Anne Patterson Withdrawn From Consideration as Undersecretary of Defense for Policy

An information campaign that let the public know about her support for Muslim Brotherhood deposed president of Egypt Mohammad Morsi, and her support for the Muslim Brotherhood generally, seems to have worked.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has withdrawn retired senior diplomat Anne W. Patterson as his choice for undersecretary for policy after the White House indicated unwillingness to fight what it said would be a battle for Senate confirmation.
U.S. officials said that two members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sens. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), were strongly opposed to Patterson's nomination because she served as U.S. ambassador to Egypt from 2011 to 2013, a time when the Obama administration supported an elected government with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood that was ultimately overthrown by the Egyptian military.

Posted by: Ace at 03:02 PM

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1 Good.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, who is now luxuriating in vast pools of winning! at March 14, 2017 03:03 PM (kXoT0)

2 Good.

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You misspelled FIRST

Posted by: fixerupper at March 14, 2017 03:04 PM (8XRCm)

3 Good. We don't need any more Jim Brennans and Jeh Johnsons in government.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 14, 2017 03:04 PM (8ZskC)

4 Well, at least they are not tone deaf to what their base are saying.

Posted by: IC at March 14, 2017 03:04 PM (a0IVu)

5 Good, she was a nervous nominee.

Posted by: Ennervated at March 14, 2017 03:04 PM (cJDvr)

6 Sunlight. Disinfectant.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 14, 2017 03:04 PM (wYr++)

7 I have to wonder what he was thinking.

Posted by: t-bird at March 14, 2017 03:05 PM (2z74n)

8 The key point is that we figure out how such a flawed candidate even made it into consideration, then ensure it doesn't happen again.

Posted by: pep at March 14, 2017 03:05 PM (CDaOI)

9 Just another 4 letter word. Good. Sherry beat me to this one.

Posted by: The Mouse that Roared at March 14, 2017 03:05 PM (7N6ox)

10 OT: California legislators want the act of intentionally infecting someone with HIV to no longer be a felony...

http://www.sacbee.com/news/article137308033.html

Posted by: The Political Hat at March 14, 2017 03:05 PM (rUIbB)

11
Ummmmm ........ how did her name even get tossed in the hat to begin with???

Posted by: fixerupper at March 14, 2017 03:05 PM (8XRCm)

12 Good.

Now.

WTFFFFFFFFFFFFF, Mad Dog?

Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at March 14, 2017 03:05 PM (/hasf)

13 What are yall thinking about Mattis?

Posted by: um..... at March 14, 2017 03:05 PM (PBhCj)

14 WTF, Trump has years to fill all those vacancies.

Posted by: Les Kinetic at March 14, 2017 03:06 PM (U6f54)

15 It's not us, baby, it's you.

Posted by: Sporkatus, Vile Brewer at March 14, 2017 03:06 PM (eXSOZ)

16 The MB and CAIR need to be purged from the swamp

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 14, 2017 03:06 PM (6Ll1u)

17 Mattis doesn't seem like a dumb guy. I still can't wrap my head around this one.

Posted by: BacktoGA at March 14, 2017 03:06 PM (6QPsd)

18 It was an odd choice, not sure why they didn't see that to begin with. She must have a real professional and capable profile.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 14, 2017 03:06 PM (39g3+)

19 I'd say that this is a good thing, but Gen. Mattis wasn't the person in this administration that I expected to be having to grade on a curve.

At least the administration listens when we tell them they're doing something absurdly stupid. Hopefully we can get the same result with Ryancare.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at March 14, 2017 03:06 PM (oGW41)

20 I'm glad this chick has been disregarded.

My understanding is that McCain supported her, so that means dumping her was probably a good thing.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 14, 2017 03:06 PM (8iiMU)

21

Amen

Posted by: ThunderB at March 14, 2017 03:07 PM (GTRIw)

22 thank you Ted Cruz.

with love, a Coloradan who voted for you in the Assembly. here is to hoping you continue to direct this Administration to the right

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at March 14, 2017 03:07 PM (R4B0F)

23 is that McCain supported her

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Ya know..... Im getting real tired of hearing that fucksticks name.

Posted by: fixerupper at March 14, 2017 03:07 PM (8XRCm)

24 Posted by: The Political Hat
Is this the point where we break into "everyone has AIDS"?

Posted by: Sporkatus, Vile Brewer at March 14, 2017 03:07 PM (eXSOZ)

25 >>OT: California legislators want the act of intentionally infecting someone with HIV to no longer be a felony...

I find it amusing that the guy proposing this change is named Weiner. Because I'm a moron.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 14, 2017 03:07 PM (/tuJf)

26 Good.

Back to Gunsday.

Posted by: Phone of Widespread Pepe at March 14, 2017 03:07 PM (1hhNr)

27 Muslim ties? That's above my gay parade.

Posted by: Dyslexic Obama at March 14, 2017 03:07 PM (bc2Lc)

28 My understanding is that McCain supported her, so that means dumping her was probably a good thing.

The Stain
of McCain
Lands plainly on the Dame

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 14, 2017 03:08 PM (8ZskC)

29 "a real professional and capable profile"

that or she gives good head

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at March 14, 2017 03:08 PM (R4B0F)

30 OT: Meanwhile in South Africa, an "activist" is calling people to "kill whites, Indians, Aids-rape their kids"

http://preview.tinyurl.com/jn7znc9

Posted by: The Political Hat at March 14, 2017 03:08 PM (rUIbB)

31 @23 - I think McCain is just posturing at this point so the MSM write nice things when he assumes room temperature.

Posted by: Bicentennialguy at March 14, 2017 03:08 PM (u8ja4)

32 My understanding is that McCain supported her,

Oh, even better.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at March 14, 2017 03:09 PM (97XyN)

33 is that McCain supported her

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Ya know..... Im getting real tired of hearing that fucksticks name.

Posted by: fixerupper
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It's tough being a self-inverting prolapsed asshole. But somehow he manages.

Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at March 14, 2017 03:09 PM (/hasf)

34 I think McCain is just posturing at this point so the MSM write nice things when he assumes room temperature.

I'm really looking forward to reading those articles about now.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 14, 2017 03:09 PM (8ZskC)

35 So much of this is weird. Why her? Why did he support-- as in, supposebly hand-pick- her?

Oh, and her face and name were on protestor posters and signs, so she's not some rando.

I guess that's the thing that most gets me. BUt, yeah, wtf. At least she's out.

but we're watching

always watching

Posted by: Lance McCormick at March 14, 2017 03:09 PM (u0s1P)

36
Once she lost the highly coveted, smart military blog, AoS support she was toast.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at March 14, 2017 03:10 PM (ZFUt7)

37 >>Ya know..... Im getting real tired of hearing that fucksticks name.

He's a big supporter of the IC.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 14, 2017 03:10 PM (/tuJf)

38 @23 - I think McCain is just posturing at this point so the MSM write nice things when he assumes room temperature.
Posted by: Bicentennialguy at March 14, 2017 03:08 PM (u8ja4)

They won't. They despise him, probably even more than we do. I predict they will get back at him for all his cute little stunts.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, who is now luxuriating in vast pools of winning! at March 14, 2017 03:10 PM (kXoT0)

39 There are a ton of positions to fill especially as they start cleaning house (as it seems like will happen) but finding experienced and skilled people in some of those areas might be tough. There are lots of people who have the skills and experience, but they are almost exclusively leftist "make the world a better place" zealots.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 14, 2017 03:10 PM (39g3+)

40 "I think McCain is just posturing at this point so the MSM write nice things when he assumes room temperature."

They'll slander him until they need his name to slander another Republican.

Posted by: Robert Crawford at March 14, 2017 03:10 PM (rdRWI)

41 dee deedle dee deedle dee dee
*boink boink* *coins*

Posted by: Barry's SuperMuslim Bros at March 14, 2017 03:10 PM (HgMAr)

42 I think McCain is just posturing at this point so the MSM write nice things when he assumes room temperature.

Joke's on him! They won't!

(actually, joke's on all of us)

Posted by: Lance McCormick at March 14, 2017 03:10 PM (u0s1P)

43 He's a big supporter of the IC.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 14, 2017 03:10 PM (/tuJf)

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*snort*

Posted by: fixerupper at March 14, 2017 03:11 PM (8XRCm)

44 17 Mattis doesn't seem like a dumb guy. I still can't wrap my head around this one.
Posted by: BacktoGA at March 14, 2017 03:06 PM (6QPsd)

I just wonder if he wanted opposing view points on a staff

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at March 14, 2017 03:11 PM (uysst)

45 Eris, don't read the WaPo comments, don't read the WaPo comments...

*reads WaPo comments*

Gaaaaaaahhhhhhh!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 14, 2017 03:11 PM (EnKk6)

46 HOORAY!

Now to shuck off that liberal San Francisco feminist being considered for the DOJ Civil Rights post...

Posted by: jbspry at March 14, 2017 03:11 PM (DPvCq)

47 Muslim ties.

Posted by: Muslim Ties at March 14, 2017 03:11 PM (97XyN)

48 A career of sucking up to the media at the cost of his own party and where has it gotten him?

Tool.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 14, 2017 03:11 PM (8ZskC)

49
My Conspiracy Theories

The IC, McCain, Graham are real nervous at the rocks the new boss might pick up

And thats why they fight so hard

Benghazi, Arming ISIS, making Al Qaeda an ally, pay offs, kick backs, contracts

All manner of slime

Posted by: ThunderB at March 14, 2017 03:11 PM (GTRIw)

50 Sometimes the good guys win one.

And yeah, not sure what Mattis was going for here. Would love to know the back story on her nomination.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at March 14, 2017 03:11 PM (xJa6I)

51 He's a big supporter of the IC.

Posted by: JackStraw

IC? I keep seeing this, over and over.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at March 14, 2017 03:11 PM (ZFUt7)

52 She must have a real professional and capable profile.
Very possibly. It's even possible that she'd have served in her role with distinction. BUT: in an ironic twist to the administration's tendency to short political appearances of things, her politics weren't going to work out.

Posted by: Sporkatus, Vile Brewer at March 14, 2017 03:11 PM (eXSOZ)

53 44
17 Mattis doesn't seem like a dumb guy. I still can't wrap my head around this one.

Posted by: BacktoGA at March 14, 2017 03:06 PM (6QPsd)

I just wonder if he wanted opposing view points on a staff

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at March 14, 2017 03:11 PM (uysst)

Yeah, it is weird.But, if you want an opposing view, don't put that person in the #3 spot....

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 14, 2017 03:12 PM (8iiMU)

54 Mattis doesn't seem like a dumb guy. I still can't wrap my head around this one.

Likely he's worked with her in the past, thinks that she would have been a good fit based on their interaction and her skill set. It's possible that he didn't think her MB support was relevant to what he wanted her for.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at March 14, 2017 03:12 PM (Tnhbr)

55 Good.

Wait, that's two good things today.

WHAT ARE YOU UP TO UNIVERSE?

Posted by: alexthechick - Parallama platoon ahoy! at March 14, 2017 03:12 PM (mf5HN)

56 44 17 . . .
I just wonder if he wanted opposing view points on a staff
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio
_________

Then he can just wheel a TV into the conference room and subscribe to the NY Times and the National Laughingstock.

Posted by: Furious George at March 14, 2017 03:12 PM (j+dfT)

57 "I just wonder if he wanted opposing view points on a staff"

He can get those from the press, no need for traitors to be given access.

Posted by: Robert Crawford at March 14, 2017 03:12 PM (rdRWI)

58 john mccain is a boil on the anus of the world. not much better than arafat. just go away. it's tapioca pudding time at sunnyview. time for him to drool his way through a bowl.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 14, 2017 03:12 PM (KP5rU)

59 Alternate post title: " AOSHQ Shuts Down Another One"

Behold the raw power of Minx 0.7 alpha

Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at March 14, 2017 03:12 PM (/hasf)

60 They'll slander him until they need his name to slander another Republican.

See also 2008. He was held up as this great maverick Speaker-to-Power, and then-

SUDDENLY HITLER.

Sad, really.

Posted by: Lance McCormick at March 14, 2017 03:12 PM (u0s1P)

61 @Mortimer
LOL'ed at your McCain description

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at March 14, 2017 03:13 PM (xJa6I)

62 I don't see the problem.

Posted by: Huma Abedin at March 14, 2017 03:13 PM (HgMAr)

63 My understanding is that McCain supported her, so that means dumping her was probably a good thing.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 14, 2017 03:06 PM (8iiMU)

Now, the bitch needs to be waterboarded. You know she was party to some hinky doings.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 14, 2017 03:13 PM (WDdjT)

64 Shady Pines, Senator.

Posted by: Bicentennialguy at March 14, 2017 03:13 PM (u8ja4)

65 48 A career of sucking up to the media at the cost of his own party and where has it gotten him?

Tool.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 14, 2017 03:11 PM (8ZskC)

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A lifetime seat in the US Senate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 14, 2017 03:13 PM (wYr++)

66 17 Mattis doesn't seem like a dumb guy. I still can't wrap my head around this one.
Posted by: BacktoGA at March 14, 2017 03:06 PM (6QPsd)
--
Perhaps that was her....

Naaahh, can't do it.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 14, 2017 03:13 PM (EnKk6)

67 John McCain who met with ISIS leaders needs to be retired, unfortunately we have to leave it to St Peter to sort it out at The Pearly Gates. Peter looks at the big book, points and laughs.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 14, 2017 03:13 PM (6Ll1u)

68 When it comes to military and foreign policy recruitment, a shallow draft pool makes for a slow transition phase.

On one hand, you have die-hard Barrynauts and Clintonites who would sell this country out in a heartbeat. Then there are the vast number of NeverTrump Bush people who backed the wrong horses and then painted themselves into a loyalty corner. That, right there, puts their political and loyalty judgements into serious question.

Posted by: mrp at March 14, 2017 03:13 PM (Pqytn)

69 No Mo Mo Bro Hos.

Posted by: Joe Mama at March 14, 2017 03:13 PM (M5NPS)

70 SUDDENLY HITLER.

Sad, really.

Posted by: Lance McCormick at March 14, 2017 03:12 PM (u0s1P)

It happens...

Posted by: Adolf Shikelgruber at March 14, 2017 03:13 PM (rUIbB)

71 As far as this Anne P, it wasn't her looks that got her anywhere. Any woman who is not hugely fat that is a natural blond with good skin can look way better than that. He may have admired a no nonsense attitude, but, any American woman who likes the MB is not to be trusted.

or as I said firstly:

Good.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, who is now luxuriating in vast pools of winning! at March 14, 2017 03:13 PM (kXoT0)

72
I think McCain gives cover to the IC, and they him

Posted by: ThunderB at March 14, 2017 03:13 PM (GTRIw)

73 when he assumes room temperature
I think that was back around '98, before he completed his transformation into a Maverickness Lich.

Posted by: Sporkatus, Vile Brewer at March 14, 2017 03:13 PM (eXSOZ)

74 Bitch didn't even know!

I mean... perhaps she wasn't thoroughly vetted and the implications of her former audacity weren't parsed to their particular ends.

Screw that...

...Bitch had that shit coming!

I don't even know what I'm talking about any longer.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at March 14, 2017 03:14 PM (6gk0M)

75 My Conspiracy Theories

The IC, McCain, Graham are real nervous at the rocks the new boss might pick up

And thats why they fight so hard

Benghazi, Arming ISIS, making Al Qaeda an ally, pay offs, kick backs, contracts

All manner of slime
Posted by: ThunderB
_________

Sounds like a reasonable theory to me.

But also, these are petty men that aren't used to somebody punching back at them and calling them out.

McCain and Graham are a dead wing of the party and look like complete fools because of Trump.

Before Trump, these were our wise Party elders.

Posted by: Maritime at March 14, 2017 03:14 PM (PyFAk)

76 Everything I'veread onthis its a Win

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2017 03:14 PM (HDU3V)

77 Mattis doesn't seem like a dumb guy. I still can't wrap my head around this one.
Posted by: BacktoGA

Strange, isn't it?

How there are now people in government that want to be so obsequious and complacent towards Islam and its fellow travelers?

I am afraid this is something we will be living with for a very long time. Islam is more pervasive and prevalent in the world than the Soviet international communist threat.

I have heard several allegedly "smart" young people that do not understand why older people are anti-Islam, and point at older folks and say something like "racism" (as if being a Muslim is a race).

I think that Europe is too far gone, and we better watch it ourselves, or we're next. And Canada, the Great Big Stupid White North, is right next door.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at March 14, 2017 03:14 PM (RFeQD)

78 54
Likely he's worked with her in the past, thinks that she would have been a good fit based on their interaction and her skill set. It's possible that he didn't think her MB support was relevant to what he wanted her for.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at March 14, 2017 03:12 PM (Tnhbr)

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Get your reasonable opinions out of here.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 14, 2017 03:15 PM (wYr++)

79
A lifetime seat in the US Senate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

And an open invitation to appear on CNN any time he wants.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at March 14, 2017 03:15 PM (ZFUt7)

80 Posted by: Muslim Ties at March 14, 2017 03:11 PM (97XyN)

Is this kinda like Lace Wigs?

Posted by: Chris M at March 14, 2017 03:15 PM (eAZVt)

81 I think McCain is just posturing at this point so the MSM write nice things when he assumes room temperature.

He is the face of the establishment. His opposition and anger at Trump makes me like Trump even more.

See also 2008. He was held up as this great maverick Speaker-to-Power, and then-

SUDDENLY HITLER.

And now, suddenly, great maverick hero again and not really Hitler at all. Bill Maher

https://youtu.be/wXKIk7b0Owc?t=16s

oh but THIS time he's really Hitler!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 14, 2017 03:15 PM (39g3+)

82 IC is "Intelligence Community," yes?

Posted by: Piercello at March 14, 2017 03:15 PM (TOLnE)

83 Yeah, Patterson in her time in Egypt never stuck me as anything but a hack.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 14, 2017 03:15 PM (n7MM7)

84 Muslim ties.

Posted by: Muslim Ties at March 14, 2017 03:11 PM (97XyN)

and Muslim Ugg Boots

Posted by: Muslim Ugg Boots at March 14, 2017 03:15 PM (HgMAr)

85 If John McCain likes it, I'm against it. If he's pissed, I'm all for it.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at March 14, 2017 03:15 PM (6gk0M)

86 Once she lost the highly coveted, smart military blog, AoS support she was toast.
Posted by: E Depluribus Unum
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Reminds me of the scene in 'Saving Private Ryan' where Hanks is firing at a German tank with his 1911, and the tank suddenly explodes.

*stares at smoking gun in hand. Damn! Who knew?*

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 14, 2017 03:15 PM (ZO497)

87 but we're watching

always watching
Posted by: Lance McCormick at March 14, 2017 03:09 PM (u0s1P)

Obligatory:

https://youtu.be/RBs21CFBALI

Posted by: alexthechick - Parallama platoon ahoy! at March 14, 2017 03:15 PM (mf5HN)

88 This whole thing has been weird. WTF Mad Dog?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 14, 2017 03:16 PM (PY9jH)

89 I wonder what Ace is gonna spend his Smart Vibrator Settlement money on?

Posted by: garrett at March 14, 2017 03:16 PM (Gbk/a)

90 IC is "Intelligence Community," yes?
Posted by: Piercello at March 14, 2017 03:15 PM (TOLnE)

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NOW you did it.

Posted by: fixerupper at March 14, 2017 03:16 PM (8XRCm)

91 It's possible that he didn't think her MB support was relevant to what he wanted her for.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at March 14, 2017 03:12 PM (Tnhbr)

It always matters. There is no job in a Trump administration for anyone that likes the scum known as MB.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, who is now luxuriating in vast pools of winning! at March 14, 2017 03:16 PM (kXoT0)

92 79
A lifetime seat in the US Senate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

And an open invitation to appear on CNN any time he wants.
Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at March 14, 2017 03:15 PM (ZFUt7)

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

Beats real work.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 14, 2017 03:16 PM (wYr++)

93 >>IC is "Intelligence Community," yes?

And just like that, we have our new assless chaps.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 14, 2017 03:16 PM (/tuJf)

94 Hey Hat, want to watch Angel's Egg?

https://youtu.be/4nUWCGqYKiI

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 14, 2017 03:16 PM (n7MM7)

95 Anne Patterson is a one. Lynne Stewart was a zero.

Posted by: Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi at March 14, 2017 03:16 PM (vRcUp)

96 Muslim ties.

Posted by: Muslim Ties at March 14, 2017 03:11 PM (97XyN)

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Double or single windsors??

Posted by: fixerupper at March 14, 2017 03:16 PM (8XRCm)

97 As far as this Anne P, it wasn't her looks that got her anywhere.

Tangent. If that's what gets some women where they are, more than talent, skill, connections, etc. (or as a bonus to)-- shouldn't we be seeing more attractive women in politics and whatnot? Or do they all go to porn, acting, and Fox News?

OTOH, it's not like there are lot of handsome men in positions of power either.

Posted by: Lance McCormick at March 14, 2017 03:17 PM (u0s1P)

98 Posted by: alexthechick - Parallama platoon ahoy!
Expected Roz. Was not disappointed.

Posted by: Sporkatus, Vile Brewer at March 14, 2017 03:17 PM (eXSOZ)

99 Taqiyah only works, if you are not paying attention...

Posted by: Don Q. at March 14, 2017 03:17 PM (NgKpN)

100 OTOH, it's not like there are lot of handsome men in positions of power either.

Hey, they say politics is show business for the unattractive for a reason

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 14, 2017 03:17 PM (39g3+)

101 Recently, I've had two check out girls with odd names:

Arabiya and Sharia.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 14, 2017 03:17 PM (PY9jH)

102

Listen you dont get to Mattis rank without understanding politics and the players

Maybe he thought he could use her contacts, coopt the IC

Maybe he thinks like her a bit

Posted by: ThunderB at March 14, 2017 03:17 PM (GTRIw)

103 LOL'ed at your McCain description

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
===

I just thought to myself "Senator Hemorrhoid" and let the words flow....

Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at March 14, 2017 03:17 PM (/hasf)

104 To me, Obamacare is the issue I most worry about.

I want a straight repeal, but I'm not going to be one of these TruCon idiots that demand all or nothing. Enough RINOs have said they won't back that, enough to kill it.

Is it really a smart idea to just let the system collapse over several years while people like me pay through the nose?

Trump really fucked up by right off the bat after his victory started talking about basically enshrining all the freebies into TrumpCare.

Posted by: Maritime at March 14, 2017 03:18 PM (PyFAk)

105 Wa Po article - e tu Ace, e tu? For those who are lib-click adverse:

Daily Caller: http://tinyurl.com/hknl9ps

Posted by: MSTisdale at March 14, 2017 03:18 PM (g9d8D)

106 I coulda been a contendah!

Posted by: Terry McCain at March 14, 2017 03:18 PM (HgMAr)

107 have our new assless chaps.
What, we were supposed to have *used* assless chaps?

Posted by: Sporkatus, Vile Brewer at March 14, 2017 03:18 PM (eXSOZ)

108 Adult Friend Finder tells and shows me that IC stands for something different.

Posted by: Phone of Widespread Pepe at March 14, 2017 03:18 PM (1hhNr)

109 Well, that's a teaspoon less swamp.
Really need a badass pump that grinds up the alligators, AKA Deep State IC.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at March 14, 2017 03:18 PM (FtrY1)

110 https://youtu.be/RBs21CFBALI

It's like you read my mind.

I'm so sorry.

Posted by: Lance McCormick at March 14, 2017 03:18 PM (u0s1P)

111 There are lots of people who have the skills and experience, but they are almost exclusively leftist "make the world a better place" zealots.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 14, 2017 03:10 PM (39g3+)

"Experienced" in this context, means "tainted by the former administration". A mess of honest amateurs, with decent conservative background would be a far, far better choice.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 14, 2017 03:18 PM (WDdjT)

112 Paolo will comfort Anne.

Posted by: Paolo at March 14, 2017 03:18 PM (/ZEVC)

113 What, we were supposed to have *used* assless chaps?
Posted by: Sporkatus, Vile Brewer at March 14, 2017 03:18 PM (eXSOZ)

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*sigh*

point of order.

all chaps are assless. if they had asses theyd be called pants.

that is all.

carry on.

Posted by: fixerupper at March 14, 2017 03:19 PM (8XRCm)

114
Intelligence Community

Posted by: Amy Schumer at March 14, 2017 03:19 PM (/hasf)

115 Paolo will comfort Anne.

Posted by: Paolo at March 14, 2017 03:18 PM (/ZEVC)

Courage.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 14, 2017 03:19 PM (PY9jH)

116 I wouldn't mind if they just stripped away all the funding and mandatory parts of Obamacare and let it implode, then replaced it with something better but that's not what they have in mind.

Congress wants to retain that power and money and the lobbying that accompanies it, they won't give that up now that its in place.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 14, 2017 03:19 PM (39g3+)

117 Hey, they say politics is show business for the unattractive for a reason

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

_ _ _ _ _

Hollywood for the ugly

Posted by: MSTisdale at March 14, 2017 03:19 PM (g9d8D)

118 Love Tom Cotton-and yes, even Ted Cruz!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 14, 2017 03:19 PM (fDdVG)

119
Pretty sure IC is Internet Connection. Abbreviated down from AGIC - Al Gores' Internet Connection.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at March 14, 2017 03:19 PM (ZFUt7)

120 IC is "Intelligence Community," yes?
Posted by: Piercello at March 14, 2017 03:15 PM (TOLnE)

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NOW you did it.

Posted by: fixerupper at March 14, 2017 03:16 PM (8XRCm)
..........

Where's BEN?

Posted by: wth at March 14, 2017 03:20 PM (HgMAr)

121 I wonder what Ace is gonna spend his Smart Vibrator Settlement money on?
Posted by: garrett

More shelves?

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at March 14, 2017 03:20 PM (RFeQD)

122 Everything I have seen Muzzy llovers and Leftists need not apply in the Trump administration

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2017 03:20 PM (HDU3V)

123 Muslim ties.

Posted by: Muslim Ties

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Double or single windsors??
Posted by: fixerupper

Just me.

Posted by: Prince of Wales at March 14, 2017 03:21 PM (4YGWz)

124 Ya know..... Im getting real tired of hearing that fucksticks name.

Posted by: fixerupper

* * * * * *

I see Ol' Fuckstick's mug on the tv and I let the expletives fly.

Posted by: MSTisdale at March 14, 2017 03:21 PM (g9d8D)

125 Crap. I thought we were talking about integrated circuits.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 14, 2017 03:21 PM (8ZskC)

126 Really need a badass pump that grinds up the alligators, AKA Deep State IC.
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew
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Huge combination sewage-grinder/trash pump. Powered by large turbo Cat diesel.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 14, 2017 03:21 PM (ZO497)

127 all chaps are assless. if they had asses theyd be called pants.

Posted by: fixerupper at March 14, 2017 03:19 PM (8XRCm)

And that's how you listen to Cowboy Poetry with the disadvantaged youth...

Posted by: Harry Reid, Ride 'em ~~cow~~boy! at March 14, 2017 03:21 PM (rUIbB)

128 "I just thought to myself "Senator Hemorrhoid" and let the words flow..."
-Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at March 14, 2017 03:17 PM (/hasf)

Let Your Love Flow:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4Bl_VQ2inM

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at March 14, 2017 03:21 PM (6gk0M)

129 Had high hopes for Mattis. But some people don't do well with the transition from military uniform to civilian suit.

The other Mattis nonsense recently was his open contradiction of the President in public. Mattis was in Iraq and was asked about Trump's repeatedly and firmly stated "take the oil" position.

There are ways in which such a question can be handled without resulting in loss of face for the boss. Defer. Minimize. Instead, Mattis said at once that no oil was going to be taken.

I personally think Trump's statements to this effect were diplomatically questionable and shouldn't have been made in the first place. However, if they're going to be walked back, they need to be walked back by the POTUS himself, and not by the SECDEF, and not in a way that makes the POTUS look bad.

Posted by: torquewrench at March 14, 2017 03:21 PM (noWW6)

130
SUDDENLY HITLER.

whoa whoa whoa , take a number , pal...

Posted by: Literally Hitler at March 14, 2017 03:21 PM (/hasf)

131 Does this happen in other online communities where people start out talking about a political issues and end up mid way through discussing assess chaps?
This is a very strange place. ;^)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 14, 2017 03:22 PM (fDdVG)

132 She served as a U.S. State Department Economic Officer and Counselor to Saudi Arabia from 1984 to 1988
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So...what kind of pay out did she get from the Saudis?

Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2017 03:22 PM (aZq03)

133 I would really like to know what Mattis saw in her. I'm glad there was no public debate between Mattis and her opponents. Move on.

On that note, are you guys back to liking Mattis or is he still on the outs. Forgiveness is not a big trait here.

Posted by: Jack Sock at March 14, 2017 03:22 PM (3q554)

134

She worked for Bush too, in Pakistan

Posted by: ThunderB at March 14, 2017 03:22 PM (GTRIw)

135 Crap. I thought we were talking about integrated circuits.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 14, 2017 03:21 PM (8ZskC)

My hobby is unintentionally creating disintegrated circuits.

I haven't managed to kill a 555 though, those things are rock-crushers.

Posted by: hogmartin at March 14, 2017 03:22 PM (8nWyX)

136 Does this happen in other online communities where people start out talking about a political issues and end up mid way through discussing assess chaps?
___
Yeah it does - want to see some pictures of mine?

Posted by: Some Landwahale From Democrats Underground at March 14, 2017 03:22 PM (aZq03)

137 Crap. I thought we were talking about integrated circuits.
Posted by: Cicero
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Leave me out of this.

Posted by: Intel at March 14, 2017 03:23 PM (ZO497)

138 I wouldn't mind if they just stripped away all the funding and mandatory parts of Obamacare and let it implode, then replaced it with something better but that's not what they have in mind.

Congress wants to retain that power and money and the lobbying that accompanies it, they won't give that up now that its in place.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
_______

I'm not sure that would be smart either, if the whole system collapses, you don't want to be the guy that last tweaked it.

These RINOS that suddenly don't want to actually repeal, what is their plan exactly? because the status quo is not an option.

Just a really shitty situation that basically people like Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski will probably be writing our healthcare plan.

Posted by: Maritime at March 14, 2017 03:23 PM (PyFAk)

139 Liz Claman is looking nice.

Wearing black and showing some skin.

However, she *does* need to chill out, as usual.

She has very pale skin. I bet she burns easily.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at March 14, 2017 03:23 PM (8iiMU)

140 #125

Crap. I thought we were talking about integrated circuits.
================

I'm so old, I remember when "TRANSISTOR!!!" radios were a thing.

Posted by: mrp at March 14, 2017 03:23 PM (Pqytn)

141 It's legal to ride your horse anywhere here, even downtown, but you don't need chaps for democrats. Spurs on the other hand.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 14, 2017 03:23 PM (6Ll1u)

142 all chaps are assless. if they had asses theyd be called pants.
..........

I've got a pair with nylon mesh in the back. Makes them work for it.

Posted by: Shep Smith at March 14, 2017 03:23 PM (HgMAr)

143 This is how the game needs to be played.

It's not Bannon, it's not Trump, publicly pulling the plug on this one.

I'm getting the feeling that Cotton is kinda the designated Senatorial Trump-channel.

Posted by: JEM at March 14, 2017 03:23 PM (TppKb)

144 112 Paolo will comfort Anne.
Posted by: Paolo at March 14, 2017 03:18 PM (/ZEVC)

I'm calling bullshit on this Paolo. All the Paolos are busy 24/7 all of March and April American Spring Breakers.

Posted by: Phone of Widespread Pepe at March 14, 2017 03:23 PM (1hhNr)

145 Hey, they say politics is show business for the unattractive for a reason

Yeah, and it's not an all-or-nothing proposition-- I'm willing to concede that of two people, otherwise equally qualified and diligent and so on, the better-looking on may well get ahead a little faster and further.

I'm also of the opinion/belief that attractive people are more likely to be steered into certain professions.

Like the big guy who can always kick down a door in the cartoons-- he never learned to pick locks, because why would he?

Posted by: Lance McCormick at March 14, 2017 03:23 PM (u0s1P)

146

Saudi, Pakistan and Egypt

She knows everybody

Posted by: ThunderB at March 14, 2017 03:24 PM (GTRIw)

147 Okay, two storm cells (special little princess as a "co-worker" and this) colliding so here comes something I rarely do here.

What the ever loving fuck?!!?

This reads like Mattis nominated her.
What the bell is he, or whoever, doing nominating someone who served as an ambassador under the JEF in the first place?!!?

Posted by: teej at March 14, 2017 03:24 PM (Jd44p)

148 The ass in normally worn chaps is provided by the pants. Therefore, as the normal configuration of chaps is with pants, for them to be assless implies without the thing giving them ass, i.e. pants.

It's like if you were to apply the half-illithid template from Fiend Folio to a neutral "humanoid" without any traits, just so you could have an illithid sub-type without the same power level as a full illithid and you wouldn't have to apply the racial bonuses. It would be a raceless half-illithid. Coincidentally, that would also be pretty gay.

Posted by: Sporkatus, Vile Brewer at March 14, 2017 03:24 PM (eXSOZ)

149 Angry lawyer commercial... "Is your vibrator smarter than you! Then call 555-5555 for a consultation and raping."

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 14, 2017 03:24 PM (n7MM7)

150 Mattis sounds like a dipshit, tbh.

Posted by: TexasJew at March 14, 2017 03:24 PM (N7G17)

151 Forgiveness is not a big trait here.

Posted by: Jack Sock

Always with the mocking!

Posted by: Babu Bhatt at March 14, 2017 03:24 PM (ZFUt7)

152 "Crap. I thought we were talking about integrated circuits."
-Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 14, 2017 03:21 PM (8ZskC)

While Muldoon cracks me up with his simplicity?

You are the funniest motherfucker on AoSHQ.

*bows down*

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at March 14, 2017 03:25 PM (6gk0M)

153 "I am afraid this is something we will be living with for a very long time. Islam is more pervasive and prevalent in the world than the Soviet international communist threat.

I have heard several allegedly "smart" young people that do not understand why older people are anti-Islam, and point at older folks and say something like "racism" (as if being a Muslim is a race)."

Posted by: Bossy Conservative

This whole thing is coming to a head faster than I think anyone would have realized back at the end of 2001. European countries losing each's separate sense of nationalism and collectively its backbone isn't helping matters. Trump coming into office is hastening things along.

There'll be a pushback, and brother, it won't be pretty. Brace yourselves.

Posted by: Shinjinrui at March 14, 2017 03:25 PM (h5hE3)

154 58 john mccain is a boil on the anus of the world. not much better than arafat. just go away. it's tapioca pudding time at sunnyview. time for him to drool his way through a bowl.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 14, 2017 03:12 PM (KP5rU)

His tongue is a hemorrhoid. His speech is flatus.

Posted by: And That's All I've Got To Say About That at March 14, 2017 03:25 PM (cJDvr)

155 I haven't managed to kill a 555 though, those things are rock-crushers.
Posted by: hogmartin
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Here...try one of these.
*hands hog a 741*

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 14, 2017 03:25 PM (ZO497)

156 Maybe she had a depth of insight into MB that was beyond others, and was not as positively committed to it as has been suggested.

Posted by: Keith at March 14, 2017 03:25 PM (USf3s)

157

Mattis told Trump he would accept only if he could pick the people who work for him. Mattis therefore did pick her

Posted by: ThunderB at March 14, 2017 03:25 PM (GTRIw)

158 Double or single windsors??

Posted by: fixerupper at March 14, 2017 03:16 PM (8XRCm)

Thirteen half-hitches is always a good look on muzzies.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 14, 2017 03:26 PM (WDdjT)

159 >>You are the funniest motherfucker on AoSHQ.

I am not taking offense at that as I never fuck mothers.

Posted by: garrett at March 14, 2017 03:26 PM (Gbk/a)

160 SUDDENLY HITLER.

whoa whoa whoa , take a number , pal...

Posted by: Literally Hitler at March 14, 2017 03:21 PM (/hasf)

Suddenly Hitler was one of those shows that was okay-ish in the first season, pretty good in the second, starting to get really good in the fourth, but never got a fifth.

amirite?

Posted by: Lance McCormick at March 14, 2017 03:26 PM (u0s1P)

161 Is Mattis going to go all maddog?

Posted by: WisRich at March 14, 2017 03:26 PM (hdpay)

162 Reading Patterson's bio I think she exactly the type of state department fool we want to drain from the swamp. No good thing came out of the state department while she was there. Mattis cocked this one up. Badly.

Posted by: Seems Legit at March 14, 2017 03:27 PM (U+nHb)

163 148 The ass in normally worn chaps is provided by the pants. Therefore, as the normal configuration of chaps is with pants, for them to be assless implies without the thing giving them ass, i.e. pants.

It's like if you were to apply the half-illithid template from Fiend Folio to a neutral "humanoid" without any traits, just so you could have an illithid sub-type without the same power level as a full illithid and you wouldn't have to apply the racial bonuses. It would be a raceless half-illithid. Coincidentally, that would also be pretty gay.
Posted by: Sporkatus, Vile Brewer at March 14, 2017 03:24 PM (eXSOZ)
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Show me this kind of cross-discipline analysis at City Journal or American Thinker!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 14, 2017 03:27 PM (EnKk6)

164 So what should be said is that someone is riding while riding chaps but not any pants?. I have absolutely no interest in considering the sexual aspects of this (although it seems to come up in discussion of the very odd people at Pride Parades_, but the idea of riding a horse any long distance without any pants sound really uncomfortable, and yes-, verychafing.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 14, 2017 03:27 PM (fDdVG)

165 The ass in normally worn chaps is provided by the pants.

So the purpose of the chaps is to keep brush and the like from tearing up your legs as you ride your horse through places the horse would probably prefer not to go in the first place?

I'm reminded of the remark quoted in 'Dreadnought' wherein Austrian emperor Franz Josef remarked on the ability of the, uh, rotund Prince of Wales (subsequently Edward VII) to keep up with him on horseback despite wearing through his pants.

Posted by: JEM at March 14, 2017 03:27 PM (TppKb)

166 Maybe she had a depth of insight into MB that was beyond others, and was not as positively committed to it as has been suggested.
Posted by: Keith at March 14, 2017 03:25 PM (USf3s)

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WLECOME BACK FIRST NAMED POSTER DUDES!!!

Your Concern Is:

[X] Noted
[ ] Not Noted

Posted by: fixerupper at March 14, 2017 03:27 PM (8XRCm)

167 "I am not taking offense at that as I never fuck mothers."
-Posted by: garrett at March 14, 2017 03:26 PM (Gbk/a)

You're taking this better than I thought you would.

*applause*

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at March 14, 2017 03:28 PM (6gk0M)

168 hog - For decades I have been amazed by how useful 555's are. And they're dead simple. Signetics hit out of the ballpark with that one.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 14, 2017 03:28 PM (ZO497)

169 Sorry-riding while wearing caps.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 14, 2017 03:28 PM (fDdVG)

170 RIDING WHILE WARRING CAPS!?

Posted by: Al Sharpton at March 14, 2017 03:29 PM (Gbk/a)

171 the idea of riding a horse any long distance without any pants sound really uncomfortable, and yes-, very chafing.

I think pants were *invented* (or at least used near-exclusively) by "barbarian" horsemen (in contrast to the civilized Romans) basically for that reason.

My timeline may be a bit off.

Posted by: Lance McCormick at March 14, 2017 03:29 PM (u0s1P)

172 Said a fetching young golden west lass
To a cowpoke who made her a pass
"Does the strength of the force
As you stick to your horse
Tear the cloth from the seat of your ass?"

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 14, 2017 03:29 PM (8ZskC)

173 Maybe she had a depth of insight into MB that was beyond others, and was not as positively committed to it as has been suggested.

Actually that is possible, which would explain why Mattis considered her a decent choice. She certainly has plenty of experience and contacts in the region. But she also was very defensive about the Muslim Brotherhood and attacked anyone who opposed them in Egypt at least, so its hard to know.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 14, 2017 03:30 PM (39g3+)

174 The worst part isn't that Mattis picked her, it's that he refused to drop her and forced Bannon to run this campaign of public airing of why she's so unsuitable before he did finally drop her. It made Mattis look like an idiot for hanging on to her so long.

Posted by: KHAAANNNNNN!!!! at March 14, 2017 03:30 PM (KeRkT)

175 159 >>You are the funniest motherfucker on AoSHQ.

I am not taking offense at that as I never fuck mothers.
Posted by: garrett at March 14, 2017 03:26 PM (Gbk/a)

I can think of one that I don't get to tap nearly often enough.

Posted by: ScoggDog at March 14, 2017 03:30 PM (8lbvK)

176 The ass in normally worn chaps is provided by the pants.
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Chaps frame pants.
Pants cover ass.
Ass fills pants.

Like rock, paper, scissors with butts.

Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at March 14, 2017 03:30 PM (/hasf)

177 >>>What are yall thinking about Mattis?

Mattis is the bright spot in the cabinet right now.

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at March 14, 2017 03:30 PM (zGmLK)

178 For some reason gay pride parades are full of chaps wearers, but no horse's. Go figure

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 14, 2017 03:31 PM (6Ll1u)

179 You are the funniest motherfucker on AoSHQ.

*bows down*
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at March 14, 2017 03:25 PM (6gk0M)

Now that I have a fan club I'm going to have t-shirts printed up.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 14, 2017 03:31 PM (8ZskC)

180 "Reading Patterson's bio I think she exactly the type of state department fool we want to drain from the swamp."

Genuinely getting rid of all of the fools at State would leave Foggy Bottom an echoing, empty place. Patterson isn't in any way unusual.

Posted by: torquewrench at March 14, 2017 03:31 PM (noWW6)

181 I though for a while that she was just "following orders" in her defense of the brotherhood, but from what I have read she was a bit too keen on the idea, like frequent meetings at the home of one of their top guys.

Posted by: Javems at March 14, 2017 03:32 PM (yOqwj)

182
140 #125

Crap. I thought we were talking about integrated circuits.
================

I'm so old, I remember when "TRANSISTOR!!!" radios were a thing.
Posted by: mrp at March 14, 2017 03:23 PM (Pqytn)

Tubes. Rows and rows of tubes with the soft orange glow lighting The Darkness.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at March 14, 2017 03:32 PM (FtrY1)

183 Hey, Anne. You are welcome to join my harem any time of the week. I have a thing for blondes. And you got a thing for me.

Posted by: Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi at March 14, 2017 03:32 PM (vRcUp)

184 >>Chaps frame pants.
>>Pants cover ass.
>>Ass fills pants.

Then. Who's having sex with the chicken?

Posted by: Frank Costanza at March 14, 2017 03:32 PM (Gbk/a)

185 "I am not taking offense at that as I never fuck mothers."
-Posted by: garrett at March 14, 2017 03:26 PM (Gbk/a)

We do not adversely sanction the fucking of others' mothers, unless of course those others are some close relation of yours, or our children, in which case we ventilate you.

There are indeed many mothers who are in need of such attention, and we happily endorse appropriately consensual application of PIV in that case within in the bounds of your mutual beliefs.

Better than dicking someone's father.

Posted by: JEM at March 14, 2017 03:32 PM (TppKb)

186 Chaps and trousers were/are worn to protect the legs from botanical lacerations. They were a helluva lot cheaper than thigh boots, too.

Posted by: mrp at March 14, 2017 03:32 PM (Pqytn)

187 >>Then. Who's having sex with the chicken?

PHONE

Posted by: JackStraw at March 14, 2017 03:32 PM (/tuJf)

188 OT, via Insty: Presidential Executive Order on a Comprehensive Plan for Reorganizing the Executive Branch

http://tinyurl.com/zox74yp

Very interesting, particularly 2.b.
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(b) The Director shall publish a notice in the Federal Register inviting the public to suggest improvements in the organization and functioning of the executive branch and shall consider the suggestions when formulating the proposed plan described in subsection (c) of this section.
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Morons! Fire up your typewritters! You president needs your assistance!

My proposal is simple. Burn it down. Scatter the stones. Salt the the earth where it stood.

I will also accept Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

Posted by: Damiano at March 14, 2017 03:33 PM (n3oGs)

189 Maybe she had a depth of insight into MB that was beyond others, and was not as positively committed to it as has been suggested.
Posted by: Keith at March 14, 2017 03:25 PM (USf3s)

Obama would not have appointed her ambassador to Egypt if she wasn't down with licking MoBro taint.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 14, 2017 03:33 PM (WDdjT)

190 I think it was here that I saw the 11th-dimensional chess theory that individuals (maybe not this woman, but possibly) were being suggested or nominated so that could be publically vetted and basically Alinsky'd (so as to taint them and salt the metaphorical earth), then withdrawn.

Repeat as necessary, but eventually name the guy you want who then gets confirmed relatively easily.

That seems too clever by half, but it's an intriguing notion.

Posted by: Lance McCormick at March 14, 2017 03:33 PM (u0s1P)

191 I think chaps were only invented because the cowboys I see on TV were always eating beans, right?

Posted by: wth at March 14, 2017 03:33 PM (HgMAr)

192 You know it is possible that they are having trouble getting foreign service offices to serve

Posted by: ThunderB at March 14, 2017 03:34 PM (GTRIw)

193 For some reason gay pride parades are full of chaps wearers, but no horse's. Go figure
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 14, 2017 03:31 PM (6Ll1u)

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Definately not assless. And I think thats the point.

Posted by: fixerupper at March 14, 2017 03:34 PM (8XRCm)

194 Saudi, Pakistan and Egypt

She knows everybody
Posted by: ThunderB at March 14, 2017 03:24 PM

Got that video of Bigfoot as well.

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2017 03:34 PM (HDU3V)

195 The Foreign Service is polluted with leftists

Posted by: ThunderB at March 14, 2017 03:35 PM (GTRIw)

196 For decades I have been amazed by how useful 555's are. And they're dead simple. Signetics hit out of the ballpark with that one.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 14, 2017 03:28 PM (ZO497)

Agreed. So many uses too, oscillator, timer, trigger, etc.

Since we're already OT:

- My cat just stretched in her sleep and made a sound like a teakettle near boiling. At first I thought the window got popped open and wind was burbling in but nope! Just snorking kitty.
- Sam's Club (my membership expired months ago and I only ever used it once anyway) sent me an email with the subject "Don't miss Diaper Madness savings". As a single man who has no children, incontinence, diaper fetish, or "Diaper Madness", I believe that I will in fact choose to miss Diaper Madness savings, thanks all the same.

WELP that's my story thanks for listening guys God bless.

Posted by: hogmartin at March 14, 2017 03:35 PM (8nWyX)

197 CATO institute says a repeal will cover more people than theObamacare light bill.

Posted by: Seems Legit at March 14, 2017 03:35 PM (U+nHb)

198 >>I think chaps were only invented because the cowboys I see on TV were always eating beans, right?

I always thought Cowboys wore chaps to get you to look past they Belt Buckle?

The Belt Buckle just draws you in.

Posted by: Anderson Cooper at March 14, 2017 03:35 PM (Gbk/a)

199 I'm so old, I remember when "TRANSISTOR!!!" radios were a thing.
Posted by: mrp

I am your trans-sister, hon.

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at March 14, 2017 03:35 PM (vRcUp)

200 Expected Roz. Was not disappointed.
Posted by: Sporkatus, Vile Brewer at March 14, 2017 03:17 PM (eXSOZ)

You can trust links from me.

Posted by: alexthechick - Parallama platoon ahoy! at March 14, 2017 03:35 PM (mf5HN)

201 For some reason gay pride parades are full of chaps wearers, but no horse's. Go figure

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 14, 2017 03:31 PM (6Ll1u)
............

Nothing says happy and carefree like a bunch of grown men exposing their hairy ass.

Posted by: wth at March 14, 2017 03:36 PM (HgMAr)

202 Allow me to fumigate my wisdom on the court!

I must first proctologize myself. Upon my discharge I shall evacuate... excuse me, ejacutate, my mind to the prophylactic of the bowels of society.

Posted by: Jailhouse Lawyer at March 14, 2017 03:36 PM (39g3+)

203 That seems too clever by half, but it's an intriguing notion.

Bullshit! It's too clever by 7/16!

Posted by: You Stand Corrected at March 14, 2017 03:36 PM (97XyN)

204 Tubes. Rows and rows of tubes with the soft orange glow lighting The Darkness.
In this metaphor, the tubes glow because they represent generative, virile power, impressing creatively upon the darkness. This is because the tubes are a phallic symbol. Your tube radio is full of penis.

Posted by: Sporkatus, Vile Brewer at March 14, 2017 03:36 PM (eXSOZ)

205 Hey, Anne. You are welcome to join my harem any time of the week. I have a thing for blondes. And you got a thing for me.
Posted by: Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi at March 14, 2017 03:32 PM (vRcUp)

I'd be careful, Anne. Lynne Stewart would be a tough act to follow.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 14, 2017 03:36 PM (8ZskC)

206 Listen, you dirtbags...

I have performed live and I understand tone, cadence and content.

@Cicero "Gets It" and has the "timing" of a pro.

I want him as a "Campfire Friend".

I won't suck his dick, but I know a guy...

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at March 14, 2017 03:36 PM (6gk0M)

207 Posted by: Cicero (@cicero)

Not socking muldoon, are you?

Posted by: JEM at March 14, 2017 03:37 PM (TppKb)

208 Do they not vet these people first?

Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 14, 2017 03:37 PM (0mRoj)

209
My understanding is that McCain supported her, so that means dumping her was probably a good thing.

The Stain
of McCain
Lands plainly on the Dame

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 14, 2017 03:08 PM (8ZskC)

That's Muldoon-worthy there.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 14, 2017 03:37 PM (XWkhW)

210 >>>U.S. officials said that two members of the Senate Armed Services
Committee, Sens. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), were
strongly opposed to Patterson's nomination because she served as U.S.
ambassador to Egypt from 2011 to 2013, a time when the Obama
administration supported an elected government with ties to the Muslim
Brotherhood that was ultimately overthrown by the Egyptian military.<<<

This is gonna cause a lot of $100 fines in Texas.

Posted by: a T-Rex trying to rub one out at March 14, 2017 03:37 PM (clV7O)

211 Genuinely getting rid of all of the fools at State
would leave Foggy Bottom an echoing, empty place. Patterson isn't in any
way unusual.

Posted by: torquewrench at March 14, 2017 03:31 PM (noWW6)

That is what is known as a good start. Foggy Bottom is a sewer of idiocy.

Posted by: The Mouse that Roared at March 14, 2017 03:37 PM (7N6ox)

212 >>Your tube radio is full of penis.

and Rectifier.

Posted by: garrett at March 14, 2017 03:38 PM (Gbk/a)

213 You know it is possible that they are having trouble getting foreign service offices to serve.

There could be a jobs/job-seeker mismatch here, yeah. Though this doesn't strike me as the kind of labor market for that. Maybe you don't get the super-credential'd, but this isn't rocket surgery where you absolutely must hire X number of brain scientists at your tech hospital to treat Y patients.

Posted by: Lance McCormick at March 14, 2017 03:38 PM (u0s1P)

214 WLECOME BACK FIRST NAMED POSTER DUDES!!!

Your Concern Is:

[X] Noted
[ ] Not Noted
Posted by: fixerupper at March 14, 2017 03:27 PM (8XRCm)

That's very insightful. I've been posting here occasionally under that name (my real name) for about 6 years or so and lurking for longer than that. Maybe I should go with a handle like flipperdipper, or snooperupper or something more to your favor?

Just pointing out that Mattis is not an idiot and there might be an actual, logical reason he made the choice.

Posted by: Keith at March 14, 2017 03:38 PM (USf3s)

215 Thank you very much. I'll be here all week.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 14, 2017 03:38 PM (8ZskC)

216 See? It took me too long to type that.

*Awards @Cicero "The Prize".*

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at March 14, 2017 03:38 PM (6gk0M)

217 Definately not assless. And I think thats the point.

The traditional sequence is chaps-pants-ass.

The Folsom Street Fair sequence drops the pants out of that.

Posted by: JEM at March 14, 2017 03:39 PM (TppKb)

218 161 Is Mattis going to go all maddog?
Posted by: WisRich at March 14, 2017 03:26 PM (hdpay)

The Military never called him MadDog... that was a press thing...

The Military called him... Chaos...

Posted by: Don Q. at March 14, 2017 03:39 PM (NgKpN)

219 *Awards @Cicero "The Prize".*
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at March 14, 2017 03:38 PM (6gk0M)

------

.... thought you werent sucking his dick......

Posted by: fixerupper at March 14, 2017 03:39 PM (8XRCm)

220 Bullshit! It's too clever by 7/16!

I do believe I doth have been served.

Well played, sir. Well played.

Posted by: Lance McCormick at March 14, 2017 03:39 PM (u0s1P)

221 Dude tips his Waitresses.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at March 14, 2017 03:39 PM (6gk0M)

222 .... thought you werent sucking his dick......
Posted by: fixerupper at March 14, 2017 03:39 PM (8XRCm)

Honest, I just looked down and there he was.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 14, 2017 03:40 PM (8ZskC)

223 >>.... thought you werent sucking his dick......

Maybe that's the prize.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 14, 2017 03:40 PM (/tuJf)

224 218 161 Is Mattis going to go all maddog?
Posted by: WisRich at March 14, 2017 03:26 PM (hdpay)

The Military never called him MadDog... that was a press thing...

The Military called him... Chaos...
Posted by: Don Q. at March 14, 2017 03:39 PM (NgKpN)

and we all know how bad THAT can be.... right Chief?

Posted by: Agent 86 at March 14, 2017 03:40 PM (NgKpN)

225 .... thought you werent sucking his dick......

Posted by: fixerupper
====

He knows a guy.

Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at March 14, 2017 03:40 PM (/hasf)

226 ITS FUNNY BECAUSE ASSLESS CHAPS ARE A MEME HERE AND SOME PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO EXPLAIN WHY CHAPS DONT COVER THE ASS!

Posted by: BEN ROETHLESSBURGER at March 14, 2017 03:40 PM (kTF2Z)

227 Better than dicking someone's father.
How about uncles? I mean, South Park sort of raised the issue.

Posted by: Sporkatus, Vile Brewer at March 14, 2017 03:40 PM (eXSOZ)

228 Honest, I just looked down and there he was.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 14, 2017 03:40 PM (8ZskC)

----

Now.... THATS funny.

Posted by: fixerupper at March 14, 2017 03:40 PM (8XRCm)

229 Apparently, some people are worried that if Planned Parenthood's funding is cut, then the most horrible thing ever will happen: Children will be born!!1!

https://twitter.com/cathleendecker/status/841398477561061376

Posted by: The Born Hat at March 14, 2017 03:40 PM (rUIbB)

230

Keith, stay. Altho I am partial to flipperdipper

Posted by: ThunderB at March 14, 2017 03:41 PM (GTRIw)

231 This is gonna cause a lot of $100 fines in Texas.

Like I said, drop it to $2 and set up automated collection.

Ten a week for $16.50.

No refunds.

Posted by: JEM at March 14, 2017 03:41 PM (TppKb)

232 Didn't Michele Flournoy turn Mattis down, too?

I know she supposedly led the effort to negotiate the Iraq status of forces agreement - and failed - because Obama quietly opposed it.

I wonder if that story is true. Leon Panetta wrote about it in his memoir.

Posted by: 13times at March 14, 2017 03:41 PM (WHVu+)

233 >>Honest, I just looked down and there he was.

How do the crocs fit?

Posted by: JackStraw at March 14, 2017 03:41 PM (/tuJf)

234 Are we going to have to start calling him Suckweasel ?

Posted by: ScoggDog at March 14, 2017 03:41 PM (8lbvK)

235 You know your knees are gonna smell like cheese all day, now.

Posted by: Slap's Crocs at March 14, 2017 03:41 PM (Gbk/a)

236 Just pointing out that Mattis is not an idiot and there might be an actual, logical reason he made the choice.

BURN THE WITCH

NO DISSENT ALLOWED

ATTICA! ATTICA!

(no, seriously, yeah, it's really curious)

Posted by: Lance McCormick at March 14, 2017 03:41 PM (u0s1P)

237 "... thought you werent sucking his dick......"
-Posted by: fixerupper at March 14, 2017 03:39 PM (8XRCm)

Learn how to use elipses and apostrophes and perhaps we'll speak of the Glory.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at March 14, 2017 03:41 PM (6gk0M)

238 Mothers need love too, maybe even more than non mothers

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 14, 2017 03:42 PM (39g3+)

239 225 .... thought you werent sucking his dick......

Posted by: fixerupper
====

He knows a guy.
Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at March 14, 2017 03:40 PM (/hasf)

Well... it is National Steak and a BJ day!

Posted by: Don Q. at March 14, 2017 03:42 PM (NgKpN)

240 I never did get why this chick was considered for an executive position in the DoD.

I could see having her in the State Dept. in an advisory position, as a sort of Devil's Advocate, perhaps.

She has a lot of diplomatic experience --- but WTF does this have to do with being an under-secretary in DoD?

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at March 14, 2017 03:42 PM (hCoZK)

241 WHAT ARE YOU UP TO UNIVERSE?

Wait for it.

Posted by: Lake Effect Snow is already a band at March 14, 2017 03:42 PM (FhXTo)

242 The Military never called him MadDog... that was a press thing...

The Military called him... Chaos...

Posted by: Don Q. at March 14, 2017 03:39 PM (NgKpN)

No, the Marines of 1st Marine Division called him Mad Dog, Chaos was his preferred callsign. Howlin' Mad was already taken.

Posted by: The Mouse that Roared at March 14, 2017 03:43 PM (7N6ox)

243 >>> Nothing says happy and carefree like a bunch of grown men exposing their hairy ass.
......

Here's my one problem with the Gay Rights brigade. I don't care who you do what with. I don't care about how you feel, who, you are, or anything else. I don't care if you marry a guy, girl, or hamster, or inflatable doll. Nor do you care about any of the above related to me. None of these things make us special or unique or worthy of extra rights of any kind.

Now, when you show up in public bare assed, wearing pink chaps, a cape, and flapping a giant dildo... you're not seeking acceptance or tolerance. You're acting like an obnoxious imbecile and I will treat you as such.

Posted by: Damiano at March 14, 2017 03:43 PM (n3oGs)

244 I'm reminded of the remark quoted in 'Dreadnought' wherein Austrian emperor Franz Josef remarked on the ability of the, uh, rotund Prince of Wales (subsequently Edward VII) to keep up with him on horseback despite wearing through his pants.
Posted by: JEM at March 14, 2017 03:27 PM (TppKb)

Great book. Have you read "Castles of Steel." With Massey 800-1000 pages just fly by.

Posted by: Keith at March 14, 2017 03:43 PM (USf3s)

245
I think chaps were only invented because the cowboys I see on TV were always eating beans, right?

Posted by: wth at March 14, 2017 03:33 PM (HgMAr)

I thought they were invented by a cavalryman with dysentery.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 14, 2017 03:43 PM (XWkhW)

246 228
Honest, I just looked down and there he was.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 14, 2017 03:40 PM (8ZskC)

----

Now.... THATS funny.

Posted by: fixerupper at March 14, 2017 03:40 PM (8XRCm)

Blocking the view of the Crocs?

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at March 14, 2017 03:44 PM (8iiMU)

247 Well, Susan Rice is standing in the wings, waiting for something to come up.

Posted by: mrp at March 14, 2017 03:44 PM (Pqytn)

248 Learn how to use elipses and apostrophes and perhaps we'll speak of the Glory.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at March 14, 2017 03:41 PM (6gk0M)

-------

... Im impressed you know what an ellipses (two L's bigg fella) is

Posted by: fixerupper at March 14, 2017 03:44 PM (8XRCm)

249 Silly ciswomen. I am more woman than all of you put together!

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at March 14, 2017 03:44 PM (vRcUp)

250 flipperdipper is a most cromulent nic.

As a single man who has no children, incontinence, diaper fetish, or "Diaper Madness", I believe that I will in fact choose to miss Diaper Madness savings, thanks all the same.

WELP that's my story thanks for listening guys God bless.
Posted by: hogmartin at March 14, 2017 03:35 PM (8nWyX)

hogmartin, you could also flip the diapers by selling them on Craig's List to incontinent fetishists.

Posted by: alexthechick - Parallama platoon ahoy! at March 14, 2017 03:44 PM (mf5HN)

251 She has a lot of diplomatic experience --- but WTF does this have to do with being an under-secretary in DoD?

On one hand, the ambassadorial role often means doing shit you don't like to do.

On the other, tainted by Obama contact.

Not sure which way I swing on this one.

But with chaps and no pants, there's room.

Posted by: JEM at March 14, 2017 03:44 PM (TppKb)

252 Who are the moderates again? Yes, let's support them.

Posted by: Fritz at March 14, 2017 03:45 PM (2Mnv1)

253 Ever date a muscle girl that wears chaps? You know chaps don't have a front too? And I can't believe that I shared that.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 14, 2017 03:45 PM (6Ll1u)

254 The traditional sequence is chaps-pants-ass.

The Folsom Street Fair sequence drops the pants out of that.

Posted by: JEM at March 14, 2017 03:39 PM (TppKb)
..............

They stole that from us.

Posted by: Castro Street Cowboy at March 14, 2017 03:45 PM (HgMAr)

255 SOME PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO EXPLAIN WHY CHAPS DONT COVER THE ASS!

IT'S FUNNIER BECAUSE THE ARGUMENT AND EXPLANATIONS ARE THE MEME!

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at March 14, 2017 03:45 PM (eXSOZ)

256 Well, Susan Rice is standing in the wings, waiting for something to come up.

That pole dancing thing fell through after Harff got a Fox News job.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 14, 2017 03:45 PM (39g3+)

257 Well, Susan Rice is standing in the wings, waiting for something to come up.

I would like to think the only thing that'd come up for her is the FBI agent with the handcuffs.

Posted by: JEM at March 14, 2017 03:46 PM (TppKb)

258 How do the crocs fit?

Posted by: JackStraw at March 14, 2017 03:41 PM (/tuJf)

Dammit! Beat me to it and sock fail!

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 14, 2017 03:46 PM (8iiMU)

259
Expected Roz. Was not disappointed.
Posted by: Sporkatus, Vile Brewer at March 14, 2017 03:17 PM (eXSOZ)

You can trust links from me.

Posted by: alexthechick - Parallama platoon ahoy! at March 14, 2017 03:35 PM (mf5HN)

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 14, 2017 03:46 PM (XWkhW)

260 Chaps were invented because of mesquite.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at March 14, 2017 03:46 PM (ul9CR)

261 ... Im impressed you know what an ellipses (two L's bigg fella) is

-Posted by: fixerupper at March 14, 2017 03:44 PM (8XRCm)

Typo, amigo.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at March 14, 2017 03:46 PM (6gk0M)

262 Not sure which way I swing on this one.

No biggie ... Suckweasel's got the same issue. Maybe you two could do lunch sometime.

Posted by: ScoggDog at March 14, 2017 03:47 PM (8lbvK)

263 I'm gonna just try this one on for size

Posted by: Christopher "flipperdipper" Taylor at March 14, 2017 03:47 PM (39g3+)

264 Keith, stay. Altho I am partial to flipperdipper
Posted by: ThunderB at March 14, 2017 03:41 PM (GTRIw)

I'm not going anywhere

This place is great. An abundance of actual critical thought.

I went with Keith because, after 25 or so years of Internet handles dating back to Air Warrior on the Genie server, I wanted something simple, honest and hopefully at least a bit Dox resistant.

Posted by: Keith at March 14, 2017 03:47 PM (USf3s)

265
Kinda Gemanic.... eh???

Posted by: fixerupperflipperdipper at March 14, 2017 03:47 PM (8XRCm)

266 ee-ee-ee-aa-aa-aa-aa!

Posted by: Flipper at March 14, 2017 03:48 PM (HgMAr)

267 Posted by: Castro Street Cowboy

You asked for it:

https://youtu.be/GEaI9xj9e8w

(love the song, the video is just kind of a mishmash, but it fits...)

Posted by: JEM at March 14, 2017 03:48 PM (TppKb)

268 Air Warrior on the Genie

-----

Holy shit.

I played that game as Eyeball.

Posted by: fixerupperflipperdipper at March 14, 2017 03:48 PM (8XRCm)

269 #256

That pole dancing thing fell through after Harff got a Fox News job.
============

Wait, what? Susan Harf is working for FNC? Seriously?

This what happens when you don't have cable or satellite.

No wonder that Fox reporter got all snotty when the Gateway Pundit reporter became part of the WH press pool.

Posted by: mrp at March 14, 2017 03:48 PM (Pqytn)

270 >>>Mattis doesn't seem like a dumb guy. I still can't wrap my head around this one.

Posted by: BacktoGA at March 14, 2017 03:06 PM (6QPsd)<<<

Maybe she was doing the head wrapping?
**sees picture, throws up in mouth a little**
Eeesh. Wouldn't let her write my biography.

Posted by: David Petraeus at March 14, 2017 03:48 PM (clV7O)

271 Assless chaps? Huh-uh,naw, Mongo straight.

Posted by: Mongo at March 14, 2017 03:49 PM (bc2Lc)

272 Sounds like Flipper doesn't want to be dipped.

Posted by: wth at March 14, 2017 03:49 PM (HgMAr)

273 101 Recently, I've had two check out girls with odd names:

Arabiya and Sharia.

Something tells me, bacon in the checkout line might be a problem.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at March 14, 2017 03:49 PM (ul9CR)

274 @201 - I think it's more to say "All deliveries in the rear."

Posted by: bicentennialguy at March 14, 2017 03:49 PM (vg8iE)

275 Air Flipperdipper? Flipper Warrior? Flipper Warrior sounds like a super rapey dolphin though. *ponders*

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 14, 2017 03:46 PM (XWkhW)

I AM THE FLUFFIEST OF ALL FLUFFY BUNNIES BOUNDING ABOUT THE MEADOW GLADE ALL FULL OF INNOCENCE AND FLUFF AND THE THINGS!

Posted by: alexthechick - Parallama platoon ahoy! at March 14, 2017 03:49 PM (mf5HN)

276 I'm embarrassed when I spell something incorrectly.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at March 14, 2017 03:50 PM (6gk0M)

277 In Texas, you better dip your flipper, cause if you flick your flipper you'll get fined.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at March 14, 2017 03:50 PM (ul9CR)

278 Flipper was faster than lightning and king of the sea, but the only dips he took were under the waves

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 14, 2017 03:51 PM (39g3+)

279 ...and I don't mind being corrected.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at March 14, 2017 03:51 PM (6gk0M)

280 Don't be a double flipper dipper. One dipper only.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 14, 2017 03:51 PM (/tuJf)

281 Just the flip, I swear.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at March 14, 2017 03:51 PM (ul9CR)

282 @270 touche

Posted by: BacktoGA at March 14, 2017 03:51 PM (6QPsd)

283 A friend said he saw (or heard) Susan Rice on some program last week and she is STILL pitching the Benghazi video story and denying she ever lied about it.

Crazy.
But I guess it works with a crazy media.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at March 14, 2017 03:51 PM (hCoZK)

284 Im embarrased when I spill somethng incorectly.

As well you should.

Posted by: Babu Bhatt at March 14, 2017 03:51 PM (ZFUt7)

285 Shit just 'Sploded.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at March 14, 2017 03:52 PM (6gk0M)

286 6 Sunlight. Disinfectant.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 14, 2017 03:04 PM (wYr++)

We need to order more. And continue applying.

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 14, 2017 03:52 PM (TdMsT)

287 Something tells me, bacon in the checkout line might be a problem.

My guess is just names 11 year old girls came up with and stuck with for her daughters.

"Ooh, Sharia, mm hmm I like dat"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 14, 2017 03:52 PM (39g3+)

288 ...and I don't mind being corrected.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at March 14, 2017 03:51 PM (6gk0M)

-----

I was funnin ya big feller.

Posted by: fixerupperflipperdipper at March 14, 2017 03:52 PM (8XRCm)

289 I believe two dipper flicks is still ok ... you're only playing with your dipper on flick three.

Posted by: ScoggDog at March 14, 2017 03:52 PM (8lbvK)

290 Recently, I've had two check out girls with odd names:

Arabiya and Sharia.

Something tells me, bacon in the checkout line might be a problem.

So this is where you put the $60 bottle of wine and the pork chops in the cart and ask for a date?

Posted by: JEM at March 14, 2017 03:52 PM (TppKb)

291 "Ooh, Sharia, mm hmm I like dat"

Probably rhymes with Daria and not like Sharia Law.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at March 14, 2017 03:53 PM (ul9CR)

292 12 Good.

Now.

WTFFFFFFFFFFFFF, Mad Dog?
Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at March 14, 2017 03:05 PM (/hasf)

What was the thought process on the initial recommendation? I'm baffled.

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 14, 2017 03:53 PM (TdMsT)

293 My Sharia Moor....

Posted by: Stevie Wonder at March 14, 2017 03:53 PM (vg8iE)

294 This is ass-less chaps worthy:

Trump dropping climate change impact from government reviews: report

President Donald Trump plans to drop climate change as a factor in making government decisions, Bloomberg reported Tuesday.

The move, which would reportedly cover environmental reviews of appliance standards, industry regulations and pipeline projects, would largely reverse how the Obama administration addressed climate change.

Posted by: WisRich at March 14, 2017 03:53 PM (hdpay)

295 Patterson was Amb in Egypt when the mob was trying to tear down the embassy and her staff was whining about some obscure video. Pretty sure she would be involved in Benghazi ugliness as well.

Posted by: mustbequantum at March 14, 2017 03:53 PM (MIKMs)

296 Now tha's thinkin with yer flipperdipperstick.

Posted by: guy dressed up as a Scotsman at March 14, 2017 03:53 PM (clV7O)

297 I know. I choose to remain humble, however.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at March 14, 2017 03:53 PM (6gk0M)

298 Who did the MSM and CFR and DeepState prefer? She had backing from somewhere apparently, other than the Muslim Brotherhood. Sounds like a win that she is gone.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 14, 2017 03:53 PM (BrMft)

299 I AM THE FLUFFIEST OF ALL FLUFFY BUNNIES BOUNDING ABOUT THE MEADOW GLADE ALL FULL OF INNOCENCE AND FLUFF AND THE THINGS!
Posted by: alexthechick - Parallama platoon ahoy! at March 14, 2017 03:49 PM (mf5HN)

Oh, that reminds me, I've been meaning to send you this. It's old and you might have seen it but... y'know, in case you want to incorporate some new stuff into your gamboling repertoire.

https://youtu.be/MLaA2bABG3o

Posted by: hogmartin at March 14, 2017 03:53 PM (8nWyX)

300 Would this be the placed to rant that this entire section of the DoD should be considerably reduced in size. Perhaps a single Assistant Secretary of Defense instead of an Undersecs and several assistants thereof. This section serves mostly as the DoD's office of foreign affairs and is therefore performing many tasks that should be handled exclusively by the State Department.

Posted by: RioBravo at March 14, 2017 03:54 PM (SsblQ)

301 So this is where you put the $60 bottle of wine and the pork chops in the cart and ask for a date?

If I like what I see through the Hefty Bag...could be, could be...

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at March 14, 2017 03:54 PM (ul9CR)

302 Horses have chaps as well. Covered their shoulders and chest, possibly their withers but I'm not sure that is. Not their ass though.

Posted by: Javems at March 14, 2017 03:54 PM (yOqwj)

303 My sharia more

psychopathic law that I abhor

Posted by: JackStraw at March 14, 2017 03:54 PM (/tuJf)

304 I AM THE FLUFFIEST OF ALL FLUFFY BUNNIES BOUNDING ABOUT THE MEADOW GLADE ALL FULL OF INNOCENCE AND FLUFF AND THE THINGS!
======================

Well, that's no ordinary bunny rabbit.

Posted by: Tim The Sorceror at March 14, 2017 03:54 PM (Pqytn)

305 >>>Mattis doesn't seem like a dumb guy. I still can't wrap my head around this one.

Maybe she was known as someone "who gets the job done" and was just following Obama's policy directives at the time when she was pushing the Muslim Brotherhood.

Posted by: Max Power at March 14, 2017 03:54 PM (q177U)

306 The Military never called him MadDog... that was a press thing...

The Military called him... Chaos...

Posted by: Don Q. at March 14, 2017 03:39 PM

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No, the Marines of 1st Marine Division called him Mad Dog, Chaos was his preferred callsign. Howlin' Mad was already taken.
Posted by: The Mouse that Roared at March 14, 2017 03:43 PM

CHAOS reputedly was/is an acronym meaning "Colonel Has An Outstanding Solution".

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 14, 2017 03:54 PM (DMUuz)

307 Melissa Francis is easy on the eyes, but that idiot next to her is a bit of a mewling quim, with dorkiness.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at March 14, 2017 03:54 PM (8iiMU)

308 Interesting...

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is vowing that the U.S. will leave the United Nations' Human Rights Council if the organization does not undertake "considerable reform."

"While it may be the only such organization devoted to human rights, the Human Rights Council requires considerable reform in order for us to continue to participate,"

http://tinyurl.com/js2mmsm

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 14, 2017 03:54 PM (39g3+)

309 Trump dropping climate change impact from government reviews: report

Schadenboner just took two small planets up the butt.

Posted by: JEM at March 14, 2017 03:54 PM (TppKb)

310
What was the thought process on the initial recommendation? I'm baffled.
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 14, 2017 03:53 PM (TdMsT)

I would like to know because for once I would like there to be a reason other than graft and incompetence and helping the enemy.

Posted by: alexthechick - Parallama platoon ahoy! at March 14, 2017 03:55 PM (mf5HN)

311 Could she get a job as a jizz mopper in a porn shoppe?

Posted by: torabora at March 14, 2017 03:55 PM (mbUOr)

312 BOUNDING ABOUT THE MEADOW GLADE

-----

Um.... meadow glades are outside.... right???

I think I see the hole in your story.

Posted by: fixerupperflipperdipper at March 14, 2017 03:55 PM (8XRCm)

313 Brooke Snitzengruben is SUDDENLY HITLER.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 14, 2017 03:55 PM (YEelc)

314 President Donald Trump plans to drop climate change as a factor in making government decisions, Bloomberg reported Tuesday.

I love this sentence sexually. More Winning!

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at March 14, 2017 03:55 PM (ul9CR)

315 294 This is ass-less chaps worthy:

Trump dropping climate change impact from government reviews: report

President Donald Trump plans to drop climate change as a factor in making government decisions, Bloomberg reported Tuesday.

The move, which would reportedly cover environmental reviews of appliance standards, industry regulations and pipeline projects, would largely reverse how the Obama administration addressed climate change.
Posted by: WisRich at March 14, 2017 03:53 PM (hdpay)

Thank GOD. The nonsense coming from The Little Church of Climate Science is not to be believed.

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 14, 2017 03:55 PM (TdMsT)

316 "There are a ton of positions to fill especially as they start cleaning house (as it seems like will happen) but finding experienced and skilled people in some of those areas might be tough. There are lots of people who have the skills and experience, but they are almost exclusively leftist "make the world a better place" zealots.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 14, 2017 03:10 PM (39g3+)"

---------

And where did all these skills and experience get us?

Dems go on ideology alone and the Republicans should return the favor. How else is our side to amass the skills and experience if we also give the important jobs to the other side?

Posted by: Decaf at March 14, 2017 03:56 PM (+JsGm)

317 I'd rather be humble than arrogant, so I 'correct' spelling and I accept the fallout that eventually cascades.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at March 14, 2017 03:56 PM (6gk0M)

318 294 This is ass-less chaps worthy:

Trump dropping climate change impact from government reviews: report

President Donald Trump plans to drop climate change as a factor in making government decisions, Bloomberg reported Tuesday.

The move, which would reportedly cover environmental reviews of appliance standards, industry regulations and pipeline projects, would largely reverse how the Obama administration addressed climate change.
Posted by: WisRich at March 14, 2017 03:53 PM (hdpay)

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

"We credit Obama with the roaring economy. It was only he who could hold the economy back so thoroughly for so long as to lead to this great economic boom, of which President Trump gets 0 credit."
-AP

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 14, 2017 03:56 PM (wYr++)

319 Great book. Have you read "Castles of Steel." With Massey 800-1000 pages just fly by.

Read everything Massie's done, including the one about his kid.

Yeah, guy hits it.

Posted by: JEM at March 14, 2017 03:56 PM (TppKb)

320 Michelle Fluornoy was Team Clinton.

Posted by: blaster at March 14, 2017 03:56 PM (HV1LS)

321 Recently, I've had two check out girls with odd names:

Arabiya and Sharia.

Something tells me, bacon in the checkout line might be a problem.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at March 14, 2017 03:49 PM (ul9CR)

No, these were young ladies of the (neighbor)hood.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 14, 2017 03:56 PM (PY9jH)

322 All elected legislative officials, one term than done.

Subject all regulations promulgated by the executive branch to legislative review every five years.

Posted by: MAGA at March 14, 2017 03:56 PM (A4HOq)

323 Light the skull! LIGHT THE SKULL!

Posted by: Dang at March 14, 2017 03:57 PM (8b+oT)

324 310
What was the thought process on the initial recommendation? I'm baffled.
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 14, 2017 03:53 PM (TdMsT)

I would like to know because for once I would like there to be a reason other than graft and incompetence and helping the enemy.
Posted by: alexthechick - Parallama platoon ahoy! at March 14, 2017 03:55 PM (mf5HN)

Or pure betrayal and treachery.

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 14, 2017 03:57 PM (TdMsT)

325 And where did all these skills and experience get us?

Just means there's less start up time and stumbles at first if you have people who know how it all works and don't need to learn on the job, is all.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 14, 2017 03:57 PM (39g3+)

326 >>>Schadenboner just took two small planets up the butt.

Posted by: JEM at March 14, 2017 03:54 PM (TppKb)<<<

Thank God I'm not a planet anymore.

Posted by: Pluto at March 14, 2017 03:57 PM (clV7O)

327 I eat tuna salad with chips, not forks.

Posted by: flipperdipper at March 14, 2017 03:58 PM (HgMAr)

328 OT but all games that involve touching are banned at a school in California. So how are the little darlings going to know if they're queer or not?

Posted by: torabora at March 14, 2017 03:58 PM (mbUOr)

329 Yo!

Posted by: Yo! at March 14, 2017 03:59 PM (GwIKd)

330 I'm actually a good speller but dyslexic as hell, which causes most of my spelling errors.

So, I can either let folks think I'm a bad speller, or be a whiny little "oh muh dyslexia" jerkoff.

Or better yet punt it all and blame autocucumber.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at March 14, 2017 03:59 PM (ul9CR)

331 Thank God I'm not a planet anymore.

Posted by: Pluto at March 14, 2017 03:57 PM (clV7O)

*whistles innocently*

Posted by: assteroids at March 14, 2017 03:59 PM (8iiMU)

332 So how are the little darlings going to know if they're queer or not?
That will be covered in the fisting part of the anti-bullying seminar.

Posted by: Sporkatus, Vile Brewer at March 14, 2017 03:59 PM (eXSOZ)

333 309 Trump dropping climate change impact from government reviews: report

Schadenboner just took two small planets up the butt.
Posted by: JEM at March 14, 2017 03:54 PM (TppKb)

Screen sprayed with iced tea. Thanks.

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 14, 2017 03:59 PM (TdMsT)

334 Trump dropping climate change impact from government reviews: report

President Donald Trump plans to drop climate change as a factor in making government decisions, Bloomberg reported Tuesday.

The move, which would reportedly cover environmental reviews of appliance standards, industry regulations and pipeline projects, would largely reverse how the Obama administration addressed climate change.

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So. Much. Winning.

Reaching. Limit.

Must. Keep. Going.

Posted by: MAGA at March 14, 2017 03:59 PM (A4HOq)

335 322 All elected legislative officials, one term than done.

Subject all regulations promulgated by the executive branch to legislative review every five years.
Posted by: MAGA at March 14, 2017 03:56 PM (A4HOq)

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

No piece of legislation may deal with more than one department at a time.

No piece of language shall explicitly defer to secretaries for rule making (no "the secretary shall determine").

No continuing resolutions in place of budgets.

All budgets must deal with only a single department (total number of departments = total number of budgets).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 14, 2017 03:59 PM (wYr++)

336 >>I eat tuna salad with chips, not forks.

I eat more chicken than any man ever seen.

Posted by: Zombie Morrison at March 14, 2017 03:59 PM (Gbk/a)

337 you guys made me remember Muse's excellent video for
Knights of Cydonia, which doesn't have assless chaps but does have a lovely blond on a horse and other cool things you might like

https://tinyurl.com/bytnmg5

to utoob^

Posted by: booknlass at March 14, 2017 03:59 PM (8mO0Q)

338 I have a genuine Mark Steyn coffee mug with his "My Sharia Amour" thing. And the Steyn jersey, too.

Posted by: mrp at March 14, 2017 03:59 PM (Pqytn)

339 OT but all games that involve touching are banned at a school in California.

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Soooo...... what games are left??

Hula hooping?

Posted by: fixerupperflipperdipper at March 14, 2017 04:00 PM (8XRCm)

340 55
Good.

Wait, that's two good things today.

WHAT ARE YOU UP TO UNIVERSE?

Posted by: alexthechick
===

*cough*

President Donald Trump plans to drop climate change as a factor in making government decisions, Bloomberg reported Tuesday.

Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at March 14, 2017 04:00 PM (/hasf)

341 Subject all regulations promulgated by the executive branch to legislative review every five years.
Posted by: MAGA at March 14, 2017 03:56 PM (A4HOq)
************
How about expiration after 5 years? The SOB's will stay busy trying to renew them leaving less time for other mischief.

Posted by: torabora at March 14, 2017 04:00 PM (mbUOr)

342 300 Would this be the placed to rant that this entire section of the DoD should be considerably reduced in size. Perhaps a single Assistant Secretary of Defense instead of an Undersecs and several assistants thereof. This section serves mostly as the DoD's office of foreign affairs and is therefore performing many tasks that should be handled exclusively by the State Department.
Posted by: RioBravo at March 14, 2017 03:54 PM (SsblQ)
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Yep.

I am guessing that the section grew and grew because the DoD was often at odds with the left-wing, anti-military DoS.
But if you end up staffing the section with DoS people anyway, you end up with redundancy.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at March 14, 2017 04:00 PM (hCoZK)

343 @311 - She could get a job writing jizz tickets in Texas porn shops.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at March 14, 2017 04:00 PM (vg8iE)

344 So how are the little darlings going to know if they're queer or not?
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Technically it is not touching if a condom is used.

Posted by: RioBravo at March 14, 2017 04:00 PM (SsblQ)

345 Thank God I'm not a planet anymore.

Now that they have seen that Pluto has moons, poles, and features, its very likely that soon it will be re-classified as a planet and Niel DeGrasse Tyson slapped upside the head with a rubber chicken.

Well probably not that last part

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 14, 2017 04:00 PM (39g3+)

346 "We credit Obama with the roaring economy. It was only he who could hold the economy back so thoroughly for so long as to lead to this great economic boom, of which President Trump gets 0 credit."
-AP
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 14, 2017 03:56 PM (wYr++)

This must be a day ending in "y."

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at March 14, 2017 04:01 PM (TdMsT)

347
No piece of legislation may deal with more than one department at a time.

No piece of language shall explicitly defer to secretaries for rule making (no "the secretary shall determine").

No continuing resolutions in place of budgets.

All budgets must deal with only a single department (total number of departments = total number of budgets).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 14, 2017 03:59 PM (wYr++)

All laws must be written in English, at a 6th Grade reading level... not Legalese...

Posted by: Don Q. at March 14, 2017 04:01 PM (NgKpN)

348
Wait.... Pluto has a moon??

Posted by: fixerupperflipperdipper at March 14, 2017 04:01 PM (8XRCm)

349 Nood

Posted by: Amy Schumer at March 14, 2017 04:02 PM (Gbk/a)

350 President Donald Trump plans to drop climate change as a factor in making government decisions
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Just burned the tip of my schadenboner on the sun. Oh the irony. It burns.

Posted by: Dang at March 14, 2017 04:02 PM (8b+oT)

351 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 14, 2017 04:00 PM (39g3+)

#MakePlutoGreatAgain

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at March 14, 2017 04:02 PM (ul9CR)

352

I volunteer to comfort Ivanka in her time of libtarded grief.

Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at March 14, 2017 04:02 PM (/hasf)

353 >>> ....Perhaps a single Assistant Secretary of Defense instead of an Undersecs and several assistants thereof.
......

See my post at 188.

To your point, I think you could apply the same to every agency.

The same at schools. When I was in high school we had one principal, one vice principal, one guidance counselor, and a handful of secretaries in the office that managed to keep all the hard copy paperwork, etc. in reasonable order without the benefit of today's office tech.

Since we have all sorts of tech today that's supposed to make administrative tasks easier and more efficient, how come we have 5 time the number of administrators and each of them has 1-3 assistants, deputies, etc?

Posted by: Damiano at March 14, 2017 04:02 PM (n3oGs)

354 339 OT but all games that involve touching are banned at a school in California.

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Soooo...... what games are left??

Hula hooping?
Posted by: fixerupperflipperdipper at March 14, 2017 04:00 PM (8XRCm)

Fat people can't Hula Hoop... so its Fat shaming...

So... nope... not that either...

Posted by: Don Q. at March 14, 2017 04:03 PM (NgKpN)

355 Wait.... Pluto has a moon??

Five of them. Very recent discovery

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

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 14, 2017 04:03 PM (39g3+)

356 President Donald Trump plans to drop climate change as a factor in making government decisions, Bloomberg reported Tuesday.
............

Let the hand wringers commence with the wringing of hands.
Oh, and exploding heads, etc.

Posted by: wth at March 14, 2017 04:03 PM (HgMAr)

357 347 All laws must be written in English, at a 6th Grade reading level... not Legalese...
Posted by: Don Q. at March 14, 2017 04:01 PM (NgKpN)

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

The Constitution wouldn't qualify under that requirement.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 14, 2017 04:03 PM (wYr++)

358 Oh, that reminds me, I've been meaning to send you this. It's old and you might have seen it but... y'know, in case you want to incorporate some new stuff into your gamboling repertoire.

https://youtu.be/MLaA2bABG3o
Posted by: hogmartin at March 14, 2017 03:53 PM (8nWyX)

That's fantastic, thank you!

Posted by: alexthechick - Parallama platoon ahoy! at March 14, 2017 04:03 PM (mf5HN)

359 No piece of legislation may deal with more than one department at a time.

No piece of language shall explicitly defer to secretaries for rule making (no "the secretary shall determine").

No continuing resolutions in place of budgets.

All budgets must deal with only a single department (total number of departments = total number of budgets).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 14, 2017 03:59 PM (wYr++)

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Anyone accepting government money cannot vote, except for military service.

Posted by: MAGA at March 14, 2017 04:04 PM (A4HOq)

360 Now that they have seen that Pluto has moons, poles, and features, its very likely that soon it will be re-classified as a planet and Niel DeGrasse Tyson slapped upside the head with a rubber chicken.

Well probably not that last part
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 14, 2017 04:00 PM (39g3+)
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Eris also has moons and many other interesting features.

Just putting that out there.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 14, 2017 04:04 PM (EnKk6)

361 Thank God I'm not a planet anymore.

Now that they have seen that Pluto has moons, poles, and features, its very likely that soon it will be re-classified as a planet and Niel DeGrasse Tyson slapped upside the head with a rubber chicken.

Well probably not that last part
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 14,

well, Pluto never stopped being a planet since I never recognized the authority of those clowns that took it upon themselves to decertify its planetary status.

slapping neil degrasse tyson with the rubber chicken is the opening move with the rubber chicken.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 14, 2017 04:04 PM (cPsPa)

362 OT but all games that involve touching are banned at a school in California. So how are the little darlings going to know if they're queer or not?

Posted by: torabora at March 14, 2017 03:58 PM (mbUOr)

Fascinating. So 500 years from now, are humans going to be completely sexless, devoid of any physical contact with other humans, or are beings that used to be human going to have involved into things that have multiple coupling points, and will emerge from the womb sexing other beings, large and small?

Posted by: BurtTC at March 14, 2017 04:05 PM (TOk1P)

363 @339 - Hide the Churro?

Posted by: bicentennialguy at March 14, 2017 04:05 PM (vg8iE)

364 Trump dropping climate change impact from government reviews: report

President Donald Trump plans to drop climate change as a factor in making government decisions, Bloomberg reported Tuesday.

The move, which would reportedly cover environmental reviews of appliance standards, industry regulations and pipeline projects, would largely reverse how the Obama administration addressed climate change.
Posted by: WisRich

It's not fair! People will only go along with this agenda because ... it seems we are going into another mini ice age. But of course that is wrong. We are headed for the boiling times. DEAD POLAR BEARS ON MELTING ICEBERGS!

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at March 14, 2017 04:05 PM (vRcUp)

365 "Tubes. Rows and rows of tubes with the soft orange glow lighting The Darkness."

^^^This ! ^^^

Posted by: sock_rat_Eitel_McCullough at March 14, 2017 04:05 PM (sZhE2)

366 How about expiration after 5 years? The SOB's will stay busy trying to renew them leaving less time for other mischief.

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Even better!

Posted by: MAGA at March 14, 2017 04:05 PM (A4HOq)

367 Those are not moons.

Posted by: Neil DeGrasse-less Chaps at March 14, 2017 04:06 PM (HgMAr)

368 Fascinating. So 500 years from now, are humans going to be completely sexless, devoid of any physical contact with other humans, or are beings that used to be human going to have involved into things that have multiple coupling points, and will emerge from the womb sexing other beings, large and small?

Posted by: BurtTC at March 14, 2017 04:05 PM (TOk1P)

Evolved... Evolved, you stupid autoconcubine!

Posted by: BurtTC at March 14, 2017 04:06 PM (TOk1P)

369 NASA finds lost satellite, can't find ass. Who did that song about that?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 14, 2017 04:06 PM (6Ll1u)

370 Every time a rubber chicken hits Neil DeGrasse we lay an egg and cackle.

Posted by: The Chicken at March 14, 2017 04:07 PM (mbUOr)

371 THIS IS THE HOTTEST FEBRUARY IN RECORDED HISTORY. WE SWEAR!!!

Posted by: NOAA at March 14, 2017 04:07 PM (vRcUp)

372 No law can exceed 10 pages double spaced on 12 pt type.

Posted by: MAGA at March 14, 2017 04:07 PM (A4HOq)

373 Isn't the porn surfing at NASA out of this world?

Posted by: torabora at March 14, 2017 04:08 PM (mbUOr)

374 FlipperDipper?

Ok, looks like a term that has all the sexual bases covered.

Posted by: Phone of Widespread Pepe at March 14, 2017 04:08 PM (1hhNr)

375 Is Trump going to drop that stupid muslim outreach at NASA?

Posted by: torabora at March 14, 2017 04:09 PM (mbUOr)

376 Holy shit.

I played that game as Eyeball.
Posted by: fixerupperflipperdipper at March 14, 2017 03:48 PM (8XRCm)

I was Charon or chrn but most people knew me as 4261

Still use Charon on Aces High 3, though I haven't gone online in a few years as the gameplay tanked to winning the big war vs fighting the good fight..

Posted by: Keith at March 14, 2017 04:11 PM (USf3s)

377 339 OT but all games that involve touching are banned at a school in California.

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Soooo...... what games are left??

Hula hooping?
Posted by: fixerupperflipperdipper at March 14, 2017 04:00 PM (8XRCm)

Fat people can't Hula Hoop... so its Fat shaming...

So... nope... not that either...
Posted by: Don Q. at March 14, 2017 04:03 PM (NgKpN)

Umm, I thought recess was banned in most schools today. Along with any kind of sport in which someone can lose.

Really, when you have school administrators whose first thought when a criminal boards a school bus and is apprehended by police is to make sure the children are indoctrinated in accepting that the criminal has a right to be a criminal and shouldn't be judged on that, touching games such as tag etc. being banned shouldn't raise an eyebrow.

Posted by: Jen at March 14, 2017 04:12 PM (jJjwF)

378 CHAOS reputedly was/is an acronym meaning "Colonel Has An Outstanding Solution".

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 14, 2017 03:54 PM (DMUuz)

It may mean that, I know that was the 1st Marine Division HQ callsign when he was the Commanding General. But the first rule of nicknames is you don't choose your own, it is chosen for you by your peers and subordinates.

Posted by: The Mouse that Roared at March 14, 2017 04:12 PM (7N6ox)

379 >>> There are a ton of positions to fill especially as they start cleaning house (as it seems like will happen) but finding experienced and skilled people in some of those areas might be tough.
......

Simple solution. Don't fill them.

All sarcasm aside, people in government don't even show up for work 25% of the time or more (and I'm being generous). When they are at work, they are doing anything but their stated jobs.

When we had the government shut down a few years back, the Obama admin went into overtime printing up signs and putting up barriers so that people might notice.

Look at each and every government program. A giant chunk of every one of them is outreach, advertising, public awareness, etc. In other words, without extraordinary effort, no one would know they exist, think to look for them, or miss them if they didn't exist.

Just for fun, I'd love to see one government agency shut down each month, every month for a year. Call it a vacation but don't tell anyone outside of the people that work there. I'd bet heavily that no one notices.

Posted by: Damiano at March 14, 2017 04:14 PM (n3oGs)

380 You have to remove the scale in your gym now because trigglypuff might be triggered, or break it.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 14, 2017 04:14 PM (6Ll1u)

381 She worked for Bush too, in Pakistan

Pakistan?

Is that anywhere near Pockystahn?

Posted by: The Messiah Planning His Second Coming at March 14, 2017 04:20 PM (HpKXm)

382 357 347 All laws must be written in English, at a 6th Grade reading level... not Legalese...
Posted by: Don Q. at March 14, 2017 04:01 PM (NgKpN)

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

The Constitution wouldn't qualify under that requirement.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 14, 2017 04:03 PM (wYr++)
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Well, not the current 6th grade reading level. Heck, college reading/ writing comprehension is now limited to copying and pasting no more than 140 characters, adding emojis, then passing it off as your own unique thought.

If it's written in 1787 6th grade level, different story entirely.

Go read anything Lincoln wrote... who had virtually no classroom education at all. Compare it to the average article by today's professional writers that make high 6 figure incomes, have a graduate degree, and have an alphabet or 12 of initials after their name.

Posted by: Damiano at March 14, 2017 04:21 PM (n3oGs)

383 The First best thing that would happen to Trigglypuff (What is her real name?)is a spiritual conversion. The second best thing would be is if she would find a weight loss trainer, lose lots of weight and find a decent person who loves and likes her, because I'm sure she's that heavy because of psychological issues and her anger and depression just makes her angrier and more depressed and so causes her to eat more.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 14, 2017 04:22 PM (fDdVG)

384 I'm seriously starting to suffer chest pains from all this Winning. Luckily I like Pain of this nature,,,WEEEEEEEEE

Posted by: Rich knudsen at March 14, 2017 04:29 PM (Oy8dI)

385
Just read a few of the comments on the Wapo article cited.

Had ALL the ball suckers out today, I see.

Posted by: irongrampa at March 14, 2017 04:37 PM (X35Yt)

386 !

Posted by: CitizenX at March 14, 2017 04:39 PM (HpKXm)

387 Mad Dogg has a screw loose for even considering a career diplomat in the DoD, nevermind the Brotherhood crotch sniffing.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at March 14, 2017 04:41 PM (P/kVC)

388 I'm sure Mattis saw some use for her, but apparently he couldn't convince others to see the same. Perhaps he saw her actions in Egypt as practical realpolitik and not ideological. Egypt was (is?) teetering on the edge of Islamist anarchy and frankly almost any stable regime is better than that, even if it's only for a short time.

We've just gotta be careful. It's really easy for GOPe and Democrats to spit out targeted buzzwords (Russia! National Security! Intelligence Community!) intended to get our backs up. The left controls its own via these sorts of tactics, and we must be better at spotting it and resisting it than they are.

Posted by: GalosGann at March 14, 2017 04:44 PM (md1b/)

389 "And where did all these skills and experience get us?

Just means there's less start up time and stumbles at first if you have people who know how it all works and don't need to learn on the job, is all."

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What is the point when everything they know and believe is wrong and would get us even further from our goal?

Posted by: Decaf at March 14, 2017 04:47 PM (+JsGm)

390 McCain would no more primp for the media than he would dump a wife who waited years for him while he was rotting in a Vietnamese prison.

Posted by: OCBill at March 14, 2017 05:00 PM (df+Zi)

391 I'm guessing she was reasonably professional in their past dealings and Mattis, as a non-partisan military man, thought she would work out. He may understand the frontline in Raqqa, but there is also a frontline in DC, and she would have been an Obama informant. At minimum.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at March 14, 2017 06:01 PM (Ndje9)

392 Rock on!

Posted by: Locke Common at March 14, 2017 06:29 PM (5Fa12)

393 387 Mad Dogg has a screw loose for even considering a career diplomat in the DoD, nevermind the Brotherhood crotch sniffing.

He might not have the fiber of a Marshall of the Armies.
More likely has that of a Col.

Posted by: Wontsubmit at March 14, 2017 06:37 PM (yXuFm)

394 I'm waiting to see what the Daily Beast has to say about all this.

Posted by: jbspry at March 14, 2017 07:10 PM (bxc5w)

395 25 >>OT: California legislators want the act of intentionally infecting someone with HIV to no longer be a felony...

I find it amusing that the guy proposing this change is named Weiner. Because I'm a moron.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 14, 2017 03:07 PM (/tuJf)
*************
After decades of buttsecks performed on the taxpayer, the b'tards are moving to legalize it. Know your place plebes.....they are entitled...

Posted by: torabora at March 15, 2017 04:41 AM (PGIcz)

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