Trump Expected To Name Critic of Minimum Wage, Workplace Regulations as Secretary of Labor<br>Update: <i>And</i> He's a Huge Booster of... Amnesty and Dramatically Expanded Replacement Worker Visas

Trump Expected To Name Critic of Minimum Wage, Workplace Regulations as Secretary of Labor
Update: And He's a Huge Booster of... Amnesty and Dramatically Expanded Replacement Worker Visas

President-elect Donald Trump is expected to name fast-food executive Andy Puzder as labor secretary, according to people familiar with the decision.
Mr. Puzder, chief executive of CKE Restaurants Holdings Inc., the parent company of the Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s burger chains, has been a vocal advocate for cutting back regulations he says have stifled growth in the restaurant industry, which represents 10% of the American workforce.
An adviser and contributor to Mr. Trump’s campaign, Mr. Puzder has criticized the Affordable Care Act and argued against raising the federal minimum wage higher than $9 an hour. Democrats have called for raising the federal minimum wage to as high as $15, alongside union groups that have waged a campaign to push pay floors higher at the state, local and federal levels.
...
Critics were swift to denounce Mr. Puzder as a choice for labor secretary.
"With Mr. Puzder, the fox is in the hen house," said Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D., Conn.), the ranking Democrat on the House subcommittee that oversees funding for the Labor Department. "His nomination represents the greatest assault on workers that we have seen in a generation."

Why you gotta talk so sexy like that when I'm on the job, Rosa?

By the way, as the CEO of the parent company of Carl's, Jr., he's been assailed by feminists for running commercials featuring hot girls in bikinis.

Here's what he had to say about that: Shut up, babies.

The CEO of Carl's Jr. doesn't care if you find the burger chain's racy ads offensive. Well, he cares in one respect – if no one is offended, he's going to convince the marketing department to craft an even sexier commercial next time.
"If you don't complain, I go to the head of marketing and say, 'What's wrong with our ads?'" says Andrew Puzder, CEO of Carl's Jr. and Hardee's parent company CKE Restaurants, describing a conversation with the head of an unnamed organization that regularly protests company marketing. "Those complaints aren't necessarily bad for us. What you look at is, you look at sales. And, our sales go up."
...
"I like our ads. I like beautiful women eating burgers in bikinis. I think it's very American," he says. "I used to hear, brands take on the personality of the CEO. And I rarely thought that was true, but I think this one, in this case, it kind of did take on my personality."

Every parent knows that at some point, you must begin ignoring the Crying Babies so that they learn that Crying will not buy them attention.

Caution Flag: I just saw Mark Krikorian, an immigration critic, write "#NeverPuzder" on Twitter, while one of CATO's Amnesty Forever thugs praised the choice and gloated "Time to roll back visa restrictions," presumably for H1-B's.

I wrote to Krikorian to ask for more information.

Maybe this isn't good at all.

Krikorian: Maybe the Worst Possible Choice. Not liking this now.

Trump’s pick for Labor secretary is perhaps the worst person imaginable for that role: Andrew Puzder, CEO of CKE Restaurants, the parent company of fast-food chains Carl's Jr., Hardee's, and others. He is one of the nation's most outspoken business voices for Gang of Eight-style immigration policies. He didn't just sign an open letter once as a favor to a friend; he's been a high-profile champion of amnesty and huge increases in immigration and guestworkers. This op-ed in Politico, timed to coincide with the launch of the Gang of Eight effort in 2013, could have been written by Jeb Bush. Here he is at AEI in 2013 making the case for importing more low-skilled workers. Here he joins with the Bloomberg-Murdoch Billionaires for Open Borders outfit and Grover Norquist in an effort to "push 2016 presidential candidates and congressional Republican leaders to support immigration reform this year." There's plenty more.

Krikorian provides a link to each statement beginning with "This Op-ed" or "Here here is...," etc. You'll have to go to his piece for those links.

Posted by: Ace at 02:03 PM

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1
Damn...

Posted by: Kudzu King at December 08, 2016 02:04 PM (HSmrB)

2 Still not tired of #winning.

My dick, however, would like me to know that it will get me the money.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at December 08, 2016 02:04 PM (FYrz1)

3 "I like our ads. I like beautiful women eating burgers in bikinis. I think it's very American,"

----

Damn straight. I've never eaten at Hardees or Carl's Jr, but maybe I should start.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 08, 2016 02:05 PM (KUaJL)

4 Prediction: This comment thread is going to be almost exclusively about Carl's Jr. ads.

I approve.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 08, 2016 02:05 PM (xeeHA)

5 Hold the tomato.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 08, 2016 02:05 PM (IqV8l)

6 corgis called

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 08, 2016 02:06 PM (KUaJL)

7 My favorite part about those ads is the way the neck tendons strain to open wide enough to bite the burger. That's what I call genius marketing.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 08, 2016 02:06 PM (xeeHA)

8 Burger at Hardee's, beer at Hooters.
Damn I'm glad to be an American!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2016 02:06 PM (0tfLf)

9 I'm so hungry I could eat at Arby's.

Posted by: Lisa Simpson at December 08, 2016 02:07 PM (UD0Gq)

10 Schadenboner status:

UPGRADED TO LEVEL 55, +25000 XP

Posted by: Hulk Hogan, smoking cigars made of dollar bills from his lawsuit winnings at December 08, 2016 02:07 PM (KLyOA)

11 "His nomination represents the greatest assault on workers that we have seen in a generation."

You've got me Rose. Stop trying to sell it.

Posted by: pep at December 08, 2016 02:07 PM (NrQPT)

12 Bill Clinton used Monica as a Thermidor

Posted by: josephistan at December 08, 2016 02:07 PM (7HtZB)

13 God love Charlotte McKinney's mama and papa.

Oh, and the CEO of Carl's Jr. And the ad agency, of course.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 08, 2016 02:07 PM (SRKgf)

14 After watching the el diablo burger commercial I'm wondering if the caused schadenboner would survive the amount of whiskey necessary to eat such a thing. Even with SuperModelBoostage.

Posted by: DaveA at December 08, 2016 02:08 PM (8J/Te)

15 Well so far so good...and I would not be to worried about trump meeting with some left wingers...after all he knows them from being rich and famous and the business he was in...and it's smart to be nice to them and smile as you get ready to fuck them

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 08, 2016 02:08 PM (EbeEQ)

16 Rosa DeLauro eating kale would be a popular commercial.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 08, 2016 02:08 PM (IqV8l)

17 Oh, and can I point out how much I like to say "Thermidor". Makes me feel all Napoleonic and stuff.

Posted by: pep at December 08, 2016 02:08 PM (NrQPT)

18 9 I'm so hungry I could eat at Arby's.
Posted by: Lisa Simpson at December 08, 2016 02:07 PM (UD0Gq)

Please. We were discussing Lena Dunham's mish on the last thread.

Posted by: josephistan at December 08, 2016 02:08 PM (7HtZB)

19 Wasn't there a Carl's Jr ad with Ms Turkey?

That chick was retarded hot.

Posted by: garrett at December 08, 2016 02:08 PM (UD0Gq)

20 "With Mr. Puzder, the fox is in the hen house," said Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D., Conn.),

Yeah, like I'm going to take criticism from an old crone with a bad dye-job, hideous eye-glasses, who dresses like Etsy exploded in her closet.

http://tinyurl.com/zyzc6uz

Posted by: V the K at December 08, 2016 02:08 PM (O7MnT)

21 The only Fast Food CEO that would have pissed off the left more would be the one who runs Chik-A-Fil.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at December 08, 2016 02:08 PM (u0lmX)

22 How come there are no ads featuring Rosa DeLauro eating arugula?

Oh.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 08, 2016 02:08 PM (SRKgf)

23 At some point, I'm hoping it's something related to the VA, Trump is going to publicly fire someone by uttering the phrase, "You're Fired!"

And then I will make happy in my pants.

Posted by: Kreplach at December 08, 2016 02:08 PM (3Xxpy)

24 Another nice thing about Carl Jrs is that you don't have to special order to get a low carb burger without the buns, it's already on the menu.

Posted by: John Nada - Formerly #NeverHillary at December 08, 2016 02:09 PM (KLyOA)

25 Here I come again now, baby....

There's a commercial that grabs on and don't let go. Funny too.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at December 08, 2016 02:09 PM (kKHcp)

26 So tired of politicians that run campaigns that appeal to Mexican supremacists.

Posted by: robert at December 08, 2016 02:09 PM (FXJ2V)

27 . I like beautiful women eating burgers in bikinis. I think it's very American

Puzder is clearly a Moron.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit & Vaginassassin, aka Beth at December 08, 2016 02:09 PM (4df7R)

28 16 Rosa DeLauro eating kale would be a popular commercial.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 08, 2016 02:08 PM (IqV8l)

Sorry, just saw this. GMTA.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 08, 2016 02:09 PM (SRKgf)

29 Now a guy in the white house can say "brought to you by carls Jr."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-tRPhxm41I

Posted by: TZ at December 08, 2016 02:09 PM (bPP++)

30 >>Oh, and can I point out how much I like to say "Thermidor".

'Humidor' still gets me all nostaligic...

in the pants.

Posted by: Bill Clinton at December 08, 2016 02:09 PM (UD0Gq)

31 Apropos of nothing, Captain Crunch is like eating shards of glass. Sweet sweet shards of glass.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at December 08, 2016 02:10 PM (QQ+il)

32 Well, with all the boycotting going on because companies think liberal lunacy is smart, it's nice to still have places to spend my $$$.

If there are any Carl's or Hardee's on LI, I'll have to give it a try.

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at December 08, 2016 02:10 PM (WuRdh)

33 I guess those who said Trump was a stalking horse for the Clinton's are feeling pretty darn foolish right about now.

Posted by: Kreplach at December 08, 2016 02:10 PM (3Xxpy)

34 This is frightening. I need a safe space.

If he does Laura Ingraham as press sec I'm gonna move to Edmonton or somewhere.

Posted by: the littl shyning man at December 08, 2016 02:10 PM (U6f54)

35 Can't take this much schadenboner. Next thing you'll be telling me that meme I saw with the new AF1 being a combo luxury yatch/gunship will be real.

Posted by: josephistan at December 08, 2016 02:10 PM (7HtZB)

36 I don't care about the models eating burgers - as pretty as they are - what makes me hot is a head of the USDoL being AGAINST MINIMUM WAGE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9-PjBTn7Ec

Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2016 02:10 PM (yLUuz)

37 31 Apropos of nothing, Captain Crunch is like eating shards of glass. Sweet sweet shards of glass.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at December 08, 2016 02:10 PM (QQ+il)

Delicious, delicious glass.

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at December 08, 2016 02:11 PM (WuRdh)

38 How many eyes does the left have, and how many thumbs does DJT have?

Posted by: irright at December 08, 2016 02:11 PM (pMGkg)

39 28 16 Rosa DeLauro eating kale would be a popular commercial.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 08, 2016 02:08 PM (IqV8l)

Sorry, just saw this. GMTA.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 08, 2016 02:09 PM (SRKgf)

The Horde's mind synchs up like a woman's basketball team.

Posted by: josephistan at December 08, 2016 02:11 PM (7HtZB)

40 Carls jr has good food, for a fast food joint. But I can't help feeling more and more like Trump is Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 08, 2016 02:12 PM (39g3+)

41
If Rosa DeLusional hates this guy, he has to be good, n'est ce pas??

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 08, 2016 02:12 PM (mbhDw)

42
Its like feminists don't like a man to be a man or something.

Speaking of feminists, why do they think if we look at a pretty woman, and we do alot, that we only think of them as sex objects?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 08, 2016 02:12 PM (ODxAs)

43 Hey remember the commercial where two women were arguing about beer and they started ripping each other's clothes off? Can we start bringing that back again?

Posted by: John Nada - Formerly #NeverHillary at December 08, 2016 02:12 PM (KLyOA)

44 My favorite Carl's Jr. ad is Kate Upton..

because.. Reasons.

Posted by: Blanco at December 08, 2016 02:12 PM (tGBt6)

45 Rosa DeLauro eating Grape Nuts.

Rosa DeLauro doing the Lena Dunham thing.

You may now resume eating lunch.

Posted by: JEM at December 08, 2016 02:12 PM (TppKb)

46 ""With Mr. Puzder, the fox is in the hen house," said Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D., Conn.)."

It looks like the fox is in the commercials.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Laments of the Pansie Liners sponsored by the Outrage Outlet at December 08, 2016 02:12 PM (hLRSq)

47 I would like a Charlotte Mckinney burger please.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2016 02:12 PM (/tuJf)

48
who dresses like Etsy exploded in her closet.

Okay, that's funny.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 08, 2016 02:12 PM (LuZz8)

49 37 31 Apropos of nothing, Captain Crunch is like eating shards of glass. Sweet sweet shards of glass.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at December 08, 2016 02:10 PM (QQ+il)

Delicious, delicious glass.

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at December 08, 2016 02:11 PM (WuRdh)

Wow I am so out of it today. Did not see your second sentence at all.

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at December 08, 2016 02:12 PM (WuRdh)

50 Next thing you'll be telling me that meme I saw with the new AF1 being a combo luxury yatch/gunship will be real.

Gold-plated, with rims and dice in the rearview mirror.

Posted by: pep at December 08, 2016 02:12 PM (NrQPT)

51 I went fishing in the Gulf the other day.. I was fishing near the bouy line for bait and all the bait fish had small protrusions on their bellies. I went back and looked on google for the the reason. The news reports said that it was strange but "the Shads all had boners.."

Posted by: catman at December 08, 2016 02:12 PM (22eqm)

52 37 They used to get soft in milk.Not anymore

Posted by: steevy at December 08, 2016 02:12 PM (r/0kC)

53 You know why else Hardee's sales are going up? Because the food is tasty and reasonably priced.

The threesome ad was a particularly fine example of the Hardee's ad style, I thought.

I must say, I never in a thousand years thought that Trump's cabinet picks would, in fact, be Shut These Agencies Down picks.

Gah, now I'm itchy again! So so so itchy!

Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr at December 08, 2016 02:12 PM (mf5HN)

54 This is like Mad Libs

"Critics were swift to denounce ______________ "

Mad. Libs.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at December 08, 2016 02:12 PM (/D5Lf)

55 TRUMP IS GONNA NAME GILBERT GOTTFRIED AS PRESS SECRETARY

OH THE HUUUU

MANNITY

Posted by: Bigbys Preening Fingers at December 08, 2016 02:13 PM (Tdadx)

56 Imagine how lefties heads' must be exploding with these appointments.

This guy for SecLabor is obviously about as far away from an SJW as it's possible to be. No transgenders need apply.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 08, 2016 02:13 PM (SRKgf)

57 My schadenboner is in danger of hurting the long term heath of my brain (blood flow has been redirected for soooo long). WINING.

Posted by: USNtakim at December 08, 2016 02:13 PM (hMqvx)

58 >> Speaking of feminists, why do they think if we look
>> at a pretty woman, and we do alot, that we only
>> think of them as sex objects?

Because many centuries of evolution have taught them that they're right.

Posted by: JEM at December 08, 2016 02:13 PM (TppKb)

59 I guess those who said Trump was a stalking horse for the Clinton's are feeling pretty darn foolish right about now.
Posted by: Kreplach at December 08, 2016 02:10 PM (3Xxpy)

err, mebbe. A little.

To be fair, I didn't think he was serious until he alone had winnowed the field.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at December 08, 2016 02:13 PM (kKHcp)

60 welcome to America. fuck you, we're eating.

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at December 08, 2016 02:13 PM (dyt3B)

61 The minimum wage is zero.

This lesson will be repeated until it is learned.

Posted by: Halfwise at December 08, 2016 02:13 PM (rB/gm)

62 33. No, they're not. Trust me on this - they object to the Lord Yuuugemungus because they aren't men like him. Nothing more to it than that.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at December 08, 2016 02:13 PM (Kfxxl)

63 see update -- this might not be good at all. Puzder might be an Amnesty guy, or at least a Bring in More Replacement Workers Through H1-B's guy.

Posted by: ace at December 08, 2016 02:13 PM (8rNrN)

64 Puzder just might be a Moron. Maybe.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 08, 2016 02:13 PM (0mRoj)

65 47 I would like a Charlotte Mckinney burger please.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2016 02:12 PM (/tuJf)

How about the Cynthia McKinney? Flattened, rancid gristle flattened with a Caterpillar.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 08, 2016 02:13 PM (mbhDw)

66
That commercial is wrong about one thing though, there is some added hormones. iykwimaityd

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 08, 2016 02:14 PM (ODxAs)

67 Rosa Delauro's husband is Stanley Greenberg. Poor bastard.

Posted by: Independent George at December 08, 2016 02:14 PM (BDZWU)

68 Ohhhhh, laaawwwwd. Ohhh, Oooohhhhh, ooooo, uhhhhh, ahhhh, Oooooooooo!

Posted by: Guy Who Can't Stop Splooging at December 08, 2016 02:14 PM (uhftQ)

69 Carls jr has good food, for a fast food joint. But I can't help feeling more and more like Trump is Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 08, 2016 02:12 PM (39g3+)
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There were always a lot of policies in his administration I admired. I'd have voted for him over Hillary!.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 08, 2016 02:14 PM (xeeHA)

70 Frisco Burgers FTW!

Posted by: pookysgirl at December 08, 2016 02:14 PM (ar2KI)

71 They need to show actual naked chicks eating hamburgers and moaning in ecstasy.

Posted by: Max Power at December 08, 2016 02:14 PM (q177U)

72 That babe with the burger gives me a hot dog

Posted by: Quinn the Eskimo at December 08, 2016 02:14 PM (YtWJn)

73 SO CLOSE, SO CLOSE...

@WashTimes 8s

Keith Ellison wins AFL-CIO endorsement http://bit.ly/2h1eSyt #KeithEllison #AFLCIO #DNC

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 08, 2016 02:14 PM (1G5R8)

74 I like beautiful women eating burgers in bikinis.

You are a Great American.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? Taking My Time on my Ride at December 08, 2016 02:14 PM (s/EUv)

75 61 The minimum wage is zero.

This lesson will be repeated until it is learned.
Posted by: Halfwise at December 08, 2016 02:13 PM (rB/gm)

The value of the wage is (should be) in proportion with the value placed on the JOB. It's not about the person doing the job.

But tell that to a leftist.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 08, 2016 02:14 PM (mbhDw)

76 DeLauro is a dumbfuck.

The "greatest assault on workers that we have seen in a generation" is the forcing of union workers to fund politicians they don't support who shove laws they also don't want down the nation's throat.

Posted by: Sharkman at December 08, 2016 02:14 PM (CS7jF)

77 41
If Rosa DeLusional hates this guy, he has to be good, n'est ce pas??
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 08, 2016 02:12 PM (mbhDw)

I'd say that he passed the first test with flying colors.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 08, 2016 02:15 PM (SRKgf)

78 >> This guy for SecLabor is obviously about as far away
>> from an SJW as it's possible to be. No transgenders
>> need apply.

Right now I can't think of any Trump cabinet appointee that's lower than a B.

There's placeholders and payoffs in there, to be sure, but they're placeholders and payoffs with applicable skills and experience.

Posted by: JEM at December 08, 2016 02:15 PM (TppKb)

79 If your happy meal isn't juicy, dripping with sauce, and pink, we'll give you a coupon for half off next time, sailor.

Posted by: Fritz at December 08, 2016 02:15 PM (2Mnv1)

80 55 TRUMP IS GONNA NAME GILBERT GOTTFRIED AS PRESS SECRETARY

OH THE HUUUU

MANNITY
Posted by: Bigbys Preening Fingers at December 08, 2016 02:13 PM (Tdadx)

Or Stuttering John

Posted by: josephistan at December 08, 2016 02:15 PM (7HtZB)

81 nah, not true jem.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 08, 2016 02:15 PM (ODxAs)

82 >>How about the Cynthia McKinney? Flattened, rancid gristle flattened with a Caterpillar.

Rosa DeLauro wasn't enough? You had to kill my appetite completely?

Have you no decency?

Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2016 02:15 PM (/tuJf)

83 This boner is your boner
This boner is my boner
From the deep-woods Maine loner
To the LA corn-holer

This scahdenboner was made for you and meeeee.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at December 08, 2016 02:15 PM (S2VsH)

84 >> Keith Ellison wins AFL-CIO endorsement
>> http://bit.ly/2h1eSyt #KeithEllison #AFLCIO #DNC

Go Baby Farrakhan Go!

Posted by: JEM at December 08, 2016 02:15 PM (TppKb)

85 Damn. I just got some poor Centaurian in the eye.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 08, 2016 02:16 PM (0mRoj)

86 They used to get soft in milk.Not anymore
Posted by: steevy

Cap'n Crunch, now with a hydrophobic teflon coating!

Posted by: pep at December 08, 2016 02:16 PM (NrQPT)

87 The head of Hooters was Trump's first choice, but was unavailable

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 08, 2016 02:16 PM (SIY7D)

88 1st of all Ace, Labor Sec. has NOTHING to do with Immigration

Posted by: Evilpens at December 08, 2016 02:16 PM (y3aQB)

89 Time for a greasy burger summit.

Posted by: Roy at December 08, 2016 02:16 PM (VndSC)

90 73 Keith Ellison wins AFL-CIO endorsement http://bit.ly/2h1eSyt #KeithEllison #AFLCIO #DNC

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 08, 2016 02:14 PM (1G5R

Have we reached the stage where "union" means leadership and not rank and file members?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 08, 2016 02:16 PM (mbhDw)

91 73 SO CLOSE, SO CLOSE...
@WashTimes 8s
Keith Ellison wins AFL-CIO endorsement http://bit.ly/2h1eSyt #KeithEllison #AFLCIO #DNC
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 08, 2016 02:14 PM (1G5R

Do it, DNC! The only way to win back white working class voters is to choose a crazed black Muslim Commie to head the whole lash-up. The Archie Bunker set will flock to your side.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 08, 2016 02:16 PM (SRKgf)

92 Trump - keep meeting with idiots like Al Gore, Leonardo, etc and then just do what the F*** you want!

Alpha Male!

Posted by: Only GOP girl in PDX at December 08, 2016 02:16 PM (3aBcq)

93 Rose DeLauro is rather...mannish.

Posted by: steevy at December 08, 2016 02:16 PM (r/0kC)

94 I must say, I never in a thousand years thought that Trump's cabinet picks would, in fact, be Shut These Agencies Down picks.

Gah, now I'm itchy again! So so so itchy!

Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr at December 08, 2016 02:12 PM (mf5HN)

It's called "hope". Eventually, your body will stop being allergic to it.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at December 08, 2016 02:17 PM (FYrz1)

95 >> Labor Sec. has NOTHING to do with Immigration

Oh, when DoL starts putting out rules about employers checking immigration status, I'd say it does.

Posted by: JEM at December 08, 2016 02:17 PM (TppKb)

96 The H-1B thing doesn't worry me. That's not a Dept of Labor matter; belongs to CIS, DHS, different dept with different priorities and leadership.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at December 08, 2016 02:17 PM (Kfxxl)

97 So we're going to bring in H1Bs to make burgers? That just ain't right.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 08, 2016 02:18 PM (0mRoj)

98 Chuck Testa for Secretary of the Interior.

Posted by: General Zod at December 08, 2016 02:18 PM (Bdeb0)

99 Imagine how lefties heads' must be exploding with these appointments.

The rhetoric with each appointment keeps getting more and more shrill. They're going to lose track of their talking points and start to mash them up:

"Trump is picking winners in the hen house!! "

Posted by: kallisto at December 08, 2016 02:18 PM (jkmtt)

100 Have we reached the stage where "union" means leadership and not rank and file members?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 08, 2016 02:16 PM (mbhDw)

No.

that point was reached somewhere in the 1970's.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at December 08, 2016 02:18 PM (kKHcp)

101 "I like our ads. I like beautiful women eating burgers in bikinis. I think it's very American," he says.
-----------------

This guy is obviously angling to for the next open, lucrative AoS CoBlogger spot.
Watch your six, CBD!

Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at December 08, 2016 02:18 PM (lalCH)

102 When Mike Conners got drunk, he played Mannish.

Posted by: Roy at December 08, 2016 02:18 PM (VndSC)

103 I seriously doubt he'll have any direct input on immigration.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 08, 2016 02:18 PM (xeeHA)

104 61 The minimum wage is zero.

This lesson will be repeated until it is learned.
Posted by: Halfwise at December 08, 2016 02:13 PM (rB/gm)
----
I like Milton Friedman's take:

It is immoral to prevent low skilled people to work and learn marketable skills.

Posted by: WisRich at December 08, 2016 02:18 PM (hdpay)

105 I'm looking forward to Trump naming his Chief Executioner.

*polishes resume*

Posted by: Sharkman at December 08, 2016 02:18 PM (CS7jF)

106 Lighten up, Ace. Labor has nothing to do with immigration and if you look at Trump's Homeland Security pick, what's your problem?

If you want both secure borders and a sane policy on minimum wage, this is what you get. What, you want an advocate of a $15 min wage at Labor so you'll feel warm and fuzzy about this irrelevant department not wanting open borders?

Posted by: mhj at December 08, 2016 02:18 PM (oqESW)

107 Posted by: JEM at December 08, 2016 02:17 PM (TppKb)

actually might want to read up on who controls Immigration. The More you Know

Posted by: Evilpens at December 08, 2016 02:18 PM (y3aQB)

108 Finding the cloud in every silver lining.

Posted by: Sjg at December 08, 2016 02:18 PM (gDSJf)

109
40 Carls jr has good food, for a fast food joint. But I can't help feeling more and more like Trump is Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 08, 2016 02:12 PM (39g3+)

President Camacho is actually a good role model. He has a take-no-prisoners attitude towards the job. He absolutely, positively and without reservation LOVES the United States of America, and the American People. And when he gets in over his head, he's humble enough to hire on the Smartest Man In The World to help, rather than to muddle on and see everything collapse.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 08, 2016 02:18 PM (LuZz8)

110 At this point I think Trump to his advisors is like"Who can we pick that will freak them out the most?That's who I want!"

Posted by: steevy at December 08, 2016 02:18 PM (r/0kC)

111 --
93
Rose DeLauro is rather...mannish.

Posted by: steevy at December 08, 2016 02:16 PM
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That's just f@cking mean.

Posted by: Men at December 08, 2016 02:18 PM (pMGkg)

112 It's called "hope". Eventually, your body will stop being allergic to it.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at December 08, 2016 02:17 PM (FYrz1)

Hope shmope. Just live without it, like I do. It's liberating. Depressing as hell, but liberating.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 08, 2016 02:19 PM (0mRoj)

113 My boner won't go down!

This is starting to sound like Trump IS bringing back America and common sense.

In a large part, this is simply amazing. It is like the eight years of PC socialist shit is being washed right out of the country, thank God.

We are going back to American Ideals, not socialist Euro Trash shit.

I was thinking, I hope Trump understands just how much hope he is bringing to the nation. I think he does.

A good start for him visually? Start going to church on Sundays.

I bet he does.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 08, 2016 02:19 PM (NbJXF)

114 Carls Jr. and Chick-Fil-A are going to both cater the inaugural dinner.

Posted by: Roy at December 08, 2016 02:19 PM (VndSC)

115 Have we reached the stage where "union" means leadership and not rank and file members?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton
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I think we reached that spot, ran over it, backed over it, then ran over again already. Decades ago.

Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at December 08, 2016 02:20 PM (lalCH)

116 If he's all in on H1B, I'm not happy. Which is a shame, he seems otherwise a very good pick.

Of course if you get rid of all the other feldercarb that makes H1Bs so competitive, it becomes a moot point, doesn't it?

Posted by: Brother Cavil, keeper of the Deplorable Unicode Character at December 08, 2016 02:20 PM (9krrF)

117 Caution Flag: I just saw Mark Krikorian, an immigration critic, write "#NeverPuzder" on Twitter, while one of CATO's Amnesty Forever thugs praised the choice and gloated "Time to roll back visa restrictions," presumably for H1-B's"

Slightly worrying, but we'll have to see.

Maybe Trump likes Puzder on the subjects of the minimum wage and chicks eating burgers and not so much on the H1-B question.

You're making the assumption that Trump must agree with everything Puzder believes and Puzder will be dictating to Trump what policy must be on H1-B's. I think it will be the other way around.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at December 08, 2016 02:20 PM (u0lmX)

118
I'd say this is one of the picks that might turn into an uphill battle. The dems are gonna try to polarize this guy. The nlrb is one of the holy books in the Lefitst's koran.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 08, 2016 02:20 PM (ODxAs)

119 Right now I can't think of any Trump cabinet appointee that's lower than a B.

There's placeholders and payoffs in there, to be sure, but they're placeholders and payoffs with applicable skills and experience.

Posted by: JEM at December 08, 2016 02:15 PM (TppKb)

We were discussing why Trump took the time to meet DiCaprio and Gore. THIS is why. At some juncture, maybe years ago, he'd probably taken the time to meet with the guys he's now choosing for his Cabinet, so he knows what kind of man he's getting.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 08, 2016 02:20 PM (SRKgf)

120 President Camacho is actually a good role model. He has a take-no-prisoners attitude towards the job. He absolutely, positively and without reservation LOVES the United States of America, and the American People. And when he gets in over his head, he's humble enough to hire on the Smartest Man In The World to help, rather than to muddle on and see everything collapse.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 08, 2016 02:18 PM (LuZz

See, that's my take on President Camacho as well. He's an oaf, but he's also a patriot, and he wants to make his country a better place. Plus, he has a machine gun and isn't afraid to use it.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 08, 2016 02:20 PM (0mRoj)

121 There are heads at Hooters?

Guess I need to look up more.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2016 02:20 PM (0tfLf)

122 Recall: Chuck Testa for Secretary of the Interior.

Close inspection shows that Testa's advertisements on Youtube depict him wearing a feldgrau Wehrmacht field cap with the death's-head insignia.

Probably not a good optic. Sorry, Chuck.

Posted by: General Zod at December 08, 2016 02:21 PM (Bdeb0)

123
Hyapatia Lee for Secretary of Internals.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 08, 2016 02:21 PM (mbhDw)

124 Plus, he has a machine gun and isn't afraid to use it.
Posted by: Insomniac at December 08, 2016 02:20 PM (0mRoj)
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He really is an inspiration to all of us. Or should be.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 08, 2016 02:21 PM (xeeHA)

125 >> I must say, I never in a thousand years thought that
>> Trump's cabinet picks would, in fact, be Shut These
>> Agencies Down picks.
>>
>> Gah, now I'm itchy again! So so so itchy!

Baby oil and about six pairs of hands ought to help with that.

Right now - and I'm sure one or more of them will fuck up, and I'm hopeful that in that case Trump will dispose of the failures quickly - Trump's Cabinet looks to be of a grade we haven't seen from a GOP President since at least Eisenhower and maybe much longer.

Posted by: JEM at December 08, 2016 02:22 PM (TppKb)

126 The choice of Stranglehold as the background music was inspired.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 08, 2016 02:22 PM (R+30W)

127 Mark Krikorian is a #NeverTrumper. Stop listening to these fucks.

Posted by: John Nada - Formerly #NeverHillary at December 08, 2016 02:22 PM (KLyOA)

128 TRUMP IS GONNA NAME GILBERT GOTTFRIED AS PRESS SECRETARY

OH THE HUUUU

MANNITY

That. Would. Be. Priceless.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2016 02:22 PM (784ZQ)

129 Posted by: Brother Cavil, keeper of the Deplorable Unicode Character at December 08, 2016 02:20 PM (9krrF)

NO NO NO ! ! ! people have to shit their pants about everything ! just like Stein's recount was to 1st steal election for FAB & then to keep Trump under 270 where as the clowns said they could elect Romney or Egg McMuffin or some such shit. there will always be pant shitters whop see a sniper in every grassy knoll

Posted by: Evilpens at December 08, 2016 02:22 PM (y3aQB)

130 All over Oakland, San Francisco, Berkeley and nearby hipster havens, dozens of trendy restaurants are shutting their doors every week. In almost EVERY SINGLE INSTANCE, when pressed as for the reason, the owners say, "Rising labor costs and the minimum wage make keeping any restaurant afloat unfeasible around here."

And yet, every single patron of those now-closed restaurants supported raising the minimum wage.

I'll take one Karma Sandwich to go please, with a side order of Unintended Consequences!

Posted by: zombie at December 08, 2016 02:23 PM (jBuUi)

131 Charlotte McKinney. Mmmm....

Posted by: Insomniac at December 08, 2016 02:23 PM (0mRoj)

132 Oh thank God, Krikorian hates him. I was tired of Winning all the time, I'm not a young man anymore, I need a longer refractory period.

I think this is still a net good choice, regardless. He's no Hyapatia Lee or Charlotte McKinney but he's going to make Democrats cry, I think.

Not to mention, Mattis is going to be Sec Def. Seriously....damn it, there it goes again. I need to get some medical attention here...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 08, 2016 02:23 PM (MYX5P)

133 >> I'd say this is one of the picks that might turn into
>> an uphill battle. The dems are gonna try to polarize
>> this guy. The nlrb is one of the holy books in the
>> Lefitst's koran.

You can bet the memo's already gone out from the Steyer-end of the Democrats about Trump's EPA pick.

Posted by: JEM at December 08, 2016 02:24 PM (TppKb)

134 And yet, every single patron of those now-closed restaurants supported raising the minimum wage.

I'll take one Karma Sandwich to go please, with a side order of Unintended Consequences!
Posted by: zombie at December 08, 2016 02:23 PM (jBuUi)

If they understood cause and effect, they wouldn't be liberals.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 08, 2016 02:24 PM (0mRoj)

135 Maybe Trump likes Puzder on the subjects of the minimum wage and chicks eating burgers and not so much on the H1-B question.

You're making the assumption that Trump must agree with everything Puzder believes and Puzder will be dictating to Trump what policy must be on H1-B's. I think it will be the other way around.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at December 08, 2016 02:20 PM (u0lmX)

I think so too. What is Trump's signature line? Oh yeah. "You're fired." I doubt very much that anybody bounces The Donald. After all, this is the guy who single-handedly saw off 16 competing candidates, the GOPe, the Vagicrat Party, the MSM, Hollywood, and academia, the guy who told the MSM to their faces where they could get off.

Is that guy going to be run by someone who serves at his pleasure? I doubt it. I doubt it very much.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 08, 2016 02:24 PM (SRKgf)

136

Posted by: A at December 08, 2016 02:24 PM (c2hYz)

137 See, that's my take on President Camacho as well. He's an oaf, but he's also a patriot, and he wants to make his country a better place. Plus, he has a machine gun and isn't afraid to use it.
Posted by: Insomniac at December 08, 2016 02:20 PM (0mRoj)

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M249 SAW to be exact.

I miss mine.

http://www.gunbroker.com/item/604593649

Posted by: Raider Nation - Silence the Queefs at December 08, 2016 02:24 PM (CRotO)

138 I'll take one Karma Sandwich to go please, with a side order of Unintended Consequences!
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Having only visited California a few times, I don't know a ton about it but the whole state seemed very disfunctional/schizophrenic to me.

I am honestly amazed the state is as successful as it is.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 08, 2016 02:25 PM (xeeHA)

139 I like Milton Friedman's take:

It is immoral to prevent low skilled people to work and learn marketable skills.

Posted by: WisRich at December 08, 2016 02:18 PM (hdpay)

Yep.Just like it is immoral to burn the food of poor people as fuel in your SUV.

Posted by: Halfwise at December 08, 2016 02:25 PM (rB/gm)

140 Trump should make a show of hiring key Dem and RINO Senators for his major cabinet positions. Make sure the press glowingly covers each one, Schumer for Treasury Sec, McCain for SecState, Grahamnesty for DHS, Cornyn, Corker, Flake, Snowe; let the media think Trump is trying to make nice and seem reasonable. Let the preening bastards enjoy the media circus until their replacements are sworn into the Senate, then fire every last one of them on national TV using a replica of the board room from The Apprentice.

Posted by: cornbred at December 08, 2016 02:25 PM (SytsO)

141
All over Oakland, San Francisco, Berkeley and nearby hipster havens, dozens of trendy restaurants are shutting their doors every week.

Pretty much.

http://sf.eater.com/2016/9/16/12943454/restaurants-closed-fall-2016-san-francisco

Posted by: V the K at December 08, 2016 02:25 PM (O7MnT)

142
M249 SAW to be exact.

I miss mine.

http://www.gunbroker.com/item/604593649
Posted by: Raider Nation - Silence the Queefs at December 08, 2016 02:24 PM (CRotO)

I'd love one. The full auto version, of course. I got to fire one once. A human being just shouldn't be allowed to have that much fun.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 08, 2016 02:25 PM (0mRoj)

143 So I ate at a Hardee's a while back because everyone kept telling me it was the same as Carl's Jr.

Ummm...no.

Posted by: eleven at December 08, 2016 02:26 PM (fYChk)

144 If the press won't stop asking the same stupid question, Gottfried would just launch into an ever-more creative and obscene rendition of "The Aristocrats".

C-SPAN would surpass ESPN+HBO in ratings overnight.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at December 08, 2016 02:26 PM (S2VsH)

145 Hey, Raider Nation -

Did you get up with Country Singer last night?
I was trying to put him in touch with you, but passed out shortly after I saw you jump online.

Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at December 08, 2016 02:26 PM (lalCH)

146 130 All over Oakland, San Francisco, Berkeley and nearby hipster havens, dozens of trendy restaurants are shutting their doors every week. In almost EVERY SINGLE INSTANCE, when pressed as for the reason, the owners say, "Rising labor costs and the minimum wage make keeping any restaurant afloat unfeasible around here."
And yet, every single patron of those now-closed restaurants supported raising the minimum wage.
I'll take one Karma Sandwich to go please, with a side order of Unintended Consequences!
Posted by: zombie at December 08, 2016 02:23 PM (jBuUi)

Mr. Cause, meet Mr. Effect.

It's kind of like rolling one billiard ball toward another and being surprised at what happens.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 08, 2016 02:26 PM (SRKgf)

147 122. He's a ee-enactor of WWII American unit. The hat is a 'trophy' he took in an engagement.

Bad look, though. But such is life.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at December 08, 2016 02:26 PM (Kfxxl)

148 see update -- this might not be good at all. Puzder might be an Amnesty guy, or at least a Bring in More Replacement Workers Through H1-B's guy.
Posted by: ace at December 08, 2016 02:13 PM (8rNrN)

Well at least I'm not itchy now so that's nice.

Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr at December 08, 2016 02:27 PM (mf5HN)

149 Rising labor costs and the minimum wage make keeping any restaurant afloat unfeasible around here."

And yet, every single patron of those now-closed restaurants supported raising the minimum wage.

Oregon is determined to destroy small business and restaurants, their latest tax failed but they keep trying.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 08, 2016 02:27 PM (39g3+)

150 Wait....from Lena Dunham to Charlotte McKinney? I don't know if I can handle that kind of schwing....er swing.

Posted by: Poncho at December 08, 2016 02:27 PM (GMQML)

151 Over at Right Scoop

http://therightscoop.com/worried-andy-puzder-immigration/

Posted by: Buzzsaw at December 08, 2016 02:27 PM (tf9Ne)

152 >>After all, this is the guy who single-handedly saw off
>> 16 competing candidates, the GOPe, the Vagicrat
>> Party, the MSM, Hollywood, and academia, the guy
>> who told the MSM to their faces where they could
>> get off.

My schadenboner just bumped Proxima Centauri B out of orbit.

Posted by: JEM at December 08, 2016 02:27 PM (TppKb)

153 8.0 Earthquake off the Solomon Islands - Tsunami warnings on the West Coast.

Posted by: An Observation at December 08, 2016 02:27 PM (c2hYz)

154 I went to Carl's Jr. and found out their burgers aren't really that huge, which was too bad because now when I try to imagine that's my junk she's wolfing instead of a burger, all I can think about is the burger. And its being not that big. And then I feel hungry. And gay.

Posted by: Slo-Pitch Whiffer at December 08, 2016 02:28 PM (zke7T)

155 These picks are all well and good but - where are the czars??!?? I mean, Obama had what, fifteen czars named by this point in his tenure in the office of the present-elect...

Posted by: PAgirlinNC at December 08, 2016 02:28 PM (/5WQL)

156 I used to work at a large law firm with Andy Puzder and met him a few times. I don't think Trump could have found a better candidate for this spot.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 08, 2016 02:28 PM (8ZskC)

157 Caution Flag: I just saw Mark Krikorian, an immigration critic, write "#NeverPuzder" on Twitter, while one of CATO's Amnesty Forever thugs praised the choice and gloated "Time to roll back visa restrictions," presumably for H1-B's"

********

Interesting. So Donald Trump is the sort of person who is a blank screen upon which people can project their own hopes and fears? Or is he a person who is completely putty in the hands of whomever last sat next to him? Or is it possible he has his own ideas, is still willing to listen, but in the end will make his own decisions?

I'll go with #3.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Laments of the Pansie Liners sponsored by the Outrage Outlet at December 08, 2016 02:28 PM (hLRSq)

158 >>>Maybe this isn't good at all.

We needed to block Clinton. That Trump will disappoint us greatly at some point is a forgone conclusion.

Hillary will never be president. Mission accomplished.

Posted by: Max Power at December 08, 2016 02:28 PM (q177U)

159 So Rosa DeLauro's face is the face of the opposition.

Posted by: Lord Sir x at December 08, 2016 02:28 PM (nFwvY)

160 I'd love one. The full auto version, of course. I got to fire one once. A human being just shouldn't be allowed to have that much fun.
Posted by: Insomniac at December 08, 2016 02:25 PM (0mRoj)

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And yet, this wonderful country paid ME to shoot shit up...and operate and fix tanks!

God Bless America indeed.

Posted by: Raider Nation - Silence the Queefs at December 08, 2016 02:29 PM (CRotO)

161 Several years ago USDoL was doing "field audits" on growers directly employing agricultural workers locally. They were picking on certain growers and claiming that the workers couldn't pick the levels they were picking at for the pay and forced the employers to pay penalties at what the DoL though should be the actual earnings.

This contradicted the findings by the local office who had for years conducted audits with the growers finding what realistic picking levels were as a baseline

USDoL forced the growers to agree to pay the penalties under the threat of impounding the fruit under the "hot goods" clause, that was developed for textile and sweatshop workers - not perishable fruit.

The growers may have been involved in 9-12 project activities and may have been singled out because of their opposition to TFG's unique approach to legislation and rule making.

I could only hope that Puzder forgoes using a brushhook and machete to clear things out and gets 12 freaking D-9s and a flamethrower

Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2016 02:29 PM (yLUuz)

162 See, that's my take on President Camacho as well. He's an oaf, but he's also a patriot, and he wants to make his country a better place. Plus, he has a machine gun and isn't afraid to use it.
Posted by: Insomniac at December 08, 2016 02:20 PM (0mRoj)

In "The Expendables" Terry Crews uses an automatic shotgun. He like his weapons badass.

Posted by: josephistan at December 08, 2016 02:30 PM (7HtZB)

163 Hey Chi.

Put my email thingy out there...didn't hear anything back.

Posted by: Raider Nation - Silence the Queefs at December 08, 2016 02:30 PM (CRotO)

164 "What about your Czaaaaaaaaars?"

Not a dig at @PAgirlinNC, just thought it was funny in my head.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 08, 2016 02:30 PM (MYX5P)

165 On a negative note, as the CEO of Carls Jr. he has huge experience in taking over a corrupt broken culture filled with incompetent time servers and utterly failing to change anything.

I am referring to Hardee's here, and it is nineteen years later and Hardee's possibly worse than was in the Clinton administration. Back then it was awful and dreary, today however, The typical Hardee's with its new Carl's Jr. menu
filled with elaborate avant garde concoctions that require both diligence and some intelligence to prepare and not to mention the necessity of preparing a shake properly, it is terrifyingly disgusting.

So I am not optimistic here.

Posted by: Roy L at December 08, 2016 02:30 PM (LgxQn)

166 I think this is still a net good choice, regardless. He's no Hyapatia Lee or Charlotte McKinney but he's going to make Democrats cry, I think.

Not to mention, Mattis is going to be Sec Def. Seriously....damn it, there it goes again. I need to get some medical attention here...

MEDIC! Man down! Man down!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2016 02:30 PM (784ZQ)

167 n "The Expendables" Terry Crews uses an automatic shotgun. He like his weapons badass.
Posted by: josephistan at December 08, 2016 02:30 PM (7HtZB)
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Specifically, the AA-12. Awesome. Bigly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOoUVeyaY_8

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 08, 2016 02:30 PM (xeeHA)

168 In "The Expendables" Terry Crews uses an automatic shotgun. He like his weapons badass.
Posted by: josephistan at December 08, 2016 02:30 PM (7HtZB)

I like Terry Crews. He does badass very well, but also has a good sense of comedic timing.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 08, 2016 02:30 PM (0mRoj)

169 I used to work at a large law firm with Andy Puzder and met him a few times. I don't think Trump could have found a better candidate for this spot.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 08, 2016 02:28 PM (8ZskC)

That right there means more to me than any wonk's statements and I'm not kidding.

In other news, the tree rats are back in the ceiling at work and I am not responsible for whatever it is that ends up happening next.

Except for when I fall down the stairs trying to get to the crawl space. That will be all on me.

Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr at December 08, 2016 02:31 PM (mf5HN)

170 I guess DeLauro wants Hardees to have Lena Dunham sitting on her crapper shoving a burger into her gaping maw as their commercials.

I prefer cuties in bikins.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac and Irredeemable at December 08, 2016 02:31 PM (1JnAL)

171 >> We needed to block Clinton. That Trump will
>> disappoint us greatly at some point is a forgone
>> conclusion.
>>
>> Hillary will never be president. Mission accomplished.

Absolutely. Keeping Hillary out of the Oval Office was the primary objective.

The fact that Trump hasn't yet fucked up significantly, that he in fact seems to be taking the job damn seriously - is just bonus time.

Posted by: JEM at December 08, 2016 02:31 PM (TppKb)

172 160. If I had a Class III and unlimited cash, I'd get a real PPsh and be a happy, happy man...... I make do with a Radom PPs copy in semi.

For now......

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at December 08, 2016 02:31 PM (Kfxxl)

173 Puzder was part of Trump's economic team during the election. He also has his own blog, apparently just about anyone can have one of these blog thingies. So this choice wasn't some out of the blue appointment, he's been on Team Trump for some time.

You can read and listen to some of his interviews on the blog and decide for yourself. He certainly doesn't sound like an open borders guy when speaking there but who knows.

http://andy.puzder.com

Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2016 02:32 PM (/tuJf)

174 I wonder if this isn't all about Trump's usual negotiation strategy, to overwhelm the opposition in congress: pick which ones you're gonna fight, suckers because I'm gonna get at least some and you're having a stroke over every single choice.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 08, 2016 02:32 PM (39g3+)

175 All the News that Fits the Narrative!

Current headlines "above the fold" on The New York Times homepage:

As Fake News Spreads Lies, More Readers Shrug at Truth
Trump Selects Ally of Fossil Fuel Industry to Lead the EPA
The U.S. is poised to reduce emissions. Trump could change that.
An Enemy of the EPA
Blow: Madman of the Year
Collins: Poor Al Gore
Trump Is Said to Intend to Keep Stake in His Business
Political Divide on Campuses Hardens After Trump Win
A New Vision of Lingerie: Men Not Required

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 08, 2016 02:32 PM (SIY7D)

176 Posted by: V the K at December 08, 2016 02:25 PM

I can tell you why the Claremont Diner closed: New owners were selling dogshit for food. Not everything is minimum-wage related.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at December 08, 2016 02:32 PM (S2VsH)

177 172 160. If I had a Class III and unlimited cash, I'd get a real PPsh and be a happy, happy man...... I make do with a Radom PPs copy in semi.

For now......
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at December 08, 2016 02:31 PM (Kfxxl)

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Amen.

I would love for Santa to bring me a MK-19.

Posted by: Raider Nation - Silence the Queefs at December 08, 2016 02:33 PM (CRotO)

178 169 I used to work at a large law firm with Andy Puzder and met him a few times. I don't think Trump could have found a better candidate for this spot.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 08, 2016 02:28 PM (8ZskC)

That right there means more to me than any wonk's statements and I'm not kidding.
....
Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr at December 08, 2016 02:31 PM (mf5HN)

What Alex says.

I could have two shits about Krikorian. Even if he's right, still a net win.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 08, 2016 02:33 PM (MYX5P)

179 Maybe there are just no black/white candidates for jobs anymore.

Here, you get someone on the right side of labor and min wage but bad on immigration. yippe.

The buck ends with Trump though, so I assume the mice follow the piper, not the other way around.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 08, 2016 02:33 PM (2PHKP)

180 161. Some people call them a slingblade, I calls them a kaiser blade....

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at December 08, 2016 02:33 PM (Kfxxl)

181 A good start for him visually? Start going to church on Sundays. I bet he does. Posted by: Nip Sip
----
During that weekend back in November, broadcast from his golf club, when he first met with Romney, on Sunday morning I was watching live as they covered him and Pence returning from a church service together.

I thought, "How refreshing."

Posted by: Biergood at December 08, 2016 02:33 PM (v8Lx/)

182 167 n "The Expendables" Terry Crews uses an automatic shotgun. He like his weapons badass.
Posted by: josephistan at December 08, 2016 02:30 PM (7HtZB)
--------------

Specifically, the AA-12. Awesome. Bigly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOoUVeyaY_8
Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 08, 2016 02:30 PM (xeeHA)

When I saw him break out the AA-12, I literally stood up & cheered in the theater.

Posted by: josephistan at December 08, 2016 02:33 PM (7HtZB)

183 "I like our ads. I like beautiful women eating burgers in bikinis. I think it's very American," he says. "I used to hear, brands take on the personality of the CEO. And I rarely thought that was true, but I think this one, in this case, it kind of did take on my personality."

First Secretary of Labor, then President.

Posted by: George Orwell's Ghost at December 08, 2016 02:33 PM (UgF8H)

184 Lookit, no matter who he chooses, someone is going to piss and moan. Just relax people. So freaking out about every little thing and just wait for it to unfold. Trump intends to be a great President. For him, this is about his legacy. He wants statues built for him. He's been the best at nearly everything he tries.

Posted by: Auntie Doodles at December 08, 2016 02:33 PM (VnNi7)

185 Don't spiders (and other crawly things) congregate in crawl spaces? Like they consider those their spaces.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 08, 2016 02:33 PM (R+30W)

186 The progressives pushed the pendulum to the left, and then more to the left, and then to the left again, straining at the cable, left, left, leftward, getting so far left you can go any further left....and then...oooops, it slipped from their hands.

What you see now is gravity taking its revenge.

Posted by: zombie at December 08, 2016 02:34 PM (jBuUi)

187 USDoL forced the growers to agree to pay the penalties under the threat of impounding the fruit under the "hot goods" clause, that was developed for textile and sweatshop workers - not perishable fruit.

Another extortion scheme brought to you by the commoonity organizer. The Klinton Krime Klan would have brought more of the same.

Compared to the govt enforcers, Zombies Carlo Gambino, Angelo Bruno and John Gotti are blushing in shame at their incompetence as mob bosses.

Posted by: kallisto at December 08, 2016 02:34 PM (jkmtt)

188 you can go = you can't go

Posted by: zombie at December 08, 2016 02:34 PM (jBuUi)

189 When I saw him break out the AA-12, I literally stood up & cheered in the theater.
Posted by: josephistan at December 08, 2016 02:33 PM (7HtZB)
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It was a great moment in cinema. And for America.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 08, 2016 02:35 PM (xeeHA)

190 The amnesty/H1-b visa stuff is not good, but anyone know where he is on labor unions?

Also, Rose DeLauro being the face of anything? *shudders*

Posted by: Lizzy at December 08, 2016 02:35 PM (NOIQH)

191 172 160. If I had a Class III and unlimited cash, I'd get a real PPsh and be a happy, happy man...... I make do with a Radom PPs copy in semi.

For now......
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at December 08, 2016 02:31 PM (Kfxxl)

That's actually on my wish list. I've been very impressed with the 7.62 TOK round and the Tokarev in general. Would like a carbine version to go with it.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 08, 2016 02:35 PM (MYX5P)

192 >> Lena Dunham sitting on her crapper shoving a
>> burger into her gaping maw

Please read your comment before you post, liberal application of the backspace key would have been appreciated. Thank you.

Posted by: JEM at December 08, 2016 02:35 PM (TppKb)

193 177. Santa knows what I want:

Dear Santa: I've neen good, for certain values of good, this year. Please bring me my own armored train, heavy armored division, and an aidoru girl group. Thank you. Palpy.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at December 08, 2016 02:35 PM (Kfxxl)

194
I sure like them french fried potatoes, uhhmmm mmmm.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 08, 2016 02:36 PM (ODxAs)

195 We needed to block Clinton. That Trump will disappoint us greatly at some point is a forgone conclusion.

Hillary will never be president. Mission accomplished.
Posted by: Max Power at December 08, 2016 02:28 PM (q177U)

We're all in agreement on that; that doesn't mean we should cease vigilance over the next four years. The man's extreme immigration positions are worrisome, and Trump is wobbly. Now, immigration skeptics are forewarned and, therefore, forearmed.

Its not panic, its caution.

Posted by: lowtech redneck at December 08, 2016 02:36 PM (egK2C)

196 I am honestly amazed the state is as successful as it is.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 08, 2016 02:25 PM (xeeHA)

There's a lot of ruin in a state as naturally blessed with good climate and natural resources as California is. Nevertheless, the Dems sure are working hard to achieve it.

What is really annoying is the few Cali liberals I know are now gloating about their great moral superiority compared to the flyover yahoos. They're befouling their own nest and demanding that the rest of us tell them their shit smells like Chanel No. 5.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at December 08, 2016 02:36 PM (u0lmX)

197 It was a great moment in cinema. And for America.
Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 08, 2016 02:35 PM (xeeHA)

I can't decide of The Expendables was a parady or homage to 80s/90s action movies. Either way, it was glorious, and some of the most fun I've seen in a movie in a long time.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 08, 2016 02:36 PM (KUaJL)

198 Lena Dunham. Rosa DeLauro.

I can't wait to see how.that sick bastard ace winds up the trilogy.

Posted by: Lord Sir x at December 08, 2016 02:36 PM (nFwvY)

199 >> First Secretary of Labor, then President.

A Z06 'Vette in every garage, and two Charlotte McKinneys in every shower.

Posted by: JEM at December 08, 2016 02:37 PM (TppKb)

200 191. If I could find a decent carbine in that calibre, or - the holy grail - a high-cap pistol....... bar the door, Betsy!

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at December 08, 2016 02:37 PM (Kfxxl)

201 If I had a Class III and unlimited cash, I'd get a

BAR & a Thompson.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2016 02:37 PM (784ZQ)

202 197 It was a great moment in cinema. And for America.
Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 08, 2016 02:35 PM (xeeHA)

I can't decide of The Expendables was a parady or homage to 80s/90s action movies. Either way, it was glorious, and some of the most fun I've seen in a movie in a long time.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 08, 2016 02:36 PM (KUaJL)

It's an homage with a wink.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 08, 2016 02:37 PM (0mRoj)

203 Rosa DeLauro...is a chick?

That's a man, baby.

Posted by: Raider Nation - Silence the Queefs at December 08, 2016 02:38 PM (CRotO)

204 OT - Florida woman arrested for stealing salami & "Magic Mike" DVD.

http://tinyurl.com/gnhdy7q

Posted by: josephistan at December 08, 2016 02:38 PM (7HtZB)

205 >>Lena Dunham sitting on her crapper shoving a
>> burger into her gaping maw

Which gaping maw?

Posted by: garrett at December 08, 2016 02:38 PM (UD0Gq)

206 169 I used to work at a large law firm with Andy Puzder and met him a few times. I don't think Trump could have found a better candidate for this spot.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 08, 2016 02:28 PM (8ZskC)

That right there means more to me than any wonk's statements and I'm not kidding.

Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr at December 08, 2016 02:31 PM (mf5HN)

Same here.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 08, 2016 02:38 PM (SRKgf)

207 I can't decide of The Expendables was a parady or homage to 80s/90s action movies. Either way, it was glorious, and some of the most fun I've seen in a movie in a long time.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 08, 2016 02:36 PM (KUaJL)
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They definitely adopted the spirit of 80's action movies and just pushed the throttle to 11. I imagine at every decision-point, Stallone just picking whichever option was more fun.

Completely implausible and ridiculous and pointless and SO fun to watch.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 08, 2016 02:39 PM (xeeHA)

208 204 OT - Florida woman arrested for stealing salami & "Magic Mike" DVD.

http://tinyurl.com/gnhdy7q
Posted by: josephistan at December 08, 2016 02:38 PM (7HtZB)

I guess we know what plans she had for the evening.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 08, 2016 02:39 PM (0mRoj)

209 >>Florida woman arrested for stealing salami & "Magic Mike" DVD.

Hard Italian Sausage?

Interesting.

Posted by: Barack Hussein Obama at December 08, 2016 02:39 PM (UD0Gq)

210 ...i seem to recall, "elections have consequences". already sick of "too many generals, no academics, where are the wimmens of color"? its not like obama and co. did a crackerjack job here...

Posted by: pahound at December 08, 2016 02:39 PM (cGo5H)

211 Specifically, the AA-12. Awesome. Bigly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOoUVeyaY_8
Posted by: Moron Pundit
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Geez.
Not to gross out the 'Ettes, but I just came in my pants. Twice.

Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at December 08, 2016 02:39 PM (lalCH)

212 143
So I ate at a Hardee's a while back because everyone kept telling me it was the same as Carl's Jr.

Hardees was started in Rocky Mt, NC. The head of it was a congressman for a while and then Lt Governor, Jim Gardner. He owned the first store.

http://tinyurl.com/hzenmtc

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 08, 2016 02:40 PM (NbJXF)

213 201. Well, yes....I was talking about fun guns, not the serious stuff.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at December 08, 2016 02:40 PM (Kfxxl)

214 That right there means more to me than any wonk's statements and I'm not kidding.

In other news, the tree rats are back in the ceiling at work and I am not responsible for whatever it is that ends up happening next.

Except for when I fall down the stairs trying to get to the crawl space. That will be all on me.

Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr at December 08, 2016 02:31 PM (mf5HN)

The away team has been spotted! Break contact, I say again, break contact.

Get the sappers to work on Operation Underworld.

Posted by: Capt. Frisky, Squirrel Commando at December 08, 2016 02:40 PM (hLRSq)

215 205 >>Lena Dunham sitting on her crapper shoving a
>> burger into her gaping maw

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*SCOWLS*

*throws burger away*

Dude.

Posted by: Raider Nation - Silence the Queefs at December 08, 2016 02:40 PM (CRotO)

216 I want a GAU-8, and a ground vehicle built around it.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 08, 2016 02:40 PM (0mRoj)

217 Labor doesn't do immigration policy. No worries.

Posted by: blaster at December 08, 2016 02:40 PM (za+mW)

218 I make do with a Radom PPs copy in semi.

I like random PPs in semi's, too

Posted by: Barney Frank at December 08, 2016 02:40 PM (39g3+)

219 I feel sorry for Charlotte McKinneys. Every time the poor girl sneezes, she needs help getting up.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2016 02:41 PM (0tfLf)

220 Yet Stallone is a gun grabber isn't he?

Posted by: steevy at December 08, 2016 02:41 PM (r/0kC)

221 shoving a
>> burger into her gaping maw

WTF why is her mom in the bathroom with her???

Posted by: Bigbys Preening Fingers at December 08, 2016 02:42 PM (Tdadx)

222 I am referring to Hardee's here, and it is nineteen years later and Hardee's possibly worse than was in the Clinton administration. Back then it was awful and dreary, today however, The typical Hardee's with its new Carl's Jr. menu
filled with elaborate avant garde concoctions that require both diligence and some intelligence to prepare and not to mention the necessity of preparing a shake properly, it is terrifyingly disgusting.

So I am not optimistic here.

Posted by: Roy L

CEO doesn't have much to do with individual stores, especially if it's franchisees (I have no idea how CKE runs its operations in this regard, so...)

If they're run and staffed by shitheads in the '90s, and still run and staffed by shitheads now, it won't matter much who the CEO is, will it?

Posted by: Brother Cavil, keeper of the Deplorable Unicode Character at December 08, 2016 02:42 PM (9krrF)

223 Not to gross out the 'Ettes, but I just came in my pants. Twice.
Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at December 08, 2016 02:39 PM (lalCH)

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*types*

*deletes*

Posted by: SMFH - Silence the Queefs at December 08, 2016 02:42 PM (CRotO)

224 O/T. Sorry that this is a New Yorker link, but it made me chuckle. Especially the illustration.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/z4uvqsu

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 08, 2016 02:42 PM (kDUMP)

225 So I guess no $15 an hour?

Posted by: NY Slime brain dead editors at December 08, 2016 02:42 PM (NbJXF)

226 211 Specifically, the AA-12. Awesome. Bigly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOoUVeyaY_8
Posted by: Moron Pundit
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Geez.
Not to gross out the 'Ettes, but I just came in my pants. Twice.
Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at December 08, 2016 02:39 PM (lalCH)

Somebody needs to switch out drum magazines...

Posted by: Insomniac at December 08, 2016 02:43 PM (0mRoj)

227 Crap. The DJIA is up another 60 points. If we elected Trump, they told us this would happen.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 08, 2016 02:43 PM (8ZskC)

228 The question with respect to any of these nominees is the same: "Regardless of their personal opinions, will they execute the President's policies vice their own?"

I keep thinking of Caspar Weinberger. His reputation in DC was as "Cap the Knife" for his ability to eviscerate departments. Then he became SecDef under Reagan and we saw the huge military buildup that ended the Cold War.

Posted by: Country Singer at December 08, 2016 02:43 PM (uiwCw)

229 And when he gets in over his head, he's humble
enough to hire on the Smartest Man In The World to help, rather than to
muddle on and see everything collapse.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 08, 2016 02:18 PM

Dude. I'm not just The Smartest Man In The World, I'm The Most Interesting Man In The World.

Posted by: Barack H. Obama at December 08, 2016 02:43 PM (DMUuz)

230 What you see now is gravity taking its revenge.
Posted by: zombie
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It was a Sisyphian task at best.

#This is how you got Trump

Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at December 08, 2016 02:43 PM (lalCH)

231 227 Crap. The DJIA is up another 60 points.

Fake news.

Posted by: Paul Krugman at December 08, 2016 02:43 PM (0mRoj)

232 I want a GAU-8, and a ground vehicle built around it.

I would say an A-10 sans wings, but that sob would still fly.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2016 02:43 PM (784ZQ)

233 For the record, the Carls Jr that has always been a Carls Jr near me executes the menu perfectly. Whether or not you like the menu is another matter.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at December 08, 2016 02:43 PM (S2VsH)

234 the tree rats are back in the ceiling at work and I am not responsible for whatever it is that ends up happening next.

could be worse

http://cheezburger.com/8990825472

Posted by: DaveA at December 08, 2016 02:44 PM (8J/Te)

235 #TrumpsKillingMy401K

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 08, 2016 02:44 PM (8ZskC)

236 Hard Italian Sausage?

Interesting.

Posted by: Barack Hussein Obama at December 08, 2016 02:39 PM (UD0Gq)

Hey-a, thatsa my department. But-a, not for-a you.

Posted by: Paolo at December 08, 2016 02:44 PM (SRKgf)

237 217 Labor doesn't do immigration policy. No worries.
Posted by: blaster at December 08, 2016 02:40 PM (za+mW)

An important point to keep in mind.

Posted by: Buzzion at December 08, 2016 02:44 PM (O09ZP)

238 While they are at it, why not make public sector unions less powerful? Start with political donations being an obvious conflict of interest.

Do workers really need protection from their own government? Maybe they need less government, not more unionizing.

Posted by: Halfwise at December 08, 2016 02:44 PM (rB/gm)

239 Florida woman arrested for stealing salami & "Magic Mike" DVD.

It was just a dare! My sorority had me do it! I was drunk and grabbed two totally unrelated things! *sobbing*

Posted by: Florida Woman at December 08, 2016 02:44 PM (39g3+)

240 186 The progressives pushed the pendulum to the left, and then more to the left, and then to the left again, straining at the cable, left, left, leftward, getting so far left you can go any further left....and then...oooops, it slipped from their hands.

What you see now is gravity taking its revenge.

---

Like a Jack-in-the-Box. At some point you have to let it play. At some point the clown pops out. And grabs your pud.

Posted by: Slo-Pitch Whiffer at December 08, 2016 02:45 PM (zke7T)

241 227 Crap. The DJIA is up another 60 points. If we elected Trump, they told us this would happen.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 08, 2016 02:43 PM (8ZskC)

"When will the stock market recover? Maybe never." - Paul Krugman, economist extraordinaire.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 08, 2016 02:46 PM (SRKgf)

242 The anti-minimum wage impulse does dovetail with a pro-immigration impulse in a business sense for industry: lowest labor expense possible. It doesn't make sense for the country as a whole, but when looking at the individual business bottom line in the short term it makes sense. I don't think most of the CEOs understand the long term effects of immigration on a honest basis, though.

I think Puzder is balanced by Trump's public position on immigration and Kelly's appointment at DHS.

The anti-minimum wage and the direct hostility to SJW bullshit makes the pick a win when considered against the last two factors

Posted by: Grad School Fool at December 08, 2016 02:46 PM (swEzU)

243 Which states have Hardees and which have Carl Jr.? Is there a divide, or more of a hodgepodge?

Posted by: lowtech redneck at December 08, 2016 02:46 PM (egK2C)

244 Salami? Not pepperoni?

Posted by: Bigbys Preening Fingers at December 08, 2016 02:47 PM (Tdadx)

245 >>Florida woman arrested for stealing salami "Magic Mike" DVD.

See what women are reduced to doing to 'get off' in Trump's America?
I told you he would kill sex!

Posted by: Jill Filipovic at December 08, 2016 02:47 PM (NOIQH)

246 Ah, DeLauro, like every good Commie, calling people "workers."

What does she call herself?

Posted by: bicentennialguy at December 08, 2016 02:47 PM (vg8iE)

247 In other news, the tree rats are back in the ceiling at work and I am not responsible for whatever it is that ends up happening next.

Except for when I fall down the stairs trying to get to the crawl space. That will be all on me.
Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr
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Not trying to freak you out, but the other rats (the ones that ain't so cute) don't live in trees. They live in the crawlspaces.
Just sayin'

Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at December 08, 2016 02:47 PM (lalCH)

248 Palpatine, there is an AR-15 upper in 7.62x25 and it has a block to allow a lower to take Suomi magazines.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2016 02:47 PM (yLUuz)

249 I went to an investors meeting with UBS before the election. They said if Trump won the market would totally tank.

Probably time to change brokers.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 08, 2016 02:47 PM (NbJXF)

250 O/T:

Talk about unintended consequences, the Jill Stein fiasco caused both houses of the MI Republican legislature to pass tougher Voter ID requirements overnight. Expected to go to Synder for signature.

Karma, it's a bitch.

Posted by: WisRich at December 08, 2016 02:47 PM (hdpay)

251 >>>I can't wait to see how.that sick bastard ace winds up the trilogy.<<<

Probably with a fake news Barbie post, -- because that plus-sized attention-seeking chubster seems to get off on fat-shaming herself on social media with her own fat fingers.

Posted by: Fritz at December 08, 2016 02:48 PM (2Mnv1)

252 A guy running a fast food chain is going to be for cheap immigrant labor. It's what you do. But Labor doesn't have a role in immigration policy.

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 08, 2016 02:48 PM (SIY7D)

253 What does she call herself?
Posted by: bicentennialguy at December 08, 2016 02:47 PM (vg8iE)

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No ways that's a woman.

Posted by: SMFH - Silence the Queefs at December 08, 2016 02:48 PM (CRotO)

254 245 >>Florida woman arrested for stealing salami "Magic Mike" DVD.

See what women are reduced to doing to 'get off' in Trump's America?
I told you he would kill sex!

Posted by: Jill Filipovic at December 08, 2016 02:47 PM (NOIQH)

Feminists, crazy chicks, the Duluth model and kangaroo courts killed sex.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 08, 2016 02:48 PM (0mRoj)

255 Of course if you get rid of all the other feldercarb that makes H1Bs so competitive, it becomes a moot point, doesn't it?
Posted by: Brother Cavil, keeper of the Deplorable Unicode Character at December 08, 2016 02:20 PM (9krrF)

What makes them competitive, which they aren't supposed to be for anyways, is near servitude conditions.

Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at December 08, 2016 02:48 PM (J70i0)

256 the Jill Stein fiasco caused both houses of the MI Republican legislature to pass tougher Voter ID requirements overnight.

Most excellent.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 08, 2016 02:48 PM (39g3+)

257 Perhaps he has changed his view on immigration as Trump has. And maybe he will focus more on minimum wage type concerns than immigration type concerns (which is sort of Trump's baby at this point).

Posted by: SH at December 08, 2016 02:48 PM (gmeXX)

258 Probably time to change brokers.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 08, 2016 02:47 PM

Citicorp was all in for Herlary. Avoid any business with them.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at December 08, 2016 02:49 PM (S2VsH)

259 Crap. The DJIA is up another 60 points. If we elected Trump, they told us this would happen.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 08, 2016 02:43 PM (8ZskC)

No, they said the Dow would crater into another Great Depression right before the Beast would rise to begin its slow walk to Bethlehem to be borne.

I can see how the two would be confused, though.

Posted by: Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Laments of the Pansie Liners sponsored by the Outrage Outlet at December 08, 2016 02:49 PM (hLRSq)

260 Salami? Not pepperoni?

Hickory Farms Yard 'O Beef.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2016 02:49 PM (784ZQ)

261 Talk about unintended consequences, the Jill Stein fiasco caused both houses of the MI Republican legislature to pass tougher Voter ID requirements overnight. Expected to go to Synder for signature.
Karma, it's a bitch.
Posted by: WisRich at December 08, 2016 02:47 PM (hdpay)

I can't take this much winning. I'm scared.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 08, 2016 02:49 PM (SRKgf)

262 232. Pfft! Guess you want a Jetta or a New Beetle...... here's what any real man wants Santa to park in the driveway.

TOS-1A Buratino:

https://youtu.be/ykooDQ6Sby4

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at December 08, 2016 02:49 PM (Kfxxl)

263 217,
Yep. Not really seeing any problem here. Next we'll find out that the new DHS head wanted light rail or something.
menocare...

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at December 08, 2016 02:49 PM (08Did)

264 >>Talk about unintended consequences, the Jill Stein fiasco caused both
houses of the MI Republican legislature to pass tougher Voter ID
requirements overnight. Expected to go to Synder for signature.

LOVE it!

Nope, still not tired of winning....

Posted by: Jill Filipovic at December 08, 2016 02:49 PM (NOIQH)

265 H1Bs would be fine if they weren't being abused to displace American workers and depress pay.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 08, 2016 02:50 PM (0mRoj)

266 198 Lena Dunham. Rosa DeLauro.
I can't wait to see how.that sick bastard ace winds up the trilogy.
Posted by: Lord Sir x at December 08, 2016 02:36 PM (nFwvY)

Can Yoko be far behind?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 08, 2016 02:50 PM (SRKgf)

267 243 Which states have Hardees and which have Carl Jr.? Is there a divide, or more of a hodgepodge?
Posted by: lowtech redneck
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I think it's an east/west of the Mississippi thing. In Va & NC, we only have Hardees, on the left coast, it's Carl's Jr.

Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at December 08, 2016 02:50 PM (lalCH)

268 ohGodno

Posted by: SMFH - Silence the Queefs at December 08, 2016 02:50 PM (CRotO)

269 I'm just glad someone is in charge of labor that is not a complete union stooge. That's like putting Harry Reid in charge of the FBI task force on NAMBLA

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 08, 2016 02:50 PM (39g3+)

270 I went to an investors meeting with UBS before the election. They said if Trump won the market would totally tank.

Probably time to change brokers.
Posted by: Nip Sip at December 08, 2016 02:47 PM (NbJXF)
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A guy trying to sell us a house kept talking about how the mortgage rates were going to sky-rocket after the election... for some reason. He never explained and, assuming he was basing that on nothing, I never asked.

It is amazing how often a financial adviser's prediction matches exactly with their political leanings. Uncanny, really.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 08, 2016 02:50 PM (xeeHA)

271 No, they said the Dow would crater into another Great Depression right before the Beast would rise to begin its slow walk to Bethlehem to be borne.

Hillary doesn't walk anywhere.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2016 02:50 PM (784ZQ)

272 266 198 Lena Dunham. Rosa DeLauro.
I can't wait to see how.that sick bastard ace winds up the trilogy.
Posted by: Lord Sir x at December 08, 2016 02:36 PM (nFwvY)

Can Yoko be far behind?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 08, 2016 02:50 PM (SRKgf)

On a toilet, yowling like a cat being fed tail-first into a paper shredder.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 08, 2016 02:51 PM (0mRoj)

273 Has anyone yet posted this, about how the Washington Post has pretty much walked back their story about the "fake news sites are Russian propaganda!!!11!!" from Zero Hedge:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/z5zsslh

Posted by: bluebell at December 08, 2016 02:51 PM (sBOL1)

274 255. At my old gig, met a charming young lady who was an H1B. Yeah, mgmt treated her and the others like dirt. I did what I could to comfort her, and help her get on the perm res pathway. It's a disgrace, that program - screws Americans and abuses foreigners.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at December 08, 2016 02:52 PM (Kfxxl)

275 Jill Stein?

Is she the one demanding a recount of America's Top Forty?

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at December 08, 2016 02:52 PM (C9pBZ)

276 Talk about unintended consequences, the Jill Stein fiasco caused both houses of the MI Republican legislature to pass tougher Voter ID requirements overnight. Expected to go to Synder for signature.

Karma, it's a bitch.

Posted by: WisRich

When you accuse someone of cheating, start a BS recount to screw them over, and the results find YOU were cheating...maybe you need to revisit whether politics is for you.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, keeper of the Deplorable Unicode Character at December 08, 2016 02:52 PM (9krrF)

277 Can Yoko be far behind?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 08, 2016 02:50 PM (SRKgf)

On a toilet, yowling like a cat being fed tail-first into a paper shredder.
Posted by: Insomniac at December 08, 2016 02:51 PM (0mRoj)
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Stop, you two, just stop.

Posted by: bluebell at December 08, 2016 02:52 PM (sBOL1)

278
I guess Trump's no longer batting 1.000 with this pick. Gang of 8 booster?

F E H ! ! !

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 08, 2016 02:53 PM (mbhDw)

279 "It's coming from inside the office"

Posted by: When a squirrel calls at December 08, 2016 02:53 PM (q4vT/)

280 "Maybe this isn't good at all."

Compared to the last two (Perez and Solis)? Both have lobbied to weaken laws to bar employment to illegal aliens; both have championed every opportunity to favor workers over employers, and worse yet, labor unions over employers. Perez is proud of his efforts to raise the minimum wage. Pudzer opposes the minimum wage, and if he favors immigrant workers, AT LEAST it's immigrant workers who are here LEGALLY, as opposed to simply invading.

It ain't perfect, but control the border, and I'll settle for it. For now.

Posted by: Qoheleth at December 08, 2016 02:53 PM (iIzG7)

281 Talk about unintended consequences, the Jill Stein fiasco caused both
houses of the MI Republican legislature to pass tougher Voter ID
requirements overnight. Expected to go to Synder for signature.

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This election DID have a stalking horse. We were just wrong about who. It's not Trump, and it's not for the Democrats.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 08, 2016 02:53 PM (KUaJL)

282 Just glanced over at Insty. Sounds like the Pope is worried about "Fake News" now as well.

Cognitive dissonance.

Posted by: Max Power at December 08, 2016 02:53 PM (q177U)

283 Posted by: Insomniac at December 08, 2016 02:51 PM (0mRoj)
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Stop, you two, just stop.
Posted by: bluebell at December 08, 2016 02:52 PM (sBOL1)

Yeah yeah, don't make you turn this blog around, blah blah blah.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 08, 2016 02:53 PM (0mRoj)

284 . That's like putting Harry Reid in charge of the FBI task force on NAMBLA"

No pizzagate stories, k?

Heh.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at December 08, 2016 02:53 PM (C9pBZ)

285 The Powerline guys used to be #Nevertrump but even they can't help notice the big fat pile of WIN:

The point is: the primal Donald Trump who frightens the media and the coiffed elites may be just the person to revive the animal spirits a dynamic economy needs.

http://tinyurl.com/j8sqxf7

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 08, 2016 02:54 PM (8ZskC)

286 Yeah yeah, don't make you turn this blog around, blah blah blah.
Posted by: Insomniac at December 08, 2016 02:53 PM (0mRoj)
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Yeah, that's grammie's line. Mine is "Don't make me come back there!!!!"

Posted by: bluebell at December 08, 2016 02:54 PM (sBOL1)

287 Posted by: Max Power at December 08, 2016 02:53 PM

A Commie's gotta commie.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at December 08, 2016 02:54 PM (S2VsH)

288 Lena Dunham. Rosa DeLauro.
I can't wait to see how.that sick bastard ace winds up the trilogy.
Posted by: Lord Sir x at December 08, 2016 02:36 PM (nFwvY)

Can Yoko be far behind?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

Nekkid guy on White Ottoman

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2016 02:54 PM (784ZQ)

289 "Interesting. So Donald Trump is the sort of person who is a blank screen upon which people can project their own hopes and fears? Or is he a person who is completely putty in the hands of whomever last sat next to him? Or is it possible he has his own ideas, is still willing to listen, but in the end will make his own decisions?"

Hannity was going on last night as if the answer was #2.

"OMG, Romney is still in the picture! And how will Trump handle all the snakes in DC, including the ones in his own party? He's new to the place! He doesn't know how vicious these people can be!"

True, Trump has never been an elected official or lived in DC. But a successful Manhattan real estate developer isn't somebody who just fell off a turnip truck. Hannity was making it sound like Trump is a naïf who's going to get eaten alive by the DC wolves.

Note to Hannity: Trump's smarter than you are.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at December 08, 2016 02:54 PM (u0lmX)

290 282 The Pope is a tool of some hard left handlers who take every opportunity to get him to speak out on shit like this.

Posted by: steevy at December 08, 2016 02:54 PM (r/0kC)

291 "Just glanced over at Insty. Sounds like the Pope is worried about "Fake News" now as well."

Someone here HAS to say it.

"Lighten up, Francis."

Posted by: Qoheleth at December 08, 2016 02:55 PM (iIzG7)

292 Hillary doesn't walk anywhere.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2016 02:50 PM (784ZQ)

The Hoveround Broke Down.* She has to weeble-wobble to the Scooby van.

*Awesome tune.

Posted by: Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Laments of the Pansie Liners sponsored by the Outrage Outlet at December 08, 2016 02:55 PM (hLRSq)

293 When you accuse someone of cheating, start a BS recount to screw them over, and the results find YOU were cheating...maybe you need to revisit whether politics is for you.
Posted by: Brother Cavil
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Look at their history. Look at their current state of denial. Look at their future (their 2020 lineup, for instance).
They cannot, wilL not, even refuse to learn.
This only bodes well for freedom loving Americans for at least a generation.

Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at December 08, 2016 02:56 PM (lalCH)

294 >>"It's coming from inside the office"

Posted by: When a squirrel calls

There was this one time I thought there were some squirrels living in the attic of my apartment; always heard the shuffling, etc. Then one night my sister's cats (was catsitting) were obsessed with a large vent....through which a small bat appeared and started flying around the place. Ugh! One of the cats managed to pounce on it and suffocate the sucker.

Posted by: Jill Filipovic at December 08, 2016 02:57 PM (NOIQH)

295 >>>1st of all Ace, Labor Sec. has NOTHING to do with Immigration

the hell it doesn't. HB-1 and HB-2 visas?

Plus the perennial cry from the amnestias is that if all the illegals go home, businesses would collapse.

Sure sounds like Puzder is from that school.

Posted by: ace at December 08, 2016 02:57 PM (8rNrN)

296 Not trying to freak you out, but the other rats (the ones that ain't so cute) don't live in trees. They live in the crawlspaces.
Just sayin'
Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at December 08, 2016 02:47 PM (lalCH)

We actually had to have the exterminator out yesterday because of the very obvious evidence of mice, as in co-worker who is terrified of mice finding droppings on her desk. Then the guy was yeah there's one in the trap here and that explained that weird smell.

Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr at December 08, 2016 02:57 PM (mf5HN)

297 286 Yeah yeah, don't make you turn this blog around, blah blah blah.
Posted by: Insomniac at December 08, 2016 02:53 PM (0mRoj)
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Yeah, that's grammie's line. Mine is "Don't make me come back there!!!!"

Posted by: bluebell at December 08, 2016 02:54 PM (sBOL1)

Ah, right. It's easy to get those mixed up.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 08, 2016 02:57 PM (0mRoj)

298 Note to Hannity: Trump's smarter than you are.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at December 08, 2016 02:54 PM (u0lmX)
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Big league. No offense Sean.

Posted by: PE Trump at December 08, 2016 02:57 PM (BDZWU)

299 Trump's smarter than you are. "

This. X 10,000.

President Elect Trump (gawd, I do like typing that) is a very smart man, and the DC crowd has already shown their idiocy by misunderestimating him.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at December 08, 2016 02:58 PM (C9pBZ)

300 Look at their history. Look at their current state of denial. Look at their future (their 2020 lineup, for instance).

But Keith Eliison, muslim America-hater, as DNC Chair will bring Middle America back into the fold. Just you watch!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 08, 2016 02:58 PM (8ZskC)

301 I'm putting Hillary in my 2017 Dead Pool. Between losing, the alcohol, whatever is already wrong with her...

Yeah, she's on the list. I plan to win money this year.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at December 08, 2016 02:58 PM (S2VsH)

302 #237

217 Labor doesn't do immigration policy. No worries.

Posted by: blaster at December 08, 2016 02:40 PM (za+mW)

An important point to keep in mind.
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Concur.

Posted by: mrp at December 08, 2016 02:58 PM (JBggj)

303 As Secretary of Labor, he won't be crafting immigration policy, so I don't see what the problem is.

If we want a business-friendly administration (we want jobs, right?) we're going to have to deal with most big business's desire for more immigration - not necessarily give in to amnesty, but thread the needle between keeping them happy and saying "No" to their open borders wishes.

Posted by: West at December 08, 2016 02:58 PM (1Rgee)

304 Look at their history. Look at their current state of denial. Look at their future (their 2020 lineup, for instance).
They cannot, wilL not, even refuse to learn.
This only bodes well for freedom loving Americans for at least a generation.

Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu

Unfortunately, they're leaving minefields in the heads of the younger generations. That will not be simple to clean up.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, keeper of the Deplorable Unicode Character at December 08, 2016 02:58 PM (9krrF)

305 Talk about unintended consequences, the Jill Stein fiasco caused both
houses of the MI Republican legislature to pass tougher Voter ID
requirements overnight. Expected to go to Synder for signature.

Saw this poster: "Jill Stein made Hillary Clinton the first woman to lose the same election twice."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 08, 2016 02:59 PM (SRKgf)

306 >>Note to Hannity: Trump's smarter than you are.

Some of the rocks that Lena communed with in the desert could probably give Sean a run for his money.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2016 02:59 PM (/tuJf)

307 The model would not look that if she wearing eating their burgers all the time, but yes she's very attractive and her fake breasts are very large.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 08, 2016 02:59 PM (tOcW/)

308 It's a disgrace, that program - screws Americans and abuses foreigners.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at December 08, 2016 02:52 PM (Kfxxl)

A lot of the screwing comes from their own countrymen who are running the businesses used to manage the H1B replacements.

Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at December 08, 2016 03:00 PM (J70i0)

309 All righty fappers. I have a phone interview coming up in a while, and I'm nervous as hell about it for some reason. I'm going to go try to get my game face on and get my head right. See you in a couple/few hours.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 08, 2016 03:00 PM (0mRoj)

310 "I'm putting Hillary in my 2017 Dead Pool. Between losing, the alcohol, whatever is already wrong with her..."

You forget -- Hillary doesn't die. She makes other people dead.

Posted by: Qoheleth at December 08, 2016 03:00 PM (iIzG7)

311 Note to Hannity: Trump's smarter than you are.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time)

Your average Golden Retriever puppy is smarter than Hannity.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, keeper of the Deplorable Unicode Character at December 08, 2016 03:00 PM (9krrF)

312 Current Tree Rat in ceiling status: Quiet. Too quiet.

Okay. Which one of you did this?

http://bit.ly/2gp8yQw

Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr at December 08, 2016 03:00 PM (mf5HN)

313 The labor department doesn't, itself, issue the visas. That's the USCIS which is under DHS.

Here is a quote from the DoL website about Foreign Labor:

"There are several government agencies involved with granting permission for foreign workers to work in the United States. First, employers must seek certification through the Department of Labor. Below you will find a link to documents and forms. Once the application is certified/approved, the employer must petition the U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services for a visa. Approval by the Department of Labor does not guarantee a visa issuance. Applicants must also establish that they are admissible to the U.S. under provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA)."

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 08, 2016 03:00 PM (xeeHA)

314 Okay! So I'm not that smart. I admit it! But what you morons can't deny is my karate skills. Ain't that right Sweet Baby James?

Posted by: Sean Hannity at December 08, 2016 03:00 PM (BDZWU)

315 Good luck, Insomniac! Go outside and walk around the block to clear your head.

Prayers up for you.

Posted by: bluebell at December 08, 2016 03:00 PM (sBOL1)

316 Posted by: Insomniac at December 08, 2016 03:00 PM (0mRoj)

Good luck! If you're nervous, just do what I do and picture your interviewer in their underwear. Unless your interviewer sounds like a hot chick.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 08, 2016 03:01 PM (KUaJL)

317 At my old gig, met a charming young lady who was an H1B. Yeah, mgmt treated her and the others like dirt. I did what I could to comfort her, and help her get on the perm res pathway. It's a disgrace, that program - screws Americans and abuses foreigners.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at December 08, 2016 02:52 PM (Kfxxl)

H1A (ag workers) have stringent controls over living conditions, pay and return, employers are obligated to treat then as under the Migrant Seasonal Agricultural Workers Protection Act. If USDoL decided that H1B workers had to have similar protection that would seriously change that program

That, but the way, would be supported by the more activist workers' rights people - I know this from dealing with them - though maybe not the industries that depend on the H1B visas for workers.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2016 03:01 PM (yLUuz)

318 Posted by: Insomniac at December 08, 2016 03:00 PM (0mRoj)

O.K. Folks. Let's pray for Insomniac and his phone interview.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 08, 2016 03:02 PM (tOcW/)

319 Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at December 08, 2016 03:00 PM

Truth. These guys come from countries where slavery is still abundant, and (even as "Americans" now) they take the opportunity to import it.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at December 08, 2016 03:02 PM (S2VsH)

320 Good luck, Insomniac!! Sending good vibes your way.

Posted by: Tami at December 08, 2016 03:02 PM (Enq6K)

321 Hillary doesn't walk anywhere.

True.
I don't like Yeats, as a person, politically or as a literary figure.
But in fairness, as we always say here, to his poetics:
He said she slouched.

And she does.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at December 08, 2016 03:02 PM (H5rtT)

322 If we want a business-friendly administration (we want jobs, right?) we're going to have to deal with most big business's desire for more immigration - not necessarily give in to amnesty, but thread the needle between keeping them happy and saying "No" to their open borders wishes.

Posted by: West at December 08, 2016 02:58 PM (1Rgee)

I agree. And creating a more business friendly environment will slacken their calls for more foreign labor. While preventing them from getting more foreign labor will cause them to clamor for more business reform. It can create a feedback loop the other way. The same as lessening outsourcings benefits creates pressure to reform taxes and regulations at home.

Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at December 08, 2016 03:02 PM (J70i0)

323 Okay. Which one of you did this?

http://bit.ly/2gp8yQw

Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr

Looks like a converted church. Must have been one of those Proggy denominations.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, keeper of the Deplorable Unicode Character at December 08, 2016 03:02 PM (9krrF)

324 Not really that worried about this one. It's not like he is heading up the Border Patrol.

Also, you think Trump will allow anyone off the reservation? You're FIRED! He'll stay in line.

Posted by: Memories at December 08, 2016 03:02 PM (mwcEF)

325 309 All righty fappers. I have a phone interview coming up in a while, and I'm nervous as hell about it for some reason. I'm going to go try to get my game face on and get my head right. See you in a couple/few hours.
Posted by: Insomniac at December 08, 2016 03:00 PM (0mRoj)

Break a leg, man.

Posted by: West at December 08, 2016 03:02 PM (1Rgee)

326 But Keith Eliison, muslim America-hater, as DNC Chair will bring Middle America back into the fold. Just you watch!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero)
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I've said it here a dozen times.
LIV Middle America will know the name "Kamala Harris" very well by 2019.

I predict Trump not running again, and letting Pence or Mattis step up. It's going to be fantastic.

Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at December 08, 2016 03:02 PM (lalCH)

327 308. In her case, there really were exactly zero qualified domestic applicants. It was a highly specialized field.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at December 08, 2016 03:02 PM (Kfxxl)

328 I don't like Yeats, as a person, politically or as a literary figure.
But in fairness, as we always say here, to his poetics:
He said she slouched.

And she does.

Posted by: Stringer Davis

As in "slouches towards Bethlehem to get schlonged"?

Posted by: Brother Cavil, keeper of the Deplorable Unicode Character at December 08, 2016 03:03 PM (9krrF)

329 All righty fappers. I have a phone interview coming up in a while, and I'm nervous as hell about it for some reason. I'm going to go try to get my game face on and get my head right. See you in a couple/few hours.
Posted by: Insomniac

Good luck!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2016 03:03 PM (784ZQ)

330 Why not Charlotte McKinney as Sec of the Dept. of Labor?? I mean, what would be the harm?

Posted by: Puddleglum at December 08, 2016 03:03 PM (ihiGk)

331 Meh,I'm not going to worry about his immigration views.

Posted by: steevy at December 08, 2016 03:03 PM (r/0kC)

332
There was this one time I thought there were some squirrels living in the attic of my apartment; always heard the shuffling, etc. Then one night my sister's cats (was catsitting) were obsessed with a large vent....through which a small bat appeared and started flying around the place. Ugh! One of the cats managed to pounce on it and suffocate the sucker.
Posted by: Jill Filipovic at December 08, 2016 02:57 PM (NOIQH)

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So the pussy grabbed the bat?

Can we get DJT's thoughts on that?

May be a new position that needs filling.

Posted by: When a squirrel calls at December 08, 2016 03:03 PM (q4vT/)

333 267 243 Which states have Hardees and which have Carl Jr.? Is there a divide, or more of a hodgepodge?
Posted by: lowtech redneck
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I think it's an east/west of the Mississippi thing. In Va & NC, we only have Hardees, on the left coast, it's Carl's Jr.
Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at December 08, 2016 02:50 PM (lalCH)

Kind of like Big Boy. Depending on where you are it's Bob's or Frisch's. Though they are separate entities now I believe.

Posted by: Buzzion at December 08, 2016 03:03 PM (z/Ubi)

334 "I predict Trump not running again, and letting Pence or Mattis step up. It's going to be fantastic."

I'm ready for Mad Dog 2020!

Posted by: Qoheleth at December 08, 2016 03:03 PM (iIzG7)

335 Good luck Insomniac!

Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr at December 08, 2016 03:04 PM (mf5HN)

336 #295

the hell it doesn't. HB-1 and HB-2 visas?

Plus the perennial cry from the amnestias is that if all the illegals go home, businesses would collapse.

Sure sounds like Puzder is from that school.
=======================

HB-1 and HB-2 visa limits are set by statute. That's Congress' job. Puzder's job will be to enforce the law and to carry out Trump's policy.

And Trump will build that wall/fence fence/wall. If people are in this country illegally, they will have some decisions. to make.

Posted by: mrp at December 08, 2016 03:04 PM (JBggj)

337 Note to Hannity: ~~Trump~~Lena Dunham's rock advisers are smarter than you are.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at December 08, 2016 02:54 PM (u0lmX)

fify

Posted by: somejoe at December 08, 2016 03:04 PM (x9VKC)

338
RE: Immigration Debate.

I'm fairly strict across the board on immigration policy, but I'm much more concerned with the type that leads to demographics that favor democratic candidates than I am the type that leads to job competition for U.S. Citizens. Flying in a bunch of Ukrainian 20-somethings for the Summer to work the waitress jobs at restaurants in O.C. Maryland doesn't much worry me.

Posted by: Serious Cat at December 08, 2016 03:04 PM (Uy6ri)

339 Posted by: Insomniac at December 08, 2016 03:00 PM

Best of luck, Insomniac!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 08, 2016 03:05 PM (kDUMP)

340 I think it's an east/west of the Mississippi thing. In Va NC, we only have Hardees, on the left coast, it's Carl's Jr.

Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at December 08, 2016 02:50 PM (lalCH)

I'm West of the Mississippi (barely) and we have Hardees.

Posted by: Tami at December 08, 2016 03:05 PM (Enq6K)

341 Okay. Which one of you did this?

Is that the Upper Room we're always hearing about?

Posted by: Stringer Davis at December 08, 2016 03:05 PM (H5rtT)

342 Does Charlotte like hot dogs, too?

Posted by: wth at December 08, 2016 03:05 PM (2WITp)

343 318 Posted by: Insomniac at December 08, 2016 03:00 PM (0mRoj)

O.K. Folks. Let's pray for Insomniac and his phone interview.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 08, 2016 03:02 PM (tOcW/)

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On it, Fen.

Posted by: SMFH - Silence the Queefs at December 08, 2016 03:05 PM (CRotO)

344 All righty fappers. I have a phone interview coming up in a while, and I'm nervous as hell about it for some reason. I'm going to go try to get my game face on and get my head right. See you in a couple/few hours.
Posted by: Insomniac

1st interview? If so, leave the artillery in the rear.

Posted by: General Mathis at December 08, 2016 03:06 PM (q4vT/)

345 309 All righty fappers. I have a phone interview coming up in a while, and I'm nervous as hell about it for some reason. I'm going to go try to get my game face on and get my head right. See you in a couple/few hours.
Posted by: Insomniac
------------------

Knock 'em out, brother. Prayers up for you.
Just remember to take the panties off your head. And put on pants.
You got this!

Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at December 08, 2016 03:06 PM (lalCH)

346 lol Chi.

Posted by: SMFH - Silence the Queefs at December 08, 2016 03:06 PM (CRotO)

347 317. She was an instructor. They paid her and other H1B's about 75% what they paid perm res or citizens, and dangled sponsorship as a carrot, and threatened termination as a stick, all the time. Poor girl.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at December 08, 2016 03:06 PM (Kfxxl)

348 "
I think it's an east/west of the Mississippi thing. In Va NC, we only have Hardees, on the left coast, it's Carl's Jr."

If they put Hellman's on the bun, you're in a Hardee's. If they use Best Food's, you're in a Carl's Jr. If the waitress brings you hot wings and a beer, you're at Hooters.

Posted by: Qoheleth at December 08, 2016 03:07 PM (iIzG7)

349 309 All righty fappers. I have a phone interview coming up in a while, and I'm nervous as hell about it for some reason. I'm going to go try to get my game face on and get my head right. See you in a couple/few hours.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 08, 2016 03:00 PM (0mRoj)

Good luck! I'll say a prayer for you!

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at December 08, 2016 03:07 PM (u0lmX)

350 Mattis, not Mathis...sheesh.

Posted by: SMFH - Silence the Queefs at December 08, 2016 03:07 PM (CRotO)

351 326 But Keith Eliison, muslim America-hater, as DNC Chair will bring Middle America back into the fold. Just you watch!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero)
------------------

I've said it here a dozen times.
LIV Middle America will know the name "Kamala Harris" very well by 2019.

I predict Trump not running again, and letting Pence or Mattis step up. It's going to be fantastic.
Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at December 08, 2016 03:02 PM (lalCH)

Sounds too much like "Trumps gonna drop out and endorse Cruz" wishcasting to me. He's not even sworn in yet. Let's hold off on predicting what's going to happen 4 years from now.

Posted by: Buzzion at December 08, 2016 03:07 PM (z/Ubi)

352 >>Sure sounds like Puzder is from that school.

So is Trump. He said as much during the campaign when he announced he was changing his position on visas to allow more highly skilled workers to stay.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2016 03:07 PM (/tuJf)

353 If they put Hellman's on the bun, you're in a Hardee's. If they use Best Food's, you're in a Carl's Jr. If the waitress brings you hot wings and a beer, you're at Hooters.

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I'll be at Hooters then.

Posted by: SH at December 08, 2016 03:07 PM (gmeXX)

354 California, Oregon, Washington, and Nevada are Carl's Jr. Not sure about Arizona and Texas. All other states are Hardee's. But they all more or less have conformed to the Carl's Jr menu.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at December 08, 2016 03:07 PM (S2VsH)

355 Ahem - sorry Ace - but, yeah, gotta agree that the Secretary of Labor has zero, zilch, zip, nada to do with immigration policy - that would be Sessions and the DOJ, mostly. So this pick get the "Two schademboners up" review.

Posted by: Publius Redux at December 08, 2016 03:08 PM (Fb9aZ)

356 All righty fappers. I have a phone interview coming
up in a while, and I'm nervous as hell about it for some reason. I'm
going to go try to get my game face on and get my head right. See you in
a couple/few hours.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 08, 2016 03:00 PM (0mRoj)

Pro-Tip: To get your voice in top shape, right before the phone call hum "happy-birthday to you" under your breath.

Posted by: Serious Cat at December 08, 2016 03:08 PM (Uy6ri)

357 Okay. Which one of you did this?

I like it. I prefer old churches no longer being used to be turned into homes or restaurants rather than Mosques.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 08, 2016 03:08 PM (tOcW/)

358 They are moving the CKE headquarters out of Orange County, where OT has always been. Going to Nashville I think.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at December 08, 2016 03:08 PM (6Ll1u)

359 I'll be at Hooters then.
Posted by: SH at December 08, 2016 03:07 PM (gmeXX)

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So will I!

Posted by: Mark Davis - 10-2 Bitches! at December 08, 2016 03:08 PM (CRotO)

360 I think it's an east/west of the Mississippi thing. In Va NC, we only have Hardees, on the left coast, it's Carl's Jr.

In Fort Collins we have Carl's Jr. Cheynne WY, 40 miles north has Hardee's. They are identical in every way but the name.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gloaty McGloatface at December 08, 2016 03:09 PM (RwwCT)

361 David Harnysai at The Federalist has a rather pro-Pudzer piece. He sounds like a rather doctrinaire libertarian which for many includes open borders. As I'm more concerned with economic regulation that immigration issues, he looks good to me.

Posted by: SH at December 08, 2016 03:09 PM (gmeXX)

362 HB-1 and HB-2 visa limits are set by statute. That's Congress' job. Puzder's job will be to enforce the law and to carry out Trump's policy.

And Trump will build that wall/fence fence/wall. If people are in this country illegally, they will have some decisions. to make.
Posted by: mrp at December 08, 2016 03:04 PM (JBggj)
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Did you read the Krikorian Corner piece that ace linked? He seems to feel that even Jeb would have been too embarrassed to nominate this guy. I don't know anything about it one way or the other, but I know Krikorian knows his immigration stuff.

Posted by: bluebell at December 08, 2016 03:09 PM (sBOL1)

363 she's very attractive and her fake breasts are very large.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke

She has a wonderful truck. And she seems to take very good care of it.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at December 08, 2016 03:09 PM (H5rtT)

364 I am deeply ashamed of the Horde for focusing on the oh that's an old church part of the pic I linked and not the obvious reason why I linked it.

For shame, Horde. For shame.

Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr at December 08, 2016 03:10 PM (mf5HN)

365 We had Hooters here for a while. Not great waitress quality. It got shut down due to franchise shenannigans and I don't miss it.

The Twin Peaks is decent, though.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, keeper of the Deplorable Unicode Character at December 08, 2016 03:10 PM (9krrF)

366 Interesting. So Donald Trump is the sort of person who is a blank screen upon which people can project their own hopes and fears? Or is he a person who is completely putty in the hands of whomever last sat next to him? Or is it possible he has his own ideas, is still willing to listen, but in the end will make his own decisions?

I'll go with #3.
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Laments of the Pansie Liners sponsored by the Outrage Outlet at December 08, 2016 02:28 PM (hLRSq)

Interesting that it was AFTER he met with Al Gore and Leo DiCaprio that he then appointed Scott Pruitt to EPA.

Posted by: scoville unit at December 08, 2016 03:10 PM (hWh8W)

367 'Were gonna need just one more take honey, and this time I want you to think 'juicier'.

'That's what you said 50 takes ago asshole.'

Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'Manspreading fake news like a bastard' at December 08, 2016 03:10 PM (AGr9E)

368 I am deeply ashamed of the Horde for focusing on the oh that's an old church part of the pic I linked and not the obvious reason why I linked it.

For shame, Horde. For shame.

Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr

What part of the innuendo in "Proggy denomination" was not clear...?

Posted by: Brother Cavil, keeper of the Deplorable Unicode Character at December 08, 2016 03:10 PM (9krrF)

369 uJf)
307 The model would not look that if she wearing eating their burgers all the time, but yes she's very attractive and her fake breasts are very large.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Me-ow!

Posted by: Lord Sir x at December 08, 2016 03:10 PM (nFwvY)

370 Imsoniac- praying for you sweetie. Godspeed!

Posted by: Moki, deplorable mom and sammich maker at December 08, 2016 03:11 PM (VnCI9)

371 I am deeply ashamed of the Horde for focusing on the oh that's an old church part of the pic I linked and not the obvious reason why I linked it.

For shame, Horde. For shame.
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I think she means that it looks like a penis.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 08, 2016 03:11 PM (xeeHA)

372 Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr at December 08, 2016 03:00 PM (mf5HN)

Capt. Frisky does not have quarters like that. Must be the Flying Squirrel Corps.

Posted by: Capt. Frisky, Squirrel Commando at December 08, 2016 03:11 PM (hLRSq)

373 Well, I don't like his immigration stance. However, let's not confuse policy positions or interests with suitability for particular jobs. As the Labor Secretary, Puzder will have relatively low levels of influence on the immigration issue, other than a continuing voice in the Cabinet - which, apparently, he would have anyway as Trump clearly likes him and feels he owes him for campaign support.

Rather, his position on unions and minimum wage, areas that will be DIRECTLY under his purview, are far more important. What is Kelly's position on visas? Or the eventual SecState's position? That will matter. It's like being concerned about Puzder's views on Russian foreign policy (no idea what his position might be...) Who cares what the Labor Secretary thinks about that? His position is more related to the immigration issue, granted, but still not what would drive me to worry.

Posted by: BetaPhi at December 08, 2016 03:11 PM (11v76)

374 Just don't do what a guy doing a phone interview with an old boyfriend did. My boyfriend interviewed him from home on a Saturday. I was on the sofa reading a book during the interview and not paying a lot of attention, but toward the end I saw my boyfriend's eyes pop a little as he made a face.

When he got off the phone, he said, "I can't believe it! The dude took a whiz and then flushed the toilet while he was being interviewed. I think he thought I couldn't hear, but the guy was pissing like a racehorse!"

He didn't get the job.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at December 08, 2016 03:12 PM (u0lmX)

375 AtC,

What pic?

Posted by: SMFH - Silence the Queefs at December 08, 2016 03:12 PM (CRotO)

376 364. Forgive me, empress, but I am besotted with memories of a favorite 'niece' and cheap brandy.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at December 08, 2016 03:12 PM (Kfxxl)

377 Interesting that it was AFTER he met with Al Gore and Leo DiCaprio that he then appointed Scott Pruitt to EPA.

Almost like, "Who do you like? Who do you like? Yeah. Fuck you."

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2016 03:12 PM (784ZQ)

378 Fortunately, Labor secretaries don't write or enforce immigration laws.

Posted by: Apostate at December 08, 2016 03:14 PM (ISiqF)

379 Afternoon, hordlings.

I missed the Lena Dunham on the potty thread. *sigh of relief*

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 08, 2016 03:14 PM (PY9jH)

380 Sounds too much like "Trumps gonna drop out and endorse Cruz" wishcasting to me. He's not even sworn in yet. Let's hold off on predicting what's going to happen 4 years from now.
Posted by: Buzzion
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Not wish casting at all. It is known (by anyone that actually pays attention to me) that I was not his biggest supporter from the get go, but I voted for him, and am quite happy about everything so far.
I truly believe that Trump will put America on the right track very quickly, then move on to something bigger and better.

Master Of The Universe, maybe? Will he colonize Mars in one term? I think he can probably do it!

Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at December 08, 2016 03:14 PM (lalCH)

381 When he got off the phone, he said, "I can't believe
it! The dude took a whiz and then flushed the toilet while he was
being interviewed. I think he thought I couldn't hear, but the guy was
pissing like a racehorse!"

He didn't get the job.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at December 08, 2016 03:12 PM (u0lmX)

OK which one of you was interviewing?

Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'Manspreading fake news like a bastard' at December 08, 2016 03:14 PM (AGr9E)

382 I missed the Lena Dunham on the potty thread. *sigh of relief*
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 08, 2016 03:14 PM (PY9jH)

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Lucky.

Posted by: SMFH - Silence the Queefs at December 08, 2016 03:15 PM (CRotO)

383 I think he thought I couldn't hear, but the guy was
pissing like a racehorse!"

He didn't get the job.

Posted by: Donna and V.

OK which one of you was interviewing?
Posted by: Cannibal Bob

Neigh. Not I.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2016 03:15 PM (784ZQ)

384 Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 08, 2016 03:11 PM (xeeHA)

I only noticed because she mentioned that we were not coming up with the expected comment. I don't usually notice shapes looking likes penises...well unless they are penises or it's really, really obvious. That wasn't to me.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 08, 2016 03:16 PM (tOcW/)

385 I missed the Lena Dunham on the potty thread. *sigh of relief*
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 08, 2016 03:14 PM (PY9jH)

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Lucky.
Posted by: SMFH - Silence the Queefs at December 08, 2016 03:15 PM (CRotO)

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I can't unsee that and I didn't even click the link.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 08, 2016 03:16 PM (xeeHA)

386 Good Luck Insomniac!

I got hired off a phone interview, and I didn't even know it was one.

Posted by: Hugh Jorgen at December 08, 2016 03:16 PM (R5EqA)

387 I think she means that it looks like a penis.

Hey, I mentioned the Upper Womb...

Posted by: Stringer Davis at December 08, 2016 03:16 PM (H5rtT)

388 Strict voter ID Law in Michigan.

You know, a couple of years ago the unions tried to get the state constitution amended to make Michigan completely a union state. That backfired, so badly that the state legislature responded by making Michigan Right to Work.

Maybe one day they will stop being stupid and hurting themselves, but I pray that day does not come soon.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Laments of the Pansie Liners sponsored by the Outrage Outlet at December 08, 2016 03:16 PM (hLRSq)

389 I keep going to Drudge to enjoy the pic of Hairy Reed. Priceless.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 08, 2016 03:16 PM (PY9jH)

390 I only noticed because she mentioned that we were not coming up with the expected comment. I don't usually notice shapes looking likes penises...well unless they are penises or it's really, really obvious. That wasn't to me.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 08, 2016 03:16 PM (tOcW/)
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I am cursed to see penises everywhere.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 08, 2016 03:16 PM (xeeHA)

391 OK which one of you was interviewing?

The Colt45 gets me every time.

Posted by: eleven at December 08, 2016 03:17 PM (fYChk)

392 I'm of to minds on the HB 1 visa issue. If it's being used to allow world-class talent to work in the United States it adds jobs and strengthens the United States . Part of my career was due to having an Italian geophysicist on staff training a bunch of us engineers. However, if the visas are being used for the great middle then it's terrifying.
Why on earth would the claim that a room full of $20/day coders represents a unique resource be believable? In this circumstance I support a minimum wage. If the guys or gals are worth $200 an hour then let them in. If they're not keep them out.

Posted by: GeneTheHappy at December 08, 2016 03:17 PM (3ixQH)

393 AtC,

What pic?
Posted by: SMFH - Silence the Queefs at December 08, 2016 03:12 PM (CRotO)

This one.

http://bit.ly/2gp8yQw

I'm also a big fan of converting churches to living spaces by the way.

Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr at December 08, 2016 03:17 PM (mf5HN)

394 #362

Did you read the Krikorian Corner piece that ace linked? He seems to
feel that even Jeb would have been too embarrassed to nominate this guy.
I don't know anything about it one way or the other, but I know
Krikorian knows his immigration stuff.

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

No, I didn't read Krikorian's piece. I don't visit NRO if I can help it.

As for Jeb Bush, he's so open borders, he'd feel embarrassed that he'd even have to consider someone like Pruzder for Labor. Everyone Jeb would have picked would be an open border guy/gal, starting with the DoJ.

Posted by: mrp at December 08, 2016 03:17 PM (JBggj)

395 The progressives pushed the pendulum to the left, and then more to the left, and then to the left again, straining at the cable, left, left, leftward, getting so far left you can go any further left....and then...oooops, it slipped from their hands.

What you see now is gravity taking its revenge.

Posted by: zombie at December 08, 2016 02:34 PM (jBuUi)

I am stealing this

Posted by: The Jackhole at December 08, 2016 03:17 PM (M+Lyo)

396 364 I am deeply ashamed of the Horde for focusing on the oh that's an old church part of the pic I linked and not the obvious reason why I linked it.

For shame, Horde. For shame.

Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr at December 08, 2016 03:10 PM (mf5HN)

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

Looked at the link I posted... HAh, haaaa...

Posted by: somejoe at December 08, 2016 03:18 PM (x9VKC)

397 OK which one of you was interviewing?

Posted by: Cannibal Bob

Neigh. Not I.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2016 03:15 PM (784ZQ)

oh i know that rick you would have muted the phone.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'Manspreading fake news like a bastard' at December 08, 2016 03:18 PM (AGr9E)

398
Good Luck Insomniac!

I got hired off a phone interview, and I didn't even know it was one.

Posted by: Hugh Jorgen at December 08, 2016 03:16 PM (R5EqA)

Were you peeing during the interview?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 08, 2016 03:18 PM (PY9jH)

399 Flying in a bunch of

Ever notice how we're never flying in a bunch of lawyers and MBAs?

Posted by: DaveA at December 08, 2016 03:18 PM (8J/Te)

400 Posted by: Mor

Moron Pundit at December 08, 2016 03:16 PM (xeeHA)

At this point I should to make a joke about holding up the reputation of the horde. ;^)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 08, 2016 03:18 PM (tOcW/)

401 376.
**digs trench to allow himself to bow to the shin-punching-one.**

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at December 08, 2016 03:19 PM (Kfxxl)

402 Posted by: Insomniac at December 08, 2016 03:00 PM

Good luck!

Posted by: Tonypete at December 08, 2016 03:19 PM (OxI/Y)

403 Posted by: GeneTheHappy at December 08, 2016 03:17 PM (3ixQH)

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In my line of work (software development) the only reason we use H1B's is because we ACTUALLY can't find enough talent locally. It is done sparingly but we do need them sometimes.

I'm not certain it isn't a problem with the way HR pulls people (credentialing, etc) but I know we have open positions CONSTANTLY that aren't even being applied for.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 08, 2016 03:19 PM (xeeHA)

404 I don't usually notice shapes looking likes penises...well unless they are penises or converted into a mosque.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at December 08, 2016 03:19 PM (H5rtT)

405 395
The progressives pushed the pendulum to the left, and then more to the
left, and then to the left again, straining at the cable, left, left,
leftward, getting so far left you can go any further left....and
then...oooops, it slipped from their hands.

What you see now is gravity taking its revenge.

Posted by: zombie at December 08, 2016 02:34 PM (jBuUi)

I am stealing this

Posted by: The Jackhole at December 08, 2016 03:17 PM (M+Lyo)

Yeppers. perfect.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'Manspreading fake news like a bastard' at December 08, 2016 03:19 PM (AGr9E)

406 OK which one of you was interviewing?

Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'Manspreading fake news like a bastard' at December 08, 2016 03:14 PM (AGr9E)

I guess I wasn't clear. My boyfriend was interviewing the guy who was pissing.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at December 08, 2016 03:19 PM (u0lmX)

407 Sounds like Leftists heads are exploding and will fight Scott Pruitt tooth and nail.

Posted by: Skip at December 08, 2016 03:20 PM (5sOEp)

408 Why on earth would someone be dimwitted or crass enough to have a phone interview white they were peeing?. I mean, go before the interview or hold it in!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 08, 2016 03:21 PM (tOcW/)

409 OK which one of you was interviewing?

Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'Manspreading fake news like a bastard' at December 08, 2016 03:14 PM (AGr9E)

I believe he is implying that one of the horde was the interviewee. Because of our... er... predilections.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 08, 2016 03:21 PM (xeeHA)

410 Has ace posted a thread on Choom Boy throwing his intel people under the bus?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 08, 2016 03:21 PM (PY9jH)

411 Oh forgot my tag line from this morning
#onemonthofwinning

Posted by: Skip at December 08, 2016 03:21 PM (5sOEp)

412 >>I'm not certain it isn't a problem with the way HR pulls people (credentialing, etc) but I know we have open positions CONSTANTLY that aren't even being applied for.

I see MB1s as one of those situations where it's all good until it's your job on the line.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2016 03:21 PM (/tuJf)

413 Oh no. To what are you referring, Jane?

Posted by: bluebell at December 08, 2016 03:21 PM (sBOL1)

414 John Glenn has passed.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at December 08, 2016 03:22 PM (S2VsH)

415 HB1

Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2016 03:22 PM (/tuJf)

416 O/T: John Glenn has passed away.

An authentic hero and genuine American icon, Glenn died this afternoon surrounded by family at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus after a remarkably healthy life spent almost from the cradle with Annie, his beloved wife of 73 years, who survives.

God's speed, John Glenn. RIP.

Posted by: WisRich at December 08, 2016 03:22 PM (hdpay)

417
For shame, Horde. For shame.

Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr
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I think that's a squirrel on the tree in the left testicle.

Insomniac,
One last piece of advice -
When the interviewer asks "what is your biggest weakness?," reply with a deadpan "kryptonite."
Works every time.

Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at December 08, 2016 03:22 PM (lalCH)

418 This one.

http://bit.ly/2gp8yQw

I'm also a big fan of converting churches to living spaces by the way.
Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr at December 08, 2016 03:17 PM (mf5HN)

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Dick and balls, right there.

Posted by: SMFH - Silence the Queefs at December 08, 2016 03:23 PM (CRotO)

419 Heh. Brian Williams slams "fake news." These people have no self-awareness at all. I'm convinced they are merely automatons designed to do the bidding of George Soros types.

Posted by: Independent George at December 08, 2016 03:23 PM (BDZWU)

420 John Glenn died.

Posted by: SMFH - Silence the Queefs at December 08, 2016 03:23 PM (CRotO)

421
OK which one of you was interviewing?
________________________

Okay,, it was me....

Posted by: Leana Dunham at December 08, 2016 03:23 PM (HSmrB)

422 In my line of work (software development) the only reason we use H1B's is because we ACTUALLY can't find enough talent locally.

This is horseshit squared.
Make training a US citizen alongside a requirement and watch them disappear. And me get a job.

Posted by: DaveA at December 08, 2016 03:23 PM (8J/Te)

423 I see MB1s as one of those situations where it's all good until it's your job on the line.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2016 03:21 PM (/tuJf)
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Perhaps but my experience over the last 10 years is that foreign workers, either imported or outsourced, are not a serious threat to local developers. There is just too much friction for the productivity to be as high. But I'm certain my experience is only one of many.

I've actually seen more insourcing than outsourcing personally, as companies realize that the outsourced product stinks and they need people in house.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 08, 2016 03:23 PM (xeeHA)

424 oh i know that rick you would have muted the phone.

Heck. I once flushed and keyed the mic on purpose.
The security/receptionist had the uncanny knack of always asking our location when you were "indisposed".
Broke her of that. Trained her to ask us to call base when we were able.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2016 03:23 PM (784ZQ)

425 406
OK which one of you was interviewing?

Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'Manspreading fake news like a bastard' at December 08, 2016 03:14 PM (AGr9E)

I guess I wasn't clear. My boyfriend was interviewing the guy who was pissing.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at December 08, 2016 03:19 PM (u0lmX)

Yes you were Donna, Its just that pissing while interviewing for a job sounds like a moron move. I was breaking the collective morons balls so to speak. I guess I wasn't clear.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'Manspreading fake news like a bastard' at December 08, 2016 03:24 PM (AGr9E)

426 374 Just don't do what a guy doing a phone interview with an old boyfriend did. My boyfriend interviewed him from home on a Saturday. I was on the sofa reading a book during the interview and not paying a lot of attention, but toward the end I saw my boyfriend's eyes pop a little as he made a face.

When he got off the phone, he said, "I can't believe it! The dude took a whiz and then flushed the toilet while he was being interviewed. I think he thought I couldn't hear, but the guy was pissing like a racehorse!"

He didn't get the job.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at December 08, 2016 03:12 PM (u0lmX)

One of those instance where it's ok to sit down to pee. Aim precisely so it is at the side of the bowl and not the water. And flush after you get off the phone.

Posted by: Buzzion at December 08, 2016 03:24 PM (z/Ubi)

427 I'm sorry to be OT but I felt sick to my stomach after looking at pic of Lena!

Posted by: Carol at December 08, 2016 03:25 PM (sj3Ax)

428 When the interviewer asks "what is your biggest weakness?," reply with a deadpan "kryptonite."

"Candidate, what's your biggest weakness?"

"Well, I've been told I'm too honest."

"Really? I don't think honesty is a weakness."

"I don't really give a shit what you think, sir."

Posted by: Qoheleth at December 08, 2016 03:25 PM (iIzG7)

429 John Glenn died.

Posted by: SMFH - Silence the Queefs at December 08, 2016 03:23 PM (CRotO)

WH to post pic of Preezy Choom Boy gazing at the heavens in 3...2...1....

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 08, 2016 03:25 PM (PY9jH)

430 John Glenn has died

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at December 08, 2016 03:25 PM (6Ll1u)

431 Has anyone yet posted this, about how the Washington Post has pretty much walked back their story about the "fake news sites are Russian propaganda!!!11!!" from Zero Hedge:
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Probably due to the threats of lawsuits.

Plus... the MSM has already run with "fake news from the Commies!!! Eleventy!!!"

The MSM won't talk about this walk back, and the plebes will continue to believe the US is controlled by Putin.

/quite brilliant actually. Push a lie, make sure the lie is accepted, and then quietly admit its a lie. If the media doesn't report the truth, is it still the truth?

Posted by: shibumi, a deplorable who now just wants to yell at stupid people at December 08, 2016 03:25 PM (nFg65)

432 This is horseshit squared.
Make training a US citizen alongside a requirement and watch them disappear. And me get a job.
Posted by: DaveA at December 08, 2016 03:23 PM (8J/Te)
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The only thing I can say is, go into web development. If our colleges weren't COMPLETELY USELESS at developing job skills, we probably wouldn't have this problem.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 08, 2016 03:26 PM (xeeHA)

433 John Glenn a great American hero.
Racing through the blue sky for ever more.

Posted by: Skip at December 08, 2016 03:26 PM (5sOEp)

434 Posted by: bluebell at December 08, 2016 02:51 PM (sBOL1)

Amazing. Their ploy of procuring phony experts AKA paid stooges to report findings that advance the Commie agenda has blown up in their faces.

That's how the recount started, faux analysis by experts who later retracted their own published BS when election numbers crunchers destroyed their hacked machine theory. It didn't matter, the seed was already planted in the fervid brains of the Hillarhoids and the recount was ON. Until it exposed the fraud of those who agitated for it.

Posted by: kallisto at December 08, 2016 03:26 PM (jkmtt)

435 J. J. Sefton,
I love that you're doing EMT.

Posted by: Carol at December 08, 2016 03:27 PM (sj3Ax)

436 2016 can stop with The Reaping any time now.

God bless you, John Glenn.

I had the privilege of meeting him on several occasions and he was the epitome of a gentleman.

Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr at December 08, 2016 03:27 PM (mf5HN)

437 424
oh i know that rick you would have muted the phone.

Heck. I once flushed and keyed the mic on purpose.

The security/receptionist had the uncanny knack of always asking our location when you were "indisposed".

Broke her of that. Trained her to ask us to call base when we were able.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2016 03:23 PM (784ZQ)

Nice! lol.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'Manspreading fake news like a bastard' at December 08, 2016 03:27 PM (AGr9E)

438 R.I.P. John Glenn. Sad news. Even sadder is that we have no modern John Glenns to look to.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 08, 2016 03:28 PM (xeeHA)

439 *waves to Carol*

Hi!!

Posted by: SMFH - Silence the Queefs at December 08, 2016 03:28 PM (CRotO)

440 "When the interviewer asks "what is your biggest weakness?,"

In an interview already going south, my sister said "Italian food" ... to an overweight Italian-American woman.

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 08, 2016 03:28 PM (SIY7D)

441 I believe he is implying that one of the horde was the interviewee. Because of our... er... predilections.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 08, 2016 03:21 PM (xeeHA)

Well, duh, I didn't get the implication either. I thought he was asking if I was the one peeing.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at December 08, 2016 03:28 PM (u0lmX)

442 Last of the Mercury astronauts.
Glenn was the one who saw living beings flying around the space capsule.
Never cleared up whether they had wings or lettuce leaves.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at December 08, 2016 03:28 PM (H5rtT)

443 John Glenn was a Korean War veteran, too.

I remember being glued to the old B and W console TV, watching CBS News track his orbits.

Posted by: mrp at December 08, 2016 03:28 PM (JBggj)

444 BuzzFeed Readers Defend Article Describing Whites As "A Plague To The Planet"

http://tinyurl.com/hmyyz93

But Breitbart is racist....or something.....

Posted by: Tami at December 08, 2016 03:28 PM (Enq6K)

445 I like what Denzel Washington said, actually. He said "if you don't read the newspapers, you're uninformed. But if you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." Then he tore into the reporter interviewing him about how they are more interested in being first than being accurate.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 08, 2016 03:29 PM (39g3+)

446 "When the interviewer asks "what is your biggest weakness?,"

My bladder. Clearly.

Posted by: Phone Flusher at December 08, 2016 03:29 PM (S2VsH)

447 436 2016 can stop with The Reaping any time now.

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No shit.

At least Carl is in very good company.

Posted by: SMFH - Silence the Queefs at December 08, 2016 03:29 PM (CRotO)

448 /quite brilliant actually. Push a lie, make sure the lie is accepted, and then quietly admit its a lie. If the media doesn't report the truth, is it still the truth?

Posted by: shibumi, a deplorable who now just wants to yell at stupid people at December 08, 2016 03:25 PM (nFg65)
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Which is what the MSM does, all the time. All the time. They get caught in their lies, and publish a retraction somewhere in the very back of the paper, where no one will ever see it.

Posted by: bluebell at December 08, 2016 03:29 PM (sBOL1)

449 I won't get to worked up about the immigration shit. Remember, Hardees hires a lot of workers that may or may not be legal and sell a lot of burgers to those same people.

He's just looking out for his company.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 08, 2016 03:29 PM (NbJXF)

450 Interesting that it was AFTER he met with Al Gore and Leo DiCaprio that he then appointed Scott Pruitt to EPA.

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Heh. I hope he meets with Cecile Richards then.

Posted by: @votermom's phone at December 08, 2016 03:29 PM (7gPaq)

451 403. I guess that's why we can't have nice things. I've never seen those visas abused either. And the guys we brought in where truly world class, and I'm convinced brought in new American jobs. Being a DoD contractor I'm pretty well protected from international competition.
What worries me are the reports I hear about PG&E or Disney replacing entire technical offices. I wish it was "fake news", but I fear it's real.
Gene

Posted by: GeneTheHappy at December 08, 2016 03:30 PM (3ixQH)

452
Buzz Aldrin killed John Lennon?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 08, 2016 03:30 PM (Zbof/)

453 I like what Denzel Washington said, actually. He said "if you don't read the newspapers, you're uninformed. But if you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." Then he tore into the reporter interviewing him about how they are more interested in being first than being accurate.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 08, 2016 03:29 PM (39g3+)

I like that when asked for whom he voted he smiled and said "none of your business".

Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr at December 08, 2016 03:31 PM (mf5HN)

454 I think I have figured out this fake news out.
To Conservatives and the way I see it fake news is when some blown up or planted news which is pretty much bull crap is picked up one after the other MSM and Internet snowballing into a big story.
Leftists are calling fake news on stories which are against their beliefs so are trying to shut it down before it gets tracking

Posted by: Skip at December 08, 2016 03:31 PM (5sOEp)

455 Here's hoping President Trump returns NASA back to its former glory. Bigly.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 08, 2016 03:31 PM (PY9jH)

456 we use H1B's is because we ACTUALLY can't find enough talent locally.

...at the price of an Indian, no, you probably can't.

Posted by: t-bird at December 08, 2016 03:31 PM (2z74n)

457 BuzzFeed Readers Defend Article Describing Whites As "A Plague To The Planet"

MOst of the article reads "yay people are reading us!!!"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 08, 2016 03:31 PM (39g3+)

458 Buzz Aldrin killed John Lennon?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 08, 2016 03:30 PM

Just imagine. It's easy if you try.

Posted by: Zombie John Lennon at December 08, 2016 03:32 PM (S2VsH)

459 452
Buzz Aldrin killed John Lennon?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 08, 2016 03:30 PM (Zbof/)

Fuckin' hippie gave us Yoko Ono. I'd do it again.

Posted by: Buzz Aldrin at December 08, 2016 03:32 PM (7HtZB)

460 I like that when asked for whom he voted he smiled and said "none of your business".

Yeah if I were a girl, I'd have such a crush on him.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 08, 2016 03:32 PM (39g3+)

461 News radio (KTRK 740 Houston), just teased the announcement of the passing of a famous astronaut.

Given that John Glenn has been in the hospital in critical condition for about a week now, I surmise it'd be him?

If so, Godspeed, John Glenn. Great aviator, warrior, astronaut. Then had to screw a lot of that up by being a Dem Senator.

But still. All American.

I'm sure the Horde will post more news as it develops.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at December 08, 2016 03:32 PM (v5iqM)

462 God's speed, John Glenn. RIP.

Posted by: WisRich at December 08, 2016 03:22 PM (hdpay)

"Let's light this candle."

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Laments of the Pansie Liners sponsored by the Outrage Outlet at December 08, 2016 03:32 PM (hLRSq)

463 What worries me are the reports I hear about PG&E or Disney replacing entire technical offices. I wish it was "fake news", but I fear it's real.
Gene
Posted by: GeneTheHappy at December 08, 2016 03:30 PM (3ixQH)
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I think we have had some people here that this has happened to. Wish I could remember who. But I do think it is real.

Posted by: bluebell at December 08, 2016 03:32 PM (sBOL1)

464 Trump should probably ask Barry if he can use his office. I mean, he's not using it for anything anymore, is he?

Posted by: t-bird at December 08, 2016 03:32 PM (2z74n)

465 What worries me are the reports I hear about PG&E or Disney replacing entire technical offices. I wish it was "fake news", but I fear it's real.
Gene
Posted by: GeneTheHappy at December 08, 2016 03:30 PM (3ixQH)

Like I said, I can only speak for my own situation and experiences. I don't doubt at ALL that it is being abused other places in different situations.

I would much prefer that there were local candidates but the state of our education system is such that I don't hold out much hope in the near term. The candidates we get that are millennial-aged are comically unqualified to have a job, let alone a professional one.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 08, 2016 03:33 PM (xeeHA)

466 Now I'm wondering -
If someone were to write a really good obituary for the NYT, or the newspaper industry in generel, then submit it for publication (with payment, of course), would they have the balls to actually print it?

Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at December 08, 2016 03:33 PM (lalCH)

467 "Let's light this candle."

No! Let's open a window first...

Posted by: Lena Dunham at December 08, 2016 03:33 PM (2z74n)

468 Currently in Killeen, it is 37 degrees with a windchill of 26.

Fuck winter.

Posted by: SMFH - Silence the Queefs at December 08, 2016 03:33 PM (CRotO)

469 456 we use H1B's is because we ACTUALLY can't find enough talent locally.

...at the price of an Indian, no, you probably can't.

Posted by: t-bird at December 08, 2016 03:31 PM (2z74n)

What's an Indian go for? Some beads & fire water?

/I denounce myself

Posted by: josephistan at December 08, 2016 03:34 PM (7HtZB)

470 I'm so hungry I could eat at Arby's.
Posted by: Lisa Simpson
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We've got the Meat!

Posted by: James Earl Jones at December 08, 2016 03:34 PM (ZO497)

471 441
I believe he is implying that one of the horde was the interviewee. Because of our... er... predilections.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 08, 2016 03:21 PM (xeeHA)

Well, duh, I didn't get the implication either. I thought he was asking if I was the one peeing.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at December 08, 2016 03:28 PM (u0lmX)

Gees I sure blew that joke. and predilections? I didn't think anyone here swung that way.
*see that's a take off on pederasts*Never mind.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'Manspreading fake news like a bastard' at December 08, 2016 03:34 PM (AGr9E)

472 Hi SMFH!

Posted by: Carol at December 08, 2016 03:34 PM (sj3Ax)

473 I thought it disrespectful to the extreme that Barry didn't go to Pearl Harbor for the 75th anniversary, but my husband said he doubted there was a single person in attendance that missed the JEF. And I suppose he's right.

Still. 75th anniversary.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 08, 2016 03:34 PM (PY9jH)

474 Posted by: t-bird at December 08, 2016 03:32 PM

*U-Haul pulls up to White House*

"I'm gonna start moving some of my shit in now. Make the transition easier. This stuff won't be too much in your way. We'll leave a path down one side of the hallway open."

Posted by: President Erect Schadenboner at December 08, 2016 03:35 PM (S2VsH)

475 Chi, for a patriot?

doubtful.

Then again, the NYT's view of a patriot is a bit skewed (see zombie Castro).

Posted by: SMFH - Silence the Queefs at December 08, 2016 03:35 PM (CRotO)

476 Currently in Killeen, it is 37 degrees with a windchill of 26.

36/25 in Dallas.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2016 03:35 PM (784ZQ)

477 I surmise it'd be him? "
Yep.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at December 08, 2016 03:35 PM (C9pBZ)

478 Here's hoping President Trump returns NASA back to its former glory. Bigly.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 08, 2016 03:31 PM (PY9jH)

Will it still include Muslim outreach? Because that was so instrumental in getting to the moon.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 08, 2016 03:35 PM (493sH)

479 Currently in Killeen, it is 37 degrees with a windchill of 26.

Fuck winter.
Posted by: SMFH - Silence the Queefs at December 08, 2016 03:33 PM (CRotO)

Lucky summabeach.

26 with a wind chill of 7 here. Supposed to get cold soon.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at December 08, 2016 03:36 PM (kKHcp)

480 As long as Trump doesn't nominate anybody who posts pics of themselves taking a dump to Instagram, I'm fine.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at December 08, 2016 03:36 PM (+wjl1)

481 MOst of the article reads "yay people are reading us!!!"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 08, 2016 03:31 PM (39g3+)

Really? I didn't see any of that.

Are you referring to Milo's site (which is the link I posted) or Buzzfeed's?

Posted by: Tami at December 08, 2016 03:36 PM (Enq6K)

482 36/25 in Dallas.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2016 03:35 PM (784ZQ)
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Wisconsin continues to laugh at you.

Minnesota continues to laugh at Wisconsin.

North Dakota could not be reached for comment.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 08, 2016 03:36 PM (xeeHA)

483 Ah, I see the Horde types faster than I.

And that AM 740 is decidedly stooped for teasing an already-out-there news item!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at December 08, 2016 03:36 PM (v5iqM)

484 Jane,

My brother took my nieces to Pearl yesterday...they live just outside Makalapa Gate, so not very far.

They had a ball on the Mighty 'Mo, and were a little bored on the Arizona.

Posted by: SMFH - Silence the Queefs at December 08, 2016 03:36 PM (CRotO)

485 Will it still include Muslim outreach? Because that was so instrumental in getting to the moon.

We're gonna put 'em on the moon! In a bigly way!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2016 03:37 PM (784ZQ)

486 Here's hoping President Trump returns NASA back to its former glory. Bigly.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 08, 2016 03:31 PM (PY9jH)

Will it still include Muslim outreach? Because that was so instrumental in getting to the moon.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 08, 2016 03:35 PM (493sH)

Trump should send a team of Muzzie scientists, mathematicians, and clock makers to Mars to form a colony.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 08, 2016 03:37 PM (PY9jH)

487 He said "if you don't read the newspapers, you're uninformed. But if you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed."

That was Mark Twain.

Posted by: Harun at December 08, 2016 03:37 PM (UBBWX)

488 Currently in Killeen, it is 37 degrees with a windchill of 26.

Fuck winter.
Posted by: SMFH
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35 deg, and gusty, Wind Chill is 17 deg.

Posted by: James Earl Jones at December 08, 2016 03:37 PM (ZO497)

489 I have new television & am trying to watch Good Behavior on TNT on demand. It's okay.

Posted by: Carol at December 08, 2016 03:37 PM (sj3Ax)

490 Oops. Drops Jones sock

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 08, 2016 03:37 PM (ZO497)

491 John Glenn was a Korean War veteran, too.

Ted Williams was his wingman.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 08, 2016 03:38 PM (mgbwf)

492 51 North of Houston. Plenty windy, though.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at December 08, 2016 03:38 PM (C9pBZ)

493 Wisconsin continues to laugh at you.

Minnesota continues to laugh at Wisconsin.

North Dakota could not be reached for comment.
Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 08, 2016 03:36 PM (xeeHA)

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Yeahyeah, I know.

But when you spent pretty much most of your life in warm climates (Cali, Hawaii, Texas, Iraq), the cold sucks.

Posted by: SMFH - Silence the Queefs at December 08, 2016 03:38 PM (CRotO)

494
473 I thought it disrespectful to the extreme that Barry didn't go to Pearl Harbor for the 75th anniversary, but my husband said he doubted there was a single person in attendance that missed the JEF. And I suppose he's right."

Barry would have had to pretend to be sad that a bunch of mostly white deplorables got killed by non-Westerners. It's near the end of his Presidency, he doesn't feel the need to put on an act anymore.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at December 08, 2016 03:38 PM (u0lmX)

495 Yeah, wind is blowing here at around 20-25.

Posted by: SMFH - Silence the Queefs at December 08, 2016 03:38 PM (CRotO)

496 MeAgain quit on air?

Posted by: Skip at December 08, 2016 03:39 PM (5sOEp)

497 Jane,

My brother took my nieces to Pearl yesterday...they live just outside Makalapa Gate, so not very far.

They had a ball on the Mighty 'Mo, and were a little bored on the Arizona.

Posted by: SMFH - Silence the Queefs at December 08, 2016 03:36 PM (CRotO)

When my husband and I were at the Arizona memorial years ago, we were stunned by the Japanese tourists grinning and posing all over the place. The vets in attendance were.......displeased.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 08, 2016 03:39 PM (PY9jH)

498 We've got the Meat!
Posted by: James Earl Jones
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Huh. I always thought that was the Green Mile dude. Michael Clark Duncan?

SMFH -
Poorly worded. I meant an obit for the NYT. As in,

"After X years of struggling with the cancer that is liberal activism, The Old Grey Lady has finally succumbed to the illness and is now dead..."

Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at December 08, 2016 03:39 PM (lalCH)

499 We were just talking about The Right Stuff the other day. Great book and movie.

Glenn was unfairly dragged into the Keating Five S&L imbroglio.

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 08, 2016 03:39 PM (SIY7D)

500 Time for Obama to put up that selfie of himself staring at the moon?

Posted by: tu3031 at December 08, 2016 03:39 PM (qJhUV)

501 North Dakota...what is it that you...do, exactly?

Posted by: Bob at December 08, 2016 03:39 PM (fYChk)

502 oops, my bad. It's only 22 here, but the wind chill is 8.
So, it feels warmer than I said.
But it's colder.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at December 08, 2016 03:39 PM (kKHcp)

503 In my IT experience foreign workers in all job descriptions have been a tool to get rid of more experienced American workers. Quality and competence take a back seat to cost because, hey, those CIO bonuses need a little help.

Posted by: Octiparan at December 08, 2016 03:39 PM (b9JGJ)

504 But when you spent pretty much most of your life in warm climates"

Nah. Spent most of my life in cooler climates. Cold still sucks.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at December 08, 2016 03:40 PM (C9pBZ)

505 40 something in Austin is colder than 20 something in New England. I've lived in both, so I know whereof I speak.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at December 08, 2016 03:40 PM (Kfxxl)

506 MeAgain quit on air?

Posted by: Skip at December 08, 2016 03:39 PM

Wait... what?

Posted by: Rusty Nail at December 08, 2016 03:40 PM (S2VsH)

507 We're gonna put 'em on the moon! In a bigly way!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2016 03:37 PM (784ZQ)

Put Ralph Kramden on the job. Bang! Zoom!

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 08, 2016 03:40 PM (493sH)

508 Lucky summabeach.

26 with a wind chill of 7 here. Supposed to get cold soon.
Posted by: OneEyedJack
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That's Ms. summabeach.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 08, 2016 03:40 PM (ZO497)

509 John Glenn. That's the last of the Mercury 7 gone.

Godspeed, gentlemen.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, keeper of the Deplorable Unicode Character at December 08, 2016 03:40 PM (9krrF)

510 I thought it disrespectful to the extreme that Barry didn't go to Pearl
Harbor for the 75th anniversary, but my husband said he doubted there
was a single person in attendance that missed the JEF. And I suppose
he's right.

Still. 75th anniversary.
=====================

To be fair, he did go to Hiroshima to extend his condolences to the Japanese who were killed in 1945 for a terrible force the US unleashed from the sky.

Posted by: mrp at December 08, 2016 03:40 PM (JBggj)

511 North Dakota could not be reached for comment.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 8, 2016 03:36 PM (xeeHA)

Daughter is currently living and working in South Dakota. It's currently 9 with a wind chill of -7.

Posted by: Tami at December 08, 2016 03:41 PM (Enq6K)

512 "Its former glory" is the last thing I'd want to see NASA return to.
They are the very model of how government acquisition processes went off the rails. They were kinda-sorta supposed to be like the old NACA, setting procurement standards, and overseeing. Then, you know, Kennedy.

They ought to be an oversight and accounting agency, keeping an eye on whatever of our money goes to the many private ventures. Sadly, their comic history as a people's-money distribution center disqualifies them from that.

Not to mention global warming, or muslim outreach. Not sure, as a "culture," they're good for much. And I'm not happy to say that.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at December 08, 2016 03:41 PM (H5rtT)

513 North Dakota...what is it that you...do, exactly?

DMZ between the US & Canada.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2016 03:41 PM (784ZQ)

514
Time for Obama to put up that selfie of himself staring at the moon?

Posted by: tu3031 at December 08, 2016 03:39 PM (qJhUV)

I don't think he gives a sh*t anymore. If he had another year to go in his presidency, I'm pretty sure we'd get some stupid picture of him staring up at the stars.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 08, 2016 03:41 PM (PY9jH)

515 When my husband and I were at the Arizona memorial years ago, we were stunned by the Japanese tourists grinning and posing all over the place. The vets in attendance were.......displeased.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 08, 2016 03:39 PM (PY9jH)

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Yeah, that used to bother me as a kid when Dad and I visited the Arizona, which was often. As I got older (and when I worked at the USS Bowfin nearby), it didn't bother me as much.

Actually enjoyed chatting with the Japanese tourists.

Posted by: SMFH - Silence the Queefs at December 08, 2016 03:42 PM (CRotO)

516 The word "bigly" just makes me laugh. I think in some ways Trump is a clown-not in a bad way, but mischievous as a jokester

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 08, 2016 03:42 PM (tOcW/)

517 Huh. I always thought that was the Green Mile dude. Michael Clark Duncan?

SMFH -
-----

Probably is. I'm usually wrong when I blurt something out.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 08, 2016 03:42 PM (ZO497)

518 Daughter is currently living and working in South Dakota. It's currently 9 with a wind chill of -7.
Posted by: Tami at December 08, 2016 03:41 PM (Enq6K)

I've lived my whole life in the upper midwest and thought I knew what cold was. Then I went to North Dakota in February.

Seriously, fuck that place. (I'm sure the people are great).

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 08, 2016 03:42 PM (xeeHA)

519 Semper Fidelis and Safe Travels John Glenn, Col USMC Retired.

He held a job!

Posted by: The Mouse that Roared at December 08, 2016 03:43 PM (7N6ox)

520 Investment companies actually quiz entrepreneurs on the percentage of H1-B workers in the workforce. Too many US citizens would likely earn a thumbs-down.

Posted by: mrp at December 08, 2016 03:43 PM (JBggj)

521 John Glenn was a great American, then he got in to politics and sullied his reputation, with me anyway.
RIP Mr. Glenn.

Posted by: navybrat at December 08, 2016 03:43 PM (w7KSn)

522 R.I.P. John Glenn, a Great American.

Weather: High winds and blowing snow at this end of the ranch.

Posted by: washrivergal at December 08, 2016 03:44 PM (CFc5L)

523 Daughter is currently living and working in South Dakota. It's currently 9 with a wind chill of -7.

Posted by: Tami at December 08, 2016 03:41 PM (Enq6K)

Years ago, we drove through S. Dakota in June. It was warm and lovely one day and freezing the next. Pretty area, though.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 08, 2016 03:44 PM (PY9jH)

524 North Dakota...what is it that you...do, exactly?

Posted by: Bob at December 08, 2016 03:39 PM

Housing for drunk Native Americans.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at December 08, 2016 03:44 PM (S2VsH)

525 433 John Glenn a great American hero.
Racing through the blue sky for ever more.
Posted by: Skip at December 08, 2016 03:26 PM (5sOEp)

Neil Armstrong was greater. And he didn't become a crappy democrat senator for the state.

I really do hope that the "From the Earth to the Moon" miniseries was true where there was a party for the Apollo 11 astronauts and they asked Neil if he'd vote for Glenn if he ran for president. "That depends. Who's running for king?"

Posted by: buzzion at December 08, 2016 03:44 PM (z/Ubi)

526 My iPad is, again, too slow.
I'll try later.

Posted by: Carol at December 08, 2016 03:45 PM (sj3Ax)

527 Didn't look it up the story popped up on its own, dated today says she is resigning from the Kelly File.

Posted by: Skip at December 08, 2016 03:45 PM (5sOEp)

528 Are you referring to Milo's site (which is the link I posted) or Buzzfeed's?

Buzzfeed. They are a company that exists solely by trolling the internet with increasingly outrageous crap then charging advertisers for each click.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 08, 2016 03:45 PM (39g3+)

529 Glenn was unfairly dragged into the Keating Five SL imbroglio.
Head first, with both feet. Let's not be sloppy knob-gobblers here.
Fine aviator. As a politician, just like the rest of them.

Keating, and the Ohio Savings and Loan scandal, are the reason we can't have nice little local banks anymore. What a policy cabal that was.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at December 08, 2016 03:45 PM (H5rtT)

530 Didn't look it up the story popped up on its own, dated today says she is resigning from the Kelly File.

Posted by: Skip at December 08, 2016 03:45 PM (5sOEp)

Good.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 08, 2016 03:45 PM (PY9jH)

531 I avoid buzzfeed like the plague.

Posted by: SMFH - Silence the Queefs at December 08, 2016 03:46 PM (CRotO)

532
I predict Trump not running again, and letting Pence or Mattis step up. It's going to be fantastic.
Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at December 08, 2016 03:02 PM (lalCH)

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There's not a very good track record in this country of same-party succession when an eligible incumbent prez (less than 2 terms -- customary and now 22A) demurs. But the two exceptions, IIRC, were Hayes-to-Garfield and Coolidge-to-Hoover, so, maybe it works for R's.

Posted by: Slo-Pitch Whiffer at December 08, 2016 03:46 PM (zke7T)

533 I don't know what the temp is but it's windy enough that when I looked out the window a bit ago the stop lights were being blown horizontal.

Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr at December 08, 2016 03:46 PM (mf5HN)

534 They are the very model of how government acquisition processes went off the rails. They were kinda-sorta supposed to be like the old NACA, setting procurement standards, and overseeing. Then, you know, Kennedy.

Wow. I find it fascinating what people key in on. I'm saying this as neutrally as I can, this isn't an attack.

But JFK makes it an issue of national resolve to get a man on the moon and return him safely to earth within the decade and it bothers you that the procurement wasn't kosher?

Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 08, 2016 03:46 PM (mgbwf)

535 I've lived my whole life in the upper midwest and thought I knew what cold was. Then I went to North Dakota in February.

Work with two guys who were security police for the Air Force. They responded to alarms at missile silos. (Above ground alarms) They said you don't know cold until you do a North Dakota winter.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2016 03:46 PM (784ZQ)

536 Occupy North Dakota Pipeline! Doesn't quite have the same cachet in December that it had in August.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Laments of the Pansie Liners sponsored by the Outrage Outlet at December 08, 2016 03:46 PM (hLRSq)

537
Probably is. I'm usually wrong when I blurt something out.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc
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Well, "Howdy do to you too!" was certainly right as rain.
I've been to the vet 3 or 4 times since I read that story, and am still disappointed that I haven't been able to use it.

*there's always this month to try again! Rabies shot coming up...

Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at December 08, 2016 03:47 PM (lalCH)

538 I've lived my whole life in the upper midwest and thought I knew what cold was. Then I went to North Dakota in February.

Seriously, fuck that place. (I'm sure the people are great).

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 08, 2016 03:42 PM (xeeHA)

She keeps wanting me to come visit. I'm like, "Ok, I will....in the summer.".

Posted by: Tami at December 08, 2016 03:48 PM (Enq6K)

539 They said you don't know cold until you do a North Dakota winter.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2016 03:46 PM (784ZQ)
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It really is the type of thing that tests one's spirit.

It isn't HOW cold it is, though that sucks. It is how brutally consistent it is. It just never stops beating on you for the better part of 6 months.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 08, 2016 03:48 PM (xeeHA)

540 475 Chi, for a patriot?

doubtful.

Then again, the NYT's view of a patriot is a bit skewed (see zombie Castro).
Posted by: SMFH - Silence the Queefs at December 08, 2016 03:35 PM (CRotO)

Glenn was a good little liberal senator. Except a glowing obituary for him in the NYT.

Posted by: buzzion at December 08, 2016 03:48 PM (z/Ubi)

541 "For all those fans heading to tailgate, remember the three cold-weather Bs: Bundle, Barbecue, Beer."

Arrowhead field frozen

http://tinyurl.com/zf75old

Hope my Raiders brought their ice skates.

Posted by: SMFH - Silence the Queefs at December 08, 2016 03:49 PM (CRotO)

542 Didn't look it up the story popped up on its own, dated today says she is resigning from the Kelly File.

Posted by: Skip at December 08, 2016 03:45 PM (5sOEp)

Did she get the $50 bazillion contract from some network that she knows she's worth?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 08, 2016 03:49 PM (493sH)

543 Its not cold until your nostrils freeze together when you inhale.

Posted by: ajmojo at December 08, 2016 03:49 PM (1H9ox)

544 Well SMFH, here it is 33F and freezing rain.

I was supposed to drive to town and have lunch with my GF, and I begged off because I didn't want to drive on a sheet of ice with all the other people who can't drive on ice either.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2016 03:49 PM (yLUuz)

545 Seriously, fuck that place. (I'm sure the people are great).
Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 08, 2016 03:42 PM (xeeHA)

Topography, or the lack of it.
Wind. too much of it.

My wife was busy shopping in a resort store in the middle of the Black Hills, and I was chatting up the lady who worked there. Who owned the place with her husband.
She said it was nicer than where she came from in western Minnesota because the hills and pines killed the wind, unlike her farm in Mn.
However, she did say that just like rural Mn, you had to put in provisioning for the winter, in case you're stuck sheltering in place for weeks on end.

Winter!

Posted by: OneEyedJack at December 08, 2016 03:49 PM (kKHcp)

546 Cryin' won't help ya, Prayin' won't do ya no good.

Posted by: steve walsh at December 08, 2016 03:50 PM (TV+ih)

547 Of course this fuck is for MORE IMMIGRANTS!!1!

If we stop letting in 200 per days as we are currently, he'll run out of cheap burger flippers and be forced to pay higher wages..

Fuck him.. and fuck Trump if he nominates this asshole.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at December 08, 2016 03:50 PM (so+oy)

548
Glenn Fry is dead?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 08, 2016 03:50 PM (Zbof/)

549 SMFH - Went and looked it up. Voiceover for Arby's is Ving Rhames.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 08, 2016 03:50 PM (NBHj5)

550 John Glenn died....oh, man!

Posted by: Adsila at December 08, 2016 03:50 PM (erVZn)

551 John Glenn was a great American, then he got in to politics and sullied his reputation, with me anyway.

Politics is a minefield, I tellz ya.

Posted by: Charles Lindbergh at December 08, 2016 03:50 PM (8ZskC)

552 Looking around for another confirmation on MeAgain but haven't found anything.

Posted by: Skip at December 08, 2016 03:50 PM (5sOEp)

553 Expect not Except. Can't even blame autocucumber for that one.

Posted by: buzzion at December 08, 2016 03:50 PM (z/Ubi)

554
Didn't look it up the story popped up on its own, dated today says she is resigning from the Kelly File.

I hope they give the slot to Martha MacCallum

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at December 08, 2016 03:51 PM (lKyWE)

555 There was a book out about a truly horrific blizzard that occurred in North Dakota in the 19th century. The really heartbreaking part I remember is that a bunch of kids in one of those little red schoolhouses tried and failed to make it home on time -and they found the bodies in a circle. The older kids had tried to protect the little ones.

That blizzard was widely reported out East, and movement to North Dakota dwindled down to practically nothing after that, although land was cheap.

Imagine facing those winters without central heating and cars. Hell, I don't know how they did it in Wisconsin.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at December 08, 2016 03:51 PM (u0lmX)

556 Glenn was a good little liberal senator. Except a glowing obituary for him in the NYT.

Posted by: buzzion at December 08, 2016 03:48 PM (z/Ubi)

He was a genuine, honest-to-God, 100% American hero.

I said hero. I am not saying he was perfect or held the political positions I have. A hero and he is now gone.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Laments of the Pansie Liners sponsored by the Outrage Outlet at December 08, 2016 03:51 PM (hLRSq)

557 Glenn was absolutely an American hero. He was also absolutely just another hack politician. One does not negate the other.

Posted by: tu3031 at December 08, 2016 03:51 PM (qJhUV)

558
Work with two guys who were security police for
the Air Force. They responded to alarms at missile silos. (Above ground
alarms) They said you don't know cold until you do a North Dakota
winter.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2016 03:46 PM (784ZQ)

Many years ago, a client for the business husband worked for, asked him to come to Fargo, ND for an "important" meeting. Husband left ATL and arrived in Fargo and the wind chill was !!11!elebenty!!! below zero or something. He had to climb over a yuge snowbank to get to a restaurant to grab dinner. The next morning the client called and cancelled the meeting because it was "too cold."

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 08, 2016 03:51 PM (PY9jH)

559 I looked up this Rose DeLauro person but Google image search keeps showing me Perry Farrell dressed in my mom's old drapes and earrings ,wtf??

Posted by: Bob in Houston-Vast Right Wing Basket of deplorable! at December 08, 2016 03:51 PM (XRxxn)

560 Its not cold until your nostrils freeze together when you inhale.
Posted by: ajmojo
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First sign: You feel you nostril hairs freeze.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 08, 2016 03:52 PM (ZO497)

561 Winter!
Posted by: OneEyedJack at December 08, 2016 03:49 PM (kKHcp)
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If you think about it, there is an uninterrupted area with no wind impediments that goes from ND all the way to the arctic. And boy, in winter, it sure does blow through.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 08, 2016 03:52 PM (xeeHA)

562 Google news has nothing about Megyn Kelly leaving anything.

Now, John Glenn.

News: NASA is going to send an aging Senator into space.

Me: What a boondoggle! What patronage! What waste!

News: It's John Glenn.

Me: Oh, well that's fine then. Godspeed John Glenn.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 08, 2016 03:52 PM (mgbwf)

563 557 Glenn was absolutely an American hero. He was also absolutely just another hack politician. One does not negate the other.
Posted by: tu3031 at December 08, 2016 03:51 PM (qJhUV)

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See McCain, Juan.

Posted by: SMFH - Silence the Queefs at December 08, 2016 03:52 PM (CRotO)

564 Glenn Close was so young. I liked her as the Bunny Boiler in Fatal Attraction.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 08, 2016 03:52 PM (8ZskC)

565 Looking around for another confirmation on MeAgain but haven't found anything.

Saw it the other day. Click bait bullshit.

Posted by: tu3031 at December 08, 2016 03:52 PM (qJhUV)

566 glenn frey been dead almost a year now. But if you find a quiet spot on the Miami Beach and listen to the wind blow, you can still hear him quietly strummin the Smuggler's Blues.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 08, 2016 03:52 PM (KinVZ)

567 It's not cold until at -25 your snowmobile dies and you have a 5 mile walk through knee high snow to get back to the truck.

Posted by: Octiparan at December 08, 2016 03:52 PM (b9JGJ)

568 552
Looking around for another confirmation on MeAgain but haven't found anything.

Posted by: Skip at December 08, 2016 03:50 PM (5sOEp)

Nothing on Drudge. Where did it 'pop up' the first time you saw it?

Posted by: Tami at December 08, 2016 03:52 PM (Enq6K)

569 LOL Bandersnatch!

Posted by: SMFH - Silence the Queefs at December 08, 2016 03:53 PM (CRotO)

570 Just because some cool Moron taught me how recently:

47:deg: currently.

Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at December 08, 2016 03:53 PM (lalCH)

571 I thought we didn't mind legal immigration? Anyway I'm for letting Trump put his administration together like he wants without criticism. Let's judge his team on actual proposals pushed and policies enacted.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 08, 2016 03:53 PM (PE2bZ)

572 >>Didn't look it up the story popped up on its own, dated today says she is resigning from the Kelly File.

I believe that is fake news. I saw it too. It was a redirect and I think it is being put out by the skin care company she reps.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2016 03:53 PM (/tuJf)

573 Honestly, I thought Glenn was already dead. He had to be a 120.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at December 08, 2016 03:54 PM (QQ+il)

574 "So Rosa DeLauro's face is the face of the opposition."

Actually, it's the face of Peter Wolf, lead singer of the J.Geils Band.

Posted by: Twin Cities Daydrunk- now with thinsulate! at December 08, 2016 03:54 PM (kVX3W)

575 551. And love is a battlefield.....

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at December 08, 2016 03:54 PM (Kfxxl)

576 But JFK makes it an issue of national resolve to get
a man on the moon and return him safely to earth within the decade and
it bothers you that the procurement wasn't kosher?

Posted by: Bandersnatch

You are god-damned right it does. Rotten to the core. And ever shall be.
Kennedy didn't give a damn about the moon, or space exploration. He was looking for a saleable Imperial project. He'd have done it with roads or canals or pyramids if he could. And said as much. One Big Agency, even if it had to be In The Sky.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at December 08, 2016 03:54 PM (H5rtT)

577 567 It's not cold until at -25 your snowmobile dies and you have a 5 mile walk through knee high snow to get back to the truck.
Posted by: Octiparan at December 08, 2016 03:52 PM (b9JGJ)

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yeah, I'm not living in a place where a snowmobile is mandatory.

Unless it's a M!A2 SEP.

Posted by: SMFH - Silence the Queefs at December 08, 2016 03:54 PM (CRotO)

578 Great astronaut. Shitty Senator.

Posted by: buzzion at December 08, 2016 03:54 PM (z/Ubi)

579 Posted by: Max Power at December 08, 2016 02:53 PM (q177U)

Shouldn't the Pope be worried about his churches being run by Pervert Nambla Members?

Posted by: Evilpens at December 08, 2016 03:54 PM (y3aQB)

580 M1A2

Posted by: SMFH - Silence the Queefs at December 08, 2016 03:54 PM (CRotO)

581
Glenn was a good little liberal senator. Except a glowing obituary for him in the NYT.
Posted by: buzzion at December 08, 2016 03:48 PM (z/Ubi)

Can we not do this? For, I don't know, ten seconds can we not do the sole measure of a person is the name of the political party of which they were a part?

Because this is just beyond wearisome and into all out plain old sad.

Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr at December 08, 2016 03:55 PM (mf5HN)

582 Searched MeAgain's Facebook page and see nothing.
I don't think its real

Posted by: Skip at December 08, 2016 03:55 PM (5sOEp)

583 I thought we didn't mind legal immigration?

Not the Irish.

Posted by: Olson Johnson at December 08, 2016 03:55 PM (8ZskC)

584 It's going to be a bone-chilling 50 something here tomorrow. For us, that's cold.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 08, 2016 03:55 PM (PY9jH)

585 I hope they give the slot to Martha MacCallum
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic
---------------

FOX is hiring? Martha McCallum has a slot I could fill...

Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at December 08, 2016 03:55 PM (lalCH)

586 I thought we didn't mind legal immigration?

I do.

Country's full. Moose out front should have told ya.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at December 08, 2016 03:55 PM (QQ+il)

587 Because this is just beyond wearisome and into all out plain old sad.

Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr at December 08, 2016 03:55 PM (mf5HN)
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Amen.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 08, 2016 03:55 PM (xeeHA)

588 570 Just because some cool Moron taught me how recently:

47:deg: currently.
Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at December 08, 2016 03:53 PM (lalCH)

I love knowing how to make the degree ° symbol. No idea if it will show up though.

Posted by: buzzion at December 08, 2016 03:56 PM (z/Ubi)

589 Being of a certain age, John Glenn was a hero to me. As kids, we played astronauts and always fought to see who got to be John Glenn.

As I grew, Glenn went into politics as a democrat. Although I didn't agree with him on policies, I always thought he was an honorable man and someone who truly loved his country.

That all ended with the Thompson Hearings.

When the evidence that the Clintons had been selling missile guidance technology to the Chinese for campaign contributions was crystal clear, John Glenn led the democrats in obstructing and deflecting on every witness.

He sold his soul and good name for another ride in the Space Shuttle.

Burn in hell, you cocksucker. You broke this kid's heart.

Posted by: jwest at December 08, 2016 03:56 PM (Zs4uk)

590 Isn't John Glenn the guy who left our flag on Mars? Did he ever get docked for that?

Posted by: Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D)umbass at December 08, 2016 03:56 PM (8ZskC)

591 John Glenn was no Lefty. He is what we used to call the loyal opposition.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 08, 2016 03:56 PM (PE2bZ)

592 Glenn was a good little liberal senator. Except a glowing obituary for him in the NYT.
Posted by: buzzion at December 08, 2016 03:48 PM (z/Ubi)

Can we not do this? For, I don't know, ten seconds can we not do the sole measure of a person is the name of the political party of which they were a part?

Because this is just beyond wearisome and into all out plain old sad.

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We should remember him as the American hero he was and is and and the good and decent person he was.

Posted by: SH at December 08, 2016 03:56 PM (gmeXX)

593 584 It's going to be a bone-chilling 50 something here tomorrow. For us, that's cold.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 08, 2016 03:55 PM (PY9jH)

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On the coast, yep.

In south GA (Tifton, Valdosta), not so much.

Posted by: SMFH - Silence the Queefs at December 08, 2016 03:57 PM (CRotO)

594 Ummm

:deg:

Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at December 08, 2016 03:57 PM (lalCH)

595 Any twitterers here? I'm hoping ace got into a war with Chris Cuomo over Chrissy's comparing not believing in climate change to not accepting interracial marriage.

Because that would be gold.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 08, 2016 03:57 PM (PY9jH)

596 And love is a battlefield.....

Love is like oxygen. You get too much you get too high. Not enough and you're gonna die.

Love gets you high.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at December 08, 2016 03:57 PM (QQ+il)

597 "Head first, with both feet. Let's not be sloppy knob-gobblers here."

Keating was from Ohio, and so was a Glenn constituent, even though he was doing business in AZ and CA. He was asked by Keating to attend a meeting with federal S&L regulators, during which he was told that they had made a criminal referral on Keating, after which Glenn had no further involvement.

The other four Congresscritters were Ds who were heavily involved on Keating's behalf.

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 08, 2016 03:58 PM (SIY7D)

598 560. Your nose and ears feel cold, then they ache, and then go numb, amd you wish you'd worn an ushanka and three scarves..... frostbite, I've had it, and every cold day, I remember it.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at December 08, 2016 03:58 PM (fh9ru)

599 lolol Chi!

Third time should be the charm!

Posted by: SMFH - Silence the Queefs at December 08, 2016 03:58 PM (CRotO)

600 That 19th century blizzard you referenced was probably the Great Blizzard of 1888, which hit almost the entire Plains area all the way down to Texas, and was colder than anything in living memory at that time. It killed so many cattle on the great ranches that many of them went bankrupt, destroying the economic base that had employed so many cowboys in the 1870's through the 1880's.

Many have credited that blizzard, as much as anything else, as being the final blow that killed the Old West. It was 30 years before cattle herds made it back to their former numbers, and by then the world had moved on, as it does.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 08, 2016 03:58 PM (KinVZ)

601 If you think about it, there is an uninterrupted area with no wind impediments that goes from ND all the way to the arctic. And boy, in winter, it sure does blow through.

From the Arctic to the Gulf of Mexico. Those barb sire fences in Oklahoma don't stop shit.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2016 03:59 PM (784ZQ)

602 Burn in hell, you cocksucker. You broke this kid's heart.
Posted by: jwest at December 08, 2016 03:56 PM (Zs4uk)

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{{{jwest}}}

Posted by: SMFH - Silence the Queefs at December 08, 2016 03:59 PM (CRotO)

603 Your nose and ears feel cold, then they ache, and then go numb, amd you wish you'd worn an ushanka and three scarves..... frostbite, I've had it, and every cold day, I remember it.

Pfft.

Posted by: Ernest Shackleton at December 08, 2016 03:59 PM (8ZskC)

604 >>We should remember him as the American hero he was and is and and the good and decent person he was.

Eh, I can separate the two. He was a true American hero as an astronaut and I was in awe of him.

And then he became a highly partisan and nasty liberal political and I lost a lot of respect.

I'm sad for his family that he died.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2016 03:59 PM (/tuJf)

605 I love knowing how to make the degree symbol. No idea if it will show up though.
Posted by: buzzion
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Well, poop.
Was it the ampersand?

47 °

Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at December 08, 2016 03:59 PM (lalCH)

606 Just use �BA;, it's easier.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, keeper of the Deplorable Unicode Character at December 08, 2016 03:59 PM (9krrF)

607 576 But JFK makes it an issue of national resolve to get
a man on the moon and return him safely to earth within the decade and
it bothers you that the procurement wasn't kosher?

Posted by: Bandersnatch

You are god-damned right it does. Rotten to the core. And ever shall be.
Kennedy didn't give a damn about the moon, or space exploration. He was looking for a saleable Imperial project. He'd have done it with roads or canals or pyramids if he could. And said as much. One Big Agency, even if it had to be In The Sky.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at December 08, 2016 03:54 PM (H5rtT)

If it wasn't Kennedy it would have been Nixon. We were in a race with the Commies and we had to win.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 08, 2016 03:59 PM (PE2bZ)

608 Many years ago, a client for the business husband worked for, asked him to come to Fargo, ND for an "important" meeting. Husband left ATL and arrived in Fargo and the wind chill was !!11!elebenty!!! below zero or something. He had to climb over a yuge snowbank to get to a restaurant to grab dinner. The next morning the client called and cancelled the meeting because it was "too cold."
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 08, 2016 03:51 PM (PY9jH)

I had to go to Fargo three times. Once a big storm rolled through overnight. Went down to grab some breakfast before a company conference. Curious as to why the lobby was full. Looked outside and the hotel was an island and my rental car was under seat high level water.

Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at December 08, 2016 03:59 PM (J70i0)

609 @SMFH, I was a surveyor at the time at Ft Peck, MT. Bloody cold but I learned to drink scotch by the hotel fire. So there was an upside.

Posted by: Octiparan at December 08, 2016 03:59 PM (b9JGJ)

610 Or not...

Posted by: Brother Cavil, keeper of the Deplorable Unicode Character at December 08, 2016 03:59 PM (9krrF)

611 Heh Chi.

Posted by: SMFH - Silence the Queefs at December 08, 2016 04:00 PM (CRotO)

612 Nood voter ID laws

Posted by: Dead Parrot Society at December 08, 2016 04:00 PM (AJeMv)

613 Our first winter in Chicagoland, the wind chill was 60 below for two days in a row and school was cancelled. Just walking to the mailbox with nothing but my eyes exposed to the weather was painful.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 08, 2016 04:00 PM (PY9jH)

614 Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at December 08, 2016 03:59 PM (lalCH)

Well yours worked there. I use alt+2+4+8 for mine. But it gave the black diamond.

Posted by: buzzion at December 08, 2016 04:01 PM (z/Ubi)

615
He sold his soul and good name for another ride in the Space Shuttle.

Burn in hell, you cocksucker. You broke this kid's heart.
Posted by: jwest at December 08, 2016 03:56 PM (

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You are a hard man sir..

Posted by: The guy with the hair at December 08, 2016 04:01 PM (q4vT/)

616 Wait wait, ° isn't it

Posted by: Brother Cavil, keeper of the Deplorable Unicode Character at December 08, 2016 04:01 PM (9krrF)

617 599 lolol Chi!

Third time should be the charm!
Posted by: SMFH
---------------

Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I love you, too.

And it's almost 50° here with no wind!

Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at December 08, 2016 04:01 PM (lalCH)

618 613
Our first winter in Chicagoland, the wind chill was 60 below for two
days in a row and school was cancelled. Just walking to the mailbox with
nothing but my eyes exposed to the weather was painful.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 08, 2016 04:00 PM (PY9jH)

OMG Jane, I lived there at that time too! It was unbearable!

Posted by: Tami at December 08, 2016 04:01 PM (Enq6K)

619 596. Ain't that the truth, though. Texted H1B niece and we're having a late dinner at her place tonight. It will be wonderful and heart-breaking.....such is life.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at December 08, 2016 04:01 PM (fh9ru)

620 Kelly has Not tweeted anything since around 12:30 I think that was fake

Posted by: Evilpens at December 08, 2016 04:01 PM (y3aQB)

621 @600 Hell yeah, 1888. The New York papers had time to run editorials about how people just should not be allowed to go out there, it's so dangerous, before the very same storm hit the East, with 17 foot drifts between buildings, and hundreds more died in the great civilized cities than in the wide open spaces.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at December 08, 2016 04:02 PM (H5rtT)

622 OMG Jane, I lived there at that time too! It was unbearable!

Posted by: Tami at December 08, 2016 04:01 PM (Enq6K)

I know. Yeesh. You never forget that kind of cold.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 08, 2016 04:02 PM (PY9jH)

623 "Sweet" lyrics bro! Ballroom Blitz!

But today we lost Greg Lake of King Crimson and Emerson Lake and Palmer,
and, a brother Marine (one who I disagreed with, but cannot discount his heroism under fire and his bravery orbiting the earth) Semper Fi. Best part of 2016 is that it will end (despite my schadenboner) and we will get to 1-20-2017, the end of an error and hopefully a new morning in America.

Posted by: The Mouse that Roared at December 08, 2016 04:02 PM (7N6ox)

624 Can we not do this? For, I don't know, ten seconds can we not do the sole measure of a person is the name of the political party of which they were a part?

Because this is just beyond wearisome and into all out plain old sad.

Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr at December 08, 2016 03:55 PM (mf5HN)

Well said - 100% Agreement.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Interrupts Its Silliness to Mourn John Glenn at December 08, 2016 04:04 PM (hLRSq)

625 I know. Yeesh. You never forget that kind of cold.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 08, 2016 04:02 PM (PY9jH)

'81? '82 '83? Can't remember the exact year.

Posted by: Tami at December 08, 2016 04:04 PM (Enq6K)

626 I was born in Chicago, but fortunately my dad did a Clampett and GTFO out of there while I was just a few weeks old...so no memories of having to tunnel out my front door or damn near freezing to death.

The riots in 1968 might have had something to do with his decision alsp...

Posted by: SMFH - Silence the Queefs at December 08, 2016 04:04 PM (CRotO)

627 Imagine facing those winters without central heating and cars. Hell, I don't know how they did it in Wisconsin.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at December 08, 2016 03:51 PM (u0lmX)

Friend of my dad's grew up in N. Dakota, and his story was that when he was a little kid, before the railroad spur was put in, his and his brother's chore was to collect dried cowpies to burn for the winter. His father would say "from here to here, and this tall"
After the spur went in they bought coal.

Hard life on the plains.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2016 04:05 PM (yLUuz)

628 Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr at December 08, 2016 03:55 PM (mf5HN)

Yep.

And on another note, John Glenn say beings outside the space capsule? I never heard that. What dd he think they were or was he having hallucinations?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 08, 2016 04:05 PM (tOcW/)

629
Love is like oxygen. You get too much you get too high. Not enough and you're gonna die. Love gets you high.

I've had the blues
The reds and the pinks
One thing for sure
Love stinks

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at December 08, 2016 04:06 PM (lKyWE)

630 '81? '82 '83? Can't remember the exact year.

Posted by: Tami at December 08, 2016 04:04 PM (Enq6K)

We moved there in '95. Left in 2001.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 08, 2016 04:07 PM (PY9jH)

631 If it wasn't Kennedy it would have been Nixon. We were in a race with the Commies and we had to win.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

I first subscribed to NASA FACTS in 1964. They have a hell of a PR machine there, you have to give them credit for that much. Most of us are still mesmerized by it. Yes, we had to beat the Russians. The way we "chose" to do it? That's something you ought to think about more.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at December 08, 2016 04:08 PM (H5rtT)

632 I first subscribed to NASA FACTS in 1964.

I'm younger than you, then. I was nine in July 1969.

My entire life had been putting one guy in space, putting two guys in space, letting them walk around in space, docking with another spaceship in space, flying around the Moon in space on freakin' Christmas, and then landing on the Moon in space and coming home.

It's such a part of my mythology that I couldn't shake it if I tried.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 08, 2016 04:12 PM (mgbwf)

633 I first subscribed to NASA FACTS in 1964. They have a hell of a PR machine there, you have to give them credit for that much. Most of us are still mesmerized by it. Yes, we had to beat the Russians. The way we "chose" to do it? That's something you ought to think about more.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at December 08, 2016 04:08 PM (H5rtT)

I took a couple of my Russian customers to NASA in Houston a few years ago...

Fucking embarrassing.

It looked like 1964 there. You would think it was cutting edge technology and Star Wars type equipment. No way. It was like a crumbling old amusement park.

Posted by: jwest at December 08, 2016 04:12 PM (Zs4uk)

634 We moved there in '95. Left in 2001.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 08, 2016 04:07 PM (PY9jH)

Oh...well I guess it happened more than once then.

I'm positive it was the early 80's for us. We moved there in '81 and left in '94.

Posted by: Tami at December 08, 2016 04:13 PM (Enq6K)

635 I can't find one direct quote from Pudzer supporting H1B's.

I did find him supporting immigration reform. But his quotes weren't nefarious open borders like.

Posted by: mossomo at December 08, 2016 04:16 PM (YGfo8)

636 High winds, -15 deg., begot me a frost-bitten ear, which bothers me to this day when it gets cold.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 08, 2016 04:18 PM (ZO497)

637 Posted by: Stringer Davis at December 08, 2016 04:08 PM (H5rtT)

Yes I suppose there were multiple ways that the program would have been better but bottom line is we won and we got a lot of consequential civilian advances out of NASA.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 08, 2016 04:28 PM (PE2bZ)

638 Is he an avowed Marxist who wrote the book "Marxism and me, yes it is my bag, baby!" Like every single Obama appointee? No? I guess he is ok, then.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 08, 2016 05:12 PM (dnWSK)

639 San Antonio is freezing! I had to put on a light jacket today.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 08, 2016 05:14 PM (dnWSK)

640 So, Puzder vs. Sessions Cage Match?

My money's on Sessions.

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