Saturday Morning Coffee Break

I don't have that problem, coffee = black & bitter just like my soul.

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Good morning Morons. Here's hoping your weekend goes well. Here are a few stories that didn't get their fair share of attention here at the AoSHQ this past week.

I think Bubba will be making sweet music with him.

Once again top floor and/or top bunk is always best.

I call Bull Shit.

Do any of these carpool tricks works? Yeah, didn't think so.

LOOK AT ME, I guess it is Saturday morning.

NASA is looking for a few good astronauts.

Give a man a garbage can, and you'll house him for a day.

My kind of government agency.

Not my kind of government agency.

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Rules? Not many on this open thread. No running with sharp objects and play nice with one another. Oh yeah one more thing, have a nice weekend!!!

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 08:30 AM

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1 Good morning, good people.

Posted by: no good deed at February 15, 2020 08:31 AM (MmFTx)

2 I gotta clean the house. I don't wanna.

Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at February 15, 2020 08:32 AM (COzlW)

3 Well, it's morning, I'll give you that.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 15, 2020 08:33 AM (aA3+G)

4 Hello Beanies.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 15, 2020 08:34 AM (gd9RK)

5 Nice

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 15, 2020 08:34 AM (tT0V4)

6 Going up to Lansing to check out some used book stores with a fellow Hordian. Looks to be a nice day today.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at February 15, 2020 08:37 AM (Dc2NZ)

7 Thanks Mis Hum. Little Winger is ice fishing up by you. I told him to stop by your place for dinner, as he probably won't catch a thing.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 15, 2020 08:38 AM (lwiT4)

8 Well, made it to another Saturday. Good morning fellow survivors and Maroons.

Posted by: RI Red at February 15, 2020 08:38 AM (4VdFg)

9 The carpool tricks that DO work?
You don't hear about them!

Posted by: MarkY at February 15, 2020 08:38 AM (fc+HX)

10 Pete Buttigieg Fundraiser Interrupted by 'Queers Against Pete' Protesters

However, being gay is not enough to earn the support of LGBTQIA communities. We cannot in good conscience allow Mayor Pete to become the nominee without demanding that he address the needs and concerns of the broader Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual communities."

Some of the group's concerns include Buttigieg's lack of support for canceling student loan debt, his opposition to a fully-realized Medicare for All plan and free universal public college.

Queers Against Pete. Welcome to the lunatic asylum comrades. Where you can never be queer, commie or woke enough to satisfy the lunatics

Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 15, 2020 08:38 AM (a4xU3)

11 The homeless are smarter than the English millionaire. Sleep in two plastic wheelie bins and you wake up drenched in condensation.

Posted by: t-bird at February 15, 2020 08:39 AM (xSo9G)

12 Bah, I got willowed and I don't care to repost it.

You can take the wins and celebrate them or you nitpick every single stupid setback and claim The Republic Is Over.

I choose to celebrate wins.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 15, 2020 08:39 AM (cfSRQ)

13 I don't wanna.

I don't either. I have to wake the teenagers to help me out. I will have a house full of teenage girls for my daughter's slumber party tonight. The least they can do is be my minions for the day.

Posted by: no good deed at February 15, 2020 08:39 AM (MmFTx)

14 And it's minus 13 outside. Just like inside my cold dark heart.

Posted by: RI Red at February 15, 2020 08:39 AM (4VdFg)

15 I hate those HOV lanes. I pay for the roads like everyone else and I don't like seeing a lane wasted because of someone's lefty nitwit ideas.

Posted by: freaked at February 15, 2020 08:40 AM (Tnijr)

16 6
Going up to Lansing to check out some used book stores with a fellow Hordian. Looks to be a nice day today.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at February 15, 2020 08:37 AM (Dc2NZ)

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Curious and Archives, by chance?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 15, 2020 08:40 AM (cfSRQ)

17 Does anyone here drink coffee with a little chunk of butter in it?

Snow on the golf course, with more scheduled for next week. Probably need to check flights and tee times for Vegas. o_0

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 15, 2020 08:41 AM (EK+jJ)

18 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at beautiful Chancre del Diablo ranch at February 15, 2020 08:41 AM (B3agS)

19 Good morning all!! Trump at Daytona today. He really is the Bill Murray of Presidents!!

Posted by: Jmel at February 15, 2020 08:42 AM (OeWgo)

20 17
Does anyone here drink coffee with a little chunk of butter in it?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 15, 2020 08:41 AM (EK+jJ)

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Like Lt. Col. Alexander Jefferson of the Tuskegee Airmen, I take coffee with my cream and sugar.

And yes, it was my profound honor and pleasure to make him coffee.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 15, 2020 08:42 AM (cfSRQ)

21 7 Thanks Mis Hum. Little Winger is ice fishing up by you. I told him to stop by your place for dinner, as he probably won't catch a thing.
Posted by: grammie winger at February 15, 2020 08:38 AM (lwiT4)

He's more than welcome, its slow cooked pot roast tonight.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 15, 2020 08:42 AM (aA3+G)

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Going up to Lansing to check out some used book stores with a fellow Hordian. Looks to be a nice day today.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at February 15, 2020 08:37 AM

Eris, we should plan a similar expedition in The Peoples' Republik of AnnArbor...target rich environment

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 15, 2020 08:43 AM (rcvoU)

23 Weather app says it feels like 3 below outside.

I'll take their word for it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 15, 2020 08:43 AM (cfSRQ)

24 And yes, it was my profound honor and pleasure to make him coffee.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 15, 2020 08:42 AM (cfSRQ)

You are a lucky man!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at February 15, 2020 08:44 AM (BiNEL)

25
it's up to 11 degrees here, on it's way to 28

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 15, 2020 08:44 AM (rcvoU)

26 Nobody would ever want to carpool with me. First, I wouldn't want them there and second, I've got a USB stick with over 500 collections of sounds forced into position by musicians that could potentially provoke a leap into traffic at 70 mph.

Posted by: freaked at February 15, 2020 08:45 AM (Tnijr)

27 We haven't had much of a winter, but I'm ready for it to be over.

Posted by: Weasel at February 15, 2020 08:46 AM (MVjcR)

28 Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 15, 2020 08:42 AM (cfSRQ)

You luck, luck dog! Did you get to speak with him for any length of time or listen to him talk about his career?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 15, 2020 08:46 AM (EK+jJ)

29 Black coffee.
From a huge Thermos.
That way you only need to rinse the Thermos out.
To fill it with more.
Black coffee.

The origins of rinse and repeat.

Posted by: Big V at February 15, 2020 08:47 AM (y/fJ4)

30 I hate those HOV lanes. I pay for the roads like everyone else and I don't like seeing a lane wasted because of someone's lefty nitwit ideas.

Posted by: freaked at February 15, 2020 08:40 AM (Tnijr)

I'll make you feel better by pointing out that HOV lanes are really another example of the pervasivenss of the ruling class.
Guess who pays for the HOV transponders that are issued to all our elected officials?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at February 15, 2020 08:47 AM (BiNEL)

31 The Garbage can millionaire has way too much time on his hands.

And leave the homeless alone already.....they enjoy living like that, it's what they do.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 15, 2020 08:47 AM (Z+IKu)

32 Do people really put anything other than Bourbon in their coffee?

*smishes Eris*

You didn't wish me happy birthday yesterday.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 15, 2020 08:48 AM (gd9RK)

33 The origins of rinse and repeat.

Posted by: Big V at February 15, 2020 08:47 AM (y/fJ4)

Since coffee is toxic, you don't have to worry about any mold growing in the thermos either!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at February 15, 2020 08:48 AM (BiNEL)

34 27 We haven't had much of a winter, but I'm ready for it to be over.
Posted by: Weasel at February 15, 2020 08:46 AM (MVjcR)

quityerbitchin NOW

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 15, 2020 08:48 AM (aA3+G)

35 I don't have that problem, coffee = black & bitter just like my soul.

Actually, I prefer mine with a bit of cream, probably because I am racist or something.

And on occasion, a snort of whiskey. That makes me Irish and racist.

Get off my island.

Posted by: GnuBreed at February 15, 2020 08:48 AM (Jdw1U)

36 Thanks Mis Hum. Little Winger is ice fishing up by you. I told him to stop by your place for dinner, as he probably won't catch a thing.
Posted by: grammie winger

You didn't pack him a lunch ?

Hiya Grammie !

Posted by: JT at February 15, 2020 08:49 AM (arJlL)

37 "You didn't wish me happy birthday yesterday."

Bander....you and J.J. share the same birthday?

Figure the odds.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 15, 2020 08:49 AM (tT0V4)

38 I may be remembering this incorrectly, but didn't they scream racism on the part of the church burning idiot down in Louisiana? If I recall, they were all historically black churches.

Posted by: no good deed at February 15, 2020 08:49 AM (MmFTx)

39 Hiya JT!

Posted by: grammie winger at February 15, 2020 08:49 AM (lwiT4)

40 Hola

Cola

Posted by: JT at February 15, 2020 08:50 AM (arJlL)

41 Curious and Archives, by chance?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 15, 2020 08:40 AM (cfSRQ)
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Maaaayyyyybe.

Yes.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at February 15, 2020 08:51 AM (Dc2NZ)

42 34 27 We haven't had much of a winter, but I'm ready for it to be over.
Posted by: Weasel at February 15, 2020 08:46 AM (MVjcR)

quityerbitchin NOW
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 15, 2020 08:48 AM (aA3+G
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Ha! And it was below freezing (barely) when I got up! I prefer mid 70s with low humidity and a 2mph wind from whe SSW.

Posted by: Weasel at February 15, 2020 08:52 AM (MVjcR)

43 Went back and read the content; thx, MisHum.
The astronaut story bugged me - way too many references to diversity. And a recognition that larger crews allows fo it. Early crews only had room for skilled.
Doesn't anyone ever put two and two together?
Anyway, leave me off the diverse crew to Mars.

Posted by: RI Red at February 15, 2020 08:52 AM (4VdFg)

44 You luck, luck dog! Did you get to speak with him for any length of time or listen to him talk about his career?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 15, 2020 08:46 AM (EK+jJ)

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I met him several times. He used to be a guest speaker at a National Guard youth camp. Remarkable man.

I particularly remember interviewing him about the aircraft he flew - which one he liked best.

They trained on the P-40, moved to the P-47 and then got the P-51. The P-40 was meh, the P-47 handled like a brick, but the P-51 was a sportscar. His eyes lit up as he described its handling.

I asked him if he had a particular memory that stuck with him and he said that they were escorting a raid and the sky was utterly clear. Painfully bright and the bomber stream they were escorting seemed to go on forever. Hundreds of aircraft, gleaming in the sunlight.

He said he paused over the spectacle and thought there would never be anything like it again. He looked at me and said the power was just unimaginable and he felt a little bad for the Germans because they were totally overwhelmed.

Very cool.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 15, 2020 08:52 AM (cfSRQ)

45 I choose to celebrate wins.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 15, 2020 08:39 AM (cfSRQ)

How am I supposed to sell fainting couches with attitudes like that?

Posted by: Faintain Couch Salesman at February 15, 2020 08:52 AM (/LQkF)

46 I thought the Prohibited Pork story would be something about outlawed sex positions.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 15, 2020 08:52 AM (JFO2v)

47 I may be remembering this incorrectly, but didn't they scream racism on the part of the church burning idiot down in Louisiana? If I recall, they were all historically black churches.
Posted by: no good deed at February 15, 2020

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If it's Lousy-ana, it's bound to be stupid. Personally I believe the Walmart closest to me makes a policy of hiring the stupidest citizens it can find.

Mornin', all!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 15, 2020 08:52 AM (DHNlU)

48 Ha! And it was below freezing (barely) when I got up! I prefer mid 70s with low humidity and a 2mph wind from whe SSW.
Posted by: Weasel at February 15, 2020 08:52 AM (MVjcR)

Nothing like a Weasel to rub someone's nose in it. That's not nice.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 15, 2020 08:53 AM (aA3+G)

49 You didn't wish me happy birthday yesterday.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 15, 2020 08:48 AM (gd9RK)
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I fell asleep inside the giant rum cake.

Happy Belated Berfday!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at February 15, 2020 08:53 AM (Dc2NZ)

50 Just a thought...

Think of the must beautiful, wonderful, glorious, amazing, make you cry, make you feel alive, make your spirit soar music and songs you have ever heard. Now think of the songs and music you will hear

in heaven

Posted by: xa4 nasal radiator at February 15, 2020 08:53 AM (xkudx)

51 48 Ha! And it was below freezing (barely) when I got up! I prefer mid 70s with low humidity and a 2mph wind from whe SSW.
Posted by: Weasel at February 15, 2020 08:52 AM (MVjcR)

Nothing like a Weasel to rub someone's nose in it. That's not nice.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 15, 2020 08:53 AM (aA3+G)
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It's a gift I have.

Posted by: Weasel at February 15, 2020 08:53 AM (MVjcR)

52 Mornin', Weasel. Out at the tree farm with a passel of shooting' arns?

Posted by: RI Red at February 15, 2020 08:54 AM (4VdFg)

53 Actually, I prefer mine with a bit of cream, probably because I am racist or something.
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I identify as Mochtaroon.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at February 15, 2020 08:55 AM (Dc2NZ)

54 By the way, if I get pissed at people complaining, it's partly because of the Tuskegee Airmen.

To talk to them, hear about what they went through and how they still love our country...it's profound.

Sorry, I can't stand the negativity. There's too much that's good to fixate on bad things all the time.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 15, 2020 08:55 AM (cfSRQ)

55 It's a gift I have.
Posted by: Weasel at February 15, 2020 08:53 AM (MVjcR)

Not threatening you, but I would be quite cautious at the MoMe. A bluebell shank could find you.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 15, 2020 08:55 AM (aA3+G)

56 Think of the must beautiful, wonderful, glorious,
amazing, make you cry, make you feel alive, make your spirit soar music
and songs you have ever heard. Now think of the songs and music you will
hear

in heaven

Posted by: xa4 nasal radiator at February 15, 2020 08:53 AM (xkudx)

Can't wait. Truly.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 15, 2020 08:56 AM (lwiT4)

57 Eris, we should plan a similar expedition in The Peoples' Republik of AnnArbor...target rich environment
Posted by: AltonJackson at February 15, 2020 08:43 AM (rcvoU)
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We should! College towns have great pickings.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at February 15, 2020 08:56 AM (Dc2NZ)

58 Ha! And it was below freezing (barely) when I got up! I prefer mid 70s with low humidity and a 2mph wind from whe SSW.
Posted by: Weasel at February 15, 2020

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What is this "mid-70s with *low* humidity" of which you speak?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 15, 2020 08:56 AM (DHNlU)

59 32
Do people really put anything other than Bourbon in their coffee?

*smishes Eris*

Grand Marneir for a relaxing, civilized Saturday morning.
Cheap Ass Coffee Brandy if you need to go out and work in the bitter cold.

Posted by: mark reardon at February 15, 2020 08:56 AM (2oTwy)

60 55 It's a gift I have.
Posted by: Weasel at February 15, 2020 08:53 AM (MVjcR)

Not threatening you, but I would be quite cautious at the MoMe. A bluebell shank could find you.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 15, 2020 08:55 AM (aA3+G)
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It's a fear I live with daily! Especially if I have to report low NoVaMoMe2020 registration numbers.

Posted by: Weasel at February 15, 2020 08:57 AM (MVjcR)

61 Have an excelsior day, my pretty Hordelings!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at February 15, 2020 08:57 AM (Dc2NZ)

62 What is this "mid-70s with *low* humidity" of which you speak?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 15, 2020 08:56 AM (DHNlU)

He means 17 below, with a wind chill of minus 40.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 15, 2020 08:57 AM (lwiT4)

63 Have fun and stay safe, Eris !

Posted by: JT at February 15, 2020 08:57 AM (arJlL)

64 It's a fear I live with daily! Especially if I have to report low NoVaMoMe2020 registration numbers.
Posted by: Weasel at February 15, 2020 08:57 AM (MVjcR)

The frosty midwest will be well represented there.

Our flights and rooms are booked. And unlike last year, the snow storms should be over by then.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 15, 2020 08:58 AM (aA3+G)

65 No promises, JT!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at February 15, 2020 08:58 AM (Dc2NZ)

66 Maybe they didn't take him seriously enough, but I have yet to hear the "panicked Wall Streeters" express deep concern like they did with Warren, should this crazy old commie get elected. There's an article over at Townhall by Vespa on the similarities of Trump and Sanders with respect to support, enthusiasm, etc. I don't agree with that really. While Sanders has enthralled ignorant millennials, I don't think he is anywhere close to mesmerizing the rest of the country with communism in amounts necessary to win a general election. Still, I have to wonder where the flashing red sirens from Wall Street are on his candidacy. If they're out there, I haven't seen them.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 15, 2020 08:58 AM (JoUsr)

67 No promises, JT!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes

Lol !

Posted by: JT at February 15, 2020 08:59 AM (arJlL)

68 64 It's a fear I live with daily! Especially if I have to report low NoVaMoMe2020 registration numbers.
Posted by: Weasel at February 15, 2020 08:57 AM (MVjcR)

The frosty midwest will be well represented there.

Our flights and rooms are booked. And unlike last year, the snow storms should be over by then.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 15, 2020 08:58 AM (aA3+G
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Yeah, bro! I was happy to see your names on the list!

Posted by: Weasel at February 15, 2020 09:00 AM (MVjcR)

69 "By the way, if I get pissed at people complaining, it's partly because of the Tuskegee Airmen.

To talk to them, hear about what they went through and how they still love our country...it's profound.

Sorry, I can't stand the negativity. There's too much that's good to fixate on bad things all the time."

While in a big box home improvement store yesterday, we ran into a salesman, that once we established that we did not need his product, abruptly asked if we had ever heard of the Tuskegee Airmen.

As a black man, he had caught the movie 'Red Tails' on TV and stated that he had never heard of them before. Spent about 15 minutes in deep discussion concerning racism, pride, facing adversity and such.

Really enjoyable moment.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 15, 2020 09:00 AM (tT0V4)

70 There's a list? And is Bluebell checking it twice?

Posted by: RI Red at February 15, 2020 09:01 AM (4VdFg)

71 Pete Buttigieg Fundraiser Interrupted by 'Queers Against Pete' Protesters

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For not being gay enough. Silly grievance groups eating each other alive...this is what it looks like.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 15, 2020 09:02 AM (JoUsr)

72 Morning!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at February 15, 2020 09:02 AM (CjFDo)

73 Lady in Black, I saw something yesterday lamenting, "What will it take to get the media to cover the violence from Bernie supporters?" All I could think of was, well, one of them shooting a bunch of Republican Congressmen wasn't enough.

Posted by: no good deed at February 15, 2020 09:02 AM (MmFTx)

74 "... concerns of the broader Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual communities."

"Some of the group's concerns include Buttigieg's lack of support for canceling student loan debt..."

I've typed several sentences to express my bewilderment at these two statements but what I really want to say is....Wut?

LGBTQIAXYZ concerns: student loan debt?

Posted by: Tami at February 15, 2020 09:02 AM (cF8AT)

75 What is this "mid-70s with *low* humidity" of which you speak?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 15, 2020 08:56 AM (DHNlU)

He means 17 below, with a wind chill of minus 40.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 15, 2020

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I admit I'd be huddling indoors with those conditions . . . but then, I'm forced to huddle indoors during the "90+ degrees and humidity so high you drip" conditions from April to December here. How's life in Wisconsin?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 15, 2020 09:02 AM (DHNlU)

76 70 There's a list? And is Bluebell checking it twice?
Posted by: RI Red at February 15, 2020 09:01 AM (4VdFg)
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You better believe it! She reviews it carefully each day while tapping a shiv in the table.

Posted by: Weasel at February 15, 2020 09:03 AM (MVjcR)

77 How's life in Wisconsin?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 15, 2020 09:02 AM (DHNlU)

Weather aside, it's pretty good. Wisconsin is a nice place to live.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 15, 2020 09:05 AM (lwiT4)

78 Lady in Black, I saw something yesterday lamenting, "What will it take to get the media to cover the violence from Bernie supporters?" All I could think of was, well, one of them shooting a bunch of Republican Congressmen wasn't enough.

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Right, I think we know the answer. They're not going to report anything unless it's along the lines of:

"Trump supporter maliciously puts their head in the way of mostly-peaceful Bernie supporter's car, in an attempt to make them look bad."

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 15, 2020 09:05 AM (JoUsr)

79

Mornin' grammie.

Do ya think I'll still have this Bob Dylan voice in heaven?
I mean, I know, make a joyful noise and all that, but still...

Posted by: teej at February 15, 2020 09:05 AM (g1guD)

80 Do ya think I'll still have this Bob Dylan voice in heaven?

I mean, I know, make a joyful noise and all that, but still...

Posted by: teej at February 15, 2020 09:05 AM (g1guD)

I think you'll fit right in

Posted by: grammie winger at February 15, 2020 09:06 AM (lwiT4)

81 Weasel, can I send y'all some cash to be used at your discretion for sundries?

Posted by: no good deed at February 15, 2020 09:06 AM (MmFTx)

82 Posted by: Lady in Black at February 15, 2020 08:58 AM (JoUsr)

"We" elected a black Muslim with ties to a radical terrorist.

I wouldn't be surprised in the least of America went commie.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 15, 2020 09:06 AM (aA3+G)

83 Pete Buttigieg Fundraiser Interrupted by 'Queers Against Pete' Protesters

SUCK HARDER!

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 15, 2020 09:06 AM (oVJmc)

84 Tuskeegee has given us the Airmen, one of our cultural high points, and the Experiment, one of the lows.

Tuskeegee is such a coin flip that if I were a black man I'd just avoid the place.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 15, 2020 09:07 AM (gd9RK)

85 Do ya think I'll still have this Bob Dylan voice in heaven?

I mean, I know, make a joyful noise and all that, but still...

Posted by: teej at February 15, 2020 09:05 AM (g1guD)

You gotta serve somebody.
And I like Dylan's voice.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 15, 2020 09:07 AM (aA3+G)

86 I decided it was too cold to.walk doggeh yesterday

today is 15 degrees colder

I think doggeh is plotting a coup

Posted by: vmom 2020 at February 15, 2020 09:07 AM (G546f)

87 Eris, not sure from where your book trip commences but there's a great used-book store in Ann Arbor, an hour or so from Lansing. West End Books, on Liberty between Main and Ashley, is a treasure. Be sure to check out the back room where the old maps and other large items are displayed for sale - including what appear to be original Edward Curtis photographs.

You'll also only be mere blocks from Zingerman's Deli, another delightful place worthy of a pilgrimage.

The downside of Ann Arbor is that it's a leftist freak show in full bloom. Darling Ann and I live an hour south of there, so we'll go for concerts at The Ark and pastrami at Zingerman's; we always leave Ann Arbor laughing and shaking our heads, trying to imagine just how proud Mom and Dad must be of little Emma and Seth with their ink and noserings and Bernie stickers...

Posted by: Cowboyneal at February 15, 2020 09:07 AM (U2zo0)

88 Good morning, you big, sexy horde!

I have a cold (yet again) and can't see my folks, who are recuperating from their respective surgeries. So I'm deep-cleaning house today.

It's a beautiful cold day. I hope the book-hunting morons enjoy the drive!

Posted by: NaughtyPine at February 15, 2020 09:07 AM (/+bwe)

89 There's a list? And is Bluebell checking it twice?

I'll save her time. Naughty.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 15, 2020 09:08 AM (gd9RK)

90 86 I decided it was too cold to.walk doggeh yesterday

today is 15 degrees colder

I think doggeh is plotting a ~~coup~~poop
Posted by: vmom 2020 at February 15, 2020 09:07 AM (G546f)

FIFY

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 15, 2020 09:08 AM (aA3+G)

91 Does anybody else here get daily Kindle book recommendations? Why are the so chick-centric and lame?

Posted by: grammie winger at February 15, 2020 09:08 AM (lwiT4)

92 Just read the article on the police competition for most ticketing. Power corrupts, etc.
And just when the heck did the word 'rubric' enter the lexicon, anyway?
That's bugged me since I saw it in Junior's homework. Almost 29 years ago.

Posted by: RI Red at February 15, 2020 09:08 AM (4VdFg)

93 How's life in Wisconsin?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 15, 2020 09:02 AM (DHNlU)

Weather aside, it's pretty good. Wisconsin is a nice place to live.
Posted by: grammie winger at February 15, 2020

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I need to come up and have a look at it on the ground, so to speak. Appleton sounds like a nice place, and maybe Oshkosh. I want to avoid the big towns like Milwaukee and Madison.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 15, 2020 09:08 AM (DHNlU)

94 MisHum, I actually always have that lingering in the back of my mind, and likely will forevermore. Barky's 2012 reelection kind of killed a part of my naive belief that people we're fairly smart and not willing to hand over their country to a malicious fool.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 15, 2020 09:08 AM (JoUsr)

95 You have to hand it to them. Realizing they got rooked by the "educational system"; they have a useless degree in underwater left handed 15th century lesbian poetry hermaneutics, they now demand somebody else pick up the tab for their $75,000 student loan.

Conveniently left out of the discussion entirely, the elephant in the room, the school itself sits on a $2 Billion endowment. If "college should be free"; why not make the schools pay for it? Why should the people who don't go to college have to pay for it?

The process is the punishment, natch. Never forget leftist wankery is deeply rooted in petty vindictiveness and thirst for "revenge", for offenses nobody is guilty of except in their fevered imagination.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 15, 2020 09:10 AM (tNuhy)

96 Posted by: Lady in Black at February 15, 2020 09:08 AM (JoUsr)

I understand 2008.

But 2012, ugh. It didn't help that the GOP ticket was Romney/Ryan pussies of incredible goo

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 15, 2020 09:10 AM (aA3+G)

97 74 "... concerns of the broader Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual communities."

"Some of the group's concerns include Buttigieg's lack of support for canceling student loan debt..."

I've typed several sentences to express my bewilderment at these two statements but what I really want to say is....Wut?

LGBTQIAXYZ concerns: student loan debt?
Posted by: Tami at February 15, 2020 09:02 AM (cF8AT)

Something for Nothing!

Everyone in the Progressive movement has from day one offered up their rights and freedom for a free bowl of porridge.

Now the trend it to make your tribe the most aggrieved of all so that you get to the front of the line when the handouts starts.

When your tribe does not get pushed to the front of the line then you must created a new tribe. A tribe that has such a select group of needs so different than anyone else's human condition that your group can asked other groups to open up an aisle so you can move to the front.

What all of the people miss is that they have now lost their individuality, it has been surrendered to the tribe and the status of the tribe.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 15, 2020 09:10 AM (JFO2v)

98 we're=were

Why do I do that!? How can I know proper grammar, yet reread what I type and not see this the first time around? Gah.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 15, 2020 09:10 AM (JoUsr)

99 I want to avoid the big towns like Milwaukee and Madison.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 15, 2020 09:08 AM (DHNlU)

Yeah, you want to stay out of Milwaukee. Madison is pretty but insane.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 15, 2020 09:10 AM (lwiT4)

100 "70 There's a list? And is Bluebell checking it twice?
Posted by: RI Red at February 15, 2020 09:01 AM (4VdFg) "

Has anyone ever seen bluebell and Santa Clause in the same room?

Just asking questions...

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 15, 2020 09:11 AM (tT0V4)

101 Naughtypine-

Get well soon !

Posted by: JT at February 15, 2020 09:11 AM (arJlL)

102 MisHum, I actually always have that lingering in the back of my mind, and likely will forevermore. Barky's 2012 reelection kind of killed a part of my naive belief that people we're fairly smart and not willing to hand over their country to a malicious fool.
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 15, 2020

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And I'm not sure we can rely on the old saw that people become more conservative as they get older. My writing group buddy, who's 70-something and a Vietnam vet, still thinks socialism is great and Bernie would make a fine president. His craziest remark: "No country that's gone socialist has ever gone back."

My rejoinder: "That's because those countries couldn't go back!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 15, 2020 09:12 AM (DHNlU)

103 we're=were

Why do I do that!? How can I know proper grammar, yet reread what I type and not see this the first time around? Gah.
Posted by: Lady in Black

No boggie !

Posted by: JT at February 15, 2020 09:12 AM (arJlL)

104 91 Does anybody else here get daily Kindle book recommendations? Why are the so chick-centric and lame?
Posted by: grammie winger at February 15, 2020 09:08 AM (lwiT4)

I think some are sponsored. Have you gone into your profile and started following authors? If so then you should be getting updates and notices from that author or similar works.

You can also go into your profile and click on following and see updates for each author.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 15, 2020 09:12 AM (JFO2v)

105

Thank you grammie.
And true words about about serving MH. Thanks.

Posted by: teej at February 15, 2020 09:12 AM (g1guD)

106 99 I want to avoid the big towns like Milwaukee and Madison.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 15, 2020 09:08 AM (DHNlU)

Yeah, you want to stay out of Milwaukee. Madison is pretty but insane.
Posted by: grammie winger at February 15, 2020 09:10 AM (lwiT4)

You would like our county.
We don't have one traffic signal.

I bet there are just as many guns here as there are in Milwaukee's inner city. Yet, we don't have any murders. Crazy isn't it?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 15, 2020 09:12 AM (aA3+G)

107 81 Weasel, can I send y'all some cash to be used at your discretion for sundries?
Posted by: no good deed at February 15, 2020 09:06 AM (MmFTx)
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That's very kind of you no good deed! We're going to have a donation jar at the MoMe. The idea is to donate any proceeds from the event and raffles to our DGI charities. Thank you!!

Posted by: Weasel at February 15, 2020 09:13 AM (MVjcR)

108 thank you to whoever posted the link on the previous thread to the story of the impromptu adopted baby shower on the airplane

Posted by: vmom 2020 at February 15, 2020 09:13 AM (G546f)

109 And yes, it was my profound honor and pleasure to make him coffee.

Was just reading that the 100-year-old Tuskegee Airman that Trump promoted to Brig. General flew in 409 combat missions (!!) over three wars. I would have gone further and made him the Senator from Arizona, but that's just me.

Posted by: t-bird at February 15, 2020 09:13 AM (CDGwz)

110 92 Just read the article on the police competition for most ticketing. Power corrupts, etc.
And just when the heck did the word 'rubric' enter the lexicon, anyway?
That's bugged me since I saw it in Junior's homework. Almost 29 years ago.
Posted by: RI Red at February 15, 2020 09:08 AM (4VdFg)

i start when that damned Cube came out!

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 15, 2020 09:13 AM (JFO2v)

111
Posted by: Cowboyneal at February 15, 2020 09:07 AM

Cowboyneal; you should come to the MiMoMe(s)

the "Bang, Bang, Shoot, Shoot" edition will be sometime in June; watch this space (& the sidebar) for details

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 15, 2020 09:13 AM (rcvoU)

112 wolfus, find a bedroom community of appleton or oshkosh. both of them are college towns, filling up with lefty bullshit and heavy on diversity. crime is going up accordingly.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 15, 2020 09:13 AM (KP5rU)

113 Huey Lewis and the News dropped the single from their new/last album, "Her Love is Killin' Me" and it's moron-worthy.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at February 15, 2020 09:14 AM (/+bwe)

114 I decided it was too cold to.walk doggeh yesterday

today is 15 degrees colder

I think doggeh is plotting a coup
Posted by: vmom 2020

Or a poup.

Posted by: JT at February 15, 2020 09:14 AM (arJlL)

115 Tuskegee Airmen is a cool story, the trend though for a while on the History Channel several years back, if you didn't know better you'd think they singlehandedly won the entire war. This "revisionism" has only gotten worse. People bitching that there wasn't enough "diversity" in a movie about "D Day" landings? These people are not sane.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 15, 2020 09:15 AM (tNuhy)

116 The LBTGQWERTY group is getting larger or all the woke employers are hiring only them. Was in Walmart after work yesterday to pick up the rest of the money I loaned grandson last fall. The person at the counter was I think a female. The only reason I lean that was is its name was Maddy. I could be wrong. It's just too weird and creepy.

And grandson overpaid me $100. When I told him, he said Happy VD. lol.

Posted by: Infidel at February 15, 2020 09:15 AM (MTxDQ)

117 both of them are college towns, filling up with lefty bullshit and heavy on diversity. crime is going up accordingly.

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Why should Chicago, Oakland, Philly have all the crime? We think crime should be diversified and spread out across the nation equally!

-- Stupid leftist

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 15, 2020 09:15 AM (JoUsr)

118
Conveniently left out of the discussion entirely, the elephant in the room, the school itself sits on a $2 Billion endowment. If "college should be free"; why not make the schools pay for it? Why should the people who don't go to college have to pay for it?

Price controls on Higher Ed. If it's the solution for energy and medical care, it should work for Higher Ed, right?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 15, 2020 09:15 AM (oVJmc)

119 FIFY
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian

definitely

Posted by: vmom 2020 at February 15, 2020 09:15 AM (G546f)

120 Still, I have to wonder where the flashing red sirens from Wall Street are on his candidacy. If they're out there, I haven't seen them.
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 15, 2020 08:58 AM (JoUsr)

My guess is that all of their bets are now on the Bloomberg campaign, that he's their candidate now. I think it's starting to show as anyone who can be bought is now jumping up and declaring for Bloomberg; for example, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, a black Texas politician. Does anyone believe he had even heard of Bloomberg before a few days ago? Of course not.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 15, 2020 09:15 AM (V2Yro)

121 The woman I posted about on the previous thread, dem who went to a Trump rally and wrote about it, is coming up on Fox.

Posted by: Tami at February 15, 2020 09:15 AM (cF8AT)

122 My new laptop is being delivered today, my phone will go back to just being a phone now. And I will no longer have to cuss at the idiot that blew the margins making the blog unreadable.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at February 15, 2020 09:16 AM (VjHOE)

123 Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 15, 2020 08:52 AM (cfSRQ)

That's awesome! Personally, I think the success of the Red Tails, and their individual as well as collective struggle to overcome the adversity that dogged them from start to finish is just one example of the personification of American.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 15, 2020 09:16 AM (EK+jJ)

124 Does anybody know what happened to one of the long time original AoS morons, Niedermeyer's Dead Horse? She suddenly stopped tweeting and replying a little over a month ago.
Not like her.

Posted by: CausticConservative at February 15, 2020 09:17 AM (1v3by)

125 84
Tuskeegee has given us the Airmen, one of our cultural high points, and the Experiment, one of the lows.

Tuskeegee is such a coin flip that if I were a black man I'd just avoid the place.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 15, 2020 09:07 AM (gd9RK)

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The Airmen are remarkable and the ones I spoke to dislike the movies made about them. The one in the 90s they especially hate because none of them committed suicide and they took racism as a given.

I refused to watch the George Lucas atrocity, but one thing most accounts leave out is that the Air Corps set crazy high standards to get into the program. All of the Airmen had college degrees in an age where that was super rare among black men and most had advanced degrees as well.

They were also in tip-top physical shape.

Thus you had a super-elite pool of recruits who produced super-elite pilots. Which is why they are awesome.

As for the veneral disease thing, that's mostly lies and propaganda. They didn't infect people and the "treatment" of the time was often worse than the natural course of the disease.

Which is what the experiment showed.

(Seriously. One treatment was to inject a mercury compound into the urethra.)

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 15, 2020 09:18 AM (cfSRQ)

126 You can vote your way into socialism but ya gotta shoot yer way out, is the problem.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 15, 2020 09:18 AM (tNuhy)

127 122 My new laptop is being delivered today, my phone will go back to just being a phone now. And I will no longer have to cuss at the idiot that blew the margins making the blog unreadable.
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at February 15, 2020 09:16 AM (VjHOE)

Congrats on the new laptop.

But we do need you in the "Cuss at the idiot" Club.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 15, 2020 09:18 AM (aA3+G)

128 122 My new laptop is being delivered today, my phone will go back to just being a phone now. And I will no longer have to cuss at the idiot that blew the margins making the blog unreadable.
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at February 15, 2020 09:16 AM (VjHOE)
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A lot of people say that about the Gun Thread even without blown margins!

Posted by: Weasel at February 15, 2020 09:18 AM (MVjcR)

129 91: Because lame chick lit gets bought. Not by you or me, but by lots of women. The staff who spent their breaks reading at my former hospital read a steady diet of that on their kindles.

Posted by: CN at February 15, 2020 09:18 AM (5wOoy)

130 Price controls on Higher Ed. If it's the solution for energy and medical care, it should work for Higher Ed, right?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 15, 2020 09:15 AM (oVJmc)

Single Payer Public Edumacation for teh win!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at February 15, 2020 09:18 AM (BiNEL)

131 don't have that problem, coffee = black & bitter just like my soul.

Yep, adding cream and/or sugar to coffee is like drinking light beer or smoking low tar cigarettes. I like my coffee like I like my women...hot and black.

I denounce myself.

Posted by: Traveling Man&&&& at February 15, 2020 09:19 AM (GdPyX)

132

@109 - t-bird

Seconded!!

Posted by: teej at February 15, 2020 09:19 AM (g1guD)

133 (Seriously. One treatment was to inject a mercury compound into the urethra.)

OW !

Posted by: JT at February 15, 2020 09:19 AM (arJlL)

134 Lady in Black, I remember being at work and everyone going ga-ga when O was sworn in - historic first, bla bla bla. I kept saying to myself, "Don't any of you know we just elected the furthest left person in the Senate ever?"
Of course, when Nixon said he wasn't a crook, I was saying, "Don't any of you know that we re-elected a crook?"
Some things are glaringly obvious. But then again, half of the population is below average.

Posted by: RI Red at February 15, 2020 09:20 AM (4VdFg)

135 Naughtypine-

Get well soon !
Posted by: JT at February 15, 2020 09:11 AM

Thank you. This cold isn't as bad as others I had this winter. Things are just getting passed around. Lots of kids in my area have had antibiotic-resistant strep throat. My poor co-teacher went home sweating and shaking Monday and was out all week.

I hope you and yours have managed to avoid tge creeping crud!

Posted by: NaughtyPine at February 15, 2020 09:20 AM (/+bwe)

136 LGBTQIAXYZ concerns: student loan debt?
Posted by: Tami at February 15, 2020 09:02 AM (cF8AT)

Intersectionality, motherf**kers--do you speak it?!!!!11!!!!

Posted by: April at February 15, 2020 09:20 AM (OX9vb)

137 Here's a peek behind the Happy Fun Great Firewall of the ChiComs...and it ain't pretty.

https://youtu.be/5-nv7j9HEgY

Yeah, commies lie, and in other news, water is wet.

Posted by: CPT. Charles at February 15, 2020 09:20 AM (W+kMI)

138 wolfus, find a bedroom community of appleton or oshkosh. both of them are college towns, filling up with lefty bullshit and heavy on diversity. crime is going up accordingly.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 15, 2020

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Even there???? Jeez. Appleton has a couple of small colleges where I maybe could work, and so I expected there would be some leftiness. When I looked at house prices on realtor dot com for the bedroom communities around Appleton, I was astonished (pleasantly!). You can get a lot more for your dollar than you can in Da Swamp. (I know; I've been looking at properties here too. All dumps.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 15, 2020 09:21 AM (DHNlU)

139 95: Universities should be mandated to provide a written career outlook with salary ranges for every degree program and you would see a shift in majors.

Posted by: CN at February 15, 2020 09:21 AM (5wOoy)

140 Yeah, rhennigantx, I hated that crube!

Posted by: RI Red at February 15, 2020 09:21 AM (4VdFg)

141
Single Payer Public Edumacation for teh win!

That's actually what they want. 'Free' college, like 'free' healthcare.

And Academia gets their own dedicated tax stream.

Better to just arbitrarily set their price and force them to live with it.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 15, 2020 09:22 AM (oVJmc)

142 138 wolfus, find a bedroom community of appleton or oshkosh. both of them are college towns, filling up with lefty bullshit and heavy on diversity. crime is going up accordingly.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 15, 2020

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Even there???? Jeez. Appleton has a couple of small colleges where I maybe could work, and so I expected there would be some leftiness. When I looked at house prices on realtor dot com for the bedroom communities around Appleton, I was astonished (pleasantly!). You can get a lot more for your dollar than you can in Da Swamp. (I know; I've been looking at properties here too. All dumps.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 15, 2020 09:21 AM (DHNlU)

Wait until you see your Property Tax bill.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 15, 2020 09:22 AM (aA3+G)

143
Her Majesty wants my help pruning and transplanting bushes today. I have the job of taking care of four acres and we have the job of taking care of 400 square feet of garden.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 15, 2020 09:23 AM (7rVsF)

144 OK. Reckon I should get motivated, load the truck, and head to el farmo. Y'all be cool.

Posted by: Weasel at February 15, 2020 09:23 AM (MVjcR)

145 Happy VD. lol.
Posted by: Infidel at February 15, 2020

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That's what *she* said!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 15, 2020 09:23 AM (DHNlU)

146 Single Payer Public Edumacation for teh win!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at February 15, 2020 09:18 AM (BiNEL)

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The guys at the new Human Events have been campaigning to seize the endowments for a while.

The left isn't going to like the new rules.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 15, 2020 09:23 AM (cfSRQ)

147 143
Her Majesty wants my help pruning and transplanting bushes today. I have the job of taking care of four acres and we have the job of taking care of 400 square feet of garden.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 15, 2020 09:23 AM (7rVsF)

I'll trade, I got to get the snow plow revved up.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 15, 2020 09:23 AM (aA3+G)

148
Free college? Sure! Let's have stringent entrance requirements, utilitarian accommodations, abolition of joke departments and programs and a ruthless pruning of administrators.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 15, 2020 09:25 AM (7rVsF)

149 Wait until you see your Property Tax bill.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 15, 2020

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To be offset, I'd hope, by the much more reasonable car insurance rates. When I signed up with the Lizard People again this month, I asked what my rate would be in the zip code for Appleton. They said $340/6 months. I dream of that; I'm paying $800/6 months now, and Flo's Bros, whom I just left, were demanding $1072/6 months. And I am an older driver with a good record who drives a Buick sedan, not a sports car.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 15, 2020 09:26 AM (DHNlU)

150 54 - A.H. Lloyd you don't even have to go back as far as WWII , just observe the comportment of DJT. The man confronts every challenge and eats it alive! He didn't buckle or fold at each setback, and he is the primary target of DS persecution/malfeasance. The persistently negative couch-fainters are not worthy of this CiC.

Posted by: kallisto at February 15, 2020 09:26 AM (MVVO/)

151 138: wolfus, where i live, houses last about three days on the market. this place has a population of around 2300 people. i'm about 15 miles from appleton. the dumps sit for awhile. then a flipper buys them, fixes them up, and sold.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 15, 2020 09:27 AM (KP5rU)

152 Price controls on Higher Ed. If it's the solution for energy and medical care, it should work for Higher Ed, right?
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 15, 2020 09:15 AM (oVJmc)

Ya got to federalize the kolleges....make it phree for anyone who wants to go, especially the people sleeping in the garbage containers.

Should work out fine......what's a few more trillions of federal debt.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 15, 2020 09:27 AM (Z+IKu)

153 crap

did my usual oven bacon and semi burned it

still eatable though

Posted by: vmom 2020 at February 15, 2020 09:29 AM (G546f)

154 Look who has zero skin the the college game! College administrators and colleges themselves.

Students on the hook. Taxpayers on the hook. School pocketing cash and adding employees.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 15, 2020 09:29 AM (JFO2v)

155 wolfus, where i live, houses last about three days on the market. this place has a population of around 2300 people. i'm about 15 miles from appleton. the dumps sit for awhile. then a flipper buys them, fixes them up, and sold.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 15, 2020

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Fifteen miles from Appleton, if I were to work there, doesn't sound bad at all. I haven't the energy to deal with a major fixer-upper; wherever I move has got to be fairly comfortable when I move in, i.e., roof, floors, and heat. I figure I can install a couple of window A/C units for the summer.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 15, 2020 09:29 AM (DHNlU)

156 17 Does anyone here drink coffee with a little chunk of butter in it?

Do what now ?

Posted by: jsg at February 15, 2020 09:30 AM (tdrVi)

157

Miss Hum, since S Dakota tourism couldn't point me to what I was looking for, maybe Wisconsin?

Cabin on lake with good walleye and yellow perch population and fishing boat rental.
Think there's anything up that way.
I need a "get away from everything" for four or five days.

Of course that having a legal season thing might be a problem but that seems to be most places up north.

Posted by: teej at February 15, 2020 09:31 AM (g1guD)

158 As for weather here, I'm out in the suburbs again this a.m., 50 F. outside with a high looming of 68 (which I consider to be 30 degrees too warm for the time of year). Haircut, quick bank stop, then home to avoid the Mardi Gras parade that will be trooping past my apartment complex starting at noon.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 15, 2020 09:31 AM (DHNlU)

159 I saw Incredible Goo open for M83 at the Maison Bourbon in '04.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 15, 2020 09:32 AM (LxTcq)

160 124 Does anybody know what happened to one of the long time original AoS morons, Niedermeyer's Dead Horse? She suddenly stopped tweeting and replying a little over a month ago.
Not like her.

Posted by: CausticConservative at February 15, 2020 09:17 AM (1v3by)

I hadn't noticed this until you mentioned it but yeah...haven't seen her in a while.

Posted by: Tami at February 15, 2020 09:33 AM (cF8AT)

161 56 17 Does anyone here drink coffee with a little chunk of butter in it?

Do what now ?
Posted by: jsg at February 15, 2020 09:30 AM (tdrVi)

I think that's Ace's gig. Something to do with going fast on a key toy.

Posted by: RI Red at February 15, 2020 09:33 AM (4VdFg)

162 47 I may be remembering this incorrectly, but didn't they scream racism on the part of the church burning idiot down in Louisiana? If I recall, they were all historically black churches.
Posted by: no good deed at February 15, 2020
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Mornin', all!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 15, 2020 08:52 AM (DHNlU)

The perp was the 22 year old son of a white Louisiana Sherriff's Deputy (Lafayette) who went out and took pictures of himself burning down 3 black churches in his area, and who then was shocked that anyone thought he might be racist. His excuse was "no I'm a musician, that's why I did it!"

at least his poor father was the one who figured out what he'd done and turned him in. That's story is kind of old, he plead guilty and now faces a minimum 10 years in federal prison, a maximum of 70. My guess is that he'll probably have the chance to get out and impress the musical world in about 2050.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 15, 2020 09:33 AM (V2Yro)

163 I read through the EMT comments.

What did it get me?

A little amused, a little informed,
hours older, and more full of coffee.

Now I think I'll do it again for this post!

Also
Good morning, fellow offsprink of the Almighty.

Posted by: mindful webworker
another day deeper and older in debt
at February 15, 2020 09:33 AM (7OF+y)

164 Mornin', Horde. It's freakin' freezing here, and I haven't had enough covfefe yet.

That is all.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 15, 2020 09:34 AM (aetXb)

165 Free college? Sure! Let's have stringent entrance requirements, utilitarian accommodations, abolition of joke departments and programs and a ruthless pruning of administrators.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 15, 2020 09:25 AM (7rVsF)

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Pruning? Prunes are costly. Try egging.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 15, 2020 09:35 AM (XVuno)

166
Does anyone here drink coffee with a little chunk of butter in it?

Do what now ?
Posted by: jsg

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I saw that on ace, years ago. It was in my lurking days. I tried it and it failed for me, but I didn't post in about it.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 15, 2020 09:35 AM (13CQC)

167 wolfus, most houses here have central air. very few without. look up property at zip code 54944. you may be surprised.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 15, 2020 09:35 AM (KP5rU)

168 Any man puts butter in his coffee, gets a night in the box.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 15, 2020 09:35 AM (XVuno)

169 RMBS, come north an hour or two. No venturing outside today.

Posted by: RI Red at February 15, 2020 09:36 AM (4VdFg)

170 The persistently negative couch-fainters are not worthy of this CiC.

Posted by: kallisto at February 15, 2020 09:26 AM (MVVO/)

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Yes, and I get tired of them whining in the comments.

There's so much good news right now, and yet all they do is pick apart stuff and obsess about it. It's like the a spoiled brat rich kid whose pissed because the trim on the Beemer he got for his 16th birthday isn't the right shade.

Trump is fundamentally reshaping the strategic landscape and all they can do is wring their hands about Lt. Col. Bearclaw.

Or pretend that Roger Stone wasn't a dirty shifty guy, which he was. I get that it's annoying that their dirty shifty operators skate (sometimes, Avenatti isn't), but I don't have the time or energy to spend pissing about it.

Big picture is the US is stronger than at any point since the 80s.

Even more - we're just getting started! Think about all the jobs that are going to shift back to the US because China's been exposed as fundamentally unreliable. All the pharma factories are going to have to come home. Auto parts, steel, you name it.

A know a guy who says that his plant won't even take new orders because their backlog is so big. Bidding wars for blue collar jobs!

Sooo much winning.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 15, 2020 09:37 AM (cfSRQ)

171 Does anybody know what happened to one of the long time original AoS morons, Niedermeyer's Dead Horse? She suddenly stopped tweeting and replying a little over a month ago.
Not like her.

Posted by: CausticConservative at February 15, 2020 09:17 AM (1v3by)

I hadn't noticed this until you mentioned it but yeah...haven't seen her in a while.
Posted by: Tami

I never knew she was a dame.......

Posted by: JT at February 15, 2020 09:37 AM (arJlL)

172 154: And they are well paid for what they do. But don't forget the professors, many teach two days a week 28 weeks a year.

Posted by: CN at February 15, 2020 09:37 AM (5wOoy)

173 166
Does anyone here drink coffee with a little chunk of butter in it?

Do what now ?
Posted by: jsg

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I saw that on ace, years ago. It was in my lurking days. I tried it and it failed for me, but I didn't post in about it.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 15, 2020 09:35 AM (13CQC)

You need to blend it.

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 15, 2020 09:37 AM (Uu+Jp)

174 This is what I imagine sounds like. https://youtu.be/8VfYKmJkxl0

Posted by: Cicero Skip at February 15, 2020 09:37 AM (FIrEF)

175 I think that's Ace's gig. Something to do with going fast on a key toy.
Posted by: RI Red at February 15, 2020 09:33 AM (4VdFg)

I see. Well it sounds cray cray. Like putting ketchup on a hot dog.

Posted by: jsg at February 15, 2020 09:37 AM (tdrVi)

176 Well, off to thaw the maple syrup for my French Toast.
Later, gators!

Posted by: RI Red at February 15, 2020 09:39 AM (4VdFg)

177 There is a Mars coffee machine at my office that is sublime.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 15, 2020 09:39 AM (LxTcq)

178 butter in coffee aka "bullet-proof" coffee

part of appetite suppression on an intermittent fast
iirc ace liked to blend the butter into.the coffee

I use heavy cream (or light creamin a pinch) in my coffee

Posted by: vmom 2020 at February 15, 2020 09:40 AM (G546f)

179 I saw that on ace, years ago. It was in my lurking days. I tried it and it failed for me, but I didn't post in about it.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 15, 2020 09:35 AM (13CQC)

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Same.

The sight of it turned my stomach.

Speaking of GAINZZZZ.....I hit my target weight yesterday.

So I've decided to go for losing 5 more pounds. I'm only 12 pounds heavier than when I got out of Army Basic, 20 years ago this coming March. Not bad.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 15, 2020 09:40 AM (cfSRQ)

180 wolfus, most houses here have central air. very few without. look up property at zip code 54944. you may be surprised.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 15, 2020

*
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Pleasantly, I hope! I'll take a look. Thanks!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 15, 2020 09:40 AM (DHNlU)

181 Off to have my ears lowered, all. Perhaps I can drop in tomorrow for the Book Thread.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 15, 2020 09:40 AM (DHNlU)

182 I don't know why we're wasting money going to the Moon and Mars when there are so many immigrants waiting in cages who need our love.

Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein of Brattleboro, VT at February 15, 2020 09:41 AM (M4zNB)

183 120 Tom Servo

I agree that all indications point to Bloomberg as the preferred candidate. And, that is scary. As to your black Mayor endorsement, he's buying those, 35 in the last couple of years through his Bloomberg Philanthropic entity. He spent $110 million in 2018 Congressional races and purchased 24 new D seats. He pretty much turned the House. That's why pulling Bernie over the edge NOW is so important. Only if Bernie is the clear winner in the primaries can we avoid Bloomberg, who will have the money to very much impact the LIV.

Posted by: EveR at February 15, 2020 09:41 AM (ZZDMQ)

184 178: My first cup gets cream, after that black is fine. Sugar in coffee is like carrots in chili.

Posted by: CN at February 15, 2020 09:42 AM (5wOoy)

185 speaking of homes for sale..

The house across the street from us had a for sale sign up and a bunch of people came by a week ago for what must have been an open house.

turns out the house never went on the market! I looked on Zillow. The open house must have been for fellow real estate agents only. already got a contract after 3 weeks..

Young couple made 60 grand on the house after 7 years!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at February 15, 2020 09:42 AM (CjFDo)

186 And they are well paid for what they do. But don't forget the professors, many teach two days a week 28 weeks a year.

Posted by: CN at February 15, 2020 09:37 AM
And they have teachers aides do most of the work!

Posted by: Cicero Skip at February 15, 2020 09:42 AM (FIrEF)

187 Linked on Drudge (yeah I know) MSN has an article about the Conways. Quoted are Teh Rick Wilson (spit) and James Carrillo (who has this superbly self serving statement:

"Trump people have much more of a sense of personal assault or grievance, and the Trump opponents have a high, high dose of doing the right thing for the country. You can hardly even tell jokes about it anymore."

And if you want confirmation of EVERYTHING you believed about Washington (real quick, Conway is described as VERY conservative):

"She was the superstar for two and a half years, and now George is the superstar," said Sally Quinn, a journalist, author and Washington hostess who has been inviting Mr. Conway, but not Ms. Conway, to her parties in Georgetown.

Well then.

Posted by: blaster at February 15, 2020 09:42 AM (ZfRYq)

188 The only thing I remember about my mother's father is that he would pour his coffee into a saucer to drink it.
Oh and that he traded the family cow for a package of cigarettes.

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 15, 2020 09:43 AM (Uu+Jp)

189 Carville not Carrillo. Autocorrect is challenging me today.

Posted by: blaster at February 15, 2020 09:43 AM (ZfRYq)

190 The perp was the 22 year old son of a white Louisiana Sherriff's Deputy (Lafayette) who went out and took pictures of himself burning down 3 black churches in his area, and who then was shocked that anyone thought he might be racist. His excuse was "no I'm a musician, that's why I did it!"

He did it to 'raise his 'black metal' cred?'

That's hilariously stupid.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 15, 2020 09:43 AM (oVJmc)

191 Apparently, June 30 is International Asteroid Day....mark your calendars now.

Posted by: BignJames at February 15, 2020 09:43 AM (X/Pw5)

192 Morning all - late start today, coffee's on.

I need my glasses to find my glasses. Ugh.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 15, 2020 09:43 AM (Y4EXg)

193 @realDonaldTrump 2 minutes ago

IG report on Andrew McCabe: Misled Investigators over roll in news media disclosure...Lacked Candor (Lied) on four separate occasions...Authotized Media Leaks to advance personal interests...IG RECOMMENDED MCCABE'S FIRING. @FoxNews @IngrahamAngle

Annnnnd we're off!

That's his first tweet about McCabe since the story broke yesterday.

Posted by: Tami at February 15, 2020 09:44 AM (cF8AT)

194 186: Lots of grad assistants. My husband had 4 for classes of 60+

Posted by: CN at February 15, 2020 09:44 AM (5wOoy)

195 I don't mind the taste of Bulletproof Coffee but it wreaks havoc on my digestive tract.

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 15, 2020 09:44 AM (Uu+Jp)

196
You need to blend it.
Posted by: Northernlurker

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Huh, to froth it up? But it didn't taste that good. I'm still with half-and-half.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 15, 2020 09:45 AM (13CQC)

197 "Based on the totality of circumstances, ... we consider the matter closed."

This is the stay out of jail card for DOJ employees. "You don't have one of these, do you, Jack?" https://tinyurl.com/r427hc9

Posted by: FloridaMan at February 15, 2020 09:45 AM (slREg)

198 >People bitching that there wasn't enough "diversity" in a movie about "D Day" landings?

they said the same shit about the movie "Dunkirk"
imagine- a movie about the British Army in WWII having mostly white actors

FFS

Posted by: DB- just DB at February 15, 2020 09:45 AM (iTXRQ)

199 193: I am surprised he waited

Posted by: CN at February 15, 2020 09:45 AM (5wOoy)

200 Does anyone here drink coffee with a little chunk of butter in it?

No.

I don't put a pork chop bone in it either !

Posted by: JT at February 15, 2020 09:45 AM (arJlL)

201 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge at February 15, 2020 09:45 AM (Zz0t1)

202 Does anyone here drink coffee with a little chunk of butter in it?

I did that for a few years. Takes a couple tries, but then it tastes really good. I think this comes from the Bulletproof guy. Dave Asper? I stopped when I figured it couldn't actually be intermittent fasting if you were drinking butter all day.

Posted by: t-bird at February 15, 2020 09:45 AM (jyVW0)

203 "She was the superstar for two and a half years, and
now George is the superstar," said Sally Quinn, a journalist, author
and Washington hostess who has been inviting Mr. Conway, but not Ms.
Conway, to her parties in Georgetown.

Well then.

Posted by: blaster at February 15, 2020 09:42 AM (ZfRYq)

Sally Quinn is where she is because she married Ben Bradlee. WaPo had to can her after she penned an article bemoaning the fact her son's quickie wedding to his yoga instructor baby momma (they're since divorced) happened on the same day as the planned-much-earlier wedding of Ben's niece.

Posted by: Vendette at February 15, 2020 09:45 AM (wdsO9)

204
Annnnnd we're off!

That's his first tweet about McCabe since the story broke yesterday.
Posted by: Tami

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Well fucking deserved.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 15, 2020 09:46 AM (13CQC)

205 Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 15, 2020 09:37 AM (cfSRQ)

Good post; Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 15, 2020 09:46 AM (WI7YS)

206 Colleges must remain as they are......especially the football programs.

I can't rape everyone myself, though I do my best.

Woo Pig Sooie! Razorbacks!

Posted by: Billy Jeff at February 15, 2020 09:46 AM (Z+IKu)

207
Oh CRAP I missed that segment on Fox with the Democrat who went to a Trump rally. And I was up in time to see it! Hope it shows up on YouTube.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 15, 2020 09:47 AM (13CQC)

208 73 and sunny here in FL 20. Its spring here and the birds and squirrels are total exhibitionists. If you see Alcee today tell him LOLGF for me.

Posted by: Asscheeks of Saturn at February 15, 2020 09:47 AM (HTwHf)

209 I don't know why we're wasting money going to the Moon and Mars when there are so many immigrants waiting in cages who need our love.
Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein of Brattleboro, VT at February 15, 2020 09:41 AM (M4zNB)

Not enough spelling errors and use of close to proper grammar makes you a terrible sock.

Try harder.

Posted by: Sponge at February 15, 2020 09:48 AM (Zz0t1)

210 English Milllionaire Creates "Sleep Pods" for Homeless People by Joining Trash Cans Together

Why not? Diogenes lived in a jar.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 15, 2020 09:48 AM (XVuno)

211 Apparently, June 30 is International Asteroid Day....mark your calendars now.
Posted by: BignJames

........

How nice of you humans..

Posted by: SMOD at February 15, 2020 09:48 AM (CjFDo)

212 Woman claims she's been kicked off Tinder because she's too attractive

Well, to start with, she has her attractions, but she wouldn't qualify for kbdabear's ONT pix.

The last pic, with her twisted awkwardly and biting her lower lip, reminded me of Jumanji:WttJungle where Jack Black's character is trying to teach Karen Gillan's character how to flirt and act sexy - "biting the lower lip is always good" - doesn't work for this gal, either.

Posted by: mindful webworker
and the hair; flip the hair
at February 15, 2020 09:48 AM (7OF+y)

213 Home and Garden and Perverts.

HGTV's 'HOUSE HUNTERS' Introduces 'Throuple' Family......

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 15, 2020 09:49 AM (+y/Ru)

214 I use heavy cream (or light creamin a pinch) in my coffee

Posted by: vmom 2020 at February 15, 2020 09:40 AM (G546f)

Ditto. The reason I asked about the butter is because every once in a while I run out of the good stuff, but we always seem to have a little butter on hand.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 15, 2020 09:49 AM (EK+jJ)

215 Not enough spelling errors and use of close to proper grammar makes you a terrible sock.

Try harder.

Posted by: Sponge at February 15, 2020 09:48 AM (Zz0t1)

Also, no mention of Obama.

Posted by: BignJames at February 15, 2020 09:49 AM (X/Pw5)

216
Sally Quinn is where she is because she married Ben Bradlee.

Once again, sleep your way into the Establishment. Pamela Harriman, Ambassador to France and Democratic doyenne. Married Randolph Churchill (itself a punishment) and then Averell Harriman.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 15, 2020 09:49 AM (7rVsF)

217 188 The only thing I remember about my mother's father is that he would pour his coffee into a saucer to drink it.

==

what country was he from?
coz I've heard of that being a custom in Russia, Sweden, and some parts if India (among certain classes)

Posted by: vmom 2020 at February 15, 2020 09:50 AM (G546f)

218 Drumpf's Death Star is real! Fight back before it's too late!

https://preview.tinyurl.com/vrvhpsf

Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein of Brattleboro, VT at February 15, 2020 09:50 AM (M4zNB)

219
The only thing I remember about my mother's father is that he would pour his coffee into a saucer to drink it.

Classy people stick their pinkies out when they do that.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 15, 2020 09:50 AM (7rVsF)

220 they said the same shit about the movie "Dunkirk"
imagine- a movie about the British Army in WWII having mostly white actors

FFS
Posted by: DB- just DB at February 15, 2020 09:45 AM (iTXRQ)

This is true. I resent the fact that they excluded all the LGBTQ++ and non-binary people in the streets protesting guns and discrimination. Their voices should be heard.

Posted by: David HoggShit at February 15, 2020 09:51 AM (Zz0t1)

221 171 Does anybody know what happened to one of the long time original AoS morons, Niedermeyer's Dead Horse? She suddenly stopped tweeting and replying a little over a month ago.
Not like her.

Posted by: CausticConservative at February 15, 2020 09:17 AM (1v3by)

I was wondering the same about Peaches.

Posted by: FloridaMan at February 15, 2020 09:51 AM (slREg)

222 HGTV's 'HOUSE HUNTERS' Introduces 'Throuple' Family......

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 15, 2020 09:49 AM (+y/Ru)

Posters from another website I lurk around, and said posters are from all across the political spectrum, found them very annoying.

Posted by: Vendette at February 15, 2020 09:52 AM (wdsO9)

223 Also, no mention of Obama.
Posted by: BignJames at February 15, 2020 09:49 AM (X/Pw5)

Ah yes. Good point.

Posted by: Sponge at February 15, 2020 09:52 AM (Zz0t1)

224 Ukraine President Zelensky calls impeachment a "tv soap opera". He's correct.

https://tinyurl.com/vtb63hd

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 15, 2020 09:52 AM (WI7YS)

225 what country was he from?
coz I've heard of that being a custom in Russia, Sweden, and some parts if India (among certain classes)

Posted by: vmom 2020 at February 15, 2020 09:50 AM (G546f)

nah....my grandma did it....100% 'murican.

Posted by: BignJames at February 15, 2020 09:52 AM (X/Pw5)

226 188 The only thing I remember about my mother's father is that he would pour his coffee into a saucer to drink it.

The Senate is like a coffee cup saucer....allowing the passionate heat of legislation to cool before taking a vote and bribes and kickbacks to pass laws enforcing bribes and kickbacks.

Posted by: Zombie Crook John McCain at February 15, 2020 09:53 AM (Z+IKu)

227 @TWlTTERMlKE

'The Beast' @POTUS's limousine was out n the test track getting ready to do a lap at the #DAYTONA500!

This is going to be awesome.

https://tinyurl.com/vmk4obu

Posted by: Tami at February 15, 2020 09:53 AM (cF8AT)

228
@realDonaldTrump 2 minutes ago

IG report on Andrew McCabe: Misled Investigators over roll in news media disclosure

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Gotta love the dude. "Roll."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 15, 2020 09:53 AM (13CQC)

229 I never knew she was a dame.......

I met her, it's obvious she's a dame. She has dame parts and not dude bits.

I lose people when they wander off to the Twats. Alex sometimes tells me about NDH and Heather Radish but mostly if you disappear from here you are gone from my consciousness.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 15, 2020 09:53 AM (gd9RK)

230 Niedermeyer's Dead Horse? She suddenly stopped tweeting and replying a little over a month ago.

She was getting ready setting up a room for her baby, yes?. Maybe she had the baby.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 15, 2020 09:53 AM (WI7YS)

231 >>> 139 Universities should be mandated to provide a written career outlook with salary ranges for every degree program and you would see a shift in majors.

Universities should be on the hook for repaying the student loan if it was for a crap libarts/polisci degree.

Posted by: banana Dream at February 15, 2020 09:54 AM (l6b3d)

232 what country was he from?
coz I've heard of that being a custom in Russia, Sweden, and some parts if India (among certain classes)
Posted by: vmom 2020 at February 15, 2020 09:50 AM (G546f)

German

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 15, 2020 09:54 AM (Uu+Jp)

233 Eris, everyone, Dominic Frisbee, they guy who made the Brexit song, 17 Million F*ck Offs, is interviewed on the Tom Woods Show this week (38 minutes)

https://preview.tinyurl.com/vnz6kgs

(right click on the "download" button and choose to opening or saving options)

Posted by: Kindltot at February 15, 2020 09:54 AM (6rS3m)

234 I'm amused that the church-burner was absolved of committing a "hate-crime" because he picked the churches because they were wood, not because they had black congregations.

After all, he was burning churches as part of a "anti-Christian crusade." You'd think that alone would be a "hate-crime." But no.

Now, if they had been mosques, ..........

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 15, 2020 09:54 AM (M/9m0)

235 Does anyone here drink coffee with a little chunk of butter in it?

define "chunk"

Posted by: REDACTED at February 15, 2020 09:54 AM (rpxSz)

236 Speaking of throuples, I saw that Katie Hill is spewing garbage out of her cum dumpster of a mouth again

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at February 15, 2020 09:54 AM (VjHOE)

237 Garbage can motel - I think I stayed there, once.

The problem is language. Call them "homeless," and some do-gooder comes along and thinks, oh, well, all we have to do is weld some cans together or build more homes and apartments for these "homeless."

Call them mentally ill bums and maaaybe the do-gooders might not be so quick to think that giving bums more stuff is a good idea. Nah. More (of YOUR stuff) is all they know.

Posted by: mindful webworker
I remember this one time...
at February 15, 2020 09:54 AM (7OF+y)

238 'The Beast' @POTUS's limousine was out n the test track getting ready to do a lap at the #DAYTONA500!

This is going to be awesome.

https://tinyurl.com/vmk4obu
Posted by: Tami

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PDT knows how to harvest the votes, doesn't he?

Love this man!

Posted by: Tonypete at February 15, 2020 09:54 AM (Y4EXg)

239 HGTV's 'HOUSE HUNTERS' Introduces 'Throuple' Family......

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 15, 2020 09:49 AM (+y/Ru)

I don't miss cable and I used to watch a lot of the DIY shows and house hunting shows. As the proportion of straight to gay couples increased dramatically, the shows became more and more unwatchable.

I've got a pair of lezbos living in my neighborhood and it's SAD to watch how they're destroying the life of a child they've adopted. All the yelling and visits by the police and CPS, which do nothing, make me want to leave my home of 20 years.

Posted by: Sponge at February 15, 2020 09:55 AM (Zz0t1)

240 NDH got the NeverTrumps and flounced didn't she?

Posted by: blaster at February 15, 2020 09:55 AM (ZfRYq)

241 210 English Milllionaire Creates "Sleep Pods" for Homeless People by Joining Trash Cans Together

Why not? Diogenes lived in a jar.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 15, 2020 09:48 AM (XVuno)

and Jeanie lived in a bottle. Hemingway, too, I think.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at February 15, 2020 09:55 AM (Wm5SB)

242 230 Niedermeyer's Dead Horse? She suddenly stopped tweeting and replying a little over a month ago.

She was getting ready setting up a room for her baby, yes?. Maybe she had the baby.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

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That sucks up every available second? LOL

Posted by: Tonypete at February 15, 2020 09:55 AM (Y4EXg)

243 If PDT doesn't put big 45 stickers on the sides of the Beast while lapping Daytona he doesn't have a hair on his ass.

Posted by: blaster at February 15, 2020 09:56 AM (ZfRYq)

244 'The Beast' @POTUS's limousine was out n the test track getting ready to do a lap at the #DAYTONA500!

This is going to be awesome.

https://tinyurl.com/vmk4obu
Posted by: Tami

Why was it at the Top Gear test track?

Posted by: Sponge at February 15, 2020 09:56 AM (Zz0t1)

245 Posted by: REDACTED at February 15, 2020 09:54 AM (rpxSz)

About the size of one of those restaurant serving portions.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 15, 2020 09:56 AM (EK+jJ)

246
Sally Quinn is where she is because she married Ben Bradlee. WaPo had to can her after she penned an article bemoaning the fact her son's quickie wedding to his yoga instructor baby momma (they're since divorced) happened on the same day as the planned-much-earlier wedding of Ben's niece.
Posted by: Vendette at February 15, 2020 09:45 AM (wdsO9)

Also, she's a fucking nutcase who believes that she killed three people with hexes when she was younger.

So of course, the WaPo has her as their Religious Correspondent. The occult is a religion, right?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 15, 2020 09:57 AM (eXA4G)

247 BTW, if you didn't already know, House Hunters is incredibly fake. A number of years ago I knew someone who was on the show and she told me to my face that the place she "picked" had the movers downstairs waiting to move her belongings in after they finished filming.

Posted by: Vendette at February 15, 2020 09:57 AM (wdsO9)

248 230 Niedermeyer's Dead Horse? She suddenly stopped tweeting and replying a little over a month ago.

She was getting ready setting up a room for her baby, yes?. Maybe she had the baby.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke

You must be thinking of someone else Fen. I don't think she was pregnant. As a matter of fact, I think she has an adult daughter.

Posted by: Tami at February 15, 2020 09:58 AM (cF8AT)

249 238 'The Beast' @POTUS's limousine was out n the test track getting ready to do a lap at the #DAYTONA500!

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FUN FACT: The Beast isn't actually a car at all. It's built on a GMC TopKick truck chassis.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 15, 2020 09:58 AM (XVuno)

250 I've typed several sentences to express my bewilderment at these two statements but what I really want to say is....Wut?

LGBTQIAXYZ concerns: student loan debt?
Posted by: Tami at February 15, 2020 09:02 AM (cF8AT)

Look at the list of what all those silly letters stand for. They don't really agree on anything else. Entitled and selfish.

The #Mememetoo movement

Posted by: BurtTC at February 15, 2020 09:58 AM (hku12)

251 Huh, I think of Appleton and Oshkosh as big cities, as viewed from way west in the Driftless Area, where I would have to drive 45 minutes to get to a town with a population in 5 digits.

"God's Country" is an understatement, nothin' but cows and corn.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at February 15, 2020 09:58 AM (zlgJP)

252 NDH got the NeverTrumps and flounced didn't she?

Posted by: blaster at February 15, 2020 09:55 AM (ZfRYq)

Really? Wasn't she a cob at one time?

Posted by: BignJames at February 15, 2020 09:58 AM (X/Pw5)

253 Colleges will self-destruct on their own. Their gargantuan endowments can only be bled, not replenished once it is common knowledge that they are bad investments. Get those worthless marxist wanks off the teat of the ~~bourgeoisie~~ middle class.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 15, 2020 10:00 AM (LxTcq)

254 That sucks up every available second? LOL
Posted by: Tonypete at February 15, 2020 09:55 AM (Y4EXg)

I probably wouldn''t be posting giving a step by step account of my labor and deliver. "The Doctor has just come it with the forceps".. "I'm pushing, pushing...This is like the worst constipated bowel movement ever...

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 15, 2020 10:00 AM (WI7YS)

255 You must be thinking of someone else Fen. I don't think she was pregnant. As a matter of fact, I think she has an adult daughter.

MWR aka Beth has just whelped.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 15, 2020 10:01 AM (gd9RK)

256 I wonder if Bloomberg has considered buying the delegates by the dozen, probably get some good deals. Maybe buying politicians will also be good for him, I'm sure there are plenty ready to pick up some extra cash. De Commie has endorsed Sanders as expected.

Posted by: Colin at February 15, 2020 10:02 AM (sUl9n)

257 ... But if the government was good enough to review every year which majors were bad investments and turn off the tap, that would be a huge step.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 15, 2020 10:02 AM (LxTcq)

258 MWR aka Beth has just whelped.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 15, 2020 10:01 AM (gd9RK)

Was it a corgi or a basset hound?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 15, 2020 10:02 AM (WI7YS)

259 Foreign policy the Obama way!

Canada's PM Trudeau Bows to Iranian Foreign Minister a Month After Regime Killed 57 of His Citizens

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 15, 2020 10:03 AM (+y/Ru)

260 Thanks for the correction, Bandersnatch. I get confused by who is who sometimes..

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 15, 2020 10:03 AM (WI7YS)

261 Was it a corgi or a basset hound?

It was a masculine child.

Posted by: Bandersnatch Brasi at February 15, 2020 10:04 AM (gd9RK)

262 I think people who are concerned about unequal justice, like Ace himself, are not " on the fainting couch". People realize than an unindicted McCabe can easily accept an appointment in a democratic administration and will keep his law license. An unpunished Lt Bearclaw will go to AWC and could end up as General Bearclaw.

Roger Stone might be the sleaziest man alive, but even sleazebags deserve a fair trial without a jury determined to convict, and with prosecutors who don't misrepresent sentencing plans to their supervisors.

Some people may not want to read negative comments, fair enough. Don't. I skip the Steiner will come wish casting more than I used to.

To point out Barr's inadequacies is not to say the economy is not great. But economies change, always have. The perception of very unequal justice is separate from that.

Posted by: CN at February 15, 2020 10:05 AM (5wOoy)

263 The things you learn. For instance, I learned sitting on a barstool for two hours doesn't help a bad back.
Who knew?

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 15, 2020 10:06 AM (Uu+Jp)

264 Mind you falling off a barstool would be even worse.

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 15, 2020 10:07 AM (Uu+Jp)

265 Now I want a bearclaw. Or a Danish. I haven't had a really good Danish in years.

Posted by: Bandersnatch Brasi at February 15, 2020 10:07 AM (gd9RK)

266 257: Make the university system subject to truth in advertising and force them to offer a full product description and real salary expectations. Their product is very expensive and they need accountability

Posted by: CN at February 15, 2020 10:08 AM (5wOoy)

267 Mind you falling off a barstool would be even worse.
Posted by: Northernlurker

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Being 'helped' out the door into the parking lot trumps that too.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 15, 2020 10:08 AM (Y4EXg)

268 >>IG report on Andrew McCabe: Misled Investigators over roll in news media disclosure...Lacked Candor (Lied) on four separate occasions...Authotized Media Leaks to advance personal interests...IG RECOMMENDED MCCABE'S FIRING. @FoxNews @IngrahamAngle

Really tore the bark off Barr.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 15, 2020 10:08 AM (ZLI7S)

269 "I told you I'll vote for any of them. I'll vote for Peewee Herman, I told you."

-- Joy Behar, on 2020 Dem Candidates

Is Peewee now in the running?

Posted by: Duncanthrax The Austere at February 15, 2020 10:08 AM (M4zNB)

270 257 ... But if the government was good enough to review every year which majors were bad investments and turn off the tap, that would be a huge step.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 15, 2020 10:02 AM (LxTcq)
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How about keeping the government out of it entirely?
Let the schools take the risk of loans and they'll figure out the monetary value of specific degrees PDQ.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 15, 2020 10:09 AM (M/9m0)

271 It was a masculine child.

Posted by: Bandersnatch Brasi at February 15, 2020 10:04 AM (gd9RK)

I hope Uncle Bander is ready and willing to jump in his car in order to do walking duty when necessary.

Posted by: Vendette at February 15, 2020 10:09 AM (wdsO9)

272 I always take a bit of cream in my coffee (no sugar) so I understand how a dab of butter would work, although I wouldn't like the flavor butter would add.

a kink in Avenatti's Stormy Daniels trial - it was supposed to start in April, in the courtroom of the first openly declared LGBT African American Federal Judge in the country, Judge Deborah Batts. Avenatti probably thought he got a lucky draw there, but no such luck - Judge Batts suddenly dropped dead 2 weeks ago. No replacement has been named, and the timing of the Stormy Daniels trial is now in limbo.

The LA Trial is still all tee'd up and ready to go in May, so Avenatti has that to look forward to.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 15, 2020 10:10 AM (V2Yro)

273 Canada's PM Trudeau Bows to Iranian Foreign Minister a Month After Regime Killed 57 of His Citizens
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 15, 2020 10:03 AM (+y/Ru)

My country elected a worthless idiot with pretty hair but not a single redeeming quality.

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 15, 2020 10:10 AM (Uu+Jp)

274 Weirdo of the day. Australian professor of strange subjects (That's not her official title; The subjects just are strange) who claims to be a Witch who summons demons advocates human extinction. The comments under the article re her appearance are kind of amusing. To me she looks likes a combination of Morticia Adams and The Statue of Liberty good bad:

https://tinyurl.com/t3o4xnr

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 15, 2020 10:11 AM (WI7YS)

275 Really tore the bark off Barr.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 15, 2020 10:08 AM (ZLI7S)

Deadtree Philly Inquirer has front page story about Trump's tweet yesterday in response to Barr, in which he asserts his legal right to ask Barr to intervene in a legal proceeding. I'm kind of perplexed about this though. I was told by commenters on this very smart military blog that Barr had effectively silenced DJT by complaining to ABC news.

Go figure.

Posted by: kallisto at February 15, 2020 10:11 AM (DJFLF)

276 My country elected a worthless idiot with pretty hair but not a single redeeming quality.

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 15, 2020 10:10 AM (Uu+Jp)

Who is now doing everything he wants because it's his second term in office.

Posted by: Vendette at February 15, 2020 10:12 AM (wdsO9)

277 'The Beast' @POTUS's limousine was out n the test track getting ready to do a lap at the #DAYTONA500!

If JFK had had one of those, he might be alive today.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 15, 2020 10:12 AM (oVJmc)

278 It was a masculine child.

Posted by: Bandersnatch Brasi at February 15, 2020 10:04 AM (gd9RK)

God bless she and the family.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 15, 2020 10:12 AM (WI7YS)

279 --

Being 'helped' out the door into the parking lot trumps that too.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 15, 2020 10:08 AM (Y4EXg)

Yep. Not good for the the back either.

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 15, 2020 10:12 AM (Uu+Jp)

280 My writing group buddy, who's 70-something and a Vietnam vet, still
thinks socialism is great and Bernie would make a fine president.--Wolfus

I hate to put the old Indian sign on you, but you and I seem to have had a few similar experiences in this area.

One of the reasons I so enjoy going off on the stuttering losers who blame all our ills on "Mile-Niles" is that I have known so many devoted lemmings in my age group, and even an older cohort. Some of the same pearl-clutchers who have to sing an Ubi Sunt every day because they just now discovered that "The Country I Was Born in Is Now Gone! Gone Forevah" just never got around enough, until recently I guess, to know that there has always been evil, always been silliness, always been stupidity.

And dammit, being in, or having been in, the military does not insulate you from being a total political doofus. In the 70's I met more pissant socialists just out of the military than just out of college. E's and O's, both.

The socialist/communist revolutions in Germany and Russia a hundred years ago? All began in the ranks. Just being "in" does not make you "right" or even "good."

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 15, 2020 10:13 AM (8IOEj)

281 My country elected a worthless idiot with pretty hair but not a single redeeming quality.

Your country is stupid and has a stupid parliamentary system so you didn't even elect the idiot you elected the idiot's party and let them choose the idiot.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 15, 2020 10:14 AM (gd9RK)

282 I think people who are concerned about unequal justice, like Ace himself, are not " on the fainting couch". People realize than an unindicted McCabe can easily accept an appointment in a democratic administration and will keep his law license. An unpunished Lt Bearclaw will go to AWC and could end up as General Bearclaw.

Roger Stone might be the sleaziest man alive, but even sleazebags deserve a fair trial without a jury determined to convict, and with prosecutors who don't misrepresent sentencing plans to their supervisors.

Some people may not want to read negative comments, fair enough. Don't. I skip the Steiner will come wish casting more than I used to.

To point out Barr's inadequacies is not to say the economy is not great. But economies change, always have. The perception of very unequal justice is separate from that.
Posted by: CN at February 15, 2020 10:05 AM (5wOoy)

I think some people follow this stuff, to the point of being genuinely obsessed with it, and they misunderstand what they do and don't know about these matters.

What's amazing is how much what people "know" is filtered through the same damned media that they're otherwise complaining about.

No offense to lawyers, but I don't think of them as human, and I don't mean that as any kind of insult. What I mean is, they don't think through things like normal humans do, and sometimes the law dictates a decision that doesn't look right, to non-lawyers.

And on both sides of the Great Trump Divide, there are people who law-fight, and there are people who only want their side to win, always. So there's like a four point scrum going on, with the lawyers doing their thing on both sides, and the out for blood types doing theirs, with the inevitable result of nobody ever being happy with the results, ever.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 15, 2020 10:15 AM (hku12)

283 MWR aka Beth has just whelped.
Posted by: Bandersnatch

Another 'ette did too recently, can't remember who.

Posted by: Infidel at February 15, 2020 10:17 AM (MTxDQ)

284 283 MWR aka Beth has just whelped.
Posted by: Bandersnatch

Another 'ette did too recently, can't remember who.
Posted by: Infidel at February 15, 2020 10:17 AM (MTxDQ)

Sunnydee I think.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at February 15, 2020 10:18 AM (NWiLs)

285 Another 'ette did too recently, can't remember who.
Posted by: Infidel at February 15, 2020 10:17 AM (MTxDQ)
~~~~~

Sunny dee?

Posted by: IrishEi at February 15, 2020 10:19 AM (sGotD)

286 . . . and the timing of the Stormy Daniels trial is now in limbo.

Posted by: Tom Servo

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I don't think Stormy could do the Limbo anyway. There would be um, 'obstacles'.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 15, 2020 10:19 AM (Y4EXg)

287 My country elected a worthless idiot with pretty hair but not a single redeeming quality.
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Your country is stupid and has a stupid parliamentary system so you didn't even elect the idiot you elected the idiot's party and let them choose the idiot.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 15, 2020 10:14 AM (gd9RK)

Yeah, no offense to Canadians posting here, but I don't find polite fascism the least bit endearing.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 15, 2020 10:19 AM (hku12)

288 Is Peewee now in the running?
Posted by: Duncanthrax The Austere at February 15, 2020 10:08 AM (M4zNB)

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Yeah, he thinks he can buy the Dem nomination.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 15, 2020 10:19 AM (XVuno)

289 To me she looks likes a combination of Morticia Adams and The Statue of Liberty good bad:

https://tinyurl.com/t3o4xnr
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 15, 2020 10:11 AM (WI7YS)

2 thoughts: first, the standard response to anyone advocating Human Extinction is always "Ok, You First."

Second, once you see her you know the game, and you can't even really blame her. There's always been a market for freak shows and clown acts, and the real blame lies on anyone, especially in the media, who tries to pretend that there's anything going on here besides that.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 15, 2020 10:19 AM (V2Yro)

290 Insomniac
~~~~~

Owe me a Coke! *punch*

Posted by: IrishEi at February 15, 2020 10:20 AM (sGotD)

291 290 Insomniac
~~~~~

Owe me a Coke! *punch*
Posted by: IrishEi at February 15, 2020 10:20 AM (sGotD)

I said it first! *punches back*

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at February 15, 2020 10:20 AM (NWiLs)

292 MWR aka Beth has just whelped.
Posted by: Bandersnatch

Another 'ette did too recently, can't remember who.
Posted by: Infidel at February 15, 2020 10:17 AM (MTxDQ)

Sunnydee I think.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at February 15, 2020 10:18 AM (NWiLs)

It's funny how you people think there are actual females posting here. Women don't use the internet.

Everyone knows that.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 15, 2020 10:21 AM (hku12)

293 Is Peewee now in the running?
Posted by: Duncanthrax The Austere at February 15, 2020 10:08 AM (M4zNB)

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Yeah, he thinks he can buy the Dem nomination.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 15, 2020 10:19 AM (XVuno)

When I'm subjected to teevee, every other ad I see is him knobbing Bobama.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 15, 2020 10:22 AM (hku12)

294
Why not? Diogenes lived in a jar.

I've got a Janitor in a Drum.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 15, 2020 10:22 AM (oVJmc)

295 276 My country elected a worthless idiot with pretty hair but not a single redeeming quality.

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 15, 2020 10:10 AM (Uu+Jp)

I remember when there was a dust-up over corruption and talk of his removal from office. I laughed. It will be a miracle if you ever get rid of this guy.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at February 15, 2020 10:22 AM (H8QX8)

296 Witch who summons demons advocates human extinction.

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"Madness is as likely as ecstasy," huh? I guess we know which way she swung.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 15, 2020 10:22 AM (+y/Ru)

297

Posted by: IrishEi at February 15, 2020 10:23 AM (sGotD)

298 295 276 My country elected a worthless idiot with pretty hair but not a single redeeming quality.

To be fair, the US elected JFK, so...

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at February 15, 2020 10:23 AM (NWiLs)

299 https://tinyurl.com/t3o4xnr
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 15, 2020 10:11 AM (WI7YS)

Dayum. If she doesn't eat a sandwich or something soon, looks like she's going to self-extinct.

Posted by: April at February 15, 2020 10:23 AM (OX9vb)

300 Did you see the thread on Twitchy from the SF council woman talking about the mayor's new scandal and ripping Willie Brown and Kamala and all the corruption and says blow the whole thing up and let the chips fall where they may? What is she new? Surely she is from there and knows how things work. Better start looking for a new job I suspect.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at February 15, 2020 10:23 AM (VjHOE)

301 When I'm subjected to teevee, every other ad I see is him knobbing Bobama.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 15, 2020 10:22 AM (hku12)

According to the ads I'm seeing in SC, Obama has endorsed everybody running.

Posted by: BignJames at February 15, 2020 10:24 AM (X/Pw5)

302 I try, I really do, not to do all the silly Horde stuff.

But I just went and checked out a chick on Fenelon Spoke's say-so.
I'll admit that here. Won't be boasting to my actual acquaintances in meatspace.

Will we soon have lists of links marked "Fen-Approved"?

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 15, 2020 10:25 AM (8IOEj)

303 It was Sunnydee.

Posted by: Infidel at February 15, 2020 10:25 AM (MTxDQ)

304 Tinfoilbaby - you used 'Willie Brown', 'Kamala', and 'blow' all in the same sentence without a hint of irony.

Heh.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 15, 2020 10:25 AM (Y4EXg)

305 @300 You may have just set a new mark for entendres per image. Congrats!
Chips fall. Ewww.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 15, 2020 10:26 AM (8IOEj)

306 >>> 292 Women don't use the internet.

The internet, the instant communication and constant contact for anyone seems tailor made for women. And it's like crack for teen girls.

Posted by: banana Dream at February 15, 2020 10:26 AM (l6b3d)

307 No offense to lawyers, but I don't think of them as human, and I don't mean that as any kind of insult. What I mean is, they don't think through things like normal humans do, and sometimes the law dictates a decision that doesn't look right, to non-lawyers."

It is telling that one of the first things taught in first year law school, and repeated endlessly until Students "get it", is that you have to "Think like a Lawyer" and not like a regular person. And after a while of beating your head against that idea, suddenly you 'Get it" and a world of understanding opens up.

Now most may want to think that this is just an affectation, but in reality, this means understanding how Law, and Government, and Bureacracy, and all of the official nuts and bolts of our society REALLY works, and not how the audience out in the coliseum is told it works.

and it's a bit sad, because it's well known that Lawyers, as well as street cops, tend to be deeply cynical about everyone, and that brings along a lot of depression and its accompanying maladies. Suicide and addiction of various kinds are way above average in both groups.

When it comes to any kind of Government, or Law, there's the way people wish things would be, and there's the way things ARE. A lawyer's job is to make sure his clients know thy way things ARE. (and a lot of times that is not happy knowledge)

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 15, 2020 10:27 AM (V2Yro)

308 Sorry I'm late to the thread, _as usual_. Hopefully this won't be willowed.

I think NDH has been having unspecified computer problems of some sort, and there's a poster on one of those social media services named "@NiedsG" that may have some insight into the problem. Just a suggestion.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain, Channeling Vir, and Waving, Like This.... at February 15, 2020 10:27 AM (dwojT)

309 According to the ads I'm seeing in SC, Obama has endorsed everybody running.
Posted by: BignJames at February 15, 2020 10:24 AM (X/Pw5)

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Breaking: ShitMidas Effect Leaves Dem Nomination Wide Open

Developing...

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 15, 2020 10:28 AM (XVuno)

310 When I'm subjected to teevee, every other ad I see is him knobbing Bobama.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 15, 2020 10:22 AM (hku12)

According to the ads I'm seeing in SC, Obama has endorsed everybody running.
Posted by: BignJames at February 15, 2020 10:24 AM (X/Pw5)

Maybe he has.

Believing in Bobama is like, when you were a kid, around Christmas time every big store you went to had a Santa. Eventually you kinda start to figure out, they can't ALL be the real Santa... until one day you realize, there IS no Santa.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 15, 2020 10:29 AM (hku12)

311 Sunnydee I think.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at February 15, 2020 10:18 AM (NWiLs)

Yes, and she nearly died as a result.

Posted by: Vendette at February 15, 2020 10:30 AM (wdsO9)

312 What's amazing is how much what people "know" is filtered through the same damned media that they're otherwise complaining about.

Yep. Like yesterday when so many hair follicles were set aflame because a "source" said that the outside prosecutor would be working hand in hand with the DS prosecutor on the Flynn case.

Third hand information from a "source" who for all we know could be the Gaslight Media's own fervid imagination.

Posted by: kallisto at February 15, 2020 10:31 AM (DJFLF)

313
Did you see the thread on Twitchy from the SF council woman talking about the mayor's new scandal

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby

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No! The current mayor?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 15, 2020 10:31 AM (13CQC)

314 Example of Unhappy Legal Knowledge - when people say "there is no equality under the law any more", a practicing lawyer will reply, if he's being honest, with "yeah, that's any day ending in a "Y' in every courtroom in this country." Equality under the Law is like a bright shining star up there in the sky, an Aspriational Goal we all wish we could reach - but courts are all stuck down here on Earth, and are run by fallen and broken humans who never can truly achieve any of those lofty and beautiful goals.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 15, 2020 10:32 AM (V2Yro)

315 there is one tried and tested way for one to work off the student loan debt. just putting that out there.

Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at February 15, 2020 10:33 AM (zYSnw)

316 I think people who are concerned about unequal justice, like Ace himself, are not " on the fainting couch".

Of course not. I'm very concerned about unequal justice, however I also note the good developments and don't perseverate over the incidents that appear to be setbacks.

There's a cohort here that seems to be diligently and assiduously cultivating misery.

Posted by: kallisto at February 15, 2020 10:33 AM (DJFLF)

317 Yes, current mayor of SF. Caught taking gift from the guy fired who ran public works. Had affair with him years ago

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at February 15, 2020 10:33 AM (VjHOE)

318 315 there is one tried and tested way for one to work off the student loan debt. just putting that out there.
Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at February 15, 2020 10:33 AM (zYSnw)

The pole?

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at February 15, 2020 10:34 AM (NWiLs)

319 is sunnydee okay?

Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at February 15, 2020 10:34 AM (zYSnw)

320 It is telling that one of the first things taught in first year law school, and repeated endlessly until Students "get it", is that you have to "Think like a Lawyer" and not like a regular person. And after a while of beating your head against that idea, suddenly you 'Get it" and a world of understanding opens up.

Now most may want to think that this is just an affectation, but in reality, this means understanding how Law, and Government, and Bureacracy, and all of the official nuts and bolts of our society REALLY works, and not how the audience out in the coliseum is told it works.

and it's a bit sad, because it's well known that Lawyers, as well as street cops, tend to be deeply cynical about everyone, and that brings along a lot of depression and its accompanying maladies. Suicide and addiction of various kinds are way above average in both groups.

When it comes to any kind of Government, or Law, there's the way people wish things would be, and there's the way things ARE. A lawyer's job is to make sure his clients know thy way things ARE. (and a lot of times that is not happy knowledge)
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 15, 2020 10:27 AM (V2Yro)

And lest it needs to be emphasized, there reason this is the way things ARE, is because lawyers decided to make it this way.

It didn't have to be.

But it's sorta like the old class systems that operated in other parts of the world for eons. You either belong or you don't, but with lawyering, you aren't born into it (for the most part). Still, it's a cast iron caste system, where members of the guild get theirs, and the rest of us... we sorta wallow around in THEIR system, understanding some of it, but often only to the point of realizing we'll never really understand it.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 15, 2020 10:34 AM (hku12)

321 ...and before I lose my energy, a belated happy birthday to Bandersnatch.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain, Channeling Vir, and Waving, Like This.... at February 15, 2020 10:35 AM (dwojT)

322 James Hasson@JamesHasson20
Brian Stelter and Oliver Darcy's newsletter this evening: "Fox (predictably) characterized Avenatti as a 'media darling.' Other right-wing personalities did the same"

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Tonto? I barely knew the guy!

Posted by: The Lone Ranger at February 15, 2020 10:35 AM (+y/Ru)

323
2 thoughts: first, the standard response to anyone advocating Human Extinction is always "Ok, You First."

Posted by: Tom Servo

=======

I was starting to say that I'd just reply with something like "Bye, attention whore." But actually, I feel sorry for those people. I bet they were raised with half-a-parent and they hate themselves.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 15, 2020 10:36 AM (13CQC)

324 is sunnydee okay?
Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at February 15, 2020 10:34 AM (zYSnw)

She had a scare in the hospital with dangerous hemorrhaging (sp?) but she checked into say that the blessing was she was o.k. after that. haven't heard since then.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 15, 2020 10:36 AM (WI7YS)

325 @realDonaldTrump

"Ralph Waldo Emerson seemed to foresee the lesson of the Senate Impeachment Trial of President Trump. 'When you strike at the King, Emerson famously said, "you must kill him.' Mr. Trump's foes struck at him but did not take him down. A triumphant Mr.Trump emerges from the.....

Always helpful to remember who the king is in every situation.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 15, 2020 10:36 AM (ZLI7S)

326 is sunnydee okay?

Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at February 15, 2020 10:34 AM (zYSnw)

She posted that she was.

Posted by: Vendette at February 15, 2020 10:37 AM (wdsO9)

327 Black and bitter, eh mishum? I would prescribe more time spent appreciating the splendor of God's creation ( smell the flowers), hugging small children and petting your dog less time concerned with annoying , cynical bipeds. Hope you and the better half had a good Valentine's day. Our's was productive.

Posted by: Sock Monkey...channeling my inner hillbilly at February 15, 2020 10:37 AM (FwmtK)

328 Roger Stone might be the sleaziest man alive, but even sleazebags deserve a fair trial without a jury determined to convict, and

Every thing in that case has been designed to inflict cruel and unusual punishment via process.

A mistrial should have been declared and the case thrown out when CNN showed up to film the service of the search warrant.

The activist jury is just icing on the poisoned shitcake.

Posted by: deplorable unperson -To Mars! at February 15, 2020 10:37 AM (ykID5)

329 309 According to the ads I'm seeing in SC, Obama has endorsed everybody running.
Posted by: BignJames at February 15, 2020 10:24 AM (X/Pw5)

I always suspected he had a soft spot for Trump

Posted by: REDACTED at February 15, 2020 10:38 AM (rpxSz)

330 ...and y'all all have fun, I'm gonna walk across the street and get a biscuit or something.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain, Channeling Vir, and Waving, Like This.... at February 15, 2020 10:38 AM (dwojT)

331 Probably already been mentioned, but the church arson is, by any reasonable definition, a hate crime. Fucker hates
Christians, be they black or white.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 15, 2020 10:39 AM (LxWV7)

332 After reading an article the other day about bloomie spending millions of dollars to get politicians to like him, all I can think about when I see the commercial with oblameo praising bloomie is how much did it cost to get that endorsement.

Posted by: Cicero Skip at February 15, 2020 10:39 AM (FIrEF)

333 MisHum does not seem black and bitter to me. He needs to work harder on that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 15, 2020 10:39 AM (WI7YS)

334 If I had never been to Santa Fe, I would not believe it exists.

Posted by: klaftern at February 15, 2020 10:40 AM (RuIsu)

335 "Think like a Lawyer"? I thought it was drink like a lawyer.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 15, 2020 10:41 AM (+y/Ru)

336 Example of Unhappy Legal Knowledge - when people say "there is no equality under the law any more", a practicing lawyer will reply, if he's being honest, with "yeah, that's any day ending in a "Y' in every courtroom in this country." Equality under the Law is like a bright shining star up there in the sky, an Aspriational Goal we all wish we could reach - but courts are all stuck down here on Earth, and are run by fallen and broken humans who never can truly achieve any of those lofty and beautiful goals.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 15, 2020 10:32 AM (V2Yro)

I've been an observer in many criminal courtrooms, where I watch the thing unfold like a well rehearsed play.

One of the things I noticed is, some chump will stand before the judge and say "Your honor I didn't do it," or whatever. It's like the judge doesn't even hear the words. The process keeps moving relentlessly toward him admitting to all those little things he's gotta admit to, if he wants to see daylight, and he walks away, not feeling like anything resembling justice happened.

Then another chump walks up, but THIS chump has a lawyer, and the lawyer says "Your honor, my client didn't do it," and a whole different outcome occurs.

It's almost as if damn near the EXACT same words aren't heard by the judge, if it's not a lawyer saying them, but if it is... groovy, have a nice day.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 15, 2020 10:42 AM (hku12)

337 Nothin' wrong with a little lack of candor. Heh.

Posted by: Bubba Clintoon at February 15, 2020 10:42 AM (EgshT)

338 Think like a Lawyer"? I thought it was drink like a lawyer.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 15, 2020 10:41 AM (+y/Ru)
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Or is it "walk like an Egyptian"?

Way-oh, way-oh.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Co. Q, 365th Dog Faced Pony Soldier Bn. at February 15, 2020 10:42 AM (jW9oF)

339 312 kallisto

I wondered why Barr would select Jensen, the USA from EDMO, when he had all those nearby USA's from which to choose. Could it possibly be bc of the FD-302 controversy: the claims the original no longer exists, the prosecutor's "mixup" on whether Pientka or Strzok wrote the 302, and other irregularities that Jensen, the former FBI agent for 10 years, might have some insight?

Posted by: EveR at February 15, 2020 10:43 AM (ZZDMQ)

340 Wait!

@realDonaldTrump: ...'When you strike at the King'...

Trump is calling himself King now?

I'd set my hair on fire but these all-natural organic fair-trade rainforest-rescuing matches don't strike anywhere.

Posted by: mindful webworker
rubbing two plastic straws together?
at February 15, 2020 10:45 AM (7OF+y)

341 To a law teacher, "think like a lawyer" does not mean "learn to be a cynical little snot with connections" regardless of what the guys at the barbershop say.

It is supposed to mean "say nothing that cannot be backed up with case references and precedent." The Kid had a couple of "pre-JAG" courses at the Academy where a skillful instructor (who, as it turned out, was also a cynical snot) about drove everybody nuts as he required case cites and precedent for things like "The sun came up this morning" and "We The People." It was a hell of an education, about what to expect in that line of country. May have dissuaded some from The Law as a career.

They must not teach it anymore, or someone would have said it: the beginning of an engineering education was learning to "think like an engineer," and surely you must know that is not the same as thinking "like a scientist."
When I was That Age, we used a popular text called "Learning to Philosophize." Now that everyone has learned to cherish the feeling of shit rubbed into their knuckles, of course, you couldn't put a gun to our heads.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 15, 2020 10:46 AM (8IOEj)

342 I had a spate of misunderstandings with the DMV and accordingly have spent way more time in courtrooms than an honest man should.

At the levels I've observed about 95% of court business stems from alcohol and drug abuse.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 15, 2020 10:47 AM (gd9RK)

343 Drudge (yeah i still read it) reporting that Hilldog might joing Mini MIke Bloomburg as a VP.

I immediately scoff at this idea as that bitch plays second fiddle to no one except Billy. And she stopped playing with his fiddle about 40 years ago

Posted by: secret squirrel at February 15, 2020 10:47 AM (xyImL)

344 339 kallisto

Or could it possibly be that USA Jensen is universally admired for both his legal acumen & his fair-mindedness?

Posted by: mnw at February 15, 2020 10:47 AM (Cssks)

345 >>Trump is calling himself King now?

Trump isn't seen as king by much of the country. He is seen as a usurper of the throne. We saw that with the Ukraine debacle where un-elected bureaucrats were furious that Trump had the audacity to have a foreign policy they didn't agree with.

When you strike the king, don't miss.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 15, 2020 10:47 AM (ZLI7S)

346 Posted by: EveR at February 15, 2020 10:43 AM (ZZDMQ)

Honestly, I'm not privy to AG Barr's thought processes and/or motivations. What I do understand is that due to the Fed's obvious mismanagement of Flynn's case, he doesn't have to go through the legal hoop-jumping and maneuvering to withdraw his plea.

And he has a pitbull attorney who is a determined advocate, who literally wrote the book on prosecutorial misconduct at the highest level.

Posted by: kallisto at February 15, 2020 10:48 AM (DJFLF)

347 Will we soon have lists of links marked "Fen-Approved"?

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver

I nominate Zod and Kdbear to head up that exploratory committee.

Posted by: Sock Monkey...channeling my inner hillbilly at February 15, 2020 10:48 AM (FwmtK)

348 Wait!

@realDonaldTrump: ...'When you strike at the King'...

Trump is calling himself King now?
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I'd set my hair on fire but these all-natural organic fair-trade rainforest-rescuing matches don't strike anywhere.
Posted by: mindful webworker
rubbing two plastic straws together?
at February 15, 2020 10:45 AM (7OF+y)

I do wonder sometimes, maybe I don't know what a tyrant Trump is, because I have no presence on twatter.

Maybe if all you do is spend all day waiting for Trump to say something so your panties can get twisted, then things like this are interpreted as Trump wants to crown himself King!!!

Because really, when I look at what he does, I don't see the racists, I don't see the "unhinged" actor, I don't see the guy taking away everyone's rights.

But he said "king" on twatter.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 15, 2020 10:49 AM (hku12)

349 I'd set my hair on fire but these all-natural organic fair-trade rainforest-rescuing matches don't strike anywhere.

I'm not going to set my hair on fire because that actually happened to me IRL and it wasn't fun. In fact it was kind of scary.

Posted by: kallisto at February 15, 2020 10:49 AM (DJFLF)

350 Posted by: secret squirrel at February 15, 2020 10:47 AM (xyImL)

Bloomberg is talented, smart, dour and ambitious. He's smart enough not to put Hillary on as VP unless he has a death wish.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 15, 2020 10:49 AM (WI7YS)

351 * Steps out of office, finds that the welder guy has gotten here and I can't leave.

* Checks to make sure Kitten Boo is not near the welding, and find her eating a pigeon. I don't know if she killed it.

* I don't have to worry about either if I put Kitten Boo inside, and done. I need to go get a wire wheel for the grinder, though.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain, Channeling Vir, and Waving, Like This.... at February 15, 2020 10:50 AM (dwojT)

352 Fenelon,
"Dour" is a good word, and I don't think a dour man can get elected in this electronic age.

Posted by: MarkY at February 15, 2020 10:50 AM (fc+HX)

353 But it's sorta like the old class systems that operated in other parts of the world for eons. You either belong or you don't, but with lawyering, you aren't born into it (for the most part). Still, it's a cast iron caste system, where members of the guild get theirs, and the rest of us... we sorta wallow around in THEIR system, understanding some of it, but often only to the point of realizing we'll never really understand it.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 15, 2020 10:34 AM (hku12)

The only defense (it's not much of one, really) is that throughout history, ALL societies fall into this, no matter how they start off. So it seems that this indicative of a basic flaw in human nature, that we can never live up to our ideals. None of us can, or ever have, with the exception of a few people we've called "Saints" over the centuries. It's probably why all human societies build to a peak, then fall and are burned, and then have to rise out of the ashes, over and over again. I have no doubt that we'll fall and burn, I just hope it can be put off for a few decades until I'm not around.

And although it's easy to point a finger at the people running the system, the ones that are even worse are the Public who sees Law and Politics as nothing more than entertainment, the crowds who thought the OJ Trial was the best TV miniseries they ever watched, the masses who couldn't lift a finger to do anything that involved actual work to make their situation better. They're the ones that enable everything else.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 15, 2020 10:51 AM (V2Yro)

354 The Russel Crowe movie Three Days shows how the process chews up people who have yet to be convicted. It is unconstitutional.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 15, 2020 10:51 AM (LxTcq)

355
At the levels I've observed about 95% of court business stems from alcohol and drug abuse.
Posted by: Bandersnatch

My sil, the deputy PA spends the bulk of his day, every day, dealing with DV. He would agree.

Posted by: Sock Monkey...channeling my inner hillbilly at February 15, 2020 10:52 AM (FwmtK)

356 307---
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 15, 2020 10:27 AM (V2Yro)
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Great insight/food-for-thought about the legal profession and system, but.......

The suicide rate for lawyers is well BELOW average.
We must not imagine a host of tortured souls here.
They adapt.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 15, 2020 10:52 AM (M/9m0)

357 344 mnw

From what I could find, Jensen (who graduated from St. Louis Law School, not Ivy League) seemed to be a low-key guy, but he might be a local superstar. Locals might give some insight.

Posted by: EveR at February 15, 2020 10:53 AM (ZZDMQ)

358 Trump isn't seen as king by much of the country. He is seen as a usurper of the throne. We saw that with the Ukraine debacle where un-elected bureaucrats were furious that Trump had the audacity to have a foreign policy they didn't agree with.

When you strike the king, don't miss.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 15, 2020 10:47 AM (ZLI7S)

Governance by Lion King standards.

Trump is Scar. He killed Mufasa. He chased Simba into the jungle to frolic with the warthogs and meerkats.

Just wait, someday Simba will return!

And every one of these laughing hyenas things HE'S Simba's right hand bird.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 15, 2020 10:53 AM (hku12)

359 I have no doubt that we'll fall and burn, I just hope it can be put off for a few decades until I'm not around.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 15, 2020 10:51 AM (V2Yro)

I want to be around just long enough to help rivet Lord Humungus's hood ornaments to his car.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 15, 2020 10:54 AM (9Om/r)

360 BurtTC: It's almost as if damn near the EXACT same words aren't heard by the judge, if it's not a lawyer saying them, but if it is... groovy, have a nice day.

I was on a jury where a fellow was prosecuting his own case. Against Goodwill! And Goodwill's lawyer. Short trial. (Claimed some bicycles fell on him. Very odd.)

It was textbook "fool for a lawyer." Amusing and yet so sad to watch the guy, whether he was sincere or scamming, utterly lost at sea. All the stuff he'd brought as "evidence," disallowed. Everything he had to say, wrong. Everything Goodwill's lawyer had to say: right -- he and the judge locked into all the codewords and procedural steps, minimum needed to end up with Case Dismissed.

Leaving the court, we saw the fellah walking away, pathetically pulling a little red wagon with all his "evidence" piled up on it.

Posted by: mindful webworker
Truth, Justice, and the American way!
at February 15, 2020 10:54 AM (7OF+y)

361
that bitch plays second fiddle to no one

Posted by: secret squirrel

=======

I'm starting to rethink this because of the tenacity of her obsession with Trump and Chelsea's severely narrowed path to political power.

Could Hillary keep grifting as vp? It wouldn't be as glorious as if she were prez, but it would be better than nothing.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 15, 2020 10:54 AM (13CQC)

362 RE: Avenatti

It's funny that people retain counsel without first doing their homework-- asking around to see if the guy has a reputation as a grifter.

They'd never be that naive about a roofer or a plumber.

Posted by: mnw at February 15, 2020 10:55 AM (Cssks)

363
325 @realDonaldTrump

"Ralph Waldo Emerson seemed to foresee the lesson of the Senate Impeachment Trial of President Trump. 'When you strike at the King, Emerson famously said, "you must kill him.' Mr. Trump's foes struck at him but did not take him down. A triumphant Mr.Trump emerges from the.....

Always helpful to remember who the king is in every situation.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 15, 2020 10:36 AM (ZLI7S)

The movie is awful, but Congo is just so damned quotable.

Monroe: They just blew up the president's car.

Eddie: That was the president's car? Did they get him?

Monroe: That's the bad news: no, they didn't.

The Golden Scalp Weasel is gonna have a lot of fun with the aftermath, I think.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 15, 2020 10:55 AM (eXA4G)

364 Biden is Dead Candidate Walking.
Now Hekawi Liz is.
Mayor Pete will be when he gets 5% of the Black vote in SC

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 15, 2020 10:55 AM (NHUbB)

365 359- you might get your chance if this Covid-19 thing continues to spiral out of control. The fact that all signs points to the infected being able to spread the disease without symptoms makes me continue to believe this is a bug the Chi-coms made.

Where is Greta to issue a stern warning?

Posted by: secret squirrel at February 15, 2020 10:56 AM (xyImL)

366 Could Hillary keep grifting as vp? It wouldn't be as glorious as if she were prez, but it would be better than nothing.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Ask Joe.

Posted by: Sock Monkey...channeling my inner hillbilly at February 15, 2020 10:57 AM (FwmtK)

367 And although it's easy to point a finger at the people running the system, the ones that are even worse are the Public who sees Law and Politics as nothing more than entertainment, the crowds who thought the OJ Trial was the best TV miniseries they ever watched, the masses who couldn't lift a finger to do anything that involved actual work to make their situation better. They're the ones that enable everything else.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 15, 2020 10:51 AM (V2Yro)

Yeah, it's like watching the Christians being thrown to the lions in the public arena.

Yes, we ARE entertained.

It beats having to live MY life.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 15, 2020 10:57 AM (hku12)

368 Universities should be mandated to provide a written career outlook with salary ranges for every degree program

They already do, but they emphasize the benefits of a lifelong career in academia, media, government, or activism (but I repeat myself).

Posted by: t-bird at February 15, 2020 10:57 AM (VP1E6)

369 357 EveR

I'm a local & an atty (now retired), & I know Jensen slightly. More importantly, I know how highly regarded he is.

He didn't reach a presidentially-appointed high office because of his wealth or political connections-- he doesn't have any.

Posted by: mnw at February 15, 2020 10:59 AM (Cssks)

370
Ask Joe.
Posted by: Sock Monkey

=======

Heh. And followup question: Could your no-talent kid get rich as well?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 15, 2020 11:00 AM (13CQC)

371 330 ...and y'all all have fun, I'm gonna walk across the street and get a biscuit or something.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain, Channeling Vir, and Waving, Like This.... at February 15, 2020 10:38 AM (dwojT)

Mmmm.

There's a little cafe in a nearby town that makes THE BEST biscuits and gravy. Now I'm hungry for them, but I have too much to do at home.

Posted by: Emmie at February 15, 2020 11:00 AM (87gB3)

372 >>Trump is Scar. He killed Mufasa. He chased Simba into the jungle to frolic with the warthogs and meerkats.

>>Just wait, someday Simba will return!

And that's exactly how they see it. McCabe isn't king, he's a pawn. But he represents the king, the established order that the media and at least half the country want to be king.

Trump is trying to change that and you only do that by killing the king and when you strike at the king, don't miss.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 15, 2020 11:00 AM (ZLI7S)

373 It's almost as if damn near the EXACT same words aren't heard by the judge, if it's not a lawyer saying them, but if it is... groovy, have a nice day.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 15, 2020 10:42 AM (hku12)

And if you knew the full story, you'd probably find out that that particular lawyer had that particular Judge over to his house for dinner and drinks a couple weeks ago, and presented him a with a completely legal $200,000 campaign contribution that he'd collected from his office pals. And that there was no need to rehearse anything before that particular trial because everyone involved knew that they were running a very time honored script, and they all had their parts to play.

When an outsider pops up and tries to change the lines in the script, it's like a bad actor in a stage play. Everyone else ignores it and just goes on with their lines. The final decision was written long before the play ever began.

What makes for uplifting trials is when some lawyer is actually clever enough to bust the script, and it doesn't happen often. But it does happen occasionally.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 15, 2020 11:00 AM (V2Yro)

374 Believing in Bobama is like, when you were a kid, around Christmas time every big store you went to had a Santa. Eventually you kinda start to figure out, they can't ALL be the real Santa... until one day you realize, there IS no Santa.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 15, 2020 10:29 AM (hku12)
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SPOILER ALERT?

Posted by: BunkerInTheBurbs at February 15, 2020 11:01 AM (NiFkv)

375
Universities should be mandated to provide a written career outlook with salary ranges for every degree program

They already do, but they emphasize the benefits of a lifelong career in academia, media, government, or activism (but I repeat myself).
Posted by: t-bird at February 15, 2020 10:57 AM (VP1E6)

What they probably don't mention is just how few jobs are available in those areas.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 15, 2020 11:01 AM (eXA4G)

376 RE: Trump in Daytona race

Ummm, I hope you guys realize Trump is almost certainly gonna lose that race.

Posted by: Serious Cat at February 15, 2020 11:01 AM (zqs/f)

377 Yeah, you want to stay out of Milwaukee. Madison is pretty but insane.
Posted by: grammie winger at February 15, 2020 09:10 AM (lwiT4)

But it has a cool tune:

https://hooktube.com/watch?v=LIh6I_0bmNw

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 15, 2020 11:01 AM (LxWV7)

378 >>
It's funny that people retain counsel without first doing their homework-- asking around to see if the guy has a reputation as a grifter.

They'd never be that naive about a roofer or a plumber.
Posted by: mnw

Sure they would

Posted by: The Roma at February 15, 2020 11:02 AM (2cuLk)

379 BurtTC: It's almost as if damn near the EXACT same words aren't heard by the judge, if it's not a lawyer saying them, but if it is... groovy, have a nice day.
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I was on a jury where a fellow was prosecuting his own case. Against Goodwill! And Goodwill's lawyer. Short trial. (Claimed some bicycles fell on him. Very odd.)

It was textbook "fool for a lawyer." Amusing and yet so sad to watch the guy, whether he was sincere or scamming, utterly lost at sea. All the stuff he'd brought as "evidence," disallowed. Everything he had to say, wrong. Everything Goodwill's lawyer had to say: right -- he and the judge locked into all the codewords and procedural steps, minimum needed to end up with Case Dismissed.

Leaving the court, we saw the fellah walking away, pathetically pulling a little red wagon with all his "evidence" piled up on it.
Posted by: mindful webworker
Truth, Justice, and the American way!
at February 15, 2020 10:54 AM (7OF+y)

The one place where I've seen that NOT happen is with tenant/landlord cases. The tenant will come into court, with nothing other than his sincerity that the landlord is screwing him over. When the landlord's lawyer shows up, spouting law talk, I've seen the judge stop them in their tracks, turn to the poor, downtrodden guy, and ask him to explain in plain talk, just what happened.

I've seen the lawyers march out, red faced, having all their well-filed papers, in their wheeled suitcases, not adding up to a damn thing.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 15, 2020 11:03 AM (hku12)

380 Universities should be mandated to provide a written career outlook with salary ranges for every degree program

They already do, but they emphasize the benefits of a lifelong career in academia, media, government, or activism (but I repeat myself).

Posted by: t-bird at February 15, 2020 10:57 AM (VP1E6)

Back in the '80s, UNC geography majors were listed as big $$ makers....they included Michael Jordan's paychecks.

Posted by: BignJames at February 15, 2020 11:04 AM (X/Pw5)

381 365 359- you might get your chance if this Covid-19 thing continues to spiral out of control. The fact that all signs points to the infected being able to spread the disease without symptoms makes me continue to believe this is a bug the Chi-coms made.

Where is Greta to issue a stern warning?
Posted by: secret squirrel at February 15, 2020 10:56 AM (xyImL),

Couldn't the same be said of all viruses? You are usually contagious before symptoms are present.

Posted by: Gem at February 15, 2020 11:04 AM (65i3Q)

382
No offense to lawyers, but I don't think of them as human, and I don't mean that as any kind of insult. What I mean is, they don't think through things like normal humans do, and sometimes the law dictates a decision that doesn't look right, to non-lawyers.

And on both sides of the Great Trump Divide, there are people who law-fight, and there are people who only want their side to win, always. So there's like a four point scrum going on, with the lawyers doing their thing on both sides, and the out for blood types doing theirs, with the inevitable result of nobody ever being happy with the results, ever.
Posted by: BurtTC

Ties right into the Weird Dave linked article Incompetence and Doomsday

Posted by: Sock Monkey...channeling my inner hillbilly at February 15, 2020 11:05 AM (FwmtK)

383 Here's a scary thought... Headline on Drudge,( I know),... Bloomberg considering Hillary Clinton as running mate.

Posted by: Traveling Man&&&& at February 15, 2020 11:05 AM (GdPyX)

384 >>I'm a local & an atty (now retired), & I know Jensen slightly. More importantly, I know how highly regarded he is.

>>He didn't reach a presidentially-appointed high office because of his wealth or political connections-- he doesn't have any.

Good to know. Thanks.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 15, 2020 11:05 AM (ZLI7S)

385 Trump deliberately says things to poke at leftists, such "If you're going to strike at the king..."
I think he enjoys playing with them as a person with a laser pointer does with a cat . He's also the great showman-the P.T. Barnum of politics. He's taking a lap on the Daytona 500 track. LOL. I don't always like his tweets, but he is the most entertaining President in my life time. Unfortunately we'll get nine months of "Trump is such a rude meanie (aside from being a racist, sexist homophobe) and. Where is the dignity?!!!! ads

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 15, 2020 11:05 AM (WI7YS)

386 Trump is trying to change that and you only do that by killing the king and when you strike at the king, don't miss.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 15, 2020 11:00 AM (ZLI7S)

I actually just heard a guy say that Trump is going to rewrite the Constitution if he gets re-elected. I told him that's not possible you need 2/3 of Congress, yada yada.

He said Trump will use Executive Privilege to do it.

Then I said: It must be nice to live in fear of Boogeyman Trump 24-7. Then I felt like a big meanie that I said that.

Posted by: kallisto at February 15, 2020 11:05 AM (DJFLF)

387 He is seen as a usurper of the throne. We saw that with the Ukraine debacle where un-elected bureaucrats were furious that Trump had the audacity to have a foreign policy they didn't agree with. Posted by: JackStraw

When Obama needed Putin's help to sell the Iran Deal, the quid pro quo-price was No Arms For Ukraine, which Barry gladly paid. The Blob didn't care.

They don't really care about the policy. That was just a handy stick to smack the Usurper. That, they DO care about.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at February 15, 2020 11:06 AM (Ndje9)

388 They'd leftist would do better to post things such as "There's Trump being Trump again. Yawn". They haven't learned that. It's all "Hair on fire " with everything.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 15, 2020 11:07 AM (WI7YS)

389 there is one tried and tested way for one to work off the student loan debt. just putting that out there.
Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at February 15, 2020 10:33 AM (zYSnw)

The Trans-Continental Dignity Canal is just a dream. A seductive, destructive dream.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 15, 2020 11:07 AM (6rS3m)

390 346 kallisto

Can't agree more on Sydney Powell. But, her plan for Flynn has always been dismissal, so wouldn't it be wonderful if Jensen's "review" of the case and the questionable behavior regarding the FD-302s and other evidence would lead to just that? Other cases are under Rosen. Why Jensen on this one?
She seems pretty pumped over this, so I'll just follow her with fingers crossed.

Posted by: EveR at February 15, 2020 11:07 AM (ZZDMQ)

391 I bring a gif of cat and coffee

http://puddlesgathering.com/blog/ani-coffee_cat.gif

Posted by: Kindltot at February 15, 2020 11:08 AM (6rS3m)

392 And that's exactly how they see it. McCabe isn't king, he's a pawn. But he represents the king, the established order that the media and at least half the country want to be king.

Trump is trying to change that and you only do that by killing the king and when you strike at the king, don't miss.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 15, 2020 11:00 AM (ZLI7S)

Right, in The Lion King, the little gay bird is only there to serve "the king," but did a lot of chirping behind Scar's back.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 15, 2020 11:08 AM (hku12)

393 Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 15, 2020 10:52 AM (M/9m0)

After over 20 yrs in the legal field, I have known more attys killed by clients than by suicide. We are now Inventory atty for a guy that went over the edge but is in therapy.

Posted by: Infidel at February 15, 2020 11:08 AM (MTxDQ)

394 Couldn't the same be said of all viruses? You are usually contagious before symptoms are present.
Posted by: Gem

Nope. One of l reasons bat flu is causing such levels of concern.

Posted by: Sock Monkey...channeling my inner hillbilly at February 15, 2020 11:08 AM (FwmtK)

395 DB somewhere upthread: a movie about the British Army in WWII having mostly white actors FFS

This has me thinking: You know what we need?

A diversity-cast remake of The Gods Must Be Crazy.

Posted by: mindful webworker
Truth, Justice, and the African way!
at February 15, 2020 11:08 AM (7OF+y)

396 You want: the judge in "My Cousin Vinny".

You'll settle for: Q in "Encounter At Farpoint".

You'll get: the mobbed-up judge in "Batman Begins".

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Co. Q, 365th Dog Faced Pony Soldier Bn. at February 15, 2020 11:09 AM (jW9oF)

397 BurtTC and Tom Servo,

The thing that lawyers and judges for that matter do not understand or are willing to ignore is that justice in society is like a tectonic plate butted up against another. One plate is that of the elites, the other of the common people.

Normally there is some movement in society along the fault lines of society that relieve stress. But, when the plates become locked as they have essentially for the last 40 years or so, the pressure builds up. At some point, the distance between reality and political beliefs of the general populace become too divergent and something snaps in society.

The first to go out of power, like in the French revolution, were the lawyers and judges because they were viewed as instruments of injustice and the king's control by the general populace. For over a hundred years after the French Revolution, and even to this day, judges' role in French society has been circumscribed by the pejorative 'government by the judges' (translated). There is a reason that the French resort to street justice as compared to the Brits. The French are very cynical about their legal and political system for redress.

The same thing happens if you have the elites trying to suppress the general populace. Lawyers and judges are in the way so you get horrors like the People's Courts in Germany during the Nazi era or the Soviet and Chinese show courts for traitors. Or even the Star Chambers in Merrie Old England.

Right now, the law and its practitioners have departed so much from the common people's understanding of the written law, we will get some sort of Reformation for better or ill. From some of the forums that I frequent, I see the frustration and anger rising when judges, legislators, and lawyers deny the plain written texts of the Constitution and statutes.

Everyone knows what happened when King George III departed from previous understandings and written agreements with colonies that had been granted by his predecessors. The King and his judges and colonial administration lawyers were discredited due to the discrepancy between the written law and what the King felt was his due.

A reckoning of sorts is coming and Trump represents an almost last ditch attempt to steer the ship of state from the shoals before an shipwreck. To the extent that the Deep State is fighting Trump taking the tiller, it appears either the Deep State is drunk on power or purposefully wants a societal shipwreck.

Something has gotta give and the result, I fear, will be the political and societal equivalent of an earthquake.

Injustice, in time, perpetuated by a legal system of the ruling class, eventually causes the population to seek justice by other means.

Posted by: whig at February 15, 2020 11:10 AM (EUDB2)

398 It's almost as if damn near the EXACT same words aren't heard by the judge, if it's not a lawyer saying them, but if it is... groovy, have a nice day.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 15, 2020 10:42 AM (hku12)

And if you knew the full story, you'd probably find out that that particular lawyer had that particular Judge over to his house for dinner and drinks a couple weeks ago, and presented him a with a completely legal $200,000 campaign contribution that he'd collected from his office pals. And that there was no need to rehearse anything before that particular trial because everyone involved knew that they were running a very time honored script, and they all had their parts to play.

When an outsider pops up and tries to change the lines in the script, it's like a bad actor in a stage play. Everyone else ignores it and just goes on with their lines. The final decision was written long before the play ever began.

What makes for uplifting trials is when some lawyer is actually clever enough to bust the script, and it doesn't happen often. But it does happen occasionally.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 15, 2020 11:00 AM (V2Yro)

Yes, I've known guys who get a public defender, and they keep referring to the PD as "my lawyer."

No he's not! He's not YOUR lawyer. Look down the hall there... there's the judge's office, there's the prosecutor's office, and right next to them is the PD's office!

They golf together. Probably swap wives. He ain't YOUR lawyer.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 15, 2020 11:12 AM (hku12)

399 I had to turn off power at the river place. They haven't paid anything in months. We've been paying $200 a month but they ran up a $300 bill last month. It was likely the guy that bought a motorhome there and decidded to move in even though we told him no. Someone decided to turn the power back on illegally, which was reported back to me. I called the PUD to go back out.

It seems that even in WA state, you can do an emergency 3 day eviction if someone does something dangerous or hazardous. I've got the form printed up. Just need to have someone go with me and document me handing them out. Then I can get the courts and police involved.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 15, 2020 11:12 AM (Lqy/e)

400 369 mnw

Thank you! That is great. He sounds like the perfect guy to check Van Grack's work.

Thanks, again, for the good news, IMO.

Posted by: EveR at February 15, 2020 11:12 AM (ZZDMQ)

401 >>I actually just heard a guy say that Trump is going to rewrite the Constitution if he gets re-elected. I told him that's not possible you need 2/3 of Congress, yada yada.

>>He said Trump will use Executive Privilege to do it.

One of the biggest problems with fighting this ideological war is most of our opponents are actual morons. They have no idea how things work and they just say stuff.

I like to scan the comments sections of left leaning blogs to see what they are thinking and the short answer is very few of them are. It's just blind, impotent rage and many of them don't even seem to know what they are enraged about so they make up demons.

Trump is about the furthest thing from a dictator we've had lately but you won't convince many on the left to it. They didn't use logic to get into their position, they won't use logic to get out.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 15, 2020 11:13 AM (ZLI7S)

402 Good morning Hordelings!

Posted by: Diogenes at February 15, 2020 11:13 AM (axyOa)

403 Titania McGrath: Intersectional Feminist Icon

https://tinyurl.com/wquubkp

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at February 15, 2020 11:14 AM (sWM8x)

404 The proof that Trump is not a King

although they strike at him constantly

nothing happens to the strikers

ergo, he's not a King

Posted by: REDACTED at February 15, 2020 11:14 AM (rpxSz)

405 of not to

Posted by: JackStraw at February 15, 2020 11:14 AM (ZLI7S)

406 Captain Obvious #396:
You want: the judge in "My Cousin Vinny".
You'll settle for: Q in "Encounter At Farpoint".
You'll get: the mobbed-up judge in "Batman Begins".

Trying to figure where the judge from Miracle on 34th Street fits into this. (clik nic)

Posted by: mindful webworker
There ain't no sanity claus
at February 15, 2020 11:15 AM (7OF+y)

407 "No offense to lawyers, but I don't think of them as human, and I don't mean that as any kind of insult."
They have faith in the law, which is an ass.

Posted by: Chris M at February 15, 2020 11:16 AM (6XZdO)

408 Heh. And followup question: Could your no-talent kid get rich as well?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Depends on the size of their Coke habit.

Posted by: Sock Monkey...channeling my inner hillbilly at February 15, 2020 11:16 AM (FwmtK)

409
Posted by: whig at February 15, 2020 11:10 AM (EUDB2)

=======

There's such a thing as going to a professional when you need a job done, but the fact that you haven't a hope in hell if you don't have a lawyer when you go to trial shows that there's something wrong with the legal system.

Lawyers write the laws, and they do it in such a way that you can't follow the law or challenge the law unless you pay a lawyer to interpret it for you and guide you through the machinery -- which they also design.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 15, 2020 11:16 AM (13CQC)

410 Just my thoughts...

PDTS statements on sanctuary cities at the SOTU were the provebial shot across the bow. If you want to see dramatic and immediate change, hold some judge or mayor or governkr personally responsible for their decision. Soveriegn immunity is the problem as is unfettered ability to sue or take someone to court without retribution.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 15, 2020 11:17 AM (EK+jJ)

411 401 One of the biggest problems with fighting this ideological war is most of our opponents are actual morons. They have no idea how things work and they just say stuff.

This. Add that to the line about the US being a democracy and the 50% of our nation has gone full retard.
I had to correct a guy at work the other day who insisted the left and right are making it impossible "for our democracy." While i do not deny that fact, i had to correct him and say that we live in a representative republic. He replied, "same thing."
No.

Posted by: secret squirrel at February 15, 2020 11:17 AM (xyImL)

412 Injustice, in time, perpetuated by a legal system of the ruling class, eventually causes the population to seek justice by other means.
Posted by: whig at February 15, 2020 11:10 AM (EUDB2)

Yep.

Some wonder why black people in some neighborhoods don't talk to the police.

Well...

If you see enough injustice, you start figuring out other ways to get it. Even if those other ways are self-destructive, they're seen as less destructive than the official system.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 15, 2020 11:17 AM (hku12)

413 It is supposed to mean "say nothing that
cannot be backed up with case references and precedent." [ . . . ]
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 15, 2020 10:46 AM (8IOEj)

Once upon a time I had to write up initial determinations based on case law and interviews for Administrative Law claims, and this was exactly what I had to show. I could have used that instructor. He sounds fun.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 15, 2020 11:18 AM (6rS3m)

414 Coconut oil is good in coffee as well. And yes, you have to blend.

Posted by: Emmie at February 15, 2020 11:18 AM (87gB3)

415 401 Jackstraw,

These folks have already mentally prepared to accept a dictator, it is just not Trump because HE is not their enlightened ruler that will give them free shit.

Chavez came to power on the backs of these same sort of fools. His successor is still there and the fools are in the worst conditions possible amidst mineral riches. Still they persist.

Posted by: whig at February 15, 2020 11:18 AM (EUDB2)

416 Bloomberg/Hillary 2020

Drudge

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 15, 2020 11:19 AM (tQaZ2)

417 And although it's easy to point a finger at the
people running the system, the ones that are even worse are the Public
who sees Law and Politics as nothing more than entertainment, the crowds
who thought the OJ Trial was the best TV miniseries they ever watched,
the masses who couldn't lift a finger to do anything that involved
actual work to make their situation better. They're the ones that enable
everything else.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 15, 2020 10:51 AM (V2Yro)

Yeah, it's like watching the Christians being thrown to the lions in the public arena.

Yes, we ARE entertained.

It beats having to live MY life.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 15, 2020 10:57 AM (hku12)

For probably 30 years I used to call it gladiator mentality in reference to all the people stinking up the colosseum who got off watching gladiators/slaves kill each other, including the executions, the christians, etc etc. You nailed it nuts on with your "It beats having to live my life" thing. I probably should start calling it colosseum mentality, because its more accurate. In reality without the sick fucks stinking up the bleachers in the colosseum there would be no colosseum.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 15, 2020 11:19 AM (9Om/r)

418 383 Here's a scary thought... Headline on Drudge,( I know),... Bloomberg considering Hillary Clinton as running mate.

Posted by: Traveling Man&&&& at February 15, 2020 11:05 AM (GdPyX)

Was just on Fox too about 10 mins. ago. He's also considering making his residence Florida or Colorado. He has homes in both places. So that they can say they're not both from NY.

Posted by: Tami at February 15, 2020 11:19 AM (cF8AT)

419 Posted by: mindful webworker
There ain't no sanity claus
at February 15, 2020 11:15 AM (7OF+y)
----
OK, that whole sequence made me smile.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Co. Q, 365th Dog Faced Pony Soldier Bn. at February 15, 2020 11:19 AM (jW9oF)

420 Another one of the protected class on the tube atm

Jane Sanders, fucks over a college with lies, college goes bust, FBI investigation

she walks

Posted by: REDACTED at February 15, 2020 11:20 AM (rpxSz)

421 It seems that even in WA state, you can do an emergency 3 day eviction if someone does something dangerous or hazardous. I've got the form printed up. Just need to have someone go with me and document me handing them out. Then I can get the courts and police involved.
Posted by: Notsothoreau

Dang. Too bad I live on the dry side of the state. I would really enjoy that. If possible, bring multiple people. Numbers intimidate low lifes.

Posted by: Sock Monkey...channeling my inner hillbilly at February 15, 2020 11:20 AM (FwmtK)

422
It seems that even in WA state, you can do an emergency 3 day eviction if someone does something dangerous or hazardous. I've got the form printed up. Just need to have someone go with me and document me handing them out. Then I can get the courts and police involved.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 15, 2020 11:12 AM (Lqy/e)

Prayers for strength going up. This is the last thing you need. Good luck.

Posted by: Infidel at February 15, 2020 11:21 AM (MTxDQ)

423 [whew - Pixy autoclose for the save; barrel avoided]

JackStraw: One of the biggest problems with fighting this ideological war is most of our opponents are actual morons. They have no idea how things work and they just say stuff.

As some feller once said, it's not that they don't know anything, it's that what they do know is wrong. Listen to their rants and realize everything they claim is some debunked b.s. Kids in cages! Trump calls all Mexicans animals! Wants to deport all brown people! Collusion! On & on. Every bit of it dead wrong.

Posted by: mindful webworker
There ain't no sanity claus
at February 15, 2020 11:21 AM (7OF+y)

424
California something NOOD
http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=385826

Posted by: mindful webworker
of the North American webworkers
at February 15, 2020 11:22 AM (7OF+y)

425 Chavez came to power on the backs of these same sort of fools. His successor is still there and the fools are in the worst conditions possible amidst mineral riches. Still they persist.

Posted by: whig

Biden pictures himself as our Maduro.

Posted by: Sock Monkey...channeling my inner hillbilly at February 15, 2020 11:23 AM (FwmtK)

426 >Every bit of it dead wrong.
Posted by: mindful webworker

but it fits what they have decided is the truth, making it true to them

Posted by: DB- just DB at February 15, 2020 11:23 AM (iTXRQ)

427 I need an enforcer. We used to have one but tweaking wrecked his heart. He's been gone two years. He was smart enough to keep the place cleaned up.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 15, 2020 11:24 AM (Lqy/e)

428 Well this was fun.

New thread, Californica.

Just fall into the sea already.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 15, 2020 11:24 AM (hku12)

429 409 Blonde Morticia,
I have a passing familiarity with the law and statutes, yet I would not represent myself in a criminal trial. That is because you are buying into the local legal network with your lawyer as much as anything who has a local understanding of how the law will be applied in your neighborhood.

But, such a system is built on sand and eventually the system is rationalized periodically.

One of my current projects deals with Roman law and it is interesting how eventually Justinian actually made it a death penalty offense to add "gloss" to his code. That lasted until his death and then lawyers went right back to issuing commentaries, revised understandings, etc.

The U.S. states codified a lot of the common law when the common law precedents began to overwhelm the system. Now, the common law understanding of those codified statutes is overwhelming the system. The system is due for another rationalization where the written law will once again correspond with societal expectations.

Posted by: whig at February 15, 2020 11:24 AM (EUDB2)

430 >>These folks have already mentally prepared to accept a dictator, it is just not Trump because HE is not their enlightened ruler that will give them free shit.

And that's the real fight, isn't it? Trying to regain some semblance of our culture and a return to the rule of law not men. There are a lot of battles but only one real war and it's for the soul of the country.

Hard to believe that a real estate developer from Queens is our champion but there it is.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 15, 2020 11:25 AM (ZLI7S)

431 NOOD

Posted by: Bruce at February 15, 2020 11:25 AM (vd8XM)

432 Canada's PM Trudeau Bows to Iranian Foreign Minister a Month After Regime Killed 57 of His Citizens
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 15, 2020 10:03 AM (+y/Ru)

I'm sure that most, if not all, of those "Canadians" killed in that airliner shoot-down were simply radical muzzie Iranians who managed to acquire Canadian passports. Iran wouldn't be letting opponents of the regime to freely come and go from Iran.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 15, 2020 11:25 AM (LxWV7)

433 Maybe if all you do is spend all day waiting for
Trump to say something so your panties can get twisted, then things like
this are interpreted as Trump wants to crown himself King!!!

Because really, when I look at what he does, I don't see the
racists, I don't see the "unhinged" actor, I don't see the guy taking
away everyone's rights.

But he said "king" on twatter.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 15, 2020 10:49 AM (hku12)

I think he stays up late at night thinking of ways to piss people off. Didn't he hint he was thinking of running again in 2080?
Wasn't someone in his orbit passing around the rumor that the impeachment effectively erased his first term so he could legally run again in 2024?

There are probably no-one who I agree with totally, and I disagree with the man on a lot of things, but I do admire his ability to live in people's minds 24/7

Posted by: Kindltot at February 15, 2020 11:26 AM (6rS3m)

434 hey golf together. Probably swap wives. He ain't YOUR lawyer.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 15, 2020 11:12 AM

But when you're a normie called into jury duty...

"Anyone of you recognize any of these people here up front? Golf with them? Sing on the church choir with them? Exchange Christmas cards? Facebook friends?" and you're out of the jury pool...

Posted by: ptschett at February 15, 2020 11:28 AM (zB+vL)

435 I actually just heard a guy say that Trump is going
to rewrite the Constitution if he gets re-elected. I told him that's not
possible you need 2/3 of Congress, yada yada.

>>He said Trump will use Executive Privilege to do it.

One of the biggest problems with fighting this ideological war is
most of our opponents are actual morons. They have no idea how things
work and they just say stuff.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 15, 2020 11:13 AM (ZLI7S)

Leftist projection at it's finest. They're just pissed because their favorite commie boy won't get the chance to shred the constitution. They really are actual morons. They're lucky Trump isn't who they think he is. Hell, they're lucky trump isn't who I am. They would be fucking iron caged by this point.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 15, 2020 11:29 AM (9Om/r)

436 Miss ME? ME?

*hic* *shart* *cackle*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at February 15, 2020 11:29 AM (ATCV4)

437 Avenatti probably thought he got a lucky draw there, but no such luck - Judge Batts suddenly dropped dead 2 weeks ago. No replacement has been named, and the timing of the Stormy Daniels trial is now in limbo.

The LA Trial is still all tee'd up and ready to go in May, so Avenatti has that to look forward to.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 15, 2020 10:10 AM (V2Yro)

Well, well, well. Another vacancy for the Turtle to fill!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 15, 2020 11:29 AM (LxWV7)

438 NOOD
Posted by: Bruce

*gets out of bed, puts pants on*

Not Nood!

Posted by: Sock Monkey...channeling my inner hillbilly at February 15, 2020 11:34 AM (FwmtK)

439 nice, whig.

The British and French aristocracy didn't seem to know they were playing with fire. Do ours?

There is a lot of ruin in a nation, but not an infinite amount.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at February 15, 2020 11:51 AM (Ndje9)

440 394 Couldn't the same be said of all viruses? You are usually contagious before symptoms are present.
Posted by: Gem

Nope. One of l reasons bat flu is causing such levels of concern.
Posted by: Sock Monkey...channeling my inner hillbilly at February 15, 2020 11:08 AM (FwmtK)

I'm sorry, but I'm not sure this is generally correct. I think with most flus and colds a person can be contagious for a few days before becoming symptomatic. I checked the WHO FAC site and the new corona has an incubation period (time between infection and symptoms) of 1-12 days, with a median of 5-6 days. Maybe the length of incubation is unusually long, and that is the concern. But it does happen with every virus.

Posted by: Gem at February 15, 2020 01:56 PM (65i3Q)

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