The Morning Rant

"Wednesday's "expert testimony" from some law profs in front of the House Judiciary Committee can be summed up like this:

Prof. Noah Feldman: "Orange man bad!"
Prof. Michael Gerhardt: "Orange man bad!"
Prof. Pamela Karlan: "Orange man bad! And my womb is barren. As in Barron Trump. Ha ha. Get it? But serious you guys, orange man bad!"
Prof. Jonathan Turley: "Orange man bad, maybe, but not impeachable."
Prof. Pamela Karlan: "I would like to say 'orange man bad' again."

"This is their best case? A bunch of professors who didn't actually witness anything? One of the reasons why they don't get laughed out of public life is because of the compliant, supine media. With nothing to keep them in shape, the Democrats have gotten all fat and flabby, and they really do think no one can see their shoddy merchandise for what it is. And then they get indignant when the shoddiness of their merchandise gets pointed out.

"I think the Republicans on the committee did a good job exposing these "witnesses", especially Karlan, as pretty much being Democratic activists, and not the Olympianly detached and neutral legal experts that the Democrats were attempting to pass them off as.

"This leads me to wonder how these impeachment proceedings would go if they took place during the time of Nixon's impeachment, the mid 70s. There would be no internet, no CNN, no C-SPAN, and there would only be the WaPo, the NY Times, and the 3 "alphabet" TV networks (ABC, NBC, CBS).

"All the Democrats would have to do is bar all TV cameras and limit coverage to only allow newspaper reporters, who could spin this story any way they wished.

"My guess is that they would present the profs as neutral experts, just like the Democrats would like. Republican challenges to this narrative would simply be ignored. All the big newspapers were liberal, even back then, except for the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal. But the Democratic narrative would be pushed out to millions of Americans via TV news every night.

"I think the main game-changer here was the advent of C-SPAN. I think Americans need to know how their government that they pay taxes for functions, and C-SPAN provides that service well.

"My conclusion is that C-SPAN is a national treasure."

Could Be Yuuge:

I'm surprised this didn't get more publicity:https://t.co/lYIUHOIIOO
— OregonMuse (@OregonMuse) December 5, 2019

Karma's A Bitch: Cancel-Culture Enthusiast Gets Cancelled:

I'm not altogether happy about this. Yes, this psychopathic rage-monkey woman reaped what she sewed, the evil that she sought for another fell upon her, she fell into the pit she dug for another, the hand grenade went off in her own hand, etc., and that's a good thing. She's basically a terrorist who got blown up by her own IED. But I really don't like the idea of calling up somebody's employer to get her fired for reasons completely unrelated to job performance. I don't like cancel culture, and there's no good end to it. But I'm not a pacifist; I don't think we should back down in the face of such aggressive bullying. Cancel me? Cancel you, bitch.

Part of the problem is the merchants and proprietors of the shops where these incidents typically occur. Where was the manager of the Starbucks when this unhinged lunatic cut loose? That's the question I ask whenever I hear about these public meltdowns. The crazy woman should've been firmly escorted off the premises by security or by the local police, and told her business was no longer welcome. But this would require courage to treat a progressive whacko the same as a drunk or unruly customer, and in deep blue Palo Alto, CA, perhaps that kind of courage is in short supply.

Joe Needs Help

Hilarious https://t.co/rNsnZVXrqy
— IowaGma2 (@Gma2Iowa) December 2, 2019

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Wednesday's Celebs: Leslie Parrish was the love interest in Manchurian Candidate (1962), which, in my opinion, is one of the best movies ever filmed. That's why I greatly resented the 2004 remake, and refused to see it, as it could only be inferior. But I won't hold it against Liev Schrieber for being in it, because actors gotta eat, same as everybody else.

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Comments

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1 I'm quick today!

Posted by: Engineer at December 06, 2019 11:21 AM (10bW0)

2 Very quick

Posted by: Engineer at December 06, 2019 11:21 AM (10bW0)

3 Hah. Elaan of Troius!

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 06, 2019 11:21 AM (Ki5SV)

4 extra quick

Posted by: Engineer at December 06, 2019 11:21 AM (10bW0)

5 France Nuyen and Laurence Harvey.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 06, 2019 11:21 AM (Ejm1K)

6 Were France and Laurence both in The Green Berets w/ John Wayne?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 06, 2019 11:22 AM (Ejm1K)

7 Now onto the contents!

Posted by: Engineer at December 06, 2019 11:22 AM (10bW0)

8 5 France Nuyen and Laurence Harvey.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 06, 2019 11:21 AM (Ejm1K)

And I wonder if any moron has ever seen the movie they were in together.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at December 06, 2019 11:22 AM (LvkqA)

9 6 Were France and Laurence both in The Green Berets w/ John Wayne?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 06, 2019 11:22 AM (Ejm1K)

Not that I know of.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at December 06, 2019 11:23 AM (LvkqA)

10 Had to laugh that the phone records Schifferbrains released on Giuliani were for the White House switchboard.

Posted by: Roy at December 06, 2019 11:23 AM (+imMG)

11 Guy is clearly Richie Valens. It's apropos, as the art thread was a rendering of what he looked like after the crash.

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at December 06, 2019 11:23 AM (oZ6kz)

12 hiya

Posted by: JT at December 06, 2019 11:24 AM (arJlL)

13 I'm not liking this hangover.
Not one little bit.

killmenow

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 06, 2019 11:25 AM (d7Ww2)

14 Top 20!

Posted by: Roland THTG at December 06, 2019 11:25 AM (88+cf)

15 Orange Man Bad.
Do they say that at events at Syracuse U?

Posted by: henry at December 06, 2019 11:25 AM (JMDly)

16 Price transparency is an absolutely vital step on the path of fixing our medical system. Enforcing antitrust law to do away with opaque "how you pay determines what you pay" policies (which are illegal) would be a great combination.

Those two alone would basically fix the problem. There's always more to do, but transparent and consistent pricing with no chicanery, and a menu of all services available on-demand and conspicuously posted on their websites would get competition back into play in a damn hurry.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 11:26 AM (I2dne)

17 Laurence Harvey

Posted by: JT at December 06, 2019 11:26 AM (arJlL)

18 Based on the additional pics, this broad looks like anyone she wants to.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 11:26 AM (I2dne)

19 Present!

Posted by: Tonypete at December 06, 2019 11:26 AM (Y4EXg)

20 The babe is France Nuyen, who was smokin' in the Star Trek episode. The guy is NOT Jack Lord, though he kind of resembles him.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 06, 2019 11:27 AM (RD7QR)

21 Today's hottie is an alien, isn't she?

You can level with me.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 06, 2019 11:27 AM (4J1Bu)

22 Racehl Dolezal and Joe Biden

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at December 06, 2019 11:27 AM (CQ3Qb)

23 Lola Folana and Lou Diamond Phillips.

Posted by: jhawk90 at December 06, 2019 11:28 AM (/ZYFC)

24 Racehl Dolezal and Joe Biden
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at December 06, 2019 11:27 AM (CQ3Qb)
+++++++++++
Who Dis: Vomit-filled toilet edition

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 11:28 AM (I2dne)

25 I'm not altogether happy about this. Yes, this psychopathic rage-monkey
woman reaped what she sewed, the evil that she sought for another fell
upon her, she fell into the pit she dug for another, the hand grenade
went off in her own hand, etc., and that's a good thing. She's basically
a terrorist who got blown up by her own IED. But I really don't like
the idea of calling up somebody's employer to get her fired for reasons
completely unrelated to job performance. I don't like cancel culture,
and there's no good end to it.

Live by the sword, die by the sword.

Or alternatively

on't start nothin', won't be nothin'
-Agent J

Posted by: pep at December 06, 2019 11:28 AM (T6t7i)

26 8 5 France Nuyen and Laurence Harvey.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 06, 2019 11:21 AM (Ejm1K)

And I wonder if any moron has ever seen the movie they were in together.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at December 06, 2019

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I'll admit I had to look it up. A Girl Named Tamiko, from the same year as Manchurian Candidate. Never seen it.

France was married to I Spy star Robert Culp at one point.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 06, 2019 11:28 AM (Ejm1K)

27 Catch you all on the flip side! Waiting at the airport for the flight to Cancun for my sister's wedding. Hopefully we won't get shot up by the cartel.

Posted by: Dr. T at December 06, 2019 11:28 AM (jpzQ9)

28 It doesn't sound like anyone lobbied crazy bitch's employer to fire her. The owner saw her nastiness online and sacked her because he didn't want that kind of thing associated with his shop.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 06, 2019 11:29 AM (NWiLs)

29 I think joncelli got the dame right

Posted by: JT at December 06, 2019 11:29 AM (arJlL)

30 In other news, Canada's jobs report was the worst since 2008.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at December 06, 2019 11:29 AM (CQ3Qb)

31 She was in one of TOS episodes that I didn't like much.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2019 11:29 AM (axyOa)

32 28
It doesn't sound like anyone lobbied crazy bitch's employer to fire her.
The owner saw her nastiness online and sacked her because he didn't
want that kind of thing associated with his shop.

Posted by: Insomniac

That's what I concluded as well.

Posted by: pep at December 06, 2019 11:29 AM (T6t7i)

33 21 Today's hottie is an alien, isn't she?

You can level with me.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 06, 2019 11:27 AM (4J1Bu)

Plumb out of this world.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 06, 2019 11:30 AM (NWiLs)

34 29 I think joncelli got the dame right
Posted by: JT at December 06, 2019 11:29 AM (arJlL)

Wolfus aurelius got there first (dangit).

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 06, 2019 11:30 AM (RD7QR)

35 I was trying to think the other day what an honest Impeachment effort would look like

How far gone is the left?

Obama's soliciter general says the smoking gun of Trump's crime is in the transcript he released

That's the base driving the House

Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories at December 06, 2019 11:30 AM (xuLiP)

36 18 Based on the additional pics, this broad looks like anyone she wants to.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 11:26 AM (I2dne)

Yes. When looking for photos, I did discover she could pull off a lot of different looks. When I first saw her in that Star Trek episode, I thought she was either black, or of mixed white/black parentage.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at December 06, 2019 11:30 AM (LvkqA)

37 Karma's A Bitch: Cancel-Culture Enthusiast Gets Cancelled

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He wears a yarmulk under a MAGA hat? Two time loser.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 06, 2019 11:30 AM (+y/Ru)

38 France was also on The Man From U.N.C.L.E. in 1965 as a guest start, playing a Japanese. Apparently she is still alive, turning 80 this year. Even the more recent pics of her on IMDb are stunning.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 06, 2019 11:30 AM (Ejm1K)

39 I quit refreshing the front page for onnnnne minute...!

Posted by: mindful webworker - click for madscape at December 06, 2019 11:31 AM (Lsu/B)

40 No ideer who she is, but she would love you a long time.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 06, 2019 11:31 AM (q1Pj5)

41 13 I'm not liking this hangover.
Not one little bit.

killmenow
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 06, 2019 11:25 AM (d7Ww2)

WHAT WAS THAT? YOU HAVE A HANGNAIL?

Posted by: Insomniac at December 06, 2019 11:31 AM (NWiLs)

42 A Young Kamala Harris?

Posted by: garrett at December 06, 2019 11:31 AM (2oqPC)

43 Yes. When looking for photos, I did discover she could pull off a lot of different looks. When I first saw her in that Star Trek episode, I thought she was either black, or of mixed white/black parentage.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at December 06, 2019 11:30 AM (LvkqA)
+++++++++++
Me, too.

Surprise!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 11:32 AM (I2dne)

44 And I wonder if any moron has ever seen the movie they were in together.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at December 06, 2019 11:22 AM (LvkqA)
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Yes, a long, long time ago.

Posted by: Captain Obvious at December 06, 2019 11:32 AM (3Z6pZ)

45 I'll admit I had to look it up. A Girl Named Tamiko,

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

*fistbump. Same here.

And no, never seen it.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2019 11:32 AM (yDqYW)

46 31 She was in one of TOS episodes that I didn't like much.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2019

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A "Taming of the Shrew"-type story. But it does have some of the neatest space-battle sequences in the show's history. Even before the new effects were inserted, the shots of the Enterprise were detailed and fantastic.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 06, 2019 11:32 AM (Ejm1K)

47 I know that's Frances Nuyen. Don't know who he is.

Posted by: Bicentennialguy at December 06, 2019 11:32 AM (l7lkw)

48 30: I'm sure this is the fault of orange man bad. By MAGA we are hobbling all other economies according to typical liberal talking points.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at December 06, 2019 11:32 AM (n4y+3)

49 "Prof. Jonathan Turley: "Orange man bad, maybe, but not impeachable."

Turley was somewhat praised by "conservative" voices for being the sane one, but even he said Trump's conversation was wrong, just not impeachable. There was nothing wrong ... a coup run out of Ukraine is wrong ... Biden, Kerry, McCain ... many others taking millions in graft out of Ukraine (and China, Saudi Arabia, etc.) is WRONG.

Stopping the graft machine that sells America piecemeal is essential ... and Trump is the one to do it, even as our intel community runs their silent/covert coup against him (and US).

Turley's statement was also fully partisan ... it is not wrong to stop the DC Graft machine ... Turley voted Hillary, Queen of graft (and murder?, and God knows what else). Turley is no hero, he just refused to fully join the coup, so he could remain standing after it failed.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 06, 2019 11:33 AM (Cus5s)

50 Lola Folana and Lou Diamond Phillips.

Posted by: jhawk90 at December 06, 2019 11:28 AM (/ZYFC)

Her name was Lola? Showgirl?

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 06, 2019 11:33 AM (q1Pj5)

51 I have to say this headline made me laugh:

"Hillary announces she's not a lesbian."

https://tinyurl.com/tvcp7xe

What made it funnier was that underneath it a comment that "This is good news for lesbians who don't have to worry about Hillary hitting on them in a bar."

(And JFTR, I would vote for a gay person for President if they were conservative and not going to force the baking of wedding cakes for gay marriages, or forcing clergy to perform gay marriages)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2019 11:33 AM (WI7YS)

52 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 11:33 AM (tjClK)

53
France Nguyen and Lawrence Harvey. What did they appear in together?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 11:33 AM (zBaqJ)

54 28 It doesn't sound like anyone lobbied crazy bitch's employer to fire her. The owner saw her nastiness online and sacked her because he didn't want that kind of thing associated with his shop.
Posted by: Insomniac at December 06, 2019 11:29 AM (NWiLs)

I just assumed someone had to have called him. But maybe you're right.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at December 06, 2019 11:33 AM (LvkqA)

55 Don't start none, won't be none.

Posted by: mikeyG at December 06, 2019 11:33 AM (lnyJN)

56
38 France was also on The Man From U.N.C.L.E. in 1965 as a guest start, playing a Japanese. Apparently she is still alive, turning 80 this year. Even the more recent pics of her on IMDb are stunning.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 06, 2019 11:30 AM (Ejm1K)

Screen debut as Liat in "South Pacific" IIRC.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 11:34 AM (zBaqJ)

57 Crazy Legs Biden's pool story might be one of the most fucked up things I have ever heard. And he's still leading dems in some polls. Please let it be him, just for the sheer entertainment value. I mean ANY other candidate saying that would be sent to the Rubber Ramada in about 5 min. He's challenging 84 year olds to push up contests and calling them fat FFS. He's fucking crazy. And yet, still a front runner. Wow, just, wow.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 06, 2019 11:34 AM (r7Fvf)

58 "It doesn't sound like anyone lobbied crazy bitch's employer to fire her.
The owner saw her nastiness online and sacked her because he didn't
want that kind of thing associated with his shop."

SEE!!! The Trump economy is the worse ever. People are losing their jobs!!!!

Posted by: Huffington Post Follower at December 06, 2019 11:34 AM (10bW0)

59 54 28 It doesn't sound like anyone lobbied crazy bitch's employer to fire her. The owner saw her nastiness online and sacked her because he didn't want that kind of thing associated with his shop.
Posted by: Insomniac at December 06, 2019 11:29 AM (NWiLs)

I just assumed someone had to have called him. But maybe you're right.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at December 06, 2019 11:33 AM (LvkqA)

That's my conclusion from the news clip anyway.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 06, 2019 11:34 AM (NWiLs)

60 23 Lola Folana and Lou Diamond Phillips.
Posted by: jhawk90 at December 06, 2019 11:28 AM (/ZYFC)

I'll give you a consolation trophy for most creative (but wrong) guess.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at December 06, 2019 11:34 AM (LvkqA)

61 Cancel culture is evil. However, reap what ye sow. If someone should get fired for being a fascist asshole because of a hat, good. I'm fine with it.

Will I do that? Not sure. I don't wear Trump gear because I don't want to deal with those assholes. I have a temper that would likely lead me into bad situations should I be confronted by an idiot like that.

I choose not to put myself in those situations.

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 11:34 AM (tjClK)

62 "Elaan of Troyus" was the only TOS episode directed by its writer.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 06, 2019 11:35 AM (E+OcO)

63 50 Lola Folana and Lou Diamond Phillips.

Posted by: jhawk90 at December 06, 2019 11:28 AM (/ZYFC)

Her name was Lola? Showgirl?
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 06, 2019

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Nah, that was 30 years ago when they used to have a show.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 06, 2019 11:35 AM (Ejm1K)

64 This is hilarious! Rich Zeoli's ad for "Biden's Summer Camp"

https://tinyurl.com/vgsoout

Posted by: josephistan at December 06, 2019 11:35 AM (7HtZB)

65 Turley is no hero, he just refused to fully join the coup, so he could remain standing after it failed.

Disagree. I have no problem with people disagreeing with me. He took a stand that's going to cost him. He did it because he could see that what the Dems were doing was just plain evil.

There are lots and lots of people in his position who would not have had the courage to tell the committee off.

Posted by: pep at December 06, 2019 11:35 AM (T6t7i)

66 That Biden cartoon is one of the best movies of the year. it should be put up for an Academy Award. I'd watch that shitshow for that.

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 11:35 AM (tjClK)

67 I realize that actual logical discussion of the substance of an issue is now deemed archaic and boring - all that matters are ad hominem matters and arguments from authority and every other item in the fallacy menu - but did any of the GOP, or Turley, make the only really relevant point in all of this - that exercise of constitutional executive authority cannot be made impeachable without basically voiding the fundamentals of the constitution?

Rudy alludes to this fundamental question in his twatters today, but I see it almost nowhere.

I get that Turley is not an unhinged lightweight like these other freaks, but don't get the impression he was very aggressive about the fundamental fallacy at play. President's exercise of plenary foreign affairs authority, whether it "benefits" him politically or not, cannot be impeachable, or Article II is pretty much void.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 06, 2019 11:35 AM (El6T/)

68 A bunch of professors who didn't actually witness anything?
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That also happens in courts every day. It's called "expert witness".

But, no it wasn't that either--except for Turley. And that new tidbit that the founders would have been really mad at a president naming their son a homophone of a nobility rank a decade before serving in office, and that would constitute a mindset that he would want to convey a nobility title on said son, and that mindset would be impeachable without any accompanying action.

*rainbow star* The more you know.

Posted by: Axeman at December 06, 2019 11:35 AM (YOhRS)

69 I was trying to think the other day what an honest Impeachment effort would look like

How far gone is the left?

Obama's soliciter general says the smoking gun of Trump's crime is in the transcript he released

That's the base driving the House
Posted by: RoyalOil

They think impeachment is like an eviction letter.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2019 11:35 AM (yDqYW)

70 Biden calls a voter a fat liar, for asking the questions that Media not the Impeachers dare not ask. If Biden is exposed the whole case for Impeachment collapses

Giuliani has decades of proof of how Joe funneled money to Hunter. I know of MBNA and China. He got more out of Ukraine than a no show board seat

Hunter probably never earned an honest nickel in his life

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 06, 2019 11:36 AM (uBh2i)

71 France Nuyen is Vietnamese (by way of France, interestingly).

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 06, 2019 11:36 AM (RD7QR)

72 28 It doesn't sound like anyone lobbied crazy bitch's employer to fire her. The owner saw her nastiness online and sacked her because he didn't want that kind of thing associated with his shop.
Posted by: Insomniac at December 06, 2019 11:29 AM (NWiLs)

People like that don't just suddenly loose it. My bet is she has had issues before, and this is just the 'straw' that broke the camel's back.

Posted by: Don Q at December 06, 2019 11:36 AM (NgKpN)

73 Obama was "the clothes have no emperor".

Trump is "the emperor is surrounded by crazy naked people".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 06, 2019 11:36 AM (pPXtl)

74 She was in Code Name: Diamond Head

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 06, 2019 11:36 AM (aKsyK)

75 60 23 Lola Folana and Lou Diamond Phillips.
Posted by: jhawk90 at December 06, 2019 11:28 AM (/ZYFC)

I'll give you a consolation trophy for most creative (but wrong) guess.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at December 06, 2019 11:34 AM (LvkqA)

I guessed France Nguyen and Lawrence Harvey. No idea of the connection. Manchurian Candidate? Nah, that can't be it...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 11:36 AM (zBaqJ)

76 53
France Nguyen and Lawrence Harvey. What did they appear in together?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 11:33 AM (zBaqJ)

A movie I had never heard of. See #26.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at December 06, 2019 11:36 AM (LvkqA)

77 France Nguyen and Lawrence Harvey. What did they appear in together?

Cory Booker's spank bank ?

Posted by: Lurking Libertarian at December 06, 2019 11:37 AM (ob5xJ)

78 62 "Elaan of Troyus" was the only TOS episode directed by its writer.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 06, 2019

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Didn't realize that. John Meredyth Lucas knew the show well; he'd directed several episodes.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 06, 2019 11:37 AM (Ejm1K)

79 She's basically a terrorist who got blown up by her own IED
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Ah. The modern-day of the actual sense of "Hoist by one's own petard." (A petard was an explosive charge. But I shouldn't have to tell a smart military blog that.)

Posted by: Axeman at December 06, 2019 11:37 AM (YOhRS)

80 The boot came around on that womyn pretty quickly. I also like the point that other people in the Starbucks began to shout her down.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet - Leftovers are The Bachelor's Main Meal! at December 06, 2019 11:37 AM (0QYMt)

81 The Facts are no defense!

Posted by: The Left at December 06, 2019 11:37 AM (Ry8mf)

82 That's my conclusion from the news clip anyway.
Posted by: Insomniac at December 06, 2019 11:34 AM (NWiLs)

It wasn't specific that people stormed the store and pissed about the selfrighteous cuunt, but the employer was definitely pointed to her fascistbook page full of fascism demanding others ruin this old man's life.

THAT'S what got her fired. HER. OWN. ACTIONS.

As it SHOULD be.

Fuck her. With an infected donkey dick.

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 11:38 AM (tjClK)

83
France Nuyen is Vietnamese (by way of France, interestingly).
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to

It's a name like Germany Jones.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 06, 2019 11:38 AM (aKsyK)

84
Turley rebuked the impeachment. He said he didn't support nor vote for Trump but he didn't say he thought Trump was guilty and he blasted this whole thing as dangerous. For this reason, whatever his political bent, I for one think he is a hero here.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 11:38 AM (zBaqJ)

85 Cher and Trudeau.

Posted by: Roland THTG at December 06, 2019 11:38 AM (88+cf)

86 71 France Nuyen is Vietnamese (by way of France, interestingly).
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 06, 2019 11:36 AM (RD7QR)

Makes sense, since the French basically invaded the region in, what, late 19th-early 20th century?

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at December 06, 2019 11:38 AM (LvkqA)

87 Man, just saw a picture in the local rag that broke my heart. A Minnesota National Guard Blackhawk went down yesterday near St. Cloud, killing all 3 on board. The pic has the mangled bird in the woods near the edge of a field and behind it in the background is a steeple with a cross. The sun is hitting it perfectly illuminating it in the pic. SO sad. God bless them and their families.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 06, 2019 11:38 AM (r7Fvf)

88 60

Posted by: firefirefire at December 06, 2019 11:38 AM (Seb55)

89 I get that Turley is not an unhinged lightweight
like these other freaks, but don't get the impression he was very
aggressive about the fundamental fallacy at play. President's exercise
of plenary foreign affairs authority, whether it "benefits" him
politically or not, cannot be impeachable, or Article II is pretty much
void.

Posted by: rhomboid

I think he was very canny. He knew that delivering a foaming-at-the-mouth jeremiad would have enabled the others to dismiss him. As it was, he came across as the only sane one on the panel.
Sometimes less is more. Just ask Pamela Karlan.

Posted by: pep at December 06, 2019 11:39 AM (T6t7i)

90 Posted by: Axeman at December 06, 2019 11:35 AM (YOhRS)

but the testimony of said expert witnesses are supposed to be both expert, and unbiased.

The bias they showed BEFORE the testimony, where 3 out of 4 were calling for Trump's impeachment for OTHER stuff he supposedly did, shows that their 'opinions' were tainted.

And if there had been an actual defense attorney there who had time to research said witnesses, then that would have come out in court.

Posted by: Don Q at December 06, 2019 11:39 AM (NgKpN)

91 Strange, we don't *feel* like we're closing in.

Posted by: The walls at December 06, 2019 11:39 AM (cykH2)

92 80 The boot came around on that womyn pretty quickly. I also like the point that other people in the Starbucks began to shout her down.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet - Leftovers are The Bachelor's Main Meal! at December 06, 2019 11:37 AM (0QYMt)

Yeah, talk about overplaying your hand.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at December 06, 2019 11:39 AM (LvkqA)

93 In other news, Canada's jobs report was the worst since 2008.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at December 06, 2019 11:29 AM

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This may be the first time in history that the US economy is roaring along and the rest of the World's are circling the crapper.

Germany, the economic powerhouse behind the EU, is heading into a recession, and China is barely staying afloat after they devalued their currency once again.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 06, 2019 11:40 AM (JUOKG)

94 Cancun? Hope your will is current.

Wouldn't go to Mexico if it was all paid for.

Posted by: Ha at December 06, 2019 11:40 AM (6A9Kg)

95 I'm sorry. Call me what you will, but a woman comes in to interview for a job as an accountant where I am performing the interview and I'm laughing the entire time.

She better have some pretty fucking stellar credentials to pull off that look and an extensively important role as my business's accountant.

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 11:40 AM (tjClK)

96 Turley rebuked the impeachment. He said he didn't support nor vote for Trump but he didn't say he thought Trump was guilty and he blasted this whole thing as dangerous. For this reason, whatever his political bent, I for one think he is a hero here.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2019 11:38 AM

Which is more than we can say about the rest of the cunnnts on team Never Trump. Do they think we are EVER coming back? Fucking Vichy.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 06, 2019 11:40 AM (r7Fvf)

97 I like Jonathan Turley. I think he's an old style liberal, not a leftist:

Complete opening statement and transcript:

https://tinyurl.com/t2t7k9m

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2019 11:40 AM (WI7YS)

98 My wife and I were discussing the Shampeachment Insanity last night and she caught me in a problem - I'm attempting to apply logic to the situation whereas she simply operates from the premise that Trump Broke Them and everything falls neatly into place.

I think this is also why Trump is not simply asserting that the Donks are attempting to impeach him for simply doing the job that, under the Constitution, he has plenary responsibility for. It's pointless.

I still don't see this passing the House and I get the impression the absolute last thing the not-utterly-insane Democrats (few though they are) want is for Trump to be able to spend the entire holiday season smacking them around on TweetSlum etc. with how unhinged they are.

Posted by: DocJ at December 06, 2019 11:40 AM (77WPm)

99 86 71 France Nuyen is Vietnamese (by way of France, interestingly).
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 06, 2019 11:36 AM (RD7QR)

Makes sense, since the French basically invaded the region in, what, late 19th-early 20th century?
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at December 06, 2019 11:38 AM (LvkqA)

Mid to late 19th century, through several wars.

Posted by: josephistan at December 06, 2019 11:40 AM (7HtZB)

100 Biden calls a voter a fat liar, for asking the questions that Media not the Impeachers dare not ask.

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Joe is a stupid, mean bully.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 06, 2019 11:41 AM (+y/Ru)

101 It doesn't sound like anyone lobbied crazy bitch's
employer to fire her. The owner saw her nastiness online and sacked her
because he didn't want that kind of thing associated with his shop.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 06, 2019 11:29 AM (NWiLs)

People like that don't just suddenly loose it. My bet is she has
had issues before, and this is just the 'straw' that broke the camel's
back.

Posted by: Don Q at December 06, 2019 11:36 AM (NgKpN)

*Looks at Parker Mankey's various hairdos in the clip*
Issues? Oh yeah, she has issues. She needs a whole team of specialists from Vienna studying her around the clock.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 06, 2019 11:41 AM (q1Pj5)

102 When's the next impeachment hearing? I'm tired of this work stuff.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at December 06, 2019 11:41 AM (CQ3Qb)

103 I am 100% in favor of what happened to that mohawked piece of shit, I'm not giving the cancelling or doxxing of prog assholes even one second of pause. They can all go fuck themselves, they've more than earned it.

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at December 06, 2019 11:41 AM (jjaLl)

104 The facts say impeach Biden

Posted by: Jean at December 06, 2019 11:41 AM (nlzuN)

105 People like that don't just suddenly loose it. My bet is she has had issues before, and this is just the 'straw' that broke the camel's back.

That person has "issues?" The deuce, you say.

Posted by: Bob the Bilderberg at December 06, 2019 11:41 AM (qc+VF)

106 I can't figure out what it was with Bob Culp. A man as incredibly handsome and charming as he was but he couldn't hold together several marriages, including the one to France.

Posted by: Utility muffin at December 06, 2019 11:41 AM (cykH2)

107 80
The boot came around on that womyn pretty quickly. I also like the point
that other people in the Starbucks began to shout her down.

Perhaps the average person has had enough of self-important drama queens demanding that everyone notice how pure they are.

Posted by: pep at December 06, 2019 11:42 AM (T6t7i)

108 Hunter probably never earned an honest nickel in his life
Posted by: Ignoramus at December 06, 2019 11:36 AM (uBh2i)

"Hey, all that coke isn't going to snort itself, you know."

--H. Biden

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at December 06, 2019 11:42 AM (LvkqA)

109 "I don't like cancel culture,and there's no good end to it.
Live by the sword, die by the sword."

she deserved to be fired, but I hope the owner of the shop consulted his attorney first, or he may face an SJW lawsuit. idk CA law (or any other state law) on this issue. Certainly more public figures (sports stars, actors) may have contracts that stipulate certain requirements about their extracurricular activities, but an accountant ... not so sure where that line of "disgracing the store's image" would fall.

If he loses a lawsuit, it would be wise for every employer to make those requirements clear when hiring. (long haired hippy SJWs need not apply)

Posted by: illiniwek at December 06, 2019 11:42 AM (Cus5s)

110 Joan Collins in her asian stage

Posted by: zeera BMGG - Books Make Great Gifts! at December 06, 2019 11:42 AM (X+a7J)

111 79 She's basically a terrorist who got blown up by her own IED
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Ah. The modern-day of the actual sense of "Hoist by one's own petard." (A petard was an explosive charge. But I shouldn't have to tell a smart military blog that.)
Posted by: Axeman at December 06, 2019 11:37 AM (YOhRS)

I would make an Achmed the Dead Terrorist joke here, but since Jeff Dumham went political and anti Trump in his last special, I won't.

Posted by: Don Q at December 06, 2019 11:42 AM (NgKpN)

112 100 Biden calls a voter a fat liar, for asking the questions that Media not the Impeachers dare not ask.

-
Joe is a stupid, mean bully.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 06, 2019 11:41 AM (+y/Ru)

He's the kind of guy who would pick a fight with you in the parking lot of a Foghat concert because you looked at his "old lady"

Posted by: josephistan at December 06, 2019 11:43 AM (7HtZB)

113 It's so odd, usually fat women with purposely repellent hairstyles are such jovial, friendly people.

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at December 06, 2019 11:43 AM (oZ6kz)

114 The last pic of the pretty lady has a Bettie Page feel to it.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Purveyor of Locally Sourced artisinal Hogwash at December 06, 2019 11:43 AM (xPJvm)

115
TBF to Turley, he was lead attorney for the House GOP in their case against Obama over the DREAMers. And he said in no uncertain terms that the President was violating the Constitution, and usurping Congress.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 06, 2019 11:43 AM (AzW6q)

116 106 I can't figure out what it was with Bob Culp. A man as incredibly handsome and charming as he was but he couldn't hold together several marriages, including the one to France.
Posted by: Utility muffin at December 06, 2019 11:41 AM (cykH2)

I know nothing about him, but maybe he was just a dick.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at December 06, 2019 11:43 AM (LvkqA)

117 102 When's the next impeachment hearing? I'm tired of this work stuff.
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at December 06, 2019 11:41 AM (CQ3Qb)

Monday--same day as the IG report, interestingly.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 06, 2019 11:43 AM (RD7QR)

118 THAT'S what got her fired. HER. OWN. ACTIONS.

As it SHOULD be.

Fuck her. With an infected donkey dick.

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 11:38 AM (tjClK)

Yup.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 06, 2019 11:43 AM (9Om/r)

119 I am 100% in favor of what happened to that mohawked piece of shit, I'm not giving the cancelling or doxxing of prog assholes even one second of pause. They can all go fuck themselves, they've more than earned it.

Exactly.

This is a hot war. Our survival is at stake. There are no rules or limits.

Posted by: Lurking Libertarian at December 06, 2019 11:44 AM (ob5xJ)

120 Manchurian Candidate might be the most overrated lib rubbish of the 60's. From the first scene when a patrol of soldiers all get jumped and bonked on the head unconscious at the exact same time, to the lib boogeyman McCarthy type character to the fundamental hypocrisy of the plot and the anti-American Democrat party commie coddling story, this is a movie I absolutely loathe. Great performances by the cast, Sinatra, Lansbury and the rest, but an absolutely ludicrous and obnoxious lib lecture disguised as a silly thriller. Right shit.

Posted by: Rex Reed's Machismo at December 06, 2019 11:44 AM (pyfqd)

121 98 My wife and I were discussing the Shampeachment Insanity last night and she caught me in a problem - I'm attempting to apply logic to the situation whereas she simply operates from the premise that Trump Broke Them and everything falls neatly into place.

I think this is also why Trump is not simply asserting that the Donks are attempting to impeach him for simply doing the job that, under the Constitution, he has plenary responsibility for. It's pointless.

I still don't see this passing the House and I get the impression the absolute last thing the not-utterly-insane Democrats (few though they are) want is for Trump to be able to spend the entire holiday season smacking them around on TweetSlum etc. with how unhinged they are.
Posted by: DocJ at December 06, 2019 11:40 AM (77WPm)
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You were good on the first two paragraphs and then went ahead and tried to apply logic in the third. You're wife is on the right track-Don't apply logic.

Posted by: WisRich at December 06, 2019 11:44 AM (G0vdT)

122 People like that don't just suddenly loose it. My bet is she has had issues before, and this is just the 'straw' that broke the camel's back.

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She has had issues? No, National Geographic has had some issues...

Posted by: josephistan at December 06, 2019 11:44 AM (7HtZB)

123 I am 100% in favor of what happened to that mohawked piece of shit, I'm not giving the cancelling or doxxing of prog assholes even one second of pause. They can all go fuck themselves, they've more than earned it.
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at December 06, 2019 11:41 AM (jjaLl)

Seconded. Our side didn't invent doxxland, nor the rules of doxxball. Thus, I give precisely no shits when doxxing is done to the side who have weaponized it against people like me. Zero/

Posted by: DocJ at December 06, 2019 11:44 AM (77WPm)

124 France Nuyen is Vietnamese (by way of France, interestingly).

It was "French Indo-China" at one point.

Posted by: t-bird at December 06, 2019 11:44 AM (CDGwz)

125 Raymond Shaw - traitor! Alternated the kindest most wonderful person I've ever known

Posted by: Boswell at December 06, 2019 11:44 AM (32YRo)

126 Miss Nuyen was born at a time when French Indo-China was still around, although the French presence there would be on life support very shortly.

Posted by: Captain Obvious at December 06, 2019 11:44 AM (3Z6pZ)

127 He's the kind of guy who would pick a fight with you in the parking lot of a Foghat concert because you looked at his "old lady"
Posted by: josephistan at December 06, 2019 11:43 AM (7HtZB)

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Or for being a black boy at a swimming pool in Jim Crow-era Delaware.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 06, 2019 11:44 AM (AzW6q)

128 "...the hand grenade went off in her own hand, etc., and that's a good thing. She's basically a terrorist who got blown up by her own IED."

That is precisely what Shakespeare meant when he coined the phrase "hoist on one's own petard."

Posted by: tankdemon at December 06, 2019 11:44 AM (XMw1v)

129 110 Joan Collins in her asian stage

Posted by: zeera BMGG - Books Make Great Gifts! at December 06, 2019 11:42 AM (X+a7J)

I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at December 06, 2019 11:44 AM (LvkqA)

130 Yeah, I don't like cancel culture either. I also don't like cyanide - but if someone trying to poison someone else with cyanide ends up dosing themselves by accident, I say bravo.

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at December 06, 2019 11:44 AM (oZ6kz)

131 116

True, true.

(as he and Cosby used to quip on I SPY)

Posted by: Utility muffin at December 06, 2019 11:45 AM (cykH2)

132 I'm sorry. Call me what you will, but a woman comes in to interview for a job as an accountant where I am performing the interview and I'm laughing the entire time.

She better have some pretty fucking stellar credentials to pull off that look and an extensively important role as my business's accountant.
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That's all right - they hired a woman here with a pile of hot pink hair on the top of her head and the sides shaved. She's covered head to toe in tattoos and she's not young. They changed the fucking dress code to accommodate her. The same dress code they had been using to send people home and if necessary use violations thereof to bolster firing them. She wears the tightest clothes, where you can see every dimple of cellulite in her thighs. But she's a bicyclist and thinks she has a smoking hot body. Not.

And she doesn't have some special skill set - she's makes flyers, essentially.

Posted by: Bicentennialguy at December 06, 2019 11:45 AM (l7lkw)

133 113 It's so odd, usually fat women with purposely repellent hairstyles are such jovial, friendly people.
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at December 06, 2019 11:43 AM (oZ6kz)

The cat's eye frames totally make her seem normal and stable.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 06, 2019 11:45 AM (RD7QR)

134 The reporter's comment " she has disappeared and he is still walking the street"

As if he is surprised that the old guy wasn't jailed.

Some of the world's greatest shitholes are right here in the USA.

Posted by: mikeyG at December 06, 2019 11:45 AM (lnyJN)

135 83

France Nuyen is Vietnamese (by way of France, interestingly).

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to

It's a name like Germany Jones.

so... named after the dog?

Posted by: Anachronda at December 06, 2019 11:45 AM (sGtp+)

136 Regarding the Palo Alto freakazoid being fired. That's not "cancel culture". She was punted from her job for bad behavior, pure and simple. Actions have consequences.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2019 11:45 AM (/sgva)

137 -
Joe is a stupid, mean bully.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 06, 2019 11:41 AM (+y/Ru)

The man has spent his entire life getting away with lie after lie after lie, bullying, molesting and making his family rich with nary a consequence.

OF COURSE he's pissed off when he's challenged. HE'S NEVER BEEN CHALLENGED before.

It's just like hollywood. It's just like the participation trophy generation.

They don't know what the fuck to do when things don't go their way because they've NEVER had to DEAL with it before.

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 11:45 AM (tjClK)

138 Biden calls a voter a fat liar, for asking the questions that Media not the Impeachers dare not ask.

-
Joe is a stupid, mean bully.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 06, 2019 11:41 AM (+y/Ru)

Which is what comes of having a permanent security detail. Someone needs to take that blathering paste-eating fool up on his "let's take this outside!" posturing and break his fucking jaw.

A great many of the problems with our governing class is that they do not get told "fuck you" or end up in the casualty wards often enough.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 06, 2019 11:46 AM (Ki5SV)

139 Monday--same day as the IG report, interestingly.

It'd be a damned shame if they released it on Sunday!

Posted by: t-bird at December 06, 2019 11:46 AM (CDGwz)

140 Cruise worker, 53, arrested after a 13-year-old girl claimed he repeatedly raped and used spatula, hairbrush and vibrator on her more than 100 TIMES

Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at December 06, 2019 11:46 AM (BqBId)

141 pep, was wondering if Turley aggressively made the substantive point, wouldn't expect him to engage in theatrics - he's a very measured and calm sort by nature.

Just think one of the actually important points in all this - and Trump clearly agrees and sees it - is to harshly smack down such a dangerous, if frivolous, concept as the president cannot exercise vital foreign affairs powers if there is some arguable political angle to any of it. Trump says "no other president" should face what he has endured, and that includes of course this baseless impeachment effort.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 06, 2019 11:46 AM (El6T/)

142 Biden calls a voter a fat liar, for asking the questions that Media not the Impeachers dare not ask.

Joe is a stupid, mean bully.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 06, 2019 11:41 AM (+y/Ru)

He's the kind of guy who would pick a fight with you in the parking lot of a Foghat concert because you looked at his "old lady"
Posted by: josephistan at December 06, 2019 11:43 AM (7HtZB)

Gropey is very brave and tough while he's surrounded by Secret Service who will break in half anyone who gets to close to him.

Posted by: DocJ at December 06, 2019 11:46 AM (77WPm)

143 Wasn't Laurence Harvey in South Pacific too? I seem to remember him talk/singing You've Got to Be Taught to Hate. Perhaps they were in two movies together.

Posted by: Wenda (sic) at December 06, 2019 11:46 AM (SQ8xo)

144 Yeah, I don't like cancel culture either. I also
don't like cyanide - but if someone trying to poison someone else with
cyanide ends up dosing themselves by accident, I say bravo.

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at December 06, 2019 11:44 AM (oZ6kz)

So the flagon with the dragon has the brew that is true. Words to remember.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 06, 2019 11:46 AM (q1Pj5)

145 Breitbart's best contribution to the political lexicon was, 'Fuck You, War!'

There is no 'restraint because we're better than that' anymore.

FUW

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 06, 2019 11:46 AM (cpLq8)

146 118 THAT'S what got her fired. HER. OWN. ACTIONS.

As it SHOULD be.

Fuck her. With an infected donkey dick.

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 11:38 AM (tjClK)

Yup.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 06, 2019 11:43 AM (9Om/r)

Hey Esse, even we have standards.

Posted by: Tijuanna Donkey Show Burro who has the clap at December 06, 2019 11:46 AM (NgKpN)

147 she deserved to be fired, but I hope the owner of
the shop consulted his attorney first, or he may face an SJW lawsuit.
idk CA law (or any other state law) on this issue. Certainly more public
figures (sports stars, actors) may have contracts that stipulate
certain requirements about their extracurricular activities, but an
accountant ... not so sure where that line of "disgracing the store's
image" would fall.

If he loses a lawsuit, it would be wise
for every employer to make those requirements clear when hiring. (long
haired hippy SJWs need not apply)

Posted by: illiniwek at December 06, 2019 11:42 AM

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While she will probably get unemployment for being fired because it is California, I doubt anyone would take that lawsuit on.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 06, 2019 11:47 AM (JUOKG)

148 I hope Joe picks a fight with the wrong guy, someone like Rich Giamboni.

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at December 06, 2019 11:47 AM (oZ6kz)

149 Monday--same day as the IG report, interestingly.
Posted by: joncelli

I was specifically told it was going to be today.

#twoweeks is now just one day.

Horowitz is going to take a sledgehammer to the Deep State and there will be massive FBI raids of the perps simultaneous with the release of the report.
Posted by: MAGA at December 05, 2019 08:01 AM (I5LRE)

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2019 11:47 AM (yDqYW)

150 The last pic of the pretty lady has a Bettie Page feel to it.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Purveyor of Locally Sourced artisinal Hogwash at December 06, 2019 11:43 AM (xPJvm)
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It's the bangs, the bangs really do it for me.

Posted by: Captain Obvious at December 06, 2019 11:47 AM (3Z6pZ)

151 On a side question for folks more in tune (SWIDT) with the acoustic music world, I didn't recognize the guy identified as the owner of Gryphon. I thought Gryphon was Frank Ford's shop. Or is he even still alive?

Posted by: Bob the Bilderberg at December 06, 2019 11:47 AM (qc+VF)

152 114 The last pic of the pretty lady has a Bettie Page feel to it.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Purveyor of Locally Sourced artisinal Hogwash at December 06, 2019 11:43 AM (xPJvm)

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That photo is the epitome of the "come hither" look.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 06, 2019 11:47 AM (CAJOC)

153 Cruise worker, 53,

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Huh. I wonder which conservative blogger it was.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 06, 2019 11:47 AM (AzW6q)

154 145 Breitbart's best contribution to the political lexicon was, 'Fuck You, War!'

There is no 'restraint because we're better than that' anymore.

FUW
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 06, 2019 11:46 AM (cpLq

War is what happens when politics fails.

Very well, Politics have failed us for about 40 years, so yes, War.

Posted by: Don Q at December 06, 2019 11:48 AM (NgKpN)

155 Looks like the One Adam 12 fellow .

Posted by: Easy Andy at December 06, 2019 11:48 AM (f4qXm)

156 In other news, Canada's jobs report was the worst since 2008.
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at December 06, 2019 11:29 AM (CQ3Qb)

Scarcely surprising, considering the idiot asshole that Ontario and Quebec elected for us.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2019 11:48 AM (/sgva)

157 I would make an Achmed the Dead Terrorist joke here, but since Jeff Dumham went political and anti Trump in his last special, I won't.
Posted by: Don Q at December 06, 2019 11:42 AM (NgKpN)

Did he really?

That's VERY disappointing.....

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 11:48 AM (tjClK)

158 ace's link to the meltdown at the Sander's rally was a clear view into the unsalvageable tantrum-throwing toddlers that these people have become.

This too, is the story of Obama.

Posted by: mikeyG at December 06, 2019 11:48 AM (lnyJN)

159 I was trying to think the other day what an honest Impeachment effort would look like

Posted by: RoyalOil
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I'm guessing there would first be a crime. And not just an action interpreted to be criminal. An action that falls in the middle of 20-80% mark of what any educated person would consider to be criminal actions.

Not arguing that possible information that you might get that might possibly help your campaign against somebody you *might* run against, eventually constitutes a "thing of value" and violates the FEC rules on foreign donations to a campaign, even though

My understanding from reading Andrew McCarthy
1. "Information" has been challenged as a "thing of value" before and has been definitively found as not applying.
2. Elton John's benefit concert for money going directly into DNC coffers was ruled as not a "thing of value" by judges.
3. FEC is civil law and just calls for restitution.

And understanding from my own reading of the FEC statute is that there is no reason in hell to equivocate valuable information as a "donation of a thing of value". But equivocators gonna equivocate.

And that's why they are dangerous to the Rule of Law. Because they will equivocate their "opponent's" rights away.

Posted by: Axeman at December 06, 2019 11:48 AM (YOhRS)

160 Hi, folks-

I was going to post an Advent devotional from the Minister friend of a friend of mine, (I posted one earlier this week). However, it is hurting my joints to type a long thing. I'm sorry. So in lieu of that, I'm posting some thoughts by a woman whose husband died unexpectedly several years ago during Advent and her thoughts on God with us in darkness and grief:

https://tinyurl.com/sesu98y

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2019 11:48 AM (WI7YS)

161 Biden calls a voter a fat liar

I can't believe that guy is 83. He's a little wobbly, but he looks a lot younger.

He's an old-school Democrat. Still wants his big government, but not a corrupt big government.

Posted by: t-bird at December 06, 2019 11:49 AM (gHCnG)

162 It is infuriating that the Impeachment farce is only possible bc Nancy has those sixteen or so extra votes that would not be possible if the idiot GOP/Ronna Romney McDaniel had actually fought for the seats, including a plan to counter ballot harvesting in CA. Most of these new Dems won on promising improved HC. Maybe it would be wise for the GOP to roll-out a plan of their own.

Posted by: Ever at December 06, 2019 11:49 AM (R0z7P)

163 I usually hear the name Nguyen pronounced as "Winn," but years ago I worked with an engineer who pronounced it "New-Yen". He even had that phonetic spelling in parentheses in his e-mail sig block. But I almost never hear it pronounced that way.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Purveyor of Locally Sourced artisinal Hogwash at December 06, 2019 11:49 AM (xPJvm)

164 67, The Lawfare group and those sympathetic to it have effectively misused law to attack legitimate constitutional powers of things they do not agree with. Perry's receipt of a ridiculous criminal complaint over his threatened veto of funding for Travis County keeping a deranged drunken prosecutor on its staff that had demonstrated her abuse of power in office comes to mind. The trial judge likewise collaborated in the farce requiring the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to stomp on it with fire eventually. However, it removed Perry from being able to run for president which was its purpose.

The process of lawfare is simple, use the court system and sympathetic judges and jurisdictions to thwart any government actions over and over again. This is somewhat similar to environmental groups using this technique to basically stymie things like the construction of the pipeline of Canadian oil or development of Artic oil resources.

Essentially, this approach should be stomped by higher courts as under the doctrine of collateral estoppel. A bunch of summary reversals would also be in order for decisions of rogue district court judges as the Court did in the massive resistance to integration days.

Posted by: whig at December 06, 2019 11:50 AM (MwILh)

165 In Texas, you can be permanently relieved of your CPA certificate for "acts unbecoming" a CPA. Maybe things are looser in California.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 06, 2019 11:50 AM (q1Pj5)

166 Coming soon to a MSM near you:

Anybody that points out he complete lack of evidence, witnesses or even well defined charges will be labeled bribery, extortion and quid pro quo deniers.

Posted by: Ripley at December 06, 2019 11:50 AM (MxEKc)

167 Rich Giamboni's guest column about Noah Rothman made me start laughing like a madman in the line at a McDonald's.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 06, 2019 11:50 AM (AzW6q)

168 I would make an Achmed the Dead Terrorist joke here, but since Jeff Dumham went political and anti Trump in his last special, I won't.
Posted by: Don Q at December 06, 2019 11:42 AM (NgKpN)

Did he really?

That's VERY disappointing.....
Posted by: Sponge

Extremely.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2019 11:50 AM (yDqYW)

169 163 I usually hear the name Nguyen pronounced as "Winn," but years ago I worked with an engineer who pronounced it "New-Yen". He even had that phonetic spelling in parentheses in his e-mail sig block. But I almost never hear it pronounced that way.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Purveyor of Locally Sourced artisinal Hogwash at December 06, 2019 11:49 AM (xPJvm)

Yeah... i've only ever heard "Winn" or "Wenn"....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 06, 2019 11:50 AM (AURKQ)

170 143 Wasn't Laurence Harvey in South Pacific too? I seem to remember him talk/singing You've Got to Be Taught to Hate. Perhaps they were in two movies together.
Posted by: Wenda (sic) at December 06, 2019 11:46 AM (SQ8xo)

I just checked imdb. They were not in that movie together.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at December 06, 2019 11:51 AM (LvkqA)

171 (And JFTR, I would vote for a gay person for President if they were conservative and not going to force the baking of wedding cakes for gay marriages, or forcing clergy to perform gay marriages)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2019 11:33 AM (WI7YS)

You, too, could be a unicorn rancher!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2019 11:51 AM (/sgva)

172
On a side question for folks more in tune (SWIDT) with the acoustic
music world, I didn't recognize the guy identified as the owner of
Gryphon. I thought Gryphon was Frank Ford's shop. Or is he even still
alive?

Posted by: Bob the Bilderberg at December 06, 2019 11:47 AM (qc+VF)

Thats a good question. I thought the damn name sounded familiar.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 06, 2019 11:51 AM (9Om/r)

173 Biden calls a voter a fat liar, for asking the questions that Media not the Impeachers dare not ask. If Biden is exposed the whole case for Impeachment collapses

There's a Photoshop going around Twitter of the much-maligned Peloton commercial where Biden is on the screen of the bike saying "You're fat!" to the woman.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 06, 2019 11:51 AM (ZGrMX)

174 Paul Ryan really screwed all of us. On my permanent shit list.

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 11:51 AM (bCLt0)

175 ace's link to the meltdown at the Sander's rally was a clear view into the unsalvageable tantrum-throwing toddlers that these people have become.

Posted by: mikeyG at December 06, 2019 11:48 AM (lnyJN)
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It's funny, but when I made myself an open book at 17 (quite a long time ago), I foresaw that the factions of Democrats couldn't help but clash with each other. A faction of revolutionary interests is may win the day, but it is not a single faction.

Posted by: Axeman at December 06, 2019 11:51 AM (YOhRS)

176 ace's link to the meltdown at the Sander's rally was a clear view into the unsalvageable tantrum-throwing toddlers that these people have become.

This too, is the story of Obama.
Posted by: mikeyG at December 06, 2019 11:48 AM (lnyJN)

Liberty Daily had a link to a montage of liberal meltdowns on video.

It almost made me cry, how mentally damaged those people are.

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 11:51 AM (tjClK)

177
There are lots and lots of people in his position who would not have had the courage to tell the committee off.
=====

One of the lighter moments of the nonsense parading as expertise is when Turley said offhand something about his own ivory tower sinking (stinking?) in the swamp. Ribbit.

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 06, 2019 11:52 AM (MIKMs)

178 157 I would make an Achmed the Dead Terrorist joke here, but since Jeff Dumham went political and anti Trump in his last special, I won't.
Posted by: Don Q at December 06, 2019 11:42 AM (NgKpN)

Did he really?

That's VERY disappointing.....
Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 11:48 AM (tjClK)

He went so far as to create a new puppet. A very nervous fellow who is supposed to be an advisor in the Trump Whitehouse.

Posted by: Don Q at December 06, 2019 11:52 AM (NgKpN)

179 https://dailym.ai/2RrL7Jm
*******
Disney cruise worker charged with raping 13-year-old girl
******
Article

Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at December 06, 2019 11:52 AM (BqBId)

180 We're ENRAGED!!! *hic*

Posted by: Tantrum-throwing Toddler Wine Moms at December 06, 2019 11:52 AM (vtcmf)

181 So the flagon with the dragon has the brew that is true. Words to remember.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 06, 2019 11:46 AM (q1Pj5)

No, you're wrong, they changed it: the flagon with the dragon has the potion with the poison, but the vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at December 06, 2019 11:52 AM (LvkqA)

182 You, too, could be a unicorn rancher!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2019 11:51 AM (/sgva)

Plural of anecdote is not data, etc. etc., but pretty much most of the gay folks I know think that way...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 06, 2019 11:52 AM (AURKQ)

183
Kamala Harris & Carl Savage (Fred's older brother)

Posted by: David St.Hubbins at December 06, 2019 11:53 AM (9C0cu)

184 I would make an Achmed the Dead Terrorist joke here,
but since Jeff Dumham went political and anti Trump in his last
special, I won't.

Posted by: Don Q at December 06, 2019 11:42 AM (NgKpN)

Did he really?

That's VERY disappointing.....

Posted by: Sponge

Extremely.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2019 11:50 AM

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When did that happen? I just watched the last special that netflix has and he didn't do it then.

He will lose half his audience if he turns into a #neverTrump.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 06, 2019 11:53 AM (JUOKG)

185 I've never seen a strangulated testicle, but I bet it looks a lot like Adam Schiff.

Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at December 06, 2019 11:53 AM (jp0Bv)

186 163 I usually hear the name Nguyen pronounced as "Winn," but years ago I worked with an engineer who pronounced it "New-Yen". He even had that phonetic spelling in parentheses in his e-mail sig block. But I almost never hear it pronounced that way.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Purveyor of Locally Sourced artisinal Hogwash at December 06, 2019 11:49 AM (xPJvm)

Come to think of it, pronouncing it more like it's spelled would make more sense. Vietnamese is the only Asian language to use the Roman alphabet, so they would use the letters that most closely matched the pronunciation.

Posted by: josephistan at December 06, 2019 11:53 AM (7HtZB)

187 I usually hear the name Nguyen pronounced as "Winn,"

A Nguyen I worked with said it was pronounced "wing", although the 'ng' was a little lighter than in English.

Posted by: t-bird at December 06, 2019 11:53 AM (gHCnG)

188 He went so far as to create a new puppet. A very nervous fellow who is supposed to be an advisor in the Trump Whitehouse.

Posted by: Don Q at December 06, 2019 11:52 AM (NgKpN)

Interesting business model he's got:

1. Piss off half your potential audience.
2. ??
3. Profit!

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at December 06, 2019 11:53 AM (LvkqA)

189 179 https://dailym.ai/2RrL7Jm
*******
Disney cruise worker charged with raping 13-year-old girl
******
Article
Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at December 06, 2019 11:52 AM (BqBId)

The Tragic Kingdom strikes again.

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 11:54 AM (bCLt0)

190 Socialists will always fight each other eventually because it's always about power. It happened in Russia. It happened in Spain and it will happen here if there is ever a shooting war.

Posted by: Easy Andy at December 06, 2019 11:54 AM (f4qXm)

191 I tapped that!

Posted by: James Tiberius Kirk at December 06, 2019 11:54 AM (2Mnv1)

192 I just assumed someone had to have called him. But maybe you're right.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at December 06, 2019 11:33 AM (LvkqA)

Doesn't matter. The hallmark of "cancel culture" is to fire or deplatform people merely for the opinions they hold. This woman was displaying active hostility, and looked capable of violence. Whole different ball game.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2019 11:54 AM (/sgva)

193 180 We're ENRAGED!!! *hic*
Posted by: Tantrum-throwing Toddler Wine Moms at December 06, 2019 11:52 AM (vtcmf)

Product idea:

A cheap trinkety ring with some silly SJW TDS logo on it...

call it an "Enragement Ring"

Sell a bajillion of them.

Donate the proceeds to Trump's campaign.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 06, 2019 11:54 AM (AURKQ)

194 I was thinking Turley was the one "witness" the Repub's were allowed to call ... and while pointing out the dangers of impeachment, he still damned Trump with less than faint praise ... there was no praise, he actually condemned Trump for trying to uncover what Mueller/DeepState/Pelosi are seditiously covering up.

So as an R witness, he failed, except for saying OrangeManBad, but not impeachable. (Rhomboid is more astute than I, thx "President's exercise
of plenary foreign affairs authority, whether it "benefits" him

politically or not, cannot be impeachable, or Article II is pretty much

void.)

Posted by: illiniwek at December 06, 2019 11:54 AM (Cus5s)

195 So the flagon with the dragon has the brew that is true. Words to remember.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 06, 2019 11:46 AM (q1Pj5)

No,
you're wrong, they changed it: the flagon with the dragon has the
potion with the poison, but the vessel with the pestle has the brew that
is true.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor Austere Religious Scholar at December 06, 2019 11:52 AM (LvkqA)

I'm wrong?? Inconceivable!!

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 06, 2019 11:54 AM (q1Pj5)

196 It's funny, but when I made myself an open book at 17 (quite a long time ago), I foresaw that the factions of Democrats couldn't help but clash with each other. A faction of revolutionary interests is may win the day, but it is not a single faction.
Posted by: Axeman at December 06, 2019 11:51 AM (YOhRS)

If they ever gained unlimited power, it would be the French revolution. Where they would kill any who did not believe in what was the dominant belief at the time, even their own allies.

We've already seen it with the Trans vs Women's Lib'r battle.

Posted by: Don Q at December 06, 2019 11:55 AM (NgKpN)

197 I had to just re-read the Giamboni guest column about Jim Acosta, and boy, that ace has some galaxy brain big funny mouth words, don't he?

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at December 06, 2019 11:55 AM (oZ6kz)

198 France Nuyen and Leslie Parrish were both TOS hotties.
Now I wanna go back and see if all this week's women were TOS hotties.

Posted by: Jenos Idanian at December 06, 2019 11:55 AM (Qf0BO)

199 I've never seen a strangulated testicle, but I bet it looks a lot like Adam Schiff.

Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at December 06, 2019 11:53 AM (jp0Bv)

Schiff *is* a strangulated testicle.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 06, 2019 11:55 AM (9Om/r)

200 I usually hear the name Nguyen pronounced as "Winn," but years ago I worked with an engineer who pronounced it "New-Yen". He even had that phonetic spelling in parentheses in his e-mail sig block. But I almost never hear it pronounced that way.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Purveyor of Locally Sourced artisinal Hogwash at December 06, 2019 11:49 AM (xPJvm)
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Of all the Nguyens I've known, they've all pronounced it "Nwinn". However, it's a personal name, so you can pronounce it however you want. You could spell your name F-R-E-D and pronounce it "Rozhdestvensky".

Posted by: Captain Obvious at December 06, 2019 11:55 AM (3Z6pZ)

201 157 I believe that most celebrities go anti Trump on advice from their agents. Their agents advise them to go on media, say something radical, and they are in the spotlight again. Now, most are douchebags. but you just have to listen to the guy your're paying 10-15%.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at December 06, 2019 11:55 AM (C1Lsn)

202 Enragement ring?!?!? HOW ARE YOU STEAL MY IDEA!!!

Posted by: Atrocitus at December 06, 2019 11:55 AM (oZ6kz)

203 85
Cher and Trudeau.

can't be trudeau. eyebrows shoulda told you.

Posted by: Anachronda at December 06, 2019 11:56 AM (sGtp+)

204 I'll never care about women like that being fired for any reason. She's a garbage person and deserves everything that happens to her.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 06, 2019 11:56 AM (fnrpf)

205 Disney cruise worker charged with raping 13-year-old girl

No more stopovers for Disney Cruises at Little St James Island, but the show must go on.

Posted by: t-bird at December 06, 2019 11:56 AM (IMdOQ)

206 144 - The vessel with the pestle holds the brew that is true.

Posted by: zeera BMGG - Books Make Great Gifts! at December 06, 2019 11:56 AM (X+a7J)

207 The old man summed it up pretty well about the looney tunes lesbo who verbally attacked him.

"People with an education should not say things like that."

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 06, 2019 11:56 AM (Z+IKu)

208 162, It is the failure of the Congressional Republicans Campaign Cmte which the members of the House control. The party delegates to the House and Senate campaign committees the power to find candidates and raise funds. The RNC overall is serves the overall party and transfers funds to these semi-autonomous committees. The person you should blame is Paul Ryan who should forever be an outcast. The other thing that does not help is the outdated term limits on chairs and ranking members. Newt did that to prevent old guard get along Republicans via seniority becoming chairs in the new Republican Congress of 94. It serves no useful purpose now because it now penalizes seniority and good performance.

Posted by: whig at December 06, 2019 11:56 AM (MwILh)

209 One of the lighter moments of the nonsense parading as expertise is when Turley said offhand something about his own ivory tower sinking (stinking?) in the swamp. Ribbit.
Posted by: mustbequantum at December 06, 2019 11:52 AM (MIKMs)

Turley also mentioned on twitter how his office and his email have been deluged with hate mail and death threats. And this is a guy who thinks that George Bush should be tried for war crimes. I wonder if he's in the process of getting red-pilled?

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at December 06, 2019 11:56 AM (LvkqA)

210 200 I usually hear the name Nguyen pronounced as "Winn," but years ago I worked with an engineer who pronounced it "New-Yen". He even had that phonetic spelling in parentheses in his e-mail sig block. But I almost never hear it pronounced that way.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Purveyor of Locally Sourced artisinal Hogwash at December 06, 2019 11:49 AM (xPJvm)
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Of all the Nguyens I've known, they've all pronounced it "Nwinn". However, it's a personal name, so you can pronounce it however you want. You could spell your name F-R-E-D and pronounce it "Rozhdestvensky".
Posted by: Captain Obvious at December 06, 2019 11:55 AM (3Z6pZ)

Precisely. My handle is actually pronounced "Raskolnikov" but I didn't want to confuse anybody.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 06, 2019 11:56 AM (RD7QR)

211 I usually hear the name Nguyen pronounced as "Winn,"

I read a couple of novels involving a character with that name where they said it was pronounced like "when".

Posted by: Ian S. at December 06, 2019 11:56 AM (ZGrMX)

212 "Disney cruise worker charged with raping 13-year-old girl"

So he's in line for a promotion, right?

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at December 06, 2019 11:57 AM (oZ6kz)

213 You, too, could be a unicorn rancher!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2019 11:51 AM (/sgva)

No; I couldn't be. You don't think there are gays who wouldn't force the baking of gay wedding cakes or churches to perform gay marriages? In fact, I know some. They are just not running for office. I think the former blog writer "Gay Patriot" would be one of them.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2019 11:57 AM (WI7YS)

214 EBOLA UNITED STATES

African Migrant Arrives Vomiting with Fever

Police Quarantine hospital

POSSIBLE EBOLA infected african migrant

http://www.ebolaoutbreakmap.com/listings/ebola-shuts-down-united-states-hospital/

Posted by: jacob joseph at December 06, 2019 11:57 AM (awOmA)

215 Not sure if this was posted here or not. The Army discovered that a logo had letters attached to it being used by the football team that were originally from a movie. Those letters were then adopted by gangs and white supremicists. The cadet that proposed using them back in the 90's had no idea that "God Forgives, Brother's Don't" was tied to these groups. The Army is falling all over itself in horror that these four letters were on a logo...
Story is in link to ESPN.

https://tinyurl.com/svgpkr3

Posted by: Jen the original at December 06, 2019 11:57 AM (QHnrh)

216 Listen, fatboy.

Posted by: Words of Wisdom from Joe Biden at December 06, 2019 11:57 AM (YOhRS)

217 Lola Folana
--
Mmmm.

Posted by: FrodoB at December 06, 2019 11:57 AM (BQAo9)

218 106 I can't figure out what it was with Bob Culp. A man as incredibly handsome and charming as he was but he couldn't hold together several marriages, including the one to France.
Posted by: Utility muffin at December 06, 2019

*
*

I know! Talented in more than just acting, too: He was a good TV writer, and even Harlan Ellison called him friend and admired his writing.

Well, I know some more things I'll want to ask him when we meet again Up Yonder.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 06, 2019 11:58 AM (Ejm1K)

219 198 France Nuyen and Leslie Parrish were both TOS hotties.
Now I wanna go back and see if all this week's women were TOS hotties.
Posted by: Jenos Idanian at December 06, 2019 11:55 AM (Qf0BO)

I was not intentionally doing a 'TOS hotties' week.

Not a bad idea, though.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at December 06, 2019 11:58 AM (LvkqA)

220 NOYEN is how a girl I knew pronounced it.

Posted by: Utility muffin at December 06, 2019 11:58 AM (cykH2)

221 Nguyen.

Okay now do Qatar.

Posted by: Easy Andy at December 06, 2019 11:58 AM (f4qXm)

222 Man, a whole lot of you morons know people named Nguyen!

Interesting....

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at December 06, 2019 11:58 AM (jjaLl)

223 Cruise worker, 53, arrested after a 13-year-old girl claimed he repeatedly raped and used spatula, hairbrush and vibrator on her more than 100 TIMES

Posted by: Deep State

"I don't think enjoying and watching what your Bull does in his spare time away from boffing your wife should be a crime" - Cuckshed Editor in Chief

Posted by: Boswell at December 06, 2019 11:58 AM (32YRo)

224 Product idea:

A cheap trinkety ring with some silly SJW TDS logo on it...

call it an "Enragement Ring"

Sell a bajillion of them.

Donate the proceeds to Trump's campaign.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

If we were smart, we'd come up with a butt load of products. So many that the left can't keep track of all of them.

They would buy at least one. Then they find out that THEY helped finance OrangeManBad's campaign.....

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2019 11:58 AM (yDqYW)

225 205 Disney cruise worker charged with raping 13-year-old girl

No more stopovers for Disney Cruises at Little St James Island, but the show must go on.
Posted by: t-bird at December 06, 2019 11:56 AM (IMdOQ)

Disney and Nickelodeon loves hiring pedos.

Posted by: squirrelly dan at December 06, 2019 11:58 AM (0Y+lE)

226 Turley also mentioned on twitter how his office and his email have been deluged with hate mail and death threats. And this is a guy who thinks that George Bush should be tried for war crimes. I wonder if he's in the process of getting red-pilled?
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at December 06, 2019 11:56 AM (LvkqA)
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I take that as an indication he did some real damage to the sham impeachment narrative.

Posted by: WisRich at December 06, 2019 11:59 AM (G0vdT)

227 Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at December 06, 2019 11:56 AM (LvkqA)

That could do it-that and threats to your family.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2019 11:59 AM (WI7YS)

228 When did that happen? I just watched the last special that netflix has and he didn't do it then.

He will lose half his audience if he turns into a #neverTrump.
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 06, 2019 11:53 AM (JUOKG)

That's very interesting, because I saw it ON Netflix right after the Special came out.

He actually talked about how he had thought long and hard before doing it.

Wonder if they edited it out.

Posted by: Don Q at December 06, 2019 11:59 AM (NgKpN)

229 Turley also mentioned on twitter how his office and his email have been deluged with hate mail and death threats. And this is a guy who thinks that George Bush should be tried for war crimes.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor Austere Religious Scholar at December 06, 2019 11:56 AM (LvkqA)
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His side has lost all understanding of how not to be purists and zealots.

Posted by: Axeman at December 06, 2019 11:59 AM (YOhRS)

230 Come to think of it, pronouncing it more like it's
spelled would make more sense. Vietnamese is the only Asian language to
use the Roman alphabet, so they would use the letters that most closely
matched the pronunciation.

Posted by: josephistan at December 06, 2019 11:53 AM (7HtZB)

In high school there was an exchange student from Yugoslavia with a crazy name that nobody had any chance of pronouncing so we all just decided to call him Bob. Even the teachers. He loved it and was probably the most popular kid in school. After the full year he still couldn't speak a lick of english.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at December 06, 2019 11:59 AM (CQ3Qb)

231 Precisely. My handle is actually pronounced "Raskolnikov" but I didn't want to confuse anybody.

Darn, and here I've been pronouncing it "Kalishnikov" all this time.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Not scanning your email for ad targeting. at December 06, 2019 12:00 PM (SchxB)

232 Okay now do Qatar.
Posted by: Easy Andy

Cutter.

We have offices there. That's the way they pronounce it.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2019 12:00 PM (yDqYW)

233
Man, a whole lot of you morons know people named Nguyen!

Interesting....

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at December 06, 2019 11:58 AM

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My Colonoscopy Doctor is Nguyen. He pronounces it winn.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 06, 2019 12:00 PM (JUOKG)

234 POSSIBLE EBOLA infected african migrant

This is why we need unrestricted immigration!!! *hic*

Posted by: Tantrum-throwing Toddler Wine Moms at December 06, 2019 12:00 PM (vtcmf)

235 I take that as an indication he did some real damage to the sham impeachment narrative.

Blue checkmark Twitter lost their shit in real time while Turley was talking. There was a petition to have him deported, I think.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 06, 2019 12:00 PM (ZGrMX)

236 I take that as an indication he did some real damage to the sham impeachment narrative.
Posted by: WisRich at December 06, 2019 11:59 AM (G0vdT)
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He was found in disagreement with doctrine.

Posted by: Axeman at December 06, 2019 12:00 PM (YOhRS)

237 Nah, that was 30 years ago when they used to have a show.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

So that makes the other guy Rico? But he wore a diamond...so Tony the bartender?

Posted by: Boswell at December 06, 2019 12:00 PM (32YRo)

238 Disney cruise worker charged with raping 13-year-old girl"

So he's in line for a promotion, right?
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at December 06, 2019 11:5

Producer gig at Nickolodean.

Posted by: LASue at December 06, 2019 12:00 PM (wMHPW)

239 why has the pouncing ceased, I wonder.

Posted by: Jasper Moore at December 06, 2019 12:00 PM (B+t5k)

240 212 "Disney cruise worker charged with raping 13-year-old girl"

So he's in line for a promotion, right?
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at December 06, 2019 11:57 AM (oZ6kz)

Imagine who makes up HR at that place.

Posted by: squirrelly dan at December 06, 2019 12:00 PM (0Y+lE)

241 You, too, could be a unicorn rancher!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2019 11:51 AM (/sgva)

How's the pay and benefits?

Posted by: Macedonian Content Farmer at December 06, 2019 12:01 PM (q1Pj5)

242 131 116

True, true.

(as he and Cosby used to quip on I SPY)
Posted by: Utility muffin at December 06, 2019

*
*

Scott (Cosby): "You think that' ll get you your three dollars back?"

Kelly (Culp): "Did the Magna Carta free the peasants or not, Jack?"

(It didn't, as we know. . . but it's still a funny line.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 06, 2019 12:01 PM (Ejm1K)

243 He went so far as to create a new puppet. A very nervous fellow who is supposed to be an advisor in the Trump Whitehouse.

Posted by: Don Q at December 06, 2019 11:52 AM (NgKpN)

I guess Owebama was right and there IS a point where you've made enough money.......

I won't watch him again.

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 12:01 PM (9gDA7)

244 When,in country, it was pronounced as Nwinn. Same as good noodle soup (Pho) pronounced as "fuh". Very confusing, but, what the hell, we speak English.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at December 06, 2019 12:01 PM (C1Lsn)

245 However you pronounce it, it's a winn, winn proposition.

Posted by: That irredeemable guy who always says... at December 06, 2019 12:01 PM (vtcmf)

246 whig, did you watch Barr's talk to the Federalist gathering recently?

Anyway, as expected, nothing about actions to remedy the very well known [to many] problems he ID'd WRT judicial usurpation.

Barr's implicit [by default, and no mention of any action] approach relies on ...... the judicial branch to fix .... the judicial branch. Big topic, but I think that personnel changes [only action under way now] is not enough, and only emphasizes the problem - the constitutional unraveling. Installing actual judges [with some concept of their constitutional role] and hoping for the best is a dodgy short-term strategy, and a dumb long-term one.

He also failed to ID a central factor in the trend he decried - Congress' near total abdication of its role to oversee and define the ambit of the courts it created. A related thing he ignored, and which actually fuzzes up his main theme about erosion of executive power, was Congress ceding power to the administrative state.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 06, 2019 12:01 PM (El6T/)

247 It's pronounced Throat-Warbler Mangrove.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 06, 2019 12:02 PM (wzVKm)

248

Remember This One Very Important Thing:

The Democrats would never ever have taken their treasonous scheme this far if the News Media wasn't with them 100% of the way.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2019 12:02 PM (NVNOj)

249 Blue checkmark Twitter lost their shit in real time
while Turley was talking. There was a petition to have him deported, I
think.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 06, 2019 12:00 PM (ZGrMX)

______

LOL. Burned at the stake -- and then deported.

Posted by: ShainS at December 06, 2019 12:02 PM (WqPYg)

250
I've always pronounced it New-Yenn.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 06, 2019 12:02 PM (kw0bd)

251 If I had my druthers, I'd have a bunch of signs made with the Twitter blue check, and a big stencil made of the same.

I think it would be hilarious to go to a mall or somesuch at night and replace all of the Handicapped parking signs with blue-check signs, and restencil the parking spaces with the blue check instead of the normal wheelchair.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 12:02 PM (I2dne)

252 The interview Stern did with Hillary has been posted up on Youtube for a few hours and it's hard not to shit all over the comments section. I can't believe the amount of manginas that now feel sorry for Hillary and how nasty politics has become. I'm sure my comment and replies to these soy boys will be deleted.

Posted by: JROD at December 06, 2019 12:02 PM (Rs36S)

253 I hope that Professor Turley also got e-mails commending him for his reasoned analysis.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2019 12:03 PM (WI7YS)

254 244
When,in country, it was pronounced as Nwinn. Same as good noodle soup
(Pho) pronounced as "fuh". Very confusing, but, what the hell, we speak
English.

ever stand in a pho queue?

Posted by: Anachronda at December 06, 2019 12:03 PM (sGtp+)

255 I hope that Professor Turley also got e-mails commending him for his reasoned analysis.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2019 12:03 PM (WI7YS)
++++++++++++
His university spam filter is probably powered by experimental AI that pushes wrongthink into the junk folder.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 12:03 PM (I2dne)

256 Going to smoke a bacon wrapped pork loin for dinner. Watching youtube and there are some good looking recipes there.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 06, 2019 12:03 PM (JUOKG)

257 Maybe they say it their own way over there, but Qatar will always be "kuh-TAR" for me...

Just as how I don't say "pah-hREEE" or "bair-LEEN" in the midst of a normal English sentence...

because I don't want to sound like the liquid containing portion of a feminine hygiene appliance.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 06, 2019 12:03 PM (AURKQ)

258 People like the lunatic who harangued the man in the Starbucks honestly seem to believe they are somehow invulnerable to criticism or push back.
They always seem shocked when they get fired for embarrassing the company they work for.

Posted by: N.L. Urker Philips Screwdriver of the Gods at December 06, 2019 12:04 PM (Uu+Jp)

259 I tapped that!
Posted by: James Tiberius Kirk at December 06, 2019 11:54 AM (2Mnv1)
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Whatever that was.

Posted by: Captain James.......T-Kirk at December 06, 2019 12:04 PM (YOhRS)

260 252
The interview Stern did with Hillary has been posted up on Youtube for a
few hours and it's hard not to shit all over the comments section. I
can't believe the amount of manginas that now feel sorry for Hillary and
how nasty politics has become. I'm sure my comment and replies to these
soy boys will be deleted.

Posted by: JROD at December 06, 2019 12:02 PM (Rs36S)

The Clinton Machine is still Media Matters/Shareblue's biggest client.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at December 06, 2019 12:04 PM (CQ3Qb)

261 On a side question for folks more in tune (SWIDT) with the acoustic music world, I didn't recognize the guy identified as the owner of Gryphon. I thought Gryphon was Frank Ford's shop. Or is he even still alive?
Posted by: Bob the Bilderberg
........

https://tinyurl.com/tfknlph

That must be his partner Richard Johnston.

This page says Frank heads up the repair shop, and Richard heads retail.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at December 06, 2019 12:04 PM (so+oy)

262
I had to just re-read the Giamboni guest column about Jim Acosta, and boy, that ace has some galaxy brain big funny mouth words, don't he?
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at December 06, 2019 11:55 AM (oZ6kz)

------

That's right. It was Acosta, not Rothman. They both look so delicious, I get them confused.

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/376366.php

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 06, 2019 12:04 PM (AzW6q)

263 Reposting this, I just saw a picture in the local rag that broke my heart. A Minnesota National Guard Blackhawk went down yesterday near St. Cloud, killing all 3 on board. The pic has the mangled bird in the woods near the edge of a snow covered field and behind it in the background is a steeple with a cross. The sun is hitting the cross perfectly illuminating it in the pic behind the wreckage. So sad. God bless them and their families. Our NG guys get overlooked sometimes I think IMHO. They have done amazing things over the years and I would ask for prayers for their families.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 06, 2019 12:05 PM (r7Fvf)

264 Posted by: JROD at December 06, 2019 12:02 PM (Rs36S)

Stern has gone full Lefty thus most of his lemming fan base has moved Left with him. I still listen when he has a musical guest or comedian but otherwise he's dead to me. He's just a conduit for the guest.

Posted by: Easy Andy at December 06, 2019 12:05 PM (f4qXm)

265 Whodis gal. Y'know, I wouldn't know the actress's name offhand, and I was glad to see those other pictures of her, because, as Elaan of Troyius, she was unforgettable since I first saw her. Dec 20, 51 years ago. OH, yeah.

http://bit.ly/Kirk-Elaan

Posted by: mindful webworker - click at your own ricks at December 06, 2019 12:05 PM (Lsu/B)

266 259I tapped that!
Posted by: James Tiberius Kirk at December 06, 2019 11:54 AM (2Mnv1)
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Whatever that was.

Posted by: Captain James.......T-Kirk at December 06, 2019 12:04 PM (YOhRS)

Captain Kirk, the Paolo of Space.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet for All Your Festival of Gloom Decorations! at December 06, 2019 12:06 PM (hLRSq)

267 258

That right there would be a fascinating thread topic: why do these wicked people feel immune and shocked when their very own beloved tools are turned back upon them?

Posted by: Utility muffin at December 06, 2019 12:06 PM (cykH2)

268 Captain Kirk, the Paolo of Space.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet for All Your Festival of Gloom Decorations! at December 06, 2019 12:06 PM (hLRSq)
++++++++++++++
Until TNG, when Riker ascended to the title.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 12:06 PM (I2dne)

269 @106 - the glass hand probably annoyed all the wives.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 06, 2019 12:06 PM (E+OcO)

270 Vietnamese is tonal, pretty hard to convey that for pronunciation - their romanized language uses diacritical marks [no, I don't have that level of membership here to give examples]. After studying it for a while, in Vietnam, I tentatively concluded it was all a giant hoax to befuddle foreigners - nobody *really* would have a language like that.

But the instructor kept me going to class even after I'd decided I was "languaged out" after all the others, especially for a very difficult tonal language. The instructor had a certain quality, known as "smoking hot", that might have explained that.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 06, 2019 12:06 PM (El6T/)

271 Stern has gone full Lefty thus most of his lemming
fan base has moved Left with him. I still listen when he has a musical
guest or comedian but otherwise he's dead to me. He's just a conduit
for the guest.

Posted by: Easy Andy at December 06, 2019 12:05 PM

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I think he started to turn left after he went to cable. He was most definitely not like that when he was on broadcast radio.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 06, 2019 12:07 PM (JUOKG)

272 #1 Daughter of Diogenes has had to move three times in the last four years due to landlords reclaiming the houses they have been renting.
She's had to pare her shoe collection down to something about like what we see above.
She is of course, heart broken.

I chuckle.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2019 12:07 PM (axyOa)

273 Fa-fa fooey. *hic*

Posted by: Tantrum-throwing Toddler Wine Moms at December 06, 2019 12:07 PM (vtcmf)

274 In high school there was an exchange student from Yugoslavia with a crazy name that nobody had any chance of pronouncing so we all just decided to call him Bob. Even the teachers. He loved it and was probably the most popular kid in school. After the full year he still couldn't speak a lick of english.
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at December 06, 2019 11:59 AM (CQ3Qb)
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I've known a number of foreign-born people with difficult-for-Americans names to adopt more familiar pronunciations. In college, I had a Chinese lab instructor named Sherman Hsu; I'm guessing that "Sherman" was a reasonably close analog to his actual name. And I worked with a Persian fellow whose name was "Kamyar" and went by "Tom".

Posted by: Captain Obvious at December 06, 2019 12:07 PM (3Z6pZ)

275 But the instructor kept me going to class even after I'd decided I was "languaged out" after all the others, especially for a very difficult tonal language. The instructor had a certain quality, known as "smoking hot", that might have explained that.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 06, 2019 12:06 PM (El6T/)
+++++++++++++
I am sure she could help with your tongue work.

And if you moved on to classics, she may have helped you straighten out your Longfellow.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 12:08 PM (I2dne)

276 254 244
When,in country, it was pronounced as Nwinn. Same as good noodle soup
(Pho) pronounced as "fuh". Very confusing, but, what the hell, we speak
English.

ever stand in a pho queue?
Posted by: Anachronda at December 06, 2019

*
*

Appropriately, at the Pho King restaurant.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 06, 2019 12:08 PM (Ejm1K)

277 244 When,in country, it was pronounced as Nwinn. Same as good noodle soup (Pho) pronounced as "fuh". Very confusing, but, what the hell, we speak English.
Posted by: bill in arkansas at December 06, 2019 12:01 PM (C1Lsn)

I blame whoever did their orthography for fucking it up. It seems like academics absolutely hate using the Roman alphabet the way it was intended.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at December 06, 2019 12:08 PM (J+mig)

278 269

Excellent.

Posted by: Utility muffin at December 06, 2019 12:08 PM (cykH2)

279 Stern sold out in 1997 when he went to Hollywood and got his movie. I listed to it happen in real time. From victim of Big Government to its greatest advocate. Fuck that idiot.

Posted by: ... at December 06, 2019 12:08 PM (E/gBi)

280 Is Robin Quivers still alive?

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at December 06, 2019 12:08 PM (jjaLl)

281 Vietnamese women > Chinese women > Korean women > Japanese women.

Posted by: Easy Andy at December 06, 2019 12:09 PM (f4qXm)

282 But the instructor kept me going to class even after I'd decided I was "languaged out" after all the others, especially for a very difficult tonal language. The instructor had a certain quality, known as "smoking hot", that might have explained that.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 06, 2019 12:06 PM

I knew a woman years ago (no, not biblically) who was from Hanoi. Half Vietnamese and half French. Oh damn!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2019 12:09 PM (axyOa)

283 I've known a number of foreign-born people with difficult-for-Americans names to adopt more familiar pronunciations. In college, I had a Chinese lab instructor named Sherman Hsu; I'm guessing that "Sherman" was a reasonably close analog to his actual name. And I worked with a Persian fellow whose name was "Kamyar" and went by "Tom".
Posted by: Captain Obvious at December 06, 2019 12:07 PM (3Z6pZ)
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My brother dated a Vietnamese girl in high school. She picked "Jenny" for her anglo name. Not even remotely related. During their graduation, the principal decided to talk about her and user her real name. Well, he thought he did, anyway. Caller her "Sue" the whole time, which is only tangentially similar.

She did not have a difficult name.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 12:09 PM (I2dne)

284 Local DFW radio talker had a caller from California this morning. The guy is a retired therapist and said there was one thing that REALLY stood out to him while watching the Pelosi presser yesterday.

You see, in a large majority of cases involving serial abusers, they always blame the VICTIM for getting abused. Nancy told us multiple times that it was TRUMP, and in turn, his VOTERS, that MADE her do this. She didn't want to. She doesn't have any CHOICE but to punish THE COUNTRY because they elected Trump.

It's actually spot the fuck on brilliant, methinks.

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 12:09 PM (9gDA7)

285 And he needed Jackie the Jokeman more than most people thought.

Posted by: ... at December 06, 2019 12:09 PM (E/gBi)

286 Coming Out, as NeverTrump. How brave. What a stupid time to be alive.

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 12:10 PM (bCLt0)

287 People like the lunatic who harangued the man in the Starbucks honestly seem to believe they are somehow invulnerable to criticism or push back.
They always seem shocked when they get fired for embarrassing the company they work for.
Posted by: N.L. Urker Philips Screwdriver of the Gods at December 06, 2019 12:04 PM (Uu+Jp)
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I really like, in the Bernie video, how the guy running the show, simply says the order of people speaking and the chick on the right says "Don't tell me what to do!"

Immediately followed by the command to another human being "Sit down."

So, he didn't tell her what to do, but insisted in the established order of speakers. She complained like that was telling her what to do and immediately told him what to do.

Equality is just not something people in the upheaval factions get. No-no-no-no--MY thing FIRST!

Of course, this is ghetto culture where the gangstas can tell punks what's what. You can't tell me what to do, because I can kick your ass. On the other hand, I can tell you to physically sit down and shut up because I can kick your ass.

Apres this shit, le deluge.

Posted by: Axeman at December 06, 2019 12:10 PM (YOhRS)

288 I knew a woman years ago (no, not biblically) who was from Hanoi. Half Vietnamese and half French. Oh damn!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2019 12:09 PM (axyOa)
++++++++++++
Eurasian-mixed women often end up as smoke shows.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 12:10 PM (I2dne)

289 253 I hope that Professor Turley also got e-mails commending him for his reasoned analysis.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2019 12:03 PM (WI7YS)

FenelonSpoke, I fear very few would commend him in public. So let's hope so.

Posted by: Marybeth at December 06, 2019 12:10 PM (CmURZ)

290 268 Captain Kirk, the Paolo of Space.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet for All Your Festival of Gloom Decorations! at December 06, 2019 12:06 PM (hLRSq)
++++++++++++++
Until TNG, when Riker ascended to the title.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 12:06 PM (I2dne)

There must always be a Paolo, but unlike the Sith, no Apprentice.

Posted by: Don Q at December 06, 2019 12:10 PM (NgKpN)

291 yes Robin is still quivering and laughing, but mostly just laughing.

Posted by: Jasper Moore at December 06, 2019 12:11 PM (B+t5k)

292 I hope that Professor Turley also got e-mails commending him for his reasoned analysis.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2019 12:03 PM (WI7YS)
++++++++++
Wait, wait, wait. COMMEND? Ah, crap.

Posted by: The Committee to Condemn Turley at December 06, 2019 12:11 PM (I2dne)

293 I think it's a stand up comic's solemn duty to rip the piss out of whoever happens to be president at the moment....

Too bad they all forgot that duty between 2008 and 2016.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 06, 2019 12:11 PM (AURKQ)

294 252 The interview Stern did with Hillary has been posted up on Youtube for a few hours and it's hard not to shit all over the comments section. I can't believe the amount of manginas that now feel sorry for Hillary and how nasty politics has become. I'm sure my comment and replies to these soy boys will be deleted.
Posted by: JROD at December 06, 2019 12:02 PM (Rs36S)

Secret Service agent posted on /pol/ with evidence he was who he was that he routinely had to sneak young women out of Hillary's bedroom and out of the White House. He said he hated it and it disgusted him and was basically a pox on the Executive Branch and office of the President.
I believe there have been other Secret Service in the past to come out about how evil she is.... and a lesbian.

Posted by: squirrelly dan at December 06, 2019 12:11 PM (0Y+lE)

295 yes Robin is still quivering and laughing, but mostly just laughing.

Posted by: Jasper Moore at December 06, 2019 12:11 PM (B+t5k)

Oh, right, she had breast-reduction surgery......

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at December 06, 2019 12:12 PM (jjaLl)

296 And he needed Jackie the Jokeman more than most people thought.
Posted by: ... at December 06, 2019 12:09 PM (E/gBi)

Jackie was adequately replaced with the psychotic Artie. Jackie made a huge mistake demanding more money like he did. Has anyone heard anything from him since? Can we dig Lenard Nemoy up and have him go In Search of.....?

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 12:12 PM (9gDA7)

297 253 I hope that Professor Turley also got e-mails commending him for his reasoned analysis.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2019 12:03 PM (WI7YS)

No, he was inundated with death threats via email and calls for his firng before the hearing was even over. He's been tweeting about it.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at December 06, 2019 12:13 PM (CQ3Qb)

298 293 I think it's a stand up comic's solemn duty to rip the piss out of whoever happens to be president at the moment....

Too bad they all forgot that duty between 2008 and 2016.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 06, 2019 12:11 PM (AURKQ)

Some Cows are more sacred than other cows. Brown Cows, especially.

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 12:13 PM (bCLt0)

299 Stern was like listening to a bunch of high school kids in the locker room. Funny when you are in high school, but then, when you grow up and realize they haven't, it's pathetic.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 06, 2019 12:13 PM (r7Fvf)

300 191 I tapped that!
Posted by: James Tiberius Kirk at December 06, 2019 11:54 AM (2Mnv1)

Yeah, I always wondered how that episode would end, with the Enterprise in orbit around Troyius and Kirk tells the guy she's marrying, "yeah, here's your bride -- I schtupped her."

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at December 06, 2019 12:13 PM (LvkqA)

301 Stern went full lefty after he got married. Typical move of a thirsty soy-boy cuck like Stern to keep to keep and please the newer hot wife. Used to listen to him back in the 90's. Guy is an embarrassment to men.

Posted by: JROD at December 06, 2019 12:13 PM (Rs36S)

302 Saying Trump can't ask Ukraine to investigate the graft (that sold out America) because it might benefit him (by finding Biden's crimes) ... is absurd.

It is like saying Trump can't campaign for President, because it might raise his name recognition, and that might help his Trump Enterprise related business.

The other related craziness ... the laws were crafted by these grifters to let the children make millions on these boards, or for foundations to collect 100s of millions ... "legally". There is one off quid pro quo, where the benefit is personal and the cost is to America. Yet they are all fine with that sleight of hand, but then try to squeeze Trump when there was no such arrangement.

Same would go for all the book deals and after office jobs (like Ryan and whatever corporate board he jumps on, high pay, no show, thanks for your years of selling out America for us).

Posted by: illiniwek at December 06, 2019 12:13 PM (Cus5s)

303 You see, in a large majority of cases involving serial abusers, they always blame the VICTIM for getting abused. Nancy told us multiple times that it was TRUMP, and in turn, his VOTERS, that MADE her do this. She didn't want to. She doesn't have any CHOICE but to punish THE COUNTRY because they elected Trump.

It's actually spot the fuck on brilliant, methinks.
Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 12:09 PM (9gDA7)

I could not get past how she tried to wrap herself in the traditions of our Founders, when she has spent an entire career tearing down what they had built.

Hell, this very impeachment is working to destroy the very Foundation of our Republic, the peaceful transfer of Power after an election.

Posted by: Don Q at December 06, 2019 12:13 PM (NgKpN)

304 The old libertarian turned lefty story as old as time itself.

Posted by: squirrelly dan at December 06, 2019 12:13 PM (0Y+lE)

305 I don't think Jeff Dunham really qualifies as a NeverTrump. He made a whole video about his puppets that didn't dare to say anything negative about Hillary Clinton where the implication was *clear* they didn't want Arkanside.

Dunham has talked about simply making fun of politics on both sides like it used to be done. He is also expressed that he is not going to be cowed by Democrats either.

So, his last tour, which I saw, had shots at President Trump. And I laughed. They were funny. Jeff is funny. Even some of the cheaper shots were funny.

Posted by: Axeman at December 06, 2019 12:14 PM (YOhRS)

306 Some Cows are more sacred than other cows. Brown Cows, especially.
Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 12:13 PM (bCLt0)
++++++++++++
Red heifers are most sacred to these people.

Red as in communist.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 12:14 PM (I2dne)

307 Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2019 12:07 PM (axyOa)

I never have been and never will be a fashionista. I was more interested in the chocolate cake sundae than the shoes.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2019 12:14 PM (WI7YS)

308 I think it's a stand up comic's solemn duty to rip the piss out of whoever happens to be president at the moment....

Too bad they all forgot that duty between 2008 and 2016.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Except when you go on USO tours and a quarter of your show is making fun of who our military is fighting, it shows poor form to rip THEIR Commander in Chief.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2019 12:14 PM (yDqYW)

309 Oldest g-baby just lost her first tooth!

They grow up so fast...

Posted by: SMH at December 06, 2019 12:15 PM (RU4sa)

310 POSSIBLE EBOLA infected african migrant

You'll have to relink this earlier in a following thread if you want to catch "so it begins" guy.

Posted by: DaveA at December 06, 2019 12:15 PM (FhXTo)

311
I've known a number of foreign-born people with difficult-for-Americans names to adopt more familiar pronunciations. In college, I had a Chinese lab instructor named Sherman Hsu; I'm guessing that "Sherman" was a reasonably close analog to his actual name. And I worked with a Persian fellow whose name was "Kamyar" and went by "Tom".
Posted by: Captain Obvious at December 06, 2019 12:07 PM (3Z6pZ)

I do a fair amount of purchasing of electronics parts from China for work, and EVERY sales contact there has an Anglicized first name that they use for work with foreigners. In at least one case, a company I've worked with for over 10 years, I'm convinced that one salesperson's name is actually shared by several sales people, because of the English writing styles in emails. It's actually code for "Cur's Assigned Sales Contact".

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 06, 2019 12:15 PM (kw0bd)

312 I'm guessing that "Sherman" was a reasonably close analog to his actual name.

The Chinese seem to grab their English names out of a hat- often an old hat so their English name doesn't match the generation they're in. A friend of mine, Shou Ming, is David, which fits. But others are Albert, Sylvia, Philip- names that are too 'old' for them.

Posted by: t-bird at December 06, 2019 12:15 PM (dBiBP)

313 Eurasian-mixed women often end up as smoke shows.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 12:10 PM

Flippin' brilliant too. Financial wizard.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2019 12:15 PM (axyOa)

314 No; I couldn't be. You don't think there are gays who wouldn't force the baking of gay wedding cakes or churches to perform gay marriages? In fact, I know some. They are just not running for office. I think the former blog writer "Gay Patriot" would be one of them.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2019 11:57 AM (WI7YS)

Well, there you go. It seems that once gays are "out" enough to run for public office, they are also solidly on the Left. Big Anus is a cruel taskmaster.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2019 12:15 PM (/sgva)

315 I always wondered why Stern didn't bang many of those smoking hot women who threw themselves at him. Really makes you think....

Posted by: squirrelly dan at December 06, 2019 12:15 PM (0Y+lE)

316 Disney cruise worker charged with raping 13-year-old girl

He managed a Subway restaurant onboard.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at December 06, 2019 12:16 PM (wCmLp)

317 I usually hear the name Nguyen pronounced as "Winn," but years ago I worked with an engineer who pronounced it "New-Yen". He even had that phonetic spelling in parentheses in his e-mail sig block. But I almost never hear it pronounced that way.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Purveyor of Locally Sourced artisinal Hogwash at December 06, 2019 11:49 AM (xPJvm)

Little known factoid -
"Nguyen" is Vietnamese for "last name"

Posted by: Burnt Toast at December 06, 2019 12:16 PM (1g7ch)

318 Except when you go on USO tours and a quarter of your show is making fun of who our military is fighting, it shows poor form to rip THEIR Commander in Chief.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2019 12:14 PM (yDqYW)

Hey, "making fun of the boss" is a time honored tradition!

But it's the comic's art to make it malicious AND funny, not just malicious.

otherwise, you're just a dick.

(looking at you, Daily Show alumni....)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 06, 2019 12:16 PM (AURKQ)

319 313 Eurasian-mixed women often end up as smoke shows.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 12:10 PM

Flippin' brilliant too. Financial wizard.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2019 12:15 PM (axyOa)

Do you shake, or stir, a Eurasian mixed Woman?

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 12:16 PM (bCLt0)

320 He also failed to ID a central factor in the trend he decried - Congress' near total abdication of its role to oversee and define the ambit of the courts it created. A related thing he ignored, and which actually fuzzes up his main theme about erosion of executive power, was Congress ceding power to the administrative state.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 06, 2019 12:01 PM (El6T/)

I agree with you about the problem, and I would go further and say that because of the total abdication of Congress on these matters, the Executive Branch has been hamstrung and can do very little to push back on its own. The better play is to simply do anything you can to put your own people in charge of the Judiciary, since it has now become the only real legislature in actual practice.

And I understand recognizing that Congress has become so dysfunctional that it's not even worth mentioning how it needs to reform itself - it won't happen, ever.

Our Government now has Two branches - the Judiciary and the Bureaucracy, which have together taken on all legislative and executive functions. The best we can ever hope for in our lifetimes is to put enough of our people in them to have at least some control over them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2019 12:16 PM (Kpl3J)

321 Heh. I posted this earlier on JJ's thread.

One of Stacey Abrams' romance novels is being made into a series by CBS.It's as steamy and cringe-worthy as you'd expect:

https://tinyurl.com/s7qwe38

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 06, 2019 12:16 PM (ptqGC)

322 I could not get past how she tried to wrap herself in the traditions of our Founders, when she has spent an entire career tearing down what they had built.

Hell, this very impeachment is working to destroy the very Foundation of our Republic, the peaceful transfer of Power after an election.
Posted by: Don Q at December 06, 2019 12:13 PM (NgKpN)

Oh, I nearly drove into a wall on the way to work yesterday listening to her bloviating about the founding fathers and her love for this country.

She's a lying sack of shit, for sure.

Levin SHREDDED her yesterday and it was brilliant.

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 12:16 PM (9gDA7)

323 I think it's a stand up comic's solemn duty to rip the piss out of whoever happens to be president at the moment....

Too bad they all forgot that duty between 2008 and 2016.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

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They don't believe in that duty. Their duty is to remind Deplorables how stupid they are and recommend the guidance of their prog betters. You elected your own President?!!
No-no-no, that's not how ANY of this works!!!

Posted by: Axeman at December 06, 2019 12:17 PM (YOhRS)

324 That triple chocolate sundae looks sooo yummy!

Posted by: redridinghood at December 06, 2019 12:17 PM (wiXsO)

325 Well, you people aren't going to hang yourselves.

Posted by: Arkancide at December 06, 2019 12:17 PM (cykH2)

326 The Stern glory days were in the Billy West and Jackie era. Most people know that many of Howard's good lines were fed to him on pieces of paper by Jackie.

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at December 06, 2019 12:17 PM (oZ6kz)

327 Do you shake, or stir, a Eurasian mixed Woman?
Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 12:16 PM (bCLt0)
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Never shake a babe.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 12:17 PM (I2dne)

328 I always wondered why Stern didn't bang many of those smoking hot women who threw themselves at him. Really makes you think....

Posted by: squirrelly dan at December 06, 2019 12:15 PM

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Pretty sure he did after his first wife divorced him.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 06, 2019 12:17 PM (JUOKG)

329 One of Stacey Abrams' romance novels is being made into a series by CBS.It's as steamy and cringe-worthy as you'd expect:

https://tinyurl.com/s7qwe38
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 06, 2019 12:16 PM (ptqGC)
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The bag of flour scene is pretty steamy.

Posted by: Axeman at December 06, 2019 12:18 PM (YOhRS)

330 Appropriately, at the Pho King restaurant.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 06, 2019 12:08 PM (Ejm1K)

We have a Vietnamese restaurant here, "Pho the Good Times". Their Banh Mi (sammich) are to die for.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at December 06, 2019 12:18 PM (LvkqA)

331 Do you shake, or stir, a Eurasian mixed Woman?
Posted by: john knox

Whatever she wishes.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2019 12:18 PM (yDqYW)

332 If the GOP expert is a fellow elite liberal Democrat, of course Democrats will think impeachment is an ironclad case. Even the GOP thinks what Trump did is wrong. Even the GOP thinks Orange Man Bad. So despite the fact Turley is a decent guy, he doesn't deserve all this applause. There are thousands of lawyers and millions of Americans who can make the case with less equivocation and equal skill.

The alarming part is, maybe the Democrats are right. Maybe American law really is debased to the point only a tiny minority will be listened to, and the rest of America can just wait to be allotted their chores. No country has ever survived for long like that. Certainly not one with a lot of skilled former soldiers.

Posted by: trev006 at December 06, 2019 12:18 PM (6OzV/)

333 I could not get past how she tried to wrap herself in the traditions of our Founders, when she has spent an entire career tearing down what they had built.
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It's a scripted soundbyte for the rubes. Like a Muslim man who carries around the Constitution in his coat pocket.

Focus group scripted theater for the low IQ Democrat base. And it does work.

Posted by: ... at December 06, 2019 12:18 PM (3LPTL)

334 Do you shake, or stir, a Eurasian mixed Woman?
Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019

*
*

If she looks like the young France Nuyen, I'd do both. Or as someone said here, "I'd hit that so hard there'd be a new tsunami in Japan."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 06, 2019 12:18 PM (Ejm1K)

335 NAS Pensacola .. My son is stationed at that base. Nerve racking morning, finally got a call he is safe, from instructors phone. Still on lock down, normally he would be at lunch now and have his cell phone back but no word.
Rumor is a Saudi National did it. We will know but how it doesn't get reported I guess.
Awful situation, crazy people. If Saudi I guess it could be terrorism?

Posted by: M1911 at December 06, 2019 12:19 PM (j/KPN)

336

We suck.
Because we don't have anyone at these Pelosi press conferences asking her good questions such as: You speak so highly of the Founding Fathers, who is your favorite Founder?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2019 12:19 PM (NVNOj)

337 This is not fair! Every day I can immediately identify the Actress of the Day, I'm way late to this thread. And when I'm early, the actress is totally unknown to me. I think the Gorilla is monitoring me somehow! He must be learning about spying from Schiff-for-Brains.

Posted by: Gref at December 06, 2019 12:19 PM (AMIL/)

338 We have a Vietnamese restaurant here, "Pho the Good Times". Their Banh Mi (sammich) are to die for.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at December 06, 2019 12:18 PM (LvkqA)
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We have a "Pho Duoy" here. Pronunciation? "Fuh You"
Not in the bad way, as in "for you." Punning across languages must be hard.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 12:19 PM (I2dne)

339 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2019 12:15 PM (/sgva)

I imagine people of good will-both gay and straight who just want to live their lives in peace don't want to run for public office.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2019 12:19 PM (WI7YS)

340 Dunham has talked about simply making fun of politics on both sides like it used to be done. He is also expressed that he is not going to be cowed by Democrats either.

So, his last tour, which I saw, had shots at President Trump. And I laughed. They were funny. Jeff is funny. Even some of the cheaper shots were funny.
Posted by: Axeman at December 06, 2019 12:14 PM (YOhRS)

Not saying that Trump can't be made fun of. However, I don't remember one bit he did during the Owebama years trashing ANYTHING political. He was a racial satirist. NOT a political one.

Suddenly, Trump is required in his routine? Just stinks a little to me.

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 12:19 PM (9gDA7)

341 Is Vietnamese food just pretty much Chinese food, but with less melamine?

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 12:19 PM (bCLt0)

342 No country has ever survived for long like that. Certainly not one with a lot of skilled former soldiers.
Posted by: trev006 at December 06, 2019 12:18 PM (6OzV/)

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Thus the need to denigrate vets as crazy, shouldn't be allowed access to guns, etc.

Posted by: SMH at December 06, 2019 12:19 PM (RU4sa)

343 I'm teaching some Chinese students at my local university. They are here for a year study of American business classes.
All of them have taken an "American" name. Jack, Robert, Justin, Jessica, etc.
Nothing with an "L" in it though.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2019 12:19 PM (axyOa)

344 We have a "Pho Duoy" here. Pronunciation? "Fuh You"
Not in the bad way, as in "for you." Punning across languages must be hard.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 12:19 PM (I2dne)

That's probably that weird "D" with a line through the upright.... right?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 06, 2019 12:20 PM (AURKQ)

345 The Stern glory days were in the Billy West and
Jackie era. Most people know that many of Howard's good lines were fed
to him on pieces of paper by Jackie.

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at December 06, 2019 12:17 PM

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Yep when Jackie the Jokeman left things started to slowly go downhill. They started re-doing old bits too.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 06, 2019 12:20 PM (JUOKG)

346 Do they make good Pho Boy sandwiches?

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 12:20 PM (bCLt0)

347 181 So the flagon with the dragon has the brew that is true. Words to remember.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 06, 2019 11:46 AM (q1Pj5)

No, you're wrong, they changed it: the flagon with the dragon has the potion with the poison, but the vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at December 06, 2019 11:52 AM (LvkqA)

What happened to the chalice with the palace?

Posted by: tankdemon at December 06, 2019 12:20 PM (XMw1v)

348 That's probably that weird "D" with a line through the upright.... right?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 06, 2019 12:20 PM (AURKQ)
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Yup. I don't know what that character is even called, let alone how to render it in a hamster-compliant way.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 12:20 PM (I2dne)

349 No country has ever survived for long like that. Certainly not one with a lot of skilled former soldiers.
Posted by: trev006 at December 06, 2019 12:18 PM (6OzV/)

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Thus the need to denigrate vets as crazy, shouldn't be allowed access to guns, etc.
Posted by: SMH

If vets ever decide "it's time", I don't think the lack of a gun will stop them.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2019 12:20 PM (yDqYW)

350 Posted by: M1911 at December 06, 2019 12:19 PM (j/KPN)

Wow! How scary for you and for other ones with loved ones stationed there. I am glad he is safe.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2019 12:21 PM (WI7YS)

351 You speak so highly of the Founding Fathers, who is your favorite Founder?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2019 12:19 PM (NVNOj)

I liked that "Cain" guy's work....

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at December 06, 2019 12:21 PM (AURKQ)

352
Finally caught up on most of the hearing from Wednesday --

The nonentity from Yale (?) was eaten by the carefully-coiffed Eustace Tilley from Harvard and the importantly earnest thing from Stanford.

Sometimes being from the Midwest is a blessing.

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 06, 2019 12:21 PM (MIKMs)

353 I'm guessing that "Sherman" was a reasonably close analog to his actual name.

The Chinese seem to grab their English names out of a hat- often an old hat so their English name doesn't match the generation they're in. A friend of mine, Shou Ming, is David, which fits. But others are Albert, Sylvia, Philip- names that are too 'old' for them.
Posted by: t-bird at December 06, 2019 12:15 PM (dBiBP)
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It could also be that it was a name he could pronounce accurately - he had a very heavy accent, and pronounced the word "funnel" as "fur-nel".

Posted by: Captain Obvious at December 06, 2019 12:21 PM (3Z6pZ)

354 If vets ever decide "it's time", I don't think the lack of a gun will stop them.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2019 12:20 PM (yDqYW)

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No.

It won't.

Posted by: SMH at December 06, 2019 12:21 PM (RU4sa)

355 In college, I had a Chinese lab instructor named Sherman Hsu; I'm guessing that "Sherman" was a reasonably close analog to his actual name.

I wouldn't assume that at all. In my experience, Chinese who take western names tend to take *very* western names. Hence all the "Larry" Tzus and "Alice" Wongs in the IT industry.

Posted by: Bob the Bilderberg at December 06, 2019 12:21 PM (qc+VF)

356 We have a "Pho Duoy" here. Pronunciation? "Fuh You"
Not in the bad way, as in "for you." Punning across languages must be hard.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 12:19 PM (I2dne)

There was a place in the Seattle area called "What the Pho" which I found VERY amusing.

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 12:21 PM (9gDA7)

357 So, his last tour, which I saw, had shots at President Trump. And I laughed. They were funny. Jeff is funny. Even some of the cheaper shots were funny.
Posted by: Axeman at December 06, 2019 12:14 PM (YOhRS)

Trump is such a target-rich environment.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at December 06, 2019 12:22 PM (LvkqA)

358 Do you shake, or stir, a Eurasian mixed Woman?
Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 12:16 PM (bCLt0)

Churn vigorously.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at December 06, 2019 12:22 PM (wCmLp)

359 321 Heh. I posted this earlier on JJ's thread.

One of Stacey Abrams' romance novels is being made into a series by CBS.It's as steamy and cringe-worthy as you'd expect:

https://tinyurl.com/s7qwe38
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 06, 2019 12:16 PM (ptqGC)

OMG, shouldn't have been reading THAT in the middle of lunch.

Posted by: Marybeth at December 06, 2019 12:22 PM (CmURZ)

360 Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2019 12:16 PM (Kpl3J)

I've said it before. If I was the President, I would write an Executive order saying that while the Supreme Court, being coequal in power to the President, can weigh in on Executive Branch issues.

But as Inferior Courts are not coequal, he no longer recognizes their Jurisdiction over Presidential decisions.

Posted by: Don Q at December 06, 2019 12:22 PM (NgKpN)

361 304 The old libertarian turned lefty story as old as time itself.
Posted by: squirrelly dan at December 06, 2019 12:13 PM (0Y+lE)

Never trust a libertarian.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at December 06, 2019 12:23 PM (LvkqA)

362 I imagine Stacey gets pretty steamy herself, in Georgia, in August.

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 12:23 PM (bCLt0)

363 I wouldn't assume that at all. In my experience, Chinese who take western names tend to take *very* western names. Hence all the "Larry" Tzus and "Alice" Wongs in the IT industry.
Posted by: Bob the Bilderberg at December 06, 2019 12:21 PM (qc+VF)
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I see it all the time. I used to work with one closely and on our second meeting, I asked him if he would mind telling me what his real name was and if I should call him that. We then spent a few minutes making sure I pronounced it properly. I think names are important, and don't want to call people something way off unless I am physically incapable of saying it properly.

We got along well after that - he went out of his way to help me, moreso than his other colleagues.

A little bit goes a long way on that front.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 12:23 PM (I2dne)

364 Our Government now has Two branches - the Judiciary and the Bureaucracy, which have together taken on all legislative and executive functions. The best we can ever hope for in our lifetimes is to put enough of our people in them to have at least some control over them.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2019 12:16 PM (Kpl3J)
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Well look at how the modern idea is to shame the Congress as "terrorists" when they try to use the Power of the Purse, explicitly given as one of the main powers the Constitution and Federalist Papers, because they proposed not funding anything.

I had a co-worker, who I have an affable relationship with but a large diversion in politics complain that the Congress threat to not fund Obamacare was "violating the law". I smiled and told him 1) no it isn't. 2) Power of he Purse. And I normally leave it as a Fun Fact what the framers actually said.

It's curious this day and age though. I had to do extensive research into Hitler, in order to gird myself into the Hitler commandeering lies rife in rhetorical politics. And likewise, you have to read the Federalist Papers and founders letters yourself or contemporary politics will surely *lie* to you about them.

Posted by: Axeman at December 06, 2019 12:24 PM (YOhRS)

365 OMG. Just dipped into a can a Smithfield Bacon and Cheddar Virginia peanuts. If the liberals in Virginia try to outlaw these, I'm taking up arms.

Posted by: Hesco Gypsy at December 06, 2019 12:24 PM (G1tCv)

366 Finally caught up on most of the hearing from Wednesday --

The nonentity from Yale (?) was eaten by the carefully-coiffed Eustace Tilley from Harvard and the importantly earnest thing from Stanford.

Sometimes being from the Midwest is a blessing.
Posted by: mustbequantum at December 06, 2019 12:21 PM (MIKMs)

There was some news affiliate that carried the R's after that embarrassment and one of the members said "after that, I know that no one should ever send their kids to Stanford or Yale for a law degree."

I laughed.

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 12:24 PM (9gDA7)

367 Scott Adams says that if abuse of power is reason for impeachment (which is not so stated in the Constitution), then Pelosi, Schiff and Nadler should all be impeached for abuse of power.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 06, 2019 12:24 PM (NMAzL)

368 348
That's probably that weird "D" with a line through the upright.... right?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 06, 2019 12:20 PM (AURKQ)

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Yup. I don't know what that character is even called,

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

Posted by: Anachronda at December 06, 2019 12:24 PM (sGtp+)

369 Never trust a libertarian.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor Austere Religious Scholar at December 06, 2019 12:23 PM (LvkqA)
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Definitely not one that identifies as an otter.

Posted by: Axeman at December 06, 2019 12:25 PM (YOhRS)

370 In my experience, Chinese who take western names tend to take *very* western names.

And then all of your company's intellectual property.

Posted by: mikeyG at December 06, 2019 12:25 PM (lnyJN)

371 I believe there have been other Secret Service in the past to come out about how evil she is.... and a lesbian.
Posted by: squirrelly dan

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She went to Wellesley College so.. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at December 06, 2019 12:25 PM (Y4EXg)

372 Trump is such a target-rich environment.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at December 06, 2019 12:22 PM (LvkqA)

I think the way Crowder handles Trump is genius. And his impression is damn funny.

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 12:25 PM (9gDA7)

373
370 In my experience, Chinese who take western names tend to take *very* western names.

And then all of your company's intellectual property.
Posted by: mikeyG at December 06, 2019 12:25 PM (lnyJN)

Yeah, how many Chinese " Bob's" have you run into?

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 12:26 PM (bCLt0)

374 Is Vietnamese food just pretty much Chinese food, but with less melamine?
Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 12:19 PM (bCLt0)

And slathered in cock sauce.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at December 06, 2019 12:26 PM (1g7ch)

375 Scott Adams says that if abuse of power is reason for impeachment (which is not so stated in the Constitution), then Pelosi, Schiff and Nadler should all be impeached for abuse of power.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 06, 2019 12:24 PM (NMAzL)
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I don't think impeachment works for Congress. The original Senators could be removed by their states, the House is up to the election of their citizens every 2 years.

Posted by: Axeman at December 06, 2019 12:26 PM (YOhRS)

376 I thought she was either black, or of mixed white/black parentage

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I'd bet cash money that there is not a single 'African- American' that is pure Negro(don't like the word? GFY).
They all have some Caucasian blood.
Call it "Cracker in the Woodpile".

Posted by: Vlad the impaler,whittling away like mad at December 06, 2019 12:26 PM (sHQ5K)

377 Thus the need to denigrate vets as crazy, shouldn't be allowed access to guns, etc.�
Posted by: SMH�

If vets ever decide "it's time", I don't think the lack of a gun will stop them.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2019 12:20 PM (yDqYW)

Right. I'm honestly not sure how a civil conflict would shake out, but one thing I can guarantee is that urban centers would go from non-functional to destroyed overnight. The FSA would loot everyone outside their identity, and no one's going to save anyone involved. How could they? Does anyone think San Francisco is prepared for widespread urban warfare? They can't handle basic urban sanitation.

Posted by: trev006 at December 06, 2019 12:26 PM (6OzV/)

378 357 So, his last tour, which I saw, had shots at President Trump. And I laughed. They were funny. Jeff is funny. Even some of the cheaper shots were funny.
Posted by: Axeman at December 06, 2019 12:14 PM (YOhRS)

Trump is such a target-rich environment.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at December 06, 2019 12:22 PM (LvkqA)

And there is no Comedic material out there about the Dems?

No, jokes about how Walter knows Biden, and he's a dumbass?

No jokes about Warren and Peanut being more indian than she is?

The problem is that he stayed away from shots on Politicians for years, and now is only taking shots at Trump.

If he was an equal opportunity offender? I would not say anything.

Posted by: Don Q at December 06, 2019 12:27 PM (NgKpN)

379 I will say this about the Donks like Marie Harf, Jessica Tarlov and others that appear on FOX, too a man or a women have the same talking points and can regurgitate them on command.

I truly believe the disparate Democrat apparatchick spread out in the Media Wilds get their days talking points downloaded directly into their brains from the syndicate.

Posted by: Huxley's Eyeglass Emporium at December 06, 2019 12:27 PM (MWIPy)

380 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eth
Posted by: Anachronda at December 06, 2019 12:24 PM (sGtp+)

it's an "Eth" in the Scandi context, but i think the same glyph has a different name in the Vietnamese context... completely different sound. (maybe?)

Not sure how that works...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 06, 2019 12:27 PM (AURKQ)

381 I've been trying to fire that crazy bitch for a year and a half.

Posted by: Music Store Owner at December 06, 2019 12:27 PM (vI+F1)

382 >>>OMG. Just dipped into a can a Smithfield Bacon and Cheddar Virginia
peanuts. If the liberals in Virginia try to outlaw these, I'm taking up
arms.

Yeah, them Chinese sure do make some good eats....

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at December 06, 2019 12:27 PM (jjaLl)

383 I'd bet cash money that there is not a single 'African- American' that is pure Negro(don't like the word? GFY).
They all have some Caucasian blood.
Call it "Cracker in the Woodpile".
Posted by: Vlad the impaler,whittling away like mad at December 06, 2019 12:26 PM (sHQ5K)

I call it "dippin in the slave trade."

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 12:27 PM (9gDA7)

384 Isn't that Lieutenent Colonel DOCTOR Prof. Pamela Karlan?

Posted by: wth at December 06, 2019 12:28 PM (v0R5T)

385 380 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eth
Posted by: Anachronda at December 06, 2019 12:24 PM (sGtp+)

it's an "Eth" in the Scandi context, but i think the same glyph has a different name in the Vietnamese context... completely different sound. (maybe?)

Not sure how that works...
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 06, 2019 12:27 PM (AURKQ)

(Sorta like how you would never call a Cyrillic H an "aitch")

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 06, 2019 12:28 PM (AURKQ)

386 In my experience, Chinese who take western names tend to take *very* western names.

And then all of your company's intellectual property.

Posted by: mikeyG at December 06, 2019 12:25 PM

But not necessarily in that order.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2019 12:28 PM (axyOa)

387 The nonentity from Yale (?) was eaten by the carefully-coiffed Eustace
Tilley from Harvard and the importantly earnest thing from Stanford.

I believe the members of the panel were from Harvard, Stanford (Karloff), UNC, and GWU (Turley).

Posted by: pep at December 06, 2019 12:29 PM (T6t7i)

388 Dem primary clown show update:

Bloomberg on 2020 rivals blasting him for using his own money: 'They had a chance to go out and make a lot of money'

More popcorn please.

Posted by: WisRich at December 06, 2019 12:29 PM (G0vdT)

389 The problem is that he stayed away from shots on Politicians for years, and now is only taking shots at Trump.

If he was an equal opportunity offender? I would not say anything.
Posted by: Don Q at December 06, 2019 12:27 PM (NgKpN)

Like I said earlier. His entire career was race and religion based (Ahmed) and he stayed away from politics as a whole.

Suddenly, he can't figure out how to be funny without Trump?

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 12:29 PM (9gDA7)

390 Do you shake, or stir, a Eurasian mixed Woman?

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019
.........

You can spin them.

Posted by: wth at December 06, 2019 12:29 PM (v0R5T)

391 Pho-pho pho-hi. *hic*

Posted by: Tantrum-throwing Toddler Wine Moms at December 06, 2019 12:29 PM (vtcmf)

392 O hai, nood.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 06, 2019 12:30 PM (AURKQ)

393 309
Oldest g-baby just lost her first tooth!

maybe she just left it in her other pants?

Posted by: Anachronda at December 06, 2019 12:31 PM (sGtp+)

394 If he was an equal opportunity offender? I would not say anything.
Posted by: Don Q at December 06, 2019 12:27 PM (NgKpN)

Yeah, I'm sick of it. That comic from Wisconsin too is always making cheap jabs at Trump. Fuck him.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at December 06, 2019 12:31 PM (H8QX8)

395 But as Inferior Courts are not coequal, he no longer recognizes their Jurisdiction over Presidential decisions.

I'm with Justice Thomas: district courts have no business issuing nationwide rulings about anything. Their rulings affect their district and only their district.

Posted by: JEM at December 06, 2019 12:31 PM (8erNz)

396 Oldest g-baby just lost her first tooth!

maybe she just left it in her other pants?
Posted by: Anachronda at December 06, 2019 12:31 PM (sGtp+)

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Haha.

Posted by: SMH at December 06, 2019 12:33 PM (RU4sa)

397 Suddenly, Trump is required in his routine? Just stinks a little to me.
Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 12:19 PM (9gDA7)
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Is stinks enough to jump to "NeverTrumper" though?

I'm going to see him on the 30th (my wife is a *huge* fan), and I'll report back if he's gotten more negative on Trump.

I really don't know if I were a comic whether, even with my politics, that I would feel it that necessary to go after Obama. And that would be mainly because he's black. I would say that Dunham knows that more Trump voters aren't as zealous and likely to cancel him, so he has more leeway there.

So, he picks his battles. He still makes Trump voters laugh though. I sat behind the family of Trump voters last time, (it came up in convo) and they had a good time too.

I like laughing.

Posted by: Axeman at December 06, 2019 12:34 PM (YOhRS)

398 In my experience, Chinese who take western names tend to take *very* western names.

And Indian call centers. No matter how thick the accent, "my name is Joshua, how may I help you?"

Posted by: t-bird at December 06, 2019 12:34 PM (xSo9G)

399 stern is from the '90s. he is now don imus. fuck howard stern with a flamethrower sideways. nobody watches cbs anymore. maybe oprah, that's about it. i'm in the kid rock camp when it comes to oprah. i don't even need booze to get there.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 06, 2019 12:34 PM (KP5rU)

400 371
I believe there have been other Secret Service in the past to come out about how evil she is.... and a lesbian.

Posted by: squirrelly dan

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She went to Wellesley College so.. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at December 06, 2019 12:25 PM (Y4EXg)

Secret Service Agent: "Yes, I can attest to the fact that HRC enjoyed the company of women. Oh, and I'm going to be arkancided tomorrow".

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 06, 2019 12:34 PM (N39Ws)

401 363 I wouldn't assume that at all. In my experience, Chinese who take western names tend to take *very* western names. . . .
Posted by: Bob the Bilderberg at December 06, 2019

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Western? You mean like Tex, Hopalong, Gus, and Woodrow?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 06, 2019 12:35 PM (Ejm1K)

402

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 06, 2019 12:35 PM (Ejm1K)

403 Like I said earlier. His entire career was race and religion based (Ahmed) and he stayed away from politics as a whole.

Suddenly, he can't figure out how to be funny without Trump?
Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 12:29 PM (9gDA7)
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And he has taken a lot of cancel-based flack for Ahmed--and Jose the Jalapeno. And he probably will take more and more unless Cancel culture is canceled.

Posted by: Axeman at December 06, 2019 12:35 PM (YOhRS)

404 The problem is that he stayed away from shots on Politicians for years, and now is only taking shots at Trump.
If he was an equal opportunity offender? I would not say anything.
Posted by: Don Q at December 06, 2019 12:27 PM (NgKp

My point, which I didn't make very well, was that jokes about Trump would be damn funny in an environment that wasn't so hyper-politicized. Now I think they're just another progressive weapon.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at December 06, 2019 12:36 PM (LvkqA)

405 "Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at December 06, 2019 12:27 PM (jjaLl)".

Yeah I know, I know. But they were sent to me and are Made in Virginia and the money supports Virginia farmers in addition to the commies.

Posted by: Hesco Gypsy at December 06, 2019 12:36 PM (G1tCv)

406 it's an "Eth" in the Scandi context, but i think the same glyph has a different name in the Vietnamese context.

A "dyet', apparently.

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

Posted by: t-bird at December 06, 2019 12:37 PM (Ibwur)

407 dunham was funny ten years ago. now, just another fucking hack.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 06, 2019 12:37 PM (KP5rU)

408 What happened to the chalice with the palace?

Smashed in a fit of malice.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Not scanning your email for ad targeting. at December 06, 2019 12:39 PM (SchxB)

409 your money, your time

Posted by: Jasper Moore at December 06, 2019 12:39 PM (B+t5k)

410 Pretty sure he did after his first wife divorced him.
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 06, 2019 12:17 PM (JUOKG)
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I think he was doing it before and led to the divorce. When you constantly bring on hot women and constantly proposition them and engage in sex talk and get them to strip, "I really, really love my wife" can only last so long, IMO.

Posted by: Axeman at December 06, 2019 12:41 PM (YOhRS)

411 I had a Chinese friend, last name Lee, who renamed herself Vivian (Vivian Lee - Vivian Leigh).
She was cute, but almost got me killed one time eith her driving

Posted by: vmom, anti-vahzist at December 06, 2019 12:42 PM (G546f)

412 Gad, I hate it when the bad boss is in charge. Time to polish the resume.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 06, 2019 12:44 PM (E+OcO)

413 On Dunham, I probably wouldn't see him every year were it not that he's probably my wife's favorite comedian. But he is, and so we go.

Like I said, after the 30th, I'll report back.

Posted by: Axeman at December 06, 2019 12:45 PM (YOhRS)

414 Time to polish the resume.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 06, 2019 12:44 PM (E+OcO)
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I've never called it that...

Posted by: Axeman at December 06, 2019 12:45 PM (YOhRS)

415 ....Oldest g-baby just lost her first tooth!

I got a gold one she can borrow!

Posted by: Ernest T. Bass at December 06, 2019 12:49 PM (IttZ7)

416
This may be the first time in history that the US economy is roaring along and the rest of the World's are circling the crapper.

Germany, the economic powerhouse behind the EU, is heading into a recession, and China is barely staying afloat after they devalued their currency once again.
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 06, 2019 11:40 AM (JUOKG)

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If the rest of the world's economy is hurting, they have less money to bribe our politicians.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 06, 2019 12:50 PM (i+RbT)

417 246 rhomboid,
No, Barr's apparently hypocritical speech at the Federalist Society was enough for me to stomach given the widespread misconduct at the FBI and DOJ that has been revealed with Barr doing nothing apparently. Hopeful people argue that Durham will come but to do the cleaning of Augean stables that the DOJ law enforcement community has become, urgent immediate public actions are needed.

DA for DC, Liu for example needs to be fired pronto for failures in the Awan case among others. The SDNY personnel need to be dispersed throughout the country and/or dismissed from service through their misconduct. Berman needs to fired for failing to curb them as well.

The idea of protecting institutions when they have already ruined themselves is a fools dream or a cynical pose to prevent de-corruption efforts. The FBI, DOJ, IC, mass media, congressional leadership, the Courts, have all revealed themselves as self interested bodies that permit large contingents of corrupt individuals without a fear of any penalty.

Notice, that the only thing that has kept Trump in power from these vultures has been that he saw to it that the economy was kept strong as his primary objective and enough people saw that he actually was trying against sometimes heroic odds to protect the country and keep his promises. A 95 percent approval rating from Republicans indicate that at least rank and file Republicans get it.

I have come to the conclusion, apart from Trump and a few others on the right, most of the right's leaders are gaseous windbags that say the right thing and then do nothing. See Ryan, Romney, McCain, CJ Roberts, McCarthy, etc., these folks deploy words as does an octopus does when it sprays ink to conceal itself. I suspect that most of the Rightie establishment is in it for the grift rather than from principles.

McConnell is probably closest to an unsavory LBJ style majority leader or Roscoe Conkling type if you go back far enough. That type can be useful to someone like Trump if your objectives coincide like judicial confirmations but not so much on curbing the excessive appetites of the swamp. Burr's continued chairing of the Intel committee is leverage against Trump to prevent draining the Swamp for example. A McConnell type would rather reign in hell than lose power in Heaven.

I really dislike the current atmosphere as it interferes with my research which is constitutional protections of rights as I find myself regularly being distracted by examples of the deterioration of the rule of law in the present. We are rapidly displacing a generally applicable law to that of aristocratic privilege overriding the black letter and intent of the laws.

Reading about the fall of the Florentine Republic as well as the Roman, you see the same actions by self-interested "elites" that are on display today. Eventually a tyrant of some sort comes to basically liquidate the elites as the general public comes to prefer one tyrant over a multitude of petty ones from the elites. Sometimes it happens repeatedly as in Florence where the elites try to claw back their power and the people resort to tyrants to prevent that restoration.

Posted by: whig at December 06, 2019 12:52 PM (MwILh)

418 47 I know that's Frances Nuyen. Don't know who he is.
Posted by: Bicentennialguy

Lawrence Harvey who played the Barack Obama character in a movie with Frank Sinatra.

Harvey has something in common with France's ex-husband Robert Culp--they both murdered someone on Columbo and wait for it....got caught.

Actually Culp murdered someone every third week on Columbo. Him and Jack Cassidy.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn DA 1977 at December 06, 2019 12:56 PM (kfcYC)

419 185 I've never seen a strangulated testicle, but I bet it looks a lot like Adam Schiff.
Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at December 06, 2019 11:53 AM (jp0Bv)

Stop the blog. I'm getting off. This just gave me the big laugh of the day.

Posted by: Sooner at December 06, 2019 12:56 PM (Fs5vw)

420 416, Essentially the whole post war system was based on exploiting Americans for the benefits of the world via persistent trade deficits so that they would not turn commie.

Inclusion of Mexico and then China into that bloc essentially destroyed the system. The financial industry benefitted as skimming the top of transfers between countries and repatriating the money via investments of the foreigners into the U.S. economy. Politicians became selected on the basis of their openness to globalization by funding. However, this resulted in the decay of the U.S. Main street based economy via production.

Posted by: whig at December 06, 2019 12:57 PM (MwILh)

421 stopping the graft machine that is selling off the United States a piece at a time is why Trump is H8ED and must be impeached. the royal class (politicians and their support orgs (inc bureucrats)) must be fed. the only other alternative is to push 95% of all US citizens back into serfdom, and we can not while they have all those GUNS.

Posted by: politics uber alles at December 06, 2019 01:01 PM (0hOKG)

422
the 2004 remake of "Candidate" was not bad!

It's fun to watch both of them back-to-back.

Posted by: ArthurK at December 06, 2019 01:22 PM (H+nmG)

423 And the news media was liberal during the Watergate era....

And Uncle Walter was a D Bag who was a new reader who got to live the Life Style of the Rich and Famous. Fucking great job, read the news, end up with a sailing yacht.

Posted by: Groundhog at December 06, 2019 05:40 PM (VYwSh)

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