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Justice Department Files Friend-of-the-Court Brief Siding with Baker in Gay Wedding Cake Dispute


Meanwhile, Molly DeVos is being smeared by leftwing nihilists because she's vowed that the era of the kollege kangaroo kourt is over, and due process and evidentiary standards are back.

"The era of 'rule by letter' is over,” Education Secretary Molly DeVos said Thursday afternoon, in reference to an Obama-era practice of issuing guidance documents that acted as laws. DeVos' speech signals yet again her agency's willingness to end the injustices that spread under the Obama administration, which made women into unquestioned victims and treated men as perpetrators without giving them a chance to defend themselves.

"Through intimidation and coercion, the failed system has clearly pushed schools to overreach," DeVos told an audience at George Mason University’s Arlington campus. She also accused the former administration of "weaponized" federal guidance documents that "work against schools and against students."


This was the first time a federal official spoke publicly about the need for due process and the presumption of innocence while highlighting instances where students had been falsely accused. It was also a welcome change from the guidance the Obama administration issued in 2011. At the time, the "Dear Colleague" letter issued by the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) greatly changed how schools would be required to adjudicate accusations of sexual assault to retain access to federal funds and prevent federal investigations.

That letter did not have the force of law, but when you're threatening to pull a school's government subsidies for noncompliance, it sure seems like a law.

Ashe Schow reports more on DeVos' speech, including DeVos' proposal to have more rigid definitions of sexual harassment, and to stop telling people who didn't even think they were assaulted that they were raped.

"If everything is harassment, then nothing is," DeVos said.

The left greeted this speech with their typical reasonableness and coolness of head:


She didn't say anything at all about "brushing off" or "blaming." She said she'd like actual due process to protect the provably innocent, and some standards of definition of what "crimes" are being prosecuted, and some standards of due process in hearings.

You know -- like the musty, ancient "but the Constitution is like old, man" belief that an accused must be afforded a chance to view and respond to the evidence against him, with the assistance of an advocate.

Molly DeVos didn't just speak in generalities -- she cited specific instances of institutional failures in these makeshift Rape Courts. Including situations where the school's utter inability to handle such an investigation properly resulted in actual rapists going free.

None of the harpies attacking DeVos want to talk much about the false accusations, but Robby Soave notes each of the examples DeVos gave, and offers some background.

I've really had it up to my neck with Trump, if I'm being honest, and have proclaimed "Done with this" privately a bunch of times.

But then something like this comes along, and it reminds me: Oh yeah, we're in a civil war and the other side is now waging politics by other means: specifically, violence, coercion, intimidation, and the weaponization of government against the citizenry.

Posted by: Ace at 06:29 PM




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1 Maybe 1st

Posted by: Gorilla Gumdrop at September 07, 2017 06:26 PM (Ejylv)

2 Definitely first

Posted by: Gorilla Gumdrop at September 07, 2017 06:26 PM (Ejylv)

3 Will call the Corgis

Posted by: Gorilla Gumdrop at September 07, 2017 06:27 PM (Ejylv)

4 The lunatics are running the asylum

Posted by: It's me donna at September 07, 2017 06:27 PM (O2RFr)

5 Well someone at the DoJ just might be a human being.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 07, 2017 06:27 PM (Bllk5)

6 top 10?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at September 07, 2017 06:29 PM (wmaTe)

7 Cecile Richards.

I'll leave it at that.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 07, 2017 06:29 PM (PY9jH)

8 There's a special place in hell reserved for Cecile Richards

Posted by: It's me donna at September 07, 2017 06:29 PM (O2RFr)

9 The Trump admin is good for quite a few reasons. Three cheers for president Trump and friends.

Posted by: USNtakim at September 07, 2017 06:29 PM (0OmEj)

10 I'm sorry but bitches aren't immune from lying. Colleges shouldn't be in the crime business

Posted by: NCKate at September 07, 2017 06:29 PM (9S69S)

11 Cecil is a mans name. That is all.

Posted by: USNtakim at September 07, 2017 06:30 PM (0OmEj)

12 I think this is an astounding thing--someone broke enough arms at the DOJ to reverse the Deep State?

Posted by: TexasDan at September 07, 2017 06:31 PM (yL25O)

13 10 I'm sorry but bitches aren't immune from lying. Colleges shouldn't be in the crime business

Exactly

Posted by: It's me donna at September 07, 2017 06:31 PM (O2RFr)

14 Injunction.

Posted by: Black Robed God at September 07, 2017 06:31 PM (mcI77)

15 >>That letter did not have the force of law, but when you're threatening to pull a school's government subsidies for noncompliance, it sure seems like a law.

Seems more like the opposite of law, it seems like blackmail.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 07, 2017 06:31 PM (/tuJf)

16 also, I guarantee no schools with get rid of their rape courts. Too scared of SJWs.

We also lost this battle.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at September 07, 2017 06:32 PM (wmaTe)

17 Survivors of sexual assault deserve to be believed and supported



hear that, Hillary..?

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at September 07, 2017 06:32 PM (ILitO)

18 Start enforcing the criminal law against false accusations. That would be a start.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at September 07, 2017 06:32 PM (XFue2)

19 most muffin top dykes should stay away from bakeries.

Posted by: redenzo at September 07, 2017 06:32 PM (5wSNN)

20 What's next?

PP falling under scrutiny for running a potential chop shop?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 07, 2017 06:32 PM (EyPfd)

21
/blows whistle!!

Unfair Nood!

That shithead Goodell eliminated the penalties for Touchdown celebrations. So, yeah, that idiotic unprofessional juvenile behavior is now encouraged...for ratings.

Also: fewer commercial breaks...but not really, you'll be able to still see un-played football action in a little box while you're bombarded with tv ads. Stupid.

Also: NFL shook things up with the telecast teams to attract younger viewers. Yeah, that ought to be great -- attracting millenials and Gen Y'ers.

Way to alienate your base, shithead NFL!

You must be taking pointers from the GOP.


Posted by: Soothsayer On Ice! at September 07, 2017 06:32 PM (mBtaw)

22 "Survivors of sexual assault deserve to be believed and supported, not brushed off and blamed"


Same thing with Constitutional protections, scrunt.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 07, 2017 06:32 PM (SRKgf)

23 I still don't understand why or when colleges administrators got in the business of criminal justice.

I would think even a liberal court would have slapped down this concept a long time ago, but I guess I'm naive.

Posted by: Maritime at September 07, 2017 06:32 PM (lKmt3)

24 Fcuk you.

War.

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at September 07, 2017 06:33 PM (2wRtc)

25 And yet the usual SJW suspects scream bloody murder when Trump and the DOJ threatens to withhold some police funds to sanctuary cities, a clearly illegal refusal to enforce actual US criminal statutes.

Posted by: GnuBreed at September 07, 2017 06:33 PM (0ogQG)

26 I can't understand how a Trump supporter could be done with Trump. Had Congress rubber stamped his agenda, we'd have the travel ban, the repeal of Obamacare, and probably tax cuts.


Posted by: Mike at September 07, 2017 06:33 PM (c056A)

27 Look at this way, Cecile: some of the women who are "sexually assaulted" will probably become pregnant, or as you call it, "inventory."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 07, 2017 06:34 PM (SRKgf)

28 re 9: agreed. Imagine all the good things President Jeb would have gotten done if he had somehow won the election.

yeah, me neither.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at September 07, 2017 06:34 PM (ILitO)

29 23 I still don't understand why or when colleges administrators got in the business of criminal justice.

I would think even a liberal court would have slapped down this concept a long time ago, but I guess I'm naive.
Posted by: Maritime at September 07, 2017 06:32 PM (lKmt3)

They've done it through student conduct courts for a while.

BUT, in 2011, the O administration threatened to withhold federal funding from schools that didnt, basically, aggressively go after "rapists" (since 1 in 4 women are raped on college campuses, apparently). So the schools set up these absurd kangaroo courts to keep federal funding.

Of course, at this point, there's no way they'll get rid of them, because then they'll be called pro-rape.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at September 07, 2017 06:35 PM (wmaTe)

30 But the important question is, "will there be cake?"

*drills portal through wall and disappears*

Posted by: goon at September 07, 2017 06:36 PM (EaQ6/)

31 I still don't understand why or when colleges administrators got in the business of criminal justice.

For my sins, I was dean for a while, and was once asked what my drug policy was. I replied that I didn't have a drug policy; the student needed to direct that question to the district attorney.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 07, 2017 06:36 PM (SRKgf)

32 The View harpies will be in meltdown tomorrow.

Posted by: Under Fire at September 07, 2017 06:36 PM (mcI77)

33 Geez, Is there ANYTHING the Obama govt. didn't weaponize?




Maybe sammiches.
But they tried...looking at you Michelle.

Posted by: Gorilla Gumdrop at September 07, 2017 06:36 PM (Ejylv)

34 Betsy deVos just raped Obama's legacy.

Posted by: zombie at September 07, 2017 06:37 PM (DQ4Fv)

35 For my sins, I was dean for a while, and was once asked what my drug policy was. I replied that I didn't have a drug policy; the student needed to direct that question to the district attorney.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 07, 2017 06:36 PM (SRKgf)

Right. If a real crime has been committed, there is a criminal justice system to deal with that.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at September 07, 2017 06:37 PM (wmaTe)

36 There's a special place in hell reserved for Cecile Richards
Posted by: It's me donna at September 07, 2017 06:29 PM (O2RFr)

I know this isn't how it's gonna work, but I sure wish I could stand next to her on Judgment Day.

Posted by: Country Boy - official AmbASSador to the CenTexMoMee - Molson labe! at September 07, 2017 06:37 PM (r42me)

37 They've done it through student conduct courts for a while.

BUT, in 2011, the O administration threatened to withhold federal funding from schools that didnt, basically, aggressively go after "rapists" (since 1 in 4 women are raped on college campuses, apparently). So the schools set up these absurd kangaroo courts to keep federal funding.

Of course, at this point, there's no way they'll get rid of them, because then they'll be called pro-rape.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes




I understand student conduct courts for things like plagiarism or cheating, but that's why I was saying criminal justice, as in rape.

These types of serious charges have no place being decided by college administrators

Posted by: Maritime at September 07, 2017 06:37 PM (lKmt3)

38 26 I can't understand how a Trump supporter could be done with Trump. Had Congress rubber stamped his agenda, we'd have the travel ban, the repeal of Obamacare, and probably tax cuts.


Posted by: Mike at September 07, 2017 06:33 PM (c056A)

Trump supporters did elect him to be manipulated and co-opted by Javanka.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at September 07, 2017 06:37 PM (XFue2)

39 The University has no role in cases of sexual assault other than cooperation with police and giving what comfort and academic relief they can to the victim.

Posted by: Grump928(c) repeats himself at September 07, 2017 06:37 PM (LTHVh)

40 "I've really had it up to my neck with Trump, if I'm being honest, and have proclaimed "Done with this" privately a bunch of times."

don't worry - next week he will talk Ivanka, she will cry that this is mean and he will backstab us and reinstate this letter and due process will be gone.

His base will hate him. The people he appeased will still hate him.

His base will hate Ivanka. The people he appeased will still hate him.

But hey, at least Ivanka won't cry.

Posted by: Nora at September 07, 2017 06:37 PM (nyQyG)

41 that is nice

Posted by: runner at September 07, 2017 06:37 PM (QC/4S)

42 Well, the problem the left, well lots of people have, is that they misunderstand what justice is. The purpose of the justice system is to guarantee justice for the accused, not for the victim.

Whenever you read someone is pursuing justice for the victim you can be sure they have no understanding of what justice is.

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 07, 2017 06:38 PM (0wem/)

43 33 Geez, Is there ANYTHING the Obama govt. didn't weaponize?

...
Poland?
South Korea?

Posted by: TexasDan at September 07, 2017 06:38 PM (yL25O)

44 Right. If a real crime has been committed, there is a criminal justice system to deal with that.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at September 07, 2017 06:37 PM (wmaTe)


Exactly. What's my policy on murder? What difference does my opinion make?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 07, 2017 06:38 PM (SRKgf)

45 Hasn't Cecile Richards made a fortune from the blood of innocent children?

Posted by: Grump928(c) repeats himself at September 07, 2017 06:40 PM (LTHVh)

46 So I take it that Cecile Richards believes Juanita Broderick and that Bill Clinton is a rapist.

Yeah, I don't think so.

Posted by: Jack Sock at September 07, 2017 06:40 PM (LuKE7)

47 I understand student conduct courts for things like plagiarism or cheating, but that's why I was saying criminal justice, as in rape.

These types of serious charges have no place being decided by college administrators
Posted by: Maritime at September 07, 2017 06:37 PM (lKmt3)

Right. But, originally, if you were convicted of a serious crime, that could be a student conduct case.

You know, post-conviction.

But you know how these things work. Slippery slope and all of that.

The 2011 "dear colleagues" letter really pushed it in the direction of "FUCK THE COPS AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM, TRY PEOPLE FOR FELONIES HERE!"

Of course, the accused can't testify on his behalf or have a lawyer present. Plus, any lawyer would definitely say DONT TESTIFY NUMBNUTS, since any testimony in a school kangaroo court could be used against the accused in a real criminal court.

So yeah, it's a system designed to fuck young men.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at September 07, 2017 06:40 PM (wmaTe)

48 There aren't clear ideological lines anymore. This is what the Never Trumpers don't get. A lot of politics is just gray goo where things are simply a product of lock-in from generation upon generation of stupidity and vanity. Never Trumpers keep expecting folks to realize that Trump has hoodwinked them. Thing is most Never Trumpers are part in parcel of proven deceit. Somehow muh principles never seemed to actually allow actually striving for whatever ends those principles stood for. I doubt that there is a Trump voter anywhere -- with the possible exception of Ann Coulter -- who didn't realize they were taking the long position on half a loaf. Some winning is better than no winning.

Posted by: The Emperor Cletus Augustus at September 07, 2017 06:40 PM (9dQ76)

49 The weird thing is, the LEFT absolutely WORSHIPS the book and film "To Kill a Mockingbird," because (pn one level) it's a about a heroic white person heroically saving the Little Brown Noble Savages from eeevil racism.

But that' actually the SUBplot. The main plot of "To Kill a Mockingbird" is about FALSE RAPE ACCUSATIONS and how they can destroy an innocent man.

Oooooooops.

Posted by: zombie at September 07, 2017 06:40 PM (DQ4Fv)

50 33 Geez, Is there ANYTHING the Obama govt. didn't weaponize?


Easy: the military. The Obamanauts pretty much did their best to geld it with all their tranny shit.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 07, 2017 06:40 PM (SRKgf)

51 If the baker can prove a clean bill of health, why couldn't he just rub one out into the frosting? Call it a flavor enhancer or special food coloring.

Posted by: Fritz at September 07, 2017 06:40 PM (D0riW)

52 "I've really had it up to my neck with Trump...."

Ace, ya gotta cut this outime. You, too, JJ. We have to remember what we hoped for in a Trump CANDIDACY: Stop the Clinton Crime Empire (done), expose the Deep State (done de facto even if not stopped--yet.), Gorsuch, stand up to Putin and Un. He's done all this, in addition to scaling back the regulatory beast.

If he golfs the next 3 years, we are still far better off. Trump ain't our next Reagan, but he might give that Next Reagan Waiting to Come Forth a path.

Posted by: The mass media can EABOD. at September 07, 2017 06:40 PM (CEU4j)

53 No gay soup for you!

Posted by: wth - gay soup Nazi at September 07, 2017 06:40 PM (HgMAr)

54 PETA is miffed at Christine Lattin because she does research at Yale. so they have scheduled a protest outside her home.

the protest is hosted by one Katerina Davidovich.

yes, it is a civil war.

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at September 07, 2017 06:40 PM (xwAnB)

55 But then something like this comes along, and it reminds me: Oh yeah,
we're in a civil war and the other side is now waging politics by other
means: specifically, violence, coercion, intimidation, and the
weaponization of government against the citizenry.
===

And Obama stacked the deck against us for 8 years.

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at September 07, 2017 06:40 PM (2wRtc)

56 Or am I confusing her with some other soulless golem?

Posted by: Grump928(c) repeats himself at September 07, 2017 06:40 PM (LTHVh)

57 found out from science Twitter/ Razib.

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at September 07, 2017 06:41 PM (xwAnB)

58 The main plot of "To Kill a Mockingbird" is about FALSE RAPE ACCUSATIONS and how they can destroy an innocent man.

Oooooooops.
Posted by: zombie at September 07, 2017 06:40 PM (DQ4Fv)



Now you just denounce yourself for saying that, missy!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 07, 2017 06:41 PM (SRKgf)

59 *Cut it out. Stupid autocucumber.

Posted by: The mass media can EABOD. at September 07, 2017 06:41 PM (CEU4j)

60
Yeah, that's her.

Posted by: Soothsayer On Ice! at September 07, 2017 06:41 PM (mBtaw)

61 Geez, Is there ANYTHING the Obama govt. didn't weaponize?

===

The Clock Boy experiment didn't work out so well.

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at September 07, 2017 06:41 PM (2wRtc)

62 Trump just grabbed the Presumption of Guilt by its pussy and molested the living hell out of it.

Posted by: zombie at September 07, 2017 06:42 PM (DQ4Fv)

63 I understand student conduct courts for things like plagiarism or cheating, but that's why I was saying criminal justice, as in rape.

These types of serious charges have no place being decided by college administrators
Posted by: Maritime at September 07, 2017 06:37 PM (lKmt3)

...

Serious question: how do they even get away with it? How do the assert jurisdiction?

There must be some sort of agreements with local municipalities since they have actual campus police, but how in the world does that translate to trials and punishment?

You would think after Penn State that universities would have zero interest in dealing with reports of sexual assault. That they would all have signs up saying "Sexual Assault Call 911, not your damn RA". But no.

Posted by: TexasDan at September 07, 2017 06:42 PM (yL25O)

64 Fuck Cecile Richards straight to hell. May she spend all eternity drowning in the gore of all the babies butchered by her organization and hearing the screams of 55 million infants while being sodomized by Satan's barbed, white-hot cock.

Posted by: Insomniac at September 07, 2017 06:42 PM (0mRoj)

65 Nothing ould make me happier than to see Obergefell overturned... Worst SCOTUS ruling since Roe and probably worse than Dred Scot!

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at September 07, 2017 06:42 PM (e9G8E)

66 Well, I was just going to pray for her conversion, but you may have swayed me, Isomniac.

Posted by: no good deed at September 07, 2017 06:43 PM (eIQHF)

67
Ace & Horde:

I give you....


THE SLITS!

"Typical Girls"

Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyXGblps64M

Posted by: Soothsayer On Ice! at September 07, 2017 06:43 PM (mBtaw)

68 Survivors of sexual assault

SHOULD LAY BACK AND ENJOY IT

Posted by: wth - gay soup Nazi at September 07, 2017 06:44 PM (HgMAr)

69 McCain in '20! uh-huh, or Ted, sigh. I think that Hillary has curled up into a ball too soon. She should run again, and Bernie too, and Al Gore. Can't they see the writing on the wall? Maybe this is the perfect set-up. Bring the world to the edge of disaster, and then hand it to the poor dumb schmuck that wins the next election. A perfect execution of the Obama gambit!

Posted by: goon at September 07, 2017 06:44 PM (EaQ6/)

70 The main plot of "To Kill a Mockingbird" is about FALSE RAPE ACCUSATIONS and how they can destroy an innocent man.

Oooooooops.
Posted by: zombie at September 07, 2017 06:40 PM (DQ4Fv)

Racism trumps all. It was the evil white father that forced the false accusation.

Posted by: Jack Sock at September 07, 2017 06:45 PM (LuKE7)

71 All I know is that since these College Courts have happened, the claims of false rape seems to have gone up...at least between that Rolling Stone article & some other exposes/charges that turned out false.

That is just horrible for true rape victims. Now it will be even tougher for them. smh

Posted by: Gorilla Gumdrop at September 07, 2017 06:45 PM (Ejylv)

72 People should not be forced to make wedding cakes for gay weddings. Unless you're in a tiny town with only one bakery, most bakeries will acomodate you, the local Supermarket certainly will and since a number of catering places are run by gay men, that's a place you could get a cake for a gay wedding too.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 07, 2017 06:45 PM (iVOAv)

73
Gotta love a girl band that named themselves The Slits.

Better than "Hole."

Posted by: Soothsayer On Ice! at September 07, 2017 06:45 PM (mBtaw)

74 If he golfs the next 3 years, we are still far better off. Trump ain't our next Reagan, but he might give that Next Reagan Waiting to Come Forth a path.
Posted by: The mass media can EABOD. at September 07, 2017 06:40 PM (CEU4j)

His administration will still likely do some more things I want. Much better than the alternative.

Posted by: Country Boy - official AmbASSador to the CenTexMoMee - Molson labe! at September 07, 2017 06:45 PM (r42me)

75 "Due Process" and "Presumption of Innocence"?

That's old fart white guy talk.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at September 07, 2017 06:46 PM (5VlCp)

76
Hard to believe this is the same woman as old lady Terrell on GoT:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUy_4M8_ZJI

Posted by: Soothsayer On Ice! at September 07, 2017 06:47 PM (mBtaw)

77 Imagine 2A being enforced with half the vigour of Obergefell...

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at September 07, 2017 06:47 PM (e9G8E)

78 crap, that means the "equality" people will be out harassing everyone again

Posted by: runner at September 07, 2017 06:47 PM (QC/4S)

79 Sadly, all these false claims of rape, like the false claims of hate crimes, just mean that I assume every college girl crying in rape is lying. If it's real, it being handled by the police and it's not making the national news.

Posted by: Grump928(c) repeats himself at September 07, 2017 06:47 PM (LTHVh)

80 Enforce our ridiculous interpretation of Title IX rules, or lose federal funds. A-OK

Enforce our ridiculous interpretation of gun shops and payday loan outfits as 'undesirable businesses', banks, by refusing to serve their banking needs, or lose your banking charters. A-OK

Enforce a nationwide 55 mph speed limit or lose highway funds. A-OK

Enact 21 as the legal drinking age in your state or lose highway funds. A-OK

Enforce actual ICE detainer holds on illegal alien prisoners? The Horror! Nah, let's sneak 'em out the back door of the courthouse instead.

Posted by: GnuBreed at September 07, 2017 06:47 PM (0ogQG)

81 66 Well, I was just going to pray for her conversion, but you may have swayed me, Isomniac.
Posted by: no good deed at September 07, 2017 06:43 PM (eIQHF)

I'm an Old Testament kind of guy.

Posted by: Insomniac at September 07, 2017 06:47 PM (0mRoj)

82 The Slits girl band sounds horrible.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 07, 2017 06:48 PM (iVOAv)

83 >>>Survivors of sexual assault deserve to be believed and supported, not brushed off and blamed #StopBetsy


The first thing that springs to my mind is "their claims must be evaluated". How can people be so stupid so that they can read that and this misgiving is not the first thing that pops into their minds? It is obvious crap, on the surface. In an ideal world people should be so well educated that Richards would not have *dared* to tweet that, because she would realize no one would fall for it. And I say "well educated", but it's so simple, even Joe Biden could grasp it.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at September 07, 2017 06:48 PM (/qEW2)

84 Serious question: how do they even get away with it? How do the assert jurisdiction?

There must be some sort of agreements with local municipalities since they have actual campus police, but how in the world does that translate to trials and punishment?

You would think after Penn State that universities would have zero interest in dealing with reports of sexual assault. That they would all have signs up saying "Sexual Assault Call 911, not your damn RA". But no.
Posted by: TexasDan at September 07, 2017 06:42 PM (yL25O)

Nope. It's not a criminal trial.

It's a student court hearing to decide if the accused should be kicked out of school or not.

The school decides on the burden of proof, rules of evidence, etc. etc.

But again, for an accusation like rape, no male is going to testify or get involved because ANYTHING HE SAYS can and will be used against him in real court if it ever gets to real court.

So basically, you get tried in absentia, kicked out of school, and 99% of the time, the cops never get involved and the victim never files a police report.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at September 07, 2017 06:48 PM (wmaTe)

85 Imagine what the new rules would have been under Cankles.

Trump 2020!

Posted by: Boots at September 07, 2017 06:48 PM (EBwPV)

86 all those dreamers can now roam college campuses and do their thang and co-eds can't do a thing about it so at least will be funny*

*except when the same dreamers rob my home, again

Posted by: Nora at September 07, 2017 06:48 PM (nyQyG)

87 Survivors of sexual assault deserve to be believed and supported

--


Why?

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at September 07, 2017 06:49 PM (m9X4Y)

88 All I know is that since these College Courts have happened, the claims of false rape seems to have gone up...at least between that Rolling Stone article & some other exposes/charges that turned out false.

That is just horrible for true rape victims. Now it will be even tougher for them. smh
Posted by: Gorilla Gumdrop at September 07, 2017 06:45 PM (Ejylv)

Bigger issue is that Rape is against the Law, and the vast majority of these cases never get reported to actual law enforcement...

Thus, if it IS indeed Rape, the Rapist does not go to Jail...

The FIRST thing a college should do if they learn of a rape, is get the victim to go to Police.

Its WHY we have a Court system.

Posted by: Don Q. at September 07, 2017 06:49 PM (NgKpN)

89 ...and good luck transferring to another college when you have to disclose why you left your last college. "oh, I was convicted of rape by the school, no big deal. Can I get in here?"

Forget it. Life ruined.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at September 07, 2017 06:49 PM (wmaTe)

90 question - would Hillary do this, or double down on Obama's numerous persistent illegalities until we become a third world shithole?

Answer - I'll take anything Trump tosses just to get rid of this shit. I mean, without the rule of law, there is no hope of ever reversing anything? It just becomes a question of who howls the loudest, or who get to punch the most people.

We are once again a nation of laws, not men.

Posted by: Dean Wormer at September 07, 2017 06:49 PM (fftfA)

91 Right, and of course -- if a real rape DID occur, you're letting a rapist roam free on the world. The only punishment he got was being kicked out of school.

But if a rape DIDN'T occur, then someones life is ruined over an unsubstantiated claim.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at September 07, 2017 06:50 PM (wmaTe)

92 injustices that spread under the Obama administration, which made women into unquestioned victims and treated men as perpetrators

Is today Tuesday?

Posted by: wth at September 07, 2017 06:50 PM (HgMAr)

93
Imagine what the new rules would have been under Cankles


Every white conservative male a rapist. Mass castrations. Clitorectomies for conservative women.


For starters.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 07, 2017 06:50 PM (PY9jH)

94 79 Sadly, all these false claims of rape, like the false claims of hate crimes, just mean that I assume every college girl crying in rape is lying. If it's real, it being handled by the police and it's not making the national news.
Posted by: Grump928(c) repeats himself at September 07, 2017 06:47 PM (LTHVh)

That's where I'm at. If it's real they'll go the ER or the cops, not Student Life Services.

Posted by: Insomniac at September 07, 2017 06:50 PM (0mRoj)

95
The Slits girl band sounds horrible.

They're trying their best.
But yeah, The Slits are no Mo-Dettes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0JCoMYpiA0

Posted by: Soothsayer On Ice! at September 07, 2017 06:50 PM (mBtaw)

96 He's not wrong and that's why I am done with Trump over the begging of paul ryan to turn daca from a letter to a law:

Enforce actual ICE detainer holds on illegal alien prisoners? The Horror! Nah, let's sneak 'em out the back door of the courthouse instead.
Posted by: GnuBreed at September 07, 2017 06:47 PM (0ogQG)

Posted by: Nora at September 07, 2017 06:50 PM (nyQyG)

97 This is why we have a criminal justice system with rules of evidence and presumptions of innocence and burdens of proof and all of that.

Schools should keep the fuck out of it.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at September 07, 2017 06:51 PM (wmaTe)

98 This is what fighting back looks like.

Posted by: Dean Wormer at September 07, 2017 06:51 PM (fftfA)

99 Lena Dunham the rapist will weigh in for sure. And I say weigh in with two different meanings.

Posted by: Minnfidel at September 07, 2017 06:51 PM (Njv7i)

100 Exactly. What's my policy on murder? What difference does my opinion make?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 07, 2017 06:38 PM (SRKgf)

...

Flexible. Did you kill a white dude?

Posted by: TexasDan at September 07, 2017 06:51 PM (yL25O)

101 We are once again a nation of laws, not men.
Posted by: Dean Wormer at September 07, 2017 06:49 PM (fftfA)

I'll believe that when Hillary is indicted.

Posted by: Don Q. at September 07, 2017 06:51 PM (NgKpN)

102 Cecile Richards tweet - see, that is how the Left twists things. That's not what Betsy said at all! Of course rape accusations should be taken seriously (unless it's against Bill Clinton) that does not mean railroading & kangaroo courts. Gawd.

Posted by: Gorilla Gumdrop at September 07, 2017 06:51 PM (Ejylv)

103 More progress reversing the legacy and curse of the Down Low, Lazy Ass, Glad Handing, America Hating, Historically Ignorant, Fraudulent and Generally No Good Obama.

Posted by: oddnot is fed up at September 07, 2017 06:52 PM (g1MTt)

104
Why is everything so lousy today?

NFL. McDonalds. TV. Government. Airline travel.

Posted by: Soothsayer On Ice! at September 07, 2017 06:52 PM (mBtaw)

105 Tyranny is not marked out by it's severity, but by it's capriciousness.

Posted by: Grump928(c) reminds you at September 07, 2017 06:52 PM (LTHVh)

106 rape is one of those things that got caught up in the left wing's legal system: how to find more and more ways to let criminals off the hook, except for rapists.
I recall some feminists proposing that rape be treated as a civil crime (if that's the correct phrase) since getting a conviction against a polluter or stock broker is a lot easier than in criminal court.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at September 07, 2017 06:52 PM (ILitO)

107 Sadly, all these false claims of rape, like the false claims of hate crimes, just mean that I assume every college girl crying in rape is lying. If it's real, it being handled by the police and it's not making the national news.
Posted by: Grump928(c) repeats himself at September 07, 2017 06:47 PM (LTHVh)

...

DeVos' point is that they are in fact messing up both ways. Some of these are cases where guilty guys were set loose.

Posted by: TexasDan at September 07, 2017 06:52 PM (yL25O)

108 And on the Dreamers - I can bend over and give them some form of amnesty. I don't want that. But the alternative is this - lawless government, where the president gets to re-write the laws at his whim.

Posted by: Dean Wormer at September 07, 2017 06:52 PM (fftfA)

109 Imagine what the new rules would have been under Cankles

Every white conservative male a rapist. Mass castrations. Clitorectomies for conservative women.

For starters.

Then for our second week at Happy Fun Camp...

Posted by: wth at September 07, 2017 06:54 PM (HgMAr)

110 And on the Dreamers - I can bend over and give them some form of amnesty. I don't want that. But the alternative is this - lawless government, where the president gets to re-write the laws at his whim.
Posted by: Dean Wormer at September 07, 2017 06:52 PM (fftfA)

I am willing to let them stay...

Once they PAY back, in cash, the money they stole from the US Taxpayer by fraudulently being in the school system...

At an average of $14K per year, a 12 year education is $168,000 ....

Posted by: Don Q. at September 07, 2017 06:54 PM (NgKpN)

111 That letter did not have the force of law, but when you're threatening to pull a school's government subsidies for noncompliance, it sure seems like a law.

I would like to see pretty much all government (feral, that is) subsidies pulled from colleges, to begin with. That money does nothing good.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 07, 2017 06:55 PM (rZ+mb)

112 I recall some feminists proposing that rape be treated as a civil crime (if that's the correct phrase) since getting a conviction against a polluter or stock broker is a lot easier than in criminal court.
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at September 07, 2017 06:52 PM (ILitO)

I've never heard of a "civil crime."

Posted by: Insomniac at September 07, 2017 06:55 PM (0mRoj)

113
Ann Richards was a douchebag, too.

Posted by: Soothsayer On Ice! at September 07, 2017 06:55 PM (mBtaw)

114 why didn't he just rescind daca and then enforce laws - talk about rising wages

but nah, let's just grant amnesty to thieving dreamers and their parents, and siblings, and first, second, third and fourth cousins and their families

Posted by: Nora at September 07, 2017 06:55 PM (nyQyG)

115
If the Left really believed a word of what they say about rape, etc., they'd be all over the muslims.

Posted by: Soothsayer On Ice! at September 07, 2017 06:56 PM (mBtaw)

116 94 79 Sadly, all these false claims of rape, like the false claims of hate crimes, just mean that I assume every college girl crying in rape is lying. If it's real, it being handled by the police and it's not making the national news.
Posted by: Grump928(c) repeats himself at September 07, 2017 06:47 PM (LTHVh)

That's where I'm at. If it's real they'll go the ER or the cops, not Student Life Services.
Posted by: Insomniac at September 07, 2017 06:50 PM (0mRoj)

---------
Well look. If a girl has been raped & is traumatized, she should be able to go to student services, or somewhere on campus, to get support and be directed to cops or ER. Have a support system.

Just remembering college days, and girls can be really naive & young. Don't think straight always. I blame the schools for trying to hide the real rapes, and setting up these courts. The whole thing stinks to high heaven.

Posted by: Gorilla Gumdrop at September 07, 2017 06:58 PM (Ejylv)

117 My cunning plan.

Me, to antifas: "Cecile Richards? Cecil Rhodes. Cecil* R*. Both sound chillingly alike, don't you think? Must be some connection"

Antifas: "AAAAAAGH! Let's get Cecile Richards!!!"

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at September 07, 2017 06:58 PM (/qEW2)

118 #Men4MensRea

Posted by: FireHorse at September 07, 2017 06:58 PM (zkGZ8)

119
The Left wants us to pretend that muslims aren't savages and brutes to their women.

Posted by: Soothsayer On Ice! at September 07, 2017 06:59 PM (mBtaw)

120 It is definitely possible to think Trump is not being conservative enough. Get started on the deportations already, then purge the government of timeseekers and traitors. That would be where I am: forget "cunning" strategy, just go all out in the way that won you the election.

It is possible to be aligned with the NeverTrumpers. Tone Is Bad, My Buddies Write for Hotair, MegaCorps Are Our Best Friends.

The pose some conservatives have of being "done" with Trump yet somehow tolerating Congress? Yeah, that is just mental masturbation. Like being a libertarian. All it says is that you are completely unreliable.

Posted by: trev006 at September 07, 2017 06:59 PM (Rjco7)

121 I've never heard of a "civil crime."

Posted by: Insomniac at September 07, 2017 06:55 PM (0mRoj)


It's when you rob someone, but with a smile.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 07, 2017 06:59 PM (rZ+mb)

122 in reference to an Obama-era practice of issuing guidance documents that acted as laws.

Truly the definition of 'fascism.'

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 07, 2017 06:59 PM (oVJmc)

123 Survivors of sexual assault deserve to be believed and supported

--

Why?

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at September 07, 2017 06:49 PM (m9X4Y)
............

Because toxic masculinity, misogyny, frigidity, binders, mattresses and and...

Posted by: Cecile B. DeMille Richards at September 07, 2017 06:59 PM (HgMAr)

124 Good, very good indeed on both of these.

Posted by: alexthechick - happy happy manatees at September 07, 2017 06:59 PM (dEQP3)

125
There is nothing about the Left that is real. It's an belief-system based on Pretense.

Posted by: Soothsayer On Ice! at September 07, 2017 07:00 PM (mBtaw)

126 g'early evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 07, 2017 07:00 PM (KCxzN)

127 A good start, Sessions. Good, if late.

But many miles to go.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 07, 2017 07:00 PM (oVJmc)

128 like the musty, ancient "but the Constitution is like old, man" belief that an accused must be afforded a chance to view and respond to the evidence against him, with the assistance of an advocate.

But that was based on English common law. You know, the white man's law.

Posted by: rickl at September 07, 2017 07:01 PM (sdi6R)

129 >>>It's a student court hearing to decide if the accused should be kicked out of school or not.

The school decides on the burden of proof, rules of evidence, etc. etc.
.....

Much easier method to deal with this. If you are convicted of a crime by a court, you get kicked out of school. I can even go along with suspended if indicted or charged.

Posted by: Damiano at September 07, 2017 07:02 PM (0qTzV)

130 But that was based on English common law. You know, the white man's law.

Posted by: rickl at September 07, 2017 07:01 PM (sdi6R)


Not just White Man's Law ... WASP Law!

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 07, 2017 07:02 PM (rZ+mb)

131 I have come to the conclusion that this is as good as it gets.

Posted by: freaked at September 07, 2017 07:02 PM (BO/km)

132 the Slits are a really great band if you are into things that are terrible.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 07, 2017 07:02 PM (h1jJh)

133
Give The Slits a break, man!

Posted by: Soothsayer On Ice! at September 07, 2017 07:03 PM (mBtaw)

134 Read some of the cases. No sane person would believe that these are sexual assault or harassment cases. Whats the one with the dead gorilla meme? Gees. i gotta read that one.


Posted by: Cannibal Bob at September 07, 2017 07:03 PM (3soRk)

135 Three Freedom Caucus leaders brought warning to House Speaker Paul Ryan on Wednesday as former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon has been speaking with GOP lawmakers, according to a new report from the Washington Post.
-BB

Sounds like Mx. Ryan is about to be sexually assaulted.

Posted by: Under Fire at September 07, 2017 07:04 PM (mcI77)

136 Harambe ?

Posted by: runner at September 07, 2017 07:05 PM (QC/4S)

137 It was a joke about Harambe a dead gorilla meme. WTF?

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at September 07, 2017 07:05 PM (3soRk)

138 93 Imagine what the new rules would have been under Cankles


Every white conservative male a rapist. Mass castrations. Clitorectomies for conservative women.


For starters.
------------------------------

Lena Dunham made up a false rape and wrote about it in her book, said that the (only) conservative white male at Oberlin had raped her when she was a student.

Because he was the 'white male conservative' people were able to ID the guy even years later. So yeah, Cankles rules for kangaroo rape courts would start at Barky's lawlessness and go from there.

Except for Mr. Still Dickin Bimbos aka her husband.

Posted by: Boots at September 07, 2017 07:05 PM (EBwPV)

139 What this country needs are laws the change every eight years when we get a new president.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at September 07, 2017 07:06 PM (m9X4Y)

140 This just in. Big storm coming.

Posted by: Cuba weatherman at September 07, 2017 07:06 PM (5wSNN)

141 Ya know i saw a smokin hot chick today and I thought...well never mind, i dont want to get arrested.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at September 07, 2017 07:06 PM (3soRk)

142 No one "deserves" to be believed, or respected for that matter.

Whether I give my belief or my respect is solely up to me.

To lay claim on my belief, or my respect, is full up totalitarian (though unfortunately an accepted article of Progressive faith)

Posted by: xnycpeasant at September 07, 2017 07:06 PM (QtQaN)

143 'Three Freedom Caucus leaders brought warning to House Speaker Paul Ryan on Wednesday as former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon has been speaking with GOP lawmakers'

Ooo. That's so Shakespearian. We need more of that.

Posted by: freaked at September 07, 2017 07:07 PM (BO/km)

144 Greetings:

Anybody remember "Believe the children." ???

Posted by: 11B40 at September 07, 2017 07:07 PM (evgyj)

145 we should vote for DACA and let in everyone the dnc wants to be here because, at the end of the day, they're just like us and want to be like us, only without the whole constitution or old statues stuff. And also, all of you legacy americans are like rapists and stuff...what? I've never heard of muslims on womens stuff, like FGM or grooming or just muz history in general.

Posted by: andrew jarbacka at September 07, 2017 07:07 PM (DQdye)

146 That's old fart white guy talk.

So is:

"A 225 grain .308 Hornady ELD-M bullet propelled by 68.2 grains of H4831 SC in a 300 Win Mag cartridge with an overall length of 3.420" shot out of 26" barrel will remain super sonic for 1650 yards, and be hitting harder than a .45 ACP at the muzzle at that range."

Posted by: An Observation at September 07, 2017 07:07 PM (B0W3Y)

147 OT, but Joe Bastardi is tearing the Climate Cultists a new one on Twitter. Scroll down.

https://twitter.com/bigjoebastardi

Posted by: rickl at September 07, 2017 07:08 PM (sdi6R)

148 144 Greetings:

Anybody remember "Believe the children." ???
Posted by: 11B40 at September 07, 2017 07:07 PM (evgyj)

repressed memories coerced out of them about abuse?

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at September 07, 2017 07:08 PM (3soRk)

149 Lena Dunham made up a false rape and wrote about it in her book, said that the (only) conservative white male at Oberlin had raped her when she was a student.

Because he was the 'white male conservative' people were able to ID the guy even years later. So yeah, Cankles rules for kangaroo rape courts would start at Barky's lawlessness and go from there.

Except for Mr. Still Dickin Bimbos aka her husband.

***

it's pretty easy to alinsky a guy who doesn't exist, or is dead, or you can plausibly deny that was the guy what did these horrible things.

Posted by: andrew jarbacka at September 07, 2017 07:08 PM (DQdye)

150 The trouble with being done with Trump is right now there is no suitable alternative.

Like it or not, even if it was bluster, Trump moved the football in the right direction. I have decided to let it play out and see where this all goes.

Lets face it what if Kasich, or Rubio, or Bush had won the presidency? We would already have had amnesty and massive immigration increases. There would have been tens of thousands of the American troops in Iraq, Ukraine, Afghanistan doing nation building. We would have signed on to another climate deal, and lots of awful unbalanced trade deals.

As for Cruz, I am not so confident in his views anymore. He was always for more trade deals, and it is doubtful that "cheap labor" message would have sold in Pennsylvania, Michigan, or even Ohio. Also is anyone so confident about his views on immigration and borders? I am not.

If you are of my opinion, and that the country is in the early stages of a civil war, Trump was and still is the right choice until someone else comes along who can prove they can do it better. For starters can they tell the difference between a leftist mob beating people up in America, or a jihadist group in Syria, and who are the "freedom fighters".

Right now even Cruz has failed that test several times. Lets see if he can learn.

Posted by: William Eaton at September 07, 2017 07:09 PM (MuTTO)

151 I was a slit.

Posted by: Joan Jett at September 07, 2017 07:09 PM (bc2Lc)

152 146

"A 225 grain .308 Hornady ELD-M bullet propelled by 68.2 grains of H4831 SC in a 300 Win Mag cartridge with an overall length of 3.420" shot out of 26" barrel will remain super sonic for 1650 yards, and be hitting harder than a .45 ACP at the muzzle at that range."


I'll be in my bunk for a bit.

Posted by: Under Fire at September 07, 2017 07:09 PM (mcI77)

153 Prager says this- why send your daughter to a place where 20% of all females are raped.

Posted by: Glenn John at September 07, 2017 07:09 PM (LilNs)

154 Well look. If a girl has been raped & is traumatized, she should be able to go to student services, or somewhere on campus, to get support and be directed to cops or ER. Have a support system.

Just remembering college days, and girls can be really naive & young. Don't think straight always. I blame the schools for trying to hide the real rapes, and setting up these courts. The whole thing stinks to high heaven.
Posted by: Gorilla Gumdrop at September 07, 2017 06:58 PM (Ejylv)

I know some rape victims and can sympathize with the trauma aspect. No amount of support could convince one I knew to go to the cops. The process is nearly as difficult on them as the crime itself on the victim.

Still that is not justification for empowering private support groups/ colleges/ other students/ etc. with the authority to ruin people's lives.

I've also seen the other side where private and public "support systems" become swords instead of shields.

We either have a system of laws or we don't. I have little faith in our legal system but the alternatives are far worse.

Posted by: Damiano at September 07, 2017 07:10 PM (0qTzV)

155 I don't think Lena has a firm grasp on reality.

Posted by: Gorilla Gumdrop at September 07, 2017 07:10 PM (Ejylv)

156 And another thing, if you want fewer rapes on campus, how about an education campaign focused on telling girls just say no to drinking themselves into a coma?

There was security cam footage from an outdoor café, of one of those very drunk girls wandering around in the middle of the night, out east somewhere, and then her rapist/murderer shows up and guides her away to her doom.

Posted by: Boots at September 07, 2017 07:11 PM (EBwPV)

157 Ooh, the vote fraud story from Rhode Island has lots of juicy detail.

Posted by: Meremortal at September 07, 2017 07:11 PM (3myMJ)

158 153 Prager says this- why send your daughter to a place where 20% of all females are raped.

***

and there's a underreporting problem where only .004% of these rapes get reported or prosecuted. you know, because the patriarchy sweeps them all under the rug.

Posted by: andrew jarbacka at September 07, 2017 07:11 PM (DQdye)

159 >>>Because toxic masculinity, misogyny, frigidity, binders, mattresses and and...



Posted by: Cecile B. DeMille Richards<<<

You're forgetting post traumatic stress. It's why they smoke marijuana and hang out with sex offenders.

Posted by: Fritz at September 07, 2017 07:11 PM (D0riW)

160 'Trump was and still is the right choice until someone else comes along who can prove they can do it better. '


He was the only one who could beat HRC.

Posted by: freaked at September 07, 2017 07:11 PM (BO/km)

161 "Survivors of sexual assault deserve to be believed and supported "

Absolutely.

Proven survivors, of proven sexual assault should be.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 07, 2017 07:11 PM (EyPfd)

162 BTW?

I fucking love the patriarchy.

Posted by: andrew jarbacka at September 07, 2017 07:11 PM (DQdye)

163 I wonder what disclosure would show in a suit against a university in terms of administration collusion?

Posted by: Diogenes at September 07, 2017 07:12 PM (0tfLf)

164
Ever notice all presidents' daughters are dooshes?

Posted by: Soothsayer On Ice! at September 07, 2017 07:12 PM (mBtaw)

165
Can you name a single daughter of a president that wasn't a major doosh?

Posted by: Soothsayer On Ice! at September 07, 2017 07:12 PM (mBtaw)

166 Just so you know, MY Justice Department would never do such a thing. Scandalous, really...

Posted by: Barack Obama at September 07, 2017 07:12 PM (TJnH8)

167 156 And another thing, if you want fewer rapes on campus, how about an education campaign focused on telling girls just say no to drinking themselves into a coma?

There was security cam footage from an outdoor cafe, of one of those very drunk girls wandering around in the middle of the night, out east somewhere, and then her rapist/murderer shows up and guides her away to her doom.

Posted by: Boots at September 07, 2017 07:11 PM (EBwPV)

Of course, suggesting that you don't get blasted out of your mind, pay attention to your surrounding and don't make yourself an easy target is "victim blaming."

Posted by: Insomniac at September 07, 2017 07:12 PM (0mRoj)

168
And please don't say Baby Ruth. You're better than that.

Posted by: Soothsayer On Ice! at September 07, 2017 07:13 PM (mBtaw)

169 "Survivors of sexual assault deserve to be believed and supported "

*** translation 8------------>

"no one has a right to a fair trial"

not so common sense when you say what you mean, huh?

Posted by: andrew jarbacka at September 07, 2017 07:13 PM (DQdye)

170 164
Ever notice all presidents' daughters are dooshes?


This statement has merit.

Posted by: Under Fire at September 07, 2017 07:13 PM (mcI77)

171 "Ever notice all presidents' daughters are dooshes?
"

I kinda like the Bush girls

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 07, 2017 07:13 PM (EyPfd)

172 Brick and mortar universities are relics and should be scrapped. With today's tech there is no need to sit in a class of 350 with a lecturer 80 feet away droning on about trans-whatever.

Less raping if you learn from home.

Posted by: Meremortal at September 07, 2017 07:13 PM (3myMJ)

173 I voted for Ted Cruz in the primary election - and he is the better of the two senators from Texas -but I am really glad he
is not president. Not a leader.

Posted by: Glenn John at September 07, 2017 07:13 PM (LilNs)

174 TRUMP!

Posted by: MAGA at September 07, 2017 07:14 PM (Tyk2V)

175 The trouble with being done with Trump is right now there is no suitable alternative.

Like it or not, even if it was bluster, Trump moved the football in the right direction. I have decided to let it play out and see where this all goes.


Posted by: William Eaton at September 07, 2017 07:09 PM (MuTTO)


There's nothing else to do, anyway.

But he has been a major disappointment and has, basically, reneged on every single major campaign promise he made. The only thing he's come through on is the SCOTUS and some judicial appointments. Yay .... But for the rest of the stuff he's pretty much blowing it. Sure, he's blowing it less badly than pretty anyone else would have blown it, but ... it's sad that that's the best we can even hope for, anymore.

He likes the little illegals. He likes leaving BarkyCare in place. He likes China eating our lunch. He likes it all. Sure, he likes it all a bit less than the others ...

That's okay. Trump only represented one last, slim-to-none chance to save the Union. But, he's really not that. National divorce is where it's all going to.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 07, 2017 07:15 PM (rZ+mb)

176 >>Ooh, the vote fraud story from Rhode Island has lots of juicy detail.

wut?

Posted by: JackStraw at September 07, 2017 07:15 PM (/tuJf)

177 Survivors of sexual assault deserve to be believed and supported, not brushed off and blamed #StopBetsy

#StopHillary

#StopBubba

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at September 07, 2017 07:16 PM (Mouru)

178 Everyday I am so grateful that we have Trump and not Hillary. Many of you need some kind of ongoing feeling of winning or success but I am still buoyed by the feeling that we dodged an insane progressive nightmare scenario. And Trump has "broken the wheel" of political correctness. And we have Gorsuch. And perhaps another Justice.

Posted by: Max Power at September 07, 2017 07:16 PM (q177U)

179 173 I voted for Ted Cruz in the primary election

I was on team Cruz until I watched him handing out Teddy Bears and soccer balls to illegals alongside that idiot Beck.

Posted by: Under Fire at September 07, 2017 07:16 PM (mcI77)

180 You vill bake zee kake!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 07, 2017 07:16 PM (w1zJX)

181 That's old fart white guy talk.
So is:
"A 225 grain .308 Hornady ELD-M bullet propelled by 68.2 grains of H4831 SC in a 300 Win Mag cartridge with an overall length of 3.420" shot out of 26" barrel will remain super sonic for 1650 yards, and be hitting harder than a .45 ACP at the muzzle at that range."
Posted by: An Observation at September 07, 2017 07:07 PM (B0W3Y)

Haha...yup. If you read that aloud in a college class today they would pee their drawers and run to their safe space thinking you were speaking in latin.

And they, the snowfalkes, all know that latin is the dead Jesus language which hates homos and Pilots.

They would scream for Mary Cloggenstein's help and Mary would scream that she "needs some muscle over here!".

The you could use that there .308.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at September 07, 2017 07:16 PM (5VlCp)

182 Microsoft put out a statement saying that if Trump's administration tries to deport one of the illegal alien "dreamers" working at Microsoft, they'll "have to go through us."

How f*cking outrageous is that? Illegal aliens living illegally in the U.S., who were given temporary protection from deportation through a blatantly unconstitutional directive from Obama, and Microsoft is publicly threatening the government if it actually attempts to comply with existing laws?

Why should any American tolerate this bullshit? Microsoft is one of the companies that has been blatantly abusing the H-1B visa system for years now, bringing in foreigners to do jobs Americans IT workers would love to have. And now Microsoft is announcing that not only will it not obey the law, but it will fight the government if it tries to enforce the law?

F*ck Microsoft, and all these One World Order a-holes who want to replace Americans and give our country to their third-world slaves.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at September 07, 2017 07:17 PM (BXf9o)

183 Ya know i saw a smokin hot chick today and I thought...well never mind, i dont want to get arrested.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at September 07, 2017 07:06 PM (3soRk)


She'd go good with fava beans and a nice Chianti?

Posted by: Grump928(c) reminds you at September 07, 2017 07:17 PM (LTHVh)

184 That's okay. Trump only represented one last, slim-to-none chance to save the Union. But, he's really not that. National divorce is where it's all going to.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 07, 2017 07:15 PM (rZ+mb)

Trump was the 4 or 8 year speed bump we needed to prepare. We got it. Don't waste the time.

Posted by: Country Boy - official AmbASSador to the CenTexMoMee - Molson labe! at September 07, 2017 07:18 PM (r42me)

185 I laughed when I saw ace is annoyed with Trump again.

"I've been tossed at sea since my ship sank years ago, running out of food, got plenty of water though!!!
But I've had it with this lifeboat I tells ya!"

Posted by: Meremortal at September 07, 2017 07:18 PM (3myMJ)

186 Yep Max this is as good as it gets.

Posted by: freaked at September 07, 2017 07:18 PM (BO/km)

187 Patty cake, patty cake baker's man.

Ugh. I don't CARE if you are a Christian who is married to a woman. You must still pat my cake! Lie after lie after lie!!!

Posted by: Shep Smith at September 07, 2017 07:18 PM (/qEW2)

188 Remove the police and judicial authority from colleges. Let the police-police and the court-courts do their jobs.

Posted by: geoffb5 at September 07, 2017 07:18 PM (zOpu5)

189 Anyone know if Brother Cavil has posted today?

Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2017 07:18 PM (pPKG5)

190 i really ought to read articles i quote - yes, Bartool Sports website for the towels...and now we return to our regularly scheduled programming

Posted by: runner at September 07, 2017 07:19 PM (QC/4S)

191 Hmm, Presidential Daughters - going into the wayback machine, the LBJ daughters were ok, and the Nixon ones too - I don't recall any of them flouncing around in public acting the fool.

The wives also seemed similar, quiet and private. Lady Bird Johnson's Keep America Beautiful campaign certainly was a far cry from taking edible food out of the school lunch program as the last first lady did.

Posted by: Boots at September 07, 2017 07:19 PM (EBwPV)

192 155 I don't think Lena has a firm grasp on reality.
Posted by: Gorilla Gumdrop at September 07, 2017 07:10 PM (Ejylv)




You are being too kind. She is a filthy liar, and were there any justice, she would have been incarcerated for her attempt to ruin some guy's life.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at September 07, 2017 07:19 PM (ujg0T)

193 "Oh yeah, we're in a civil war and the other side is now waging politics by other means: specifically, violence, coercion, intimidation, and the weaponization of government against the citizenry."

Precisely.

The thing about wars that modern Americans have been conditioned to forget is that they tend to be long, with victories and defeats, good commanders and poor commanders and mediocre ones. And if you are not in it for the long haul and the other side is, you lose; no matter what.

See: Vietnam.

Posted by: Apostate at September 07, 2017 07:19 PM (HFjSQ)

194
OT, but Joe Bastardi is tearing the Climate Cultists a new one on Twitter. Scroll down.



https://twitter.com/bigjoebastardi

Posted by: rickl at September 07, 2017 07:08 PM (sdi6R)


He's awesome. Scares the hell out of me with his accuracy, but he's awesome.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 07, 2017 07:20 PM (PY9jH)

195 Good news. Paulie Ryan on with Martha McCallum.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 07, 2017 07:20 PM (PY9jH)

196 Posted by: Damiano at September 07, 2017 07:10 PM (0qTzV)
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I agree with you. But it shouldn't be a binary choice.

If a guy was assaulted & beaten, he should be able to go to the Student whatever, and be supported and directed to the Cops & the ER.

Not to the Campus cops, or the College Crime courts.

The Universities have a vested interest in keeping their crime stats low. They tried to do this by setting up these ridiculous
Depts. & Crime Courts for rape. To give the pretense of justice. And to keep their rape stats low.

They screwed over these girls...twice. Which disgusts me. It should have always been reported to the police. Never have been solely a college issue. And then when Obama came on scene it got way worse. Broad brush here.

The system became flawed b/c of a college workaround for selfish/enrollment/financial reasons; Obamas weaponized it all; and the women and men became victims.

Posted by: Gorilla Gumdrop at September 07, 2017 07:20 PM (Ejylv)

197 Christian bakers have to bake a gay wedding cake but Leftists do not have to allow conservatives on their web masters search engine

Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2017 07:21 PM (pPKG5)

198 I'm old enough to recall the days of en loco parentis, and strictly enforced rules regarding the mixing of male and female students. I don't recall any rape accusations.

Of course, society was far less liberal then, which is really, really bad.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 07, 2017 07:21 PM (w1zJX)

199 But he has been a major disappointment and has, basically, reneged on every single major campaign promise he made.

********************

This is complete and utter fucking bullshit.

Posted by: Gaylord Farkemall at September 07, 2017 07:22 PM (+dsLj)

200 182 Microsoft put out a statement saying that if Trump's administration tries to deport one of the illegal alien "dreamers" working at Microsoft, they'll "have to go through us."

Told ya so.

Posted by: Theodore John Kaczynski at September 07, 2017 07:22 PM (mcI77)

201 *Barstool Sports

Posted by: runner at September 07, 2017 07:23 PM (QC/4S)

202 Posted by: JackStraw at September 07, 2017 07:15 PM (/tuJf)

Quick Take:
Something like 7,000 voters registered and voted using out-of-state IDs on voting day in RI. they claimed to have "just moved to RI". Now, just 10 months later, most can't be found in the state and only 1,014 of them have an RI driver's license.

Hillary won RI by 2,700.

Posted by: Meremortal at September 07, 2017 07:23 PM (3myMJ)

203 So we came out of Walmart into the parking lot.

And there is this hispanic family loading up their van.
One tall muscular family member in a clinging dress with a nice rack really had a five o'clock shadow, man hands, and the deepest voice I have heard in years

Mrs VIA gets in the car, looks at me, and says : That's a fucking dude!".

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 07, 2017 07:23 PM (EyPfd)

204 197 Christian bakers have to bake a gay wedding cake but Leftists do not have to allow conservatives on their web masters search engine
Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2017 07:21 PM (pPKG5)


Because no bodily fluids, peasant!!

/s

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 07, 2017 07:23 PM (mbhDw)

205 203 So we came out of Walmart into the parking lot.

And there is this hispanic family loading up their van.
One tall muscular family member in a clinging dress with a nice rack really had a five o'clock shadow, man hands, and the deepest voice I have heard in years

Mrs VIA gets in the car, looks at me, and says : That's a fucking dude!".
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 07, 2017 07:23 PM (EyPfd)


Chica con pinga!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 07, 2017 07:24 PM (mbhDw)

206 179 173 I voted for Ted Cruz in the primary election

I was on team Cruz until I watched him handing out Teddy Bears and soccer balls to illegals alongside that idiot Beck.

Posted by: Under Fire at September 07, 2017 07:16 PM (mcI77)

He didn't hand out teddy bears and soccer balls. He handed out medical supplies.

Posted by: Jack Sock at September 07, 2017 07:24 PM (LuKE7)

207 Microsoft put out a statement saying that if Trump's administration tries to deport one of the illegal alien "dreamers" working at Microsoft, they'll "have to go through us."

Yup....there is no way out or around but THROUGH.

Fix bayonets! War!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at September 07, 2017 07:24 PM (5VlCp)

208 Meh.

During the election, I said I *expected* Trump would disappoint me. After all, even 'rock-ribbed conservative stalwarts' like Romney and McCain routinely did that.

But considering what Trump has been trying to do, and the magnitude of opposition he's got, and WHO HE'S GOTTEN IT FROM? He hasn't significantly disappointed me yet.

These moves from DeVos and Sessions indicate that it hasn't been for nothing, not yet, and maybe the momentum could finally be building.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 07, 2017 07:24 PM (oVJmc)

209 I am very grateful to the Justice Department for siding with Mr. Phillips in his freedom of conscience lawsuit. Thank you Mr. Trump for standing on the side of religious liberty.

Posted by: grammie winger at September 07, 2017 07:25 PM (lwiT4)

210 Sure do admire how they sat on their data breech until a Cat 5 hurricane , a Japanese earthquake and a Nork Nuke threat was eating up the news cycle.

Well played, Equifax.

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at September 07, 2017 07:25 PM (2wRtc)

211 And there is this hispanic family loading up their van.
One tall muscular family member in a clinging dress with a nice rack really had a five o'clock shadow, man hands, and the deepest voice I have heard in years
---------------------------

Lola, L O L A Lola

Posted by: Boots at September 07, 2017 07:25 PM (EBwPV)

212 206
He didn't hand out teddy bears and soccer balls. He handed out medical supplies.
Posted by: Jack Sock at September 07, 2017 07:24 PM (LuKE7)


I was hoping for razor blade apples. And Kool Ade.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 07, 2017 07:25 PM (mbhDw)

213 210 Sure do admire how they sat on their data breech until a Cat 5 hurricane , a Japanese earthquake and a Nork Nuke threat was eating up the news cycle.

Well played, Equifax.
Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at September 07, 2017 07:25 PM (2wRtc)


They will no file chapter 11 and change their name to Schnikelfritz.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 07, 2017 07:26 PM (mbhDw)

214
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 07, 2017 07:15 PM (rZ+mb)

--------------------------------------------------------

Let it play out...

Look if Trump playing footsie with Nancy gets Ryan removed than it was well worth it.

Posted by: William Eaton at September 07, 2017 07:27 PM (MuTTO)

215 >>Hillary won RI by 2,700.

The first part doesn't surprise me because Rhode Island. But she won the state by something like 70,000.

Trump did better here than any Republican since Reagan but he still only won one county.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 07, 2017 07:27 PM (/tuJf)

216
How about bake the cake but no cream filling.
That's BI-partisanship.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 07, 2017 07:28 PM (mbhDw)

217

Teddy bears and soccer balls can be medical supplies.

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at September 07, 2017 07:28 PM (2wRtc)

218 Christian bakers have to bake a gay wedding cake but Leftists do not have to allow conservatives on their web masters search engine

Posted by: Skip


All of the left's a**holishness is predicated on the assumption that the right will act with decency and restraint. They won't force the left to live up to their own standards.

This is why we need more people like Crowder, who asks Muslim bakers to bake gay cakes, and goes into women's restrooms. The left needs to be punished for what they inflict on other people.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at September 07, 2017 07:29 PM (/qEW2)

219 If someone has everybody's private information, isn't it really kind of a lottery situation? Out of a 143 million, how many will they have time to actually steal?

Posted by: Meremortal at September 07, 2017 07:29 PM (3myMJ)

220 Teddy bears and soccer balls can be medical supplies.

"I need my fcuking emotional support Teddy Bear!!!!!"

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 07, 2017 07:30 PM (EyPfd)

221
This is why we need more people like Crowder,
===

His impression of Bob Ross painting Mohammad is a hoot!

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at September 07, 2017 07:30 PM (2wRtc)

222 96 He's not wrong and that's why I am done with Trump over the begging of paul ryan to turn daca from a letter to a law:

Enforce actual ICE detainer holds on illegal alien prisoners? The Horror! Nah, let's sneak 'em out the back door of the courthouse instead.
Posted by: GnuBreed at September 07, 2017 06:47 PM (0ogQG)
Posted by: Nora at September 07, 2017 06:50 PM (nyQyG)




Begging? Or Daring? It IS the duty of Congress to make laws. It is the duty of the executive to enforce them.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at September 07, 2017 07:31 PM (ujg0T)

223 Disney, Pepsi , etc can refuse to do business with an entire State because of a disagreement of a constitutional compliant law. Why can they do that but a simple baker cannot refuse to do business with people because it requires them to participate in acts contrary to their religious beliefs which is a violation of their 1st amendment?

Posted by: Jack Sock at September 07, 2017 07:31 PM (LuKE7)

224 There was security cam footage from an outdoor cafe, of one of those very drunk girls wandering around in the middle of the night, out east somewhere, and then her rapist/murderer shows up and guides her away to her doom.

Posted by: Boots at September 07, 2017 07:11 PM (EBwPV)

Of course, suggesting that you don't get blasted out of your mind, pay attention to your surrounding and don't make yourself an easy target is "victim blaming."
Posted by: Insomniac at September 07, 2017 07:12 PM (0mRoj)
___________________

Yes, I think that was the UVA girl, who was murdered by a black serial killer. There had been several other girls her age who had been murdered (or disappeared) in the Charlottesville area in the preceding years, yet this girl was still walking around town alone, drunk off her ass in the middle of the night, and willingly walked off with her killer (as shown on the videotape).

We went from slut-shaming rape victims for what they were wearing or their prior sexual history in the 1950's and 1960's, to pretending that a woman victim could never, ever bear any responsibility for putting herself in a position where she was vulnerable to attack. She could dance naked through a men's locker room while willingly guzzling down enough liquor to render a grizzly bear unconscious, but it would still be sexist to suggest that she bore some responsibility for her plight if she were to be sexually assaulted.

It's nuts.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at September 07, 2017 07:31 PM (BXf9o)

225
He's not wrong and that's why I am done with Trump

===

*yawn*

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at September 07, 2017 07:31 PM (2wRtc)

226 Microsoft put out a statement saying that if Trump's administration tries to deport one of the illegal alien "dreamers" working at Microsoft, they'll "have to go through us."

""""We're trembling!!"""""

Posted by: SWAT Team From Hell at September 07, 2017 07:32 PM (3myMJ)

227 206 179 173 I voted for Ted Cruz in the primary election

I was on team Cruz until I watched him handing out Teddy Bears and soccer balls to illegals alongside that idiot Beck.

Posted by: Under Fire at September 07, 2017 07:16 PM (mcI77)

He didn't hand out teddy bears and soccer balls. He handed out medical supplies.


Yes because medical supplies look like gift baskets.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/ybvy62az

Posted by: Under Fire at September 07, 2017 07:32 PM (mcI77)

228 Microsoft put out a statement saying that if Trump's administration
tries to deport one of the illegal alien "dreamers" working at
Microsoft, they'll "have to go through us."

====


NERDS!!

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at September 07, 2017 07:33 PM (2wRtc)

229 "He's not wrong and that's why I am done with Trump"

Impeachment is back on the table?

Posted by: Meremortal at September 07, 2017 07:33 PM (3myMJ)

230 227 206 179 173 I voted for Ted Cruz in the primary election

I was on team Cruz until I watched him handing out Teddy Bears and soccer balls to illegals alongside that idiot Beck.

Posted by: Under Fire at September 07, 2017 07:16 PM (mcI77)

He didn't hand out teddy bears and soccer balls. He handed out medical supplies.

Yes because medical supplies look like gift baskets.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/ybvy62az
Posted by: Under Fire at September 07, 2017 07:32 PM (mcI77)




Whatever he handed out, his just being there soured me on Ted. And Glenn. :-P

Posted by: Curmudgeon at September 07, 2017 07:33 PM (ujg0T)

231 226 Microsoft put out a statement saying that if Trump's administration tries to deport one of the illegal alien "dreamers" working at Microsoft, they'll "have to go through us."

""""We're trembling!!"""""
Posted by: SWAT Team From Hell at September 07, 2017 07:32 PM (3myMJ)


In the quiet words of Che Stadium, "Listos.... apunte.... fuego!!!!"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 07, 2017 07:34 PM (mbhDw)

232 He didn't hand out teddy bears and soccer balls. He handed out medical supplies.
Posted by: Jack Sock at September 07, 2017 07:24 PM (LuKE7)

-------------------------------------------

Cruz thought Glenn Beck was a good guy to take advise from.

He should look in the mirror and ask: How could a TV reality star and NYC developer make himself look more "Red American" than me?

Hint: There is more to "Red America" than quoting the constitution, low taxes, and having religious revivals.

Posted by: William Eaton at September 07, 2017 07:34 PM (MuTTO)

233 So Microsoft has publicly announced, in advance, that it will interfere with law enforcement. Genius.

Posted by: Insomniac at September 07, 2017 07:34 PM (0mRoj)

234 What is this, the Patriots on opening day? Roger Goodell may as well just drop trou, spread his pink cheeks and take Bill Belichick's under-inflated schlong sixteen weeks with no lubrication.

Posted by: Fritz at September 07, 2017 07:34 PM (D0riW)

235 She could dance naked through a men's locker room while willingly guzzling down enough liquor to render a grizzly bear unconscious, but it would still be sexist to suggest that she bore some responsibility for her plight if she were to be sexually assaulted.

It's nuts.



She can ask you to sex her, and it's up to you to determine it's she's too drunk to be making the offer or if you just got lucky.

Posted by: Grump928(c) reminds you at September 07, 2017 07:34 PM (LTHVh)

236 228 Microsoft put out a statement saying that if Trump's administration
tries to deport one of the illegal alien "dreamers" working at
Microsoft, they'll "have to go through us."

====

NERDS!!

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at September 07, 2017 07:33 PM (2wRtc)

Eyes closed, slap fight!

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at September 07, 2017 07:34 PM (3soRk)

237 Microsoft put out a statement saying that if Trump's administration tries to deport one of the illegal alien "dreamers" working at Microsoft, they'll "have to go through us."

I would say, yeah how many divisions does Bill Gates have? But I am afraid of the answer.

Posted by: blaster at September 07, 2017 07:34 PM (tewYv)

238
Impeachment is back on the table?
===

Once this Russian investigation PROVES COLLOOOOSION.

Then you'll see.

Then you'll ALL SEE

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at September 07, 2017 07:34 PM (2wRtc)

239
Hey Microsoft: In rock-paper-scissors, bullets beat pocket protectors.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 07, 2017 07:34 PM (mbhDw)

240 Disney, Pepsi , etc can refuse to do business with an entire State because of a disagreement of a constitutional compliant law. Why can they do that but a simple baker cannot refuse to do business with people because it requires them to participate in acts contrary to their religious beliefs which is a violation of their 1st amendment?
Posted by: Jack Sock at September 07, 2017 07:31 PM

Because we're you're betters and shutup! That's why! or something.

Posted by: Minnfidel at September 07, 2017 07:35 PM (Njv7i)

241 I think it's rather interesting when people show up here-with a totally unfamiliar nic and say "I'm done with Trump!!" Now it's possible that they just discovered the delights of ASHQ, but color me suspicious. If was like when we had the primary wars and all these unfamiliar nics showed up to lambast Trump.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 07, 2017 07:35 PM (iVOAv)

242 175
There's nothing else to do, anyway.

But he has been a major disappointment -


Hmm, walking away from TPP was great.

So was pulling out of the Paris Accord.

Oh, and then there's the appointment of Gorsuch.

The uptick in jobs is a promise kept, too.

His work cleaning up the VA is also a promise kept.

Our national debt is decreasing.

His publicly calling out Antifa for the terrorists they are and his pardon of Arpaio are another examples of me not getting tired of winning.

I'd say President Trump is doing pretty well keeping campaign promises.

Posted by: RondinellaMamma at September 07, 2017 07:35 PM (oQQwD)

243 "I've really had it up to my neck with Trump, if I'm being honest, and have proclaimed "Done with this" privately a bunch of times."

He's doing well given what's arrayed against him, and playing a longer game than you give him credit for.

Once again, you're at least nine months behind.

Posted by: Ignoramus at September 07, 2017 07:36 PM (SIY7D)

244 It looks like the Keys are going to get crushed. This blows.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 07, 2017 07:36 PM (/tuJf)

245 Our national debt is decreasing.


Aroo?

Posted by: Grump928(c) reminds you at September 07, 2017 07:36 PM (LTHVh)

246 Why do you always have to keep being reminded, Ace?

Posted by: csmats at September 07, 2017 07:37 PM (X5VFN)

247 Disney, Pepsi , etc can refuse to do business with an entire State because of a disagreement of a constitutional compliant law. Why can they do that but a simple baker cannot refuse to do business with people because it requires them to participate in acts contrary to their religious beliefs which is a violation of their 1st amendment?
Posted by: Jack Sock at September 07, 2017 07:31 PM (LuKE7)

Marxist Dialectics......pretty much explains everything about the left, the libs and the democrat party.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at September 07, 2017 07:37 PM (5VlCp)

248 She could dance naked through a men's locker room while willingly guzzling down enough liquor to render a grizzly bear unconscious, but it would still be sexist to suggest that she bore some responsibility for her plight if she were to be sexually assaulted.

It's nuts.


The legalese for that is: Attractive Nuisance.

It's good enough to hold you responsible if you have a pool, build a 30 foot barbed-wire fence surrounding it and some idiots go through 10 days of effort destroying and breaching your wall, trespassing on your property ... only to drown in your pool.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 07, 2017 07:37 PM (rZ+mb)

249 206 179 173 I voted for Ted Cruz in the primary election

I was on team Cruz until I watched him handing out Teddy Bears and soccer balls to illegals alongside that idiot Beck.

Posted by: Under Fire at September 07, 2017 07:16 PM (mcI77)

He didn't hand out teddy bears and soccer balls. He handed out medical supplies.

Posted by: Jack Sock at September 07, 2017 07:24 PM (LuKE7)

++++

eh. He was at the event where the illegal aliens were rewarded for their criminality with toys. Cruz had enough sense to only hand medical supplies to the illegal aliens, but the top pic at this link shows him pictured with some of the toys.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/01/17/ted-cruz-
visits-texas-border-to-welcome-illegal-alien-families/

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 07, 2017 07:37 PM (FUu/Z)

250 So the actual studies on sexual assault accusers is that between 2% and 80% of accusations are false.
***
The fact that there are such differing numbers should tell people that there is no good way to tell how many such claims are false...but even if it is the outlier of 2%...and if I recall in that study they only counted the accusation as false if the accuser officially said she had lied...aren't we still in the space where it is better to let 100 guilty men go then punish one innocent man?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 07, 2017 07:37 PM (aZq03)

251 Our national debt is decreasing.





Aroo?
====

I'm BACK , baby!

Posted by: Fiscal Cliff at September 07, 2017 07:37 PM (2wRtc)

252 Posted by: Under Fire at September 07, 2017 07:32 PM (mcI77)

And apparently to you a box looks like a gift basket.

Posted by: Jack Sock at September 07, 2017 07:38 PM (LuKE7)

253 244 It looks like the Keys are going to get crushed. This blows.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 07, 2017 07:36 PM (/tuJf)



Anyone look at the computer models? I'm rooting for the one most southward, that hits Cuba, and then veers up into the mostly uninhabited Everglades.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at September 07, 2017 07:38 PM (ujg0T)

254 Once again, you're at least nine months behind.
Posted by: Ignoramus at September 07, 2017 07:36 PM (SIY7D)

This is like Chapter 47 of this. I wouldn't worry too much about it.

Posted by: Meremortal at September 07, 2017 07:38 PM (3myMJ)

255 I'm not sure the rate of increase of our debt is even decreasing.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at September 07, 2017 07:38 PM (LTHVh)

256
I am relieved beyond words that PDT is the president and not you-know-who.

He has done some very good things despite zero help from the GOP which he gave a landslide to in both houses.

I so want him to focus on deep, ideological and transformative issues and not deal-making. But I guess it is not in his nature. And with the outsiders purged and the Deep Staters in, we just have to hope his instincts can carry the day.

I have said my peace. I back him all the way unless he knowingly sells out on the key issues, which he has not done yet.

That be all.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 07, 2017 07:39 PM (mbhDw)

257 "So Microsoft has publicly announced, in advance, that it will interfere with law enforcement. Genius."

Let MSFT defend its own IP rights abroad.

And let GE police the South China Sea to protect its outsourced supply chain.

Posted by: Ignoramus at September 07, 2017 07:39 PM (SIY7D)

258 Our national debt is decreasing.

Posted by: RondinellaMamma at September 07, 2017 07:35 PM (oQQwD)


You were doing okay up until that point. Our national debt is still skyrocketing, with no end in sight.

Trump did well on those things you listed but they weren't his major campaign promises. He was elected for a few very large things and he has reneged on them.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 07, 2017 07:39 PM (rZ+mb)

259
So that whole north korea crisis is.....done?

Posted by: Soothsayer On Ice! at September 07, 2017 07:39 PM (mBtaw)

260 Why do you always have to keep being reminded, Ace?

Posted by: csmats
==

Because he , like the rest of us, lives in a world where our designated truthtellers are lying to us and gaslighting us EVERY DAMN DAY.

It gets difficult to peer through the fog.

Posted by: Fiscal Cliff at September 07, 2017 07:39 PM (2wRtc)

261 Microsoft put out a statement saying that if Trump's administration tries to deport one of the illegal alien "dreamers" working at Microsoft, they'll "have to go through us."

------
Past time to break these tech giants up. They feel they have the right to operate outside of the law. This is not good. We have a serious breakdown of respecting laws in this country.

It also sounds like a schoolyard taunt. Emotional to the hilt. Not a somber legal tone, but over the top virtue signaling.

Posted by: Gorilla Gumdrop at September 07, 2017 07:39 PM (Ejylv)

262 Microsoft put out a statement saying that if Trump's administration tries to deport one of the illegal alien "dreamers" working at Microsoft, they'll "have to go through us."
***
Wouldn't that be criminal conspiracy?

Hell the left was arguing as recently as last year that someone publicly stating they would refuse to cooperate with the government was grounds for summary execution...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 07, 2017 07:39 PM (aZq03)

263 255 I'm not sure the rate of increase of our debt is even decreasing.

***

It's not our debt anymore. If the new americans don't like our old statues or laws or religion or constitution, surely they came here to be like us and pay off our idiotic national debt they in part created by mindlessly voting for obama.

Posted by: andrew jarbacka at September 07, 2017 07:40 PM (DQdye)

264 That be all.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton

===

Great speech today, JJ.

I had to work at work and forgot to tell you.

Posted by: Fiscal Cliff at September 07, 2017 07:40 PM (2wRtc)

265 God in heaven. Has anyone heard from Timon with regards to his little boy's brain surgery this morning? And is Brother Cavil still in the hospital, or did they give him the boot?

Posted by: grammie winger at September 07, 2017 07:40 PM (lwiT4)

266 /ooooooooooooooooooff sooooooooock

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at September 07, 2017 07:40 PM (2wRtc)

267 232 He didn't hand out teddy bears and soccer balls. He handed out medical supplies.
Posted by: Jack Sock at September 07, 2017 07:24 PM (LuKE7)

-------------------------------------------

Cruz thought Glenn Beck was a good guy to take advise from.

He should look in the mirror and ask: How could a TV reality star and NYC developer make himself look more "Red American" than me?

Hint: There is more to "Red America" than quoting the constitution, low taxes, and having religious revivals.
Posted by: William Eaton at September 07, 2017 07:34 PM (MuTTO)

Cruz is literally H. H. Holmes.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at September 07, 2017 07:40 PM (XFue2)

268 Not done with Trump. He's my representative in Washington. I haven't had one for years.

Posted by: t-bird at September 07, 2017 07:41 PM (TJnH8)

269 Isn't that voter fraud thing from NH? RI went about 110% for her thighness.

Posted by: RI Red - making another list at September 07, 2017 07:41 PM (qnixr)

270 The boycott list continues

GoDaddy
UnderArmor
Netflix
Google
Walmart
McDonalds
Apple
J.P. Morgan
Microsoft


I hope to hell Little Caesar can keep his mouth shut.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at September 07, 2017 07:42 PM (LTHVh)

271 He was elected for a few very large things and he has reneged on them.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 07, 2017 07:39 PM (rZ+mb)

Yeah? What

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 07, 2017 07:42 PM (SjImc)

272 I still have no faith that the Supremes will side with the baker. Kennedy will queer the deal.

Posted by: josephistan at September 07, 2017 07:42 PM (ANIFC)

273 1. Trump finally realizes how wrong he has been.
2. Trump resigns in shame
3. Pence resigns in shame
4. Hillary is President!!!

Posted by: The Hysterical Sally Kohn at September 07, 2017 07:42 PM (O5Q3r)

274
Rondi Mom:

I love you dearly, but the National Debt is going through the roof with no signs of even slowing the rate at which it rises.

Now is actually the time to announce the plan to eliminate whole agencies like Education, Energy and HUD and give the rest a 20% haircut.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 07, 2017 07:42 PM (mbhDw)

275 >>Anyone look at the computer models? I'm rooting for the one most southward, that hits Cuba, and then veers up into the mostly uninhabited Everglades

I've been looking at this storm surge map from the National Hurricane Center. It looks like a huge portion of the land mass of the Keys will be underwater.

http://tinyurl.com/ycdwobor

Posted by: JackStraw at September 07, 2017 07:42 PM (/tuJf)

276 Posted by: RondinellaMamma at September 07, 2017 07:35 PM (oQQwD)

Couple of pipelines approved too.

And 840 Obama executive orders rescinded.

Media exposed and populace catching on.

for the first time in decades, a backlash to PC Life is happening.

Democrats driven to such insanity that much of the country just looks on aghast.

------
It's a disaster all right. For liberals.

Posted by: Meremortal at September 07, 2017 07:42 PM (3myMJ)

277 grammie- I read Timon's son came thru surgery and it went well. Have not seen anything on Cavil.

Posted by: Infidel at September 07, 2017 07:43 PM (mxS7w)

278 Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 07, 2017 07:37 PM (FUu/

Cruz was stupid to think people would think he was there for no other reason than to support these illegals.

Before the event, Cruz explained why he was going and why he wanted it publicized. It was completely opposite than what resulted. He wasn't familiar with the saying perception is stronger than the truth. Stupid stupid move.

Posted by: Jack Sock at September 07, 2017 07:43 PM (LuKE7)

279 Cruz is literally H. H. Holmes.
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at September 07, 2017 07:40 PM (XFue2)

Literally? Cruz is a serial killer who murdered people in a hotel in Chicago. For goodness sake, Pepe, you sound like the conservative version of the people who say "Trump is literally Hitler"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 07, 2017 07:43 PM (iVOAv)

280 "Quick Take:
Something like 7,000 voters registered and voted using out-of-state IDs on voting day in RI. they claimed to have "just moved to RI". Now, just 10 months later, most can't be found in the state and only 1,014 of them have an RI driver's license."

It's New Hampshire, not Rhode Island.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at September 07, 2017 07:43 PM (398bZ)

281 Howdy Horde. They put a PICC line in this afternoon. I'm here through the weekend.

Bleargh.
Posted by: Brother Cavil at September 07, 2017 05:06 PM

Posted by: freaked at September 07, 2017 07:44 PM (BO/km)

282 Kennedy will queer the deal.


ISWYDT

Posted by: Grump928(c) at September 07, 2017 07:44 PM (LTHVh)

283 Treat all the big tech conglomerates as monopolies that need to be broken up.

It will spur new businesses! Jobs!

When AT&T was broken up in the 1980's it ended up being a good thing. Breaking up Microsoft, Google, Apple, etc. etc. is necessary for capitalism to fully provide its myriad benefits to us all. Also Amazon, that guy has way too much power over the rest of us and we get nothing out of that deal.

Posted by: Boots at September 07, 2017 07:44 PM (EBwPV)

284 done with Trump...


look this is WHY we grabbed Trump.

We were being ran over in every way with applauds from Every one with Power, the govt, the media, Hollywood, and then violence at voting booths.

This is WHY Trump. He is the only Legally available tool that might help.

we'll see.

Posted by: willow at September 07, 2017 07:44 PM (FKrah)

285
Alicia Keys is under water? Huh?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 07, 2017 07:44 PM (mbhDw)

286 For once I wish a category 5 hurricane would hit D.C.

Posted by: Gaylord Farkemall at September 07, 2017 07:44 PM (+dsLj)

287 282 Kennedy will queer the deal.


ISWYDT
Posted by: Grump928(c) at September 07, 2017 07:44 PM (LTHVh)

But will Kagan plug the dyke?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 07, 2017 07:44 PM (mbhDw)

288 Cruz's grandfather shot Lincoln.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at September 07, 2017 07:44 PM (LTHVh)

289 Greetings:

Last week I saw an ABC TV program about the Univ. of Virginia "rape" allegation that resulted in a "The Rolling Stone" article.

Mercifully, perhaps, the producers protected the image and name of "Jackie", the hoaxer. But they did mange to include the unsubstantiated "1 in 5" campus rape victim propaganda smear. And the target of the hoaxer's affection helpfully contributed his "no big deal" demeanor.

There are different kinds of rape.

Posted by: 11B40 at September 07, 2017 07:45 PM (evgyj)

290 thx freaked. Poor guy.

Posted by: Infidel at September 07, 2017 07:45 PM (mxS7w)

291 It looks like the Keys are going to get crushed.
===

After Katrina, the house my wife and I had lived in as newlyweds, as well as the entire city, was erased from the face of the earth.

I went back once. The entire coast and the beach was completely different. Like driving somewhere I had never been before.

I won't go back again.

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at September 07, 2017 07:45 PM (2wRtc)

292 God in heaven. Has anyone heard from Timon with regards to his little boy's brain surgery this morning? And is Brother Cavil still in the hospital, or did they give him the boot?

Posted by: grammie winger at September 07, 2017 07:40 PM (lwiT4)
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I've been wondering the same, grammie, but haven't been here much today. I hope they have both checked in.

Posted by: bluebell at September 07, 2017 07:45 PM (UoSKV)

293 Posted by: RI Red - making another list at September 07, 2017 07:41 PM (qnixr)

You're probably right. Those itty bitty states up there all look the same.

I grew up in Texas. Those states wouldn't make a decent ranch.

Posted by: Meremortal at September 07, 2017 07:45 PM (3myMJ)

294 what we can't like Cruz now? I like him and especially like his father.

Posted by: willow at September 07, 2017 07:46 PM (FKrah)

295 288
Cruz's grandfather shot Lincoln
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With a crossbow.

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at September 07, 2017 07:46 PM (2wRtc)

296 grammie- I read Timon's son came thru surgery and it went well. Have not seen anything on Cavil.


Posted by: Infidel at September 07, 2017 07:43 PM (mxS7w)
=========================

Thanks Infidel. That's great news about Little Timon. Maybe Brother Cavil will check in soon.

Posted by: grammie winger at September 07, 2017 07:46 PM (lwiT4)

297 Goodness, Trump was practically the best of all possible choices last year. If it hadn't been for opposition from the party that reneged on every promise made over the course of almost a decade, Trump would be the single best conservative President since Coolidge.

Posted by: MAGA at September 07, 2017 07:46 PM (Tyk2V)

298 Yeah? What

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 07, 2017 07:42 PM (SjImc)


Restoring our national sovereignty.

Getting rid of BarkyCare.

Taking a hard line with China and Mexico - building a wall, but I would prefer just enforcing the friggin laws.

Restoring fiscal sanity.

Removing Barky's illegal orders and getting the stranglehold off the economy.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 07, 2017 07:46 PM (rZ+mb)

299 Microsoft could easily be broken into two companies and probably should be; an operating system company and a computer applications company.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at September 07, 2017 07:47 PM (LTHVh)

300 'what we can't like Cruz now? I like him and especially like his father.''

He got tricked into a photo op. Big dummy.

Posted by: freaked at September 07, 2017 07:47 PM (BO/km)

301 >>>Alicia Keys is under water? Huh?<<<

No, no. Alicia Keys' water broke.

Posted by: Fritz at September 07, 2017 07:47 PM (D0riW)

302 283 Treat all the big tech conglomerates as monopolies that need to be broken up.

It will spur new businesses! Jobs!

When AT&T was broken up in the 1980's it ended up being a good thing. Breaking up Microsoft, Google, Apple, etc. etc. is necessary for capitalism to fully provide its myriad benefits to us all. Also Amazon, that guy has way too much power over the rest of us and we get nothing out of that deal.
Posted by: Boots at September 07, 2017 07:44 PM (EBwPV)


In 1973, I received stock in Ma Bell as a bar mitzvah present. 11 years later it was broken up into the baby Bells and I got stock in all those. Then, over the years, they all merged back into a few companies and I got stock again.

Yup. Split them up. And mostly because to have these giants censor whole swathes of the population it wants to control is asking for trouble.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 07, 2017 07:47 PM (mbhDw)

303 Oh ... and putting Shrillary in jail. That was a big one.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 07, 2017 07:48 PM (rZ+mb)

304 288 Cruz's grandfather shot Lincoln.
Posted by: Grump928(c) at September 07, 2017 07:44 PM (LTHVh)

Hot Rod Lincoln?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 07, 2017 07:48 PM (mbhDw)

305 Just think where we'd be if Felonia had won.

It makes me shudder.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at September 07, 2017 07:48 PM (ul9CR)

306 Cruz is a serial killer who murdered people in a hotel in Chicago.
=======================================


I thought that was Richard Speck. Huh.

Posted by: grammie winger at September 07, 2017 07:48 PM (lwiT4)

307 209 I am very grateful to the Justice Department for siding with Mr. Phillips in his freedom of conscience lawsuit. Thank you Mr. Trump for standing on the side of religious liberty.
Posted by: grammie winger at September 07, 2017 07:25 PM (lwiT4)
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You are welcome grammie. And thanks for the prayers.

Posted by: Justice Dept. & POTUS at September 07, 2017 07:48 PM (Ejylv)

308 'Maybe Brother Cavil will check in soon.'


See #281

Posted by: see #281! at September 07, 2017 07:48 PM (BO/km)

309 Yes, New Hampshire, not Rhode Island.

Thank you all noticers.

Posted by: Meremortal at September 07, 2017 07:48 PM (3myMJ)

310 Thank you, Infidel and freaked, for the updates.

Posted by: bluebell at September 07, 2017 07:49 PM (UoSKV)

311 Was glancing through the threads looking for a posting by Brother Cavil but thats like looking for a needle in a haystack

Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2017 07:49 PM (pPKG5)

312 270 The boycott list continues

GoDaddy
UnderArmor
Netflix
Google
Walmart
McDonalds
Apple
J.P. Morgan
Microsoft
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Camping World
Gander Mountain
Cummins Diesel

Posted by: Under Fire at September 07, 2017 07:49 PM (mcI77)

313 Yup. Split them up. And mostly because to have these giants censor whole swathes of the population it wants to control is asking for trouble.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 07, 2017 07:47 PM (mbhDw)



!

Posted by: willow at September 07, 2017 07:49 PM (FKrah)

314 "aren't we still in the space where it is better to let 100 guilty men go then punish one innocent man?"


Haaa Haaa Haaa, whew, that was a real knee slapper.


Wait...


Wut?

Yuze cereal bout that?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 07, 2017 07:49 PM (EyPfd)

315 What turned me off from Cruz, apart from being Canadian and a lawyer, was his accepting that he was some sort of God's anointed.

Posted by: MAGA at September 07, 2017 07:49 PM (Tyk2V)

316 >>He has done some very good things despite zero help from the GOP which he gave a landslide to in both houses.

I don't think Trump is responsible for the GOP holding a big lead in the House and a narrow one in the Senate. I think there were two different dynamics at work last election, one for president and one for local races.

And it really isn't the GOP against Trump. The House has passed more bills than it did when either Obama, Bush or Clinton was in office. The problem is the bottleneck in the Senate. And we are still only one John McCain vote away from having killed Obamacare.

This while Trump against the GOP makes for a lot of good articles but it really is much less a big deal than it has been made out to be. The real enemy remains the same, the left and their coordinated attack to slow if not stop everything.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 07, 2017 07:49 PM (/tuJf)

317 re 112: insomniac, I kind of thought I wasn't wording it very well.

what I meant is that, for example, the EPA can charge you with a violation of one of their regulations and take you to court, and the rules to get a conviction, which can include fines and jail time, make it easier to get a conviction.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at September 07, 2017 07:49 PM (ILitO)

318 Only a Mexican can afford a Cummins Diesel.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at September 07, 2017 07:50 PM (LTHVh)

319 Posted by: Brother Cavil at September 07, 2017 05:06 PM

So what's going on with you, BC?

Will keep you in prayer/

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 07, 2017 07:50 PM (iVOAv)

320 what we can't like Cruz now? I like him and especially like his father.
***
His great-great....great grandfather stabbed Caesar.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 07, 2017 07:50 PM (aZq03)

321 The Florida Keys are a cesspit of degeneracy.

Posted by: Insomniac at September 07, 2017 07:50 PM (0mRoj)

322 294 what we can't like Cruz now? I like him and especially like his father.
Posted by: willow at September 07, 2017 07:46 PM (FKrah)

His father killed JFK!!!

Posted by: josephistan at September 07, 2017 07:50 PM (ANIFC)

323 305 Just think where we'd be if Felonia had won.

It makes me shudder.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at September 07, 2017 07:48 PM (ul9CR)


Yes. But that gets thinner and thinner with each passing day. The brakes have been pulled. Now throw the fucking engine into reverse and step on the gas.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 07, 2017 07:50 PM (mbhDw)

324 Son, you're going to drive me to drinking if you don't stop driving that Hot Rod Lincoln.

Posted by: Pappy Fritz at September 07, 2017 07:50 PM (D0riW)

325 305 Just think where we'd be if Felonia had won.

It makes me shudder.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at September 07, 2017 07:48 PM (ul9CR)

That indeed is something to always consider.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 07, 2017 07:50 PM (broQw)

326
Goodness, Trump was practically the best of all possible choices last
year. If it hadn't been for opposition from the party that reneged on
every promise made over the course of almost a decade, Trump would be
the single best conservative President since Coolidge.
---

All Dem Candidates: Deep State

Majority of Repub Candidates: Deep State.

The ONLY two that were NOT Deep State were Trump and maybe Carson.

Posted by: shibumi at September 07, 2017 07:50 PM (aT+Bx)

327 " Was glancing through the threads looking for a posting by Brother Cavil but thats like looking for a needle in a haystack"

PICC line in his neck for antibiotics.
Spending the weekend in the hospital.

If I remember correctly

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 07, 2017 07:51 PM (EyPfd)

328 242
Hmm, walking away from TPP was great.

So was pulling out of the Paris Accord.

Oh, and then there's the appointment of Gorsuch.

The uptick in jobs is a promise kept, too.

His work cleaning up the VA is also a promise kept.

Our national debt is decreasing.

His publicly calling out Antifa for the terrorists they are and his pardon of Arpaio are another examples of me not getting tired of winning.

Posted by: RondinellaMamma at September 07, 2017 07:35 PM (oQQwD)



But aside from all that, what has President Trump done for us lately?

Posted by: The People's Front of Judea at September 07, 2017 07:51 PM (sdi6R)

329 321 The Florida Keys are a cesspit of degeneracy.
Posted by: Insomniac at September 07, 2017 07:50 PM (0mRoj)


Anything named Buffet is hateful.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 07, 2017 07:51 PM (mbhDw)

330 'Maybe Brother Cavil will check in soon.'





See #281

Posted by: see #281! at September 07, 2017 07:48 PM (BO/km)
===========================

I checked #281 - Cavil has a PICC line? Geez

Posted by: grammie winger at September 07, 2017 07:51 PM (lwiT4)

331 Howdy Horde. They put a PICC line in this afternoon. I'm here through the weekend.



Bleargh.

Posted by: Brother Cavil
===

That's how they get you. That's how they ALWAYS get you.

We gotta bust Brother C. out of that place! Who's driving?

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at September 07, 2017 07:51 PM (2wRtc)

332 say whatever you want but nothing will ever change the fact that at the end of the day there isnt a single thing that trump has done right so far that clinton wouldnt have done terribly terribly wrong

and hes done more than quite a few things right

likewise there isnt a single thing that trump has done wrong so far that clinton wouldnt have done terribly worse

from devos to pruitt to gorsuch to sessions to transgenders to daca... im happy

with clinton in the white house we would have had the father of a domestic terrorist as vp and black lives matter would be a cabinet level department and being transgendered would be a prerequisite to get into the military...and oh yeah...wed be at war with russia right now

all the never trumpers couldnt have been more wrong and history will prove that

maga/hcwnbpotus

Posted by: sound awake at September 07, 2017 07:51 PM (US+kz)

333 The Florida Keys are a cesspit of degeneracy.

Salt water the earth!

Posted by: Grump928(c) at September 07, 2017 07:51 PM (LTHVh)

334 'So what's going on with you, BC?'

BC's not here. I was quoting him from earlier.

Posted by: see #281! at September 07, 2017 07:51 PM (BO/km)

335 Scatter the coral.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at September 07, 2017 07:51 PM (LTHVh)

336 I've never been a pro-Trump guy. But I'm not a neverTrumper either. I'm essentially an anti-anti-Trumper. I think he deserves a fair shake. When he does conservative things, he should be supported, and when he doesn't he should be opposed. All said, for a dude from NYC who likes gold toilets and has no real history of conservatism, he's been pretty good. I certainly prefer him to Ryan and McConnell, to say nothing of the lunatics on the other side of the aisle.

Posted by: Curmudgeonly Ex-Clerk at September 07, 2017 07:51 PM (HJbDF)

337 >>The Florida Keys are a cesspit of degeneracy.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

And you left out some of the best and most diverse fishing on the planet.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 07, 2017 07:52 PM (/tuJf)

338 what I meant is that, for example, the EPA can charge you with a violation of one of their regulations and take you to court, and the rules to get a conviction, which can include fines and jail time, make it easier to get a conviction.
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at September 07, 2017 07:49 PM (ILitO)

You can't be incarcerated through a civil or administrative proceeding. The only exception I'm aware of is a criminal contempt proceeding which is part of a judge's inherent authority.

Posted by: Insomniac at September 07, 2017 07:52 PM (0mRoj)

339 Anything named Buffet is hateful.


WTF?!?

Posted by: Golden Corral at September 07, 2017 07:52 PM (LTHVh)

340 We gotta bust Brother C. out of that place! Who's driving?
Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at September 07, 2017 07:51 PM (2wRtc)
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bluebell!

Posted by: Weasel at September 07, 2017 07:52 PM (Sfs6o)

341 Posted by: see #281! at September 07, 2017 07:51 PM (BO/km)

O.K. Thanks. Prayers for Brother Cavil.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 07, 2017 07:52 PM (iVOAv)

342 336 Posted by: Curmudgeonly Ex-Clerk at September 07, 2017 07:51 PM (HJbDF)


Nail hit on head. x 100

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 07, 2017 07:52 PM (mbhDw)

343 One of my favorite videos of the campaign was when Cruz was speaking on stage somewhere and the TRUMP jet landed behind him. The jet wash almost blew him off stage.

Bad Judgement Ted.

Posted by: Under Fire at September 07, 2017 07:53 PM (mcI77)

344 VIA thanks

Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2017 07:53 PM (pPKG5)

345 339 Anything named Buffet is hateful.

WTF?!?
Posted by: Golden Corral at September 07, 2017 07:52 PM (LTHVh)


Buffett. You are spared.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 07, 2017 07:53 PM (mbhDw)

346 I so want him to focus on deep, ideological and transformative issues and not deal-making. But I guess it is not in his nature. And with the outsiders purged and the Deep Staters in, we just have to hope his instincts can carry the day.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 07, 2017 07:39 PM (mbhDw)

++++

Reince Priebus was there to represent the GOPe types (like Ryan). Bannon was a Cruz guy in the primaries. He only joined Trump after Cruz was out. He was there to represent Cruz and similar.

The outreach was a failure. The GOP refused to play nice with Trump even as he sought to make deals with them. The failure to pass the Obamacare repeal says it all.

I expect Trump will adopt a more take no prisoners tactic in the future. He won't hesitate to play the Dems against the GOP in order to force concessions.

Am I happy it turned out this way? Of course not. We all would have been better off if the GOP was willing to stand with Trump.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 07, 2017 07:53 PM (FUu/Z)

347 Restoring our national sovereignty.

Getting rid of BarkyCare.

Taking a hard line with China and Mexico - building a wall, but I would prefer just enforcing the friggin laws.

Restoring fiscal sanity.

Removing Barky's illegal orders and getting the stranglehold off the economy.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 07, 2017 07:46 PM (rZ+mb)

????

Restoring our National Sovereinty..Yeah? And? He has been very strong on America First, but he can't do it alone?

Getting rid of Fredocare? Yeah? And? Again he can't do it alone

Building a wall? Yeah? And? Again he can't do it alone.

Restoring fiscal sanity? Yeah? And? Again he can't do it alone. COngress controls the budget


Removing Barky's illegal orders and getting the stranglehold off the economy? Now this one you got to be kidding about right? That's a joke right? Everyone says he is gutting Fredo's regulations and doing his best to free the economy.

I think most of your fire should be directed at Congress

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 07, 2017 07:53 PM (SjImc)

348 281 Howdy Horde. They put a PICC line in this afternoon. I'm here through the weekend. Bleargh.
Posted by: Brother Cavil at September 07, 2017 05:06 PM

I know everyone wants to avoid PICC lines, but it'll probably be much better for you. They decided not to do a PICC on me and by days three and four they were having trouble finding good IV sites for the antibiotics. Apparently, antibiotics are very hard on the veins at the IV site, so a site can only be used for a short period.

Hang in there!

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at September 07, 2017 07:53 PM (398bZ)

349 Cavil: good luck! I was kidding around last night but know that I am, in fact, pulling for you to get better.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at September 07, 2017 07:53 PM (6FqZa)

350 You are welcome grammie. And thanks for the prayers.

Posted by: Justice Dept. POTUS at September 07, 2017 07:48 PM (Ejylv)
=============================

You bet. And just so you know, you get a yuuuuge mention every Sunday from the main stage.

Posted by: grammie winger at September 07, 2017 07:54 PM (lwiT4)

351 bluebell!
Posted by: Weasel at September 07, 2017 07:52 PM (Sfs6o)
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No can do. My bail money hasn't come through yet. Someone told me #twoweeks. I am not hopeful.

Posted by: bluebell at September 07, 2017 07:54 PM (UoSKV)

352 Microsoft? Where are their prospects for the future? People are shifting away from desktop OS's in favor of mobile systems, where is MS going to be in 20 years?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 07, 2017 07:54 PM (oVJmc)

353 337 >>The Florida Keys are a cesspit of degeneracy.

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I had a bf who told me he loved the Florida Keys. I gave him the side-eye, and said tell me more...

Posted by: Gorilla Gumdrop at September 07, 2017 07:54 PM (Ejylv)

354 337 >>The Florida Keys are a cesspit of degeneracy.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

And you left out some of the best and most diverse fishing on the planet.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 07, 2017 07:52 PM (/tuJf)

I don't care for fishing or ghey sex, so...

Posted by: Insomniac at September 07, 2017 07:55 PM (0mRoj)

355
Ted, Penelope and Tom joined Pablo and became Cruz, Cruz, Cruise and Cruise.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 07, 2017 07:55 PM (mbhDw)

356 re 316: if the Republicans last year had behaved like the Democrats usually behave - think of how they all rallied behind Clinton in the late 1990s about Clinton's affair with Monica - there would probably be more Repubs in the House and the Senate.

Trump crossed the GOPe and he must be made to pay for it.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at September 07, 2017 07:55 PM (ILitO)

357 We all would have been better off if the GOP was willing to stand with Trump.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 07, 2017 07:53 PM (FUu/Z)

Exactly!

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 07, 2017 07:55 PM (SjImc)

358 We gotta bust Brother C. out of that place! Who's driving?

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at September 07, 2017 07:51 PM (2wRtc)

---------

bluebell!

Posted by: Weasel at September 07, 2017 07:52 PM (Sfs6o)
===========================

Felons can't drive!

Posted by: grammie winger at September 07, 2017 07:55 PM (lwiT4)

359 I had a bf who told me he loved the Florida Keys. I gave him the side-eye, and said tell me more...
Posted by: Gorilla Gumdrop at September 07, 2017 07:54 PM (Ejylv)

He's ghey.

Posted by: Insomniac at September 07, 2017 07:56 PM (0mRoj)

360 (since 1 in 4 women are raped on college campuses, apparently).

BS leftist policy enacted to support BS leftist talking points. How Fast and Furious the BS flowed from duh one.

Posted by: DaveA at September 07, 2017 07:56 PM (FhXTo)

361 351 bluebell!
Posted by: Weasel at September 07, 2017 07:52 PM (Sfs6o)
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No can do. My bail money hasn't come through yet. Someone told me #twoweeks. I am not hopeful.

Posted by: bluebell at September 07, 2017 07:54 PM (UoSKV)
------------
I'll send you a carton of cigarettes.

Hey - any word from your friends in Naples?

Posted by: Weasel at September 07, 2017 07:56 PM (Sfs6o)

362 "bluebell!"

She's hardcore.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 07, 2017 07:56 PM (EyPfd)

363 352 Microsoft? Where are their prospects for the future? People are shifting away from desktop OS's in favor of mobile systems, where is MS going to be in 20 years?

In Canada I hope.

Gates did threaten a wholesale move at one time.

Posted by: Under Fire at September 07, 2017 07:56 PM (mcI77)

364 With Trump there will be ups and downs.

WIth Hillary! There would have only been downs.

Posted by: Darth Randall at September 07, 2017 07:56 PM (v3DL/)

365 346
I expect Trump will adopt a more take no prisoners tactic in the future. He won't hesitate to play the Dems against the GOP in order to force concessions.

Am I happy it turned out this way? Of course not. We all would have been better off if the GOP was willing to stand with Trump.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 07, 2017 07:53 PM (FUu/Z)


I don't see how you get concessions from two sides that essentially want the same things and mutually hate your guts.

But, everything after Hillary's defeat is gravy. So I'll flow with the go.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 07, 2017 07:56 PM (mbhDw)

366 338 what I meant is that, for example, the EPA can charge you with a violation of one of their regulations and take you to court, and the rules to get a conviction, which can include fines and jail time, make it easier to get a conviction.
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at September 07, 2017 07:49 PM (ILitO)

You can't be incarcerated through a civil or administrative proceeding. The only exception I'm aware of is a criminal contempt proceeding which is part of a judge's inherent authority.
Posted by: Insomniac at September 07, 2017 07:52 PM (0mRoj)

the EPA can fine you without ever taking you to court at all...

YOU have to then sue them to over rule their... rule...

Posted by: Don Q. at September 07, 2017 07:57 PM (NgKpN)

367 No can do. My bail money hasn't come through yet. Someone told me #twoweeks. I am not hopeful.





Posted by: bluebell
==

Well I certainly can't since I'm all jacked up on a Mucinex/Nyquil speedball.

Get better Brother Cavil! Don't let em push you around!


*zzzzzzzz*

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at September 07, 2017 07:57 PM (2wRtc)

368 Really, Jackstraw, the Dems made Congress stay in session during the break?

Repubs had 6 months to pass a debt ceiling increase, Trump begged them to add it to the VA bill, which they didn't do for reasons unknown.

Posted by: MAGA at September 07, 2017 07:57 PM (Tyk2V)

369 Just curious, what has McDonalds done?

Posted by: Max Power at September 07, 2017 07:57 PM (q177U)

370 Cruz is literally H. H. Holmes.
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at September 07, 2017 07:40 PM (XFue2)

Literally? Cruz is a serial killer who murdered people in a hotel in Chicago. For goodness sake, Pepe, you sound like the conservative version of the people who say "Trump is literally Hitler"
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 07, 2017 07:43 PM (iVOAv)

1 if by land
2 if by sea
Literally 3 if by Cruz

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at September 07, 2017 07:57 PM (XFue2)

371 >>I don't care for fishing or ghey sex, so...

You need to get out more. The Key aren't all Key West.

Besides, pretty much all of Florida is a cesspit of degeneracy. The Keys just has better bars, beaches and babes.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 07, 2017 07:58 PM (/tuJf)

372 Court of Appeals goes against PDT's Travel Ban..Shit that's serious...oh wait 9th Circuit...LMAO Never Mind

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 07, 2017 07:58 PM (SjImc)

373 I personally don't believe there was a single Republican candidate who would have held up against the continuous onslaught of opposition which Trump is facing.

And that includes after he took office.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 07, 2017 07:58 PM (EyPfd)

374 Just curious, what has McDonalds done?
Posted by: Max Power at September 07, 2017 07:57 PM (q177U)

Have you eaten there recently? LOL

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 07, 2017 07:59 PM (SjImc)

375 Besides, pretty much all of Florida is a cesspit of degeneracy. The Keys just has better bars, beaches and babes.
Posted by: JackStraw at September




Really, the babes are better there?

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 07, 2017 07:59 PM (0wem/)

376 Hey - any word from your friends in Naples?
Posted by: Weasel at September 07, 2017 07:56 PM (Sfs6o)
--------

Yes, today she said the forecast for them had gotten better yesterday, then worse today. They really still don't know.

What about your offices down there? What are they doing? I know the schools are closed today and tomorrow.

Posted by: bluebell at September 07, 2017 07:59 PM (UoSKV)

377 369 Just curious, what has McDonalds done?
Posted by: Max Power at September 07, 2017 07:57 PM (q177U)
---------
For starters, I'm not in love with the way they glob the tartar sauce on the filet o' fish sammich.

Posted by: Weasel at September 07, 2017 07:59 PM (Sfs6o)

378 Jack Straw,

Ever been to SGI?

Assuming this hurricane spares it , the fishing is phenomenal and the island is beautiful.

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at September 07, 2017 07:59 PM (2wRtc)

379 I personally don't believe there was a single Republican candidate who would have held up against the continuous onslaught of opposition which Trump is facing.

And that includes after he took office.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 07, 2017 07:58 PM (EyPfd)

Yup. Can you imagine what jeb or little marco would be like? Or rummy rommy? LOL

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 07, 2017 07:59 PM (SjImc)

380 I personally don't believe there was a single Republican candidate who
would have held up against the continuous onslaught of opposition which
Trump is facing.

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


You are one thousand percent correct. Any other GOPer would have been dog food by now.


Posted by: grammie winger at September 07, 2017 08:00 PM (lwiT4)

381 I think most of your fire should be directed at Congress

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 07, 2017 07:53 PM (SjImc


It's impossible to even measure the amount of contempt I have for Congress. But that doesn't free Trump from his major campaign promises - and trying to put all the blame on the lowlife douchebags in Congress doesn't cut it.

Trump is far better than anyone else has been in a long time or would have been. But he still falls far short of his campaign. I was a very early supporter of his (probably the earliest, here - and not a supporter as an anti vote against the others but actually a pro-vote for him) and I am very disappointed in how he thinks that he's not responsible to even try - really try - to fulfill his campaign obligations. He's still the best around ... but that just says what a shit state this nation is in.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 07, 2017 08:00 PM (rZ+mb)

382 The hard part about contacting people in Naples is they only use land lines. You can only string so much cord behind your golf cart.

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 07, 2017 08:00 PM (0wem/)

383 For starters, I'm not in love with the way they glob the tartar sauce on the filet o' fish sammich.
Posted by: Weasel at September 07, 2017 07:59 PM (Sfs6o)

That ain't tartar sauce...

Posted by: Insomniac at September 07, 2017 08:00 PM (0mRoj)

384 Trump was one of my last choices (ahead of Ben Carson, maybe one or two others) but when the choice was between Trump and Hillary, there really was no choice.

I'm happy that Trump is not Hillary, everything else is an unexpected bonus.

There have been a lot of unexpected bonuses, and for that I am grateful.

There are also a lot of missed opportunities which I fear will never return because 1)Trump is Trump. He's not going to change and 2)Ryan and McConnell are not Gingrich and Lott. As much as those guys have major warts, they actually accomplished conservative things with a Democratic president.

Posted by: Keyser at September 07, 2017 08:00 PM (v8/5X)

385 'He won't hesitate to play the Dems against the GOP in order to force concessions.'

That may be the only way to play.

Posted by: freaked at September 07, 2017 08:00 PM (BO/km)

386 376 Hey - any word from your friends in Naples?
Posted by: Weasel at September 07, 2017 07:56 PM (Sfs6o)
--------

Yes, today she said the forecast for them had gotten better yesterday, then worse today. They really still don't know.

What about your offices down there? What are they doing? I know the schools are closed today and tomorrow.

Posted by: bluebell at September 07, 2017 07:59 PM (UoSKV)
---------
Everything is shutting down tomorrow, I think.

Posted by: Weasel at September 07, 2017 08:01 PM (Sfs6o)

387 Trump is far better than anyone else has been in a long time or would have been. But he still falls far short of his campaign. I was a very early supporter of his (probably the earliest, here - and not a supporter as an anti vote against the others but actually a pro-vote for him) and I am very disappointed in how he thinks that he's not responsible to even try - really try - to fulfill his campaign obligations. He's still the best around ... but that just says what a shit state this nation is in.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 07, 2017 08:00 PM (rZ+mb)

I get your point, but what exactly do you expect him to do????

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 07, 2017 08:01 PM (SjImc)

388

Check out "the look" this dog gives owner when he's picked up at the vet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNXHo_Jtr2o

Posted by: Soothsayer On Ice! at September 07, 2017 08:01 PM (mBtaw)

389 359 I had a bf who told me he loved the Florida Keys. I gave him the side-eye, and said tell me more...
Posted by: Gorilla Gumdrop at September 07, 2017 07:54 PM (Ejylv)

He's ghey.
Posted by: Insomniac at September 07, 2017 07:56 PM (0mRoj)

Exactly my thought! lol Turns out it had to do with a memory of fishing with his dad & brother when he was young. I explained to him the Keys were really different now.

Posted by: Gorilla Gumdrop at September 07, 2017 08:02 PM (Ejylv)

390 With Trump there will be ups and downs.

WIth Hillary! There would have only been downs.
Posted by: Darth Randall at September 07, 2017 07:56 PM (v3DL/)
---------

This. I have to believe this very thing. I never thought Trump would align perfectly with what I want - heck, put two of us Morons together in a room and we wouldn't agree on what we want.

Trump is better than what Hillary would have been.

Posted by: bluebell at September 07, 2017 08:02 PM (UoSKV)

391 I am very disappointed in how he thinks that he's not responsible to
even try - really try - to fulfill his campaign obligations.
==

How do you know that is what he thinks?

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at September 07, 2017 08:02 PM (2wRtc)

392 My brother in law and my pregnant niece are staying in Miami???? And my niece lives in FT Laud and is driving down to Miami???

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 07, 2017 08:02 PM (SjImc)

393

nood

Posted by: Soothsayer On Ice! at September 07, 2017 08:02 PM (mBtaw)

394 338 what I meant is that, for example, the EPA can charge you with a violation of one of their regulations and take you to court, and the rules to get a conviction, which can include fines and jail time, make it easier to get a conviction.
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at September 07, 2017 07:49 PM (ILitO)

You can't be incarcerated through a civil or administrative proceeding. The only exception I'm aware of is a criminal contempt proceeding which is part of a judge's inherent authority.

Posted by: Insomniac at September 07, 2017 07:52 PM (0mRoj)
-------------------

You can be lawfared out of your property. In Midwest flyover country, low spots on your property can become "wetlands" that are protected and you can be put out of biz as a farmer if you do something to them. Like farm.

Posted by: Boots at September 07, 2017 08:02 PM (EBwPV)

395 >>>For starters, I'm not in love with the way they glob the tartar sauce on the filet o' fish sammich.

Posted by: Weasel<<<

You know what's better than a Mickey Dee's filet o' fish? One you make at home yourself. Mmm.

Posted by: Pappy Fritz at September 07, 2017 08:02 PM (D0riW)

396 371 >>I don't care for fishing or ghey sex, so...

You need to get out more. The Key aren't all Key West.

Besides, pretty much all of Florida is a cesspit of degeneracy. The Keys just has better bars, beaches and babes.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 07, 2017 07:58 PM (/tuJf)

*shrugs*. I know it's trendy to rag on Florida but it's not really much better or worse in that regard than anywhere else.

Posted by: Insomniac at September 07, 2017 08:03 PM (0mRoj)

397 Give up on Trump?

Why just today, I got a really NICE letter from Melania, with a nice picture (suitable for framing) of Melania and Donald at the Inauguration.

Well, yes, she is asking for money. But I don't THINK she's a hooker.


Seriously. What was that other choice, that TrueCon that was going to fix everything?
We are seeing just how stupid and feckless the Republican Congressional leadership really is. Throwing away the opportunity of a GENERATION to actually implement new policies to reverse the social welfare state.

Well, I don't know about you, you can all go to Texas, but I'm going to Hell!

Wait a minute, that didn't come out right.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....outlaw in America at September 07, 2017 08:03 PM (S6Pax)

398 Just curious, what has McDonalds done?

Stopped frying the fries in lard.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 07, 2017 08:03 PM (oVJmc)

399 Still glad Cruz is one of the senators from Texas -and I will vote for him again. Better'n Corn hole

Posted by: Glenn John at September 07, 2017 08:03 PM (LilNs)

400 How do you know that is what he thinks?

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at September 07, 2017 08:02 PM (2wRtc)


Because I see what he's done ... and not done.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 07, 2017 08:03 PM (rZ+mb)

401 NGU, seriously?!

Posted by: no good deed at September 07, 2017 08:04 PM (eIQHF)

402 SOM!


Have you been to St George Island?

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at September 07, 2017 08:05 PM (2wRtc)

403 396 371 >>I don't care for fishing or ghey sex, so...

You need to get out more. The Key aren't all Key West.

Besides, pretty much all of Florida is a cesspit of degeneracy. The Keys just has better bars, beaches and babes.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 07, 2017 07:58 PM (/tuJf)

*shrugs*. I know it's trendy to rag on Florida but it's not really much better or worse in that regard than anywhere else.
Posted by: Insomniac at September 07, 2017 08:03 PM (0mRoj)

Tampa Bay was before its time at the turn of the century.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at September 07, 2017 08:06 PM (XFue2)

404 Because I see what he's done ... and not done.
===

He is not a king. That's for sure. And on purpose.

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at September 07, 2017 08:07 PM (2wRtc)

405 Felons can't drive!

Bluebell still had presumption of innocence until the trial.

Posted by: Golden Corral at September 07, 2017 08:07 PM (LTHVh)

406 dammit

Posted by: Grump928(c) at September 07, 2017 08:07 PM (LTHVh)

407 I don't see how you get concessions from two sides that essentially want the same things and mutually hate your guts.

But, everything after Hillary's defeat is gravy. So I'll flow with the go.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 07, 2017 07:56 PM (mbhDw)

++++

Well, if both sides were open about wanting the same thing, then all would be lost. But one of the sides pretends to want something else. And then obscures that fact by always finding a way to do nothing. But, if Trump occasionally plays footsie with the Dems, it forces the GOP to take a stand.

Trump is going to want to force funding for his wall in December. He wanted to do it now, but with the hurricane relief issue happening at the same time, he figured it would be a loser to try to have the fight now. So, he punted the fight to December. That's why the GOP wanted to push the issue 18 months out: to screw him on the wall. Let's see what the GOP does in December when trump is willing to shutdown the government to get his wall. What will they do, try to override by dealing with the Dems? After they just claimed he wasn't TruCon for just doing a punt with the Dems help?

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 07, 2017 08:07 PM (pvjTE)

408 He won't hesitate to play the Dems against the GOP in order to force concessions.'



That may be the only way to play.
---

I agree.

There is probably some level of Game Theory going on here; I just don't understand the complexities enough to see it correctly.

Or maybe it's just like dealing with children.

Child A is sulking, hates Daddy and is defiant

Child B is a bit hostile, but mostly neutral and opportunistic.

Daddy gives positive attention and rewards to Child B, but nothing to Child A.

Child A might not like that.

/at least in theory.

Posted by: shibumi at September 07, 2017 08:08 PM (aT+Bx)

409 >>Really, Jackstraw, the Dems made Congress stay in session during the break?

And? Republicans did the exact same thing under Obama? So what?

We have never had a minority Party in Congress, cheered on by the media, go the extremes the Democrats have, particularly in the Senate, to thwart a president of the other party. They are using every parliamentary trick in the book to slow things down and thwart virtually every single piece of legislation.

If Republicans had done this to Obama the media would have been screaming racism every single day all day long. But when liberals do this to Trump the media applauds and blames the Republicans.

Look at the facts. The House has passed more bills in the first 6 months than the House did under the previous 3 presidents. Did you hear the left whine that the liberals in Congress were against Obama? If McCain had voted yes instead of being quintessentially McCain, Obamacare would be dead and we wouldn't be having this conversation.

The media will do anything to hurt Trump and the right. I'm sure Trump is frustrated. He is a businessman and is used to having his orders carried out immediately. Well this isn't that. This is government and politics and he is still learning how the game is played.

After Reagan's first year when the economy didn't take off people said he was done too. That's why presidents get 4 years. We are still in the first innings, if Trump and Congress are still in this position in a year then I will be worried.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 07, 2017 08:09 PM (/tuJf)

410 So this NH voting thing really pisses me off. I moved here from RI so that my frickin' vote would count. And then 7000 massholes do a drive-by vote and tip the state into blue. I'd really like to get ahold of that list.

Posted by: RI Red - making another list at September 07, 2017 08:12 PM (qnixr)

411 397
Well, I don't know about you, you can all go to Texas, but I'm going to Hell!

Wait a minute, that didn't come out right.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative....outlaw in America at September 07, 2017 08:03 PM (S6Pax)


Snort.

Posted by: rickl at September 07, 2017 08:13 PM (sdi6R)

412 Just curious, what has McDonalds done?


Hmm. Perhaps I'm blackguarding them. I thought the CEO had a pro-DACA statement but now I can't google it up.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at September 07, 2017 08:14 PM (LTHVh)

413 @10: "Colleges shouldn't be in the crime business"

Why not? It's the best racket going out there.

Posted by: FaCubeItches at September 07, 2017 08:20 PM (rznWS)

414 But then something like this comes along, and it reminds me: Oh yeah,
we're in a civil war and the other side is now waging politics by other
means: specifically, violence, coercion, intimidation, and the
weaponization of government against the citizenry.


Phrases like "a long train of abuses and usurpations" and "absolute despotism" start to come to mind.

Posted by: DocJ at September 07, 2017 08:26 PM (7bkOX)

415 I'd really like to get ahold of that list.
Posted by: RI Red - making another list at September 07, 2017 08:12 PM (qnixr)

They should be prosecuted, and double if they also voted in their home state.

Posted by: Meremortal at September 07, 2017 09:03 PM (3myMJ)

416 Child A is sulking, hates Daddy and is defiant

Child B is a bit hostile, but mostly neutral and opportunistic.

Daddy gives positive attention and rewards to Child B, but nothing to Child A.

Child A might not like that.

/at least in theory.
Posted by: shibumi

Daddy takes belt to both ...

Posted by: Jean at September 07, 2017 09:13 PM (PxBuC)

417 what I meant is that, for example, the EPA can charge you with a violation of one of their regulations and take you to court, and the rules to get a conviction, which can include fines and jail time, make it easier to get a conviction.
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at September 07, 2017 07:49 PM (ILitO)

You can't be incarcerated through a civil or administrative proceeding. The only exception I'm aware of is a criminal contempt proceeding which is part of a judge's inherent authority.

Posted by: Insomniac at September 07, 2017 07:52 PM (0mRoj)
-------------------

You can be lawfared out of your property. In Midwest flyover country, low spots on your property can become "wetlands" that are protected and you can be put out of biz as a farmer if you do something to them. Like farm.
Posted by: Boots


I objected to some work the state dnr did on my farm land. Was overruled, they did have an easement -- now the EPA has started an inquiry into what "I" did

Posted by: Jean at September 07, 2017 09:17 PM (PxBuC)

418 This is only a test. Do not be alarmed.

Posted by: Test123 at September 07, 2017 09:38 PM (pAlYe)

419 Another test.

Posted by: Test123 at September 07, 2017 09:45 PM (pAlYe)

420 It's not about the cake; it's about the coercion.

"Friend-of-the-Court Brief"? How long since we've heard of that on the side of freedom and common decency? If not for the President, Hillary's Supreme Court would have already put men if your wife's bathroom, you know, The Way the Founders Intended(tm).

President Trump has already done more for us than the whole lot of them put together. He deserves the benefit of the doubt. He's earned that much.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at September 07, 2017 10:04 PM (Ndje9)

421 I hope to hell Little Caesar can keep his mouth shut.


pizza, pizza!!!

Posted by: Sweet Andy Licious at September 07, 2017 10:50 PM (Mo5Uy)

422 But, but, but.. I kept being told by the Hillary Clinton for President National Review online that there was no difference between Trump and Hillary. That he was just another democrat.

Isn't it amazing. How unbelievable, catastrophically WRONG the conservative media has been and yet they still have jobs. Wow.

Posted by: Dude1394 at September 08, 2017 08:36 PM (1V/O9)

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