Tuesday Morning News Dump (4/19/16) [Misanthropic Humantiarian]

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1 More personnel? how about enough for some useless PR and to make targets.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 19, 2016 08:01 AM (vvmPQ)

2 On SCOTUS as I said over the weekend, and yesterday, it all depends on traitor Roberts who appeared to be willing to sell out again.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 19, 2016 08:02 AM (vvmPQ)

3 Yes, the pasted eating idiot doesn't know if it was terrorism or not.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 19, 2016 08:03 AM (vvmPQ)

4 So Rex Ryan introduced Donald Trump at his rally in Buffalo yesterday. People calling into and texting our local sports talk station are fuming about an NFL head coach could support such a vehement racist! I'm not surprised Rex Ryan would be a Trump supporter.

Posted by: Pyrocles at April 19, 2016 08:04 AM (fVOPU)

5 Yes, the pasted eating idiot doesn't know if it was terrorism or not.

Yeah but he said terror at least once, so it's all good. -Candy Crowley

Posted by: Flyguy at April 19, 2016 08:06 AM (/VRBf)

6 g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 19, 2016 08:07 AM (ZQfW9)

7 Linky not working for the "Offensive words at U of Delaware."

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 19, 2016 08:08 AM (Dhht7)

8 In re the Biden link above, Obumbles and Plugs have repeatedly and harshly criticized Netanyahu recently. With only eight months (and change) left in their terms I wonder what they have in mind to do to Israel.

Posted by: MTF at April 19, 2016 08:10 AM (HtsKA)

9 "I'm not surprised Rex Ryan would be a Trump supporter. "

That just seems bizarre.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 19, 2016 08:10 AM (LUmDU)

10 I no longer expect to "win" anything at the SCOTUS.

There are too many progressive apparatchiks on the court for that possibility.

I just like reading the majority opinions to see if they make even a basic attempt to give their "opinions" the thinnest veneer of reason, logic or constitutionality.

Posted by: Kreplach at April 19, 2016 08:10 AM (fvd+T)

11 All about me:
2nd night in a row that I wake up 4 2 2 pattern ( 4 hrs then 2 hrs and another 2 hrs)
Technically 8 hrs I guess, though I don't feel like I slept after the first waking.
I'm sleepy.

Posted by: @votermom at April 19, 2016 08:10 AM (nbrY/)

12 Nice dump, MH, thank you. Am I a bad person because that last story reminds me of the Office episode where Michael Scott does the same thing and then can't deliver so gives them all laptop batteries instead?

Posted by: bluebell at April 19, 2016 08:12 AM (2WwbN)

13 "I just like reading the majority opinions to see if they make even a basic attempt to give their "opinions" the thinnest veneer of reason, logic or constitutionality."

Obergefell was the last straw for me.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at April 19, 2016 08:12 AM (eHpnh)

14 Oil market is a bit on its ear. Kuwaiti strike driving down production......oil ends down.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 19, 2016 08:14 AM (LUmDU)

15 Trump does not have a lot of support in N.Y.?

Posted by: Case, Mors Semper Tyrannis at April 19, 2016 08:14 AM (CzhL0)

16 votermom, just blame it on the high pollen count. Works for me.

Posted by: bluebell at April 19, 2016 08:14 AM (2WwbN)

17 That just seems bizarre.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 19, 2016 08:10 AM

I can see it. Both are verbose, "tell it like it is" guys who are single minded and have obsessions with particular people (Belichick or Megyn Kelly) and are moderately successful at what they do. They both also know Tom Brady.

Posted by: Flyguy at April 19, 2016 08:14 AM (/VRBf)

18 So how was the Ted Cruz Rally?, you ask.

Standing room only
The number of young (High School Seniors, College students) was very high.

Jewish representation, again trending young was unusually high.

We did get greeted by the screeching Feel The Bern crowd, who showed well in their profanity laced shouted invectives.

More to follow I'm sure, but overall, glad I attended.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 19, 2016 08:15 AM (ptqRm)

19 Morning all

I hope this is a democratic free thread

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 19, 2016 08:15 AM (V/InG)

20 All about me:
2nd night in a row that I wake up 4 2 2 pattern ( 4 hrs then 2 hrs and another 2 hrs)
Technically 8 hrs I guess, though I don't feel like I slept after the first waking.
I'm sleepy.

Welcome to my life. I feel your pain. Bed between 10:30 & 11:00. Official alarm at 5:15. First wake-up around 2:00. Then usually hourly.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 19, 2016 08:16 AM (Vgz5H)

21 Why was Cruz in MD rather than upstate NY?

Posted by: Jean at April 19, 2016 08:16 AM (cXiMR)

22 here's a funny one: trump just gave a speech praising how people in ny responded on "7/11". not "9/11".

i don't gape at gaffes. but that's pretty egregious.

the 7/11 responders. can you imagine if _____ said that!

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at April 19, 2016 08:17 AM (WTSFk)

23 Ah, the "yahoo news" isn't, and no, Brent is up, having climbed rather steadily over the past 3 months. What we read yesterday was a series of pre written stories that had to be "corrected" as the day went on...

Of course, "news" sources aren't. No surprise there.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at April 19, 2016 08:17 AM (C9pBZ)

24 "I hope this is a democratic free thread"

NavyCopJoe is a Democrat.
But I would stand shoulder to shoulder with him in a bar fight.

So, they're not all bad.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 19, 2016 08:17 AM (ptqRm)

25 @13

Take your pick Obamacare 1 and 2, Obergefell, Kelo, RvW, Griswold vs Connecticut, etc.

We have been living in the figment of a representative constitutional republic.

For all intents and purposes we are a judicial oligarchy where the will of the people can be wiped away by the machinations of 5 black robes tyrants.

If the will of 30 states and the federal government can be wiped away as it was in obergfell then anything can undone.

Posted by: Kreplach at April 19, 2016 08:18 AM (fvd+T)

26 7 Linky not working for the "Offensive words at U of Delaware."
Posted by: olddog in mo at April 19, 2016 08:08 AM (Dhht7

Thanks, try it now. 2AM dumps are never fun.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 19, 2016 08:18 AM (voOPb)

27 I always thought at-risk population for tetanus were those of us who played with rusty metal and got hit with rocks.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2016 08:18 AM (N5Ri9)

28 In response to Vic's link about Paul Ryan's troubles:

http://tinyurl.com/jekob8t

I guess I am not as harsh on the guy because I see that he is trying to lead a very fractious coalition. There's basically three parties in the House right now, the Democrats, the HFC Republicans, and the non-HFC Republicans. I think he's sincere in wanting "regular order" but you can't have regular order when your own coalition works to undermine your promises. Ryan's fault I guess is that he overpromised as to how much he could actually bring about "regular order".

Posted by: chemjeff at April 19, 2016 08:19 AM (uAvJJ)

29 "praising how people in ny responded on "7/11".

I know how he feels. Damn, I can barely understand an Indian accent.

Posted by: Joey Choo Choo at April 19, 2016 08:19 AM (LUmDU)

30 rickb and votermom, have you tried things like melatonin? Magnesium and zinc? One of those two is supposed to help if you have trouble getting asleep and one is supposed to help if you keep waking up, but I can't remember which does which.

Posted by: bluebell at April 19, 2016 08:19 AM (2WwbN)

31 "I hope this is a democratic free thread"

NavyCopJoe is a Democrat.
But I would stand shoulder to shoulder with him in a bar fight.

So, they're not all bad.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 19, 2016 08:17 AM (ptqRm)

He is not who I was talking about,but why is he still a democrat? Local Politics?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 19, 2016 08:19 AM (V/InG)

32 They're both loud, brash, and like to make promises. Ryan's getting more hate now than after the regular Patriots blowout. You can't have an opinion as a private citizen, unless it's the correct opinion.
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9
"I'm not surprised Rex Ryan would be a Trump supporter. "

That just seems bizarre.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 19, 2016 08:10 AM (LUmDU)

Posted by: Pyrocles at April 19, 2016 08:20 AM (fVOPU)

33 Same sleep patterns here.

Crash after dinner, then 2, 2, and 5am alarm

Couple days a week I have conference calls at ungodly hours, so fixing it will be tough

Posted by: Jean at April 19, 2016 08:20 AM (cXiMR)

34 @22 he should be stoned (or maybe he is) I know Hillary is

Posted by: Case, Mors Semper Tyrannis at April 19, 2016 08:20 AM (CzhL0)

35 News Corp has launched a new blog to "challenge political correctness" attitudes. An early article this week suggests Bernie's wife tried to commit a little old fashioned bank fraud once upon a time, hoping to get some money for a land deal at her old employer Burlington College.

Sounds like a Clinton leak to me. I didn't read the article but I'd bet the sourcing is David Brock.

Posted by: MTF at April 19, 2016 08:20 AM (HtsKA)

36 " 2AM dumps are never fun. "

Ahhhhhh.

I wondered how you people did these things.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 19, 2016 08:20 AM (LUmDU)

37 Ryan's fault I guess is that he overpromised as to how much he could actually bring about "regular order".
Posted by: chemjeff at April 19, 2016 08:19 AM (uAvJJ)

Bull f*cking shit. Ryan told the cons, its my way or the highway. The cons were gutless and didn't run anyone against him.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 19, 2016 08:20 AM (voOPb)

38 Melatonin works pretty well for me when I have to get to sleep

But the key is that you have to be ready to sleep for many hours, if you take it and then sleep only a couple of hours, you will feel groggy all day

Posted by: chemjeff at April 19, 2016 08:20 AM (uAvJJ)

39 The feelgood story of the day is not needing a tetanus shot for another 20 years. I hate getting any injection but those hurt like hell.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 19, 2016 08:20 AM (EZebt)

40 I was actually at the White Privilege Conference.

And I have to admit that it was quite exciting, and will have a strong influence on the future direction of this country.

Here are some regarding future White Privilege:

Top 3 Proposals from the White Privilege Conference:

3) All White People will receive Free Raisins on their Rice Pudding at No Extra Charge.

2) Only White People may use the Electric Guitar, the Bassoon, and Piccolo in the creation of music.

1) The Macadamia Nut, the Caucasian of the Nut Family, may henceforth only be eaten by White People.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 19, 2016 08:20 AM (2rmvw)

41 Let me just put this here for those that are interested:

From this week in 1944 - On the beachhead at Anzio

The EZ Dog Journal

April 18, 1944
Cloudy and rainy. Another quiet day except for some 'heavies' in town. That's always distracting. The C of S gets on the phone immediately and wonders, why? A new plan is under way. Quite extensive and somewhat involved. I only hope it works. There is some indication of Gerry pulling out.

April 19, 1944
Had a big date tonight. On paper of course. But fun anyway. Now I'm waiting for the other half to come through.
The plan that was being worked up seems to be dying the death of all plans. Three more are taking its place.

His 'big date' involved writing love letters to my mom on her birthday (April 19). At the same time he was hoping to get a letter from her.

The German railroad guns ("heavies") had been pounding the harbor and rear areas pretty consistently during this phase. Dad's unit was under heavy pressure from the big brass (Chief of Staff) to come up with an effective counter, but the American guns were seriously out-ranged by Anzio Annie. The Germans also had a wide range of tricks for hiding, camouflaging and decoying the big guns to keep them safe from Allied air attacks.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 19, 2016 08:21 AM (NeFrd)

42 " Why was Cruz in MD rather than upstate NY?"

Just my personal opinion, but there seems to be some unusual dynamics going on in Maryland right now.

Republican Governor with historic high poll numbers in his second term.

Push back against the #BLM crowd.
A realization that Baltimore City can not blame the riots on 45 years of Republican rule in the city.
Several Counties are facing forced Section Eight influx, and resenting the move to make a voluntary Federal Housing voucher into a mandatory program if you chose to rent your home.

Maryland may be on the cusp of waking the hell up, and asking itself, what have we done?

Just my uneducated opinion.
YMMV.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 19, 2016 08:21 AM (ptqRm)

43 My wife is still a Democrat. Because Irish Catholic. But she hasn't voted for evil in a long damn time, and she got on the Cruz bandwagon a long time ago.

Posted by: MTF at April 19, 2016 08:22 AM (HtsKA)

44 The cons were gutless and didn't run anyone against him.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 19, 2016 08:20 AM (voOPb)

Well not exactly. The conservatives ran someone to oppose McCarthy and actually kinda one that one..then when the RINOs pushed Ryan as a compromise they folded.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 19, 2016 08:22 AM (V/InG)

45
Bull f*cking shit. Ryan told the cons, its my way or the highway. The cons were gutless and didn't run anyone against him.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 19, 2016 08:20 AM (voOPb)
He didn't want the job, he didn't demand the job, others were urging him to take the job, and when he finally relented, he had a list of demands, yes.
The HFC caucus did run someone against him, Louie Gohmert, right? But he didn't have majority support.

Posted by: chemjeff at April 19, 2016 08:22 AM (uAvJJ)

46 Bullshit Ryan did not want the job. What a load of crap. Just like he does not want the nomination for Preisident. Some people will swallow anything

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 19, 2016 08:23 AM (V/InG)

47 Splish, splash out here on the Texas prairie too yesterday. Highest water in the creeks I've seen in 35 years owning this property. Lots of bridges and low water crossings washed out. Getting around the normal way will be happening for a few weeks though at the local level we just fix our stuff and don't wait for FEMA.

Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at April 19, 2016 08:25 AM (y7bt9)

48 Vice President Joe Biden said Monday night that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus government was leading the country in the wrong direction hours after a bus bombing in Jerusalem wounded at least 21 people.

In a speech to the Israel advocacy group J Street, Biden criticized Palestinian leaders, but saved his harshest words for Israeli officials.

What a cock sucker. Yeah let's help elected another left wing democrat?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 19, 2016 08:26 AM (V/InG)

49 15
Trump does not have a lot of support in N.Y.?

Posted by: Case, Mors Semper Tyrannis at April 19, 2016 08:14 AM (CzhL0)

The last polls I saw yesterday had him up by 30 points.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 19, 2016 08:26 AM (vvmPQ)

50 35 mtf: that's been around for a while, i think. sanders' wife pretty much bankrupted a college., i think these scandals in her past are what sanders is trying to obfuscate by risibly denouncing any criticism of his wife. cover=up by anger, as it were.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at April 19, 2016 08:26 AM (WTSFk)

51 I can't believe anyone here is defending motherfucker Paul Ryan.

Filthy, lying, scumbag motherfucker Paul Ryan.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at April 19, 2016 08:26 AM (eHpnh)

52 Welcome to my life. I feel your pain. Bed between 10:30 & 11:00. Official alarm at 5:15. First wake-up around 2:00. Then usually hourly.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 19, 2016 08:16 AM (Vgz5H)

Awful, isn't it?

Bluebell, I haven't tried anything for it yet.
Actually, I think it might be that the weather is too warm now for me to sleep with a cap on - I started doin that in winter to prevent sinus headaches. I'd pull it down all the way to the end of my nose.
Maybe if I switch to just an eyemask.

Posted by: @votermom at April 19, 2016 08:27 AM (nbrY/)

53 rickb and votermom, have you tried things like melatonin? Magnesium and zinc?

Taking zinc now. Have known about melatonin. Need to get some. :-)

Posted by: rickb223 at April 19, 2016 08:27 AM (Vgz5H)

54 46
Bullshit Ryan did not want the job. What a load of crap. Just like he
does not want the nomination for Preisident. Some people will swallow
anything

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 19, 2016 08:23 AM (V/InG)
Do you have any evidence to support your claims?
Ryan was never a member of the formal House leadership. He was never Majority Leader, or Majority Whip, or anything of the sort. He has always been a committee chairman. If he so wanted the job, why did he never pursue leadership positions that would grant him a path to the speakership, such as Majority Leader, rather than committee chairmanships?

Posted by: chemjeff at April 19, 2016 08:27 AM (uAvJJ)

55 I had to scroll up to see who's defending Paul.Ryan.
Hah. Shoulda guessed.

Posted by: @votermom at April 19, 2016 08:28 AM (nbrY/)

56 Stay safe Houston-area folks!!

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 19, 2016 08:28 AM (NeFrd)

57 hey Biden what ever happened with not getting involved in the Politics of s another Country?

Guess the rules don't apply to Democrats ha?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 19, 2016 08:28 AM (V/InG)

58 Thanks for the Anzio diaries, Muldoon. I haven't been around mornings lately, but I quite enjoy reading them.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 19, 2016 08:29 AM (1xUj/)

59 28 Ryan's fault I guess is that he overpromised as to how much he could actually bring about "regular order".

Posted by: chemjeff at April 19, 2016 08:19 AM (uAvJJ)

Ryan's problem is he is an RNCe RINO SOB and he needs to die in a fire.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 19, 2016 08:29 AM (vvmPQ)

60 Dave, remind me, where you at exactly?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 19, 2016 08:29 AM (LUmDU)

61 I feel like John Roberts is unzipping his fly and preparing to piss on us again.

Posted by: V the K at April 19, 2016 08:29 AM (O7MnT)

62 NO. Don't wait for FEMA. They are not first responders.

Posted by: Case, Mors Semper Tyrannis at April 19, 2016 08:29 AM (CzhL0)

63 Do you have any evidence to support your claims?
Ryan was never a member of the formal House leadership. He was never Majority Leader, or Majority Whip, or anything of the sort. He has always been a committee chairman. If he so wanted the job, why did he never pursue leadership positions that would grant him a path to the speakership, such as Majority Leader, rather than committee chairmanships?
Posted by: chemjeff at April 19, 2016 08:27 AM (uAvJJ)

Do I have any evidence? Yeah if you don't want a job, you don't take it.

I think I am going to have to go back to "Cue The Shill"

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 19, 2016 08:29 AM (V/InG)

64 Posted by: naturalfake at April 19, 2016 08:20 AM (2rmvw)

What about white chocolate, vanilla, and creamer? I can't believe non-whites are still allowed to appropriate these cultural icons!

Posted by: @votermom at April 19, 2016 08:30 AM (nbrY/)

65 @35 MTF

That is old news up here in the Peoples Republic of Vermont. She was forced out of her job and had she been a mere mortal would have been in jail.
Don't forget old Bernie himself was a player in the House banking scandal way back when. Both are typical socialists - love playing with other peoples money.

Posted by: mov at April 19, 2016 08:30 AM (kUmUV)

66 Oh and by the way. I'm not "defending" Paul Ryan in the sense of trying to defend his every action. I don't think his actions on the whole cromnibus fiasco were very meritorious. But I also don't buy into the narrative that he is some sort of traitor or Democrat plant. I think he has a difficult job and he shouldn't be overly criticized for things that he doesn't have much control over.

For instance, people criticize Ryan for not getting the budget done in time. Well he purposefully set out to decentralize the House decision-making process. Guess what, Republicans don't agree on what the budget should be, and appear unwilling to yield to one another. What is Ryan supposed to do about that?

Posted by: chemjeff at April 19, 2016 08:30 AM (uAvJJ)

67 Christ, I don't need this aggravation in the AM after having to put up with it last night also. Sigh

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 19, 2016 08:31 AM (V/InG)

68 Lots of bridges and low water crossings washed out."

This. Surprising volume of water fell - more so than last spring's washouts.
Drove across a bridge at Kuykendahl yesterday afternoon and the water was within about 3 feet (or so) of the deck...

The usual water level is about 90 feet lower.

That's a lot of water. Guess I won't need to water the lawn for a few days/weeks/whenever.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at April 19, 2016 08:31 AM (C9pBZ)

69 Ryan's problem is he is an RNCe RINO SOB and he needs to die in a fire.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 19, 2016 08:29 AM (vvmPQ)
Because of Cromnibus?

Posted by: chemjeff at April 19, 2016 08:32 AM (uAvJJ)

70 Maryland may be on the cusp of waking the hell up, and asking itself, what have we done?

And if redistricting gets passed, it will end the Dems' control of the statehouse.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 19, 2016 08:32 AM (3CwVB)

71 I only read the headline for the "feel good" story about the guy sending a whole kindergarten class to college. I am the only guy that thinks this is an awful idea? These little kids are barely out of their toddler years and now this guy is going to swoop in and send them to college? I swear to god I read about some guy doing this 20 years ago and most of the kindergartners couldn't hack college. I hope this time it works out a little better.

Posted by: Shtetl G at April 19, 2016 08:33 AM (7jQai)

72 I'm in the colonial capital of Texas. That narrow it down?

Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at April 19, 2016 08:33 AM (y7bt9)

73 All about me:
2nd night in a row that I wake up 4 2 2 pattern ( 4 hrs then 2 hrs and another 2 hrs)
Technically 8 hrs I guess, though I don't feel like I slept after the first waking.
I'm sleepy.

Welcome to my life. I feel your pain. Bed between 10:30 & 11:00. Official alarm at 5:15. First wake-up around 2:00. Then usually hourly.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 19, 2016 08:16 AM (Vgz5H)

I recommend four things:

1) Regular exercise- walking or jogging out in bright sunlight each day

2) Dimming or turning off the lights in your house roughly two hours before you go to bed, plus-

if you're using your laptop before bed get a product like-

f.lux

It takes away most of the blue spectrum light, i.e.. turns your screen orangish and dims it so you aren't stimulating your brain to stay awake

3) Take a hot bath roughly an hour before you go to sleep- your cooling body is a natural signal for sleep

4) Buy this sleep monitor:

http://www.amazon.com/S-ResMed-Personal-Sleep-

Solution/dp/B00NP52QE0/ref=sr_1_1_a_it/186-

0678751-2628542?ie=UTF8&qid=1461068904&sr=8-

1&keywords=s%2B

(remove extra spaces)

It works really well and will give you feedback on how to better sleep.

It also grades your sleep...so...if you're are a nerd like me, you will, of course, be motivated to get the best grade possible.

I highly recommend this device.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 19, 2016 08:33 AM (2rmvw)

74
What is Ryan supposed to do about that?
Posted by: chemjeff at April 19, 2016 08:30 AM (uAvJJ)
--------------------------

As the Big Kahuna, he should assemble the budget he wants, tell his colleagues that this is what's going forward if they don't unite behind an alternative, and make good on his word.

I don't mean to be a smartass; I simply think that's what a nominal boss or leader is for.

Posted by: iforgot at April 19, 2016 08:33 AM (pC96u)

75 61 I feel like John Roberts is unzipping his fly and preparing to piss on us again.
Posted by: V the K at April 19, 2016 08:29 AM (O7MnT)

It's raining!

Posted by: CJ John Roberts at April 19, 2016 08:33 AM (nbrY/)

76 Good morning Horde!

I'm back from an exhausting weekend of racing where I got to completely ignore politics. It was glorious.

Today's polling:

Presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump continues to trail Clinton among people who actually vote (ironic, I know). While the Bloomberg poll that was particularly bad for Trump has now dropped out of the RCP average, the remaining polls are all very consistent showing a spread from -7 to -11. On average he trails the the worst candidate ever to be nominated by the Democrat party by 9.3%.

In Congress things remain mostly static. Only one GOP house seat moved from leans Dem to likely Dem. This means that the Dems are on track to win at least 12 seats in the House, and 3 seats in the Senate. However, if Clinton has coattails in her likely victory in November, the Dems will probably pick up 6 in the Senate and 22 in the House. This will insure a 5-4 liberal majority on the Supreme Court, and leave Paul Ryan's razor thin majority in the House as the only check on Clinton's ambitions.

And on that happy note, everyone please enjoy your day!

Posted by: Dave in Fla at April 19, 2016 08:33 AM (AdP1W)

77 69 Because of Cromnibus?

Posted by: chemjeff at April 19, 2016 08:32 AM (uAvJJ)

I don't know what crominbus is unless its that massive sellout on the budget that he lied about.

He has always been a RINO SOB long before that sellout.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 19, 2016 08:33 AM (vvmPQ)

78 Do I have any evidence? Yeah if you don't want a job, you don't take it.

Serious question. Have you ever been a part of a committee or group that had to accomplish some task but no one wanted the responsibility of being in charge of the group?

At some point, even someone who doesn't really want to be in charge will say "fine I will be in charge even though I don't want to be, just so we can get something done".

That is how I see Ryan's path to the speakership, albeit of course somewhat less selflessly.

Posted by: chemjeff at April 19, 2016 08:34 AM (uAvJJ)

79 Christ, I don't need this aggravation ...ever"

Preach it. This is getting tiresome.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at April 19, 2016 08:35 AM (C9pBZ)

80 "That narrow it down?"

Roger.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 19, 2016 08:35 AM (LUmDU)

81 votermom, for the sinus headaches in winter, try sleeping with a humidifier. It honestly changed my life. I've run one (just the cheapest one from Target) in our bedroom for the last two winters, every night, and neither my husband nor I have gotten a sinus headache, sore throat, cold, anything. I never have that tight feeling in my throat upon waking up in a too-dry room. It's been wonderful.

Also, this is the first year in over 30 years that I haven't had to take allergy medicine in the spring. The pollen is making me a bit sleepy, but none of those horrible headaches where if I moved my head slightly to the side it felt like someone had banged my head into a gong. The only thing I have done differently this year is that for the past 6-8 months I have been diligent about taking my fish oil capsules and vitamin D capsules every single day. Maybe that's not it, but it's the only thing I've done that's different.

Posted by: bluebell at April 19, 2016 08:35 AM (2WwbN)

82 @77: Yup. After that time he told Obama to his face that he was a SCOAMF they got to him, and he's been sucking Obama's dick and telling us it tastes like chocolate ever since.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 19, 2016 08:36 AM (3CwVB)

83 I keep hot sauce in my pants.

Posted by: Bill in Chappaqua at April 19, 2016 08:36 AM (gwG9s)

84 Offered without comment

http://tinyurl.com/hrvwok6

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 19, 2016 08:36 AM (ptqRm)

85 Bill Parcels once said "You are what your record says you are"

Same applies to Politicians and in this case to Ryan in spades.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 19, 2016 08:37 AM (V/InG)

86 "It's raining!
Posted by: CJ John Roberts"

Man, this rain is warm. And funny colored.

And it smells.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 19, 2016 08:37 AM (LUmDU)

87 Heh, nice to see all the complaining about Ryan going on.

Just remember that come January he will be the most conservative elected leader in Washington.

So you have that to look forward to.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at April 19, 2016 08:37 AM (AdP1W)

88 I'm in the colonial capital of Texas. That narrow it down?
Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam

Almost to the street.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 19, 2016 08:37 AM (Vgz5H)

89 As the Big Kahuna, he should assemble the budget he wants, tell his
colleagues that this is what's going forward if they don't unite behind
an alternative, and make good on his word.

But that is the type of leadership style that, in part, got Boehner in trouble, when it was just him and the upper leadership deciding on things and "forcing it" down everyone's throats.

I see Ryan as wanting the decision making process to be more decentralized. The problem is that that process only works if there is a consensus to be reached among those who disagree, and at this point, there doesn't appear to be one.

That is why I think Ryan does deserve criticism for overpromising on what he could accomplish given how he has decided to delegate authority.

Posted by: chemjeff at April 19, 2016 08:37 AM (uAvJJ)

90 I've had it up to here with the "white privilege" bullshit.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 19, 2016 08:37 AM (0mRoj)

91 He has always been a RINO SOB long before that sellout.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 19, 2016 08:33 AM (vvmPQ)
Other than his views on immigration, which I agree are problematic, why do you consider him to be a "RINO SOB"?

Posted by: chemjeff at April 19, 2016 08:38 AM (uAvJJ)

92 I'm in the colonial capital of Texas. That narrow it down?"

Hey - I'm about 40 or so miles NW of your location on the Brazos...

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at April 19, 2016 08:38 AM (C9pBZ)

93 I've had it up to here with the "white privilege" bullshit.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 19, 2016 08:37 AM (0mRoj)

So I'm guessing you would not be in favor of putting hillary in the White House like some others here?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 19, 2016 08:39 AM (V/InG)

94 The last time we had major floods FEMA came around later and changed the flood plains designation with the result that a friend on a nearby ranch had to put the meter loop at a distant water trough sixteen feet up in the air for FEMA to let Centerpoint install it. This was on the high bank of the Brazos, not where it overflows. He told them to piss off he would get a windmill.

Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at April 19, 2016 08:39 AM (y7bt9)

95 My white privilege just bought me a brand new bass boat!

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at April 19, 2016 08:39 AM (eHpnh)

96 Other than beating his wife, I am sure he is a swell fellow?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 19, 2016 08:40 AM (V/InG)

97 93 I've had it up to here with the "white privilege" bullshit.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 19, 2016 08:37 AM (0mRoj)

So I'm guessing you would not be in favor of putting hillary in the White House like some others here?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 19, 2016 08:39 AM (V/InG)

That's liberal Democrat privilege.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 19, 2016 08:40 AM (0mRoj)

98 Congress has not appropriated the money to arrest and deport millions of otherwise law-abiding immigrants, Ruth Bader Gunsburg said, so it makes sense to allow some of them to work legally and raise families.

Well played, Ryan and McConnell. You gave the SCOTUS exactly what it needed to approve of Executive Amnesty.

Posted by: V the K at April 19, 2016 08:40 AM (O7MnT)

99 Bluebell, I'm going to try the vit D. I remember I was low a couple of years ago.
I hate taking fish oil but I'll try to eat my omega whatever's now -salmon etc.

Posted by: @votermom at April 19, 2016 08:41 AM (nbrY/)

100 My white privilege just bought me a brand new bass boat!"

*sends evil grimace CF's way*

Lucky son of a b....

My gravy's got a boat.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at April 19, 2016 08:41 AM (C9pBZ)

101 Posted by: naturalfake at April 19, 2016 08:20 AM (2rmvw)

What about white chocolate, vanilla, and creamer? I can't believe non-whites are still allowed to appropriate these cultural icons!

Posted by: @votermom at April 19, 2016 08:30 AM (nbrY/)

As you know, the forces of repression are always trying to stop Social Progress.

Unfortunately, we weren't able to get to those vitally important items of White Privilege.

Still, there's always next year.

Fight on, Brothers and Sisters!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at April 19, 2016 08:42 AM (2rmvw)

102 Well played, Ryan and McConnell. You gave the SCOTUS exactly what it needed to approve of Executive Amnesty.

Posted by: V the K at April 19, 2016 08:40 AM (O7MnT)
Why are Ryan and McConnell responsible for Ginsburg's faulty logic?

For example, Congress has not appropriated the funds to arrest and punish millions of jaywalkers, either, but that alone is not an excuse to make jaywalking legal.

Posted by: chemjeff at April 19, 2016 08:42 AM (uAvJJ)

103 "Congress has not appropriated the money to arrest and deport millions of otherwise law-abiding immigrants, Ruth Bader Gunsburg said,"

So, if Congress appropriates money for something it suddenly becomes "more legal" than if they don't?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 19, 2016 08:43 AM (LUmDU)

104 Oh, and I can't tell directions in the AM - NE, not NW of San Felipe... sigh.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at April 19, 2016 08:43 AM (C9pBZ)

105 Today I'll be attempting to broker a dog adoption between two people I don't know. An FB Neighborhood Group "friend" posted a notice a few weeks ago that her friend had a dog that needed a good home. I put the word out among the retirees at the dog park, and yesterday was introduced to a lady who wants to adopt. Had to confirm the dog was still available, he is, but I realized that I gave the prospective adopter my e-mail address, but didn't get any contact info. from her, so I'm going to skulk around the dog park this morning hoping she arrives so I can put the two in touch with other.

Posted by: Lincolntf at April 19, 2016 08:43 AM (2cS/G)

106 91 Other than his views on immigration, which I agree are problematic, why do you consider him to be a "RINO SOB"?

Posted by: chemjeff at April 19, 2016 08:38 AM (uAvJJ)

I did white papers on all the major players a few years ago when everyone was calling him a conservative savior. He was all up on amnesty and the AGW scam and a few other Democrat things. I don't remember all of them but it showed him not only not being a conservative, but also a big ass RINO. His 2013 ACU scores were in the 80s. Definite RINO.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 19, 2016 08:44 AM (vvmPQ)

107 Thanks, Obama! Cuban Activist Living In USA For Nearly Half A Century Ordered Deported

Raul and Fidel sent a thanks you note.

Weasel Zippers

But But But Fidel is sending Joanne Chessemark back right? Right Right Right?

Hey I got a great idea, let's look the other way and stand on our principals and let another Dem get elected to the Presedency!

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 19, 2016 08:44 AM (V/InG)

108 ***88 I'm in the colonial capital of Texas. That narrow it down?
Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam

Almost to the street.*****

No shit. We don't have many streets.

Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at April 19, 2016 08:44 AM (y7bt9)

109 Sexual predators are diabolical, and the worst thing the law can do is to make access to women and girls in their most vulnerable and private moments easy for predators. It's insane.

--

Copied from the ONT, but this begs the question...

Whose group has the most numbers of individuals?

1) The microscopic transgender community
2) Perverts

Is there nothing that liberals can't f*ck up and ruin? Bathrooms. They've gone and effed up bathrooms because this "right" they've created will never go away until every public bathroom is converted. Their teeth are sunk in and they're not going to let go. It's their MO.

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at April 19, 2016 08:44 AM (+FSld)

110 Big day today...

Pumped up by landslide wins in Wyoming and Colorado, Cruz supporters in the Northeast attended a rally then dinner at the Waffle House.

Standing room only.

Fingers crossed for another huge victory.

Posted by: jwest at April 19, 2016 08:45 AM (Zs4uk)

111

Saw plenty of redneck privilege in action yesterday. Hauling people of color out of the water in Houston

Posted by: ThunderB at April 19, 2016 08:45 AM (zOTsN)

112 His 2013 ACU scores were in the 80s. Definite RINO.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 19, 2016 08:44 AM (vvmPQ)

You are what your record says you are!

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 19, 2016 08:45 AM (V/InG)

113 Good morning

Posted by: Bigby's Carpal Tunnel Syndrome at April 19, 2016 08:45 AM (3ZtZW)

114 Morning.

Oh look it's raining.

We only got 5 inches of rain yesterday. Few streets closed this morning.

>>Getting around the normal way will be happening for a few weeks though at the local level we just fix our stuff and don't wait for FEMA.

We've got lots of people in town helping with the flooding from last month. Some are staying at my church, some at other churches.

Posted by: Mama AJ at April 19, 2016 08:45 AM (nXeSu)

115 94
The last time we had major floods FEMA came around later and changed the
flood plains designation with the result that a friend on a nearby
ranch had to put the meter loop at a distant water trough sixteen feet
up in the air for FEMA to let Centerpoint install it. This was on the
high bank of the Brazos, not where it overflows. He told them to piss
off he would get a windmill.

Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at April 19, 2016 08:39 AM (y7bt9)

FEMA changed all their flood maps nationwide to make a lot more people be in the flood zones to increase their funding after giving all their money to New Orleans.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 19, 2016 08:46 AM (vvmPQ)

116 So, if Congress appropriates money for something it suddenly becomes "more legal"

Well, kinda, yeah. There's a bit of history behind that sort of reasoning, so I fully expect the Court to rule in TFGs favor.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at April 19, 2016 08:46 AM (C9pBZ)

117 The national field director for Donald J. Trump's campaign -- who is a loyalist to Corey Lewandowski, the embattled campaign manager -- resigned in a letter to Mr. Trump on Monday afternoon.

"I want to express my deepest gratitude for the opportunity to serve you and your campaign over the past 7 months," Stuart Jolly, the director, wrote in his resignation letter. "The journey has been extraordinary and many experiences on this journey will never be forgotten."

Mr. Jolly, a retired Army lieutenant colonel, was especially loyal to Mr. Lewandowski, whom he had worked with previously at Americans For Prosperity, the free enterprise advocacy group associated with the billionaire brothers Charles G. and David H. Koch.

... of course, the NYTimes had to get that "Koch" reference in the first 3 paragraphs

Posted by: Hillary "she's too big to jail" Clinton at April 19, 2016 08:46 AM (e8kgV)

118 NGU ... If the daily grind of the threads is getting you down, you could always sign up for the Horde group at chess.com.

Getting my ass solidly kicked for over an hour last nite did wonders for my self esteem.

Posted by: ScoggDog at April 19, 2016 08:46 AM (touVE)

119 the Waffle House.

Standing room only.

Well to be honest they never have many seats there, it's always standing room only

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 19, 2016 08:46 AM (V/InG)

120 His 2013 ACU scores were in the 80s. Definite RINO.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 19, 2016 08:44 AM (vvmPQ)
What would you consider to be the cutoff ACU score between "RINO" and "not RINO"?

Posted by: chemjeff at April 19, 2016 08:47 AM (uAvJJ)

121 Alito: What if a Prez. totally abandoned the borders?

Obama lackey: "That's a million miles from where we are now."

No, it's just down the hall and outside the doors, where mobs of foreign nationals howl to get their way. The Border Patrol has been reduced to helping with their luggage and pointing them to the nearest DMV.

Kennedy: 'The prez is legislating and Congress is executing--that's upside down!'

Nice of you to notice, Justice Mxyzptlk. Eight years late, but okay.

Just as the SSM case was really about who decides, society or lawyers , this is not about illegal immigration but who legislates, the Rule of Law or the Rule of the Jungle.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at April 19, 2016 08:47 AM (Ndje9)

122 NGU ... If the daily grind of the threads is getting you down, you could always sign up for the Horde group at chess.com.

Getting my ass solidly kicked for over an hour last nite did wonders for my self esteem.
Posted by: ScoggDog at April 19, 2016 08:46 AM (touVE)

Nah I'm fine...Just the RINOs, SHILLs, and TROLLs get me mad sometimes

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 19, 2016 08:48 AM (V/InG)

123 "the Waffle House"

heh

Posted by: Mortimer at April 19, 2016 08:48 AM (Aartv)

124 That's a lot of water. Guess I won't need to water the lawn for a few days/weeks/whenever.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at April 19, 2016 08:31 AM (C9pBZ)

Wont you donate some of your water? Just one glass will keep a delta smelt alive for a day....

Posted by: Sarah McLachlan at April 19, 2016 08:48 AM (DXFk8)

125 I'm out - hope you all have a good day. And prayers for all you Texicans getting hammered by the floods. Stay safe.

Posted by: bluebell at April 19, 2016 08:48 AM (2WwbN)

126 Pumped up by landslide wins in Wyoming and Colorado, Cruz supporters in the Northeast attended a rally then dinner at the Waffle House.

====

There are Waffle Houses in the NE?

Posted by: Bigby's Carpal Tunnel Syndrome at April 19, 2016 08:48 AM (3ZtZW)

127 Speaking of Waffle House, the one time we drove south (for a college tour), kid the younger kept seeing all these Waffle House signs. She was dying to eat in one but we never did.

So tell me, what are they like?

Posted by: @votermom at April 19, 2016 08:48 AM (nbrY/)

128 Jesus:

if walks like a RINO, Squaks like a RINO, and talks like a RINO....It's a FUCKIN RINO

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 19, 2016 08:49 AM (V/InG)

129 >> I'm going to skulk around the dog park

OK, who's on "bail Morons out of jail" duty today?

Posted by: Mama AJ at April 19, 2016 08:49 AM (nXeSu)

130 So tell me, what are they like?
Posted by: @votermom at April 19, 2016 08:48 AM (nbrY/)
----------------

A gas station that serves food, according to conventional wisdom.

Posted by: bluebell at April 19, 2016 08:49 AM (2WwbN)

131 Rednecks come in all colors out here in rural Texas. We all know each other and in many cases have the same last names despite skin tone.

Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at April 19, 2016 08:50 AM (y7bt9)

132 190 What would you consider to be the cutoff ACU score between "RINO" and "not RINO"?

Posted by: chemjeff at April 19, 2016 08:47 AM (uAvJJ)

I have posted that many times here evidently you are so busy siding with RINOs like Ryan And Rombly that you missed it.
> 90 - not RINO unless have jumped on more than one liberal POS like AGW or amnesty.
< 90 RINO
< 50 DIABLO

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 19, 2016 08:50 AM (vvmPQ)

133 We went to Waffle House immediately after moving South. Pretty good, standard breakfast food with a "Mel's Diner" vibe. The waffles are large and tasty, and they have flavored maple syrups that make everything taste good.

Posted by: Lincolntf at April 19, 2016 08:50 AM (2cS/G)

134 Wont you donate some of your water? Just one glass will keep a delta smelt alive for a day...."

Ok, that's funny right there.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at April 19, 2016 08:50 AM (C9pBZ)

135 Frankly, the SCOTUS has no business deciding whether preliminary injunctions should be upheld. A 4-4 is what they deserve.

Posted by: Antonin Scalia at April 19, 2016 08:51 AM (e8kgV)

136
That Ryan guy ain't so bad,, he never smacked me around. Much...

Posted by: Michelle Fields at April 19, 2016 08:51 AM (HSmrB)

137 Speaking of Waffle House, the one time we drove south (for a college tour), kid the younger kept seeing all these Waffle House signs. She was dying to eat in one but we never did.

So tell me, what are they like?
Posted by: @votermom at April 19, 2016 08:48 AM (nbrY/)

They're OK. Kinda like IHOPs, but more in your face and they cook in front of you, which is not always benficial for your appitite

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 19, 2016 08:51 AM (V/InG)

138 As the Big Kahuna, he should assemble the budget he wants, tell his
colleagues that this is what's going forward if they don't unite behind
an alternative, and make good on his word.

But that is the type of leadership style that, in part, got Boehner in trouble, when it was just him and the upper leadership deciding on things and "forcing it" down everyone's throats.

More bullshit.

It wasn't style. Pelosi was speaker and she delivered for the left.

Boehner was s;peaker and he delivered.........for the left.

Now Ryan (who had to be dragged kicking and screaming, tail end first) is delivering......?

But his sin is he "overpromised'.

Q: So, what is your biggest fault?

A: I'm too modest.

Posted by: Blue Hen at April 19, 2016 08:51 AM (326rv)

139 "So tell me, what are they like?"

A classic southern greasy spoon.

Great breakfast.

so-so on the other meals.

Almost like the Alex's chain in the Charleston area so many years ago.

Best to go slightly drunk.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 19, 2016 08:51 AM (ptqRm)

140 When I came into work first thing I heard was the boss complaining about Trump. She's a democrat so STFU. She was complaining to a very RINO/GOPe coworker, who of course was vigorously agreeing with her. Can't wait.

Posted by: Bigby's Carpal Tunnel Syndrome at April 19, 2016 08:52 AM (3ZtZW)

141 I would not use any "CON-servative" outside group to rate politicians.

According to the ACU, Kelly Ayotte and Jeff Sessions have the same rating and Pat "Fucking" Toomy is rated above them.

It's about important votes and moving forward a muscular constitutionalist agenda, I'm done with the Conservstive label as it is for all intents and purposes meaningless.

Posted by: Kreplach at April 19, 2016 08:52 AM (fvd+T)

142 42 "Maryland may be on the cusp of waking the hell up, and asking itself, what have we done?"

We can hope - moved to MD from Tucson AZ a bit over a year ago, hoping this trend continues. As a conservative family, Carroll County fits us pretty well, would be nice if the state moves rightwards. Was sort of the reverse in Tucson - while AZ in general was pretty conservative, Tucson/Pima County seems much more liberal.

Posted by: Mike at April 19, 2016 08:52 AM (7utiO)

143 Best to go slightly drunk.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 19, 2016 08:51 AM (ptqRm)

Now that there is the best description of a Waffle House. Bravo

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 19, 2016 08:53 AM (V/InG)

144 So tell me, what are they like?

===

Cross a shithole diner with a Denny's.

Posted by: Bigby's Carpal Tunnel Syndrome at April 19, 2016 08:53 AM (3ZtZW)

145 So tell me, what are they like?

Seemed like a Denny's to me, though a little more diner-y. The only difference being that, since this was early morning in Jacksonville, the windows were covered in condensation. Steamy!

Posted by: t-bird at April 19, 2016 08:53 AM (OLNwX)

146 So tell me, what are they like?

Posted by: @votermom at April 19, 2016 08:48 AM (nbrY/)

The hash brown potatoes are fried in butter flavored Crisco.

That's the secret to why they're so good.

Posted by: jwest at April 19, 2016 08:53 AM (Zs4uk)

147 So tell me, what are they like?"

Wait, whut? A Moron in (otherwise) good standing unaware of what goes on in a Waffle House?

Hmm. We need a gofundme project to expose underprivileged morons to Waffle House!

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at April 19, 2016 08:53 AM (C9pBZ)

148 Trump --- I just can't. Even if it means Hillary. At least, she might die in office.

Posted by: V the K at April 19, 2016 08:54 AM (O7MnT)

149 Hadn't been to an IHOP in a few years ... tried one in El Paso last week. I had no complaints.

But I like basic, plain stuff. YMMV.

Posted by: ScoggDog at April 19, 2016 08:54 AM (touVE)

150 Uhh...it takes until the second to last paragraph for them to point out that the Tdap vaccine also covers whooping cough, that you do need more often.

Given the relatively low cost of the Tdap, I doubt we'll see a Pertussis only vaccine any time in the near future.

Posted by: tsrlbke PhD(c), rogue bioethicist at April 19, 2016 08:55 AM (tM4uk)

151 109 Sexual predators are diabolical, and the worst thing the law can do is to make access to women and girls in their most vulnerable and private moments easy for predators. It's insane.

--

Copied from the ONT, but this begs the question...

Whose group has the most numbers of individuals?

1) The microscopic transgender community
2) Perverts

Is there nothing that liberals can't f*ck up and ruin? Bathrooms. They've gone and effed up bathrooms because this "right" they've created will never go away until every public bathroom is converted. Their teeth are sunk in and they're not going to let go. It's their MO.
Posted by: Lady in Black

Wanna piss off a liberal? Make 'em put skin in the game.
Told a guy on Fb, "I don't give a shit about the less than one percent of transgendered. I care about the numerous perverts. You don't care if your wife or daughter gets raped? Fine. Send 'em over. I'll fvck the shit outta your wife. Paolo style."

Posted by: rickb223 at April 19, 2016 08:56 AM (Vgz5H)

152 Best to go slightly drunk."

Er, describe "slightly drunk" please. I find WH to be far more palatable after a level above what I'd call "slightly".

Heh.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at April 19, 2016 08:56 AM (C9pBZ)

153
That is why I think Ryan does deserve criticism for overpromising on what he could accomplish given how he has decided to delegate authority.
Posted by: chemjeff at April 19, 2016 08:37 AM (uAvJJ)
-------------------------

His promises conflicted with his designs, and now he's in a pickle. I'm just not sure that his bad strategery relieves him of his duty to get results in a timely fashion.

Posted by: iforgot at April 19, 2016 08:56 AM (pC96u)

154 Haven't eaten at a Waffle House in 35 years, but they always seem like big, yellow targets sitting there all lit up with windows all around. Seems like they've got a "kick me" sign on them that actually reads, "hold this place up at gunpoint."

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at April 19, 2016 08:56 AM (+FSld)

155 I think Waffle House still has Kaboom for the kiddies.

Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at April 19, 2016 08:56 AM (y7bt9)

156 And for more news on Brazil

Rousseff vows to fight impeachment 'to the very end' in the Senate, where she is short of ten votes

http://preview.tinyurl.com/j2odqfq

Rousseff loses crucial impeachment vote; Senate decides as economic uncertainty worsens

http://preview.tinyurl.com/z8ypkrq

Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2016 08:57 AM (N5Ri9)

157 Posted by: Bigby's Carpal Tunnel Syndrome at April 19, 2016 08:52 AM (3ZtZW)

Morning show on conf (hubby watches) they had the typical one Dem and one GOP head and the question to both was along the lines of: polls say nobody likes any of the 4 (Hillary, Bernie, Trump, Cruz)
The Dem did the usual blah blah, didn't seem worried.
The GOP was spinning the maybe neither Trump nor Cruz will be it. But goes on to say that if Cruz gets it at least maybe we lose less of the Senate and House.
So that's where the GOP is at - prepared to lose valiantly again.
Idiots.

Posted by: @votermom at April 19, 2016 08:57 AM (nbrY/)

158 We have never made it to the Waffle Houses here! Six and a half years...guess we're overdue. One doesn't look too nice, but the other is by the racetrack and looks...cleaner.

Kids like the silly stuff at IHOP and there's a couple local places that are really good so...

Posted by: Mama AJ at April 19, 2016 08:57 AM (nXeSu)

159 Seems like they've got a "kick me" sign on them that actually reads, "hold this place up at gunpoint."

===

They do. They all have signs saying "no guns allowed" now.

Posted by: Bigby's Carpal Tunnel Syndrome at April 19, 2016 08:58 AM (3ZtZW)

160 151 - Did not see you as a "Facebooker".

This board is about as much Social Media as I can stand.

Posted by: ScoggDog at April 19, 2016 08:58 AM (touVE)

161 Rush (if he is being quoted right) thinks Trump is being a cry baby over Cruz Colorado victory. I think it is more strategy. Why isn't Cruz explaining it to the LIVs?

Posted by: optics at April 19, 2016 08:58 AM (rnH8X)

162 So tell me, what are they like?
Posted by: @votermom at April 19, 2016 08:48 AM (nbrY/)

Best place ever to load up on carbs.

Posted by: Tin Cup at April 19, 2016 08:58 AM (lUZux)

163
Trump --- I just can't. Even if it means Hillary.
----------------------

How would Trump be worse than an avaricious traitor with dynastic ambitions and a rapist for a political and life partner? Your choice makes me sick.

Posted by: iforgot at April 19, 2016 08:58 AM (pC96u)

164 Wait, whut? A Moron in (otherwise) good standing unaware of what goes on in a Waffle House?

Hmm. We need a gofundme project to expose underprivileged morons to Waffle House!

Cheaper. Buy a can of crisco. Smear a fine layer over every part of your body. Glasses, car keys, clothes, skin, etc. Get propositioned by a lot lizard.

There. You have now been in a Waffle House.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 19, 2016 08:58 AM (Vgz5H)

165 So tell me, what are they like?

They're a favorite with the stoner and druggie crowd

Cheap food. Stay open late.

If you're traveling, not a bad place to fuel up for a long drive.

Food- not great, not awful. Better than McDonald's.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 19, 2016 08:58 AM (2rmvw)

166 How would Trump be worse than an avaricious traitor with dynastic ambitions and a rapist for a political and life partner? Your choice makes me sick.
Posted by: iforgot at April 19, 2016 08:58 AM (pC96u)

Amen

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 19, 2016 08:59 AM (V/InG)

167 "Hmm. We need a gofundme project to expose underprivileged morons to Waffle House!"

Heh.

I've never been to one either. But, I'll take your money.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 19, 2016 08:59 AM (LUmDU)

168 "Er, describe "slightly drunk" please. I find WH to be far more palatable after a level above what I'd call "slightly".

Sober enough to walk.
Too drunk to drive.
Drunk enough to think you can dance.
That point on the alcohol spectrum where you become good looking, and witty.

Somewhere in that spectrum.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 19, 2016 08:59 AM (ptqRm)

169 We aren't obligated to abide by leftist speech codes. Do try to base your political opinions on something other than language and progressive box-checking.

Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at April 19, 2016 08:59 AM (xuouz)

170 So tell me, what are they like?"

Scattered, smothered and covered.

Posted by: Mortimer at April 19, 2016 09:00 AM (Aartv)

171 I think I'll have to vote for Trump multiple times in November to make up for the better-Hillary-than-Trump voters.

*ponders gofundme for that*

Posted by: @votermom at April 19, 2016 09:00 AM (nbrY/)

172 "Cheaper. Buy a can of crisco. Smear a fine layer over every part of your body. Glasses, car keys, clothes, skin, etc. Get propositioned by a lot lizard."

Always gave me the impression of grease stained windows and dead flies on the table.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 19, 2016 09:00 AM (LUmDU)

173 The Waffle House sells more T-bone steaks than any other restaurant chain in the U.S.

Steak & eggs anyone?

Posted by: jwest at April 19, 2016 09:00 AM (Zs4uk)

174 Cheaper. Buy a can of crisco. Smear a fine layer over every part of your body. Glasses, car keys, clothes, skin, etc. Get propositioned by a lot lizard.
There. You have now been in a Waffle House.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 19, 2016 08:58 AM (Vgz5H)

The coffee is also crisco

Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at April 19, 2016 09:00 AM (xuouz)

175 That point on the alcohol spectrum where you become good looking, and witty"

That'll take a fair amount of alcohol, then. Trust me on that.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at April 19, 2016 09:01 AM (C9pBZ)

176 Yeah, think my hubby would prefer the boat

So many links....excellent dump

Posted by: Lizzy at April 19, 2016 09:01 AM (NOIQH)

177 141 According to the ACU, Kelly Ayotte and Jeff Sessions have the same rating and Pat "Fucking" Toomy is rated above them.

It's about important votes and moving forward a muscular
constitutionalist agenda, I'm done with the Conservstive label as it is
for all intents and purposes meaningless.

Posted by: Kreplach at April 19, 2016 08:52 AM (fvd+T)
in 2013 Ayotte was rated at 68 and Sessions was rated at 88. So not the same. Sessions shows up as a conservative mainly because he is rabidly apposed to all forms of amnesty, but he is barely into the RINO category. Ayotte ran as a conservative and is now approaching DIABLO status. Toomy is at 80
So I don't know which ACU ratings you are looking at.

BTW 2013 is the last year I have the ratings downloaded. But you can not go by ACU ratings alone. Too many of the politicians know how to game the system. You also have to look at how they actually vote. A lot of them will vote to get a sellout on the floor where they know it will pass, and then vote against it only the floor so they can claim they were against the bill.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 19, 2016 09:01 AM (vvmPQ)

178 Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 19, 2016 08:50 AM (vvmPQ)

Vic, despite your gratuitous insult, thank you for posting that. I don't read the HQ every morning so yes I missed it.

How did you arrive at the 90 figure? And why do you single out a few particular issues to disqualify someone from being a "true conservative"?

Posted by: chemjeff at April 19, 2016 09:01 AM (uAvJJ)

179 How would Trump be worse than an avaricious traitor with dynastic ambitions and a rapist for a political and life partner? Your choice makes me sick.

===

Not to mention that Trump is politically a Centrist. This cycle is just blowing my mind with the waves of ignorance I keep seeing.

Posted by: Bigby's Carpal Tunnel Syndrome at April 19, 2016 09:02 AM (3ZtZW)

180 I think I'll have to vote for Trump multiple times in November to make up for the better-Hillary-than-Trump voters.
*ponders gofundme for that*
Posted by: @votermom at April 19, 2016 09:00 AM (nbrY/)

Bake sale! Better yet, team up with MikeyNTH for outrage omelettes and do a Moron House breakfast fundraiser.

Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at April 19, 2016 09:02 AM (xuouz)

181 That point on the alcohol spectrum where you become good looking, and witty

I can't afford to buy any woman that much alcohol.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at April 19, 2016 09:02 AM (eHpnh)

182 Lots of bridges and low water crossings washed out."

This. Surprising volume of water fell - more so than last spring's washouts.
Drove across a bridge at Kuykendahl yesterday afternoon and the water was within about 3 feet (or so) of the deck...

The usual water level is about 90 feet lower.

That's a lot of water. Guess I won't need to water the lawn for a few days/weeks/whenever.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at April 19, 2016 08:31 AM (C9pBZ)

Seen this many times before. Fllod of '94, Allison, etc, etc. It happens. And yes, it's pronounced "kirk-en-doll"...

Posted by: The Oort Cloud - Source of all SMODs at April 19, 2016 09:02 AM (AJdlq)

183 The coffee is also crisco

--

The hair in the food? Also Crisco.

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at April 19, 2016 09:02 AM (+FSld)

184 Trump --- I just can't. Even if it means Hillary. At least, she might die in office.

And VP Barney Frank will ascend to the throne.

Posted by: Mortimer at April 19, 2016 09:02 AM (Aartv)

185 It's good I don't drive. Often I'm in no shape to walk. Bloody Mary me Uma!

Posted by: Hillary 2016 at April 19, 2016 09:02 AM (gwG9s)

186 160 151 - Did not see you as a "Facebooker".

This board is about as much Social Media as I can stand.
Posted by: ScoggDog

Only have it due to paintball. Scenario producer tried to keep his website going, but everyone moved to Fb, so we had to follow. I'm part of his ref staff, otherwise I wouldn't be there.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 19, 2016 09:03 AM (Vgz5H)

187 >>Cheaper. Buy a can of crisco. Smear a fine layer over every part of your
body. Glasses, car keys, clothes, skin, etc. Get propositioned by a lot
lizard.

Huh, so that's what I've been missing.

Rather just have waffles, thanks!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 19, 2016 09:03 AM (NOIQH)

188 Only have it due to paintball. Scenario producer tried to keep his website going, but everyone moved to Fb, so we had to follow. I'm part of his ref staff, otherwise I wouldn't be there.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 19, 2016 09:03 AM (Vgz5H)

How was that event you reffed the other weekend? And how often do you get to play?

Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at April 19, 2016 09:03 AM (xuouz)

189 "The hair in the food? Also Crisco. "

That Crisco in the food?

It's not Crisco

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 19, 2016 09:03 AM (ptqRm)

190 Kreplach makes a pretty good point about the Conservative label, I think. I don't trust it, or most that use it, much anymore. Don't identify as one myself.

Posted by: ScoggDog at April 19, 2016 09:04 AM (touVE)

191 And yes, it's pronounced "kirk-en-doll"

And I won't add the "r"... get a few odd looks from time to time.

But get this - Waze/Google and Ford's Sync do say "kirkendoll".

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at April 19, 2016 09:04 AM (C9pBZ)

192
Posted by: iforgot at April 19, 2016 08:58 AM (pC96u)
Hillary is awful, no doubt.
Trump is a different kind of awful.
I see Trump as a thin-skinned egomaniac who would use the office to aggrandize himself above all other priorities. I know others disagree, but that is how I see him, based on his business history and his campaign thus far.
Neither one would do anything to reduce executive power, which is IMO my top issue this election.

Posted by: chemjeff at April 19, 2016 09:04 AM (uAvJJ)

193 In SC, you can smoke inside the Waffle House.

Nice hash browns.

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at April 19, 2016 09:04 AM (1ijHg)

194 What would you consider to be the cutoff ACU score between "RINO" and "not RINO"?
Posted by: chemjeff at April 19, 2016 08:47 AM (uAvJJ)

It's a trap!

Posted by: Admiral Fred Upton at April 19, 2016 09:05 AM (LISuA)

195 190
Kreplach makes a pretty good point about the Conservative label, I
think. I don't trust it, or most that use it, much anymore. Don't
identify as one myself.

Posted by: ScoggDog at April 19, 2016 09:04 AM (touVE)
what do you identify as?

Posted by: chemjeff at April 19, 2016 09:05 AM (uAvJJ)

196 I love the Waffle House !

Posted by: King Putt at April 19, 2016 09:05 AM (lUZux)

197 Moving the barge out of the way so shd get a better view of the work on the Falcon 9

http://portcanaveralwebcam.com/

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 19, 2016 09:05 AM (iQIUe)

198 Ohio taxpayers presented with $2.5 million bill for Highway Patrol protecting governor as he campaigns across the country. Have to pay, already spent.

Had this precedent been in effect all through history, you can bet on who wouldn't be arguing "Mother of Presidents." Take it, Virginia.

Garfield and McKinley, obviously, hardest hit. Harding was a homeopath.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 19, 2016 09:05 AM (xq1UY)

199 You want Lyin' Cruz,
You'll settle for Trump's tiny hands,
You'll get Amnesty'd w/ Paul Ryan - and like it.

Posted by: GOPe at April 19, 2016 09:05 AM (10hEu)

200 Kreplach makes a pretty good point about the Conservative label, I think. I don't trust it, or most that use it, much anymore. Don't identify as one myself.
Posted by: ScoggDog at April 19, 2016 09:04 AM (touVE)

I'm not using it anymore either. It's useless in media and academia and it's poison to the laity (isn't that a nicer word for LIV, hah).

Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at April 19, 2016 09:05 AM (xuouz)

201 More on Waffle House-

I've rarely been in one that's clean.

And that unflushed toilet....Crisco.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 19, 2016 09:06 AM (2rmvw)

202 I'm on nobody's side, because nobody is on my side.

Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at April 19, 2016 09:06 AM (xuouz)

203 And other news, the Colombian terrorist group FARC is now appealing to Pope Francis for intervention to stop violence from what they call right wing militias attacking them, disrupting their attempt to negotiate with the Colombian government.

I don't know if the FARC is still holding kidnapped Colombian military and the family members of important people as hostages and for ransom at their private enclaves/prison camps in Colombia, but I don't wonder if that history is part of what is driving those attacks.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/gm3tcte

Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2016 09:06 AM (N5Ri9)

204 Daily Mail article link by phoenixgirl on Twitter:

http://tinyurl.com/haakgb9

Save picture number #6 for "male privilege" discussions.

Posted by: Mama AJ at April 19, 2016 09:06 AM (nXeSu)

205 Not to mention that Trump is politically a Centrist.

He is a Trumpist. He doesn't have much if any convictions, so one day he is taking "hard right" positions, on abortion, immigration, etc., and the next day he is taking "hard left" positions, on partial-birth abortion, etc....

I don't think it's fair to label his beliefs as "left" or "right" or "middle" or anything.

Posted by: chemjeff at April 19, 2016 09:07 AM (uAvJJ)

206 http://portcanaveralwebcam.com/
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 19, 2016 09:05 AM (iQIUe)

Is that the booster on the left hand side?

Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at April 19, 2016 09:07 AM (xuouz)

207
I must be the only one who finds Better Call Saul boring. Sure I like seeing the old characters and actors from BB. That's great. But Jimmy, Chuck, Blondie, and the law firm - boring.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 19, 2016 09:08 AM (iQIUe)

208 178 How did you arrive at the 90 figure? And why do you
single out a few particular issues to disqualify someone from being a
"true conservative"?

Posted by: chemjeff at April 19, 2016 09:01 AM (uAvJJ)

Second try at posting.
90 us pure opinion. Those two things I listed are simply examples out of many that I have as heavy hitters like gun control and the Constitution.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 19, 2016 09:08 AM (vvmPQ)

209 So it might have been a bit better had troops been left in Iraq six years ago.

Weird.

Posted by: Mr Macca Bean at April 19, 2016 09:08 AM (4ng05)

210 How was that event you reffed the other weekend? And how often do you get to play?

Event was a silly blast. Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail.

I get to play about once a year. Been doing this now for 19 years. Slowed way down on playing. Too old to carry/wear that much gear.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 19, 2016 09:08 AM (Vgz5H)

211 I'm on nobody's side, because nobody is on my side.
>>>>

I am . Despite your predisposition to millenial angst. : )

Posted by: Mortimer at April 19, 2016 09:08 AM (Aartv)

212 everything is bigger in TX .....the rain, the hail..... stay safe morons

Posted by: phoenixgirl at April 19, 2016 09:09 AM (0O7c5)

213 206 Kari, I believe that is the "Dutchie".

Posted by: ScoggDog at April 19, 2016 09:09 AM (touVE)

214 A 'Trumpist"

what a crock

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 19, 2016 09:09 AM (V/InG)

215 I've had a fight in a Waffle House. That gives me street cred. Negates my wealthy family and white privilege.

Posted by: Kid Rock at April 19, 2016 09:10 AM (gwG9s)

216 First EU deportations to Turkey were about meeting a deadline, not respecting migrant rights
=============
I hate HRWatch. There is no right to illegally enter a country. There is no right to break laws and expect that you can stay.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 19, 2016 09:11 AM (iQIUe)

217 Daily Mail article link by phoenixgirl on Twitter:

http://tinyurl.com/haakgb9 "

The somewhat Bernie Sanders looking fellow still puzzles - I mean, there's a camera crew, truck blocking the roadway, obvious water, and he drives his hybrid honda right into the floodwaters, then sort of zones out...
Makes you realize the state of mind of other drivers around you every day.

Scary, no?

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at April 19, 2016 09:11 AM (C9pBZ)

218 kid rock loves waffle house. or, so i've heard.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at April 19, 2016 09:11 AM (ucDmr)

219 214
A 'Trumpist"

what a crock

Well he's certainly not a "centrist" when, for instance, on one day, he says he's "totally pro-choice", and then on the next day, he says he wants to punish women who have abortions.

What label would you use to describe such positions?

Posted by: chemjeff at April 19, 2016 09:11 AM (uAvJJ)

220 He is a Trumpist. He doesn't have much if any convictions, so one day he is taking "hard right" positions, on abortion, immigration, etc., and the next day he is taking "hard left" positions, on partial-birth abortion, etc....

He's a businessman and what he's focused on is economics and money. He doesn't care about social issues and isn't up to date on them, much less what the fashionable phrases and positions of the two political camps.

This resonates with disengaged voters.

We cannot afford to get into the weeds on social issues. The president must improve the economy. This is the fulcrum of public opinion. Even leftists have to admit Obama has sucked and his economy blows. An economic recovery will do more for America's psyche than a hundred social-issues victories. Let's island hop the SJWs.

Conservative opposition to Trump hinges on a rejection of his ideas as plausible and him as reliable. But the actual ideas he's advocating you don't seem to have a problem with.

So what can he do to win your trust?

Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at April 19, 2016 09:11 AM (xuouz)

221 A narcissistic politician who takes both sides of the issues, straddling the fence in order to please most of the electorate?

What shall we call this new and fascinating creature?

Posted by: Mortimer at April 19, 2016 09:11 AM (Aartv)

222 >>>That is how I see Ryan's path to the speakership, albeit of course somewhat less selflessly.<<<

Paul is a young suckling, clinging to the teats of Mother Nancy while he gathers his bearing.

Posted by: Fritz at April 19, 2016 09:11 AM (UzPAd)

223 193
In SC, you can smoke inside the Waffle House.

Nice hash browns.

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at April 19, 2016 09:04 AM (1ijHg)

You can't at the one in my local town. The liberals that run the city have banned smoking in every restaurant in town. And what is bad is that in SC all bars that serve liquor must be in either a restaurant or a hotel. So all the bars now have to build outdoor patios so smokers can smoke. And those outdoor patios suck in the winter and when it is raining.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 19, 2016 09:11 AM (vvmPQ)

224 I actually agree that Trump would not reduce executive power.
I doubt if any POTUS would. The era of George Washington is over.
These days power is never relinquished altruistically.

But actually if Trump is in the WH, I fully expect Congress and SCOTUS to suddenly remember they are co-equal branches of government and start working furiously to reassert themselves.

Ironically, Trump may be the quickest path to a reigned-in Executive branch.

Posted by: @votermom at April 19, 2016 09:11 AM (nbrY/)

225 >>But Jimmy, Chuck, Blondie, and the law firm - boring.

Me, too. Not much there there. Saul was colorful, fun; Jimmy is...mostly sad.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 19, 2016 09:12 AM (NOIQH)

226 210 My boy loves paintball. I encourage it for the outdoor exercise and tactical aspects.

Most paintball here is in the woods, combat style stuff.

Posted by: ScoggDog at April 19, 2016 09:13 AM (touVE)

227 I am . Despite your predisposition to millenial angst. : )
Posted by: Mortimer at April 19, 2016 09:08 AM (Aartv)

#1, you're younger than me.
#2, that was a Tolkien quote. Wait that doesn't help my argument does it...

Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at April 19, 2016 09:13 AM (xuouz)

228 Speaking of Waffle House, the one time we drove
south (for a college tour), kid the younger kept seeing all these Waffle
House signs. She was dying to eat in one but we never did.

So tell me, what are they like?

Posted by: @votermom at April 19, 2016 08:48 AM (nbrY/)

I'm a Waffle House fan for breakfast...nothing special I admit, but they are usually quite small and friendly. Always amazing how the cook can remember all the orders as they order verbally...Don't submit a check to the cook to follow, they just call out the order...hash browns only, no home fries.

Posted by: Colin at April 19, 2016 09:13 AM (6IZ5e)

229 For all intents and purposes we are a judicial oligarchy where the will of the people can be wiped away by the machinations of 5 black robes tyrants.

Worse, one swing justice has been running our country. I have to say, if I'm going to ruled by one unelected-for-life man, I want a Caesar rather than a Kennedy.

Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie! at April 19, 2016 09:13 AM (evdj2)

230 There are Waffle Houses in the NE?

I saw a Waffle House outside State College, PA this weekend.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 19, 2016 09:13 AM (1xUj/)

231 I don't think it's fair to label his beliefs as "left" or "right" or "middle" or anything

===

If you believe all of that then you also realize that anything you potentially disagree with can be changed by a Twitter hashtag. You can see that as a negative or a positive, your choice.

Posted by: Bigby's Carpal Tunnel Syndrome at April 19, 2016 09:13 AM (3ZtZW)

232 Kari, I believe that is the "Dutchie".
Posted by: ScoggDog at April 19, 2016 09:09 AM (touVE)

*touches nose with left hand, points with right*

Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at April 19, 2016 09:14 AM (xuouz)

233 AVERAGE JOE SEWS SOCKS THAT SMELL.

Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie! at April 19, 2016 09:14 AM (evdj2)

234 The Washington Examiner, home of the single worst web site in the entire news world, says the Marine Corps is being pressured hard by Obama and his merry band of Progressives to lower combat standards.

The Progs want women to be combat Marines. It's more important to them than having effective Marines.

It goes without saying that whomever is applying this "pressure" should be named publicly and shamed, but won't be. I can hope, though, they might try to eagerly take "credit" for it so at least we might know who they are.

Posted by: MTF at April 19, 2016 09:15 AM (LISuA)

235 "Khan grew up one of eight kids in a crowded South London apartment. He escaped the lower working class neighborhood to study law at the University of North London, and became a human rights lawyer before he was elected to Parliament in 2005 as a member of the Labour Party"

IOW, he became a human rights lawyer so he could shake down the taxpayers of the UK. It's not like these bozos ever go into these turd world countries and fight for human rights there.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 19, 2016 09:15 AM (iQIUe)

236 got t reboot per AVG. bbl

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 19, 2016 09:15 AM (vvmPQ)

237 My boy loves paintball. I encourage it for the outdoor exercise and tactical aspects.

Most paintball here is in the woods, combat style stuff.

Scenario encompasses the whole field. Usually takes over the whole field/park. Uses all of the acreage, speedball, woodsball, etc.

Next huge game is next month in Joliet, Il.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 19, 2016 09:15 AM (Vgz5H)

238 #1, you're younger than me.

>>>>>

I wish.

#2, that was a Tolkien quote. Wait that doesn't help my argument does it...
>>>>>

Case. Rested.

One day I am going to publish my best of GOK collection. Once our lawyers come to terms on the rights, of course.

Posted by: Mortimer at April 19, 2016 09:16 AM (Aartv)

239
Well he's certainly not a "centrist"

==

Wrong. He is in all that matters an 80s era Democrat, which passes for Centrist nowadays. Maybe you don't remember any of that or aren't old enough.

Posted by: Bigby's Carpal Tunnel Syndrome at April 19, 2016 09:16 AM (3ZtZW)

240 Khan grew up"

KAAAAHHHN!

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at April 19, 2016 09:16 AM (C9pBZ)

241 I am voting for whom ever the Republicans nominate in order to keep any Democrat OUT of the White House. No matter how bad any of the current Republicans is or will be he or she will be heads and tails better than any Democrat and I am not particularly interested in listening to anyone's opinion who will not make the same pledge or even advocates voting for a Dem or voting their bullshit conscience for some mythical 3rd party to fulfill their juvenile fantasies.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 19, 2016 09:16 AM (V/InG)

242 Ironically, Trump may be the quickest path to a reigned-in Executive branch.

Posted by: @votermom at April 19, 2016 09:11 AM (nbrY/)
-----------------------------------------------------

Wishcasting much?

Posted by: MTF at April 19, 2016 09:17 AM (LISuA)

243
Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at April 19, 2016 09:11 AM (xuouz)
At this point, nothing. I am firmly #NeverTrump. In my view he lacks the character and integrity to be POTUS, and no new set of policies that he might reveal will change that.
I don't want anyone as POTUS who would, for instance, even think about "revisiting the libel laws" so as to punish his enemies. And yes I fully realize both Trump and Hillary are likely to do such things.

Posted by: chemjeff at April 19, 2016 09:17 AM (uAvJJ)

244 >I'm on nobody's side, because nobody is on my side.

I enjoy your opinions,Kari, and I find your posts far less antagonistic than some commenters, probably doesn't mean much in the greater scheme of things, but, I highly doubt I'm the only lurker that likes to read your comments and would be unhappy if you weren't here

Posted by: cind at April 19, 2016 09:17 AM (nRbbW)

245 But get this - Waze/Google and Ford's Sync do say "kirkendoll".

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at April 19, 2016 09:04 AM (C9pBZ)

That really is the correct pronunciation. Old German family, been around here forever. Had a math teacher in jr. high who was a Kuykendahl. Got into a discussion once with her about how people mispronounce others names.

Posted by: The Oort Cloud - Source of all SMODs at April 19, 2016 09:17 AM (AJdlq)

246 I'd like to just weigh in on the Ryan controversy for a moment.

Ryan is a snake and a snake oil salesman. He'll do, and say anything to stay where he is and keep the gravy train rolling for as long as he can no matter the cost to the country - exactly like three quarters of the other pieces of shit in D.C.

He doesn't serve the country, his constituents, or any of the myriad other "hard working American citizens."

If, somehow, Ryan is 'convinced' to accept the nomination, instead of not voting (which is the plan right now), I swear I will vote Democrat.

Posted by: Mr Macca Bean at April 19, 2016 09:19 AM (4ng05)

247
Is that the booster on the left hand side?
Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at April 19, 2016 09:07 AM (xuouz)
==========
Part of it. They put this giant clamp on a section, take out bolts, then a guy stands on a ladder and pushes it apart. They haul away that section and they do it again.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 19, 2016 09:20 AM (iQIUe)

248 The "other socialists riot" bit in the sidebar goes nowhere. I guess it's a lot like socialism itself, then.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 19, 2016 09:20 AM (AroJD)

249 Wishcasting much?
Posted by: MTF at April 19, 2016 09:17 AM (LISuA)

Do you see Congress and SCOTUS rubberstamping him.the way they do TFG?
Because I see them.doing the same for Hillary.
I don't know how they'd treat Cruz - probably a tad worse than they did W.
As for Bernie - I shudder. I think Dems would use him. He's so weak and cowardly. He would be Pelosi' s puppet.

Posted by: @votermom at April 19, 2016 09:20 AM (nbrY/)

250 That really is the correct pronunciation"

Then put an "r" on the d..n signs.

BTW, it's an archaic Dutch/Low countries phrase. And that's enough inside Houston baseball...

Heh.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at April 19, 2016 09:20 AM (C9pBZ)

251 Ironically, Trump may be the quickest path to a reigned-in Executive branch.

Well, there are two hypotheses on why executive power has grown so much. Either Congress is unwilling to restrain executive power, because it benefits Congress along with the executive; or Congress is unable to restrain executive power, because it has grown so far out of Congress' control and we are now on the slippery slope to imperial rule.

If the first hypothesis is correct, yes, Congress might be able to restrain the worst impulses of a President Trump.

But if the second hypothesis is correct, then no one can restrain the worst impulses of a President Trump.

I'm not willing to roll the dice on that just yet.

Posted by: chemjeff at April 19, 2016 09:20 AM (uAvJJ)

252 He would be Pelosi' s puppet.
Posted by: @votermom at April 19, 2016 09:20 AM (nbrY/)

Chuckie right? I think I saw that movie

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 19, 2016 09:21 AM (V/InG)

253 You want to know how f'd up California is? They allowed professional sports players to file Workers Compensation claims 30 years after the fact even if those teams were not California based and even if they had filed a claim or claims previously in the State they were based. Normally the statute of limitations to file a claim is one to two years depending on the state . No doubt there was some collusion between the WCAB and the plaintiff attorneys to allow this travesty. And they wonder why they have a hard time getting carriers to write policies in CA.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at April 19, 2016 09:21 AM (oC40p)

254 He is in all that matters an 80s era Democrat, which passes for Centrist nowadays.

I considered them commie rat bastards back then as well. I was barely able to keep myself from strangling Alan Cranston when I saw him jogging on the Mall.

And don't even mention Ron 'Red' Dellums.

Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie! at April 19, 2016 09:22 AM (evdj2)

255 Starting to look like Waffle House experience belongs on our "Bubble" test?

On the "which one of you did this" front, woman who dropped hat inside T.O. Zoo tiger fence and jumped in to get it was greeted by jeers of "You're A Moron!"

Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 19, 2016 09:22 AM (xq1UY)

256 On a trip to our local restaurant supply, I tried to buy a gallon of the butter flavored Crisco...

My wife threatened to call my cardiologist if I didn't put it back.

Posted by: jwest at April 19, 2016 09:22 AM (Zs4uk)

257 Waffle House Partners is proud to announce our merger with White Castle Corp. Look for our combined stores in 2017!

Posted by: Waffle House Inc. at April 19, 2016 09:23 AM (gwG9s)

258 But if the second hypothesis is correct, then no one can restrain the worst impulses of a President Trump.

I'm not willing to roll the dice on that just yet.

Whoo-hoo! Go President Trump, go!
Open up the camps for dem voters!

Posted by: rickb223 at April 19, 2016 09:23 AM (Vgz5H)

259 Pres. Fifthcolumn is performing his Fifth Pillar hajj, going to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday.

The Great Grovel continues.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at April 19, 2016 09:23 AM (Ndje9)

260 He is in all that matters an 80s era Democrat, which passes for Centrist nowadays.

He *sounds* like an 80s era Democrat, from time to time. But I think this campaign has revealed that he really has no core convictions at all. He will sound like an 80s era Democrat when it is advantageous for him to do so, but when it is advantageous for him to sound like some stereotypical evangelical Bible-thumper, he will pander to that crowd too.

Posted by: chemjeff at April 19, 2016 09:23 AM (uAvJJ)

261 My wife threatened to call my cardiologist if I didn't put it back.

Posted by: jwest at April 19, 2016 09:22 AM (Zs4uk)

She's right! Just use real butter.

Posted by: @votermom at April 19, 2016 09:24 AM (nbrY/)

262 I still don't think the GOP or DNC nominee has ran yet.

Posted by: ScoggDog at April 19, 2016 09:24 AM (touVE)

263 Always amazing how the cook can remember all the orders as they order verbally...Don't submit a check to the cook to follow, they just call out the order...

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Its a code, how they place the jelly on the plate

Posted by: Bigby's Carpal Tunnel Syndrome at April 19, 2016 09:24 AM (3ZtZW)

264 >>But Jimmy, Chuck, Blondie, and the law firm - boring.

Me, too. Not much there there. Saul was colorful, fun; Jimmy is...mostly sad.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 19, 2016 09:12 AM (NOIQH)

Yeah, last night I thought that I'd probably seen my last "Better Call Saul".

1st season was pretty good.

But, now they're back to BB bad habits of dragging the story out too long- and only a handful of good episodes per season.

I kind of thought that BCS had the potential of being kind of a lighter, more humorous BB as Jimmy kept falling through the cracks until he found his true self-

the scam-artist, the scumbag lawyer living high on the hog and loving it-

until (segue into BB) he gets involved with Walter White- which we've already seen.

But.....Nope.

Everyfuckingthing has to be a sad and somber commentary on the hideous, distorting illusion of the American dream.

Bleh.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 19, 2016 09:24 AM (2rmvw)

265 Spengler has a piece up criticizing Europe and the west generally for permitting the Islamists to "weaponize horror". Great point.

He starts off by telling the story of refugees threatening to drown their own children if their boat is turned away from Italy. Instead of arresting those people and expelling them back to Syria, a Catholic archbishop met their boat at the dock and used it to lecture Italians on their duty to accept terror into their towns and cities.

http://tinyurl.com/zchcq8x

Posted by: MTF at April 19, 2016 09:24 AM (LISuA)

266 Hard to look at those Houston pics since I still think of the old burg as home.

Posted by: Mr Macca Bean at April 19, 2016 09:24 AM (4ng05)

267 My wife threatened to call my cardiologist if I didn't put it back.

Posted by: jwest at April 19, 2016 09:22 AM (Zs4uk)

Eat out with "Boys" more, that is what I do. Moron meet ups are good for that. Tonight I am going to a Camp Dinner from guys I went to camp with 50 years ago. A bunch of liberals, RINOs and SHILLs so I may fart and burp a lot also

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 19, 2016 09:24 AM (V/InG)

268 How would Trump be worse than an avaricious traitor with dynastic ambitions and a rapist for a political and life partner?

I think they are both pretty equally horrible.

But voting for Trump is an endorsement not just of his policies but of his campaign.

If I vote for Trump, that would be me saying, "Yes, it's okay that you called Ted Cruz Lyin' Ted, called him un-American, and threw hissy-fits when he beat you. It's OK that you blamed Bush for 9-11. It's okay that you called Carly Fiorina ugly and engaged in childish insults. It's okay that you sicced your thugs on anyone who criticized you."

And I just can't do that. If you vote for gutter politcians you get gutter politics. I won't be a part of that.

Posted by: V the K at April 19, 2016 09:24 AM (O7MnT)

269 She's right! Just use real butter.

Posted by: @votermom at April 19, 2016 09:24 AM (nbrY/)

I've been using a lot of Ghee for cooking. It has a higher smoke point.

Posted by: jwest at April 19, 2016 09:25 AM (Zs4uk)

270 261
My wife threatened to call my cardiologist if I didn't put it back.

Posted by: jwest at April 19, 2016 09:22 AM (Zs4uk)

She's right! Just use real butter.

Posted by: @votermom at April 19, 2016 09:24 AM (nbrY/)

i don't even want to know what you two are talking about........

Posted by: phoenixgirl at April 19, 2016 09:25 AM (0O7c5)

271 My biggest worry is that everyone will run circles around Trump. He will be out maneuvered at every turn . Both here and abroad. His responses will be like everything he does. He will overreact and try to use a hammer as a fly swatter.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at April 19, 2016 09:25 AM (oC40p)

272
You want General Washington
You will settle for General Pinochet
You will get Corporal Punishment

Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie! at April 19, 2016 09:26 AM (evdj2)

273 And I just can't do that. If you vote for gutter politcians you get gutter politics. I won't be a part of that.
Posted by: V the K at April 19, 2016 09:24 AM (O7MnT)

yeah much better to let a treason's liar occupy the White House?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 19, 2016 09:26 AM (V/InG)

274 Whoo-hoo! Go President Trump, go!
Open up the ~~camps~~Barrel for dem voters!

Posted by: rickb223 at April 19, 2016 09:23 AM (Vgz5H)

FIFY

Posted by: @votermom at April 19, 2016 09:26 AM (nbrY/)

275 Ironically, Trump may be the quickest path to a reigned-in Executive branch.

Well, there are two hypotheses on why executive power has grown so much. Either Congress is unwilling to restrain executive power, because it benefits Congress along with the executive; or Congress is unable to restrain executive power, because it has grown so far out of Congress' control and we are now on the slippery slope to imperial rule.

If the first hypothesis is correct, yes, Congress might be able to restrain the worst impulses of a President Trump.

But if the second hypothesis is correct, then no one can restrain the worst impulses of a President Trump.

I'm not willing to roll the dice on that just yet.

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This to me may be the one positive of a Trump presidency - but it is betting on a lot, and it may not make up for other potential negatives that I see.

As to whether it is an unwillingness on Congress or Congress just can't, I lean heavily toward unwillingness by Congress. But that is partly because the people don't want it. While I think the current Congress can go much farther than it has, it is somewhat restrained by the people.

Left states did not like executive power when Bush was president, but are fine with it now. Hard to control in an environment where people are only against it if your man (woman) is not the president.

Posted by: SH at April 19, 2016 09:26 AM (gmeXX)

276 1st season was pretty good.

But, now they're back to BB bad habits of dragging the story out too long- and only a handful of good episodes per season.

Binged 1st season on Netflix. Where they messed up was giving a definitive timeline of occurrence.
"Takes place six years before BB".

That's a long damn time to fill.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 19, 2016 09:27 AM (Vgz5H)

277 Posted by: V the K at April 19, 2016 09:24 AM (O7MnT)

Try feeling that way about Trump for 30 years only worse and be expected to vote for him.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at April 19, 2016 09:27 AM (oC40p)

278 You will get Corporal Punishment>>>

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at April 19, 2016 09:28 AM (tf9Ne)

279 You will get Corporal Punishment>>>

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I thought we had banned corporal punishment. Spankings hurt you know.

Posted by: SH at April 19, 2016 09:28 AM (gmeXX)

280 If Trump really wanted to cement his supporters to him he would just publically state that If the Supreme Court votes to uphold Obama's orders on immigration any decision they announce during his administration will be ignored as worthless. We need to remind those judges they only have the power that we decide to give them and if they shit on one side to much, well when that side gets back in power they, meaning the judges will pay a personal price for it. Trump needs to remind them of that loudly and boldly.

Posted by: SOUTHDAKOTABOY at April 19, 2016 09:28 AM (JaJ3u)

281 So did anyone watch the HBO series "Vinyl"?

I have mixed feelings about it and I never see anyone talking about it.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 19, 2016 09:29 AM (1xUj/)

282 @270 Well played, Phoenix. Well played indeed.
Stream of consciousness, this went uncommented: Gato Barbieri has died.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41A-hN89m4I

Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 19, 2016 09:29 AM (xq1UY)

283 The Clinton/DNC have been spreading their leftist BS for years to gain power and now they are Feelin' the Bern as result. Watching him make them them squirm is the only good thing about Bernie. Their socialist chickens are coming home to roost.

Posted by: Ripley at April 19, 2016 09:29 AM (1BQGO)

284
If I vote for Trump, that would be me saying, "Yes, it's okay that you called Ted Cruz Lyin' Ted, called him un-American, and threw hissy-fits when he beat you. It's OK that you blamed Bush for 9-11. It's okay that you called Carly Fiorina ugly and engaged in childish insults. It's okay that you sicced your thugs on anyone who criticized you."

And I just can't do that. If you vote for gutter politcians you get gutter politics. I won't be a part of that.
Posted by: V the K at April 19, 2016 09:24 AM (O7MnT)
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If this is your moral threshold, I don't see how you ever manage to cast a vote -- and I don't see how you ever would have in the entire history of the country.

Posted by: iforgot at April 19, 2016 09:29 AM (pC96u)

285 Its a code, how they place the jelly on the plate"

That's not jelly.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at April 19, 2016 09:30 AM (C9pBZ)

286 Butter flavored Crisco is delicious right out of the can. I dig into it like Winnie the Pooh does honey.

Posted by: Oprah at April 19, 2016 09:30 AM (gwG9s)

287 UnitedHealth, the nations biggest health insurer, will remain in public health insurance exchanges in only a handful of states next year after expanding to 34 this year.

CEO Stephen Hemsley told analysts Tuesday morning that the company cannot continue to broadly serve the market created by the Affordable Care Acts coverage expansion due in part to the higher risk that comes with its customers.

TIMBER

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 19, 2016 09:30 AM (V/InG)

288 I will certainly say this ... Trump could help his cause quite a bit by getting on TV and, you know, not sounding completely bat-shit crazy during an interview.

People love plain talk. I sure do. But Trump does not do that. He honestly sounds like a friggin self-parody.

Posted by: ScoggDog at April 19, 2016 09:31 AM (touVE)

289 A video showing a young girl prostrating herself at the feet of Pope Francis in a refugee camp is stirring anger among Arabs and Muslims across social media. They're denouncing the scene as humiliating for Muslims and criticizing leaders in the Middle East for abandoning refugees.
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That's an honor killin'

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 19, 2016 09:31 AM (/D5Lf)

290 - 19 trillion in debt
- irreversible socialized medicine "tax"
- Helium-filled economy , running out of helium
- Government regulations extending into lightbulbs and toilets, retracting from control of the Internet and nukes
- Marriage legally redefined as nothing
- Military reduced to 5 trannies sharing a bunk and a gun
- Taxes on achievers approaching 50%
- Perverts elevated to protected class, Normalcy reviled
- America an untrustworthy laughingstock around the world

Trump 2016 : what exactly have we got to lose?

Posted by: Mortimer at April 19, 2016 09:31 AM (Aartv)

291 I thought we had banned corporal punishment.

An offshore IP and a new nic will always get you back in.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 19, 2016 09:31 AM (xq1UY)

292 286 Butter flavored Crisco is delicious right out of the can. I dig into it like Winnie the Pooh does honey.

Posted by: Oprah at April 19, 2016 09:30 AM (gwG9s)

The amazing thing is that butter flavored Crisco has so much more buttery taste than actual butter. Technology plus unsaturated fats equals buttery goodness.

Posted by: jwest at April 19, 2016 09:32 AM (Zs4uk)

293
Congress is unable to restrain executive power, because it has grown so far out of Congress' control
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What? No. There is no such inability. This is the same thing as Congress being unwilling.

Posted by: iforgot at April 19, 2016 09:32 AM (pC96u)

294 But I think this campaign has revealed that he really has no core convictions at all.
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Trump? He wasn't even indicted!

Just kidding. Of course Trump cares (hugely!) about looking good in the news at all times. He will be his own press secretary. If someone dares be quoted saying nasty things or if a newspaper or blogger publishes a negative article about him, he will become his own IRS Commissioner or even 501C3 Examiner. He will bring a whole new era of combativeness to Agency enforcement actions.

Beyond that, I predict he won't even be much interested in the job.

Posted by: MTF at April 19, 2016 09:32 AM (LISuA)

295 We cannot afford to get into the weeds on social issues.

Sorry, no. Social issues are how they're conquering us.

Mornin' Horde. I really, really need a vacation, but (a) time not at work is just working at the house and (b) my brothers are zero help w/ pater familias. Not looking forward to ten or whatever years from now, after he's gone to Heaven and I'm gone to pieces.

Fucking tired of living like night shift in the terminal ward.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, down with Eph 6:12-13 at April 19, 2016 09:33 AM (9krrF)

296 CEO Stephen Hemsley told analysts Tuesday morning that the company cannot continue to broadly serve the market created by the Affordable Care Acts coverage expansion due in part to the higher risk that comes with its customers.

TIMBER
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 19, 2016 09:30 AM (V/InG)

One might not be able to keep their insurance if they like it, but at least they can still keep their doctor.

What?

It's possible...

Posted by: Mr Macca Bean at April 19, 2016 09:33 AM (4ng05)

297 Trump 2016 : what exactly have we got to lose?

Posted by: Mortimer at April 19, 2016 09:31 AM (Aartv)
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Good starter list of Trump policies we can expect.

Posted by: MTF at April 19, 2016 09:34 AM (LISuA)

298 One might not be able to keep their insurance if they like it, but at least they can still keep their doctor.

What?

It's possible...

Nope. Mine retired due to 404Care.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 19, 2016 09:34 AM (Vgz5H)

299 281 So did anyone watch the HBO series "Vinyl"?

I have mixed feelings about it and I never see anyone talking about it.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 19, 2016 09:29 AM (1xUj/)
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I couldnt even get thru epi 1. The murder was over the top and I didnt like anyone after that. And it was boring. It did very poorly ratings wise. Maybe, it improved after the first episode?

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 19, 2016 09:34 AM (iQIUe)

300 Vinyl is meh. Best part was watching Ray Romano snort coke. Should've done that in Raymond off of Patricia Heaton.

Posted by: Marty Debergie at April 19, 2016 09:34 AM (gwG9s)

301 One might not be able to keep their insurance if they like it, but at least they can still keep their doctor.
>>>

Well one person can if they have their doctor chained up in the basement.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at April 19, 2016 09:35 AM (tf9Ne)

302 Ray Romano is a hack ... and that's not even how you snort coke.

Posted by: Tim Allen at April 19, 2016 09:37 AM (touVE)

303 Do not think I'm trying to persuade any of you at all. I've seen no point in doing so for many months. I've merely refrained from speaking my mind on anything - so you see the self-censoring has been mutual.

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But I think this campaign has revealed that he really has no core convictions at all. He will sound like an 80s era Democrat when it is advantageous for him to do so, but when it is advantageous for him to sound like some stereotypical evangelical Bible-thumper, he will pander to that crowd too.

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And you'll note he fails on the attempt. His convictions and instincts do not lie there. As I wrote "In all that matters he's an 80s era Dem"

Posted by: Bigby's Carpal Tunnel Syndrome at April 19, 2016 09:37 AM (3ZtZW)

304 273 And I just can't do that. If you vote for gutter politcians you get gutter politics. I won't be a part of that.

Posted by: V the K at April 19, 2016 09:24 AM (O7MnT)

Pffft.

Yes..yes...of course...much better to have a Corrupt Identity Fascist in the White House. I'm sure gutter politics will play no part in her reign.

Your integrity is a shining beacon for us all.

Any who-

I'm thrilled that, at present, the two front runners are Cruz and Trump.

I prefer Cruz but Trump can serve a lot of my purposes as well.

So...happy guy.

The reality is that a Brokered Convention probably Kasich, possibly Jeb, in some combination with Mario.

Therefore, you #nevertrump dudes and dudettes will probably get the squish you've been dreaming of.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 19, 2016 09:37 AM (2rmvw)

305 The thing that got me about Vinyl is that it plays right into my musical prejudices. It likes what I like and hates what I hate.

I can't separate that from the show itself.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 19, 2016 09:37 AM (1xUj/)

306 300 Vinyl is meh. Best part was watching Ray Romano snort coke. Should've done that in Raymond off of Patricia Heaton.

Posted by: Marty Debergie at April 19, 2016 09:34 AM (gwG9s)

Speaking of which RIP Doris Roberts

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 19, 2016 09:38 AM (/D5Lf)

307 He *sounds* like an 80s era Democrat, from time to time. But I think this campaign has revealed that he really has no core convictions at all.

So in other words, exactly like an '80s Democrat...

Posted by: Brother Cavil, down with Eph 6:12-13 at April 19, 2016 09:38 AM (9krrF)

308 The Sierra Club is one of the sponsors of the WPC.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 19, 2016 09:38 AM (iQIUe)

309 How would Trump be worse than an avaricious traitor with dynastic ambitions and a rapist for a political and life partner?

I think they are both pretty equally horrible.

But voting for Trump is an endorsement not just of his policies but of his campaign.

If I vote for Trump, that would be me saying, "Yes, it's okay that
you called Ted Cruz Lyin' Ted, called him un-American, and threw
hissy-fits when he beat you. It's OK that you blamed Bush for 9-11. It's
okay that you called Carly Fiorina ugly and engaged in childish
insults. It's okay that you sicced your thugs on anyone who criticized
you."

And I just can't do that. If you vote for gutter politcians you get gutter politics. I won't be a part of that. Posted by: V the K at April 19, 2016 09:24 AM (O7MnT)
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That is where I am as well. I see little difference between Clinton, Sanders, Trump and Kasich. The dynastic ambitions are equally between Clinton and Trump (selling the name, etc. BTW - who names their kid Baron while putting the name on everything that is not nailed down?)

Stone and Manafort just capped my dismay.

I do not identify as a conservative, I identify as a constitutionalist.

Posted by: mustbequantum at April 19, 2016 09:39 AM (MIKMs)

310 If you vote for gutter politcians you get gutter politics.

Or, honestly, even if you don't.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, down with Eph 6:12-13 at April 19, 2016 09:39 AM (9krrF)

311 CEO Stephen Hemsley told analysts Tuesday morning that the company cannot continue to broadly serve the market created by the Affordable Care Acts coverage expansion due in part to the higher risk that comes with its customers.

TIMBER

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This is working out just as the left drew it up. Design a plan that had no chance at succeeding. Sell it on nothing but lies. Let it fail. Go for completely nationalized healthcare.

I think the only thing the left wanted but didn't get was GOP votes to allow them to sell it as a bipartisan program. But they didn't let that slow them down.

Posted by: SH at April 19, 2016 09:39 AM (gmeXX)

312 Well he's certainly not a "centrist" when, for instance, on one day, he says he's "totally pro-choice", and then on the next day, he says he wants to punish women who have abortions.

What label would you use to describe such positions?
Posted by: chemjeff

Howz about a minion of Mitch the Bitch?

The GOP does this on a regular basis. Their declaratory policy, particularly in an election cycle, veers wildly.

Is Trump a shitty candidate? Yes? Is he the only one running as a republican who is, or has done this? Hell no.

Posted by: Blue Hen at April 19, 2016 09:39 AM (326rv)

313 Well one person can if they have their doctor chained up in the basement.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at April 19, 2016 09:35 AM (tf9Ne)

My doctor retired also, my new doctor (she is quite young) is complaining also...I like her and am worried she will move on.

Posted by: Colin at April 19, 2016 09:39 AM (6IZ5e)

314 I'm not willing to roll the dice on that just yet.
Posted by: chemjeff at April 19, 2016 09:20 AM (uAvJJ)

I'm writing a script to replace every post from that hash with this sentence. Should simplify things.

Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at April 19, 2016 09:40 AM (xuouz)

315 "Congress has not appropriated the money to arrest and deport millions of otherwise law-abiding immigrants, Ruth Bader Gunsburg said,"
____________________________

Congress has appropriated lots of money to secure the border, but Obama still refuses to do it -- which is why we have millions more illegal aliens.

So according to Ruthie, if the executive branch refuses to do its sworn duty to enforce federal immigration laws, the executive can then use its own failure to justify usurping the legislature's constitutional authority to make law, and unilaterally make new laws more to the executive's liking.

Yeah, that's exactly what the Founders intended.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at April 19, 2016 09:40 AM (BNs9e)

316 If this is your moral threshold, I don't see how you ever manage to cast a vote -- and I don't see how you ever would have in the entire history of the country.

I'll vote for Gary Johnson; a decent man running a clean campaign of ideas.

Posted by: V the K at April 19, 2016 09:40 AM (O7MnT)

317 Washed my car. Bird shit on my car. Birds are Democrats.

Posted by: jsg at April 19, 2016 09:40 AM (lUZux)

318
But voting for Trump is an endorsement not just of his policies but of his campaign.

--

Voting for Hillary would be an endorsement of Benghazi.

Posted by: @votermom at April 19, 2016 09:40 AM (nbrY/)

319 He didn't want the job, he didn't demand the job, others were urging him to take the job, and when he finally relented, he had a list of demands, yes.
Posted by: chemjeff at April 19, 2016 08:22 AM (uAvJJ)

Comrade Stalin serves the people only because they demand it.

Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at April 19, 2016 09:41 AM (n2GmV)

320 Hey thanks cind

Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at April 19, 2016 09:41 AM (xuouz)

321 What? No. There is no such inability. This is the same thing as Congress being unwilling.

Posted by: iforgot at April 19, 2016 09:32 AM (pC96u)
A little while ago, I asked here what they would expect a President Trump to do if Congress refused t appropriate funds for a border wall. Some people said that they would want Trump to take money from some other department and use that to build the wall anyway, even against the wishes of Congress. And, I am sure you could find similar beliefs on the left for what they consider their priorities. If that truly is the case, that the President can just move money around even if Congress says no, and get away with it, then Congress really has lost control of the power of the purse.
That is the type of thing that I mean.

Posted by: chemjeff at April 19, 2016 09:42 AM (uAvJJ)

322 You have fans, Kari.

I like reading your posts too, btw.

Posted by: @votermom at April 19, 2016 09:42 AM (nbrY/)

323 >>>A video showing a young girl prostrating herself at the feet of Pope
Francis in a refugee camp is stirring anger among Arabs and Muslims
across social media.<<<

This pope is an agitator activist bastard just like Barry the community organizer. He's going to start a holy war and then betray the Jews to fight it for him.

Posted by: Fritz at April 19, 2016 09:42 AM (UzPAd)

324 Washed my car. Bird shit on my car. Birds are Democrats.>>>

Maybe if you put out a nice bird feeder you would have a cleaner car IYKWIM

Posted by: The Birds at April 19, 2016 09:42 AM (tf9Ne)

325 318
But voting for Trump is an endorsement not just of his policies but of his campaign.

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Voting for Hillary would be an endorsement of Benghazi.
Posted by: @votermom at April 19, 2016 09:40 AM (nbrY/)

Who said they are voting for Hillary?

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at April 19, 2016 09:43 AM (oC40p)

326
320
Hey thanks cind

Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar

See?

Built-in fan club. You're gonna go far , kid.

Posted by: Mortimer at April 19, 2016 09:43 AM (Aartv)

327
I'm writing a script to replace every post from that hash with this sentence. Should simplify things.

Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at April 19, 2016 09:40 AM (xuouz)
what do you mean?

Posted by: chemjeff at April 19, 2016 09:43 AM (uAvJJ)

328 yeah much better to let a treason's liar occupy the White House?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 19, 2016 09:26 AM (V/InG)
if her complete disregard for the murder of her good friend the ambassador, sean smith, tyrone woods and glen doherty isn't enough to motivate people to vote against her......i don't know what to say.....for me....that's what it comes down to....even if it ends up being the rat paul ryan, may God forbid that scenario.......

Posted by: phoenixgirl at April 19, 2016 09:43 AM (0O7c5)

329 then Congress really has lost control of the power of the purse.
That is the type of thing that I mean.

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I think there are a lot of people on both sides who are ok with that. But Congress has not really lost control of the purse, they would just be unwilling to reign it in over those types of shifting.

Congress can always refuse to fund whole departments or the whole government.

Posted by: SH at April 19, 2016 09:44 AM (gmeXX)

330 My biggest worry is that everyone will run circles around Trump. He will be out maneuvered at every turn . Both here and abroad. His responses will be like everything he does. He will overreact and try to use a hammer as a fly swatter.
Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at April 19, 2016 09:25 AM (oC40p)

This is the narrative but it isn't reality. Who has outmaneuvered Trump this election cycle?

Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at April 19, 2016 09:44 AM (xuouz)

331 Who said they are voting for Hillary?

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at April 19, 2016 09:43 AM (oC40p)
Yeah I don't think anyone here is actually going to vote for Hillary. For the anti-Trump crew, I would imagine it's either Cruz, or third party, but not Hillary, god no.

Posted by: chemjeff at April 19, 2016 09:44 AM (uAvJJ)

332 Washed my car. Bird shit on my car. Birds are Democrats.>>>

Maybe if you put out a nice bird feeder you would have a cleaner car IYKWIM
Posted by: The Birds

The birds sound like the Sopranos.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 19, 2016 09:44 AM (Vgz5H)

333 then Congress really has lost control of the power of the purse.
That is the type of thing that I mean.

Posted by: chemjeff at April 19, 2016 09:42 AM (uAvJJ)

Obama would agree/

Posted by: Velvet Ambition at April 19, 2016 09:44 AM (QPdNE)

334 >>They're denouncing the scene as humiliating for Muslims and criticizing leaders in the Middle East for abandoning refugees.

Really?!? And she wasn't even raped, assaulted or killed by the Pope?!?!?

I would say "call me when they start getting upset by snuff films of westerners executing muslims in all sorts of humiliating and gruesome ways (akin to what ISIS is doing today)"....except, nope, even *then* I won't care if they're upset. Because by that point we'll bet at 100% war instead of the one-sided war we have today.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 19, 2016 09:44 AM (NOIQH)

335 Those black women kicked off the Napa Valley wine train had asked for 11 million...They have settled for an (so far) undisclosed amount...

Posted by: Colin at April 19, 2016 09:45 AM (6IZ5e)

336 then Congress really has lost control of the power of the purse.

Posted by: chemjeff

There's a difference between losing control and ceding it. Dem speakers worked with JEF.

When the republicans 'gained control', they kept on spending, and engaged in one bullshit theater act after another.

Posted by: Blue Hen at April 19, 2016 09:46 AM (326rv)

337 This is the narrative but it isn't reality. Who has outmaneuvered Trump this election cycle?

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Some would consider Cruz winning (or in Trump world stealing) delegates an area where Cruz outmaneuvered Trump. Though in that case, its hard to outmaneuvered someone who hasn't maneuvered at all.

Posted by: SH at April 19, 2016 09:46 AM (gmeXX)

338 I love everybody.

Bigly.

Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at April 19, 2016 09:46 AM (xuouz)

339 >>if her complete disregard for the murder of her good friend the
ambassador, sean smith, tyrone woods and glen doherty isn't enough to
motivate people to vote against her......i don't know what to
say.....for me....that's what it comes down to....even if it ends up
being the rat paul ryan, may God forbid that scenario.......

^^THIS^^

Hillary is evil. Just about everyone else is a lesser evil (except Barry, Jarrett, Soros).

Posted by: Lizzy at April 19, 2016 09:47 AM (NOIQH)

340 Those black women kicked off the Napa Valley wine train had asked for 11 million...They have settled for an (so far) undisclosed amount...

They should be settling for "not getting a sharpened pike shoved up their pooholes".

Tolerance is overrated. My available stocks zeroed out years ago.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, down with Eph 6:12-13 at April 19, 2016 09:47 AM (9krrF)

341 Voting third party is the same as voting for hillary not matter how much you rationalize it. This is the real world not Fantasy Land in Disney. Jesus people grow up or get off a College Campus

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 19, 2016 09:48 AM (V/InG)

342 Congress can always refuse to fund whole departments or the whole government.

Posted by: SH at April 19, 2016 09:44 AM (gmeXX)

That would require a spine and a desire, neither of which exist on either side of the aisle(s)

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 19, 2016 09:48 AM (i0ykY)

343 White Privilege: Completing your own forms and paying income taxes on time, always paying utility bills, never being late on your new work truck payments, showing up to work on time and working late, working weekends; getting fired from a terrible job and looking and finding a new job instead of becoming a layabout on the dole; keeping your yard clean and free of decaying mattresses, trash bags, car parts, old bicycles, and washing machines; your wife never throws new baby's dirty diapers or fast food garbage out the window of a moving vehicle, never drive with your windows down playing music at loud obnoxious volumes very early in the morning or after 8 PM; never having been in jail, never having been in the back of a Police cruiser; attending college you pay for each semester by working at an actual job; living in a state that has unrestricted "permitless" concealed carry and you gladly accept the responsibility; go to your local shooting range for an afternoon of pistol, shotgun, or rifle practice and shoot at paper targets instead of junk, then actually manage to clean up your garbage and place it in the cans provided; reporting crime and suspicious behavior to the police, knowing the name of your Sheriff, Deputies, or Police Officers only because you see them at church, parades and the State Fair; never drinking to excess out of a paper bag and wandering aimlessly in public, or doing illegal drugs. Etc, etc, etc...

Yep, that's White "Privilege". I know I could add to that list.

Posted by: Lister McListerson at April 19, 2016 09:48 AM (CUk0C)

344 I love the poorly educated!

A celebrating Donald J. Trump, after Nevada win February 2016.

Trump will continue every single Obama policy ostensibly hated here, is my guess. Why? Because it's the easy way out and it'll have uniparty support in Congress. And because the ignorant (here, there and everywhere) will cheer.

Posted by: MTF at April 19, 2016 09:49 AM (LISuA)

345 Posted by: Lister McListerson at April 19, 2016 09:48 AM (CUk0C)

tl;dr version:

White Privilege: Not Being A Fuckup.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, down with Eph 6:12-13 at April 19, 2016 09:49 AM (9krrF)

346 So we are back in Iraq - of course we never completely left - just as most of us predicted would happen. I was against leaving Iraq, but now I'm against any troops there at all. Half-ass missions are no way to use the military.

Posted by: SH at April 19, 2016 09:50 AM (gmeXX)

347 I'll vote for Gary Johnson; a decent man running a clean campaign of ideas.

==

LOSING LOSER WHO LOSES

Posted by: Bigby's Carpal Tunnel Syndrome at April 19, 2016 09:51 AM (3ZtZW)

348 Maybe if you put out a nice bird feeder you would have a cleaner car IYKWIM

Posted by: The Birds at April 19, 2016 09:42 AM

Heh. That's adorable.

Posted by: The Squirrels at April 19, 2016 09:51 AM (bzd8I)

349 Half-ass missions are no way to use the military.
Posted by: SH at April 19, 2016 09:50 AM (gmeXX)

Amen to that.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 19, 2016 09:51 AM (V/InG)

350 London could be electing a muslim mayor.
What could go wrong?

Posted by: steevy at April 19, 2016 09:51 AM (B48dK)

351 Some would consider Cruz winning (or in Trump world stealing) delegates an area where Cruz outmaneuvered Trump. Though in that case, its hard to outmaneuvered someone who hasn't maneuvered at all.
Posted by: SH at April 19, 2016 09:46 AM (gmeXX)

Trump has the delegate lead. Cruz is doing this not to win the nomination but to deny it to Trump, in hopes he'll be able to finesse the nomination at the convention.

I'm not criticizing. It's fair game. But the delegate poaching is a stop the bleeding play, not a winning and winning big play.

Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at April 19, 2016 09:51 AM (xuouz)

352 I love the poorly educated!
>>>>>>
...because the ignorant (here, there and everywhere) will cheer.

>>>>>>

heh

Posted by: Officer Paddy O'Irony at April 19, 2016 09:52 AM (Aartv)

353 McListerson I'd give that list a hard think. It's pretty Fiskable. Just saying.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 19, 2016 09:52 AM (xq1UY)

354 @336

At the end of this congress the GOP will have controlled congress for 18 of the last 22 years.

In that time federal debt has gone from just under 5 trillion to just under 20 trillion.

The GOP has been working hand in glove with the Democrats for over 2 decades.

Posted by: Kreplach at April 19, 2016 09:52 AM (fvd+T)

355 The only one around here who has voted for Hillary is Donald Trump. He was crooked from the beginning too.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at April 19, 2016 09:52 AM (Ndje9)

356 I see we're getting right back to the place we get to every election cycle: If you don't vote Republican, you'll just guarantee the same Dem policies for the next four years.

If we vote Republican, chances are, as far as the direction the country is moving, nothing will change. If we vote Dem, everything will stay the same, perhaps accelerate a bit.

Unless the entire world decides in unison to cancel all debt, what damned difference does it make.

On thing is certain for me; I won't be participating in the same old "you have to vote Republican or you just want to destroy the country," bullshit.

The country is already mostly destroyed. And the Republicans helped destroy it.

Posted by: Mr Macca Bean at April 19, 2016 09:53 AM (4ng05)

357 Trump has the delegate lead. Cruz is doing this not to win the nomination but to deny it to Trump, in hopes he'll be able to finesse the nomination at the convention.

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Having the delegate lead is not the same as having the delegates necessary to secure nomination. Cruz is playing to win the nomination, banking on the fact that no one will have a majority # of delegates on the first ballot. How is that not playing to win?

I get they are both playing different games. We'll see who's strategy ends up winning.

Posted by: SH at April 19, 2016 09:54 AM (gmeXX)

358 Posted by: tsrlbke PhD(c), rogue bioethicist at April 19, 2016 08:55 AM (tM4uk)

If tetanus immunity lasts essentially forever, but pertussis doesn't, it makes no sense not to have a pertussis-only vaccine.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 19, 2016 09:54 AM (Zu3d9)

359 London could be electing a muslim mayor.
What could go wrong?
Posted by: steevy at April 19, 2016 09:51 AM (B48dK)

Oh gosh lots.

But maybe... maybe there's only one way to get our dear and apparently departed old British and continental friends back.

Europe has been through fire before.

Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at April 19, 2016 09:54 AM (xuouz)

360
Trump has the delegate lead. Cruz is doing this not to win the nomination but to deny it to Trump, in hopes he'll be able to finesse the nomination at the convention.

I'm not criticizing. It's fair game. But the delegate poaching is a stop the bleeding play, not a winning and winning big play.

I don't agree. The current rules state that if no one has 1237, after the first round, the top two are considered.

That IS "doing this to win".

katshit is a spoiler. Cruz is not.

Posted by: Blue Hen at April 19, 2016 09:54 AM (326rv)

361 Falcon 9 is on the move!

http://portcanaveralwebcam.com/

Posted by: rickl at April 19, 2016 09:55 AM (zoehZ)

362 The State of CA is really screwed up

As Monty would say (where the hell has he been anyway?), they're terminally boned.

Posted by: steveegg at April 19, 2016 09:55 AM (v6+HN)

363 The GOP has been working hand in glove with the Democrats for over 2 decades.

Posted by: Kreplach at April 19, 2016 09:52 AM (fvd+T)
==============================

Exactly right.

Posted by: MTF at April 19, 2016 09:55 AM (LISuA)

364 354 @336

At the end of this congress the GOP will have controlled congress for 18 of the last 22 years.

In that time federal debt has gone from just under 5 trillion to just under 20 trillion.

The GOP has been working hand in glove with the Democrats for over 2 decades.

Posted by: Kreplach

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^**^^********
This folks! By God, THIS!

Posted by: rickb223 at April 19, 2016 09:55 AM (Vgz5H)

365 My biggest worry is that everyone will run circles
around Trump. He will be out maneuvered at every turn . Both here and
abroad. His responses will be like everything he does. He will overreact
and try to use a hammer as a fly swatter.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at April 19, 2016 09:25 AM (oC40p)

This is the narrative but it isn't reality. Who has outmaneuvered Trump this election cycle? Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at April 19, 2016 09:44 AM (xuouz)
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Trump, as Northeastern deal-maker and insider, is comfortable with and has supported the worst of Pelosi/Reed/Schumer. So, as far as flyover folks like me are concerned, he is not really 'outsider' in any meaningful sense. He really does not respect thoughtful voters from outside his parochial comfort zone as he has characterized 'the little people' whom he supposedly 'loves'.

Posted by: mustbequantum at April 19, 2016 09:56 AM (MIKMs)

366 >>>136
That Ryan guy ain't so bad,, he never smacked me around. Much...

Posted by: Michelle Fields at April 19, 2016 08:51 AM (HSmrB)

===

That amnesty shill better not be stealing my hoes

Posted by: Corey Lewandowski at April 19, 2016 09:56 AM (10hEu)

367 There's a difference between losing control and ceding it. Dem speakers worked with JEF.

When the republicans 'gained control', they kept on spending, and engaged in one bullshit theater act after another.

Posted by: Blue Hen at April 19, 2016 09:46 AM (326rv)

Well, the Dems nowadays are pro-executive-power, so of course they would be in favor of enlarging the executive even at Congress' expense.
The Reps did try to cut a little bit of spending, at the beginning, but part of the problem was that the stakes have been raised so high for cutting any spending, basically it requires shutting down the government just to get any spending cut at all. When the stakes are so high for Congress to exercise its own power of the purse, then Congress' power has been seriously diminished, I would say.

Posted by: chemjeff at April 19, 2016 09:56 AM (uAvJJ)

368 Republicans (The few left around) are trying to put some over site on the highspeed rail project in California....After all, with the billions to be spent on a project that will never be completed, why not just let it go on and on. They are sort of winging it anyway as they build this (probably a very expensive bike path) from Fresno south to wherever.

Posted by: Colin at April 19, 2016 09:56 AM (6IZ5e)

369 You only say that because you're terrible at being White and Privileged, Mr. Stringer. Do try harder to get those rusty washing machines out of your yard.

Posted by: Lister McListerson at April 19, 2016 09:56 AM (CUk0C)

370 Trump has the delegate lead. Cruz is doing this not to win the nomination but to deny it to Trump, in hopes he'll be able to finesse the nomination at the convention.

I'm not criticizing. It's fair game. But the delegate poaching is a stop the bleeding play, not a winning and winning big play.

I don't agree. The current rules state that if no one has 1237, after the first round, the top two are considered.

That IS "doing this to win".

katshit is a spoiler. Cruz is not.
Posted by: Blue Hen at April 19, 2016 09:54 AM (326rv)

The fact of the matter is if no one wins on the frist ballot ( meaning Trump) we have no idea what will happen after. We will be in uncharted territory. At least the TV ratings will be good

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 19, 2016 09:56 AM (V/InG)

371 >>>>> "Congress has not appropriated the money to arrest and deport millions
of otherwise law-abiding immigrants, Ruth Bader Gunsburg said,"

____________________________

Congress has appropriated lots of money to secure the border, but
Obama still refuses to do it -- which is why we have millions more
illegal aliens.

So according to Ruthie, if the executive branch refuses to do its
sworn duty to enforce federal immigration laws, the executive can then
use its own failure to justify usurping the legislature's constitutional
authority to make law, and unilaterally make new laws more to the
executive's liking.

Yeah, that's exactly what the Founders intended.
.
.
.
.
.I am shocked that no one has used obama's own words against him in this case:

There have been significant numbers of deportations. That's true. But
what you're not paying attention to is the fact that I just took action
to change the law. obama 25 November 2015

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at April 19, 2016 09:57 AM (iONHu)

372 If tetanus immunity lasts essentially forever,

If it does, why do you have to get a booster shot every ten years, or when you cut yourself semi-badly?

Posted by: rickb223 at April 19, 2016 09:57 AM (Vgz5H)

373 Please NY Democrats: Vote Bernie!

I would love nothing more than to watch the Democrats trying to figure a way to save Hilldogger, even after massive vote fraud fails. Some criminals are just too much, even for scumbag Democrats.

Posted by: MTF at April 19, 2016 09:58 AM (LISuA)

374 Having the delegate lead is not the same as having the delegates necessary to secure nomination. Cruz is playing to win the nomination, banking on the fact that no one will have a majority # of delegates on the first ballot. How is that not playing to win?

I get they are both playing different games. We'll see who's strategy ends up winning.
Posted by: SH at April 19, 2016 09:54 AM (gmeXX)

It's objectively not playing to win. It's playing to sweet talk the principal.

Cruz wants to get the nomination. The fact that he's chosen a different strategy is a tacit admission that he cannot win it.

Again, that's fine. It's by the book. But you don't get to abandon the field and then claim your opponent is incompetent and unqualified and clearly incapable of getting things done.

Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at April 19, 2016 09:58 AM (xuouz)

375 Chinese Battle-Bots

http://www.newser.com/story/
223791/bulldozers-battle-on-street.html

Posted by: DaveA at April 19, 2016 09:59 AM (DL2i+)

376 Ooops, shoulda guessed that link was already moroned.

Posted by: DaveA at April 19, 2016 09:59 AM (DL2i+)

377 Sweet. Couple of A-10s just flew over my head.

Posted by: jsg at April 19, 2016 10:00 AM (lUZux)

378 The GOP has been working hand in glove with the Democrats for over 2 decades.
Posted by: Kreplach at April 19, 2016 09:52 AM (fvd+T)

Time was we heeyah were all gettin "Fuck you - WAR" tattoos and jerkin each other off over burnin it down.

Times change.

Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at April 19, 2016 10:00 AM (xuouz)

379 From feelgood: "He estimates the tuition will cost about $1 million by 2032"

This is for 2 years community college and 2 years at CA state school (with in-state tuition I'm imagining).

A million bucks just doesn't mean what it used to...

Posted by: Steven S. at April 19, 2016 10:00 AM (JpEvT)

380 Kreplach, I agree that Republicans have not done nearly enough to reduce spending as they claim to want to do.

I would note, however, that quite a few rank-and-file Republicans are actually in favor of big government spending. There was a recent Pew poll I cited here, which said basically that the only spending cuts that a majority of Republican voters supported, were to welfare and foreign aid. All the rest of it, not even a majority of Republican voters supported cutting. So it is no wonder that Republican politicians are doing what the majority of their Republican constituents actually want. I don't think they are "working hand in glove with Democrats", I do think that the electorate is not nearly in favor of cutting spending as we all here seem to think, and that politicians of both parties are simply rationally responding to the incentives put in front of them.

To really get spending under control, it will require a cultural sea change, away from big daddy government and towards self-reliance.

Posted by: chemjeff at April 19, 2016 10:00 AM (uAvJJ)

381 My blog post is up
Includes some free books.
And a poll.

Link in nic.

Posted by: @votermom at April 19, 2016 10:00 AM (nbrY/)

382 215 I've had a fight in a Waffle House. That gives me street cred. Negates my wealthy family and white privilege.
Posted by: Kid Rock at April 19, 2016 09:10 AM (gwG9s)

Bah. You ain't shit until you've shot a man in Reno just to watch him die. Although it's admittedly a pretty high bar.

Posted by: joncelli, Bridge Troll and Crossbow Afficianado at April 19, 2016 10:01 AM (cJDvr)

383 When the stakes are so high for Congress to exercise its own power of the purse, then Congress' power has been seriously diminished, I would say.
Posted by: chemjeff

I'm sure that you would.

And yet, when Pelosi or Reid was running things, they did just fine. Reid still is.

Stakes being high DOES NOT equal that their power is diminished. It means that they chose the low road.

Republicans banned fucking light bulbs. And that POS is still in force.

Even if any of this were true, it undermines your complaints about trump. IF they are all wedded to spending, and IF stakes are so high, then any whore will do. And here's a whore that has actually built something, which is more than can be said for anyone else.

Posted by: Blue Hen at April 19, 2016 10:01 AM (326rv)

384 When the stakes are so high for Congress to exercise its own power of the purse, then Congress' power has been seriously diminished, I would say.

What are the stakes? Not getting reelected, maybe?

Perhaps people who put their own career ahead of the interest of the country are not the people we want in Congress.

Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie! at April 19, 2016 10:01 AM (evdj2)

385 To really get spending under control, it will require a cultural sea change, away from big daddy government and towards self-reliance.

Or everything crashing and burning.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 19, 2016 10:02 AM (Vgz5H)

386 Sweet. Couple of A-10s just flew over my head.
Posted by: jsg at April 19, 2016 10:00 AM (lUZux)

Weekend warriors sometimes use landmarks around my family's spot on the eastern shore for training. We've gotten A-10s, Apaches, and Hueys coming in.

One of the craziest things I've ever seen was a C-5 (I assume - it was practically too big to be real) coming in On. The. Deck. right over my head. I could feel it before I heard it.

Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at April 19, 2016 10:03 AM (xuouz)

387 I agree that Republicans have not done nearly enough to reduce spending as they claim to want to do.

The numbers suggest that they haven't done anything to reduce spending.

Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie! at April 19, 2016 10:03 AM (evdj2)

388 If it does, why do you have to get a booster shot every ten years, or when you cut yourself semi-badly?

Posted by: rickb223 at April 19, 2016 09:57 AM (Vgz5H)

Because they weren't sure how long immunity lasts. And it's not a big deal to get a booster compared to the significant risk of death from tetanus.

But the research seems to indicate that it lasts a very long time.

I don't think there is a documented case of tetanus in someone who has been vaccinated, but I'll check.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 19, 2016 10:03 AM (Zu3d9)

389 361 Falcon 9 is on the move!

http://portcanaveralwebcam.com/
Posted by: rickl at April 19, 2016 09:55 AM (zoehZ)

=========
At that pace, I hope it doesnt have far to go.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 19, 2016 10:04 AM (iQIUe)

390 From feelgood: "He estimates the tuition will cost about $1 million by 2032"
This is for 2 years community college and 2 years at CA state school (with in-state tuition I'm imagining).

Pardon me, sir, could you spare a couple hundred thousand dollars so I can buy something to eat?

Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at April 19, 2016 10:05 AM (xuouz)

391 Posted by: mustbequantum at April 19, 2016 09:56 AM (MIKMs)

I've got ghost on scroll but I see your response so I'll reply by just laughing at the irony of ghost's post and the Trump camp's whining about delegates being stolen. Combine that with Trump's ignorance of every single policy issue and his refusal to learn anything beyond his gut feelings, you can't make any other conclusion that people will run more circles around Trump than the Indiana speedway.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at April 19, 2016 10:05 AM (oC40p)

392 What are the stakes? Not getting reelected, maybe?

No, that in order to defund one program basically requires shutting down the entire government.

Posted by: chemjeff at April 19, 2016 10:05 AM (uAvJJ)

393 To really get spending under control, it will require a cultural sea change, away from big daddy government and towards self-reliance.

Oh, and self-reliance is taught, learned, and lived.
And when washing out a cereal bowl is too tough......

Posted by: rickb223 at April 19, 2016 10:05 AM (Vgz5H)

394 It's objectively not playing to win. It's playing to sweet talk the principal.

Cruz wants to get the nomination. The fact that he's chosen a different strategy is a tacit admission that he cannot win it.

Again, that's fine. It's by the book. But you don't get to abandon the field and then claim your opponent is incompetent and unqualified and clearly incapable of getting things done.

Now this is absolute horseshit.

Cruz cannot win 1237, so he is (some line of shit about a principal)

And he's still running and somehow simultaneously "abandoning the field".

Trump would be able to win.......if no one else was running.

He might be able to win if someone else was in the, ya know, race.

This is a primary, not an episode of survivor.

Posted by: Blue Hen at April 19, 2016 10:06 AM (326rv)

395 At that pace, I hope it doesnt have far to go.
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 19, 2016 10:04 AM (iQIUe)

I never knew rocket scientists got paid by the hour.

Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at April 19, 2016 10:06 AM (xuouz)

396 My client had to get a tetanus booster shot after her vicious, cruel, life altering beating from the very small hands of Mr.Trump's thugs

Posted by: Michelle Fields's Lawyer at April 19, 2016 10:06 AM (10hEu)

397 I don't think there is a documented case of tetanus in someone who has been vaccinated, but I'll check.

It'd be cool to know. If nothing more than for peace of mind. And getting the shot is no big deal compared to not getting it.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 19, 2016 10:07 AM (Vgz5H)

398 No, that in order to defund one program basically requires shutting down the entire government.
Posted by: chemjeff

No it doesn't, and this was proven. JEF was allowed to do these stunts and the republicans caved.

Posted by: Blue Hen at April 19, 2016 10:07 AM (326rv)

399 And yet, when Pelosi or Reid was running things, they did just fine. Reid still is.

I guess I don't understand the complaint. Pelosi/Schumer/Reid were working towards different goals than Boehner/Ryan/et al.

Posted by: chemjeff at April 19, 2016 10:08 AM (uAvJJ)

400 Well NY should be a bright and shining shit show. I can only hope that Clinton gets really burned but she has showered a lot of people with cash for years there so she will probably pull it off.

Posted by: Cheri at April 19, 2016 10:08 AM (oiNtH)

401 No it doesn't, and this was proven. JEF was allowed to do these stunts and the republicans caved.

Posted by: Blue Hen at April 19, 2016 10:07 AM (326rv)
Because Obama threatened to shut down the government if Republicans defunded anything. That is what I mean by the high stakes.

Obama has made it very very costly for Congress to exercise its powers and he has provided a roadmap for all after him to do the same thing. That is the real danger.

Posted by: chemjeff at April 19, 2016 10:09 AM (uAvJJ)

402 I guess I don't understand the complaint. Pelosi/Schumer/Reid were working towards different goals than Boehner/Ryan/et al.
Posted by: chemjeff

1. One pair was flat out more effective at achieving their stated goals.
2. Both pairs claim to do a good job and demand more.

Posted by: Blue Hen at April 19, 2016 10:10 AM (326rv)

403 well time to go, good day everyone

Posted by: chemjeff at April 19, 2016 10:10 AM (uAvJJ)

404 400 Well NY should be a bright and shining shit show. I can only hope that Clinton gets really burned but she has showered a lot of people with cash for years there so she will probably pull it off.
Posted by: Cheri at April 19, 2016 10:08 AM (oiNtH)

She's probably got her people in the key party positions. That'll determine who votes, who gets bribes, who gets cut out, etc. She'll win, it's just a matter of by how much -- bad for her if it's not a clear, devastating victory.

Posted by: joncelli, Bridge Troll and Crossbow Afficianado at April 19, 2016 10:10 AM (cJDvr)

405 Trump is attempting a hostile takeover of the GOP.

Cruz is attempting to block that takeover.

GOP is hoping to use and discard Cruz and stay in power.

I honestly have no idea how the convention shakes out if Trump doesn't get 1237.

I also think I have no control over any of it, so I'm just enjoying the show.

Posted by: @votermom at April 19, 2016 10:11 AM (nbrY/)

406 "....Combine that with Trump's ignorance of every single
policy issue and his refusal to learn anything beyond his gut feelings..."

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at April 19, 2016 10:05 AM (oC40p)

This is patently false, and a slander of a great man. Trump will simply make a great deal with, for example, Putin. And if Putin doesn't hold up his end of the bargain Trump will sue him!

You are a hater.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 19, 2016 10:11 AM (Zu3d9)

407 I remember what Hillary came to NY to honor the state with her present, the newspapers were overjoyed. She will move here! and bring jobs! BS.

You would have thought God himself had honored the state. What came of it, next to nothing.....

Posted by: Colin at April 19, 2016 10:11 AM (6IZ5e)

408 German counterterrorism unit arrests far-right terror suspects

http://tinyurl.com/jxqt865

"Spiegel Online" said officers found a large number of fireworks from eastern Europe during their raids.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 19, 2016 10:11 AM (/D5Lf)

409 Obama has made it very very costly for Congress to exercise its powers and he has provided a roadmap for all after him to do the same thing. That is the real danger.
Posted by: chemjeff

It's costly for everybody. Either they are going to fight, or they are not. And if not, could they at least refrain from lightbulb bans, open borders and the like?

Apparently not.

Posted by: Blue Hen at April 19, 2016 10:11 AM (326rv)

410 >>This is a primary, not an episode of survivor.

More's the pity. I'd prefer it if they were actually stealing food from each other and eating raw somethingorothereggs when they weren't standing near-nekkid on poles out in the water under torrential rain for days on end.

Posted by: General Zod at April 19, 2016 10:12 AM (Bdeb0)

411 One of the craziest things I've ever seen was a C-5 (I assume - it was practically too big to be real) coming in On. The. Deck. right over my head. I could feel it before I heard it.
Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at April 19, 2016 10:03 AM (xuouz)

Now that is one big damn plane. One of my friends was a loadmaster on those. Yuge. Must have been some sight.

Posted by: jsg at April 19, 2016 10:12 AM (lUZux)

412 Has the cost/benefit analysis been published yet, on how much ACA will save by not paying for tetanus boosters? Will it top fake tonsillectomies and amputations?
This looks like a government plot to shut you up by infecting you with lockjaw.
Tetanus certainly must be a red-state disease. Hard to imagine a coastal lib getting exposed to it except from a cat box.

Pertussis on the other hand is on the rise, and diphtheria can't be far behind.
Just doesn't look like a Big Pharma ripoff to me. But, I've stepped on rusty nails. (I don't believe that was her real name.)

Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 19, 2016 10:12 AM (xq1UY)

413 Just last week I happened to stumble over an episode of Walker, Texas Ranger and there was Doris Roberts playing a con artist. She must have been well liked by Hollywood because she showed up in so many shows and movies. That generally doesn't happen to a character actor if they're disliked. God speed to her.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at April 19, 2016 10:13 AM (4ErVI)

414 lol someone is socking Blue Hen.

Trump hasn't failed to hit 1237 yet. So all of our carefully curated arguments hinge on assumptions we're making. At least I'll admit that.

Whether he is able to do that or not, barring some miracle Cruz won't win 1237 delegates.

Cruz is positioning himself to win the nomination on the second or third or subsequent ballot. Because that's his path. It's not going to happen at the ballot box.

So the accusations that Trump is totally incompetent and unqualified ring hollow. Because they're sour grapes and the evidence is 14 delegates here and 34 there when he has a 200 delegate lead and is about to run roughshod through the remaining primaries.

Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at April 19, 2016 10:14 AM (xuouz)

415
"....Combine that with Trump's ignorance of every single

policy issue and his refusal to learn anything beyond his gut feelings..."
Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at April 19, 2016 10:05 AM (oC40p)
This
is patently false, and a slander of a great man. Trump will simply make
a great deal with, for example, Putin. And if Putin doesn't hold up his
end of the bargain Trump will sue him!
You are a hater. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 19, 2016 10:11 AM (Zu3d9)
=====

LOL. Bad, bad, sad people denying the great man his due.

Posted by: mustbequantum at April 19, 2016 10:14 AM (MIKMs)

416 Makes no difference this supreme court kabuki. That dicktator will get his way. The GOPe will nominate the most likely loser, as were Dole, McCain, Romney. And whammo! Permanent minority status, with the new 'citizens' getting to vote in November.

Posted by: Eromero at April 19, 2016 10:14 AM (zLDYs)

417 "The GOP has been working hand in glove with the Democrats for over 2 decades."

The GOP is the party of, by, and for fucking liars.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at April 19, 2016 10:14 AM (eHpnh)

418 Morning all. Coupla things.

Here in Phoenix, illegals have marches to protest all manner of things especially Sheriff Joe who keeps getting elected. BTW. They carry the Mexican flag, but never arrested.

I don't believe Cruz can beat Hillary in the no holds barred cage match necessary and win the general. I believe Trump can...so love Cruz and hate The Doanald but Cruz is a loser to Hillary.

Now more coffee.

Posted by: Tootincommon at April 19, 2016 10:14 AM (nEJQ1)

419 413 Just last week I happened to stumble over an episode of Walker, Texas Ranger and there was Doris Roberts playing a con artist. She must have been well liked by Hollywood because she showed up in so many shows and movies. That generally doesn't happen to a character actor if they're disliked. God speed to her.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at April 19, 2016 10:13 AM (4ErVI)

Loved her in 'Grandmas Boy.'

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 19, 2016 10:15 AM (/D5Lf)

420 Posted by: General Zod at April 19, 2016 10:12 AM (Bdeb0)

Yup.

Posted by: @votermom at April 19, 2016 10:16 AM (nbrY/)

421 The republican nominee is going to have an uphill fight against the left and its army of lies and its puppet institutions no matter who it is.

The question is whether he will continue to fight by the GOP's playbook or write his own.

Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at April 19, 2016 10:17 AM (xuouz)

422 The GOP is the party of, by, and for fucking liars.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at April 19, 2016 10:14 AM (eHpnh)

Oddly, the Democrats lie less. They say what they want, and then they are relentless in its pursuit. And they have a political philosophy to guide them, unlike the Republicans, who are guided by self-interest alone.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 19, 2016 10:17 AM (Zu3d9)

423 lol.
Cruz is positioning himself to win the nomination on the second or third or subsequent ballot. Because that's his path. It's not going to happen at the ballot box.

Which is far different than your bullshit about the principal. lol.

I didn't say anything about trump. lol.
There aren't 'ballot boxes' in all of the contests. And some of those that do are open, so anyone or thing can vote. And that isn't an indicator as to performance in the general. lol.

Running for second place and a victory at the convention is different from being a spoiler. lol.

Posted by: Blue Hen at April 19, 2016 10:17 AM (326rv)

424
Heard Jonothan Meades, Brit film maker, say when he was a kid, the gardener of Salisbury Cathedral died of tetanus. He went to the inquest and the finding was that due to the high concentration of burials in the church yard, the poor man contracted tetanus. Most graves in church yards are not even marked. You will notice that the graveyards are often several feet higher than the road approaching the churchyard because they are so chockful of the dead.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 19, 2016 10:18 AM (iQIUe)

425 I believe the C5 is being reduced each year...down to around 50 or so in a year.

Posted by: Colin at April 19, 2016 10:18 AM (6IZ5e)

426 If they are going to take the highway, shouldnt they hang little red flags off the Falcon 9?

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 19, 2016 10:19 AM (iQIUe)

427 ...stealing food from each other and eating raw
somethingorothereggs when they weren't standing near-nekkid on poles out
in the water under torrential rain for days on end.

Posted by: General Zod
_______________
Any chance you and NGU went to the same summer camp?

Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 19, 2016 10:19 AM (xq1UY)

428 lol

Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at April 19, 2016 10:19 AM (xuouz)

429 Isn't it refreshing to have a republican front runner who stands up to the press, calls Hillary a criminal and a liar and who stands up for his people instead of tossing them under the bus?

This guy sounds like a leader.

But the best thing is, he has a record of getting things done. Something that nobody in Washington seems to be able to do.

Change is what we need. Movement off of dead center. We need to be able to proceed forward even if it offends some interest group.

Posted by: jwest at April 19, 2016 10:19 AM (Zs4uk)

430
Sweet. Couple of A-10s just flew over my head.
Posted by: jsg at April 19, 2016 10:00 AM (lUZux)

Funny, back in my Infantry days we'd get F16s overhead and the whole group of soldiers would glance up with annoyed looks on their faces over the noise.

When the Hogs would fly over.......grins, hoots, hollers, heavy metal devil horn fingers.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 19, 2016 10:20 AM (MEFzG)

431 CBD, true about the Dems. They are rabid ideologists. Which make them move en' mass. Their ideology is their religion. The GOP is all over the place chasing their own individual ambitions.

Posted by: Tootincommon at April 19, 2016 10:20 AM (nEJQ1)

432 I'm not criticizing. It's fair game. But the delegate poaching is a stop the bleeding play, not a winning and winning big play.
Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at April 19, 2016 09:51 AM (xuouz)

1237 delegates. If your Trump gets 1237 delegates he wins.

If he doesn't there will be various slates run. Then the whining will tell or won't.

Declaring delegate poaching is not a valid argument, the terms are emotionally loaded.

1237 delegates.

Get to 1237 delegates.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2016 10:21 AM (N5Ri9)

433 Ha! I see there is no refutation to my infallible, machine-like logic!

Posted by: Lister McListerson at April 19, 2016 10:21 AM (CUk0C)

434 jsg @ 411- C5
I saw one rolled out at NAS Atlanta in 67 or 68. Huge don't begin to describe it.

Posted by: Eromero at April 19, 2016 10:22 AM (zLDYs)

435 Kindltot I agree with you, check what I said in >414

Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at April 19, 2016 10:22 AM (xuouz)

436 I saw one rolled out at NAS Atlanta in 67 or 68. Huge don't begin to describe it.
Posted by: Eromero at April 19, 2016 10:22 AM (zLDYs)

It couldn't have been more than 500 feet up when it flew over me. It felt like it filled the entire sky.

Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at April 19, 2016 10:23 AM (xuouz)

437 @424 Alas, poor Yorick.
In the New World, RC Sector, you find a lot of cases of caskets or bodies being stacked deep because no cleric was able to make it there to consecrate new ground. Old World, right up to modern times, burying ground was recycled. They'd more or less remove the old bones (you know the scene) and just start over.

That doesn't count situations like my dad found one wintry day in Krinkelt, where he could dodge the artillery barrage well enough but thought he was going to catch it from the marble fragments of the churchyard they were hitting and digging up.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 19, 2016 10:25 AM (xq1UY)

438 I'm not criticizing Cruz for adopting this tactic for winning the nom, I'm criticizing his supporters for crowing about 34 Colorado delegates and acting like that win for Cruz obviates every other election return.

Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at April 19, 2016 10:26 AM (xuouz)

439 Oh, yes, Doris Roberts was great in "Grandma's Boy"!

Re: "I remember what Hillary came to NY to honor the state with her present,
the newspapers were overjoyed. She will move here! and bring jobs! BS."

Yeah, she lived there ju-u-u-u-st long enough to get elected and then bought herself a grand mansion in DC (with her yuuuge book advance) and lived there with her mum. NY'er my a$$.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 19, 2016 10:26 AM (NOIQH)

440 Watched the finale of Better Call Saul. Eh. It's interesting to me that both McGill brothers are sleazy, and Chuck is more of a shitbag in my opinion, but Chuck is convinced he's completely respectable and clean-handed.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 19, 2016 10:26 AM (0mRoj)

441 Hey so uh, where did everyone go?

Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at April 19, 2016 10:28 AM (xuouz)

442 Art up.

Posted by: HH at April 19, 2016 10:29 AM (DrCtv)

443 I think Congress and DC runs on grease.
Waffle House 2016!

Posted by: @votermom at April 19, 2016 10:29 AM (nbrY/)

444 Since I graduated from high school in '77, I loved "Dazed and Confused," so I was already looking forward to seeing "Everybody Wants Some" about college baseball players in 1980. However, now it's really a must see film just because the SJW's are going crazy over it in the comments sections of the (mainly positive) movie reviews.

Just read the comments at the NY Times- they are almost uniformly negative and whining: "How can A.O. Smith like this movie? It's about hetero college jocks with white male privilege! There's only one token black! Jocks are bullies! They are the cause of rape culture on campus! How dare this movie make fun of sexual harassment! Wahhhhh!!!"

What they really hate is a reminder of how much more fun college was in 1980, when we weren't constantly harassed by special snowflakes and nobody ran to the Dean's office because some dude looked at her boobs.

I didn't hang with jocks in college, but I'm still looking forward to a walk down memory lane and the SJW's can shove it.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at April 19, 2016 10:30 AM (u0lmX)

445 Again, that's fine. It's by the book. But you don't get to abandon the field and then claim your opponent is incompetent and unqualified and clearly incapable of getting things done.
Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at April 19, 2016 09:58 AM (xuouz)

As I posted on the ONT, I think the GOPe is perfectly happy with Cruz doing this. Then once Trump is denied, they'll block Cruz with the claim that his actions have made him too odious to the base and they need an unity candidate.

Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at April 19, 2016 10:30 AM (n2GmV)

446 I was in El Paso in 1994 or 95 for a deposition when I first saw a F-117 flying over the desert. I can't believe that was over 20 years ago. Neatest thing I've seen at the time.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at April 19, 2016 10:32 AM (oC40p)

447 You would have thought God himself had honored the state. What came of it, next to nothing.....

Posted by: Colin

Bingo. I lived in Western NY during that time and her re-election ads were nauseating. The lies and the self-aggrandizement were worthy of a South American Dictator.

Posted by: Cheri at April 19, 2016 10:32 AM (oiNtH)

448 re: MD shooting.
Greenbelt is home to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
However shooting at PG County cops is not a Rocket Scientist move whatever race you are.

Posted by: DaveA at April 19, 2016 10:33 AM (DL2i+)

449 >>>432

1237 delegates. If your Trump gets 1237 delegates he wins.

If he doesn't there will be various slates run. Then the whining will tell or won't.

Declaring delegate poaching is not a valid argument, the terms are emotionally loaded.

1237 delegates.

Get to 1237 delegates.

====

What Cruz is doing *looks* bad and underhanded.

Yes it is the rules. Yes it is allowed. Lots of things are within the rules and allowed yet they are not done because they

For example in the NBA. flopping is legal and part of the game, but even when it works it makes you dislike the player that does it.

Another example from the NBA, shooting fouls shots granny style. It works great, but nobody does it because you look like a fool and people lose respect for the player.

And this isn't the NBA. This is politics. It ultimately *IS* a popularity contest and despite how we would like people to vote - people DO vote based off of emotions. Think about it - do you WANT to vote for someone who has the right policies, but you personally can't stand and don't respect?

No you don't WANT to vote for that person. You might force yourself to do it, you might tell yourself to do it. but you don't enjoy pulling the lever for someone you don't like or respect.

And with all this delegate shenanigans, Cruz is playing into Trump's "Lyin' Ted" meme. Cruz's voice, speaking style, even hair - just his overall appearance are already inclined to being perceived as kinda slimy. Its like Trump's attack of "Low Energy" Jeb, just slower acting. And Cruz is walking right into this "Lyin' Ted" meme - enthusiastically even.

Posted by: TeamRawDog at April 19, 2016 10:34 AM (10hEu)

450 Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at April 19, 2016 10:30 AM (u0lmX)

I saw the previews. The clothes and hair styles are still from the mid seventies to me from what I recall of my own days. I graduated HS in 1978.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at April 19, 2016 10:35 AM (oC40p)

451 Like I said last week ... You'll know what's uo first day of the GOP convention.

Eight State Rule removed - Establishment got enough of their folks in as delegates. The plan is to use block Trump w/ Cruz, then dump Cruz.

Second Ballot, new candidate - Establishment's delegates stick to the plan and usher in GOPe nominee.

And still ... The Party Loyalists here will spin the result. Because that's what they do.

Posted by: ScoggDog at April 19, 2016 10:36 AM (touVE)

452
I saw the previews. The clothes and hair styles are still from the mid seventies to me from what I recall of my own days. I graduated HS in 1978.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at April 19, 2016 10:35 AM (oC40p)

The film is set in 1980. Carter was still president. The styles we think of as specifically '80's had not yet arrived.

The preview sure looked and sounded like my college days - particularly the opening bars of "My Sharona"

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at April 19, 2016 10:38 AM (u0lmX)

453 VoterMom re: sleep problems: I do melatonin and eye mask and humidifier.

But I also go at it in a different way. I think it was Ray Bradbury who said, When you first wake up, you can think anything. It's true for me. If I wake up in the night, I consciously turn my thoughts to problems--I'm a writer, so writing problems. I'm much more creative in the middle of the night. Sometimes I even dream solutions after I fall back asleep.

Of course, the trick is remembering in the morning.

Posted by: Wenda (sic) at April 19, 2016 10:47 AM (pZEKq)

454 And still ... The Party Loyalists here will spin the result. Because that's what they do.
Posted by: ScoggDog at April 19, 2016 10:36 AM (touVE)

They'll play up how awful the Dems are and how we have to unite to stop them. Sadly the Dems are so horrible, it makes a compelling claim.

Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at April 19, 2016 10:52 AM (n2GmV)

455 Theissen: Trump has gotten lots of free media but he has no ground game.
Macallum: Well its worked pretty well for him.
Theissen: Yes, but...
Macallum: We have to cut away...Donald Trump is walking down a hall!

Reporter, please.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at April 19, 2016 10:57 AM (Ndje9)

456 I'm not criticizing Cruz for adopting this tactic for winning the nom, I'm criticizing his supporters for crowing about 34 Colorado delegates and acting like that win for Cruz obviates every other election return.

Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at April 19, 2016 10:26 AM (xuouz)

I wonder how Trump supporters are going to play NY if he wins big there. Will that obviate every other election return. I guess we will see.

Posted by: gapoz at April 19, 2016 10:58 AM (thyJJ)

457 I wonder how Trump supporters are going to play NY if he wins big there

um..."He won. Again." ??

Posted by: Al Sharpton at April 19, 2016 11:13 AM (Aartv)

458 Speaking of screwed up CA, they are now extending...giving Medi Cal to illegal kids.

http://tinyurl.com/z5mmplc

Posted by: PJ at April 19, 2016 12:01 PM (cHuNI)

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