The New York Times, Racism and a Pullet Surprise [KT]

The pun also rises -- ornithological edition

We have been doing periodic updates since the New York Times announced last August that they would be focusing on "racism" in their news coverage for the next two years, particularly as it related to Donald Trump. Closely associated with this announcement was the announcement of the debut of the historically inaccurate "1619 Project", AKA The Hate America Project.

Links to our previous posts below. It's been an interesting few months.

We have watched as the "1619 Project" came under fire for being, well, astonishingly stupid. However, this week, the Pulitzer Prize Committee beclowned itself by awarding a Pulitzer Prize to this Project. If it weren't for the fact that this "project" is being pushed in schools, we could just laugh and laugh and laugh.

Come to think of it, since the kids have school at home right now, maybe we can teach THEM to laugh a little. And to think some.

Three commentaries, courtesy of J.J. Sefton earlier this week:

Emily Jashinsky at The Federalist: A Pulitzer Prize Was Just Given To The 1619 Essay The New York Times Admitted Was Historically Inaccurate.

Nikole Hannah-Jones won a Pulitzer Prize on Monday for an essay the New York Times corrected substantially after an array of respected academics disputed its grasp on history. That means the Pulitzers bizarrely rewarded inaccurate journalism with journalism's highest prize.
That Hannah-Jones's article advanced historical inaccuracies is not a matter of opinion, it was a determination made by her own publication.

They had to be dragged to that determination, though. Painfully:

Making a historically inaccurate assertion, standing by it for months, then editing the claim more than half a year later -- and conceding that change was important -- is obviously not journalism worthy of the industry's highest award in commentary writing. Although, given the industry's ongoing struggle to report factually accurate information, perhaps it's actually rather fitting.

Kind of hilarious, if you think about it.

Jason Ross at American Greatness: The Pulitzer Prize for Tabloid History:

Who is behind the Pulitzer Prize and the Pulitzer Committee? This piece gets quite substantial as you get into it:

The administrator of the Pulitzer Prize, Dana Canady, is a 20-year veteran of the Times. Times op-ed columnist Gail Collins is also a member of the Pulitzer Prize board. At least three other current members of the Pulitzer board have written for the Times.
For the Pulitzer Prize, this kind of self-dealing is par for the course. More troublesome than these shadowy backroom deals, though, is the appearance of coordination by a network of unaccountable organizations, resting on massive tax-advantaged endowments, to magnify the influence of this inaccurate and incendiary view of American history. The MacArthur Foundation gave Hannah-Jones its "genius grant" in 2017, helping her build the foundation for her project. Then the Pulitzer Center (which has no official connection to the Pulitzer Prize, which is administered by Columbia University) announced plans immediately after the publication of the 1619 Project to push its content into K-12 schools and colleges.
The success of the 1619 Project in wresting control of our historical narrative is not an accident. It is the outcome of a detailed and deliberate public relations strategy. Inquiring minds may want to know: Who is behind the unaccountable organizations driving this strategy, and why have they orchestrated an elaborate strategy to teach us to hate America? . . .

Oh, and:

In a healthy journalistic profession, inquiring minds would ask such questions, and be awarded for it. But the profession of journalism is shaped now, more than ever, by the "yellow journalism" perfected by the namesake of the profession's highest award. Indeed, even his biography on the Pulitzer Prize website admits that Joseph Pulitzer recognized "no apparent restraints on sensationalism or fabrication of news."

Might want to share the piece above with a youngster thinking about going into journalism. Have a good laugh about Joseph Pulitzer.

New York Post Editorial Board: The only Pulitzer the 1619 Project deserved was for fiction

As it was designed to do, The New York Times' woefully mistaken 1619 Project just won a Pulitzer Prize. Worse, the award for commentary actually went to Nikole Hannah-Jones for her essay introducing the series -- that is, to the article that brought the most sustained criticism from historians across the spectrum for its naked errors of fact.

Too bad the Pulitzer committee now thinks that facts are irrelevant to journalism.

Other commentary

Scott Johnson at Powerline has links to some of the challenges to the historical claims in the 1619 Project,

and this:

UPDATE: Our friend Roger Kimball writes to comment by email: "You ask which is worse, the Pulitzer Prizes of the NYT. I, too, think it doubtful that we have instruments fine enough to decide. Encounter Books is countering with a book called 1620: The True Beginning of the American Republic by Peter Wood (1620 was the date of the Mayflower compact). We are hoping to mount a big campaign for it to dislodge the mendacious 1619 Project from its place in school curricula (it's current been adopted in whole or part by 4500 schools)." Roger's New Criterion editorial on the subject is "1619 and all that."

Know any kids who need an alternative? Speaking of Peter Wood:

Peter Wood via Gail Heriot: The Collapse of the Fourth Estate

How could Hannah-Jones have gotten the facts so spectacularly wrong? There is no answer that reflects well on her. Did she know the facts and chose to suppress them to enhance the fable she was composing? Did she disregard the facts because she believed that the history as recorded was a tissue of falsehoods and that she alone had been vouchsafed a vision of what really happened? (Or she and a handful of zealous believers in Afro-centric conspiracy theories.) Or was she simply ignorant of the facts, having paid little or no attention to both the documentary record and the syntheses of historians who have spent their careers examining that record? Our choices seem to be liar, lunatic, or hustler. I don't know Hannah-Jones and can offer no judgment, but I am hard-pressed to imagine a fourth, more honorable alternative.
I can't, but the Pulitzer Committee can. In bestowing the award, the Pulitzer Committee declared:
For a sweeping, deeply reported and personal essay for the ground-breaking 1619 Project, which seeks to place the enslavement of Africans at the center of America's story, prompting public conversation about the nation's founding and evolution.
Award citations are usually composed very carefully, both in what they say and what they avoid saying. This one repays close attention.

Peter Wood teaches us how to pay close attention.

He rips up both the 1619 Project and the Pulitzer Committee. Wow.

Neo: The greatest Pulitzer since Duranty

From back in April, a podcast at The American Mind "exposing" the 1619 Project. Lots of contributors. The Pulitzer Committee paid no attention.

The Pulitzer Prize is just stupid, in general

On May 7, Ace reported on some of Trump's reactions concerning the DOJ dropping the Flynn Case. Among other things, he suggested that reporters who got Pulitzer Prizes for pushing the hoax should be forced to give them back.

How about the New York Times give back the Walter Duranty Pulitzer, too?

Or how about we just eliminate the Pulitzer Prize?

From The Federalist: The 1619 Project's Pulitzer gives schools one more excuse to teach kids to hate America.

Our Previous Posts triggered by the NYT's August Meeting:

March 7: Is this the end of journalism? A member of the NYT Editorial Board who pushed the 1619 project has done some other embarrassing things in the media. Has this affected the quality of media more generally?

January 18: Media Racism Update, contrasting the efforts of the Democrats to paint themselves as champions of the Constitution with the attacks on the Constitution in the NYT's 1619 Project. More on the 1619 Project's historical errors. Similarity to the communist goal of destroying memory.

Plus an interesting suggestion that it should be illegal to vote for Trump because he is racism personified. Uh-huh.

November 2: What would Frederick Douglass think? The 1619 Project wasn't much interested in Douglass. Reviews of the 1619 Project.

Also, Race-based lunacy in education NOT based in the 1619 Project. Western medicine is colonialism. Discussion of racial preferences in government.

September 28: September Racism and Slavery Update, with analyses of the emerging, ahistorical 1619 Project. Note: Captain John Smith was once a slave.

Plus an effort to pin a racism charge on a Trump appointee.

August 31: Dean Baquet's emergency meeting with his radical staff at the New York Times. This was where the editorial decision to focus on Donald Trump's racism was articulated. Oh. And then there was the 1619 Project.

Music

How to dance to the Chicken Reel if you don't have enough people to do a Reel:

How to do the Chicken Dance:

Note: This is the Thread before the Gardening Thread.

Serving your mid-day open thread needs

Posted by: Open Blogger at 11:16 AM

Comments

(Jump to bottom of comments)

1 >SCOAMF should get a pardon *only* if he leaves and never returns, or even leaves the shithole he's picked for his "retirement".

Elba.

Posted by: BourbonChicken with a Face Colander at May 09, 2020 11:18 AM (LxTcq)

2 This "prize" is about on par with the Honors and Awards the Emperor Nero would award himself when he engaged in athetic contests with his gladiators. Or the Medals that Lil' Kim awards himself in Norkland.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 09, 2020 11:21 AM (V2Yro)

3 The 1619 project is really just the 1984 project

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at May 09, 2020 11:22 AM (NI4rU)

4 Hi everybody

Posted by: The One at May 09, 2020 11:24 AM (JXoW4)

5 Willowed:
I think you just solved the mystery of why my mom went through parakeets like Richard Petty went through tires.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 09, 2020 11:19 AM (9Om/r)

Berserker! That sucks.

Posted by: banned would be a cat lady with birds at May 09, 2020 11:24 AM (SwI+z)

6 pulitzer my finger!

Posted by: Joe Biden at May 09, 2020 11:24 AM (786Ro)

7 Wurstfest

I WANT TO GO TO THERE

Posted by: DB- just DB. at May 09, 2020 11:25 AM (iTXRQ)

8 Wurstfest and chicken dancing... use to be a short 45 minute drive from my house. Now with social distancing and the pandemic it's more like 4-5 years from now.

Posted by: lin-duh en fugue at May 09, 2020 11:26 AM (UUBmN)

9 RIP Little Richard, age 87

Posted by: attilla the thrilla at May 09, 2020 11:27 AM (w7KSn)

10 I have long regarded the pulitzer prize as nothing more than incestuous self-dealing. It's akin to Little Kim awarding himself medals.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 09, 2020 11:27 AM (LZcDP)

11 https://tinyurl.com/ydgqrywd

Chicken Scratch music from the Tohono O'Oham Nation near Ajo, Arizona.

In keeping with the musical theme of the morning.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at May 09, 2020 11:27 AM (YCpVK)

12 What did that Wise Man say about Leftists and Institutions?

Yes they definitely have gutted several institutions.

Posted by: rd at May 09, 2020 11:28 AM (+0uDE)

13 Somebody close to me has a rooster, I hear it crowing when I'm out early having a coffee and a smoke. In the middle of the city no less, their neighbors must get pissed.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at May 09, 2020 11:28 AM (NI4rU)

14 The Nobel Prize committee set their credibility on fire when the awarded the peace prize to Barack Obama for doing nothing.
Now Pulitzer prize credibility is also in flames.

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at May 09, 2020 11:28 AM (Uu+Jp)

15 Out of his own mouth:

I'm pretty darn invested.

Scoamf always talks himself into a corner.

Ukraine.

It's gonna pop like a zit.

Posted by: Simplemind at May 09, 2020 11:29 AM (yshFD)

16 I'll take the tall brunette in green skirt on the right, please. To go.

Posted by: Hands at May 09, 2020 11:29 AM (786Ro)

17 2 This "prize" is about on par with the Honors and Awards the Emperor Nero would award himself when he engaged in athetic contests with his gladiators. Or the Medals that Lil' Kim awards himself in Norkland.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 09, 2020 11:21 AM (V2Yro)

-----

Not everyone can be like his old man Kim Jong IL, that scored a dozen holes in one everytime he went golfing. That guy was an Athlete!

Posted by: rd at May 09, 2020 11:30 AM (+0uDE)

18 Since Pulitzer was basically just another yellow journalist, I can't be too upset that his prize goes to hacks. However, perhaps we need a new prize, the Duranty, for whoever does the best job pushing whatever shit Progs happen to believe at the moment.

Posted by: Bob (formerly Beto) at May 09, 2020 11:30 AM (hVOXD)

19 Needs Moar Polish Butter Churners

Posted by: garrett at May 09, 2020 11:31 AM (Plsqo)

20 https://tinyurl.com/y9usbkka We enabled a new modern Stasi

Posted by: jeff carter at May 09, 2020 11:32 AM (c73GF)

21 The Claremont Institute podcast has started a series of podcast refuting the 1619 bullshit.
( They missed the historical footnote that the 1619 ship was hijacked by pirates and re-routed to the colonies. )

ricochet.com/podcast/the-american-mind/the-1619-project-exposed-part-i/

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 09, 2020 11:32 AM (UdCe2)

22 You left out "The Funky Chicken"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2ArZ67Bk5g

Posted by: BignJames at May 09, 2020 11:33 AM (X/Pw5)

23 Good Morning All - Happy Saturday from the PROC

Posted by: Anonymous Guy In Ca - Certified Essential - I have a letter! at May 09, 2020 11:33 AM (FnwlK)

24 19 Needs Moar Polish Butter Churners
Posted by: garrett at May 09, 2020 11:31 AM (Plsqo)

Yes. Yes it does.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at May 09, 2020 11:33 AM (NWiLs)

25 Pulitzer Prize should be equal to a window seat on Aero Pinochet.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 09, 2020 11:34 AM (LZcDP)

26
Since Pulitzer was basically just another yellow journalist, I can't be too upset that his prize goes to hacks. However, perhaps we need a new prize, the Duranty, for whoever does the best job pushing whatever shit Progs happen to believe at the moment.
Posted by: Bob (formerly Beto) at May 09, 2020 11:30 AM (hVOXD)

---------

I second the motion!

The AOSHQ Walter Duranty Award for Journalism.

Posted by: rd at May 09, 2020 11:34 AM (+0uDE)

27 Meanwhile, old newspaper copy editor yells at clouds:
https://tinyurl.com/y8b7cvl6

Posted by: Bill Peschel at May 09, 2020 11:34 AM (qyUiu)

28 We enabled a new modern Stasi
Posted by: jeff carter

I hope those good folks remember to save the seat cushion from the interrogation chair for the hounds.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at May 09, 2020 11:35 AM (YCpVK)

29 14 The Nobel Prize committee set their credibility on fire when the awarded the peace prize to Barack Obama for doing nothing.
Now Pulitzer prize credibility is also in flames.
Posted by: Brother Northernlurker
---
Pulitzer for 1619 project is that equivalent to Biden getting the medal of Freedom from Obama?

Posted by: AZ deplorably isolated at May 09, 2020 11:36 AM (kp35W)

30 Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced a new plan to reopen Chicago. Once the number of daily COVID deaths is less than the number of gangbanger shootings, the city will be able to go back to normal.

Posted by: Roy at May 09, 2020 11:36 AM (Ti+Tv)

31 Meanwhile, old newspaper copy editor yells at clouds:
https://tinyurl.com/y8b7cvl6
Posted by: Bill Peschel at May 09, 2020 11:34 AM (qyUiu)

Looks like a penis-sipper.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 09, 2020 11:37 AM (LZcDP)

32 Because I'm a giver:

youtube.com/watch?v=syMhJMmGEIc

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at May 09, 2020 11:39 AM (NWiLs)

33 1 >SCOAMF should get a pardon *only* if he leaves and never returns, or even leaves the shithole he's picked for his "retirement".

Elba.
Posted by: BourbonChicken with a Face Colander at May 09, 2020 11:18 AM (LxTcq)

The British South Atlantic territories have pretty strict admissions criteria. Barky probably wouldn't qualify.

Posted by: Fox2! at May 09, 2020 11:40 AM (qyH+l)

34 If Trump told Obama he would forget about his part in the coup, no questions asked if he would apologize to him, do you think Obama would do it?

Posted by: jmel at May 09, 2020 11:41 AM (OeWgo)

35 She's Got It is very great.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 09, 2020 11:42 AM (PUmDY)

36 If Trump told Obama he would forget about his part in the coup, no questions asked if he would apologize to him, do you think Obama would do it?

Posted by: jmel at May 09, 2020 11:41 AM (OeWgo)

I think he'd try to change the subject.

Posted by: BignJames at May 09, 2020 11:43 AM (X/Pw5)

37 Meanwhile, old newspaper copy editor yells at clouds***
Yeah, that's the ticket. It's not us, it's never us. It's those damned ignorant readers. Now, go binge-watch Matlock.

Posted by: Old Dude at May 09, 2020 11:44 AM (LGXGf)

38 34
If Trump told Obama he would forget about his part in the coup, no
questions asked if he would apologize to him, do you think Obama would
do it?

Posted by: jmel

"There ain't no forgettin"
(Josey Wales style)

Posted by: Puddleglum at May 09, 2020 11:44 AM (MVR7y)

39 The Death of Prizes.

If some enterprising journalist, probably from the Right, is looking for a good long form read topic, well there you are.

But I'll do a brief history. The Pulitzer, with Walter Duranty, Communist stooge. The Noble Peace Prize, featuring Barack Obama, cursed be his name.

A Rhodes Scholar, with that shining female beating and rapist beacon, Bill Clinton.

The Hugo Award, bestowed upon the finest SJW sci-fi shill these days, but once a measure of science fiction quality.

The Medal of Freedom, bestowed upon the turkey-waddled neck of Joe Biden by his hideous boss.

The Academy Awards, presented to the least talented hacks of the year in film.

Shall I go on? Nah, I need a purgatory. Or ten.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 09, 2020 11:45 AM (Z4rgH)

40 If Trump told Obama he would forget about his part in the coup, no

questions asked if he would apologize to him, do you think Obama would

do it?
-----------------------

When's the last time you saw a commie apologize for being a commie? Probably that horseface Kathy Griffin. Look what it took and look how long ago that was.

Posted by: ... at May 09, 2020 11:46 AM (/BUR0)

41 Elba.
Posted by: BourbonChicken with a Face Colander at May 09, 2020 11:18 AM (LxTcq)

The British South Atlantic territories have pretty strict admissions criteria. Barky probably wouldn't qualify.
Posted by: Fox2! at May 09, 2020 11:40 AM (qyH+l)

Elba is in the Mediterranean, I think. That's the one Napoleon escaped from. St. Helena is in the South Atlantic.

Garret's idea of sending him to Pock-E-Stahn is right on. he will be able to listen to the call to Prayer to jis heart's content, and there's a good chance he will piss off his hosts, and get whacked.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 09, 2020 11:46 AM (LZcDP)

42 I've related this story before, but I was once having drinks with a co worker at a local bar. I told him I didn't trust newspapers, they all have agendas and those agendas don't often correspond with my own. He replied "hey, that's crazy talk", or words to that effect.

The bar was in San Francisco, in the Hearst Building.
Yes, that Hearst. W.R.

Posted by: attilla the thrilla at May 09, 2020 11:47 AM (w7KSn)

43 >> If Trump told Obama he would forget about his part in the coup, no

>>questions asked if he would apologize to him, do you think Obama would

>>do it?

No, but I don't think Trump is going to settle for an apology.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 09, 2020 11:49 AM (ZLI7S)

44 Prizes are important, but I think one of the things that diminishes them is the frequency with which they are awarded. Once you put them on a schedule, then things start to get diluted. It becomes something that is not awarded because of truly remarkable deeds or accomplishments, but rather because that person was the best for that particular time- which may have been a low bar.

Could you imagine if a Medal of Honor had to be awarded every year?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 09, 2020 11:50 AM (A5zUN)

45 No, but I don't think Trump is going to settle for an apology.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 09, 2020 11:49 AM (ZLI7S)

Sorry he got caught would probably be the most he could muster anyway. It is not like being sorry ever actually changes anything.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 09, 2020 11:51 AM (A5zUN)

46 Elba is in the Mediterranean, I think. That's the one Napoleon escaped from. St. Helena is in the South Atlantic.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 09, 2020 11:46 AM (LZcDP)

Duh. Yes, St. Helena.

Posted by: Fox2! at May 09, 2020 11:51 AM (qyH+l)

47 Did ll cool j write mama said knock you out lyrics?

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 09, 2020 11:52 AM (PUmDY)

48 Don, sorry I used the awesome power of the US government and paid spies to frame you and your supporters as Russian agents and tried to steal your presidency to hide the crimes of my administration.

My bad.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 09, 2020 11:54 AM (ZLI7S)

49 Ralph Stanley live in Japan is a fantastic album. The Clinch Mountain Backstep, How Mountain Girls Can Love, and Mountain Dew come to mind, but the whole thing is great.

hooktube.com/watch?v=XNeznh5PQv4

Posted by: Moron Robbie suspects there are fewer than 10K actual COVID-19+pneumonia deaths at May 09, 2020 11:55 AM (ADuZP)

50 'mama said knock you out' - a true genius example of the songwriter art.

Posted by: kallisto at May 09, 2020 11:56 AM (/52yu)

51 Could you imagine if a Medal of Honor had to be awarded every year?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 09, 2020 11:50 AM (A5zUN)

A lot of service Crosses would be upgraded over time.

Posted by: Fox2! at May 09, 2020 11:56 AM (qyH+l)

52 Bird puns are ok, but aren't fish and tree puns truly The Horde's oeuvre?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 09, 2020 11:56 AM (DMUuz)

53 another sign things are getting real: my local mcdonald's has posted a sign listing things they are out of due to covid-19.

first thing on the list: bacon

Posted by: Anachronda at May 09, 2020 11:57 AM (kf5Ci)

54 Music idea. Al Stewart should rerelease an updated version of one of his big hits, Year of the Rat.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 09, 2020 11:59 AM (+y/Ru)

55 Now for pure unbridled insight, a masterpiece of ephemeral and ethereal nuance, may I direct the listener to 'Yo Bitch Get Out Tha Way' by Ludacris, whose musicianship and keen appreciation of the pimps and hos of the world remains unparalleled.

Posted by: kallisto at May 09, 2020 12:01 PM (/52yu)

56 Some of you guys must live in a food desert. I've seen no shortages of meats of any kind.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 09, 2020 12:02 PM (ZLI7S)

57 Bird puns are ok, but aren't fish and tree puns truly The Horde's oeuvre?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 09, 2020 11:56 AM (DMUuz)

And the Paris janitor said, "To hoover the Louvre is my oeuvre."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 09, 2020 12:03 PM (LZcDP)

58 The NYT can't distinguish shot from Shinola.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 09, 2020 12:03 PM (+y/Ru)

59 Some of you guys must live in a food desert. I've seen no shortages of meats of any kind.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 09, 2020 12:02 PM (ZLI7S)

I don't think all supply lines are equally affected.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 09, 2020 12:04 PM (LZcDP)

60 These lyrics will make you call the cops. Damn.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 09, 2020 12:04 PM (PUmDY)

61 >>I don't think all supply lines are equally affected.

Apparently. I went shopping yesterday and the place was fully stocked including lots of tasty bacon.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 09, 2020 12:06 PM (ZLI7S)

62 Wurst Fest at its worst is the best fest

Posted by: Muldoon at May 09, 2020 12:06 PM (Fc5rx)

63
Could you imagine if a Medal of Honor had to be awarded every year?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 09, 2020 11:50 AM (A5zUN)

You make a good point. But the MoH doesn't include a direct financial reward. The others do.

It's kinda their main point.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 09, 2020 12:06 PM (Z4rgH)

64
Mama's Gonna Kick Me Out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIE-GhQU0vI

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 09, 2020 12:07 PM (oVJmc)

65 I take some comfort from remembering that journalist Julius Streicher was hung at Nuremburg.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 09, 2020 12:08 PM (+y/Ru)

66 Apparently. I went shopping yesterday and the place was fully stocked including lots of tasty bacon.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 09, 2020 12:06 PM (ZLI7S)

I am still working on a large package of thick-cut bacon that I bought at the Albertson's supermarket (a small one) in Shelby, MT. Got a pack of ground beef, and a big pack of little sirloin steaks, too. And they had fully-stocked shelves of TP, in several brands/package sizes.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 09, 2020 12:09 PM (LZcDP)

67 Well commissary run over.

fuck the left

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 09, 2020 12:09 PM (85Gof)

68
Alright, which one of you Morons is this?

https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2020/05/07/man-big-rig-wine-drinking-tank/

Posted by: naturalfake at May 09, 2020 12:09 PM (z0XD8)

69 "... the ground-breaking 1619 Project, which seeks to place the enslavement
of Africans at the center of America's story, prompting public
conversation about the nation's founding and evolution."

Africans enslaved fellow Africans ... then after slavery ended in America, Africans continued enslaving their fellow Africans ... or went to war with each other, except where the Brits brought some order and prosperity, for a time. Africa left to its own devices ... remained "Africa", now being taken by China?

As Cassius Clay said, "I'm glad my grandfather got on that boat". Because the foundation of America (which was not slavery) paved the way for the richest black nation in the world (If Black America was its own nation, it would be the richest).

Obama's father was a man of ill-repute in Kenya, but his (abandoned) son became POTUS in good old USA. OK, Obama is a bad example ... since he actually brought mostly destruction to the US, and was the pawn (slave?) of other (white) men of power. Justice Thomas and Thomas Sowell are better examples of the American Dream, more akin to what MLK espoused. MAGA

Posted by: illiniwek at May 09, 2020 12:09 PM (Cus5s)

70 56
Some of you guys must live in a food desert. I've seen no shortages of meats of any kind.

not only do i live in a food desert, i also live in a desert desert. it's not all bad, though; we do have a plethora of dearth.

Posted by: Anachronda at May 09, 2020 12:09 PM (kf5Ci)

71 I take some comfort from remembering that journalist Julius Streicher was hung at Nuremburg.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 09, 2020 12:08 PM (+y/Ru)

"hanged", please. I was hung.

Posted by: zombie John Holmes at May 09, 2020 12:11 PM (LZcDP)

72 Bird puns are ok, but aren't fish and tree puns truly The Horde's oeuvre?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 09, 2020 11:56 AM (DMUuz)

I can't shit thru feathers. Maybe, with a bit of practice, I can hawk a few turds.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 09, 2020 12:11 PM (Z4rgH)

73 It's kinda their main point.
Posted by: GnuBreed at May 09, 2020 12:06 PM (Z4rgH)

I guess, and it sort of shows the intent of the award in that it is meant to stimulate others in the given field.

On the other hand, Audie Murphy's Medal of Honor or Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize- which is the more inspiring story? Which is the one more likely to inspire people to take up the mantle of the respective field?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 09, 2020 12:11 PM (A5zUN)

74 So if the PP Racism stories are awarded on merit, and they, surprisingly, only get awarded to reporters of colour, is that racist?

Posted by: Diogenes at May 09, 2020 12:13 PM (axyOa)

75 1619 is not history history.

Posted by: blaster at May 09, 2020 12:13 PM (ZfRYq)

76 The Message has outstanding lyrics.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 09, 2020 12:13 PM (PUmDY)

77 Some of you guys must live in a food desert. I've seen no shortages of meats of any kind.

Big shortage at the Commissary and signs one per family

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 09, 2020 12:13 PM (85Gof)

78 One box of eggs per family also

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 09, 2020 12:14 PM (85Gof)

79 The adage stating that a lie travels the world before the truth gets out of bed certainly was prescient.

Liberals, or should I say communists, have expertly weaponized that fact toward faction building via such propaganda. Calling it fake news in a nutshell grossly over simplifies the situation.

They are masters of propaganda and know that America has fewer and fewer critical thinkers and more and more headline readers. They are manipulating the growing TL DNR population.

Mark 13 ends with the word Watch. I am sure it is capitalized for a reason.

Posted by: Denny Crane! at May 09, 2020 12:14 PM (gJ9O0)

80 4500 schools, that's pretty widespread dissemination of a Big Lie.

Posted by: kallisto at May 09, 2020 12:15 PM (k9lXi)

81 Hey anybody have weasel's email? I have a thread idea, and I'm pretty sure multiple peeps will put me some knowledge.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at May 09, 2020 12:15 PM (tUOCc)

82 So I hear Rock and Roll officially died today?

Good Golly Miss Molly

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 09, 2020 12:15 PM (85Gof)

83 The local Walmart, two days ago, had loads of hamburger but no steaks or roasts.

All other meats were plentiful.

I really wanted a nice roast. Ah well.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 09, 2020 12:16 PM (Z4rgH)

84 My hair hasn't been this long since I was in first grade.

I need a haircut.

Posted by: Vendette at May 09, 2020 12:16 PM (6j2Bg)

85 Went to Home Depot this am. Parking lot full but no line to get in. Still has counters at entrance and exit. Not sure if they upped the limit or what.

Posted by: blaster at May 09, 2020 12:17 PM (ZfRYq)

86 Hey anybody have weasel's email? I have a thread idea, and I'm pretty sure multiple peeps will put me some knowledge.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at May 09, 2020 12:15 PM (tUOCc)

I do. Email me a linseyziq at hotmail and I'll forward it.

Posted by: Vendette at May 09, 2020 12:17 PM (6j2Bg)

87 76. CC I agree.

Posted by: kallisto at May 09, 2020 12:17 PM (k9lXi)

88 84 My hair hasn't been this long since I was in first grade.

I need a haircut.
Posted by: Vendette at May 09, 2020 12:16 PM (6j2Bg)

Same here. Although I tried to be a douchebag freshman year of college and it got a bit longer- annoys the hell out of me just as much.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 09, 2020 12:17 PM (A5zUN)

89 ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪

Oh, in sixteen nineteen
We took a little trip
Along with Cap'n Ahab
On his mighty sailing ship

We brought along some shackles
And we brought along some locks
And we beat the bloody Pilgrims
To the town of Plymouth Rock

Posted by: Muldoon at May 09, 2020 12:17 PM (Fc5rx)

90 Hotel Motel

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 09, 2020 12:17 PM (PUmDY)

91 A Carvel Cookie Puss ice cream cake would suffice.

Posted by: Puddi Head at May 09, 2020 12:18 PM (QZCjk)

92 BJs (local big box club store) had hardly any beef. Except filet mignon. Which is what I was there for.

Posted by: blaster at May 09, 2020 12:18 PM (ZfRYq)

93 My hair has not been this long in 13 years

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 09, 2020 12:18 PM (85Gof)

94 Bird puns are ok, but aren't fish and tree puns truly The Horde's oeuvre?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 09, 2020 11:56 AM (DMUuz)

I can't shit thru feathers. Maybe, with a bit of practice, I can hawk a few turds.
Posted by: GnuBreed at May 09, 2020

***

The Horde feels no shame in robin puns.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 09, 2020 12:18 PM (axyOa)

95 from last thread:

Wasn't he severely mauled by a tiger several years ago? Or was that his partner?"
Roy Horn died of Covid-19 after being mauled by a tiger.
(This is actually a true statement)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 09, 2020 11:09 AM (3D/fK)

One final time, in memoriam:
Q) What did Siegfried and the Tiger have in Common?
A) They both knew what Roy tasted like!

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 09, 2020 12:19 PM (trdmm)

96 That fat squirrel in my backyard is looking very appealing

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 09, 2020 12:19 PM (85Gof)

97 They're limiting beef at my store. Only 2 pckgs. Of course no need to limit chicken since they didn't have any. Which, now that I think about it is a limit of 0.

Posted by: olddog in mo, F*ck BofA & uckfay ancercay at May 09, 2020 12:19 PM (Dhht7)

98 That fat squirrel in my backyard is looking very appealing
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 09, 2020 12:19 PM (85Gof)

You sound like my cats.

Posted by: hogmartin at May 09, 2020 12:19 PM (t+qrx)

99 One final time, in memoriam:
Q) What did Siegfried and the Tiger have in Common?
A) They both knew what Roy tasted like!
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 09, 2020 12:19 PM (trdmm)

They were gay? Ha. Color me as the last one to know

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 09, 2020 12:20 PM (85Gof)

100 96 That fat squirrel in my backyard is looking very appealing
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 09, 2020 12:19 PM (85Gof)

Waiting for the obligatory: 'I hate fucking squirrels.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 09, 2020 12:20 PM (A5zUN)

101 Face it. "Pulitzer Award Winner" should be considered equivalent to "Convicted child molester."

Posted by: Eeyore at May 09, 2020 12:21 PM (ZbwAu)

102 They were gay? Ha. Color me as the last one to know
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 09, 2020 12:20 PM (85Gof)

And I can't believe Liberace was gay. I mean, women LOVED him!

Posted by: Austin Powers at May 09, 2020 12:21 PM (A5zUN)

103 Waiting for the obligatory: 'I hate fucking squirrels.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 09, 2020 12:20 PM (A5zUN)

No I hate democrats. Are squirrels democrats?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 09, 2020 12:21 PM (85Gof)

104 Channel your inner chicken. Sounds like good life advice to me.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 09, 2020 12:22 PM (JUOKG)

105 Our local store still doesn't have TP in bulk.

I guess we're surrounded by champion shitters.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 09, 2020 12:22 PM (UdCe2)

106 Slavery in the colonies and then the young new nation is an unfortunate reality that has to be taught. But the purpose of the 1619 Project is to make the white students feel like vile racist pieces of shit.

Posted by: kallisto at May 09, 2020 12:22 PM (k9lXi)

107 To be fair, Siegfried and Roy could just be seen as the brave vanguard for Joe Exotic.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 09, 2020 12:22 PM (A5zUN)

108 Well, time for me to get on with my day.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 09, 2020 12:23 PM (LZcDP)

109 Exploding birds were a topic on the ONT last night, so since we're making bird puns I'll re-share this:

Cry Havoc and Let Loose the Hens of War - a limerick

My father had an interesting notion
'Bout a volatile hen feeding potion
Then sadly one night
All the fumes did ignite
And thus he put poultry in motion

Posted by: Muldoon at May 09, 2020 12:24 PM (Fc5rx)

110 from last thread, for Gnubreed:

439 When I was in HS, my best bud had a 64 1/2 Mustang fastback, 289, 3 speed.
We got into some trouble in that thang.
I'm still alive to tell the tale. So is he.
Fuck off, Karens.
Posted by: GnuBreed at May 09, 2020 11:24 AM (Z4rgH)

My freshman roommate in College had a 64 1/2 mustang fastback, and we both knew how to monkey with engines, and the 289 in it ran pretty damn good. BUT... I was broke, and so was he, and there was no way he could have afforded a car like that, so the catch was - it had been burned. Twice. So natch, it was real cheap, I think $100, and once we got the drivetrain back up to speed, it ran great.

Other than that, it was like running around in John Candy and Steve Martin's car in Trains, Plains, and Automobiles.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 09, 2020 12:25 PM (trdmm)

111 The headline from Portland today is "Where you can and cannot go this weekend". They want people to stay at local parks but if those are crowded, stay home! It's going to be mid 80s today but we can't let people in the Gorge just yet.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 09, 2020 12:26 PM (Lqy/e)

112 The Nobel Peace Prize was a joke long before Barky got it as a participation trophy (before he even took office!).

It was definitely a joke when they gave one to Yassir Arafat, and likely before that. I'd have to go back and check.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 09, 2020 12:26 PM (mNq/0)

113 Mother In Law is a superb song.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 09, 2020 12:27 PM (PUmDY)

114 Pull it.

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid, finger extended. at May 09, 2020 12:27 PM (Vy7tf)

115 > RIP Little Richard, age 87

The King and Queen of Rock and Roll, in his own self-description.

He was a true original.

In a fair world, Prince and Michael Jackson would've both been paying him royalties.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 09, 2020 12:28 PM (mNq/0)

116 Anyone who needs a haircut can sneak into Delaware. Their barber shops are open.

Posted by: kallisto at May 09, 2020 12:29 PM (k9lXi)

117 Try this with your favorite progressive writer.

You: Hey, I know how you can get a Pulitzer Prize!
Them: Ooooh! Cool!!! How????
You: (Hold out your hand with your forefinger extended) "Grab this!"

When they do, make an "zzzzztthhh" sound, using the orifice of your choice. Then shout: "Surprise!"
Them: "Huh? What do you mean"

You: "You pulled it, I said 'surprise'. It's a pull it surprise. It's what you wanted, I thought. Why do you look so upset?"

Posted by: George V at May 09, 2020 12:32 PM (U2Tva)

118 I was awarded a Pulletizer Prize and the only thing I got was a bucket of chicken tenders.

Posted by: Fritz at May 09, 2020 12:32 PM (95j/9)

119 Epoch Times will premier their new documentary, "The Pandemic's Wall Street Connection," tomorrow night. Should be interesting.

Posted by: IrishEi at May 09, 2020 12:33 PM (sGotD)

120 e

Posted by: IrishEi at May 09, 2020 12:34 PM (sGotD)

121 KT. Thanks for the chicken dance video. Brings back fond childhood memories. Always played this at Polish weddings. I served food at weddings on Saturday night from age 13 to 16. Always had a great time after chores were done and the we could sneak into the wedding. Fun, fun, fun.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 09, 2020 12:34 PM (JVgnl)

122 Prince took it a lot further.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 09, 2020 12:35 PM (PUmDY)

123 Heidi started cutting my hair again. Easy. Clippers. #2 #3 # 5. Even at Russian barber prices shes a deal. (Booze) i think in terms of ukuleles. When can I get another one if Heidi cuts my hair?

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at May 09, 2020 12:35 PM (4tEsR)

124 Could you imagine if a Medal of Honor had to be awarded every year?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 09, 2020 11:50 AM (A5zUN)

A lot of service Crosses would be upgraded over time.
Posted by: Fox2! at May 09, 2020 11:56 AM (qyH+l)

During the Wounded Knee battle, there were about 20 MOH awarded for guys who didn't do much more pick off some Indians who were caught in a ravine.

I think partially as a result, they changed the criteria for getting one, but those awards are not very honorable, among the honored.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 09, 2020 12:36 PM (hku12)

125 Why, this is bigger than the Whispering Steeple in Kansas City.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at May 09, 2020 12:37 PM (vuisn)

126 Pulletizer = Pulletzer

My made-up word has an extra, evil chicken eye. Sue me.

Posted by: Fritz at May 09, 2020 12:37 PM (95j/9)

127 32 Because I'm a giver:

youtube.com/watch?v=syMhJMmGEIc

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at May 09, 2020 11:39 AM (NWiLs)

Vellus hair on boobs, outstanding.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 09, 2020 12:38 PM (9/7t+)

128 I guess I could think in terms of guns.... if Heidi cuts my hair...huh.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at May 09, 2020 12:38 PM (4tEsR)

129 Barber shop opened yesterday. I'm getting my hair cut at 2:15 today. I never thought I'd being looking forward to a haircut this much.

Posted by: Aviator at May 09, 2020 12:38 PM (0FTCx)

130 Looks like we are going to see another massive Vigilantes Against Vigilantism revival this year.

Just what we need. What perfect timing for the communists in our midst.

No one ever said Satan is stupid.

Posted by: Denny Crane! at May 09, 2020 12:38 PM (gJ9O0)

131 Epoch Times will premier their new documentary, "The Pandemic's Wall Street Connection," tomorrow night. Should be interesting.
Posted by: IrishEi at May 09, 2020 12:33 PM (sGotD)

Yeah, for the past week or so their video content has been looking like they're treading water. Not saying there's anything wrong with that, you have to produce content, but there's only so many times I'm going to watch an hour long video about how the Chinese commies are evil rotten scum, and this virus business is their fault.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 09, 2020 12:38 PM (hku12)

132 imo even lying Adam Schiff will not be scorned by most of the left ... such lies are brave, valorous, in the service of the commie overthrow of America. Hillary led The Resistance ... the subversion of America as founded, via sedition at our very core, against a duly elected president.

War is Deception, especially in our times of propaganda warfare (grey zone, 5th generation, whatever). So the greatest deceivers are praised, by those on team Communism R Us. The silencing of Truth via Google and the rest, is part of their battle plan.

BUT not all are on team Commie, so a Great Awakening of the middle needs to occur, and soon. PlanDemic would seem to be their new battleground, a blitzkrieg of incredible success already ... WAR .. yet most snooze and hope for another $1200 check. tick tock.

Posted by: illiniwek at May 09, 2020 12:40 PM (Cus5s)

133 OB, this is a fantastic post and I've bookmarked for future reference and reading..

*fist bump*

Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at May 09, 2020 12:40 PM (+ldAm)

134 Heck, I want to go to the dentist.

(Apologies for any insult to NGU)

Posted by: Vendette at May 09, 2020 12:40 PM (6j2Bg)

135 Anyone who needs a haircut can sneak into Delaware. Their barber shops are open.
Posted by: kallisto at May 09, 2020 12:29 PM (k9lXi)

But then we'd be in Delaware.

Nobody wants that.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 09, 2020 12:40 PM (hku12)

136 Samson and Delilah

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 09, 2020 12:41 PM (PUmDY)

137 Apropos of chicken conversation in general, the Mike The Headless Chicken Festival in Fruita, CO, originally set for the end of May has been postponed indefinitely due to concerns about spread of the coronavirus.

Tens, maybe dozens of festival goers mildly disappointed or not, none reported to be suicidal.

http://www.miketheheadlesschicken.org/mike

Posted by: Muldoon at May 09, 2020 12:41 PM (Fc5rx)

138 Thanks vendette. Sent, From my nic, at the yahoo.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at May 09, 2020 12:42 PM (tUOCc)

139 "All hair problems are First World Problems."

-- J. Gutts

Posted by: Dr. Varno at May 09, 2020 12:42 PM (vuisn)

140 If you don't want to be shot, don't come to our borders.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrA9rcF49LY

Posted by: Braenyard at May 09, 2020 12:42 PM (9/7t+)

141 Heck, I want to go to the dentist.

(Apologies for any insult to NGU)
Posted by: Vendette at May 09, 2020 12:40 PM (6j2Bg)

Non taken....lol

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 09, 2020 12:42 PM (85Gof)

142 In honor of Little Richard, I think I'll have to watch Catalina Caper, via MST 3k, of course. One of my favorite episodes. Also the first one I ever watched.

Oh Creepy Girl! *sigh*

Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 09, 2020 12:42 PM (x8Wzq)

143 Obviously not dragged across the field of broken glass enough ...

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 09, 2020 12:44 PM (1WlyI)

144 guess I could think in terms of guns.... if Heidi cuts my hair...huh.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at May 09, 2020 12:38 PM (4tEsR)

Guns, yes. No. More. Ukuleles.

Posted by: Heidi-Bob's next ukulele is his divorce ukulele at May 09, 2020 12:45 PM (4tEsR)

145 Rev and his gang of coup plotters have been meeting for two hours. I'm hoping for bloodshed.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 09, 2020 12:46 PM (lwiT4)

146 The best chicken dance was in the finale of Herzog's Stroszekhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcoqeNdMAfA

Posted by: Jason in KT at May 09, 2020 12:46 PM (4d2Vg)

147 BUT not all are on team Commie, so a Great Awakening of the middle needs to occur, and soon. PlanDemic would seem to be their new battleground, a blitzkrieg of incredible success already ... WAR .. yet most snooze and hope for another $1200 check. tick tock.
Posted by: illiniwek at May 09, 2020 12:40 PM (Cus5s)

I'm at the point where I believe nothing short of a division of the country is going to solve all this.

I don't know how we do it though. And it might take an actual, you know, war. Which is a really dangerous thing to do in these times.

But I heard audio of a disagreement in a city council meeting somewhere, nowhere. This black woman was calling a white guy a fag and all sorts of other things, and all he could do was ask of his fellow councilors, are we going to tolerate this?

Of course they did.

There will be canings in legislatures, fistfights, maybe even gunplay. It has to happen. No way it can't/won't.

And those straights in the middle? They'll be shocked, shocked! Why, how could you, why would you. I have my soaps to watch, Netflunks has a new show on drag queens and bestiality. Look at those drug addicts there on the teevee, acting like savages. Now, where are my prescription pills.....

Posted by: BurtTC at May 09, 2020 12:47 PM (hku12)

148 I have earned several "pull it, sir" prizes. Let me be clear; there were too many to count.

Posted by: Barry O. at May 09, 2020 12:48 PM (P1f+c)

149 RUSSIA! went mostly with military flyovers today for Victory Day, no parades far as I could see. Some ceremonies. Info says parades are "postponed". ????

In any case, still lots of good WWII documentary features and interviews on TV. Lots of public service advisories on the bug.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 09, 2020 12:49 PM (El6T/)

150 Rev and his gang of coup plotters have been meeting for two hours. I'm hoping for bloodshed.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 09, 2020 12:46 PM (lwiT4)

Ah, church politics. Always entertaining.

Posted by: Vendette at May 09, 2020 12:52 PM (6j2Bg)

151 You never hear the pullet.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 09, 2020 12:52 PM (oVJmc)

152 Just got back from a short walk, where I got to meet six new neighbor chickens!

Posted by: Emmie at May 09, 2020 12:53 PM (ouBhA)

153 I posted this earlier, but on beef (and all food) the same problem of multi-national conglomerates controlling food chains (or every damn thing) ... is a problem. Capitalism is a lot of competition, but when a few gain control of important segments of the chain, they gain control based only on their bottom line ... which as with China, meant importing a lot of junk, selling out middle America enterprise.

My small town butcher brings the local cow in and processes it, sells it in the same building. But WalMart hamburger could have foreign beef, which may bypass many safety standards (as we know China does with fish/shrimp, or any item they produce). We see WallStreet corrupting the whole process, and half of it is done by bribing our government into submission.

cattle man explains

https://youtu.be/m8ioFjN7viY?t=1877

Posted by: illiniwek at May 09, 2020 12:55 PM (Cus5s)

154 Okay... I know I shouldn't go to Drudge but I wanted to see how he handled the Flynn stuff... WTF is all this hysteria over this shooting in Georgia ?... It pushed his China flu hysteria right out...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 09, 2020 12:55 PM (Zmnko)

155 take some comfort from remembering that journalist Julius Streicher was hung at Nuremburg.�
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 09, 2020 12:08 PM (+y/Ru)�

"hanged", please.�I�was hung.

Posted by: zombie John Holmes at May 09, 2020 12:11 PM (LZcDP)

*******

What he said...

Posted by: Peter North at May 09, 2020 12:55 PM (flINI)

156 And those straights in the middle? They'll be shocked, shocked!

Yep. Because they simply do not want to know.

The world is an ugly place - and they're bound and determined to believe it's something else.

Posted by: Just How Things Are at May 09, 2020 12:55 PM (2DYky)

157 One final time, in memoriam:�
Q) What did Siegfried and the Tiger have in Common?�
A) They both knew what Roy tasted like!�
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 09, 2020 12:19 PM (trdmm)�

They were gay? Ha. Color me as the last one to know

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 09, 2020 12:20 PM (85Gof)

********

Next you'll be telling me that Liberace was ghey... I don't believe it.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at May 09, 2020 12:58 PM (flINI)

158 Did someone ask about Polish butter-churning maidens?

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 09, 2020 12:59 PM (u82oZ)

159 I would die 4 u is great.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 09, 2020 01:00 PM (PUmDY)

160 Defund Columbia University.
No grants.
No federal jobs for their graduates. .
No federal loans for tuition.
No federal funds for scholarships
No explanation.
When asked, explain there is a glitch in the computer model and Mr. H. Olodomor in the office will have it cleared up in 1619 days.

Posted by: Downcast at May 09, 2020 01:00 PM (xgpfE)

161 No. More. Ukuleles.
Posted by: Heidi-Bob's next ukulele is his divorce ukulele

Awww. now what if Mrs. BB King had taken that attitude ?

Posted by: JT at May 09, 2020 01:01 PM (arJlL)

162 Did Hillary Clinton really say she is the only thing standing between us and the apocalypse?

If so, is it possible that Wuhan was quite possibly coordinated between commies here and commies there?

Posted by: The Ancient Aliens and Oak Island Narrator at May 09, 2020 01:02 PM (gJ9O0)

163 Donna, I understand the Georgia shooting has been waiting in the wings to be presented as the next attack on Trump.

Trump causes racism, you see.

Posted by: Emmie at May 09, 2020 01:03 PM (ouBhA)

164 If a man can't get a new ukulele when it pleases him, then the terrorists have already won.

Posted by: Just How Things Are at May 09, 2020 01:03 PM (2DYky)

165 Big shortage at the Commissary and signs one per family
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 09, 2020 12:13 PM (85Gof)

So that's the Class VI store gallon section?

Posted by: Sooner at May 09, 2020 01:04 PM (Fs5vw)

166 My name is Prince rocks.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 09, 2020 01:05 PM (PUmDY)

167 Awww. now what if Mrs. BB King had taken that attitude ?
Posted by: JT at May 09, 2020 01:01 PM (arJlL)

Apparently, she did as I don't see any records of BB King owning multiple ukuleles

Posted by: Heidi-Bob's next ukulele is his divorce ukulele at May 09, 2020 01:06 PM (4tEsR)

168 163 Donna, I understand the Georgia shooting has been waiting in the wings to be presented as the next attack on Trump.

Trump causes racism, you see.

You're right.. Yahoo. news has two headlines insinuating just that

Posted by: It's me donna at May 09, 2020 01:06 PM (Zmnko)

169 I just have to say,

If ANYONE EVER deserved the Ghana Dancing Funeral?

It would be Little Richard.

I would say Rest in Peace? But I doubt he's enjoy that.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 09, 2020 01:07 PM (NgKpN)

170 In honor of Little Richard, I give you the Bangles

https://youtu.be/HvnV2jFeWNQ

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 09, 2020 01:07 PM (KZzsI)

171 The only thing more beautiful than the muslim call to prayer is a well played ukulele.

Posted by: Stumbles Obumblefvck at May 09, 2020 01:08 PM (2DYky)

172 all meat is being diverted to blue elite enclaves because they are corrupt, and the inner-city ghettos because they riot.

There will be no meat for the middle class. It's another way to you rode support soft and resistance and destroy that which they despise.

Posted by: Pendulating Richard at May 09, 2020 01:08 PM (L6sxK)

173 167
Awww. now what if Mrs. BB King had taken that attitude ?

Posted by: JT at May 09, 2020 01:01 PM (arJlL)

Apparently, she did as I don't see any records of BB King owning multiple ukuleles

i didn't know ukuleles had to be registered. now i'm wondering if i can get them bayonet mounts and things that go up.

Posted by: Anachronda at May 09, 2020 01:09 PM (kf5Ci)

174 160 Defund Columbia University.

Should have been done 50 years ago.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at May 09, 2020 01:10 PM (H8QX8)

175
My hair has not been this long in 13 years
Posted by: Nevergiveup

It's 1968 all over again

Gimme a head with hair
Long, beautiful hair
Shining, gleaming
Streaming, flaxen, waxen

Give me down to there
Shoulder length or longer (Hair!)
Here baby, there mama
Everywhere daddy daddy

Hair, hair, hair, hair
Grow it, show it
Long as I can grow it
My hair

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 09, 2020 01:11 PM (aKsyK)

176 Gaylord Merkin Focker the Wurst says the DoJ dropping of the Flynn case is a threat to law and order.

https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=99379

Dude, you need to be sent to Gitmo and waterboarded for twenty years because you and your traitorous lackeys are the true threat to law and order.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 09, 2020 01:11 PM (1WlyI)

177 The only thing more beautiful than the muslim call to prayer is a well played ukulele.

Oddly, sometimes I can't tell the difference

Posted by: Heidi-Bob's next ukulele is his divorce ukulele at May 09, 2020 01:11 PM (4tEsR)

178 Just came from the store.
I refused to stand on the X's.
I told the manager I've see all the roadrunner cartoons.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 09, 2020 01:11 PM (axyOa)

179 It's 1968 all over again

Woodstock happened during the Hong Kong Flu pandemic, so yeah.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 09, 2020 01:12 PM (KZzsI)

180 172 all meat is being diverted to blue elite enclaves because they are corrupt, and the inner-city ghettos because they riot.

There will be no meat for the middle class. It's another way to you rode support soft and resistance and destroy that which they despise.
Posted by: Pendulating Richard at May 09, 2020 01:08 PM (L6sxK)

We have plenty of meat for everybody here in OKC. Maybe you need to get out of the blue and into the red.

Posted by: Sooner at May 09, 2020 01:13 PM (Fs5vw)

181 146 The best chicken dance was in the finale of Herzog's Stroszek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcoqeNdMAfA
Posted by: Jason in KT at May 09, 2020 12:46 PM (4d2Vg)
---
How have I not seen this movie?

From Roger Ebert's review of Herzog's Stroszek:

Many movies end with hopeless characters turning to crime. No movie ends like "Stroszek." Bruno and Mr. Scheitz take a rifle and go to rob the bank, which is closed, so they rob the barber shop next door of $32 and, leaving their car running, walk directly across the street to a supermarket, where Bruno has time to pick up a frozen turkey before the cops arrest Mr. Scheitz. Bruno then drives to a nearby amusement arcade, where he feeds in quarters to make chickens dance and play the piano. Then he boards a ski lift to go around and around and around.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 09, 2020 01:13 PM (Dc2NZ)

182 Speaking of pullets, I doubt anyone at the NYT's knows what that is, let alone ever seen one. Smart, big city folks know everything anyway.

Posted by: colin at May 09, 2020 01:13 PM (1BIQV)

183 I don't see how the political atmosphere could be any more poisonous, but... I've thought that before, & then it got worse.

Certainly today marks the nadir TO DATE, anyway.

Posted by: mnw at May 09, 2020 01:14 PM (Cssks)

184 If there really does get to be a food shortage problem as it looks highly likely, and there's proof food is being diverted to wealthy blue areas... yeah that might be the final straw for a lot of people.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 09, 2020 01:14 PM (KZzsI)

185 Oh, in sixteen nineteen

We took a little trip

Along with Cap'n Ahab

On his mighty sailing ship

We brought along some shackles

And we brought along some locks

And we beat the bloody Pilgrims

To the town of Plymouth Rock

Posted by: Muldoon at May 09, 2020 12:17 PM (Fc5rx)
=====Oh, Dear Heavens-to-Betsy.One of the funniest you have ever done. My ribs hurt.

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 09, 2020 01:14 PM (MIKMs)

186 Gaylord Merkin Focker the Wurst says the DoJ dropping of the Flynn case is a threat to law and order.

https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=99379

Dude, you need to be sent to Gitmo and waterboarded for twenty years because you and your traitorous lackeys are the true threat to law and order.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 09, 2020 01:11 PM (1WlyI)

Bobama coming out of the woodwork to chime in on the Flynn case... I can't think of any better evidence that they're in trouble.

The usual suspects have run around the media, yipping like tiny dogs, and now they see some of them might actually be charged with crimes, maybe even sent to prison... "Hey, Barak, get out there, the idiots will listen to you. If we go down, YOU go down."

Posted by: BurtTC at May 09, 2020 01:16 PM (hku12)

187 Everyone who hasn't seen the Jim Jordan Federalist article: You should.

https://preview.tinyurl.com/y8lnxnmv

Posted by: m at May 09, 2020 01:17 PM (3Geud)

188 Little Richard is dead?

Good Golly Miss Molly!

Rest in Peace Little Man.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 09, 2020 01:17 PM (Z+IKu)

189 Is there supposed to be an actual article in that Jim Jordan sidebar link? All I get is a headline and no obvious place to click for the whole thing.

I'm getting crotchety in my dotage. A site that isn't straightforward and easy to use gets removed immediately. There's way too much chicanery on most of them.

Posted by: creeper at May 09, 2020 01:18 PM (XxJt1)

190 Just came from the store.
I refused to stand on the X's.
I told the manager I've see all the roadrunner cartoons.
Posted by: Diogenes

I may have to borrow that, if you don't mind.

My grocery has squares, though. Nuts.

But once things start opening up, I'll probably see X's somewhere.

Posted by: mikeski at May 09, 2020 01:18 PM (P1f+c)

191 This woman is as criminal as they come...

@realDSteinberg

Yet another @IlhanMN campaign finance problem:

@IlhanMN posted this tweet on Tuesday, then deleted it at some point after it received this reply.

https://tinyurl.com/ycgx2kkq

Posted by: Tami at May 09, 2020 01:18 PM (cF8AT)

192
Gaylord Merkin Focker the Wurst says the DoJ dropping of the Flynn case is a threat to law and order.

https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=99379

=======

I just saw Michael Isikoff being interviewed about that. I absolutely don't see how that guy isn't rethinking this story by now. He was tricked into publishing news about the dossier and later stated it was mostly false -- and he's still on their team?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 09, 2020 01:19 PM (G51Gf)

193 All meat and non vegetable protein sources will be diverted from red zones to blue zones.

You will be reduced to sucking on kidney beans for your protein.

Then, those two will mysteriously become short in supply.

Then, hobos and the homeless will be absent. Then you'll be reduced to eating the neighbors dogs who never shut up and you wish you'd eaten them sooner.

Then, you'll be eating the neighbors. Except for that really cute 19 year old Thai girl. She will be preserved as waitress and dinner companion. But otherwise the neighbors will be gone.

Then, what will you do what will you do?

Will you have the strength of will to do what must be done? Will you storm the blue zones and eat them?

Harden your hearts gird your loins and buy ammo now!

Posted by: Pendulating Richard at May 09, 2020 01:19 PM (L6sxK)

194 and he's still on their team?

Because he wants to believe.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 09, 2020 01:20 PM (1WlyI)

195
Gaylord Merkin Focker the Wurst says the DoJ dropping of the Flynn case is a threat to law and order.

https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=99379

========

Gaylord also misstated the supposed offense. He said "perjury" when it's actually making false statements to the FBI.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 09, 2020 01:20 PM (G51Gf)

196 The usual suspects have run around the media, yipping like tiny dogs, and now they see some of them might actually be charged with crimes, maybe even sent to prison... "Hey, Barak, get out there, the idiots will listen to you. If we go down, YOU go down."
Posted by: BurtTC

I agree, I think this is starting to spin out of their control.

Posted by: Infidel at May 09, 2020 01:21 PM (nvc6v)

197 creeper, emphasis on the work pithy.

Posted by: Infidel at May 09, 2020 01:21 PM (nvc6v)

198 Gaylord has misstated his whole life, much like Joey Bidet stealing Neil Kinook's life.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 09, 2020 01:21 PM (1WlyI)

199 Youngest kidlet yelled out of her gaming cave that Little Richard died. I yelled back disbelief and said something about he must have been 90 (if true) and I didn't believe it -- because he had died years earlier.

True.

My final yellback was that we had to get to Walgreens and buy eyeliner in honor of an icon of rock 'n roll.

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 09, 2020 01:22 PM (MIKMs)

200 189 Is there supposed to be an actual article in that Jim Jordan sidebar link? All I get is a headline and no obvious place to click for the whole thing.

I'm getting crotchety in my dotage. A site that isn't straightforward and easy to use gets removed immediately. There's way too much chicanery on most of them.
Posted by: creeper at May 09, 2020 01:18 PM (XxJt1)

The headline (in red) is followed by a dateline (MAY 8, 2020 By Jim Jordan), and the article is located just below that.

Posted by: m at May 09, 2020 01:22 PM (3Geud)

201 Looks like BoJo really is the caliber he seemed, will keep aiming his kamikaze plane for - well, actually the target's not clear, that's the point - saying UK lockdown is "working" so let's continue it. As the absurdity of the model used for all of this, including how bad the "fixed" version is, becomes more of a scandal. And, apparently, people begin to defy the nonsense in the nice spring weather.

UK's a lost cause already, maybe it will be a "victory" if Johnson doesn't literally adopt some measure out of "1984" to enforce his science-free stupidity.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 09, 2020 01:22 PM (El6T/)

202 Gardenia thread is open

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 09, 2020 01:23 PM (KZzsI)

203 I saw this go by on twitter the other day and just thought it was a joke by someone. Nope...it's real and available on Amazon!

https://tinyurl.com/y9ng4zwq

Posted by: Tami at May 09, 2020 01:23 PM (cF8AT)

204 It's my time
I got one more bullet in my gun
And I can't run
Till the deal is done
I got one more bullet in my gun
And I won't run
Till the deal is done
One more, one more, one more, one more...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 09, 2020 01:23 PM (Z+IKu)

205 Infidel, that's cryptic enough without a typo. Did you mean "work" or "word"?

Posted by: creeper at May 09, 2020 01:24 PM (XxJt1)

206 Riverside County dropping baseless and stupid mask requirement, and a few other things. Pathetic jello-based San Diego mayor begs Sacramento for flexibility.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 09, 2020 01:25 PM (El6T/)

207 154....

As I commented yesterday, the GA shooting is the definition of a local story being pimped by all the usual suspects. Problem for the race hustling filth is, most people could give two shits. They've pushed this story hard (apparently...I don't watch TV news, or read Marxist websites), but no one is talking about this except them.

Posted by: PacosMojo at May 09, 2020 01:25 PM (rNrZw)

208 Nikole Hannah-Jones won a Pulitzer Prize on Monday for an essay the New York Times corrected substantially after an array of respected academics disputed its grasp on history.

Ghetto scholarship. You can't beat it.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 09, 2020 01:26 PM (pmpob)

209 It will be released on June 16th, assuming Joey Bidet's lawyers don't stop it. Though they may let it go to publish reasoning that 'any media exposure is good at this point.'

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 09, 2020 01:26 PM (1WlyI)

210 Is "We were right about everything" the entire article? Because that's all I see.

Posted by: creeper at May 09, 2020 01:26 PM (XxJt1)

211 201...

Boris Johnson is the UK equivalent of Chris Christie: A loud mouthed fraud.

Posted by: PacosMojo at May 09, 2020 01:27 PM (rNrZw)

212 https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=99379

Dude, you need to be sent to Gitmo and waterboarded for twenty years because you and your traitorous lackeys are the true threat to law and order.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 09, 2020 01:11 PM (1WlyI)

Jonathan Turley responds
>>>
It's unrolled so you don't have to go to twitter:

https://tinyurl.com/y8mdx4yg

Posted by: Tami at May 09, 2020 09:06 AM (cF8AT)

Posted by: Braenyard at May 09, 2020 01:27 PM (9/7t+)

213 creeper, yes, word. The article is a one-liner.

Posted by: Infidel at May 09, 2020 01:27 PM (nvc6v)

214 Okay. Infidel meant "word" and yeah, that's pithier than a new Open Thread announcement here.

Posted by: creeper at May 09, 2020 01:28 PM (XxJt1)

215 Gaylord also misstated the supposed offense. He said "perjury" when it's actually making false statements to the FBI.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 09, 2020 01:20 PM (G51Gf)

And now you know why the lawyers at Sidley Austin only gave him responsibility for fetching the danishes for the coffee room.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 09, 2020 01:28 PM (pmpob)

216 206 Riverside County dropping baseless and stupid mask requirement, and a few other things. Pathetic jello-based San Diego mayor begs Sacramento for flexibility.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 09, 2020 01:25 PM (El6T/)

#1 son worked on Faulconer's campaign. Faulconer's been such a disappointment.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 09, 2020 01:30 PM (pmpob)

217
Bobama coming out of the woodwork to chime in on the Flynn case... I can't think of any better evidence that they're in trouble.

The usual suspects have run around the media, yipping like tiny dogs, and now they see some of them might actually be charged with crimes, maybe even sent to prison... "Hey, Barak, get out there, the idiots will listen to you. If we go down, YOU go down."
Posted by: BurtTC

==========

Gotta be crazy in those circles now. They don't know exactly what Durham has, but they know he's got something. Dropping charges against Flynn plus Trump's tough talk shows Trump and Barr are serious. I wouldn't be surprised if Obama had gotten a hint of a threat. Come out and say something or we'll have no responsibility for this coming train wreck.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 09, 2020 01:31 PM (G51Gf)

218 188 Little Richard is dead?

Good Golly Miss Molly!

Rest in Peace Little Man.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 09, 2020 01:17 PM (Z+IKu)

Nowadays he'd have styled himself as "Lil" Richard.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 09, 2020 01:32 PM (pmpob)

219
And now you know why the lawyers at Sidley Austin only gave him responsibility for fetching the danishes for the coffee room.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

=========

A zero at every stage of his education and career. Terrifying.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 09, 2020 01:34 PM (G51Gf)

220 Boris Johnson is the UK equivalent of Chris Christie: A loud mouthed fraud.
Posted by: PacosMojo

Perhaps.

He was about the best that could be hoped for.

In the final analysis, the UK is circling the drain. When rapes by "South Asian Muslims" of young white girls go unpunished, and it's a hate crime to speak critically of that practice, you know this country is going to into the crapper.

What emerges after that will be something rather unpleasant.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at May 09, 2020 01:36 PM (ZCiJZ)

221 Boris Johnson is the UK equivalent of Chris Christie: A loud mouthed fraud.
Posted by: PacosMojo at May 09, 2020 01:27 PM (rNrZw)

All I know about what's happening in that God forsaken land is what PJ Watson tells me.

Everyone is SUPPOSED to go outside on Thursday evenings and clap for the NHS. If that isn't some freakish Orwellian nightmare, I don't know what is.

But then, where I used to live less than a year ago, St. Louis County, MO, the residents are turning in their employers and neighbors for not practicing self-inprisonment, as mandated by the Lord of the County.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 09, 2020 01:36 PM (hku12)

222 Burt, where did you move to?

Posted by: Tami at May 09, 2020 01:39 PM (cF8AT)

223 Gotta be crazy in those circles now. They don't know exactly what Durham has, but they know he's got something. Dropping charges against Flynn plus Trump's tough talk shows Trump and Barr are serious. I wouldn't be surprised if Obama had gotten a hint of a threat. Come out and say something or we'll have no responsibility for this coming train wreck.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 09, 2020 01:31 PM (G51Gf)

My working hypothesis for more than a decade has been that Obama is not all that bright, and never was terribly interested in any of this stuff. So that meeting that he attended, the info that was revealed this past week, it reads like he was directing things.

Bullshite. He was there. But so were all the usual suspects, and they discussed how to proceed. I can picture Barak in the room, while Susan and James and James and Valerie and Sally and the rest gave the orders, and Barak... well, Barak had that stern look on his face, nodding his head on occasion, and when all was decided, they know how to ask him, "Mr. President, what do you think?"

And Barak would say "sounds good, let's do it."

After which Susan goes off and composes her own email to herself, knowing she's "protected" because now Barak is implicated in all.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 09, 2020 01:41 PM (hku12)

224 I think at some point Jonathan Turley is just going to "walk away" from the Democrat Party without telling people at the law school he teaches at that. He's a decent man; He shouldn't be supporting these clowns, crooks and creeps.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 09, 2020 01:41 PM (bW1Yb)

225 Burt, where did you move to?
Posted by: Tami at May 09, 2020 01:39 PM (cF8AT)

Colorado. Not the bad part.

Purple mountains and all that stuff. Above the fruited plain.

And tens of China Wuwu virus cases... OH MY!

Posted by: BurtTC at May 09, 2020 01:44 PM (hku12)

226 A zero at every stage of his education and career. Terrifying.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 09, 2020 01:34 PM (G51Gf)

Smartest President EVAH! At least between 2009 and 2016.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 09, 2020 01:45 PM (DXT9A)

227 154 Okay... I know I shouldn't go to Drudge but I wanted to see how he handled the Flynn stuff... WTF is all this hysteria over this shooting in Georgia ?... It pushed his China flu hysteria right out...
Posted by: It's me donna at May 09, 2020 12:55 PM (Zmnko)

This means that we're no longer in virus lockdown. I was wrong by a few days (I said 1 May 2020), but this thing is basically over.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 09, 2020 01:46 PM (iuFgi)

228 CA-25 special next Tuesday:

(to fill the Katie ("Throuple") Hill vacancy)

Looks like a 6-month rental if the R wins on Tuesday. Gavin Newsome has just made sure of that.

Posted by: mnw at May 09, 2020 01:46 PM (Cssks)

229 My working hypothesis for more than a decade has been that Obama is not all that bright, and never was terribly interested in any of this stuff.

My conjecture as well. I think he was just a figurehead, an actor playing a role.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 09, 2020 01:46 PM (DXT9A)

230 RIP, Little Richard.

I know some interesting facts about him. First off, something I'm sure most people have suspected or at least wondered about, just based on how he dressed and acted... yes, he was very gay. He loved the cock!

He was "discovered", in the entertainment industry sense, performing in a gay bar. His biggest hit, Tutti Frutti, had to be "cleaned up" a lot for the radio.

The version we've all heard was about all the girls he was dating, but the original was about dudes. So, it was probably Davey and not Daisy who almost drove him crazy.

You know how he follows up "tutti frutti" with "oh, Rudy"? Well, the original version of that line was "loose booty".

It makes sense, too; after all, what does tutti frutti actually mean? "All the fruits". You see? You see?

I also suspect that there was a lot of improvisation and audience participation in his live performances of the original gay version of Tutti Frutti, based on its strong lyrical similarities to this song...

https://youtu.be/IaZ79TE7_8c

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at May 09, 2020 01:46 PM (H3MF8)

231 Yet another @IlhanMN campaign finance problem:

@IlhanMN posted this tweet on Tuesday, then deleted it at some point after it received this reply.

https://tinyurl.com/ycgx2kkq

Posted by: Tami at May 09, 2020 01:18 PM (cF8AT)

It's "The Human Fund"

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 09, 2020 01:46 PM (HfUpr)

232 And tens of China Wuwu virus cases... OH MY!
Posted by: BurtTC at

GJ?

Posted by: Infidel at May 09, 2020 01:47 PM (nvc6v)

233 201 Looks like BoJo really is the caliber he seemed, will keep aiming his kamikaze plane for - well, actually the target's not clear, that's the point - saying UK lockdown is "working" so let's continue it. As the absurdity of the model used for all of this, including how bad the "fixed" version is, becomes more of a scandal. And, apparently, people begin to defy the nonsense in the nice spring weather.

UK's a lost cause already, maybe it will be a "victory" if Johnson doesn't literally adopt some measure out of "1984" to enforce his science-free stupidity.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 09, 2020 01:22 PM (El6T/)

Never completely discount what a politician's critics think of them, especially if they're on the other side. They tend to see things that we don't.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 09, 2020 01:49 PM (iuFgi)

234 Colorado. Not the bad part.

Purple mountains and all that stuff. Above the fruited plain.

And tens of China Wuwu virus cases... OH MY!
Posted by: BurtTC at May 09, 2020 01:44 PM (hku12)

Oh wow! Any particular reason you chose there or did you just like it?

Posted by: Tami at May 09, 2020 01:49 PM (cF8AT)

235 221 Boris Johnson is the UK equivalent of Chris Christie: A loud mouthed fraud.
Posted by: PacosMojo at May 09, 2020 01:27 PM (rNrZw)

My comment at 233 was directed more at the above comment than Rhomboid's, which I think amplifies my point.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 09, 2020 01:51 PM (iuFgi)

236 It's "The Human Fund"

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 09, 2020 01:46 PM (HfUpr)

LOL!

Posted by: Tami at May 09, 2020 01:52 PM (cF8AT)

237 Well today is a success, managed to do some writing. Now have to go to work.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 09, 2020 01:52 PM (1WlyI)

238 And tens of China Wuwu virus cases... OH MY!
Posted by: BurtTC at

GJ?
Posted by: Infidel at May 09, 2020 01:47 PM (nvc6v)

At this point I only get as specific as saying not the front range.

I may be paranoid, but I'm not going to reveal any info that might pin me down, and have me before a licensing board or other entity, asking me to explain what I meant when I said...[any random post here on AoSHQ].

Posted by: BurtTC at May 09, 2020 01:52 PM (hku12)

239 So the attack in Georgia happened two months ago, but we're just getting it now-at the time the Flynn criminality is being revelaled Hmmm What an amazing coincidence! And we get a picture of the smiling jogger in his prom outfit. Of course we do. Even if the guy was robbing houses the dumb a** father and son should have called LE if they suspected him-not attacked him themselves.
However, I'm not sure all things add up here.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 09, 2020 01:53 PM (bW1Yb)

240 Been in a Bollywood mood lately.

Here is DJT celebrating (which is great fun):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzXsQzM_h2E

Here is the Bollywood original, which I like a tad better:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUH9jD__qHY

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 09, 2020 01:54 PM (u82oZ)

241 Heh, totally understand. I'm getting the same way. If they demand contact tracing, well, there goes the phone.

Posted by: Infidel at May 09, 2020 01:55 PM (nvc6v)

242 Colorado. Not the bad part.

Purple mountains and all that stuff. Above the fruited plain.

And tens of China Wuwu virus cases... OH MY!
Posted by: BurtTC at May 09, 2020 01:44 PM (hku12)

Oh wow! Any particular reason you chose there or did you just like it?
Posted by: Tami at May 09, 2020 01:49 PM (cF8AT)

I had several options, and this is where I wanted to be.

I love my peeps back home, and I'll be darned if I don't feel some twinge of nostalgia for that crazy metro area, but this was one of the best decisions I ever made in my life.

One that I had been a dream since the first time I visited decades ago.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 09, 2020 01:57 PM (hku12)

243 Tami and Braenyard, thanks for linking Turley. Everyone should read that thing of his. He's an example of what was not uncommon at all inside the Beltway, not all that long ago. Just substantively serious and fair-minded, not a shallow vicious hack.

Devastating, and nicely highlights what a dim bulb mediocrity Obama is - but anyone with a clue knew that from the first time they were exposed to him.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 09, 2020 02:00 PM (El6T/)

244
My working hypothesis for more than a decade has been that Obama is not all that bright, and never was terribly interested in any of this stuff.

My conjecture as well. I think he was just a figurehead, an actor playing a role.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

========

Heartily agree. That picture of him in the situation room during the Bin Laden raid. A bystander.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 09, 2020 02:01 PM (G51Gf)

245 Heh, totally understand. I'm getting the same way. If they demand contact tracing, well, there goes the phone.
Posted by: Infidel at May 09, 2020 01:55 PM (nvc6v)

Since I had to start working mostly from home, I am using my own computer to connect to the company network. I don't THINK they can trace my actions on MY machine, when I'm not inside THEIR network, but... I do get to wondering.

As for phones, I've got one of theirs, and I have my own, so I never ever ever do any personal stuff, including calls, on their device. As far as they would know, I'm the most boring person ever.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 09, 2020 02:02 PM (hku12)

246 My working hypothesis for more than a decade has been that Obama is not all that bright, and never was terribly interested in any of this stuff. So that meeting that he attended, the info that was revealed this past week, it reads like he was directing things.

Bullshite. He was there. But so were all the usual suspects, and they discussed how to proceed. I can picture Barak in the room, while Susan and James and James and Valerie and Sally and the rest gave the orders, and Barak... well, Barak had that stern look on his face, nodding his head on occasion, and when all was decided, they know how to ask him, "Mr. President, what do you think?"

And Barak would say "sounds good, let's do it."

After which Susan goes off and composes her own email to herself, knowing she's "protected" because now Barak is implicated in all.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 09, 2020 01:41 PM (hku12)
--------

Very Plausible. I call this the CYA phase of the operation. The spying on the Trump campaign was the sting phase.

Now why would Obama spy on Trump, the opposing partys campaign especially after Watergate?

Everyone rightly thinks they never thought Trump would win but I'll take it a step further:

I think they were planning on framing Trump, prosecute him, and send him to jail. Think about it, why go through all this trouble if they didn't think he had a prayer of winning.

Posted by: WisRich at May 09, 2020 02:02 PM (OAlmw)

247 My working hypothesis for more than a decade has been that Obama is not all that bright, and never was terribly interested in any of this stuff.
------------------------------
My conjecture as well. I think he was just a figurehead, an actor playing a role.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

========

Heartily agree. That picture of him in the situation room during the Bin Laden raid. A bystander.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 09, 2020 02:01 PM (G51Gf)

If anyone is interested, there's a quote out there, from ValJar, speaking of Barak's intellect, and how it keeps him from connecting on a personal level with people.. I can't remember exactly what she said, but as I read it, I realized, she's not talking about him. She's talking about herself!

Posted by: BurtTC at May 09, 2020 02:04 PM (hku12)

248 Current Dem governors remind me of Tipper Gore with the lyrics.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 09, 2020 02:04 PM (PUmDY)

249
MSNBC: Obama Blasts Trump Admin in Apparent Private Call

Holy cats, you're kidding me. Another fake leak?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 09, 2020 02:05 PM (G51Gf)

250 Posted by: BurtTC

Ditto.

Hmm, a bird with a curved thingy on its head just walked by the patio window. Didn't have my phone. Ready now if it walks by again. Never have seen one before.

Posted by: Infidel at May 09, 2020 02:05 PM (nvc6v)

251
If anyone is interested, there's a quote out there, from ValJar, speaking of Barak's intellect, and how it keeps him from connecting on a personal level with people.. I can't remember exactly what she said, but as I read it, I realized, she's not talking about him. She's talking about herself!
Posted by: BurtTC

========

I recall "He's been bored all his life" because he's so above every job and task he's ever been given. She got that half right. The fucker's bored all right -- he has no interest in actual work -- and he's high.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 09, 2020 02:07 PM (G51Gf)

252 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmHiu-r8zgU

My local Trader Joe's.

Posted by: LASue at May 09, 2020 02:07 PM (Ed8Zd)

253 If anyone is interested, there's a quote out there, from ValJar, speaking of Barak's intellect, and how it keeps him from connecting on a personal level with people.. I can't remember exactly what she said, but as I read it, I realized, she's not talking about him. She's talking about herself!
Posted by: BurtTC at May 09, 2020 02:04 PM (hku12)

And then there's the story, I forget who it was, someone fairly high up in the defense/intelligence chain, possibly even the Defense Sec, who was explaining what they had to do, to go around ValJar's back, to get Barak to give the ok to go get Bin Laden.

It's so telling, and yet I'm sure the story has been scrubbed and sanitized since. Probably out there somewhere on the fringes of the internet though.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 09, 2020 02:07 PM (hku12)

254 55 kallisto

Damn, that was funny. Thanks for the laugh.
It cracked me up.

Posted by: The Ancient Aliens and Oak Island Narrator at May 09, 2020 02:08 PM (gJ9O0)

255 Welcome to CO, BurtTC!

Posted by: Muldoon at May 09, 2020 02:08 PM (Fc5rx)

256 249
MSNBC: Obama Blasts Trump Admin in Apparent Private Call

Holy cats, you're kidding me. Another fake leak?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 09, 2020 02:05 PM (G51Gf)

I'm still waiting for more presidents to comment on Trump basically calling Obama a traitor in front of a live press corps, with no follow-up questions about that little bombshell.

This looks like their way of having Obama weigh in on that, but subtly. I think that this is the first time that any comment from Obama has been leaked. That Rashidi tape is still under lock and key, but this comment 'leaks'.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 09, 2020 02:08 PM (iuFgi)

257 My working hypothesis for more than a decade has been that Obama is not all that bright, and never was terribly interested in any of this stuff.
------------------------------
My conjecture as well. I think he was just a figurehead, an actor playing a role.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

========

Heartily agree. That picture of him in the situation room during the Bin Laden raid. A bystander.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 09, 2020 02:01 PM (G51Gf)

If anyone is interested, there's a quote out there, from ValJar, speaking of Barak's intellect, and how it keeps him from connecting on a personal level with people.. I can't remember exactly what she said, but as I read it, I realized, she's not talking about him. She's talking about herself!
Posted by: BurtTC at May 09, 2020 02:04 PM (hku12)

Yep, The "Pick One" president-
And he always picks the middle choice.

Posted by: LASue at May 09, 2020 02:09 PM (Ed8Zd)

258 MSNBC: Obama Blasts Trump Admin in Apparent Private Call

Holy cats, you're kidding me. Another fake leak?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 09, 2020 02:05 PM (G51Gf)

And of course he's President Jesus so his blasts are a big deal.

Posted by: Northernlurker at May 09, 2020 02:11 PM (Uu+Jp)

259 The Bin Laden raid, I wonder how long he had to "sleep on it".

Posted by: attilla the thrilla at May 09, 2020 02:13 PM (w7KSn)

260 Posted by: BurtTC at May 09, 2020 01:41 PM (hku12)
--------

Very Plausible. I call this the CYA phase of the operation. The spying on the Trump campaign was the sting phase.

Now why would Obama spy on Trump, the opposing partys campaign especially after Watergate?

Everyone rightly thinks they never thought Trump would win but I'll take it a step further:

I think they were planning on framing Trump, prosecute him, and send him to jail. Think about it, why go through all this trouble if they didn't think he had a prayer of winning.
Posted by: WisRich at May 09, 2020 02:02 PM (OAlmw)

If there is another shoe to drop, and certainly there is, it's the various international "deals" that have been done for decades, with the Chinese primarily, but also the Russians and the Saudis and Iranians... they know they are exposed, if anyone wants to dig into it. Which we might.

Also, whatever the domestic efforts are, including perhaps how a NY Times racist project is now fully being used to indoctrinate schoolkids all over the country... the list is too long to recite.

The straights know none of it, and it sounds insane, but it's all there to be revealed, if this administration has the energy to fight that fight.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 09, 2020 02:14 PM (hku12)

261 I think they were planning on framing Trump, prosecute him, and send him to jail. Think about it, why go through all this trouble if they didn't think he had a prayer of winning.
Posted by: WisRich at May 09, 2020 02:02 PM (OAlmw)

That's been my hypothesis since the first Rooki collusion allegations.

Posted by: Captain Hate at May 09, 2020 02:14 PM (y7DUB)

262 239 So the attack in Georgia happened two months ago, but we're just getting it now-at the time the Flynn criminality is being revelaled Hmmm What an amazing coincidence! And we get a picture of the smiling jogger in his prom outfit. Of course we do. Even if the guy was robbing houses the dumb a** father and son should have called LE if they suspected him-not attacked him themselves.
However, I'm not sure all things add up here.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 09, 2020 01:53 PM (bW1Yb)

Yes. The one thing that adds up is this being presented on the heels of Flynn's exoneration and the coming storm.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 09, 2020 02:15 PM (9/7t+)

263 @MichaelRCaputo

Just flagging this clear ethics violation for GOP members of the House Ethics Committee @RepKenMarchant @RepRatcliffe @RepHolding @RepMichaelGuest @RepWalorski and wondering if they'll do anything about it.

https://tinyurl.com/y979qroq

Screenshot of DM from Swallwell to Caputo.

Posted by: Tami at May 09, 2020 02:16 PM (cF8AT)

264 Welcome to CO, BurtTC!
Posted by: Muldoon at May 09, 2020 02:08 PM (Fc5rx)

Thanks! I'm looking forward to actually seeing it. Someday.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 09, 2020 02:16 PM (hku12)

265 261 I think they were planning on framing Trump, prosecute him, and send him to jail. Think about it, why go through all this trouble if they didn't think he had a prayer of winning.
Posted by: WisRich at May 09, 2020 02:02 PM (OAlmw)

That's been my hypothesis since the first Rooki collusion allegations.
Posted by: Captain Hate at May 09, 2020 02:14 PM (y7DUB)

This is why I believe that Trump is motivated to get his revenge, and he's not going to wait until the election to get it. He knows that if he loses, they are going after his family, and they won't stop until they are ruined.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 09, 2020 02:16 PM (iuFgi)

266 Little Richard > Prince

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 09, 2020 02:17 PM (Z+IKu)

267 It is like it is stock footage the Dems have.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 09, 2020 02:17 PM (PUmDY)

268 266, Prince was the shit.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 09, 2020 02:19 PM (PUmDY)

269 I had several options, and this is where I wanted to be.

I love my peeps back home, and I'll be darned if I don't feel some twinge of nostalgia for that crazy metro area, but this was one of the best decisions I ever made in my life.

One that I had been a dream since the first time I visited decades ago.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 09, 2020 01:57 PM (hku12)

Glad you're happy with your decision!

Posted by: Tami at May 09, 2020 02:19 PM (cF8AT)

270
I think they were planning on framing Trump, prosecute him, and send him to jail. Think about it, why go through all this trouble if they didn't think he had a prayer of winning.
Posted by: WisRich at May 09, 2020 02:02 PM (OAlmw)

That's been my hypothesis since the first Rooki collusion allegations.
Posted by: Captain Hate

======

Wow. I'd never gone that far. That's beyond terrifying. It's really not enough to just get convictions. We need full disclosures. Full confessions. Trump needs a separate czar for this part of it. Let Barr do the narrow yet thorough legal work, someone else do the public disclosure part. Assemble hostile press for a full-day seminar, live-stream it, whatever it takes. Something we've never done before.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 09, 2020 02:19 PM (G51Gf)

271 I think they were planning on framing Trump, prosecute him, and send him
to jail. Think about it, why go through all this trouble if they
didn't think he had a prayer of winning.
=====

Wis Rich - Yeah, sounds improbable, but then I remember this is IL politics and everyone ((R) or (D)) interfering with the 'narrative' is somehow embarrassed by leaks. Jabba the Pritz has 'tapes' just as old Blago does. My own current theory is that Michelle Robinson is more of a tool of ValJarJar than Barry Soetoro. Long-term connections, etc. However, Barack Obama is a much better front for this nonsense than the usual Ms Robinson.

I will bet my nickel that MicO (the most beautiful woman in the world) will be flown in like a dea ex machina in the Milwaukee Convention. (Did I do that Latin correctly?)

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 09, 2020 02:19 PM (MIKMs)

272 ========

Heartily agree. That picture of him in the situation room during the Bin Laden raid. A bystander.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 09, 2020 02:01 PM (G51Gf)

Very awkward.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 09, 2020 02:20 PM (9/7t+)

273 266 Little Richard > Prince
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 09, 2020 02:17 PM (Z+IKu)

...uh, no.

Posted by: Blind Hermit at May 09, 2020 02:20 PM (gD6Ka)

274 273 266 Little Richard > Prince
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 09, 2020 02:17 PM (Z+IKu)

...uh, no.
Posted by: Blind Hermit at May 09, 2020 02:20 PM (gD6Ka)

Heck, James Brown > Little Richard, and James flat out stole from the guy.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 09, 2020 02:22 PM (iuFgi)

275
I think that this is the first time that any comment from Obama has been leaked.

Posted by: Darrell Harris

========

Heh, except for "I'll have more flexibility after the election."

But yes, this was no leak -- but it's being publicized that way. That is verrrrry significant to me.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 09, 2020 02:22 PM (G51Gf)

276 >>If there is another shoe to drop, and certainly there is, it's the various international "deals" that have been done for decades, with the Chinese primarily, but also the Russians and the Saudis and Iranians... they know they are exposed, if anyone wants to dig into it. Which we might.

Some of it isn't really all that well hidden. In fact, some of it isn't hidden at all.

The money Hunter Biden got from the Chinese government was used to purchase US companies that included prohibited dual use technology. One of those companies, Henniges, makes anti-vibration technology that can be used in both commercial and military application.

That deal had to go through he same CFIUS process that the Uranium One deal had to go through and somehow it miraculously passed through the Obama administration. Anyone who wanted to unravel the gross abuses in the USAID and other international aid programs would have a field day. Tens of billions of US tax dollars disappearing into thin air. And it includes a lot of the same players we are seeing in the CCP virus.

We don't lack for evidence of corruption and I think Trump will get around to it after he exposes this scam.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 09, 2020 02:25 PM (ZLI7S)

277 Heh, except for "I'll have more flexibility after the election."

But yes, this was no leak -- but it's being publicized that way. That is verrrrry significant to me.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 09, 2020 02:22 PM (G51Gf)
--------

Fastest way to get talking points out to the Dem's and MSM.

Posted by: WisRich at May 09, 2020 02:25 PM (OAlmw)

278 240 Been in a Bollywood mood lately.

Here is DJT celebrating (which is great fun):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzXsQzM_h2E

Here is the Bollywood original, which I like a tad better:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUH9jD__qHY
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 09, 2020 01:54 PM (u82oZ)

I've been in a Bollywood mood too! I think Bollywood could really steal a march on Hollywood; Bollywood still focuses on story telling, spectacles, etc. - in short, entertainment - without the preachy leftist crap.

Another candidate: South Korean movies. Some of them are really good.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 09, 2020 02:26 PM (DXT9A)

279
I will bet my nickel that MicO (the most beautiful woman in the world) will be flown in like a dea ex machina in the Milwaukee Convention. (Did I do that Latin correctly?)
Posted by: mustbequantum

========

Really, when I saw "apparent leak" on MSNBC the smell of panic hit me like a wave.

We all know Michelle doesn't want the job, but this is so full of desperation that I wouldn't be surprised at this point. It wouldn't be that big a deal to her to get elected -- the usual gang would get behind the facade (Ben Rhodes, ValJar, Emmanuel Epstein, throw in some Hillary functionaries who want to wet their beaks on her behalf) and run the country should she get elected. That would be the Deal.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 09, 2020 02:26 PM (G51Gf)

280 So how come when a black guy kills an innocent white guy it's not national news? Racism works in other ways. For instance what the MFM reports.

Posted by: Case at May 09, 2020 02:30 PM (bdr8e)

281 We don't lack for evidence of corruption and I think Trump will get around to it after he exposes this scam.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 09, 2020 02:25 PM (ZLI7S)

He does a most excellent job of causing others to peal the onion.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 09, 2020 02:31 PM (9/7t+)

282 If there is another shoe to drop, and certainly there is, it's the various international "deals" that have been done for decades, with the Chinese primarily, but also the Russians and the Saudis and Iranians... they know they are exposed, if anyone wants to dig into it. Which we might.
--------------------------
Some of it isn't really all that well hidden. In fact, some of it isn't hidden at all.

The money Hunter Biden got from the Chinese government was used to purchase US companies that included prohibited dual use technology. One of those companies, Henniges, makes anti-vibration technology that can be used in both commercial and military application.

That deal had to go through he same CFIUS process that the Uranium One deal had to go through and somehow it miraculously passed through the Obama administration. Anyone who wanted to unravel the gross abuses in the USAID and other international aid programs would have a field day. Tens of billions of US tax dollars disappearing into thin air. And it includes a lot of the same players we are seeing in the CCP virus.

We don't lack for evidence of corruption and I think Trump will get around to it after he exposes this scam.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 09, 2020 02:25 PM (ZLI7S)

You're right. Much of this isn't hidden, and it doesn't have to be.

There's a unifying concept out there, of the concerted effort to keep some information from being more widely disseminated. It's a cabal, from government to nooz media to higher education to international conglomerates...

They control the narrative, and so even when there are things out there for people to see, not enough see it for it to create trouble for anyone on the inside.

Unless Trump's administration can get to them.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 09, 2020 02:33 PM (hku12)

283 >>We all know Michelle doesn't want the job, but this is so full of desperation that I wouldn't be surprised at this point. It wouldn't be that big a deal to her to get elected

It would take a miracle to get Big Mike elected. Not only does she have zero political experience, she has basically no work experience aside from her made up job at the U of Chicago hospital. And she is going to carry the stench of the corrupt Obama administration.

I don't think people realize yet Trump is going to lay waste to them. That's why Obama's phone call was "leaked". He's scared.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 09, 2020 02:33 PM (ZLI7S)

284 Prince cloud suit is cool as hell.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 09, 2020 02:34 PM (PUmDY)

285
omg you are effing kidding me. This MSNBC analyst is saying it's very surprising that this call leaked from OBama's team! Very unusual!

Some of them are so stupid they probably think it's a leak.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 09, 2020 02:34 PM (G51Gf)

286 A video of (pro-Trump) protesters opening up a beach in California

https://youtu.be/wN9wuQ5aUNg

Hat tip: The New Neo

Freedom.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 09, 2020 02:34 PM (iuFgi)

287 We all know Michelle doesn't want the job, but this is so full of desperation that I wouldn't be surprised at this point. It wouldn't be that big a deal to her to get elected -- the usual gang would get behind the facade (Ben Rhodes, ValJar, Emmanuel Epstein, throw in some Hillary functionaries who want to wet their beaks on her behalf) and run the country should she get elected. That would be the Deal.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 09, 2020 02:26 PM (G51Gf)

I think you're grossly overestimating how much shit the country is willing to swallow. Gaylord won against two thoroughly unlikeable and untrustworthy GOP tools. Honestly in retrospect I think the majority of the country was smarter than I was. That's not the current situation.

Posted by: Captain Hate at May 09, 2020 02:35 PM (y7DUB)

288 So how come when a black guy kills an innocent white guy it's not national news? Racism works in other ways. For instance what the MFM reports.
Posted by: Case at May 09, 2020 02:30 PM (bdr8e)

Just for fun, remove all racial, ethnic, and gender information from a news report and ask a liberal what he thinks.

I did that once with a liberal online, reporting a story about how three guys jumped a college student as he left a bar and beat him mercilessly.

The liberal immediately took the part of the thugs, saying that they were probably poor, oppressed, etc., and should be given clemency, and that the college student had privilege, etc.

Then I informed him that the three thugs were white, and the college student black.

Only liberals consider that sort of thing relevant. For my part, fry the three white thugs. Easy decision.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 09, 2020 02:35 PM (DXT9A)

289 Big Mike could make an exciting nomination speech.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 09, 2020 02:36 PM (9/7t+)

290 I am who you thought I was.

Posted by: Baracky O'Cracky at May 09, 2020 02:36 PM (EgshT)

291 Horses wonder who you are is a great lyric.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 09, 2020 02:36 PM (PUmDY)

292 We all know Michelle doesn't want the job
=====

As she coyly uses her fan base to signal and flirt that if she is courted enough, and given enough (carte blanche?), she will descend from the heavens and, like her consort, demonstrate to ignorant humankind her magic. /s

I don't gamble, but that scenario is so insistent that my nickle is darned near a gold double eagle.

My 5 cents.

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 09, 2020 02:37 PM (MIKMs)

293 286 A video of (pro-Trump) protesters opening up a beach in California

https://youtu.be/wN9wuQ5aUNg

Hat tip: The New Neo

Freedom.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 09, 2020 02:34 PM (iuFgi)

Beautiful!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 09, 2020 02:37 PM (DXT9A)

294 If the MSM had video as damning of a black guy shooting a white guy as those videos of that shooting in GA are, they'd run it.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 09, 2020 02:40 PM (9/7t+)

295 One that I had been a dream since the first time I visited decades ago.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 09, 2020 01:57 PM (hku12)

Glad you're happy with your decision!
Posted by: Tami at May 09, 2020 02:19 PM (cF8AT)

Thank you, life is too short not to pursue what makes one happy. I feel for those still stuck in places they don't want to be. I understand why some feel they must stay, and wouldn't question their choices. Just acknowledge from my own experience, if I'm somewhere I don't want to be, and I have the power to get out, not getting out is my choice, not anyone else's.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 09, 2020 02:40 PM (hku12)

296 Impossible, but favorite Prince song?

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 09, 2020 02:42 PM (PUmDY)

297 Impossible, but favorite Prince song?
When Dogs Cry.

Posted by: Baracky O'Cracky at May 09, 2020 02:44 PM (EgshT)

298
I think the Idiot God is smart enough but he never works because he never had to. He's had patrons (the Chicago machine) and helpers (ValJar) and fluffers (the MSM) his whole career. Why put effort into it when it's handed to you on a platter?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 09, 2020 02:45 PM (mht8P)

299 Here's another Obama scandal that I know Trump is well aware of because Sessions restarted it back in 2017, Project Casandra, the multi-billion dollar a year drug running and money laundering program being run by Hezbollah. Obama stopped it to protect his idiotic Iran deal.

Obama allowed Hezbollah to run drugs from South American into the US. Exposing that would leave a mark.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 09, 2020 02:45 PM (ZLI7S)

300
Big Mike could make an exciting nomination speech.
Posted by: Braenyard

=======

She will definitely make an appearance at the convention -- in one capacity or another.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 09, 2020 02:46 PM (G51Gf)

301 We all know Michelle doesn't want the job, but this is so full of desperation that I wouldn't be surprised at this point. It wouldn't be that big a deal to her to get elected
--------------------------------
It would take a miracle to get Big Mike elected. Not only does she have zero political experience, she has basically no work experience aside from her made up job at the U of Chicago hospital. And she is going to carry the stench of the corrupt Obama administration.

I don't think people realize yet Trump is going to lay waste to them. That's why Obama's phone call was "leaked". He's scared.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 09, 2020 02:33 PM (ZLI7S)

I think this most recent campaign was quite illustrative. There were a number of candidates who looked viable for a while there. Not to me and you, but to the Democrat base. They always look better on paper than they do in person.

Doomberg was a great example, but then so was Kamala and Cori Boinker and Beeto and Buttigig and Squaw Warren.

Michele only looks formidable because she hasn't had to open her mouth yet. She's a horribly dislikable human being. Ye olde "lipstick on a pig" expression is abundantly applicable here.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 09, 2020 02:47 PM (hku12)

302
Obama allowed Hezbollah to run drugs from South American into the US. Exposing that would leave a mark.
Posted by: JackStraw

=========

Trump needs to designate an historian or whatever and turn them loose on all thsoe records. We never did get a full airing of Operation FAst & Furious or the sausage that was made in dropping the case against the New Black Pantehrs.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 09, 2020 02:48 PM (G51Gf)

303
She will definitely make an appearance at the convention -- in one capacity or another.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 09, 2020 02:46 PM (G51Gf)

"Have I told you how wonderful I am? Let me tell you how wonderful I am. Are you listening to me?.."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 09, 2020 02:48 PM (mht8P)

304 You Need Another Lover is great.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 09, 2020 02:49 PM (PUmDY)

305
We were a set of British colonies with slavery a lot longer than we were the United States with slavery. Britain only abolished slavery in its West Indian colonies in the 1830s.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 09, 2020 02:50 PM (mht8P)

306
It would take a miracle to get Big Mike elected. Not only does she have zero political experience, she has basically no work experience aside from her made up job at the U of Chicago hospital. And she is going to carry the stench of the corrupt Obama administration.

I don't think people realize yet Trump is going to lay waste to them. That's why Obama's phone call was "leaked". He's scared.
Posted by: JackStraw

==========

He's scared all right. Yes, it would take a miracle to get her elected, but my god, the denial on that side is a freaking black hole. They're actually yacking on mainstream media about a "leak." It was a PLANT, you deluded dimwits.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 09, 2020 02:50 PM (G51Gf)

307 298
I think the Idiot God is smart enough but he never works because he never had to. He's had patrons (the Chicago machine) and helpers (ValJar) and fluffers (the MSM) his whole career. Why put effort into it when it's handed to you on a platter?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 09, 2020 02:45 PM (mht8P)

Before he ever sat on Frank Harris' lap he was being groomed.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 09, 2020 02:52 PM (9/7t+)

308
"Have I told you how wonderful I am? Let me tell you how wonderful I am. Are you listening to me?.."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

======

"I'm really just a little girl from the South Side of Chicago."

*uproarious applause at achievement of having been born Black and female, in Chicago, and married a man who became president and now looking fabulous in eyelash extensions and designer clothing*

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 09, 2020 02:53 PM (G51Gf)

309 He's scared all right. Yes, it would take a miracle to get her elected, but my god, the denial on that side is a freaking black hole. They're actually yacking on mainstream media about a "leak." It was a PLANT, you deluded dimwits.

Yup... Kind of like the Susan Rice email on Trump Inauguration day that"We'll make sure we do everything by the book." When they were clearly just trying to cover their asses....

Posted by: It's me donna at May 09, 2020 02:53 PM (Zmnko)

310 I Would Lie 4 U

Posted by: Baracky O'Cracky at May 09, 2020 02:54 PM (EgshT)

311 Sadly none of the Flynn Obama stuff is getting any real coverage because of the Georgia murder.... Odd that

Posted by: It's me donna at May 09, 2020 02:55 PM (Zmnko)

312
Yup... Kind of like the Susan Rice email on Trump Inauguration day that"We'll make sure we do everything by the book." When they were clearly just trying to cover their asses....

Posted by: It's me donna at May 09, 2020 02:53 PM (Zmnko)

Just like guys picking up underage girls have some self-exculpatory note on them saying they just wanted to counsel the poor thing.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 09, 2020 02:56 PM (mht8P)

313 I think the Idiot God is smart enough but he never works because he never had to. He's had patrons (the Chicago machine) and helpers (ValJar) and fluffers (the MSM) his whole career. Why put effort into it when it's handed to you on a platter?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 09, 2020 02:45 PM (mht8P)

He could be smart. Nobody has any proof of it, but who knows. Maybe.

That's the thing though, if you're smart, it shows up somewhere. You have some sort of intellectual trail, or you have practical accomplishments. Even if you are just the best damn plumber or high school English teacher in your town. The evidence is there.

Where's his?

He was selected. All his life, he was picked out of a crowd and given things he didn't DEMONSTRATE earning.

It's funny, the left is fond of saying Trump was handed what he has by a wealthy father. Well sure, but his dad's wealth doesn't come anywhere near explaining his life story. Trump has been the very antithesis of a silver spoon fed guy, living off the hard work of others.

That's really too, the story of Obama. Given what he's got. Period. End of story.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 09, 2020 02:57 PM (hku12)

314 I think this most recent campaign was quite illustrative. There were a number of candidates who looked viable for a while there. Not to me and you, but to the Democrat base. They always look better on paper than they do in person.

Doomberg was a great example, but then so was Kamala and Cori Boinker and Beeto and Buttigig and Squaw Warren.

Michele only looks formidable because she hasn't had to open her mouth yet. She's a horribly dislikable human being. Ye olde "lipstick on a pig" expression is abundantly applicable here.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 09, 2020 02:47 PM (hku12)

And the wild card in considering any potential Democrat nominee: Donald Trump. Because you KNOW Trump will not pull any punches, and every one of the Democrat hopefuls had an electoral glass jaw.

As did Obama himself, but McCain/Romney were too weak to throw any haymakers.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 09, 2020 02:59 PM (DXT9A)

315 Everyone who hasn't seen the Jim Jordan Federalist article: You should.

https://preview.tinyurl.com/y8lnxnmv

TL

Posted by: jayhawkone at May 09, 2020 03:00 PM (ZD+J8)

316 Just like guys picking up underage girls have some self-exculpatory note on them saying they just wanted to counsel the poor thing.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 09, 2020 02:56 PM (mht8P)

"Dear Diary,

I just met the most fascinating 18 year old girl. And she looks every day of 18, too. Imagine my good fortune at finding such a hot 18 year old. Did I mention that she's 18?"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 09, 2020 03:01 PM (DXT9A)

317 Mountains is very good also

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 09, 2020 03:02 PM (PUmDY)

318 Still working on the Flynn leak puzzle...

If Susan Rice told Obama, how did she learn?

And if Flynn was the target, was there a FISA on him? If not, how did they tap his phones? I thought (but maybe Im wrong) that he was out of the country when he had the call with Kislyak.

Posted by: LASue at May 09, 2020 03:02 PM (Ed8Zd)

319 >>And if Flynn was the target, was there a FISA on him? If not, how did they tap his phones? I thought (but maybe Im wrong) that he was out of the country when he had the call with Kislyak.

Where was Kislyak?

Foreign officials in the US are frequently wiretapped. For countries like Russia it is routine. They didn't have to tap Flynn's phone, they had the call from Kislyak's end.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 09, 2020 03:05 PM (ZLI7S)

320 JS, Dead and co stream tonight is the Nola show with George Porter, Jr.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 09, 2020 03:07 PM (PUmDY)

321
I think you're grossly overestimating how much shit the country is willing to swallow. Gaylord won against two thoroughly unlikeable and untrustworthy GOP tools. Honestly in retrospect I think the majority of the country was smarter than I was. That's not the current situation.
Posted by: Captain Hate

======

When I say "it wouldn't be that big a deal to her to get elected" I mean as onerous as the job would be, she'd make adjustments. Just look intense for the cameras and let everyone else do the work. That's how she'd visualize it, but hahaha, no (literally lol at the thought) she would not get elected.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 09, 2020 03:08 PM (G51Gf)

322 Thanks Charlie

Posted by: JackStraw at May 09, 2020 03:08 PM (ZLI7S)

323 funny

Pelosi impression

https://preview.tinyurl.com/y7vg6afb

Posted by: vmom 2020 - check out Gen Flynn's book here at May 09, 2020 03:10 PM (G546f)

324 It would take a miracle to get Big Mike elected. Not only does she have zero political experience, she has basically no work experience aside from her made up job at the U of Chicago hospital. And she is going to carry the stench of the corrupt Obama administration.

I don't think people realize yet Trump is going to lay waste to them. That's why Obama's phone call was "leaked". He's scared.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 09, 2020 02:33 PM (ZLI7S)

Pshaw! She made it all the way to third year associate at Sidley in Chicago, a job she got completely on her own merit and intelligence and work ethic.

Posted by: LASue at May 09, 2020 03:10 PM (Ed8Zd)

325 Where was Kislyak?

Foreign officials in the US are frequently wiretapped. For countries like Russia it is routine. They didn't have to tap Flynn's phone, they had the call from Kislyak's end.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 09, 2020 03:05 PM (ZLI7S)

That's what I thought, but Mollie's article states that Flynn was the target. So did they just get lucky that Flynn and Kislyak talked on the phone while Kislyak was in the US?

Posted by: LASue at May 09, 2020 03:13 PM (Ed8Zd)

326
Sadly none of the Flynn Obama stuff is getting any real coverage because of the Georgia murder.... Odd that
Posted by: It's me donna

======

No, it's getting coverage. Or miscoverage. It's actually being reported as a mysterious leak. The fact that it was scripted, cast, executed, recorded, and then artfully "leaked" is the most umistakable sign of panic I've seen yet.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 09, 2020 03:13 PM (G51Gf)

327 George Porter is a big Dead fan.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 09, 2020 03:15 PM (PUmDY)

328 Favorite Prince song ? The entire Purple Rain album.

Posted by: runner at May 09, 2020 03:16 PM (zr5Kq)

329 @JohnBrennan
24m
It is unsurprising @realDonaldTrump enjoys wallowing in his fetid self-indulgence, but I find it surreal that so many other government officials encourage his ignorance, incompetence, & destructive behavior.

BTW, history will be written by the righteous, not by his lickspittle.

Posted by: IrishEi at May 09, 2020 03:17 PM (sGotD)

330
Michele only looks formidable because she hasn't had to open her mouth yet. She's a horribly dislikable human being. Ye olde "lipstick on a pig" expression is abundantly applicable here.
Posted by: BurtTC

=======

setting aside the election angle and running with that briefly. I watched the Netflix documentary on her (hahaha, yes, I'm the one who also watched the Hulu docuseries on Hillary -- I do it so you guys don't have to).

It's amazing how much her followers and the great unwashed adore her. She's a glamorous and infintely privileged woman who "identifies" with their "struggles." They aspire to equal her "achievements." There's so much delusion in there it's gobsmacking.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 09, 2020 03:17 PM (G51Gf)

331
Posted by: IrishEi at May 09, 2020 03:17 PM (sGotD)

=======

Seriously. Wow. They're coordinating this weekend.

Brennan's mission: fire a salvo of adjectives.
Obama's mission: badmouth Trump and "leak" the audio.

Let's see what else happens.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 09, 2020 03:20 PM (G51Gf)

332 He didn't say by the book.

He said bye, the book.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 09, 2020 03:21 PM (9/7t+)

333 @realDonaldTrump 30 minutes ago

Why is it that all of the political pundits & consultants that I beat so easily & badly, people that charged their clients far more than their services were worth, have become so totally "unhinged" when it come to your favorite President, me. These people are stone cold crazy!

Posted by: Tami at May 09, 2020 03:23 PM (cF8AT)

334
if you're smart, it shows up somewhere.

Posted by: BurtTC

======

If Obama were smart, it would have shown up in his editorship of the Harvard Law Review. Instead, it's -- I don't know all the stats -- if not the single least distinguished period of the Review, then near the bottom.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 09, 2020 03:23 PM (G51Gf)

335 Seriously. Wow. They're coordinating this weekend.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 09, 2020 03:20 PM (G51Gf)
~~~~~

If there's one thing these leftists are good at, it's staying on the same page.

BTW, the lickspittle line was Brennan's too, not mine.

Posted by: IrishEi at May 09, 2020 03:23 PM (sGotD)

336 Parade is a great album. Sometimes It Snows in April is excellent

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 09, 2020 03:23 PM (PUmDY)

337 "Russian soldiers are operating drones over Venezuela as part of a search operation for members of a paramilitary force that led a botched invasion this week..." _Reuters

Posted by: Braenyard at May 09, 2020 03:25 PM (9/7t+)

338 "I'm really just a little girl from the South Side of Chicago."

---

Hey! That's my line!

Posted by: Nurse Who at May 09, 2020 03:25 PM (kOpft)

339 "Elon Musk has announced that he plans to move the Tesla HQ to Texas and Nevada 'immediately' after a California county health official said that the plant could not reopen." _ Daily Mail

He'll do it. But he's pushing Gaaavin's buttons to open it up.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 09, 2020 03:27 PM (9/7t+)

340 France discovers undiagnosed coronavirus patient from last year (December 2019) _Stars and Stripes

Posted by: Braenyard at May 09, 2020 03:30 PM (9/7t+)

341 332 He didn't say by the book.

He said bye, the book.
Posted by: Braenyard at May 09, 2020 03:21 PM (9/7t+)

Whereas Hillarhoid and Mooch on their tours say "buy the book."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 09, 2020 03:31 PM (DXT9A)

342
BTW, the lickspittle line was Brennan's too, not mine.
Posted by: IrishEi

=======

haha, I sensed that. It doesn't quite have the catchy ring of "if the glove don't fit, you must acquit" or "Make America Great Again," but then we've been discovering the depths of their idiocy for some time. lol, I don't think he's going to get everyone repeating "lickspittle."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 09, 2020 03:32 PM (G51Gf)

343 @Jim_Jordan
2h
A pattern?
Obama's IRS targeted conservatives before the 2012 election.
Obama's FBI targeted President Trump and his allies before the 2016 election.
Scary!
----------

^^ A bunch of these guys are getting pretty gutsy lately.

Posted by: IrishEi at May 09, 2020 03:32 PM (sGotD)

344 lol, I don't think he's going to get everyone repeating "lickspittle."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 09, 2020 03:32 PM (G51Gf)

Not even "I've got your lickspittle, old man"?

Posted by: Captain Hate at May 09, 2020 03:45 PM (y7DUB)

345 @almostjingo

More #RussianCollusionHoax exposed thanks to transcripts released. This time from Matt Tait (@pwnallthethings) who's article on @lawfareblog claimed he was recruited to collude with Russians. Turns out he had ZERO evidence and that he wouldn't have picked that headline....

Thread unrolled:

https://tinyurl.com/ybebrn73

Posted by: Tami at May 09, 2020 03:48 PM (cF8AT)

346 "Joe [Scarboroug], you chased after Trump for 2 years like a teenage girl throwing her panties at the latest boy band;
now you pretend to be this indignant paragon of virtue outraged at everything he says & does. All to get invited to DC cocktail parties & thrill the 13 people watching MSNBC,"

Posted by: Braenyard at May 09, 2020 03:50 PM (9/7t+)

347 254 - Anytime, Ancient Aliens!

Posted by: kallisto at May 09, 2020 03:52 PM (wZxsP)

348
^^ A bunch of these guys are getting pretty gutsy lately.
Posted by: IrishEi

=======

Wonder where they got the idea to do that? (I hope they keep the habit after their master tutor is out of the White House.)

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 09, 2020 03:52 PM (G51Gf)

349
Not even "I've got your lickspittle, old man"?
Posted by: Captain Hate

=====

BLEAGGHH!!!! lol

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 09, 2020 03:52 PM (G51Gf)

350 Blonde M., believe Obama's HLR position was a new, essentially honorary (elected?) type - forever, the editory was the top student, objectively determined. I think that continued - he was added as a ceremonial kind of "editor".

He's not as dumb as McCain, or Patty Murray, or Biden - those people were/are pretty stupid, period - but he's at best average intelligence overall, and as noted by others, has a ridiculous life of zero effort or accomplishment, crowned with two terms as president.

It's an indictment of the country, its institutions, and the electorate that he even got to the Senate - not really his fault.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 09, 2020 03:53 PM (El6T/)

351 lol, I don't think he's going to get everyone repeating "lickspittle."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 09, 2020 03:32 PM (G51Gf)
-----------------------------

Not even "I've got your lickspittle, old man"?

Posted by: Captain Hate at May 09, 2020 03:45 PM
-----------------------------

Heh.

Posted by: olddog in mo, F*ck BofA & uckfay ancercay at May 09, 2020 03:56 PM (Dhht7)

352 Brennan (and the loathsome, apparently clueless Hayden too) are amazingly unhinged idiots - arrogant, ignorant lightweights, with a near-psychotic amount of invective garbling what pass for their thoughts (Hayden compared the US to Nazi Germany for ..... having detention facilities for illegal aliens who violated our borders - THAT is how stupid and degraded he and his ilk are).

I'm skeptical he'll face any serious consequences, but there's a chance.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 09, 2020 03:57 PM (El6T/)

353 So listening to some radio show and there a lot of talk about Mothers Day and restaurant trying to accommodate and people wondering how they are going to celebrate and concerns about where to but a present and...

FFS! If you believe the media and most of the country we have narrowly escaped mass death, maybe, we have unheard of unemployment and in reality are on verge of economic collapse, and probbaly a lot of very major changes in the country, almost none of them good. And people are worried about where to go for Mothers Day? If they believe the hype they should just be glad Mom is alive! All this seems surreal

I appreciate restaurants and all the roadblocks they face trying to open but accommodating this delusional panic by the lemmings and make it seem normal is enabling it and going to extend it. It is normalizing the paranoia of the Karens and the ominous warnings of the experts, just like we have enabled so much other deviant behavior over the years. Makes me think we are never going to get back to where we were 3 months ago.

Posted by: Ripley at May 09, 2020 03:58 PM (MxEKc)

354 Sure enough to be cooking in my book.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 09, 2020 04:03 PM (PUmDY)

355 Ripley, come now, facts have long since ceased to matter in all this. At first, uncertainty, lack of info, and reasonable concern, drove action. But as data became available, it seems many made no adjustments, didn't think, didn't (still don't) apply settled principles and ideas to the situation.

The new "back-up" Apocalyptic Threat Booster is long-term effects of C-19 in survivors. Lung, neural, renal, other. Anecdotal, I believe, so far. Which doesn't mean it's not real, or not worth considering - but as always the obvious key framing questions are never, never posed alongside this issue:

* do other ILIs (influenza-like illnesses) have long-term side effects in survivors, if so, what kind and to what extent?

* is there any stark demographic pattern to these, as there appears to be WRT mortality from this bug?

* if this is now an endemic virus (it must presumed to be so at this point), then there is no way to prevent it reaching its natural level of prevalence, short of a near-term wildly efficacious vaccine. Even essentially dismantling the modern economy of the world won't stop it - so .... what are doing now, and why?

Posted by: rhomboid at May 09, 2020 04:05 PM (El6T/)

356
I appreciate restaurants and all the roadblocks they face trying to open but accommodating this delusional panic by the lemmings and make it seem normal is enabling it

They are making sure that they aren't penalized into bankruptcy by local or state Trotsky's.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 09, 2020 04:07 PM (9/7t+)

357 Reason I'm skeptical Brennan is in that much legal jeopardy is the nature of his likely worst transgressions. Faulty (even ridiculous, with dubious motivations) intel assessments are not criminal acts, and cannot be made to be.

The pay dirt would have to be, most likely, in process crimes related to such an artificial and malign intel assessment - lying to investigators or oversight authorities about some action related to it all.

We'll see soon enough. But I've always figured Brennan and the intel perps in this were less exposed, legally, than the DOJ/FBI plotters.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 09, 2020 04:08 PM (El6T/)

358 I think the anecdotal information on organ damage and long term damage is what caused the military to cease enlistment of those with corona-19 antibodies.

Or a correlation between the MS-13 and the Covid-19 antibodies.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 09, 2020 04:12 PM (9/7t+)

359 Seeing positive changes. More traffic and our Kroger is no longer disinfecting carts. They are also selling individual donuts and bagels. Saw a couple of restaurants doing booming business in take out. SW OH. Happy to see it.
Unfortunately our chance to see mom on Mother's Day was derailed by the OH dept of Health. Assisted living was going to allow a short visit outside her home if we all wore masks. Shut down 24 hours after the announcement.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 09, 2020 04:13 PM (JVgnl)

360 lol, I don't think he's going to get everyone repeating "lickspittle."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 09, 2020 03:32 PM (G51Gf)

Maybe if he weren't so Pecksniffian. Like that'll happen.

Posted by: hogmartin at May 09, 2020 04:14 PM (t+qrx)

361 Hmm, Trumpentwatters with a nice series of retweets of things about Tony Gwynn, who would be 60 today.

Tony's approach to the game - involving immense amounts of homework and study - didn't just show up at the plate.

I remember watching him in right field, latter years of his playing days. He was, um .... heavy. He was not going to be stealing bases, or making olympian dashes to the wall to rob someone of a homer or triple.

Solution? He had very good idea where a specific hitter might hit, if he hit to right, against the kind of pitcher then pitching.

So Tony usually had to trot at most a few yards to catch a fly from said hitter, as he'd pre-positioned himself perfectly. It's not an unusual thing for the better outfielders, but I think Gwynn took it to a new level - and it piggybacked directly on his method for studying pitchers and pitches.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 09, 2020 04:16 PM (El6T/)

362 "Analysis of cellphone location data in high-security area of Wuhan virology lab that studied coronavirus in bats indicates it shutdown in October after a 'hazardous event' _ DailyMail

What about those basketball players who came home sick.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 09, 2020 04:17 PM (9/7t+)

363
I've always figured Brennan and the intel perps in this were less exposed, legally, than the DOJ/FBI plotters.
Posted by: rhomboid

=========

There's lying to congress, although that is on the process side.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 09, 2020 04:20 PM (G51Gf)

364 "Elon Musk has announced that he plans to move the Tesla HQ to Texas and Nevada 'immediately' after a California county health official said that the plant could not reopen." _ Daily Mail

--

I've looked for data in the past because I have long suspected that - using cradle to grave accounting for energy consumption - no Tesla car has ever run on electricity up to this point, and probably won't for twenty or more years.

No Tesla care ever will if this happens.

Posted by: Moron Robbie suspects there are fewer than 10K actual COVID-19+pneumonia deaths at May 09, 2020 04:23 PM (ADuZP)

365 Those who haven't really should check out Turley's concise evisceration of Obama's stupid comments. Thing of beauty, really.

I hadn't remembered that a very applicable instance of dismissing a case was in fact the Stevens case - Sullivan as judge! And (don't recall Turley including this) some of the same dirty prosecutors literally involved (Weissman, at least)!

It's actually one of the funniest megaton-yield eviscerations I can recall for some time now.

Understated, of course, making it even better.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 09, 2020 04:25 PM (El6T/)

366 Moron Robbie, good way to look at the Tesla thing - but isn't it even worse than that? There's literally not one kilowatt of electricity produced by human means on the planet that is not at base "fossil fuels" - and that won't *ever* change. Notwithstanding the current idiotic and ruinous *unsustainable*!!!! efforts to produce unicorn energy.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 09, 2020 04:27 PM (El6T/)

367 Whatever Tesla runs on the new Roadster will go 0-60 mph in under 2 seconds.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 09, 2020 04:29 PM (9/7t+)

368
Blonde M., believe Obama's HLR position was a new, essentially honorary (elected?) type

=========

Oh wait, president of the Harvard Law Review, not editor.

So no meaningful duties? I know I read once that his term at the HLR saw zero citations in other publications, indicating very poor editorship. But maybe it doesn't reflect on him. Hmmmm. Wish I could find those columns now, but every google search just comes up with fulsome praise.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 09, 2020 04:30 PM (G51Gf)

369
Still digging...he didn't publish a single article when he worked on the HLR.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 09, 2020 04:33 PM (G51Gf)

370 "American officials said on Friday that the littoral combat ship USS Montgomery and the replenishment ship USNS Cesar Chavez were sent to conduct a 'presence operation' in the South China Sea near a Panamanian-flagged drill ship West Capella."

This is either the second time or it's reinforcements.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 09, 2020 04:33 PM (9/7t+)

371 Advertizing weakness only invites aggression.

Sending an LCS, and a ship named after notorious anti-illegal migration activist Cesar Chavez, seems ill-advised.

(OK, sort of a "/s" here, but not entirely)

Posted by: rhomboid at May 09, 2020 04:38 PM (El6T/)

372 Blonde M., think it was a ceremonial, sort of popularity-contest/student govt. (junior high type) position at HLR.

Can you imagine Obama authoring an article of any kind?

Didn't think so.

Any time off-script he reveals a shocking level of ignorance and unworldliness for a person ever entrusted with a job of any consequence.

Check out the interview from early 2000s, the "charter of negative liberties" debacle.

Amazingly, I didn't require any research when first exposed to him to see he was a lightweight - it was obvious (even by Hill standards).

Posted by: rhomboid at May 09, 2020 04:40 PM (El6T/)

373 Whatever Tesla runs on the new Roadster will go 0-60 mph in under 2 seconds.

-

And it will be a good trick for the five or six times it will be able to do it before going into limp mode in order to protect the battery for the same reason they can't post their awesome record breaking times at longer racetracks.

$200K opens up a bunch of options in the car world, though. Those half dozen two second runs would be fun, but three day weekend spent holding in 3rd gear blat-blat-blatting through the curves of the Virginia and NC mountains in a Ferrari or McLaren is likely worth the one or two second or so slower 0-60 times to me.

I will openly admit that I enjoy turning, though.

Posted by: Moron Robbie suspects there are fewer than 10K actual COVID-19+pneumonia deaths at May 09, 2020 04:41 PM (ADuZP)

374 So Musk is moving to TX? Sorry, TX!

CA's gain, your loss.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 09, 2020 04:43 PM (El6T/)

375 "Elon Musk has announced that he plans to move the Tesla HQ to Texas and
Nevada 'immediately' after a California county health official said
that the plant could not reopen." _ Daily Mail

---

I'm not a fan of Tesla, but anything that diminishes the CA tax base seems like a win to me.

Posted by: Methos at May 09, 2020 04:44 PM (kOpft)

376 I'm guessing $1/gallon gas isn't encouraging record sales of $50K subcompact cars that can travel 150 miles on a charge.

Posted by: Moron Robbie suspects there are fewer than 10K actual COVID-19+pneumonia deaths at May 09, 2020 04:47 PM (ADuZP)

377 "The Harvard Law Review, generally considered the most prestigious in the country, elected the first black president in its 104-year history today. The job is considered the highest student position at Harvard Law School.

The new president of the Review is Barack Obama, a 28-year-old graduate of Columbia University who spent four years heading a community development program for poor blacks on Chicago's South Side before enrolling in law school. His late father, Barack Obama, was a
_bigamist
_alcoholic
_communist collaborator
_wife beater
finance minister in Kenya and his mother, Ann Dunham, is an American anthropologist now doing fieldwork in Indonesia. Mr. Obama was born in Hawaii." _NYT

_no comments on her anthropological field work

Posted by: Braenyard at May 09, 2020 04:48 PM (9/7t+)

378 371 Advertizing weakness only invites aggression.

Sending an LCS, and a ship named after notorious anti-illegal migration activist Cesar Chavez, seems ill-advised.

(OK, sort of a "/s" here, but not entirely)

Posted by: rhomboid at May 09, 2020 04:38 PM (El6T/)

Wait til the send the USS Gabby Giffords over there. China might get the idea that any idiot can just walk up and put a hole in it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 09, 2020 04:49 PM (V2Yro)

379
Can you imagine Obama authoring an article of any kind?

Didn't think so.

Posted by: rhomboid

=======

Never even published when he taught at U Chicago.

I remember "just a bunch of negative liberties." How profound. "Congress shall make no law" means "just a negative liberty," whatever on earth that is. To his acolytes it was one of those astonishing and novel expressions -- of course it was, as no adult was ever imbecilic enough to say such a thing before.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 09, 2020 04:56 PM (G51Gf)

380 "...Barack Obama refined his legal thinking, but left a scant paper trail. His name doesn't appear on any legal scholarship.

But an unsigned - and previously unattributed - 1990 article unearthed by Politico offers a glimpse at Obama's views on abortion policy and the law during his student days, and provides a rare addition to his body of work. " _Politico

https://tinyurl.com/yyclr7dw
https://preview.tinyurl.com/yyclr7dw

Aw geees, Edith.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 09, 2020 05:09 PM (9/7t+)

381 Is common for constitutional scholars to have no publishes articles of any type? Or trial experience? Or any trace of legal or scholarly work whatsoever besides a few vague memories of associates and students?

Posted by: Ripley at May 09, 2020 05:30 PM (MxEKc)

382 Because Pullet Surprise, woot!

Take it away, OMD:

https://tinyurl.com/chickentrain-76

Posted by: guinspen at May 09, 2020 06:57 PM (E/NkT)

383 Those who haven't really should check out Turley's concise evisceration of Obama's stupid comments. Thing of beauty, really.

I hadn't remembered that a very applicable instance of dismissing a case was in fact the Stevens case - Sullivan as judge! And (don't recall Turley including this) some of the same dirty prosecutors literally involved (Weissman, at least)!

It's actually one of the funniest megaton-yield eviscerations I can recall for some time now.

Understated, of course, making it even better.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 09

Long ago I was watching a show about UFOs and people investigating them who were sued by the government. The attorney representing the UFO investigators was Turkey. I hadn't heard of him before that but he took the case to the Supreme Court.

Posted by: Chillin the most at May 09, 2020 07:24 PM (lonOK)

384 Turley not turkey! In comment 383

Posted by: Chillin the most at May 09, 2020 07:26 PM (lonOK)

385 Q. What do Hens do with cart? A. They Pullet

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at May 10, 2020 06:32 PM (FLiOE)

Processing 0.05, elapsed 0.0619 seconds.
14 queries taking 0.0213 seconds, 393 records returned.
Page size 223 kb.
Powered by Minx 0.8 beta.