Neil Gorsuch Emerges as Trump's Front-Runner for Supreme Court Nominee

He's on the 10th Circuit of Appeals right now, appointed by Bush, and thought to be among the most "Scalia-esque" of all possible Scalia replacements.

Age: 50. And as I like to say, 50 is the new twenty-nine-and-three-quarters.

Judge Napolitano said on McCallum's show that if Gorsuch is in fact Trump's nominee, Trump would have done exactly what he said he would do: Nominate a younger version of Scalia.

Posted by: Ace at 08:05 PM

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1 He had better not be a Souter.

Posted by: the littl shyning man at January 23, 2017 08:06 PM (U6f54)

2 Might as well Trump.

Posted by: David Lee Roth at January 23, 2017 08:07 PM (wpC7C)

3 50 years old sweet Jesus. Bigly.

Posted by: most deplorable Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at January 23, 2017 08:09 PM (Iy6JT)

4 Looks good to me.

Posted by: Donna di deplorable ampersands&&&&and so there at January 23, 2017 08:09 PM (P8951)

5 Oh, yeah, I totes call this...

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 23, 2017 08:09 PM (DNPz2)

6 3 50 years old sweet Jesus. Bigly.
Posted by: most deplorable Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at January 23, 2017 08:09 PM (Iy6JT)

Yes. He could be on the court for the next 30 years.

Posted by: Donna di deplorable ampersands&&&&and so there at January 23, 2017 08:10 PM (P8951)

7 Maybe Cruz is being lined up to replace Ginsberg.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 23, 2017 08:10 PM (6FqZa)

8 We're screwed! If only you stupid rubes had let us have Hillary!

Posted by: Nevertrumpers at January 23, 2017 08:10 PM (pbkWd)

9 Donna he could be on the court for the next 50.

Posted by: most deplorable Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at January 23, 2017 08:11 PM (Iy6JT)

10 Please dear God, make it so. We really need a constitutionalist-someone who actually understands the importance of our country's creation and the ideas that made it great.

Posted by: Very Irredeemably Undude at January 23, 2017 08:11 PM (2X7pN)

11 Sub-headline: Ace admits to being 50.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at January 23, 2017 08:11 PM (kumBu)

12 The notable exception is one prominent concurrence last August, in Gutierrez-Brizuela v. Lynch, in which Gorsuch criticized a doctrine of administrative law (called Chevron deference) that Scalia had long defended.

Uh.Oh.

No one tell Alex.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 23, 2017 08:11 PM (DNPz2)

13 I want someone so offensive to the Left Wing of the Court that RBG dies of apoplexy before the first Session.

Posted by: garrett at January 23, 2017 08:11 PM (m9RuU)

14 Is the the GAINZZZ thread? Because my schadenboner has got some huge GAINZZZ now, brahs!

Posted by: josephistan at January 23, 2017 08:11 PM (7qAYi)

15 >>50 years old sweet Jesus. Bigly.

>Yes. He could be on the court for the next 30 years

The Muslims say Jesus will be on the court for 40 after his return.

But since we can't have him, I'll settle for Gorsuch.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 23, 2017 08:11 PM (6FqZa)

16 I propose an unofficial, 'shadow' SCOTUS, made up of good candidates what got Borked or were not put forward for fear of their enduring same...... with gurkhas for clerks, cossacks for court officers, and roof Koreans and sikhs for security.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at January 23, 2017 08:11 PM (vNAqW)

17 Second look at Judge Reinhold?

Posted by: garrett at January 23, 2017 08:12 PM (m9RuU)

18 Scalia, (himself), suggested Frank Easterbrook on C-Span in 2012. He is from Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit.

I don't know if this is better, but if it came from Scalia's own mouth?

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Keeper of Cerberus), (Cold1), (T) at January 23, 2017 08:12 PM (6gk0M)

19 HEY!

HEY!

HEEEY!

DIS IS LIBWARY!

Posted by: Tami at January 23, 2017 08:12 PM (Enq6K)

20 50 is pretty young, though - he needs a fake ID to rent ultra-porn!

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at January 23, 2017 08:12 PM (kumBu)

21 "It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question Cory Booker." -- Benjamin Franklin

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at January 23, 2017 08:12 PM (e8kgV)

22 pathetic endgame for the Pompeo confirmation - from
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/senate-confirms-pompeo-as-cia-director/article/2612755

"No CIA director in history has ever been confirmed on Inauguration Day," Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and two other Democrats said in a Friday. "The importance of the position of CIA director, especially in these dangerous times, demands that the nomination be thoroughly vetted, questioned and debated."

Despite that demand, Democrats used little of the six hours of debate set Monday for Pompeo's nomination. Instead, Obamacare was discussed on the Senate floor, and senators in the end agreed to end debate early and start the vote at around 7 p.m."

So that's how "important" all the extra hearing time was worth.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 23, 2017 08:13 PM (V2Yro)

23 Cossacks are best as assistant scribes
http://www.cossacks-lienz.net/Sultan.html

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 23, 2017 08:13 PM (6FqZa)

24 Is there any better source for this than CBS? (That's the only source I've seen cited so far although admittedly I haven't been looking.)

Posted by: andycanuck at January 23, 2017 08:13 PM (lJXY3)

25 "He's on the 10th Circuit of Appeals right now, appointed by Bush"

After David "Stealth Liberal" Souter and John "Obamacare's constitutional 'cause it's a tax" Roberts, no judge appointed by either Bush should receive any further consideration for promotion.

Posted by: torquewrench at January 23, 2017 08:13 PM (noWW6)

26 I was hoping for Cruz.

Posted by: Penicillin at January 23, 2017 08:13 PM (LTHVh)

27 Pompeo confirmed

Posted by: GrandMa Bell at January 23, 2017 08:14 PM (RLdcX)

28 23. They do write beautiful dissents. Heh zaporozhians ftw.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at January 23, 2017 08:14 PM (vNAqW)

29 So that's how "important" all the extra hearing time was worth.

So basically Wyden and those two other Democrats just fondled themselves on camera and wasted time.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 23, 2017 08:14 PM (6FqZa)

30 26 I was hoping for Cruz.
Posted by: Penicillin at January 23, 2017 08:13 PM (LTHVh)

You'd settle for Ashley Judd

You're getting Madonna

Posted by: josephistan at January 23, 2017 08:14 PM (7qAYi)

31 HEY!
HEY!
HEEEY!
DIS IS LIBWARY!
Posted by: Tami at January 23, 2017 08:12 PM (Enq6K)

Truly gold.

Posted by: most deplorable Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at January 23, 2017 08:15 PM (Iy6JT)

32 Donna he could be on the court for the next 50.
Posted by: most deplorable Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at January 23, 2017 08:11 PM (Iy6JT)

You wanna scare the crap out of a leftist?

You: "With life-extension technologies under development and maybe only 5 years away, a 50-year-old could be on the Supreme court for 100 years!"

Leftist: "Noooooo!!!!!"

You: "Science, bitches."

Posted by: filbert at January 23, 2017 08:15 PM (s5o+q)

33 I was hoping for Cruz.
Posted by: Penicillin

Rare is a well-known figure appointed to SCOTUS.

Our happy-fun time of speculating on picks is ovah.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 23, 2017 08:15 PM (DNPz2)

34 50 is pretty young, though - he needs a fake ID to rent ultra-porn!

Long Dong Silver *touches nose*

Posted by: Clarence Thomas at January 23, 2017 08:15 PM (LTHVh)

35 The brief on him is surprisingly interesting.

Posted by: Max Power at January 23, 2017 08:15 PM (q177U)

36 So another Scalia on the court for 30 years or so?

Hahahahaha.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at January 23, 2017 08:15 PM (oVJmc)

37 Oh, and the guy clerked for... Anthony Kennedy.

He might turn out to be a diamond in the rough, but there are numerous potential warning signs here.

Posted by: torquewrench at January 23, 2017 08:16 PM (noWW6)

38
I posted about him on the morning thread. I was concerned when I saw that he clerked for High Lord Executioner Anthony Kennedy,.

But if Ace says he's kosher, okie-doke.

GO!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 23, 2017 08:17 PM (mbhDw)

39
Never heard of him before, but looking forward to hearing more...

Posted by: Spun and Murky at January 23, 2017 08:17 PM (4DCSq)

40 Cossacks are best as assistant scribes
http://www.cossacks-lienz.net/Sultan.html

I like the painting http://bit.ly/2jLcgUG

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 23, 2017 08:17 PM (LTHVh)

41 An Article V Convention has to include an amendment stating that the Constitution is to be interpreted in all cases according to strict construction of the original intent, and not by previous rulings from any court.

Posted by: filbert at January 23, 2017 08:18 PM (s5o+q)

42 7 Maybe Cruz is being lined up to replace Ginsberg.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 23, 2017 08:10 PM (6FqZa)

Or Mike Lee. Either one, or both and Gorsuch puts the kibosh on a lot of what the left wants to do and allows for the rollback.

This guy Trump. Not bad for 36 hours.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 23, 2017 08:18 PM (mbhDw)

43 How old is Ginsberg - in people years?

Posted by: Weasel at January 23, 2017 08:19 PM (Sfs6o)

44 I'll take "who was not ever going to be one of Hillary's picks" for $400, Alex.

Posted by: Moron Robbie at January 23, 2017 08:19 PM (Halhc)

45 40. The thing is yuuge and classy and luxurious. Russians aren't known for tasteful understatement.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at January 23, 2017 08:19 PM (vNAqW)

46 This guy Trump. Not bad for 36 hours.

Although I may need a doctor.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 23, 2017 08:20 PM (6FqZa)

47
Yes. He could be on the court for the next 30 years

+++

unless all that transhumanist life extension stuff starts paying off

Posted by: Bigby's Ouija Board at January 23, 2017 08:20 PM (U0lQa)

48 How old is Ginsberg - in people years?
Posted by: Weasel

0.08 Vic's.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 23, 2017 08:20 PM (DNPz2)

49 41 An Article V Convention has to include an amendment stating that the Constitution is to be interpreted in all cases according to strict construction of the original intent, and not by previous rulings from any court.
Posted by: filbert at January 23, 2017 08:18 PM (s5o+q)

Considering what the electoral map looks like - that Democrats are almost slightly more influential as a party as The Rent Is Too Damn High - we have never been in a better chance to enact amendments that reasserts states' supremacy over the Federal government. Sadly, there are a lot of GOP dead-enders who want to continue to goniff our money at the expense of our liberty. They must be made to pay politically.

Very potentially exciting times.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 23, 2017 08:21 PM (mbhDw)

50 Haven't been this happy for a POTUS since Regan told the Reds to tear down this wall and they did.

Posted by: Pepe at January 23, 2017 08:21 PM (XNdCd)

51 As long as this guy keeps the government from screwing with my guns and leaves me alone to practice my religion, he is a big GO!

Posted by: Columbo's Cousin at January 23, 2017 08:21 PM (UsCnO)

52 16 - with gurkhas for clerks, cossacks for court officers, and roof Koreans and sikhs for security.

Speak it brother. A few years ago I had a man that had served with the Royal Gurkha Rifles on my IT team (H1b). Very quiet, serious and a damn hard worker. Even though he was very small in stature, he scared the shit out of everyone. When he walked down the hallway everyone stood to the side to let him pass.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 23, 2017 08:22 PM (tr2D7)

53 But he's a Bush appointed judge. s/

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 23, 2017 08:22 PM (IDPbH)

54 If Trump appoints 2 or 3 justices of Gorsuch's caliber to the SC and pack the federal courts with conservative judges, then he can play 3 rounds of golf every day and I won't complain a bit.

Posted by: Michael the TEXIT at January 23, 2017 08:22 PM (nvMvs)

55 Well, if there are Scalia comparisons and the guy is not offended by them, then hell yeah!

Posted by: logprof at January 23, 2017 08:22 PM (GsAUU)

56 Gorsuch doesn't sound like the type to go Souter on us. Souter was largely an unknown quantity when appointed. Gorsuch has a paper trail 100 miles long and, if anything, is slightly to the right of Scalia.

Posted by: Michael the TEXIT at January 23, 2017 08:22 PM (nvMvs)

57 Although I may need a doctor.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 23, 2017 08:20 PM (6FqZa)

With Trump, it's four months, not four hours!

Posted by: Hrothgar at January 23, 2017 08:22 PM (9LSzT)

58 40. Here's a clip of members of the Kuban Band of Cossacks, entering a vote of dissent against P*ssy Riot at Sochi.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at January 23, 2017 08:23 PM (vNAqW)

59 How old is Ginsberg - in people years?
Posted by: Weasel at January 23, 2017 08:19 PM (Sfs6o)
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183.

I read the SCOTUSblog article - this guy sounds like the real deal. Hooray.

Posted by: bluebell at January 23, 2017 08:23 PM (sBOL1)

60 Considering what the electoral map looks like - that Democrats are almost slightly more influential as a party as The Rent Is Too Damn High - we have never been in a better chance to enact amendments that reasserts states' supremacy over the Federal government. Sadly, there are a lot of GOP dead-enders who want to continue to goniff our money at the expense of our liberty. They must be made to pay politically.

Very potentially exciting times.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 23, 2017 08:21 PM (mbhDw)

Or, alternatively, we have to figure out a way to make it worthwhile for them . . . a way of saving their phony-baloney jobs.

Posted by: filbert at January 23, 2017 08:24 PM (s5o+q)

61 Hi bluebell!

Posted by: Weasel at January 23, 2017 08:24 PM (Sfs6o)

62 Delurking...

Link to Neil Gorsuch's profile at SCOTUS blog:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/zzsyrcv

Hopefully the link works.

Posted by: I Be That Chick at January 23, 2017 08:24 PM (S/qwI)

63 I read somewhere that the test for the Supreme Court nominees was how they would rule on the 14th amendment preotecting anchor babies (they would be against it naturally). And this was one of the first issues Trump wanted, and others wanted, the Court to address.

Posted by: Pepe at January 23, 2017 08:24 PM (XNdCd)

64 Trump is talking about cutting regulations by 75% and quite possibly more.

Impressive.

He's saying something I think most of us have talked about for years and that is getting it back to the core essentials. Yes we want clean air and clean water, and we got those things. Then we got everything else and now you can't do anything without hiring people to just deal with the regulations.

I know Jane's husband is a small business owner. I'm self-employed but it's just me grinding away on the computer. And my taxes are awful because of the self-employment tax.

I can't imagine how someone with actual employees makes it. I really can't. Once I started working for myself I quickly acquired massive respect for small business owners.

Just for myself and my meager earnings I wish Trump could help with the self-employment tax because it's awful.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 23, 2017 08:24 PM (4ErVI)

65 58. Here's the clip. Pixy was faster than I'd thought:

https://youtu.be/ivT-I-yxtdY

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at January 23, 2017 08:24 PM (vNAqW)

66 Were we to develop technology that expanded lifespans into the multiple centuries, would we reexamine lifetime appointments for SCOTUS?

Or would we let presidents make 200-year decisions?

I can think of arguments for both, I guess.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 23, 2017 08:25 PM (qgUJH)

67 Hi Weasel! How are you and Mrs. Weasel doing?

Posted by: bluebell at January 23, 2017 08:25 PM (sBOL1)

68 Clerked for Anthony Kennedy and Byron White.

From Harvard.

Is most likely to sail through confirmation hearings.

None of that sounds good.

Hopefully,
Trump's intention is for the Dems to blow all of their political
capital on defeating Gorsuch so that his "second" choice will succeed.

Posted by: yaedon at January 23, 2017 08:25 PM (qdhQS)

69 The only thing better than this would be a successful impeachment of Benedict Roberts.

Trump needs two picks in his first year ...

Posted by: ShainS at January 23, 2017 08:25 PM (mt8X9)

70 50 Haven't been this happy for a POTUS since Regan told the Reds to tear down this wall and they did.
Posted by: Pepe at January 23, 2017 08:21 PM (XNdCd)

Reagan also gave us O'Connor, though that is not the fault of Meese (or Levin). Sometimes, nominees lies about what they are and feel. But sometimes you get gems like Alito, Scalia and Thomas.

Bottom line is the vetting has to be incredibly thorough. We have a shot at affecting the judiciary for perhaps 50 years. It would seriously thwart the Left and make what they want to do harder.

Very exciting IF it's done well.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 23, 2017 08:26 PM (mbhDw)

71 23 Cossacks are best as assistant scribes
http://www.cossacks-lienz.net/Sultan.html Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 23, 2017 08:13 PM (6FqZa)

There are times when I facepalm wrt being Ukrainian, (mostly the infighting and pettiness in our community when I was a kid), other times when I'm proud of it. Repin's painting of the Zaporozhian reply are examples of the latter.

Posted by: atomicplaygirl (Gab: atomicplaygirl) at January 23, 2017 08:26 PM (Gim9y)

72 Posted by: torquewrench at January 23, 2017 08:13 PM (noWW6)

What about Kennedy and OConnor ?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 23, 2017 08:26 PM (IDPbH)

73 Considering what the electoral map looks like - that Democrats are almost slightly more influential as a party as The Rent Is Too Damn High - we have never been in a better chance to enact amendments that reasserts states' supremacy over the Federal government.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 23, 2017 08:21 PM (mbhDw)

While you're technically 100% correct on this JJ, good lord am I sick of hearing it. The same was said about the Republican party ad nauseam for the past 8 years. We need to keep the pedal to the metal and do more than ever before. Do not let the left get their feet back under them.

But, on the bright side, who did Trump meet with today? LABOR. Union leaders from all over the country, and not just top brass either. The guy's got a killer instinct. THANK THE LORD.

Posted by: most deplorable Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at January 23, 2017 08:27 PM (Iy6JT)

74 "Posted by: yaedon at January 23, 2017 08:25 PM (qdhQS) "

Everyone on the court is either from Harvard, Yale or Columbia Law, so you can't really hold it against him that he's a Harvard Law grad.

Of course, I find it hard to believe that every sharp legal mind in the country went to one of 3 schools, but it is what it is.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at January 23, 2017 08:27 PM (kumBu)

75 17 Second look at Judge Reinhold? Posted by: garrett at January 23, 2017 08:12 PM

If only his father had nicknamed him "Justice" Reinhold.

Posted by: Captain Oblivious at January 23, 2017 08:28 PM (v+ehC)

76 Posted by: yaedon at January 23, 2017 08:25 PM (qdhQS)

--How does clerking for Byron "Whizzer" White not sound good? Or are you being carcastic?

Posted by: logprof at January 23, 2017 08:28 PM (GsAUU)

77 52. I recall an interview with a gurkha serving in Jugoslavia. An officer. Cheerful and serene, he said operations were going smoothly, but that his men were disappointed. First contact with JNA, the Jugos racked their rifles and left their checkpoint without firing a shot.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at January 23, 2017 08:28 PM (vNAqW)

78 Now Madonna's going to have to start thinking about blowing up the Supreme Court.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at January 23, 2017 08:28 PM (oVJmc)

79 63 I read somewhere that the test for the Supreme Court nominees was how they would rule on the 14th amendment preotecting anchor babies (they would be against it naturally). And this was one of the first issues Trump wanted, and others wanted, the Court to address.

Posted by: Pepe at January 23, 2017 08:24 PM (XNdCd)

I brought up Gorsuch earlier today because I looked into Trump's activities with SCOTUS over the weekend.

He seems solid. The conservative legal groups making the right noises although I'm suspicious of them because it's probably the same groups who made the right noises over Souter and really Roberts. Roberts, we were assured, was solid. Look how that turned out.

But Trump absolutely, must have litmus tests. He must receive answers directly from the potential nominee on these tests. We simply cannot waste this opportunity we've been given on another Souter or Roberts.

Could it still turn out poorly? Maybe, but I think it's less likely than when I read about H.W. Bush saying he didn't know what Souter's opinions were on abortion or all the other hot topic issues near and dear to most of our hearts.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 23, 2017 08:28 PM (4ErVI)

80 The only thing better than this would be a successful impeachment of Benedict Roberts.
Find out what the Left was blackmailing him over for the Obamacare rulings.

Posted by: andycanuck at January 23, 2017 08:28 PM (lJXY3)

81 "Bottom line is the vetting has to be incredibly
thorough. We have a shot at affecting the judiciary for perhaps 50
years. It would seriously thwart the Left and make what they want to do
harder.

Very exciting IF it's done well.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton"

^^^^^This!!

Posted by: yaedon at January 23, 2017 08:29 PM (qdhQS)

82

Great link. Thanks Ace.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 23, 2017 08:29 PM (nQgx9)

83 67 Hi Weasel! How are you and Mrs. Weasel doing?

Posted by: bluebell at January 23, 2017 08:25 PM (sBOL1)
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Everything is good, thanks. Work is settling down to a dull roar, the doctors aren't currently after me, and WW is celebrating a bday this weekend. I registered for the world's in Ottawa this summer which will be fun!

How's things with you and all the little bells?

Posted by: Weasel at January 23, 2017 08:30 PM (Sfs6o)

84 What to do with this lady boner?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 23, 2017 08:30 PM (PY9jH)

85 71. Be proud of it. Through your veins flows the blood of warriors and builders, nobles and peasants, uncounted generations of great people. Slavic unity ftw!

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at January 23, 2017 08:30 PM (vNAqW)

86 Where do you think Madonna keeps her phylactery?

Being the only way to slay her, I'm sure she has hidden it with great care.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 23, 2017 08:30 PM (qgUJH)

87 I'm not aware that the justice one clerks for is any evidence of anything. Maybe someone here can offer more detail on that issue.

And while a Roberts or Kennedy can happen any time, the longer and more important the record, the less likely are bad surprises.

Of course the "solution" for the tyranny misrule of this unelected legislature with lifetime appointments is to constrain its authority, something the constitution provides for - not to just keep hoping the "right" people get on and don't "evolve". But for which the current political class utterly lacks the courage or intelligence.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 23, 2017 08:30 PM (QDnY+)

88 "Trump absolutely, must have litmus tests. He must
receive answers directly from the potential nominee on these tests. We
simply cannot waste this opportunity we've been given on another Souter
or Roberts.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 23, 2017 08:28 PM (4ErVI"
^^^^And This!!!

Posted by: yaedon at January 23, 2017 08:30 PM (qdhQS)

89 Judge Dredd ?

Posted by: EVLINC! at January 23, 2017 08:31 PM (y3aQB)

90 Now Madonna's going to have to start thinking about blowing up the Supreme Court

Fixed for accuracy.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 23, 2017 08:31 PM (6FqZa)

91 Could it still turn out poorly? Maybe, but I think it's less likely than when I read about H.W. Bush saying he didn't know what Souter's opinions were on abortion or all the other hot topic issues near and dear to most of our hearts.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 23, 2017 08:28 PM (4ErVI)

It would appear that Trump thoroughly understands the importance of completely vetting potential employees.

I would certainly think that would apply to a candidate for the Supreme court.

Posted by: filbert at January 23, 2017 08:32 PM (s5o+q)

92 I need to go to bed. 'Night all.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 23, 2017 08:32 PM (PY9jH)

93 60
Or, alternatively, we have to figure out a way to make it worthwhile for them . . . a way of saving their phony-baloney jobs.
Posted by: filbert at January 23, 2017 08:24 PM (s5o+q)

"I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing, the right people will not do the right thing either, of if they try, they will shortly be out of office."

Milton Friedman

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 23, 2017 08:32 PM (mbhDw)

94 We will get a good idea as to how conservative a candidate he is by listening to the lamentations of the Dems.

The more teeth gnashing and hair pulling and caterwauling that happens, the better the candidate is. If a couple of the Senators commit seppuku, then he's solid gold.

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 23, 2017 08:32 PM (xpfRn)

95 Between Trump appointing potential up to four or, dare I say, five justices and more than half of the federal judiciary, well, just think about the implications.

We are within real reach of being able to effectively lock the lefties out of the judicial system for two generations. I don't think that's an exaggeration at all, if it's done right and it's done smart.

Even if they take power after Trump leaves, we have essentially removed an entire branch of the government from their control. For up to 40 years (with younger justices appointed of course).

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 23, 2017 08:32 PM (4ErVI)

96 Isn't this the guy who used to beat up Arnold and Dudley on the Playground?

Posted by: garrett at January 23, 2017 08:32 PM (m9RuU)

97 Well, I would have gone with Cruz, Cotton, Gohmert, or Gowdy, but I will defer to President Trump. Seeing as how he's President and all. And I'm not.

Posted by: Eromero at January 23, 2017 08:32 PM (zLDYs)

98 Now Madonna's going to have to start thinking about blowing up the Supreme Court

Fixed for accuracy.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo

Hells yeah!

Posted by: Elena Kagan at January 23, 2017 08:33 PM (MQZOg)

99 He clerked for Kennedy.

Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at January 23, 2017 08:33 PM (Gv7El)

100 i wish it were cruz.....but it's not a hillary nominee so i'm happy

Posted by: phoenixgirl...spring training 36 days at January 23, 2017 08:33 PM (0O7c5)

101 Who's complaining about this? Some children? Oh well.

Posted by: freaked at January 23, 2017 08:33 PM (BO/km)

102 1 He had better not be a Souter.
Posted by: the littl shyning man
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Or a Roberts.

Posted by: The Deer at January 23, 2017 08:33 PM (WWEAt)

103 Building a foundation for the overturning of Roe and Obergefell and a reaffirmation of 2A with 50-state constitutional carry?

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at January 23, 2017 08:33 PM (kP16F)

104 Hells yeah!
Posted by: Elena Kagan at January 23, 2017 08:33 PM (MQZOg)
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One would think a "wise" latina would avoid the types of things one catches from sexual congress with a Lich.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 23, 2017 08:33 PM (qgUJH)

105 Also, to be fair, picking judges is definitely a tough task - none of the recent Republican Presidents have a perfect record. Reagan gave us Scalia, but also O'Connor and Kennedy (though he tried to give us Bork). Bush 1 gave us Thomas, but also Souter. Bush 2 gave us Alito, but also Roberts.

As opposed to the recent Dems, who have a perfect record of appointed lefty hacks. Clinton gave us Breyer and The Notorious RBG, Obama gave us Kagan and Sotomayor.

Who was the last 'misfire' for a Dem President, actually?

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at January 23, 2017 08:34 PM (kumBu)

106 Science has found a drug that does exactly the same thing as a lapdance from your wife.

http://tinyurl.com/jjopo53

Posted by: Hey Atlantic! Fire Julia Ioffe! at January 23, 2017 08:34 PM (X4ZNp)

107 I don't know.

Is a politician a good justice?

The skillsets seem very conflicting.

Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at January 23, 2017 08:34 PM (Gv7El)

108 Everything is good, thanks. Work is settling down to a dull roar, the doctors aren't currently after me, and WW is celebrating a bday this weekend. I registered for the world's in Ottawa this summer which will be fun!

How's things with you and all the little bells?
Posted by: Weasel at January 23, 2017 08:30 PM (Sfs6o)
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Weasel, it sounds like you really are on the mend! Huzzah! Are you and Mrs. Weasel (sorry, I just can't call her what you do) going away to celebrate her birthday?

And you must be looking forward to getting back to your shooting matches - worlds in Ottawa - wow!

The little bells have been cycling through the same garbage virus that laid me low a couple weeks ago, but we all are on the upward trend, I think and hope and pray.

Wasn't the weather today weird? I found myself wishing it had been like this on Saturday for the "Viva La Vulva" rally, as my daughter calls it. (All my kids were disgusted at the thought of that rally, though they know a few people who went.)

Posted by: bluebell at January 23, 2017 08:34 PM (sBOL1)

109 Could Trump nominate his new appointee for Chief Justice?

THAT would be a cause for celebration and relief. Roberts is sort of a worst-case scenario (yeah not literally, but close enough, considering it shouldn't even *be* close). Seems to have not the slightest idea what his job and responsibilities are.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 23, 2017 08:35 PM (QDnY+)

110 Wouldn't mind if Trump et al used the Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmet as the model for diplomatic communiques and other official documents intended to be read by hostiles. Court opinions in this style and CFR entries would be welcomed, as well.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at January 23, 2017 08:35 PM (vNAqW)

111 they all seem solid until they aren't.

Trump has his own litmus tests that surely won't be the same as others. He's always supported the death penalty, for example, so he may give that a higher priority than something else.

Posted by: Bigby's Ouija Board at January 23, 2017 08:35 PM (U0lQa)

112 I'd direct the attention of any who are unsure of Trump's intentions here to his Inaugural speech.

His clear, stated intent is to tear power away from the "elites" and return it to the people.

The Doomsday Weapon for doing that is the Supreme Court.

Posted by: filbert at January 23, 2017 08:35 PM (s5o+q)

113 One would think a "wise" latina would avoid the types of things one catches from sexual congress with a Lich.
Posted by: Moron Pundit

Sotomayor is the wise Latina.
I'm the butch Jewish one.

Posted by: Elena Kagan at January 23, 2017 08:35 PM (MQZOg)

114 Wait, Scalia was Italian, right, I mean Italian-American?

So that's an Italian-American SCOTUS seat!

Trump better appoint another Eyetalian to replace Scalia, or he's rayciss!

/s

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 23, 2017 08:36 PM (EZebt)

115 Well, I'll say one thing for Putin. His pussies are a lot braver than ours.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks. Laugh at a joke, get another joke free! at January 23, 2017 08:36 PM (Nwg0u)

116 Hells yeah!
Posted by: Elena Kagan at January 23, 2017 08:33 PM (MQZOg)
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One would think a "wise" latina would avoid the types of things one catches from sexual congress with a Lich.

Posted by: Moron Pundit

I am NOT Larry Fishburne!

Posted by: Sonya Sodomizer at January 23, 2017 08:36 PM (rH4JY)

117 73 But, on the bright side, who did Trump meet with today? LABOR. Union leaders from all over the country, and not just top brass either. The guy's got a killer instinct. THANK THE LORD.
Posted by: most deplorable Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at January 23, 2017 08:27 PM (Iy6JT)

I was merely pointing out an incredible position we are in and the incredible strategic advantage. FOR THE MOMENT. Evil never rests and so in the words of Frederick the Great "L'audace, l'audace. Toujours l'audace." Attack, attack, attack and never rest on your laurels. Trump has seriously damaged the media and now he has a chance to damage the message at its source: Democrats/Leftists.

I think he is going to work out fine, especially with people like Jeff Sessions and Mike Pence right beside him.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 23, 2017 08:36 PM (mbhDw)

118 Find out what the Left was blackmailing him over for the Obamacare rulings.

Posted by: andycanuck at January 23, 2017 08:28 PM (lJXY3)

=======

IIRC, it was something to do with Robert and his wife adopting their two children from South America despite them being Irish or something ...

Posted by: ShainS at January 23, 2017 08:36 PM (mt8X9)

119

"I would hope that a wise ~~Latina woman,~~ gray-hair with the richness of ~~her~~ his experiences, would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a ~~white male~~ non-wise latina who hasn't lived that life,"...

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 23, 2017 08:37 PM (nQgx9)

120 Sotomayor is the wise Latina.
I'm the butch Jewish one.
Posted by: Elena Kagan at January 23, 2017 08:35 PM (MQZOg)
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Duh. My head is apparently filled with soup.

It's been a long week. But not long enough to have sex with a Lich.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 23, 2017 08:37 PM (qgUJH)

121 Posted by: bluebell at January 23, 2017 08:34 PM (sBOL1)
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We're trying to plan a little trip butt it will probably have to wait for spring break. I have a note to send flowers on the calendar, though!

Viva la Vulva - ha! I've been referring to it as The Lesbian Parade loud enough to be overheard by those I hope to offend.

Posted by: Weasel at January 23, 2017 08:37 PM (Sfs6o)

122 "Posted by: logprof at January 23, 2017 08:28 PM (GsAUU)"

Sorry, Kennedy part of that was the emphasis. If Gorsuch takes after the strongest dissenter of Roe, then he will be fantastic.

Posted by: yaedon at January 23, 2017 08:37 PM (qdhQS)

123 Science has found a drug that does exactly the same thing as a lapdance from your wife.

+++

kill the boner?

Posted by: Bigby's Ouija Board at January 23, 2017 08:37 PM (U0lQa)

124 hmmmm

Posted by: runner at January 23, 2017 08:37 PM (c6/9Q)

125 University of Oxford, graduated from Harvard Law School, clerked for prominent conservative judges (Judge David Sentelle of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, as well as Justices Byron White and Anthony Kennedy of the Supreme Court), and was a high-
ranking official in the Bush Justice Department before his judicial appointment.

===

Meh.

/s

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 23, 2017 08:38 PM (EZebt)

126 There are times when I facepalm wrt being Ukrainian, (mostly the infighting and pettiness in our community when I was a kid), other times when I'm proud of it. Repin's painting of the Zaporozhian reply are examples of the latter.
Posted by: atomicplaygirl (Gab: atomicplaygirl) at January 23, 2017 08:26 PM (Gim9y)

--Every August, Winnipeg has a "festival" (not sure if that's the right term, since it is spread out over multiple venues around the city) called Folklorama, with each pavilion hosted by a group representing a different cultural tradition. Each year, there are two pavilions emphasizing Ukrainian culture (a huge number of Winnipeggers have Ukrainian ancestors), one called Ukraine-L'viv and one called Ukraine-Kiev. I've heard that supposedly one (I think the former) is more commie, but I would not be surprised if there's some esoteric Inside Baseball reason there are two competing pavilions that outsiders have no clue about and would wonder why all the fuss. . . .

Posted by: logprof at January 23, 2017 08:38 PM (GsAUU)

127 'Nite, Jane.

Posted by: rickl at January 23, 2017 08:38 PM (sdi6R)

128 Ugh. I have the hiccups.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 23, 2017 08:38 PM (PY9jH)

129 115. Even Russian scum are better than ours. They can take a beating.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at January 23, 2017 08:38 PM (vNAqW)

130 100 i wish it were cruz.....but it's not a hillary nominee so i'm happy
Posted by: phoenixgirl...spring training 36 days at January 23, 2017 08:33 PM (0O7c5)

Kamala Harris, Angela Corrie or Marylin Mosby. Hell, she could pardon Lynn Stewart and nominate her. That is could HAVE. But . . . Hillary Clinton will never be president of the United States of America.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 23, 2017 08:38 PM (mbhDw)

131 >>He clerked for Kennedy.

If we learned anything from Trump it's not to judge a person by who they used to work with. You don't always get to choose the perfect situation.

Read some of his writings, particularly his opinion of the commerce clause. That's a better indication of who he is.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 23, 2017 08:38 PM (/tuJf)

132 >>>Science has found a drug that does exactly the same thing as a lapdance from your wife.

Is that an actual article? Don't like to click random links.

Posted by: Max Power at January 23, 2017 08:39 PM (q177U)

133 "Posted by: rhomboid at January 23, 2017 08:35 PM (QDnY+)"

Chief Justice is way overrated. Lots of extra work. No extra perks (or power).

Posted by: yaedon at January 23, 2017 08:39 PM (qdhQS)

134 Ugh. I have the hiccups.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 23, 2017 08:38 PM (PY9jH)
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BOO!

Good night, Jane. While you're recovering from your hiccups, how are you and your husband doing with your recoveries?

Posted by: bluebell at January 23, 2017 08:39 PM (sBOL1)

135 128 Ugh. I have the hiccups.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 23, 2017 08:38 PM (PY9jH)
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Boo!

Posted by: Weasel at January 23, 2017 08:40 PM (Sfs6o)

136 114
Trump better appoint another Eyetalian to replace Scalia, or he's rayciss!

/s
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 23, 2017 08:36 PM (EZebt)

Tom Hagen. My Kraut-Mick friend.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 23, 2017 08:40 PM (mbhDw)

137 O/T -- but I really wish Andrew Breitbart was alive and had been appointed Press Secretary by Trump.

He could lead off each event with: "Fuck You! #War ..."

Posted by: ShainS at January 23, 2017 08:40 PM (mt8X9)

138 Wasn't the weather today weird? I found myself wishing it had been like this on Saturday for the "Viva La Vulva" rally, as my daughter calls it.

Livin' la vulva loca!

Posted by: Ricky Martin at January 23, 2017 08:40 PM (rH4JY)

139 134 Ugh. I have the hiccups.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 23, 2017 08:38 PM (PY9jH)
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BOO!

Good night, Jane. While you're recovering from your hiccups, how are you and your husband doing with your recoveries?

Posted by: bluebell at January 23, 2017 08:39 PM (sBOL1)
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Jinx!

Posted by: Weasel at January 23, 2017 08:40 PM (Sfs6o)

140 Read some of his writings, particularly his opinion of the commerce clause. That's a better indication of who he is.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 23, 2017 08:38 PM (/tuJf)

Especially the dissents he's written. I'd guess that's where you really find out where he's coming from.

Posted by: filbert at January 23, 2017 08:40 PM (s5o+q)

141 Ugh. I have the hiccups.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 23, 2017 08:38 PM (PY9jH)
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HILLARY CLINTON IS PRESIDENT!

Just kidding. She will never, ever, ever be president.

Did it work?

Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 23, 2017 08:41 PM (qgUJH)

142 You want a younger Scalia
You'll settle for a younger Scalia
You'll get a younger Scalia.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 23, 2017 08:41 PM (fKWf6)

143 "Posted by: JackStraw at January 23, 2017 08:38 PM (/tuJf)"

If Trump uses the same interview process he has used with most of his cabinet appointments, then we'll likely be pleased.

Posted by: yaedon at January 23, 2017 08:41 PM (qdhQS)

144 @70

Which is why you cannot risk the Scalia seat on a cypher, you must be damn well sure of what you are getting.

We need ringers.

I suggest Cruz be the nominee, he's like nuking it from outer space.

Posted by: Kreplach at January 23, 2017 08:41 PM (+lv+r)

145 Who was the last 'misfire' for a Dem President, actually?

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at January 23, 2017 08:34 PM (kumBu)

Abe Fortas? LBJ put him up and had to pull him because of some sort of legal issues.

So even the misfire wasn't someone who actually got to the court.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 23, 2017 08:41 PM (4ErVI)

146 128 Ugh. I have the hiccups.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 23, 2017 08:38 PM (PY9jH)

I have a sure fire cure. Huh huh, I sure do!

Posted by: Bill Clinton at January 23, 2017 08:41 PM (0mRoj)

147 Jinx!
Posted by: Weasel at January 23, 2017 08:40 PM (Sfs6o)
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We intellectuals think alike.

Posted by: bluebell at January 23, 2017 08:41 PM (sBOL1)

148 Ugh. I have the hiccups

+++

go to the nurse's office before you give em to all the other kids

Posted by: Bigby's Ouija Board at January 23, 2017 08:41 PM (U0lQa)

149 You want a younger Scalia
You'll settle for a younger Scalia
You'll get a younger Scalia.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 23, 2017 08:41 PM (fKWf6)

There is . . . another . . . Scaliawalker . . .

Posted by: Yoda at January 23, 2017 08:42 PM (s5o+q)

150

Will this shut up the Bushies (including the perino/gutfeld pair). Perino is still shoving talking points down Gutfeld's mouth. I remembered today why I stopped watching The Five.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 23, 2017 08:42 PM (nQgx9)

151 "Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 23, 2017 08:41 PM (fKWf6)"

From your mouth to God's ears!

Posted by: yaedon at January 23, 2017 08:42 PM (qdhQS)

152 Seeing as how I never got a lap dance from my wife I am intrigued and interested in a comparative trial.

Posted by: freaked at January 23, 2017 08:42 PM (BO/km)

153
HILLARY CLINTON IS PRESIDENT!

Just kidding. She will never, ever, ever be president.

Did it work?
Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 23, 2017 08:41 PM (qgUJH)
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You're supposed to startle them - not give them a heart attack!

Posted by: Weasel at January 23, 2017 08:42 PM (Sfs6o)

154 141 Ugh. I have the hiccups.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 23, 2017 08:38 PM (PY9jH)
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HILLARY CLINTON IS PRESIDENT!

Just kidding. She will never, ever, ever be president.

Did it work?
Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 23, 2017 08:41 PM (qgUJH)

Hiccups AND vomiting. Way to go.

Posted by: Insomniac at January 23, 2017 08:42 PM (0mRoj)

155 128 Ugh. I have the hiccups.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 23, 2017 08:38 PM (PY9jH)

Tsp of sugar

Posted by: Tami at January 23, 2017 08:42 PM (Enq6K)

156 109 Could Trump nominate his new appointee for Chief Justice?

THAT would be a cause for celebration and relief. Roberts is sort of a worst-case scenario (yeah not literally, but close enough, considering it shouldn't even *be* close). Seems to have not the slightest idea what his job and responsibilities are.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 23, 2017 08:35 PM (QDnY+)

++++

Not as long as Roberts is there. The President doesn't get to decide who the Chief is. If there's an opening in that position, he can nominate someone, either someone new or a sitting justice. Once someone has the job, it's theirs for life.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 23, 2017 08:42 PM (R+30W)

157 As long as it's not the guy that Arnold and Dudley met at the bike shop.

Posted by: JT in KC at January 23, 2017 08:43 PM (FoSz+)

158 Hiccups AND vomiting. Way to go.
Posted by: Insomniac at January 23, 2017 08:42 PM (0mRoj)
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This is why I can't be trusted with real power.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 23, 2017 08:43 PM (qgUJH)

159 Karl Denninger says that Trump must absolutely, positively attack the monopolies in the medical industry, or else nothing else he does will matter in the long run.

http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=231778

He's like a broken record on this, but he feels very strongly about it.

Posted by: rickl at January 23, 2017 08:43 PM (sdi6R)

160 115. That whip the Cossack is using in the video is a volchatka - wolf-killer. There's about 2 or 3 ounces of lead in the business end, and the body of the whip is made of chain or cable covered in leather. Those things are lethal, and break bones without much effort. Yes, their proggy scum are a lot tougher than ours.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at January 23, 2017 08:44 PM (vNAqW)

161 147 Jinx!
Posted by: Weasel at January 23, 2017 08:40 PM (Sfs6o)
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We intellectuals think alike.
Posted by: bluebell at January 23, 2017 08:41 PM (sBOL1)
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Sure do!

Posted by: Weasel at January 23, 2017 08:44 PM (Sfs6o)

162 Is notorious RBG still breathing?

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at January 23, 2017 08:44 PM (PqqkK)

163 I'm dying to know if Trump has any plans for Cruz, assuming they have mended some fences.

Posted by: Emmie at January 23, 2017 08:44 PM (xVuS6)

164
Winning Status:

[ ] Tired.

[ x ] Not Tired.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 23, 2017 08:44 PM (ODxAs)

165

Posted by: phoenixgirl...spring training 33 days at January 23, 2017 08:44 PM (0O7c5)

166 Does a Supreme Court nominee have to be a lawyer? Because I'm available.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at January 23, 2017 08:44 PM (MQZOg)

167 165
Posted by: phoenixgirl...spring training 33 days at January 23, 2017 08:44 PM (0O7c5)

Well said.

Posted by: Insomniac at January 23, 2017 08:45 PM (0mRoj)

168 Gorsuch. His family make that beer what comes in bottles with the stopper?

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 23, 2017 08:45 PM (JO9+V)

169 A SCOTUS packed with Trump justices could also decide to take a hard look at suing the media for libel.

The insane protection they've received from SCOTUS is responsible for the reckless and destructive behavior we've seen in the past three or four decades.

There's no accountability there.

I think there should be.

Stare decisis? Sure Senator Liberal I agree with that. You bet. Uh huh.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 23, 2017 08:45 PM (4ErVI)

170 Hillary Clinton will never be president of the United States of America.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 23, 2017 08:38 PM (mbhDw)

It may be years before I tire of reading that sentence!

Posted by: Hrothgar at January 23, 2017 08:45 PM (9LSzT)

171 Hiccups - put a straw sideways in your mouth and then try to take a drink of water around it (don't spill). You look goofy, buy won't have the hiccups anymore.

Posted by: Memories at January 23, 2017 08:45 PM (mwcEF)

172 Clerked for White and Kennedy. Bush appointee. But...sided with hobby lobby and sisters of the poor. could be acceptable

Posted by: runner at January 23, 2017 08:45 PM (c6/9Q)

173 To drink whiskey or not to drink whiskey.

Life is so difficult.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 23, 2017 08:45 PM (qgUJH)

174 Science has found a drug that does exactly the same thing as a lapdance from your wife

Be imaginary?

Posted by: Sandy Crack at January 23, 2017 08:46 PM (9sYy3)

175 "Posted by: JackStraw at January 23, 2017 08:38 PM (/tuJf)"

Wise words. I'll look into that, too. Thanks!

Posted by: yaedon at January 23, 2017 08:46 PM (qdhQS)

176 >>Hiccups - put a straw sideways in your mouth

Excellent suggestion.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 23, 2017 08:46 PM (/tuJf)

177
You: "With life-extension technologies under development and maybe only 5 years away, a 50-year-old could be on the Supreme court for 100 years!"

Leftist: "Noooooo!!!!!"

You: "Science, bitches."
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doesn't RBG luv her some euthanasia?

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at January 23, 2017 08:46 PM (PqqkK)

178 >>>142 You want a younger Scalia
You'll settle for a younger Scalia
You'll get a younger Scalia

pretty please

Posted by: concrete girl at January 23, 2017 08:47 PM (Df46i)

179 Is notorious RBG still breathing?

One picture I saw from the inauguration looked like she was either:

[] Asleep

[] Dead

Take your pick, but it was one of those two.

Posted by: moon over vermont at January 23, 2017 08:47 PM (iw9Kk)

180 78 Now Madonna's going to have to start thinking about blowing up the Supreme Court.

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I'd settle for blowing

Posted by: Elena Kagan at January 23, 2017 08:47 PM (PqqkK)

181 After David "Stealth Liberal" Souter and John "Obamacare's constitutional 'cause it's a tax" Roberts, no judge appointed by either Bush should receive any further consideration for promotion.
Posted by: torquewrench at January 23, 2017 08:13 PM (noWW6)

Exactly where I sit. Somebody trustworthy would have to do some kind of sales job on me.

Posted by: Deploreable Flyover 98ZJUSMC at January 23, 2017 08:47 PM (Pd7Sl)

182 doesn't RBG luv her some euthanasia?
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at January 23, 2017 08:46 PM (PqqkK)
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Not enough, apparently.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 23, 2017 08:47 PM (qgUJH)

183 179 Is notorious RBG still breathing?

One picture I saw from the inauguration looked like she was either:

[] Asleep

[] Dead

Take your pick, but it was one of those two.
Posted by: moon over vermont at January 23, 2017 08:47 PM (iw9Kk)

Weekend at Ruthie's

Posted by: Insomniac at January 23, 2017 08:47 PM (0mRoj)

184 159 Karl Denninger says that Trump must absolutely, positively attack the monopolies in the medical industry, or else nothing else he does will matter in the long run.

http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=231778

He's like a broken record on this, but he feels very strongly about it.

Posted by: rickl at January 23, 2017 08:43 PM (sdi6R)

It's a good idea. The same with breaking up Google and the media companies.

It's nice for revenge too, but really it's just good for business.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 23, 2017 08:47 PM (4ErVI)

185 Abe Fortas? LBJ put him up and had to pull him because of some sort of legal issues.

So even the misfire wasn't someone who actually got to the court.

Fortas was an Associate Justice. The fail was to become Chief. Well, and then the resignation.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 23, 2017 08:48 PM (LTHVh)

186 If only his father had nicknamed him "Justice" Reinhold.

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If only his father led and Indian tribe

Posted by: Elena Kagan at January 23, 2017 08:48 PM (PqqkK)

187 For some insane reason, I just crawled out of bed to discover you guys are all dickweeds.

Namaste.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 23, 2017 08:48 PM (PY9jH)

188 The Supreme Court is why Trump had to be President Trump.

If left to the FAB, we would have been over as a country.

A younger Scalia!.......Great!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 23, 2017 08:48 PM (5VlCp)

189 But he's not a Catholic from Queens

It's in the Constitution, don't you know

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 23, 2017 08:49 PM (aKQa8)

190 Abe Fortas?

The Sausage King of Chicago.

Posted by: Mia Sara at January 23, 2017 08:49 PM (wpC7C)

191 Fortas was an Associate Justice. The fail was to become Chief. Well, and then the resignation.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 23, 2017 08:48 PM (LTHVh)

Thanks!

I thought maybe I ought to check and then was all nah I'll rely upon my memory! What could go wrong?

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 23, 2017 08:49 PM (4ErVI)

192 I can tell it's going to be a rough few years. My schadenboner got a schadenboner and it's only Trump's first work day!

Posted by: t-bird at January 23, 2017 08:49 PM (/wWB4)

193 Who was the last 'misfire' for a Dem President, actually?

The last D-appointed SC Justice who wasn't a lockstep liberal was the aforementioned Byron White, placed there by JFK.

As far as I can tell, anyway.

Posted by: mikeski at January 23, 2017 08:49 PM (iKu60)

194 One doesn't have be a priest to be the Pope, and one doesn't have to be a lawyer to be a Justice!

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at January 23, 2017 08:49 PM (kP16F)

195
One picture I saw from the inauguration looked like she was either:

[] Asleep

[] Dead

Take your pick, but it was one of those two.
Posted by: moon over vermont

It won't matter when our inter-skeletal appliance is operational!

Posted by: GoogleBleepBloopBlop at January 23, 2017 08:49 PM (DNPz2)

196 For some insane reason, I just crawled out of bed to discover you guys are all dickweeds.

Namaste.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 23, 2017 08:48 PM (PY9jH)

Like you didn't already know?

Posted by: Hrothgar at January 23, 2017 08:49 PM (9LSzT)

197 Is notorious RBG still breathing?

She's only mostly dead.

Posted by: Miracle Max at January 23, 2017 08:49 PM (oVJmc)

198 Who was the last 'misfire' for a Dem President, actually?

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at January 23, 2017 08:34 PM (kumBu)

++++

Byron White, JFK's contribution to SCOTUS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_White

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 23, 2017 08:50 PM (R+30W)

199 Anon. Y. Mous, thanks, I always forget about that one (whether Chief Justice can be, in effect, replaced).

yaedon, I thought the Chief did in fact have some power (de facto), in procedural terms, especially on a "divided"* court (in terms of which cases are accepted, etc.).

*"divided" being an extremely misleading euphemism for the presence of both justices, and legislators, on the court

Posted by: rhomboid at January 23, 2017 08:50 PM (QDnY+)

200 If a couple of the Senators commit seppuku, then he's solid gold.

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Them puzzles is HARD

Posted by: John McCain at January 23, 2017 08:50 PM (PqqkK)

201 'For some insane reason, I just crawled out of bed to discover you guys are all dickweeds. '

We try harder!

Posted by: A Dickweed at January 23, 2017 08:50 PM (BO/km)

202
Sorry, Kennedy part of that was the emphasis. If Gorsuch takes after the strongest dissenter of Roe, then he will be fantastic.
Posted by: yaedon at January 23, 2017 08:37 PM (qdhQS)

--Ah, gotcha. Whit was not only a Supreme Court Justice, but an all-American running back and a Naval Intelligence officer in WWII. Not shabby at all. . . .

Posted by: logprof at January 23, 2017 08:51 PM (GsAUU)

203 187 For some insane reason, I just crawled out of bed to discover you guys are all dickweeds.

Namaste.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 23, 2017 08:48 PM (PY9jH)

"Discover"? It's not like you're new here...

Posted by: Insomniac at January 23, 2017 08:51 PM (0mRoj)

204 avoid the types of things one catches from sexual congress with a Lich.

That would be the "Yummy Mummies" comic at Oglaf.

NSFW and I won't link this here...

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 23, 2017 08:51 PM (6FqZa)

205 Find out what the Left was blackmailing him over for the Obamacare rulings.
Posted by: andycanuck at January 23, 2017 08:28 PM (lJXY3)

My guess is that Trump already knows what it is. Let's see if Roberts has a health issue...

Posted by: F.N.G. at January 23, 2017 08:51 PM (kiSdp)

206 166--- Does a Supreme Court nominee have to be a lawyer? Because I'm available.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at January 23, 2017 08:44 PM (MQZOg)
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No.
IIRC, there are no specific requirements.
I'm not even sure you have to be homo sapiens.
Seems to me you could nominate an iguana.

Confirmation would be tough, I guess. Maybe.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 23, 2017 08:51 PM (Nox3c)

207 166 Does a Supreme Court nominee have to be a lawyer? Because I'm available.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at January 23, 2017 08:44 PM (MQZOg)

++++

Actually, no.

Good luck with that.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 23, 2017 08:52 PM (R+30W)

208 For some insane reason, I just crawled out of bed to discover you guys are all dickweeds.

Namaste.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 23, 2017 08:48 PM (PY9jH)

Highest compliment! Booyah!

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 23, 2017 08:52 PM (JO9+V)

209 I love all you dickweeds. Sexually.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 23, 2017 08:52 PM (PY9jH)

210 Gorsuch. His family make that beer what comes in bottles with the stopper?

++

nope. they made their fortune patenting the sound a jar of pickles makes as you open it

Posted by: Bigby's Ouija Board at January 23, 2017 08:52 PM (U0lQa)

211 203. The man has a point......

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at January 23, 2017 08:52 PM (vNAqW)

212 184 159 Karl Denninger says that Trump must absolutely, positively attack the monopolies in the medical industry, or else nothing else he does will matter in the long run.

http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=231778

He's like a broken record on this, but he feels very strongly about it.

Posted by: rickl at January 23, 2017 08:43 PM (sdi6R)

It's a good idea. The same with breaking up Google and the media companies.

It's nice for revenge too, but really it's just good for business.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 23, 2017 08:47 PM (4ErVI

He should do all of the above especially medical monopolies.

And find any loophole to nuke Facebook out of orbit.

Posted by: Pepe at January 23, 2017 08:52 PM (XNdCd)

213
I loved that guy when he played the Riddler on the Batman TV show. Or was that his brother Frank?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 23, 2017 08:52 PM (auHtY)

214 187 For some insane reason, I just crawled out of bed to discover you guys are all dickweeds.

Namaste.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 23, 2017 08:48 PM (PY9jH)

You could have discovered that without leaving your bed.

Posted by: Sandy Crack at January 23, 2017 08:52 PM (9sYy3)

215 I wish he was more like Thomas than Scalia. Scalia had a reasonable textual framework he used in his opinions... which he discarded entirely when the subject of drugs came up. Opinions like the one he wrote for Gonzales v Raich just don't make sense next to his other jurisprudence.

It's a big deal, too, since it goes to the heart of the abuse of the commerce clause. The constitution doesn't say "Congress can do anything it wants as long as there's a loose tie to commerce somewhere."

Posted by: Ace's liver at January 23, 2017 08:53 PM (Xuv2G)

216 29 3/4, is that a reference to ObamaCare?

Posted by: MikeN at January 23, 2017 08:53 PM (o/eHL)

217 Karl Denninger says that Trump must absolutely, positively attack the monopolies in the medical industry, or else nothing else he does will matter in the long run.

I've been saying the same about the tech industry. Lookin' at your algorithms over there, Google.

DJT has a lot to cleaning up to do. I hope his heart is up to it.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 23, 2017 08:53 PM (6FqZa)

218 Seems to me you could nominate an iguana.

Confirmation would be tough, I guess. Maybe.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 23, 2017 08:51 PM (Nox3c)

I'll take the iguana over Sotomayor.

Posted by: Ace's liver at January 23, 2017 08:54 PM (Xuv2G)

219 163
I'm dying to know if Trump has any plans for Cruz, assuming they have mended some fences.

Posted by: Emmie at January 23, 2017 08:44 PM (xVuS6)

=====================

My Hope? Impeachment Czar, starting with Benedict Roberts ...
Seriously though, good question. I was hoping for AG or SCOTUS, so we'll see. Has Trump appointed a Soliciter-General yet? I think I saw a story where he was considering Kellyanne Conway's husband, George ...

Posted by: ShainS at January 23, 2017 08:54 PM (mt8X9)

220 29 3/4, is that a reference to ObamaCare?
Posted by: MikeN at January 23, 2017 08:53 PM (o/eHL)
---------

That's Ace's age, or so it is said.

I seem to remember him being that old before. But my memory isn't what it used to be.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 23, 2017 08:54 PM (qgUJH)

221 Well, I'm actually off to bed.

Good night, you shit weasels.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 23, 2017 08:54 PM (PY9jH)

222 Would it be Prince Supreme Court Justice Ludwig or Supreme Court Justice Prince Ludwig? I need to know for my sign.

Posted by: A Dickweed at January 23, 2017 08:54 PM (BO/km)

223 No.
IIRC, there are no specific requirements.
I'm not even sure you have to be homo sapiens.
Seems to me you could nominate an iguana.

Confirmation would be tough, I guess. Maybe.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille

Thanks, but I think I'll hold out for the Chief Justice position so I can rework the rules, i.e.:
Counsel must chug beer before making opening statements.
Counsel must chug beer before answering questions posed by Justices.
Justices must chug beer before questioning counsel.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at January 23, 2017 08:55 PM (MQZOg)

224 Cruz is needed where he is.

Posted by: davidt at January 23, 2017 08:55 PM (XoldI)

225 216 29 3/4, is that a reference to ObamaCare?

Posted by: MikeN at January 23, 2017 08:53 PM (o/eHL)

++++

I think that's a reference to Ace's long running joke about his age.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 23, 2017 08:55 PM (R+30W)

226 I wish he was more like Thomas than Scalia

Yeah, Scalia was usually a Constitutional conservative, but he was also a social conservative; and usually these are complementary, but sometimes not.

Thomas might be the closest thing in existence to a Living Constitution in the flesh.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 23, 2017 08:55 PM (6FqZa)

227 A teaspoon of peanut butter on the roof of your mouth to stop hiccups ....

Posted by: lindafell de spair deplorable xenophobic redneck at January 23, 2017 08:55 PM (JNDQi)

228 Chief Justice is way overrated. Lots of extra work. No extra perks (or power).

It' s true. It's not all it's cracked up to be.Ya gotta setup the birthday parties, you're commissioner of the fantasy football league, in charge of the sign up sheets for the softball league. This week I'm in charge of the Super Bowl squares. What a pain in the ass!

Posted by: John Roberts: Chief Justice of the Supreme Court at January 23, 2017 08:55 PM (qJhUV)

229 215 I wish he was more like Thomas than Scalia. Scalia had a reasonable textual framework he used in his opinions... which he discarded entirely when the subject of drugs came up. Opinions like the one he wrote for Gonzales v Raich just don't make sense next to his other jurisprudence.

It's a big deal, too, since it goes to the heart of the abuse of the commerce clause. The constitution doesn't say "Congress can do anything it wants as long as there's a loose tie to commerce somewhere."
Posted by: Ace's liver at January 23, 2017 08:53 PM (Xuv2G)

Everyone's got their hobby horse. IMHO the Supreme Court has generally been WAY too reluctant to uphold fourth and fifth amendment rights in certain situations because "law and order." There have been some encouraging recent developments like the Gonzalez decision on using K9s on routine traffic stops.

Posted by: Insomniac at January 23, 2017 08:56 PM (0mRoj)

230 CNN just called Ohio for Hillary. Looks like it's going to be an early night.

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at January 23, 2017 08:56 PM (VSenK)

231
After David "Stealth Liberal" Souter and John "Obamacare's constitutional 'cause it's a tax" Roberts, no judge appointed by either Bush should receive any further consideration for promotion.
Posted by: torquewrench at January 23, 2017 08:13 PM (noWW6)

Any judge appointed by Reagan would at a minimum be at about 60ish now. Any others would be Clinton/Obama appointees.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at January 23, 2017 08:56 PM (1JnAL)

232 165
Posted by: phoenixgirl...spring training 33 days at January 23, 2017 08:44 PM (0O7c5)

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I HATE mimes

Posted by: John McCain at January 23, 2017 08:56 PM (PqqkK)

233 "Posted by: rhomboid at January 23, 2017 08:50 PM (QDnY+)"

Pretty sure the only additional powers of the Chief Justice are:

1. Preside over impeachment trials.

2. Determine who writes majority opinions.

3. Set agenda for internal Supreme Court meetings.

Posted by: yaedon at January 23, 2017 08:56 PM (qdhQS)

234 Cruz is needed where he is.

Greg Abbott would appoint another conservative.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 23, 2017 08:56 PM (LTHVh)

235 Repeating my previous complaint - I go to the trouble and effort to crack my neighbir's wireless router, only to find they cheaped out and don't have google fiber. My torrents from piratebay are taking forever......

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at January 23, 2017 08:57 PM (vNAqW)

236 224 Cruz is needed where he is.
Posted by: davidt at January 23, 2017 08:55 PM (XoldI)

Supposedly Trump has said that he will appoint justices based on the list he circulated, and Cruz wasn't on it.

But we need good people in the Senate, too.

Posted by: rickl at January 23, 2017 08:57 PM (sdi6R)

237 I stayed around WashIngton because I really thought I had a chance.
If Trump plays by the rules, he'll appoInt Me to replace the NotorIous RBG.
I deserve It. I was the edItor of Harvard Law RevIew, rembember.

Posted by: #OccupyResoluteDeskLivesMatter at January 23, 2017 08:58 PM (16mmj)

238 Rodriguez not Gonzalez. My mistake.

Posted by: Insomniac at January 23, 2017 08:58 PM (0mRoj)

239 i can see the wisdom of making SC appointment a lifetime appointment, but with a caveat - mandatory testing for dementia after the age of 60 - RBG is nuts, and should retire

Posted by: runner at January 23, 2017 08:58 PM (c6/9Q)

240 2. Determine who writes majority opinions.

I didn't know that. That's a nontrivial influence.

Posted by: Ace's liver at January 23, 2017 08:58 PM (Xuv2G)

241 Would it be Prince Supreme Court Justice Ludwig or Supreme Court Justice Prince Ludwig? I need to know for my sign.
Posted by: A Dickweed

I would abdicate my fictional throne of Mecklenberg-Vorpomern-Upper Swabia-Lower Swabia-Down a little bit and to the side Swabia-and Hoboken for the Supreme Court.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at January 23, 2017 08:58 PM (MQZOg)

242 194 One doesn't have be a priest to be the Pope, and one doesn't have to be a lawyer to be a Justice!
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at January 23, 2017 08:49 PM (kP16F)

--The latter is true, but not the former.

The Pope also serves as Bishop of the (Arch?)Diocese of Rome, so he must be ordained.

Posted by: logprof at January 23, 2017 08:58 PM (GsAUU)

243 234
Cruz is needed where he is.

Greg Abbott would appoint another conservative.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 23, 2017 08:56 PM (LTHVh)

Would a replacement aggravate the right people the way Cruz does?

Posted by: davidt at January 23, 2017 08:58 PM (XoldI)

244 3. Set agenda for internal Supreme Court meetings.

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Double ply! Double ply in the men's room.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks. Laugh at a joke, get another joke free! at January 23, 2017 08:58 PM (Nwg0u)

245 Cruz is needed where he is.

Posted by: davidt at January 23, 2017 08:55 PM (XoldI)

Supposedly Trump has said that he will appoint justices based on the list he circulated, and Cruz wasn't on it.

But we need good people in the Senate, too.

Posted by: rickl at January 23, 2017 08:57 PM (sdi6R)

And ditchdiggers.

Posted by: Zombie Judge Smails at January 23, 2017 08:59 PM (JO9+V)

246 Rodriguez not Gonzalez. My mistake.
Posted by: Insomniac at January 23, 2017 08:58 PM (0mRoj)
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Oh sure, "they all sound alike."

Posted by: bluebell at January 23, 2017 09:00 PM (sBOL1)

247 @242, logprof

Bullshit! Any male baptised Roman Catholic can be the Pope!

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at January 23, 2017 09:01 PM (kP16F)

248 246 Rodriguez not Gonzalez. My mistake.
Posted by: Insomniac at January 23, 2017 08:58 PM (0mRoj)
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Oh sure, "they all sound alike."
--------
Martinez, Valdez, Gomez, Vasquez, etc.......

Posted by: lindafell de spair deplorable xenophobic redneck at January 23, 2017 09:02 PM (JNDQi)

249 'For some insane reason, I just crawled out of bed to discover you guys are all dickweeds. '

We try harder!

Posted by: A Dickweed

The only way to get rid of dickweeds is to pull them out by the roots.

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at January 23, 2017 09:02 PM (rH4JY)

250 Can anyone give me the skinny on Ajit Pai?

Posted by: most deplorable Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at January 23, 2017 09:02 PM (Iy6JT)

251 173- To drink whiskey or not drink whiskey?
My vote is a shot of Buffalo Trace in a chilled glass.

Posted by: Eromero at January 23, 2017 09:02 PM (zLDYs)

252 2. Determine who writes majority opinions.

++++

If he is on the majority side.

The task of assigning who shall write the opinion for the majority falls to the most senior justice in the majority. Thus, when the Chief Justice is in the majority, he always assigns the opinion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Justice_of_the_United_States

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 23, 2017 09:02 PM (R+30W)

253 Tea Leoni is..."Chief Justice"! Sundays at 9 on CBS...

Posted by: tu3031 at January 23, 2017 09:02 PM (qJhUV)

254 Posted by: logprof at January 23, 2017 08:38 PM (GsAUU)

I grew up in NJ, and we had a Ukrainian festival in Holmdel. My mom painted beautiful ceramics (she won several best of amateur in state awards in ceramics competitions), and did embroidery.

Eastern Ukraine tends to be a bit more pro-communist, because when the USSR started starving Ukrainians en masse, they then trucked in a bunch of their own to populate the towns. Lviv is west, so I would be surprised if they were more communist; my family's farm is in western Ukraine, not too far away from Lviv, and my father was in his late teens and fought against the Soviets and Nazis. It was like being in a pincer he said.

Anyway, when I was a kid, people fought based on their microheritage - Hutsul, Lemko, etc. Depending on who was in charge of the various locals orgs, one was more in vogue than the other, or more 'valid'. It pissed off my dad because we were a land subjugated under the Soviet thumb, but we were pissing on each other over petty things. My father's family in Ukraine had been very wealthy before collectivization and well respected, so even though we were poor-ish, the community paid him a lot of deference; he was also very charismatic, had a way about him. When he died I was 12, and since my mom also didn't speak Ukrainian, (her parents didn't teach her), we were now low on the totem poll. It was petty shit. They curried favour with Tato because of his family and what he did, but he died, and they treated his widow and two kids like second hand furniture. It was like they scrabbled for any vestige of notoriety in the US community and people who weren't useful for that were well, useless.

Anyway, WAY OT, sorry! LOL

Posted by: atomicplaygirl (Gab: atomicplaygirl) at January 23, 2017 09:02 PM (Gim9y)

255 Tucker got another live one on the hook

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 23, 2017 09:02 PM (nDcc3)

256 Any male baptised Roman Catholic can be the Pope!
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki

But do they have to shit in the woods?

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at January 23, 2017 09:02 PM (MQZOg)

257 239 i can see the wisdom of making SC appointment a lifetime appointment, but with a caveat - mandatory testing for dementia after the age of 60 - RBG is nuts, and should retire
Posted by: runner at January 23, 2017 08:58 PM (c6/9Q)

That just means whoever administers the tests controls the court.

I think every justice should come up for a removal vote every sixteen years, say a supermajority in the Senate for removal.

Posted by: Ace's liver at January 23, 2017 09:03 PM (Xuv2G)

258 But do they have to shit in the woods?

Only on Fridays.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 23, 2017 09:03 PM (fKWf6)

259 Trump is the first Republican president in my lifetime to govern more conservative than he campaigned, at least for now. Its unique.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 23, 2017 09:03 PM (39g3+)

260 From his bio at the link Ace provided:

"Both his pre-judicial resum� and his body of work as a judge make him a
natural fit for an appointment to the Supreme Court by a Republican
president."

I WANT SOMEONE JUST AS UNQUALIFIED FOR THE SCOTUS AS TRUMP WAS FOR THE POTUS!!!!!!!

Posted by: yaedon at January 23, 2017 09:03 PM (qdhQS)

261 But do they have to shit in the woods?

++

that's how the cardinals select them

Posted by: Bigby's Ouija Board at January 23, 2017 09:04 PM (U0lQa)

262 187 For some insane reason, I just crawled out of bed to discover you guys are all dickweeds.

---

wait, I'm a dickweed? Moi?

Why have you all been hiding this from me?

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at January 23, 2017 09:04 PM (PqqkK)

263 "Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 23, 2017 09:02 PM (R+30W)"

Touche!

I bow to your superior Googling skills.

Posted by: yaedon at January 23, 2017 09:04 PM (qdhQS)

264 Gorsuch was on a list from The Federalist Society, so they must see something in his opinions to back him.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at January 23, 2017 09:04 PM (1JnAL)

265 Bullshit! Any male baptised Roman Catholic can be the Pope!
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at January 23, 2017 09:01 PM (kP16F)

--Nope. A married man cannot be a bishop.

Posted by: logprof at January 23, 2017 09:05 PM (GsAUU)

266 'The only way to get rid of dickweeds is to pull them out by the roots.'

I been trying. It's a nasty habit.

Posted by: A Dickweed at January 23, 2017 09:05 PM (BO/km)

267 >>>Is the the GAINZZZ thread? Because my schadenboner has got some huge GAINZZZ now, brahs!

Posted by: josephistan at January 23, 2017 08:11 PM (7qAYi)<<<

Wish I'd been around for the new Army pistol thread so I coulda dropped a

... what about your GUNZZZZZ.

Posted by: an indifferent penguin at January 23, 2017 09:06 PM (WidQN)

268 194 One doesn't have be a priest to be the Pope, and one doesn't have to be a lawyer to be a Justice!
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at January 23, 2017 08:49 PM (kP16F)

--The latter is true, but not the former.

The Pope also serves as Bishop of the (Arch?)Diocese of Rome, so he must be ordained.

Depends on phrasing. One does not have to currently be a Catholic priest to become pope. One must be capable of becoming one, though (i.e. an unmarried male, either Catholic or willing to convert.)

Posted by: mikeski at January 23, 2017 09:06 PM (iKu60)

269

test

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at January 23, 2017 09:06 PM (GzOxe)

270 We try harder!

Posted by: A Dickweed

The only way to get rid of dickweeds is to pull them out by the roots.
Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at January 23, 2017 09:02 PM (rH4JY)

Morons prefer the weed whacker.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 23, 2017 09:06 PM (GX63o)

271 On the other hand, you might get a pope like John XII who was so p-whipped by his mistress that she might as well have been Pope.

Hence the legends of "Pope Joan"

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 23, 2017 09:06 PM (6FqZa)

272 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 23, 2017 09:03 PM (39g3+)

I think the media has made him do so. He's now seeing what it's like to be one of "us" and he doesn't like it.

I think the people around him have pushed but the media was the straw that broke the Trumpers back.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 23, 2017 09:06 PM (nDcc3)

273 Sen. Cory Booker tweeted out and posted a fake Benjamin Franklin quote on Facebook Monday to attack President Donald Trump and the new administration.

"It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority. Benjamin Franklin," he tweeted early Monday. The fake quote, as of 3:40 p.m. EST, has garnered 6,566 likes, 2,771 retweets and 278 replies on Twitter, and 8,900 reactions and 1,017 shares on Facebook.

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It's not his fault. Pork Chop told him Ben said it.
I

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks. Laugh at a joke, get another joke free! at January 23, 2017 09:06 PM (Nwg0u)

274 The Pope also serves as Bishop of the (Arch?)Diocese of Rome, so he must be ordained.
Posted by: logprof at January 23, 2017 08:58 PM (GsAUU)

Speaking of the Bishop of Rome, did you see the swipe he took at Trump? It's getting to the point where I expect to see him in a balaclava breaking windows at the next IMF meeting.

Posted by: Ace's liver at January 23, 2017 09:06 PM (Xuv2G)

275
test 2

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at January 23, 2017 09:06 PM (GzOxe)

276
187 For some insane reason, I just crawled out of bed to discover you guys are all dickweeds.

Namaste.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 23, 2017 08:48 PM (PY9jH)

===

*holds hand up to mouth to smell own breath*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 23, 2017 09:07 PM (EZebt)

277
test 3

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at January 23, 2017 09:07 PM (GzOxe)

278 To drink whiskey or not to drink whiskey.

Life is so difficult.
To Beam or not to Beam that is the question.

Posted by: andycanuck at January 23, 2017 09:07 PM (lJXY3)

279 254. Don't be sorry for putting the Horde some f*cking knowledge. My family rejoice in our 'Cossack' heritage because my great grandfather (a Polish Jew) got drafted into the Czar's cavalry. (Probably for his skills as a thief, based on what I know about that side of the family.)

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at January 23, 2017 09:07 PM (vNAqW)

280 "Any male baptised Roman Catholic can be the Pope!"
-----------------------
Can be ELECTED to be pope.
But they can't assume the see until they are ordained a priest first.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 23, 2017 09:07 PM (Nox3c)

281 Dickweed? DICKWEED?!

Am I included, or only the others who've been posting on this thread?

Here I've been working hard all day, and biting my nails wondering if I'll be able to meet my financial obligations in the coming weeks, and someone is calling me a dickweed?

Now I got the sadz. Life just isn't fair.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 23, 2017 09:07 PM (tHwdc)

282 271 On the other hand, you might get a pope like John XII who was so p-whipped by his mistress that she might as well have been Pope.

Hence the legends of "Pope Joan"
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 23, 2017 09:06 PM (6FqZa)

Reality of feminist revision?

Posted by: Ace's liver at January 23, 2017 09:09 PM (Xuv2G)

283 "Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at January 23, 2017 09:07 PM (GzOxe)"

I see you Soothsayer. All 3 of you.

Posted by: yaedon at January 23, 2017 09:09 PM (qdhQS)

284 Posted by: yaedon at January 23, 2017 09:04 PM (qdhQS)

++++

It's something I happened to already know. I'm not a lawyer, but I like reading about the law, so it was something I had come across before. I went and found the link so you wouldn't think I was just talking out of my ass.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 23, 2017 09:10 PM (R+30W)

285 I WANT SOMEONE JUST AS UNQUALIFIED FOR THE SCOTUS AS TRUMP WAS FOR THE POTUS!!!!!!!

ISWYDT

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 23, 2017 09:10 PM (LTHVh)

286 Is there such a thing as a vaginaweed?

Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 23, 2017 09:11 PM (qgUJH)

287 When the bi-Constitutional mediocrity Tony Kennedy and other judges told the people of 45 states to sit down and shut up about marriage, it sent a clear message: This Government Belongs To Us And We Can Do Anything We Want.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at January 23, 2017 09:11 PM (Ndje9)

288 Perino is still shoving talking points down Gutfeld's mouth. I remembered today why I stopped watching The Five.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 23, 2017 08:42 PM (nQgx9)

But what is Gutfield shoving down Perino's mouth?

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 23, 2017 09:11 PM (8iiMU)

289 Dickweed Duke here. Hiccups are a spasm of the diaphragm. You have to suppress that which is why holding your breath works. It's also a sign of dehydration. So, logically, you should jump in your pool and hold your breath. Or jump in the ocean if you don't have a pool. Just check for big ass sharks first. Science! Oh, and you're welcome.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 23, 2017 09:11 PM (kTF2Z)

290 Is there such a thing as a vaginaweed?

Ask Madonna

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 23, 2017 09:11 PM (6FqZa)

291
How was that intolerant woman on the plane any different from a palestinian? She wasn't.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at January 23, 2017 09:11 PM (GzOxe)

292 279
254. Don't be sorry for putting the Horde some f*cking knowledge. My
family rejoice in our 'Cossack' heritage because my great grandfather (a
Polish Jew) got drafted into the Czar's cavalry. (Probably for his
skills as a thief, based on what I know about that side of the family.)

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at January 23, 2017 09:07 PM (vNAqW)

Thanks! I have been a Constitution and freedom loving gal my whole life because of my parents, but mainly my dad. (The shit he saw, he was shot, in a labour camp... my God).
But that means by Churchill's estimation, I had no heart in my 20's!

I would be curious to hear about your great grandfather's exploits! Wonder what he was needed for. ;-)

Posted by: atomicplaygirl (Gab: atomicplaygirl) at January 23, 2017 09:12 PM (Gim9y)

293 Dickweed Duke here. Hiccups are a spasm of the diaphragm. You have to suppress that which is why holding your breath works. It's also a sign of dehydration. So, logically, you should jump in your pool and hold your breath. Or jump in the ocean if you don't have a pool. Just check for big ass sharks first. Science! Oh, and you're welcome.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 23, 2017 09:11 PM (kTF2Z)
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Holding my breath always works for my hiccups.

But I know it doesn't work for everyone.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 23, 2017 09:12 PM (qgUJH)

294 Ask Madonna
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 23, 2017 09:11 PM (6FqZa)
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I'd worry that she'd show it to me.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 23, 2017 09:12 PM (qgUJH)

295 That just means whoever administers the tests controls the court.

I think every justice should come up for a removal vote every sixteen years, say a supermajority in the Senate for removal.

Posted by: Ace's liver at January 23, 2017 09:03 PM (Xuv2G)

Fine. i withdraw my suggestion....

Posted by: runner at January 23, 2017 09:12 PM (c6/9Q)

296 How was that intolerant woman on the plane any different from a palestinian?

She didn't go all stabby.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 23, 2017 09:13 PM (LTHVh)

297 Can anybody be a Moron or do ya gotta be a dickweed first?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks. Laugh at a joke, get another joke free! at January 23, 2017 09:14 PM (Nwg0u)

298 Holding my breath always works for my hiccups.

But I know it doesn't work for everyone.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 23, 2017 09:12 PM (qgUJH)

++++

Never has for me. But, drinking a glass of water backwards always does.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 23, 2017 09:14 PM (R+30W)

299
I see you Soothsayer. All 3 of you.

Thought I was Capt Kirk for a minute there in the Tholian Wed episode.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at January 23, 2017 09:14 PM (GzOxe)

300 "Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 23, 2017 09:10 PM (R+30W)"

Not meant as an insult to your intelligence or knowledge. Just ribbing you.

Posted by: yaedon at January 23, 2017 09:14 PM (qdhQS)

301 for hiccups drink backwards out of a cup or mug

Posted by: EVLINC! at January 23, 2017 09:15 PM (y3aQB)

302 292. Toldja - horse-thieving. He had two sons - my grandfather, who was as tough a marine as uncle Sam could produce (and who stole everything that wasn't nailed down from France to Germany), and Pa's brother, who stole everything in the Pacific theatre that wasn't nailed down or shooting back at him. Apple, tree, etc.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at January 23, 2017 09:15 PM (vNAqW)

303 256 Any male baptised Roman Catholic can be the Pope!
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki

Well .... OK, but I would have to spend six months in the confessional and about 3.2 million Hail Marys.

Would I get a Kegerator for my pope hooch?

I mean, that's a deal breaker, right there.

Posted by: Deploreable Flyover 98ZJUSMC at January 23, 2017 09:15 PM (Pd7Sl)

304 Pompeo confirmed. I think someone else mentioned that already, but still - good stuff that.

Posted by: runner at January 23, 2017 09:15 PM (c6/9Q)

305 My be old news but...........Obumbles strikes again.

"Obama gives Palestinians 221 million in last hours of presidency" . Told congress the morning of the inauguration.

http://tinyurl.com/jcvqsw3

Posted by: Javems at January 23, 2017 09:15 PM (yOqwj)

306 What does "drinking backwards" mean?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 23, 2017 09:16 PM (LTHVh)

307 How the heck do you drink backwards. Sounds like puking!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 23, 2017 09:16 PM (IqV8l)

308 OT --- At first glance I thought Google was celebrating the electric chair today.
Talk about a double-take.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 23, 2017 09:16 PM (Nox3c)

309 Hiccups are a spasm of the diaphragm. You have to suppress that which is why holding your breath works. It's also a sign of dehydration. So, logically, you should jump in your pool and hold your breath. Or jump in the ocean if you don't have a pool. Just check for big ass sharks first. Science! Oh, and you're welcome.
-------------
Did you know that gravity is just a "theory" too?

Posted by: lindafell de spair deplorable xenophobic redneck at January 23, 2017 09:16 PM (JNDQi)

310 That just means whoever administers the tests controls the court.

Posted by: Ace's liver at January 23, 2017 09:03 PM (Xuv2G)

Fine. i withdraw my suggestion....
Posted by: runner at January 23, 2017 09:12 PM (c6/9Q)
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I often have the impulse to support various testing to be able to vote but I always stop when I realize SOMEBODY would have to administer the tests, or set the standards and I don't trust anybody enough to do that.

So, everyone voting sucks but not as much as every other system.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 23, 2017 09:17 PM (qgUJH)

311 "Obama gives Palestinians 221 million in last hours of presidency" . Told congress the morning of the inauguration.

What do you reckon his vigerish is? 10%? 20?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 23, 2017 09:17 PM (LTHVh)

312 292. On my whole life, only met one gulag survivor. I did get chummy with a GPW vet who served in a penal battalion, as well. The things they saw and suffered and did. You'd never know to look at them.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at January 23, 2017 09:17 PM (vNAqW)

313 Anyway, WAY OT, sorry! LOL
Posted by: atomicplaygirl (Gab: atomicplaygirl) at January 23, 2017 09:02 PM (Gim9y)

--No, that actually gave a little more insight into the Winnipeg split or rivalry or whatever. Sorta like each arguing over who is "keepin' it real!" and who isn't.

Lviv was in Galicia in the Habsburg Empire, then in interwar Poland, so it stands to reason they'd be less commie. . . .

Posted by: logprof at January 23, 2017 09:17 PM (GsAUU)

314 If you breath out all the air in your lungs and squeeze your abdomen as you hold your breath (note: this produces an extremely uncomfortable feeling) then it will cure hiccups 100%. It kinda feels like you are being strangled.

Posted by: Max Power at January 23, 2017 09:18 PM (q177U)

315 Of course, 221 million is petty case to the hundreds of billions he's funneled to his co-conspirators.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 23, 2017 09:18 PM (LTHVh)

316 I don't think being married is an absolute impediment to becoming the Pope, according to canon law...

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at January 23, 2017 09:18 PM (kP16F)

317 or pretty cash

either or

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 23, 2017 09:18 PM (LTHVh)

318 Waterboarding cures the hiccups.

Posted by: davidt at January 23, 2017 09:18 PM (XoldI)

319 It kinda feels like you are being strangled.

Go on ...

Posted by: zombie David Carradine at January 23, 2017 09:19 PM (wpC7C)

320
Why is everyone forgetting all the historic tax cheats in obama's cabinet...who were immediately confirmed by nearly all the Republican Shits in the minority?

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at January 23, 2017 09:19 PM (GzOxe)

321 Cruz is needed where he is.

Greg Abbott would appoint another conservative.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 23, 2017 08:56 PM (LTHVh)

But Who would Abbott appoint first. And if that doesn't work What kind of person would be second? I don't know.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 23, 2017 09:19 PM (auHtY)

322 306 What does "drinking backwards" mean?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 23, 2017 09:16 PM (LTHVh)

++++

Hold the glass of water in front of you, but instead of putting your mouth on the near rim, put it on the far rim (your chin will be inside the glass). Now drink.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 23, 2017 09:20 PM (R+30W)

323 Third base!

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 23, 2017 09:20 PM (LTHVh)

324 246 Rodriguez not Gonzalez. My mistake.
Posted by: Insomniac at January 23, 2017 08:58 PM (0mRoj)
---------

Oh sure, "they all sound alike."

Posted by: bluebell at January 23, 2017 09:00 PM (sBOL1)

Don't they?

Posted by: Insomniac at January 23, 2017 09:20 PM (0mRoj)

325 274 The Pope also serves as Bishop of the (Arch?)Diocese of Rome, so he must be ordained.
Posted by: logprof at January 23, 2017 08:58 PM (GsAUU)

Speaking of the Bishop of Rome, did you see the swipe he took at Trump? It's getting to the point where I expect to see him in a balaclava breaking windows at the next IMF meeting.
Posted by: Ace's liver at January 23, 2017 09:06 PM (Xuv2G)

--Over the weekend nevergiveup wrote he was going to the March for Life. I told him to be on the lookout for signs calling Francis the Antipope.

Posted by: logprof at January 23, 2017 09:21 PM (GsAUU)

326 Madonna is the Chuck Schumer of the entertainment industry.
MSM delenda est. Let the Spicer flow.

Posted by: vivi at January 23, 2017 09:21 PM (11H2y)

327
But Who would Abbott appoint first. And if that doesn't work What kind of person would be second? I don't know.
Posted by: TheQuietMan

That's right, Who is on first.

Posted by: Bud Abbott at January 23, 2017 09:21 PM (IqV8l)

328 How the heck do you drink backwards. Sounds like puking!

Instead of drinking from the inside lip of glass/mug/cup you drink from outside lip ! farthest away from your lips

Posted by: EVLINC! at January 23, 2017 09:21 PM (y3aQB)

329
Everyone please put on your official AoS tinfoil hats for a minute.

Was the delay in confirming Pompeii for CIA chief a ploy to buy time for the Shits in the CIA loyal to the Democrats to purge and hide files?

I'll say: YES.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at January 23, 2017 09:21 PM (GzOxe)

330 Tucker bout to interview a marcher from the Womens' March.

I can feel the savagery coming on....

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 23, 2017 09:21 PM (nDcc3)

331 Hold the glass of water in front of you, but instead of putting your mouth on the near rim, put it on the far rim (your chin will be inside the glass). Now drink.
---------don't you have to be upside down too? Otherwise you would just pour all the water down the front of your shirt

Posted by: lindafell de spair deplorable xenophobic redneck at January 23, 2017 09:22 PM (JNDQi)

332 Drinking backwards is starting with beer and switching to liquor.

Posted by: Max Power at January 23, 2017 09:22 PM (q177U)

333 But Who would Abbott appoint first. And if that doesn't work What kind of person would be second? I don't know.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 23, 2017 09:19 PM (auHtY)

Costello, naturally.

Posted by: Susquehanna Hat Company at January 23, 2017 09:22 PM (JO9+V)

334 Have other POTUS's done as much on or by their first day in office as Trump? I don't remember.

Posted by: Mayday at January 23, 2017 09:22 PM (0TM+R)

335 Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at January 23, 2017 09:21 PM (GzOxe)

Man I'd really like to say you're paranoid but.....I can't.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 23, 2017 09:23 PM (nDcc3)

336 Have other POTUS's done as much on or by their first day in office as Trump? I don't remember.

Isn't this his fourth day in office?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 23, 2017 09:23 PM (LTHVh)

337 Drinking backwards is starting with beer and switching to liquor.
Posted by: Max Power at January 23, 2017 09:22 PM (q177U)
-------

The old University Switcheroo. Sicker it is, freshman.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 23, 2017 09:23 PM (qgUJH)

338 Atomicplaygirl - did your family keep the culture alive? My family went native in Appalachia, but kept certain traditions - food, dancing, ethnic prejudices - alive.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at January 23, 2017 09:23 PM (vNAqW)

339 I tried drinking backwards, but when I turned the glass upside down, all the water spilled out.

Posted by: rickl at January 23, 2017 09:23 PM (sdi6R)

340 two threads late, but i'd like to point out that the 40 SandW is NOT the same thing as a 45, and just because cops are switching back to 9mm from it is no reason to shy away from the 45.

45ACP is not a high velocity round, and therefore isn't anywhere near as wearing on guns as the 40.

Posted by: redc1c4 at January 23, 2017 09:24 PM (Esq3h)

341 Tucker needs to invent a shirt that looks good untuckered.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 23, 2017 09:24 PM (IqV8l)

342 331 Hold the glass of water in front of you, but instead of putting your mouth on the near rim, put it on the far rim (your chin will be inside the glass). Now drink.
---------don't you have to be upside down too? Otherwise you would just pour all the water down the front of your shirt

Posted by: lindafell de spair deplorable xenophobic redneck at January 23, 2017 09:22 PM (JNDQi)

++++

Instead of tilting the glass towards you, you tilt it away from you. That means you have to tilt your head along with it to stay with the glass. It sound more difficult than it is. Try it over a sink if you are skeptical.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 23, 2017 09:24 PM (R+30W)

343
Susan Collins looked and sounded like an imbecile today. She's anxious to "do something" for the American people on obamacare.

It doesn't matter what it is, she said. But we must Do Something.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at January 23, 2017 09:24 PM (GzOxe)

344
320
Why is everyone forgetting all the historic tax cheats in obama's cabinet...who were immediately confirmed by nearly all the Republican Shits in the minority?

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at January 23, 2017 09:19 PM (GzOxe)

===

Turbotax Timmy Geithner?

Haven't seen him around in years. But that shmuck Austin Goolsbee was on O'Reilly tonight.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 23, 2017 09:24 PM (EZebt)

345 Harvard. Why does it always have to be Harvard?

Posted by: Indiana Jones, Esq. at January 23, 2017 09:24 PM (J8/9G)

346 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_si2nTehUJE

Posted by: EVLINC! at January 23, 2017 09:25 PM (y3aQB)

347 321
But Who would Abbott appoint first. And if that doesn't work What kind of person would be second? I don't know.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 23, 2017 09:19 PM (auHtY)

*golf clap*

Posted by: rickl at January 23, 2017 09:25 PM (sdi6R)

348 I think the media has made him do so. He's now seeing what it's like to be one of "us" and he doesn't like it.

I wonder, he did change his tone noticably once that stupid "grab them" video came out. I think before that he was fairly friendly with and sympathetic toward the left. After he really turned on the press and really took it to Hillary.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 23, 2017 09:26 PM (39g3+)

349 Harvard. Why does it always have to be Harvard?
Posted by: Indiana Jones, Esq.

Got a phonebook?

Posted by: William F Buckley at January 23, 2017 09:26 PM (MQZOg)

350 Awwww shit that boy Tucker got his "DA FUQ?" face going on.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 23, 2017 09:26 PM (nDcc3)

351 "Judge" Napolitano is an asshole.

Posted by: Bill Wynn at January 23, 2017 09:26 PM (lXo6E)

352
Haven't seen him around in years. But that shmuck Austin Goolsbee was on O'Reilly tonight.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

I see him on Fox Business News all the time.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 23, 2017 09:27 PM (IqV8l)

353 336 Have other POTUS's done as much on or by their first day in office as Trump? I don't remember.

Isn't this his fourth day in office?
-----

I kinda figured this was his first official full day.

Looks like he's going to run the gov't like business. And in the process he'll teach a lot of others how to too.

Posted by: Mayday at January 23, 2017 09:27 PM (0TM+R)

354 296 How was that intolerant woman on the plane any different from a palestinian?

She didn't go all stabby.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 23, 2017 09:13 PM (LTHVh)

She was a real life Mary Cloggenstein.

Posted by: josephistan at January 23, 2017 09:27 PM (7qAYi)

355 >>>I posted about him on the morning thread. I was concerned when I saw that he clerked for High Lord Executioner Anthony Kennedy,.

But if Ace says he's kosher, okie-doke.

...

Well I'm not saying he's okie-dokie. I'm saying the Scotusblog calls him Scalia-like, and Napolitano said the same. (Though he might just be regurgitating the scotusblog assessment.)

I have no idea, personally. I never heard of him until I read this two days ago. (Finally decided to post this particular tab.)

As for his clerking for Kennedy: I don't think that that would really indicate much. A clerk can brief the judge and write his own draft opinion, but the judge gets to ignore that and write his own, obviously. And you know Kennedy was very invested in his "Sweet Mystery of Life" doctrine of constitutional interpretation.

Posted by: ace at January 23, 2017 09:27 PM (8rNrN)

356 Posted by: Christoper R Taylor at January 23, 2017 09:26 PM (39g3+)

I don't think he was ever sympathetic with the left but YMMV.

I think Trump got mugged by reality, kinda like my sister did.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 23, 2017 09:27 PM (nDcc3)

357 Andrew Peter Napolitano (born June 6, 1950) is the Senior Judicial Analyst for Fox News Channel, commenting on legal news and trials, and is a syndicated columnist whose work appears in numerous publications, such as Fox News, The Washington Times, and Reason. As of 2016, he contributed frequent opinion columns for WorldNetDaily.

Having served as a New Jersey Superior Court Judge and as a visiting professor at Brooklyn Law School, he has written nine books on legal and political subjects. You may now continue.

Posted by: @SOEarpiece at January 23, 2017 09:28 PM (LTHVh)

358 Everyone leave to go drink backward???

Posted by: lindafell de spair deplorable xenophobic redneck at January 23, 2017 09:28 PM (JNDQi)

359 346 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_si2nTehUJE

Posted by: EVLINC! at January 23, 2017 09:25 PM (y3aQB)

++++

Much easier than explaining!

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 23, 2017 09:28 PM (R+30W)

360 Awwww shit that boy Tucker got his "DA FUQ?" face going on.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 23, 2017 09:26 PM (nDcc3)

Lol. I just said to the wife, look at tucker, he looks like he's thinking "where the fuck do they grow you?"

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at January 23, 2017 09:28 PM (aMlLZ)

361 I wonder, he did change his tone noticably once that stupid "grab them" video came out. I think before that he was fairly friendly with and sympathetic toward the left. After he really turned on the press and really took it to Hillary.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 23, 2017 09:26 PM (39g3+)
---------

He realized there was no line.

That the other side DIDN'T have any kind of sympathy for his side. None. Just hate.

And feeling 'othered' like that sucks. We all know it. Except Trump had the power to stick it right back in their eyes.

So he did.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 23, 2017 09:29 PM (qgUJH)

362 Posted by: Bill Wynn at January 23, 2017 09:26 PM (lXo6E)

For once, I agree with this lifelong concerned Republican.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 23, 2017 09:29 PM (nDcc3)

363 Kris Koback is a good choice.

Not a judge, but a good man to have on the Court. Taught a highly popular Constitutional Law class at KU Law School. Is currently hot on voter fraud and immigration as KS Secretary of State.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 23, 2017 09:29 PM (u82oZ)

364
How was that intolerant woman on the plane any different from a palestinian?

She only blew up figuratively.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 23, 2017 09:29 PM (IqV8l)

365
Depends on phrasing. One does not have to currently be a Catholic priest to become pope. One must be capable of becoming one, though (i.e. an unmarried male, either Catholic or willing to convert.)
Posted by: mikeski at January 23, 2017 09:06 PM (iKu60)

--In theory, a married man who becomes widowed could be ordained a bishop afterward. The Latin Church could also in theory allow married men to be ordained priests, but I doubt it would happen with bishops; even the Orthodox and Eastern Rite Catholics who have married parish priests do not have married bishops.

Of course, St. Peter himself was married, but although it's never definitively explained, I think the official story is that he was widowed before taking his chair in Rome.

Another requirement for priests that is not as central as it was hundreds of years ago (although with all the transmania going around it may be yet again) is that they cannot be castrated males.

Posted by: logprof at January 23, 2017 09:29 PM (GsAUU)

366 Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 23, 2017 09:27 PM (IqV8l)

Martha MacCallum's new show she had Twinkles Toes Rahm even more twinkle toes brother on about Obamacare but didn't feel like listening to him lie again

Posted by: EVLINC! at January 23, 2017 09:29 PM (y3aQB)

367
She was a real life Mary Cloggenstein.

Wow, yeah, exactly.

That's how insane the Left is.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at January 23, 2017 09:29 PM (tJm+l)

368 She was a real life Mary Cloggenstein.

Posted by: josephistan at January 23, 2017 09:27 PM (7qAYi)

I picture Mary being more Trigglypuff sized.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 23, 2017 09:29 PM (auHtY)

369 Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at January 23, 2017 09:19 PM (GzOxe)

Whatever do you mean by that?

Posted by: timmy "Turbo Tax' Geithner at January 23, 2017 09:29 PM (9LSzT)

370

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at January 23, 2017 09:28 PM (aMlLZ)

He's a beast. He has turned into must watch TV for me, dude is fair and savage.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 23, 2017 09:30 PM (nDcc3)

371 Duke said: Hiccups are a spasm of the diaphragm. You have to suppress that which is why holding your breath works. It's also a sign of dehydration.

Drinking a whole glass of water without stopping always gets rid of my hiccups. Now I know why.

Posted by: booknlass at January 23, 2017 09:30 PM (8mO0Q)

372 Love how lefties have suddenly discovered the emoluments clause in the Constitution

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 23, 2017 09:30 PM (bQxkN)

373 Nobody gets hiccups chokin the chicken.

Posted by: eleven at January 23, 2017 09:30 PM (qUNWi)

374 one of my fears is that the left would just charm and schmooze trump into agreeing with them, offering Trump, implicitly, the respect he craved in respond for the policies they wanted.

I think Trump would like to be palz with celebz like George Clooney so I think this could have worked.

But they seem to have burned that bridge and left trump no other base of support (and affirmation) than the Deplorables.

Posted by: ace at January 23, 2017 09:30 PM (8rNrN)

375 Susan Collins looked and sounded like an imbecile today.

-
Well, it is a day that ends in a "Y".

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks. Laugh at a joke, get another joke free! at January 23, 2017 09:30 PM (Nwg0u)

376 Much easier than explaining!

that's why I went & googled it

Posted by: EVLINC! at January 23, 2017 09:30 PM (y3aQB)

377 367
She was a real life Mary Cloggenstein.
------
Perfect description

Posted by: lindafell de spair deplorable xenophobic redneck at January 23, 2017 09:31 PM (JNDQi)

378 I would be willing to bet if you drank a full glass of whiskey your hiccups would be gone, gone, gone.

Posted by: Eromero at January 23, 2017 09:31 PM (zLDYs)

379 Your morning smile:
https://twitter.com/kankokage/status/823682977884356609

Burned D.C. cab belonged to Moslem immigrant.

Posted by: andycanuck at January 23, 2017 09:31 PM (lJXY3)

380 Tucker carlson had this way to describe Jim Acosta's desperate "don't you agree that it's the height of falsehood to say John Lewis is all talk no action:"

"Let me tell you a question."

Ha-ha. Pithy.

Posted by: ace at January 23, 2017 09:32 PM (8rNrN)

381
I'll mention it again since Soledad OBrien's earpiece is here.

Solenoid has a new tv show. As A Matter Of Fact with Soledad O'Brien.

Fitting.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at January 23, 2017 09:32 PM (tJm+l)

382 The Emoluments Men.

Coming Summer 2017 to to a theater near you!

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 23, 2017 09:32 PM (JO9+V)

383 Mary is a skinny older broad with a bowl haircut.

Posted by: freaked at January 23, 2017 09:32 PM (BO/km)

384 It rubs the emoluments on its skin.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 23, 2017 09:32 PM (IqV8l)

385 "emoluments" always sounds like a lotion to me, too.

why is that? what am I confusing it with?

Posted by: ace at January 23, 2017 09:34 PM (8rNrN)

386 368 She was a real life Mary Cloggenstein.

Posted by: josephistan at January 23, 2017 09:27 PM (7qAYi)

I picture Mary being more Trigglypuff sized.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 23, 2017 09:29 PM (auHtY)

I always pictured Mary being fairly attractive.

Posted by: rickl at January 23, 2017 09:34 PM (sdi6R)

387 384 It rubs the emoluments on its skin.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 23, 2017 09:32 PM (IqV8l)

385 "emoluments" always sounds like a lotion to me, too.

why is that? what am I confusing it with?
Posted by: ace at January 23, 2017 09:34 PM (8rNrN)

--LMAO

Posted by: logprof at January 23, 2017 09:35 PM (GsAUU)

388 why is that? what am I confusing it with?
--------
Emollients

Posted by: lindafell de spair deplorable xenophobic redneck at January 23, 2017 09:35 PM (JNDQi)

389 Ointment?

Posted by: L, Elle at January 23, 2017 09:35 PM (Rsi2C)

390 I always imagined Mary Cloggenstein wore a tight bonnet and looked like Mary Worth.

Posted by: ace at January 23, 2017 09:35 PM (8rNrN)

391 Posted by: Count de Monet at January 23, 2017 09:32 PM (JO9+V)

DISSENT IS THE HIGHEST FORM OF PATRIOTISM

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 23, 2017 09:35 PM (nDcc3)

392 I think Trump would like to be palz with celebz like George Clooney so I think this could have worked.

But they seem to have burned that bridge and left trump no other base of support (and affirmation) than the Deplorables.

Posted by: ace at January 23, 2017 09:30 PM (8rNrN)
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CoyoteBlog is on about how the feminists, et al have really screwed up because they could have easily buddied up to him and gotten what they wanted. I think that's probably accurate.

But they Just. Can't. Help themselves. They are driven by emotion and can't resist it even when it is tactically valuable.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 23, 2017 09:35 PM (qgUJH)

393 Mary looks like Alice Ghostley.

Posted by: eleven at January 23, 2017 09:36 PM (qUNWi)

394 On "Gotham" a bunch of maniacs in crazy outfits are trying to take over the city. Art imitates life.

Posted by: Toad-O at January 23, 2017 09:36 PM (cct0t)

395 Don't do any of this stupid stuff, to stop your hiccups do this:

Make a "radical duuude" hand signal (thumbs and pinkies out)
Exhale completely
Use both your pinkies to plug both your nostrils and your thumbs to plug your ears
Hold it until you turn red
Your hiccups are gone

Posted by: most deplorable Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at January 23, 2017 09:36 PM (Iy6JT)

396 385 "emoluments" always sounds like a lotion to me, too.

why is that? what am I confusing it with?

Posted by: ace at January 23, 2017 09:34 PM (8rNrN)

++++

defoliate?

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 23, 2017 09:36 PM (R+30W)

397 >>>388 why is that? what am I confusing it with?
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Emollients

...

ahhhhh right

Posted by: ace at January 23, 2017 09:36 PM (8rNrN)

398 emoluments" always sounds like a lotion to me, too.

why is that? what am I confusing it with?

Posted by: ace at January 23, 2017 09:34 PM (8rNrN)

Emulsifiers? Chemicals that mix with both oil and water, allowing them to mix?

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 23, 2017 09:36 PM (wB8Tg)

399 Hey everybody. Hi ace!

Alls I knows is, here's another guy for the left to scream, mouth and hyperventilate over. It's gotta be shortening their lives by a significant amount.

Soundsa gooda.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 23, 2017 09:36 PM (u8kLQ)

400 why is that? what am I confusing it with?
Posted by: ace at January 23, 2017 09:34 PM (8rNrN)
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Emollient

Posted by: bluebell at January 23, 2017 09:36 PM (sBOL1)

401
Ebullient is a word.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at January 23, 2017 09:37 PM (tJm+l)

402 "emoluments" always sounds like a lotion to me, too.

why is that? what am I confusing it with?

Posted by: ace at January 23, 2017 09:34 PM (8rNrN)

Sounds like a cross between emulsifier and ointment.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at January 23, 2017 09:37 PM (aMlLZ)

403 Mary is Elanor Clift.

Posted by: davidt at January 23, 2017 09:37 PM (XoldI)

404 385 "emoluments" always sounds like a lotion to me, too.

It's also tasty on burgers and dogs.

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at January 23, 2017 09:37 PM (VSenK)

405 Emollient would be closer (relaxant).

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 23, 2017 09:37 PM (wB8Tg)

406 "emoluments" always sounds like a lotion to me, too.

why is that? what am I confusing it with?
Posted by: ace

Emoluments with organic aloe should be applied to clams promptly after steaming.

Posted by: Gweneth Paltrow at January 23, 2017 09:37 PM (MQZOg)

407 The Clintons are hatching a plan for their comeback

Oh please do. And Hillary please run again in 2020. That's what the Democrat Party really needs.

Former DNC Chairman Ed Rendell told the Beltway publication, "I'm certain Trump will screw up enough that by the fall of '18, Hillary's numbers will be way up again."

Uh oh. It's going to be an early night for Trump

Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 23, 2017 09:37 PM (auHtY)

408 Mary is actually Dr. Jill Stein's illegitimate sister.

Posted by: tu3031 at January 23, 2017 09:37 PM (qJhUV)

409 Emollient!

Posted by: Amy Schumer at January 23, 2017 09:37 PM (JO9+V)

410 ace, while you're here, mind if I pose a GAINZZZ question?

It sounds to me that you've gone to an Atkins diet, or at least have been trying one. Can you take one or two breaks from Atkins a month (one pizza and a couple donuts, for instance) and still make it work?

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 23, 2017 09:37 PM (u8kLQ)

411 why is that? what am I confusing it with?
Posted by: ace at January 23, 2017 09:34 PM (8rNrN)
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emollient
having the power of softening or relaxing, as a medicinal substance; soothing, especially to the skin: emollient lotions for the face

Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 23, 2017 09:37 PM (qgUJH)

412 Posted by: qdpsteve at January 23, 2017 09:37 PM (u8kLQ)

You can but it's not advised.

At all, but it won't kill you.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 23, 2017 09:38 PM (nDcc3)

413 It's been reported that Cruz just doesn't want to be on SCOTUS at this point in his life. He likes being a vocal advocate and may want to try for president again, but he doesn't rule out SCOTUS when he's older.

Now watch him show me wrong and accept a nomination for an open seat.

Posted by: stace--so much winning at January 23, 2017 09:38 PM (ozZau)

414 Former DNC Chairman Ed Rendell told the Beltway publication, "I'm certain Trump will screw up enough that by the fall of '18, Hillary's numbers will be way up again."

++++

*giggle*

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 23, 2017 09:38 PM (R+30W)

415 "What are you shopping for today?"

"Emollients and condiments."

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 23, 2017 09:38 PM (u8kLQ)

416 whoa mark dayton faints mid-speech

Media immediately claiming he "powered through it" like a BOSS

Posted by: ace at January 23, 2017 09:38 PM (8rNrN)

417 Posted by: stace--so much winning at January 23, 2017 09:38 PM (ozZau)

I'm good with all of that.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 23, 2017 09:39 PM (nDcc3)

418 Emoluments?

What about forcing the State Department to buy 0bama's books by the fuck-ton to dump on foreigners at our embassies?

Posted by: logprof at January 23, 2017 09:39 PM (GsAUU)

419 Unguent.

Posted by: eleven at January 23, 2017 09:39 PM (qUNWi)

420 Interwebs ate my comment:

Never had the hiccups. I'm 72.

Posted by: Javems at January 23, 2017 09:39 PM (yOqwj)

421 Ace, let me tell you an emollient.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 23, 2017 09:39 PM (qgUJH)

422 Posted by: ace at January 23, 2017 09:38 PM (8rNrN)

He missed his electro-shock therapy treatment of the day.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 23, 2017 09:39 PM (nDcc3)

423 Zombie Harold Ramis on with Tucker

Posted by: tu3031 at January 23, 2017 09:39 PM (qJhUV)

424 Umlaut works too

Posted by: lindafell de spair deplorable xenophobic redneck at January 23, 2017 09:40 PM (JNDQi)

425 Yeah, Cruz has been cool towards a possible SCOTUS appointment. But, Mike Lee said he would accept if he had the chance.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 23, 2017 09:40 PM (R+30W)

426 thathalfrican, yeah that's what I've read, that ANY deviation from Atkins puts your body back into carb-craving/demanding mode.

I would think you could, at least, gradually reintroduce carbs to your diet, without blowing up again. But I guess it's easier said than done.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 23, 2017 09:40 PM (u8kLQ)

427 Media immediately claiming he "powered through it" like a BOSS

Sounds badass!

Posted by: Patton Oswalt, still an imbecile at January 23, 2017 09:40 PM (wpC7C)

428 When I picture Mary, I think of the hippie chicks back in college, who were pretty hawt.

Posted by: rickl at January 23, 2017 09:40 PM (sdi6R)

429 i see dayton had previously collapsed last january, and his staff claimed, as hillary's did, that the culprit was "dehydration."

Posted by: ace at January 23, 2017 09:40 PM (8rNrN)

430 Unguent.
Posted by: eleven

That's why you apply the emolument, you don't want your nethers getting unguent.

Posted by: Gweneth Paltrow at January 23, 2017 09:41 PM (MQZOg)

431 "emoluments" always sounds like a lotion to me, too.

Same here, its almost the same word, really.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 23, 2017 09:41 PM (39g3+)

432 371
Duke said: Hiccups are a spasm of the diaphragm. You have to suppress
that which is why holding your breath works. It's also a sign of
dehydration.

Drinking a whole glass of water without stopping always gets rid of my hiccups. Now I know why.

Posted by: booknlass at January 23, 2017 09:30 PM (8mO0Q)

The hose.

Posted by: Jame Gumb at January 23, 2017 09:41 PM (XoldI)

433
Mark Dayton?

This is the Minnesota senator who freaked out over an envelope of white powder. He was voted out of office.

But then came back to be governor.

What is he now??

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at January 23, 2017 09:41 PM (tJm+l)

434 419 Unguent.
Posted by: eleven at January 23, 2017 09:39 PM (qUNWi)

Ungulates?

Posted by: Mr. Ed at January 23, 2017 09:41 PM (GsAUU)

435 i see dayton had previously collapsed last january, and his staff claimed, as hillary's did, that the culprit was "dehydration."

Posted by: ace at January 23, 2017 09:40 PM (8rNrN)
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A lot of people getting chronic dehydration lately. Tragic. Sad!

Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 23, 2017 09:41 PM (qgUJH)

436 "Phylactery" always reminds me of something one would use to prevent disease or pregnancy...

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at January 23, 2017 09:41 PM (kP16F)

437 What is he now??
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On the floor, sounds like.

Posted by: bluebell at January 23, 2017 09:42 PM (sBOL1)

438 >>>halfrican, yeah that's what I've read, that ANY deviation from Atkins puts your body back into carb-craving/demanding mode.

I would think you could, at least, gradually reintroduce carbs to your diet, without blowing up again. But I guess it's easier said than done.

...

supposedly when you reach your goal weight, you go into "maintenance," where you add back carbs in increments of 5/grams more per day, for a week, and check at the end of the week to see if you've gained weight. You keep adding until you gain weight, and at that point, you go back to your last level of carbs that did not cause you to gain weight. Then this higher level of carbs is what you're permitted in "maitanance" mode.

I've never gotten to goal weight so I have no idea if this works.

Posted by: ace at January 23, 2017 09:42 PM (8rNrN)

439 "Phylactery" always reminds me of something one would use to prevent disease or pregnancy...
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at January 23, 2017 09:41 PM (kP16F)

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In that case Madonna wouldn't have one. But she does.

Because she's a Lich.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 23, 2017 09:43 PM (qgUJH)

440 The Chelsea Legacy Foundation clearly implicated the Emoluments Clause but no one cared. In practice it also violated several statutes.

But that was then, and this is now.

We haven't won until unemployment in the rest of America is level with the DC metro area.

We haven't won until the Leftie "Law of Intransitivity" is broken.

Until then, Fuck you, War!

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 23, 2017 09:43 PM (bQxkN)

441 Mary probably would look like Ruth Buzzy Ginsburg... but with a few more lace doilies for the collar on her robe.

Posted by: an indifferent penguin at January 23, 2017 09:43 PM (WidQN)

442 i see dayton had previously collapsed last january, and his staff claimed, as hillary's did, that the culprit was "dehydration."
Posted by: ace

How could I possibly be dehydrated? It's only 8:30 in the morning and I've already had nine screwdrivers!!

Posted by: Hillary at January 23, 2017 09:43 PM (u8kLQ)

443 I always thought that a philatelist was some kind of perv.

Posted by: tu3031 at January 23, 2017 09:43 PM (qJhUV)

444 >>>What is he now??

thirsty, apparently

Posted by: ace at January 23, 2017 09:43 PM (8rNrN)

445 I made "Bing" my homepage a few days ago. right now it's lead mini-headline reads "WH: Trump has resigned."

a little misleading?

Posted by: booknlass at January 23, 2017 09:43 PM (8mO0Q)

446
CoyoteBlog is on about how the feminists, et al have really screwed up because they could have easily buddied up to him and gotten what they wanted

+++

i don't think it's about that. Trump is their worst nightmare. also for the establishment right but in another way

Posted by: Bigby's Ouija Board at January 23, 2017 09:44 PM (U0lQa)

447 Usufruct - there's a word that needs more use. And 'hypothecate.'

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at January 23, 2017 09:44 PM (vNAqW)

448 ace, thanks!

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 23, 2017 09:44 PM (u8kLQ)

449 Undulates

Posted by: josephistan at January 23, 2017 09:44 PM (7qAYi)

450 Philately will get you nowhere.

Posted by: old aphorism at January 23, 2017 09:44 PM (wpC7C)

451 443 I always thought that a philatelist was some kind of perv.

You're thinking of a polydactylist.

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at January 23, 2017 09:44 PM (VSenK)

452 You're thinking of a polydactylist.
Posted by: Bacon Jeff at January 23, 2017 09:44 PM (VSenK)

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I can say with great confidence that I am not.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 23, 2017 09:45 PM (qgUJH)

453 What is Mary worth these days?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 23, 2017 09:45 PM (IqV8l)

454 Every Monday should be obscure word day

Posted by: lindafell de spair deplorable xenophobic redneck at January 23, 2017 09:45 PM (JNDQi)

455 >>>i see dayton had previously collapsed last january,
and his staff claimed, as hillary's did, that the culprit was
"dehydration."

Posted by: ace at January 23, 2017 09:40 PM (8rNrN)

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A lot of people getting chronic dehydration lately. Tragic. Sad!
Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 23, 2017 09:41 PM (qgUJH)<<<

Mama says you gotta drink yo water, or you gonna get the dehydrations.

Posted by: Bobby Boucher at January 23, 2017 09:46 PM (WidQN)

456 Posted by: ace at January 23, 2017 09:38 PM (8rNrN)

ace, no idea if you've got heard of Peter Attia but he's another good one.

I heard of him from The Jocko Podcast, which in my mind, is one of the best podcasts available.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 23, 2017 09:46 PM (nDcc3)

457 Hillary Clinton will never be president and allways be called secretary

Posted by: Billy at January 23, 2017 09:46 PM (TdKpj)

458 Every Monday should be obscure word day
Posted by: lindafell de spair deplorable xenophobic redneck at January 23, 2017 09:45 PM (JNDQi)
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Wasn't ace doing a thing where he brought up words of art a little while back?

I thought that was fun.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 23, 2017 09:47 PM (qgUJH)

459 we doing another funny words thread

Posted by: Bigby's Ouija Board at January 23, 2017 09:47 PM (U0lQa)

460 "Philately will get you nowhere."

Nor your letters

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 23, 2017 09:47 PM (bQxkN)

461 Hypothecate is a woody word.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 23, 2017 09:48 PM (JO9+V)

462 433
Mark Dayton?

This is the Minnesota senator who freaked out over an envelope of white powder. He was voted out of office.

But then came back to be governor.

What is he now??

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at January 23, 2017 09:41 PM (tJm+l)

++++

After the anthrax terrorist attack on DC senators, and some other people actually being killed, I would not find fault with someone being concerned about getting mailed a white powder.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 23, 2017 09:48 PM (R+30W)

463 James Rosen swears on TV LOL

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 23, 2017 09:48 PM (nDcc3)

464 I'm quite sure pedagogy is crime...

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at January 23, 2017 09:48 PM (kP16F)

465 One way I've found to spend less on fast food: spend more on music CDs (sigh). Just added to the qdpsteve collection:

Police - entire original album catalog (Regatta de Blanc, Outlandos D'Amour, Zenyatta Mondatta, Ghost In The Machine, Synchronicity)

Toto - Very Best of (an import collection)

Last I heard, Toto doesn't contain too many calories.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 23, 2017 09:48 PM (u8kLQ)

466 454 Every Monday should be obscure word day
Posted by: lindafell de spair deplorable xenophobic redneck at January 23, 2017 09:45 PM (JNDQi)

--Heh, at work there are bells that chime every half hour from a building acorss the street.

I told my colleague this morning about the word tintinnabulation, a word I learned in high school thanks to Edgar Allan Poe's "The Bells."

Posted by: logprof at January 23, 2017 09:49 PM (GsAUU)

467 we doing another funny words thread
Posted by: Bigby's Ouija Board

Dirty words aren't funny, words that sound dirty are. Like mukluk.

Posted by: Krusty the Klown at January 23, 2017 09:49 PM (MQZOg)

468 James Rosen swears on TV LOL

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 23, 2017 09:48 PM (nDcc3)

lol. "I ain't got shit"

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at January 23, 2017 09:49 PM (aMlLZ)

469 461. Isn't it? So unlike 'pledge, ' which is so very tinny.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at January 23, 2017 09:49 PM (vNAqW)

470 You're thinking of a polydactylist.

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at January 23, 2017 09:44 PM (VSenK)

A new version of a swinger?

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 23, 2017 09:49 PM (JO9+V)

471 Erogenous zooooone...

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at January 23, 2017 09:49 PM (kP16F)

472 Last I heard, Toto doesn't contain too many calories.
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But it's full of shit....

Posted by: lindafell de spair deplorable xenophobic redneck at January 23, 2017 09:49 PM (JNDQi)

473
Mark Dayton?

This is the Minnesota senator who freaked out over an envelope of white powder. He was voted out of office.

But then came back to be governor.

What is he now??

Woozy

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 23, 2017 09:49 PM (IqV8l)

474 Last I heard, Toto doesn't contain too many calories.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 23, 2017 09:48 PM (u8kLQ)

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I was tailgating at a Brewer's game and Toto's Africa came on and this chick yelled, "I FUCKING LOVE TOTO!"

I argued at the time that was the first occurrence of that exact phrase. Maybe not.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 23, 2017 09:49 PM (qgUJH)

475 >>>Last I heard, Toto doesn't contain too many calories.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 23, 2017 09:48 PM (u8kLQ)<<<

Good to know. **fires up the bbq**

Posted by: SCOAMF at January 23, 2017 09:49 PM (WidQN)

476 Ironically, I learned a new word (and, not a cuss word) from the woman I've talked about here before...

"Perseverate."

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 23, 2017 09:50 PM (u8kLQ)

477 If he keeps this up, Trump has no chance of being re-elected.

Posted by: MSM-GOPe-DNC-K Street Amalgamated at January 23, 2017 09:50 PM (J8/9G)

478 why is that? what am I confusing it with?

Posted by: ace at January 23, 2017 09:34 PM (8rNrN)

Ungulates.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 23, 2017 09:50 PM (UZg+f)

479 Sen. Tom Cotton got all Meeks (of Fanny/Freddy fame) on Schumer to get ,Pompeo past committee today. Bad Ass...
.

Posted by: Voter dude at January 23, 2017 09:50 PM (g8KEa)

480 Barack, no! Nooo!!!! That's not what I meant!!!
*slaps forehead*

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 23, 2017 09:51 PM (u8kLQ)

481 467. Mukluk is another good and woody word. Shashka, well, it's the woodiest word of all.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at January 23, 2017 09:51 PM (vNAqW)

482 Pulchritude sounds like something ugly, not beautiful

Posted by: L, Elle at January 23, 2017 09:51 PM (Rsi2C)

483 Know how I know the Brewers are lame?

Posted by: eleven at January 23, 2017 09:51 PM (qUNWi)

484 Comely.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 23, 2017 09:51 PM (qgUJH)

485 shashka sounds like a bad soda

Posted by: Bigby's Ouija Board at January 23, 2017 09:52 PM (U0lQa)

486 Moron, LOL. Toto were IMHO kind of a good example of that scientific principle... what is it?

When you add a certain number of things together, and you get MORE than what should be the grand total?

Anyway. It seems to me all of the individual members of Toto weren't that great, but some of the stuff they collaborated on together...

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 23, 2017 09:52 PM (u8kLQ)

487 Ungoliant.

Posted by: JRR Tolkien at January 23, 2017 09:52 PM (XoldI)

488 482. How very puerile.....

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at January 23, 2017 09:52 PM (vNAqW)

489 457 Hillary Clinton will never be president and allways be called secretary
Posted by: Billy at January 23, 2017 09:46 PM (TdKpj)
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She shouldn't be called "Secretary."
This is a pet peeve of mine.
We use office titles as if they were titles of nobility, as if they adhered to the person permanently instead of only to the office.

Once Washington left office, he was never addressed as "President Washington." Same with all of our early presidents. When did this change I wonder.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 23, 2017 09:52 PM (Nox3c)

490 Wonder what Slap's doin' right about now.

Posted by: teej at January 23, 2017 09:53 PM (iMDvh)

491 Anyway. It seems to me all of the individual members of Toto weren't that great, but some of the stuff they collaborated on together...
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 23, 2017 09:52 PM (u8kLQ)
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Funnily enough, after she shouted that, a conversation ensued and everybody agreed they were pretty solid. It was just a very bizarre thing to shout.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 23, 2017 09:53 PM (qgUJH)

492 I don't remember seeing ads on TV for cabinet members in the past.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 23, 2017 09:53 PM (IqV8l)

493 Hmmm, an ad on Fox News just now to call your Senators to support Jeff Sessions' nomination.

I've never seen an ad like this, except back in the '80s when the Left ran those anti-Bork ads with Gregory Peck's voiceover.

Is this a thing? A good or bad thing?

Posted by: logprof at January 23, 2017 09:53 PM (GsAUU)

494 >>>482 Pulchritude sounds like something ugly, not beautiful

indeed. "Crepuscular" sounds ugly but it means something generally thought pretty (twilight)

Posted by: ace at January 23, 2017 09:53 PM (8rNrN)

495 Callipygic, as opposed to steatopygic.

Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at January 23, 2017 09:53 PM (J8/9G)

496 Bouyant!

Posted by: Harry Reid at January 23, 2017 09:53 PM (qJhUV)

497 Isn't it? So unlike 'pledge, ' which is so very tinny.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at January 23, 2017 09:49 PM (vNAqW)

Decidedly so. Sorry Palp old beast! Try Gorn. Very woody.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 23, 2017 09:53 PM (JO9+V)

498 sure i prolly got some shaskas left in the cooler. nobody ever drinks em but you're welcome to. if you want

Posted by: Bigby's Ouija Board at January 23, 2017 09:53 PM (U0lQa)

499 490 Wonder what Slap's doin' right about now.
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Hmmmm, I wonder......

Posted by: lindafell de spair deplorable xenophobic redneck at January 23, 2017 09:53 PM (JNDQi)

500 She shouldn't be called "Secretary."
This is a pet peeve of mine.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille

How about "bitch"?

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 23, 2017 09:54 PM (u8kLQ)

501 "Baculum" is a woody word!

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at January 23, 2017 09:54 PM (kP16F)

502 This song has been an earworm for the past few days:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF8twO9bcq0

The Blues Project was a very underrated mid-60s band. And I maintain that 1966 was pretty much the zenith of rock music. The creativity in that year was astonishing, and it still rocked, unlike much of the rock music in subsequent years.

Posted by: rickl at January 23, 2017 09:54 PM (sdi6R)

503 Police - entire original album catalog (Regatta de Blanc, Outlandos D'Amour, Zenyatta Mondatta, Ghost In The Machine, Synchronicity)

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 23, 2017 09:48 PM (u8kLQ)

--Doesn't Message in a Box have all their songs? Or do you prefer having the albums individually?

Posted by: logprof at January 23, 2017 09:54 PM (GsAUU)

504 Toto had one of my favorite drummers, Jeff Porcaro, who sadly died in a bizarre gardening accident.

Police drummer Stewart Copeland was pretty good too.

Who's the drummer that has played on tour with both Toto and Sting?'

Keith Carlock, who's a regular in the Steely Dan band and the best drummer extant.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 23, 2017 09:54 PM (bQxkN)

505
was Gregory Peck supposed to be conveying/conjuring Atticus Finch?

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at January 23, 2017 09:54 PM (tJm+l)

506 Is this a thing? A good or bad thing?
Posted by: logprof at January 23, 2017 09:53 PM (GsAUU)
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It is most definitely a thing.

Did it say who paid for it? That would be revealing.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 23, 2017 09:54 PM (qgUJH)

507 Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at January 23, 2017 09:49 PM (aMlLZ)

Awesome moment and Tucker runs through it like a boss.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 23, 2017 09:54 PM (nDcc3)

508
Jeff Spicoli is mort?

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at January 23, 2017 09:54 PM (tJm+l)

509 Moron Pundit, agreed. :-) Some bands just don't seem to warrant the same degree of passion as others.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 23, 2017 09:54 PM (u8kLQ)

510 >>Bouyant!
Posted by: Harry Reid at January 23, 2017 09:53 PM (qJhUV)

Ba Room-
You leave those Saplings alone!

Posted by: Treebeard at January 23, 2017 09:55 PM (m9RuU)

511 485. Heh....YOU tell her that, 'cause i sure won't:

https://youtu.be/AN3uhImuy6E

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at January 23, 2017 09:55 PM (vNAqW)

512 It's a perfectly cromulent word.

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at January 23, 2017 09:55 PM (VSenK)

513 who sadly died in a bizarre gardening accident.
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This sounds like This Is Spinal Tap.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 23, 2017 09:55 PM (qgUJH)

514 489
She shouldn't be called "Secretary."
This is a pet peeve of mine.
We use office titles as if they were titles of nobility, as if they adhered to the person permanently instead of only to the office.

Once Washington left office, he was never addressed as "President Washington." Same with all of our early presidents. When did this change I wonder.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 23, 2017 09:52 PM (Nox3c)

I agree 100%.

Posted by: rickl at January 23, 2017 09:55 PM (sdi6R)

515 "Utterly Discredied Former Secretary", on the other hand, is completely correct to use.

Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at January 23, 2017 09:55 PM (J8/9G)

516 Think you're looking for synergistic effect qdpsteve.

Posted by: teej at January 23, 2017 09:56 PM (iMDvh)

517 >>>We use office titles as if they were titles of
nobility, as if they adhered to the person permanently instead of only
to the office.

Once Washington left office, he was never addressed as "President
Washington." Same with all of our early presidents. When did this
change I wonder.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 23, 2017 09:52 PM (Nox3c)<<<

We earned that title!!!

Posted by: Senator Ma'am at January 23, 2017 09:56 PM (WidQN)

518 I like to wallow around in my own crapulence after a night in Vegas.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 23, 2017 09:56 PM (nDcc3)

519 "We use office titles as if they were titles of nobility, as if they adhered to the person permanently instead of only to the office."

Eisenhower, in his farewell address, talked about how proud he was to once again assume the status of an ordinary private citizen of the United States.

Near as I can figure, he is the last POTUS to have done so.

Posted by: torquewrench at January 23, 2017 09:56 PM (noWW6)

520 >>Keith Carlock, who's a regular in the Steely Dan band and the best drummer extant

He can't polish George Hurley's shoes.

Posted by: garrett at January 23, 2017 09:56 PM (m9RuU)

521 On "Gotham" a bunch of maniacs in crazy outfits are trying to take over the city. Art imitates life.
Posted by: Toad-O at January 23, 2017 09:36 PM (cct0t)

That's Portland Oregon next Wednesday apparently

"Jacob Bureros of Direct Action Alliance issued a press release Monday, calling it an "Open Letter to Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler,'' in which he criticized the police use of force and demanded the mayor fire the police chief or they'd block streets later this week.

"Ted Wheeler, fire Chief Marshman by Tuesday or nothing moves on Wednesday,'' it read.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/hw52pv7

Posted by: Kindltot at January 23, 2017 09:56 PM (UZg+f)

522 Puissant is another one of those words that should be naughty, but isn't.....

Like wankel engine....

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at January 23, 2017 09:56 PM (vNAqW)

523 Toto had one of my favorite drummers, Jeff Porcaro, who sadly died in a bizarre gardening accident.

Nothing left but a globule I heard.

Posted by: David St. Hubbins at January 23, 2017 09:57 PM (JO9+V)

524 logprof, I'm a purist... I prefer having the individual albums. :-)

Steely Dan did the same thing with their box "Citizen Steely Dan" years ago. It was just all of their albums crammed onto a smaller number of CDs, than if you had just bought the originals. Kind of a waste if you ask me. A box should contain rarities, B-sides, new songs, alternate takes, the works.

Plus, I think that box may be out of print already and thus *more* expensive. Also, the albums I purchased were more recently remastered.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 23, 2017 09:57 PM (u8kLQ)

525 Secretary Clinton, go get us some coffee.

Posted by: President Trump at January 23, 2017 09:57 PM (XoldI)

526 Moron Pundit, agreed. :-) Some bands just don't seem to warrant the same degree of passion as others.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 23, 2017 09:54 PM (u8kLQ)
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I had a person say to me, "Nobody's favorite band is Foo Fighers. Not even the Foo Fighters."

I thought, yeah. That feels true. For a band to be great it has to be a bit more polarizing, I think.

Then I met a guy with a Foo Fighters tattoo and it threw my whole world off its axis.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 23, 2017 09:57 PM (qgUJH)

527 489 And when or why did we stop celebrating Washingtons birthday and lincolns?

Posted by: Billy at January 23, 2017 09:57 PM (TdKpj)

528 513 who sadly died in a bizarre gardening accident.
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This sounds like This Is Spinal Tap.
Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 23, 2017 09:55 PM (qgUJH)

You can't dust for vomit.

Posted by: josephistan at January 23, 2017 09:57 PM (7qAYi)

529 Crepuscular is what you get growing on your skin after you get bit by something in the Amazon.

Posted by: eleven at January 23, 2017 09:57 PM (qUNWi)

530 Dirty words aren't funny, words that sound dirty are. Like mukluk.
Posted by: Krusty the Klown at January 23, 2017 09:49 PM (MQZOg)

Macadamia!

Posted by: Bulbous Bouffant at January 23, 2017 09:57 PM (GsAUU)

531 Blues Project had Al Kooper, the Zelig of great rock session players.

He played organ on Dylan's Rolling Stone, even though he had never played the organ before

Was all over The Stones You Can't Always

Discovered and made Lynnrd Skynnrd

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 23, 2017 09:57 PM (bQxkN)

532 >>>"Baculum" is a woody word!

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at January 23, 2017 09:54 PM (kP16F)<<<

What, his acting was great in Quantum Leap, and even thought he was good in Enterprise.

Posted by: an indifferent penguin at January 23, 2017 09:57 PM (WidQN)

533 Tonight's concupiscent episode...

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at January 23, 2017 09:57 PM (kP16F)

534 I suddenly got a craving for a combo breakfast taco from Flores in Dripping Springs......damn...

Posted by: lindafell de spair deplorable xenophobic redneck at January 23, 2017 09:58 PM (JNDQi)

535 126 There are times when I facepalm wrt being Ukrainian, (mostly the infighting and pettiness in our community when I was a kid), other times when I'm proud of it. Repin's painting of the Zaporozhian reply are examples of the latter.
Posted by: atomicplaygirl (Gab: atomicplaygirl) at January 23, 2017 08:26 PM (Gim9y)

--Every August, Winnipeg has a "festival" (not sure if that's the right term, since it is spread out over multiple venues around the city) called Folklorama, with each pavilion hosted by a group representing a different cultural tradition. Each year, there are two pavilions emphasizing Ukrainian culture (a huge number of Winnipeggers have Ukrainian ancestors), one called Ukraine-L'viv and one called Ukraine-Kiev. I've heard that supposedly one (I think the former) is more commie, but I would not be surprised if there's some esoteric Inside Baseball reason there are two competing pavilions that outsiders have no clue about and would wonder why all the fuss. . . .
Posted by: logprof at January 23, 2017 08:38 PM (GsAUU)

My precious late husband was Ukrainian. First gen here.

Posted by: LadylibertarianformerlylibertarianwannabeThe at January 23, 2017 09:58 PM (07VtA)

536 know what , I agree. Enough of Harvard clones. Trump should go with someone else.

Posted by: runner at January 23, 2017 09:58 PM (c6/9Q)

537 Ignoramus: didn't know that about Porcaro. Too bad, I saw some interviews with him years ago where he seemed like a nice guy.

And I always chuckle a bit about Stewart Copeland; I know his dad was one of the founders of the CIA. I always imagine Sting and Andy Summers trying to get him slobbering drunk to see if he knows any secrets...

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 23, 2017 09:58 PM (u8kLQ)

538 >>Some bands just don't seem to warrant the same degree of passion as others.

Not everyone is The London Boys.

Posted by: garrett at January 23, 2017 09:58 PM (m9RuU)

539 I can't stand the mewling quims in congress

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 23, 2017 09:58 PM (nDcc3)

540 Trump, talking to Netanyahu: "My girl will get coffee. Hillary!"

Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at January 23, 2017 09:58 PM (J8/9G)

541 What, his acting was great in Quantum Leap, and even thought he was good in Enterprise.
Posted by: an indifferent penguin at January 23, 2017 09:57 PM (WidQN)
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But that theme song AMIRIGHT!?

Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 23, 2017 09:59 PM (qgUJH)

542 CoyoteBlog is on about how the feminists, et al have really screwed up because they could have easily buddied up to him and gotten what they wanted. I think that's probably accurate.

But they Just. Can't. Help themselves. They are driven by emotion and can't resist it even when it is tactically valuable.
Posted by: Moron Pundit

I kinda liked Coyoteblog.

Sad to see him succumb to TDS.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 23, 2017 09:59 PM (DNPz2)

543 Cool show on Smithsonian channel. History of the electric guitar.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at January 23, 2017 09:59 PM (aMlLZ)

544 Yeah. I saw Keith play a few years ago with SD ignoramus.
Speaking as an adequate, just adequate drummer,,, he wasn't too shabby.

Posted by: teej at January 23, 2017 09:59 PM (iMDvh)

545 Steven Crowder went to the March as a tranny. Prepare to laugh.
http://louderwithcrowder.com/crowder-womens-march-undercover-transgender/

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at January 23, 2017 09:59 PM (e8kgV)

546 Masticate.

Posted by: Chewie at January 23, 2017 10:00 PM (XoldI)

547 Big question:

Will ace go and see the sequel to his favorite movie of the last 2 years in theaters next month, or will he wait for it on demand?

https://youtu.be/oQCyZKsT82M

Posted by: buzzion at January 23, 2017 10:00 PM (cAnNx)

548 niggling

Posted by: runner at January 23, 2017 10:01 PM (c6/9Q)

549 A pontificating pariah of pulchritudinous pablum.

Posted by: That deplorable guy who always says... at January 23, 2017 10:01 PM (Tyii7)

550 I kinda liked Coyoteblog.

Sad to see him succumb to TDS.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 23, 2017 09:59 PM (DNPz2)
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I think he never changed his overall position. He's one of those "I hate all the parties" guys and he hasn't budged off that. His climate stuff is still brilliant so I still read him generally.

Of course, my tolerance for people saying stuff I really really violently disagree with is pretty high.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 23, 2017 10:01 PM (qgUJH)

551 Yes sooth, SPlash Kennedy and his gang were definitely hearkening to Peck's most famous role and all the gravitas it conveyed. Plus, Peck himself was a raving lefty so he was happy to oblige them.

Posted by: logprof at January 23, 2017 10:01 PM (GsAUU)

552 500 She shouldn't be called "Secretary."
This is a pet peeve of mine.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille

How about "bitch"?
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 23, 2017 09:54 PM
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That's okay!

She earned that title with hard work.
And she is still earning it and always will.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 23, 2017 10:01 PM (Nox3c)

553 Pompatus.

Now that's a great word.

Posted by: Steve Miller Band at January 23, 2017 10:01 PM (WidQN)

554 Venereal... It's always a bad thing!

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at January 23, 2017 10:02 PM (kP16F)

555 >>History of the electric guitar.

Fusion has Miami Porn : Sex Work in the Sunshine State

Posted by: garrett at January 23, 2017 10:02 PM (m9RuU)

556 Macadamia!
Posted by: Bulbous Bouffant at January 23, 2017 09:57 PM (GsAUU)

I almost went for a career in macadamia, but was pretty sure I'd never get tenure.

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at January 23, 2017 10:02 PM (VSenK)

557 Jeff Porcaro was a fantastic drummer.

His family said that he was out gardening one day and had an allergic reaction to bug spray, hence a bizzare gardening accident.

Some say it might have been because he was on Pablo Escobar's Christmas Card list.

At least he didn't spontaneously explode

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 23, 2017 10:02 PM (bQxkN)

558 A box should contain rarities, B-sides, new songs, alternate takes, the works.

Plus, I think that box may be out of print already and thus *more* expensive. Also, the albums I purchased were more recently remastered.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 23, 2017 09:57 PM (u8kLQ)

--Message In a Box had those --pretty much every note in the Police catalog, plus IIRC a ton of liner notes.

I'd love to own it but yeah, it's probably out of print now and costs a pretty penny (it was already ~$90 at the time it was released).

Posted by: logprof at January 23, 2017 10:03 PM (GsAUU)

559 Posted by: runner at January 23, 2017 10:01 PM (c6/9Q)

Tired of you racists Trump voters

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 23, 2017 10:03 PM (nDcc3)

560 Margarita, I ran your last statement through the Truth-O-Meter and it came out...

Extra Super True. ;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 23, 2017 10:03 PM (u8kLQ)

561 I was thinking.

We should get Ace a car and sign him up as an Uber Driver.

I would like to read the Reviews he gets from Passengers.

Posted by: garrett at January 23, 2017 10:03 PM (m9RuU)

562 >>>I almost went for a career in macadamia, but was pretty sure I'd never get tenure.
Posted by: Bacon Jeff at January 23, 2017 10:02 PM (VSenK)<<<

Well, you'd have to be nuts to want to work on a college campus these days.

Posted by: an indifferent penguin at January 23, 2017 10:03 PM (WidQN)

563 Is a "mastadon" some sort of endurance contest?

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at January 23, 2017 10:03 PM (kP16F)

564 I almost went for a career in macadamia, but was pretty sure I'd never get tenure.

Well that's just nuts!

Posted by: Tonypete at January 23, 2017 10:03 PM (tr2D7)

565 Coyoteblog is a doctrinaire libertarian, and hence a Shithead.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 23, 2017 10:04 PM (bQxkN)

566 We should get Ace a car and sign him up as an Uber Driver.

I would like to read the Reviews he gets from Passengers.
Posted by: garrett at January 23, 2017 10:03 PM (m9RuU)
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"Tried to make conversation but all he said was "NUB NUB" and then whacked me with a spear."

Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 23, 2017 10:05 PM (qgUJH)

567 >>Is a "mastadon" some sort of endurance contest?

NO. It's a decent metal band.

Posted by: garrett at January 23, 2017 10:05 PM (m9RuU)

568 527 489 And when or why did we stop celebrating Washingtons birthday and lincolns?

Posted by: Billy at January 23, 2017 09:57 PM (TdKpj)

++++

Washington's birthday is still an official federal holiday. Many states combined Washington and Lincoln into Presidents' Day.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 23, 2017 10:05 PM (R+30W)

569 ONT is up

Posted by: PaleRider at January 23, 2017 10:05 PM (dkExz)

570 logprof: hmm, turns out the box is still available and not that much more expensive than what I bought. I spent $38, and the box at Amazon is $43.

If it has any extras, it might be worth it for me to get the MP3s of those.

http://tinyurl.com/hnm3b29

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 23, 2017 10:05 PM (u8kLQ)

571 ont

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 23, 2017 10:05 PM (IqV8l)

572 Serious.

Ace's reviews on Uber / Yelp would be legendary.

Posted by: garrett at January 23, 2017 10:05 PM (m9RuU)

573 Is there anyone else better suited for military voice overs other than Keith David?

Dude is awesome.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 23, 2017 10:05 PM (nDcc3)

574 Coyoteblog is a doctrinaire libertarian, and hence a Shithead.
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 23, 2017 10:04 PM (bQxkN)

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Right. He's 100% full open borders, regardless of the fact that representative government ceases to have a meaning in that scenario.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 23, 2017 10:06 PM (qgUJH)

575 >>If it has any extras, it might be worth it for me to get the MP3s of those

Never.

If you are going Digital, go Hi Res or stick to CDs.

Posted by: garrett at January 23, 2017 10:06 PM (m9RuU)

576 >>>Sad!

this always gives me a chuckle

Posted by: concrete girl at January 23, 2017 10:07 PM (Df46i)

577 Tired of you racists Trump voters

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 23, 2017 10:03 PM (nDcc3)

LOL !

Posted by: runner at January 23, 2017 10:07 PM (c6/9Q)

578 @556 I almost went for a career in macadamia, but was pretty sure I'd never get tenure.
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You said "Nuts!" to that?

Posted by: junior at January 23, 2017 10:07 PM (ziea5)

579 For literally decades, I'd thought a "mammogram" was a Mother's Day card...

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at January 23, 2017 10:07 PM (kP16F)

580 garrett, yup. I've been getting CDs again.
It helps that almost everything I really care about has since been re-released, remastered, and that prices have come down significantly.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 23, 2017 10:07 PM (u8kLQ)

581 Namaste.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 23, 2017 08:48 PM (PY9jH)

Is "namaste" Thai for, "damn, these yoga pants are tight." ?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 23, 2017 10:09 PM (LRVnP)

582 Once Washington left office, he was never addressed as "President Washington." Same with all of our early presidents. When did this change I wonder.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 23, 2017 09:52 PM (Nox3c)

Around the same time they started getting lifetime protection and pensions?

Dunno.

Presidential security after they leave should consist of a pair of Groucho glasses, a hat with a low brim, and a dark coat. They also get a letter that says "Keep a low profile."

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 23, 2017 10:10 PM (4ErVI)

583 >>Posted by: qdpsteve at January 23, 2017 10:07 PM (u8kLQ)

Pro Tip : You local Thrift Stores and Pawn Shops are LOADED with CDs from .50 to 2 dollars each. Also, Goodwill.

Posted by: garrett at January 23, 2017 10:12 PM (m9RuU)

584 qdpsteve, from your link:

"This is it: Everything the Police released," boasts the notes in the 66-page booklet included with this box set. Obsessive fans have already written to rock magazines indignantly pointing out the omission of this or that obscurity. But everyone else will find that these four discs include all the Police they'd ever want to own. The first two discs include all of Outlandos d'Amour, Reggatta de Blanc, and Zenyatta Mondatta in their original order, interspersed with live rarities and singles B-sides. Discs 3 and 4 are more satisfying, including the band's well-crafted studio high points, Ghost in the Machine and Synchronicity, plus more outtakes and live tunes. The set ends with "Don't Stand So Close to Me '86," a dismal remake of the early favorite. By this point, the musician's egos were running rampant and they were barely speaking. If anyone wonders why the group called it quits so abruptly, this tune makes it clear that the split was smart and timely. --Jim DeRogatis

--Yeah that sounds about right. A 66 page book! That's a lot of liner notes, all right!

And yes, DSSCTM '86 did suck and no one would have missed its absence in the collection.

Posted by: logprof at January 23, 2017 10:12 PM (GsAUU)

585 If he disfavored Chevron defense, good. Great even.

Posted by: Fake at January 23, 2017 10:15 PM (wFDuq)

586 logprof, wow, sounds good. Thanks. :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 23, 2017 10:16 PM (u8kLQ)

587 581
Is "namaste" Thai for, "damn, these yoga pants are tight." ?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 23, 2017 10:09 PM (LRVnP)

All I know is it's what alexthechick says just before she sics the Ravage on you.

Posted by: rickl at January 23, 2017 10:17 PM (sdi6R)

588 Is there such a thing as a vaginaweed?

Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 23, 2017 09:11 PM (qgUJH)

There's Saudi Prince Talalaweed. he's a pussy.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 23, 2017 10:18 PM (LRVnP)

589 @466 Logprof, possibly of interest. A musical setting of The Bells, by a graduate of The Ohio State University. Lot of words, lot of notes.
Nice young Jewish boy. Sadly he fell among thieves and came to grief.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3FzveBu_34

Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 23, 2017 10:26 PM (H5rtT)

590 Drinking backwards is starting with beer and switching to liquor.

Posted by: Max Power at January 23, 2017 09:22 PM (q177U)

Really?

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

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 23, 2017 10:27 PM (LRVnP)

591 Solenoid has a new tv show. As A Matter Of Fact with Soledad O'Brien.

Fitting.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at January 23, 2017 09:32 PM (tJm+l)

Plucky girl. Always willing to venture into unexplored territory.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 23, 2017 10:32 PM (LRVnP)

592 I always thought that a philatelist was some kind of perv.

Posted by: tu3031 at January 23, 2017 09:43 PM (qJhUV)

Help stamp out the menace of philately!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 23, 2017 10:40 PM (LRVnP)

593 274 ...Speaking of the Bishop of Rome...It's getting to the point where I expect to see him in a balaclava....

That's strange. I suppose the Pope would also look sweet in a pantespani or a pile of loukoumades.

Posted by: Captain Oblivious at January 23, 2017 11:18 PM (v+ehC)

594 I read about one, briefly yesterday. I choose Texas Judge Willett, King of Twitter & a brilliant sense of humor.

Posted by: Carol at January 24, 2017 12:39 AM (sj3Ax)

595 He is guaranteed to be Borked. And from what I have seen so far the weak-kneed pussy Republicans in the Senate have not changed. And in some cases they will join the Democrats in helping them Bork Trump picks.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at January 24, 2017 04:39 AM (mpXpK)

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