aceofspadeshq at gee mail.com
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Buck:
buck.throckmorton at protonmail.com
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MisHum:
petmorons at gee mail.com
J.J. Sefton:
sefton at cutjibnewsletter.com
Not Important: Stopping the Iran Nuke Deal
Important: Getting a Loyalty Pledge From Trump
Problem: Party seems like a closed group of insiders resistant to new faces and ideas.
Solution: A loyalty pledge. https://t.co/GC7u1pcMkK
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) September 2, 2015Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: duke at September 02, 2015 06:25 PM (mDxGf)
Posted by: duke at September 02, 2015 06:26 PM (mDxGf)
Posted by: Donald Trump's Forehead Merkin at September 02, 2015 06:27 PM (oOvfk)
Posted by: duke at September 02, 2015 06:28 PM (mDxGf)
No shit.. their Chocolate Messiah goes to the UN BEFORE going to Congress as he agreed, but the GOP are traitors.
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at September 02, 2015 06:28 PM (rEEK1)
Posted by: goatweed at September 02, 2015 06:28 PM (8HrdX)
Posted by: Rich at September 02, 2015 06:29 PM (J2AJ8)
Posted by: ryukyu at September 02, 2015 06:29 PM (j29PP)
Posted by: exdem13 at September 02, 2015 06:29 PM (ry4ab)
Posted by: Vic at September 02, 2015 06:30 PM (t2KH5)
Posted by: Feh at September 02, 2015 06:30 PM (Uk9e2)
Anyway, I call BS: didn't the GOP establishment endorse Charlie Crist over Rubio a few years ago? And how did Crist pay them back?
Posted by: mallfly at September 02, 2015 06:30 PM (qSIlh)
Posted by: exdem13 at September 02, 2015 06:30 PM (ry4ab)
Posted by: Clarney at September 02, 2015 06:31 PM (QM0v/)
i feel like that too.
I just want to hurt them. I've given up caring about anything else. (Thanks to them -- they just don't want to implement their promises, or are simply incapable of it; either way, there's no political wish I have that they can satisfy.)
Posted by: ace at September 02, 2015 06:31 PM (dciA+)
Posted by: Old Blue at September 02, 2015 06:31 PM (9iR5/)
Posted by: The Show Opposition at September 02, 2015 06:32 PM (FohCt)
I'll take "jack shit" for it, alex
Posted by: Obama the Ass at September 02, 2015 06:33 PM (Uk9e2)
Posted by: BHO at September 02, 2015 06:34 PM (afHTq)
Posted by: Clarney at September 02, 2015 06:34 PM (QM0v/)
Posted by: tu3031 at September 02, 2015 06:34 PM (YFFpo)
Posted by: spypeach at September 02, 2015 06:34 PM (KTiWT)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at September 02, 2015 06:35 PM (4ErVI)
If he breaks the GOP, that's halfway to breaking the Dems.
Posted by: Hurricane LaFawnduh at September 02, 2015 06:36 PM (laMCB)
Posted by: Jebba the Hutt at September 02, 2015 06:36 PM (JmGFJ)
Posted by: PaleRider at September 02, 2015 06:36 PM (dkExz)
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Yeah, yeah. The polar bears, glaciers, we're all gonna die. Same old story, same old song and dance.
Let's try something new. Here, pull my finger!
Posted by: Old Blue at September 02, 2015 06:36 PM (9iR5/)
We need to primary that RINO in the next election.
Posted by: Vic at September 02, 2015 06:36 PM (t2KH5)
Obama and Kerry get a paper in return that says "they tried"
bullshit
Posted by: Feh at September 02, 2015 06:37 PM (Uk9e2)
Posted by: Severian at September 02, 2015 06:37 PM (aCRMo)
Posted by: navybrat at September 02, 2015 06:37 PM (ETxiG)
Posted by: Hurricane LaFawnduh at September 02, 2015 06:38 PM (laMCB)
Don't kid yourself, we will get a lot from this deal. Just nothing we want.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 02, 2015 06:38 PM (OGm46)
Posted by: mallfly
And Arlen Spector, and Jim Jeffords, and ...
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 02, 2015 06:38 PM (JmGFJ)
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at September 02, 2015 06:39 PM (27JXp)
Posted by: skip at September 02, 2015 06:39 PM (02CDz)
(No disrespect intended turd ferguson)
Posted by: Thurston Howell Trump at September 02, 2015 06:39 PM (R4vR0)
I have been ignoring Iran deal .. you know because of the Logan Act but the idea that 34 brain dead liberal senators is enough to pass a law is really a surrender that the GOP orchestrated for Obama (bc not giving Iran a nuke would only drive moderates from the GOP) which has driven the base to trump.
Posted by: joe-impeachin44 at September 02, 2015 06:40 PM (9aeyG)
I can't believe that there are people who lived long enough to see Hitler defeated and the Soviet Union fall and now they need to live through this crap. Thanks, Sen Corksucker.
Posted by: mallfly at September 02, 2015 06:40 PM (qSIlh)
ALL of them sold us out. Cruz, Rubio, lunatic McCain, Queen Graham...
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at September 02, 2015 06:40 PM (27JXp)
At the end of it, you will be a thirty third degree RINO.
Posted by: Reince Priapus at September 02, 2015 06:41 PM (E5UB0)
ALL of them sold us out. Cruz, Rubio, lunatic McCain, Queen Graham...
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at September 02, 2015 06:40 PM (27JXp)
How did Cruz sell us out to Iran?
Posted by: spypeach at September 02, 2015 06:41 PM (KTiWT)
no concept, he just couldn't care less, or he believes proliferating nukes will make the ME more stable
there are people who actually believe that
Posted by: Feh at September 02, 2015 06:42 PM (Uk9e2)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at September 02, 2015 06:42 PM (W5DcG)
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at September 02, 2015 06:43 PM (27JXp)
The article I read about this last week basically portrayed the SC an VA GOP thinking they were oh so clever in finding a way to keep Trump off the ticket, so sure were they that Trump would refuse.
Got that? Intentionally attempting to kneecap their party's frontrunner - and the ~30% who would want to vote for him (at least based on the current polling.
How does a party so willing to tell ~30% of their members to f$#@ off survive?
Again, not a Trump supporter, but someone who is totes turned off by the GOP's high school-grade cliquishness.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 02, 2015 06:43 PM (NOIQH)
Voted yea on the Corker change of rules, which, that rule is clearly unconstitutional, so double extra bad.
Posted by: navybrat at September 02, 2015 06:43 PM (ETxiG)
The vote was 98-1 for Corker's bill. Cruz was a yes.
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk
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I thought Cruz was absent.
Posted by: Furious George at September 02, 2015 06:44 PM (UlJ3l)
Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at September 02, 2015 06:44 PM (0LHZx)
I have my issues with Cruz, mainly tactical, but do you really think he of all people is a sellout?
Posted by: JackStraw at September 02, 2015 06:45 PM (OGm46)
Alternate poat title:
Before the 2014 Elections, 53 Democrats Controlled The U.S. Senate. After the Republicans Won The Majority In The 2014 Elections, 34 Democrats Controlled The U.S. Senate
(Stick that in you pipe and smoke it, Bill Kristol, you donkey)
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a low profile tip and ergonomical handle at September 02, 2015 06:45 PM (iGCx2)
Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at September 02, 2015 06:45 PM (0LHZx)
When Yertle and Agent Orange complain and squeal, ask them how it feels, and if it reminds them of anything they might have been doing the last six-plus years.
Posted by: acethepug at September 02, 2015 06:45 PM (RHPFv)
Posted by: Dave, exiled in RI at September 02, 2015 06:45 PM (4avHv)
The vote was 98-1 for Corker's bill. Cruz was a yes.
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk
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I thought Cruz was absent.
Posted by: Furious George at September 02, 2015 06:44 PM (UlJ3l)
I did too, but this says otherwise.
http://m.therightscoop.com/ted-cruz-why-i-voted-yes-for-corker-iran-bill/
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at September 02, 2015 06:46 PM (27JXp)
Agree or Disagree?
If there were 99 Republicans and just 1 Democrat in the Senate, the Democrat would control the Senate.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a low profile tip and ergonomical handle at September 02, 2015 06:47 PM (iGCx2)
OK, back to it.... whatever it is....
Posted by: Dirty Randy at September 02, 2015 06:47 PM (xOu6p)
Posted by: Fritz at September 02, 2015 06:47 PM (3tjn4)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at September 02, 2015 06:47 PM (ucDmr)
He will sign a pledge. Just on his terms. Do you know in 15-20 states the vote of the people doesn't matter? Trump could win, say VA big, and part bosses could say fuck that, our winner is Jeb! One guy has this power in a state.
Roger Stone has explicitly mentioned this. So any pledge will contain Trump's terms, the primary voters decide mofos. And he will probably pledge not to run third party, I don't like saying you promise to support unknown guy, although at debate you see, they're all on record about this except Trump. So any third party Anderson 1980s run would be not only sore loser, but liar.
But anyway, Trump wants this badly. What better way to shut Romney the fuck up and completely deball the tsunami of negative "he's a dem" attack ads. Trump can destroy whole negative campaign by saying, I evolved and took a pledge to the party, what's the big fucking deal, what do they want, a blood oath?
5th dimensional chess.
Posted by: prescient11 at September 02, 2015 06:47 PM (S85kT)
I'd take that deal.
Posted by: Hurricane LaFawnduh at September 02, 2015 06:38 PM (laMCB)
Eh, that would just turn out to be another in a long string of promises the two have made that they have no intention of keeping after getting someone else (Trump rather than voters this time) to buy into their snake oil product.
Now if they went with killing themselves first I might suspect they actually may live up to a promise for a change.
Posted by: Bete says it is going to burn, why bother putting it off? at September 02, 2015 06:47 PM (Ojki1)
This is the USA, not a banana republic. I will not make any loyalty oaths other than the oath I take on Jan 20, 2017.
Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at September 02, 2015 06:47 PM (0LHZx)
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a low profile tip and ergonomical handle at September 02, 2015 06:47 PM (iGCx2)
And that is a huge problem. For them. N
How about they take a loyalty pledge. They know all about being disloyal. This is projection
Posted by: ThunderB at September 02, 2015 06:48 PM (zOTsN)
Cruz is just theater of a different kind.
So is Trump, but the GOP is having a fit over him.
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at September 02, 2015 06:48 PM (27JXp)
Beat me to it. Amazing these hypocrites expect loyalty to them, but feel no need to be loyal to their constituency.
Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at September 02, 2015 06:48 PM (E5UB0)
Obama and Kerry are TRAITORS
Posted by: Feh at September 02, 2015 06:48 PM (Uk9e2)
Nice.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 02, 2015 06:48 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: Col.Cathcart and Col.Korn at September 02, 2015 06:49 PM (e8ge6)
Posted by: logprof at September 02, 2015 06:49 PM (vsbNu)
Posted by: Fritz
No blue jeans!
Posted by: George Will at September 02, 2015 06:49 PM (W5DcG)
Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at September 02, 2015 06:50 PM (0LHZx)
I'm also pissed off at, but not surprised, Lindsey Graham.
He went on MSNBC and said, heheheh Trump has consolidated for us all the Republicans who believe obama is a muslim and was born in Kenya, heheheh.
Republicans hate and despise me as much as I hate and despise them. Go figure.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a low profile tip and ergonomical handle at September 02, 2015 06:50 PM (iGCx2)
>>>It's like they are pushing me to Trump.
i feel like that too.
I just want to hurt them. I've given up caring about anything else.
(Thanks to them -- they just don't want to implement their promises, or
are simply incapable of it; either way, there's no political wish I have
that they can satisfy.)
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At this point the GOP deserves Trump as a candidate.
Posted by: exdem13 at September 02, 2015 06:50 PM (ry4ab)
Trump has freedom to say fuck Jeb!
Posted by: prescient11 at September 02, 2015 06:50 PM (S85kT)
Posted by: Feh at September 02, 2015 06:50 PM (Uk9e2)
Posted by: spypeach at September 02, 2015 06:50 PM (KTiWT)
Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at September 02, 2015 06:44 PM (0LHZx)
Now there's an idea. I can think of a lot of RINOs I'd like to see take that oath, after the way they told us to suck it up and vote for McCain and Romney.
Posted by: rickl at September 02, 2015 06:51 PM (sdi6R)
http://m.therightscoop.com/ted-cruz-why-i-voted-yes-for-corker-iran-bill/
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk
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Thanks for the correction and the link.
Posted by: Furious George at September 02, 2015 06:51 PM (UlJ3l)
Posted by: spypeach at September 02, 2015 06:51 PM (KTiWT)
Posted by: eman at September 02, 2015 06:51 PM (mR7Es)
Posted by: ThunderB at September 02, 2015 06:51 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Stu Podaso at September 02, 2015 06:51 PM (24wi6)
Just curious.
Who's your guy?
Zombie Ronald Reagan told me he wasn't coming back.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 02, 2015 06:52 PM (0cMkb)
Posted by: Harmund G. Goutist, Chef Extraordinaire at September 02, 2015 06:52 PM (CC8Go)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at September 02, 2015 06:53 PM (ODxAs)
Posted by: Feh at September 02, 2015 06:53 PM (Uk9e2)
Posted by: logprof at September 02, 2015 06:53 PM (vsbNu)
Fuck off.
Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at September 02, 2015 06:53 PM (0LHZx)
smart blog...And this certainly isn't a complaint; I'm glad of it. The more
Ewok Bucks that come in, the longer this joint will be around.....
Posted by: Dirty Randy at September 02, 2015 06:47 PM
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Yeah, me too. I fell a bit sorry for coming here with AdblockPlus always on but, for Pete's sake, the whole damn internet just works when I use it. All that shit my pc doesn't have to download. There's always the tip jar. It's been years now but I'll wait 'till I'm re-mployed before hitting it again.
Posted by: TJ Camper at September 02, 2015 06:53 PM (7d8Ef)
**looks around confused**
Where am I?
**stares vacantly, drooling on self**
Posted by: Thad "Loves Me Some Farm Animals" Cochran at September 02, 2015 06:54 PM (dplSG)
I further pledge that I will not seek to run as an independent or write-in candidate nor will I seek or accept the nomination for president of any other party."
Hell no.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 02, 2015 06:54 PM (NOIQH)
Did you read the entire article? Just curious because it is approximately what I have been saying here for months.
Cruz, by universal agreement, is a real Constitutional scholar. He voted for this bill because there was zero chance this was every going to be presented to the Senate as a treaty. Cruz is also a damn good politician and realized that the only chance this thing had to get any public review was the Corker/Mendez bill.
Which seems more likely, that Cruz and every other Republican Senator, even the conservative ones, turned into Iran nuke loving liberals or maybe they knew this deal was done at the UN?
Posted by: JackStraw at September 02, 2015 06:54 PM (OGm46)
***
GOP leadership...voila.
Posted by: joe-impeachin44 at September 02, 2015 06:54 PM (9aeyG)
Buncha fuckin' hypocrite cocksucking ratfucking backstabbing scum.
It's usually the *Establishment* candidates that throw a tantrum and run third-party, defect to the Donks or run as a write-in. Almost always after a conservative or populist candidate kicks their ass in the primary.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 02, 2015 06:54 PM (o98Jz)
strictly for those registered as Republicans part of the deal.
I know, I know.
But, he could make that part of his running platform and that would score YUUUUUUUGGGGEEE with the base.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 02, 2015 06:54 PM (0cMkb)
Question!
Who here didn't like Trump in the beginning but is now with him?
At first I thought Trump was just funning around pretending to be a candidate. I dismissed him. And I was always indifferent towards the man.
Now, I like him. A lot. I like Donald Trump more each time I hear him. He's charming and really funny. Who knew!
I'm living vicariously through Trump. I haven't been this giddy about politics in forever.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a low profile tip and ergonomical handle at September 02, 2015 06:55 PM (iGCx2)
Just imagine if we had every person taking government Office take an oath to...I don't know, maybe support and defend the Constitution.
Posted by: Rachel Dolezal, now with more fetus. at September 02, 2015 06:55 PM (VPLuQ)
but patience wears thin after a while
the truth eventually will out
Posted by: Feh at September 02, 2015 06:55 PM (Uk9e2)
He went on MSNBC and said, heheheh Trump has consolidated for us all the Republicans who believe obama is a muslim and was born in Kenya, heheheh.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a low profile tip and ergonomical handle
____________
Likewise, Graham has consolidated all the Republicans who just want to vote for a woman but don't like Carly Fiorina.
Posted by: Furious George at September 02, 2015 06:55 PM (UlJ3l)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at September 02, 2015 06:55 PM (jR7Wy)
Posted by: TJ Camper at September 02, 2015 06:55 PM (7d8Ef)
Posted by: TJ Camper at September 02, 2015 06:53 PM (7d8Ef)
--Also, when you make an Amazon purchase, go through the linky on the HQ home page.
Posted by: logprof at September 02, 2015 06:56 PM (vsbNu)
Posted by: Lemon Pledge Signer at September 02, 2015 06:56 PM (W5DcG)
Posted by: Strumpet Laddy at September 02, 2015 06:57 PM (s0Kry)
but patience wears thin after a while
the truth eventually will out
Posted by: Feh at September 02, 2015 06:55 PM (Uk9e2)
___________
Que?
Seriously, I'm not sure what you're talking about.
Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at September 02, 2015 06:57 PM (0LHZx)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at September 02, 2015 06:55 PM (jR7Wy)
--I wish. I want to see a good banning.
Posted by: logprof at September 02, 2015 06:57 PM (vsbNu)
Posted by: Miss Lindsay at September 02, 2015 06:57 PM (e8ge6)
Posted by: eman at September 02, 2015 06:58 PM (mR7Es)
Posted by: Lemon Pledge Signer at September 02, 2015 06:56 PM (W5DcG)<<<
Nooooo. Nooooo. No lemon pledge.
Posted by: Consuela, from Family Guy at September 02, 2015 06:58 PM (dplSG)
Which seems more likely, that Cruz and every other Republican Senator, even the conservative ones, turned into Iran nuke loving liberals or maybe they knew this deal was done at the UN?
Posted by: JackStraw at September 02, 2015 06:54 PM (OGm46)
Thank You!!! The process is flawed, and it makes it so easy for people to post one liners without any understanding of the thought process behind the vote.
Posted by: spypeach at September 02, 2015 06:58 PM (KTiWT)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 02, 2015 06:58 PM (DUoqb)
Posted by: logprof at September 02, 2015 06:56 PM
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Yes, I do! Not always but I do often. Always a good reminder, that.
Posted by: TJ Camper at September 02, 2015 06:58 PM (7d8Ef)
Important: Getting a Loyalty Pledge From Trump
========================
Yeah, that's important, but there are other things that are really important.
Posted by: Ex-Im Reauthorization at September 02, 2015 06:58 PM (hxWs0)
The more I think about it, I want a loyalty oath from every candidate too. Mine would read of things conservative. Not one candidate would sign it of course.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at September 02, 2015 06:58 PM (ODxAs)
Posted by: Strumpet Laddy at September 02, 2015 06:57 PM (s0Kry)
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They're a lot like communists who say, sure communism has failed everywhere, but that's only because nobody's done it the right way.
Sure every RINO we nominate has lost, but just you wait until the right RINO comes along.....
Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at September 02, 2015 06:58 PM (0LHZx)
Most Republicans are Democrats
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and secretly pro-choice or don't give a damn about babies being cut up and sold for parts
Posted by: L, Elle at September 02, 2015 06:59 PM (2x3L+)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 02, 2015 06:59 PM (DUoqb)
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at September 02, 2015 06:59 PM (oVJmc)
Plus, as a weird byproduct of Trump, the reactions of his detractors are Really Opening My Eyes.
Trump is only temporary, alas, but the rocks he has turned over for me to see will last a lifetime.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a low profile tip and ergonomical handle at September 02, 2015 06:59 PM (iGCx2)
Posted by: Miss Lindsay at September 02, 2015 06:59 PM (0cMkb)
*takes deep breath*
TRUMPISHITLERYOUBROWNSHIRTSWILLKILLUSALL!
*faints*
Posted by: Sip Nip - Perfectly Acceptable AOS commenter at September 02, 2015 07:00 PM (e8ge6)
Posted by: ThunderB at September 02, 2015 07:00 PM (zOTsN)
and secretly pro-choice or don't give a damn about babies being cut up and sold for parts
They don't care a wit.
Not even George W Bush, who was supposed to be some authentic Christian. But now he's retired and he's keeping mum out of respect for the Office. BULL SHIT.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a low profile tip and ergonomical handle at September 02, 2015 07:01 PM (iGCx2)
Plus, as a weird byproduct of Trump, the reactions of his detractors are Really Opening My Eyes.
Trump is only temporary, alas, but the rocks he has turned over for me to see will last a lifetime.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a low profile tip and ergonomical handle at September 02, 2015 06:59 PM (iGCx2)
_____________
My eyes were opened in 2010 in Nevada and Delaware. And then just as I had forgot about it, along comes the MS Senate race to remind me.
Trump just confirmed it once again.
Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at September 02, 2015 07:01 PM (0LHZx)
Trump is salivating at this. It destroys the best attack against Trump those idiots have.
Yuuuuuge.
Posted by: prescient11 at September 02, 2015 07:01 PM (S85kT)
That kind of loyalty?
Posted by: MTF at September 02, 2015 07:01 PM (hxWs0)
Posted by: Miss Lindsay at September 02, 2015 06:59 PM
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And that, Morons, is how I learned to google with discretion.
Posted by: TJ Camper at September 02, 2015 07:02 PM (7d8Ef)
Posted by: Susan Olivia Cuthbertson-Klein at September 02, 2015 07:02 PM (Ui7Rt)
Posted by: Long Kim Jong at September 02, 2015 07:03 PM (ubWCN)
Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at September 02, 2015 07:03 PM (0LHZx)
Posted by: MTF at September 02, 2015 07:03 PM (hxWs0)
What are they gonna do, withhold funding?
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Staring at the Lake in the rain at September 02, 2015 07:03 PM (yMVjf)
Important: Getting a Loyalty Pledge From Trump
They don't want a loyalty pledge from Trump, the want him to balk and take himself off the GOP primary ballots by refusing to sign.
Honestly, have they not seen how Trump responds to crap like that?
I suppose they think having him run as a 3rd party candidate will somehow neutralize him and pave the way for Jeb! --- but this instead will *guarantee* the Democrat, any freakin' Democrat candidate, will win.
This is so short-sighted I wonder if they want President Hillary.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 02, 2015 07:04 PM (NOIQH)
My eyes were opened in 2010 in Nevada and Delaware.
Yeah, right, keep fornicating with that chicken, bro.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a low profile tip and ergonomical handle at September 02, 2015 07:04 PM (iGCx2)
But the Tea Party didn't get the magic 51% (came close). So what did the RINOs do? They held a closed door meeting, schemed and drove out the first place through fourth place candidates, and picked their guy.
Screw you f'ing RINOs and your loyalty oaths. You're dirty cheaters when you lose.
Posted by: Multitude at September 02, 2015 07:04 PM (c7WnJ)
Which is why he voted in favor of a rule change which is in contradiction to Article II?
Help me out here.
Posted by: navybrat at September 02, 2015 07:05 PM (ETxiG)
Whatever.
I for one look forward to the weiny roast over the burning embers of western civilization.
Posted by: puddleglum at September 02, 2015 07:05 PM (NGd+i)
This. Millions of times over. There are decent critiques of Trump. But you end up with a guy who was still to the right of Romney.
The hysterics and the debate really pulled the curtain back. Murdoch now pushing carson.
Interesting times indeed.
Posted by: prescient11 at September 02, 2015 07:05 PM (S85kT)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 02, 2015 07:06 PM (rwI+c)
They do.
If they win power, they get 35% more graft, but they have responsibility for what happens.
They still get plenty of graft if the other party wins, but don't have to govern, so they're good either way.
What they really want to do, both parties, is make sure nothing threatens Bog Government.
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at September 02, 2015 07:06 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Dave S. at September 02, 2015 07:06 PM (mhkbv)
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Idk if there's any truth to this, but Barbara Bush and Laura Bush seem to be pro-cut up babies. And, Jeb sat on the Bloomberg foundation and even received a salty to fund cutting up babies all over the world. So, yeah, they've been lying to us for years bc they have to pretend to be prolife bc they're stuck in conservative states.
Posted by: L, Elle at September 02, 2015 07:06 PM (2x3L+)
I'm voting for Cruz or Trump. Depends on how much you piss me off between now and election day.
Posted by: Lauren at September 02, 2015 07:07 PM (GZ6Pf)
Boner, I suspect, will send out Gowdy to bang on some trashcan lids for us savages. And then send out Issa to make whisper in our ears to calm us.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a low profile tip and ergonomical handle at September 02, 2015 07:07 PM (iGCx2)
Man, I did not see THAT coming.
Posted by: Frankie Luntz at September 02, 2015 07:07 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: Susan Olivia Cuthbertson-Klein at September 02, 2015 07:02 PM (Ui7Rt)<<<
Huzzah! Bad form, Mr. Trump. Bad form!
Posted by: Godfrey Oliver Pomeroy, esq. at September 02, 2015 07:07 PM (dplSG)
Posted by: prescient11 at September 02, 2015 07:07 PM (S85kT)
rrAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!
Posted by: Swamp Thing 2016 ! at September 02, 2015 07:07 PM (e8ge6)
I'm voting for Cruz or Trump. Depends on how much you piss me off between now and election day.
Posted by: Lauren at September 02, 2015 07:07 PM (GZ6Pf)
me too Lauren, raises glass of wine.. cheers
Posted by: spypeach at September 02, 2015 07:08 PM (KTiWT)
oh yeah, that old witch Barbara Bush is pro-abortion, and so is Laura Bush
I can't stand the entire family.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a low profile tip and ergonomical handle at September 02, 2015 07:08 PM (iGCx2)
Posted by: L, Elle at September 02, 2015 07:08 PM (2x3L+)
Posted by: GOPe at September 02, 2015 07:08 PM (0TXlm)
Posted by: Soona at September 02, 2015 07:08 PM (Fmupd)
Posted by: Paladin at September 02, 2015 07:08 PM (4kpbt)
Posted by: 2Girls, 1Cup at September 02, 2015 07:08 PM (TzlU8)
Plus, as a weird byproduct of Trump, the reactions of his detractors are Really Opening My Eyes.
Trump is only temporary, alas, but the rocks he has turned over for me to see will last a lifetime.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a low profile tip and ergonomical handle at September 02, 2015 06:59 PM (iGCx2)
The best comment I've heard about Trump is "he pisses off all the right people": The GOPe, the left, and the MSM.
Posted by: rickl at September 02, 2015 07:08 PM (sdi6R)
AMEN!
Posted by: Auntie Doodles at September 02, 2015 07:09 PM (teYv/)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 02, 2015 07:09 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Hardline Sanity Prod at September 02, 2015 07:09 PM (q20+R)
then watch "Meet John Doe" by Frank Capra.
I saw it last night on TCM and frankly was kind of shocked at how it lined up with today's politics,
though, yeah, admittedly it's corny and old.
But hey, it's got it all - wildcat populist, rich donors behind the scenes manipulating the process to get what they want, lousy economy (The Depression), the little guys looking to make a difference, looking to bring the country back to greatness.
And as the cherry on the top, which I didn't know until last night-
Frank Capra was a Conservative Republican (not an FDRtard)!
It's little wonder that his populism looks and sounds quite a bit like the populism of those fed up with today's Republican party.
Seriously....check it out.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 02, 2015 07:09 PM (0cMkb)
Posted by: Princess Lisa Murkowski at September 02, 2015 07:09 PM (laMCB)
Posted by: Auntie Doodles at September 02, 2015 07:10 PM (teYv/)
Murdoch now pushing carson.
This is another thing. Murdoch and the RNC are using Dr. Carson to manipulate the base.
I hate these people. A lot.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a low profile tip and ergonomical handle at September 02, 2015 07:10 PM (iGCx2)
Posted by: Buzzion at September 02, 2015 07:10 PM (z/Ubi)
Posted by: L, Elle at September 02, 2015 07:10 PM (2x3L+)
Posted by: Political Tips at September 02, 2015 07:10 PM (Ui7Rt)
Need full disclosure, please. This is a repost.
Posted by: Hurricane LaFawnduh at September 02, 2015 07:11 PM (laMCB)
Just curious.
Who's your guy?
Zombie Ronald Reagan told me he wasn't coming back.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 02, 2015 06:52 PM (0cMkb)
What good is having a guy at this point?
I'm supporting Trump on the outside chance he splits the party.
I like Ben Carson, but I doubt he'll get the nomination.
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at September 02, 2015 07:11 PM (27JXp)
They know where this is going.
NRO better have its taxes in order tho. LOL
In fairness tho, jonah goldberg and lowry appear to be trying to calm down.
Posted by: prescient11 at September 02, 2015 07:11 PM (S85kT)
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a low profile tip and ergonomical handle
___________________
^^^ This! ^^^
Posted by: Furious George at September 02, 2015 07:12 PM (UlJ3l)
Posted by: Dork Benedict at September 02, 2015 07:12 PM (bUmSq)
Posted by: Buzzion at September 02, 2015 07:12 PM (z/Ubi)
Posted by: puddleglum at September 02, 2015 07:13 PM (NGd+i)
Yeah, blow me.
Posted by: Fritz at September 02, 2015 07:13 PM (3tjn4)
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Yes. This seems to be true. They are panicked at a Trump nomination so they're pushing Carson believing he is naive, inexperienced in politics, and easy to push around and get their demands met now that horrible Jeb is tanking and Kasich is gaining no ground. Carson is their third choice out of pragmatism
Posted by: L, Elle at September 02, 2015 07:14 PM (2x3L+)
Posted by: Boone at September 02, 2015 07:14 PM (NaOdu)
" I pledge to be loyal to G-D, Country, and the American people.....and the rest of you can go fuck yourselves"
Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 02, 2015 07:14 PM (DUoqb)
Remember that stupid NFL/celebrity tv spot No More?
If I had the $$, I produce a spoof of that ad about the GOP's betrayal. No More.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a low profile tip and ergonomical handle at September 02, 2015 07:14 PM (iGCx2)
My own recommendation is that you draw out the process as long as possible, because it's really fun when the GOPe finally realizes they've painted themselves into a corner and now need to save face.
Posted by: TFG, Master of GOPe Politics at September 02, 2015 07:14 PM (hxWs0)
Murdoch now pushing carson.
This is another thing. Murdoch and the RNC are using Dr. Carson to manipulate the base.
Yes. I suspect they're pushing Carson to try to deflect from Trump because they think they can subvert or remove Carson more easily once Trump is defeated.
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at September 02, 2015 07:15 PM (oVJmc)
Help me out here.
The assumption too many people keep making is that we are operating under the rules they think we should be operating under. The rule of law is crashing all around us at every level, from the federal government to a made up victim group advocating for and seemingly getting the assassination of cops. That's the world we live in.
In a broader sense this could easily be argued as not a treaty. And that was all Obama needed, an argument that it wasn't because all he cared about was time.
This was an international sanctions agreement. The power came from having all of the international community in agreement to enforce those sanctions as they had been for years. US sanctions alone would be harmful and awkward but they would not deter Iran from getting nukes which is what this is all about. It's not some random punishment, it is designed to prevent the leading sponsor of Islamic terrorism from getting nukes.
Obama was talking last year about going to the UN SC first to get this deal agreed to and that is exactly what he did. The only country in the world right now honoring the sanctions agreement is us. Period.
Don't mistake the Constitution for the political realities of the world we live in. Horse has left the barn.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 02, 2015 07:15 PM (OGm46)
So the RNC really are neanderthals. Who knew?
Posted by: Harmund G. Goutist, Chef Extraordinaire at September 02, 2015 07:15 PM (CC8Go)
They're hyping Dr Carson just to siphon support from Trump, and when they're done with Carson they'll cast him out, too.
These people are lowest of the low.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a low profile tip and ergonomical handle at September 02, 2015 07:16 PM (iGCx2)
Trump just told Jabbar to go fuck himself after Jabbar endorsed Sanders and took a shot at trump
Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 02, 2015 07:16 PM (DUoqb)
NH woman talk show host said that word is out that chapo put a 100mm hit on Trump. She said security is very heavy and that staffers are genuinely concerned for their safety.
So a guy is self-funding, giving up tons of business and $$, and now has serious threats against himself and his family, and he's seeing it through.
It makes me want to knock the teeth out of anyone calling him a clown. Why i get passionate about it.
Posted by: prescient11 at September 02, 2015 07:16 PM (S85kT)
Posted by: Highly Esteemed Former Sen. Richard Lugar at September 02, 2015 07:16 PM (UlJ3l)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 02, 2015 07:15 PM (OGm46)
Ah don't worry, he just wandered over to the State Department
Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 02, 2015 07:17 PM (DUoqb)
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at September 02, 2015 07:11 PM (27JXp)
Carson seems like too nice a guy. I fear he'd be eaten up by the D.C. crime syndicate.
Posted by: Hurricane LaFawnduh at September 02, 2015 07:17 PM (laMCB)
Don't worry, trumpetdaddys, wherever you all are. You'll have your Republican party back when Trump is gone.
But I and millions of others will be gone, too. So enjoy your little political party.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a low profile tip and ergonomical handle at September 02, 2015 07:18 PM (iGCx2)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at September 02, 2015 07:18 PM (W5DcG)
Posted by: rrpjr at September 02, 2015 07:18 PM (s/yC1)
Posted by: Sho Nuff at September 02, 2015 07:18 PM (GyLbC)
Watching the short pants brigade over at national rhino review lose their shit over trumpy is better than hookers 'n blow!
Posted by: Strumpet Laddy at September 02, 2015 07:19 PM (DmRs2)
Posted by: Mitch McConnell at September 02, 2015 07:19 PM (OiFtZ)
Important: Getting a Loyalty Pledge From Trump
What the hell is wrong with these guys?
Posted by: Iblis at September 02, 2015 07:19 PM (9221z)
97
Now, I like him. A lot. I like Donald Trump more each time I hear him. He's charming and really funny. Who knew!
...........................
My mother, a two-time B.O. voter and lifelong registered Dem, loves her some Trump. She really gets a kick out of watching him and calls me every time she sees him on TV. Plus... double bonus... she hates Hillary.
In CA no less!
Posted by: wth at September 02, 2015 07:19 PM (wAQA5)
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at September 02, 2015 07:11 PM (27JXp)
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Why do you like Ben Carson. I'm asking out of curiosity. This is not an attack so I don't get banned. I'm politely inquiring bc imho he'll get eaten alive and get the Sarah treatment. He's obviously an accomplished man and good man, but I don't think he is tough enough to handle the media and the GOPe
Posted by: L, Elle at September 02, 2015 07:19 PM (2x3L+)
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a low profile tip and ergonomical handle at September 02, 2015 07:20 PM (iGCx2)
A shame. I think he's the smartest one.
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at September 02, 2015 07:20 PM (27JXp)
Posted by: Lizzy at September 02, 2015 07:20 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: Barack Obama at September 02, 2015 07:20 PM (OiFtZ)
He's obviously an accomplished man and good man, but I don't think he is tough enough to handle the media and the GOPe
I concur. Good man. But he's a lousy candidate, and has no business in politics.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a low profile tip and ergonomical handle at September 02, 2015 07:21 PM (iGCx2)
Be loyal to US! When we do our best to underhandedly undermine you!
So that when the results are
40% Trump
25% Cruz
20% Carson
15% Fiorina
0% Bush
And the RNC nominates Jeb!....No backsies.
Posted by: MikeTheMoose at September 02, 2015 07:21 PM (0q2P7)
Posted by: prescient11 at September 02, 2015 07:21 PM (S85kT)
It'll be yu-u-uge! Tremendous!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at September 02, 2015 07:21 PM (jR7Wy)
Posted by: Hurricane LaFawnduh at September 02, 2015 07:11 PM (laMCB)
Huh?
It's not a repost, but an amazing facsimile thereof.
I had the same thoughts last night as I was watching "Meet John Doe" so I posted in some thread. ONT?
Then I thought some morons who missed my glorious and wise insights might like to see "Meet John Doe".
So I posted the same thoughts in a similar fashion.
And ze treek she is done!
Is that the kind of disclosure you wanted?
Sorry I'm neither part of THE GREAT CAPRA CONSPIRACY OF 2015
nor Frank Capra the 10th.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 02, 2015 07:22 PM (0cMkb)
Then they are in violation of their oaths to uphold and defend, etc, etc. All of them.
Social contract violation.
I owe them nothing but scorn.
Damn, this is a sad day.
Posted by: navybrat at September 02, 2015 07:22 PM (ETxiG)
Posted by: simon jester at September 02, 2015 07:22 PM (tFyfM)
Posted by: Feh at September 02, 2015 07:22 PM (VuDcL)
Posted by: TJ Camper at September 02, 2015 06:53 PM (7d8Ef)
Now I feel bad, too.....
I hit the jar last month; I'll do it again this month... I know $10 a shot don't mean a lot, but it does take the edge off the guilt... in fact, I'll make it $15 so you don't have to feel even a bit sorry!
Posted by: Dirty Randy at September 02, 2015 07:22 PM (xOu6p)
I like Ben Carson, but I doubt he'll get the nomination.
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at September 02, 2015 07:11 PM (27JXp)
Carson seems like too nice a guy. I fear he'd be eaten up by the D.C. crime syndicate.
Posted by: Hurricane LaFawnduh at September 02, 2015 07:17 PM (laMCB)
.........................................
Hopefully he will perform a radical emergency lobotomy on them.
Posted by: wth at September 02, 2015 07:22 PM (wAQA5)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 02, 2015 07:22 PM (DUoqb)
You'd think slime like Obama wouldn't mind a bit more from a fish, but there ya go.
http://tinyurl.com/obqgkb5
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 02, 2015 07:23 PM (+YMhA)
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a low profile tip and ergonomical handle at September 02, 2015 07:23 PM (iGCx2)
I suspect that El Gobernador Yebbie doesn't get threatened by many Mexican drug lords.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at September 02, 2015 07:23 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: L, Elle at September 02, 2015 07:19 PM (2x3L+)
I'm so offended
It's probably true. Ben Carson would be a good candidate for 2008. But things have gone too far.
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at September 02, 2015 07:23 PM (27JXp)
I concur. Good man. But he's a lousy candidate, and has no business in politics.
This.
Nice fellow, out of his field, strikes me as kind of aspie, but will be like a baby chick in a cattle stampede.
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at September 02, 2015 07:23 PM (oVJmc)
If Trump can build a bridge between LA and Honolulu, I will vote for him and encourage my friends to do the same.
Posted by: Hank Johnson, D-GA at September 02, 2015 07:23 PM (OiFtZ)
Who is Jabbar in this equation?
Posted by: L, Elle at September 02, 2015 07:23 PM (2x3L+)
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a low profile tip and ergonomical handle at September 02, 2015 07:24 PM (iGCx2)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 02, 2015 07:24 PM (rwI+c)
I'm still waiting for the smart ass Donald Trump to disprove my theory that fire can't melt steel.
Posted by: Hank Johnson, D-GA at September 02, 2015 07:25 PM (OiFtZ)
wow, really, L?
I've been wondering you disappeared to.
A brand new baby!
What's the warranty like?
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a low profile tip and ergonomical handle at September 02, 2015 07:25 PM (iGCx2)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 02, 2015 07:25 PM (DUoqb)
I hit the jar last month; I'll do it again this month... I know $10 a
shot don't mean a lot, but it does take the edge off the guilt... in
fact, I'll make it $15 so you don't have to feel even a bit sorry!
Posted by: Dirty Randy at September 02, 2015 07:22 PM
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Ha! Thanks, you're a mensch!
Posted by: TJ Camper at September 02, 2015 07:25 PM (7d8Ef)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at September 02, 2015 07:25 PM (ucDmr)
ex-basketball great Kareem Abdul Jabbar, I thinks
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a low profile tip and ergonomical handle at September 02, 2015 07:26 PM (iGCx2)
Posted by: Rosie O'Donnell at September 02, 2015 07:26 PM (OiFtZ)
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 02, 2015 07:26 PM (+YMhA)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 02, 2015 07:26 PM (DUoqb)
Imagine what that would to today's technology....
Posted by: Country Singer at September 02, 2015 07:26 PM (nL0sw)
And then regardless of how Carson reacts, expect all the post-debate commentary to say that Carson showed that he's not ready for prime time and that a polished politician is the only hope the GOP has--the world's problems are just too big for an inexperienced outsider.
Posted by: Furious George, adjusting his tinfoil hat at September 02, 2015 07:26 PM (UlJ3l)
http://tinyurl.com/obqgkb5
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 02, 2015 07:23 PM (+YMhA)
Maybe it was the salmon that insisted?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 02, 2015 07:27 PM (aRgrb)
Posted by: Sir Milhaus Rodham at September 02, 2015 07:27 PM (OiFtZ)
Here, here. People who try to smack down Trump on a policy basis are completely missing the point. I'm half-way to supporting him just as a way of punishing the Donor Class.
If I have to eat a shit sandwich, EVERYBODY'S gonna eat a shit sandwich.
Posted by: Ex-liberal at September 02, 2015 07:27 PM (R1mDg)
I agree with this too. Actually I'm pretty wishy-washy on him.
He needs to do something impressive (in the campaign, I mean.)
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at September 02, 2015 07:27 PM (27JXp)
Posted by: Auntie Doodles at September 02, 2015 07:27 PM (teYv/)
Posted by: L, Elle at September 02, 2015 07:28 PM (2x3L+)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 02, 2015 07:27 PM (aRgrb)
I will admit that I hadn't thought about it that way. Generally once they are in the air, all bets are off.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 02, 2015 07:28 PM (+YMhA)
I'm not sure I understand this defense. The Republicans have achieved nothing on the issue, except that they have all, save one, rolled in it like a dog in dead cat perfume.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 02, 2015 07:29 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: TJ Camper at September 02, 2015 07:25 PM (7d8Ef)
Heh! No problem!
Posted by: Dirty Randy at September 02, 2015 07:29 PM (xOu6p)
I admire Trump for his skill at garnering support and for sticking it to the GOP. And now, it seems, at some personal risk. He is definitely addressing the concerns of a lot of people.
But, prescient, even you have to admit that the candidate has been, shall we say, less than consistent on his political positions. Plus, he is needlessly insulting (e.g. Megyn Kelly is a "bimbo).
Any other candidate--such as, say, a Romney or a Christy, would be crucified by the base for flip-flopping on lesser matters, or for such willful crudeness as Trump seems to get away with.
Trump supporters appear to be very forgiving--is it wealth-envy?
Posted by: Hurricane LaFawnduh at September 02, 2015 07:29 PM (laMCB)
Posted by: Clarney at September 02, 2015 07:29 PM (QM0v/)
Posted by: Golfman at September 02, 2015 07:29 PM (48QDY)
NH woman talk show host said that word is out that chapo put a 100mm hit on Trump. She said security is very heavy and that staffers are genuinely concerned for their safety.
I suspect that El Gobernador Yebbie doesn't get threatened by many Mexican drug lords.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at September 02, 2015 07:23 PM (8ZskC)
...........................
Senor Shorty is a very good houseguest for us. No trouble at all. We tell him stay as long as you like.
Posted by: Columba Bush at September 02, 2015 07:30 PM (wAQA5)
And folks, i was negatively disposed towards trump less than six months ago.
Posted by: prescient11 at September 02, 2015 07:30 PM (S85kT)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 02, 2015 07:30 PM (39g3+)
Did you hear this yet?
File it under: Moar Bullshit
You know how used cars are now "pre-owned?"
Well, now used cars are called 'pre-enjoyed.'
L's slightly used baby just reminded me of that.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a low profile tip and ergonomical handle at September 02, 2015 07:30 PM (iGCx2)
Well, I think Trump is a clown and a buffoon. And every presidential candidate has to worry about security.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at September 02, 2015 07:30 PM (ODxAs)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 02, 2015 07:30 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: rickl at September 02, 2015 07:08 PM (sdi6R)
Something about flak...
Posted by: Golfman at September 02, 2015 07:30 PM (48QDY)
Posted by: Clarney at September 02, 2015 07:31 PM (QM0v/)
Politics is a back alley gutter sport hiding behind a glib fashionable false front. (at least as it is being played currently. Maybe it has always been that way.)
Posted by: Harmund G. Goutist, Chef Extraordinaire at September 02, 2015 07:31 PM (CC8Go)
F them, sideways, with a tankers bar wrapped up in concertina wire.
Posted by: redc1c4 at September 02, 2015 07:31 PM (7vjeC)
I may well end up voting for Trump and then in every downticket race writing in the name of that excellent individual and exemplar of the civic virtues, Becausefuckyou Thatswhy.
Posted by: torquewrench at September 02, 2015 07:31 PM (noWW6)
They all voted for Mitch McConnell as senate majority leader. None of them are trustworthy.
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at September 02, 2015 07:32 PM (27JXp)
Oh, I get it now. Went back and read upstream on comments.
Really? Kareem? I'm saddened. I loved him with the Lakers. He seemed like such a disciplined athlete and gentleman. I liked Pat Riley more so screw Jabbar. He's dead to me
Posted by: L, Elle at September 02, 2015 07:32 PM (2x3L+)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 02, 2015 07:32 PM (39g3+)
Surgeon General, maybe, but he should never be POTUS.
Posted by: redc1c4 at September 02, 2015 07:33 PM (7vjeC)
Trump's positions on issues are secondary to me.
Trump's hatchet job on politicians and the media is what I like.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a low profile tip and ergonomical handle at September 02, 2015 07:33 PM (iGCx2)
Uh, Megyn Kelly IS a bimbo.
So are the vast majority of the on-air talent at Fox. Male and female alike.
Posted by: torquewrench at September 02, 2015 07:33 PM (noWW6)
Politics is a back alley gutter sport hiding behind a glib fashionable false front. (at least as it is being played currently. Maybe it has always been that way.)
Posted by: Harmund G. Goutist, Chef Extraordinaire at September 02, 2015 07:31 PM (CC8Go)
Ever see the politics involved in a Major Hospital with all the egos involved? And Carson rose to the very top of his profession and was head of his Department at John Hopkins? Innocent? A Mark? I think not. And I am not a Carson supporter, but knowing where he has come from...I assume he is as strong as steel
Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 02, 2015 07:33 PM (DUoqb)
Rinse Penis and The Donald meet tomorrow afternoon in New York. Donald should leave his wallet and keys in the apartment.
Posted by: Doctor Fish at September 02, 2015 07:33 PM (OiFtZ)
And that's really the rub isn't it. What makes Trump nigh irresistable. The RNC has been kicking us in the balls for years now. This is a chance to kick them back. If you ascribe to LIB, then Trump will make things entertaining. He'll make it epic. Part of me really really wants to say, "Let's do this" and take that shot at the balls of the RNC. Every dishonest gyration that they try to get rid of Trump rather than address what he represents makes me want to do it more. This is how I feel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztB_q1YgcsY
Posted by: MikeTheMoose at September 02, 2015 07:34 PM (0q2P7)
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a low profile tip and ergonomical handle at September 02, 2015 07:34 PM (iGCx2)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 02, 2015 07:34 PM (DiZBp)
Posted by: Golfman at September 02, 2015 07:34 PM (48QDY)
Posted by: Soona at September 02, 2015 07:34 PM (Fmupd)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 02, 2015 07:35 PM (DUoqb)
Posted by: Muldoon, a solid man at September 02, 2015 07:35 PM (mvenn)
the Lakers. He seemed like such a disciplined athlete and gentleman.
Posted by: L, Elle at September 02, 2015 07:32 PM
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...and a fine pilot.
Posted by: Capt. Oveur at September 02, 2015 07:35 PM (7d8Ef)
Posted by: Harmund G. Goutist, Chef Extraordinaire at September 02, 2015 07:35 PM (CC8Go)
Posted by: L, Elle at September 02, 2015 07:35 PM (2x3L+)
Every donation ever made to the GOP never comes with a reach around. They've screwed us long enough, and payback is going to be a bitch.
Posted by: Doctor Fish at September 02, 2015 07:35 PM (OiFtZ)
the Lakers. He seemed like such a disciplined athlete and gentleman.
Posted by: L, Elle at September 02, 2015 07:32 PM
Yeah for a wife beater I guess
Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 02, 2015 07:36 PM (DUoqb)
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a low profile tip and ergonomical handle at September 02, 2015 07:36 PM (iGCx2)
Posted by: Weasel at September 02, 2015 07:36 PM (e3bId)
Oh, i know. On immigration he's been damn consistent. In both 2000 and 2011 books he wrote.
In 1988 he wasked by larry king whether he was a rockefeller brand type of republican.
He thought about it and said, I'm of the party that's for the guy driving the taxi, the guy who's selling hot dogs.
Posted by: prescient11 at September 02, 2015 07:37 PM (S85kT)
Posted by: Fritz at September 02, 2015 07:37 PM (3tjn4)
Surgeon General, maybe, but he should never be POTUS.
Posted by: redc1c4 at September 02, 2015 07:33 PM (7vjeC)
'Disaster' I would reserve for a guy like Jeb, Rubio, Christie.
In fact, I think Carson would be better than all of them.
For all the talk of how the Washington machine would tear him up, he is kicking their asses right now.
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at September 02, 2015 07:37 PM (27JXp)
Yeah I think he could do the job but he's too good a man for it
...and a fine pilot.
Yeah but my dad says he's lazy
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 02, 2015 07:38 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 02, 2015 07:39 PM (DUoqb)
Trump doesn't know all things. He does, however, know how to put the right person in the right job. He doesn't know how to run a hotel or a golf course. But he knows what he likes and what succeeds. .
Is there a better description of a chief executive?
Posted by: Golfman at September 02, 2015 07:39 PM (48QDY)
Concur - pediatric neurosurgery is indeed a lazy discipline. Except for the part where you collect the check.
Posted by: Doctor Fish at September 02, 2015 07:40 PM (OiFtZ)
Posted by: Eromero at September 02, 2015 07:40 PM (go5uR)
Posted by: Fritz at September 02, 2015 07:37 PM (3tjn4)
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Especially when the people you've signed the oath with aren't even thinking about being loyal to the signee. Yup. If I was Trump, I'd sign it and then do what I wanted to do anyway.
Posted by: Soona at September 02, 2015 07:40 PM (Fmupd)
The Grand Imperial Cooper of
THE GREAT CAPRA CONSPIRACY OF 2015
if I didn't post this:
You can see "Meet John Doe" on Amazon for $2.00.
Should you desire to see it.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0035GZ5K
G/185-4005850-4476638?
ie=UTF8&keywords=meet%20john%20doe&qid=144
1237010&ref_=sr_1_2&s=instant-video&sr=1-2
(remove extra spaces)
Beware! Us Caprites are gonna getcha!!!!
Posted by: naturalfake at September 02, 2015 07:40 PM (0cMkb)
Please nobody tell me Pat Riley is a wife beater or Muslim. I can't take much more disappointment today
Posted by: L, Elle at September 02, 2015 07:40 PM (2x3L+)
Rinse Penis and The Donald meet tomorrow afternoon in New York. Donald should leave his wallet and keys in the apartment.
Posted by: Doctor Fish at September 02, 2015 07:33 PM (OiFtZ)
..............................
Loyalty oath? No. Money? No.
You're fired.
Posted by: Donald's Ear Trumpet at September 02, 2015 07:40 PM (wAQA5)
Trump would be a better president than...?
Both Bushes. Clinton.
McCain, if he won.
Romney, maybe, if he won.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a low profile tip and ergonomical handle at September 02, 2015 07:41 PM (iGCx2)
This is the USA, not a banana republic. I will not make any loyalty oaths other than the oath I take on Jan 20, 2017.
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Have to agree.
Posted by: Seems legit at September 02, 2015 07:42 PM (Wpowu)
Both Bushes. Clinton.
McCain, if he won.
Romney, maybe, if he won.
Who the hell knows? He may completely suck at the job.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 02, 2015 07:42 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Clarney at September 02, 2015 07:43 PM (QM0v/)
Posted by: Doctor Fish at September 02, 2015 07:40 PM (OiFtZ)
Unlike the years of education and hard work it takes to be a community organizer. Now that's not a job a lazy, stupid, ignorant, good for nothing POS could fill easily.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 02, 2015 07:43 PM (DiZBp)
We adopted a 6 year old dog in March. He takes commands as suggestions.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at September 02, 2015 07:44 PM (ODxAs)
Posted by: Clarney at September 02, 2015 07:43 PM (QM0v/)
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So he should drop out?
Posted by: Soona at September 02, 2015 07:45 PM (Fmupd)
Posted by: David Brooks at September 02, 2015 07:45 PM (UlJ3l)
He may completely suck at the job.
And still be better than both Bushes, Clinton, etc. Hence my point.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a low profile tip and ergonomical handle at September 02, 2015 07:45 PM (iGCx2)
I agree with this, totally. He's very good at management and finding talent. I think Fiorina is the same way. What we've been lacking for the whole Obama administration is a capable executive.
There is a theory that each presidential change over is basically a swing away from the bad parts and weaknesses of the previous president; we had a creepy guy in Nixon then a guy people thought was nice in Carter, then a Guy who was capable in Reagan; Clinton was scum, Bush was decent but couldn't talk, Obama is charming and well spoken but incompetent, etc.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 02, 2015 07:45 PM (39g3+)
But parting thought, the media has so viciously attacked the guy that, in his mind, he now has to win the whole thing.
Unintended consequences, eh?
Posted by: prescient11 at September 02, 2015 07:46 PM (S85kT)
It's not a defense, its a question. Do you honestly believe that Ted Cruz decided to go all YOLO and just agree to something that is completely anathema to every thing he claims to stand for or do you think that maybe a lot of conservative blogs are missing the point?
The evidence is right in front of you. Since this deal was agreed to at the UN, which was long before this deal was submitted to the Senate, China, Russia, the EU and basically every country not named the US has been treating Iran like a Persian bazar. They no longer honor the sanctions agreement they had been enforcing save for some material in some cases.
That was the entire point of the sanctions agreement, international sanctions. Keep Iran in punishment mode until they agreed to stop going after nukes. The internationals sanctions ended with the UN vote. The only question now was what would the US do, have their own largely useless sanctions or fold.
And whether it is popular here or not to say Obama was never going to present this to the Senate as a treaty. Worst case, he would have let it go the courts to decide and that decision would have come down some time after he was gone from office.
The Corker/Menendez bill was a Hail Mary to try and force some public review of this shit sandwich in hopes that public pressure would force Obama to at least keep the US out but it was pretty much never going to work. But as far as keeping Iran from getting nukes, doesn't matter. It was never us that was going to give them the technology anyway.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 02, 2015 07:46 PM (OGm46)
Posted by: Charlie Rose and Tom Brokow at September 02, 2015 07:46 PM (OiFtZ)
No, just overrated as a coach and mostly a personality manager.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 02, 2015 07:46 PM (39g3+)
Because, as I've been told, anyone who gets the votes in the primaries must be supported in the general.
Electability, don't you know.
Posted by: alexthechick - Come to us SMOD at September 02, 2015 07:46 PM (IrByp)
Harry Reid: I pooped my pants.
Mitch McConnell: Mmmm, i-yup.
Posted by: Fritz at September 02, 2015 07:47 PM (3tjn4)
And still completely speculative on your part. He may well be our own 'Little Boots'.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 02, 2015 07:47 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at September 02, 2015 07:47 PM (zyIlW)
Posted by: Clarney at September 02, 2015 07:47 PM (y0dP9)
The rifles shown in the video appear to be the A2 variant of the M16 rather than the improved A4 version now used by many U.S. troops, said Sim Tack, a military analyst who studies global conflicts, including those in Iraq and Syria, for the geopolitical intelligence firm Stratfor.
The rifles also feature iron sights and lack the advanced optics most modern forces use.
Navy Cmdr. Elissa Smith, a Defense Department spokeswoman, said Pentagon officials could not confirm the authenticity of the images. The U.S. is working with Iraqi troops and moderate Syrian opposition forces to prevent the group from gaining access to American-made weapons in the future, she said.
You want to prevent them from getting US Weapons? Then STOP giving them the useless Iraqis and Syrians you assholes. Do what we used to do, give them old Soviet equipment that we got from the Israelis....oh yeah we are not that close with them under Fredo...I forgot
Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 02, 2015 07:47 PM (DUoqb)
measures to fulfill any of their policy promises to voters resorting to
extraordinary measures to save themselves and their dear, dear Donor
Class."
Why, it's enough to make on think that the GOP's claim that most of their funding comes from people donating $100 or less is complete, utter, and total bullshit - just like everything else about them.
Posted by: Fa Cube Itches at September 02, 2015 07:47 PM (RrOb6)
My guess is a Prez Trump would do none of the things he is saying. He will continue the big spending, more entitlements, more regulations and no wall or immigration stops. There will be much gnashing of teeth.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at September 02, 2015 07:47 PM (ODxAs)
Think about it folks, it's the stupid party.
Posted by: prescient11 at September 02, 2015 07:48 PM (S85kT)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 02, 2015 07:48 PM (39g3+)
In medicine they put a premium on competence. You can get away with a lot if you're a superstar.
In Washington these days, it's all optics and the press releases, not actually solving any problems or administering government competently.
Exhibit A: The Iran Deal
Posted by: Hurricane LaFawnduh at September 02, 2015 07:48 PM (laMCB)
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at September 02, 2015 07:48 PM (iQIUe)
Posted by: Senator John McCain at September 02, 2015 07:49 PM (OiFtZ)
Posted by: Jukin, Former Republican at September 02, 2015 07:49 PM (f+6Pd)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 02, 2015 07:45 PM (39g3+)
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You're kidding, right? I've never seen a colder disposition in a Prez than Baraka. And he's not well-spoken. His teleprompter is well read. Get him off the teleprompter and he sounds like he forgot where the short bus was parked.
Posted by: Soona at September 02, 2015 07:50 PM (Fmupd)
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang!
#SmertDiplomacy Yo!
Posted by: Queen Barry I at September 02, 2015 07:50 PM (awspb)
Posted by: Ready For Hillary!!11!! at September 02, 2015 07:50 PM (Dwehj)
Yeah fuck those new Ice Breakers and the Soviets invading the North Pole....I mean let's concentrate on maternity leave and transexuals
Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 02, 2015 07:50 PM (DUoqb)
This may be possibly true. I will entertain the idea but he was so handsome and sharp dressed. Please don't tell me he's dead like Buzzion
Posted by: L, Elle at September 02, 2015 07:50 PM (2x3L+)
Posted by: Harry Reid, Accused Pederast at September 02, 2015 07:50 PM (f+6Pd)
God no.
Fiorina's tenure at HP was a trainwreck.
Admittedly, HP was a trainwreck in the making by the time she arrived, but she sure as shooting didn't fix anything. She made it worse with the Compaq merger.
Fiorina should instead be studied as an example of someone who has studied -- to wit, having studied how to handle interviews with scalpel precision. That alone won't suffice. But perhaps other candidates with more electable prospects could benefit by watching her game films.
Posted by: torquewrench at September 02, 2015 07:50 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: Darth Trump at September 02, 2015 07:50 PM (JO9+V)
If he proves to be no different than Democratic or Republican sellouts on immigration, then people will be convinced that the political process is corrupt and will not address their issues.
There may be more than gnashing of teeth.
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at September 02, 2015 07:51 PM (0NdlF)
Oh yeah he's revealed himself to be a fumbling lizard when it comes to his real persona, but in 2008 when people were voting for him the first time, that was the basic perception. Charming, well spoken, godlike speaker, voice of honey and gold. Women fainting at speeches.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 02, 2015 07:51 PM (39g3+)
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And were Trump to have held the same positions and done flip-flops and been a beltway insider instead the same people with the longknives out for him now would all be telling us to sit down and shut up and just accept that he will be the nominee.
Posted by: Buzzion at September 02, 2015 07:52 PM (z/Ubi)
Strikes me as a good dose of Karma that the GOPe was so delicate and fragile that one guy who speaks his mind can contribute so much to their own self-destruction.
That says a whole lot more about how shallow the Republican Party is than any strength from Trump.
Long live Tom "I have a spine" Cotton.
Posted by: GBruno at September 02, 2015 07:52 PM (u49WF)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 02, 2015 07:50 PM (DUoqb)
Women are equal to men. Let's pay them to not work!
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at September 02, 2015 07:52 PM (0NdlF)
Posted by: prescient11 at September 02, 2015 07:52 PM (S85kT)
Posted by: Caliban at September 02, 2015 07:53 PM (3GFMN)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at September 02, 2015 07:53 PM (ODxAs)
FUCK THE GOPe!!!!
Posted by: Jukin, Former Republican at September 02, 2015 07:54 PM (f+6Pd)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at September 02, 2015 07:54 PM (8ZskC)
Fiorina's tenure at HP was a trainwreck.
People act like her entire career was 5 years a HP trying to dig out of the Dot Com collapse. She had 19 years of previous executive experience and did very, very well in all of it.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 02, 2015 07:54 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: phoenixgirl, i was born a rebel at September 02, 2015 07:54 PM (0O7c5)
Posted by: prescient11 at September 02, 2015 07:52 PM (S85kT)
he better paint it gold
Posted by: phoenixgirl, i was born a rebel at September 02, 2015 07:55 PM (0O7c5)
Posted by: Country Singer at September 02, 2015 07:26 PM (nL0sw)
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Heh. You want to talk about a disturbance in the Force? Wait until all those millennials can't text, or post to Facebook or Instagram. There would be a great gnashing of teeth and rending of clothes. They would all sit in the nearest corner and quiver.
Posted by: Old Blue at September 02, 2015 07:55 PM (9iR5/)
Posted by: KenH at September 02, 2015 07:55 PM (67f1X)
Posted by: L, Elle at September 02, 2015 07:55 PM (2x3L+)
On abortion and health care, not so consistent. On foreign policy, he has no experience and speaks in generalities (China is eating our lunch). Everything's going to be terrific, the best. But never even the most rudimentary details.
Does he even know the purpose of the federal government in the American system? (Hint: it's not to "run things," it's to defend liberty).
"Make America Great Again" is a fine slogan, but he seems not to have the slightest understanding what made America great in the past.
Posted by: Hurricane LaFawnduh at September 02, 2015 07:56 PM (laMCB)
And climate change, and don't forget renaming mountains!
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 02, 2015 07:56 PM (39g3+)
It begs the question.
Posted by: Dave C at September 02, 2015 07:56 PM (JLnbb)
Posted by: Santa at September 02, 2015 07:56 PM (W5DcG)
were doing p.r. in Mexico, i.e., giving out free shit to the poor. I
went to find more about them. I know they are violent and leave heads
all over the place. But I find a video where about 15 of them have 4
women with hand tied."
Just a reminder: before Bill Clinton, the Zetas cartel did not exist.
Then Clinton (perhaps to immunize himself about mutterings involving the Mena airport during the 1980s) decreed that the Mexican military should be allowed to send contingents up to the States, to receive the full nine yards worth of special operations training from the American military. This would, Clinton said, allow the Mexican government to subdue the narcotraficante cartels.
The guys thus trained in the latest and best spec-ops tradecraft went back to Mexico and immediately defected to work for the cartels as guns for hire, and then from that, branched out further and became a horribly murderous cartel in their own right. A policy triumph.
Remember, "government is just a word for things we decide to do together". Like, um, training Mexican drug assassins at U.S. taxpayer expense.
Posted by: torquewrench at September 02, 2015 07:56 PM (noWW6)
Actually, NONE of them sold you out. To sell you out, they'd have to have been on your side in the first place. They never were.
Posted by: Fa Cube Itches at September 02, 2015 07:57 PM (RrOb6)
I doubt Rinse will notice Trump has one hand behind his back with his fingers crossed.
Posted by: wth at September 02, 2015 07:57 PM (wAQA5)
I've been talking about a wall since the 1980's. Never seems to get built. Lots of politicians keep talking about it though.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at September 02, 2015 07:57 PM (ODxAs)
I'd say that qualifies as an eminent example of chutzpa.
... or "imminent" if you are a wise, empathetic latina ...
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 02, 2015 07:57 PM (zc3Db)
That's why I'm in the Treebeard party: I'm not for any of them, because they're not for me.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 02, 2015 07:58 PM (39g3+)
34 Democrats...
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a low profile tip and ergonomical handle at September 02, 2015 07:58 PM (iGCx2)
Posted by: Clarney at September 02, 2015 07:58 PM (y0dP9)
I don't know how you watch that stuff Bruce. I don't want it floating around in my head.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at September 02, 2015 07:53 PM (ODxAs)
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The website that posted it said so much of this shit is happening and it is censored so no one really knows about it. I rather know than not know. I had no idea how effin brutal they were. These women may have had relatives in a rival cartel but they were a threat to no one.
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at September 02, 2015 07:58 PM (iQIUe)
I'd rather have a guy who has no details in his plan than a guy who has an immensely detailed plan that is bullshit from the get-go, and that he plans to ditch thirty seconds after taking the oath of office.
See also: Mitt Romney.
Posted by: torquewrench at September 02, 2015 07:58 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: Caliban at September 02, 2015 07:58 PM (3GFMN)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 02, 2015 07:58 PM (DUoqb)
34 Democrats > 55 Republicans
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a low profile tip and ergonomical handle at September 02, 2015 07:58 PM (iGCx2)
Posted by: steve in tulsa at September 02, 2015 07:59 PM (BHByJ)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 02, 2015 07:59 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 02, 2015 07:59 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a low profile tip and ergonomical handle at September 02, 2015 07:58 PM (iGCx2)
Low bar.
2 wet turds > 55 Republicans
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 02, 2015 08:00 PM (zc3Db)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 02, 2015 08:00 PM (OMXTD)
Posted by: steve in tulsa at September 02, 2015 08:01 PM (BHByJ)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 02, 2015 07:59 PM (9mTYi)
Yes. You are correct. Thanks, Mike.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 02, 2015 08:01 PM (zc3Db)
No L, I got a ChiCorgi. Stubborn as all get out, kinda like a cat, but he is very loyal, and has a fur of tuxedo. My wife wanted him as lap dog. I am a big fan of big dogs, I always wanted a great dane too.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at September 02, 2015 08:01 PM (ODxAs)
Posted by: BurtTC at September 02, 2015 08:01 PM (TOk1P)
Posted by: Idaho Potato Commission at September 02, 2015 08:01 PM (c7vUv)
40.1% of the electorate currently self describes as Independent.... mainly because neither PARTY represents them...
so now the GOP will now FORCE the most independent Guy running to sign a loyalty pledge?
When many see THEM as the problem???
Not.... Smart...
And funny... this was a sock from earlier... but how... appropriate... good thing he never signed the WHIG's loyalty pledge...
Posted by: Abe Lincoln... at September 02, 2015 08:02 PM (qh617)
I suspect that El Gobernador Yebbie doesn't get threatened by many Mexican drug lords.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at September 02, 2015 07:23 PM (8ZskC)
You said a mouthful. Twenty years ago, the idea that drug cartels had ties to the government was pure Lyndon LaRouche crackpotism. Today? I don't think it's the least bit far-fetched.
Posted by: rickl at September 02, 2015 08:02 PM (sdi6R)
TRA LA LA
LA LA LA LA
TRA LA LA
MUTHAFUCKAS
Posted by: Asshole Banana Splits Guy at September 02, 2015 08:02 PM (/NUtA)
Posted by: BurtTC at September 02, 2015 08:01 PM (TOk1P)
Crep, ignore that. I have to rework the math. It's been a long day...
Posted by: BurtTC at September 02, 2015 08:02 PM (TOk1P)
What will we call the new party?
Posted by: Jukin, Former Republican at September 02, 2015 08:03 PM (f+6Pd)
http://honoranddaring.com/the-gop-attack-on-trump/
Posted by: Michael Sebastian at September 02, 2015 08:03 PM (MBQlV)
When many see THEM as the problem???
Posted by: Abe Lincoln...
The American voters suck, that's why we need millions of New & Improved voters.
Posted by: Your Dem and GOPe betters at September 02, 2015 08:03 PM (awspb)
Because, as I've been told, anyone who gets the votes in the primaries must be supported in the general.
Electability, don't you know.
Posted by: alexthechick - Come to us SMOD at September 02, 2015 07:46 PM (IrByp)
I said it upthread. Based on past experience it's the GOPe that need the loyalty oath. If they don't get their way they withhold support. They endorse the democrat. Or they run a write in campaign.
Why did Ron Paul never have to sign a loyalty oath? He actually ran as a third party candidate in 1988.
Posted by: Buzzion at September 02, 2015 08:04 PM (z/Ubi)
Posted by: steevy at September 02, 2015 08:04 PM (sPO3u)
Posted by: BurtTC at September 02, 2015 08:01 PM (TOk1P)
Crep, ignore that. I have to rework the math. It's been a long day...
Posted by: BurtTC at September 02, 2015 08:02 PM (TOk1P)
Make it 644th trimester.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 02, 2015 08:04 PM (TOk1P)
Top of Drudge...
Posted by: Lizzy at September 02, 2015 08:04 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a low profile tip and ergonomical handle at September 02, 2015 08:05 PM (iGCx2)
Posted by: Dr freakenfurter at September 02, 2015 08:05 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: Abe Lincoln... at September 02, 2015 08:02 PM (qh617)
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He hasn't signed it yet. He'll negotiate a deal probably. He'll probably have a counter-pledge written up for the RNC also. If the RNC refuses, then he refuses.
Posted by: Soona at September 02, 2015 08:06 PM (Fmupd)
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a low profile tip and ergonomical handle
Are you saying Republicans in DC count as 3/5s of a person?
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the #Problematic at September 02, 2015 08:06 PM (awspb)
Posted by: Buzzion at September 02, 2015 08:04 PM (z/Ubi)
They need to be held to their oaths of office, which they shit all over with the glee of retarded Occupoopers.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 02, 2015 08:07 PM (zc3Db)
Posted by: Feh at September 02, 2015 08:07 PM (Uk9e2)
You should get a Great Dane next. If you can handle a stubborn puppy, you can handle a Great Dane. They have such funny personalities. They are exactly like Scooby.
Posted by: L, Elle at September 02, 2015 08:07 PM (2x3L+)
However lame the Republican candidate may or may not be, I will not cede Supreme Court appointments to Hillary, Liz, Joe, or O'Malley.
That's just me, of course.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 02, 2015 08:07 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: Cindy Fava at September 02, 2015 08:07 PM (Dwehj)
Are you saying Republicans in DC count as 3/5s of a person?
That's about the long and short of it.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a low profile tip and ergonomical handle at September 02, 2015 08:07 PM (iGCx2)
probably. He'll probably have a counter-pledge written up for the RNC
also. If the RNC refuses, then he refuses.
Posted by: Soona at September 02, 2015 08:06 PM (Fmupd)
I think the counteroffer might be to shove bill kristol up prince rebus' bunghole.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 02, 2015 08:08 PM (TOk1P)
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at September 02, 2015 08:08 PM (27JXp)
All of this is reminiscent of ISIS. These mexican gangs already have a presence in the US. We are so effed!
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at September 02, 2015 08:08 PM (iQIUe)
Posted by: Cindy Fava at September 02, 2015 08:08 PM (Dwehj)
Yeah, appointments matter!
Posted by: Roberts and Kennedy at September 02, 2015 08:09 PM (27JXp)
Top of Drudge...
Posted by: Lizzy at September 02, 2015 08:04 PM (NOIQH)
Interesting because it IS still a felony to knowingly aid and abet an Illegal to stay in this country...
and yes, that DOES include Government employees...
Posted by: BB Wolf at September 02, 2015 08:09 PM (qh617)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September
Yeah because John Roberts needs Harriet Meyer at his side.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 02, 2015 08:09 PM (OMXTD)
Posted by: Weasel at September 02, 2015 08:10 PM (e3bId)
Posted by: MTF at September 02, 2015 08:11 PM (hxWs0)
The way the GOP makes deals he will probably get whatever he wants.
Posted by: Dr freakenfurter at September 02, 2015 08:11 PM (BO/km)
And if that's not bad enough:
"Federal law prohibits foreign nationals from participating 'directly or indirectly in the decision-making process' of federal, state, or local election-related activities."
Posted by: Lizzy at September 02, 2015 08:12 PM (NOIQH)
The way the GOP makes deals he will probably get whatever he wants.
Heh, Trump will walk away with a million in cash and 55% ownership of the GOP!
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a low profile tip and ergonomical handle at September 02, 2015 08:12 PM (iGCx2)
And how funny that ultimately one of the final nails in the GOPe coffin will be hammered in by Barbara Mikulski.
Corker just held it while she drove it in.
How low can you go?
Posted by: GBruno at September 02, 2015 08:13 PM (u49WF)
I can see you smiling in your comments L. Puppies tend to do that to people, happy for you. Before I always had Labs and they were so easy to train. This one is tough because we got him so old, but he does make us laugh alot. Plus the little bastard chases the deer out of the yard, bonus points, he won't back down to anything.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at September 02, 2015 08:13 PM (ODxAs)
The RNC is scared because he's got so much support.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 02, 2015 08:14 PM (OSs/l)
Posted by: Dr freakenfurter at September 02, 2015 08:14 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: steevy at September 02, 2015 08:14 PM (sPO3u)
Well,
we really haven't seen the limit of how far they're willing to cave.
Based on the available evidence, this posse of dickless shitweasels
would probably still be giving the store away to Ofuckhead even if there
were only 5 Dems in the Senate.
And trumpetdaddy would still be marveling at their farsightedness.
Posted by: they're doing the best they can! at September 02, 2015 08:15 PM (Eg5gJ)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 02, 2015 07:47 PM (rwI+c)
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Look me in the eye and tell me Incitatus wouldn't be better than half of our current senators.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at September 02, 2015 08:15 PM (jR7Wy)
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at September 02, 2015 08:15 PM (iQIUe)
Posted by: Chester Simms at September 02, 2015 08:15 PM (mAsos)
Posted by: A. Cooper at September 02, 2015 08:17 PM (W5DcG)
"Federal law prohibits foreign nationals from participating 'directly or indirectly in the decision-making process' of federal, state, or local election-related activities."
Posted by: Lizzy at September 02, 2015 08:12 PM (NOIQH)
Yeah ... and foreigners are not allowed to take part or donate in any way to political campaigns ... but the largest Presidential campaign rally in US history took place in a foreign nation, for foreigners, paid for, in part, by a foreign government.
Rule of Law? National sovereignty? LOL.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 02, 2015 08:17 PM (zc3Db)
Trump should pledge on the condition they do something they'll never agree to, and force them to back down or say his pledge isn't good enough.
If they do the former, he can do a victory lap for having defeated them. If they do the latter, he raises a shit storm and rides the bloody crest into the waiting arms of total party armageddon.
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at September 02, 2015 08:17 PM (27JXp)
Posted by: Jack at September 02, 2015 08:18 PM (53CCM)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 02, 2015 08:18 PM (OSs/l)
Posted by: Kim Mitchell at September 02, 2015 08:18 PM (Eg5gJ)
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You are trying to make an intellectual argument when this is emotional. People aren't supporting Trump because of his apparent flips or his past positions. They are supporting him because they are pissed off and he's the only guy who is acting like he's pissed off too. He speaks plainly, he treats the media with contempt, he doesn't back away from a fight nor does he apologize, his platform (if it can be called that) is very simple: China sucks, Mexico sucks, the Republican party is run by losers. He connects with people on a very basic level. He may lose steam because emotion can only last so long, unless that is the GOP souper geniuses keep doing (or even proposing) dumb shit like this. They keep poking the bear with a stick instead of letting the bear go back to sleep. I think they might just be starting to figure out that they aren't dealing with Christine O'Donnell or Sharon Angle or even a Chris McDaniel here, but I have confidence that they will still find a way to step on their cranks.
Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at September 02, 2015 08:19 PM (pqgPu)
Yeah, appointments matter!
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Yes, they do. Scalia, Thomas, Alito.
Two appointments away from a sane majority.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 02, 2015 08:20 PM (9mTYi)
They are, 'The Boulevard of Broken Promises'
Why do they think they are owed a promise?
Posted by: MikeTheMoose at September 02, 2015 08:21 PM (0q2P7)
I always use one for Pike but they're 10#s of pissed off slime with a mouthful of kitten sharp teeth.
Posted by: DaveA at September 02, 2015 08:22 PM (DL2i+)
Posted by: Daybrother at September 02, 2015 08:22 PM (IIFxk)
To hell with intellect this is America dammit! I'm not going to be emotional when choosing the best of the worst.
Posted by: Dr freakenfurter at September 02, 2015 08:23 PM (BO/km)
Democratic National Committee (DNC) for having "knowingly hired" an illegal alien, Cindy Nava
.....................
Debbie, meet Hillary, Huma, and Cheryl, your new block mates. Oh, you already know each other. What a small world.
Posted by: Womens Federal Prison at September 02, 2015 08:23 PM (wAQA5)
Oh, he definitely connects with people on a gut level. I just mourn that we've become a nation of feelers, not doers or thinkers.
Posted by: Hurricane LaFawnduh at September 02, 2015 08:23 PM (laMCB)
Posted by: Jack at September 02, 2015 08:18 PM (53CCM)
I will stay home or vote for some 3rd party before voting for a D.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 02, 2015 08:24 PM (OMXTD)
Posted by: Dr freakenfurter at September 02, 2015 08:25 PM (BO/km)
...then I vote to summon the meteors, and Trump's ego and wallet are the only things big enough in the race to lay fiery waste to the donor class and the RINOs. Someone up above said that if he has to eat a shit sandwich, everyone is going to eat one. This pretty much sums up a big chunk of the Trump fanbase.
I will not vote for the RINOs. They are dead to me, particularly after today.
Posted by: Locarno at September 02, 2015 08:25 PM (Ms7bu)
I won't vote for Republicans anymore.
But I'll never pull the lever for the Devil.
If a candidate comes along that I like, I'll vote.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a low profile tip and ergonomical handle at September 02, 2015 08:26 PM (iGCx2)
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People enjoy justifying their anger by rationalization. Innumerable barroom brawls start that way every Friday night. The results are universally not good.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 02, 2015 08:26 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at September 02, 2015 08:19 PM (pqgPu)
That is incorrect. A lot of Trump's support is because of his policy positions. He first rose in prominence because he was the only person who has a reasonable and correct view of the illegal invasion, which happens to be one of the most important issues there is, right now and a definite deal-breaker for those traitors who want to give aid and comfort to the illegal invasion. people also support Trump because he wants America to win - which America should always do.
This is not about emotions. This is about America, which has been beaten to a dead pulp by Barky and the Vichy GOP collaborators.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 02, 2015 08:28 PM (zc3Db)
Posted by: Tuna at September 02, 2015 08:28 PM (JSovD)
Desperation makes people do very strange things.
Trump is a creation of the Republican party. If they hadn't sold people out at every step along the way he wouldn't be in this race right now. It's their fault.
Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at September 02, 2015 08:28 PM (pqgPu)
Well said...
Trump is like the America of yesterday...
Brash... unapologetic... downright RUDE at times... willing to fight... and has a bit of a chip on its shoulder...
But rich... and gives rides to Kids in the Trump Copter....
Posted by: BB Wolf at September 02, 2015 08:28 PM (qh617)
Posted by: Ready For Choo Choo!!11!! at September 02, 2015 08:28 PM (Dwehj)
You other brothers can't deny...
Posted by: Vespers O'Houlihan at September 02, 2015 08:29 PM (OQNx4)
Posted by: Dr freakenfurter at September 02, 2015 08:29 PM (BO/km)
Oh there is a practical more logical reasons to pick Trump.
1. The End is Inevitable
1A Trump will make it EPIC!!!
1B Trump will make it Entertaining!!!
1C Trump will hopefully make it quick instead of watching it languish for several more decades.
1D. Trump will be some level of deserved retribution visited back on those whom have caused our demise.
Trump is the incarnation of the loss of Hope in reforming the Republican party, the ackowledgement that that means the end of America, and finally a reasonable desire to dish out a little justice for that fact.
Posted by: MikeTheMoose at September 02, 2015 08:29 PM (0q2P7)
Posted by: Feh at September 02, 2015 08:30 PM (Uk9e2)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 02, 2015 08:26 PM (9mTYi)
Been known to happen here as well. Damn valu-rite
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 02, 2015 08:31 PM (OMXTD)
At the rate we're going, we'll be lucky to make it to the election. I think we're about 3 race riots away from President Historic First turning on the "revolution machine".
And if we do make it, a lot of Republican voters are going to just say fvck it, they don't represent me anyway.
Posted by: GBruno at September 02, 2015 08:31 PM (u49WF)
However lame the Republican candidate may or may not be, I will not cede Supreme Court appointments to Hillary, Liz, Joe, or O'Malley.
That's just me, of course.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 02, 2015 08:07 PM (9mTYi)
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I know right. If we don't elect a Republican prezzie we might end up with a Souter or Kennedy or John "It's a Tax" Roberts.
Oh wait....
Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at September 02, 2015 08:31 PM (0LHZx)
Posted by: irongrampa at September 02, 2015 08:31 PM (jeCnD)
Get a Great Dane next. Convince your wife into a big dog as you'll need a fighter once the burning times come. Great Danes, despite their size and strength think they're lap dogs in their own minds. Their funniest problem is that they don't understand or know their own size and strength. They'll knock down their owners when they're excited accidentally and express all kinds of love once they realize they knocked down their owner/s. Though, they are such loyal dogs, they will turn into pit bulls and lock down their jaws if they sense their owner or any family member is being threatened. They'll die for you. But that's a last resort. They are by nature gentle, loving family dogs.
Get a Great Dane and thank me once you do, Guy Mohawk. It will be for you, like for me,the best decision of your life.
Is threatened.
Posted by: L, Elle at September 02, 2015 08:32 PM (2x3L+)
However lame the Republican candidate may or may not be, I will not cede Supreme Court appointments to Hillary, Liz, Joe, or O'Malley.
That's just me, of course.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 02, 2015 08:07 PM (9mTYi)
________
I know right. If we don't elect a Republican prezzie we might end up with a Souter or Kennedy or John "It's a Tax" Roberts.
Oh wait....
Posted by: HUCK / AKIN
With teh Senate "leadership" the way it is, we are virtually GUARANTEED a stealth liberal, or at least a milquetoast establishmentarian if we win in 2016.
Posted by: imp at September 02, 2015 08:33 PM (XIXZz)
I was thinking the same thing ig. Sign up and join the party!
Posted by: Dr freakenfurter at September 02, 2015 08:33 PM (BO/km)
This is not a normal election.
This election is merely to choose the form of the Destroyer.
Posted by: Locarno at September 02, 2015 08:34 PM (Ms7bu)
I **DO** know what Jeb will do as president. Amnesty, more common core, more spending, never ending pandering to minorities who will never vote for him.
Worst case scenario with Trump...he's another Obama. BEST case scenario with Jeb, he's another Obama.
So tell me exactly what I have to lose by voting for Trump.....
Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at September 02, 2015 08:36 PM (0LHZx)
What we've been getting from the Establishment is we scratch their back...
...then they tell us how *sorry* they feel that our back itches, and promise to look into doing something about it at some point in the future just as long as we vote for them in the next election.
Trump is the result.
Posted by: Ex-liberal at September 02, 2015 08:36 PM (R1mDg)
Posted by: L, Elle at September 02, 2015 08:36 PM (2x3L+)
Posted by: The GOPe at September 02, 2015 08:36 PM (laMCB)
Fill in hill not to die on...
Posted by: donna at September 02, 2015 08:37 PM (hUdMz)
So tell me exactly what I have to lose by voting for Trump.....
Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016
VULGARIAN!11!!
Posted by: George Will at September 02, 2015 08:37 PM (awspb)
Oh wait....
Posted by: HUCK
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Why do you assume that? A Democrat guarantees a Ginsburgish appointment. A Cruz appointment might very well be a Thomas or Scalia.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 02, 2015 08:38 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: Karl Blove at September 02, 2015 08:38 PM (Dwehj)
Posted by: GOPe loyalty oath first draft at September 02, 2015 08:38 PM (Eg5gJ)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 02, 2015 08:38 PM (9mTYi)
What would a Trump appointment look like?
Posted by: Hurricane LaFawnduh at September 02, 2015 08:38 PM (laMCB)
Posted by: donna at September 02, 2015 08:39 PM (hUdMz)
Posted by: Dr freakenfurter at September 02, 2015 08:40 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a low profile tip and ergonomical handle at September 02, 2015 08:40 PM (iGCx2)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 02, 2015 08:38 PM (9mTYi)
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Let's be realistic. Cruz is not going to win the presidency. If by some miracle he were to win the GOP nomination, he'd lose the general because the GOPe would do everything it could to see him lose. You'd have assholes like Kristol and the entire Fox News / National Review machine campaign for the Democrat.
Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at September 02, 2015 08:41 PM (0LHZx)
Well He admires His Lib Judge sister so....
Posted by: donna at September 02, 2015 08:39 PM (hUdMz)
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FFS what's he supposed to say, he hates his sister?
Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at September 02, 2015 08:41 PM (0LHZx)
Posted by: Dr freakenfurter at September 02, 2015 08:41 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 02, 2015 08:38 PM (9mTYi)
*****
You mentioned that you would vote to keep appointments out of the Dems hands. Fine.
What do you think a Jeb appointment would look and act like? My guess is a lot more like Sotomayor (sp?) than a Thomas or Scalia.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at September 02, 2015 08:42 PM (Gtd96)
Posted by: Dr freakenfurter
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But the only "job" O ever had was to sow discord, to destroy. That's all he knows how to do. That's why he acts as he does. He's never held a job that's forced him to take economic realities seriously. Of course Trump is superior. And that fact should "trump" (hah!) any negative intuitions you have abot the man. Oh, I'm a good little trumpkin, I am.
Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at September 02, 2015 08:42 PM (OQNx4)
Posted by: donna at September 02, 2015 08:39 PM (hUdMz)
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FFS what's he supposed to say, he hates his sister?
Did I touch a nerve?
Posted by: donna at September 02, 2015 08:42 PM (hUdMz)
But Trump would probably be like, "I know some people who know some people who assure me that this judge will be terrific, the best. You won't believe what a great judge this person will be, I'm telling you."
Posted by: Hurricane LaFawnduh at September 02, 2015 08:42 PM (laMCB)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at September 02, 2015 08:42 PM (KQTmr)
Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at September 02, 2015 08:43 PM (0LHZx)
Posted by: Weasel at September 02, 2015 08:43 PM (e3bId)
What would a Trump appointment look like?
Judge Judy, probably.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with
And what's so bad about that?,
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 02, 2015 08:43 PM (OMXTD)
Posted by: Locarno at September 02, 2015 08:34 PM
Hmmm....so. Chris Christie as the Sta Puft Marshmallow Man, or a giant Slor.
I'll be honest...gonna have to go with the giant Slor. Or possibly a large and moving Torg. Has that been done too often, do you think?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 02, 2015 08:44 PM (KrAjA)
I'd be okay with Judge Judy. Never said I wouldn't.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a low profile tip and ergonomical handle at September 02, 2015 08:44 PM (iGCx2)
I had neighbors that had Great Danes. One of them learned how to open the refrigerator and they came home after work to a serious mess. They also had scratch marks on the overhead cabinets from the dogs.
I have enough problems dealing with the new springer, but we are making progress.
Posted by: notsothoreau at September 02, 2015 08:44 PM (5HBd1)
Posted by: Large Moving Torb at September 02, 2015 08:44 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: donna at September 02, 2015 08:39 PM (hUdMz)
___________
FFS what's he supposed to say, he hates his sister?
Did I touch a nerve?
Posted by: donna at September 02, 2015 08:42 PM (hUdMz)
_____________
OK you go ahead and make your political choices based on what the candidate's sister does. That's super smart.
Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at September 02, 2015 08:45 PM (0LHZx)
In: Melina's boobs.
Posted by: TMZ at September 02, 2015 08:45 PM (laMCB)
Posted by: Snoodling World Champion 1997 at September 02, 2015 08:45 PM (k9qR4)
OK you go ahead and make your political choices based on what the candidate's sister does. That's super smart.
Lighten up Francis...
Posted by: donna at September 02, 2015 08:45 PM (hUdMz)
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a low profile tip and ergonomical handle at September 02, 2015 08:46 PM (iGCx2)
Posted by: David Souter and John Roberts at September 02, 2015 08:46 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at September 02, 2015 08:46 PM (0LHZx)
Kiss our collective asses GOPe.
Disagreement is honorable but you whores are OWNED by your pimps and now you want loyalty?
KOA>
Posted by: Lower Class person whose opinions need to be guided at September 02, 2015 08:46 PM (QYX7Q)
Posted by: Mr. Foo Foo at September 02, 2015 08:46 PM (Dwehj)
Posted by: Molly k at September 02, 2015 08:47 PM (zS+qK)
The Republican Party will have crossed the Rubicon if this insane pledge comes to fruition. There will be no turning back as the barrel goes over the falls. I just hope it is Mitch's turn inside it.
Posted by: Name names at September 02, 2015 08:48 PM (pq97T)
Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at September 02, 2015 08:48 PM (l0lja)
Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at September 02, 2015 08:46 PM
Seriously?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 02, 2015 08:49 PM (KrAjA)
Great Dane's applicability as a guard dog is about average, only useful against someone whom had no plan at all to deal with a dog. Their show breeding has taken much of the stamina of the animal and they are really only well suited as a family pet. At only 7 years average life, not a good emmotional investment.
Posted by: MikeTheMoose at September 02, 2015 08:49 PM (0q2P7)
It will be just like when the Japanese emperor came to see MacArthur...afterwards Priebus will be forced to put on some Trump gear and be sent back to RNC headquarters.
Posted by: William Eaton at September 02, 2015 08:49 PM (q52Ma)
Posted by: Weasel at September 02, 2015 08:50 PM (e3bId)
Is your husband Scots?.
It's a lovely country but unfortunately they are even farther down the socialist/pc highway than we are.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 02, 2015 08:51 PM (OSs/l)
Fify as I'd like to see it.
Posted by: Dr freakenfurter at September 02, 2015 08:51 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: Will Folkee at September 02, 2015 08:51 PM (2iV3X)
442 We got the crucial Heller decision out of the current Supreme Court lineup and anyone who claims that Dem nominees instead of Roberts and Alito would have provided the same result is either deliberately dishonest or a blitheringidiot. SC nominations have proven and will continue to prove vital.
Want your opinions taken seriously? Have serious opinions.
Posted by: MAx at September 02, 2015 08:52 PM (LAliD)
Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at September 02, 2015 08:46 PM
Seriously?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September
Since Stripes has never been on PBS, no, he hasn't seen it
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 02, 2015 08:53 PM (OMXTD)
Posted by: Feh at September 02, 2015 08:53 PM (Uk9e2)
Judge Judy would be a BRILLIANT SC justice.
She makes $45 million a year now.
Smart is as smart does.
Posted by: MAx at September 02, 2015 08:54 PM (LAliD)
Posted by: MAx at September 02, 2015 08:55 PM (LAliD)
Posted by: Weasel at September 02, 2015 08:50 PM (e3bId)
Yes, the rot has really settled in.
1. We have a second generation now of voters who can't think for themselves and are completely ignorant of history and civics.
2. We have Gen X-ers running multinational, billion-dollar businesses that have no moral compass and don't even bother to think in terms of right or wrong, just what's good for the bottom line.
3. Every major cultural and political institution is infiltrated by leftists: Academia, the Media, Hollywood, and the Permanent Bureaucracies at federal and state levels.
4. We have a generation of politicians who think that their purpose is to pander to various groups and in turn be enriched by them.
Hmm, well, I guess some things haven't changed.
Posted by: Hurricane LaFawnduh at September 02, 2015 08:55 PM (laMCB)
Posted by: Feh at September 02, 2015 08:53 PM
Humiliation? You're soaking in it!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 02, 2015 08:55 PM (KrAjA)
Posted by: MAx at September 02, 2015
Shhhh don't tell ace
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 02, 2015 08:56 PM (OMXTD)
Posted by: R.P. at September 02, 2015 08:56 PM (DtNNC)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 02, 2015 08:55 PM (KrAjA)
hey, long time no see -- anything ever come of that job interview?
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 08:57 PM (AkOaV)
Posted by: MAx at September 02, 2015
Shhhh don't tell ace
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 02, 2015 08:56 PM (OMXTD)
I'm sure Ace is drunken tweeting Megyn by now. He won't see it.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 02, 2015 08:57 PM (TOk1P)
Posted by: Sir Francis Bacon, M'Fkn Earl of Sandwich, Bitch at September 02, 2015 08:57 PM (ubWCN)
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It really can't be emphasized enough. They have assured that Choom's Lame Duck time left in office is very successful for him.
Posted by: Lady in Black....sigh at September 02, 2015 08:58 PM (pVkEV)
Posted by: MAx at September 02, 2015 08:55 PM (LAliD)
You're like Renfield to Moo Moo's Dracula.
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at September 02, 2015 08:58 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: R.P. at September 02, 2015 08:58 PM (DtNNC)
Yeah, appointments matter!
Posted by: Roberts and Kennedy at September 02, 2015 08:09 PM (27JXp)
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Roberts votes correctly 80% of the time and Kennedy about 70%. I prefer that to 0%.
Heller.
Appointments DO matter.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at September 02, 2015 08:58 PM (cN9Sk)
Waitaminute are you saying that saying that someone watches PBS is an insult?
Posted by: Dr freakenfurter at September 02, 2015 08:59 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 08:57 PM
Unfortunately, no. I think they were looking for a slightly different skill set. New Hampshire still eludes me.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 02, 2015 08:59 PM (KrAjA)
Posted by: Lady in Black....sigh at September 02, 2015 08:58 PM (pVkEV)
The American people want to see us GOVERN. And of course, everyone knows that means do what the Washington Post and New York Times want.
Posted by: Mitchens at September 02, 2015 09:00 PM (laMCB)
Posted by: Ed Anger at September 02, 2015 09:00 PM (5H/OU)
Heller.
Appointments DO matter.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at September 02, 2015 08:58 PM (cN9Sk)
Right, they vote.
They're not supposed to be voting.
They're supposed to look at the law, then look at the Constitution and say "does this fit within the confines of the constitution?"
They don't do that.
They're all a bunch of hacks.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 09:00 PM (AkOaV)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 02, 2015 08:59 PM (KrAjA)
Eh, too bad. Sorry to hear that.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 09:00 PM (AkOaV)
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It really can't be emphasized enough. They have assured that Choom's Lame Duck time left in office is very successful for him.
Posted by: Lady in Black....sigh at September 02, 2015 08:58 PM (pVkEV)
Yep. I'm trying to imagine what Obama's 2nd term would have been like with a Democrat controlled Congress, and I can't see any way it would be different from what we have.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 02, 2015 09:00 PM (TOk1P)
Yup.... we got the Heller decision, which the lower courts and groups like the California Legislature constantly ignore.
Because the Supremes did NOT really roll back a lot of the law already on the books.
Posted by: BB Wolf at September 02, 2015 09:00 PM (qh617)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 02, 2015 08:55 PM
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Now I kind of hate you.
Posted by: R.P. at September 02, 2015 08:58 PM
My work here is done.
*puts on sunglasses*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 02, 2015 09:01 PM (KrAjA)
If Boner and McTurtle don't deliver what they run on, they resign or plead guilty to Fraud. And then do time; or swing, their choice.
Posted by: anti-socialist at September 02, 2015 09:01 PM (o9lmn)
Posted by: Hurricane LaFawnduh at September 02, 2015 09:01 PM (laMCB)
442 We got the crucial Heller decision out of the current Supreme Court lineup and anyone who claims that Dem nominees instead of Roberts and Alito would have provided the same result is either deliberately dishonest or a blitheringidiot. SC nominations have proven and will continue to prove vital.
Want your opinions taken seriously? Have serious opinions.
Posted by: MAx at September 02, 2015 08:52 PM (LAliD)
The problem is that Supreme Court decisions were never supposed to be the be-all and end-all, and the last word in law. That is not a Republic; it is a dictatorship of judges.
It seems like every major dispute in the country ends up in the Supreme Court, and everybody waits with bated breath for them to issue their decree, which may or may not have anything whatsoever to do with the Constitution.
If the Supreme Court ever tries to void the Second Amendment, well... How many divisions do they have?
Posted by: rickl at September 02, 2015 09:02 PM (sdi6R)
Judge Judy is a state small claims judge -- not an appellate judge.
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at September 02, 2015 09:02 PM (iQIUe)
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 09:00 PM
Thanks. No worries. Lots of other irons in the fire. Some in NH, some down south. You never know. For now, stuck in the People's Republic.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 02, 2015 09:02 PM (KrAjA)
The GOPe needs to take a loyalty pledge.
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This is an excellent idea. Shove it back in their faces. Loyalty to their base. Loyalty to the platforms and ideals they say they stand for. This should be made into a big campaign.
Posted by: Lady in Black....sigh at September 02, 2015 09:02 PM (pVkEV)
Or is it... stay with me here.... a pledge to, if not selected in the primary, not run as a 3rd party candidate out of an H. Ross Perot level of butthurt and thus, hand the election to the CSing democrats?
Posted by: Loyalty Sledge at September 02, 2015 09:03 PM (zkw0K)
Posted by: Cpt. Goldberg, Rtd., Alaksa Republican Party chair at September 02, 2015 09:03 PM (pq97T)
Posted by: R.P. at September 02, 2015 09:04 PM (DtNNC)
Or is it... stay
with me here.... a pledge to, if not selected in the primary, not run as
a 3rd party candidate out of an H. Ross Perot level of butthurt and
thus, hand the election to the CSing democrats?
Posted by: Loyalty Sledge at September 02, 2015 09:03 PM (zkw0K)
Call it the Lisa Murkowski rule.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 02, 2015 09:04 PM (TOk1P)
Posted by: rickl at September 02, 2015 09:02 PM (sdi6R)
Marbury v Madison, man... what can ya do?
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 09:05 PM (AkOaV)
The Republican Party will have crossed the Rubicon if this insane pledge comes to fruition. There will be no turning back as the barrel goes over the falls. I just hope it is Mitch's turn inside it.
Posted by: Name names at September 02, 2015 08:48 PM (pq97T)
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My thought was that Trump should say voters gave up on pledges around the time Jeb's dad said "Read my lips, no new taxes", but I like your idea better.
Posted by: Dave S. at September 02, 2015 09:05 PM (mhkbv)
I do hereby solemnly swear to, once I'm in the majority, repeal Obamacare.
That's just a first draft.
Posted by: t-bird at September 02, 2015 09:06 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 02, 2015 09:02 PM (KrAjA)
Yeah, there are jobs out there.
On the plus side, I got my LSAT score back recently -- 166. Pretty happy with that.
Because if there's one thing this world doesn't have enough of, it's lawyers.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 09:06 PM (AkOaV)
Posted by: Ed Anger at September 02, 2015 09:06 PM (5H/OU)
Posted by: Harmund G. Goutist, Chef Extraordinaire at September 02, 2015 09:06 PM (UcCUT)
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at September 02, 2015 09:02 PM (iQIUe)
NY state family court judge for 25 years before she went to Hollywood.
But hey, can't be worse then the clowns we have now, can she?
Plus, she's hilarious.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 09:07 PM (AkOaV)
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at September 02, 2015 09:07 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at September 02, 2015 09:07 PM (iQIUe)
Posted by: Dave S. at September 02, 2015 09:05 PM (mhkbv)
**snorts**
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 02, 2015 09:07 PM (OMXTD)
Because if there's one thing this world doesn't have enough of, it's lawyers.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 09:06 PM
Nice. Welcome to the dark side. We have cookies. And AtC.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 02, 2015 09:08 PM (KrAjA)
Posted by: Hillzebub! at September 02, 2015 09:08 PM (FcR7P)
Or is it... stay with me here.... a pledge to, if not selected in the primary, not run as a 3rd party candidate out of an H. Ross Perot level of butthurt and thus, hand the election to the CSing democrats?
Posted by: Loyalty Sledge at September 02, 2015 09:03 PM (zkw0K)
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It's a pledge to not run 3rd party.
And Jeb! damned well ought to sign it.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at September 02, 2015 09:08 PM (cN9Sk)
I think Trump might be the kind of guy to tell the court to go screw itself if it renders a decision he doesn't like. Which isn't necessarily a good thing but these people do need to be reined in.
Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwatet at September 02, 2015 09:08 PM (pqgPu)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 02, 2015 09:08 PM (KrAjA)
Stoked.
And I'm pretty excited to not have to work for 3 years. That should be fun.
Or, well, at least more fun then work.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 09:09 PM (AkOaV)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 02, 2015 09:09 PM (0AxXh)
Posted by: BamaBubba at September 02, 2015 09:09 PM (vKTRb)
Posted by: MAx at September 02, 2015 08:52 PM (LAliD)
******
My irony meter blew up a Fetzer valve reading this one.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at September 02, 2015 09:10 PM (Gtd96)
Posted by: Dr freakenfurter at September 02, 2015 09:11 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: Molly k
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I've considered measures like that. But what about the recent flood of refugees into Europe? They are ruled over by a bunch of Jebs. It's doubtful if it will end well. Jebs to the left of me, Jebs to the right of me.
Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at September 02, 2015 09:11 PM (OQNx4)
Posted by: MAx at September 02, 2015 08:52 PM (LAliD)
******
My irony meter blew up a Fetzer valve reading this one.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at September 02, 2015 09:10 PM (Gtd96)
Well, my opinions are fundamentally unserious, for sure.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 09:11 PM (AkOaV)
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It's not appellate experience. Plus, she is 73. Also, Judy enjoys her life and is extremely wealthy. I doubt she would want a job with a heavy work load.
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at September 02, 2015 09:11 PM (iQIUe)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September
With nunchuck rulers. Ouch
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 02, 2015 09:12 PM (OMXTD)
Posted by: prescient11 at September 02, 2015 09:12 PM (S85kT)
Court, and everybody waits with bated breath for them to issue their
decree, which may or may not have anything whatsoever to do with the
Constitution."
The Framers, who worried incessantly about separation of powers, obviously meant to make nine unelected individuals with lifetime tenure into the ultimate arbiters of national policy at all levels.
Posted by: torquewrench at September 02, 2015 09:12 PM (noWW6)
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So what? At least she's been a judge for years.
Elena Kagan.....not.
There's no law that says you have to be an appellate judge, or a judge, or even a lawyer to sit on SCOTUS.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at September 02, 2015 09:13 PM (cN9Sk)
Posted by: Dr freakenfurter at September 02, 2015 09:13 PM (BO/km)
but I eventually sobered up and realized she'd turn out like her mother
Posted by: Feh at September 02, 2015 09:14 PM (Uk9e2)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 02, 2015 09:14 PM (0AxXh)
They are coming to get us
They are coming to get us
They are coming to get us
They are coming to get us
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at September 02, 2015 09:14 PM (iQIUe)
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at September 02, 2015 09:14 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Tuna at September 02, 2015 09:14 PM (JSovD)
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 09:11 PM (AkOaV)
******
Right there with you. I am not operating under the illusion that anyone should take them seriously though.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at September 02, 2015 09:15 PM (Gtd96)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 02, 2015 09:08 PM (KrAjA)
Stoked.
And I'm pretty excited to not have to work for 3 years. That should be fun.
Or, well, at least more fun then work.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 09:09 PM (AkOaV)
I bet you watch PBS too.
Posted by: Buzzion at September 02, 2015 09:15 PM (z/Ubi)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at September
Or brains, or common sense, I could go on but you get the point.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 02, 2015 09:15 PM (OMXTD)
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 09:06 PM
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Well done. Not guaranteed but a decent shot at a T14 school.
Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at September 02, 2015 09:15 PM (0LHZx)
Posted by: Dr freakenfurter at September 02, 2015 09:16 PM (BO/km)
I think Trump should say:
Demand. DEMAND!! Who are you to demand anything from an American citizen ??
Then name names.
Posted by: dDan at September 02, 2015 09:16 PM (hwYmz)
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Yes, this does happen. I read a lot online before so got her. This is why the early training is so critical. I read an account of the exact same thing that you described on a a Great Dane blog, a dog opening the fridge at emptying its contents all over the house. I think that's a dog with separation anxiety issues and an under trained dog. I have an excellent, well paid trainer who grew up with Great Danes so I'm not so worried as I was when I started this whole thing, but we'll see.
Posted by: L, Elle at September 02, 2015 09:17 PM (2x3L+)
Plus the Rosary of Garrote/Blade Deflection. Along with the Saint
Mechas, five of them that form the Archangel Michael Mecha.
The Penguin swung a mean yardstick.
Posted by: Jake Blues at September 02, 2015 09:17 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at September 02, 2015 09:17 PM (0LHZx)
Posted by: Sister Mary Elephant at September 02, 2015 09:18 PM (BO/km)
And I'm pretty excited to not have to work for 3 years. That should be fun.
Or, well, at least more fun then work.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 09:09 PM
I actually enjoyed law school. *waves at AmishDude* So where are you hoping to go?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 02, 2015 09:18 PM (KrAjA)
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at September 02, 2015 09
Isn't he deceased like buzzion, Thomas Sowell & Jeff Goldblum?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 02, 2015 09:18 PM (OMXTD)
Posted by: prescient11 at September 02, 2015 09:19 PM (S85kT)
Posted by: Ancient Astronaut Theorist at September 02, 2015 09:19 PM (msVAP)
he has doctor hippocratic salvific instincts
is that a potus? a cinc? a guy to confront putin?
trump makes euniks squeal
Posted by: Feh at September 02, 2015 09:19 PM (Uk9e2)
Unless you will be practicing in the immediate vicinity of the school, you need to go to the most prestigious school you can. I made the mistake of coasting on my LSAT to get a free ride to a good (but not famous) school, and it took many years of practicing to claw my way back to the top of the pile. Lawyers are all about credentials.
Posted by: wooga at September 02, 2015 09:20 PM (v2K1n)
Posted by: Blagnog at September 02, 2015 09:21 PM (0kPjF)
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 09:21 PM (AkOaV)
Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at September 02, 2015 09:15 PM (0LHZx)
Thanks.
Yeah, we'll see. Undergrad GPA was not great though, so we'll see. I'm applying to some of the top 14, but I'm not holding out hope.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 09:22 PM (AkOaV)
Posted by: Blagnog at September 02, 2015 09:22 PM (0kPjF)
Posted by: Dr freakenfurter at September 02, 2015 09:23 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: wooga at September 02, 2015 09:20 PM (v2K1n)
I plan on staying in NH for a while. Plus there are some fairly prestigious schools in Boston. So that's kind of where my heads at right now.
I guess I'd move if I had to though.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 09:23 PM (AkOaV)
Posted by: AltonJackson at September 02, 2015 09:23 PM (KCxzN)
Posted by: wooga at September 02, 2015 09:20 PM (v2K1n)
_________
Same applies to bidness school. Unless it's top 20 (maybe 25).....might as well not even bother.
Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at September 02, 2015 09:24 PM (0LHZx)
I'm not sure. Somewhere in Boston or maybe UNH. Getting my transcripts and recommendations together now and I'll throw some hail marys out there, but I'm thinking my 3.3 undergrad GPA will hold me back from anywhere too good.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 09:25 PM (AkOaV)
Posted by: wooga at September 02, 2015 09:25 PM (v2K1n)
Re Dr. Carson: as far as nerve goes this is a man who spent his career
operating on the brains of babies and children and retired with a
stellar reputation. I would say he has to have nerves of steel and the
self confidence to go along with those nerves.
Posted by: Tuna at September 02, 2015 09:14 PM (JSovD)
I expect Carson to come in 1-2 in Iowa, given the evangelical strength there.
Posted by: cm9000 at September 02, 2015 09:26 PM (8zCR+)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 02, 2015 09:26 PM (0AxXh)
Re: show breeding, I've heard the same thing about labs. I knew going in about their short life spans and I can handle that. I'll get another Great Dane after I lose her once I'm ready, maybe a boy next time. I specifically got a girl bc every breeder and trainer I spoke to before getting her said girls are more protective and fiercer bc they have the protective instincts of a mother bear with cubs. I know this a gamble and I'll lose her too early, but I'm willing to gamble now that I can afford to.
Posted by: L, Elle at September 02, 2015 09:26 PM (2x3L+)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at September 02, 2015 09:26 PM (ucDmr)
Posted by: wooga at September 02, 2015 09:25 PM (v2K1n)
I'm thinking of doing something boring and corporatey. There seems to be money in that at least. And I'll have some hefty loans to pay off when I get out, too.
But my current career path kind of sucks, so I figure I may as well jump ship now before I have kids and have to, you know, support a family.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 09:27 PM (AkOaV)
Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at September 02, 2015 09:27 PM (0LHZx)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at September 02, 2015 09:27 PM (agYzy)
Posted by: Feh at September 02, 2015 09:28 PM (Uk9e2)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at September 02, 2015 09:10 PM
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Easy fix.
Ball-bearings.
It's all ball-bearings these days.
Posted by: Fletch at September 02, 2015 09:28 PM (7d8Ef)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 02, 2015 09:26 PM (0AxXh)
Well, as a matter of fact, I've lately been identifying as a Genderqueer half Eskimo / half black who identifies as a trans*-woman but is biologically a male attracted to females.
So that's what I'm thinking I'll be going with on my applications.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 09:28 PM (AkOaV)
Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at September 02, 2015 09:27 PM (0LHZx)
I'm not sure how. I already have the degree. And as lawyers say, the inks been dry on that motherfucker for a little while now.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 09:29 PM (AkOaV)
transcripts and recommendations together now and I'll throw some hail
marys out there, but I'm thinking my 3.3 undergrad GPA will hold me back
from anywhere too good.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 09:25 PM
Not necessarily. Your LSAT/GPA and mine are identical. I got into BC, which at the time was just inside the top 20 (I haven't checked ratings lately, though). Best of luck with your applications. Keep us posted.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 02, 2015 09:29 PM (KrAjA)
So far so good. Until he quickly learned he hated being a lawyer and within 2 years he was out of the profession and back to doing what he did before going to law school.
Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at September 02, 2015 09:30 PM (0LHZx)
Posted by: Feh at September 02, 2015 09:30 PM (Uk9e2)
Yes, it is entirely possible that they are disaffected Republicans who are looking to vent, but the Left is also adept at seizing opportunity. I feel as strongly as most of you do about the GOPe, but mindless, induced bloodlust is contagious, and isn't a solution. Again, just my thoughts.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 02, 2015 09:31 PM (9mTYi)
Rince and the RINO gang think they are going to lock Trump into the big tent with them.... only too late will they realize they are the ones locked in with Trump.
Not that either side will consider themselves legally bound by anything signed. Something else Trump knows going in as well as the RINOs, but public relations are another thing entirely and happens to be his wheelhouse.
Truly Trump is the form we have selected for our Destructor. And it is going to be glorious. The Republican Party is going to die and it is going to be as messy as a bad horror film before it is over. FNC and CNN will be covering their cameras in tarps.
Personally I long to wrap my hands around the throats of Progressives, but it is clear that is only possible after first removing the Republicans for they attack from the rear any force we send forth to do battle with our true foes.
Posted by: John Morris at September 02, 2015 09:31 PM (sCRhB)
Just check every box. Who's gonna argue with you?
Posted by: Dr freakenfurter at September 02, 2015 09:31 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner, System V at September 02, 2015 09:32 PM (OQNx4)
Posted by: Feh at September 02, 2015 09:28 PM (Uk9e2)
All things in time, he's doing quite well so far. Second or third in most polls.
Posted by: cm9000 at September 02, 2015 09:32 PM (8zCR+)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 02, 2015 09:29 PM (KrAjA)
We'll see. I'm thinking I have a decent chance at BC, they weigh LSATs pretty heavily.
But yeah, will definitely keep you all posted.
...and seriously? You got the exact same score?
Crazy.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 09:32 PM (AkOaV)
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 09:29 PM (AkOaV)
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When I was looking to apply to business school I had a couple of not so hot grades. I never did it, but I was told that if I took these classes again, even well past graduating and got As it could help my cause. Kind of showing that hey I was drunk and 19 when I took it and got a C, but now at 23 and sober I can get an A if I actually try....that sort of thing.
Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at September 02, 2015 09:32 PM (0LHZx)
Posted by: Dr freakenfurter at September 02, 2015 09:31 PM (BO/km)
only a trans*phobic racist would.
At least that's what I'm banking on.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 09:33 PM (AkOaV)
Because if there's one thing this world doesn't have enough of, it's lawyers.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 09:06 PM (AkOaV)
Not bad. You probably got around triple Barky's score and he still got into Hah-vahd Lawn School.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 02, 2015 09:33 PM (zc3Db)
I'm just a sweet tranny mechanny.
Posted by: Dr freakenfurter at September 02, 2015 09:33 PM (BO/km)
Huh. I wasn't aware you could do that. Well, thanks, might be worth looking in to.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 09:34 PM (AkOaV)
Posted by: HUCK
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For a while, I did investigative work for lawyers. I had to quit. It wasn't the work, it was the coldblooded, win-at-any-cost and who-cares-what-is-just-and-what-isn't that got to me.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 02, 2015 09:34 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: Baldy at September 02, 2015 09:35 PM (sEXjW)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 02, 2015 09:33 PM (zc3Db)
I would LOVE to know what Obama got on his LSATs -- and SATs for that matter.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 09:35 PM (AkOaV)
Posted by: Feh at September 02, 2015 09:35 PM (Uk9e2)
The GOP couldn't really squawk about that too much, either, seeing as how, for example, Republican congressional candidates from New York usually seek the Conservative Party's nomination in addition to that of the Republican Party.
Otherwise, I wouldn't be surprised to see the Repugs back off on their demands for a loyalty oath until it's too late for Trump to run third-party.
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler... Trump/Camacho 2016! at September 02, 2015 09:35 PM (wKc1L)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 02, 2015 09:31 PM (9mTYi)
For the Vichy GOP, mindless bloodlust is pretty much the only reasonable solution. They worked hard to earn it, too.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 02, 2015 09:35 PM (zc3Db)
Posted by: Iblis at September 02, 2015 09:35 PM (LvRwF)
Posted by: they guy who exclaims 'Trump' at September 02, 2015 09:36 PM (8CdUx)
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 09:34 PM (AkOaV)
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Maybe law-yahs aren't so forgiving as evil bidnessmens.
What really pissed me off was when I found out at my wife's college you could retake courses if you got a D or lower and both the old grade and new grade would count in the overall GPA. Which is total bullshit since I couldn't do that and so someone from there competing against me for a spot at law/business school has an advantage.
Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at September 02, 2015 09:36 PM (0LHZx)
Posted by: Feh at September 02, 2015 09:35 PM (Uk9e2)
how much money?
Yeah, something like that.
It wasn't unreasonable. I don't remember the exact amount though. I'm sure its on lsac's webpage.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 09:36 PM (AkOaV)
..,,,
No he isn't and yes they are socialist. Why sit here and pull my hair out over the next 10 years knowing it will happen here? Let's jump to the ending.The Scottish are the nicest people I've ever met and their country is beautiful. I've been more than once.
Posted by: Molly k. at September 02, 2015 09:37 PM (zS+qK)
Well my undergrad is a BSBA so depending on where I go, I may try to go for a jd / mba. Some schools make you take the GREs, others don't... so we'll see. and we'll see how much more $$ it costs.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 09:37 PM (AkOaV)
separation of powers, obviously meant to make nine unelected individuals
with lifetime tenure into the ultimate arbiters of national policy at
all levels.
Posted by: torquewrench at September 02, 2015 09:12 PM (noWW6)
Those silly Framers, expecting that the House would actually wield its formidable "power of the purse" to reign in the behaviour of another branch of government, instead of letting an orange drunk lead the country into oblivion!
Posted by: Hrothgar at September 02, 2015 09:37 PM (ftVQq)
Has he popped up or is he missing, anyone know?
Posted by: Drider at September 02, 2015 09:38 PM (6Xbsz)
didn't work out too well...
Posted by: himself at September 02, 2015 09:38 PM (8CdUx)
Posted by: Tuna at September 02, 2015 09:38 PM (JSovD)
Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at September 02, 2015 09:38 PM (0LHZx)
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at September 02, 2015 09:39 PM (itP1/)
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 09:35 PM (AkOaV)
I can guarantee you that Barky didn't crack 920 on his SATs.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 02, 2015 09:39 PM (zc3Db)
Posted by: Feh at September 02, 2015 09:39 PM (Uk9e2)
Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at September 02, 2015 09:38 PM (0LHZx)
Right?
And hey, seems to have worked out for Romney.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 09:39 PM (AkOaV)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 02, 2015 09:39 PM (0AxXh)
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at September 02, 2015 09:39 PM (1ijHg)
That would be orgasmic, I'm not gonna lie.
Posted by: Drider at September 02, 2015 09:40 PM (6Xbsz)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 02, 2015 09:39 PM (zc3Db)
Haha, I think you get something like 200 points per section just for filling in your name on the answer sheet.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 09:40 PM (AkOaV)
Crazy.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 09:32 PM
Weird, eh? I even passed the bar on my first shot. Unlike a certain Harvard grad ex-governor I could mention who needed 3 bites at the apple. Just sayin'...
Good luck with BC. It really is a good school, and not all of the professors are communists. Or at least they weren't when I was there. Your results may vary.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 02, 2015 09:41 PM (KrAjA)
Not important: reducing government spending
Important: spending more on national defense than next 8 countries, combined
Posted by: Phyllis Balzac at September 02, 2015 09:41 PM (lU0bX)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 02, 2015 09:41 PM (KrAjA)
Thanks. I plan to just keep a low profile wherever I go.
I learned that lesson the hard way in undergrad.
Argue with the professor about politics or whatnot and it can kind of fuck you over.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 09:42 PM (AkOaV)
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Dammit. Used the September 'One Lonely Night' post last night.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 02, 2015 09:42 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at September 02, 2015 09:43 PM (cN9Sk)
Nobody expected the orange boner, confused turtle, and malignant tumor of a president. It's like a perfect storm of destruction.
Posted by: Dr freakenfurter at September 02, 2015 09:43 PM (BO/km)
I'd put lawyers before businessmen in the scale of evil. Bureaucrats too.
Posted by: cm9000 at September 02, 2015 09:43 PM (8zCR+)
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 09:40 PM (AkOaV)
Yeah ... but you can go lower with wrong answers. The minute Barky said "profit AND earnings ratios" it was clear (as he, evidently, thought that division or a ratio translates to "AND") that he topped out at 420 for his math section - and that would be if he got very, very lucky. Having read a few of his scribblings (his op-eds back in the beginning of his illegitimate tenure) and listening to him mangle the language on a regular basis led me to believe that he could not have scored above 500 for his English section (and probably scored around a 430).
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 02, 2015 09:44 PM (zc3Db)
Posted by: MAx at September 02, 2015 08:55 PM (LAliD)
You're like Renfield to Moo Moo's Dracula.
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at September 02, 2015 08:58 PM (oVJmc)
Ah, maaaaan.
I want a Renfield.
*kicks dirt*
Jeepers. I never get nuthin'.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 02, 2015 09:44 PM (KUa85)
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 09:42 PM (AkOaV)
_________
I had a couple of hard core leftie profs and I argued with them and I got good grades in their classes. One was environmental economics (no surprise there) and another was US Economic History. Back then I guess universities were still places where debate and exchange of ideas was welcome. And by back then I mean 20 years ago.
The crazy thing is my macro economics and statistics prof was a right wing lunatic...at least in relation to all the other profs.
Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at September 02, 2015 09:45 PM (0LHZx)
I would LOVE to know what Obama got on his LSATs -- and SATs for that matter.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 09:35 PM (AkOaV)
You're assuming he even took them.
Posted by: rickl at September 02, 2015 09:45 PM (sdi6R)
"It's obvious from this decision you just wrote, Justice Kermit Winkleheimer... a work of staggering stupidity, might I add... that you believe there are no limits on the Supreme Court's power. Have fun explaining that to the Senate, because we're referring you for impeachment."
- A Speaker of the House with at least one ball.
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler... Trump/Camacho 2016! at September 02, 2015 09:46 PM (wKc1L)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 02, 2015 09:46 PM (0AxXh)
Still, good luck, mynewhandle.
Posted by: SMFH at it all at September 02, 2015 09:47 PM (zyIlW)
Posted by: Buzzion at September 02, 2015 09:47 PM (z/Ubi)
Important: spending more on national defense than next 8 countries, combined
Posted by: Phyllis Balzac at September 02, 2015 09:41 PM (lU0bX)
***
Well then, those other Countries can lookout for themselves completely after Barky has put the Military on a 12/6/41 level of readiness. Right?
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at September 02, 2015 09:47 PM (Gtd96)
well, its price-earnings ratio first off.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 09:47 PM (AkOaV)
Posted by: Drider at September 02, 2015 09:47 PM (6Xbsz)
I learned that lesson the hard way in undergrad.
Argue with the professor about politics or whatnot and it can kind of fuck you over.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 09:42 PM
Never a bad idea. I kept my head down mostly, but I had fun with the kids when the ammunition lawsuits got discussed in torts. And my Con Law II professor was a complete commie. Pretty much a clone of Obama. Small class of about 10 kids, one of whom was a conservative from Africa, by way of Texas. Yeah...we had some fun with that guy. Wrong on absolutely everything. To his credit, though, he didn't try to shut us down, and actually graded fairly. I think he left, though.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 02, 2015 09:48 PM (KrAjA)
This is so short-sighted I wonder if they want President Hillary.
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They do want her. They are confident that the whole house of cards is going to come crashing down, and they want to point at the democrats and blame them for it.
While people are literally dying in the streets.
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at September 02, 2015 09:48 PM (Qvgg/)
Still, good luck, mynewhandle.
Posted by: SMFH at it all at September 02, 2015 09:47 PM (zyIlW)
I mean I'm in sales, it's not like I'm leaving a respectable profession.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 09:48 PM (AkOaV)
Posted by: Dr freakenfurter at September 02, 2015 09:48 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler... Trump/Camacho 2016! at September 02, 2015 09:48 PM (wKc1L)
*****
Should make him uniquely qualified to deal with the media then.
Posted by: Muldoon, a solid man at September 02, 2015 09:49 PM (mvenn)
Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at September 02, 2015 09:49 PM (0LHZx)
The crazy thing is my macro economics and statistics prof was a right wing lunatic...at least in relation to all the other profs.
Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at September 02, 2015 09:45 PM (0LHZx)
I caused a mini revolt in my macro class. Had the whole class calling the adjunct professor a communist and ignoring him. Because, well, he was a communist and worth ignoring. He tried to give us all D's, we had to go to the department head.
Long story short, I got a B.
Which sucks, because I should have got an A.
But yeah, other than that I mostly bit my tongue.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 09:50 PM (AkOaV)
Posted by: Mr Wizard at September 02, 2015 09:50 PM (hCdMd)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 02, 2015 09:50 PM (0AxXh)
Posted by: Mr Wizard at September 02, 2015 09:50 PM (hCdMd)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 02, 2015 09:50 PM (0AxXh)
Posted by: dogfish at September 02, 2015 09:51 PM (jWtyG)
prof was a right wing lunatic...at least in relation to all the other
profs.
Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at September 02, 2015 09:45 PM (0LHZx)
It would be crazy to find a right wing Prof on almost any campus today.
Posted by: cm9000 at September 02, 2015 09:51 PM (8zCR+)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 02, 2015 09:51 PM (0AxXh)
Posted by: Mr Wizard at September 02, 2015 09:51 PM (hCdMd)
@cnnbrk CORRECTION: 307,000 veterans died awaiting Veterans Affairs health care, report says. http://cnn.it/1L6zgSY
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 02, 2015 09:51 PM (JmGFJ)
I'm just looking forward to the whole "living breathing document" part of con law.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 09:52 PM (AkOaV)
Posted by: Dr freakenfurter at September 02, 2015 09:52 PM (BO/km)
Nah.. Can't do that. Gotta get good grades.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 09:53 PM (AkOaV)
and when it does, the good men who did nothing will point and say see?
and they expect us to reward them?
Posted by: Feh at September 02, 2015 09:53 PM (Uk9e2)
668 Wasn't it in Alabama where the front runner was way too conservative for the GOPe but was a member of the Repubs. They still bent him over, so I'm thinking there's no need to sign a loyalty oath.
Posted by: dogfish at September 02, 2015 09:51 PM (jWtyG)
Murkowski. Arlen Specter. Dick Lugar. Etc.
Yeah it's the outsider candidates that should be signing the loyalty oaths and pledging not to run if they lose the primary.
Posted by: Buzzion at September 02, 2015 09:53 PM (z/Ubi)
Posted by: Clodhoppers on the Resolute Desk at September 02, 2015 09:53 PM (mvenn)
Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at September 02, 2015 09:53 PM (0LHZx)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at September 02, 2015 09:53 PM (zyIlW)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 02, 2015 09:54 PM (0AxXh)
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 09:48 PM (AkOaV)
****
Been in Sales my whole career. Companies may or may not be honorable. It is up to the Salesperson whether their career is honorable or not.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at September 02, 2015 09:54 PM (Gtd96)
Not important: reducing government spending
Important: spending more on national defense than next 8 countries, combined
Posted by: Phyllis Balzac
The fun really starts when the US stops the heavy lifting and those 8 countries have to start spending on there own defense. The vacuum of America's declining power is currently being made. You may not like the outcome. Hell hath no fury than unintended consequences scorned.
Posted by: puddleglum at September 02, 2015 09:54 PM (NGd+i)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 02, 2015 09:46 PM
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Love it.
[Asst.]: Oh, McManus, the patient in the West Wing...
[Dr. Seward]: Yes?
[Asst.]: He's 'aving a conniption fit.
[Dr. Seward]: Oh, give him an enema.
[Asst.]: An enema?
[Dr. Seward]: Yes! It'll give him a feeling of accomplishment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNX4nLvIP0Q
Posted by: Fletch at September 02, 2015 09:54 PM (7d8Ef)
Posted by: rickl at September 02, 2015 09:54 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at September 02, 2015 09:53 PM (0LHZx)
Oh, I was warned in high school.
By a really cool teacher, who was also a (closet) conservative. Retired lawyer, as a matter of fact.
She said, "my husbands a college professor. Trust me, you need to be quiet about your political views if you want to graduate with a good GPA"
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 09:54 PM (AkOaV)
Posted by: TJ Camper at September 02, 2015 09:55 PM (7d8Ef)
conciliatory? passive aggressive?
besides, isn't acting presidential ... premature?
Posted by: Feh at September 02, 2015 09:56 PM (Uk9e2)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at September 02, 2015 09:54 PM (Gtd96)
Well, I suppose the same is true of lawyers and politicians too, but lets face it -- sales people do not have the best reputation.
So much so that I've been in sales for years and worked for several companies in sales roles and yet never had the word "sales" on my business card.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 09:56 PM (AkOaV)
You know, like classy like. Something we haven't seen for a while.
Posted by: Dr freakenfurter at September 02, 2015 09:57 PM (BO/km)
*spit*
Posted by: SMFH at it all at September 02, 2015 09:53 PM (zyIlW)
Well, if they didn't die the first time.
Posted by: cm9000 at September 02, 2015 09:57 PM (8zCR+)
Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at September 02, 2015 09:58 PM (0LHZx)
Similar thoughts here.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille
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Yeah. I only checked a couple that I had not seen before, and sure enough, new to the list. When the mob starts shouting "Hang 'em, hang 'em!", it's time for a rational person to become introspective. It's easy to join the mob, more difficult to be pragmatically objective.
The thing is, I've been an independent ever since observing the Democratic Convention in '68. I've been subject the crap shoveled out both parties, and owe loyalty to neither, but the process is going to take place, and my intent is take the path that serves the Republic the best.
Somehow, stamping my foot, or holding my breath, or hoping for collapse, doesn't strike me as the right way. There have been too many men who refused to surrender, who did not just throw down their arms because they were being overrun for me to throw down mine and surrender.
I'm ready to let the nomination process work its way through, and to vote in the primaries and general for the person I think best. Saul Bellow once said, "Sooner or later, you have to take whatever weapons you have and march to the front."
I'd be a lot happier if the vitriol was being registered at HuffPo et al towards the Dems.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 02, 2015 09:58 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: Dr freakenfurter at September 02, 2015 09:59 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: Dr freakenfurter at September 02, 2015 09:59 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at September 02, 2015 09:45 PM (0LHZx)
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I felt like most of my finance and economics professors were at least right leaning, with a few notable exceptions.
I had one guy in particular that made a point of mocking Keynesian theory as an ever increasing pile of garbage, the easier and easier it gets to move money around the globe. That was a while ago, and it hasn't gotten any less true. It's a good one to hold on to when progressives snark and laugh at "old ideas".
Posted by: Dave S. at September 02, 2015 09:59 PM (mhkbv)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 02, 2015 09:58 PM (9mTYi)
______
You'd be banned after 3 comments.
Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at September 02, 2015 09:59 PM (0LHZx)
https://youtu.be/mBBuzHrZBro
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 02, 2015 10:01 PM (0AxXh)
Posted by: cm9000 at September 02, 2015 10:02 PM (8zCR+)
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015
Sometimes you say the dumbest, head scratching things
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 02, 2015 10:02 PM (OMXTD)
Iraq didn't kill me, but I'll be damned if I allow VA to get anywhere near me to finish the task.
Posted by: SMFH at it all at September 02, 2015 10:02 PM (zyIlW)
Posted by: Dr freakenfurter
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McKinley?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 02, 2015 10:02 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler... Trump/Camacho 2016! at September 02, 2015 10:02 PM (wKc1L)
Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at September 02, 2015 09:58 PM (0LHZx)
Well, I've been an "account manager" an "account executive" and a "specialist" (which I thought was more of a rank than a title, but whatever).
But I had "sales meetings" and "sales managers"
So I dont know.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 10:02 PM (AkOaV)
Emanations. Penumbras.
Posted by: Pope Francis at September 02, 2015 10:02 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 09:52 PM
*snort*
Yeah...have fun with that whole "substantive due process" thing. If you want to make heads explode, use Bork's explanation of how Brown v. Board of Ed. could have gotten the same result with an originalist analysis. They'll be cleaning brains out of the light fixtures for weeks.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 02, 2015 10:03 PM (KrAjA)
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015
Sometimes you say the dumbest, head scratching things
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 02, 2015 10:02 PM (OMXTD)
Well that didn't seem civil or organic.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 10:03 PM (AkOaV)
I'm sorry. Tried sales is a variety of fields. Fair-to-middling but just not me. If you're good at and like it, I guess, it's your thing.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at September 02, 2015 10:03 PM (agYzy)
Agreed Mike. It would be nice if that stick had a sharp point though.
Posted by: Dr freakenfurter at September 02, 2015 10:04 PM (BO/km)
I really want to argue that I think Lochner was excellent case law and decided correctly.
But I won't. Probably.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 10:04 PM (AkOaV)
Posted by: Dr freakenfurter
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Presidents haven't been presidential for as long as I can remember. Jerking off on your mistress' blue dress, or attending a church for 20 years where the pastor says "Gawd Dayum America!" are unpresidential. OTOH, I don't see how Trump calling out Bush on being a pandering douchebag ashamed of his native language is unpresidential. He's merely pointing out a relevant fact in someone running for president. What do you even mean by "presidential"?
And I'm more convincing than Tim Curry.
Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at September 02, 2015 10:04 PM (OQNx4)
Posted by: Dr freakenfurter
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*inventories ordnance*
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 02, 2015 10:05 PM (9mTYi)
But to be fair, I do say dumb things all the time. And I scratch my head a lot.
So, maybe you have a point.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 10:06 PM (AkOaV)
Posted by: Dr freakenfurter at September 02, 2015 10:06 PM (BO/km)
So I get to deal with a variety of salesmen. There are some I like and some I don't. There's one guy who I like, but my God, he'll talk your ear off. He's already asking me a second or third question while I'm trying to answer his first one.
I'm not a people person at all. I could never hack being a salesman.
Posted by: rickl at September 02, 2015 10:06 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 02, 2015 10:08 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at September 02, 2015 10:02 PM (zyIlW)
Stay far away from the VA dear.
Posted by: cm9000 at September 02, 2015 10:08 PM (8zCR+)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at September 02, 2015 10:08 PM (75uvI)
Posted by: chemjeff at September 02, 2015 10:08 PM (2XMpf)
Well then, you're at the right place. This place makes me feel kinda smart.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at September 02, 2015 10:08 PM (agYzy)
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 10:03 PM (AkOaV)
Sue me
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 02, 2015 10:08 PM (fgSDS)
Posted by: chemjeff at September 02, 2015 10:08 PM (2XMpf)
Bitch Set Me Up!
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at September 02, 2015 10:09 PM (iQIUe)
Posted by: Dante at September 02, 2015 10:09 PM (+jCL5)
But I won't. Probably.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 10:04 PM
Whatever you do, have fun with it.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 02, 2015 10:09 PM (KrAjA)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 02, 2015 10:08 PM (fgSDS)
Hah.
Seriously though, you've shot a few sideways comments my way recently -- did I do / say something or are you just being misanthropic in general?
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 10:09 PM (AkOaV)
Posted by: rickl
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And yet... you have sold me on that idea.
This one of those weird reverse psychology things you salespeople use, no?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 02, 2015 10:09 PM (9mTYi)
No, it's not but it's who he is and he owns it. I give him credit for that. Plus he seems to truly enjoy trolling Bush.
Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at September 02, 2015 10:09 PM (pqgPu)
The WWII French in 1940.
The Argentines in the Falklands War.
The Ethiopians in 1936.
Poland in 1939.
The Iraq Army in 1991 and 2003.
These forces all fought harder and with more success than the GOPe. Just surrender already GOPe, you losers.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 02, 2015 10:10 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 09:47 PM (AkOaV)
I didn't even care about that mistake. Your run-of-the-mill imbecile can make that mistake. But to use "AND" to express a ratio ... that is the sort of mind-numbing stupidity that most normal people never even come into contact with. Even giving Barky a ton of slack on the fact taht he didn't know it was "price" to earnings ... or that he was too dumb to realize that profits and earnings are the same thing ... small potatoes compared to the serious stupidity that it takes to say "AND" for the ratio. That made it clear that Barky couldn't handle even the simplest mathematical word problem and pretty solid evidence that 420 was the absolute ceiling (on his best day) for his math SAT score.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 02, 2015 10:10 PM (zc3Db)
That'd be a nerp, Bruce. Dr. Frank N. Furter proudly boasted... in song, even... about being "just a sweet transvestite". Whereas Bruce's followers try to claim on his wikipedia page that Bruce has always been a woman, and was just posing as a man in the 1976 Olympics.
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler... Trump/Camacho 2016! at September 02, 2015 10:10 PM (wKc1L)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 02, 2015 10:09 PM (KrAjA)
Oh, I plan to.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 10:10 PM (AkOaV)
Posted by: puddleglum at September 02, 2015 10:11 PM (NGd+i)
Yeah, well, I think it's fair to say that he's not exactly... business savvy.
What was his undergrad major anyways?
Probably something dumb. Like Communications.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 10:11 PM (AkOaV)
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 09:56 PM (AkOaV)
*****
Account Executive, Account Manager, Business Development, Customer Engagement....whatever.
I used to be National Sales Manager. I am now National Director of Customer Engagement. What do we do? Sell people stuff. Call it what you will.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at September 02, 2015 10:12 PM (f9BrB)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at September 02, 2015 10:12 PM (zyIlW)
Why be so quick to roll over on that issue?
Posted by: Saltydonnie at September 02, 2015 10:12 PM (zBwYh)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at September 02, 2015 10:13 PM (zyIlW)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at September 02, 2015 10:13 PM (W5DcG)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at September 02, 2015 10:12 PM (f9BrB)
"National Director of Customer Engagement" does sound more impressive than "salesguy" though.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 10:13 PM (AkOaV)
I'm not sure. Somewhere in Boston or maybe UNH. Getting my
transcripts and recommendations together now and I'll throw some hail
marys out there, but I'm thinking my 3.3 undergrad GPA will hold me back
from anywhere too good.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 09:25 PM
Not necessarily. Your LSAT/GPA and mine are identical. I got into BC, which at the time was just inside the top 20 (I haven't checked ratings lately, though). Best of luck with your applications. Keep us posted.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 02, 2015 09:29 PM (KrAjA)
It really depends on when you applied. An application with those numbers in 2010 would have had a much tougher shot than ten years earlier. Fortunately, the fact that applications to law school have taken a beating lately might help.
If you want to get a sense of what your odds are, when I applied, 1 point on the LSAT usually translated to .1 GPA.
mynewhandle, are you familiar with the site lawschooltransparency.com? If you're going to go to law school, please take a look at that first. That will give you a better sense of what your prospects will be from graduating from a school. Law schools have had a habit of fudging their employment stats significantly. In a fairer world, I honestly think people would have gone to jail for it.
Also, have you spent any at a law firm?
Posted by: AD at September 02, 2015 10:14 PM (s4wTA)
To compare thus debases the Italians, French, Ethiopians, Polish, Argentines, and, Iraqis.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at September 02, 2015 10:14 PM (agYzy)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler... Trump/Camacho 2016! at September 02, 2015 10:15 PM (wKc1L)
Posted by: Lower Class person whose opinions need to be guided at September 02, 2015 10:15 PM (34uME)
Fuckers.
Posted by: SMFH at it all at September 02, 2015 10:15 PM (zyIlW)
I'll definitely check the site out.
And the only time I've spent inside law firms was when I was facing criminal charges and needed a lawyer.
Not a big fan of lawyers in general.
. Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 10:15 PM (AkOaV)
Probably something dumb. Like Communications.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 10:11 PM (AkOaV)
Not sure, but it was the same as Wayne Allen Root's (who was at Columbia at the same time and said that he never saw Barky there and no one he knew had any recollections of the Indonesian douchebag). Root offered $10,000 for Barky's grades and LSATs because he claimed that he beat Barky on both accounts and didn't get accepted to Hah-vahd Law.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 02, 2015 10:15 PM (zc3Db)
Similar thoughts here.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille
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Yeah. I only checked a couple that I had not seen before, and sure
enough, new to the list. When the mob starts shouting "Hang 'em, hang
'em!", it's time for a rational person to become introspective. It's
easy to join the mob, more difficult to be pragmatically objective.
The thing is, I've been an independent ever since observing the
Democratic Convention in '68. I've been subject the crap shoveled out
both parties, and owe loyalty to neither, but the process is going to
take place, and my intent is take the path that serves the Republic the
best.
Somehow, stamping my foot, or holding my breath, or hoping for
collapse, doesn't strike me as the right way. There have been too many
men who refused to surrender, who did not just throw down their arms
because they were being overrun for me to throw down mine and surrender.
I'm ready to let the nomination process work its way through, and to
vote in the primaries and general for the person I think best. Saul
Bellow once said, "Sooner or later, you have to take whatever weapons
you have and march to the front."
I'd be a lot happier if the vitriol was being registered at HuffPo et al towards the Dems.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 02, 2015 09:58 PM (9mTYi)
Some of you guys want to save the Republican Party. Have at it.
Some of us want it dead. And not all of us are noobs to this site.
You can argue all day long if you like, but I've been watching this Party destroy itself. I'm not doing it. They are. And the longer they stick around, the worse it is.
You want to worry about a President Hillery? Great. YOUR Party is allowing the ghouls to slaughter babies and sell the parts.
Tell me why I should give a damn if they keep their cushy jobs, where they can suck the marrow out of dead babies?
Why?
Posted by: BurtTC at September 02, 2015 10:15 PM (TOk1P)
These things happen every once in a blue moon in American politics. And a big one is happening now.
Don't sweat it. We'll either emerge stronger than before, or we won't and this "experiment" will come to an end. We'll live or we'll die. No biggie.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at September 02, 2015 10:16 PM (dvuhZ)
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 10:11 PM (AkOaV)
To be precise, he's a fucking retard.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 02, 2015 10:16 PM (zc3Db)
http://tinyurl.com/qbhsvo8
And if you don't like it, here's their response to you.
http://tinyurl.com/qx5ffnt
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at September 02, 2015 10:18 PM (W5DcG)
Posted by: t-bird at September 02, 2015 10:18 PM (FcR7P)
Hah.
Seriously though, you've shot a few sideways comments my way recently -- did I do / say something or are you just being misanthropic in general?
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2
Never ask questions that you don't know the answer to. Oh that's depositions and court rooms. Sometimes your comments IMHO are thought out. For example the sales profession crack. And no, I'm not a salesman
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 02, 2015 10:18 PM (fgSDS)
Posted by: SMFH
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I am the greatest female athlete of all time.
Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at September 02, 2015 10:19 PM (OQNx4)
Peak Stupid
Posted by: t-bird at September 02, 2015 10:18 PM (FcR7P)
Ha, wow.
I'd sue for gender discrimination. If a chick set a dude in HR naked selfies, she'd probably be promoted before her first day.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 10:19 PM (AkOaV)
lawschooltransparency.com? If you're going to go to law school, please
take a look at that first. That will give you a better sense of what
your prospects will be from graduating from a school. Law schools have
had a habit of fudging their employment stats significantly. In a
fairer world, I honestly think people would have gone to jail for it.
Also, have you spent any at a law firm?
Posted by: AD at September 02, 2015 10:14 PM
^^^^^ All of this. Make sure you're going into the profession with eyes wide open.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 02, 2015 10:20 PM (KrAjA)
I'd be a lot happier if the vitriol was being registered at HuffPo et al towards the Dems.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 02, 2015 09:58 PM (9mTYi)
The gope will never be any better than it is right now.
This country is destined for a complete social and economic upheaval.
Nothing can stop it.
The only thing that can be done is to prepare and work to guide the changes and guide the recovery.
Stopping it is fantasy smothered in delusion sauce.
Posted by: Positive Waves at September 02, 2015 10:20 PM (MQEz6)
Others have said it better, but, it's funny how this is turning to be a class struggle more than a left/right struggle. The upper/ruling/government class vs. the middle and lower classes.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at September 02, 2015 10:20 PM (agYzy)
Posted by: Anthony Weiner at September 02, 2015 10:20 PM (KCxzN)
What was his undergrad major anyways?
Probably something dumb. Like Communications.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 10:11 PM (AkOaV)
Umm...I think Teh Sarah majored in Communications.
Posted by: rickl at September 02, 2015 10:20 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 10:13 PM (AkOaV)
*****
Hence the reason for the Semantic Idiocy that is my title. I am a Sales guy who has 4 Regional Sales Managers and 12 Sales People who report to me.
Bottom line, all of us are Sales people.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at September 02, 2015 10:21 PM (f9BrB)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 02, 2015 10:18 PM (fgSDS)
...are NOT thought out? Fair enough. I am typing in an internet comment section.
And I'm in sales, I think it's okay for me to say it's not the most reputable profession.
But sorry if you were offended by my self-deprecating humor.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 10:21 PM (AkOaV)
http://tinyurl.com/qbhsvo8
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at September 02, 2015 10:13 PM (W5DcG)
Funny how immigration only goes one way. Into the racist, Imperialist West.
Posted by: cm9000 at September 02, 2015 10:22 PM (8zCR+)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler... Trump/Camacho 2016! at September 02, 2015 10:22 PM (wKc1L)
Posted by: Dr freakenfurter at September 02, 2015 10:22 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: rickl at September 02, 2015 10:20 PM (sdi6R)
*****
So did my Ex. Got an MBA in it even. Did not stop her from being really, really bad at Communicatating. (Intentional)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at September 02, 2015 10:23 PM (f9BrB)
Not a big fan of lawyers in general. .
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 10:15 PM (AkOaV)
I recommend finding a way to work for one, even as an intern, whether in your spare time, the summer beforehand, weekends, whatever, just so you know what you're getting into. Whatever people say, law degrees really aren't translatable into other fields--so, know what you're getting yourself into and that you'll actually like it.
Also, I'll second what somebody said earlier: If you go, go to either one of the very top national schools or the most prestigious school in your area. I'm not saying it's fair, but the legal field is snobby as hell. Law school grades also aren't as predictable as undergrad, so you can't have as much faith in just putting your nose to the grindstone at a lower ranked school and acing all your tests--everybody's going to show up to your school with the intention of being in the top 10%.
Posted by: AD at September 02, 2015 10:23 PM (s4wTA)
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 10
I didn't see it. My bad.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 02, 2015 10:24 PM (fgSDS)
-'People' (as in, non-elites) will start noticing how much of a pain in the ass elites are becoming.
-This will start with a basic ignoring of the power structures the elites bring to bear, and will escalate to active rebellion (social, financial, and finally physical) until the elites are brought back within acceptable boundaries.
Same dynamic happens within smaller structures as it does across larger constituencies, like countrys.
Just slower (or much faster) sometimes, and in different regions.
Posted by: The Ban Nail at September 02, 2015 10:26 PM (k/ikp)
Posted by: AD at September 02, 2015 10:23 PM (s4wTA)
True.
Yeah, I mean all good advice, I appreciate it.
And I've been working on getting a job with a big firm in NH -- I have a pretty good "in" at one.
But at the end of the day, my real goal would be to work for my old company or a similar sized corporation signing off on contracts, responding to RFQs, etc. I basically did that role as a salesperson, then handed the paperwork to the lawyer who made $200,000 a year to sign a paper with all boilerplate language and work from home 4 days a week.
And I'm weird in that I actually enjoy reading contracts.
But we'll see.
I'm not really much of a "career planner" type. More of a go with the flow type.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 10:26 PM (AkOaV)
These things happen every once in a blue moon in American politics. And a big one is happening now.
Don't sweat it. We'll either emerge stronger than before, or we won't and this "experiment" will come to an end. We'll live or we'll die. No biggie.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at September 02, 2015 10:16 PM (dvuhZ)
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We're already at the point where the government is largely viewed as illegitimate, and that is only going to grow. They are trying to do a slow bleed on our finances, in a number of different ways, to keep things contained under the surface. The entitlements are coming to a crash course with reality, and all it takes are the young people in the next generation or 2 to get the shaft. That is going to happen. The young will be paying for our sins with no prospects for a renewal, and with a government that is effectively one party in action. It will happen.
No guarantees what comes next is going to be any better, or that we will be purified in any way. Great odds, with our education system, that what comes next will be worse.
Posted by: Dave S. at September 02, 2015 10:28 PM (mhkbv)
Posted by: Jean at September 02, 2015 10:28 PM (ztOda)
Yes. It's a movie we've all seen many times but somehow, someway the instigators have never learned the lesson. They always think it will work this time.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at September 02, 2015 10:29 PM (agYzy)
Posted by: cm9000 at September 02, 2015 10:30 PM (8zCR+)
That used to lock things up for marketing girls, back in the day.
Posted by: Jean at September 02, 2015 10:31 PM (ztOda)
What's Trump's poll percentage again, for a guy everyone admits is a blowhard, adulterer, loudmouth, etc. etc. And someone who truly is a RINO? Except, by being with the people on one thing, he may be the most Republican candidate of all right now.
American history shows that when the people get fed up with immigration they consider too massive, they shut it down. That is what is going to happen again; all the GOPe needs to ask itself if it wants a firing squad or a hanging, because it ain't winning, and it may have already blown its chance of surviving the blowback.
Posted by: Horatius at September 02, 2015 10:31 PM (UKhBB)
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 10:26 PM
Well, if we ever get around to having another NEMoMee, we can fill your ears with all kinds of advice and war stories. That sort of thing always goes better with drinks, anyway.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 02, 2015 10:32 PM (KrAjA)
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 10:26 PM (AkOaV)
******
$200K jobs signing off on contracts are not the gigs newbie Lawyers get. Whoever is doing that spent years eating Raman and sweating loans.
Please, please intern somewhere before making this time and cash investment.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at September 02, 2015 10:33 PM (f9BrB)
Then I'm probably not telling you anything you don't already know, but talk to the in-house guys at your firm about what they did and the odds. Also, as much fun as it would be, don't count on the 4 days from home bit.
Posted by: AD at September 02, 2015 10:33 PM (s4wTA)
Perfect symbol of what this presidency hath wrought.
Posted by: Tuna at September 02, 2015 10:33 PM (JSovD)
The left-right axis is a gross oversimplification anyway. You need more than one dimension to plot someone's position in the political space. And a lot more than one, really. The current dynamic exposes that oversimplification. You can't explain the current fault lines using it.
Trump has exposed a lot of stuff, and I realize now that our own "conservative elite" are as bad as the proggies. They went to the same schools and have the same elite disdain for flyover country as any limousine liberal ever did.
That stupid left-right axis would plot us close together. But plot us properly on a multi-D chart and you'd see just how far apart we really are.
They are "international" and despise nationalism as much as any lefty, for instance.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at September 02, 2015 10:34 PM (dvuhZ)
Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at September 02, 2015 10:35 PM (OQNx4)
Imagine what that would to today's technology....
A coronal discharge like that - today - would wind up killing the majority of the people in the US. When the power grid goes down - so does water and sewage treatment. Food spoils without refrigeration, refineries shut down, trucks and cars stop running. We would essentially be knocked back into the 18th century. 18th century technology can't support very big cities. Food riots all over the country - millions and millions dead. There is a reason the first thing the US military does in a war is knock out the electrical power system.
Posted by: An Observation at September 02, 2015 10:37 PM (DaJsB)
Posted by: AltonJackson at September 02, 2015 10:37 PM (KCxzN)
Good words, publius.
It's not conservative vs. liberal anymore. It's much more than that.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at September 02, 2015 10:37 PM (agYzy)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at September 02, 2015 10:38 PM (zyIlW)
Posted by: AD at September 02, 2015 10:33 PM (s4wTA)
Ha, yeah, that all came with seniority. The juniorer lawyers have to actually work. But I don't mind working.
But my point is I'm not really planning on going "big law firm" route.
But we'll see. Like I said, I have no idea. I'll take it as it comes.
I'm sure I'll have real questions and be more "invested" in the process as it all becomes more real to me. Right now, I'm still in the "I did surprisingly well on the LSATs and am happy" stage. Not the "lawyerin' sucks as much as any other job" stage.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 10:38 PM (AkOaV)
We've seen this kind of delusion before. People who can't wrap their minds around the fact that they are a small minority and their priorities aren't important to the majority of the public often run on about "revolutions" and such things. It's empty talk and always has been throughout our country's history.
The system is designed, intentionally, to stifle such movements before they begin. Blame James Madison.
Posted by: trumpetdaddy at September 02, 2015 10:38 PM (ljZD2)
Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner
21st century schiziod man much?
Posted by: Dr freakenfurter at September 02, 2015 10:38 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: Jean at September 02, 2015 10:39 PM (ztOda)
have as much faith in just putting your nose to the grindstone at a
lower ranked school and acing all your tests--everybody's going to show
up to your school with the intention of being in the top 10%."
And then of course at certain schools you will have some guy show up who would never even have come close to being admitted via objective meritocratic admissions, and that guy will immediately be named the president of the law review, and he won't do a lick of the actual work himself. Won't even submit a signed article under his own name. Oh, and he'll be excused from performing the normal law school course load on the basis of "his obvious brilliance", and nevertheless be awarded top grades for the work he didn't do.
Not that any of this would ever happen in reality. Heavens no.
Posted by: torquewrench at September 02, 2015 10:39 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at September 02, 2015 10:37 PM (agYzy)
****
Real simple. Minus any significant changes, it is Us VS. Them.
We are at end stage.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at September 02, 2015 10:40 PM (f9BrB)
Posted by: trumpetdaddy at September 02, 2015 10:38 PM (ljZD2)
Hi trumpetdaddy.
By James Madison, you mean the guy was part of a small minority whose priorities weren't important to the majority of the public and who ran on about "revolutions" and such things?
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 10:40 PM (AkOaV)
Trump need merely ask that the RNC pledge not to tamper in any shape or form, direct or indirect, with the selection process.
RNC won't. So whenever the trump card needs to be played he can state that RNC refused to pledge not to tamper with the nomination. Or that they broke their end of the deal and 'defaulted' on the contract... because one way or another RNC will (already have) tamper with the process.
Posted by: Burnt Toast at September 02, 2015 10:41 PM (NaeCR)
Posted by: rabidfox at September 02, 2015 10:41 PM (qkVCT)
While I dislike the 30-year Senators as much as the next guy, why would "you're limited to 12 years, then you can go make $5 million a year in a no show lobbying job" change anything?
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 10:42 PM (AkOaV)
priorities weren't important to the majority of the public and who ran
on about "revolutions" and such things?"
Unless you have a foreign power hostile to the current government that is willing to provide troops and materiel to facilitate your revolution, as the Founders relied upon the French to do, yeah, I think your attempted analogy breaks down right there.
Posted by: trumpetdaddy at September 02, 2015 10:44 PM (ljZD2)
I believe you are right. We are headed toward a "correction." What it looks like yet is to be seen.
Gird your loins.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at September 02, 2015 10:44 PM (agYzy)
Yeah, the guy who set up her server was a former Hillary 2008 staffer who ... wait for this... WORKED AT THE STATE DEPARTMENT at the time.
Yikes.
Also, he's pleadin the fizzif
http://tinyurl.com/ohm846y
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 10:44 PM (AkOaV)
Posted by: trumpetdaddy at September 02, 2015 10:38 PM (ljZD2)
****
People such as yourself encourage and perpetuate such activity with posts like this.
So, allow me to elegantly tell you that The Turtle and Orange Man are quite anxious to see you return for their usual servicing.
Hurry along now, the Masters will not be pleased if they have to wait much longer for you.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at September 02, 2015 10:45 PM (f9BrB)
I realize now that our own "conservative elite" are as bad as the proggies. They went to the same schools and have the same elite disdain for flyover country as any limousine liberal ever did.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at September 02, 2015 10:34 PM (dvuhZ)
I remarked recently that I think the word "conservative" is largely used as a lazy catchword for a variety of principles, such as individual liberty, free-market capitalism, limited Constitutional government, rule of law, traditional social and moral values, etc.
Many conservatives seem to assume that everybody understands that, but they don't. The Left paints conservatives as racist haters who want the poor to die in the gutter and can't stand to see anybody having fun. And it works.
So conservatives need to drop that word and start talking about specifics. Explain why the free market is better than socialism, why equality before the law is better than the whims of governing elites, why traditional moral values are better than licentiousness, and so forth.
Posted by: rickl at September 02, 2015 10:45 PM (sdi6R)
I hire people, a resume that says: "I have 15 years of in-field experience, have closed a $100M in sales over a decade, and I picked up a law degree (from Yippee U) at night so my responsibilities could expand ..." is worth a hell of a lot more than "I was in the top 1/3 of my Harvard Law class; but have never worked a real job in my life."
Posted by: Jean at September 02, 2015 10:45 PM (ztOda)
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 10:42 PM
You're not a vampire, are you? If you were, you would understand the value of new, fresh, tasty blood.
Posted by: Splunge at September 02, 2015 10:45 PM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 10:40 PM (AkOaV)
No. Trumpetdaddy is talking about the other James Madison.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 02, 2015 10:46 PM (zc3Db)
Iran is going to get smoked. Israel will have no choice....and there isn't anything anyone can do about it other that point a finger at Israel and call them every name in the book....which is already being done.
Bye bye Iran...nice knowing you.
Posted by: OrsonSnow at September 02, 2015 10:48 PM (jAh7g)
Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at September 02, 2015 10:35 PM
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Well he claimed to be a Republican...
Posted by: TJ Camper, Picker of Nits at September 02, 2015 10:48 PM (7d8Ef)
If you look at Trump on that stupid 1D left-right axis, you can't understand why a large fraction of so-called conservatives support him. It doesn't make sense. But properly plot on the real multi-D chart, and you'd see how close together they really are. The coordinates they are close on don't exist in the minds of the GOPe and elites, they being so opposed to them, they've stifled any mention of them.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at September 02, 2015 10:48 PM (dvuhZ)
Posted by: Jean at September 02, 2015 10:45 PM
But what about a top-level resume, that says "I headed the Law Review and never wrote a single article. I "wrote" a couple of ghost-written books that built my intellectual reputation. And the crease on my pants is razor-sharp." Could you resist that?
Posted by: Splunge at September 02, 2015 10:48 PM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: trumpetdaddy at September 02, 2015 10:44 PM (ljZD2)
Yeah ... the French were so important and their help was so timely ... the Revolution could certainly not have kicked off without them ...
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 02, 2015 10:49 PM (zc3Db)
Posted by: TJ Camper, Picker of Nits
So did Lowell Weicker
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at September 02, 2015 10:50 PM (W5DcG)
Posted by: trumpetdaddy
The GOP base has at its disposal more men and money than the French contribution to the Revolutionary war by 100x of times.
Your analogy is vacant in numerous ways.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 02, 2015 10:50 PM (JmGFJ)
Posted by: Jean at September 02, 2015 10:50 PM (ztOda)
It's complicated, but that wouldn't work. Already looked in to that angle.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 10:51 PM (AkOaV)
Posted by: TJ Camper, Picker of Nits
So did Lowell Weicker
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at September 02, 2015 10:50 PM
That's just wrong. People should not claim to be Republican when they really aren't.
Posted by: Charlie Crist at September 02, 2015 10:51 PM (iMxBJ)
A former aide to Hillary Rodham Clinton who helped set up the server that housed Mrs. Clinton's private email account plans to invoke his Fifth Amendment rights in response to congressional questions about the email practices, according to two people briefed on the matter.
Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at September 02, 2015 10:51 PM (e8kgV)
Posted by: andycanuck at September 02, 2015 10:52 PM (7eC3Q)
next guy, why would "you're limited to 12 years, then you can go make $5
million a year in a no show lobbying job" change anything?
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 10:42 PM (AkOaV)
Dilution is the solution to pollution.
Posted by: Burnt Toast at September 02, 2015 10:52 PM (NaeCR)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 02, 2015 10:49 PM (zc3Db)
Le shot heard around Le Monde.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 10:52 PM (AkOaV)
who ... wait for this... WORKED AT THE STATE DEPARTMENT at the time.
I'm starting to think the e-mail thing is a distraction from the real scandal of the Foundation and the hundreds of millions in bribes. That is how the Clinton's roll.
Posted by: cm9000 at September 02, 2015 10:53 PM (8zCR+)
Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at September 02, 2015 10:51 PM (e8kgV)
he doesn't have to resort to the 5th. He can just claim "bathroom privileges" and not talk about it.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 02, 2015 10:53 PM (zc3Db)
Well he claimed to be a Republican...
Posted by: TJ Camper, Picker of Nits at September
Jim Jeffords comes to mind
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 02, 2015 10:53 PM (fgSDS)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 02, 2015 10:54 PM (9mTYi)
Yes, ALL revolutions, everywhere have relied upon a foreign power somewhere else to succeed. Every time.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at September 02, 2015 10:54 PM (agYzy)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 02, 2015 10:46 PM (zc3Db)
Oh, the fratdog who James Madison University, which is full of hot southern chicks, was named after?
Oh wait -- no, I think that's the same guy.
Who can tell -- all these dead white guys look alike to me.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 10:54 PM (AkOaV)
Posted by: boy roy feed my boy at September 02, 2015 10:54 PM (WhfU/)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at September 02, 2015 10:54 PM (agYzy)
No hot-and-sour soup for you!
Posted by: Mao Zedong at September 02, 2015 10:55 PM (iMxBJ)
I hired a Yalie a few years back, just so I could humiliate and fire him. Pompous arrogant ass peacocked around for six weeks, then we hammered his work product, his attention to detail, and his inability to work with others. Went back to hiring hard science kids out of W&M.
Posted by: Jean at September 02, 2015 10:55 PM (ztOda)
Posted by: Burnt Toast
Ok, first, increase the number of Congressional seat to reflect the increase in pop. since the 1st Congress.
Term limits won't dilute much because they will turn Super-PACs into Insane Clown Posse PACs.. on steriods ... and acid... and Red Bull... and FourLoco...
True dilution would mean a Congress numbering in the mid-1000s.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 02, 2015 10:56 PM (JmGFJ)
Posted by: Jean at September 02, 2015 10:55 PM (ztOda)
You did a public service to the rising generations. I tip my hat to you.
Posted by: Splunge at September 02, 2015 10:57 PM (iMxBJ)
Poli-Sci. Bet on it.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 02, 2015 10:54 PM (9mTYi)
*****
Come on. If he even graduated, there has to be a Social something in front of his degree.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at September 02, 2015 10:58 PM (f9BrB)
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 10:58 PM (AkOaV)
Posted by: andycanuck at September 02, 2015 10:59 PM (7eC3Q)
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 10:59 PM (AkOaV)
Posted by: andycanuck at September 02, 2015 10:59 PM (7eC3Q)
No, I think he's the guy who ran a cult and wanted to start a race war and was in to the Beatles.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 11:00 PM (AkOaV)
Posted by: Jean at September 02, 2015 10:55 PM (ztOda)
***
You do realize that doing this is pretty fucked up, right?
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at September 02, 2015 11:00 PM (f9BrB)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty
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*scurries off to see what the Ministry of Information claims*
MoI (aka, CBS) claims Poli-Sci. You can smell it on his breath, even while he's on TV.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 02, 2015 11:00 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: cm9000 at September 02, 2015 11:01 PM (8zCR+)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at September 02, 2015 11:01 PM (zyIlW)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at September 02, 2015 10:58 PM
Poli Sci is the new gut major, for people who don't want to out themselves as SJWs, or who really aren't, but don't belong in college.
Posted by: Splunge at September 02, 2015 11:01 PM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at September 02, 2015 11:01 PM (W5DcG)
Posted by: Jean at September 02, 2015 11:02 PM (ztOda)
in California and then transferred to Columbia University where he
majored in political science with a specialization in international
relations."
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 10:59 PM (AkOaV)
"where he
majored in political science with a specialization in trans-national socialism."
fixed
Posted by: Burnt Toast at September 02, 2015 11:02 PM (NaeCR)
"By James Madison, you mean the guy was part of a small minority whose
priorities weren't important to the majority of the public and who ran
on about "revolutions" and such things?"
Unless you have a
foreign power hostile to the current government that is willing to
provide troops and materiel to facilitate your revolution, as the
Founders relied upon the French to do, yeah, I think your attempted
analogy breaks down right there.
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Oh look, the present-day Tory of 1776 is saying we shouldn't bother to change things and just learn to love the political pronouncement of our betters. They know more about what we want and need than we do. We'll never get anywhere if we try to change things ourselves. We will need the help of the French.
Posted by: exdem13 at September 02, 2015 11:02 PM (ry4ab)
And yet, actual Republican voters continue to not vote for the fringe candidates that the internet message board "base" prefer in election after election after election after election.
What gives with that?
Posted by: trumpetdaddy at September 02, 2015 11:02 PM (ljZD2)
Few things could be as emphatically true as that statement.
Posted by: Splunge at September 02, 2015 11:03 PM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at September 02, 2015 11:00 PM (f9BrB)
I think it was great.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 02, 2015 11:03 PM (zc3Db)
Come on. If he even graduated, there has to be a Social something in front of his degree.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at September 02, 2015 10:58 PM (f9BrB)
More likely a Studies after it.
Posted by: rickl at September 02, 2015 11:03 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 02, 2015 11:03 PM (i23N/)
Nope, enjoyed every fucking minute of it.
Posted by: Jean at September 02, 2015 11:04 PM (ztOda)
Posted by: exdem13 at September 02, 2015 11:02 PM (ry4ab)
Well to be fair, no one's ever lost money betting against the French and their military prowess, so I can see how that could have been somewhat worrying to people.
"Revolution! Hell yeah man! LETS DO THIS!!!
Wait, what? Did you say THE FRENCH? Ehhhh... Welll.... hmmm... going to have to sleep on this one."
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 11:04 PM (AkOaV)
What gives with that?
Posted by: trumpetdaddy at September 02, 2015 11:02 PM (ljZD2)
****
Really? When have they been given that opportunity?
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at September 02, 2015 11:05 PM (f9BrB)
"Yeah ... the French were so important and their help was so timely ...
the Revolution could certainly not have kicked off without them ..."
Yes, ALL revolutions, everywhere have relied upon a foreign power somewhere else to succeed. Every time.
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As it happens, the French Revolution was started and completed by the French themselves.
Posted by: exdem13 at September 02, 2015 11:05 PM (ry4ab)
Yeah, that's him. My mistake. And, you know, he's not guilty because he didn't actually kill anyone himself just like that suicide-encouraging chick.
Posted by: andycanuck at September 02, 2015 11:05 PM (7eC3Q)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at September 02, 2015 10:54 PM (agYzy)
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We've had it quite good for 150 years. It is fragile. If you look about anywhere else in the world, then it really highlights it. It's insane to ignore our obligations in debts and entitlements, then our average lifespans and birthrates, and laugh it off as impossible. Our demographics are on a collision course with disaster, and I'm talking about age and entitlement obligations.
Posted by: Dave S. at September 02, 2015 11:06 PM (mhkbv)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at September 02, 2015 11:00 PM (f9BrB)
Who cares....it's funny.
And....you clearly don't know any recent Yale grads.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 02, 2015 11:06 PM (Zu3d9)
relations."
I have one of those, too. With a math kicker. I suspect the class loads were a bit different. Our field work was at SOA.
Posted by: Jean at September 02, 2015 11:06 PM (ztOda)
816 An HQ commenter opined that Jenner said he was a Republican because he planned to have a phoney change of heart on the show and support the Dems.
Posted by: andycanuck at September 02, 2015 10:52 PM (7eC3Q)
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What I really hope (not holding my breath, though) is that Jenner plays this out as long as possible (without chopping things off) and then says: "HOH LEEE SHIIIIIT!!! I can't believe you retards fell for that! I did it all for the money and the lulz." Then Bruce brings out his own camera crew who's been taping him ridiculing the whole thing all along. Now THAT would be a reality show.
Posted by: irright at September 02, 2015 11:06 PM (DtNNC)
As it happens, the French Revolution was started and completed by the French themselves.
Posted by: exdem13 at September 02, 2015 11:05 PM (ry4ab)
Well, they were sort of inspired by the American Revolution and Thomas Paine.
Posted by: rickl at September 02, 2015 11:07 PM (sdi6R)
What gives with that?
Posted by: trumpetdaddy
Because you haven't poked them in the chest enough.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 02, 2015 11:07 PM (JmGFJ)
Yale 2015: http://dwighthall.org/socialjustice/
Posted by: Splunge at September 02, 2015 11:07 PM (iMxBJ)
Yeah, that's him. My mistake. And, you know, he's not guilty because he didn't actually kill anyone himself just like that suicide-encouraging chick.
Posted by: andycanuck at September 02, 2015 11:05 PM (7eC3Q)
That's true. And, yeah, I think it's fucked up that he stole that song from the Chiffons and turned it in to a Buddhist rant, too.
But hey, lifes not fair.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 11:07 PM (AkOaV)
Nope, enjoyed every fucking minute of it.
Posted by: Jean at September 02, 2015 11:04 PM (ztOda)
***
Wow. A normal person would just shitcan their resume and not hire them.
You seem like you are a little "special" if that got your rocks off so much.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at September 02, 2015 11:07 PM (f9BrB)
Well, I'd love to know which candidate you think was denied his chance to be voted upon.
Posted by: trumpetdaddy at September 02, 2015 11:07 PM (ljZD2)
Posted by: Lauren at September 02, 2015 11:08 PM (GZ6Pf)
Posted by: rickl at September 02, 2015 11:07 PM (sdi6R)
Ooh, I'm not sure if we want to be taking credit for the French Revolution.
That didn't play out as well as it could have.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 11:08 PM (AkOaV)
Posted by: exdem13 at September 02, 2015 11:05 PM (ry4ab)
Of course, being French they totally fucked that up. They had the benefit of having seen our Revolution and decided to prove that they were better than us and more perfect ... so they went on to have a totally chaotic revolution, followed by insane terror, horrors and barbaric savagery committed in the name of "rationality" and finally ended up with a pint-sized emperor. The French ... they can fuck up anything.
Just be glad that their stupid Revolutionary Calendar (designed just to destroy the Church and Western religion) didn't make it ... yet.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 02, 2015 11:08 PM (zc3Db)
That was my point. An over-hanging dynasty can be taken down in-house.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at September 02, 2015 11:09 PM (agYzy)
The way it worked out though, they got an upper limit on it, (<= 1/30K, I believe), but no lower limit. So they got a limit on "raw faction" but not the cabal of the few.
Note you can think of the ratio two ways, the above or the reciprocal, the pop to rep ratio. When you do that, upper and lower limits get reversed and it can be confusing.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at September 02, 2015 11:09 PM (dvuhZ)
Posted by: rickl
Oddly enough, their revolution was precipitated in part by the debt they incurred aiding us.
Their Betters gambled and lost.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 02, 2015 11:09 PM (JmGFJ)
Posted by: cm9000 at September 02, 2015 11:09 PM (8zCR+)
Affirmative action didn't help the Seahawks against the Patriots in the latest Super Bowl, for example. It didn't matter how much the Seahawks deserved to win; when the game came down to the wire, they didn't win.
Athletes are big on meritocracy. "Yeah, you beat us today... but just wait until next year!"
The NBA is an outlier in this; most NBA players are Democrats. But that's also the major sports league that does the most to rig the system in favor of a handful of privileged teams, so... it still makes sense, and does not refute the general trend of athletes leaning R/con.
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler... Trump/Camacho 2016! at September 02, 2015 11:09 PM (wKc1L)
You seem like you are a little "special" if that got your rocks off so much.
Wait, are those the personal insults based on mere disagreement I've heard so much about?
Confronting this useless Yalie with the shortcomings of his own introduction to life was a public service. Wish we had more of that.
Posted by: Splunge at September 02, 2015 11:10 PM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 02, 2015 11:06 PM (Zu3d9)
An ex girlfriend of mine graduated from Yale.
Nice rack.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 11:10 PM (AkOaV)
And maybe the Yalie was enamored of his own vaunted reputation that he didn't bother to do the work that would have secured his job.
[and...my first comment was a tad aggressive. Sorry. Nothing personal]
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 02, 2015 11:10 PM (Zu3d9)
You should expect. That's what makes the American one so exceptional.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at September 02, 2015 11:10 PM (agYzy)
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 11:10 PM (AkOaV)
Are you new around here?
Pictures or it didn't happen.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 02, 2015 11:10 PM (Zu3d9)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 02, 2015 11:06 PM (Zu3d9)
***
See my comment above, and I take great pride in the fact that I do not.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at September 02, 2015 11:10 PM (f9BrB)
Few things could be as emphatically true as that statement.
Posted by: Splunge
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WFB saw the handwriting on the wall, published 'God and Man at Yale', in 1951. He was 26 years old.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 02, 2015 11:11 PM (9mTYi)
Ooh, I'm not sure if we want to be taking credit for the French Revolution.
That didn't play out as well as it could have.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 11:08 PM (AkOaV)
No, but facts are facts. The French didn't entirely think it up on their own.
But their revolution did kind of go sideways compared to ours.
Posted by: rickl at September 02, 2015 11:12 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 02, 2015 11:10 PM (Zu3d9)
Ah, would if I could.
Current girlfriend found my secret folder YEARS ago.
Boy was that a shitty week of sleeping on the couch.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 11:12 PM (AkOaV)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill
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Bolsheviks
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 02, 2015 11:13 PM (9mTYi)
Nice rack.
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Yale had a good rack program at one time.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at September 02, 2015 11:14 PM (75uvI)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at September 02, 2015 11:14 PM (agYzy)
Fvcking with a Yalie is one of life's pleasures!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 02, 2015 11:14 PM (Zu3d9)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 02, 2015 11:13 PM (9mTYi)
The Germans had a bit of a hand in that one ...
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 02, 2015 11:14 PM (zc3Db)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler... Trump/Camacho 2016! at September 02, 2015 11:15 PM (wKc1L)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 02, 2015 11:10 PM (Zu3d9)
****
No worries, and I stand by my "just don't hire them" position.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at September 02, 2015 11:15 PM (f9BrB)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 02, 2015 11:15 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: The Couch at September 02, 2015 11:16 PM (noWW6)
Important: Getting a Loyalty Pledge From Trump
Posted by: Jake Blues at September 02, 2015 11:18 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Miley's Tongue at September 02, 2015 11:19 PM (18eUN)
Nope, enjoyed every fucking minute of it.
Posted by: Jean at September 02, 2015 11:04 PM (ztOda)
***
Wow. A normal person would just shitcan their resume and not hire them.
You seem like you are a little "special" if that got your rocks off so much.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at September 02, 2015 11:07 PM (f9BrB)
If the guy was genuinely a snob and a bad worker, fine.
But hiring a guy with the intention of firing and humiliating him six weeks later is a pretty f'ked up thing. The fact you enjoyed it does not help.
Confronting this useless Yalie with the shortcomings of his own introduction to life was a public service.
I make a point of doing that. I just feel the need to f'k up a guy's career in the process, much less enjoy it.
Posted by: AD at September 02, 2015 11:19 PM (s4wTA)
B.S. PoliSci w/American Government concentration and Military Operations minor.
Reads Horde comments.
Well, I guess I'll just go off my useless ass.
Posted by: Country Singer at September 02, 2015 11:19 PM (nL0sw)
..."don't" feel the need.
Posted by: AD at September 02, 2015 11:20 PM (s4wTA)
::: gestures :::
Posted by: The Couch
Uh, uh, pipe fitting. Uh, flag pole. Uh, skeet shooting, skeet shooting!!!
Posted by: Charades at September 02, 2015 11:20 PM (JmGFJ)
::: gestures :::
Posted by: The Couch at September 02, 2015 11:16 PM (noWW6)
Wait'll you get a load of me!
Posted by: CouchFucker at September 02, 2015 11:20 PM (f9BrB)
There was a bit more to it, see #841. But once the ball got rolling, it was like being a sophomore again and running knobs out. "Attrition is the mission"
Posted by: Jean at September 02, 2015 11:20 PM (ztOda)
Posted by: Country Singer
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It's not what a man has, it's how he uses it.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 02, 2015 11:21 PM (9mTYi)
As it happens, the French Revolution was started and completed by the French themselves.
Posted by: exdem13 at September 02, 2015 11:05 PM (ry4ab)
Of course, being French they totally fucked that up. They had the
benefit of having seen our Revolution and decided to prove that they
were better than us and more perfect ... so they went on to have a
totally chaotic revolution, followed by insane terror, horrors and
barbaric savagery committed in the name of "rationality" and finally
ended up with a pint-sized emperor. The French ... they can fuck up
anything.
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The French Revolution did originally start as a way by the Third Estate to protect their property, much as our Revolution started as a way to keep the government's hand off our money, off our backs, and our ability to get the government to do what we wanted. However the French couldn't control the Jacobins, their radical element, which was not interested in property rights, and only wanted social utopia...and bloody revenge on Church and Nobility. The Jacobins of course got to like the taste of blood and went too far; and the other scared pols hastily brought in Bonaparte to tame the mob and restore order. Boy did he ever!
Posted by: exdem13 at September 02, 2015 11:21 PM (ry4ab)
Posted by: Miley's Tongue at September 02, 2015 11:19 PM (18eUN)
Don't tell me that Maetenloch has died now.
Posted by: rickl at September 02, 2015 11:21 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at September 02, 2015 11:22 PM (75uvI)
Don't worry, we were all white guys. It's how we roll.
Posted by: Jean at September 02, 2015 11:23 PM (ztOda)
Posted by: rickl
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This is becoming a dangerous neighborhood.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 02, 2015 11:23 PM (9mTYi)
"As it happens, the French Revolution was started and completed by the French themselves. "
That was my point. An over-hanging dynasty can be taken down in-house.
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It sure can, especially when the over-hanging dynasty is lazy, complacent, distracted by trivial matters, and has a fatal disconnect with the people who feed and clothe them.
Posted by: exdem13 at September 02, 2015 11:23 PM (ry4ab)
Posted by: Miley's Tongue
Don't tell me that Maetenloch has died now.
Posted by: rickl
That truck really gets around.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 02, 2015 11:23 PM (JmGFJ)
No, but facts are facts. The French didn't entirely think it up on their own.
But their revolution did kind of go sideways compared to ours.
Posted by: rickl at September 02, 2015 11:12 PM (sdi6R)
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Yep. Most revolutions end up being more concerned with power or wealth, rather than liberty. The American Revolution was not most revolutions.
Posted by: irright at September 02, 2015 11:23 PM (DtNNC)
Posted by: Marie at September 02, 2015 11:24 PM (9mTYi)
Look, I'll put it this way, I'd rather work with a snob and a poor worker than somebody who'd set me up in a position just to get a kick out of humiliating and firing me six weeks later.
Posted by: AD at September 02, 2015 11:24 PM (s4wTA)
Posted by: irright
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Hmm. Maybe we ought to teach our children about history.
Posted by: Marie at September 02, 2015 11:25 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: Harmund G. Goutist, Chef Extraordinaire at September 02, 2015 11:25 PM (4T61K)
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 11:26 PM (AkOaV)
Posted by: Miley's Tongue at September 02, 2015 11:19 PM (18eUN)
Don't tell me that Maetenloch has died now.
Posted by: rickl at September 02, 2015 11:21 PM
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Recent blog history would show this not to be an impediment.
Posted by: TJ Camper at September 02, 2015 11:26 PM (7d8Ef)
Posted by: Maria Theresa at September 02, 2015 11:26 PM (75uvI)
Posted by: Dr freakenfurter at September 02, 2015 11:26 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: Marie at September 02, 2015 11:27 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: AD at September 02, 2015 11:24 PM (s4wTA)
*****
Yep. That was my point all along.
Just say no rather than being a preening retard who is proud of this shit.
Posted by: CouchFucker at September 02, 2015 11:27 PM (f9BrB)
Reads Horde comments.
Well, I guess I'll just go off my useless ass.
Mine says: International and Military Affairs, never understood what military affairs weren't international - until I stumbled into my first procurement (ambush).
Posted by: Jean at September 02, 2015 11:27 PM (ztOda)
Posted by: Miley's Tongue at September 02, 2015 11:19 PM (18eUN)
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Just visualize content.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at September 02, 2015 11:27 PM (75uvI)
Posted by: Dr McCoy at September 02, 2015 11:27 PM (AkOaV)
Trump will do whatever he wants to do and these GOPe people don't understand (as usual) the human beings they have to deal with since they can't ignore them anymore like they'd prefer.
Posted by: deepelemblues at September 02, 2015 11:28 PM (LdJfm)
Posted by: Marie at September 02, 2015 11:29 PM (9mTYi)
Big River:
Grateful Dead version or Johnny Cash version?
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 11:29 PM (AkOaV)
Hope Maet didn't go the way of poor buzzion.
Posted by: Chi at September 02, 2015 11:29 PM (L2Ssy)
You ever see the made-for-TV movie Sole Survivor with William Shatner?
We're in that right now.
Posted by: AD at September 02, 2015 11:29 PM (s4wTA)
Posted by: CouchFucker
Oh, now's where we see if Ace is serious about SideBar Numero Uno
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 02, 2015 11:30 PM (JmGFJ)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at September 02, 2015 11:27 PM
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...and whirled peas
Posted by: Miss South Carolina at September 02, 2015 11:30 PM (7d8Ef)
Posted by: AD at September 02, 2015 11:29 PM (s4wTA)
Nah but I know the Jeezy song "soul survivor" if that's what you mean.
You know the one -- feat Akon
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 11:30 PM (AkOaV)
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Hillary's IT guy takes the fifth also at WaPo:
http://tinyurl.com/q5eyzuj
Posted by: I forgot at September 02, 2015 11:30 PM (YOxw1)
Posted by: OldDominionMom at September 02, 2015 11:31 PM (GzDYP)
Posted by: Dr freakenfurter at September 02, 2015 11:31 PM (BO/km)
No, but facts are facts. The French didn't entirely think it up on their own.
But their revolution did kind of go sideways compared to ours.
Posted by: rickl at September 02, 2015 11:12 PM (sdi6R)
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Yep.
Most revolutions end up being more concerned with power or wealth,
rather than liberty. The American Revolution was not most revolutions.
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The American Revolution was heavily involved in power and wealth. Namely American wealth and British power. The talk about rights in our Revolution was not pie-in-the-sky idealism a la France and Russia, but about the ability to lead a productive life free from government interference and greed. Our Revolution was to produce a more perfect union where We The People would tell the government what to do, and they would do it. The Jacobins and Bolsheviks wanted perfect communal cooperation and prosperity. They empowered tyrants to enforce it on everyone and killed all who dared to disagree.
Posted by: exdem13 at September 02, 2015 11:31 PM (ry4ab)
Oh, now's where we see if Ace is serious about SideBar Numero Uno
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 02, 2015 11:30 PM (JmGFJ)
POINT OF ORDER:
I believe that evolution was organic and thus within the rules.
Someone check the rule book.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 11:31 PM (AkOaV)
Posted by: Insomniac at September 02, 2015 11:32 PM (FGIR8)
http://tinyurl.com/q5eyzuj
Posted by: I forgot at September 02, 2015 11:30 PM (YOxw1)
http://tinyurl.com/ohm846y
FIF!
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 11:32 PM (AkOaV)
Posted by: davidt at September 02, 2015 11:32 PM (iC9jc)
Posted by: AD at September 02, 2015 11:24 PM (s4wTA)
*****
Yep. That was my point all along.
Just say no rather than being a preening retard who is proud of this shit.
Posted by: CouchFucker
Read #841, then realize that not every job site is a holistic snugglefest, someplace's you perform - or your gone.
Posted by: Jean at September 02, 2015 11:33 PM (ztOda)
http://tinyurl.com/q5eyzuj
Posted by: I forgot at September 02, 2015 11:30 PM
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And this is where it could get interesting. Not so much yet, with 5th Amendment based non-answers but still...
Posted by: TJ Camper at September 02, 2015 11:33 PM (7d8Ef)
Posted by: davidt at September 02, 2015 11:32 PM (iC9jc)
Yes, just watching revenue float away like that distresses us too.
((...what, too soon?))
Posted by: Planned Parenthood at September 02, 2015 11:33 PM (AkOaV)
Posted by: JohnJ at September 02, 2015 11:34 PM (TF/YA)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 02, 2015 11:30 PM (JmGFJ)
*****
Allow me to update with current handle to make things easier, if need be.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at September 02, 2015 11:34 PM (f9BrB)
Posted by: Dr freakenfurter at September 02, 2015 11:35 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 11:35 PM (AkOaV)
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An offer of immunity deprives the witness of the ability to invoke the 5th. Pro tip.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at September 02, 2015 11:35 PM (75uvI)
You ever see the made-for-TV movie Sole Survivor with William Shatner?
We're in that right now.
Posted by: AD at September 02, 2015 11:29 PM (s4wTA)
I remember that!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065007/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
It in turn was inspired by an old Twilight Zone episode.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734584/
Posted by: rickl at September 02, 2015 11:36 PM (sdi6R)
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Right. The guy says he's going to plead the fifth, but Cummings says it's about politics. Seriously morally confused Cummins is.
Posted by: Marie at September 02, 2015 11:37 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at September 02, 2015 11:35 PM (75uvI)
IT guy was a hillary '08 staffer who then somehow became a state department IT dude.
And it would appear from my back of the envelope math that he was a state department employee at the time he set up the off domain server -- not sure if that matters legally or not, but uh... doesnt look good.
State Department IT department facilitated hillarys server IOW.
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 11:37 PM (AkOaV)
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 11:38 PM (AkOaV)
Posted by: Jean at September 02, 2015 11:33 PM (ztOda)
****
Agreed. Mine is one of them. That person never would have been hired in the first place.
The commentary is about the fact that you took great satisfaction in hiring them in order to fire them.
I can explain it to you, but I can not comprehend it for you.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at September 02, 2015 11:38 PM (f9BrB)
Posted by: davidt
It's intended to erase any opposition to invasion.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at September 02, 2015 11:38 PM (W5DcG)
Posted by: TJ Camper at September 02, 2015 11:39 PM (7d8Ef)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 02, 2015 11:39 PM (JmGFJ)
Posted by: mynewhandle at September 02, 2015 11:38 PM
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Huh. It worked. Who knew?
Posted by: TJ Camper at September 02, 2015 11:40 PM (7d8Ef)
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You want freedom.
You'd settle for 7-day weeks.
You get 10-day weeks.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 02, 2015 11:40 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at September 02, 2015 11:41 PM (CyXSj)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler... Trump/Camacho 2016! at September 02, 2015 11:41 PM (wKc1L)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Be_Good_(aircraft)
Posted by: rickl at September 02, 2015 11:41 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: exdem13 at September 02, 2015 11:31 PM (ry4ab)
I do not think that is historically correct - the Articles of Confederation was a "Perpetual Union" and going down due to certain imperfections... Hence the phrase "a more perfect union" in the Constitution.
Posted by: Burnt Toast at September 02, 2015 11:41 PM (NaeCR)
The constituents want a loyalty pledge, you dick-headed dumb fucks!
Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at September 02, 2015 11:44 PM (q9xEd)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Be_Good_(aircraft)
Posted by: rickl at September 02, 2015 11:41 PM (sdi6R)
That I knew about. I did not know about the Twilight Zone episode. I'll have to see that.
Posted by: AD at September 02, 2015 11:46 PM (s4wTA)
Posted by: davidt
It's intended to erase any opposition to invasion.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at September 02, 2015 11:38 PM (W5DcG)
Need to put some nets or something out there.
Posted by: Burnt Toast at September 02, 2015 11:46 PM (NaeCR)
The Boston Tea Party. The participants were charged with throwing that tea overboard, into the ocean. One of the guys figured, well, hell, if we're just wasting it anyway, I might as well keep some of it for myself instead. So, he pocketed some of that tea. He was found out, and (mildly) punished for it, because his actions went against the spirit of the event.
Meanwhile, in the French Revolution... if at any time you disagreed on anything with the Revolutionary Vanguard of the Week, you were next in line for the guillotine.
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler... Trump/Camacho 2016! at September 02, 2015 11:50 PM (wKc1L)
We were all ramping up for a Primary season. There was an elephant in the room, a banner laying on the ground neglected. Many of us cared about that banner but none of the candidates was willing to pick it up, it was outside the Overton Window and we all knew it so we sighed and started examining candidates based on the other issues they did and didn't adopt and whether they would even drop a few hints they at least wouldn't be Jeb! Bush on the thing.
Then Trump strode forth and with his Balls of Steel(tm) reached down and picked it up, shook the dirt from it and held it high. Many, even supporters, doubt he truly believes in the cause it stands for but there he stood holding it high and waving it. Well we couldn't stand it long, so damn it all we had to rally to the flag. Whatever, so HE can hold it, for HE does not care if big dollar donors hate him. He may have got in the race on a lark, to make a point, to launch a new reality show; Doesn't matter, he has an army behind him now and he knows winning is actually possible.
Any of the other candidates could rightly challenge him for the right to bear that standard, based on many reasons including the obvious reality that Trump isn't a reliable bearer of it. But the weeks roll by and none do. Perhaps they can't survive touching it. Perhaps they just lack the will. Trump isn't Superman, he just DID it. The Overton Window has now clearly moved, others could survive but they do not believe.... or rather they DO believe in something quite different.
Unless something changes we go to war with the army and the general we have, not the one we wish we were or the leader we wish we had.
Others on the Right do not care for the Immigration issue and are befuddled. But we see no other choice, we either have a country or we don't. We have a viable candidate, not just a protest like Tom Tancredo. Trump may be flawed but something beats nuthin' every single time. If the rest of the Right doesn't like that, they can offer up a better candidate.
Posted by: John Morris at September 02, 2015 11:50 PM (sCRhB)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Be_Good_(aircraft)
Posted by: rickl at September 02, 2015 11:41 PM (sdi6R)
That I knew about. I did not know about the Twilight Zone episode. I'll have to see that.
Posted by: AD at September 02, 2015 11:46 PM (s4wTA)
The Twilight Zone episode was when finding the LBG was still news in the headlines. Of course, the TZ episode bore no resemblance to the actual LBG story.
Posted by: rickl at September 02, 2015 11:54 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler... Trump/Camacho 2016! at September 02, 2015 11:58 PM (wKc1L)
He is indeed in it to win it.
I, for one, am with him. He's running against the GOPe, he knows it, he's serious about it, he's topping the polls, and that's good enough for me.
So, he doesn't agree with me on everything. So what? Who does, really?
Nobody else is in a position to tip over the GOPe's apple cart like he has. Because of that, I am a Trump man.
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler... Trump/Camacho 2016! at September 03, 2015 12:40 AM (wKc1L)
And yea, I too think he is now in it to win it. For a very simple reason. All of his real estate is clustered in Blue Hells and depend on the goodwill of Proggies lest they drive him out business. To say nothing of the casinos which are government issued licenses to mint cash... if you cut the right people in for their taste of course. Well so much for that. Either Trump is a total idiot and doesn't have a clue what is about to hit him or he knows.
He knows, it is why he talked about running many times but never did. This is a success only ticket, win and fear will stay their hand but lose and an example will be made, tycoons simply can't betray the ruling class like this with impunity. So you could say that while he might not have pledged his life to the cause, his fortune and honor are certainly on the line now.
Probably won't be the only one before this is over, a lot of people are going to have to step up and stick their necks out if the country is to be salvaged and the establishment is going be taking names. Remember that old adage about setting out to kill a king? We are proposing nothing less than overthrowing a whole aristocracy. We live in interesting times.
And I'm being very precise in using the word salvage. We missed the last ditch effort to save the country in 2012, a Kaboom! is now unavoidable. Not only the other shoe in the economic collapse that started in '08, it is now a certainty that atomic bombs explode again somewhere as a total war ramps up. A controlled crash is still better than auguring into the ground under full power though. Many unthinkable things are going to requiring thinking and doing. Trump isn't a candidate for sane times.
Posted by: John Morris at September 03, 2015 01:17 AM (sCRhB)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler... Trump/Camacho 2016! at September 03, 2015 01:32 AM (wKc1L)
Damn those Republicans for not being magicians! Or for failing to hire an international hit man, or something! Burn it down!
And then you get sensitive about mockery. But isn't the pretense of respect the most insidious mockery of all? It seems to me a ration of mockery is appropriate when a thoroughly silly proposition is put forth by a reasonable man. Such as the ridiculous idea that some political newbie can claim to be "Tea Party!" and then take the district which was held for more than half a century by Bob Michel and his top aide Ray LaHood (the modern era poster boys for "moderate Republicans") from the latter's son. Sure, and the Jets might have won the Super Bowl last year, too - if a dozen other teams all died in plane crashes. Get serious.
If I didn't respect you, I would not mock you. I would just write you off as insane or suffering from brain anomalies and stop reading. Never forget that the opposite of love is NOT hate, but indifference.
But, man, an MRI couldn't hurt, ya know?
Posted by: Adjoran at September 03, 2015 05:43 AM (QIQ6j)
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