The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

This editorial pulls no punches, and it illuminates, at least peripherally, a profound difference between the West (or at least some of us) and the Arab/Muslim world.

Is the Arab psyche more comfortable in an authoritarian setting? And is the driver Islam, or the Arab predisposition to authoritarianism?

Just look back at the last 100 years, and you will discover numerous instances of grassroots protests up to outright revolutions, all of which led to...authoritarianism. So while I am enjoying the trouble that the current protests in Lebanon are causing for Iran and Hezbollah, I am far too jaded to expect anything to come out of it other than a lot of death and destruction, leading to absolutely no change for the people of Lebanon.

Protests in Lebanon: A wrench in Hezbollah and Iran's plans

The fact that the protests lack a guiding hand, or any discernible leadership, not to mention any defined goals aside from vague slogans calling for "change to the system in Lebanon," is making it hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel. It's also safe to assume that the bitterness, frustrations and anger harbored by the youth for politics and politicians, the same cohort of corrupt hedonists who have brought Lebanon to the precipice of economic ruin, will continue fuelling the protests.

Simon Bolívar said it best when he described the struggle for freedom in South America...

He Who Serves a Revolution Plows the Sea

He despaired of what he saw as the immutable character of the people, and I wonder whether that applies to the Arab world as well. In fact, Western political philosophy relies on a mindset that is rare, and getting rarer. Every idiot Millennial who waxes poetic about a socialist paradise, and every politician who chips away at free speech, and every soccer mom who embraces socialist policies because "it's for the children," erodes the 2,500 year-old bedrock of freedom and liberty and self determination.

Are we becoming like the rest of the world? America was blissfully free of the sort of violent but pointless protest that much of the world favors. Sure, we have had our share, but for the most part, when Americans protested we had some sort of concrete goal in mind. But that seems to be changing, and the free-floating aggression that we see in most of the world has been embraced by the current crop of violent protesters. But what are they protesting? "We don't like the status quo?" Sounds rather 3rd-worldish to me.

Posted by: CBD at 11:00 AM

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1 Foist?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at October 29, 2019 11:01 AM (ClOmq)

2 not foist

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Facehugger at October 29, 2019 11:02 AM (q80AH)

3 Top Ten!

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 29, 2019 11:03 AM (q1Pj5)

4 Not first....

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at October 29, 2019 11:03 AM (rM6Mf)

5 They are motorizing the goal posts on impeachment. nbc news is reporting that even though Trump never said he wanted anything in return for them re-opening the investigation into biden's kid, it "evolved over time" to become quid pro quo.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 29, 2019 11:03 AM (JUOKG)

6 Good morning all.

Posted by: IC - soon to be de-energized at October 29, 2019 11:03 AM (a0IVu)

7 Th

Posted by: Cheriebebe at October 29, 2019 11:04 AM (KA5Fy)

8 Just look at all the different groups that show up at any given protest.

Posted by: BignJames at October 29, 2019 11:04 AM (X/Pw5)

9 Drudge is blaring 'republicans fear wipeout in 2020'..seriously?

Posted by: IC - soon to be de-energized at October 29, 2019 11:04 AM (a0IVu)

10 a profound difference between the West (or at least some of us) and the Arab/Muslim world."

The key is in the opening statement - we're trying to foist a nation/state on tribal/ethnic alliances.

Ain't gonna work.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at October 29, 2019 11:04 AM (6qErC)

11 Are we becoming like the rest of the world?
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Internet.

How do is disconnect the damn thing?

Posted by: Vladimir Putin at October 29, 2019 11:04 AM (Zr8Dz)

12 Socialism leads to 3rd world conditions.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 29, 2019 11:04 AM (1ISKN)

13 A president who loves America and is fulfilling his campaign promises . . . and the media won't let up on him for a minute. Grrrr.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at October 29, 2019 11:05 AM (ClOmq)

14 Some people are lazy, some people are ambitious. We've enabled the former, and empowered the latter. The authoritarians have the easiest path to power because prosperity and technology has made it so freedom isn't something to work for, it's simply a given.

Posted by: Flyguy at October 29, 2019 11:06 AM (3sOO0)

15 7 Th
Posted by: Cheriebebe at October 29, 2019

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That's two whole days away. This is T.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at October 29, 2019 11:06 AM (ClOmq)

16 I haven't clicked on Drudge in CY 2019. That guy can shove his lame hat up his rear end for all I care.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 29, 2019 11:06 AM (1ISKN)

17 They are motorizing the goal posts on impeachment.

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Nancy outright said "it's not impeachment" when asked about her latest resolution on impeachment. Apparently found a judge to grant subpoena powers and everything, too, so it will work just like impeachment except the accused won't have the opportunity to face his accusers or defend himself.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - I support medically approved diets for anorexics who are trapped in fat girls' bodies at October 29, 2019 11:06 AM (YQKUX)

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Are we then to conclude that sub 100 IQ populations require authoritarians in charge?

Who are, by definition, sub 100 IQ themselves.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 29, 2019 11:06 AM (pNxlR)

19 hiya

Posted by: JT at October 29, 2019 11:06 AM (arJlL)

20 Drudge is blaring 'republicans fear wipeout in 2020'..seriously?

Posted by: IC - soon to be de-energized at October 29, 2019 11:04 AM (a0IVu)

I hope they keep running with that. it'll make the tears on election night 202 that much sweeter...

and morning Horde.

Posted by: SturmToddler at October 29, 2019 11:07 AM (8D42x)

21 Among the more naive notions put forward by our last Republican President is the notion that everyone, universally, yearns for "freedom". That may (and I'm being kind here) be true on some level, but the first problem with this notion is that nobody seems to be able to agree on what "freedom" actually is. The other problem, as a practical matter, is that if you believe in this "universal" "yearning", AND you perceive that you're in a position to "help", well you end up with the Iraq War.

Humanity's experiment (and that's precisely what it is) with "freedom" is a principally if not uniquely Western enlightenment phenomenon that, from the looks of the West these days, is coming to an end.

Posted by: DocJ at October 29, 2019 11:07 AM (77WPm)

22

Well, we had a good run for a while...

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 29, 2019 11:07 AM (aKsyK)

23 Drudge is blaring 'republicans fear wipeout in 2020'..seriously?
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The "media" is all propaganda. From the news to the polls. Its all about shaping the beliefs and impressions of the population. They are marketing a false reality - the news shows are populated by spokes models, and the narratives are directed by the elite.

Posted by: This guy named Breitbart splained it to me once at October 29, 2019 11:07 AM (L3CHS)

24 The millennials are children of *helicopter* or *lawnmower* parents. So in their eyes somebody else being in charge and taking care of everything liKe mommy and mommy did is a good thing. Then they can play video games all day and not have to do icky things like have a job and be responsible/accountable.

Posted by: Cheriebebe at October 29, 2019 11:08 AM (KA5Fy)

25 But that seems to be changing, and the free-floating aggression that we see in most of the world has been embraced by the current crop of violent protesters.

But what are they protesting?

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Having to pay for shit. They are the FSA.
That's their misguided outlook. They think communism will give them free shit.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 29, 2019 11:08 AM (5CJXD)

26 If you look at the organizers of our protests, you will find many 3rd World recent immigrants. Women's march comes to mind, but there are a lot of others from the 3rd world behind the scenes of the push to the hard left.

And it's not surprising. Import millions of 3rd Worlders, we become 3rd World.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at October 29, 2019 11:08 AM (FiUMj)

27

*fades to camera*

Hi!!! Im the new Nicorette Patch spokesmen, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.....

..... And I just stopped smoking yesterday.

Posted by: fixerupper at October 29, 2019 11:08 AM (8XRCm)

28 Are we then to conclude that sub 100 IQ populations require authoritarians in charge?"

Not really, no. History teaches that humans tend to be followers of a sort... does "Give us a King" ring any bells?

Posted by: Anon a mouse at October 29, 2019 11:08 AM (6qErC)

29 But what are they protesting? "We don't like the status quo?" Sounds rather 3rd-worldish to me.

Posted by: CBD at 11:00 AM

Sounds rather juvenile, really. I think the Antifa dork in the street is just an idiot who likes to bust heads and get in people's faces. It's the people who are using them that worry me. What is their endgame? That's never particularly clear.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at October 29, 2019 11:08 AM (RD7QR)

30 18
Are we then to conclude that sub 100 IQ populations require authoritarians in charge?

Who are, by definition, sub 100 IQ themselves.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 29, 2019

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I don't much care what they do or do not require, as long as they are not squabbling in America. Go back to your pestholes in Africa or the Middle East and fight there.

Unfortunately we have hordes of sub-100 IQs here already. I'm reminded of that every time I go to the Dollar Tree (which I am trying to avoid now) or even the grocery store.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at October 29, 2019 11:08 AM (ClOmq)

31 Blimey! It's time for fish n chimps already?

Posted by: mindful webworker - obliquely at October 29, 2019 11:09 AM (RnSBy)

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Posted by: Cheriebebe at October 29, 2019

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That's two whole days away. This is T.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Rapey T.

SURPRISE!

Posted by: rickb223 at October 29, 2019 11:09 AM (5CJXD)

33 So LL AKA BSG went to college to study economics for 7 years ? Taught by people who have never run a company?? Those who can do, Those who can't teach

Posted by: Austere Religious Scholar at October 29, 2019 11:09 AM (BqBId)

34 Humanity's experiment (and that's precisely what it is) with "freedom" is a principally if not uniquely Western enlightenment phenomenon that, from the looks of the West these days, is coming to an end."

Game.
Set.
Match.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at October 29, 2019 11:09 AM (6qErC)

35 14 Some people are lazy, some people are ambitious. We've enabled the former, and empowered the latter. The authoritarians have the easiest path to power because prosperity and technology has made it so freedom isn't something to work for, it's simply a given.
Posted by: Flyguy at October 29, 2019 11:06 AM (3sOO0)

The way of the Collectivist is to suborninate ability to need. With need being the focus, need and perceived needs grow until ability is overwhelmed.

The way of the Individualist is to subordinate need to ability. When everyone produces to the limits of their ability, productivity grows until all needs and most wants are fulfilled.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at October 29, 2019 11:09 AM (J+mig)

36 Drudge is blaring 'republicans fear wipeout in 2020'..seriously?

Posted by: IC - soon to be de-energized at October 29, 2019 11:04 AM (a0IVu)

Clickbait. Nothing more or less.

Haven't clicked to Drudge's site in 3-years (since he went full-on NT) and see no reason to change that pattern now.

Posted by: DocJ at October 29, 2019 11:09 AM (77WPm)

37 Are we then to conclude that sub 100 IQ populations require authoritarians in charge?

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We keep them in line with threats of physical violence involving lengths of chain.

Posted by: J. Biden, Lifeguard at October 29, 2019 11:10 AM (YQKUX)

38 Are we then to conclude that sub 100 IQ populations require authoritarians in charge?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 29, 2019 11:06 AM (pNxlR)

Well, it correlates pretty well.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 29, 2019 11:10 AM (wYseH)

39 They are motorizing the goal posts on impeachment.

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Nancy outright said "it's not impeachment" when asked about her
latest resolution on impeachment. Apparently found a judge to grant
subpoena powers and everything, too, so it will work just like
impeachment except the accused won't have the opportunity to face his
accusers or defend himself.

Posted by: Moron Robbie [snip] at October 29, 2019 11:06 AM (YQKUX)

I fear this point is lost in the Signal-to-Noise ratio.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 29, 2019 11:10 AM (q1Pj5)

40 A president who loves America and is fulfilling his campaign promises . . . and the media won't let up on him for a minute.

Its not just the media, its the entire political establishment. PDTS has pulled aside the curtains hiding their feckless, excuse making, backstabbing game. Congress and the MSM have been completely exposed as the parasitic intitutions they are.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at October 29, 2019 11:11 AM (rM6Mf)

41 Lot's of good stuff in this Lee Smith book. He's really taking on the media too.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at October 29, 2019 11:11 AM (nRWPy)

42 Well, we had a good run for a while...
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr

Wish it would have lasted another 75 years.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 29, 2019 11:11 AM (5CJXD)

43 24 The millennials are children of *helicopter* or *lawnmower* parents. So in their eyes somebody else being in charge and taking care of everything liKe mommy and mommy did is a good thing. Then they can play video games all day and not have to do icky things like have a job and be responsible/accountable.
Posted by: Cheriebebe at October 29, 2019 11:08 AM (KA5Fy)
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My cousin has stories about helicopter parents. She was a dean at a school of nursing and heard from more than her share of parents.

Posted by: blake - are you DMV experienced?
at October 29, 2019 11:11 AM (qC1Sy)

44 29 But what are they protesting? "We don't like the status quo?" Sounds rather 3rd-worldish to me.

Posted by: CBD at 11:00 AM

Sounds rather juvenile, really. I think the Antifa dork in the street is just an idiot who likes to bust heads and get in people's faces. It's the people who are using them that worry me. What is their endgame? That's never particularly clear.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at October 29, 2019 11:08 AM (RD7QR)

The end game is conflict. The aristocracy are playing divide and conquer. Kings prefer culturally unified and uniform socities(makes it easier to rule), aristocrats prefer diverse and divided ones(makes for many leadership seats).

Posted by: Someguy at October 29, 2019 11:11 AM (O+iVW)

45 "Plowing The Sea" was perfect after LL's contributions to that last thread with the sailboats.

Posted by: t-bird at October 29, 2019 11:12 AM (lK7fO)

46 Are we then to conclude that sub 100 IQ populations require authoritarians in charge?

Absolutely. Live in the shadow of the castle is comforting to them.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at October 29, 2019 11:12 AM (nRWPy)

47 38 Are we then to conclude that sub 100 IQ populations require authoritarians in charge?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 29, 2019 11:06 AM (pNxlR)

Well, it correlates pretty well.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 29, 2019

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Somebody has to lead. In a civilized society it's the person with the most on the ball. In a savage society it's the strongest one. But he may have a couple of extra IQ points to expend on his plans.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at October 29, 2019 11:12 AM (ClOmq)

48 Winston Churchill often made the point that the English Speaking peoples, due to their unique history and unique cultural development, blending many different sources, had created an absolutely unique culture that favors Liberty. They rubbed off a bit on Continental Europe, but even Europe has always been far more authoritarian.

I wouldn't say that Arab culture "wants" authoritarian rule as much as they "need" it. Without out, Arab culture almost instantly devolved into house by house murders and looting.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 29, 2019 11:12 AM (Kpl3J)

49 Are we becoming like the rest of the world?

When you import the shithole, you become the shithole.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at October 29, 2019 11:12 AM (O7MnT)

50 I got my USB mouse set up! That's a big improvement over the laptop trackpad. I don't know how people can use those things.

Every time I tried to quote and highlight a comment, I either couldn't get the whole thing or else I'd quote the entire thread. It's a miracle I didn't have multiple embarrelings.

Posted by: rickl at October 29, 2019 11:12 AM (j/R1H)

51 In a savage society it's the strongest one. But he may have a couple of extra IQ points to expend on his plans."

And a colander.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at October 29, 2019 11:13 AM (6qErC)

52
Sounds rather juvenile, really. I think the Antifa dork in the street is just an idiot who likes to bust heads and get in people's faces.

LARPer graduates who conflate their ability to "KICK SOME AZZ" on their gaming devices with their mad LARPing skills and voila!

STREET FIGHTIN' MANZ AND WYMYNZ!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 29, 2019 11:13 AM (pNxlR)

53 What is their endgame? That's never particularly clear.
Posted by: joncelli
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The Left rely on discord to achieve power. They have no other means. Obama did his absolute best to promote it.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc. Etc. at October 29, 2019 11:13 AM (KoKdw)

54 Highly relevant -- The WSJ reports that

Lebanon Prime Minister Hariri to Resign Amid Nationwide Protests

Katie Hill must have made him an offer he couldn't refuse.

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 29, 2019 11:13 AM (Z4rgH)

55 Drudge is blaring 'republicans fear wipeout in 2020'..seriously?

The Fat Boys and the Beach Boys are planning to tour together?

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 29, 2019 11:13 AM (q1Pj5)

56 Humanity's experiment (and that's precisely what it is) with "freedom" is a principally if not uniquely Western enlightenment phenomenon that, from the looks of the West these days, is coming to an end."

Game.
Set.
Match.
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HEY BUDDY.

What you talkin' bout Humanity's experiment?

Experiment my A$$.

Get your collective sh!+ together right now, because when I get home from work you'll wish you had, if you don't!

Posted by: The MAKER at October 29, 2019 11:13 AM (18tbd)

57 to mention any defined goals

Actually, there is a defined goal - to get rid of the inbred families in Lebanon that pass on high political office to their family members as inheritances from generation to generation. It's even worse than Illinois.

Narsallah (the head of Hezbollah) does not like this, because all the inbred political families serve as political cover for the fact that Hezbollah has turned Lebanon into an Iranian colony.

Heck, we still give military aid to the Lebanese army, pretending that Lebanon and Hezbollah are somehow different.

So, Hezbollah has started beating demonstrators - they like the current political system just fine, and don't want it changed.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 29, 2019 11:13 AM (I2/tG)

58 "Are we becoming like the rest of the world?"

If you let the world dictate to you, yes. If you tell them, "LOLGF. It's war." Well, then you can live free and be a happy warrior.

The choice is yours despite what the indoctrinators and your supposed betters believe.

Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at October 29, 2019 11:13 AM (80rst)

59 With the exception of the USA, 99% of human history has been masses ruled by tyrants. What's happening today is just a reversion to the norm.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at October 29, 2019 11:14 AM (O7MnT)

60
What are you protesting?
What do you got?

Posted by: Roland THTG at October 29, 2019 11:14 AM (88+cf)

61 Drudge is blaring 'republicans fear wipeout in 2020'..seriously?

Posted by: IC - soon to be de-energized at October 29, 2019 11:04 AM

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This is going to be the drum beat for the next 12 months. Louder ad louder.

So...shame them, laugh at them. Point them out. Fight back.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 29, 2019 11:14 AM (axyOa)

62 I got my USB mouse set up! That's a big improvement over the laptop trackpad. I don't know how people can use those things.
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The accustomed users tell me that they like the pad. I am not an accustomed user. I revert to it only if I have no other choice.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc. Etc. at October 29, 2019 11:15 AM (HTHlp)

63 "Having to pay for shit. They are the FSA."

More than 1/2 the country pays no federal income tax. This is at the root of our problem.

You say FSA, and everyone thinks of the welfare queens. But it's a lot more than that. A family with a couple fo kids, earning $60K is part of the FSA.

Bush Jr created this by removing millions of lower and middle class workers from the tax rolls altogether. And then boasting about it as if it was something to celebrate. Trump enlarged this group, by doubling the child tax credit, removing even more people from paying any taxes.

When 50%+ of the country knows it can vote itself free shit without every having to pay for it....guess what happens?

Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at October 29, 2019 11:15 AM (FiUMj)

64 Heh! Bee does us proud.
https://tinyurl.com/y2lbfxhj

Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 29, 2019 11:15 AM (EUw/L)

65 47 38 Are we then to conclude that sub 100 IQ populations require authoritarians in charge?"

I don't think it's fair to bring "intelligence" into it - some very highly "intelligent" populations have created Hell on Earth for themselves.

I believe an Authoritarian solution becomes very desirable when your number one concern every day is your crazy neighbors jumping through your windows at night, taking all your shit and raping all the women. Which is life in an Arab country, unless there's someone big enough and bad enough on top to scare them out of trying it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 29, 2019 11:15 AM (Kpl3J)

66 99% of human history has been masses ruled by tyrants"

It's for your own good, don't you know?

Posted by: Anon a mouse at October 29, 2019 11:15 AM (6qErC)

67 2019 is looking a lot like 1848 or 1968.
unz.com/pbuchanan/is-trump-facing-a-1960s-style-revolt/

The argument here is that we have a baby-boom across the world, grown up disillusioned by normal politics as young people usually are.

Here "normal politics" means Trump, and the standard Republocrat line about a modest social-network with capitalism... for the rich, old, and/or white. Capitalism does nothing for those without capital, like youngsters born to low-to-middle class parents and to immigrants. That Trump and the Republocrats aren't the same thing doesn't matter to them.

In the Near East, "normal politics" means fascism with an Islamic facade, against ISIS. The youth in the Near East hate both.

In 1848 the reactionary governments (or neoreactionaries like Napoleon III) successfully squashed the revolts. In 1968, America capitulated and handed over its universities to the Left.

I'm not taking sides on what Trump or others of the good guys should do. I'm just sketching out what we're in for.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at October 29, 2019 11:15 AM (ykYG2)

68 Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
1m
Nervous Nancy Pelosi is doing everything possible to destroy the Republican Party. Our Polls show that it is going to be just the opposite. The Do Nothing Dems will lose many seats in 2020. They have a Death Wish, led by a corrupt politician, Adam Schiff!

Posted by: Austere Religious Scholar at October 29, 2019 11:16 AM (BqBId)

69 If you let the world dictate to you, yes. If you tell them, "LOLGF. It's war." Well, then you can live free and be a happy warrior.

The choice is yours despite what the indoctrinators and your supposed betters believe.
Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at October 29, 2019 11:13 AM (80rst)

A warrior only dies once. The craven and the coward die every day.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at October 29, 2019 11:16 AM (J+mig)

70 The millennials are children of *helicopter* or *lawnmower* parents. So in their eyes somebody else being in charge and taking care of everything liKe mommy and mommy did is a good thing. Then they can play video games all day and not have to do icky things like have a job and be responsible/accountable.
Posted by: Cheriebebe at October 29, 2019 11:08 AM (KA5Fy)

Tucker had a segment the other night in which he proposed that the embrace of socialism by so many of today's young adults is a result of demanding that HS grads MUST attend college and then end up with hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt, often for degrees in which they cannot find a job, or the job pays 1/10th of what they need to pay it back. They blame it on capitalism, because the college is the one making huge amounts of money on them, and in exchange get nothing in return. So they believe capitalism must be replaced by a fairer system.

Sorry Tucker, how about placing the blame where it belongs, on the parents of said people who paraded their kids to schools of outrageous expense because they wanted to brag about their kid's degree from super special U of $$.

Posted by: Jen the original at October 29, 2019 11:16 AM (96m0f)

71 LARPer graduates who conflate their ability to "KICK SOME AZZ" on their gaming devices with their mad LARPing skills and voila!

STREET FIGHTIN' MANZ AND WYMYNZ!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 29, 2019 11:13 AM (pNxlR)

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Yeah, those antifa types are really tough. I mean, look at the way they kept the old guy and his wife, who was using a walker, from going to that speech! Tough guys and gals, one and all!

Posted by: blake - are you DMV experienced?
at October 29, 2019 11:16 AM (qC1Sy)

72 I think the Antifa dork in the street is just an idiot who likes to bust heads and get in people's faces.

I actually think they're using it to socialize. Think about it. You're an ugly fat bitter loser. Put on black and a mask and you're at a masked ball where you can meet other people your own age and maybe get laid. Add some drugs and bam, you have the same problems you had with masked and armored knights when there were no wars to burn off steam.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at October 29, 2019 11:16 AM (nRWPy)

73 There is lots of consanguinity in the arab world. Plus... a lot of people in the world like to be ruled so they don't have to make decisions. Add in "Allah wills it" and you get a bunch of people who respond to a dictator, aka "daddy."

Posted by: shibumi, living in Atlas Shrugged at October 29, 2019 11:16 AM (lAJqc)

74 Life is nasty, brutish, and short.

Posted by: Thomas Hobbes at October 29, 2019 11:17 AM (q1Pj5)

75 Trump enlarged this group, by doubling the child tax credit, removing even more people from paying any taxes.

When 50%+ of the country knows it can vote itself free shit without every having to pay for it....guess what happens?

Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at October 29, 2019 11:15 AM (FiUMj)

So Trump's a lock?

Posted by: BignJames at October 29, 2019 11:18 AM (X/Pw5)

76 >> But that seems to be changing, and the free-floating aggression that we see in most of the world has been embraced by the current crop of violent protesters. But what are they protesting? "We don't like the status quo?" Sounds rather 3rd-worldish to me.

Well, look at the names of a lot of these protesters and you find they're new to the US and/or new to America.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2019 11:18 AM (bDqIh)

77 9 Drudge is blaring 'republicans fear wipeout in 2020'..seriously?

Drudge wants clicks. Don't give him any and he'll change his tune. I no longer go there.

Posted by: dingbat at October 29, 2019 11:18 AM (MXaJk)

78 Winston Churchill often made the point that the
English Speaking peoples, due to their unique history and unique
cultural development, blending many different sources, had created an
absolutely unique culture that favors Liberty. They rubbed off a bit on
Continental Europe, but even Europe has always been far more
authoritarian.

I wouldn't say that Arab culture "wants" authoritarian rule as much
as they "need" it. Without out, Arab culture almost instantly devolved
into house by house murders and looting.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 29, 2019 11:12 AM

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Watch the movie Lawrence of Arabia. It demonstrates Arab politics better than anything else I have ever seen. They have to have strongmen or they fall apart into small tribal and family groups which will constantly war with each other.

That movie was made in the early 60s and they had access to people who were actually there when the British cut up the Arab world after WWII.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 29, 2019 11:18 AM (JUOKG)

79 68 Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
1m
Nervous Nancy Pelosi is doing everything possible to destroy the Republican Party. Our Polls show that it is going to be just the opposite. The Do Nothing Dems will lose many seats in 2020. They have a Death Wish, led by a corrupt politician, Adam Schiff!

Posted by: Austere Religious Scholar at October 29, 2019 11:16 AM (BqBId)

Music to my ears.

Posted by: IC - soon to be de-energized at October 29, 2019 11:19 AM (a0IVu)

80 Is it true what I read here yesterday, that one of the big "news" outlets doxxed the hero dog and his handler?

It's as if a heroic OSS team in 1944 went deep into the heart of Nazi Germany, assassinated Hermann Goering, got back intact . . . and the NYT promptly published the teams' names, making them targets to German spies in America. What would we have called that back then?

Treason, that's what.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at October 29, 2019 11:19 AM (ClOmq)

81 So Trump's a lock?
Posted by: BignJames at October 29, 2019 11:18 AM (X/Pw5)

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If he starts promising free shit, yeah.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at October 29, 2019 11:19 AM (FiUMj)

82 "Everything Trump says must be challenged", part LXVI: Newsweek has breathlessly "verified with multiple Pentagon sources" the classified name of the hero dog and printed it.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 29, 2019 11:19 AM (ZGrMX)

83 74 Life is nasty, brutish, and short.

Posted by: Thomas Hobbes at October 29, 2019 11:17 AM (q1Pj5)

Or my personal favorite 'life is a bitch, then you die'

Posted by: IC - soon to be de-energized at October 29, 2019 11:20 AM (a0IVu)

84 I think the same argument could be made for the human race and not just Arabs. China has basically been ruled an authoritarian figure since its creation. Same for Russia . The United States is truly exceptional.

Posted by: Easy Andy at October 29, 2019 11:20 AM (mesZS)

85 1/10th of what they need to pay it back. They blame it on capitalism, because the college is the one making huge amounts of money on them, and in exchange get nothing in return. So they believe capitalism must be replaced by a fairer system.

Sorry Tucker, how about placing the blame where it belongs, on the parents of said people who paraded their kids to schools of outrageous expense because they wanted to brag about their kid's degree from super special U of $$.
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TBF they are making bad loans on these kids because the want them enslaved. They'll own you one way or another. If they can't hook you on drugs, they'll beat you down with unpayable debt. When you are desperate enough you'll do what they want.

Posted by: its a matrix alright at October 29, 2019 11:20 AM (18tbd)

86 Orangeman: White, Protestant, Scottish, Christian heritage.

No more reasons needed to describe why they hate him so very bad.

Posted by: Aw Shucks at October 29, 2019 11:20 AM (Bf3hj)

87 74
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.

Posted by: Thomas Hobbes at October 29, 2019 11:17 AM (q1Pj5)

Then you're not doing it right!

Posted by: Calvin and Hobbes at October 29, 2019 11:20 AM (IttZ7)

88 some very highly "intelligent" populations have created Hell on Earth for themselves.

Wut?

Posted by: China, Japan, Germany at October 29, 2019 11:21 AM (T6t7i)

89 not first, not last...

Posted by: FrodoB,
hobbits don't wear socks at October 29, 2019 11:21 AM (okpnb)

90 Watch the movie Lawrence of Arabia. It demonstrates Arab politics better
than anything else I have ever seen. They have to have strongmen or
they fall apart into small tribal and family groups which will
constantly war with each other.

The Man Who Would Be King does a pretty good job of this as well.

Posted by: DocJ at October 29, 2019 11:21 AM (77WPm)

91 Injured in a wreck? Call the law firm of Nasty, Brutish, and Short.

Posted by: J. Biden, Lifeguard at October 29, 2019 11:21 AM (YQKUX)

92 Winston Churchill often made the point that the English Speaking peoples, due to their unique history and unique cultural development, blending many different sources, had created an absolutely unique culture that favors Liberty. They rubbed off a bit on Continental Europe, but even Europe has always been far more authoritarian.

The Franco-German Rhineland (Charlemagne's base) didn't evolve democracy as such, but it developed a system of mostly-peaceful feudalism 800-1200 AD. They hashed out their differences at tournament. The real nasty happened over at France with the 100 Years War, and in Germany.

The Hajnal Line is a knock-on from that. The Rhineland, Benelux, northern Italy, and northern France is prosperous. Outside that, East Germany and Sicily suck balls.

I need to buy the "Lotharingia" book some time.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at October 29, 2019 11:21 AM (ykYG2)

93 Is it true what I read here yesterday, that one of the big "news" outlets doxxed the hero dog and his handler?

Treason, that's what.

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The press obviously wants the handler to be targeted.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 29, 2019 11:21 AM (YslsA)

94 not first, not last...
Posted by: FrodoB,
hobbits don't wear socks at October 29, 2019 11:21 AM (okpnb)
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"And the middle shall be in the middle."

Posted by: bluebell - get a conservative sample Ffx Cty ballot here! at October 29, 2019 11:21 AM (aXucN)

95
I got my USB mouse set up! That's a big improvement over the laptop trackpad. I don't know how people can use those things.
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The accustomed users tell me that they like the pad. I am not an accustomed user. I revert to it only if I have no other choice.

The only time I used the pad on my work laptop was when there was limited workspace and no room to move a mouse around.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 29, 2019 11:22 AM (aKsyK)

96 Ha. Gone putchall back in socks!

Posted by: Moron Robbie - I support medically approved diets for anorexics who are trapped in fat girls' bodies at October 29, 2019 11:22 AM (YQKUX)

97 The Libertarians are starting to pop their heads up and toss out muh principles . I know, I know, where were they 2017-2019? Anywho, I sure hope the President realizes they are of the left, and has his head on a swivel? Those words are a sure warning of a knife in the back, always to the right.

Posted by: Aw Shucks at October 29, 2019 11:22 AM (Bf3hj)

98 http://bit.ly/2PtR9rD
******
NSIDERS: Joe Biden in Serious Danger of 'Crippling Defeat'in Iowa Caucus | Sean Hannity
*******
BUT BUT BUT Dorking Dorker/BSG said he would beat PDT

Posted by: Austere Religious Scholar at October 29, 2019 11:22 AM (BqBId)

99 Milenials are embracing socialism because they (rightly or wrongly) gradated with $150K of college debt, moved to LA or NYC where it costs $1M to buy a condo, all while making $50K a year.

That's reality and a politician who promises to wipe out their debt and give them a free house sounds great.

And I don't know how you campaign against that. It's like telling a 7 year old why eating chocolate every day is bad and why eating vegetables every day is good.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at October 29, 2019 11:22 AM (FiUMj)

100 90 percent or higher of all human beings are completely incapable of imagining a mindset other than their own. I see this all the time. They simply cannot comprehend that other people might think differently and have different values.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 29, 2019 11:22 AM (E+OcO)

101 a profound difference between the West (or at least some of us) and the Arab/Muslim world

I read an article by a F-15 instructor pilot who had trained both Israelis and Saudis.

If an Israeli washes out of F-15 training, he washes out - it doesn't matter if he is the nephew of the Prime Minister, or the son of a powerful businessman.

Israel is acutely aware that a large chunk of its security is based on the quality of a few hundred fighter pilots, so they don't let other considerations affect who gets to be a fighter pilot.

But in Saudi, if you want to wash a pilot out of the F-15 program, you have to worry about what tribe the pilot belongs to, whether the tribe can be compensated if you wash a tribal member out of the F-15 program, and a lot of other considerations that have nothing to do with the quality of the pilot.

Guess which country has the better fighter pilots?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 29, 2019 11:22 AM (I2/tG)

102 We have always had protesters marching around protesting one thing or another since before the US was a country. But what we have not had, except in very rare occasions, is violent mobs rioting and destroying private property. For that I blame heavy blue Democrat big city mayors who encourage it.

Posted by: Vic at October 29, 2019 11:23 AM (mpXpK)

103
It bears repeating -

So long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people - greedy, barbarous, and cruel, as you are.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 29, 2019 11:23 AM (pNxlR)

104 74 Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
Posted by: Thomas Hobbes at October 29, 2019 11:17 AM (q1Pj5)

Not to mention poor and solitary.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at October 29, 2019 11:23 AM (RD7QR)

105 I got my USB mouse set up! That's a big improvement over the laptop trackpad. I don't know how people can use those things.

--

Whatever you do, don't buy a wireless mouse like the Logitech G602 or ask for one as a Christmas idea. You'll be spoiled for life.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - I support medically approved diets for anorexics who are trapped in fat girls' bodies at October 29, 2019 11:23 AM (YQKUX)

106 Only two things matter in most political systems
1. Who decides.
2. Who pays.

And all most protestors want is to move from 2. to 1.

Posted by: JB1000 at October 29, 2019 11:24 AM (16OL0)

107 Is it true what I read here yesterday, that one of the big "news" outlets doxxed the hero dog

What kind of people go after a dog. For cryin out loud.

Posted by: grammie winger at October 29, 2019 11:24 AM (lwiT4)

108 82 "Everything Trump says must be challenged", part LXVI: Newsweek has breathlessly "verified with multiple Pentagon sources" the classified name of the hero dog and printed it.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 29, 2019 11:19 AM (ZGrMX)

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And yet they went to Defcon 1 because Republicans brought a cell phone into a "secure" room.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at October 29, 2019 11:24 AM (FiUMj)

109 Is it true what I read here yesterday, that one of the big "news" outlets doxxed the hero dog and his handler?

Treason, that's what.
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So we've seen how Chinese money can corrupt US businesses and media recently. Don't forget that Middle Eastern Oil money has also played a significant influence in US media corps.

We sell our stuff. Pretty much everything. So if you have enough money, you can buy a lot of power.

Posted by: its a matrix alright at October 29, 2019 11:25 AM (1nA+l)

110 Is it true what I read here yesterday, that one of the big "news" outlets doxxed the hero dog and his handler?

Newsweek is blaring the dog's name all over Twitter. I didn't click their article to see if it also doxxes his handler.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 29, 2019 11:25 AM (ZGrMX)

111 The argument here is that we have a baby-boom across the world, grown up
disillusioned by normal politics as young people usually are.

Any baby boom is pretty much limited to Africa and the Muslim world now, and even the Muzzie birth rate is falling dramatically. Obviously the people rioting and breaking things now were born before rates plunged, but at least that's hopeful for the future.

Africa is really a special case. Their birth rates are astronomical, and there's no way their economies can support that many people. They'll either leave and come here, or other, less desirable population control mechanisms will take hold.

Posted by: China, Japan, Germany at October 29, 2019 11:26 AM (T6t7i)

112 100 90 percent or higher of all human beings are completely incapable of imagining a mindset other than their own. I see this all the time. They simply cannot comprehend that other people might think differently and have different values.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 29, 2019 11:22 AM (E+OcO)

Theory of other minds.

Posted by: Someguy at October 29, 2019 11:26 AM (O+iVW)

113 The biggest difference between the West and The Rest is that Might Makes Right is not the primary controlling factor any longer,

Posted by: Easy Andy at October 29, 2019 11:26 AM (mesZS)

114 Drudge is blaring 'republicans fear wipeout in 2020'..seriously?

Just as Trump takes off in 2016, Drudge bails out and uses an anvil as a parachute.

Posted by: t-bird at October 29, 2019 11:26 AM (Z1eux)

115 Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump

1m

Nervous Nancy Pelosi is doing everything possible to destroy the
Republican Party. Our Polls show that it is going to be just the
opposite. The Do Nothing Dems will lose many seats in 2020. They have a
Death Wish, led by a corrupt politician, Adam Schiff!

Posted by: Austere Religious Scholar at October 29, 2019 11:16 AM (BqBId)

Adam Schiff as Jon Voight in Runaway Train. Co-starring Nancy Pelosi as Eric Roberts

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 29, 2019 11:27 AM (q1Pj5)

116 Joe Biden in Serious Danger of 'Crippling Defeat'in Iowa Caucus | Sean Hannity

The smart money, especially after the revelation today that his Iowa campaign staff doesn't live in Iowa, is that he's a well-funded placeholder for the Wicked Witch of The Bollard.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 29, 2019 11:27 AM (ZGrMX)

117 Politics and political thought are downstream from culture. The culture in many countries is based on the here and the now rather than the future consequences of actions and this trend is accentuated when the median intelligence of inhabitants of a particular country is low.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2019 11:27 AM (MItID)

118 So we've seen how Chinese money can corrupt US businesses and media recently. Don't forget that Middle Eastern Oil money has also played a significant influence in US media corps.

Posted by: its a matrix alright

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As I noted in the morning thread, US fracturing growth has made the US an exporter of oil instead of an importer, and resulted in lower bribe payments from the middle east to the globalists and their mouthpieces. It is no coincidence that they oppose Trump and also call for a ban on fracturing.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 29, 2019 11:28 AM (YslsA)

119 107 Is it true what I read here yesterday, that one of the big "news" outlets doxxed the hero dog

What kind of people go after a dog. For cryin out loud.
Posted by: grammie winger at October 29, 2019 11:24 AM (lwiT4)

Jihadists.

Posted by: Insomniac at October 29, 2019 11:28 AM (NWiLs)

120 107 Is it true what I read here yesterday, that one of the big "news" outlets doxxed the hero dog

What kind of people go after a dog. For cryin out loud.
Posted by: grammie winger at October 29, 2019 11:24 AM (lwiT4)

Cops.

Posted by: Insomniac at October 29, 2019 11:28 AM (NWiLs)

121 I saw an article somewhere recently, I forget where, noting that the median average age of the populations in the middle east is something like 24. wiki agrees:

Currently, the median age ranges from a low of about 15 in Niger to 40 or more in several European countries, Canada and Japan.

Revolutions/riots, generally speaking, are fueled by the young. See Hong Kong for a current example.

Egypt -- average median age for males is 23.6
Lebanon -- surprisingly, it is near 30

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 29, 2019 11:29 AM (Z4rgH)

122 And I don't know how you campaign against that. It's like telling a 7 year old why eating chocolate every day is bad and why eating vegetables every day is good.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at October 29, 2019 11:22 AM (FiUMj)

Tucker Carlson's solution to this is interesting. He recommends using the massive endowments of universities, especially Harvard and Yale, to pay student loan debt. He reasons it is the corrupt college administrators who created the massive tuition hikes and they - the most useless people in America - are sitting pretty while the kids they have indoctrinated blame "capitalism." Carlson says that any presidential candidate who figures that out and puts the blame where it should go will win the election.

Actually doing anything about it would be another thing altogether. I can see leftist judges (all products of elite universities) siding with the administrators.

Posted by: Donna&&&&V. at October 29, 2019 11:29 AM (d6Ksn)

123 Then you're not doing it right!
Posted by: Calvin and Hobbes at October 29, 2019 11:20 AM (IttZ7)

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I don't know. Sounds about right to me.

Posted by: John Calvin at October 29, 2019 11:29 AM (V40IZ)

124 What kind of people go after a dog. For cryin out loud.
Posted by: grammie winger at October 29, 2019 11:24 AM (lwiT4)

Cops.
Posted by: Insomniac at October 29, 2019 11:28 AM (NWiLs)

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Did someone mention "dog?"

Posted by: Obamamama at October 29, 2019 11:29 AM (qC1Sy)

125 Cops.
Posted by: Insomniac at October 29, 2019 11:28 AM (NWiLs)

I thought that was going to be your first answer.

Posted by: Easy Andy at October 29, 2019 11:29 AM (mesZS)

126 Charles Murray was on Hoover Institute regarding his book "Coming Apart" ... good video. He says the founders agreed that the US constitution was designed for a Christian public ... it was not just one founder's statement, they pretty much all agreed on that. "A republic, if you can keep it" requires a diligent public united in culture. Neighborhoods looked out for each other's kids, richer class mingled and married with poorer class. (looking mostly at whites, to not become confused with other issues)

As we see now, Hillary isolated the deplorables from the elitist coastals ... and indeed, the cocktail party does consider themselves the entitled ruling class, especially the inside beltway special ones that are above the law.

Once we move into mutli-culti diversity as a priority in hiring and even in law, or in opening borders ... all is lost. Or at least that is the eventual road to ruin. And at the beginning, responsible land owners were voting ... not masses voting for free stuff, and foreign masses invading for infinite welfare.

youtube.com/watch?v=6q3zy4NRzz4

Posted by: illiniwek at October 29, 2019 11:29 AM (Cus5s)

127 Okay Horde, gotta work, stop being interesting and funny for an hour or so.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at October 29, 2019 11:29 AM (RD7QR)

128 Antifa dude in Portland who was run over after exiting the local Antifa bar was killed over a random drunken brawl, not by a proud boy or some other white nationalist. Still no ID of the car's owner, the car being abandoned at the scene after crashing. Weird, huh?

https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status

/1189097570066296833

Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2019 11:30 AM (bDqIh)

129 125 Cops.
Posted by: Insomniac at October 29, 2019 11:28 AM (NWiLs)

I thought that was going to be your first answer.
Posted by: Easy Andy at October 29, 2019 11:29 AM (mesZS)

In this context, "jihadists" was top of mind.

Posted by: Insomniac at October 29, 2019 11:30 AM (NWiLs)

130 If the universities were responsible for even a small portion of the loans, this whole situation would change quickly.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at October 29, 2019 11:30 AM (wGbBR)

131 The smart money, especially after the revelation today that his Iowa campaign staff doesn't live in Iowa, is that he's a well-funded placeholder for the Wicked Witch of The Bollard.

Kamala doesn't appear to be doing very well in "f*ucking Iowa" either. As a left-winger who has spent her entire life in California, I'm sure she views Iowans with complete contempt.

Can't imagine why she isn't doing better.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 29, 2019 11:30 AM (I2/tG)

132 He who dies with the most toys wins.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 29, 2019 11:31 AM (q1Pj5)

133 The lesson I've drawn from the past nearly 20 years of wars is that the concept of the "nation-state" is a Western invention.

Expecting traditionally tribal societies, which most of the Arab world is, to adapt to that model is forcing a square peg through a round hole. It only really works with an authoritarian central government.

The best you can really hope for from an Arab country is an authoritarian leader who is fairly benign and pro-Western, such as the Jordanian royals.

I can kind of see why bringing democracy to the Middle East seemed like a good idea circa 2003, but if you still think it's a good idea today, then you are no different from the people who claim that "real socialism hasn't been tried yet."

Posted by: Biggs Darklighter at October 29, 2019 11:31 AM (N4xQB)

134 So who at the Pentagon leaked the name and sex of the dog to Newsweek? Newsweek credited a "source" at the DOD for giving the name of the dog, just a few hours after an official press release stated that the dog was recovered from it's injury and was back in theater working, so they would not release dog's name.

I didn't take it as doxing, rather Newsweek decided they had a big "scoop" and published the dog's name.

Posted by: Jen the original at October 29, 2019 11:31 AM (96m0f)

135 Next big project for Soros money: Doxxing every name on every headstone at Arlington.

Posted by: klaftern at October 29, 2019 11:31 AM (RuIsu)

136
Newsweek is blaring the dog's name all over Twitter. I didn't click their article to see if it also doxxes his handler.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 29, 2019

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I was enormously proud to hear Trump quoted this morning as saying that he didn't tell Pelosi and Schiff because "Schiff is the biggest leaker in the Federal government," or words to that effect. Just imagine if he'd informed them in advance about his raid to take out Al-Big Daddy? They'd have run to their buddies in media, who would have blared it all over the world, and Al-Big Daddy wouldn't have been there when the raiders arrived.

Imagine if FDR had confided in the media about the D-Day plans, and they'd turned around and announced it at full volume that we planned to invade at Normandy instead of at Calais?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at October 29, 2019 11:32 AM (ClOmq)

137 132 He who dies with the most toys wins.
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 29, 2019 11:31 AM (q1Pj5)

I don't want stuff so much as I want experiences.

Posted by: Insomniac at October 29, 2019 11:32 AM (NWiLs)

138 116 Joe Biden in Serious Danger of 'Crippling Defeat'in Iowa Caucus | Sean Hannity

The smart money, especially after the revelation today that his Iowa campaign staff doesn't live in Iowa, is that he's a well-funded placeholder for the Wicked Witch of The Bollard.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 29, 2019 11:27 AM (ZGrMX)

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Biden placing 2nd wouldn't kill his campaign. Biden placing 5th probably would.

Does Biden inspire the kind of devotion in activists required to win a caucus state?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Facehugger at October 29, 2019 11:32 AM (q80AH)

139 Tucker had a segment the other night in which he proposed that the embrace of socialism by so many of today's young adults is a result of demanding that HS grads MUST attend college and then end up with hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt, often for degrees in which they cannot find a job, or the job pays 1/10th of what they need to pay it back. They blame it on capitalism, because the college is the one making huge amounts of money on them, and in exchange get nothing in return. So they believe capitalism must be replaced by a fairer system.

Sorry Tucker, how about placing the blame where it belongs, on the parents of said people who paraded their kids to schools of outrageous expense because they wanted to brag about their kid's degree from super special U of $$.
Posted by: Jen the original

The blame belongs on the courts.

They are the ones that found against Duke Power that ended employment testing.

Which then, employment tests switched to having a college degree in order to get a job. When not every job truly requires a degree.

So now, everyone thinks they HAVE to have a degree to get a job.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 29, 2019 11:32 AM (5CJXD)

140 Tucker Carlson's solution to this is interesting. He recommends using the massive endowments of universities, especially Harvard and Yale, to pay student loan debt.

Glenn Reynolds has suggested for years that universities be required to refund tuition to students who end up with useless degrees. They'll then have a real financial incentive to ditch the useless degrees.

If you haven't seen it, the latest fad in US universities is that it's racist to correct spelling or grammar. It's not even soft bigotry at this point, the KKK is running the Left.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 29, 2019 11:32 AM (ZGrMX)

141 128
Antifa dude in Portland who was run over after exiting the local Antifa
bar was killed over a random drunken brawl, not by a proud boy or some
other white nationalist. Still no ID of the car's owner, the car being
abandoned at the scene after crashing. Weird, huh?

https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status

/1189097570066296833

Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2019 11:30 AM (bDqIh)

Don't look at me.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at October 29, 2019 11:32 AM (IttZ7)

142 Trump 2020

Because I'm not done going all Breitbart on your ass!

Posted by: Texican ette at October 29, 2019 11:33 AM (gou4q)

143 @69 Cato

"The craven and the coward die every day."

Part of why they hate you (us) and the envy you do not entertain their fears.

Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at October 29, 2019 11:33 AM (80rst)

144 110�Is it true what I read here yesterday, that one of the big "news" outlets doxxed the hero dog and his handler?�

Newsweek is blaring the dog's name all over Twitter. I didn't click their article to see if it also doxxes his handler

A dog was found dead burned out of recognition in Dade county. All over the morning news. Dog abusers deserve death penalty in my opinion and this probably is the act of a sick slimy subhuman. However, I do fear the sick slimy subhumans on the left and that in their TDS they will do harm to dogs now.

Knowing the extensive rescue network in this county I suspect that the culprit will be identified and punished.

Posted by: Floridachick at October 29, 2019 11:33 AM (J14e3)

145 I didn't take it as doxing, rather Newsweek decided they had a big "scoop" and published the dog's name.

Posted by: Jen the original

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They want revenge against the dog's handler, for their allies in ISIS

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 29, 2019 11:33 AM (YslsA)

146 145 I didn't take it as doxing, rather Newsweek decided they had a big "scoop" and published the dog's name.

Posted by: Jen the original

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They want revenge against the dog's handler, for their allies in ISIS
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 29, 2019 11:33 AM (YslsA)

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"It's worse than what happened to me!"
-Valerie Plame, Jew-hater

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Facehugger at October 29, 2019 11:33 AM (q80AH)

147 105
Whatever you do, don't buy a wireless mouse like the Logitech G602 or ask for one as a Christmas idea. You'll be spoiled for life.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - I support medically approved diets for anorexics who are trapped in fat girls' bodies at October 29, 2019 11:23 AM (YQKUX)

Looks like this is a Logitech M525.

Posted by: rickl at October 29, 2019 11:34 AM (j/R1H)

148 Newsweek is blaring the dog's name all over Twitter. I didn't click their article to see if it also doxxes his handler.

How would that symbolically female dog be the one canine to get that name? Not many names left for all the other ones.

Posted by: t-bird at October 29, 2019 11:34 AM (qb5PP)

149 121
I saw an article somewhere recently, I forget where, noting that the
median average age of the populations in the middle east is something
like 24.

If this is an area of interest, I recommend The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern Worldby Paul Morland.

Posted by: pep at October 29, 2019 11:34 AM (T6t7i)

150 I didn't take it as doxing, rather Newsweek decided they had a big "scoop" and published the dog's name.
Posted by: Jen the original at October 29, 2019

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Maybe I used the term incorrectly. But wouldn't the end result be the same?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at October 29, 2019 11:34 AM (ClOmq)

151
110 Is it true what I read here yesterday, that one of the big "news" outlets doxxed the hero dog and his handler?

Newsweek is blaring the dog's name all over Twitter. I didn't click their article to see if it also doxxes his handler.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 29, 2019 11:25 AM (ZGrMX)

^^^ And OF COURSE there's a MSN headline about Trump spilling military secrets of the raid in his press conference. The constant gaslighting is so infuriating!

Posted by: Iris at October 29, 2019 11:34 AM (lSFe/)

152 138. History provides ample examples that Joe Biden means absolutely nothing to anyone outside of Delaware. This has been shown on no less than three occasions when he actually ran on his own.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at October 29, 2019 11:34 AM (wGbBR)

153 I don't want stuff so much as I want experiences.

Posted by: Insomniac at October 29, 2019 11:32 AM (NWiLs)

Me too. I've got enough crap. But one day I'd like to go to the Opera. Or one of those libraries OM always shows on the book thread.

Posted by: grammie winger at October 29, 2019 11:35 AM (lwiT4)

154 Antifa dude in Portland who was run over after exiting the local Antifa bar was killed over a random drunken brawl, not by a proud boy or some other white nationalist. Still no ID of the car's owner, the car being abandoned at the scene after crashing. Weird, huh?

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Now do the antifa guys who were standing around and pulled out guns to begin shooting at the car as it drove away.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - I support medically approved diets for anorexics who are trapped in fat girls' bodies at October 29, 2019 11:35 AM (YQKUX)

155 I'm so glad we have an engaged go-getter as Education Secy.

Posted by: Trippin at October 29, 2019 11:35 AM (Pzzpr)

156 Antifa dude in Portland who was run over after exiting the local Antifa bar was killed over a random drunken brawl, not by a proud boy or some other white nationalist. Still no ID of the car's owner, the car being abandoned at the scene after crashing. Weird, huh?

You forgot the best detail: the car was abandonded at the nearby Democratic headquarters.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 29, 2019 11:35 AM (ZGrMX)

157 America was a great Darwinian experiment in genetics.

We opened up the country to those who were self reliant, and wanted freedom.

We GAVE away land in the West. Those who could not make it either dies, or went back home (there were whole groups of people who headed back East).

And it was the culture of the people who stayed, who made the fabric of America, which due to those attitudes, became a great Nation.

We have diluted that DNA whoever. Now most are reliant on the State, and we see it in the voting patterns, where they vote Safety of Freedom.

Add in that we no longer teach that those America attitudes are superior, or even GOOD? (hell, the denigrate those attitudes in school at every opportunity).

We had a good run, but without a return to American values? we're done.

Posted by: Don Q at October 29, 2019 11:35 AM (NgKpN)

158 Whatever you do, don't buy a wireless mouse like the Logitech G602 or ask for one as a Christmas idea. You'll be spoiled for life.
Posted by: Moron Robbie
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*checks underside of mouse*

Whew! M305

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc. Etc. at October 29, 2019 11:35 AM (YvUf/)

159 128 Antifa dude in Portland who was run over after exiting the local Antifa bar was killed over a random drunken brawl, not by a proud boy or some other white nationalist. Still no ID of the car's owner, the car being abandoned at the scene after crashing. Weird, huh?

How does this GPS work? And why ain't I on K Street?

Posted by: Eleanor Holmes Norton at October 29, 2019 11:35 AM (Gvpa/)

160 Oh, I know. everything here, the play on words, the puns, the never ending need to be clever far outshines those dreaded, uncouth, walnut crest drinkers @ Breitbart. Can we set up a gofundmepage and get them some Kendall Jackson. That might help them be more interesting

Posted by: Aw Shucks at October 29, 2019 11:35 AM (Bf3hj)

161 So to add insult to injury to the California wildfire-power outage there is a new menace: massive looting.

What a wonderful job liberals have done with their little Utopian project. They deserve every bit of it, good and hard.

Posted by: Ripley at October 29, 2019 11:35 AM (MxEKc)

162 Dear media: Doxxing the military dog and her handler is not a great way to win hearts and minds for your democratic candidate.

Posted by: IC - soon to be de-energized at October 29, 2019 11:36 AM (a0IVu)

163 >>However, I do fear the sick slimy subhumans on the left and that in their TDS they will do harm to dogs now.

Anyone who harmed my dog would be making a life changing mistake. My dog is part of my family and I suspect I'm not the only who feels as I do.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2019 11:36 AM (ZLI7S)

164 Looks like this is a Logitech M525.

Posted by: rickl at October 29, 2019 11:34 AM (j/R1H)

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Yep. You're done for. Might as well go ahead and ask for a backup for when that one wears out.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - I support medically approved diets for anorexics who are trapped in fat girls' bodies at October 29, 2019 11:36 AM (YQKUX)

165 #nevertrustalibertarian
Not ever
Not for any reason

Posted by: Quilp at October 29, 2019 11:36 AM (Bf3hj)

166 128 Antifa dude in Portland who was run over after exiting the local Antifa bar was killed over a random drunken brawl, not by a proud boy or some other white nationalist."

"drunken brawl" doesn't really fit the story that was originally told - drug deal gone bad, with another antifa buddy doing the dealing, that fits the facts we know. And also why Antifa won't say who killed him, even though they know who was in that jeep.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 29, 2019 11:36 AM (Kpl3J)

167 "However, I do fear the sick slimy subhumans on the left and that in their TDS they will do harm to dogs now."

Islamists might hurt dogs. Your average garden-variety American leftist? No.

They're fine with killing human babies, but they're not going to hurt animals.

Posted by: Donna&&&&V. at October 29, 2019 11:36 AM (d6Ksn)

168 >>Drudge is blaring 'republicans fear wipeout in 2020'..seriously?

First, Drudge has changed singe changing ad service to a Google company.

Second, yes, GOPe Republicans *should* fear being wiped out of office. Ones like Matt Gaetz, Jim Jordan, Devin Nunez are fine.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2019 11:36 AM (bDqIh)

169 131 The smart money, especially after the revelation today that his Iowa campaign staff doesn't live in Iowa, is that he's a well-funded placeholder for the Wicked Witch of The Bollard.

Kamala doesn't appear to be doing very well in "f*ucking Iowa" either. As a left-winger who has spent her entire life in California, I'm sure she views Iowans with complete contempt.

Actually, no. Kamala was the product of two uppercrust foreign grad students who coupled at Stanford (anchor baby), Mommy took her off to Berkeley (figures...) for a few childhood years then off to Canada.

Posted by: JEM at October 29, 2019 11:36 AM (8erNz)

170 Antifa dude in Portland who was run over after exiting the local Antifa bar was killed over a random drunken brawl

I'll bet a dollar that the three drunken Antifa dudes got in a fight with some gang members, and that the Antifa dudes used racial slurs at the occupants of the SUV that ran one of them over.

Also, remember that this is the story of one of the Antifa dudes who fired a handgun at the SUV - he naturally has an interest in claiming he was firing in self-defense.

Yeah, it's weird that you have an SUV that was full of people, and the cops haven't been able to find any of them.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 29, 2019 11:36 AM (I2/tG)

171 Sounds rather 3rd-worldish to me.

Speaking of which...can there be anyone more stupid than the governor of California, or any group more fundamentally clueless than the Democrats of California?

Posted by: Diogenes at October 29, 2019 11:36 AM (axyOa)

172 Speaking of which...can there be anyone more stupid than the governor of California, or any group more fundamentally clueless than the Democrats of California?

Posted by: Diogenes at October 29, 2019 11:36 AM (axyOa)

Why yes! The CA GOP.

Posted by: IC - soon to be de-energized at October 29, 2019 11:37 AM (a0IVu)

173 171 Sounds rather 3rd-worldish to me.

Speaking of which...can there be anyone more stupid than the governor of California, or any group more fundamentally clueless than the Democrats of California?
Posted by: Diogenes at October 29, 2019 11:36 AM (axyOa)

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The electorate of California?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Facehugger at October 29, 2019 11:37 AM (q80AH)

174 He who dies with the most toys wins.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 29, 2019 11:31 AM (q1Pj5)

I don't want stuff so much as I want experiences.

Posted by: Insomniac at October 29, 2019 11:32 AM (NWiLs)

It was an '80s t-shirt saying. Sorta went along with the 'Greed is Good' zeitgeist.

Experiences ARE so much better.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 29, 2019 11:37 AM (q1Pj5)

175 161 So to add insult to injury to the California wildfire-power outage there is a new menace: massive looting.

Funny note was that all the low cost laborers still showed up to the evacuated homes to cut the grass, clean, etc.

Posted by: Roy at October 29, 2019 11:37 AM (Gvpa/)

176 Speaking of which...can there be anyone more stupid
than the governor of California, or any group more fundamentally
clueless than the Democrats of California?

Posted by: Diogenes>>
a search to add to your quest.

Posted by: FrodoB,
hobbits don't wear socks at October 29, 2019 11:38 AM (okpnb)

177 Speaking of which...can there be anyone more stupid
than the governor of California, or any group more fundamentally
clueless than the Democrats of California?

Posted by: Diogenes at October 29, 2019 11:36 AM (axyOa)

Oh, yoo hoo!

Posted by: California voters at October 29, 2019 11:38 AM (IttZ7)

178
I didn't take it as doxing, rather Newsweek decided they had a big "scoop" and published the dog's name.
Posted by: Jen the original

Tammy Bruce gave the dog's name on Tucker's show.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 29, 2019 11:38 AM (aKsyK)

179 So now, everyone thinks they HAVE to have a degree to get a job.

ok I'm in the thick of this (two kids in HS) so let me tell you

no one is thinking about that! no one is thinking about "must go to college to get job"

they are thinking:

parents: need to send Precious Prince/Princess to big name school to brag about! Need Princess to meet/marry a good prospect from the Right college!

kids: all my friends are going to XX and I want to get away from my parents and party and wear cool swag

here are the priorities among parents in my "set" of upper middle class coastal elites:
- School Name/Brand
- Can Buffy find a Chad?
- Football Football Football!
- Will they meet the right people?
- Needs to be far from home for prestige points
- Ivy OF COURSE because WE are smart so our kids are too

it's all sickening I'm so tired of this process already

so yeah two things would help the college sitch:

- DECOUPLE THE SPORTS!! only club/rec sports IN college, the rest spin off to youth semi-pro leagues
- Allow Single Sex Male Colleges!!!! jesus christmas why are there still girls colleges and yet no mens are allowed? the HBCs by me are struggling. if they could re-brand as Girls School/Boys School models with high priority on preparing kids for LIFE and not just going to and playing sports... ARGH!

seriously wtf with the sports thing

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 29, 2019 11:38 AM (Rarvo)

180 Speaking of which...can there be anyone more stupid than the governor of
California, or any group more fundamentally clueless than the Democrats
of California?

Posted by: Diogenes at October 29, 2019 11:36 AM (axyOa)

None more stupid.

Posted by: Nigel Tufnel at October 29, 2019 11:39 AM (q1Pj5)

181 But what are they protesting?

________

"Our pathetic lives have no meaning -- so we can give them meaning by destroying the society and lives of those whose lives do have meaning."

Posted by: ShainS at October 29, 2019 11:39 AM (WqPYg)

182 I seriously doubt that Arab children are taught about the fruits of freedom and democratic methods of choosing leaders.

Posted by: JAS at October 29, 2019 11:39 AM (DBGf/)

183 Why yes! The CA GOP.

Posted by: IC - soon to be de-energized at October 29, 2019 11:37 AM

What CA GOP?
But you make a good point.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 29, 2019 11:39 AM (axyOa)

184 >>>"We don't like the status quo?"<<<

Whatever you want.

Posted by: Fritz at October 29, 2019 11:39 AM (2Mnv1)

185 Re looting, last year when we had to evacuate, I was allowed back into the neighborhood to get some stuff from the house and noticed quite a few LAPD patrolling.

Posted by: IC - soon to be de-energized at October 29, 2019 11:39 AM (a0IVu)

186 Separated at birth.

https://bit.ly/2Wm3O1g

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at October 29, 2019 11:39 AM (+y/Ru)

187 I don't know. Sounds about right to me.

Posted by: John Calvin at October 29, 2019 11:29 AM (V40IZ)

Harrumph.

Posted by: Calvin Coolidge at October 29, 2019 11:40 AM (88+cf)

188 The Iraq war taught me that most do not want freedom. Freedom is like weather, it doesn't last. What people really want is to be ruled by someone from their own tribe. A Zimbabwean king for Zimbabwe. A gay socialist for San Francisco.

Posted by: Kate Winslet's boobs at October 29, 2019 11:40 AM (iTjp2)

189 153 I don't want stuff so much as I want experiences.

Posted by: Insomniac at October 29, 2019 11:32 AM (NWiLs)

Me too. I've got enough crap. But one day I'd like to go to the Opera. Or one of those libraries OM always shows on the book thread.
Posted by: grammie winger at October 29, 2019 11:35 AM (lwiT4)

I don't know about the opera but I do know my life has generally been repressed, sheltered and one-dimensional. I don't want things, I want to live.

Posted by: Insomniac at October 29, 2019 11:40 AM (NWiLs)

190 What CA GOP?
But you make a good point.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 29, 2019 11:39 AM (axyOa)

They are around..always asking me for money to do something..

Posted by: IC - soon to be de-energized at October 29, 2019 11:40 AM (a0IVu)

191 Funny note was that all the low cost laborers still showed up to the evacuated homes to cut the grass, clean, etc.

Posted by: Roy at October 29, 2019 11:37 AM

Ahhh...the ones with real jobs.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 29, 2019 11:40 AM (axyOa)

192 @92 boulder t'hobo

"Outside that, East Germany and Sicily suck balls."

As I write this, I am visiting one of my employers business units in the former DDR where the communists just one last weekends state election. When you drive through the towns you cannot help but notice the boarded up buildings or houses.

It is bizarre here to put it mildly.

Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at October 29, 2019 11:40 AM (80rst)

193 Drudge engaging in 2020 election tampering. Will Senate investigate?

Posted by: DeVan at October 29, 2019 11:40 AM (kC+1/)

194 The '20s are going to be spicy!

Posted by: Emeril at October 29, 2019 11:40 AM (DMUuz)

195 I don't want things, I want to live.>>
Cue Nurse...

Posted by: FrodoB,
hobbits don't wear socks at October 29, 2019 11:41 AM (okpnb)

196 http://bit.ly/31TD09J
*******
Alexander Vindman: Was not proper to demand that a foreign government investigate a U.S. citizen (Full Statement) - Sara A. Carter

Posted by: Austere Religious Scholar at October 29, 2019 11:41 AM (BqBId)

197 I recently did a proper study of Islam to make my own judgment and form my own opinion about it. The whole thing is rooted in authoritarianism and fear. The entire religion is based on because allah said so.

In Christianity we are free to ask questions about God. In Islam the answer is that you don't question allah. He will question you on your judgment day and if you have any questions of your own give it a shot then and see what it does for you and you bet your ass it won't be nice.

It was all very eye opening, creepy and weird. I get that culture now better than ever.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2019 11:41 AM (/28Sz)

198 126,
The U.S. Constitution was designed for a republic and the idea of homogeneity of the populace was an old one which you can see in Montesquieu, Rousseau, etc. and even further back dating to the Reformation as even monarchs preferred to have all one religion versus a mixed population. Madison argued in No. 10 that a federal republic could encompass broader diversity but that only works if most decisions are made the state and local level rather than national.

Where Madison goes wrong is that losers at the local and state level inevitably hookup with others across the U.S. and nationalize the issue--e.g. trans bathrooms for example. The wading of the U.S. courts to nationalize social situations has made things much worse.

Madison's ideas work on economics but not so much on differing social ideals about what is a desirable society. These often have quasi-religious symbolisms to separate believers and non-believers and then the believers demand an inquisition to burn and punish the heretics.

We haven't really changed all that much from history because of the idiotic concept that this time things will be different and appear destined to repeat some of the less desirable mistakes.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2019 11:41 AM (MItID)

199 Speaking of which...can there be anyone more stupid
than the governor of California, or any group more fundamentally
clueless than the Democrats of California?

Posted by: Diogenes

Take a look at legislatures across the country. You'll find they are filled to bursting with housewives and corrupt, glad-handing lawyers who are of modest (at best) intelligence. In other words, for the most part, dopes.

Now look at CONgress. They're just the "graduate class" of stupid.

The problem is that we give this class of dopes so much power and control over our lives and earnings. Willingly.

Posted by: DocJ at October 29, 2019 11:41 AM (77WPm)

200 "Our pathetic lives have no meaning -- so we can give them meaning by destroying the society and lives of those whose lives do have meaning."
Posted by: ShainS at October 29, 2019 11:39 AM (WqPYg)

Still a choice. You don't see me out trying to destroy society or other people's lives.

Posted by: Insomniac at October 29, 2019 11:41 AM (NWiLs)

201 The electorate of California?

I saw a woman on Twitter saying how pleased she was with the great job Newsome is doing.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 29, 2019 11:41 AM (ZGrMX)

202 What kind of people go after a dog. For cryin out loud.

Posted by: grammie winger at October 29, 2019 11:24 AM (lwiT4)

Same $%^!bags that dox and slander high school kids or run cover for corrupt drug addled beltway losers.

After all, the dog murdered their favorite austere religious scholar and 3 innocent babies he was trying to usher to safety. That cannot stand.

Posted by: clutch cargo at October 29, 2019 11:41 AM (Z1ykJ)

203 The more prosperous we become the more pissed off a significant portion of the electorate becomes.

Some are highly educated. And the common thread is that they believe that the system is rigged. The trouble is is that they are correct just not quite the way they believe.

It's rigged when Martha Stewart goes to jail but Hillary doesn't face charges.

It's rigged when Epstein serves his time largely at home.

It's rigged when Epstein is allowed to die without facing justice on the same beef he got away with before.

It's rigged when an architect of terror hasn't been tried for his part in the murder of thousands for EIGHTEEN years.

And it's rigged when you see DNA free framed convicts.

But it is America and we have the ability to correct...to change...and to unrig things. We just need to roll back the intrusive state and let the economy hum with everyone enjoying low energy prices. Burn coal and oil. Build windmills. Build nukes...get energy cheaper. Don't allow Failfornia to control their energy prices. Use the Commerce Clause to the hilt.

Early morning rant off.

The power went out again this morning. Won't be back until late Wednesday or early Thursday.

They promise TEN YEARS of this nonsense.

I'm pissed. Sorry about that.

Posted by: torabora at October 29, 2019 11:41 AM (k55CP)

204 Actually doing anything about it would be another thing altogether. I can see leftist judges (all products of elite universities) siding with the administrators.
Posted by: Donna&&&&V. at October 29, 2019 11:29 AM (d6Ksn)

Exactly. A lot of endowment money is from rich donors, usually alums. Educational institutions are 501 non profits, although some are for profit schools. I don't know how, other than by changing tax code, you require a school to give refunds basically to former students.

I don't know how you fix this. The politicians that claim they are going to make college free, or the government is going to cancel student debt( since most loans are now guaranteed by the federal government- Obama's takeover of school loans) seems like a more likely scenario than forcing colleges to pay back loans. And those politicians are going to be popular.

That entire takeover was a setup for free college/indoctrination for all by the Dems to keep under 35 year olds voting for them.

Politicians will say and do anything for votes, particularly the Dems. Right now, a bunch of idiot state and federal congress people are submitting bills to their respective legislature to force the NCAA to allow student athletes to be able to attract and accept endorsement money while in school. Which will essentially allow the better athletes to be owned by whatever syndicate, or big corporation or even Joe the Mattress Store owner to pay them to attend said advertiser's school of choice.

They are hell bent of doing this, given courage by Gavin Newsome's stupid bill in CA.

Government screws up everything.

Posted by: Jen the original at October 29, 2019 11:41 AM (96m0f)

205 Col. Ralph Peters relegated to speaking on backwater talk radio shows. LOLGF

Posted by: Gailil at October 29, 2019 11:42 AM (Pzzpr)

206 201 The electorate of California?

I saw a woman on Twitter saying how pleased she was with the great job Newsome is doing.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 29, 2019 11:41 AM (ZGrMX)

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There, we have a winner.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Facehugger at October 29, 2019 11:42 AM (q80AH)

207 In Christianity we are free to ask questions about God.

That's debatable.

Posted by: Insomniac at October 29, 2019 11:42 AM (NWiLs)

208 Mommy took her off to Berkeley (figures...) for a few childhood years then off to Canada.

Kamala lived in Canada for a few years as a teenager, and went to Howard University undergrad.

Otherwise, she has spent her entire life in California.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 29, 2019 11:43 AM (I2/tG)

209 Max really stuck Boot up his ass....

Posted by: JoeF. at October 29, 2019 11:43 AM (NFEMn)

210 http://bit.ly/31TD09J

*******

Alexander Vindman: Was not proper to demand that a foreign
government investigate a U.S. citizen (Full Statement) - Sara A. Carter
Posted by: Austere Religious Scholar

Nice opinion there, Alex. And of course, opinions are like assholes.

Posted by: DocJ at October 29, 2019 11:43 AM (77WPm)

211 Culture is learned in childhood from those people that the child interacts with. It is emotion based and is hard to change once adulthood is reached. Religion, in this respect, is cultural.

The Left resembles a religion since they work at influencing people through the same cultural-emotional mechanisms. This is why the power obtained by the Left here has risen most since they took control of the education and entertainment systems. It is through these that a Left culture is being/has been implanted into young people.

Put them into a group environment with carrot and stick based on what responses are deemed good and bad by the leaders and they will, over time, have those responses become automatic and not questioned. This means is wired into humans as a way to have groups (tribes) work together which in tribal times meant survival of the tribe.

The chanted slogans, the SJW attacks, are part of both implanting the culture, reinforcing the implant, and signaling to all in the group what is "right" and "wrong."

Posted by: geoffb at October 29, 2019 11:43 AM (zOpu5)

212 Right-wing media broke me. They broke me.

Posted by: Katie Hill at October 29, 2019 11:43 AM (sWM8x)

213 Anyone who harmed my dog would be making a life changing mistake. My dog is part of my family and I suspect I'm not the only who feels as I do

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The evil bastard who killed that dog has no idea what wrath he has brought on himself. Miami dade has a large network of dog and cat (near militant) lovers that will work nonstop to put him behind bars. Disgusting pos (forgive my french).

Posted by: Floridachick at October 29, 2019 11:44 AM (J14e3)

214 If only.

https://bit.ly/2JzCOGC

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at October 29, 2019 11:44 AM (+y/Ru)

215 I didn't take it as doxing, rather Newsweek decided they had a big "scoop" and published the dog's name.

Posted by: Jen the original

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They want revenge against the dog's handler, for their allies in ISIS
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 29, 2019 11:33 AM (YslsA)

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You know something.... Baghdadi is BETTER than these sniveling sellout dickholes in the Resistance.

HE can pick a side a be loyal to it.

Posted by: fixerupper at October 29, 2019 11:44 AM (8XRCm)

216 >>Alexander Vindman: Was not proper to demand that a foreign government investigate a U.S. citizen (Full Statement) - Sara A. Carter

Oddly, I don't remember voting for Vindman for president.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2019 11:44 AM (ZLI7S)

217 Told my husband about the snot nosed punk who cussed at me in class yesterday. He wants me to quit. Says he will support me doing anything else.

Posted by: Jmel at October 29, 2019 11:45 AM (QBZUD)

218 Right-wing media broke me. They broke me.
Posted by: Katie Hill at October 29, 2019 11:43 AM (sWM8x)

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Youve been broken for a loooong time sugar tits.

Posted by: fixerupper at October 29, 2019 11:45 AM (8XRCm)

219 216 >>Alexander Vindman: Was not proper to demand that a foreign government investigate a U.S. citizen (Full Statement) - Sara A. Carter

Oddly, I don't remember voting for Vindman for president.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2019 11:44 AM (ZLI7S)

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So, that treaty we have with the Ukraine is improper?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Facehugger at October 29, 2019 11:45 AM (q80AH)

220 "Our pathetic lives have no meaning -- so we can give them meaning by
destroying the society and lives of those whose lives do have meaning."

I think there's a lot to this. People need meaning - they crave a cause. When you live in a luxurious culture like we do (comparatively speaking to the rest of the world) - you have to invent a cause. You have to make up a struggle. See: banning clapping because feelz.

Posted by: grammie winger at October 29, 2019 11:45 AM (lwiT4)

221 201 The electorate of California?

I saw a woman on Twitter saying how pleased she was with the great job Newsome is doing.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 29, 2019

*
*

She must still have power and is not being threatened by fire, then. (Though I wonder if any of the Californians would wake up even then.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at October 29, 2019 11:46 AM (ClOmq)

222 Kamala doesn't appear to be doing very well in "f*ucking Iowa" either. As a left-winger who has spent her entire life in California,

___

She spent the first 18 years of her life in Canada. She was born in Cali, to immigrant parents, then mama took her to Montreal as an infant. Only for college, did she then return to California.

Reminds me of someone else who ran for prezzie not long ago....

Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at October 29, 2019 11:46 AM (FiUMj)

223 220 "Our pathetic lives have no meaning -- so we can give them meaning by
destroying the society and lives of those whose lives do have meaning."

I think there's a lot to this. People need meaning - they crave a cause. When you live in a luxurious culture like we do (comparatively speaking to the rest of the world) - you have to invent a cause. You have to make up a struggle. See: banning clapping because feelz.
Posted by: grammie winger at October 29, 2019 11:45 AM (lwiT4)

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Well, if you have Jesus, then your meaning is in the salvation of your soul.

Wealth plus godlessness seems to breed discontent.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Facehugger at October 29, 2019 11:46 AM (q80AH)

224 The smart money, especially after the revelation
today that his Iowa campaign staff doesn't live in Iowa, is that he's a
well-funded placeholder for the Wicked Witch of The Bollard.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 29, 2019 11:27 AM (ZGrMX)

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Biden placing 2nd wouldn't kill his campaign. Biden placing 5th probably would.

Does Biden inspire the kind of devotion in activists required to win a caucus state?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Facehugger at October 29, 2019 11:32 AM

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biden has to place 1st or 2nd in Iowa or he is done.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 29, 2019 11:46 AM (JUOKG)

225 Oddly, I don't remember Trump "demanding" that Ukraine do, well, anything.

But what do I know; I mean, I only read the damn transcript of the conversation.

Posted by: DocJ at October 29, 2019 11:46 AM (77WPm)

226 @101 The ARC of History!

Sometime in the early 80s the US army ranger school tossed out a foreign officer candidate who didn't make the cut. A few weeks later they school got a package from aboard with the foreign candidate's decapitated head inside.

Since then, all foreign candidates coming through ranger school pass.

Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at October 29, 2019 11:47 AM (80rst)

227 He despaired of what he saw as the immutable character of the people

**********

Go figure. Immutable means unable to be changed. I was leaning towards 'can't get them to shut up'.

Which might actually work in context.

Posted by: Muldoon at October 29, 2019 11:47 AM (mvenn)

228 Col. Ralph Peters relegated to speaking on backwater talk radio shows. LOLGF

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So Ralph Peters out.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at October 29, 2019 11:47 AM (+y/Ru)

229 Told my husband about the snot nosed punk who cussed at me in class yesterday. He wants me to quit. Says he will support me doing anything else.
Posted by: Jmel at October 29, 2019 11:45 AM (QBZUD)

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Mrs Fixer's been a teacher for over 25 years. She's about had it too. I thought this year would be her last... but she has an awesome class shell be with for another 4 years and she actually enjoys her role again.

Dont make any decisions rashly.

Posted by: fixerupper at October 29, 2019 11:47 AM (8XRCm)

230 In the history of man, nearly every revolution that took place has failed without outside assistance. The number that actually succeeded in deposing the previous authorities without any help are in the great minority.

Further, nearly all revolutions end up with as bad or worse a situation than they fought against (meet the new boss, just the same as the old boss).

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2019 11:47 AM (KZzsI)

231 I saw a woman on Twitter saying how pleased she was with the great job Newsome is doing.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 29, 2019 11:41 AM (ZGrMX)

IMHO Newsom should have done jail time the second he started marrying gays on the steps of city hall in SF.

Posted by: clutch cargo at October 29, 2019 11:47 AM (Z1ykJ)

232 In Christianity we are free to ask questions about God.
That's debatable.
Posted by: Insomniac at October 29, 2019 11:42 AM (NWiLs)

And it's the only debatable thing I said. My point is Christianity is not founded on Because God Said So. It is founded on Because God Loves You.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2019 11:47 AM (/28Sz)

233 >>Now do the antifa guys who were standing around and pulled out guns to begin shooting at the car as it drove away.

Yeah, well this only description of the exchange so far is via the lawyer of the Antifa guy who did the shooting. His firearm is legal, per his lawyer, but I did wonder if that was one reason they initially refused to cooperate w/police.

It is a nice touch that the Democrat HQ in Portland is around the corner from the Antifa bar, and that these Antifa guy's parked in front of the Democrat party HQ. Wonder if they work there or have relations who do?

Just have to wonder who the other guys were that the police and antifa lawyer aren't providing any details on them. More Antifa, or a more protected demographic?

Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2019 11:47 AM (bDqIh)

234 In Christianity we are free to ask questions about God.

That's debatable.

Posted by: Insomniac at October 29, 2019 11:42 AM (NWiLs)

No it's not. Half the Bible is made up of people asking God questions.

Posted by: grammie winger at October 29, 2019 11:47 AM (lwiT4)

235 224 Biden placing 2nd wouldn't kill his campaign. Biden placing 5th probably would.

Does Biden inspire the kind of devotion in activists required to win a caucus state?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Facehugger at October 29, 2019 11:32 AM

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biden has to place 1st or 2nd in Iowa or he is done.
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 29, 2019 11:46 AM (JUOKG)

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He'll make it to SC no matter what.

But if he flames out in IA and doesn't win NH, he'll have a very poor argument to make to SC voters. It's Jeb Bush's path to defeat.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Facehugger at October 29, 2019 11:48 AM (q80AH)

236 >>So, that treaty we have with the Ukraine is improper?

You mean the one that allows the FBI to directly share information with the authorities in Ukraine?

That seems like a prime opportunity for a corrupt FBI official to send and receive information from corrupt Ukrainians in a perfectly legal framework.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2019 11:48 AM (ZLI7S)

237 - DECOUPLE THE SPORTS!! only club/rec sports IN college, the rest spin off to youth semi-pro leagues

- Allow Single Sex Male Colleges!!!! jesus christmas why are there
still girls colleges and yet no mens are allowed? the HBCs by me are
struggling. if they could re-brand as Girls School/Boys School models
with high priority on preparing kids for LIFE and not just going to and
playing sports... ARGH!

seriously wtf with the sports thing

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 29, 2019 11:38 AM (Rarvo)

I would go further than that. No organized sports in any school at all from Kindergarten to college. All sports to be organized locally in private clubs controlled by private citizens.

Posted by: Vic at October 29, 2019 11:48 AM (mpXpK)

238 so col vindman, who's brother Yevgeny works as a lawyer at the nsc, and may have revealed the archive of communications with world leaders apparently was concerned Ukraine would lose support if there wasan investigation of biden, ie burisma, now you can shank a republican all day long, the good colonel apparently was not concerned about the three years that Ukraine was deprived of heavy weapons because reasons,

Posted by: admiral marcus at October 29, 2019 11:48 AM (x+C/t)

239 I'm assuming the more toys you have the more experiences you get also.

I'm still fascinated by the people on American Pickers and the collections they have.

Posted by: Easy Andy at October 29, 2019 11:49 AM (mesZS)

240 236 >>So, that treaty we have with the Ukraine is improper?

You mean the one that allows the FBI to directly share information with the authorities in Ukraine?

That seems like a prime opportunity for a corrupt FBI official to send and receive information from corrupt Ukrainians in a perfectly legal framework.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2019 11:48 AM (ZLI7S)

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Is this colonel worried about that kind of relationship?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Facehugger at October 29, 2019 11:49 AM (q80AH)

241 The God of Christ wants you to know Him. Allah wants you to obey him.

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2019 11:49 AM (/28Sz)

242 Early morning rant off.

The power went out again this morning. Won't be back until late Wednesday or early Thursday.

They promise TEN YEARS of this nonsense.

I'm pissed. Sorry about that.

Posted by: torabora at October 29, 2019 11:41 AM (k55CP)

ugh. Sorry to hear that..ours will most probably be turned off later tonight or tomorrow.

Posted by: IC - soon to be de-energized at October 29, 2019 11:49 AM (a0IVu)

243 She was born in Cali, to immigrant parents, then mama took her to Montreal as an infant.

Uh, no - Kamala was born in Oakland, and lived in Berkeley until she was 12.

Remember her talking about being bussed to school in Berkeley, and that without being bussed she would have had no future?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 29, 2019 11:49 AM (I2/tG)

244 Sometime in the early 80s the US army ranger school tossed out a foreign officer candidate who didn't make the cut. A few weeks later they school got a package from aboard with the foreign candidate's decapitated head inside.
----------------------------------------------------------------------So, someone else made the "cut?"

Posted by: JoeF. at October 29, 2019 11:49 AM (NFEMn)

245 the HBCs by me are struggling.

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A lot of that is happening because they've (rightfully) been identified as diploma mills.

I present to you the entry requirements of #1 ranked, $24K/year Spelman College,

https://tinyurl.com/y2act7ru

vs the entry requirements of $4K/year Appalachian State

https://tinyurl.com/yynuaxxl

I like your idea of turning them into useful colleges, though.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - I support medically approved diets for anorexics who are trapped in fat girls' bodies at October 29, 2019 11:49 AM (YQKUX)

246 you never see a u-haul being towed by a hearse.

Posted by: hasta la vista at October 29, 2019 11:49 AM (B+t5k)

247 Black voters in SC have no one else to go to. Harris and Warren simply are not trusted. They do not like Pete, and Bernie does not connect with them. They control the SC DEM primary. Biden seems certain to win there unless Warren can make some inroads.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at October 29, 2019 11:49 AM (wGbBR)

248 In fact, to the extent the public even cares about them, they're using their reviews as an inverse barometer.

From the sidebar, about reviews. What's happened is that Rotten Tomatoes is worthless for reviews now. They give no useful information to the public, except how great the divergence is from the paid, SJW crowd and the actual public. The bigger the difference, the more useful the information.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2019 11:49 AM (KZzsI)

249 133, The institution of marrying within the family so to speak via cousin marriage in a large section of the world and the like enforces tribal identity which also enforces collective memories and grudges against other tribes for past ill treatment. Think of Hatfields and McCoys feuding as an example.

People sick of the feuding then support a strong ruler, if not a total despot, to simply try to quash the side-effects on public order from tribal feuding. This works until the tribes have all been alienated by the harsh treatment and then combine to throw out the despot. Rinse and repeat.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2019 11:49 AM (MItID)

250 A teacher told me - and I have no idea if it's true or not - that more than 1/2 new teachers quit within 5 years. But given how SJW administrators have allowed students to do whatever they want, I can't blame them. Even with the generous salary, benefits, vacation, etc when you're told to fuck off by a punk 12 year old on a daily basis, it's not worth it.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at October 29, 2019 11:49 AM (FiUMj)

251 226 @101 The ARC of History!

Sometime in the early 80s the US army ranger school tossed out a foreign officer candidate who didn't make the cut. A few weeks later they school got a package from aboard with the foreign candidate's decapitated head inside.

Since then, all foreign candidates coming through ranger school pass.
Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at October 29, 2019

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Whereas the sensible thing to have done was to refuse any more foreign candidates. Solved.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at October 29, 2019 11:49 AM (ClOmq)

252 Told my husband about the snot nosed punk who cussed at me in class yesterday. He wants me to quit. Says he will support me doing anything else.

Posted by: Jmel at October 29, 2019 11:45 AM

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At this point it isn't about the kid anymore. He has his own problems.
It is about the administration. Do they back you or not? And the (turns head and spits) Union. Do they back you?
20 years ago I was kicking around an idea with a teacher friend of mine...professional, organized tutoring of the basics...the Three R's.
Nothing came of it.
Then I saw this company called Kumon.

Sigh...

Posted by: Diogenes at October 29, 2019 11:50 AM (axyOa)

253 >>Is this colonel worried about that kind of relationship?

Apparently not.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2019 11:50 AM (ZLI7S)

254 243 She was born in Cali, to immigrant parents, then mama took her to Montreal as an infant.

Uh, no - Kamala was born in Oakland, and lived in Berkeley until she was 12.

Remember her talking about being bussed to school in Berkeley, and that without being bussed she would have had no future?
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 29, 2019 11:49 AM (I2/tG)

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Was it 12? I thought she left as a baby. Still, a lot of her formative years were outside the country. Just like you know who....

Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at October 29, 2019 11:51 AM (FiUMj)

255 241 The God of Christ wants you to know Him. Allah wants you to obey him.
Posted by: ... at October 29, 2019 11:49 AM (/28Sz)

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"Their prophet says 'submit'. Jesus said 'decide'."
-Sibylla, Kingdom of Heaven

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Facehugger at October 29, 2019 11:51 AM (q80AH)

256 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge at October 29, 2019 11:51 AM (Zz0t1)

257 Yeah, well this only description of the exchange so far is via the lawyer of the Antifa guy who did the shooting. His firearm is legal, per his lawyer, but I did wonder if that was one reason they initially refused to cooperate w/police.

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Ha. I'd love to hear the legal argument supporting the idea of a private citizen shooting at a car as it leaves the scene of a crime and poses no additional threat to anyone involved.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - I support medically approved diets for anorexics who are trapped in fat girls' bodies at October 29, 2019 11:51 AM (YQKUX)

258 I always thought Shit Midas was showing us his inner fool most clearly when he talked about "history bends toward progress" (appx)

History doesn't bend toward a mf-ing thing!

And if anybody believes "progress" is mankind's inevitable destiny? They haven't been paying attention.

Posted by: mnw at October 29, 2019 11:51 AM (Cssks)

259 Thou shalt not worship false gods.

Posted by: Sponge at October 29, 2019 11:51 AM (Zz0t1)

260 Protests in Lebanon: A wrench in Hezbollah and Iran's plans

*******

Katie Hill: A wench in Nancy Pelosi's plans.

Posted by: Muldoon at October 29, 2019 11:52 AM (mvenn)

261 Biden seems certain to win there unless Warren can make some inroads.

He's not gonna make it to the SC Primary, health-wise

No it's not. Half the Bible is made up of people asking God questions.

Yeah its one of the foundational principles of Christianity (and Judaism, for that matter) that you are not just able to, but strongly encouraged to debate, discuss, question, and study.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2019 11:52 AM (KZzsI)

262 She must still have power and is not being threatened by fire, then. (Though I wonder if any of the Californians would wake up even then.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at October 29, 2019 11:46 AM (ClOmq)

From what I understand, Newsom had a conference where he was actually blaming PG&E for the current fires in a roundabout way. How people believe anything this human turd says is beyond me. Even more mindblowing is he makes Jerry Brown look like a centrist.

Posted by: clutch cargo at October 29, 2019 11:52 AM (Z1ykJ)

263 I would go further than that. No organized sports in any school at all from Kindergarten to college. All sports to be organized locally in private clubs controlled by private citizens.

YES! omg yes

yes I'm also in the middle of HS sports playoffs why do you ask?

everyone is pretty much insane

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 29, 2019 11:52 AM (Rarvo)

264
Alexander Vindman: Was not proper to demand that a foreign government investigate a U.S. citizen

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Ok.... but enough about the Steel Dossier, already.

Posted by: fixerupper at October 29, 2019 11:52 AM (8XRCm)

265 Porifera!

Posted by: Initial at October 29, 2019 11:52 AM (okpnb)

266 239 I'm assuming the more toys you have the more experiences you get also.

I'm still fascinated by the people on American Pickers and the collections they have.
Posted by: Easy Andy at October 29, 2019 11:49 AM (mesZS)

Could be. If that's true, though, I am well and truly screwed.

Posted by: Insomniac at October 29, 2019 11:53 AM (NWiLs)

267 Are we then to conclude that sub 100 IQ populations require authoritarians in charge?

Who are, by definition, sub 100 IQ themselves.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 29, 2019 11:06 AM (pNxlR)

The answer? Colonialism. Invade the muzzie countries, and own them, and repress islam brutally. And plan to stay there forever, owning them, and profiting from the resources, because they are incapable of self-government. But there would be money in it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2019 11:54 AM (QugKX)

268 248 In fact, to the extent the public even cares about them, they're using their reviews as an inverse barometer.

From the sidebar, about reviews. What's happened is that Rotten Tomatoes is worthless for reviews now. They give no useful information to the public, except how great the divergence is from the paid, SJW crowd and the actual public. The bigger the difference, the more useful the information.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2019 11:49 AM (KZzsI)

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Rotten Tomatoes has been used wrong since it's inception.

It's a barometer of critical opinion, not a measure of a movie's quality. The best examples to make this point are the 70% movies that everyone loves vs. the 90% movies no one's heard of. Is the second 20% better than the first? No, it's nonsense. And yet, people seem to think of RT like that.

The best way to deal with film criticism in general is to find critics that you like reading and, perhaps, even agree with. RT is great as a place to aggregate all of these critics and read through them to find that kind of critic for you.

That's how I use it, anyway.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Facehugger at October 29, 2019 11:54 AM (q80AH)

269 Told my husband about the snot nosed punk who cussed at me in class yesterday. He wants me to quit. Says he will support me doing anything else.

Posted by: Jmel at October 29, 2019 11:45 AM

If you feel that it's your duty or calling to teach America's children, while I completely admire your husband's devotion to you, my thoughts are find a charter school. They're growing like crazy, at least here in Texas. Get out of the public school system and find a job in a private organization that still actually has structure, standards and rules for children to help them succeed.

Posted by: Sponge at October 29, 2019 11:54 AM (Zz0t1)

270 I do think the culture plays in to it. Arabs are for the most part a tribal people. They DO need a strong leader. Nothing wrong with that. It also means a lot of constant infighting and ugly fighting to get that strong leader.

So be it. Let them have at it til they drag their crap out to the rest of the world, then smack them down fast, hard and hideous.... and send them back to lick their wounds.

They need strong boundaries from the rest of the world, and the leaders of other countries need to be vicious right back at them or they won't be respected.

That they're sitting on a lot of oil shouldn't make any difference, but it is ironic considering they can't seem to do much with it on their own. (Iran still can't get refineries up and running?)

Posted by: Trump'ette at October 29, 2019 11:54 AM (dl8pX)

271 "What are you rebelling against?"

"Whaddya got?"

Posted by: Tex Lovera at October 29, 2019 11:54 AM (wtvvX)

272 Where did "Deep state is in deep shit" go?

He finally get booted for being a complete ass?

Posted by: Getcha Pull at October 29, 2019 11:54 AM (oLb4O)

273 Drudge is a puff and a nobody. Sad...not!

Posted by: Dude at October 29, 2019 11:54 AM (CLteG)

274 Alexander Vindman: Was not proper to demand that a foreign government investigate a U.S. citizen

It never ceases to shock me how much idiotic crap the left is willing to just yank out of their posterior if it involves attacking the president. OF course its proper to demand a foreign government investigate a US Citizen, if they've been doing illegal things in that nation. Its even necessary, for the rule of law to continue.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2019 11:55 AM (KZzsI)

275 From what I understand, Newsom had a conference where he was actually blaming PG&E for the current fires in a roundabout way. How people believe anything this human turd says is beyond me. Even more mindblowing is he makes Jerry Brown look like a centrist.
Posted by: clutch cargo at October 29, 2019

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Of course. Newsome can't blame the Dem administration of the last 30 years for not maintaining the forest, cleaning up the brush, etc. That in essence is blaming himself. No, it's that evil utility company!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at October 29, 2019 11:55 AM (ClOmq)

276 Now imagine the movie Countdown where the stars are the Democrat Presidential candidates. Where is Hillary in this story?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 29, 2019 11:55 AM (S8O3J)

277 Homeowners in PG&E territory have a much bigger problem than a few days of no power.

Try selling your home.

Posted by: Wut at October 29, 2019 11:55 AM (4Lg20)

278 All sports to be organized locally in private clubs controlled by private citizens.
Posted by: Vic at October 29, 2019 11:48 AM (mpXpK)

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Hell.... thats how EDUCATION should be run.

Posted by: fixerupper at October 29, 2019 11:55 AM (8XRCm)

279 Pope doubles and then triples down on pagan symbols. He tells Catholics to lolgf.

Not only does he explicitly acknowledge they are pagan fertility symbols, something he tried to gloss over in past statements, he now says the dredged up statues (from where observant Catholics had thrown them into the Tiber) will be displayed at an upcoming Mass.

Apparently, the Pope isn't Catholic after all. Who knew?

https://tinyurl.com/y35cl4dr

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 29, 2019 11:55 AM (NVYyb)

280 Well, if you have Jesus, then your meaning is in the salvation of your soul.

Wealth plus godlessness seems to breed discontent.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Facehugger at October 29, 2019 11:46 AM (q80AH)

The enemy is not irreligious.

In the place of an Almighty God to be their benefactor and guarantor of justice, they have imagined up an Almighty State. Their discontent is due to our rejection of their false god, and our refusal to be ruled by its dictates. This is not a battle of political ideologies. This is a Holy War.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at October 29, 2019 11:56 AM (J+mig)

281 Tucker Carlson's solution to this is interesting. He recommends using the massive endowments of universities, especially Harvard and Yale, to pay student loan debt. He reasons it is the corrupt college administrators who created the massive tuition hikes and they - the most useless people in America - are sitting pretty while the kids they have indoctrinated blame "capitalism." Carlson says that any presidential candidate who figures that out and puts the blame where it should go will win the election.

Actually doing anything about it would be another thing altogether. I can see leftist judges (all products of elite universities) siding with the administrators.
Posted by: Donna&&&&V. at October 29, 2019 11:29 AM (d6Ksn)

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The SCOAMF took over the student loan industry with the intention of having a future (D) preezy cancel all student loan debt, ensuring a permanent Democrat majority for the foreseeable future. Cankles' shocking incompetence as a Presidential candidate and the election of Donald J Trump PBUH is the only thing that saved this country from this and many other horrible outcomes. I truly hope that Trump starts gutting Prog policies with extreme prejudice after he's re-elected.

Posted by: cornbred at October 29, 2019 11:56 AM (W2bv0)

282 Some are highly educated. And the common thread is that they believe that the system is rigged. The trouble is is that they are correct just not quite the way they believe.

It's rigged when Martha Stewart goes to jail but Hillary doesn't face charges.

It's rigged when Epstein serves his time largely at home.

It's rigged when Epstein is allowed to die without facing justice on the same beef he got away with before.

It's rigged when Epstein didn't kill himself.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 29, 2019 11:56 AM (oUkrT)

283 Apparently, the Pope isn't Catholic after all. Who knew?>>
So where do bears really sh?t?

Posted by: Initial at October 29, 2019 11:56 AM (okpnb)

284 Yeah, well this only description of the exchange so far is via the lawyer of the Antifa guy who did the shooting. His firearm is legal, per his lawyer, but I did wonder if that was one reason they initially refused to cooperate w/police.

It's interesting that the lawyer publicized this story now. One suspects that the Portland police are about to make some arrests and explain what happened, and the lawyer was trying to get out in front of that.

In particular, the guy's story hinges on the claim that the SUV hit his friend, hit Democratic headquarters, started trying to reverse, at which point he opened fire. The police may indicate that the gunfire preceded the ramming.

Trying to argue that you fired into a SUV filled with people in self-defense may be tricky.

they initially refused to cooperate w/police

I believe that the two Antifa guys are continuing to refuse to cooperate with police. Nothing in the lawyer's statement indicates that they are.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 29, 2019 11:56 AM (I2/tG)

285 261 No it's not. Half the Bible is made up of people asking God questions.

Yeah its one of the foundational principles of Christianity (and Judaism, for that matter) that you are not just able to, but strongly encouraged to debate, discuss, question, and study.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2019 11:52 AM (KZzsI)

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Hegep: Let me tell you something about about Hebrews. They are a conniving, combative people. Do you know what 'Israelite' means in their own language? 'He who fights with God.'
Moses: 'He who wrestles with God.' There is a difference.
-Exodus: Gods and Kings

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Facehugger at October 29, 2019 11:56 AM (q80AH)

286 12
Socialism leads to 3rd world conditions.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 29, 2019 11:04 AM (1ISKN)

That's why the indoctrination of the youth is so dangerous and effective. Convince them that they're already screwed and those 3rd-world conditions might seem like a better prospect than what they've been lead to believe without communism.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at October 29, 2019 11:57 AM (CQ3Qb)

287 Not only does he explicitly acknowledge they are pagan fertility
symbols, something he tried to gloss over in past statements, he now
says the dredged up statues (from where observant Catholics had thrown
them into the Tiber) will be displayed at an upcoming Mass.

What the actual heck?!?

Posted by: grammie winger at October 29, 2019 11:58 AM (lwiT4)

288 >>Moses: 'He who wrestles with God.' There is a difference.

God is a sucker for a single leg takedown.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2019 11:58 AM (ZLI7S)

289 I do think that the American experiment, including our Revolution, was extremely rare and possibly the result of a specific point in time where ideas of individual freedom, both in political philosophy and in religion *at the same time* were ascendant.

I think that even in Europe that revolution almost always ends in authoritarianism so it would be wrong to say that this group of people have different inherent characters than that group of people.

A certain conformity makes life work smoothly, but it's near impossible to keep that truth from turning into "if only I can make those people behave properly, we'll all be happy."

Posted by: Synova at October 29, 2019 11:58 AM (BD/yx)

290 most individuals follow but prefer to move up the ladder. The US started with a structure to reward the ambitious and innovative and brave. The New Deal, Square Deal, LBJs Great Society ... then the diversity baloney leading to identity politics craziness.

imo the biggest change that lead America astray was the Soviet infiltration, funded from the outside, malicious insiders sold us out, and the institutions the conquered are now a powerful and corrupt monster, punishing the non-compliant, destroying our heritage. Commies conquered our skools.

The masses fell asleep I suppose, but our leadership led the way down the commie path, and then perhaps the control by banking interests got out of hand in the mid 80s as corporate America went globalist.

I joined the mutual fund road to riches starting in about 1982, and around 1999 observed the market corruption in the easy money manipulation of currency -- that was heading toward the infinite debt path we are now on. ... tick tock ... how many more trillions can they fleece from US? ...

Posted by: illiniwek at October 29, 2019 11:58 AM (Cus5s)

291 278 Hell.... thats how EDUCATION should be run.

Posted by: fixerupper at October 29, 2019 11:55 AM (8XRCm)

I agree but that's a whole 'nuther story. You would have to change a lot of State constitutions but it could be done.

Posted by: Vic at October 29, 2019 11:58 AM (mpXpK)

292
Posted by: Jmel at October 29, 2019 11:45 AM

I recommend wearing the bitch mantle proudly though. Nothing disconcerts people more than agreeing with them on that point and giving them a "why yes and you have no idea." Never let them see you be wounded.

But he's right, it's the admin that's the problem. I'd want to know from them why they didn't support you when there was a drunk/high danger BULLYING you. Use all their woke words. "Deserve" "bully" "assault" "misogyny" etc.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at October 29, 2019 11:59 AM (nRWPy)

293 If you feel that it's your duty or calling to teach America's children, while I completely admire your husband's devotion to you, my thoughts are find a charter school. They're growing like crazy, at least here in Texas. Get out of the public school system and find a job in a private organization that still actually has structure, standards and rules for children to help them succeed.
Posted by: Sponge at October 29, 2019 11:54 AM (Zz0t1)

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This.

Worst-case, volunteer on Khan Academy. My homeschool daughter would appreciate you tremendously. Just sayin'.

Posted by: reason at October 29, 2019 11:59 AM (q/kmn)

294 Told my husband about the snot nosed punk who cussed at me in class yesterday. He wants me to quit. Says he will support me doing anything else.

Posted by: Jmel at October 29, 2019 11:45 AM

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This does offer a business opportunity. Like how The Godfather got started. A guy does you a favor...and the kid never mouths off again in school. Soon another smartass kid, and another favor. Then one day when your benefactor needs a favor you pay it back.
Start in one school...move across a district then a region.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 29, 2019 11:59 AM (axyOa)

295 No, it's that evil utility company!

The California Public Utility Commission, whose members are appointed by the governor, specifically approved the new shutoff policy.

If the State of California didn't want this to happen, they could have told PG&E that they can't do this.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 29, 2019 11:59 AM (I2/tG)

296 God is a sucker for a single leg takedown.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2019 11:58 AM (ZLI7S)

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Heh. I miss wrestling.

I was good at all the sports you dont do once your done with school.

Posted by: fixerupper at October 29, 2019 11:59 AM (8XRCm)

297 He Who Serves a Revolution Plows the Sea

Truer words have never been uttered. Cuck love, exciting and new!Ahoy!

Posted by: Little Admiral Kristol at October 29, 2019 11:59 AM (vtcmf)

298 The Catholics should have taken an axe to the statues before tossing the kindling into the Tiber.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 29, 2019 12:00 PM (S8O3J)

299 Homeowners in PG&E territory have a much bigger problem than a few days of no power.

Try selling your home.
Posted by: Wut at October 29, 2019 11:55 AM (4Lg20)

This.

The current environment should CRATER the housing market in the affected areas. In the ridiculously over priced market that is California, that will cause a bubble burst similar to the housing clusterfuck of subprime mortgages.

Posted by: Sponge at October 29, 2019 12:00 PM (Zz0t1)

300 "Are we becoming like the rest of the world? America was blissfully free of the sort of violent but pointless protest that much of the world favors."
- CBD, AOSHQ, 2019

"It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force."
- Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist #1, 1787

(Insert your favorite quote about historical cycles here.)

Posted by: Sam at October 29, 2019 12:00 PM (ohyxL)

301 @251 Wolfus Aurelius

"Whereas the sensible thing to have done was to refuse any more foreign candidates. Solved."

Cold War era. I understand why they let them in.

They should refuse to take females, as now they have took an elite combat organization and turned into another social engineering project. The green berets just announced they are going to drop standards as well to accomodated inferior candidates. Die-versity is going to get a lot of people killed.

Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at October 29, 2019 12:00 PM (80rst)

302 Our Polls show that it is going to be just the opposite.

The first time, he tweeted is at oppidite. If we're playing the let's-be-cryptic game, perhaps he's hinting at Voter ID coming up.

Posted by: t-bird at October 29, 2019 12:00 PM (Z1eux)

303 Why would you , on purpose, dredge up images of idols and put them in your church?? Has he READ the Old Testament???

Posted by: grammie winger at October 29, 2019 12:01 PM (lwiT4)

304 >>>The current environment should CRATER the housing market in the affected areas. In the ridiculously over priced market that is California, that will cause a bubble burst similar to the housing clusterfuck of subprime mortgages.
Posted by: Sponge at October 29, 2019 12:00 PM (Zz0t1)

Wait a few minutes.

Posted by: P.T. Barnum at October 29, 2019 12:01 PM (Gvpa/)

305 As a real estate investor, I frequently peruse housing sites to get a feel of where markets are headed. As with the horde, you learn a lot of what's happening from comments.

And with very few exceptions, young peeps want Prop 13 repealed in CA and they want free govt money to buy a home. Either down payment assistance or tax credits or some just straight up want the govt to buy them a home. This is not even up for debate. They are entitled to and deserve it.

AOC didn't happen by accident.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at October 29, 2019 12:01 PM (FiUMj)

306 298 The Catholics should have taken an axe to the statues before tossing the kindling into the Tiber.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 29, 2019 12:00 PM (S8O3J)

They should have left the statues and thrown the Pope into the Tiber. His successor would have straightened things out.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at October 29, 2019 12:02 PM (J+mig)

307 ace up

Posted by: Vic at October 29, 2019 12:02 PM (mpXpK)

308 It's a barometer of critical opinion, not a measure of a movie's quality.

Sure, but generally speaking in the past, if you had 90% of the reviewers positive about a movie and glowing, it was almost certain to be a great movie. Today, its probably just some woke piece of trash they want to promote.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2019 12:02 PM (KZzsI)

309 >>Heh. I miss wrestling.

>>I was good at all the sports you dont do once your done with school.

On the other hand I never have to worry about making weight.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2019 12:02 PM (ZLI7S)

310 The current environment should CRATER the housing market in the affected areas.

Maybe in the poorer rural areas. The rich areas will all have emergency generators by next year.

After all, if you are rich enough to own a multi-million dollar home and be able to afford California taxes, the cost of a generator and the permits isn't that much, comparatively.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 29, 2019 12:03 PM (I2/tG)

311
Yeah its one of the foundational principles of Christianity (and Judaism, for that matter) that you are not just able to, but strongly encouraged to debate, discuss, question, and study.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2019 11:52 AM (KZzsI)

Agreed.
I think working through and debating difficult doctrines is fundamental to Christianity.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, champion of Urkers everywhere at October 29, 2019 12:03 PM (Uu+Jp)

312 He's gone now

Posted by: Vic at October 29, 2019 12:03 PM (mpXpK)

313 What the actual heck?!?

Posted by: grammie winger at October 29, 2019 11:58 AM (lwiT4)

There is a strain of theology that suggests that all paganism was merely inaccurate attempts toward revealed salvation history and that primitive "religion" is a type of early inspired but unrevealed Christianity.I imagine that this is the crap the Red Pope is basing his bs on since it is "inclusive" and quasi-commie.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at October 29, 2019 12:03 PM (nRWPy)

314 296 God is a sucker for a single leg takedown.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2019 11:58 AM (ZLI7S)

----

Heh. I miss wrestling.

I was good at all the sports you dont do once your done with school.

Posted by: fixerupper at October 29, 2019 11:59 AM (8XRCm)

I wanted to. Parents wouldn't let me. Only high school sport I was actually well-suited for. Meh.

Posted by: Insomniac at October 29, 2019 12:03 PM (NWiLs)

315 Either down payment assistance or tax credits or some just straight up
want the govt to buy them a home. This is not even up for debate. They
are entitled to and deserve it.

My son is buying a home right now, with government assistance and no down payment. It's called a VA loan. Join up, do two tours in Iraq, and you too can hit the jackpot.

Posted by: grammie winger at October 29, 2019 12:03 PM (lwiT4)

316 The turn to authoritarianism.

Reminds me of the story in the Old Testament when the Jewish people demand God appoint a king over them.
He warns them of everything a king will demand of them and do, the point being living as a moral people under God's law makes a king irrelevant.

They still demanded a king. They got a series of kings-- many of them corrupt or inept.

Posted by: You're in hell, the world ended at at October 29, 2019 12:04 PM (xGZ+b)

317 Over at Power Line

Joey Bidet was denied Communion at a South Carolina Catholic church.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 29, 2019 12:04 PM (S8O3J)

318 They should refuse to take females, as now they have took an elite combat organization and turned into another social engineering project. The green berets just announced they are going to drop standards as well to accomodated inferior candidates. Die-versity is going to get a lot of people killed.

Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at October 29, 2019 12:00 PM (80rst)

I heard yesterday that US special OPs now comprises about 65k troops. How many are truly qualified?

Posted by: BignJames at October 29, 2019 12:04 PM (X/Pw5)

319 Some of the No Cal homeowners whose homes burned down sold their plot and left the state last year.

Posted by: IC - soon to be de-energized at October 29, 2019 12:04 PM (a0IVu)

320 Dem Party is nothing but an organized hate group. We need to put these guys in camps.

Posted by: Puddin Head at October 29, 2019 12:04 PM (yRAFu)

321
The best way to deal with film criticism in general is to find critics that you like reading and, perhaps, even agree with. RT is great as a place to aggregate all of these critics and read through them to find that kind of critic for you.

That's how I use it, anyway.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Face

You could also use it to gauge interest in a movie until people said mean things about Brie Larson not shutting her cock licker and they ditched that whole thing.

Posted by: Buzzion at October 29, 2019 12:05 PM (lWwhd)

322 O/T, Biden is denied communion at a Catholic church in South Carolina because of his abortion stance. I hope the good father is prayed up, he's about to be targeted for destruction:

https://tinyurl.com/y6dssdbz

Posted by: cornbred at October 29, 2019 12:05 PM (W2bv0)

323 >>I wanted to. Parents wouldn't let me. Only high school sport I was actually well-suited for. Meh.

You need a change of scenery. Get in your car, pick a fun place to go and do it.

Voila, experience.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2019 12:05 PM (ZLI7S)

324 They should have left the statues and thrown the Pope into the Tiber. His successor would have straightened things out.

Could pile the statues up and burn the pope on a stake over them, there's precedent

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2019 12:05 PM (KZzsI)

325 No it's not. Half the Bible is made up of people asking God questions.

An effective way to define:
- Why the world is the way it is
- Who Jesus Christ is
- Why His time on earth was unique
- Why His Sacrifice for our sins is necessary
- Why we are incapable of atoning for our own sins

Posted by: reason at October 29, 2019 12:06 PM (q/kmn)

326 His firearm is legal, per his lawyer,

ergo, anything that firearm did all by itself is legal! Including murdering an informant.

Posted by: t-bird at October 29, 2019 12:06 PM (QrTqV)

327 Kevin McCarthy: Do you renounce Paul Ryan? and all his works? and all his pomps?
If not, Besides Trump, why would I vote GOP in 2020?

Posted by: Quilp at October 29, 2019 12:06 PM (Bf3hj)

328 Either down payment assistance or tax credits or some just straight up

want the govt to buy them a home. This is not even up for debate. They

are entitled to and deserve it.

My son is buying a
home right now, with government assistance and no down payment. It's
called a VA loan. Join up, do two tours in Iraq, and you too can hit the
jackpot.

Posted by: grammie winger at October 29, 2019 12:03 PM

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We have used it twice now, it really helps. The next one is going to be 50% down on a 15 year note. We should be able to get 2.5% with our Credit Union.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 29, 2019 12:06 PM (JUOKG)

329 Heh. I miss wrestling.

I was good at all the sports you dont do once your done with school.

Posted by: fixerupper at October 29, 2019 11:59 AM (8XRCm)

Hot oil wrestling.

Posted by: Easy Andy at October 29, 2019 12:06 PM (mesZS)

330 On the other hand I never have to worry about making weight.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2019 12:02 PM (ZLI7S)

Me either.

Posted by: BignJames at October 29, 2019 12:06 PM (X/Pw5)

331 221 201 The electorate of California?

I saw a woman on Twitter saying how pleased she was with the great job Newsome is doing.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 29, 2019

*
*

She must still have power and is not being threatened by fire, then. (Though I wonder if any of the Californians would wake up even then.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at October 29, 2019 11:46 AM (ClOmq)

GLOBAL WARMING!!! ooga booga
and ORANGEMANBAD!!!

Posted by: Dude at October 29, 2019 12:06 PM (CLteG)

332 Half the Bible is made up of people asking God questions.

That. The patriarch of all the Jews and Samaritans, Jacob, wrestled G-d (an avatar thereof, anyway). The balls on that guy.

Calvinism is the sect of Judaeo-Christianity which predestines everything. I consider it a heresy.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at October 29, 2019 12:07 PM (ykYG2)

333 The rich areas will all have emergency generators by next year.

I once stayed in the richest neighborhood on the island of Antigua - where the government ministers lived and what not.

Power cuts were a near-daily occurrence - the lights would flicker, and then you would hear a roar as everyone's generator started up.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 29, 2019 12:07 PM (I2/tG)

334 Biden is denied communion at a Catholic church in South Carolina

I requested paste-based wafers and it didn't go over well.

Posted by: Smokin' Uncle Joe Biden at October 29, 2019 12:07 PM (vtcmf)

335 Joey Bidet was denied Communion at a South Carolina Catholic church.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 29, 2019 12:04 PM (S8O3J)

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Now do Nan!

Posted by: reason at October 29, 2019 12:07 PM (q/kmn)

336 Told my husband about the snot nosed punk who cussed at me in class yesterday. He wants me to quit. Says he will support me doing anything else.

Posted by: Jmel at October 29, 2019 11:45 AM

***

This does offer a business opportunity. Like how The Godfather got started. A guy does you a favor...and the kid never mouths off again in school. Soon another smartass kid, and another favor. Then one day when your benefactor needs a favor you pay it back.
Start in one school...move across a district then a region.

Posted by: Diogenes

Stuffing dead high schoolers in Buick trunks is a little extreme, no?

I mean, I'm good with it, but...

Posted by: rickb223 at October 29, 2019 12:07 PM (oUkrT)

337 AOC didn't happen by accident

Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at October 29, 2019 12:01 PM (FiUMj)
*******
NO it happened because the incumbent didn't even run a campaign was never around & very low % of voters voted you Fucking Dolt

Posted by: Austere Religious Scholar at October 29, 2019 12:07 PM (BqBId)

338 Drudge is coming to the light! 2020 will be the final end of the Republican Party. A 49 state landslide in which all but Utah go blue for good.

Posted by: No at October 29, 2019 12:08 PM (NI3Y4)

339 Nood

Posted by: Roland THTG at October 29, 2019 12:08 PM (88+cf)

340 There's ace.

Lots of red.

Posted by: Deep State 368 at October 29, 2019 12:08 PM (gtNik)

341 "History bends toward progress" is a tautology. Like "survival of the fittest". Who survives? The most fit!!!! What about the ones that didn't survive. They weren't the most fit!

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2019 12:08 PM (/28Sz)

342 20 years ago I was kicking around an idea with a teacher friend of mine...professional, organized tutoring of the basics...the Three R's.�
Nothing came of it.�
Then I saw this company called Kumon.�

Sigh...

Diogenes,

Funny you mentioned Kumon. I've been involved with them for 18 years prompted by my desire to provide my kids with strong Math and Reading Comprehension skills. The program is superior to any other supplemental program currently available. My grand children will also use it as a supplement. Ideally, I recommend parents to use their preferred home schooling curriculum plus ad Kumon as a supplement. Oregon, of course will make Kumon franchises wealthy given the states latest woke change from Math education to some sort of genderless patriarchy free sort of Math curriculum.

Posted by: Floridachick at October 29, 2019 12:08 PM (J14e3)

343 Biden is denied communion at a Catholic church in South Carolina because
of his abortion stance. I hope the good father is prayed up, he's
about to be targeted for destruction:

The good father knows he will be persecuted and may desire it. However, I have a new favorite parish.

I once asked my pastor what I should do if Jim Moran got in my line. I was certainly not going to give him communion. We worked out that I'd walk away and switch with a priest. Then it wasn't my problem.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at October 29, 2019 12:08 PM (nRWPy)

344 Now do Nan!

*runs for the bathroom tasting bile in back of throat*

Better you than the gnu...

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 29, 2019 12:08 PM (S8O3J)

345 got a series of kings-- many of them corrupt or inept.

Well, poo.

Posted by: Rehoboam bin Solomon, Mr Congeniality at October 29, 2019 12:09 PM (ykYG2)

346 The rich areas will all have emergency generators by next year.

I once stayed in the richest neighborhood on the island of Antigua - where the government ministers lived and what not.

Power cuts were a near-daily occurrence - the lights would flicker, and then you would hear a roar as everyone's generator started up.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

One word: contaminated diesel from jump street.

Lock those babies up.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 29, 2019 12:09 PM (oUkrT)

347 Why would you , on purpose, dredge up images of idols and put them in your church?? Has he READ the Old Testament???

Posted by: grammie winger at October 29, 2019 12:01 PM (lwiT4)

Pretty sure his hands would burn.

Posted by: clutch cargo at October 29, 2019 12:10 PM (Z1ykJ)

348 Calvinism is the sect of Judaeo-Christianity which predestines everything. I consider it a heresy.
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at October 29, 2019 12:07 PM (ykYG2)

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I'm on the fence on Calvinism and Tulip and all that. But I do have a healthy respect for the omniscience and omnipotence of God.

I wont' say omniscience directly translates into predestination, but the gears do mesh.

Posted by: reason at October 29, 2019 12:10 PM (q/kmn)

349 I have combed the internet and talked with family and friends looking for a solution to my neighbor's loud bass and can't find any solutions. I'm very concerned about my husband's well being. I thought I'd come out of lurkdom to ask the intelligent crowd here if there are any ideas.

A month ago our neighbors woke us up at 1am with loud bass music. This has been going on for about 9 months. I never got a chance to call the police, for the 8th time, because my husband started grabbing his left side of his chest. Rushed him to the ER. He had a heart attack and had another while waiting on blood test results to come back to confirm whether had had one or not. Granted, he had blockages, stents put in and he's ok. But his main culprit to the problem is high blood pressure which his previous doctor did a piss poor job of helping him to control. We did diet, exercise, etc... but his bp was hard to control. New doctor now and blood pressure is still slightly high but nothing like it was.

One of the top causes of high bp is getting upset. But for quite some time, we've been dealing with awfully loud neighbors. We moved away from a loud business that we could do nothing really about to now what seemed like a quieter neighborhood. But the guys across the street like to drink and get louder as they drink. Law has been called a number of times. I called over the weekend about the same thing. I told dispatch I want to speak to an officer because this has officially became very unhealthy for my husband. I waited outside. A county pd rolled by their place and mine really slow while the bass was really loud... but he kept going and no one paid me a visit at all.

The next day they were booming again. This time my husband called and told dispatch they turn it up and turn it down alternately today. She said they would send a unit out. After 15 mins they turned it off completely and it stayed that way so hubby called them back and told dispatch. He feels the police have better things to do than show up where a problem has stopped. Plus, if the cops don't hear it, there's nothing they can do. Dispatch asked did he want to speak to an officer anyway. He said there's no point, he's called several times about the same people. We've talked to officers twice but it keeps happening. She asked him again and hubby said he'd think about it.

Now, a neighbor down the road who did this earlier this year pushed things with his bass and an officer cited him a hefty fine. But these guys across the street must be special or something because absolutely nothing happens to these guys. One night when the cops showed up they couldn't get them to open the door no matter how hard they knocked. The music was blaring away as they tried. Every time the cops show up, these guys run off in the woods. That night they wouldn't come out of the house.

Moving is not an option for a while. I'm having to work 3rd shift because we have extra medical bills to pay now and I really worry about husband being at home alone at night if it happens again. We've tried noise cancelling stuff, try to drown out the bass with noise through a subwoofer and all. Apparently it doesn't bother other people in the neighborhood because they don't live across from them and hear it like we do. I even talked to a guy who doesn't live there but claims he owns the place and explained to him my husband's health. He seemed confused, did not speak english well, but I finally got him to understand it's the bass, not the music, just tell them to keep the bass down and we have no problems. I even told him about my husband's health. This was recently. But the next day those guys were at it again.

If anyone has any ideas I'd love to hear them and if you're a praying person, prayers would be greatly appreciated too. It's not a distant thump you can hear indoors. It's a noise you can FEEL coming through the walls and overcomes the low frequency white noise we run through our subwoofer. And they're about 70 - 75 feet away.

Posted by: Janie Lee at October 29, 2019 12:11 PM (pIoAY)

350

Republicans fear wipeout in 2020 of DEMOCRATS.
'Cos then we will have no one to laugh at and mock.

Man this voting is a Drudge..I gotsta get an ID? but I dont haf a vagina !

Posted by: saf at October 29, 2019 12:12 PM (5IHGB)

351 222 Kamala doesn't appear to be doing very well in "f*ucking Iowa" either. As a left-winger who has spent her entire life in California,

___

She spent the first 18 years of her life in Canada. She was born in Cali, to immigrant parents, then mama took her to Montreal as an infant. Only for college, did she then return to California.

Reminds me of someone else who ran for prezzie not long ago....
Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at October 29, 2019 11:46 AM (FiUMj)

She spent 5 years in Montreal. She lived in Cali until she was 12.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at October 29, 2019 12:12 PM (RD7QR)

352 311
Yeah its one of the foundational principles of Christianity (and Judaism, for that matter) that you are not just able to, but strongly encouraged to debate, discuss, question, and study.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2019 11:52 AM (KZzsI)

Agreed.
I think working through and debating difficult doctrines is fundamental to Christianity.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, champion of Urkers everywhere at October 29, 2019 12:03 PM (Uu+Jp)

I got very different and conflicting models for that: sometimes it was God as authoritarian jackboot who brooks no dissent and you WILL do what his messengers say, and other times as you describe.

Posted by: Insomniac at October 29, 2019 12:13 PM (NWiLs)

353 36 Drudge is blaring 'republicans fear wipeout in 2020'..seriously?

Posted by: IC - soon to be de-energized at October 29, 2019 11:04 AM (a0IVu)

Clickbait. Nothing more or less.

Haven't clicked to Drudge's site in 3-years (since he went full-on NT) and see no reason to change that pattern now.

Posted by: DocJ
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This needs to be played on an endless loop 24/7. dRedge went over the cliff 3+ years ago for reasons still unknown - clickbait at best, enter at your own peril.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at October 29, 2019 12:14 PM (v7jy4)

354 I've come to the conclusion that the Nats have been jinxed by the beautiful people that could spring for a $1,300 for a seat. Love the team but hate the butt munch imports that pretend to be Washingtonians. We don't deserve to win the series cuz of our so-called fans.

Posted by: Puddin Head at October 29, 2019 12:16 PM (yRAFu)

355 "he explicitly acknowledge they are pagan fertility
symbols, something he tried to gloss over in past statements, he now
says the dredged up statues (from where observant Catholics had thrown
them into the Tiber) will be displayed at an upcoming Mass."

good for the observant Catholic, but imo the Bible student should ask a lot of questions about their Christian heritage, and they should separate the traditions adopted from pagans but "Christianized" over the centuries. While most church goers are good people, they have been led into non-Christian tradition ... often in contradiction to scripture.

Steeples are phallic ... bells to wake the gods ... the list is long. "The Church" itself, is nice as a building, but we moved to a spiritual body (ekklesia, often translated as "church") of Christ, with JC (or CJ actually) as our high priest forever. The true church is composed of all Christians ... regardless of whether they belong to any certain denomination or not. The Catholic denomination has been infiltrated, it would seem. Many "observant Catholics" seem to recognize this ... good for them.

Posted by: illiniwek at October 29, 2019 12:17 PM (Cus5s)

356 10 a profound difference between the West (or at least some of us) and the Arab/Muslim world."

The key is in the opening statement - we're trying to foist a nation/state on tribal/ethnic alliances.

Ain't gonna work.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at October 29, 2019 11:04 AM (6qErC)
++++++++++++++
The only way it can possibly work is to attempt to place the state lines to approximate the tribal lines where they have traditionally been. Yes there will always be skirmishes along the border, this is to be expected as it has been this way for millennia, however there will be relative stability because each tribe will have its own space. Forcing Sunnis and Shiites to live together is like forcing oil and water to mix - it aint going to be stable for long.

Posted by: Death to Rinos at October 29, 2019 12:18 PM (JNTt1)

357 161 So to add insult to injury to the California wildfire-power outage there is a new menace: massive looting.
What a wonderful job liberals have done with their little Utopian project. They deserve every bit of it, good and hard.
Posted by: Ripley at October 29, 2019 11:35 AM (MxEKc)

I LOL'd at this. Thank you!

Posted by: creeper at October 29, 2019 12:19 PM (LNJfV)

358 AOC didn't happen by accident

Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at October 29, 2019 12:01 PM (FiUMj)
*******
NO it happened because the incumbent didn't even run a campaign was never around & very low % of voters voted you Fucking Dolt
Posted by: Austere Religious Scholar at October 29, 2019 12:07 PM (BqBId)

Oh yeah ... robust debate is a cornerstone of Christianity as well as Western Civ. Couldn't be more obvious.

Posted by: 256^4 at October 29, 2019 12:22 PM (SvnHQ)

359 Posted by: Janie Lee at October 29, 2019 12:11 PM (pIoAY)

I don't know what to tell you. I saved my money and bought acreage to build on, so I wouldn't have any neighbors.

Posted by: BignJames at October 29, 2019 12:22 PM (X/Pw5)

360 Long observation of history leads me to believe that the natural human social model is "good czar/bad czar."

This is from the old Russian saying that the best form of government is a good czar, and the worst one a bad czar. Shame there are so few good czars.

Middle Eastern governments, with one notable exception, fall into this category. That said, we see old photos of Afghanistan and Iran with women with uncovered heads and high heels. The states may have been authoritarian, but Islamism didn't always run the show either.

Posted by: MW at October 29, 2019 12:22 PM (p6nh9)

361 We don't deserve to win the series cuz of our so-called fans.

Posted by: Puddin Head at October 29, 2019 12:16 PM (yRAFu)

Deep staters and journalists?

Posted by: BignJames at October 29, 2019 12:24 PM (X/Pw5)

362 8 The Iraq war taught me that most do not want freedom. Freedom is like weather, it doesn't last. What people really want is to be ruled by someone from their own tribe. A Zimbabwean king for Zimbabwe. A gay socialist for San Francisco.
Posted by: Kate Winslet's boobs at October 29, 2019 11:40 AM (iTjp2)

You mean like a republic, with individual states?

That's why I'll never move to CA or NY. What we're going to be fighting for is the dismantling of the power in DC, isn't it? The centralization of power is what's un-American.

Posted by: Sooner at October 29, 2019 12:26 PM (Fs5vw)

363 Posted by: BignJames at October 29, 2019 12:22 PM (X/Pw5)

We moved out into the country once. Rented a large place. Plenty of room around. Nothing but cows and horses around. Neighbor put in 6 chicken houses near us and ran them very poorly. He also liked to stand near our property and shoot guns for hours on weekends so he wouldn't bother his elderly neighbor on the other side of him. But at this point, I find I really miss that place. Lol.

You just never know, ya know?

The plan is to save up enough money to buy land and build a soundproof home. I'm amazed they haven't been cited yet. It's a 1500.00 fine. The guy down the road was cited for the same.

Posted by: Janie Lee at October 29, 2019 12:30 PM (pIoAY)

364 The Catholics should have taken an axe to the statues before tossing the kindling into the Tiber.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 29, 2019 12:00 PM (S8O3J)

Or built a bonfire.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2019 12:34 PM (QugKX)

365 358 AOC didn't happen by accident

Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at October 29, 2019 12:01 PM (FiUMj)
*******
NO it happened because the incumbent didn't even run a campaign was never around & very low % of voters voted you Fucking Dolt
Posted by: Austere Religious Scholar at October 29, 2019 12:07 PM (BqBId)

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You must be fun at parties.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at October 29, 2019 12:34 PM (FiUMj)

366 In the Arab world, Hellfire missiles are the number 1 agent of change...

Posted by: Advo at October 29, 2019 12:36 PM (Ms4Um)

367 California is the harbinger of the future cbd. No one bothers to read ballot initiatives or think about the dangers of a one party system. They just depose
The governor in a soft revolution every 25 years. They are blowing it.

Posted by: Pj at October 29, 2019 12:53 PM (wkolW)

368 The purpose of the protests/riots is never about freedom. It's about overthrowing the current people in power so that the leaders of the protests/riots become the new people in power. That's the only way power changes hands in places that aren't democratic republics. That's how it's been since forever before upstart white men in 13 British Colonies decided to try something different. Of course, they needed to protest/riot to get into power first.

Posted by: hadsil at October 29, 2019 01:45 PM (sYWQz)

369 For a long time I've thought about this general idea and have been saying for a while that either some cultures simply aren't predisposed toward freedom (in our ideal sense) or they simply don't know any different.I'm firmly in the middle of Gen-X so I have grown up with anti-soviet propaganda (errant or not), for good or ill. I say that to say what I think I know about Russian history shows that the Russians, unfortunately, went from a monarchical tyranny to a communist tyranny as the west was well into figuring out the modern/industrial era.70 years later they were left with nobody in charge after having way too many in charge. Such power vacuums typically allow for a new ruler that's the toughest SOB who beat the others...with the best or worst intentions.Despite whatever was happening in Britain in terms of monarchical overreach, they at least were experimenting with degrees of self rule.And frankly, I think these are big city problems. If you get far enough out there, anywhere, you'll find self-rule as things are taken care of locally.

Posted by: Sweet Magic at October 29, 2019 02:00 PM (oMVBr)

370 Bring back Arafat...the man could rock a tablecloth...

Posted by: Builder Berg at October 29, 2019 05:17 PM (9sE8A)

371 John Derbyshire once observed that only about 5% of the human lives ever lived were under consensual forms of self-government, and that such a framework of God-given natural rights was the product of ONLY white Anglo-Saxon culture (not even including whites not in that category--Slavs, Mediterranean types, et al.) So let us admit that most of humanity is genetically-disposed to serfdom, and proceed from there.

Posted by: 370H55V at October 29, 2019 08:02 PM (WusEB)

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