Uranium, Russia, Obama, Clinton, Money: A Match Made In Hell

A few days ago, JackStraw, long-time commenter, seafood aficionado, jibe-master, Mets fan and ocean racer sent me a seven-year-old article about enriched uranium transfers from Ukraine to Russia. U.S. Helps Ukraine Send Uranium to Russia. It was the catalyst for a short email exchange about exactly what the hell is going on.

Ignoring the tongue-bath that CBS gives Obama, it really is odd that we would facilitate these transfers, with the expectation that Russia is going to do what they say they will do.

This week's removal of more than 110 pounds of highly enriched uranium followed a pledge by Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych to get rid of all of his country's highly enriched uranium by April 2012. The material will be blended down in Russia, rendering it useless for bomb making.

Anyone care to bet on whether that "blending' actually occurred?

And as JackStraw pointed out:

Note the connection to Yanukovuch, the ex-Ukraine president who is in the middle of the Uranium One scandal and exiled to, yep, Russia.

Andrew McCarthey writes in his National Review article:The Obama Administration's Uranium One Scandal

Let's put the Uranium One scandal in perspective: The cool half-million bucks the Putin regime funneled to Bill Clinton was five times the amount it spent on those Facebook ads -- the ones the media-Democrat complex ludicrously suggests swung the 2016 presidential election to Donald Trump.

This is the real scandal, and one that should be aggressively investigated.

But it also brings up a larger point; should the world try to control nuclear proliferation? There are two issues that confound those attempts. The first is the obvious difficulty in controlling technology and knowledge. I am confident that there are enough people on this blog with enough skill and knowledge to build a nuclear weapon. Is it realistic to try to prevent sovereign nations from doing the same?

The second issue is: How reasonable is it to try to control the behavior of those sovereign nations? Americans bristle at the idea of the United Nations merely criticizing our internal policies. Imagine if they tried to embargo some critical material or technology!

I think a better strategy is to try to control the material and technology with the expectation that we will eventually fail, but at the same time make it abundantly clear what will happen if one of those sovereign countries goes nuclear.

Gee...I guess President Trump isn't so dumb after all!

Posted by: CBD at 12:15 PM

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1 zzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Posted by: The MSM, Now With 20% More Fairness and Objectivity at October 22, 2017 12:16 PM (qUPFC)

2 This is all very interesting, but Trump is LITERALLY HITLER.

Posted by: The MSM, Now With 20% More Fairness and Objectivity at October 22, 2017 12:17 PM (qUPFC)

3 AT THIS POINT WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE!!!!!

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary! 2016, Who Will Never Be President of the United States at October 22, 2017 12:18 PM (qUPFC)

4 Sessions should go after Mueller for this with guns blazing.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at October 22, 2017 12:19 PM (qUPFC)

5 An anti-missile defense system would look pretty good right about now.

Posted by: Blake at October 22, 2017 12:19 PM (WEBkv)

6 The incredible irony here is that Mueller was neck deep in this corruption as head of the FBI and he's the Special Prosecutor investigating Trump for nonexistent "Russian collusion."

It's downright Kafkaesque.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at October 22, 2017 12:21 PM (qUPFC)

7 It figures Jack Straw's family owned jibes even if he pretends they were well-cared-for house-jibes.

Posted by: andycanuck at October 22, 2017 12:21 PM (mJ8mX)

8 Mueller, Rosenstein, McCabe all complicit in the cover-up, but where is the Special Counsel for this behavior?

Posted by: Ever at October 22, 2017 12:22 PM (QZdJj)

9 And there is a big difference between a nation building a nuclear weapon all on its own, and a nation (not a particularly friendly nation at that) being handed the materials necessary to do that, by us.

Which should never have happened.

Posted by: bluebell at October 22, 2017 12:25 PM (Nktqf)

10 this gin soaked charlatan and her pedo husband should have been indicted years ago under rico statutes. there is a precedent there. until i here she's indicted, the law only applies to those not in the deep state. media included.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at October 22, 2017 12:26 PM (KP5rU)

11 Can Trump appoint a Special Counsel/Prosecutor? Go over Sessions' head, since it seems he wants Rosenstein involved, based on testimony to the Judiciary (Senate) Committee (at least, that was my take.)

Posted by: Ever at October 22, 2017 12:27 PM (QZdJj)

12 But 9 govt agencies approved the deal!!11!!

Posted by: News Contributor Talking Headlist at October 22, 2017 12:27 PM (bvE6q)

13 An anti-missile defense system would look pretty good right about now.
Posted by: Blake

Remember, Postol and CDI when you build the bonfire of sources of Russian influence.

Posted by: Jean at October 22, 2017 12:27 PM (9TU00)

14
I am confident that there are enough people on this blog with enough skill and knowledge to build a nuclear weapon.

*furtively opens incognito browser*

*looks for lead tarps on Amazon*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 22, 2017 12:29 PM (8Ei5/)

15
It's just your jibe talkin'
You're telling me lies, yeah
Jibe talkin'
You wear a disguise

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 22, 2017 12:29 PM (IqV8l)

16 9 And there is a big difference between a nation building a nuclear weapon all on its own, and a nation (not a particularly friendly nation at that) being handed the materials necessary to do that, by us.

Which should never have happened.
Posted by: bluebell at October 22, 2017 12:25 PM (Nktqf)

Yeah, good point. It's very expensive to build nuclear weapons. Giving away the seed technology saves time and money.

Posted by: Blake at October 22, 2017 12:32 PM (WEBkv)

17
The MSM is increasingly resembling Pravda in the Brezhnev era. Whatever is being agitated about is an attempt to divert and conceal some other embarrassment.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 22, 2017 12:32 PM (s03cb)

18 Trumps game here seems to be let his enemies investigate him, if they find anything minor - he attacks them as partisan, if not then he claims he's doubly clean. This is better than a true neutral party doing the digging because their results would be unimpeachable.

Posted by: Jean at October 22, 2017 12:33 PM (9TU00)

19 Sounds like most of this happened more than ten miles from my house.

Posted by: Soona at October 22, 2017 12:34 PM (ZAAkQ)

20 Hillary yesterday was still on crutches from her ~~pneumonia~~ broken toe.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at October 22, 2017 12:34 PM (rnAwa)

21 Relevant -- The kid that built a working fusion reactor

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

(plenty of links at wiki to various write-ups about the details)

Frankly, nukes aren't nearly as scary as do it yourself gene editing and splicing; I mean, what could go wrong? Yes, that is 'a thing'.

We gotta get offa this rock before someone kills us all.

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 22, 2017 12:37 PM (0ogQG)

22 Jack Straw is also a big Dead fan

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at October 22, 2017 12:38 PM (PUmDY)

23 PARTY AT GROUND ZERO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJCaFe1yamg

Posted by: FISHBONE at October 22, 2017 12:40 PM (npPN0)

24 Why Gaylord is worse than Bill Clinton.

At least Bill Clinton got all that former USSR weapons grade material to the US where it was blended to make nuclear fuel for US reactors.*

Gaylord allows the Russian Federation to gain control of 50Kgs of weapons grade material. Which means Russia could make a few new warheads.**

*Did Greenpeace or other enviro-whackos protest this deal by Bill? Can't recalls.

**And it falls to Hillary with the uranium deal over US production to undo one of her husband's few decent accomplishments.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at October 22, 2017 12:40 PM (qZSgP)

25 But my nooz feed this morning says Trump is being mean to the little lady in the funny hats.

So that trumps all the rest.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 22, 2017 12:40 PM (Pz4pT)

26
We gotta get offa this rock before someone kills us all.
Posted by: GnuBreed at October 22, 2017 12:37 PM

What makes you think evil will stay behind?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 22, 2017 12:41 PM (IqV8l)

27 If only Russia (China too?) would help we could have the CoDominium and all this outrageous technology would cease.

Posted by: geoffb at October 22, 2017 12:41 PM (zOpu5)

28 GnuBreed yeah the gene-splicing stuff should at least be done on remote wind swept islands like South Georgia just to limit the chances of contamination. And make nuking easier.

What could go wrong with creating a viable version of E. Coli with synthetic DNA. Right?

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at October 22, 2017 12:44 PM (qZSgP)

29 "Rogue" nations either have powerful backers, or can be brought down with carefully built alliances. The threat of nuclear Japan- and Taiwan- probably focused China against North Korea.

In Iran's case, either you are a proxy or an enemy. With support from the GCC and the US their regime- and their satelittes- might collapse entirely. Which is why the Arabs felt confident enough to stop funding ISIS growth.

So it is possible to stop proliferation. Especially with an actual American in the White House.

Posted by: trev006 at October 22, 2017 12:44 PM (jRA31)

30 There was a Barney Miller episode where a university physics student built a real A-bomb for a class project although lacking the fissionable material to explode it. Funny stuff.

Bomb squad guy looking at it says it's not a bomb; Dietrich walks in, "Whoa! Where'd you get the atomic bomb!" Federal government guy who comes to check it out is German. Yemana ends the show saying, "I read that there's hundreds of pounds of nuclear waste that goes missing every year."

Posted by: andycanuck at October 22, 2017 12:46 PM (mJ8mX)

31 Oh FFS, Russia compares the bombing of Raqqa to Dresden.

Vlad is really depending upon the stupidity of Americans to score a cheap shot. Since it was the Soviet Union that requested RAF Bomber Command and 8th Air Force to strike that city.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at October 22, 2017 12:46 PM (qZSgP)

32 Weren't the Rosenbergs executed for treason for less than what the Clintons did?

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 22, 2017 12:46 PM (QLvwG)

33 And really, how are any of us supposed to know what to think of any of this, until we know how Saturday Night Live presented it in their skits last night?

Posted by: BurtTC at October 22, 2017 12:47 PM (Pz4pT)

34 If only Russia (China too?) would help we could have the CoDominium

Yeah, but learning Galach would be a bother

Posted by: Yshua of Nazareth at October 22, 2017 12:47 PM (ofVSV)

35 /sock

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at October 22, 2017 12:47 PM (ofVSV)

36 8,
Mueller, Rosenstein, McCabe all...

Honorable men, so saith Deputy Dawg who is not it seems an Antony.

Posted by: geoffb at October 22, 2017 12:47 PM (zOpu5)

37 GnuBreed yeah the gene-splicing stuff should at
least be done on remote wind swept islands like South Georgia just to
limit the chances of contamination. And make nuking easier.

What could go wrong with creating a viable version of E. Coli with synthetic DNA. Right?

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at October 22, 2017 12:44 PM (qZSgP)

Save us, Toxic Avenger! You're our only hope.

Posted by: Troma Studios at October 22, 2017 12:47 PM (QLvwG)

38 Oh FFS, Russia compares the bombing of Raqqa to Dresden.

Putin is butt hurt that his boy Assad didn't get there first.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at October 22, 2017 12:47 PM (ofVSV)

39 Somewhere there is a prison cell with Hillary's name on it.

A man can dream.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at October 22, 2017 12:47 PM (nUkMr)

40 Andy Canuck look up the name John Aristotle Phillips

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

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at October 22, 2017 12:48 PM (qZSgP)

41 Loving these guys...

Metallica - Master of Puppets (Reaction)

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

Posted by: garrett at October 22, 2017 12:48 PM (npPN0)

42 Do people really think anything will come of the real Russian scandal? Sorry, I don't

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at October 22, 2017 12:48 PM (PUmDY)

43
Vlad is really depending upon the stupidity of Americans to score a cheap shot.

It might work if he weren't on the outs with our mainstream media this week.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 22, 2017 12:49 PM (IqV8l)

44 If only Russia (China too?) would help we could have the CoDominium
As long as the Matriarchy doesn't take over, I'm cool with that although "Momma's Boys" currently seem to run all the Western world's governments.

Posted by: andycanuck at October 22, 2017 12:50 PM (mJ8mX)

45 Also re Dresden, the Russians sure didn't mind us bombing German cities and depots whilst they were, I dunno, fighting for their lives against the Nazis.

Calling Insomniac's Bag Of Putz Deliveries, Inc. You do international?

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at October 22, 2017 12:50 PM (ofVSV)

46 Garrett, going to the King Crimson shows here.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at October 22, 2017 12:52 PM (PUmDY)

47 I guess Barney Miller was spoofing that/him then, Anna, as 1977 fits the show's era; and the student said something along the lines of "I'm just a C student; imagine what the A students could do."

Posted by: andycanuck at October 22, 2017 12:52 PM (mJ8mX)

48 Do the ayatollahs in Iran really believe in the Apocalypse and the coming of the 12th Imam? Or are they just using the Shia myth to help maintain control and garner ever more fabulous wealth?

Because if they truly believe, Iran must be stopped from achieving their vision. That means no nukes for them regardless of the cost.

MAD worked/works against the Russkies because they don't want to die en masse. The Nork leadership, in spite of their 60 years of mostly bluster, probably won't commit sure suicide either.

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 22, 2017 12:53 PM (0ogQG)

49 Sessions should go after Mueller for this with guns blazing.
___
What? You want me to go after Matlock? What's wrong with you?

Posted by: Slumber'n Sessions at October 22, 2017 12:53 PM (Z8FFX)

50 This big uranium deal was all about money, little about nuclear weapons. Russia did not need Ukrainian nuclear material to make bombs - they have shit tons of the stuff already made up into bombs. And they can enrich material all they'd like as they are not covered by any restrictions on doing so.

What they did need was already enriched uranium at a hige discount to blend down and sell as fuel so they didn't have to use their own.

This is a much, much bigger deal than some fertilizer oligarchs plane was parked in Miami at the same time Trump was at Mar-a-lago.

As to the Non-proliferation Treaty, it is a world treaty, and you either buy into the mechanism or you don't. Leftists dig the whole "world opinion" thing until they don't. It's okay for world opinion to rein in the US, not so much third worlders - who are WE to say Iran or North Korea can't have nuclear weapons?!?!?

Posted by: blaster at October 22, 2017 12:54 PM (jHrzU)

51 The Ayatollah of Rock and Rollah still makes me laugh

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at October 22, 2017 12:55 PM (PUmDY)

52 I don't think we have what it takes to build a garage nuke.

You would need
chemists
machinists
mathematicians
electricians
mechanics
physicists - I'm reasonably sure we don't have one of those.

financiers
real estate magnates = garage has to be somewhere
operational security experts
counterintelligence specialists
logistics specialists - especially in procurement
access to controlled materials
document experts - especially federal permitting requirements

Nope, I don't think we could do it. Right, Bob? You folks at the NSA know us better than we know ourselves, right?

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at October 22, 2017 12:55 PM (m9X4Y)

53 Weren't the Rosenbergs executed for treason for less than what the Clintons did?
***
Yep.

Remember Bill Clinton sold military tech to the Chinese as well through Loral aerospace.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2017 12:55 PM (Z8FFX)

54 It is expensive to get the material to build U-235 nuclear weapons, it is not expensive to build them if the material is at hand.

It is inexpensive, in the national sense, to get the material to build a Pu-239 nuclear weapon. It is expensive and difficult to make one that works.

And with both of these it is expensive and difficult to make one that is reliable/small/light enough to use on a missile much less building an reliable ICBM itself.

However NK with the likely help of several other nations (Iran, China, Russia) is getting there.

Posted by: geoffb at October 22, 2017 12:56 PM (zOpu5)

55 Andy Canuck, did not read the Wiki link because I read Phillips own book. But he social engineered out of someone with knowledge of explosives how to properly space and fuse the plastic explosives to create a Nagasaki type bomb. That was one of the crucial bits he could not find from published materials.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at October 22, 2017 12:58 PM (qZSgP)

56 Because if they truly believe, Iran must be stopped from achieving their vision. That means no nukes for them regardless of the cost.
***
At this point it is only a matter of time until jihadis nuke a major American city.

Presumably they'll wait until the next time we have a D president...and then they'll work through an allied terror group for plausible deniability.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2017 12:58 PM (Z8FFX)

57 Canada was recycling Soviet (and U.S.?) uranium as part of one of the arms treaties. I can't find anything about on the net because any "soviet, russia recycle uranium" searches all lead to the current story. You'd think that recycling it in someplace like Canada or France would be more likely than in Russia, wouldn't one?

I can't recall the years for the deliveries just that the enviro-left was fearmongering about the transport trains derailing and killing everyone in the world sort of crap.

Posted by: andycanuck at October 22, 2017 12:58 PM (mJ8mX)

58 >>>But it also brings up a larger point; should the world try to control nuclear proliferation?<<<

It's a question that needs no answer. The extraterrestrial aliens will kick you in the fucking balls if you get out of line.

Posted by: Fritz at October 22, 2017 12:59 PM (Kwhm/)

59 I don't get why Sessions appointed Rosenstein to be DOJ #2, especially when he had to know that there was a risk of recusal which would give Rosenstein the decision over whether or not to appoint a Special Counsel (and who).

Posted by: Ignoramus at October 22, 2017 12:59 PM (pV/54)

60 45 Also re Dresden, the Russians sure didn't mind us bombing German cities and depots whilst they were, I dunno, fighting for their lives against the Nazis.

Calling Insomniac's Bag Of Putz Deliveries, Inc. You do international?
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at October 22, 2017 12:50 PM (ofVSV)

You betcha! We ship worldwide. Anywhere, on the quick, we'll send a bag of dicks!

Posted by: Insomniac - Getting Microaggressed on the Daily, Yo! at October 22, 2017 12:59 PM (NWiLs)

61 Nothing will come of the real Russian scandal unless Trump tweets about it. The MSM will then get all outragey and claim Trump is making shit up again. They will never investigate because they are lazy, low intellect Pravda-ites still trying to cover for their boyfriend and the fat crone who got her throne stolen.

Posted by: Nunya Bizness at October 22, 2017 12:59 PM (LRmj5)

62 I don't want to check your pulse.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at October 22, 2017 01:00 PM (PUmDY)

63 Interesting point on the emerging balance of terror...

Nukes work best against big cities - how many people die if you hit NYC vs say Nebraska.

Liberals live in big cities.

Therefore, liberals are giving jihadis, and other scum, the tools to kill them in mass.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2017 01:00 PM (Z8FFX)

64 Nothing will come of the real Russian scandal unless Trump tweets about it. The MSM will then get all outragey and claim Trump is making shit up again. They will never investigate because they are lazy, low intellect Pravda-ites still trying to cover for their boyfriend and the fat crone who got her throne stolen.

Trump tweeted about it. The media ignored it because it is unhelpful. Instead, they are focusing on Rep. Wilson in Florida because she is stirring up the troops. They are trying to draw a RAYCISSS! charge.

But don't worry - JackStraw ASSURES us that Sessions is ON THIS.

Posted by: blaster at October 22, 2017 01:02 PM (jHrzU)

65 So why doesn't Trump rescind the nuclear deal as being illegal....doesn't matter whether it is or isn't. That would get the whole mess into a court where discovery could out all the players. Make them testify...

Posted by: torabora at October 22, 2017 01:02 PM (ZKeXj)

66 You forgot to mention that JackStraw also speaks fluent jibe.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 22, 2017 01:02 PM (gk2JY)

67 I don't get why Sessions appointed Rosenstein to be DOJ #2, especially when he had to know that there was a risk of recusal which would give Rosenstein the decision over whether or not to appoint a Special Counsel (and who).
Posted by: Ignoramus at October 22, 2017 12:59 PM (pV/54)

I have no idea why Trump feels like he owes Snoozy McSwampcreature one fucking thing and hasn't sent his nattering ass packing

Posted by: Captain Hate at October 22, 2017 01:03 PM (y7DUB)

68 26 What makes you think evil will stay behind?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Oh I don't. Not. at. all. I'd just like to see the human species survive.

All the eggs in one basket is a poor plan. One speculation from SETI researchers as to why we haven't found another intelligent race is cuz they all manage to kill themselves or die in some world ending event before they spread out.

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 22, 2017 01:04 PM (0ogQG)

69 18-1, the liberals are also not considering that the jihadis will target clusters of Jews. That's narrowly LA and Manhattan.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at October 22, 2017 01:04 PM (ofVSV)

70 The US was recycling Russian nuclear material for a while.

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

Posted by: blaster at October 22, 2017 01:04 PM (jHrzU)

71 67 I don't get why Sessions appointed Rosenstein to be DOJ #2, especially when he had to know that there was a risk of recusal which would give Rosenstein the decision over whether or not to appoint a Special Counsel (and who).
Posted by: Ignoramus at October 22, 2017 12:59 PM (pV/54)

Yaaaawn... Huh?

Posted by: Rip Van Sessions at October 22, 2017 01:04 PM (O2RFr)

72 *checks lottery numbers*

Well back to writing since did not win any riches.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at October 22, 2017 01:05 PM (qZSgP)

73 I think the CoDominium doesn't work without the Alderson drive, so that we can ship out malcontents, internal and external, to the stars. Well, it doesn't work without either star travel or a whole lot of massacres to keep the non-CD states quiet.

China would definitely want to be on the world's governing board, and I think we could work with them. Russia would probably want to keep them out, though.

Posted by: Steven G Johnson at October 22, 2017 01:05 PM (jpYK8)

74 This is really bad shit. The Deep State is out of control, and the media won't say a word. What's the likelihood of that high grade uranium ending up in Tehran?

Sessions is beyond bizarre, but one can only conclude that he has been completely compromised somehow.

Trump really needs to act now. Sessions, Rosenstein, Mueller and the whole corrupt gang at DOJ have to go. And a similar brooming has to occur at State.

This can be his theme music: https://tinyurl.com/ycvxmsjv

Posted by: phineas gage at October 22, 2017 01:05 PM (ALDN3)

75 New Amsterdam, it's become much too much

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at October 22, 2017 01:05 PM (PUmDY)

76 I think a better strategy is to try to control the material and
technology with the expectation that we will eventually fail, but at the
same time make it abundantly clear what will happen if one of those
sovereign countries goes nuclear.
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Isn't this (at least partially) the rationale behind the Iran deal?

Iran will cheat. And the parties know it. But there is this kabuki show of "compliance" so that everyone saves face. One day, Iran will have a nuclear weapon, though. (And on that day, the USA will have to stand behind its deterrent).

The problem with this scheme is: (1) it is not known that Iran is a rational actor on the world stage; (2) Iran is a major state-sponsor of terrorism. What happens when terrorists execute a successful nuclear attack, and Iran says "Wasn't me!"?

That's a real threat. And the only way to control it is to make Iran either stop supporting terrorism, or deny them the ability to make nuclear weapons.

Posted by: Revenant at October 22, 2017 01:05 PM (yXLbm)

77 You forgot to mention that JackStraw also speaks fluent jibe.
My momma didn't raise no Yalie; I dug CBD's rap!

Posted by: andycanuck at October 22, 2017 01:06 PM (mJ8mX)

78
"We can absorb a nuclear warhead detonation and come back stronger." - Hypothetical Idiot God

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 22, 2017 01:06 PM (Q4q6O)

79 I am confident that there are enough people on this blog with enough skill and knowledge to build a nuclear weapon.

Wha? Shhhhhhh. Don't mind Dildo, NSA overseers. We know NOTHINK!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at October 22, 2017 01:07 PM (BoMuO)

80 Give me 30 kilos of U235, I can make one.

Posted by: blaster at October 22, 2017 01:07 PM (jHrzU)

81 The Barney Miller episode referenced was based on a 1976 incident involving a Princeton University student who submitted a feasible A-Bomb design as part of his term paper - he had gleaned all of the info from publicly available information. It was distributed widely; I remember seeing a copy of it before the Feds took it seriously enough to clamp down on all the copies and scare everyone out of talking about it.

The "Big Secret" about A-bombs is that it isn't very difficult to design an A-bomb; you just need someone who knows enough advanced mathematics to design a spherical shockwave compressive core. Any good masters degree level math graduate should be able to do it.

The only hard part is getting enough fissile materiel to sustain a critical mass. And as soon as we let countries like North Korea and Pakistan build nuclear reactors, that toothpaste was out of the tube for good.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2017 01:07 PM (V2Yro)

82 "I am confident that there are enough people on this blog with enough skill and knowledge to build a nuclear weapon."

=====

.........yes, master...

Posted by: Corona at October 22, 2017 01:08 PM (G8IjC)

83 The media can't be wasting their time on this when there's bigger scandals like Trumps racist condolence call!

Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2017 01:08 PM (O2RFr)

84 Interesting point on the emerging balance of terror...

Nukes work best against big cities - how many people die if you hit NYC vs say Nebraska.

Liberals live in big cities.

Therefore, liberals are giving jihadis, and other scum, the tools to kill them in mass.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2017 01:00 PM (Z8FFX)

No one will nuke us if they like living.

Posted by: JoeF. at October 22, 2017 01:08 PM (7uYFy)

85 Sessions is beyond bizarre, but one can only conclude that he has been completely compromised somehow.

JackStraw has been reassuring us that Sessions is quietly building his case against the Deep State.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at October 22, 2017 01:08 PM (ofVSV)

86 So now we have a nuclear Dildo? Treats hysteria, the vapors, and glows in the dark!

Posted by: Insomniac - Getting Microaggressed on the Daily, Yo! at October 22, 2017 01:09 PM (NWiLs)

87 You played yourself, sucka!

Posted by: J-ROC at October 22, 2017 01:09 PM (GsAUU)

88 58. W to tha E-R-D.

Posted by: klatu barata nicto at October 22, 2017 01:09 PM (eO2Z0)

89 I realize perspective is personal, but when Sessions testified before Grassley he tried to downplay this as "already sent ppl to jail" and no need to reinvestigate, imo. His claim about not being able to discuss further looked more like the bs that Comey pulled to close the discussion, than actual worry about compromising any ongoing investigation.

Posted by: Ever at October 22, 2017 01:09 PM (QZdJj)

90 I am partial to Crow.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at October 22, 2017 01:09 PM (PUmDY)

91 Yes, Tom, Anna pointed that out in #40. Thank you for the further information.

Posted by: andycanuck at October 22, 2017 01:09 PM (mJ8mX)

92
I am confident that there are enough people on this blog with enough skill and knowledge to build a nuclear weapon."

"Alexa..."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 22, 2017 01:09 PM (Q4q6O)

93 The "Big Secret" about A-bombs is that it isn't very difficult to design an A-bomb; you just need someone who knows enough advanced mathematics to design a spherical shockwave compressive core. Any good masters degree level math graduate should be able to do it.

They did it in the 40s with slide rules.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at October 22, 2017 01:10 PM (BoMuO)

94 41 Loving these guys...

Metallica - Master of Puppets (Reaction)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLsYHpaKfXY
Posted by: garrett at October 22, 2017 12:48 PM (npPN0)

--As if I needed another time-waster!

Curse you!

Posted by: J-ROC at October 22, 2017 01:10 PM (GsAUU)

95 Skandia Recluse

NSA Bob, switch off please.

Give us the fissionables and the Horde could get it done.

Maybe we need a remote place in the U.P. for final assembly. No; San Francisco or LA so we can easily search the needed info. And if we pretend to be homeless, no one will bother us. If we pretend to be undocumented illegals, we can ignore any regulatory oversight.

NSA Bob, switch on, please. Look into this bright light. *flash flash*

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 22, 2017 01:11 PM (hyuyC)

96 Tom Servo at October 22, 2017 01:07 PM

I remember reading about that. The kid's advisor was involved in the development and flatly refused to help the kid at all. And when the kid finished his dissertation the Government promptly classified it. I'm not sure about the widely disseminated part.

He did get his degree, I think. So he passed, apparently.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at October 22, 2017 01:11 PM (m9X4Y)

97 John von Neumann did the math in his head on a coffee break.

Posted by: Ignoramus at October 22, 2017 01:11 PM (pV/54)

98 "We can absorb a nuclear warhead detonation and come back stronger." - Hypothetical Idiot God
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 22, 2017 01:06 PM (Q4q6O)

I think Chairman Moose Dung of China said something to that effect once.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at October 22, 2017 01:11 PM (nUkMr)

99 So now we have a nuclear Dildo? Treats hysteria, the vapors, and glows in the dark!
That's why I'm investing all of my money into the Dildo Radium Dial Company. Theirs go up to "11" so I think it'll make it most popular.

Posted by: andycanuck at October 22, 2017 01:12 PM (mJ8mX)

100 Why wouldn't the Russians blend down the enriched uranium so it could be used as reactor fuel? It's not like they need it for bombs; they have plutonium for that.

Unless they were forwarding to some other client State, like Iran, in which case, why does Iran build so many centrifuges?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon, survivor of GNAMM at October 22, 2017 01:12 PM (O848g)

101 Obama, both Clintons, Rosenstein, McCabe, Comey, Mueller and Holder should all be in prison.

Posted by: Insomniac - Getting Microaggressed on the Daily, Yo! at October 22, 2017 01:13 PM (NWiLs)

102

oh, and part two

That was only the design. Manufacturing is another question.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at October 22, 2017 01:13 PM (m9X4Y)

103 /J to the R-O-C sock

Posted by: logprof at October 22, 2017 01:13 PM (GsAUU)

104 Because if they truly believe, Iran must be stopped from achieving their vision. That means no nukes for them regardless of the cost.

MAD worked/works against the Russkies because they don't want to die en masse. The Nork leadership, in spite of their 60 years of mostly bluster, probably won't commit sure suicide either.

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 22, 2017 12:53 PM (0ogQG)

========

I think they must be true believers. The were willing to hurt themselves economically all these years via state sponsored terrorism, which led to sanctions. It's the NFL damaging itself for the sake of kneeling. It makes no sense unless the players were true believers.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at October 22, 2017 01:13 PM (/qEW2)

105 I have Andrew C. McCarthy's article open to read in another tab. Cat woke me up after four am because she was running around the house & playing in her tunnel and making too much noise. I asked my roommate to buy larager can of cat food yesterday, 3 ounces is not enough. He bought a 5.5. Ounce can of Paul Newman's brand (did they license his name out for every product)? Cat would not go near it and I tried to give her some on a spoon and she went away. I took a good look at it and it honestly looks like vomit. I left it for 45 minutes and flushed it.
I had to look up word "tortie" it is in her three pages of Vet records. It's a dark cat with no white markings. The website there is very good and said most cats should eat twice a day and no dry food,.

I will post it in next week's Pet Thread.

Posted by: Carol at October 22, 2017 01:13 PM (NKOy9)

106 Blame it on Cain, it just seems to be his fault

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at October 22, 2017 01:14 PM (PUmDY)

107 You would need
chemists
....

Nope, I don't think we could do it. Right, Bob? You folks at the NSA know us better than we know ourselves, right?

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at October 22, 2017 12:55 PM (m9X4Y)

We had one of those, until people chased him off by calling him "perfesser."

Posted by: BurtTC at October 22, 2017 01:14 PM (Pz4pT)

108 'What makes you think evil will stay behind?'

This is about me isn't it?

Posted by: Dr Zachary Smith at October 22, 2017 01:14 PM (UdKB7)

109
You forgot to mention that JackStraw also speaks fluent jibe. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 22, 2017 01:02 PM (gk2JY)
=====

That too. In a weak defense of Sessions, I will point out that ALL of his major deputies are deep state operatives. I'm pretty sure he shot himself in the foot with his recusal, but he has nothing to work with. Dollars to donuts right now he doesn't even have clerical support. I noticed on his testimony that he was not as well prepared as usual -- no doubt 'lost in transition' as far as staff.

Posted by: mustbequantum at October 22, 2017 01:14 PM (MIKMs)

110 OT/ I like how Obama was in Virginia stumping for the Dem candidate for Governor, and said our democracy was at stake and not to pick the Republican & politics of diversity.

So, Obama sows the divisions with his Resistance groups, and helps create the identity politics & racial wars, but all from behind the scenes. Then he uses that to blame the other side for divisive words for not wanting to play in the sandbox he created. For wanting to follow the rule of law & not have free speech censored, we are now divisive.

Nice play Obama. Hope people finally see thru your BS. Hope it backfires on you bigly.

Posted by: Professor Chaos aka Gumdrop Gorilla at October 22, 2017 01:14 PM (Axa8z)

111 Blame it on Cain, it just seems to be his fault
He was never very Abel.

Posted by: andycanuck at October 22, 2017 01:15 PM (mJ8mX)

112 85. I dunno, my spidey sense tells me Beauregard is scared dickless of Derp State. (I'm calling it derp state ta take away it's powerr, Cap'n!)

Posted by: kallisto at October 22, 2017 01:15 PM (eO2Z0)

113 >>Curse you!

They are awesome.
Love their reaction when they hear Metal transitions.

Everytime there's a break into a heavy shuffle they lose it!

Posted by: garrett at October 22, 2017 01:15 PM (npPN0)

114 107 You would need
chemists
....

Nope, I don't think we could do it. Right, Bob? You folks at the NSA know us better than we know ourselves, right?

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at October 22, 2017 12:55 PM (m9X4Y)

We had one of those, until people chased him off by calling him "perfesser."
Posted by: BurtTC at October 22, 2017 01:14 PM (Pz4pT)

Pffft. Come on, the guy couldn't even cook a steak.

Posted by: Insomniac - Getting Microaggressed on the Daily, Yo! at October 22, 2017 01:15 PM (NWiLs)

115 "That was only the design. Manufacturing is another question."

And we promise, we do solemnly and sincerely promise, we would never ever EVER consider going that far.

Posted by: Iran at October 22, 2017 01:16 PM (V2Yro)

116 >>You forgot to mention that JackStraw also speaks fluent jibe.

Also, he serves up a mean Rhode Island Lobster.

Posted by: garrett at October 22, 2017 01:16 PM (npPN0)

117 I fail to see the Democrat's strategy in wheeling out certifiable nut jobs like Maxine Waters and Fredericka Wilson to continuously attack Trump over stupid shit.
I get where they need to fire up the black base, but these two are so cringeworthy that I doubt anyone ( outside of their districts) would want to be associated with them. Besides, both of these clowns fit the stereotype many people have of the "black welfare queen" that they will further erode whatever support the Democrats still have of the white working and lower-middle class.
They are disgusting.

Posted by: JoeF. at October 22, 2017 01:16 PM (7uYFy)

118 >>going to the King Crimson shows here.

Nice. A good buddy of mine is/was a KC freak.

Posted by: garrett at October 22, 2017 01:16 PM (npPN0)

119 John Barleycorn> Jack Straw

Posted by: JoeF. at October 22, 2017 01:17 PM (7uYFy)

120 I think we're gonna have to forget getting any" help" from Sessions... Right now our best chance is Judicial Watch.. They are doing the work the AG should be doing.

Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2017 01:17 PM (O2RFr)

121 107 BurtTC

No I do not want chemjeff on my project. Why do you ask.

When I met him back in 2014 he was a good guy. I guess getting tenure made him insufferable.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 22, 2017 01:17 PM (hyuyC)

122 See you in a bit. I've gotta cheque to cash... but it's not mine.

Posted by: andycanuck at October 22, 2017 01:17 PM (mJ8mX)

123 "117 I fail to see the Democrat's strategy in wheeling out certifiable nut jobs like Maxine Waters and Fredericka Wilson to continuously attack Trump over stupid shit. "

Well that's the amusing risk of keeping big loud loose cannons on board. You never know when they'll go off, or where they'll be aimed when they do.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2017 01:18 PM (V2Yro)

124 I get where they need to fire up the black base, but these two are so cringeworthy that I doubt anyone ( outside of their districts) would want to be associated with them. Besides, both of these clowns fit the stereotype many people have of the "black welfare queen" that they will further erode whatever support the Democrats still have of the white working and lower-middle class.
They are disgusting.
Posted by: JoeF. at October 22, 2017 01:16 PM (7uYFy)

--Wilson is *almost* as good as Corrine "GO GATA" Brown.

Posted by: logprof at October 22, 2017 01:18 PM (GsAUU)

125 Also, he serves up a mean Rhode Island Lobster.

I am NOT looking that up on Urban Dictionary.

Posted by: blaster at October 22, 2017 01:18 PM (jHrzU)

126 Right now I have the 25th Anniversary Re. of Badmotorfinger going...

Fuckin' - A this is a great LP.

Posted by: garrett at October 22, 2017 01:19 PM (npPN0)

127 EC's Ship of Fools cover is good stuff.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at October 22, 2017 01:19 PM (PUmDY)

128 Didn't Beauregard say Rosenstein should investigate his own bad self? #OnIt!,#Courage

Posted by: kallisto at October 22, 2017 01:19 PM (eO2Z0)

129 "JackStraw has been reassuring us that Sessions is quietly building his case against the Deep State."

It's a Big Known Unknown. See#59. Could Sessions have been that dumb.

I'd bet with JackStraw, and I'd get great odds right now.

Posted by: Ignoramus at October 22, 2017 01:19 PM (pV/54)

130 118 >>going to the King Crimson shows here.

Nice. A good buddy of mine is/was a KC freak.
Posted by: garrett at October 22, 2017 01:16 PM (npPN0)

--Adrian Belew solo is almost as good. Also a good producer.

Posted by: logprof at October 22, 2017 01:20 PM (GsAUU)

131
I fail to see the Democrat's strategy in wheeling out certifiable nut
jobs like Maxine Waters and Fredericka Wilson to continuously attack
Trump over stupid shit.
=====

IMHO they are the infamous Cass Sunstein 'stray voltage'. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain -- the Great and Powerful O commands.

Posted by: mustbequantum at October 22, 2017 01:21 PM (MIKMs)

132 I'm betting with JackStraw, but we're getting to the point where I'm checking my watch and looking for the place where we cash out of the game

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at October 22, 2017 01:21 PM (ofVSV)

133 Kind of amused to see The Traitor saying that the Taliban is more honest than the US Military.

Well, he has a point, as in constantly shrieking "WE HATE YOU ALL! WE KEEL YOU!!! WE RAPY YOU WIMMIN!!!"

is extremely honest, and they don't try to hide it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2017 01:21 PM (V2Yro)

134 >>--Adrian Belew solo is almost as good.

I saw him on a couple Bowie Tours.

Monster player.

Posted by: garrett at October 22, 2017 01:22 PM (npPN0)

135 I don't believe in four dimensional chess theories, but is this too crazy?

Could these Obama Clinton one world types be so crazy as to believe:

(1) We have no right to determine whether other sovereign nations have nuclear weapons or not

(2) The United States is an evil, imperialistic empire, so the globe is better off if everyone has nukes, so as to better contain and hamstring our power

(3) We should channel the means of making nuclear weapons to all actors so they may be our equals in terms of force if they so desire

(4) We need plausible deniability and complex schemes to do so, so the proles won't get their danders up.

Posted by: RM at October 22, 2017 01:23 PM (U3LtS)

136 Winwood is kind of incredible live

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at October 22, 2017 01:23 PM (PUmDY)

137 "In a weak defense of Sessions, I will point out that ALL of his major deputies are deep state operatives. "

You create a silo-ed group for a Special Project. Same at the FBI.

I'd call them The Untouchables.

Posted by: Ignoramus at October 22, 2017 01:23 PM (pV/54)

138 Is Fripp still playing with Crimson? Or did he just give his blessing for Belew and Co. to use the name?

Posted by: JoeF. at October 22, 2017 01:23 PM (7uYFy)

139 >>Winwood is kind of incredible live

Believe it or not, Steve is my 2nd favorite guitarist.

Right behind Ike Turner.

Posted by: garrett at October 22, 2017 01:24 PM (npPN0)

140 I fail to see the Democrat's strategy in wheeling out certifiable nut jobs like Maxine Waters and Fredericka Wilson to continuously attack Trump over stupid shit.

Because they got nothing. They are stirring racial crap up because it works. The black vote stayed home for WHITEY WHITE Hillary Clinton and she lost. They are afraid that WHITEY WHITE Ralph Northam is not going to get black votes in Virginia.

And Millenials who have a strong sense of irony LOVE crazy black people in power. They call Waters Auntie Maxine. They think she is righteous.

Posted by: blaster at October 22, 2017 01:24 PM (jHrzU)

141 Why wouldn't the Russians blend down the enriched uranium so it could be used as reactor fuel? It's not like they need it for bombs; they have plutonium for that.

Unless they were forwarding to some other client State, like Iran, in which case, why does Iran build so many centrifuges?

====

Here is a guess - BECAUSE UKES ARE FVCKING INCOMPETENT AND UNRELIABLE AND ITS BEST THEY DO NOT HAVE SPENT URANIUM LAYING AROUND ! Thank you.

Posted by: runner at October 22, 2017 01:24 PM (QC/4S)

142 Winwood is kind of incredible live
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at October 22, 2017 01:23 PM (PUmDY)

Regret not going to see him when he was touring with Clapton a few years ago. His voice is still good and he has a massive wealth of material to draw from....

Posted by: JoeF. at October 22, 2017 01:25 PM (7uYFy)

143 Could these Obama Clinton one world types be so crazy as to believe:

(1) We have no right to determine whether other sovereign nations have nuclear weapons or not

(2) The United States is an evil, imperialistic empire, so the globe
is better off if everyone has nukes, so as to better contain and
hamstring our power

(3) We should channel the means of making nuclear weapons to all
actors so they may be our equals in terms of force if they so desire

(4) We need plausible deniability and complex schemes to do so, so the proles won't get their danders up.

Posted by: RM at October 22, 2017 01:23 PM (U3LtS)
=====
Remember the power of AND.

Posted by: mustbequantum at October 22, 2017 01:25 PM (MIKMs)

144 It is a Fripp/Levin show.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at October 22, 2017 01:26 PM (PUmDY)

145 128 "...Rosenstein should investigate his own bad self?"

If Sessions is so compromised or deluded he believes that it is appropriate for Rosenstein to investigate the Uranium One sale AGAIN, that's why I wondered if Trump could appoint a Special Counsel/Prosecutor that wasn't from the swamp?

Posted by: Ever at October 22, 2017 01:27 PM (QZdJj)

146 this is Levin, starting with a guy in the meeting where Mueller says the bureau is basically "untouchable", go on about the dirty tactics Mueller and his head thug use to destroy innocent people. (like even trying to destroy the lawyers of people they are after).

Team Mueller has ruined good people before, and despite being overturned often at SCOTUS level, gets the jobs done of destroying his (innocent) targets. Soviet style tactics going way back ... so of course Rosenstein chose him to try to take out a duly elected president that might imprison the globalist cabal.

Rosenstein Mueller and that traitorous gang are neck deep in the cover-up.

https://youtu.be/-ViC4oxgCR4?t=376

Posted by: illiniwek at October 22, 2017 01:28 PM (/aIFg)

147 Bigger risk is dirty bombs. Regular nukes are hard to build and even harder to deliver, and will result in massive retaliation. Even Fat Boy Little Man realizes this.

But blow off a dirty bomb and you make a city center unuseable for a long time. And you can do it with wih plausible deniability. Say it's London. Are the Brits going to annihilate Tehran in response?

Posted by: Ignoramus at October 22, 2017 01:28 PM (pV/54)

148 The ironic and frustrating thing is that derp state is just a collection of passive-aggressive beta male cucks. Their power derives from covering for each other and drama-making. Trump and it looks like Kelly are the only alphas in DC. Oh and Sec. Interior. And KAC.

Posted by: kallisto at October 22, 2017 01:29 PM (eO2Z0)

149 Sunday.
Some people go to church.
The Horde debates if they can build a bomb.
I drink covfefe and curse the weather.

I know there's a connecting thread here somewhere.

Posted by: Professor Chaos aka Gumdrop Gorilla at October 22, 2017 01:29 PM (Axa8z)

150
I'm betting with JackStraw, but we're getting to the point where I'm
checking my watch and looking for the place where we cash out of the
game Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at October 22, 2017 01:21 PM (ofVSV)
=====

I do remember going 'whaaaaat?' with the first initiative being stepups of asset forfeiture. Who was advising the man?

Posted by: mustbequantum at October 22, 2017 01:29 PM (MIKMs)

151 Looks like Phil Murphy, another Goldman Sachs asshole like Corzine will be a shoo-in for governor in New Jersey. He will apply the coup de grace to this once great state.
What's annoying is that he has signs all over the place saying "Stop Christie! Stop Trump!" Wtf? Christie's term is over and what's Murphy gonna do to "stop" Trump?

Posted by: JoeF. at October 22, 2017 01:29 PM (7uYFy)

152 In a weak defense of Sessions, I will point out that ALL of his major deputies are deep state operatives. "

You create a silo-ed group for a Special Project. Same at the FBI.

I'd call them The Untouchables.

Posted by: Ignoramus at October 22, 2017 01:23 PM (pV/54)

Why can't the deputies be fired??

Posted by: Country Boy at October 22, 2017 01:30 PM (Jcg9Q)

153 139 >>Winwood is kind of incredible live

Believe it or not, Steve is my 2nd favorite guitarist.

Right behind Ike Turner.
Posted by: garrett at October 22, 2017 01:24 PM (npPN0)

He had some great hits.

Posted by: Insomniac - Getting Microaggressed on the Daily, Yo! at October 22, 2017 01:30 PM (NWiLs)

154
This big uranium deal was all about money, little about nuclear weapons. Russia did not need Ukrainian nuclear material to make bombs - they have shit tons of the stuff already made up into bombs. And they can enrich material all they'd like as they are not covered by any restrictions on doing so.

What they did need was already enriched uranium at a hige discount to blend down and sell as fuel so they didn't have to use their own.

Posted by: blaster at October 22, 2017 12:54 PM (jHrzU)

Another thing to consider is that if that Ukranian material is passed on by the Russians to one of the rogue states, it's nuclear signature is sufficiently muddled that they can plausibly deny responsibility once Iran/Norks/terrorists use the stuff on the West.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 22, 2017 01:31 PM (eXA4G)

155 Sunday.
Some people go to church.
The Horde debates if they can build a bomb.
I drink covfefe and curse the weather.

I know there's a connecting thread here somewhere.

Posted by: Professor Chaos aka Gumdrop Gorilla at October 22, 2017 01:29 PM (Axa8z)

It is coming up - the food thread

Posted by: runner at October 22, 2017 01:31 PM (QC/4S)

156 139,
>>Winwood is kind of incredible live

Believe it or not, Steve is my 2nd favorite guitarist.

Enjoy.
http://tinyurl.com/m3wez6n

Posted by: geoffb at October 22, 2017 01:32 PM (zOpu5)

157 Charged with assault and battery, beyond belief

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at October 22, 2017 01:33 PM (PUmDY)

158 Wtf? Christie's term is over and what's Murphy gonna do to "stop" Trump?

Posted by: JoeF. at October 22, 2017 01:29 PM (7uYFy)

It is what they have. Northam ads in Virginia now are "Trump and Gillespie want to put their Godbothering babies in you!"

And Gillespie is pretty much #nevertrump

Posted by: blaster at October 22, 2017 01:34 PM (jHrzU)

159 Nope, I don't think we could do it. Right, Bob? You folks at the NSA know us better than we know ourselves, right?

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at October 22, 2017 12:55 PM (m9X4Y)

If you had a supply of enriched uranium or plutonium, building a "gun-type" bomb like Little Boy would be quite simple. Recall that "The Gadget" tested in New Mexico was an implosion-type bomb, and they were confident that it would work, but not certain. They never tested a gun-type bomb, because they were certain that it would work. And it did.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon, survivor of GNAMM at October 22, 2017 01:34 PM (O848g)

160 >>Sessions should go after Mueller for this with guns blazing.

I'll get right on that.

Posted by: Yosemite Sessions at October 22, 2017 01:34 PM (2cuLk)

161 151 BIG ups to you for correct usage of "coup de grace". Next time you're in Philly I'll get you a wooder ice.

Posted by: kallisto at October 22, 2017 01:35 PM (eO2Z0)

162 >>And Millenials who have a strong sense of irony LOVE crazy black people
in power. They call Waters Auntie Maxine. They think she is righteous.

I find their attitude that this is all a game - the making a scandal out of a dead soldier, the overturning/"impeachment" of an elected president - cartoonish and freaky.

Just watching those two and shaking my head. This is not a game, you ghouls.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 22, 2017 01:35 PM (W+vEI)

163 In before Jeff Sessions slumbers!

Posted by: Grump928(C) at October 22, 2017 01:36 PM (60v4h)

164 156 139,
>>Winwood is kind of incredible live

-----/
Saw Winwood and Clapton live a few years ago.

Posted by: Weasel at October 22, 2017 01:36 PM (FyOj6)

165 Trump and it looks like Kelly are the only alphas in DC. Oh and Sec. Interior. And KAC.
Posted by: kallisto at October 22, 2017 01:29 PM

What am I, foie gras?

Posted by: Lindsay Graham at October 22, 2017 01:37 PM (DMUuz)

166 In a world of shit, it's hard to find a proper fit . . .

[turned up to 11]

https://youtu.be/6DDA4lG1LE0

Posted by: logprof at October 22, 2017 01:37 PM (GsAUU)

167 "Saw Winwood and Clapton live a few years ago."
I did too. And more recently saw Steve on his own. He still brings it.

Posted by: Ignoramus at October 22, 2017 01:37 PM (pV/54)

168
OT:

Hope the TXMoMee went off well, Ben Had's homeowner's insurance covers the damage and everyone could meet bail.

Sorry not to have come up myself but even if I could get out of the house it's grown increasingly difficult for me to meet and talk to people. Better to think of all the Morons as broad-chested, square-jawed and 29 and all the 'Ettes as saucy, winsome and 29. Y'all are great.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 22, 2017 01:38 PM (gEkg4)

169 I still like Steve Winwood's 'Higher Love', and always liked his voice. I may have to head over to YouTube to get me a dose.

Posted by: Professor Chaos aka Gumdrop Gorilla at October 22, 2017 01:38 PM (Axa8z)

170 Winwood is a really great guitarist

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at October 22, 2017 01:39 PM (PUmDY)

171 I had to look up word "tortie" it is in her three pages of Vet records. It's a dark cat with no white markings. The website there is very good and said most cats should eat twice a day and no dry food,.

I will post it in next week's Pet Thread.

Posted by: Carol at October 22, 2017 01:13 PM (NKOy9)

========

I thought torties were tricolor (red, white, black hairs) like tabbies, except the hairs are mottled together instead of being in separate patches.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at October 22, 2017 01:39 PM (/qEW2)

172 We did it all for the nukie,
The nukie,
The nukie.
So we dealt with Pootie.
We made or money yeah,
Made our money yeah
Made our money...

Posted by: Limp Clintons at October 22, 2017 01:40 PM (E3EdC)

173 Gillespie can win VA. Polls have the same biases that undercounted Trump in the runup to Nov 2016.

Once again, turnout is key and I expect that there are more pissed off VA Deplorables that will get off there ass than faux-outraged Trump haters.

Posted by: Ignoramus at October 22, 2017 01:40 PM (pV/54)

174 164 156 139,
>>Winwood is kind of incredible live

-----/
Saw Winwood and Clapton live a few years ago.
Posted by: Weasel at October 22, 2017 01:36 PM (FyOj6)

Yea, well, I saw them on YouTube. Same difference.

Posted by: Professor Chaos aka Gumdrop Gorilla at October 22, 2017 01:40 PM (Axa8z)

175 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 22, 2017 01:38 PM (gEkg4)
------
Sorry you couldn't make it. It really was a great time!

Posted by: Weasel at October 22, 2017 01:41 PM (HBuMf)

176 169 I still like Steve Winwood's 'Higher Love', and always liked his voice. I may have to head over to YouTube to get me a dose.
Posted by: Professor Chaos aka Gumdrop Gorilla at October 22, 2017 01:38 PM (Axa8z)

"While You See A Chance" is still my fave of his. Reminds me of being a kiddie.

Posted by: logprof at October 22, 2017 01:42 PM (GsAUU)

177 >>Once again, turnout is key and I expect that there are more pissed off
VA Deplorables that will get off there ass than faux-outraged Trump
haters.

Will those 60K felons that Terry McAwful restored voting rights for make a difference?

Posted by: Lizzy at October 22, 2017 01:42 PM (W+vEI)

178 Sounds like the CenTexMoMee was a raging, unqualified success. Maybe someday I will remove myself from exile and go to one of the meetups.

Posted by: Insomniac - Getting Microaggressed on the Daily, Yo! at October 22, 2017 01:42 PM (NWiLs)

179
I fail to see the Democrat's strategy in wheeling out certifiable nut jobs like Maxine Waters and Fredericka Wilson to continuously attack Trump over stupid shit.

Why not? The Emperor's New Clothes shtick worked for eight years.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 22, 2017 01:43 PM (IqV8l)

180
164 156 139,
>>Winwood is kind of incredible live

-----/
Saw Winwood and Clapton live a few years ago.
Posted by: Weasel at October 22, 2017 01:36 PM (FyOj6)

That was at the Cow Palace, yes?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 22, 2017 01:43 PM (eXA4G)

181 "Will those 60K felons that Terry McAwful restored voting rights for make a difference?"

Only if bussed to the polls and given a voucher for a Happy Meal

Posted by: Ignoramus at October 22, 2017 01:43 PM (pV/54)

182 179
I fail to see the Democrat's strategy in wheeling out certifiable nut jobs like Maxine Waters and Fredericka Wilson to continuously attack Trump over stupid shit.

Why not? The Emperor's New Clothes shtick worked for eight years.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 22, 2017 01:43 PM (IqV8l)

Black Democratium. Its power is as inexplicable as it is undeniable.

Posted by: Insomniac - Getting Microaggressed on the Daily, Yo! at October 22, 2017 01:43 PM (NWiLs)

183 "But blow off a dirty bomb and you make a city center unuseable for a long time. And you can do it with wih plausible deniability. Say it's London. Are the Brits going to annihilate Tehran in response? "

Tehran ought to be annihilated on general principle. But we don't live in that kind of a world anymore.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 22, 2017 01:44 PM (l9m7l)

184 So glad you made it. Kid was seventeen

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at October 22, 2017 01:44 PM (PUmDY)

185 I find their attitude that this is all a game - the making a scandal out of a dead soldier, the overturning/"impeachment" of an elected president - cartoonish and freaky.

Just watching those two and shaking my head. This is not a game, you ghouls.

COL Schlichter I think has correctly identified the dividing line as normals v others.

It is normal to think that this is not a game and to revere the dead. The others think you are stupid to believe those things.

Posted by: blaster at October 22, 2017 01:45 PM (jHrzU)

186 Uranium to Russia... Seems like small potatoes for the Clintons.

China Tests ICBM With Multiple Warheads
Clinton-era tech transfer aided multi-warhead program

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/
china-tests-icbm-with-multiple-warheads/

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at October 22, 2017 01:45 PM (pvjTE)

187 I thought torties were tricolor (red, white, black hairs) like tabbies, except the hairs are mottled together instead of being in separate patches.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear

Yes, torties is short for Tortoise shell, which is red (orange) black and white, all mottled together. Which is also like calicos.

Had a tortoise shell cat when I was a kid. Very pretty but kind of dumb.
I have a calico now, who is sitting next to my lap top grooming herself, and being very needy today. She is actually a pretty sweet and funny cat.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....outlaw in America at October 22, 2017 01:45 PM (S6Pax)

188
Posted by: Insomniac - Getting Microaggressed on the Daily, Yo! at October 22, 2017 01:42 PM (NWiLs)
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Big Texas sized THANKS to Ben Had for having us!

Posted by: Weasel at October 22, 2017 01:46 PM (HBuMf)

189 Sometimes I wish I could stop you from talking

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at October 22, 2017 01:47 PM (PUmDY)

190 I fail to see the Democrat's strategy in wheeling out certifiable nut jobs like Maxine Waters and Fredericka Wilson

Today is National Nut Day.

Posted by: Moron News Service at October 22, 2017 01:47 PM (DMUuz)

191 Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at October 22, 2017 01:47 PM (PUmDY)

Dude, who are you talking to?

Posted by: Insomniac - Getting Microaggressed on the Daily, Yo! at October 22, 2017 01:47 PM (NWiLs)

192 Sorry not to have come up myself but even if I could get out of the house it's grown increasingly difficult for me to meet and talk to people. Better to think of all the Morons as broad-chested, square-jawed and 29 and all the 'Ettes as saucy, winsome and 29. Y'all are great.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 22, 2017 01:38 PM (gEkg4)

Not exactly considering myself able to talk in a crowd myself, I find it quite easy to move from conversation to conversation. And if I don't have anything to say, I just pull up a chair and listen.

A consensus started brewing last night that we need to meet up more than once a year, so there's talk of another get together of some kind around Austin in the spring. Perhaps you could make that.

Posted by: Country Boy at October 22, 2017 01:47 PM (Jcg9Q)

193 "And Millenials who have a strong sense of irony LOVE
crazy black people in power. They call Waters Auntie Maxine. They
think she is righteous.

Posted by: blaster"

Yep. From what Ive seen, white liberals admire them because they are brave down for the struggle. and not intimated by teh growing Nazi and KKK hordes sweeping the country.The crazier the better. Sane, responsible black like Clarence Thomasn or Thomas Sowell are held in contempt and just house ni**ers, not any better than their conservative Rethuglican masters.

I wish I could say this was sarcasm but it isn't. Libs I know, seemingly rational people outside politics, post this insanity endlessly on Hatebook, one of the reasons I finally bailed out.

Posted by: Ripley at October 22, 2017 01:48 PM (MxEKc)

194 sorry, listening to Elvis Costello

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at October 22, 2017 01:49 PM (PUmDY)

195 "I find their attitude that this is all a game - the making a scandal out of a dead soldier, the overturning/"impeachment" of an elected president - cartoonish and freaky."

Maybe I'm behind the curve, but how did it come to be that Frederica Cowgirl was"on the call" from Trump in the first place? Seems to lead to the conclusion that the bereaved Mom saw an opportunity to score political points for involving the cowgirl in the first place. If so, hard to believe.

Posted by: RM at October 22, 2017 01:50 PM (U3LtS)

196 Gillespie can win VA. Polls have the same biases that undercounted Trump in the runup to Nov 2016.

Once again, turnout is key and I expect that there are more pissed off VA Deplorables that will get off there ass than faux-outraged Trump haters.

Republicans generally are undercounted by 3-5% in Virginia. Trump was undercounted by about 10%.

Gillespie is no Trump, and Trump voters are going to have to go along with GOPe in this one to beat Northam who is a colorless zero.

Posted by: blaster at October 22, 2017 01:50 PM (jHrzU)

197 "I fail to see the Democrat's strategy in wheeling out certifiable nut jobs like Maxine Waters and Fredericka Wilson"

It's an exaggeration of a strategy that seemed to work for Obama. But that dog don't hunt any more. BLM is one of the many things that hurt Hillary, but the shithead Mooks behind all this live in a bubble.

Posted by: Ignoramus at October 22, 2017 01:50 PM (pV/54)

198 Has anyone pointed out that a Little Boy style U235 bomb doesn't require any advanced engineering if you aren't worried about being wasteful? 90% of critical mass and a 25% slice shot by a cannon will do the trick every time.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at October 22, 2017 01:50 PM (60v4h)

199 That was at the Cow Palace, yes?
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 22, 2017 01:43 PM (eXA4G)
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Hey ITC!

Well, aren't all live shows at the Cow Palace?

Posted by: Weasel at October 22, 2017 01:51 PM (HBuMf)

200 Another thing to consider is that if that Ukranian material is passed on by the Russians to one of the rogue states, it's nuclear signature is sufficiently muddled that they can plausibly deny responsibility once Iran/Norks/terrorists use the stuff on the West.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 22, 2017 01:31 PM (eXA4G)

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Ukrainian uranium for Iranians? Insanium.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at October 22, 2017 01:52 PM (/qEW2)

201 The rabbit hole goes deeper and deeper....

IF what this guy says is true, the land the Bundy's were fighting about was part of the Uranium 1 deal.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/ybkoc8nd

Posted by: random ~~lurker~~ commenter at October 22, 2017 01:52 PM (fcxP2)

202 Arc of a Diver, FTW.

How can a guy write that and then write 'Second Hand Lover'?

How much would it suck to be the chick he penned that for?

'Honey. I wrote you a song...'

Posted by: garrett at October 22, 2017 01:53 PM (npPN0)

203 An anti-missile defense system would look pretty good right about now.

From underneath infidel.

Posted by: Some Mo in a van with a Nork Nuke at October 22, 2017 01:53 PM (FhXTo)

204 Clinton and all this.

(Bill) Clinton is still something of a "rock star" with Democrats, because he is widely perceived as being a great success as a President. Prosperity, money making, social policy snookered in, it's all there.
the Long Boom that was launched with the Reagan tax cuts of the early 80's.

This deal with Putin is nothing new for the Clinton +++Schmoooze, do something opaque, pretend it's noble, get the Media to cover for your bullshit and pocket the profits for your own mendacious personal activities. Hookers and blow, and who knows what else. Keeping all the underlings paid off so they don't squeal about what a jerk you are.

In the years to come, Clinton will shuffle off this mortal coil, but then we will have to live with Obama and his endless moralizing bullshit for the rest of our natural lives.

This stuff never ends. It just must be endured.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....outlaw in America at October 22, 2017 01:53 PM (S6Pax)

205 "Will those 60K felons that Terry McAwful restored voting rights for make a difference?"

Only if bussed to the polls and given a voucher for a Happy Meal

But on the bright side, they can all legally buy firearms again, so there's that.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at October 22, 2017 01:54 PM (60v4h)

206 >>Today is National Nut Day.

Let me know when it's Furry, Asymmetrical Ball Day.

Posted by: The Bear at October 22, 2017 01:54 PM (npPN0)

207 Amazing that Winwood and Clapton have had such parallel careers. Both started with British Invasion Bands ( Spencer Davis Group/The Yardbirds) , moved on to seminal rock bands ( Traffic/Cream), joined forces in Blind Faith, and both were introduced to new generations via MTV in the '80's.

Many don't realize that Winwood played the organ on Jimi Hendrix epic "Voodoo Chile."

Posted by: JoeF. at October 22, 2017 01:55 PM (7uYFy)

208 Derek and the Dominos > Cream

Posted by: garrett at October 22, 2017 01:56 PM (npPN0)

209 National Nut Day?

Well, Trump is releasing the JFK assassination files. . . .

Posted by: logprof at October 22, 2017 01:56 PM (GsAUU)

210 Dead nye 76 show at Cow Palace is great stuff

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at October 22, 2017 01:56 PM (PUmDY)

211 I have a great idea!

Let's turn over the world's nuclear weapons to a sooper smart computer which will keep us safe.

-Dr. Forbin

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 22, 2017 01:57 PM (EZebt)

212 Trump releasing JFK files is the ultimate stray voltage.

He must have something planned that they would REALLY hate.

Posted by: blaster at October 22, 2017 01:57 PM (jHrzU)

213 28 GnuBreed yeah the gene-splicing stuff should at least be done on remote wind swept islands like South Georgia just to limit the chances of contamination. And make nuking easier.

What could go wrong with creating a viable version of E. Coli with synthetic DNA. Right?
Posted by: Anna Puma

We have no idea what you are saying.

Posted by: Plum Island Animal Disease Center i] at October 22, 2017 01:57 PM (NDlpU)

214 "Uranium to Russia... Seems like small potatoes for the Clintons.

China Tests ICBM With Multiple Warheads
Clinton-era tech transfer aided multi-warhead program

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous

right. ... or see "Chinagate for Dummies" ... they pushed "multi-polarity" ... as an excuse for selling our tech to China ... which I guess means all the big powers are equal (moral equivalence of China/Russia/US). But again, that is just a cover (imo) for treason. They believe in "Global Governance" ... but under their iron fist, not liberty and justice for all.

Skolkovo helped Russia with their hypersonic missile tech ... also Clintons making that "sale". That show hasn't dropped ... yet.

dailycaller.com/2017/03/21/hillarys-hypersonic-missile-gap/

Posted by: illiniwek at October 22, 2017 01:57 PM (/aIFg)

215 Best NYE Show I have ever seen was a Parliament / P Funk Show.

Absolute madness. Their Halloween shows were even better.

Posted by: garrett at October 22, 2017 01:58 PM (npPN0)

216 The GWAR X-Mas Show I saw was pretty f'n awesome.

They killed Santa and raped Rudolph.

Posted by: garrett at October 22, 2017 01:59 PM (npPN0)

217 Trump releasing JFK files is the ultimate stray voltage.

He must have something planned that they would REALLY hate.

Posted by: blaster at October 22, 2017 01:57 PM (jHrzU)

THIS.

I think Trump is waiting for a little bit more news about Mueller& Co.'s involvement in Uranium One to drop before putting an end to the Russia Hoax Hoax.

Posted by: JoeF. at October 22, 2017 02:00 PM (7uYFy)

218 "Let's turn over the world's nuclear weapons to a sooper smart computer which will keep us safe. "

This!

Posted by: Skynet at October 22, 2017 02:00 PM (bvE6q)

219 Jack Casady of Hot Tuna/Jefferson Airplane played bass. Jimi took a bunch of guys back from the bar to his studio and jammed out the original long Voodoo Chile.

Posted by: Ignoramus at October 22, 2017 02:00 PM (pV/54)

220 >> Jack Casady of Hot Tuna/Jefferson Airplane played bass.

He's an amazing bassist. I have seen a shit ton of Tuna shows and Jack is as good as they get.

Posted by: garrett at October 22, 2017 02:01 PM (npPN0)

221 216 The GWAR X-Mas Show I saw was pretty f'n awesome.

They killed Santa and raped Rudolph.
Posted by: garrett at October 22, 2017 01:59 PM (npPN0)
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I went to HS with David Brockie and was in his first band.

Posted by: Weasel at October 22, 2017 02:01 PM (HBuMf)

222 Yep. From what Ive seen, white liberals admire them because they are brave down for the struggle. and not intimated by teh growing Nazi and KKK hordes sweeping the country.The crazier the better. Sane, responsible black like Clarence Thomasn or Thomas Sowell are held in contempt and just house ni**ers, not any better than their conservative Rethuglican masters.

...

Posted by: Ripley at October 22, 2017 01:48 PM (MxEKc)

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The crazy, loudmouthed ones provide them with the opportunity to virtue signal their support, and to feel that they are part of a struggle themselves. Sowell and Thomas don't give them that opportunity. Non-activists are boring and have their heads in the sand.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at October 22, 2017 02:01 PM (/qEW2)

223 "(Bill) Clinton is still something of a "rock star" with Democrats, because he is widely perceived as being a great success as a President. Prosperity, money making, social policy snookered in, it's all there. "

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The rough edges of His Presidency, among them taking a pass on Bin Laden, are being polished inevitably like stones being smoothed by moving water, and by the gentle caress of MSM kid gloves.

My guess is that our "first black President" - predating Obama - will over time achieve a near mythic status, somewhat similar to the Camelot presidency of JFK.

Posted by: RM at October 22, 2017 02:02 PM (U3LtS)

224 She says she can't go on without a chaperone

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at October 22, 2017 02:03 PM (PUmDY)

225 Takeaway from all this is that Putin, for all his sins, gives a shit about his country and her people, and ruthlessly pursues any course to that end.

Shitheels like Obama, W., and the Clintons don't.

Posted by: logprof at October 22, 2017 02:04 PM (GsAUU)

226 >>I went to HS with David Brockie and was in his first band.

Canada's Greatest Musician.

Posted by: garrett at October 22, 2017 02:04 PM (npPN0)

227 non-proliferation could have worked ... but Clinton let the Norks have them, and Hillary took out Ghadaffi after he agreed to not have them.

And for "we came we saw he died ... chuckle" (Hillary's statement) ... we got Europe flooded with Muslim rapists/jihadists, allegedly a planned sabotage arranged with Soros. PLUS Ghadaffi's arsenal is still floating around Africa, helping Muslims cause turmoil there.

just what these chuckleheads really have in mind? idk, but destruction of the West seems part of their strategy for forcing compliance to their cabal. People with a taste of western liberty must be retrained or destroyed, or replaced.

Posted by: illiniwek at October 22, 2017 02:05 PM (/aIFg)

228 212 Trump releasing JFK files is the ultimate stray voltage.

He must have something planned that they would REALLY hate.

Posted by: blaster at October 22, 2017 01:57 PM (jHrzU)

--Open a tab for this and refresh daily:

http://dystopiausa.com/trumps-storm-tracker-week-2-intensify/

I want to see the Demotards sitting on a castle of shit.

Posted by: logprof at October 22, 2017 02:05 PM (GsAUU)

229 It is what they have. Northam ads in Virginia now are "Trump and Gillespie want to put their Godbothering babies in you!"

I don't get the baby thing, but I do wonder how Gillespie removing his ticketmate, who was African American, from his campaign literature, will affect voter turnout. Maybe it'll make no difference. Or maybe it'll piss off some dems enough to stay home & say screw it...I don't like either candidate.

Posted by: Professor Chaos aka Gumdrop Gorilla at October 22, 2017 02:06 PM (Axa8z)

230 "The crazy, loudmouthed ones provide them with the opportunity to virtue signal their support, and to feel that they are part of a struggle themselves"

Bingo! They think it's kind of edgy, bold, and a bit rebellious for them to assert how great these outspoken, flamboyant leaders are.

Posted by: RM at October 22, 2017 02:06 PM (U3LtS)

231 'I want to see the Demotards sitting on a castle of shit.'

"Castles Made of Shit" was one of those Hendrix tunes that never took off.

Posted by: Dr Zachary Smith at October 22, 2017 02:07 PM (UdKB7)

232 While you see a chance, take it.

--Advice I failed to heed time and time again.

Posted by: logprof at October 22, 2017 02:08 PM (GsAUU)

233
226 >>I went to HS with David Brockie and was in his first band.

Canada's Greatest Musician.
Posted by: garrett at October 22, 2017 02:04 PM (npPN0)
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Also a very talented cartoonist.

Posted by: Weasel at October 22, 2017 02:08 PM (HBuMf)

234 'Honey. I wrote you a song...'
Posted by: garrett at October 22, 2017 01:53 PM (npPN0)

Did he write all his own music?

Posted by: Professor Chaos aka Gumdrop Gorilla at October 22, 2017 02:09 PM (Axa8z)

235 Dion's Donna is kind of great

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at October 22, 2017 02:09 PM (PUmDY)

236 >>Also a very talented cartoonist.

I was very bummed when he OD'd -

RIP, Oderus.

Posted by: garrett at October 22, 2017 02:10 PM (npPN0)

237 #172 "Tortie" sounds like it's short for "tortoiseshell" so I'm guessing that it's got different shades of swirly stripes with the exception of no (pure) white ones.

Posted by: andycanuck at October 22, 2017 02:10 PM (mJ8mX)

238 Ukrainian uranium for Iranians? Insanium.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at October 22, 2017 01:52 PM (/qEW2)

Well paladium.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at October 22, 2017 02:10 PM (tbOMB)

239 I saw the Limp Clintons play at Monica's Cavern back in '63, man.

Posted by: andycanuck at October 22, 2017 02:11 PM (mJ8mX)

240 234 'Honey. I wrote you a song...'
Posted by: garrett at October 22, 2017 01:53 PM (npPN0)

Did he write all his own music?
Posted by: Professor Chaos aka Gumdrop Gorilla at October 22, 2017 02:09 PM (Axa8z)

Actually, I should have said lyrics. Thinking about how Elton John collaborates with Bernie, who writes the lyrics for Elton's music.

Posted by: Professor Chaos aka Gumdrop Gorilla at October 22, 2017 02:11 PM (Axa8z)

241 I always pictured Stevie Winwood as more a keyboard player than guitarist.

Posted by: logprof at October 22, 2017 02:11 PM (GsAUU)

242 Second hand Woman, not Lover...

But, yeah. I think Stevie wrote the bulk of his material.

But I could be completely wrong on that.

Posted by: garrett at October 22, 2017 02:12 PM (npPN0)

243 Ugh - Drudge has pic of 5 presidents and that thing "Lady Gaga".
I know, deep down she's really talented, you just have to get past the demonic nun outfit, the dress made of raw meat, the spirit-cooking -- wait, no, I don't have to get past that freakish crap. She's a great example of what is wrong with Hollywood/MSM/entertainment industry.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 22, 2017 02:12 PM (W+vEI)

244 Anyone else think the Bush's and other Bushbots are in this up to their shit necks?

Posted by: Under Fire at October 22, 2017 02:13 PM (mcI77)

245 #237 Oh, #187 says that but it can include white. Oh, well. Pretty good for a WAG.

Posted by: andycanuck at October 22, 2017 02:13 PM (mJ8mX)

246 >>I always pictured Stevie Winwood as more a keyboard player than guitarist.

He is.

But, he is also a really good guitarist. Not a gunslinger style guitarist. Just a good, honest player.

He could have done some great garage rock if he chose to.

Posted by: garrett at October 22, 2017 02:14 PM (npPN0)

247 I don't get the baby thing, but I do wonder how Gillespie removing his ticketmate, who was African American, from his campaign literature, will affect voter turnout. Maybe it'll make no difference. Or maybe it'll piss off some dems enough to stay home & say screw it...I don't like either candidate.

Northam is the Dem who had his black running mate not appear on some of his flyers.

Its actually regular old Dem constituencies at war. Rich people who have expensive second homes at the Wintergreen Resort don't want a pipeline, and Fairfax (the African American who is running for the Democrat Lt Gov seat) is against the pipeline. There is a union that wants the pipeline, so they said, look, we are paying for this set of flyers (about 1000 out of 1.5M), and we aren't putting Fairfax on there.

But, you know what - THEIR RULES. They are racists for taking the black man off. Northam allowed it, he's a racist. African Americans should be OUTRAGED at Northam.

Posted by: blaster at October 22, 2017 02:14 PM (jHrzU)

248 238 Ukrainian uranium for Iranians? Insanium.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at October 22, 2017 01:52 PM (/qEW2)

Well paladium.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at October 22, 2017 02:10 PM (tbOMB)

Well, plutonium, which is now the lesser of the elements after Pluto was demoted from being a planet. All the other elements look down upon it.

Posted by: Professor Chaos aka Gumdrop Gorilla at October 22, 2017 02:15 PM (Axa8z)

249 Did he write all his own music?
Posted by: Professor Chaos aka Gumdrop Gorilla at October 22, 2017 02:09 PM (Axa8z)

--He did not write "While You See A Chance"

Posted by: logprof at October 22, 2017 02:15 PM (GsAUU)

250 It's not that the Clintons and Obamas don't belong in jail. It's that trying to put them there stops everything else.

Posted by: DaveA at October 22, 2017 02:15 PM (FhXTo)

251 "Lady Gaga".
I know, deep down she's really talented, you just have to get past the demonic nun outfit, the dress made of raw meat, the spirit-cooking "

She was a freaky lay. On the upside consensual quid pro quo.

Posted by: Harvey Winestein at October 22, 2017 02:16 PM (bvE6q)

252 Posted by: blaster at October 22, 2017 02:14 PM (jHrzU)

Ja! Good thing I'm not voting since I mixed up the candidates' names.

Posted by: Professor Chaos aka Gumdrop Gorilla at October 22, 2017 02:18 PM (Axa8z)

253
I went to HS with David Brockie and was in his first band.
Posted by: Weasel at October 22, 2017 02:01 PM

The Creased Trousers

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 22, 2017 02:18 PM (IqV8l)

254 Tear off your own head

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at October 22, 2017 02:19 PM (PUmDY)

255 244 Anyone else think the Bush's and other Bushbots are in this up to their shit necks?
Posted by: Under Fire at October 22, 2017 02:13 PM (mcI77)

Yes.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at October 22, 2017 02:20 PM (tbOMB)

256 I like being at the polls early to give the lib campaign leaflet hander-outers the stink eye.

Posted by: Weasel at October 22, 2017 02:20 PM (HBuMf)

257 251 "Lady Gaga".
I know, deep down she's really talented, you just have to get past the demonic nun outfit, the dress made of raw meat, the spirit-cooking "

She was a freaky lay. On the upside consensual quid pro quo.
Posted by: Harvey Winestein at October 22, 2017 02:16 PM (bvE6q)

--It's in the way she goes ba ba ba ba ba ba, ba ba ba . . .

Posted by: logprof cranking up Henry's Dress at October 22, 2017 02:20 PM (GsAUU)

258 >>I like being at the polls early

...and often!

Posted by: Deomcrat Voter at October 22, 2017 02:21 PM (npPN0)

259 Oh FFS, Russia compares the bombing of Raqqa to Dresden.

Vlad is really depending upon the stupidity of Americans to score a cheap shot. Since it was the Soviet Union that requested RAF Bomber Command and 8th Air Force to strike that city.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at October 22, 2017 12:46 PM (qZSgP)

Russia plays the tit-for-tat game constantly. Some Brit within the past year made a claim that the use of some Russian bomb was a 'war crime'.

I expect the Russians, every time they are given the opportunity to say something, they will.

*returns to building secondary explosive device*

Posted by: Slippery Slope Salesman at October 22, 2017 02:22 PM (EgwCt)

260 I went to HS with David Brockie and was in his first band.
Posted by: Weasel at October 22, 2017 02:01 PM

The Creased Trousers
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 22, 2017 02:18 PM (IqV8l)
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Nuclear Dog Shit.

Posted by: Weasel at October 22, 2017 02:22 PM (HBuMf)

261 t is what they have. Northam ads in Virginia now are "Trump and Gillespie want to put their Godbothering babies in you!"

If you're a hot, ginger ...

Posted by: Jean at October 22, 2017 02:22 PM (u5q7j)

262 I like being at the polls early to give the lib campaign leaflet hander-outers the stink eye.

Posted by: Weasel at October 22, 2017 02:20 PM (HBuMf)

Living in Fairfax county, there are ALWAYS Dems out there with materials. About 1/3 of the time the Republicans even show at my polling places. Maybe less - because I always go out of my way to talk to them and thank them for coming out.

Posted by: blaster at October 22, 2017 02:22 PM (jHrzU)

263 All right, Elvis Costello is some bitter chocolate

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at October 22, 2017 02:23 PM (PUmDY)

264 Posted by: blaster at October 22, 2017 02:22 PM (jHrzU)
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About the same (or worse) in Alexandria.

Posted by: Weasel at October 22, 2017 02:24 PM (HBuMf)

265 212 Trump releasing JFK files is the ultimate stray voltage.

He must have something planned that they would REALLY hate.
Posted by: blaster at October 22, 2017 01:57 PM (jHrzU)
--Open a tab for this and refresh daily:
http://dystopiausa.com/trumps-storm-tracker-week-2-intensify/
I want to see the Demotards sitting on a castle of shit.
Posted by: logprof at October 22, 2017 02:05 PM (GsAUU)

Yup....let's hope the halo comes off that asshole and flushes him and his family further down the shitter.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at October 22, 2017 02:24 PM (nUkMr)

266 Nood. The Best of the Best.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 22, 2017 02:24 PM (hyuyC)

267 I like about 4 Elvis C. albums...a lot of his material is just boring as hell.

I much prefer Joe Jackson.

Posted by: garrett at October 22, 2017 02:25 PM (npPN0)

268 Stevie Winwood even did a gig/album with The Fania All Stars. Salsa super group, in New York, I believe. Many moons ago. Played guitar, Strat if I remember correcctly.

Posted by: chango butt at October 22, 2017 02:25 PM (8elQA)

269 But, you know what - THEIR RULES.

Exactly. If the Republicans had done it, the MSM would still be talking about. Right up until the election.

It'll be interesting. Dems think Obama has the magic touch, and he did for a long time. But he was over the top with his "democracy at stake" line, IMO. That's a little much regarding a Governor's race, from a former president, no? But that's me, hyperbole like that is a red flag. Except for Trump, b/c that's pretty much his style.

Posted by: Professor Chaos aka Gumdrop Gorilla at October 22, 2017 02:26 PM (Axa8z)

270 216 The GWAR X-Mas Show I saw was pretty f'n awesome.

They killed Santa and raped Rudolph.
Posted by: garrett at October 22, 2017 01:59 PM (npPN0)
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With the passing of Oderus Urungus, my dream of a GWAR/Nine Inch Nails Superbowl halftime show is fading.

*le sadz*

Don't look at Oderus read "Goodnight Moon".

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 22, 2017 02:26 PM (qJtVm)

271 Oh, no, gentlemen. I've been assured that pointing out the "de-colorized" campaign brochures would be in bad taste, unsporting, and would backfire on the GOP when it came to light that it was only a tiny fraction of pamphlets that had been censored and not all of them.

Posted by: andycanuck at October 22, 2017 02:27 PM (mJ8mX)

272 One thing about rock and roll hasn't changed.

7 decades in and it's still the devil's music!

Posted by: Meremortal, with hand over heart at October 22, 2017 02:29 PM (3myMJ)

273 blaster

Campaigning for good Republican candidates in Reston was always blast.

The union goons that were at the polling places I was at were always 6'4" to 6'5". No shirtsleeve to hide the biceps or lack of cigarettes. Not sure why they stayed away from me; because I had massive stink-eye at them.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 22, 2017 02:30 PM (hyuyC)

274 259 Oh FFS, Russia compares the bombing of Raqqa to Dresden.

Vlad is really depending upon the stupidity of Americans to score a cheap shot.

Well, can ya blame him? We have continued to parade our stupidity since last year, and notched it up. Putin even did an interview months ago wondering why America was harming itself with our internal machinations.

And I'm sure he saw the West Point grad's "Communism will win" declaration. He won't have to destroy us, we've got a population totally on board.

I know this will be willowed, I saw NOOD, just wanted to get it off my chest.

Posted by: Professor Chaos aka Gumdrop Gorilla at October 22, 2017 02:32 PM (Axa8z)

275 we will have to live with Obama and his endless moralizing bullshit for the rest of our natural lives.
This stuff never ends. It just must be endured.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative....outlaw in America at October 22, 2017 01:53

Well thanks for that depessing thought. You made me realize that may well be the case as I am older than Obozo. Yuck.

Posted by: Farmer - 2017 GNAMM Survivor at October 22, 2017 02:32 PM (yJ1e6)

276 Professor Chaos aka Gumdrop Gorilla

I saw your post. We will prevail. We are the heirs of Americans; carrying the torch to new generations.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 22, 2017 02:34 PM (hyuyC)

277 Does anyone else think 50s Halloween music is very good?

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at October 22, 2017 02:41 PM (PUmDY)

278 #237 Oh, #187 says that but it can include white. Oh, well. Pretty good for a WAG.
Posted by: andycanuck at October 22, 2017 02:13

I'd say. We have a tortie who was feral or lost and had kittens in the nearby woodpile. Brought them in to protect them, got rid of the kitties and kept the cat.

Jules looked up torties and one thing it said was in Scottish folklore a tortie adopting you was good luck. J is mostly Scottish so we are still waiting and waiting...

Posted by: Farmer - 2017 GNAMM Survivor at October 22, 2017 02:44 PM (yJ1e6)

279 Thanks, Farmer. I'll try to remember that a tortie befriending you is good luck in Scotland.

Posted by: andycanuck at October 22, 2017 02:55 PM (mJ8mX)

280 The FBI is threatening their confidential informant if he talks to Congress. Stinking corrupt rats.

They are investigating Trump's non-existent Russian Collusion out of self-defense, trying cover-up their own actual Russian Collusion.

Much is made of Bill's half millon-dollar speech. But his personal best was the speech he gave to Ericsson, the Swedish Telecom giant. They wanted Iran Sanctions Relief from the State Dept. and suddenly developed an irresistible urge to pay Bill Clinton $750,000 for a speech. They got their relief--and the Mullahs got their cellphone tracking technology to spy on the Iranian people. Because #Resistance! #$till $he Per$i$ted!

Hillary has tried to hide behind the bureaucracy, claiming that the deal was approved by the Bureau of Weights and Measures, the Census Bureau and the night janitor at State. It's a farce, but it only proves Andy MacCarthy's point--the entire Obama Administration was neck-deep in the debacle.

But why?

The Clintons and Obama are both politically and financially corrupt. But the Clintons lean more towards the financial end, whereas Obama worships politics. And the final word was Obama's.

She wanted her precious money, but Obama needed Russia's help in building Iran's nuke plants, providing the uranium and the anti-aircraft defenses and most importantly, providing the political cover Obama needed to pass his Pre-Emptive Unconditional Surrender. She got what she wanted, he got what he wanted, as did Putin and the Ayatollah.

And Mueller, Rosenstein and Comey helped cover it up.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at October 22, 2017 03:03 PM (Ndje9)

281 *returns to building secondary explosive device*

This neutron reflector is giving me no end of grief.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at October 22, 2017 03:12 PM (60v4h)

282 To me, and I stand to be corrected, the oddest thing about this is that Russia has larger uranium deposits than the US. So what is really happening? Are they trying to buy up all the uranium in the world? Are we just mining uranium for the Russians so they don't have to? Why? Is it merely easier to access in the USA? Very strange.

Posted by: Thomas LaBelle at October 22, 2017 03:18 PM (tkbug)

283 282 To me, and I stand to be corrected, the oddest thing about this is that Russia has larger uranium deposits than the US. So what is really happening? Are they trying to buy up all the uranium in the world? Are we just mining uranium for the Russians so they don't have to? Why? Is it merely easier to access in the USA? Very strange.
Posted by: Thomas LaBelle at October 22, 2017 03:18 PM (tkbug)

Well, I don't think they're trying to corner the market on Uranium, or they'd be buying up my in-laws village in Portugal, which sits on Uranium deposits. Which also had a facility to mine for it.
I wonder if it was a way to get some control over a national security resource, and a way to funnel restricted materials to unsavory actors. I think Putin would love to savor the irony of a NorK nuke flash burning LA made by American uranium.

Posted by: Iblis at October 22, 2017 03:55 PM (9221z)

284 Bringing up all of these important topics is kind of racist, don't ya think. And then adding in things like sciency kind of stuff like uranium is definitely a slam against our former fearless bower. It's racist crap to think that the Clinton foundation would have anything to do with racism or treason, racists!

Posted by: goon at October 22, 2017 05:52 PM (EaQ6/)

285 Maxine Waters: 'I Will Go and Take Trump Out Tonight'

Why isn't Paul Ryan condemning and censuring Retarded Cowgrrrl and Maxine Waters?

Posted by: Under Fire at October 22, 2017 06:31 PM (mcI77)

286 The senate judiciary committee is starting an investigation. Ok. How about the house intelligence committee? How about the justice department? Where is the special prosecutor? What I have to come to grips with is that the congress...all of them...KNEW about this and they did nothing about it...unranium to Russia...kickbacks to Clinton and her husband...they knew and they did nothing. Why? The only answer is that they are complicit. They wanted Russia to get the uranium. They wanted the money to go to the Clintons. Why? They want Russia to send the uranium to Iran. Why? They want America to fail. What the heck else are we supposed to think?

Posted by: harriedandhopeless at October 22, 2017 07:28 PM (Y1Oht)

287
Since shortly after the end of WWII the U.S. formalized in very clear terms that a nuclear attack on the United States by the U.S.S.R. would result in mutual assured destruction. When the Iron Curtain collapsed, there seemed to be a void as to what should follow especially for third world threats.

Post 9/11 seemed the appropriate time to establish a clear U.S. policy for the 21st century regarding rogue nations toying with WMDs and terrorists who were proxies for hostile nation states. A missed opportunity. One wonders how things would have evolved if Bush dropped a tactical nuclear weapon on either Kandahar or Tora Bora, and made it clear that any future proxy nation supporting terrorist would suffer the same fate.

Posted by: Levin at October 22, 2017 11:42 PM (PNwAd)

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