The Morning Rant

"I read that Neil Gorsuch sided with the progressives in a SCOTUS ruling on immigration law, to much disappointment. And some conservatives, especially the NeverTrumpers, are snarking 'But Gorsuch!' as if this is somehow means that Trump's decision to nominate Gorsuch was poor. But let me remind them: Neil Gorsuch was on any number of conservative short lists for SCOTUS, even before Trump became a serious player in national politics. So if, say, President Cruz or President Walker had appointed him, would they be flinging poo at them, too?"

Stupidest Award Ever:

The New York Times shares the Pulitzer in National Reporting with The @WashingtonPost for coverage that unearthed possible ties between Russia and President Trump’s inner circle https://t.co/l4rodIjHy3
— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 16, 2018

Good heavens. The award was for reporting on "possible ties between Russia and President Trump's inner circle." Not anything definite, mind you, but merely 'possible'. This is not that far from being given a participation trophy.

The New Face Of Christianist H8:

Denmark to Sweden: "You Icebacks Are All a Bunch of Politically Correct Soy-Boys":

Danes making fun of Sweden’s soaring crime & SJW antics. Great sketch.
pic.twitter.com/HyFqtMhZA7
— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) April 17, 2018

The takedown is pretty savage. Apparently, Sweden is so deep in denial that even their Scandi neighbors are starting to notice.

Probably The Most Disgusting Photo On The Internet Right Now:
I was in a perverse mood when I was putting this rant together, so yes, you can click on the photo to see the full-sized version and confirm that Slick Willie's flag is at half mast. So to speak.

Remember: this guy used to be the president of the United States.

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never enough caffiene- (3/10/18 ) Please add my stepdaughter Amy and grandkids Emma and Ryan to the list. They are dealing with the changes in their lives from an impending divorce. Emma has been deeply effected due to ongoing severe anxiety issues.
thathalfrican- (3/10/18 ) Mother's Passing. Prayers for the Family.
Sharkman- (3/11/18 ) Little Danica Jane, my buddy's two-year old niece who is about to have her second brain surgery in the last few months to try to stop an incredibly aggressive brain tumor.
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Poor little thing has had 3 months of chemo and radiation after her first surgery in November of 17.
chavez the hugo- (3/12/18 ) Wife's Cousin was killed on his Harley. Wife's Mother is also slowly going blind.
GGE of the Moron Horde- (3/21/18 ) I've already mentioned my niece on the ONT, she's 5 months old now and has infant leukemia. She's gone through the first round of chemo and it looks like she's in remission, however she still has to do the second round of chemo and a bone marrow transplant before she can be called fully cured. And now for the second person. My mother was diagnosed with breast cancer on Friday. I know it's a highly treatable and survivable form of cancer, it looks like it was caught early and she's in otherwise excellent health.
Dennis- (3/21/18 ) 79 Y.O. Dad fell again and couldn't walk for several days (too many beers) after a trip to the ER. Now back in hospital again with low oxygen levels and some pneumonia. Too many years smoking. So pray for my mother who has to put up with her stubborn husband and that hopefully she will be able to care for him when he gets home.
joeindc44- (3/21/18 ) My father is undergoing a severe COPD episode, including pneumonia and and lung embolism, after breaking his hip. He could use some prayer time so that he stays strong and pulls through this.
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Jane D'oh- (4/17/2018 ) Family and friends of a church friend of hers and his family. He died after being in hospice with liver failure.
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Sulla- (4/17/2018 )Needs prayers for blessing and healing for his dad who is waiting for results from a medical test, after having gone through cancer before..
ibguy- (4/17/18 ) My Baby Sister Joyce has an inoperable glioblastoma (brain tumor). Although we've been remarkably blessed by an extra year with her, it appears that her fight for life has taken a downturn. She seems to be failing more rapidly now, and the oncologist is recommending hospice. Would appreciate Horde prayers that her journey be as pain-free and dignified as possible.
Some Guy In Texas- (4/17/18 ) I thought I'd send you a follow-up to my prayer request from 2 months ago. The little girl in question has an inoperable brain tumor. It always hits little kids, and it is 100% of fatal within 12 to 18 months of diagnosis. The tumor effects physical functioning and so the child loses the ability to walk and communicate by speech. It's terrible to watch her decline.
Because it is a rare cancer there's not a lot of research into it. Also since there is no possible surgical solution I think it gets overlooked even more. Having said that, there is a research program at Sloan-Kettering where one very dedicated doctor has developed some very promising therapies. I don't know that the ultimate outcome will be any different but the child's life may be extended and her physical condition improved so that her quality of life may be very improved. The happy news is that she has been accepted as a test subject for the study. And so she and her family have and much brighter outlook and hope than they had before. So, to that extent, prayers have definitely been answered. Thanks for the prayers, horde
An anonymous poster (4/17/18 ): A friend from high school lost his daughter to cancer. She was diagnosed three weeks after getting married, and died 6 months later. Parents should not outlive their children. Pray, please, for consolation and peace of mind for her parents and widower, and the repose of the soul of dear Adeline.

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Posted by: OregonMuse at 11:25 AM

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1

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at April 18, 2018 11:17 AM (mPeei)

2 nd

Posted by: DeploraBOT at April 18, 2018 11:18 AM (y3aQB)

3 Nicolas Gomez Davila on Modernity:

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The criterion of "progress" between two cultures or two eras consists of
a greater capacity to kill.

The word "modern" no longer has an automatic prestige except among fools.

Clarity of text is the sole incontrovertible sign of the maturity of an
idea.

To tolerate does not mean to forget that what we tolerate does not
deserve anything more.

The left claims that the guilty party in a conflict is not the one who
covets another's goods but the one who defends his own.

Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal.

Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from
touching the walls of his dungeon.

The modern world demands that we approve what it should not even dare
ask us to tolerate.

====

Shamelessly stolen from Ann Barnhardt ( posted in Uncategorized on April 18, ARSH 2018 ).

https://www.barnhardt.biz

Posted by: Off the reservation at April 18, 2018 11:18 AM (vWMNq)

4 I identify as First, so you all have pretend like I am, even if there is someone above me.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at April 18, 2018 11:18 AM (mk7Bj)

5 top 75!!

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at April 18, 2018 11:18 AM (KxbBq)

6 Up there in teh comments!

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 18, 2018 11:19 AM (8iiMU)

7 Put that Times Pulitzer in the lobby. It'll look good right next to mine.

Posted by: Zombie Walter Duranty at April 18, 2018 11:19 AM (O5Q3r)

8 speaking of prayers, can I beg for one today.
been feeling poorly since the weekend
I believe it is "female troubles" since I am reaching that age
*sigh*

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at April 18, 2018 11:19 AM (hMwEB)

9 I read the content. *sniff!*

Posted by: johnd01 at April 18, 2018 11:19 AM (ukNFU)

10 In before... ...something.

Posted by: Hikaru at April 18, 2018 11:20 AM (9TK8E)

11 How can The Morning Rant come after the Mid-Morning Thread?

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 18, 2018 11:21 AM (f41Sg)

12 Missed it by *that* much.

Posted by: Off the reservation at April 18, 2018 11:21 AM (vWMNq)

13 Every time I see a picture of rapey Bill, I want to vomit. Better men than he have died recently. Nasty bastards like him seem to live on and on.

God bless my sweet friend whose husband we laid to rest on Monday.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 18, 2018 11:21 AM (ptqGC)

14 Old drunk with his fly open? Must have friends in high places.

Posted by: Burger Chef at April 18, 2018 11:21 AM (RuIsu)

15 I'm just going to hang out here without contributing anything worthwhile.

And use the restroom.

Posted by: Non-Paying Commenter at April 18, 2018 11:22 AM (djCea)

16 11 How can The Morning Rant come after the Mid-Morning Thread?
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 18, 2018 11:21 AM (f41Sg)

Pacific Time.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair Magazine at April 18, 2018 11:22 AM (DXfIG)

17 Time for some pocket pool!
Bill Clinton

Posted by: steevy at April 18, 2018 11:22 AM (LiyEm)

18 Don Colacho Davila was among the 20th century 's great prophets. Moldbug and Auster were fans too.

Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at April 18, 2018 11:22 AM (coDYy)

19 I don't understand why Denmark is considered "Scandinavian." It's a peninsula north of Germany.

Posted by: JAS at April 18, 2018 11:22 AM (sCN2W)

20 I believe it is "female troubles" since I am reaching that age
*sigh*
Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at April 18, 2018 11:19 AM (hMwEB)

I wonder if it says more about me or about the horde at large that I instinctively glanced at the nick to see if it was, in fact, an 'ette.

Posted by: hogmartin at April 18, 2018 11:22 AM (y87Qq)

Posted by: Muad'dib at April 18, 2018 11:23 AM (sjdRT)

22 The award was for reporting on "possible ties between Russia and President Trump's inner circle. "

It's also "possible" that the Clintons had Seth Rich, Vince Foster, and countless other people killed. Where's my Pulitzer Prize?

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 18, 2018 11:23 AM (+lVUW)

23 Billy Jeff sez he and his lovely wife offer their condolences to the Bush family.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 18, 2018 11:23 AM (ptqGC)

24 Those chick's outfits and their frosted hair give off a whiff of 'trashy' to me.

NTTAWWT.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at April 18, 2018 11:23 AM (8iiMU)

25 that video is hilarious
*puts Denmark on visit list*
*crosses out Sweden*

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at April 18, 2018 11:23 AM (hMwEB)

26 sorry votermom.

Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at April 18, 2018 11:23 AM (coDYy)

27 Dammit.

Posted by: Muad'dib at April 18, 2018 11:23 AM (sjdRT)

28 NY Times got a Pulitzer for reporting how great Joseph Stalin was too.

Posted by: steevy at April 18, 2018 11:23 AM (LiyEm)

29 Late-morning Rant?

Posted by: JAS at April 18, 2018 11:23 AM (sCN2W)

30 19 Vikings (danegeld).

Posted by: Off the reservation at April 18, 2018 11:24 AM (vWMNq)

31 I'm having a hard time reading the subtitles on the Denmark/Sweden thing.

Posted by: grammie winger - at April 18, 2018 11:24 AM (lwiT4)

32 From late in the last thread.

Didn't Native Americans give Europeans the clap in return?

Fun fact, we don't know exactly why Gonorrhea is called the clap, but one theory is based on an old method of treatment. Apparently they thought emptying the penis of pus and discharge would help, so they would smash Mr Happy between two heavy books to do so.

Please Clap!

Posted by: bonhomme at April 18, 2018 11:24 AM (iv0p7)

33 Aren't those gals a little old for Slick Willy?
Guess he has to make due now that Epstein's pedo island has been torched, er, had a weather-related fire...

Posted by: Lizzy at April 18, 2018 11:24 AM (W+vEI)

34 Yeah, even my cab driver was giving me shit over the Pulitzer thing. Then he gave me his in depth analysis of US-Syrian relations. Look for my column Friday.

Posted by: Tom Friedman at April 18, 2018 11:24 AM (O5Q3r)

35 I hear this is a racist site. I'm here for free coffee!!!

Posted by: Low Plains Grifter at April 18, 2018 11:25 AM (IqV8l)

36 "they would smash Mr Happy between two heavy books to do so. please clap!"

leaving them low-energy, no doubt

Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at April 18, 2018 11:25 AM (coDYy)

37 I thought Barb Bush's comment to W about why he turned out the way he did was hilarious. "Because I drank and smoked when I was pregnant with you."

Heh.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 18, 2018 11:25 AM (ptqGC)

38 Fun fact, we don't know exactly why Gonorrhea is called the clap, but one theory is based on an old method of treatment. Apparently they thought emptying the penis of pus and discharge would help, so they would smash Mr Happy between two heavy books to do so.

Please Clap!

Posted by: bonhomme at April 18, 2018 11:24 AM (iv0p7)

And this explains why the clap never spread much when all writing was etched on tablets.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 18, 2018 11:26 AM (f41Sg)

39 1 Hillary Clinton

Ah, the really scary one has arrived. A great Old One from the outer cosmos.

Everyone make a saving throw for sanity.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 18, 2018 11:26 AM (hyuyC)

40 **shrugs**

The Post got a Pulitzer for "Jimmy's World," too. The award has as much cachet as a Nobel Prize.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 18, 2018 11:26 AM (kqsXK)

41 35
I hear this is a racist site. I'm here for free coffee!!!

Posted by: Low Plains Grifter at April 18, 2018 11:25 AM (IqV8l)

Off to Starbucks with you.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 18, 2018 11:26 AM (jxbfJ)

42 I wonder if it says more about me or about the horde at large that I instinctively glanced at the nick to see if it was, in fact, an 'ette.
Posted by: hogmartin at April 18, 2018 11:22 AM (y87Qq)

*slaps hogmartin*
how dare you sir!!!
*cries in bathroom*

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at April 18, 2018 11:26 AM (hMwEB)

43 especially the NeverTrumpers,

-
Speaking of Never Trumpers, didja see that after another round of layoffs, Glenn Beck is now trying to see his private jet? In a lot of ways, I like and admire Beck and I consider him to be honest but the Hildebeest over Trump stuff was just a bridge to far. (Yeah, I know, he said he was against Hillz, too.)

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 18, 2018 11:26 AM (+y/Ru)

44 I identify as First, so you all have pretend like I am, even if there is someone above me.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at April 18, 2018 11:18 AM

1. What are your preferred pronouns?

2. As SJW_St. Marcie Bianco has taught us, the patriarchal race to claim "First!" is just another example of male entitlement.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 18, 2018 11:27 AM (ctuyM)

45 31 I'm having a hard time reading the subtitles on the Denmark/Sweden thing.
Posted by: grammie winger - at April 18, 2018 11:24 AM (lwiT4)

I think there are two sets of sub-titles in that video. Just concentrate on the set that is not so faint, and you should get the gist of it.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair Magazine at April 18, 2018 11:27 AM (DXfIG)

46 I hear this is a racist site.

Posted by: Low Plains Grifter at April 18, 2018 11:25 AM (IqV8l)

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Probably my fault...

because "Chinaman"

Posted by: RioBravo at April 18, 2018 11:27 AM (5NMZN)

47 I like and admire Beck and I consider him to be
honest but the Hildebeest over Trump stuff was just a bridge to far.
(Yeah, I know, he said he was against Hillz, too.)

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 18, 2018 11:26 AM (+y/Ru)

I believe he was Team Egg McMuffin.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 18, 2018 11:27 AM (ptqGC)

48 I was just reading that in Norway, it's common to refer to criminal activity as "Swedish conditions."

Not that Norway is that much better, but still.

Posted by: T at April 18, 2018 11:27 AM (MmeCn)

49 I don't understand why Denmark is considered "Scandinavian." It's a peninsula north of Germany.

Posted by: JAS
...........
As far as I can tell.. The whole Scandinavian peninsula was originally populated from Denmark northward.. Sweden wasn't even Sweden until around 1700. The Danes were the original Norse peoples.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at April 18, 2018 11:28 AM (so+oy)

50 IMPETIGO FOADDY-FI!!!

Posted by: Mad Maxine's wighat at April 18, 2018 11:28 AM (8TdcF)

51 4 I identify as First, so you all have pretend like I am, even if there is someone above me.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at April 18, 2018 11:18 AM (mk7Bj)

Well.... I'm a victim of the Public School system.... I actually read the content...

So, as a Victim, you must not only give me First Status, but also apologize.

Posted by: Don Q. at April 18, 2018 11:28 AM (NgKpN)

52 I think there are two sets of sub-titles in that
video. Just concentrate on the set that is not so faint, and you should
get the gist of it.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair Magazine at April 18, 2018 11:27 AM (DXfIG)
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Okie doke.

Posted by: grammie winger - at April 18, 2018 11:28 AM (lwiT4)

53 I hear this is a racist site. I'm here for free coffee!!!
Posted by: Low Plains Grifter at April 18, 2018 11:25 AM (IqV8l)

The coffee is over there on the RS-232 port. The one with the DB25 connector.

Help yourself.

Posted by: DR.WTF? at April 18, 2018 11:28 AM (T71PA)

54 I'm having a hard time reading the subtitles on the Denmark/Sweden thing.
Posted by: grammie winger - at April 18, 2018 11:24 AM (lwiT4)

It's clever, but you can pretty much imagine what it's saying and you'll be right.

"Do we have a description of the perpetrator?"
"An eyewitness described a... person."

and so on.

Posted by: hogmartin at April 18, 2018 11:28 AM (y87Qq)

55 Prayers up for everyone on the list and for those who have needs but aren't on the list for whatever reason.

Posted by: Lily(Twinkies ((please don't play like a bunch of wimmin this year)) Superfan) AoSHQ assassin in th at April 18, 2018 11:28 AM (KOWQ6)

56 doggeh trying to cheer me up by wrestling

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at April 18, 2018 11:28 AM (hMwEB)

57 John Roberts was also on the highly approved conservative short list before he was nominated.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2018 11:28 AM (s9DTK)

58 Please Clap!
Posted by: bonhomme at April 18, 2018 11:24 AM

Ahem.

Posted by: Jeb! at April 18, 2018 11:28 AM (ctuyM)

59 Ya, I am reminded of the muppets Swedish Chef's 'bif stew' skit where the Chef gets mugged by a gang of vegetables.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse - at April 18, 2018 11:28 AM (roQNm)

60 I was wearing a watch when I asked if they wanted to my clock so no harm no foul.

Posted by: Bill in Chappaqua at April 18, 2018 11:28 AM (JHwDP)

61 Smashing your junk with a brick will take your mind off your venereal disease.

Posted by: steevy at April 18, 2018 11:29 AM (LiyEm)

62 reposting something I put in the morning thread about Gorsuch's decision, because I think it's important to understand what he is driving at:

235 The ThinkProgress article on Gorsuch had to have been written by someone with strong ties to the legal community, because they actually "got" what he was doing with that opinion. You have to remember that Supreme Court level opinions are about principles, and the actual case being decided is at best, trivial. Gorsuch's reasoning had nothing to do with immigration at all, that was just the vehicle used to put his ideas into a majority opinion, which can be cited as precedent in the future.

One of Gorsuch's career long judicial goals is to limit, and maybe eventually overturn, the case known as Chevron vs NRDC (1984), commonly referred to as Chevron. This is one of the most often-cited cases in the Supreme Court when regulatory power is in question. Chevron held, basically, that when Congress rights a statute that is open to interpretation (ie, is vague) then the appropriate Federal Agency has been delegated the power to interpret that Statute as they see fit, and that their interpretation will be binding in the Courts, just as binding as if Congress had actually written the law that way.

The "Chevron" case allowed the Federal Bureaucracy to make a huge power grab over the last 30 years - you could say with justification that the Bureaucracy has gained more power in the last 30 years than it had gained in the previous 200, all thanks to "Chevron."

I think you can start to see where Gorsuch was going by saying that a law that was "too vague" needs to be struck down, and not just allow the bureaucrats to interpret it as they see fit.

And to add: The biggest blind spot of the 4 traditional "conservatives" on the SCOTUS is that they're just fine with the Feds running everything, as long as it's run the way they like. Gorsuch may be the only member of the current Court who actually believes in limiting the Bureaucracy's power.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 18, 2018 11:29 AM (k1TUh)

63 Sell his private jet

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 18, 2018 11:29 AM (+y/Ru)

64 46 I hear this is a racist site.

Posted by: Low Plains Grifter at April 18, 2018 11:25 AM (IqV8l)

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Probably my fault...

because "Chinaman"
Posted by: RioBravo at April 18, 2018 11:27 AM (5NMZN)

Actually???? It started a day or two after the 'Great Eskimo Controversy'....

Posted by: Don Q. at April 18, 2018 11:29 AM (NgKpN)

65 The Clinton photo is funny, but let he who has never found out his zipper's been open half the day cast the first stone.

Posted by: MW at April 18, 2018 11:29 AM (wNx6K)

66 I'd like to watch whatever show that video is from

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at April 18, 2018 11:29 AM (hMwEB)

67 Not that Norway is that much better, but still.

Posted by: T at April 18, 2018 11:27 AM (MmeCn)
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Scenery-wise, Rev says Norway is breathtaking. Sweden is meh.

Posted by: grammie winger - at April 18, 2018 11:29 AM (lwiT4)

68 Is Slick Willie hanging out at St. Bart's now, hoping to pick up lunch time pedestrians?

Posted by: Huck Follywood, never liked coyotes at April 18, 2018 11:29 AM (LISuA)

69 47
I like and admire Beck and I consider him to be

honest but the Hildebeest over Trump stuff was just a bridge to far.

(Yeah, I know, he said he was against Hillz, too.)

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 18, 2018 11:26 AM (+y/Ru)

I believe he was Team Egg McMuffin.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 18, 2018 11:27 AM (ptqGC)

He of all people should have seen the writing on the wall regarding the anti-establishment movement which brought Trump to the WH.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 18, 2018 11:29 AM (jxbfJ)

70 Nice to see that Slick Willy (a) couldn't rise to the occasion as the flossy young blondes walked by; and (b) seems to have a Dunlop problem over his belt.

Now as for Justice Gorsuch--it is an eminently conservative position to refuse to enforce vague laws. Yes he sided with the progressive side of the Court on the result--but his reasoning was impeccable. You can't put lipstick on a pig--and he will not enforce vague laws. There's a reason--all you have to do is look at the unchecked rampage of Mueller & Co wandiering all over the landscape and about three zillion miles away from their initial remit, which was to investiage Russian collusion with the Trump campaign. Having been able to find any such, they are wandering around like a rogue torpedo seeking to destroy anything they touch.

Posted by: Comanche Voter at April 18, 2018 11:29 AM (Sda6L)

71 Willowed:

votermom, one in that series. This one: https://preview.tinyurl.com/y7nr9n64

Posted by: dagny at April 18, 2018 11:29 AM (CAKgV)

72 Hip-hop singer Kendrick Lamarr also got a Pulitzer.
I am afraid to look at the lyrics that earned that.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 18, 2018 11:30 AM (W+vEI)

73 Which one of you young ladies wants to rub my bollard?

Posted by: William Jefferson Clintoris at April 18, 2018 11:30 AM (2Mnv1)

74 The coffee is over there on the RS-232 port. The one with the DB25 connector.

Help yourself.

Posted by: DR.WTF? at April 18, 2018 11:28 AM (T71PA)

That's like a techie old-geezer comment

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 18, 2018 11:30 AM (f41Sg)

75 *slaps hogmartin*
how dare you sir!!!
*cries in bathroom*
Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at April 18, 2018 11:26 AM (hMwEB)

*leaves chocolate by the door*
*backs away slowly*

Posted by: hogmartin at April 18, 2018 11:30 AM (y87Qq)

76 Cathy McMorris-Rogers(RINO SCRUNT-WA) won't rule out running for SOH when 'wonderful' Paul Ryan leaves at the end of the year.

I'm listening to this establishment puke scrunt on a local radio interview.

Posted by: Under Fire at April 18, 2018 11:30 AM (r9UYA)

77 37 I believe he was Team Egg McMuffin.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 18, 2018 11:27 AM (ptqGC)

Yeah, he helped push Egg, because, well, Mormon.

Posted by: Hikaru at April 18, 2018 11:31 AM (9TK8E)

78 67
Not that Norway is that much better, but still.

Posted by: T at April 18, 2018 11:27 AM (MmeCn)
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Scenery-wise, Rev says Norway is breathtaking. Sweden is meh.

Posted by: grammie winger - at April 18, 2018 11:29 AM (lwiT4)

At one time I wanted to see Sweden, as I have great-grandparents who immigrated to the US from there in the early 1900s. Came here and invented a parachute harness.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 18, 2018 11:31 AM (jxbfJ)

79 >
*leaves chocolate by the door*

*backs away slowly*

Posted by: hogmartin at April 18, 2018 11:30 AM (y87Qq)

You forgot the wine. Never forget the wine.

Posted by: Muad'dib at April 18, 2018 11:31 AM (sjdRT)

80
Why am I a "prisoner" in a dungeon?

Is it because I belong to a species unique on the planet? Should I feel guilt or gratitude for this?

Posted by: irongrampa at April 18, 2018 11:31 AM (S/hVx)

81
For some kind of vegan eater Slick Willy has quite the gut. So bad it's pushing his zipper half-way down.

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at April 18, 2018 11:31 AM (LOgQ4)

82 The video is great at mocking PC and Sweden's censorship of all data that implicates they have an immigrant-related crime problem, not a generic crime problem.

Fits in with Morrisey's recent rant. Heh.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 18, 2018 11:31 AM (W+vEI)

83 That's like a techie old-geezer comment
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 18, 2018 11:30 AM (f41Sg)

Yeah, and get off my lawn!

Posted by: DR.WTF? at April 18, 2018 11:32 AM (T71PA)

84 "NY Times got a Pulitzer for reporting how great Joseph Stalin was too.

Posted by: steevy

exactly. Pulitzers are for "Best Propaganda" on behalf of the commie left. Covering up the Ukraine starvation of 6 to 10 million, Duranty got the Pulitzer.

The coverup of the Clinton Foundation sellout of America (billions, not millions) was broadly orchestrated across the DNC, MFM, FBI ... and probably CFR and various international banks (HSBC always at the center of money laundering suspicions).

They are really serious about this Global Governance thing, and the oligarchs have been meeting for decades as they have grown the Hale Hydra type structure, woven right into the fabric of the DC bureaucracy and the Wall Street conglomerates. They even give out Pulitzers for advancing their cause.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 18, 2018 11:32 AM (bT8Z4)

85 Scenery-wise, Rev says Norway is breathtaking. Sweden is meh.
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Only been to Oslo (in Norway) but I agree it's breath taking. You can go for a walk in pretty much any direction from downtown and be in spectacular countryside within a half hour.

Sweden is pretty darn nice too, but (obviously) I am darn glad my family had the smarts to leave the crazies behind and move to America.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, never liked coyotes at April 18, 2018 11:32 AM (LISuA)

86 Diversity is not pretty.

Facebook Suspends Jamie Glazov After Reporting Physical Threat of Violence by a 'Religion of Peace' Member

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 18, 2018 11:33 AM (+y/Ru)

87 if you go to the twitterlink it actually is a response to this article

politico.eu article

https://preview.tinyurl.com/yctbv8x8

Sweden's violent reality is undoing a peaceful self___
Shootings have become so common that they don't make top headlines anymore.

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at April 18, 2018 11:33 AM (hMwEB)

88 I think Bill Clinton eats Viagra like pez

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2018 11:33 AM (39g3+)

89 I'm having a hard time reading the subtitles on the Denmark/Sweden thing.
Posted by: grammie winger - at April 18, 2018 11:24 AM (lwiT4) (y87Qq)

Also the gender-neutral pronoun du svenska is apparently "hen", so... y'know, be sure to pepper your everyday speech with that so everyone knows how down you are with the struggle or whatever.

Posted by: hogmartin at April 18, 2018 11:33 AM (y87Qq)

90 Slick Willie's douche, but doesn't he look vulnerable in this photo. I mean one of the girl is reaching into her back pocket for her cell phone. What if it was a gun?

Posted by: JoeF. at April 18, 2018 11:34 AM (7uYFy)

91 self- i m a g e

jeez

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at April 18, 2018 11:34 AM (hMwEB)

92 I think Bill Clinton eats Viagra like pez

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Prolly has a pussy shaped Viagra dispenser.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 18, 2018 11:34 AM (+y/Ru)

93 I mean one of the girl is reaching into her back pocket for her cell phone. What if it was a gun?
Posted by: JoeF. at April 18, 2018 11:34 AM (7uYFy)

only the GOOD die young

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 18, 2018 11:35 AM (5y11N)

94 Hip-hop singer Kendrick Lamarr also got a Pulitzer.

Yeah to me that's even more ridiculous and outrageous than WaPo/NYT for their dumb Russia Russia Russia story. Whatever value the Pulitzer once had, its slouched into utter crap territory like every other award on earth these days.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2018 11:35 AM (39g3+)

95 When he were in Copenhagen several years ago attending a convention, we visited Sweden twice. Once, took the train to Malmo because.....well, it didn't yet have the dangerous reputation it does now.

It was an interesting afternoon. The local high schools (gymnasiums they call them) had just had their graduations, and a large number of parents were parading through town driving classic American convertibles with their kids riding and drinking beer.

Later that week, we took the train to the pretty village where our Swedish student and his family lived. Very pretty, but riding the train through the countryside we were shocked at the amount of graffiti everywhere.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 18, 2018 11:35 AM (ptqGC)

96 we'll need to post a guard over that wine and chocolate offering before Shep comes by to steal it all.

Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at April 18, 2018 11:35 AM (coDYy)

97 Poo-flinging is by nature, indiscriminate.

Posted by: Burger Chef at April 18, 2018 11:36 AM (RuIsu)

98 Fix The Vag

https://www.gofundme.com/5f84o6w

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at April 18, 2018 11:36 AM (h/uSM)

99 I mean one of the girl is reaching into her back pocket for her cell phone. What if it was a gun?

"At this point we're frankly hoping"
--Secret Service

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2018 11:36 AM (39g3+)

100 >>Sweden's violent reality is undoing a peaceful self___
Shootings have become so common that they don't make top headlines anymore.

Also has had the highest rape stats for years, to the point that it may have surpassed shithole countries in Africa.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 18, 2018 11:36 AM (W+vEI)

101 just call it the Walter Duranty Award.

Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at April 18, 2018 11:36 AM (coDYy)

102 Posted by: grammie winger - at April 18, 2018 11:29 AM (lwiT4)
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Yeah yy Dad (RIP) went there on vacation many many moons ago looking for the start of his family & any surviving family members & my Dad loved to take pictures. even as a teenager I thought they were amazing

Posted by: DeploraBOT at April 18, 2018 11:36 AM (y3aQB)

103 I have a friend here who emigrated from Denmark, and they remember that until the Napoleonic Wars ended it, Denmark and Norway were part of the same kingdom for centuries. Up until that point, they spoke the same language.

He showed me a video, quite popular in both Norway and Denmark, made by a Norwegian, demonstrating that the difference between the two languages today is that modern Danish is what Norwegian sounds like when spoken by a falling down drunk.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 18, 2018 11:36 AM (k1TUh)

104 Good heavens. The award was for reporting on "possible ties between Russia and President Trump's inner circle." Not anything definite, mind you, but merely 'possible'. This is not that far from being given a participation trophy.
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You know what? I think this is worse than a participation trophy. At least if you get a participation trophy, that means you participated.

This is an award for going down a rabbit hole that led to a dead end.

Posted by: bluebell at April 18, 2018 11:36 AM (oMtOd)

105 Slick Willie's douche, but doesn't he look vulnerable in this photo. I mean one of the girl is reaching into her back pocket for her cell phone. What if it was a gun?
Posted by: JoeF. at April 18, 2018 11:34 AM (7uYFy)

Where's Slick's Secret Service posse?

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair Magazine at April 18, 2018 11:36 AM (DXfIG)

106 Castro-Loving, Cop-Hating Colin Kaepernick Makes Waves by Comparing Himself to Civil Rights Icon Jackie Robinson

Yeah, Colin is trying to break the color barrier in the NFL or, as I call it, the NFKKK.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 18, 2018 11:37 AM (+y/Ru)

107
Hip-hop singer Kendrick Lamarr also got a Pulitzer.
I am afraid to look at the lyrics that earned that.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 18, 2018 11:30 AM

Laura Ingraham was reading some of it this morning.

MF ho n word btch etc.

Lovely stuff.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2018 11:38 AM (IqV8l)

108 You know what? I think this is worse than a participation trophy. At least if you get a participation trophy, that means you participated.

This is an award for going down a rabbit hole that led to a dead end.
Posted by: bluebell at April 18, 2018 11:36 AM (oMtOd)

Yes. I'm thinking now it's more like Obama getting the Nobel Peace Prize for, essentially, doing nothing.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair Magazine at April 18, 2018 11:38 AM (DXfIG)

109 I hope the Starbucks employees are enjoying their day of re-education.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 18, 2018 11:38 AM (ptqGC)

110 Shootings have become so common that they don't make top headlines anymore.

They had a string of bombings recently that lasted more than a month, at least one a day. They're still going on, but less frequent; once every few days. Almost no press coverage. No response by government. They're being done by people who they do not admit can be doing bad.

Their entire government is made up of young progressive women. I'm not even joking. The Swedes did this to themselves. They want it.

Also has had the highest rape stats for years, to the point that it may have surpassed shithole countries in Africa.

"We exported all our rapists to Sweden"
--Somalia

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2018 11:39 AM (39g3+)

111 As far as I can tell.. The whole Scandinavian peninsula was originally populated from Denmark northward.. Sweden wasn't even Sweden until around 1700. The Danes were the original Norse peoples.

The Swedes (svear) are mentioned in Beowulf and were a major power in the 17th century. Finland was a province of Sweden for centuries, and Norway was basically under Swedish control for quite awhile as well. Historically Sweden and Denmark have been the two big boys in the Baltic.

All the Scandinavian countries, except Finland, speak a variant of Old Norse, a Northern Germanic Language. Germans speak High German, an offshoot of the West German language family, which also includes English and Dutch. The East German language family (Gothic, Lombardian, etc.) has died out.

Posted by: Grey Fox at April 18, 2018 11:39 AM (bZ7mE)

112 >Yes. I'm thinking now it's more like Obama getting the Nobel Peace Prize for, essentially, doing nothing.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair Magazine at April 18, 2018 11:38 AM (DXfIG)

That was when I learned that Nobel prizes were aspirational.

Posted by: Muad'dib at April 18, 2018 11:39 AM (sjdRT)

113
*defers to the 'ettes*

The YSL bag, real, or knock-off? If Mrs. H were here, her radar would inform me.

See, this is the kind of stuff you notice when you're married.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 18, 2018 11:39 AM (5OO3x)

114 Today April 18th marks the anniversary of then Lt Col Jimmy Doolittle's raid by 16 B-25B Mitchell bombers of Japan.

:t Col Richard "Dick" Cole who was Doolittle's co-pilot at 101 years of age is the last surviving Raider.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at April 18, 2018 11:39 AM (Qlx4e)

115 The Swedes are just making up for their Viking Privilege of two millennia ago.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at April 18, 2018 11:40 AM (pw+jk)

116 68 Is Slick Willie hanging out at St. Bart's now

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ISWYDT

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at April 18, 2018 11:40 AM (hMwEB)

117 Yes. I'm thinking now it's more like Obama getting the Nobel Peace Prize for, essentially, doing nothing.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair Magazine at April 18, 2018 11:38 AM (DXfIG)
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exactly!

Posted by: bluebell at April 18, 2018 11:40 AM (oMtOd)

118 All the Scandinavian countries, except Finland, speak a variant of Old Norse

Finnish is like no other language on earth, its just bizarre They're so isolated and distant from anything that they sort of developed an alien culture and language.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2018 11:40 AM (39g3+)

119 This goes next to the Duranty award, right?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 18, 2018 11:40 AM (5OO3x)

120 It must also be pointed out the other justices did not think it this particularly case was vague.

I acknowledge Gorsuch does .

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2018 11:41 AM (s9DTK)

121 Sweden has an assault hand grenade problem too.

Time to ban the ones with the pin that comes out.

Posted by: Roy at April 18, 2018 11:41 AM (7n4KQ)

122 iirc Tacitus noted Swedish river pirates in his Germania.

Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at April 18, 2018 11:41 AM (coDYy)

123 Obama Calls Trump 'Dip-Sh*t'

No wonder the man is known as a rhetorical genius.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 18, 2018 11:41 AM (+y/Ru)

124 The left, while always crazy, is going positively kooky.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at April 18, 2018 11:41 AM (pw+jk)

125
Good heavens. The award was for reporting on "possible ties between Russia and President Trump's inner circle." Not anything definite, mind you, but merely 'possible'.

I won a gold medal in The Possibly Athletic Olympics

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at April 18, 2018 11:42 AM (lKyWE)

126 yo, Finnish is Uralic. close to Estonian, distantly to Hungarian and Mantsy.

Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at April 18, 2018 11:42 AM (coDYy)

127 Tom Brokaw fondly recalls Barbara Bush not liking Rick Perry:

https://tinyurl.com/ya4wfjkv

(Newsbusters)

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 18, 2018 11:42 AM (ptqGC)

128 Finnish is like no other language on earth, its just bizarre They're so isolated and distant from anything that they sort of developed an alien culture and language.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2018 11:40 AM (39g3+)

They're elves, or dwarves, or something. Maybe trolls?

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at April 18, 2018 11:42 AM (hMwEB)

129 "Chevron held, basically, that when Congress rights a statute that is
open to interpretation (ie, is vague) then the appropriate Federal
Agency has been delegated the power to interpret that Statute as they
see fit, and that their interpretation will be binding in the Courts,
just as binding as if Congress had actually written the law that way." Tom Servo

very interesting. thanks for that.

makes a lot of sense, from the leftist view, that they can overrule the people once they get control of SCOTUS. Of course they are already on the path of doing that. Congress gets to keep their lifetime jobs by just being vague and doing the Kabuki, while always serving other interests.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 18, 2018 11:43 AM (bT8Z4)

130 The NYT got their Pulitzer reprinting DNC press releases. Great work if you can get it.

Posted by: Northernlurker at April 18, 2018 11:43 AM (xeLVf)

131 The actual most disgusting picture on the internet is the one of Bill Clinton with his arm around a 13 year old girl standing on Jeffrey Epstein's Lolita Express aircraft getting ready to take off for pedo Island.

Posted by: Sharkman at April 18, 2018 11:43 AM (0oDnb)

132 The award was for reporting on "possible ties between Russia and President Trump's inner circle." Not anything definite, mind you, but merely 'possible'.

Its a possibility Kate Upton might kiss me

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2018 11:43 AM (39g3+)

133 Heinlein's Crazy Years, we've been in them since 2008.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at April 18, 2018 11:43 AM (pw+jk)

134 Zipper down is a victimless crime.

Posted by: PeeWee Herman at April 18, 2018 11:43 AM (Oga5o)

135 See, this is the kind of stuff you notice when you're married.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 18, 2018 11:39 AM (5OO3x)
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I didn't even notice there was s YSL bag in the photo. You're a very good student.

Posted by: bluebell at April 18, 2018 11:43 AM (oMtOd)

136 This meeting with North Korea was bought about by Presdent Obama's policies and now Trump wants the credit. Thank You Presdent Obama and we love you.

Posted by: Mary Clogginstien from Brattleboro, VT at April 18, 2018 11:44 AM (qM84C)

137 Their entire government is made up of young progressive women. I'm not even joking. The Swedes did this to themselves. They want it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2018 11:39 AM (39g3

Imagine what a country would be like if it were run by the women's studies department at any major American university and it'd be Sweden.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair Magazine at April 18, 2018 11:44 AM (DXfIG)

138 Perfect Finnish name for Gaylord Merkin Focker the Wurst

Hurttinen-hosuja : the dog chaser

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at April 18, 2018 11:44 AM (Qlx4e)

139 Finnish is like no other language on earth, its just bizarre They're so isolated and distant from anything that they sort of developed an alien culture and language.

Estonian is a very closely related language, actually. As close as English and Scots, I think.

Posted by: Grey Fox at April 18, 2018 11:45 AM (bZ7mE)

140 106 Castro-Loving, Cop-Hating Colin Kaepernick Makes Waves by Comparing Himself to Civil Rights Icon Jackie Robinson

Yeah, Colin is trying to break the color barrier in the NFL or, as I call it, the NFKKK.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 18, 2018 11:37 AM (+y/Ru)

That would be the proud Army veteran Jackie Robinson?

Posted by: josephistan at April 18, 2018 11:45 AM (7HtZB)

141 Imagine what a country would be like if it were run
by the women's studies department at any major American university and
it'd be Sweden.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair Magazine at April 18, 2018 11:44 AM (DXfIG)

Imagine Moochelle as president. We'd be South Africa.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 18, 2018 11:45 AM (ptqGC)

142 Obama Calls Trump 'Dip-Sh*t'

No wonder the man is known as a rhetorical genius.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 18, 2018 11:41 AM

Faked.

BuzzFeed adds, “As the video soon reveals, the man speaking is not the former commander-in-chief, but rather Oscar-winning filmmaker Jordan Peele with a warning for viewers about trusting material they encounter online.”

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at April 18, 2018 11:45 AM (LOgQ4)

143 -
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yo, Finnish is Uralic. close to Estonian, distantly to Hungarian and Mantsy.

Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at April 18, 2018 11:42 AM

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Oooh! I'm feeling kinda Mantsy!

Posted by: Shep! at April 18, 2018 11:45 AM (pMGkg)

144 Mary is angling for a job at CNN, NYT, ABC, or the WAPO.

She will get multiple offers.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at April 18, 2018 11:45 AM (pw+jk)

145 For what it's worth, I don't like former Democrat Rick Perry either. Another guy who became a multi millionaire while in office. Unfortunately he is all we had to choose from for Governor so I voted for him every time.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2018 11:45 AM (s9DTK)

146 Imagine what a country would be like if it were run by the women's studies department at any major American university and it'd be Sweden.

Yeah that's pretty much it in a nutshell. Its amazing to behold.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2018 11:46 AM (39g3+)

147 Finnish Troll:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfBtn2cUsMyEau4PZYAPPPg

Posted by: Off the reservation at April 18, 2018 11:46 AM (vWMNq)

148 >>This is an award for going down a rabbit hole that led to a dead end.

Given that it was the NYT and the WaPo, both of which were briefed on the dossier by Steele and knew it was bogus all along, I'm going to go with lying.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2018 11:46 AM (/tuJf)

149 Finnish is like no other language on earth, its just bizarre They're so isolated and distant from anything that they sort of developed an alien culture and language.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2018 11:40 AM (39g3+)

I've heard that the closest language Finnish resembles is Turkish, or Mongolian, or something equally improbable. I mean, how does that even happen?

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair Magazine at April 18, 2018 11:46 AM (DXfIG)

150 HYATTSVILLE, Md. - Seven students at an elementary school in Prince George's County cut their wrists at school using blades from pencil sharpeners, according to officials.

Officials with Prince George's County Public Schools said a concerned parent at William Paca Elementary School in Hyattsville came forward on March 29 and an investigation was launched.

It was revealed that the students used blades out of pencil sharpeners to cut themselves, officials stated.

https://preview.tinyurl.com/yb7n7lo6

Posted by: Under Fire at April 18, 2018 11:46 AM (r9UYA)

151 137 Their entire government is made up of young progressive women. I'm not even joking. The Swedes did this to themselves. They want it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2018 11:39 AM (39g3

I remember a photo of a Swedish govt delegation visiting some Middle East country (Iran?)
They were all in veils.
Coz female empowerment. LOL

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at April 18, 2018 11:47 AM (hMwEB)

152
Finnish is like no other language on earth, its just bizarre They're so
isolated and distant from anything that they sort of developed an alien
culture and language.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2018 11:40 AM (39g3+)

They got some wicked metal bands though. You're right though, the language sounds pretty strange. There was one band I was hanging with, and their english was pretty good, but as soon as they switched to their native language it sounded like a machine language of single syllable pops and hiccups. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at April 18, 2018 11:47 AM (aMlLZ)

153
HYATTSVILLE, Md. - Seven students at an elementary school in Prince
George's County cut their wrists at school using blades from pencil
sharpeners, according to officials.

I guess it's time for a national conversation about pencil sharpeners.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 18, 2018 11:47 AM (ptqGC)

154 Danes!
Tak.

Posted by: LASue at April 18, 2018 11:48 AM (Z48ZB)

155 It is time for common sense pencil sharpener control.

How many of our precious children have to die?

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at April 18, 2018 11:48 AM (pw+jk)

156 Congress gets to keep their lifetime jobs by just being vague and doing the Kabuki, while always serving other interests."

This is why it was such a Big Deal that the Dep't of Education was pushing Title IX nonsense and transgender bathroom rights. Thanks to the "Chevron" precedent, they were well on their way to making transgender bathroom rights fully functioning law without Congress ever having had a say in it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 18, 2018 11:48 AM (k1TUh)

157 I guess it's time for a national conversation about pencil sharpeners.

Common sense pencil sharpener control NOW!!!

Posted by: tu3031 at April 18, 2018 11:48 AM (O5Q3r)

158 Geraghty today reacting to the news North and South Korea are sitting down to end their more than 50 years of war:

"It's easy to forget Reagan and Gorbachev negotiated for years over multiple summits, with lots of setbacks, roadblocks and gradual progress. Anyone think Trump and Kim are willing to do the same?"

The guy can't even be glad at good news.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2018 11:48 AM (39g3+)

159

GREENCASTLE, Ind. (WTHR) - Students concerned about racist messages left on the DePauw University campus disrupted a lecture by actress Jenna Fischer Tuesday night.

About 20 minutes into the program, someone blew a whistle and a group of about 200 African-American students began to talk. An Eyewitness News producer who was at the event said they spoke of racial injustice and not feeling safe on campus.

Fischer, a Fort Wayne native who used to star on NBC's "The Office," was moved by what she was seeing and hearing and didn't stop the protest. She was back in Indiana to speak about her new book, "The Actor's Life: A Survival Guide."

DePauw administrators said in a tweet Tuesday night that police and campus safety officials are investigating racist messages written in campus restrooms and in the DePauw Nature Park, where someone formed the "n-word" in rocks in the park. Officers were also investigating "offensive behavior" exhibited by a student.

A homophobic and anti-Semitic message was also found in a restroom.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2018 11:49 AM (IqV8l)

160 "This is an award for going down a rabbit hole that led to a dead end. Posted by: bluebell

ha ...or for leading the people down the dark alley, where the get mugged. The "JournoListas" always walk away with a little reward for "serving the public" up to the thugs. (it's a cookbook)

Posted by: illiniwek at April 18, 2018 11:49 AM (bT8Z4)

161 "With Jesus I can make it"-a Brooklyn Tabernacle devotional:

https://tinyurl.com/y7o2csz8

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2018 11:49 AM (tpDAe)

162 Where's Slick's Secret Service posse?

Just over his left shoulder I see a guy in a dark suit with sunglasses. On the far right of the photo I see the back of a left hand, probably pedo Bill's other handler.

Posted by: bonhomme at April 18, 2018 11:49 AM (iv0p7)

163 I've heard that the closest language Finnish resembles is Turkish, or Mongolian, or something equally improbable. I mean, how does that even happen?

Imagine that the Chinese take over the Eurasian continent, and everything from France to Pakistan ends up speaking a variant of Chinese over a couple thousand years. All of a sudden, the closest relative to English is Hindi...

Posted by: Grey Fox at April 18, 2018 11:50 AM (bZ7mE)

164 I have a friend here who emigrated from Denmark, and they remember that
until the Napoleonic Wars ended it, Denmark and Norway were part of the
same kingdom for centuries. Up until that point, they spoke the same
language.

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One of the dittys I grew up with was: "A thousand Swedes ran through the weeds, chased by one Norwegian.'

Posted by: mustbequantum at April 18, 2018 11:50 AM (MIKMs)

165 There's no good reason for anyone to have a pencil sharpener. We need to ban mail order pencil sharpeners and build bright colorful bins with Cookie Monster on them for people to deposit their evil pencil sharpeners in.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2018 11:50 AM (39g3+)

166 I call bullshit.

Who the fuck actually says "But Gorsuch!"

I don't know of one single Trump supporter who thinks Trump's only single conservative move was Gorsuch.

Posted by: Froderick Wonkensteen at April 18, 2018 11:50 AM (+dsLj)

167 I've heard that the closest language Finnish resembles is Turkish, or
Mongolian, or something equally improbable. I mean, how does that even
happen?

I heard Korean. How does it happen ? ... wandering about ... my father-in-law's uncle walked that distance in 3 years (siberia to latvia) after the war (he was deported by the soviets ... evidently to a camp with no fences).

Posted by: Off the reservation at April 18, 2018 11:51 AM (vWMNq)

168 Final trailer for Jurassic World 2 is out.

Looks like they're going with the 'dinosaurs reclaim the Earth' route.

And you know what, that may actually make a good third movie if they time skip enough ahead.

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at April 18, 2018 11:51 AM (72PAC)

169 Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2018 11:49 AM (IqV8l)

I tend to think graffiti is highly likely to be a hoax since it usually turns out to be. Now, I'm automatically suspicious.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2018 11:51 AM (tpDAe)

170 Another thing Trump should do, reinstate ending Secret Service protection for ex-Presidents.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at April 18, 2018 11:51 AM (Qlx4e)

171 What company makes these pencil sharpeners?

Posted by: Hogg at April 18, 2018 11:51 AM (r9UYA)

172 DePauw administrators said in a tweet Tuesday night that police and campus safety officials are investigating racist messages written in campus restrooms and in the DePauw Nature Park, where someone formed the "n-word" in rocks in the park. Officers were also investigating "offensive behavior" exhibited by a student.

A homophobic and anti-Semitic message was also found in a restroom.

All of which were painted by members of the group that stood up to disrupt the speech being made.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2018 11:52 AM (39g3+)

173 On the far right of the photo I see the back of a left hand, probably pedo Bill's other handler.
Posted by: bonhomme at April 18, 2018 11:49 AM (iv0p7)

It's just a shape against the background of the window though. You can't really tell much from a little silhouetto of a hand.

Posted by: hogmartin at April 18, 2018 11:52 AM (y87Qq)

174 I find it hilarious that the Danish cop in the video uses the word "pussy-whipped." No translation needed.

Posted by: fly gal at April 18, 2018 11:52 AM (8TdcF)

175 Jurassic World 3: Gojira!

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at April 18, 2018 11:52 AM (Qlx4e)

176 147 Finnish Troll:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfBtn2cUsMyEau4PZYAPPPg
Posted by: Off the reservation at April 18, 2018 11:46 AM (vWMNq)

Nah, definitely an elf

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at April 18, 2018 11:52 AM (hMwEB)

177
In b4 Increase Mather!

Posted by: Soothie at April 18, 2018 11:53 AM (mQ2Jz)

178 Who the fuck actually says "But Gorsuch!"

Nevertrumpers who had no response to Gorsuch being nominated and hated that.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2018 11:53 AM (39g3+)

179 Imagine Moochelle as president. We'd be South Africa.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 18, 2018 11:45 AM (ptqGC)

The necklaces would definitely be a thing.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair Magazine at April 18, 2018 11:53 AM (DXfIG)

180 The fuck names their daughter Kimba?

Posted by: Eli Cash at April 18, 2018 11:53 AM (a+WIL)

181 They got some wicked metal bands though. You're right though, the language sounds pretty strange. There was one band I was hanging with, and their english was pretty good, but as soon as they switched to their native language it sounded like a machine language of single syllable pops and hiccups. lol

If you want a good way of comparing how different languages sound, go on youtube and find translations of Disney films into various languages. Same dialogue, different languages.

Posted by: Grey Fox at April 18, 2018 11:53 AM (bZ7mE)

182 I've heard that the closest language Finnish resembles is Turkish, or

Mongolian, or something equally improbable. I mean, how does that even

happen?

I heard Korean. How does it happen ? ...
wandering about ... my father-in-law's uncle walked that distance in 3
years (siberia to latvia) after the war (he was deported by the soviets
... evidently to a camp with no fences).

Posted by: Off the reservation at April 18, 2018 11:51 AM (vWMNq)

Finnish folk metal band with lyrics. I'm not sure I can pronounce a single word of this stuff. lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKYErDT6srM

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at April 18, 2018 11:54 AM (aMlLZ)

183 Tom Brokaw fondly recalls Barbara Bush not liking Rick Perry:

https://tinyurl.com/ya4wfjkv

(Newsbusters)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 18, 2018 11:42 AM (ptqGC)

That mumbling fool has reached "crazy uncle to not let around the children at Thanksgiving" status.

Posted by: Captain Hate at April 18, 2018 11:54 AM (y7DUB)

184 EPA and Greenpeace would be conflicted over the burning tyre necklaces.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at April 18, 2018 11:54 AM (Qlx4e)

185 Melania will attend the Babs Bush funeral.

Posted by: Under Fire at April 18, 2018 11:54 AM (r9UYA)

186 Looks like they're going with the 'dinosaurs reclaim the Earth' route.

"Hey it worked for Planet of the Apes, even though those movies were dumb as hell!"
--Universal Studios exec

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2018 11:54 AM (39g3+)

187 I have received a Nobel Prize for creativity due to the the best fake name ever "Carlos Danger"

Posted by: Anthony Weiner at April 18, 2018 11:54 AM (DErdz)

188 They're elves, or dwarves, or something. Maybe trolls?

I'm listening to The Silmarillion on my commute.
(I know NEEEEEEEEEEERD!!)

Having read and listened to the King James Bible all my life, I'm surprisingly comfortable with the language. My brain's even pinging on occasional words Tolkien used that should have been other words or phrases.

"mostly" is one example I can think of off the top of my head should have been "in the main part" or something similar.

Posted by: bonhomme at April 18, 2018 11:54 AM (iv0p7)

189 168 Final trailer for Jurassic World 2 is out.

Looks like they're going with the 'dinosaurs reclaim the Earth' route. "

Let me guess, they develop intelligence, and then they build giant mechanical tripods that roam the earth hunting down the humans with laser cannons? But in the end they're killed by the common cold?

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 18, 2018 11:54 AM (k1TUh)

190 where someone formed the "n-word" in rocks in the park.

Wow. That's would be some real wild Nazi level stuff going on. Words spelled out in rocks. Next up- swear words written in beach sand.

Ridiculous. Even I believed that it wasn't a false flag. And I don't.

Posted by: LASue at April 18, 2018 11:54 AM (Z48ZB)

191 Waiting for Barbara Bush passing to become about me.

Posted by: FLOTUS 44 at April 18, 2018 11:55 AM (JHwDP)

192 Tee hee hee

Posted by: Gal Gadot at April 18, 2018 11:55 AM (DErdz)

193 also, according to FOX news, the entire island of PR is experiencing a blackout. Will PDT be blamed for this failure?

Posted by: Under Fire at April 18, 2018 11:56 AM (r9UYA)

194 Letter from DeSantis et al in Congress to DOJ referring all of your favorite cartoon characters for criminal investigation, including Her Thighness. With a statement noting that Rosie should be cut out of the process of any prosecution, for obvious reasons.

All obvious, all outstanding, and all long over-due.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 18, 2018 11:56 AM (QDnY+)

195 176 Nah, definitely an elf

Evidently you missed her "about" page:

Nationalist, traditionalist, white advocate, atheist. Let's piss everyone off.

Or her twitter handle: angryswan

She and her boyfriend (engaged, IIRC) spend much of their time trolling Antifa rallies in Oulu.

Posted by: Off the reservation at April 18, 2018 11:56 AM (vWMNq)

196 Might as well be speaking Norse code.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2018 11:56 AM (IqV8l)

197 Apparently in Australian, a kimba is a bush fire. But also a girl's name plus the name of a male lion in a bunch of Disney movies and merchandise.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at April 18, 2018 11:56 AM (Qlx4e)

198 In many ways this is the story of Barack Obama

Posted by: MSM reporter on the passing of Barbara Bush at April 18, 2018 11:56 AM (DErdz)

199 Melania will attend the Babs Bush funeral.

Posted by: Under Fire at April 18, 2018 11:54 AM (r9UYA)

If Moochelle is there, I'm imagining Melania receiving the sideways Death Stare she gave the French first lady.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 18, 2018 11:56 AM (ptqGC)

200 he fuck names their daughter Kimba?
Posted by: Eli Cash at April 18, 2018 11:53 AM (a+WIL)

Sounds like something from "The Lion King"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2018 11:56 AM (tpDAe)

201 why, are elfs leftist?
I just meant she's pretty

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at April 18, 2018 11:57 AM (hMwEB)

202 166 I call bullshit.
Who the fuck actually says "But Gorsuch!"
Posted by: Froderick Wonkensteen at April 18, 2018 11:50 AM (+dsLj)

To name two:

Matt Walsh (blogger and contributor for various online publications)
John Podhoretz (Commentary magazine editor)

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair Magazine at April 18, 2018 11:57 AM (DXfIG)

203 Another thing Trump should do, reinstate ending Secret Service protection for ex-Presidents.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at April 18, 2018 11:51 AM (Qlx4e)

I heartily second that. But IIRC, the dog-eating crackhead arranged things so that can't be done.

O/T, I suddenly feel very sad and I don't know why. **shrugs**

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 18, 2018 11:57 AM (kqsXK)

204 I wasn't aware that Bill Clinton was into threesomes. I can't imagine him in a bathrobe with a bottle of lotion.

Posted by: mercenary13 at April 18, 2018 11:57 AM (gA232)

205 190 where someone formed the "n-word" in rocks in the park.
I remember how great that episode of M*A*S*H was when we said goodbye to Spearchucker. I felt it was terribly derivative to repeat the scene in the finale.

Posted by: Alan Alda at April 18, 2018 11:58 AM (Oga5o)

206 votermom, one in that series. This one: https://preview.tinyurl.com/y7nr9n64
Posted by: dagny at April 18, 2018 11:29 AM (CAKgV)

lovely

have you any pics of your previous embroidery projects?

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at April 18, 2018 11:58 AM (hMwEB)

207 200 he fuck names their daughter Kimba?
Posted by: Eli Cash at April 18, 2018 11:53 AM (a+WIL)

Sounds like something from "The Lion King"
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2018 11:56 AM (tpDAe)

You may be thinking of that old Japanese cartoon 'Kimba the White Lion.'

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair Magazine at April 18, 2018 11:58 AM (DXfIG)

208 The fuck names their daughter Kimba?

Kimbo Slice fan who had a baby girl?

Posted by: bonhomme at April 18, 2018 11:58 AM (iv0p7)

209 Another thing Trump should do, reinstate ending Secret Service protection for ex-Presidents.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at April 18, 2018 11:51 AM (Qlx4e)

This. Every single one of our former presidents leaves office as a multi-millionaire, if they weren't one before coming into office. Let them pay for their own security.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 18, 2018 11:59 AM (ptqGC)

210 Nordic elves aren't the same as the ones we think of today. They were nasty, awful, mean creatures, sometimes hideous.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2018 11:59 AM (39g3+)

211 per wiki

Wood was born in Port Townsend, Washington, and was named for the small town of Kimba, South Australia, which her mother saw in an atlas

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at April 18, 2018 11:59 AM (hMwEB)

212 I have a dog named Simba...

Posted by: RioBravo at April 18, 2018 11:59 AM (5NMZN)

213 *ack*

Simba and Kimba. Good gravy my mind slipped a gear.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at April 18, 2018 11:59 AM (Qlx4e)

214 Posted by: Tom Servo at April 18, 2018 11:29 AM (k1TUh)

Tom, I would very much like you to be correct here, but I just have no confidence that a future ruling against vague laws on a case that significantly hurts the progressive cause is ever going to come.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at April 18, 2018 12:00 PM (mk7Bj)

215 Looks like they're going with the 'dinosaurs reclaim the Earth' route.

-
So Hill will run again in 2020.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 18, 2018 12:00 PM (+y/Ru)

216 I didn't even notice there was s YSL bag in the photo. You're a very good student.
Posted by: bluebell
--------------

A very reluctant student.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 18, 2018 12:00 PM (y3sT9)

217 Ah did not have sex with that Kimba woman.

Posted by: Willy Clintoon at April 18, 2018 12:00 PM (vtcmf)

218 204 I wasn't aware that Bill Clinton was into threesomes.

Posted by: mercenary13 at April 18, 2018 11:57 AM (gA232)

Really? That isn't much of a stretch for him, wouldn't you think?

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair Magazine at April 18, 2018 12:00 PM (DXfIG)

219 Who names their kid Kimba? The kind of parent that lets their kid choose their gender.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2018 12:01 PM (39g3+)

220 Kimba plays the marimba.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2018 12:01 PM (IqV8l)

221 NBC named for the US market Tezuka's white lion Kimba because their first idea, Simba, was a black power drink at the time.

Tezuka only named him Leo.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at April 18, 2018 12:01 PM (Qlx4e)

222 I wasn't aware that Bill Clinton was into threesomes.

Yeah I would guess that he wouldn't want witnesses.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2018 12:01 PM (39g3+)

223
he fuck names their daughter Kimba? Posted by: Eli Cash at April 18, 2018 11:53 AM (a+WIL)

Sounds like something from "The Lion King"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2018 11:56 AM (tpDAe)

The weird part is she was born in 1944. WTH was thinking of names like that in 1944?

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at April 18, 2018 12:01 PM (lKyWE)

224 This. Every single one of our former presidents leaves office as a multi-millionaire, if they weren't one before coming into office.
---------

Possible exception: Harry Truman

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 18, 2018 12:02 PM (y3sT9)

225 >>204 I wasn't aware that Bill Clinton was into threesomes.

Not with them. Too old.

Posted by: Clenis at April 18, 2018 12:02 PM (r9UYA)

226 http://www.nola.com/traffic/index.ssf/2018/04/nerves_of_steel_she_calmly_lan.html#incart_m-rpt-2

Tammie Jo Shults bio info.

T-2, A-7, F/A-18 pilot.

Posted by: MachiasPrivateer at April 18, 2018 12:02 PM (EMi53)

227 I wasn't aware that Bill Clinton was into threesomes.

Ultimately, Bill Clinton is only making love to himself.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 18, 2018 12:02 PM (oVJmc)

228 180 The fuck names their daughter Kimba?

Posted by: Eli Cash at April 18, 2018 11:53 AM (a+WIL)

Somebody with Rhotacism.

Posted by: Hikaru at April 18, 2018 12:03 PM (9TK8E)

229 Doesn't Kimba makes handguns?

Posted by: Under Fire at April 18, 2018 12:03 PM (r9UYA)

230 WTH was thinking of names like that in 1944?

Her parents were the original beatniks.

Posted by: Willy Clintoon at April 18, 2018 12:03 PM (vtcmf)

231 Kimberley is an Aussie city name that would also make a good name for a daughter. So close...

Posted by: RioBravo at April 18, 2018 12:03 PM (5NMZN)

232 HYATTSVILLE, Md. - Seven students at an elementary school in Prince George's County cut their wrists at school using blades from pencil sharpeners, according to officials.

So what? Surely we're not judging these youngsters' choices in personal ~~self-mutilation~~ body modification?

We obviously need new elementary school classes, one for combatting the social onus of cutting, and another to teach them "proper" cutting techniques, and the difference between down versus across the tracks.

Posted by: mindful webworker says ew at April 18, 2018 12:03 PM (ATv6t)

233 "Macron announces plan to import up to 200 million Africans and turn Europe into 'Eurafrica'."

Write off the entire continent.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2018 12:03 PM (39g3+)

234 I never knew her but my grandma was Swedish.

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at April 18, 2018 12:04 PM (hMwEB)

235 The Pulitzer for spreading a rumor.

Print media just sucks.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 18, 2018 12:04 PM (0tfLf)

236 Seems the margins are blown.

Lucky margins.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 18, 2018 12:04 PM (kqsXK)

237 I thought her name was Kumbaya Woods.

Posted by: Joe Biden at April 18, 2018 12:04 PM (JHwDP)

238 NBC named for the US market Tezuka's white lion Kimba because their first idea, Simba, was a black power drink at the time.

He doesn't look very much like a lion to me, either. Not my favorite art style.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2018 12:04 PM (39g3+)

239
This. Every single one of our former presidents leaves office as a
multi-millionaire, if they weren't one before coming into office. Let
them pay for their own security.
=====

From my admittedly flawed recollection, Truman was the only one who was really 'poor' by DC standards and there were some breakins at his home after he left office ( also see assassination attempts). As much as I can disagree with some of his decisions, he did not leave wealthier and truly tried to be an honest broker.

Posted by: mustbequantum at April 18, 2018 12:04 PM (MIKMs)

240 Afternoon y'all.

Prayers up for those on the list and those who have unspoken requests. Much love and blessings for you all.

Hugs to you MP4, I hope the sadness passes. That happens from time to time, and with the news cycle perpetually on ""On Noes Eleventy!!11", it's hard not to let the constant negative screeds get under one's skin. Grab a cup of tea and a healthy snack and sit outside for a few minutes, if you can.

As for a government run by women...if it were 'ettes, I would be all for it. The ladies here have sense, and organizational skillz (I'm lookin' at you bluebell." We could get things done, keep things going, and still be home to make our husbands or significant others happy. Because we have genuine love in our hearts for our own families, and others.

The women in those various studies groups don't really love others. They don't give a fig for other peoples wellbeing-they just pretend they do. And there you have Germany and Sweden. Two places I do not want to visit, much less live in.

Posted by: moki at April 18, 2018 12:05 PM (V+V48)

241 Write off the entire planet.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2018 12:05 PM (IqV8l)

242 233 "Macron announces plan to import up to 200 million Africans and turn Europe into 'Eurafrica'."

Write off the entire continent.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2018 12:03 PM (39g3+)

It's already Eurabia as it is.

Posted by: Hikaru at April 18, 2018 12:05 PM (9TK8E)

243 Posted by: MachiasPrivateer at April 18, 2018 12:02 PM (EMi53)

does blowing the margins get an emBarreling or just twenty lashes?

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at April 18, 2018 12:05 PM (hMwEB)

244 Simba was clearly a knock-off of Kimba, the while lion.

Posted by: JAS at April 18, 2018 12:05 PM (sCN2W)

245 Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2018 11:46 AM (/tuJf)
++++
Put up a CTH Thread is last thread for you

Posted by: DeploraBOT at April 18, 2018 12:06 PM (y3aQB)

246 There's too much evil, sickness, pain and death in the world.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 18, 2018 12:06 PM (NWiLs)

247 Looks like they're going with the 'dinosaurs reclaim the Earth' route.

-
So Hill will run again in 2020.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
-----------

I already have the Inaugural Poem!

Posted by: Maya Angelou at April 18, 2018 12:06 PM (9tO1t)

248
Wood was born in Port Townsend, Washington, and was named for the small town of Kimba, South Australia, which her mother saw in an atlas

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at April 18, 2018 11:59 AM (hMwEB)

Her brother Pecker Wood was named after a bird her mother saw in an encyclopedia.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at April 18, 2018 12:06 PM (lKyWE)

249 I say we continue to provide Secret Service protection for the former POTUSi, but only assign volunteers. If the agents don't want the duty to guard ex-officials, they shouldn't be forced. If the don't want to guard the current office holder, they shouldn't be retained.

Posted by: Downcast at April 18, 2018 12:06 PM (Oga5o)

250 So Simba is Kimba without the white privilege?

Posted by: RioBravo at April 18, 2018 12:06 PM (5NMZN)

251 226

http://www.nola.com/traffic/index.ssf/2018/04...

T-2, A-7, F/A-18 pilot.
Posted by: MachiasPrivateer at April 18, 2018 12:02 PM (EMi53)

Chuck Yeager is smiling.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair Magazine at April 18, 2018 12:07 PM (DXfIG)

252 Tom, I would very much like you to be correct here, but I just have no confidence that a future ruling against vague laws on a case that significantly hurts the progressive cause is ever going to come."

That depends on whether the other conservative Justices get on board with the opening Gorsuch has just given them. Laypeople don't realize how critical it is for Supreme Court opinions to be based on prior Majority Opinions in decided cases. Now, thanks to the 4 liberal Justices wanting to make a pro-immigration case, Gorsuch has established a strong double precedent (this one and the Scalia decision he cited in his opinion) that argue strongly that Congress needs to expressly define the scope and terms in its legislation. In the future, the 4 "conservative" Justices now *Could* join with Gorsuch and use his established precedent to start peeling back the regulatory state.

But that's going to depend on Roberts and whoever replaces Kennedy when he retires, and there's nothing that can be done about that. Gorsuch, on his own, has at least given them the opportunity.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 18, 2018 12:07 PM (k1TUh)

253 Might as well be speaking Norse code.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2018 11:56 AM

drikk mer ovaltine.

Posted by: Sven from NSA at April 18, 2018 12:07 PM (ctuyM)

254 126
yo, Finnish is Uralic. close to Estonian, distantly to Hungarian and Mantsy.

Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at April 18, 2018 11:42 AM (coDYy)
---
Tere.... that's a rather arcane fact... are you Estii?

Posted by: BluesFish at April 18, 2018 12:07 PM (j5lIo)

255 Macron announces plan to import up to 200 million Africans and turn Europe into 'Eurafrica'."

Write off the entire continent.
=======

We stand ready to assist.

Posted by: AMFAR at April 18, 2018 12:07 PM (vg8iE)

256 also, according to FOX news, the entire island of PR is experiencing a blackout. Will PDT be blamed for this failure? "

The "report" is from Think Progress.

Various beach webcams are running. Must be via smoke signals...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at April 18, 2018 12:07 PM (7LY+6)

257 "Macron announces plan to import up to 200 million Africans and turn Europe into 'Eurafrica'."

Write off the entire continent.
------------

'The Camp of the Saints', as a How-To manual.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 18, 2018 12:08 PM (9tO1t)

258 Don't forget the wood that doesn't float, Natalie.

Posted by: Robert Wagner at April 18, 2018 12:08 PM (sCN2W)

259 Seven students at an elementary school in Prince George's County cut
their wrists at school using blades from pencil sharpeners, according to
officials.

The end result of sixteen years of Bubba and Chocolate Jesus. Heh.

Posted by: Willy Clintoon at April 18, 2018 12:08 PM (vtcmf)

260 HYATTSVILLE, Md. - Seven students at an elementary school in Prince George's County cut their wrists at school using blades from pencil sharpeners, according to officials.

Officials with Prince George's County Public Schools said a concerned parent at William Paca Elementary School in Hyattsville came forward on March 29 and an investigation was launched.

It was revealed that the students used blades out of pencil sharpeners to cut themselves, officials stated.

Rippy the Razor says, "It's 'down the block' not 'across the street'!"

http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp08312004.shtml

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at April 18, 2018 12:09 PM (Tnhbr)

261 Tezuka's Jungle Emperor has a white lion cub escaping his US circus to go back to Africa to assume leadership after his father dies. In Africa he starts to set up schools to teach the other animals some Human things while heroically fighting Human poachers to protect the other animals.

Yeah that sounds so much like Disney's The Lion King.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at April 18, 2018 12:09 PM (Qlx4e)

262 Secret Service protection, but unarmed.

Posted by: Moron Robbie : FBI = Porn Star > Mass Murderer at April 18, 2018 12:09 PM (LV5XU)

263 yo, Finnish is Uralic. close to Estonian, distantly to Hungarian and Mantsy.

Posted by: Boulder t'hobo
-----------

And Romanian? Unrelated?

What about Austrian?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 18, 2018 12:09 PM (9tO1t)

264 >>Put up a CTH Thread is last thread for you

Can you repost it here please?

Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2018 12:09 PM (/tuJf)

265 Seven students at an elementary school in Prince George's County cut
their wrists at school using blades from pencil sharpeners, according to
officials.--

I'm curious if it was dare or something
none of the students needed medical care so I'm guessing it was very light cuts

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at April 18, 2018 12:10 PM (hMwEB)

266 The New Face Of Christianist H8:

This fall will have been 17 years since those damn spotted cows few planes into the World Trade Center.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 18, 2018 12:10 PM (BtQd4)

267 Shouldn't Puerto Rico go to the Clinton Foundation ( Money Laundering) Charity to get the hurricane mess fixed right up?

It worked great for Haiti.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at April 18, 2018 12:10 PM (pw+jk)

268 also, according to FOX news, the entire island of PR is experiencing a blackout. Will PDT be blamed for this failure? "
------------

It's noon there. Fake news.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 18, 2018 12:10 PM (9tO1t)

269 Pekka is Finnish for Peter...

So Pekka Wood?

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at April 18, 2018 12:10 PM (Qlx4e)

270 There's too much evil, sickness, pain and death in the world.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 18, 2018 12:06 PM (NWiLs)

That's why I have my doggehs.

Not them, but a pic of the breed:

https://tinyurl.com/yce3zte9

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 18, 2018 12:11 PM (kqsXK)

271 >>This. Every single one of our former presidents leaves office as a multi-millionaire, if they weren't one before coming into office. Let them pay for their own security.

Robert Caro's bio of LBJ details his strong-arming of the FCC for lucrative radio and television station operations in Texas, and Lady Bird's management of the stations. It's in the second volume of his series--very interesting read.

Posted by: Zod at April 18, 2018 12:11 PM (Bdeb0)

272 Seven students at an elementary school in Prince George's County cut

their wrists at school using blades from pencil sharpeners, according to

officials.--

---

Someone should sue if blacks, hispanics, and gays weren't adequately represented.

Posted by: Moron Robbie : FBI = Porn Star > Mass Murderer at April 18, 2018 12:11 PM (LV5XU)

273 also, according to FOX news, the entire island of PR is experiencing a blackout. Will PDT be blamed for this failure? "
=====

Just like mainland IRS.

Posted by: mustbequantum at April 18, 2018 12:12 PM (MIKMs)

274 Finnish Troll:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfBtn2cUsMyEau4PZYAPPPg
Posted by: Off the reservation at April 18, 2018 11:46 AM

Thanks for that link.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse - at April 18, 2018 12:12 PM (roQNm)

275 Wasn't the PR power outage two days ago? Is there another?

Posted by: RioBravo at April 18, 2018 12:12 PM (5NMZN)

276 Not them, but a pic of the breed:

https://tinyurl.com/yce3zte9

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 18, 2018 12:11 PM (kqsXK)

SO FLUFFY!!!!

*looove*

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at April 18, 2018 12:13 PM (hMwEB)

277 Rippy the Razor says, "It's 'down the block' not 'across the street'!"

One of the boots with my father at Parris Island tried it. Once they cleaned it all up, the DI got them all together and told them "Up and down ladies, not across! Don't waste my fucking time!"

Posted by: tu3031 at April 18, 2018 12:13 PM (O5Q3r)

278 >>275 Wasn't the PR power outage two days ago? Is there another?

According to FOX radio news report.

Posted by: Under Fire at April 18, 2018 12:13 PM (r9UYA)

279 I wonder about the MD HS cutters. Girls cuts themselves for relief from stress and anxiety. They don't just figure it out, someone has to teach them what to do. Could be a group learning the process. Were they all girls? Cutting is typically a girl thing.

Posted by: never enough caffeine at April 18, 2018 12:13 PM (N3JsI)

280 Not them, but a pic of the breed:

https://tinyurl.com/yce3zte9

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Aww! Reminds me of the pup I had as a kid. The story behind and surrounding which I shall spare the Horde, let's just say there are reasons I am as I am.

I should get a dog, once I'm sure I can keep myself afloat. Might help me keep evened out.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at April 18, 2018 12:14 PM (AM1GF)

281 Robert Caro's bio of LBJ details his strong-arming of the FCC for lucrative radio and television station operations in Texas, and Lady Bird's management of the stations.

There was no corruption and debauchery that man was not willing to stoop to. And he had the cloak of St Kennedy the Martyr over him to protect him from any criticism.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2018 12:14 PM (39g3+)

282 "You can't really tell much from a little silhouetto of a hand.

Scaramouche, Scaramouche does he do the handango?

Posted by: Zombie F.Mercury at April 18, 2018 12:14 PM (QGNGb)

283 Wasn't the PR power outage two days ago? Is there another?

Does it matter?

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 18, 2018 12:14 PM (f41Sg)

284 Wasn't the PR power outage two days ago? Is there another?
Posted by: RioBravo at April 18, 2018 12:12 PM (5NMZN)

their power system infrastructure sucked before the storm. It is probably actually BETTER now.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 18, 2018 12:14 PM (5y11N)

285 Wasn't the PR power outage two days ago? Is there another?

According to FOX radio news report.
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Who the hell cares? Is it national news when a drunk hits a pole and the lights go out in Nowhere, USA?

Posted by: bicentennialguy at April 18, 2018 12:15 PM (vg8iE)

286 >This. Every single one of our former presidents leaves office as a multi-millionaire, if they weren't one before coming into office. Let them pay for their own security.

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Read Secret Empires to get really depressed about the Graft Class that rules

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at April 18, 2018 12:15 PM (hMwEB)

287 I'm fine with Gorsuch's ruling because it was totally in character for someone with a constructionist background. He's not suddenly and magically turning leftist on us.

Unlike Roberts who became a self declared legislator and changed what the actual law said so he didn't have to overturn it.

Posted by: Froderick Wonkensteen at April 18, 2018 12:15 PM (+dsLj)

288 >>>The New York Times shares the Pulitzer in National Reporting with The WashingtonPost for coverage that unearthed possible ties between Russia and President Trump's inner circle

hahahaha

Posted by: m at April 18, 2018 12:15 PM (U6XUk)

289 Girls cuts themselves for relief from stress and anxiety

I don't get that. I feel more stressed and anxious when cut and bleeding. How does this help, exactly??

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2018 12:15 PM (39g3+)

290 Was the Puerto Rico electrical system damage caused by the hurricane, or by decades of Democratic rule and Latino "mon-yawna" culture that left the infrastructure in a state where any big bad wolf could blow it down?

Posted by: Downcast at April 18, 2018 12:16 PM (Oga5o)

291 Wasn't the PR power outage two days ago? Is there another?"

There's an "island wide power outage" reported every few days. It's all Bovine Scatology, as there are multiple power sources in PR.

What do they think? That there's only one genset on the whole island?

The stupid, it burns...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at April 18, 2018 12:16 PM (7LY+6)

292 http://bit.ly/2JUxbkJ
+++++
Here ya Go Jack Straw

Posted by: DeploraBOT at April 18, 2018 12:16 PM (y3aQB)

293 Wood was born in Port Townsend, Washington, and was named for the small town of Kimba, South Australia, which her mother saw in an atlas

At least Kimba's mom got the spelling right.

Oprah's mom tried to name her daughter after a woman in the Bible. It's actually Orpah.

Posted by: bonhomme at April 18, 2018 12:16 PM (iv0p7)

294 Unlike Roberts who became a self declared legislator and changed what the actual law said so he didn't have to overturn it.

Yeah he's just doing what he always has done, and I'm okay with the reasoning, if not the results.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2018 12:16 PM (39g3+)

295 Girls cuts themselves for relief from stress and anxiety

Can't they just make a sammich or go outside and play?

Posted by: Willy Clintoon at April 18, 2018 12:17 PM (vtcmf)

296 I don't get that. I feel more stressed and anxious when cut and bleeding. How does this help, exactly??
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I had a friend who used to burn herself with cigarettes.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at April 18, 2018 12:17 PM (vg8iE)

297 Rep. Todd Rokita (R-IN) is pushing to end Citibanks federal contract after the finance giant adopted new gun policies that do not respect the Second Amendment.
Citibank currently enjoys a $700 billion contract with the General Services Administration (GSA), and Rokita is seeking to have that contract terminated.

Good. Yank the DOD Travel Card Business from them also

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 18, 2018 12:17 PM (5y11N)

298 Christopher. It takes their mind off their troubles. Also, it's something they can control since so many things are out of their control.

Posted by: never enough caffeine at April 18, 2018 12:18 PM (N3JsI)

299 Rep. Todd Rokita (R-IN) is pushing to end Citibank's federal contract after the finance giant adopted new gun policies that do not respect the Second Amendment.

-BB

Posted by: Under Fire at April 18, 2018 12:18 PM (r9UYA)

300 The pain is what makes them feel alive and connected? Which says things about their mental state I think.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at April 18, 2018 12:18 PM (Qlx4e)

301 276 Not them, but a pic of the breed:

https://tinyurl.com/yce3zte9

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 18, 2018 12:11 PM (kqsXK)

SO FLUFFY!!!!

*looove*

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at April 18, 2018 12:13 PM (hMwEB)

Arctic breeds are the best breeds.

Posted by: Hikaru at April 18, 2018 12:18 PM (9TK8E)

302 Dear G-d!

You guys remember the story from a couple of days ago about the journalist whose woke little daughter refuses to be treated by a nasty male dentist?

Well, as we speak, at this moment by nasty, grating, SJW millennial feminazi coworker is virtue signalling AT THE TOP OF HER LUNGS to our receptionist about how she had to unfriend a childhood friend on Facebook because the white male privileged sonofabitch dared to criticize the woman. At the top of her lungs, and with lots of profanity. While the CMO and a Regional Director are attempting to have a phone meeting with an important vendor in the next office.

These kids are insane. Absolutely fucking insane.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 18, 2018 12:18 PM (AzW6q)

303 223
he fuck names their daughter Kimba? Posted by: Eli Cash at April 18, 2018 11:53 AM (a+WIL)

Sounds like something from "The Lion King"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2018 11:56 AM (tpDAe)

The weird part is she was born in 1944. WTH was thinking of names like that in 1944?
Posted by: Flawless Male Logic
_______

Crazy, right?

Posted by: Blossom Dearie at April 18, 2018 12:18 PM (9vQJW)

304 I don't get that. I feel more stressed and anxious when cut and bleeding. How does this help, exactly??
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2018 12:15 PM (39g3+)

The theory I remember reading somewhere is that women suffering from internal pain need to externalize it. Transfer it from emotional pain to physical pain. It's cathartic.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at April 18, 2018 12:18 PM (Tnhbr)

305 >>Good. Yank the DOD Travel Card Business from them also

Yes.

Posted by: Under Fire at April 18, 2018 12:18 PM (r9UYA)

306 >>Here ya Go Jack Straw

Ah, well I think the answer to the question is yes but I'll read what he has to say.

Thanks

Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2018 12:18 PM (/tuJf)

307 The pain is what makes them feel alive and connected? Which says things about their mental state I think.
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Yeah. My friend said she did it to "feel something; anything."

Posted by: bicentennialguy at April 18, 2018 12:18 PM (vg8iE)

308 Benefits for ex-presidents should be need based.
There's no reason to shell out money for pensions, security, health benefits, secretarial staff, etc., when an ex-POTUS is a multi-millionaire.

Today they all get big book advances, are invited to sit on boards, and have non-profit slush funds ("foundations.")

And when did we start the custom of personal presidential "libraries?" (I put "libraries" in quotation marks because Obama's apparently isn't even going to have libri, books.) This is a post-WWII thing, isn't it?

I realize that private donations fund them in part but the government also pays for staff and record storage. At the very least.

We've gone waaaaay too far with all this.
Public "service," my patootie.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 18, 2018 12:19 PM (0jtPF)

309 Mueller Co wandiering all over the landscape
and about three zillion miles away from their initial remit, which was
to investiage Russian collusion with the Trump campaign. Having been
able to find any such, they are wandering around like a rogue torpedo
seeking to destroy anything they touch.

Posted by: Comanche Voter

///

Like the planet killer in STTOS "Doomsday Machine". The builders are long dead but their machine lives on, wandering the galaxy in search of fuel.

Posted by: SFGoth at April 18, 2018 12:19 PM (dZ756)

310 fuck me, when the Danes are laughing at you for not being manly enough, you have a problem.

Posted by: Dean Wormer at April 18, 2018 12:19 PM (fftfA)

311 I don't get that. I feel more stressed and anxious when cut and bleeding. How does this help, exactly??

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2018 12:15 PM (39g3+)

It doesn't help exactly.
It's more of a "No one can see that I'm bleeding inside so I will cut myself to show it."
Then the physical injury distracts from the inner pain.
There's probably also an element of addiction to the temporary adrenaine high.

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at April 18, 2018 12:19 PM (hMwEB)

312 Note the name:

Randa Jarrar

We'll have a post about this academic tumblrina before the ONT comes tonight...

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 18, 2018 12:19 PM (oVJmc)

313 Well, as we speak, at this moment by nasty, grating, SJW millennial feminazi coworker is virtue signalling AT THE TOP OF HER LUNGS to our receptionist about how she had to unfriend a childhood friend on Facebook because the white male privileged sonofabitch dared to criticize the woman. At the top of her lungs, and with lots of profanity. While the CMO and a Regional Director are attempting to have a phone meeting with an important vendor in the next office.
========

Bitch should be fired.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at April 18, 2018 12:19 PM (vg8iE)

314 And when did we start the custom of personal presidential "libraries?"

FDR.

Surprised?

Posted by: Anon a mouse at April 18, 2018 12:19 PM (7LY+6)

315 Wednesday on ABC News, former FBI Director James Comey said the presidency of Donald Trump had caused him to no longer consider himself a Republican.

When asked if he was a Republican, Comey said, No. The Republican party has left me, and many others. I need no better evidence then their new website which I think is LyinComey maybe, attacking me. I just think theyve lost their way and I cant be associated with it.

Ah eat me asshole. You were a RINO at best if that. You and your whole asshole family voted democratic as sure as the sun sets each night

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 18, 2018 12:20 PM (5y11N)

316 289 Girls cuts themselves for relief from stress and anxiety

I don't get that. I feel more stressed and anxious when cut and bleeding. How does this help, exactly??
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2018 12:15 PM (39g3+)

Mental illness. It's a body issue, often with the girl (and sometimes a boy) cutting themselves because they view themselves as ugly. It's also a control thing, rather like anorexia or bulimia. You control what goes in your body, or out of it, when you feel like you have no control over anything else in your life.

It's horrible.

Posted by: moki at April 18, 2018 12:20 PM (V+V48)

317 Unlike Roberts who became a self declared legislator and changed what the actual law said so he didn't have to overturn it.

Posted by: Froderick Wonkensteen at April 18, 2018 12:15 PM (+dsLj)

But, even if BarkyCare said what Benedict Roberts made it say (after he agreed it didn't say it in order to have the court even hear the case) it still wasn't Constitutional and the idea of a tax on inaction was still totally un-American and, even beyond that, a tax in order to carry out an un-Constitutional action is still, itself, un-Constitutional. And even beyond all that the feral government has no power to be mucking around in individual health insurance/health care.

Roberts had to pervert a whole host of issues and redefine what even qualified as a tax, by his own words, in order to come up with the worst, most tortured and retarded, decision ever rendered in US judicial history.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 18, 2018 12:20 PM (f41Sg)

318 The "Chevron" case allowed the Federal Bureaucracy to make a huge power grab over the last 30 years - you could say with justification that the Bureaucracy has gained more power in the last 30 years than it had gained in the previous 200, all thanks to "Chevron."

I think you can start to see where Gorsuch was going by saying that a law that was "too vague" needs to be struck down, and not just allow the bureaucrats to interpret it as they see fit.

And to add: The biggest blind spot of the 4 traditional "conservatives" on the SCOTUS is that they're just fine with the Feds running everything, as long as it's run the way they like. Gorsuch may be the only member of the current Court who actually believes in limiting the Bureaucracy's power.

I'm glad you reposted that. It makes sense and I couldn't remember where I had read it.

Posted by: LASue at April 18, 2018 12:20 PM (Z48ZB)

319 I don't get that. I feel more stressed and anxious when cut and bleeding. How does this help, exactly??

Apparently your brain gives you a serotonin kick to close up arteries near the cut. Serotonin also makes you happy.

So in addition making you feel brooding and dark and poetic for doing self harm, it also gives you a bit of a high.

Posted by: bonhomme at April 18, 2018 12:20 PM (iv0p7)

320 >>>Yes. I'm thinking now it's more like Obama getting the Nobel Peace Prize for, essentially, doing nothing.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair Magazine at April 18, 2018 11:38 AM (DXfIG)

Absolutely.

Posted by: m at April 18, 2018 12:21 PM (U6XUk)

321 >>And he had the cloak of St Kennedy the Martyr over him to protect him from any criticism.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2018 12:14 PM (39g3+)

Huh? The Johnsons were purchasing their stations in the mid-40s/early 50s. JFK was a frail freshman congressman at the time.

Posted by: Zod at April 18, 2018 12:21 PM (Bdeb0)

322 So basically cutters are selfish, self obsessed drama queens like people who commit suicide? Seems to be a common thread of self-destruction being connected to utter self-focus.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2018 12:21 PM (39g3+)

323 Randa Jarrar

We'll have a post about this academic tumblrina before the ONT comes tonight...
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 18, 2018 12:19 PM (oVJmc)

have you seen a picture of that beast? And I say that with apologies to all beasts

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 18, 2018 12:21 PM (5y11N)

324 310
fuck me, when the Danes are laughing at you for not being manly enough, you have a problem.

Posted by: Dean Wormer

///

The Hell with you!

Posted by: Beowulf at April 18, 2018 12:21 PM (dZ756)

325 Well, as we speak, at this moment by nasty, grating, SJW millennial feminazi coworker is virtue signalling AT THE TOP OF HER LUNGS to our receptionist about how she had to unfriend a childhood friend on Facebook because the white male privileged sonofabitch dared to criticize the woman. At the top of her lungs, and with lots of profanity. While the CMO and a Regional Director are attempting to have a phone meeting with an important vendor in the next office.

Put the vendor on hold.

Fire the bitch.

Rinse and repeat.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 18, 2018 12:21 PM (kqsXK)

326 I realize that private donations fund them in part but the government also pays for staff and record storage. At the very least.

We've gone waaaaay too far with all this.
Public "service," my patootie.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 18, 2018 12:19 PM (0jtPF)

...

Should be means-tested. No doubt.

Posted by: TexasDan at April 18, 2018 12:21 PM (yL25O)

327 "t women suffering from internal pain need to externalize it. "

that was a theme in Stephen Donaldson's Thomas Covenant series. the Giants would burn themselves to heal their emotional wounds.

Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at April 18, 2018 12:22 PM (YCuAg)

328 The New York Times shares the Pulitzer in National Reporting with The WashingtonPost for coverage that unearthed possible ties between Russia and President Trump's inner circle

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National Enquirer came in second for coverage that unearthed a possible love child of Bigfoot and a space alien.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 18, 2018 12:22 PM (+y/Ru)

329 Randa Jarrar in Fresno? Muslim? Lots of Armenian Americans there. maybe they can stalk her. I know, not Turkish, but close enough.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at April 18, 2018 12:22 PM (ujg0T)

330
Mental illness. It's a body issue, often with the girl (and
sometimes a boy) cutting themselves because they view themselves as
ugly. It's also a control thing, rather like anorexia or bulimia. You
control what goes in your body, or out of it, when you feel like you
have no control over anything else in your life.

Rage and self-harm.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 18, 2018 12:22 PM (oVJmc)

331
I don't get that. I feel more stressed and anxious when cut and bleeding. How does this help, exactly??

Barbers use to bleed people for all sorts of reasons. It's like we've gone backwards in civilization

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at April 18, 2018 12:22 PM (lKyWE)

332 In the 1940s, it was Rep. Lyndon 'Landslide' Johnson 'war hero...

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at April 18, 2018 12:22 PM (Qlx4e)

333
their power system infrastructure sucked before the storm. It is probably actually BETTER now.
Posted by: Nevergiveup

I attended a presentation by some linemen who went to Puerto Rico to work on the damage. It really is a third world setup and things are only marginally better now. The system needs a complete re-do.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2018 12:22 PM (IqV8l)

334 Arctic breeds are the best breeds.
=====

As long as you are prepared to buy a new vacuum every three months. Hairy dogs (most big ones) usually only require a new vacuum every six months.

But, nothing sadder than an arctic (or cold) breed being shaved over the summer because they can't handle it.

Posted by: mustbequantum at April 18, 2018 12:22 PM (MIKMs)

335 Well, as we speak, at this moment by nasty, grating, SJW millennial feminazi coworker is virtue signalling AT THE TOP OF HER LUNGS to our receptionist about how she had to unfriend a childhood friend on Facebook because the white male privileged sonofabitch dared to criticize the woman. At the top of her lungs, and with lots of profanity. While the CMO and a Regional Director are attempting to have a phone meeting with an important vendor in the next office.

These kids are insane. Absolutely fucking insane.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 18, 2018 12:18 PM (AzW6q)

Why doesnt someone in authority go out and tell her to keep it quiet, that this is a place of business and people are trying to work.

Posted by: LASue at April 18, 2018 12:23 PM (Z48ZB)

336 >>332 In the 1940s, it was Rep. Lyndon 'Landslide' Johnson 'war hero...
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at April 18, 2018 12:22 PM (Qlx4e)

"Winner" of the Silver Star, which he shamelessly wore in Congress.

Posted by: Zod at April 18, 2018 12:23 PM (Bdeb0)

337 Bubba was just distracted while heading over to chat up that well-built bollard.

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at April 18, 2018 12:24 PM (3d0hn)

338 Note that the cutting story is in ELEMENTARY school.

WT everloving F?

Posted by: blaster at April 18, 2018 12:24 PM (Z5y53)

339
It's like we've gone backwards in civilization
Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at April 18, 2018 12:22 PM

It's what "climate restoration" is all about.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2018 12:24 PM (IqV8l)

340
Was the Puerto Rico electrical system damage caused by the hurricane, or by decades of Democratic rule

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

The conservative PNP (New Progressive Party) has held much of the political power in Puerto Rico since 1992. So to the extent political parties had much to do with it, then it was at least bi-partisan.

Posted by: RioBravo at April 18, 2018 12:24 PM (5NMZN)

341 And to add: The biggest blind spot of the 4 traditional "conservatives" on the SCOTUS is that they're just fine with the Feds running everything, as long as it's run the way they like. Gorsuch may be the only member of the current Court who actually believes in limiting the Bureaucracy's power.

Posted by: LASue at April 18, 2018 12:20 PM (Z48ZB)

This is part of the reason that everyone in DC dislikes Trump: he doesn't believe in the imperial presidency in the way that everyone else does. Most of Congress want to rubberstamp presidential actions that they like, while still remaining free to criticize actions that they don't like, and never actually be responsible for any sort of governance. The bureaucrats want to continue to expand their fiefdoms with more and more regulatory power. Trump refuses to play that game. Instead, he's pushed a lot of stuff back onto Congress, while simultaneously restricting the power of executive agencies.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at April 18, 2018 12:24 PM (Tnhbr)

342 Put the vendor on hold.

Fire the bitch.

Rinse and repeat.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 18, 2018 12:21 PM (kqsXK)

G-d, I wish I had the authority to do so.

I feel for the receptionist, man. He is a quiet, unassuming, very polite older gentleman who is clearly mortified by what's happening to him.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 18, 2018 12:24 PM (AzW6q)

343 for coverage that unearthed possible ties between Russia and President Trump

So, fiction.

Posted by: t-bird at April 18, 2018 12:24 PM (2z74n)

344 "nasty, grating, SJW millennial feminazi coworker"

remove. Tide. Pod.

Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at April 18, 2018 12:24 PM (YCuAg)

345 Macron announces plan to import up to 200 million Africans and turn Europe into 'Eurafrica'."

Write off the entire continent.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2018 12:03 PM (39g3+)

It sounds like he's placing an order on Amazon.

Posted by: LASue at April 18, 2018 12:24 PM (Z48ZB)

346 One of my kid's friends used to cut herself.

They were worried about her for a while, but I hear she's stopped and is better now.

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at April 18, 2018 12:25 PM (hMwEB)

347 >>Randa Jarrar

We'll have a post about this academic tumblrina before the ONT comes tonight...

Is it wrong to notice that so many of these people have non-Western names?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 18, 2018 12:25 PM (W+vEI)

348 Randa Jarrar

We'll have a post about this academic tumblrina before the ONT comes tonight...

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Didja see her !atest? She provided her phone number so people could complain to her but it was really the number of a mental health crisis center.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 18, 2018 12:25 PM (+y/Ru)

349 So why does the video stop just when the Danish guy starts talking about boobehs?

Posted by: Slick Willie, Zipper Down! at April 18, 2018 12:25 PM (gbWkA)

350 Why doesnt someone in authority go out and tell her to keep it quiet, that this is a place of business and people are trying to work.
Posted by: LASue at April 18, 2018 12:23 PM (Z48ZB)

She'd probably sue both the person who dared do that to her, and the company.

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at April 18, 2018 12:25 PM (72PAC)

351 I attended a presentation by some linemen who went
to Puerto Rico to work on the damage. It really is a third world setup
and things are only marginally better now. The system needs a complete
re-do.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2018 12:22 PM (IqV8l)
------------------------
We're pumping in $2 billion for a start...

Posted by: RioBravo at April 18, 2018 12:25 PM (5NMZN)

352 Mental illness. It's a body issue, often with the girl (and sometimes a boy) cutting themselves because they view themselves as ugly. It's also a control thing, rather like anorexia or bulimia. You control what goes in your body, or out of it, when you feel like you have no control over anything else in your life.

Girls cut themselves because hysterical paralysis is out of fashion, these days.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 18, 2018 12:25 PM (f41Sg)

353 Christopher. No, not a drama queen. A child who is deeply hurting. One that feels that they have zero control of what happens with their life. Also, keep in mind that their are mental issues that these children are born with and not recognized until it is too late. The normal discipline you use with most children doesn't work for them. It makes the condition worse.

Posted by: never enough caffeine at April 18, 2018 12:25 PM (N3JsI)

354 If you are feeling utterly lost, if you are buried in misery, if you feel powerless and out of control and cannot see anything but darkness and sadness, the solution is to...

...Go find someone who needs help and do something for them. Help an old lady by cleaning her gutters, doing yard work, washing her windows. Help a friend tear their engine down and rebuild it. Help a neighbor who is laid up and cannot mow their lawn. Do something FOR OTHER PEOPLE, active labor, and you'll be shocked at how quickly you feel better and happier.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2018 12:25 PM (39g3+)

355 The system needs a complete re-do. "

Heard the same from the neighbor (as I've related previously).
His best description - "It's (infrastructure) is dated to the turn of the century.
The 17th"

Why we're there is still beyond me.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at April 18, 2018 12:26 PM (7LY+6)

356 >>Is it wrong to notice that so many of these people have non-Western names?
Posted by: Lizzy at April 18, 2018 12:25 PM (W+vEI)

Lizzy thoughtcrime. Unperson plusquick.

Posted by: Zod at April 18, 2018 12:26 PM (Bdeb0)

357 Lord knows I've got internal pain you could load on a freight train, but I don't hurt myself.

My liver, yes. Myself, no.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 18, 2018 12:26 PM (kqsXK)

358 On the Danish/Swedish thing: There's a series on Netflix called "Norsemen", made in Norway. The premise is a Viking village gets taken over by a clique with modern, PC sensitivities. They decide to turn their village into an arts showcase, by turning their swords into an "installation" -- and once they're a famous center fpr the arts, who would dare attack them, right?

Very unPC show, also very crude. But an interesting artifact, because it hints that tolerance for PC garbage is wearing thin.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at April 18, 2018 12:26 PM (/k7u1)

359 Wood was born in Port Townsend, Washington, and was named for the small town of Kimba, South Australia, which her mother saw in an atlas

Port Townsend. A nice stop on the way to Forks!

Posted by: LASue at April 18, 2018 12:26 PM (Z48ZB)

360
for coverage that unearthed possible ties between Russia and President Trump

Unearthed? Like they had to dig for anything. They just sat back and waited for the phone to ring.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at April 18, 2018 12:26 PM (lKyWE)

361 >>My liver, yes. Myself, no.

Do you store your liver in another body?

Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2018 12:27 PM (/tuJf)

362 The B-25 Johnson was supposed to fly on for this mission was named 'Heckling Hare,' and Johnson apparently bumped another Rep off his B-25 so the poor schlub flew on 'Heckling Hare' and that B-25 was shot down.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at April 18, 2018 12:27 PM (Qlx4e)

363 The system needs a complete re-do.

That would be a waste. In 10 years it will be back in the same shit shape it's in, now.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 18, 2018 12:27 PM (f41Sg)

364 who blew the margins?

Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at April 18, 2018 12:27 PM (YCuAg)

365 Why doesnt someone in authority go out and tell her to keep it quiet, that this is a place of business and people are trying to work.
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Probably the same reason my workplace lets a certain homosexual employee talk in meetings about his "husband" and their queen-sized bed - "because we're afraid he'll sue."

Posted by: bicentennialguy at April 18, 2018 12:27 PM (vg8iE)

366 that was a theme in Stephen Donaldson's Thomas Covenant series. the Giants would burn themselves to heal their emotional wounds.
Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at April 18, 2018 12:22 PM (YCuAg)

IIRC, a lot of Greek plays and poems mention women mutilating themselves out of grief.

I suspect it's the draw for a lot of women in BDSM as well: transfer all responsibility to your partner, and allow yourself to feel physical pain in a controlled environment.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at April 18, 2018 12:27 PM (Tnhbr)

367 322 So basically cutters are selfish, self obsessed drama queens like people who commit suicide? Seems to be a common thread of self-destruction being connected to utter self-focus.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2018 12:21 PM (39g3+)

It's true.

Cutting usually starts in teens, who are very self-obsessed. One of the many dangers that modern teens can get into.

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at April 18, 2018 12:27 PM (hMwEB)

368 The biggest blind spot of the 4 traditional "conservatives" on the SCOTUS is that they're just fine with the Feds running everything, as long as it's run the way they like.

I agree, there's an old school right wing that isn't so much about smaller government as it is about doing things a certain way.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2018 12:27 PM (39g3+)

369 OT rant:

I am really sick and tired of the claim that education is underfunded. Arizona teachers are talking about striking over the 'low pay' and woeful state of education funding.

Arizona spends $7.205 billion a year on K-12. Most of that goes to pay and benefits for the teachers. What do we get for that money? Kids who don't want to work (we have massive turnover where I work. Military retirees end up being our backbone of the work force because the kids stop showing up after a few weeks). Do they have any knowledge or thinking skills in their skulls full of mush? No. They do stupid shit out in the field and can't follow directions.

Something has to change. The fun part of this is that teachers aren't allowed to strike here in AZ. Not showing up to work is considered a resignation without submitting it to the school board as required. Loss of teaching certs is supposed to be automatic. But will that happen? No. School boards are signing authorizations for walk outs in contravention of law. Fcvk that noise! Argh!!

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert at April 18, 2018 12:27 PM (O9qtX)

370 She'd probably sue both the person who dared do that to her, and the company.
Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at April 18, 2018 12:25 PM (72PAC)

Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winnah!

This is by no means the first time something like this has happened. I can only assume my bosses are afraid of that...

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 18, 2018 12:27 PM (AzW6q)

371 314
FDR.

Surprised?
Posted by: Anon a mouse at April 18, 2018 12:19 PM (7LY+6)
-----------------------------
Heh.
I should have guessed!

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 18, 2018 12:28 PM (0jtPF)

372 In the 1940s, it was Rep. Lyndon 'Landslide' Johnson 'war hero...

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at April 18, 2018 12:22 PM (Qlx4e)

He used to be known as the Senator from Brown and Root.

Brown and Root which is now called Halliburton.

Posted by: blaster at April 18, 2018 12:28 PM (Z5y53)

373 233 "Macron announces plan to import up to 200 million Africans and turn Europe into 'Eurafrica'."

Write off the entire continent.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2018 12:03 PM

Do you have a link to that? What I see in the headlines is Macron is trying to tighten up immigration policy and getting a lot of heat for it.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse - at April 18, 2018 12:28 PM (roQNm)

374 >>342 Put the vendor on hold.

Fire the bitch.

She sounds violent and is causing a hostile work environment. Have security walk her out the door.

Posted by: Under Fire at April 18, 2018 12:29 PM (r9UYA)

375 Why doesnt someone in authority go out and tell her to keep it quiet, that this is a place of business and people are trying to work.

You need an asian kid to yell about how people need to be quiet. HEY! THIS IS WORKPLACE!!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2018 12:29 PM (39g3+)

376 That would be a waste. In 10 years"

10? More like 2.

Ok, 3, but that's my final offer.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at April 18, 2018 12:29 PM (7LY+6)

377 One of the attorneys on Mueller's team is the guy who represented the dude who set up Hillary's illegal unsecured server and destroyed her blackberries with a hammer.

Bongino again.

Wow.

Posted by: Sharkman at April 18, 2018 12:29 PM (0oDnb)

378 Pain can make us very selfish because it demands all our attention.

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at April 18, 2018 12:29 PM (hMwEB)

379 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2018 12:25 PM (39g3+)

Good advice. It doesn't actually have to be physical labor, but that of course, can be a big help. If you also listen to someone-in person-not sending text messages it can be a big help to bring one out of oneself.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2018 12:29 PM (tpDAe)

380 >>Lizzy thoughtcrime. Unperson plusquick.

I know, right?

Just seems nowadays that if some student or professor professor is complaining about math being racist, or this historical statue needs to be taken down, etc., that it's someone who has no historical/cultural skin in the game.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 18, 2018 12:30 PM (W+vEI)

381 Looks like Bubba's fly is open.

Posted by: wth at April 18, 2018 12:30 PM (HgMAr)

382 One of the attorneys on Mueller's team is the guy who represented the dude who set up Hillary's illegal unsecured server and destroyed her blackberries with a hammer.
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That was in Rush's "conflicts of interest" monologue yesterday.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at April 18, 2018 12:30 PM (vg8iE)

383 Install a trap door that drops the harpy down a chute that lands them in a waste bin full of five day old McDonald's trash...

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at April 18, 2018 12:30 PM (Qlx4e)

384 He used to be known as the Senator from Brown and Root.

Brown and Root which is now called Halliburton.

Posted by: blaster at April 18, 2018 12:28 PM (Z5y53)

----------------Update:
And now KBR and Brown and Root Industrial Services

Posted by: RioBravo at April 18, 2018 12:31 PM (5NMZN)

385 Do you have a link to that? What I see in the headlines is Macron is trying to tighten up immigration policy and getting a lot of heat for it.

Yeah I thought so too, but...

http://tinyurl.com/y7vstz7b

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2018 12:31 PM (39g3+)

386 Ayam Cemani
The really dark meat

Posted by: Downcast at April 18, 2018 12:32 PM (Oga5o)

387 Gotta get back to the grind. Thanks for letting me vent, guys.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 18, 2018 12:32 PM (AzW6q)

388 Cutters are typically very secretive and conceal the cuts. They'll cut themselves in places that are typically covered by clothing, or deliberately wear clothing that covers where they cut themselves. For people who actually have this as a compulsion it's not an attention-seeking behavior.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 18, 2018 12:32 PM (NWiLs)

389 150 HYATTSVILLE, Md. - Seven students at an elementary school in Prince George's County cut their wrists at school using blades from pencil sharpeners, according to officials.

Officials with Prince George's County Public Schools said a concerned parent at William Paca Elementary School in Hyattsville came forward on March 29 and an investigation was launched.

It was revealed that the students used blades out of pencil sharpeners to cut themselves, officials stated.

https://preview.tinyurl.com/yb7n7lo6
Posted by: Under Fire at April 18, 2018 11:46 AM (r9UYA)

Given the Leftist indoctrination they might be getting, I am sadly not surprised. Usually, this kind of unhappiness does not happen until the teen years, but with the leftists pushing adult themes on small children, it makes a dreadful sense.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at April 18, 2018 12:32 PM (ujg0T)

390 Maybe Macron thinks the Africans will side with them against the muslims....

Posted by: steevy at April 18, 2018 12:33 PM (LiyEm)

391 go look up scrunt and find her pic
Randa Jarrar, professor of English at Fresno State, tweeted, Barbara Bush was a generous and smart and amazing racist who, along with her husband, raised a war criminal. Fuck outta here with your nice words.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 18, 2018 12:33 PM (BtQd4)

392 Great; Danes

I crack myself up...

Always enjoyed port calls in Danmark during NATO exercises.

Posted by: Archer at April 18, 2018 12:33 PM (gbWkA)

393 who blew the margins?
Posted by: Boulder t'hobo

Don't care. Got blown.
Posted by: The Margins

Posted by: rickb223 at April 18, 2018 12:34 PM (2ifxQ)

394 "Macron announces plan to import up to 200 million Africans and turn Europe into 'Eurafrica'."

That can't possibly be true.

Posted by: Jewells45 at April 18, 2018 12:34 PM (zRZaJ)

395 It doesn't actually have to be physical labor, but that of course, can be a big help. If you also listen to someone-in person-not sending text messages it can be a big help to bring one out of oneself.

Right, not everyone actually can get out and do things, but even if you cannot; send a message, a letter, comment on someone's post. Just focus outside yourself and break that loop.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2018 12:34 PM (39g3+)

396 390 Maybe Macron thinks the Africans will side with them against the muslims....
Posted by: steevy at April 18, 2018 12:33 PM (LiyEm)

Only if they are Christian....

Posted by: Curmudgeon at April 18, 2018 12:34 PM (ujg0T)

397 For people who actually have this as a compulsion it's not an attention-seeking behavior.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 18, 2018 12:32 PM (NWiLs)

Like "the desire to pull a scab" run awry. I could buy that sort of idea.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 18, 2018 12:34 PM (f41Sg)

398 I saw on the morning links that the Feds borrowed 4.45 Trillion* since last tax day. Or, $13,737.00 for every person in the U.S. Interestingly, I paid $14,800.00 in taxes. So, one of you morons can stay retired. For 2 more weeks at least.
*A billion is a 1,000 X million. A trillion is 1,000 X a billion. I remind myself of that everytime I hear the word "trillion".

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at April 18, 2018 12:35 PM (ty7RM)

399 go look up scrunt and find her pic

Randa Jarrar, professor of English at Fresno State, tweeted, Barbara
Bush was a generous and smart and amazing racist who, along with her
husband, raised a war criminal. Fuck outta here with your nice words.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 18, 2018 12:33 PM (BtQd4)

I saw some stuff about her on twitter. IIRC, she identifies as Palestine.
I didn't say Palestinian. Once you see the pic, you realize why I said Palestine.

Posted by: Bert G at April 18, 2018 12:36 PM (yzxic)

400
http://tinyurl.com/y7vstz7b
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2018 12:31 PM

Smith, the Africa expert to whom Macron referred during his appearance on BFMTV, estimates that the number of Africans living in Europe will grow from nine million to between 150 million and 200 million within the next 30 years.

The way I read that, plus the headlines critical of Macron's attempt to tighten immigration policy makes me think Macron is trying to limit immigration.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse - at April 18, 2018 12:36 PM (roQNm)

401 *A billion is a 1,000 X million. A trillion is 1,000 X a billion. I remind myself of that everytime I hear the word "trillion".

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at April 18, 2018 12:35 PM (ty7RM)

Except in great Britain, where "a billion" is a million million (trillion).

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 18, 2018 12:36 PM (f41Sg)

402 the lefty haters coming out of the woodwork for Barbara Bush are making me more sympathetic towards the family

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at April 18, 2018 12:36 PM (hMwEB)

403 >>go look up scrunt and find her pic
Randa Jarrar, professor of English at Fresno State, tweeted, Barbara Bush was a generous and smart and amazing racist who, along with her husband, raised a war criminal. Fuck outta here with your nice words.

Her father is Palestinian, her mother is Egyptian and Greek.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 18, 2018 12:36 PM (W+vEI)

404 Didja see this picture of Randa Jarrar?

https://bit.ly/2qN3aL9

She's not going to let those petit clothing stores dictate to her!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 18, 2018 12:37 PM (+y/Ru)

405 First a Nobel prize for what Barry 'might' do, now a Pulitzer for reporting that 'might' happen.

This time line...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 18, 2018 12:37 PM (xJa6I)

406 Randa Jarrar,
A farrago never too far
for her to mentally scar
or a reputation to mar

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at April 18, 2018 12:37 PM (Qlx4e)

407 368 -

There's really no way for conservatives on the Court to be for smaller government. They'd have to overrules many decades of precedent at this point, which is not going to happen. A political revolution isn't going to led by the Court. The smaller government argument is one that has to be won politically, not legally. And the problem with that is that there's almost no constituency for smaller government. Most folks who talk about smaller government mean something like: cut those programs I don't like, but keep the ones I do (all while being blissfully ignorant as to what programs account what proportion of the budget).

Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls at April 18, 2018 12:37 PM (zy+gb)

408 I am really sick and tired of the claim that education is underfunded. Arizona teachers are talking about striking over the 'low pay' and woeful state of education funding.

I have sympathy for teachers at one level, they do have a valid complaint in some areas (like having to buy classroom supplies from their own money). But my sympathy ends when they go on strike, because its clear they don't give a damn about their students in that case.

However valid their complaints may be, though, they're aiming at the wrong people. Instead of demanding more money, they need to demand smarter spending of the oceans of money thrown at them already. My high school had a principal and a vice principal. They handled 1200 students and did fine. The most recently built high school in town has half a dozen principals, and more vice principals, and a huge bloat overall at the top with scores of administrators, counselors, special consultants and crap.

All those people are paid pretty damn well and have offices, supplies, staffers, etc. And that's where the money that should be spent on chalk and construction paper is going, teachers. Schools are getting more money than ever, even adjusted for inflation. Its just being spent on nonsense.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2018 12:38 PM (39g3+)

409 And to add: The biggest blind spot of the 4 traditional "conservatives" on the SCOTUS is that they're just fine with the Feds running everything, as long as it's run the way they like. Gorsuch may be the only member of the current Court who actually believes in limiting the Bureaucracy's power.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 18, 2018 11:29 AM (k1TUh)

This.
I"ve worked on writing legislation while an official with a professional organization. What, you say, isn't legislation written by , um, legislators? .
No, it's not.

It's proposed by outside groups including trade organizations, non profits, corporations, and other interested groups. The proposed legislation is then taken by said groups lobbyists to different friendly" legislators who then agree to sponsor a bill.

Legislation idea and basic framework is then given to professional legislative writers who work with legal professionals to create the actual bill that will be sponsored by said legislator. Depending on the bill, it can take anywhere from six months to a year to get the actual bill written. Every single word of a bill is important, because not just the intention of the legislation is important, but having it stand up to legal scrutiny is important. And then there is that pesky fact that you know there will be a bunch of outside groups and their pet legislators who will be opposed to such legislation or will want something put in or taken out in order to gain their vote. The lobbyists will work to ascertain just what that demand will be and will advise whether to include it, or include something so onerous that the oppositions will faint and then one can offer to remove or reduce offensive item (which can be something like substituting may instead of shall) in order to get legislation passed.

Then of course, it goes to the hopper, then goes to committee, where supporters and opponents all try to threaten committee members to see their point of view on legislation. Then, if it gets out of committee, it goes on the calendar for House or Senate discussion and debate.

Where the real horse trading starts.

If it manages to pass, the opponents to such bills will immediately take said bill and file a lawsuit to have bill overturned, or at least have a regulatory agency interpret to more their liking.

This is how legislators try to appease everyone and keep their precious donors and legislative seat. Write a vanilla bill and let the regulatory agencies determine what the bill really means.

Or SC justices. Let them decide what Congress intended.

Posted by: Jen the original at April 18, 2018 12:38 PM (m0lmR)

410 I do have to take exception to the Idea that a Pulitzer for telling lies is the Stupidest Award Ever...

I think it ties with a Nobel Peace Prize to a President who started multiple wars... and did not have a single moment of Peace during EIGHT Years in Office.... a President who overthrew the governments of more than one country.

Posted by: Don Q. at April 18, 2018 12:38 PM (NgKpN)

411 Scenery-wise, Rev says Norway is breathtaking. Sweden is meh.

Posted by: grammie winger - at April 18, 2018 11:29 AM (lwiT4)

Norway looks like southeast and southcentral Alaska. Sweden looks like Fairbanks. 'nuff said.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 18, 2018 12:38 PM (7UW64)

412 I feel for the receptionist, man. He is a quiet, unassuming, very polite older gentleman who is clearly mortified by what's happening to him.

Call reception. Tell him you're calling to give him an excuse to tell the lady he's busy. Have a nice chat with the gentleman until the SJW goes away.

Posted by: bonhomme at April 18, 2018 12:39 PM (iv0p7)

413 I saw some stuff about her on twitter. IIRC, she identifies as Palestine.
I didn't say Palestinian. Once you see the pic, you realize why I said Palestine.
Posted by: Bert G at April 18, 2018 12:36 PM (yzxic)

Her calorie consumption could feed a small village.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 18, 2018 12:39 PM (BtQd4)

414 Given the Leftist indoctrination they might be getting, I am sadly not
surprised. Usually, this kind of unhappiness does not happen until the
teen years, but with the leftists pushing adult themes on small
children, it makes a dreadful sense.
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When my kidlets were teenagers, it was middle school and early high school. Oooooh, so cool and we have our own counselors to tell our parents how awful they are -- and kids sat around my kitchen table and said that! Younger and younger for the indoctrination.

Posted by: mustbequantum at April 18, 2018 12:39 PM (MIKMs)

415 Her father is Palestinian, her mother is Egyptian and Greek.
+++++
& she is 100% Wildebeest

Posted by: DeploraBOT at April 18, 2018 12:39 PM (y3aQB)

416 If you are feeling utterly lost, if you are buried in misery, if you
feel powerless and out of control and cannot see anything but darkness
and sadness, the solution is to..

Get drunk and rob a gas station?

Posted by: Roland THTG at April 18, 2018 12:40 PM (xBSm0)

417 >> I am really sick and tired of the claim that education is underfunded. Arizona teachers are talking about striking over the 'low pay' and woeful state of education funding.

Maybe they should look into how many administrators their school district employs. That seems to be where a lot of money is wasted and/or stolen (via graft).

Posted by: Lizzy at April 18, 2018 12:40 PM (W+vEI)

418 "Who are you calling at 3am?"

"It's Randa from California"

"Well she sounds horrible."

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at April 18, 2018 12:40 PM (Qlx4e)

419 Anybody in the world spend more per student on education than the USA?IIRC it was maybe 2 or 3 small countries.Anybody get worse results for the money spent?Actually the results are exactly what the left wants.They want to produce David Hoggs...

Posted by: steevy at April 18, 2018 12:40 PM (LiyEm)

420 407 368 -

There's really no way for conservatives on the Court to be for smaller government. They'd have to overrules many decades of precedent at this point, which is not going to happen. A political revolution isn't going to led by the Court. The smaller government argument is one that has to be won politically, not legally. And the problem with that is that there's almost no constituency for smaller government. Most folks who talk about smaller government mean something like: cut those programs I don't like, but keep the ones I do (all while being blissfully ignorant as to what programs account what proportion of the budget).
Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls at April 18, 2018 12:37 PM (zy+gb)

Which is why when Trump said he had to sign the budget "For The Military", I winced.

If the Demunists demand more funding of crap like Planned Parenthood or PBS in exchange for military funding, then *let the military go wanting*, and blame the Demunists for that. I think it is well established they don't like the military already, don't you?

Posted by: Curmudgeon at April 18, 2018 12:41 PM (ujg0T)

421 Except in great Britain, where "a billion" is a million million (trillion).

Is that true? Man, the Brits could f*^k up a 1 car parade.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at April 18, 2018 12:41 PM (ty7RM)

422 The problem isn't that education underfunded, it's that education is run by leftist assholes who don't give a shit about actually educating the children.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 18, 2018 12:41 PM (NWiLs)

423 I feel for the receptionist, man. He is a quiet, unassuming, very polite older gentleman who is clearly mortified by what's happening to him.

Call reception. Tell him you're calling to give him an excuse to tell the lady he's busy. Have a nice chat with the gentleman until the SJW goes away.
=======

If she's swearing loudly, go to HR and file a complaint that you're offended.

Use their shit against them.

Then slash her fucking tires in the parking lot. Make her life a living hell at work. It can be done without anyone knowing any better.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at April 18, 2018 12:41 PM (vg8iE)

424

Randa Jarrar needs to meet the Jem'Hadar.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2018 12:41 PM (IqV8l)

425 There's really no way for conservatives on the Court to be for smaller government.

However true that is, they can be opposed to growing government and government power, and most of them don't seem to be in the supreme court.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2018 12:41 PM (39g3+)

426 >>405 First a Nobel prize for what Barry 'might' do, now a Pulitzer for reporting that 'might' happen.

L. Ron Hubbard awarded posthumous Nobel prize for potentially negotiating future peace between Xenu and thetan-infested preclear humans.

Posted by: Zod at April 18, 2018 12:42 PM (Bdeb0)

427 Posted by: bicentennialguy at April 18, 2018 12:41 PM (vg8iE)

I really think slashing someone's tires at work-or anywhere- is a bad idea.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2018 12:42 PM (tpDAe)

428 My son came home telling me that Prohibition was when the Irish immigrants (read: Catholic) were drinking so much they didn't take care of their children, so the government passed a law saying you can't drink anymore.

I asked him if he thought that was true.

He said it was crap, but that's what his teacher taught him.

Not only do public schools FAIL to teach history, they then proceed to teach lies and slander and calumny. So, I unload his lessons and tell him the truth.

I'm not sure he's the darling of public education at this point.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 18, 2018 12:42 PM (7UW64)

429 >>>These kids are insane. Absolutely fucking insane.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 18, 2018 12:18 PM (AzW6q)

Please follow up and tell us when that co-worker is fired.

Posted by: m at April 18, 2018 12:43 PM (U6XUk)

430
I paid $14,800.00 in taxes. So, one of you morons can stay retired. For 2 more weeks at least.
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin

Thank you

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2018 12:43 PM (IqV8l)

431 I am really sick and tired of the claim that education is underfunded. Arizona teachers are talking about striking over the 'low pay' and woeful state of education funding.

Lots and lots of public school teachers are WAY overpayed. They have 8 month jobs, do the same friggin thing every year (no need for much preparation), have generally no fear of being fired for ANYTHING ...

In lots of districts the teachers would still be overpayed at half their salaries. And many would be fired if they ever had to actually demonstrate their competence.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 18, 2018 12:43 PM (f41Sg)

432 Gorsuch wouldn't have been on my shortlist, but on second thpughts he shoulda woulda been. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory on immigration, it's who we are.

Posted by: El ¡YEB! at April 18, 2018 12:44 PM (L7t0A)

433
Prayers up for all the Morons who need them.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy likes lobster at April 18, 2018 12:44 PM (GdWl+)

434 Arctic breeds are the best breeds.

The Eskimo thing again ?

Posted by: JT at April 18, 2018 12:44 PM (pYwLn)

435 These kids are insane. Absolutely fucking insane.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 18, 2018 12:18 PM (AzW6q)

Please follow up and tell us when that co-worker is fired.
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Ha! She'll probably end up like our little one hear - promoted, uplifted and praised profusely, because "we're afraid he'll sue."

He has physically threatened a woman in the workplace and the woman was fired.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at April 18, 2018 12:44 PM (vg8iE)

436 426 >>405 First a Nobel prize for what Barry 'might' do, now a Pulitzer for reporting that 'might' happen.

L. Ron Hubbard awarded posthumous Nobel prize for potentially negotiating future peace between Xenu and thetan-infested preclear humans.

Posted by: Zod at April 18, 2018 12:42 PM (Bdeb0)

Mitt Romney awarded the Nobel for keeping enough women in binders and wearing magic underwear that he will become a God on Planet Kobol after he's dead.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 18, 2018 12:45 PM (7UW64)

437 My son came home telling me that Prohibition was when the Irish immigrants (read: Catholic) were drinking so much they didn't take care of their children, so the government passed a law saying you can't drink anymore.

Which Prohibition? There were 2.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at April 18, 2018 12:45 PM (ty7RM)

438 Then slash her fucking tires in the parking lot. Make her life a living hell at work. It can be done without anyone knowing any better.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at April 18, 2018 12:41 PM (vg8iE)

I like this. It really is time to make the Leftists pay--personally--when they do what they do like this.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at April 18, 2018 12:45 PM (ujg0T)

439 127 Tom Brokaw fondly recalls Barbara Bush not liking Rick Perry

I fondly recall teaching my Great Dane to do his Tom Brokaws in the neighbors yard at night. They were huge.

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at April 18, 2018 12:45 PM (3d0hn)

440 The problem isn't that education underfunded, it's that education is run by leftist assholes who don't give a shit about actually educating the children.

Right, they're in it to create a "better world" and "fight injustice" by informing children of all the "correct political positions." They don't care about actual education, although they'd call it that. They care about shaping proper serfs for their future power base.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2018 12:45 PM (39g3+)

441 Is that true? Man, the Brits could f*^k up a 1 car parade.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at April 18, 2018 12:41 PM (ty7RM)

It used to be. I don't know if they've hung onto that. You hear "billions" so often these days that it would be hard to.

And that 1-car parade is on the wrong side of the road!

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 18, 2018 12:45 PM (f41Sg)

442 The Eskimo thing again ?
Posted by: JT at April 18, 2018 12:44 PM (pYwLn)

Only if the Eskimo's are midgets.

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at April 18, 2018 12:45 PM (72PAC)

443 Please follow up and tell us when that co-worker is fired.

Posted by: m at April 18, 2018 12:43 PM (U6XUk)

Uh oh ... memories of Che-boy ...

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 18, 2018 12:47 PM (f41Sg)

444 Then slash her fucking tires in the parking lot.

---
uh watch out for security cams

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at April 18, 2018 12:47 PM (hMwEB)

445
He has physically threatened a woman in the workplace and the woman was fired.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at April 18, 2018 12:44 PM (vg8iE)

How can the company justify that? And why hasn't that woman contacted a lawyer and started suing the pants off the company?

Good heavens this world is upside down.

Posted by: moki at April 18, 2018 12:47 PM (V+V48)

446 "Oprah's mom tried to name her daughter after a woman in the Bible. It's actually Orpah."

Which oddly enough rhymes with "Orca".

Coincidence? Not likely.

Posted by: TCDD, pointin and laughin at April 18, 2018 12:47 PM (QGNGb)

447 428 My son came home telling me that Prohibition was when the Irish immigrants (read: Catholic) were drinking so much they didn't take care of their children, so the government passed a law saying you can't drink anymore.

I asked him if he thought that was true.

He said it was crap, but that's what his teacher taught him.

Not only do public schools FAIL to teach history, they then proceed to teach lies and slander and calumny. So, I unload his lessons and tell him the truth.

I'm not sure he's the darling of public education at this point.
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 18, 2018 12:42 PM (7UW64)

In fairness, if the teacher said that people like Billy Sunday *believed* that, combined with the anti-German hysteria affecting breweries of the time, that would be true. Not that Catholics did that, but the belief among the Billy Sunday types.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at April 18, 2018 12:48 PM (ujg0T)

448 My son came home telling me that Prohibition was when the Irish immigrants (read: Catholic) were drinking so much they didn't take care of their children, so the government passed a law saying you can't drink anymore.

I asked him if he thought that was true.

He said it was crap, but that's what his teacher taught him.

Not only do public schools FAIL to teach history, they then proceed to teach lies and slander and calumny. So, I unload his lessons and tell him the truth.

Meh, the temperance movement was founded to try and curb excessive drinking, which was seen as the cause of a lot of social problems, including leaving families destitute when the father couldn't work and spent so much money on booze.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at April 18, 2018 12:48 PM (Tnhbr)

449
In lots of districts the teachers would still be overpayed at half their salaries. And many would be fired if they ever had to actually demonstrate their competence.

Test scores for American students has been falling for years. We're way down in worldwide rankings from where we once were.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy likes lobster at April 18, 2018 12:48 PM (GdWl+)

450 they're parking camels where the taxis used to be.

and that song is over 10 years old.

Posted by: Adobe Juan Calhoon Kenobe at April 18, 2018 12:48 PM (dVl2p)

451 How can the company justify that? And why hasn't that woman contacted a lawyer and started suing the pants off the company?
========

She just wanted to be done with this place and they offered her a severance.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at April 18, 2018 12:48 PM (vg8iE)

452 The haters coming so bravely out to say rude things about Barbara Bush make me realize that, while the Bush dynasty was loused up, they were still our dynasty, whether we liked it or not.

We really should remember that the people we elect are not likely to do everything we wish they would and refrain from doing everything we wish they wouldn't. We will disagree with them from time to time, sometimes monumentally, but they are still tons better than the alternative.

Else we get Hillaroids.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 18, 2018 12:48 PM (7UW64)

453 Right, they're in it to create a "better world" and
"fight injustice" by informing children of all the "correct political
positions." They don't care about actual education, although they'd
call it that. They care about shaping proper serfs for their future
power base.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2018 12:45 PM (39g3+)

...and "correct sexual positions". I mean they're 3rd graders, they should know this stuff. Just sayin'.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at April 18, 2018 12:48 PM (o7tuA)

454 Oh, and also, one of the lawyers on Mueller's team represented the Clinton Foundation as well as Ben Rhodes on the Benghazi scandal.

Posted by: Sharkman at April 18, 2018 12:49 PM (0oDnb)

455 The Irish. They're so white they're like bleached white.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 18, 2018 12:49 PM (+y/Ru)

456 My son came home telling me that Prohibition was when the Irish immigrants (read: Catholic) were drinking so much they didn't take care of their children, so the government passed a law saying you can't drink anymore.

Which Prohibition? There were 2.
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin

Yes.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 18, 2018 12:49 PM (2ifxQ)

457 All those people are paid pretty damn well and have offices, supplies, staffers, etc. And that's where the money that should be spent on chalk and construction paper is going, teachers. Schools are getting more money than ever, even adjusted for inflation. Its just being spent on nonsense.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2018 12:38 PM (39g3+)

The High School I graduated from in 1977 had Eight people who worked there, who were not in a Classroom..

Principal... Dean of Boys (the Enforcer)... 2 guidance counselors... and 2 secretaries.... 1 Librarian...(not counting Lunch Ladies...)...

Same High School today... same number of students... just went and counted...

33 Staff not in the classroom... and FIVE listed as Librarians...

PS, test scores were way higher when I graduated, then they are today...

Posted by: Don Q. at April 18, 2018 12:50 PM (NgKpN)

458 He has physically threatened a woman in the workplace and the woman was fired.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at April 18, 2018 12:44 PM (vg8iE)

who is this? RoP?

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at April 18, 2018 12:50 PM (hMwEB)

459 453 Right, they're in it to create a "better world" and
"fight injustice" by informing children of all the "correct political
positions." They don't care about actual education, although they'd
call it that. They care about shaping proper serfs for their future
power base.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2018 12:45 PM (39g3+)

...and "correct sexual positions". I mean they're 3rd graders, they should know this stuff. Just sayin'.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at April 18, 2018 12:48 PM (o7tuA)

Guess where a bunch of schools get their sex ed curriculum from? Planned Parenthood.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 18, 2018 12:50 PM (NWiLs)

460
I laughed my butt off at the black guy getting his reparation coffee this morn. Dear Black People, do this to Starbucks more.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 18, 2018 12:50 PM (r+sAi)

461 Meh, the temperance movement was founded to try and
curb excessive drinking, which was seen as the cause of a lot of social
problems, including leaving families destitute when the father couldn't
work and spent so much money on booze.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at April 18, 2018 12:48 PM (Tnhbr)

Good thong drugs are legal then.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at April 18, 2018 12:50 PM (o7tuA)

462
411 Scenery-wise, Rev says Norway is breathtaking. Sweden is meh.

Posted by: grammie winger - at April 18, 2018 11:29 AM (lwiT4)

Does Norway have a Swedish bikini team?

Posted by: Cicero Boom chicka boom Kaboom! Kid, at April 18, 2018 12:51 PM (dw7D4)

463 The problem isn't that education underfunded, it's that education is run by leftist assholes who don't give a shit about actually educating the children.

the government schools are not about "educating children"

they're a jobs program for the adults

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 18, 2018 12:51 PM (ZQfW9)

464 Ok cawfee because I just got no idea at this point.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at April 18, 2018 12:52 PM (o7tuA)

465 Prayers to the horde on the list and for all of us navigating the hard roads of this life. God bless you all.

Posted by: Cheri at April 18, 2018 12:52 PM (oiNtH)

466 >>Not only do public schools FAIL to teach history, they then proceed to teach lies and slander and calumny.

Charles Stewart Parnell wins Nobel for potentially saving the lives of thousands of Irish (and British) men, women, and children in decades to come by successfully negotiating Home Rule without being kicked out of the Irish Parliamentary Party for screwing around on his wife.

Posted by: Zod at April 18, 2018 12:52 PM (Bdeb0)

467 The Irish. They're so white they're like bleached white.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur
Wrangler at April 18, 2018 12:49 PM (+y/Ru)

Johnny Windsor in the Great White Hype:

"Terry, listen to me. Do this for the white race. You may be Irish, but they're almost white."

Very, very funny movie, BTW.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 18, 2018 12:52 PM (f41Sg)

468 Only if the Eskimo's are midgets.

Call Starbucks......tell 'em there's a new Sheriff in town.

Posted by: JT at April 18, 2018 12:52 PM (pYwLn)

469 Oh, and also, one of the lawyers on Mueller's team represented the Clinton Foundation as well as Ben Rhodes on the Benghazi scandal.

Posted by: Sharkman at April 18, 2018 12:49 PM

Totally non-partisan man!

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 18, 2018 12:52 PM (CiRJp)

470 The Pulitzer has completed its decline to absurdity.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn at April 18, 2018 12:52 PM (kfcYC)

471 From "40 acres and a mule" to a cup of joe.

Posted by: JAS at April 18, 2018 12:53 PM (sCN2W)

472 413 Her calorie consumption could feed a small village.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 18, 2018 12:39 PM (BtQd4)

She puts the "fat" in "fatwa".

Posted by: Hikaru at April 18, 2018 12:53 PM (9TK8E)

473 Where did the black guy get his free coffee from-at a Philadelphia Starbucks? I didn't see that story.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2018 12:53 PM (tpDAe)

474 What the heck.

The Senate Dem's just filibustered the Coast Guard reauthorization bill.

Why the hate?

Posted by: WisRich at April 18, 2018 12:53 PM (G0vdT)

475 >>Guess where a bunch of schools get their sex ed curriculum from? Planned Parenthood.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 18, 2018 12:50 PM (NWiLs)

How YOU doin'?

Posted by: Mary Kay LeTourneau at April 18, 2018 12:53 PM (Bdeb0)

476 Prayers to the horde on the list and for all of us navigating the hard roads of this life. God bless you all.

Posted by: Cheri

Nice.

Seconded.

Posted by: JT at April 18, 2018 12:53 PM (pYwLn)

477 He has physically threatened a woman in the workplace and the woman was fired.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at April 18, 2018 12:44 PM (vg8iE)

who is this? RoP?
=========

Homosexual millennial who thinks everyone at work wants to hear about his personal life.

He's also allowed to call other homosexual employees (who HATE him with a burning passion) "dirty sluts" and "whores who don't wear underwear."

He's been reported to HR so many times, not to mention his supervisor and nothing happens.

Of course, this is also the place where another female was sexually harassed by an outside contractor. When her supervisor reported it to his boss (a female), she said "she was asking for it."

Posted by: bicentennialguy at April 18, 2018 12:54 PM (vg8iE)

478 Meh, the temperance movement was founded to try and
curb excessive drinking, which was seen as the cause of a lot of social
problems, including leaving families destitute when the father couldn't
work and spent so much money on booze.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at April 18, 2018 12:48 PM (Tnhbr)

Good thong drugs are legal then.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob

There were so many set asides and cave outs during prohibition, that the only people who couldn't get booze, didn't want it to begin with.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 18, 2018 12:54 PM (2ifxQ)

479 Ahh here comes the ice snow rain.

Posted by: grammie winger - at April 18, 2018 12:54 PM (lwiT4)

480 Nood.

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at April 18, 2018 12:54 PM (72PAC)

481 474 What the heck.

The Senate Dem's just filibustered the Coast Guard reauthorization bill.

Why the hate?

Posted by: WisRich at April 18, 2018 12:53 PM (G0vdT)

As I stated above, I bet that they want a leftist program funded, and so they are holding the Coast Guard hostage.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at April 18, 2018 12:54 PM (ujg0T)

482 477 He has physically threatened a woman in the workplace and the woman was fired.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at April 18, 2018 12:44 PM (vg8iE)

who is this? RoP?
=========

Homosexual millennial who thinks everyone at work wants to hear about his personal life.

He's also allowed to call other homosexual employees (who HATE him with a burning passion) "dirty sluts" and "whores who don't wear underwear."

He's been reported to HR so many times, not to mention his supervisor and nothing happens.

Of course, this is also the place where another female was sexually harassed by an outside contractor. When her supervisor reported it to his boss (a female), she said "she was asking for it."
Posted by: bicentennialguy at April 18, 2018 12:54 PM (vg8iE)

So he's like the flaming queer in the Key and Peele sketch?

Posted by: Insomniac at April 18, 2018 12:55 PM (NWiLs)

483
The NYT and the WP: The Chauncey Gardiners of the publishing world.

Posted by: mrp at April 18, 2018 12:55 PM (Pqytn)

484 In lots of districts the teachers would still be overpayed at half their
salaries. And many would be fired if they ever had to actually
demonstrate their competence.
=====

I don't have much animus towards the people who face those eyes and parents every day. Very tough job, but with exceptional benefits.

The people I despise are the 'administrators' who never see a classroom, who never have to budget supplies, who never have to face irritable parents: those are the people who should be purged and shamed.

My suggestion, in my own overfunded 'consolidated' district, was that each and every administrator must spend half their time literally teaching. They might have been the overpaid placeholders, but at least get real work out of them.

Posted by: mustbequantum at April 18, 2018 12:55 PM (MIKMs)

485 Posted by: bicentennialguy at April 18, 2018 12:54 PM (vg8iE)

good grief

well, this is what happens to women when they go for the intersectional feminism - it means they are volunteer victims

I guess I was confused - was it FB that suspended someone for reporting that an RoP had threatened them?

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at April 18, 2018 12:56 PM (hMwEB)

486
The Pulitzer has completed its decline to absurdity.

I hereby move that the name "Pulitzer" be changed to "Pudlitzpuller" because accuracy.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy likes lobster at April 18, 2018 12:57 PM (GdWl+)

487 I don't have much animus towards the people who face those eyes and parents every day. Very tough job, but with exceptional benefits.

The people I despise are the 'administrators' who never see a classroom, who never have to budget supplies, who never have to face irritable parents: those are the people who should be purged and shamed.

My suggestion, in my own overfunded 'consolidated' district, was that each and every administrator must spend half their time literally teaching. They might have been the overpaid placeholders, but at least get real work out of them.
Posted by: mustbequantum

^^^^^^^^^
THIS!!!

Posted by: rickb223 at April 18, 2018 12:57 PM (2ifxQ)

488 "If Moochelle is there, I'm imagining Melania receiving the sideways Death Stare she gave the French first lady."

Do you mean Sarkosy's wife, Carla Bruni?

https://tinyurl.com/yaosfmq6

Did Moochelle really say of being First Lady, "It's hell"?

https://tinyurl.com/6tc7358

Posted by: MachiasPrivateer at April 18, 2018 12:58 PM (EMi53)

489 Nood Ace

Posted by: rickb223 at April 18, 2018 12:58 PM (2ifxQ)

490
Fen, drudge has a link.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 18, 2018 01:00 PM (r+sAi)

491 If you think K-12 is overloaded with non-teaching/administrative staff, take a look at universities.
But not on a full stomach.

I believe it was about ten years ago that the California system finally reached the point where there have more full-time administrators/counselors than full-time faculty.

To be sure, the increasing use of part-time adjuncts and TAs is a major factor in bringing full-time faculty numbers way down.
But someone rolled all of those adjunct/TA hours into theoretical full-time positions and figured that there would still be nearly 1 admin for every 3 teachers.
In 1960 the ratio was 1 to 18.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 18, 2018 01:02 PM (0jtPF)

492 >>Her father is Palestinian, her mother is Egyptian and Greek.

She looks pregnant. Is she pregnant?

Posted by: Under Fire at April 18, 2018 01:02 PM (r9UYA)

493 "They want to produce David Hoggs..."

So you're saying the NEA is in reality an advocacy group for Hog Farming.

Interesting.

Posted by: TCDD, pointin and laughin at April 18, 2018 01:03 PM (QGNGb)

494 https://youtu.be/5vRGaHMlHJU

Link is to ICA commercial from 2012.

Stig counsels Aunt Cindy to use the new preferred pronouns that don't differentiate between genders, to avoid stereotyping.

Human nature ensues.

Posted by: SarahW at April 18, 2018 01:07 PM (Sp1NT)

495 and "correct sexual positions". I mean they're 3rd graders, they should know this stuff. Just sayin'.

How are those teachers going to have sex with their students if they aren't educated properly?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2018 01:08 PM (39g3+)

496 A Klansman, a neo-Nazi and a Templar knight walk into a mall with a Starbucks and a Chik-Fil-A, to get lunch. The die of starvation trying to decide which to go into.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at April 18, 2018 01:17 PM (/qEW2)

497 That video is astounding. Europeans with a clue as to how stupid political correctness is. Europeans who think they don't deserve to be killed, but protected by the law. Bring those guys over here and make them citizens.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at April 18, 2018 01:19 PM (/qEW2)

498 Margin-buster comment:

MachiasPrivateer at April 18, 2018 12:02 PM

Posted by: mindful webworker says zz at April 18, 2018 01:22 PM (ATv6t)

499 353 Christopher. No, not a drama queen. A child who is deeply hurting. One that feels that they have zero control of what happens with their life. Also, keep in mind that their are mental issues that these children are born with and not recognized until it is too late. The normal discipline you use with most children doesn't work for them. It makes the condition worse.
Posted by: never enough caffeine at April 18, 2018 12:25 PM (N3JsI)

Horseshit!

Posted by: Soona at April 18, 2018 01:25 PM (Fs5vw)

500 >>>412 Call reception. Tell him you're calling to give him an excuse to tell the lady he's busy. Have a nice chat with the gentleman until the SJW goes away.
Posted by: bonhomme at April 18, 2018 12:39 PM (iv0p7)

Nice one!

Posted by: m at April 18, 2018 01:27 PM (U6XUk)

501 It is really becoming increasingly harder (as a conservative) to put any faith or trust in any of our institutions. It used to be, to combat the left, we could elect conservatives and they would fight for us. Then we got politicians like Thom Tillis, Lindsey Graham, John McCain et al. So then we would look to the courts to help curb the craziness. And then we got Anthony Kennedy, John Roberts, and now Gorsuch. No where else to go, now.

Posted by: DaveKinNC at April 18, 2018 01:53 PM (/NgNT)

502 @Some Guy in Texas:

"The happy news is that she has been accepted as a test subject for the study. And so she and her family have and much brighter outlook and hope than they had before. So, to that extent, prayers have definitely been answered. Thanks for the prayers, horde"

Thank you for the update. So glad she has been accepted.

Posted by: prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 18, 2018 01:58 PM (F0aU4)

503 My thoughts and prayers to all on the prayer list.

Posted by: Pancake at April 18, 2018 02:00 PM (LPFcl)

504 The Swedish takedown was awesome OM.
And scary bcz of the reality.

It makes me wonder if anyone in the US would have the balls to do and broadcast something similar. It used to be SNL's domain...but not anymore.

So many things are "not anymore."

The Pulitzer Prize to WaPo & NYT is a total joke.

Just like the Nobel Peace Price was to Obama.

Those prizes used to mean something...not anymore.

Posted by: prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 18, 2018 02:07 PM (F0aU4)

505 So, who gets the award for first reporting on Obama having been possibly born outside of the US? Or Hillary possibly having an illicit email server? Or Harry Reid possibly being a pederast?

Posted by: Cluebat at April 18, 2018 05:40 PM (9WTDY)

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