saturday.

Posted by: Hikaru at December 05, 2018 01:03 PM (pgXNG)

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Anytime they're late based on the delivery date at checkout I do a chat and complain, and they'll routinely give me $5 credits.

If they expect me to pay membership fees, I expect them to deliver the packages per the contractual agreement that occurs when I placed the order.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Thoughts and Prayers for RGB 🐘 at December 05, 2018 01:09 PM (LX21o)

258 "Hi, my name is Bill Kristol. Do you or a loved one have a life
insurance policy valued at over $100,000.00? Instead of lavishing that
money on your heir's, why not talk to VultureCo about selling that insurance policy, and enjoying your last few years on this earth in leisure and comfort..."

Maybe he could get a reverse mortgage?

Posted by: Tom Selleck at December 05, 2018 01:09 PM (sf1AO)

259 Saw the clip on Weasel Zippers of the Trump's entering the church for the service. The only one who stands out as the Queen Bee is the frosty Hilldog. EVEN the Obama's were hospitable. Hilldog gave them darting, hateful side glances.
She is something else. What it is, no one knows.

Posted by: washrivergal at December 05, 2018 01:10 PM (rE1pK)

260 That's up to God, but the doctor says maybe tow months or so? I'll take it. Better than a stroke. I just wish I could closw my darn motuth. I need a bib to eat and drink. Little Winger says good thing we took our family christmas pictures already. He's very sympathetic o__o
Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate at December 05, 2018 01:07 PM (lwiT4)
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Good deal and glad you're on the mend. Thanks for the update.

Posted by: Blake - tis the season for grinching at December 05, 2018 01:10 PM (qC1Sy)

261 4 minutes to launch.

They will try to recover the first stages, apparently.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 05, 2018 01:10 PM (8iiMU)

262 Must be a contractor. We didn't get the day off.
Posted by: Someguy at December 05, 2018 01:03 PM (XOBxb)




Heh. All ours were given "authorization for telework" today. Since I'm off today for Mandatory Sadz (as opposed to Mandatory Fun) I figured I'd watch the funeral before I head to Lowe's and get some supplies to fix the roof leak that I discovered a few days ago.

Posted by: Bert G at December 05, 2018 01:10 PM (OMsf+)

263 170 Is the funeral an Episcopalian one?
I'm a Cathoholic (according to my Russian Orthodox friend), and the service looks very similar to a mass, but not quite.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 05, 2018 12:57 PM (8iiMU)

Yes.

Posted by: m at December 05, 2018 12:58 PM (eJj1Q)
************************
I was surprised that it is so similar too and that they say the Apostles creed. Always thought since it says, "I believe in the Holy Spirit, The Holy Catholic Church it was just said by us Catholics.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 05, 2018 01:10 PM (hECVl)

264 "Why does Trump not say the Apostles Creed? He was the only one not to. "

Trump respects religion. I don't think he's much on church going.

Posted by: rcocean at December 05, 2018 01:10 PM (mX6ZJ)

265 'Rat race.

Dem Congressman: As Many as 40 Democrats Will Run for President

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 05, 2018 01:11 PM (+y/Ru)

266 If Amazon perfects it's delivery system the Post Office will go the way of the pony express.

Posted by: jakee308

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They have a way to go. My delivery tracked to about 5 miles from the house, then reported damaged goods, won't be delivered. Also sent me a message that if I wanted the stuff, I would need to re-order it.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at December 05, 2018 01:11 PM (z4wG+)

267 So, there is NO market for an actual conservative mag?
Posted by: Glenn John at December 05, 2018 01:05 PM (LilNs)

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I'm guessing Kristol and Hayes have made it a condition of the sale that they retain editorial control for a period of years. Who would wanna buy that?

Posted by: Calm Mentor at December 05, 2018 01:11 PM (ffYR/)

268 "Maybe he could get a reverse mortgage?"

That would require The Weekly Standard having equity.

Posted by: Qoheleth at December 05, 2018 01:11 PM (iIzG7)

269 Trump's not a christian - he's a golfer.

Posted by: rcocean at December 05, 2018 01:11 PM (mX6ZJ)

270 I never realized girls were so mean to each other, and got so physical. I thought that was just a guy thing.

Posted by: Embedded in my Pre-Frontal Cortex at December 05, 2018 01:08 PM (e7O7B)


Middle school girls are some of the meanest people on the planet. Joy Behar never grew out of it.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 05, 2018 01:11 PM (ptqGC)

271 "Hi, my name is Bill Kristol. Do you or a loved one have a life

insurance policy valued at over $100,000.00? Instead of lavishing that

money on your heir's, why not talk to VultureCo about selling that
insurance policy, and enjoying your last few years on this earth in
leisure and comfort..

You should've bought gold, ya cheap bastard!

Posted by: William Devane at December 05, 2018 01:11 PM (sf1AO)

272 You leave them squirrels alone.

Posted by: eleven at December 05, 2018 01:11 PM (NLLmE)

273 The schadenfreude, you soaking in it.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 05, 2018 01:11 PM (yQpMk)

274 I was surprised that it is so similar too and that they say the Apostles creed.
===========================
Episcopalians are just well dressed Catholics. Minus the pope-y stuff.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 05, 2018 01:12 PM (ty7RM)

275 258
"Hi, my name is Bill Kristol. Do you or a loved one have a life

insurance policy valued at over $100,000.00? Instead of lavishing that

money on your heir's, why not talk to VultureCo about selling that
insurance policy, and enjoying your last few years on this earth in
leisure and comfort..."

Maybe he could get a reverse mortgage?


Posted by: Tom Selleck at December 05, 2018 01:09 PM (sf1AO)



Bill, give us a ring. We can help.

Posted by: JG Wentworth at December 05, 2018 01:12 PM (ymnmz)

276 The Holy Catholic Church it was just said by us Catholics.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 05, 2018 01:10 PM (hECVl)

"catholic" with a small c.
catholic = universal

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 05, 2018 01:12 PM (8iiMU)

277 I had a pet like this lady for 14 years. Miss me bushtail
https://tinyurl.com/ybe7gofx

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 05, 2018 01:12 PM (Hr+ZL)

278 Yeah, right!
If the Pony Express had government subsidy, it would still be around.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at December 05, 2018 01:06 PM (z79tQ)


It did.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Ho Ho Ho! Red Faced Rants are In at The Outrage Outlet! at December 05, 2018 01:12 PM (hLRSq)

279 My vegetarian diet is gonna keep me going forever. I surely don't have three different strains of the slims.

Posted by: Bill Clinton at December 05, 2018 01:12 PM (SkuXa)

280 I never realized girls were so mean to each other, and got so physical. I thought that was just a guy thing.

Posted by: Embedded in my Pre-Frontal Cortex at December 05, 2018 01:08 PM (e7O7B)

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I remember seeing the mean/clique stuff starting around 2nd grade in our daughter's school.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Thoughts and Prayers for RGB 🐘 at December 05, 2018 01:12 PM (LX21o)

281 Possibility? The revelation that Pierre Omidyar was funding Kristol & Co., and the bad press both sides got out of that revelation, spooked the intended White Knight buyer Omidyar from bailing the piece of shit out.

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How the rage and disappointment must have made Bill Kristol's spherical midsection rumble and inflate.

Damned meddling kids.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 05, 2018 01:13 PM (imow9)

282 Dear fellow Morons:

If I ever get elected President, and later die, it's your job to arrange my funeral. There's one word you need to remember: Viking.

Posted by: Qoheleth at December 05, 2018 01:13 PM (iIzG7)

283 274
I was surprised that it is so similar too and that they say the Apostles creed.

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

Episcopalians are just well dressed Catholics. Minus the pope-y stuff.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 05, 2018 01:12 PM (ty7RM)

Always, it's a management issue....
lol

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 05, 2018 01:13 PM (8iiMU)

284 "Have you ever consider the value of a reverse mortgage?

Posted by: Bill Kristol"


I think The Fonz is shilling those now. Boy, I'm getting old.

Posted by: Benji Carver at December 05, 2018 01:13 PM (OD2ni)

285 So the Weekly Standard is run by politicians. Because only they could run a whorehouse into the ground.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 05, 2018 01:13 PM (tjRMO)

286 >>I never realized girls were so mean to each other


You are shitting us, right?

Girls are the cruelest of the cruel.

Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2018 01:13 PM (/NB++)

287 It's finally happened. The market on phony conservatives who attack other conservatives using classic leftist tropes to "get Trump" has contracted to match the size of its audience. Call it a long-overdue correction.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at December 05, 2018 01:14 PM (SN4NF)

288 I for one admire the Weekly Standard. They were so committed to their principles they were willing to commit hari-kari over them. Similar to Newsweek, ESPN and Marvel comics.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 05, 2018 01:14 PM (/qEW2)

289 FedEx delivers a lot of Amazon stuff...

Posted by: JoeF. at December 05, 2018 01:14 PM (NFEMn)

290 Saw the clip on Weasel Zippers of the Trump's entering the church for the service. The only one who stands out as the Queen Bee is the frosty Hilldog. EVEN the Obama's were hospitable. Hilldog gave them darting, hateful side glances.
She is something else. What it is, no one knows.

Posted by: washrivergal at December 05, 2018 01:10 PM (rE1pK)
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I think it's because it's yet ANOTHER public appearance she has to attend with President Donald J. Trump. And he's the President and she's the loser, at an occasion where in her mind she ought to be the sitting president.

Posted by: Boots at December 05, 2018 01:14 PM (e9omi)

291 Catholic means universal. The Catholic Church doesn't refer to itself as Roman. Orthodox means true, and the long form of the names of both those churches has both orthodox and catholic in it iirc.

Posted by: Someguy at December 05, 2018 01:14 PM (XOBxb)

292 Posted by: redridinghood at December 05, 2018 01:10 PM (hECVl)


The Anglican Church is a catholic and apostolic church. It owes no allegiance to the bishop of Rome, no matter how he fancies to call himself.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Ho Ho Ho! Red Faced Rants are In at The Outrage Outlet! at December 05, 2018 01:14 PM (hLRSq)

293 So where are they burying him at? Maine?

Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate at December 05, 2018 01:14 PM (lwiT4)

294 Posted by: Good Christian at December 05, 2018 12:52 PM (wbSPH)

he hasn't been back to say anything else.
Concern is notable.

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at December 05, 2018 01:14 PM (qwEcu)

295 There just has to be a conservative black knight out there who's willing to buy TWS, just for the joy of frog-marching everyone out the door and tossing their personal shit out the window.

And then turning the rag around into profitability within 6 months by actually being conservative.

And while we're indulging in impossible fantasies, I'd like Santa to bring me Kate Beckinsale peeling off her latex vampire suit with a naughty gleam in her eye....
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 05, 2018 12:55 PM

=====

You get one.
Choose wisely.
Posted by: Santa at December 05, 2018 12:56 PM

=====

Santa's a dick....
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 05, 2018 01:01 PM


Santa just wants to know which brain is currently perfused.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 05, 2018 01:14 PM (ctuyM)

296 I was surprised that it is so similar too and that they say the Apostles
creed. Always thought since it says, "I believe in the Holy Spirit, The
Holy Catholic Church it was just said by us Catholics.
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Some denominations will modify that to Holy Christian Church or (and obviously you can't *hear* this) holy catholic Church, where 'catholic' is used as the adjective meaning 'universal' rather than the title, and means the invisible church-those counted by God as believers (of any denomination)-rather than any particular organization of people.

Posted by: Methos at December 05, 2018 01:14 PM (kOpft)

297 >>So where are they burying him at? Maine?


Yes. But mostly in Houston.

Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2018 01:15 PM (/NB++)

298 Always thought since it says, "I believe in the Holy Spirit, The Holy Catholic Church it was just said by us Catholics.


My LCMS church said 'The Holy Catholic Church' up until at least the 1990s. I don't know why we changed, us being the True Faith and heirs to the Apostolic Succession and all.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 05, 2018 01:15 PM (yQpMk)

299 280 I never realized girls were so mean to each other, and got so physical. I thought that was just a guy thing.

Posted by: Embedded in my Pre-Frontal Cortex at December 05, 2018 01:08 PM (e7O7B)

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I remember seeing the mean/clique stuff starting around 2nd grade in our daughter's school.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Thoughts and Prayers for RGB at December 05, 2018 01:12 PM (LX21o)

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Repost from an earlier thread:

Had parent night with Junior's teacher. It's a class of 4 year olds.

We asked her about an email she had sent all parents a few months ago that described some manipulative behavior ("You're eating the green beans? If you eat the green beans, you can't be my friend.")

"Is Junior doing any of this?"

"Oh, no. It's all the girls."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, If you've read and enjoyed any of my works, please leave a review on Amazon. at December 05, 2018 01:15 PM (q8oeS)

300
Dem Congressman: As Many as 40 Democrats Will Run for President
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 05, 2018 01:11 PM (+y/Ru)

It's going to be hilarious watching them try to out-woke and out-victim each other. It'll be the Four Yorkshiremen, only one year long and five times bigger.

Posted by: Vanya at December 05, 2018 01:15 PM (7PLM4)

301 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 05 DECEMBER 2018

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has announced that it has purchased The Weekly Standard for an undisclosed amount.

Richard Cohen, President of the SPLC, made the following comments:

"We have noted in recent months the increasing similarity between the attitudes and agendas of our two organizations, and were excited when the opportunity arose to acquire The Weekly Standard and turn it into our fundraising newsletter.

"TWS will be headquartered at our offices in the Cayman Islands, beyond the reach of punitive damages awards for libel claims in American courts.

"I would like to add with satisfaction that our purchase will save the US taxpayer millions of dollars that would have been required in the event of a government bailout of TWS."

Posted by: Southern Poverty Law Center at December 05, 2018 01:15 PM (DuAZ5)

302 261 4 minutes to launch.

They will try to recover the first stages, apparently.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 05, 2018 01:10 PM (8iiMU)

Are we still talking about the Bush funeral?

Posted by: josephistan at December 05, 2018 01:15 PM (7HtZB)

303 286 >>I never realized girls were so mean to each other


You are shitting us, right?

Girls are the cruelest of the cruel.
Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2018

*
*
The standard advice to soldiers and pioneers in Indian country: "Before you are given to the women for torture . . . kill yourself."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 05, 2018 01:15 PM (wQDH5)

304 269 Trump's not a christian - he's a golfer.
Posted by: rcocean at December 05, 2018 01:11 PM (mX6ZJ)

Golfers are Hindu.

At least, that's what The Legend of Bagger Vance taught me.

Posted by: Hikaru at December 05, 2018 01:15 PM (pgXNG)

305 I was surprised that it is so similar too and that they say the Apostles creed. Always thought since it says, "I believe in the Holy Spirit, The Holy Catholic Church it was just said by us Catholics.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 05, 2018 01:10 PM (hECVl)

Anglicans and Episcopalians adopted that one!

Posted by: m at December 05, 2018 01:15 PM (eJj1Q)

306 Well, isn't that special?

Baby Jesus In CAGE Part Of Church's 'Immigration-Themed' Nativity Scene...

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 05, 2018 01:15 PM (+y/Ru)

307 You want to get a brain cramp?

Read the comment after this NYT article about Betsy Devos,

Make your f'n head hurt, they will.


https://tinyurl.com/yczlokbh

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 05, 2018 01:16 PM (cqNba)

308 265 'Rat race.

Dem Congressman: As Many as 40 Democrats Will Run for President
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 05, 2018 01:11 PM (+y/Ru)

Hmmm, maybe they could start with a melee to thin the herd out then go over to a round robin series of duels with epee or cutlass.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 05, 2018 01:16 PM (RD7QR)

309 Posted by: Someguy at December 05, 2018 01:14 PM

Even the oldest splitters like the Assyrian and Coptic churches call themselves the One True Apostolic Catholic Church, or some such. Before Protestantism, it was standard Christian boilerplate.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at December 05, 2018 01:16 PM (SN4NF)

310 287
It's finally happened. The market on phony conservatives who attack
other conservatives using classic leftist tropes to "get Trump" has
contracted to match the size of its audience. Call it a long-overdue
correction.


Posted by: Rusty Nail at December 05, 2018 01:14 PM (SN4NF)


You down wit entropy?
I'm down wit entropy!

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 05, 2018 01:16 PM (ymnmz)

311 Why is our side not thinking out of the box like this?

Seriously, buy some liberal journals and push the Democrats into a more centrist position.

Honestly, I would prefer a DLC Clintonian Democrat Party from the 90s. At least there was a sliver of common sense.

Posted by: Blago at December 05, 2018 01:16 PM (UfkIY)

312 For me the only statement necessary is John 3: 16.

Baptism and acknowledgement of Jesus Christ as your Lord and savior will do you for most Protestants.

The whole purpose of Christ's coming was to de emphasize the reliance on prayers to God.

God was to take a higher tier and all prayers and guidance would be handled by Jesus. (that's my personal take)

This is what mostly pissed off the Catholic Church as they believe that only thru the intercession of the priesthood can the sinner be saved. Protestants believe that the sinner can save themselves by direct plea to Jesus.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 05, 2018 01:16 PM (wd9fW)

313 I wonder what goes through Barky Obama's mind during events like this. Is he thinking that George W. was lucky to have a father who actually cared about him and was there for him (unlike Barky's sperm donor, who just knocked up his teenage mother and then disappeared). Or is he just sitting there thinking how much bigger and better his own funeral will be?

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at December 05, 2018 01:16 PM (fqUgw)

314 They're playing "Holy God we Praise Thy Name"... love that song.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 05, 2018 01:17 PM (hECVl)

315 If I ever get elected President, and later die, it's your job to arrange
my funeral. There's one word you need to remember: Viking.
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But presidential, so atop a life size replica of the White House.

Posted by: Methos at December 05, 2018 01:17 PM (kOpft)

316 >>Middle school girls are some of the meanest people on the planet. Joy Behar never grew out of it.

We moved to Boston when my sister and I were going to middle school. There was a clique of mean girls on our school bus that went after my sister for being the new girl.

I made it my mission to destroy them. Within a couple months I had the entire bus turned against them to the point of tears.

Mean girls are the second meanest people on the planet.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2018 01:17 PM (/tuJf)

317 Yes. But mostly in Houston.

Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2018 01:15 PM (/NB++)


Easier to dig in the winter.

Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate at December 05, 2018 01:17 PM (lwiT4)

318 Anglicans and Episcopalians adopted that one!

Posted by: m at December 05, 2018 01:15 PM (eJj1Q)

Anglicans never stopped considering themselves "Catholic." It's the "Roman" part that makes them queasy.

Posted by: JoeF. at December 05, 2018 01:17 PM (NFEMn)

319

The failing Weekly Standard.

No one wants what they are selling.

Sad.

Posted by: Donnie Two Scoops at December 05, 2018 01:17 PM (C6xeQ)

320 The standard advice to soldiers and pioneers in Indian country: "Before you are given to the women for torture . . . kill yourself."

Wounded and dying on the Afghanistan plains,
& the women come out to cut up what remains,
Roll into your rifle and blow out your brains,
and go to your God like a soldier ...

Kipling, iirc ...

Posted by: Adriane the Raised Eyebrow Critic ... at December 05, 2018 01:17 PM (LPnfS)

321
If I ever get elected President, and later die, it's your job to arrange my funeral. There's one word you need to remember: Viking.
Posted by: Qoheleth at December 05, 2018

Okay, but I'm getting Stormy Daniels as your sacrificial slavegirl.

Posted by: Vanya at December 05, 2018 01:18 PM (7PLM4)

322 Finally, we'll get the truth!

Sean Penn in Istanbul to film Khashoggi documentary: reports...

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 05, 2018 01:19 PM (+y/Ru)

323 sh funeral whiter than a polar bear in a snow storm.. racist much? shit wad elites!!!!

Posted by: sOME mORON at December 05, 2018 12:38 PM (ICWiF)

Chocolate Jesus and Moochelle are there...
Posted by: Timon at December 05, 2018
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They represent the polar bear's eyes.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 05, 2018 12:41 PM (wQDH5)

dead and lifeless with no soul?

Posted by: SturmToddler at December 05, 2018 01:19 PM (8D42x)

324 When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier

Posted by: jakee308 at December 05, 2018 01:19 PM (wd9fW)

325 Baby Jesus In CAGE Part Of Church's 'Immigration-Themed' Nativity Scene...

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I'm fine with that. Now end their tax-free status.

Also, didn't Jesus' family have to make the trip because they were citizens?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Thoughts and Prayers for RGB 🐘 at December 05, 2018 01:19 PM (LX21o)

326 This is what mostly pissed off the Catholic Church as they believe that only thru the intercession of the priesthood can the sinner be saved. Protestants believe that the sinner can save themselves by direct plea to Jesus.


LCMS still has Confession and Absolution but, what started Martin Luther on his path to schism was the realization that he was already saved by Grace, through Jesus Christ.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 05, 2018 01:19 PM (yQpMk)

327
GHWB being buried near his presidential library near Bryan/Texas A&M I think.

Posted by: Glenn John at December 05, 2018 01:19 PM (LilNs)

328 >>Easier to dig in the winter.

Also, Beef Ribs.


Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2018 01:19 PM (/NB++)

329 293 So where are they burying him at? Maine?
_____________

Texas A&M, where Barbara and Robin are buried.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at December 05, 2018 01:19 PM (fqUgw)

330 Re-entry stages are coming back to land!
Awesome....

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 05, 2018 01:19 PM (8iiMU)

331 "They're playing "Holy God we Praise Thy Name"... love that song.
Posted by: redridinghood"


Never go wrong with that one. Love it.

If done well, Ave Maria can be tear inducing at funerals.

Posted by: Benji Carver at December 05, 2018 01:19 PM (OD2ni)

332 I think it's because it's yet ANOTHER public appearance she has to attend with President Donald J. Trump. And he's the President and she's the loser, at an occasion where in her mind she ought to be the sitting president.

Posted by: Boots at December 05, 2018 01:14 PM (e9omi)

+++

She doesn't even have the good form to pretend to be polite just for a short duration. Shows me she is evil, spiteful, and very dangerous.

Posted by: washrivergal at December 05, 2018 01:20 PM (rE1pK)

333 I can't even imagine what Billy Jeff's funeral will be like. And I have a feeling it will be sooner rather than later.

--

I read a while back that one sign a person is nearing the end of their life is if they continually have their mouth hanging open. I don't know if that pertains to them not feeling well, or some other marker, but it is -- supposedly -- a sign. And it's something Bubba does a lot.

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at December 05, 2018 01:20 PM (JoUsr)

334 322 Finally, we'll get the truth!

Sean Penn in Istanbul to film Khashoggi documentary: reports...
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 05, 2018 01:19 PM (+y/Ru)

=========

Will the Left forgive him for the fawning documentary he made about Putin? He started it well before Putin became the Democrats' boogeyman and released it well after.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, If you've read and enjoyed any of my works, please leave a review on Amazon. at December 05, 2018 01:20 PM (XSSCs)

335 I hear that the weekly standard is up for sale.


I'll have my attorneys give you a ring, Bill. But first let me check the seat of US1 for loose change.

Posted by: President Richard Punch at December 05, 2018 01:20 PM (ymnmz)

336 You know, American Standard is a leader in the toilet industry. I wonder if the Weekly Standard got their naming inspiration from them? Course, it does sound constipated, only once weekly.

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at December 05, 2018 01:20 PM (3sjI6)

337 322 Sean Penn in Istanbul to film Khashoggi documentary: reports...
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 05, 2018 01:19 PM (+y/Ru)

Every time someone mentions Khashoggi, it reminds me how it drove me insane every time a Brit said the name and pronounced it "Khashoggerjee".

Posted by: Hikaru at December 05, 2018 01:20 PM (pgXNG)

338 >>>he hasn't been back to say anything else.
Concern is notable.

I asked a question. I waited and read the answers. And I'm not a he. But bless your heart for thinking of me.

Posted by: Good Christian at December 05, 2018 01:20 PM (wbSPH)

339 "Also, didn't Jesus' family have to make the trip because they were citizens?"

You gonna fixate on details and truth, or can we just keep rolling with the immigrant meme?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 05, 2018 01:20 PM (cqNba)

340 Mean girls are the second meanest people on the planet.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2018 01:17 PM (/tuJf)

And the meanest are...?

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 05, 2018 01:21 PM (RD7QR)

341 Dem Congressman: As Many as 40 Democrats Will Run for President

Well this guy won't be one...

https://tinyurl.com/ycj3bysh
Probably too busy counting his money at his no show affirmative action job at Bain Capital.

Posted by: tu3031 at December 05, 2018 01:21 PM (sf1AO)

342 Citation jake? I'm familiar with accusations of worshipping the saints, pope, and marianism but that's a new one on me. Always interesting to hear what protestants think constitutes Catholic theology.

Posted by: Someguy at December 05, 2018 01:21 PM (XOBxb)

343 He will be buried next to Barbara at his library in College Station.

Posted by: Jen the original at December 05, 2018 01:21 PM (L/94n)

344 How long will Hillary keep campaigning after she dies?

Posted by: Northernlurker, but call me Teem at December 05, 2018 01:21 PM (MkcN1)

345 How did Hillary and Michael do on the Apostles Creed?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Thoughts and Prayers for RGB 🐘 at December 05, 2018 01:21 PM (LX21o)

346 Yeah, I think "bless your heart" is officially played out around these parts.

Posted by: Hikaru at December 05, 2018 01:21 PM (pgXNG)

347 313 I wonder what goes through Barky Obama's mind during events like this. Is he thinking that George W. was lucky to have a father who actually cared about him and was there for him (unlike Barky's sperm donor, who just knocked up his teenage mother and then disappeared). Or is he just sitting there thinking how much bigger and better his own funeral will be?
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at December 05, 2018 01:16 PM (fqUgw)

Is it awful that I had similar thoughts?

Posted by: Marybeth at December 05, 2018 01:21 PM (CmURZ)

348 I'm surprised that Slick Willie didn't sit next to Ivanka during the service. Hey honey, what are you doing after the funeral?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 05, 2018 01:22 PM (OLCnA)

349 Texas A&M is where Bush's presidential library is located. That's why the Bushes are buried there.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at December 05, 2018 01:22 PM (fqUgw)

350 Protestants believe that the sinner can save themselves by direct plea to Jesus.


Posted by: jakee308 at December 05, 2018 01:16 PM (wd9fW)


Not eactly, but I think I know what you're getting at. Evangelicals believe that Christ alone saves, by grace through faith. It is a gift of God, to be received. It is offered, not earned. Our sins are forgiven because of the shed blood of Christ on the cross, his death and resurrection. Belive on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you shall be saved. There is nothing one can do to earn salvation. It is the gift of God to those who believe.


my humble thoughts

Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate at December 05, 2018 01:22 PM (lwiT4)

351 Hillary's upset because a dead Bush pulled more attendees than her Canadia Tour.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 05, 2018 01:22 PM (wd9fW)

352 WHO CARES as long as the CRUISE of CUCKDUM is still on!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge at December 05, 2018 01:22 PM (Zz0t1)

353 I wonder what goes through Barky Obama's mind during events like this. Is he thinking that George W. was lucky to have a father who actually cared about him and was there for him (unlike Barky's sperm donor, who just knocked up his teenage mother and then disappeared). Or is he just sitting there thinking how much bigger and better his own funeral will be?
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at December 05, 2018 01:16 PM (fqUgw)

In the one still photo I saw of Obama and Michael sitting next to the Trumps at the funeral, Obama looks smug- his hid tilted to the right and upward with an almost grin similar to the one Paul Ryan always wore around Trump. Mooch looks miserable.
So do the Trumps actually.

These two couples DO NOT like each other--probably because Trump knows everything about how Obama tried to thwart him--and Obama KNOWS he knows....

Posted by: JoeF. at December 05, 2018 01:22 PM (NFEMn)

354 Why does Trump not say the Apostles Creed? He was the only one not to.

Posted by: Good Christian at December 05, 2018 12:52 PM (wbSPH)



Maybe he was waiting for the Athanasian Creed.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 05, 2018 01:22 PM (yQpMk)

355 So long Weekly Spamturd

Posted by: mcsausage bisquick at December 05, 2018 01:22 PM (LYULF)

356 She doesn't even have the good form to pretend to be
polite just for a short duration. Shows me she is evil, spiteful, and
very dangerous.

Posted by: washrivergal at December 05, 2018 01:20 PM (rE1pK)

And sadly, many in the Bush family voted for her because Trump said Jeb! was low-energy. Better the country suffer, I suppose. It just amazes and angers me.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 05, 2018 01:23 PM (ptqGC)

357 "How did Hillary and Michael do on the Apostles Creed?"

If wild-eyed screaming and bursting into flames was involved, I would like pictures, please.

Posted by: Qoheleth at December 05, 2018 01:23 PM (iIzG7)

358 How long will Hillary keep campaigning after she dies?
Posted by: Northernlurker, but call me Teem at December 05, 2018 01:21 PM (MkcN1)

Trump debates a Ouija board on live television?

Posted by: Vanya at December 05, 2018 01:23 PM (7PLM4)

359 I'll have to be muting the NBC talking heads now.

Posted by: m at December 05, 2018 01:23 PM (eJj1Q)

360 Is it awful that I had similar thoughts?
Posted by: Marybeth
____________

Why would it be awful? Is it awful to think like me?

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at December 05, 2018 01:23 PM (fqUgw)

361 Ooops! Looks like the first stage plopped into the water.
Of course, they cut off the video once it started spinning crazily.....
dammit!
lol

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 05, 2018 01:23 PM (8iiMU)

362 344 How long will Hillary keep campaigning after she dies?
Posted by: Northernlurker, but call me Teem at December 05, 2018 01:21 PM (MkcN1)

She's animated by hatred and cybernetics as it is so potentially she could go on until her nuclear power source fails or she runs out of gin, whichever comes first.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 05, 2018 01:23 PM (RD7QR)

363
Anglicans never stopped considering themselves "Catholic." It's the "Roman" part that makes them queasy.

Posted by: JoeF. at December 05, 2018 01:17 PM (NFEMn)
Here I thought it was over divorce of a certain monarch.

What are the implications of the Papacy being in Avignon for a time for Roman concerns?

Posted by: Someguy at December 05, 2018 01:23 PM (XOBxb)

364 The magazine business is tough enough without suddenly turning against all your subscribers and attacking them. One might even call this a poor business model.

Why does Trump not say the Apostles Creed? He was the only one not to.

Probably doesn't know it, he hasn't been to church much in his life

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 05, 2018 01:23 PM (39g3+)

365 Mean girls are the second meanest people on the planet.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2018 01:17 PM (/tuJf)

And the meanest are...?
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 05, 2018 01:21 PM (RD7QR)

Gay guys

Posted by: JoeF. at December 05, 2018 01:24 PM (NFEMn)

366 Oh goody Chris Wallace giving his opinion of the funeral

Posted by: Jen the original at December 05, 2018 01:24 PM (L/94n)

367 "We replaced Hillary Clinton with this gobbling turkey, and got it drunk on Tanqueray. Let's see if anybody notices."

Posted by: Hikaru at December 05, 2018 01:24 PM (pgXNG)

368 "The Anglican Church is a catholic and apostolic church. It owes no allegiance to the bishop of Rome, no matter how he fancies to call himself."


Well, it split off from Rome and cannot trace it lineage to the other ancient patriarchs of Jerusalem, Anticoh, Constantinople or Alexandria. By definition, the claim to be catholic and aposstolic is murky.

Posted by: Benji Carver at December 05, 2018 01:24 PM (OD2ni)

369 Every time someone mentions Khashoggi, it reminds me how it drove me insane every time a Brit said the name and pronounced it "Khashoggerjee"."

I prefer the correct pronunciation.

Katsoggy.

Pronounced "I don't give a f**k".

Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 05, 2018 01:24 PM (6qErC)

370 Fun fact: Thanks to her husband, Hillary Clinton is the only losing presidential candidate allowed to sit in the the front row at presidential funerals.

Posted by: tu3031 at December 05, 2018 01:24 PM (sf1AO)

371 >>Why does Trump not say the Apostles Creed?


He's more of an Apollo Creed fan.

Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2018 01:24 PM (/NB++)

372 I would not be able to recite the Apostles Creed. I don't think that proves anything one way or the other.

Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate at December 05, 2018 01:24 PM (lwiT4)

373 "How did Hillary and Michael do on the Apostles Creed?"

If wild-eyed screaming and bursting into flames was involved, I would like pictures, please.

Posted by: Qoheleth at December 05, 2018 01:23 PM (iIzG7)




Yeah, if I ran the universe the blessed name of the Lord would turn to molten brass on their lips.

God is merciful.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 05, 2018 01:25 PM (yQpMk)

374 366 Oh goody Chris Wallace giving his opinion of the funeral
Posted by: Jen the original at December 05, 2018 01:24 PM (L/94n)

Yeah. No.

Posted by: m at December 05, 2018 01:25 PM (eJj1Q)

375
Also, didn't Jesus' family have to make the trip because they were citizens?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Thoughts and Prayers for RGB at December 05, 2018 01:19 PM (LX21o)


They were compelled to make the trip because the Romans were taking a census / taxing subjects, who had to return to the father's birthplace. So J&M left Nazareth for Bethlehem. After the birth of Jesus and the flight into Egypt, they returned to their home, in Nazareth.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 05, 2018 01:25 PM (pNxlR)

376 Why does Trump not say the Apostles Creed? He was the only one not to.

Probably doesn't know it, he hasn't been to church much in his life
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 05, 2018 01:23 PM (39g3+)

Probably true.
But watch how the usually ANTI -religion MSM chides him for not knowing the words.....

Posted by: JoeF. at December 05, 2018 01:25 PM (NFEMn)

377 The magazine business is tough enough without suddenly turning against all your subscribers and attacking them. One might even call this a poor business model.

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Oh crap! I know, let's switch to Facebook for our comment section!

- Hotair dot com

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Thoughts and Prayers for RGB 🐘 at December 05, 2018 01:25 PM (LX21o)

378 How long will Hillary keep campaigning after she dies?

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Ok, so that conjured up images of the Bugs Bunny cartoon with the Opera singer when Bugs leaves his gloved hand in the air directing the singer to keep holding the note, while he goes off stage to do other things. Funny how the mind works...

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at December 05, 2018 01:25 PM (JoUsr)

379 So where are they burying him at? Maine?
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Texas A&M, where Barbara and Robin are buried.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at December 05, 2018 01:19 PM (fqUgw)

Good. That will give the college SJW's something to dig up and feed to the dogs.

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at December 05, 2018 01:25 PM (3sjI6)

380 As far as not having it memorized or not knowing which version, it was printed on the program. That's why I wonder what the explanation was - not a believer, or something else.

Posted by: Good Christian at December 05, 2018 01:26 PM (wbSPH)

381 I would not be able to recite the Apostles Creed."

Same here. Don't even know what it is, so...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 05, 2018 01:26 PM (6qErC)

382 Maybe he was waiting for the Athanasian Creed.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 05, 2018 01:22 PM (yQpMk)



Oh dear. We'd be here till Friday.

Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate at December 05, 2018 01:26 PM (lwiT4)

383 I saw some stills of the front row of the Bush Memorial today and while the Clunton's looked bothered because of Trump, the Trump's looking respectful as you'd expect, Barak Owebama had a look of cluelessness and empty headedness that reminds us just what a simpleton he actually is. Michelle, well, she hates America again.

Posted by: Sponge at December 05, 2018 01:26 PM (Zz0t1)

384 And sadly, many in the Bush family voted for her because Trump said Jeb! was low-energy. Better the country suffer, I suppose. It just amazes and angers me.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 05, 2018 01:23 PM (ptqGC)

+++

Sounds like a convenient excuse not to vote for him. Calling Jeb! "low energy" is barely even an insult. I believe now we've been hoodwinked by the lot of them. Too cozy those Dems and Rebs.

Posted by: washrivergal at December 05, 2018 01:26 PM (rE1pK)

385 376 Why does Trump not say the Apostles Creed? He was the only one not to.

Probably doesn't know it, he hasn't been to church much in his life
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 05, 2018 01:23 PM (39g3+)

Probably true.
But watch how the usually ANTI -religion MSM chides him for not knowing the words.....
Posted by: JoeF. at December 05, 2018 01:25 PM (NFEMn)

There was a program. I'll bet it was printed there. I think that, at funerals, different people choose to participate in their own ways.

Posted by: m at December 05, 2018 01:27 PM (eJj1Q)

386 360 Is it awful that I had similar thoughts?
Posted by: Marybeth
____________

Why would it be awful? Is it awful to think like me?
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at December 05, 2018 01:23 PM (fqUgw)

Not at all . . . I was thinking my mom & dad, if they were alive. would be scolding me like crazy for thinking that at an inappropriate time like a funeral . . . even though Dad called Obama "the Marxist scum in the White House."

Posted by: Marybeth at December 05, 2018 01:27 PM (CmURZ)

387 As far as not having it memorized or not knowing which version, it was printed on the program. That's why I wonder what the explanation was - not a believer, or something else.


You should ask him. We aren't likely to know the answer. Maybe he forgot his reading glasses.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 05, 2018 01:27 PM (yQpMk)

388
"Principal banned candy canes because 'J' shape stands 'for Jesus.' "

Dude, you're holding it wrong.
See....now it looks like a gun.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice


A Jesus Gun!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at December 05, 2018 01:27 PM (aKsyK)

389 Good. That will give the college SJW's something to dig up and feed to the dogs."

You're not familiar w/College Station, I see...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 05, 2018 01:27 PM (6qErC)

390 Posted by: Someguy at December 05, 2018 01:21 PM (XOBxb)

Well it was probably Protestant propaganda but that's what I heard when they talked about the differences and why the Catholic Church was the Whore of Babylon. (you get the drift)

I always thought that besides the political problems brought on by a Sovereign that was not annointed by the church the main reason Catholics despised the Protestants was because of the lessening of the priests influence.

Protestants tended to distribute the Bible where the Church had always kept it to itself and told the lay catholics the priests would intercede with God for them and forgive their sins.

No one should take anything I say about religion as definitive. It's become an amalgam of many beliefs over the years. Sort of like a Spiritual smorgasbord.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 05, 2018 01:28 PM (wd9fW)

391 It would be interesting if Trump has deeply held moral beliefs regarding why he won't flippantly recite some religious passages that are meaningful to millions of people around the world but just something printed on the back of the program to him.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Thoughts and Prayers for RGB 🐘 at December 05, 2018 01:28 PM (LX21o)

392 NOOD.


Why is everybody still here?

Posted by: eleven at December 05, 2018 01:28 PM (NLLmE)

393 366 Oh goody Chris Wallace giving his opinion of the funeral
_________________________________________________

If I were alive, I would use my dry erase board to explain the funeral.

Posted by: Tim Russert at December 05, 2018 01:28 PM (ZxU8C)

394 375
Also, didn't Jesus' family have to make the trip because they were citizens?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Thoughts and Prayers for RGB at December 05, 2018 01:19 PM (LX21o)

They were compelled to make the trip because the Romans were taking a census / taxing subjects, who had to return to the father's birthplace. So J&M left Nazareth for Bethlehem. After the birth of Jesus and the flight into Egypt, they returned to their home, in Nazareth.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 05, 2018

*
*
Wouldn't the roads in Palestine around that time (the good Romans ones, anyway) have been jammed like I-10 after a Saints win? No wonder there was no room at that inn.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 05, 2018 01:28 PM (wQDH5)

395 Obama, no doubt, thought The Apostles Creed was somehow about him.

Don't you know this creed is about me?

Posted by: Northernlurker, but call me Teem at December 05, 2018 01:28 PM (MkcN1)

396 I would not be able to recite the Apostles Creed. I don't think that proves anything one way or the other.

Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate at December 05, 2018 01:24 PM (lwiT4)
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Yeah, me neither.

I don't know where they're going w/ this concern or what they're trying to prove about Trump.

Posted by: dDan at December 05, 2018 01:28 PM (hwYmz)

397 Texas A&M, where Barbara and Robin are buried.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at December 05, 2018 01:19 PM (fqUgw)

Good. That will give the college SJW's something to dig up and feed to the dogs.
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at December 05, 2018 01:25 PM (3sjI6)


Well, with the GHWB Library being at Texas A&M in actual Texas, I think anyone attempting to dig up the former President would wind up being shot by some form of large caliber weapon from close range.

I'm just sayin....

Posted by: Sponge at December 05, 2018 01:28 PM (Zz0t1)

398 How long will Hillary keep campaigning after she dies?
Posted by: Northernlurker, but call me Teem at December 05, 2018 01:21 PM (MkcN1)

She'll get the McCain touring funeral treatment. That way, Bill can milk a few more shekels out of the idiots that worship her.

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at December 05, 2018 01:28 PM (3sjI6)

399 She's animated by hatred and cybernetics as it is so potentially she could go on until her nuclear power source fails or she runs out of gin, whichever comes first.
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 05, 2018 01:23 PM (RD7QR)

She's using the time to build a stasis life support system with a throne in it, so she can survive and boss us all around for the next 10,000 years.

Posted by: Vanya at December 05, 2018 01:28 PM (7PLM4)

400 >>I would not be able to recite the Apostles Creed.



'Can you take me higher?'

Posted by: Scott Stapp at December 05, 2018 01:28 PM (/NB++)

401 386 360 I was thinking my mom & dad, if they were alive. would be scolding me like crazy for thinking that at an inappropriate time like a funeral . . . even though Dad called Obama "the Marxist scum in the White House."
Posted by: Marybeth at December 05, 2018 01:27 PM (CmURZ)

Yay, Dad!

Posted by: m at December 05, 2018 01:28 PM (eJj1Q)

402 "372 I would not be able to recite the Apostles Creed. I don't think that proves anything one way or the other.
Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate"


As younbg wise asses in Catholic School, we liked to tell the nuns that we preferred the Apostles Creed to the Nicene Creed because you got to say hell.

Posted by: Benji Carver at December 05, 2018 01:29 PM (OD2ni)

403 Wouldn't the roads in Palestine around that time (the good Romans ones, anyway) have been jammed "

"somebody's got to go back and get a shiiteload of dimes..."

Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 05, 2018 01:29 PM (6qErC)

404 Barry looked his usual arrogant self doing the Mussolini chin thing. Aunt Esther had her usual pissed off look going

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 05, 2018 01:29 PM (OLCnA)

405 All I know is that that it became "antisemitic" to note that George Soros funds the left as George Soros began funding more and more of the former right.
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*snap!*

Perhaps it could be rebranded as 'George'. A sort of triple entendre. Wait...is 'George' still in existence?

*checks*

Yikes! It is. Looks like fertile ground for kdbear.

*deletes from search history*

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 05, 2018 01:29 PM (/dN1M)

406 Good. That will give the college SJW's something to dig up and feed to the dogs.

--

They know how to use shovels?

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at December 05, 2018 01:29 PM (JoUsr)

407 And sadly, many in the Bush family voted for her because Trump said Jeb! was low-energy. Better the country suffer, I suppose. It just amazes and angers me.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 05, 2018 01:23 PM (ptqGC)

That's what they want the rubes to think. Just like they want the rubes to think McCain hated Trump for questioning his heroism. Obama blamed W daily every day of his two terms and Clinton called HW a "wimp."

No, they all hate Trump because he's not in "the club." And got elected president without their help....

Posted by: JoeF. at December 05, 2018 01:29 PM (NFEMn)

408

Not eactly, but I think I know what you're getting at. Evangelicals believe that Christ alone saves, by grace through faith. It is a gift of God, to be received. It is offered, not earned. Our sins are forgiven because of the shed blood of Christ on the cross, his death and resurrection. Belive on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you shall be saved. There is nothing one can do to earn salvation. It is the gift of God to those who believe.


my humble thoughts

Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate at December 05, 2018 01:22 PM (lwiT4)

Faith alone vs faith and good works. From what I've seen there's a difference in what people understand faith to mean. For Catholics faith means obedience(repentance and good works being a subset of that). Surely the Devil believes in God, so faith must mean more than simply belief in his existence. What faith means to protestants seems to vary immensely.

Posted by: Someguy at December 05, 2018 01:29 PM (XOBxb)

409 OT, but has anyone else noted that Amazon has essentially dropped Prime for this holiday season - noticed before Thanksgiving that they were guaranteeing delivery 4 or more days out.

It would seem that this would be a big deal.

Posted by: blaster at December 05, 2018 01:30 PM (9VeU0)

410 Well, with the GHWB Library being at Texas A&M in actual Texas, I think anyone attempting to dig up the former President would wind up being shot by some form of large caliber weapon from close range.

I'm just sayin....

Posted by: Sponge at December 05, 2018 01:28 PM (Zz0t1)

Uuhhh, you are familiar with Austin, aren't you? Texas A & M/Bryan-College Station is converged a little more every year.

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at December 05, 2018 01:30 PM (3sjI6)

411 NBC News is replaying GW's eulogy.

Posted by: m at December 05, 2018 01:30 PM (eJj1Q)

412 Oh dear. We'd be here till Friday.


Ha, so true. We have had first time visitors to our church come on Athanasian Sunday and look gobsmacked. I have to tell them after service that we don't do that one every Sunday.

Personally, I'm not comfortable with the Creed, being more than a bit of an Arian myself, which my previous minister told me to keep to myself.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 05, 2018 01:30 PM (yQpMk)

413 Breitbart should buy TWS and start Kristol as an intern focused in research on progressive money trails.

Posted by: DO IT!!! at December 05, 2018 01:31 PM (wx6iv)

414 Sounds like a convenient excuse not to vote for him. Calling Jeb! "low energy" is barely even an insult. I believe now we've been hoodwinked by the lot of them. Too cozy those Dems and Rebs.
Posted by: washrivergal

______________

It honestly does bother me when politicians on opposite sides are "chummy".

I'm sorry, but this is not rival sports teams here.

Obama was literally spying on Trump like some 3rd world dictator and trying to get everyone around him thrown in prison (including his own kids) we have to pretend they get along?

Probably good I'm not a politician in today's age, I would have been calling for a duel as I walked past them in the halls.

Posted by: Blago at December 05, 2018 01:32 PM (UfkIY)

415 Not at all . . . I was thinking my mom & dad, if they were alive. would be scolding me like crazy for thinking that at an inappropriate time like a funeral . . . even though Dad called Obama "the Marxist scum in the White House."
_______________

lol. My mom would have called him worse than that, if she'd lived long enough to see him elected, but she didn't.

But knowing the vacuous Obama, he's probably not thinking about anything deeper than what he's having for lunch today.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at December 05, 2018 01:32 PM (fqUgw)

416 404 Barry looked his usual arrogant self doing the Mussolini chin thing. Aunt Esther had her usual pissed off look going
Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 05, 2018 01:29 PM (OLCnA)

Hubby called me earlier, and the first thing he commented on was Obama's chin in the air.

Such a nasty pose. Melania must have been thrilled having to sit next to him, poor lady.

Posted by: Marybeth at December 05, 2018 01:33 PM (CmURZ)

417 Grammie - Arrrrgh, matey. I never thought I'd be a'praying for a pirate, arrrrgh. I be hoping yer maintaining well, and your bilges is dry.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 05, 2018 01:33 PM (/dN1M)

418
I don't feel 'comfortable' saying the Apostles Creed in any church other than my own. I'm funny that way. I know there are subtle differences between the Catholic version and the others.

I figure it's just as respectful to stand silently at attention.

Posted by: Embedded in my Pre-Frontal Cortex at December 05, 2018 01:34 PM (e7O7B)

419 That's what they get for adhering to "Weakling Standards".

Posted by: starboardhelm at December 05, 2018 01:34 PM (hOtJL)

420 Maybe someone could explain to me how the Romans would know that Joseph needed to return to Bethlehem?

Why not just say 'eff that' and stay home?

I never did understand how that came to be. Maybe they had to get certified by people they knew and most of those would be where they were born?

Posted by: jakee308 at December 05, 2018 01:35 PM (wd9fW)

421
282 Dear fellow Morons:

If I ever get elected President, and later die, it's your job to arrange my funeral. There's one word you need to remember: Viking.

Posted by: Qoheleth at December 05, 2018 01:13 PM (iIzG7

Cool. Outta Boston harbor on the Constition?

Posted by: Thanatopsis at December 05, 2018 01:35 PM (qA6R4)

422
Why does Trump not say the Apostles Creed? He was the only one not to.


Back in the days before the Episcopal Church absndoned the 1928 Book of Common Prayer and set out on its quest to become the "Church of Jesus Christ, the Hip and With It", Holy Communion was celebrated on only one Sunday in four per month and on Feast Days. The Nicene Creed was used in that service with the archaic wording (e.g., "very God from very God" instead of today's "true God from true God").

On all other Sundays the service was Morning Prayer and the creed in that was the Apostles' Creed. At those times, then, I was 3x more familiar with the Apostles' Creed, but given how long ago the switch to the new Book of Common Prayer occurred (closing in on fifty years), I have pretty much forgotten it but could probably start 'er up if given the initial phrase.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 05, 2018 01:35 PM (pNxlR)

423 What they were thinking:

Obama - Another Dead white male.
Michelle - Thank God, I don't have George swaying next to me.
Hillary - God, I have to sit near Trump.
Bill - Wow, those Bush daughters are hot
Carter - Well, I outlived that Bastard
Rosalind - Damn, How much longer, lord. Will Jimmy live forever?

Posted by: rcocean at December 05, 2018 01:36 PM (mX6ZJ)

424 Posted by: DO IT!!! at December 05, 2018 01:31 PM (wx6iv)

make kristol the Piss Boy.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 05, 2018 01:36 PM (wd9fW)

425 As far as not having it memorized or not knowing which version, it was printed on the program. That's why I wonder what the explanation was - not a believer, or something else.

Posted by: Good Christian at December 05, 2018 01:26 PM (wbSPH)


Your concern over this trivia is:

[ ] Noted
[ ] Not Noted
[X] Why the devil are you asking us? You think we read minds? Why don't you address a note to President Trump and if he responds get back to us. Until then, please remain blessed.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Ho Ho Ho! Red Faced Rants are In at The Outrage Outlet! at December 05, 2018 01:37 PM (hLRSq)

426 Let's hope Satan GAINZZZ a purchase on The Weekly Standard with his barbed cock.

Posted by: Fritz at December 05, 2018 01:37 PM (Z9C5C)

427 I don't feel 'comfortable' saying the Apostles Creed in any church other than my own. I'm funny that way. I know there are subtle differences between the Catholic version and the others.
----------

I'm not forgiving any Presbyterian debts. Those Scots are wiley like that, but I'm on to them.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 05, 2018 01:38 PM (w54mS)

428 >>Why does Trump not say the Apostles Creed?
--------------------------------------
I am far less concerned about him NOT saying it than I am about people just mouthing the words to make a show for the cameras.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at December 05, 2018 01:40 PM (Rxduq)

429 This is what mostly pissed off the Catholic Church as they believe that only thru the intercession of the priesthood can the sinner be saved. Protestants believe that the sinner can save themselves by direct plea to Jesus.
Posted by: jakee308

That is incredibly incorrect theology.

You are already "saved" by Jesus' death and resurrection. There is no amount of prayer, fasting or other "works" that will save you, and nothing was BIGGER than that. That is the whole point of the New Testament. It was a New Testament in the Blood of Christ.
Your afterlife is determined by whether you believe in Him or not. And per Jesus' own words, if you accept Him on your deathbed, you are as saved as someone who has believed their whole life.
Prayer is important, in terms of "what is your will for me, Lord?"

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at December 05, 2018 01:40 PM (vcOmj)

430 Pols deal with people they don't really like all the time. Its nothing personal. Its just business.

Hillary is unusual in that she's taking it personally. And showing it in public.

Posted by: rcocean at December 05, 2018 01:40 PM (mX6ZJ)

431
I don't feel 'comfortable' saying the Apostles Creed in any church other than my own. I'm funny that way. I know there are subtle differences between the Catholic version and the others.


The Lord's Prayers has traps, too. Is it "trespasses" or "debts / debtors". Does it end with "For thine is the Kingdom, the Power and the Glory, forever" or should "and ever" be tacked on to the end of that?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 05, 2018 01:41 PM (pNxlR)

432 If I were alive, I would use my dry erase board to explain the funeral.
Posted by: Tim Russert


You're dead, Tim.

Posted by: Dr. Leonard McCoy at December 05, 2018 01:43 PM (vcOmj)

433 No, they all hate Trump because he's not in "the club." And got elected president without their help....
Posted by: JoeF.


Yeah, Trump is actually wealthier than all of them, and could give a fig about what they think.

They all want big bucks out of being President. I don't think Trump cares about making money out of being President.

Years ago, someone remarked that every Mexican President left office a .....billionaire. That's how rich the cartels and the bribes are.

The US is becoming El Norte Mexico

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....menace to society at December 05, 2018 01:45 PM (vcOmj)

434
403 Wouldn't the roads in Palestine around that time (the good Romans ones, anyway) have been jammed "


Nah, that bridge between Gaza and the West Bank relieved congestion immensely.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 05, 2018 01:47 PM (pNxlR)

435 If I were alive, I would use my dry erase board to explain the funeral.
Posted by: Tim Russert


You're dead, Tim.
Posted by: Dr. Leonard McCoy
----------

I would simply remove my glasses, and look seriously and thoughtfully into the camera, while conveying the magnificence of my thoughts.

Posted by: Zombie Walter Cronkite at December 05, 2018 01:49 PM (ZMWtN)

436 Years ago, someone remarked that every Mexican President left office a .....billionaire. That's how rich the cartels and the bribes are.

The US is becoming El Norte Mexico
Posted by: Bozo Conservative
--------

And Cuba, and Venezuela

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 05, 2018 01:50 PM (ZMWtN)

437

If Hitlery's butt plug falls out there's gonna be an epic Poonami. I'd pay money to watch the hilarity ensue...

Posted by: In Vino Veritits at December 05, 2018 02:20 PM (IlM5L)

438 I didn't watch any of the Mccain funeral, I'm not watching the Bushie Funeral. I'm indifferent that way.

Posted by: USNtakim profoundly deplorable. at December 05, 2018 02:22 PM (0OmEj)

439 People become president for the power and the money. I just don't care to mourn their death.

Posted by: USNtakim profoundly deplorable. at December 05, 2018 02:24 PM (0OmEj)

440 The magazines we need to buy are Women's Day grocery checkout aisle magazines which actually influence lots of people.

Posted by: Servius at December 05, 2018 02:56 PM (SXIn9)

441 Don't expect any refunds on those tickets you guys bought for next year's CRUISE either!

FUCK ... THE ... LOT ... OF ... YOU!

I held this house up FOR DECADES! Look at the THANKS I mutha-fuckin get! You guys turned on me cuz, why? Had you elected Killary, like I told you to ... America would be in the dumps right now. Unemployment sky high ... crippling taxes ... a super-majority of LIBS on the SCOTUS ...

Hell, we would have been positioned in 2020 to TAKE EVERYTHING and then start a totally righteous war with Russia and China ... which would have been easily won ... then we just turn around and defeat about 40 other nations ... hell, we would have RULED the PLANET and then started to search for EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL TYRANTS TO PUT A BEAT DOWN ON.

But no ... y'all had to fall for a cheap, obscene Orange idiot who could only give you a booming economy, secure borders, and THE SCOTUS FOR WHAT? Maybe a couple of generations.

You guys sold me down the river and you sold me CHEAP. FUCK YOU GUYS!!

Posted by: Bill Krisol at December 05, 2018 03:02 PM (2ZzGF)

442
God bless you, ace, for the work you produce.

You continue to regularly provide me (and many others) invaluable insights that would ordinarily go completely unobserved.

Your extensive reporting analysis on the traitorous Weekly Standard is NOT being mentioned on Drudge or other alternative outlets. (At least not that I have noticed.)

So as far as I am concerned, you are faithfully rendering an invaluable service to conservatives who simply do not have the time to carefully research this stuff themselves.

Thanks. And please keep up the great and invaluable work.

PS:
Oh yeah, and fuck those damn cucks at TWS!!
Bastards that they are. I hope each and every one of those conservative-posers need more than the maximum unemployment benefits the State offers them.




Posted by: Cold Civil War at December 05, 2018 04:43 PM (Z2PYk)

443 Aboard the good ship Venus,
Oh lord you should have seen us....

Posted by: Mongo at December 05, 2018 08:57 PM (BD7Qt)

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