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9/19/2015

Trump Doubles Down, Defiantly Refuses To Cave To Public Shaming By The Democrats

Filed under: General — Dana @ 9:32 am



[guest post by Dana]

Last night I posted about how Hillary Clinton, fellow Democrats, the MSM – and those in the Republican establishment – were collectively attempting to shame Trump into apologizing for not challenging a supporter who accused President Obama of being a Muslim. (Fools that they are, as if Trump can be shamed into doing anything!) Anyway, this morning, it is clear that Trump did not follow Hillary’s directive to sit in the corner like a naughty boy and think about the poor choice he had made. Instead of being duly chastised, knuckling under and playing by the left’s rules, Trump refused to cave to their demands, as well as showing that he knows how to keep his supporters happy:

Am I morally obligated to defend the president every time somebody says something bad or controversial about him? I don’t think so!

If someone made a nasty or controversial statement about me to the president, do you really think he would come to my rescue? No chance!

Christians need support in our country (and around the world), their religious liberty is at stake! Obama has been horrible, I will be great

After the rally exchange last week, we saw the Democrats immediately jump into action, convinced that his inaction was what would finally topple Trump. We knew because the media air reeked with the noxious stench of smug, self-righteous indignation. However, with Trump’s refusal to buckle under, the desperate attempts of Democrats et al. will likely end up backfiring, and as a result Trump may win over even more voters. Certainly he won’t lose any, given that he handed his supporters exactly what they demand and expect from him. Had he caved and meekly apologized, it would have been over for candidate Trump.

–Dana

259 Responses to “Trump Doubles Down, Defiantly Refuses To Cave To Public Shaming By The Democrats”

  1. Hello.

    Dana (86e864)

  2. i think oodles of obama-lovers know in their hearts that obama’s about as christian as ortega brand whole grain taco shells

    so what this means is

    this sort of kerfuffle ends up energizing trump supporters way way way more than it energizes obama’s

    all the fake-outraged obama supporters end up doing is amplifying the idea that obama is a dishonest weirdo to where nobody even believes him when he says he’s a christian

    hillary doesn’t believe him

    her voters don’t believe him

    trump’s voters don’t believe him

    the only one that believes him is Michio Kaku

    and since most of obama’s supporters anymore are cable news trollops of one variety or other, they bring very low credibility to the table before the conversation even starts

    happyfeet (831175)

  3. P.S. I just saw this tweet from Trump:

    If I would have challenged the man, the media would have accused me of interfering with that man’s right of free speech. A no win situation!

    Yeah, I don’t think the media would have accused him of that because it’s more important to the MSM to protect the president’s image and feelings – and Muslims – than it is to stand up for an individual’s right to free speech. Not that challenging one’s comments is interfering with their right to free speech to begin with.

    Dana (86e864)

  4. Obama lovers get all wee wee’d up if someone doesn’t bow and kiss the hem of his garment.

    Comanche Voter (1d5c8b)

  5. When, in 2018, Obama makes his hajj, we’ll find out that everyone knew.

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  6. In a party of “weenies” (thank you, Ted Cruz), we’ve finally found a guy who doesn’t kowtow. “Weenie” is such a mild term for it, too. How about “dissembling, amoral cowards”? It is hard to square the comments made by Trump with the derangement we’ve been witnessing from so many on the right. Carly and, maybe, Ted could have handled the question as deftly.

    When a Democrat cut from the same cloth made it to the senate, they promoted him to Majority Leader and he ran the Congress (if not the country). With Trump, all conventional Republicans seem capable of doing is running for the exits and praying that some dissembling, amoral coward will somehow dislodge The Donald. A proud moment, this is not.

    And the gift of Trump just keeps on giving. Why just today the Washington Post took CNN and Anderson Cooper to task for being partisan hacks. This man has a super human strength of a kind I was never knew existed: the ability to get opponents to publicly embarrass themselves and their cause.

    Donald Trump may not be the conservative messiah, but he is the best thing to happen to the party since Ronald Reagan. Although Trump is not my preferred nominee, it is impossible to deny the positive impact of his candidacy.

    ThOR (a52560)

  7. yes yes yes Mr. ThOR more and more every day Mr. The Donald is coming to represent a repudiation of so so much in America what so desperately needs repudiating

    happyfeet (831175)

  8. Trump has certainly figured out the mood of many Americans which is anger and frustration.

    Whether he can do anything to solve problems remains to be seen.

    Mike K (557d1f)

  9. it’s more than anger and frustration

    Mr. The Donald taps into the disdain people have for the loser ruling class what’s brought a once-proud once-respectable nation to its pitiful broken knees

    the loser ruling class what’s seriously and in all earnestness presenting a bushclinton “choice” for the edification of the stupid idiot failmerican voters

    bush

    clinton

    pick one

    happyfeet (831175)

  10. That was a good comment, happyfeet. Your first one.

    nk (dbc370)

  11. thank you I’m a keep practicing

    happyfeet (831175)

  12. No. He hasn’t “figured out the mood” of anyone. Calculating politicians and their pollsters do that. Donald Trump has many qualities, but guile doesn’t seem to be one of them.

    ThOR (a52560)

  13. Everybody who gets to reach Trump’s age knows what pulls the strings of losers, whiners, moaners,and malcontents, without having to hire focus groups.

    nk (dbc370)

  14. It’s pretty silly of Democrats to expect that Trump would alienate his base.

    jmann (cfaec1)

  15. That was a good comment, happyfeet. Your first one.

    nk (dbc370) — 9/19/2015 @ 10:59 am

    I’ll second that.

    Bill H (2a858c)

  16. Blind pigs and acorns, folks. Blind pigs and acorns.

    ropelight (216be6)

  17. Yay Trump!

    I also think the goofy guy who asked the question is likely a plant or just a Trump hater. Otherwise the MSM would be investigating him with the same vigor that they investigated Joe the Plumber, right?

    Patricia (5fc097)

  18. Thank the bloody heavens somebody on our side is doubling down for once. Mirable dictu.

    rrpjr (b5da43)

  19. Obama has been horrible, I will be great.

    AZ Bob (34bb80)

  20. And look who’s rushing to defend Obama — El Gobernador Heb!

    rrpjr (b5da43)

  21. BTW this issue is paying off for Trump, not his opponents.

    AZ Bob (34bb80)

  22. Trump needs to seek out little skirmishes like this. Troll the media then kick their teeth in. It’s so easy.

    rrpjr (b5da43)

  23. “Donald Trump may not be the conservative messiah, but he is the best thing to happen to the party since Ronald Reagan. Although Trump is not my preferred nominee, it is impossible to deny the positive impact of his candidacy.” ThOR

    Amen!

    AZ Bob (34bb80)

  24. And as Rush points out, Trump is more conservative than the people leading the Republican party. At least Trump doesn’t look like he is going to run away from a fight.

    AZ Bob (34bb80)

  25. “BTW this issue is paying off for Trump, not his opponents.”

    His opponents haven’t learned that Trump succeeds not despite bigotry, but because of it.

    jmann (cfaec1)

  26. I believe Obama is a moderate Mohammedan and radical Socialist who has been practicing taqqiya his entire life. That doesn’t mean Trump is the right candidate for the job. Because he absolutely isn’t. This is just more Christie pron version 2.1.

    John Hitchcock (87af80)

  27. The hard-core bigotry of the Left, you mean, jmann.

    John Hitchcock (87af80)

  28. If – in 2008 – instead of bloviating about his plans to fundamentally transform America, Obama shared his plan to bring America low, what would he have done differently ever since?

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  29. “If – in 2008 – instead of bloviating about his plans to fundamentally transform America, Obama shared his plan to bring America low, what would he have done differently ever since?”

    If I had known what Obama planned to do to our financial markets I would have made a lot more money.

    jmann (cfaec1)

  30. Hmmm… a member of the New Politburo slithers by…

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  31. After six years of anti-Wall Street rhetoric that vilifies the very people who put him in office, President Obama may actually let his Justice Department prosecute the crooks and swindlers in the financial industry.

    Under Bush, the federal government prosecuted 1,300 of these bastards, including Ken Lay of Enron.

    Under Obama, not one…

    http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_JUSTICE_DEPARTMENT_CORPORATE_CRIME?SITE=MYPSP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-09-09-21-34-35

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  32. Trump is conservative in some senses, I guess. He doesn’t much like furriners, and wants women and minorities to STFU (in truth he wants everyone who isn’t Trump to STFU). He’d build up the armed forces, but it’s not clear why, other than to make them AWESOME! But other than those, there’s not much to see. He clearly doesn’t give a rat’s azz about Christian belief, other than scamming Christians for votes.

    There are a lot of non-conservative things as well.

    He wants a giant federal government and sees nothing wrong with crony capitalism, so long as it’s the right cronies.

    I hear NOTHING about the RKBA, which he has fought in the past.

    I hear nothing about Obamacare, except maybe that he’d make it GREAT.

    I hear nothing about him wanting to curtail the power of the Executive; quite the contrary. He’d be more likely to try to rule by decree that our present wannabe emperor.

    Separation of powers? You gotta be kidding. He’d surround the Supreme Court with troops if they pissed him off.

    This is how Republics die.

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  33. Trump should follow Obama’s example: when Reverend Wrong was calling on God to damn America Obama’s immediate inclination was to express his stern disapproval. Obama called Reverend Wrong out, denounced his hateful unchristian diatribes, and emphasized his outrage by angrily walking out of Wrong’s so-called church.

    We all remember how proud, brave, and resolute our soon-to-be president had quickly lived up to his campaign promises to bring us together…

    Of course, this isn’t what happened at all. Obama sat silently along side the wife that had never yet been proud of her country, and neither one ever raised a peep, never denounced Reverend Wrong, never defended the America that was about to put them both in the White House.

    Once he was inaugurated Obama began to show his true colors, he quickly demonstrated his contempt for the Constitution, the Rule of Law, and a Supreme Court that didn’t genuflect on command. His arrogance constantly thrust in the face of an American people who had trusted a charlatan and would pay the price – for eight long years and possibly longer should a Democrat puppet follow him out of grace.

    ropelight (216be6)

  34. Jmann is special.

    JD (ebcb4b)

  35. Although the Dow Jones industrial average has made significant gains since it plummeted in 2009 after the financial meltdown, Americans are no more likely today than they were six years ago to report having money invested in the stock market. Fifty-five percent of Americans report having money invested in stocks, matching what Gallup found from 2009 through 2011, though up slightly from the low of 52% in 2013.

    happyfeet (831175)

  36. Auburn vs Mississippi – Kickoff in minutes, Big time SEC match-up. Also, same time, different channel – Georgia Tech vs Notre Dame.

    ropelight (216be6)

  37. In short, Trump is a Democrat’s caricature of a GOP conservative. Vain, selfish, loud and rich with a thinly concealed streak of racism.

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  38. Egg on face: Not Mississippi, it’s Auburn at LSU. Mississippi plays Alabama tonight at 9:15 EST. I got ahead of myself. You guys know how emotional I get.

    ropelight (216be6)

  39. Billion dollar company, but he’s selfish. Employs thousands without regard to skin tone or former condition of servitude, but he’s the racist.

    I’m reminded of the comparison between Mother Theresa and the businessman.

    papertiger (c2d6da)

  40. Presumably, Jmann’s last stock market fortune was made when he copied Hillary!’s example and parlayed $5,000 into $100,000 in one week merely by reading the WSJ. But, alas, that only worked until everyone was reading the WSJ. Hillary!’s current formula for acquiring wealth is not as easily reproduced. However, there is still 16 months left in the current administration’s transformation of our economy, so perhaps he needs to follow his heart and invest with confidence in the time left to him.

    bobathome (d43973)

  41. In short, Trump is a Democrat’s caricature of a GOP conservative.

    Such caricatures are much easier to promote and tout as legitimately negative when the person who is being caricatured doesn’t yell back and challenge. Or, worse of all, acquiesces. That’s the big difference between Trump and most of the other Republicans, such as Jeb Bush. Bush attended a National Urban League function a few months ago and oozed plenty of the emotions of a politically-correct, compassionate-conservative devotee, which is why Nidal-Hasan-ism exists in the US today.

    Mark (3cf5c0)

  42. nk (dbc370) — 9/19/2015 @ 10:59 am

    I third that!

    felipe (56556d)

  43. I am not a trump fan & think he will be a terrible president

    However – giving the MSM/Democrat party the finger they deserve warrants some appreciation

    Same with Carly giving the MSM/Democrat party the finger with the PP comment. She should double down on her PP comment by pointing specifically to tape 7 including the time of the comment.

    joe from Texas (debac0)

  44. When you become the anti-Christian, anti-Semite, anti-cop, anti-business, anti-liberty, baby-killing, criminal-pandering, anti-morality, pro-wacko party, even a blustering Left-of-center clown can get high praises from the masses. For 2 examples: Christie and Trump.

    John Hitchcock (d565e1)

  45. Rove and his associates on the left staged this. And it will backfire. Laughing at republicans is a full time job.

    mg (31009b)

  46. The funny thing, in a sad way, is Trump comes from Rove’s segment of the political spectrum. Except Rove can’t own Trump like he owns the others in his segment of the spectrum.

    John Hitchcock (d565e1)

  47. Gazzer, it still smacks of nomination conversion. He says what he knows he has to say. He has said the exact opposite at other times and there is no guarantee what he will choose once he has power.

    There is no moral compass and there is no way to base trust. Sorry, I want my politicians to stay bought.

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  48. However – giving the MSM/Democrat party the finger they deserve warrants some appreciation

    Well, yes. But you can see that in any barroom.

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  49. Mark, he is the guy doing the caricature. This is what he thinks a Republican is. It’s all surface. Even as a demagogue, he’s shallow.

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  50. Same with Carly giving the MSM/Democrat party the finger with the PP comment. She should double down on her PP comment by pointing specifically to tape 7 including the time of the comment.

    I think she has, although describing that dying fetus as “kicking” is a bit of a stretch.

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  51. IN a Trump administration the Attorney General won’t be fired because the President forgot to cash out the former president’s Federal Prosecutor henchmen, when he takes office.

    papertiger (c2d6da)

  52. Gazzer, it still smacks of nomination conversion. Not really disagreeing but it could also be a man getting his sh*t together for a serious run whereas previously he just said whatever popped into his head. I think he intends to be President and will continue to put out papers to establish his bona fides. We could do a lot worse. We already are.

    Gazzer (956640)

  53. lucent loser
    hp destroyer
    cia bush
    au revoir carly

    mg (31009b)

  54. she’s also a hugely bouncey flouncey pompom waving fan girl for meghan’s coward daddy

    she won’t tell you

    i just did

    happyfeet (831175)

  55. Good. For. Him. Republicans need a leader. Not the many followers. Who is willing and capable of representing the interests of the [American] people.

    n.n (f6adfa)

  56. The attack on Trump is trumped up. The questioner was a plant, the talking points had already been circulated to the Democrat’s media hit squads. The plan was hatched, the black operators selected, sworn to secrecy, and prepared to strike on command. Nothing was left to chance. Only the most trusted TV character assassins would take the early lead, next the 2nd level but reliable parrots would begin squawking in unison, and the Internet side of the campaign would simultaneously chime in to reinforce the narrative.

    If the conspirators were going to be successful in blaming Donald Trump for something he didn’t say, they’d have to kick the ball a long way down the field and create overwhelming momentum well before responsible opinion was ever to find a voice, let alone organize itself. But, since the stage was set, the fix was already in, the top echelons of the GOP establishment were already on board: they wanted Trump’s head on a platter just as much as the Democrats did, if not more.

    The assassins even got FOX’s Megyn Kelly to stab Trump in the back. She had her own “panel” salted with a so-called Republican ready to call Obama a Muslim just at the right time so Kelly could burnish her bona fides shouting down the impertinent accuser. And, all the while Kelly was negotiating with CNN to jump ship and have a rebirth as a liberal who saw the light, abandoned her past heathen ways, and converted to the one true religion (just in time for the upcoming election).

    It’s all smoke and mirrors, deceit, mendacity, and dirty tricks. In other words: Standard Operating Procedure for the Democrat Party’s Leftist true believers. For them, the ends always justify the means. No deception is too underhanded. And the road to a Utopian worker’s paradise is always paved with taxpayer’s money.

    ropelight (216be6)

  57. Anyone watching LSU’s #7 Fourette run wild on the Auburn defense? Powerful performance, he’s fast, smart, strong and looks like the second coming of Herschel Walker. He’s a 230 lb walk-on who runs 4.0.

    ropelight (216be6)

  58. agree ropelight on 57 and 58.

    mg (31009b)

  59. agree mg on 59.

    Gazzer (956640)

  60. Why would people think a birther at the rally for the most popular birther is a plant?

    jmann (cfaec1)

  61. Mr. Trump handled that question so flawlessly I was expecting him to get thrown off by that guy but boy he really handled it well

    happyfeet (831175)

  62. http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/watch-megyn-kelly-laughs-at-guest-who-blames-passive-aggressive-muslim-teen-for-his-own-arrest

    Megyn Kelly is the star in a Raw Story post. IN a non ironic way. That’s incredible.

    Thought Ropelight was trafficking in hyperbole. I thought wrong.

    papertiger (c2d6da)

  63. This is how Republics die.

    LOL. Someone thinks that we still live in a Republic.

    V the K (2d66d1)

  64. Get Lost, You Palace-Guard Creeps

    As the week ended, Obama’s palace guard in the American media were demanding that every other Republican candidate distance himself from Donald Trump’s failure to correct, among thousands of attendees at his events, one who apparently is under the illusion that the President is a Muslim.

    Any candidate who plays this game with the Obamamedia is a fool. Assuming for the sake of argument that the questioner is genuine and not a plant (like, say, the 14-year old all-American schoolboy clockmaker who didn’t make a clock at all and is the son of a belligerent Muslim activist and perennial Sudanese presidential candidate whose brother runs a trucking company amusingly called Twin Towers Transportation), putting all of that to one side, there are several entirely reasonable responses one could make to the gentlemen of the press:

    1) Unlike Hillary Clinton’s under-attended “rallies”, a voter doesn’t have to undergo a background check or sign a piece of paper pledging to support her in the election before being permitted into a Republican candidate’s presence. So at our campaign events there are all kinds of people with all kinds of views – and it goes without saying I won’t agree with them all. If you find that odd, maybe you’ve been covering Hillary too long.

    2) Why does one Republican candidate’s “scandal” get hung around the neck of every other guy’s? I’ll answer your question to me about Donald Trump’s gaffe after you ask Bernie Sanders, Martin O’Malley, Lincoln Chafee and Joe Biden about Hillary Clinton’s server and how she handled Benghazi. Till then, get lost.

    7) Oh, and one other thing. This kind of super-fake-o lame-ass nothing controversy that you dowager duchesses of the press are having the vapors about is precisely why the political process has fallen into such disrepute and your own industry is bankrupt. No real person cares about this “scandal”. So, unless you’ve got a question about the economy or immigration or something real, screw off outta here.

    http://www.steynonline.com/7188/get-lost-you-palace-guard-creep

    Mark Steyn hits it out of the ballpark, again. Read the whole post.

    Tanny O'Haley (c674c7)

  65. Lincoln and Grant ended the American Republic, since then we’ve had a Centralized Federal Oligarchy backed up by a national military ready to enforce the supremacy of the rule of Washington, District of Criminals. Once the States were bereft of power over centralized power and the 10th Amendment flaunted and conspicuously ignored the nation tour Founders sought to establish perished from the earth.

    ropelight (216be6)

  66. I wish Steyn wouldn’t pussyfoot around so much.

    Gazzer (956640)

  67. out in the shed I have the broken innards of radios and televisions. If I were to cleverly repackage them into a sort of non decript contraption, then mail the package in care of Mohamed family, what would be my liability?

    Is there a law against that? And if there is, would that law be a symptom of an unhealthy bigotry?

    papertiger (c2d6da)

  68. Anyone sufficiently interested in this topic to find their way here should heed Tanny O’Haley’s recommendation and read Mark Steyn’s article. The link and a representative excerpt is at #65.

    ropelight (216be6)

  69. LOL. Someone thinks that we still live in a Republic.

    Well, if we HAVE to elect an Emperor, I’d prefer it wasn’t a jackass.

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  70. Am I morally obligated to defend the president every time somebody says something bad or controversial about him? I don’t think so!

    If someone made a nasty or controversial statement about me to the president, do you really think he would come to my rescue? No chance!

    What a great response. A long response could list all the times (or just the number of times) Obama slandered or disrespected conservatives and ask the press to demand an apology from all democrats and left media (I repeat myself). Or how about all the times the media has slandered conservatives and ask them to apologize.

    How about asking the press and every single supporter of AGW to apologize for every climate prediction that hasn’t come true. Do you think they could reimburse me (plus interest) for my “investment” property in the desert since Los Angeles isn’t under water and my desert property isn’t beachfront property?

    Being on the left means never having to say you’re sorry.

    Tanny O'Haley (c674c7)

  71. what could go wrong, it’s only the last stables regime in north africa,

    http://dailycaller.com/2015/09/17/gitmo-detainee-who-co-founded-terror-group-gets-released-to-morocco/

    narciso (ee1f88)

  72. Who’s going to apologize to Sarah Palin’s daughter Bristol for encouraging her rape? Or for all the smarmy insults Democrats heaped on Palin’s son Trig who was born with Down’s Syndrome?

    ropelight (216be6)

  73. what’s unclear is what twin towers transportation actually does,

    narciso (ee1f88)

  74. A fairly spirited rebuttal of the press by Santorum. Maybe they are starting to learn from Trump.

    http://soopermexican.com/2015/09/19/santorum-gave-a-devastating-slapdown-to-the-media-frenzy-over-trumps-muslim-question/

    Gazzer (956640)

  75. I like Steyn, but the palace guard demanding obeisance extends far beyond the MSM. Pols, pundits, bloggers and others in the Republican Party have obediently followed suit. It’s been a disheartening spectacle to watch those I’ve previously respected and followed try to hastily downsize what I understood to be an inclusive party. So much for the “big tent!”

    ThOR (a52560)

  76. you think Trump handles the press well? Let this guy show you how to handle the press!

    felipe (56556d)

  77. Yep, Trey Gowdy is one of my favorites.

    Tanny O'Haley (c674c7)

  78. “you think Trump handles the press well?”

    Doggonit! I didn’t mean for that to sound like such a damned strawman argument! Mea culpa. I know, I know – two Hail Marys and three Our Fathers.

    felipe (56556d)

  79. felipe, that said, however, we are still not closer to the truth 18 months later.

    Gazzer (956640)

  80. Mark, he is the guy doing the caricature. This is what he thinks a Republican is. It’s all surface. Even as a demagogue, he’s shallow.

    Kevin M, perhaps because you’re not as disgusted by the idiocy and lunacy of political correctness in this broken-down era of Obama, and the ongoing manipulation played by all the two-faced liberals throughout the media, academia, government (hello, IRS!), Hollywood and Manhattan, and your local office of Planned Parenthood, etc, etc, you’re more cynical about Trump than I am and think his loud-mouthed nature is an act, certainly when I, by contrast, do place his verbiage against an America that is far removed from your father’s America.

    I don’t mind your slamming Trump, particularly for his being a closeted liberal, but I request you also please express a lot of disdain towards Republicans like Jeb Bush and John Kasich.

    Mark (3cf5c0)

  81. Check this out:

    Allen Smith writing in Business Insider lets the cat out of the bag.

    Mickey Horne — the guy who had a great reaction to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump being asked what he’d do about Muslims — is a Hillary Clinton supporter.

    But when The Donald comes to your town for a rally, you show up.

    “I was like ‘I can’t miss this,’ he told INSIDER. “I knew he would either attack somebody or make some outrageous comment and it’s going to be in the news cycle for a week so why would I miss that circus?”…

    ropelight (216be6)

  82. Just in case you were thinking ‘well there was one reasonable Trump fan.’

    jmann (cfaec1)

  83. Gazzer (956640) — 9/19/2015 @ 5:22 pm

    Don’t I know it, Gazzer. I just hope we don’t have to wait as long as we did for the identity of “Deep throat.”

    felipe (56556d)

  84. “Deep throat”

    Eh, maybe not the best analogy, but you get my drift.

    felipe (56556d)

  85. as we discovered from his followup piece in the daily beast, woodward, took pains to hide the truth about ‘deep throat’ and the case against nixon generally,

    http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/leak-max-holland/1112536078;jsessionid=A2C89886584208092D22397D6866CFE8.prodny_store01-va12?ean=9780700618293

    had we discovered that he was a jilted secret policemen who had been involved in the ‘black bag’
    jobs against terrorists, the reception might have been different,

    narciso (ee1f88)

  86. please express a lot of disdain towards Republicans like Jeb Bush and John Kasich.

    I have immense disdain for John Kasich, a man who’s time came and went in the 90’s. As I’ve said before, Kasich is for people who find Jeb too wild. He’s a Souter.

    Jeb is a good man. I’m sure that he’d be a calm, collected and reasoned president who would steer the boat steady-as-she-goes. Problem is nobody wants that. Romney would have done it better and it was half past too late even then.

    People want a Reagan who will effect a sharp right turn and on ’til morning. Without — and this is the important part — without sinking the boat. This could be Cruz, or Walker, or Fiorina — I’m open to any of those. Fiorina seems to have the best chance of being a wedge in the Dem coalition. Fiorina/Rubio would make their demographics come apart.

    There’s Carson, but that’s another direction entirely.

    I think we can all agree that Rand, Huck, and Christie (and probably Carson) are wasting their time, and Rubio is running for VP.

    Trump wants — well, to be truthful, nobody knows what Trump really wants other than attention. He has no moral compass and a track record littered with debris. He also seems to be a demagogue of the old school, railing against a useful “other” but not really say what he’d do on countless topics of concern, other than “Me, too!”.

    We can do better than Trump. There’s at least 3 candidates who want to shake things up and return the country to sanity. I’d even pick Jeb over Trump (but I’d have to take a couple showers afterwards) because I don’t want another sociopathic egotist as president if I can help it.

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  87. I tend to disagree, on several occasion, the medici seems lost on the way to the chart room, and when he finds it, has a tendency to steer toward the rocks,

    narciso (ee1f88)

  88. If you’d pick Jeb over Trump, then you may as well vote Bernie or Shrillary! It will make not one jot of difference. Oh and brush up on your espanol or you won’t understand half of what he says.

    Gazzer (956640)

  89. no, he doesn’t make any more sense in spanish,

    narciso (ee1f88)

  90. Might be a blessing then.

    Gazzer (956640)

  91. all you people need to apologize to Jeb’s wife

    happyfeet (831175)

  92. HF, I’m insulted! What do you mean by “you people?”

    felipe (56556d)

  93. you’re them people what don’t get how bush was born to rule

    i know you’re kind

    happyfeet (831175)

  94. see if he said, ‘steeped in reverend wright’s church, that might be something:

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/09/18/jeb-bush-responds-to-trump-obama-is-an-american-hes-a-christian/

    narciso (ee1f88)

  95. *your* kind i mean

    sorry about to go sleep after i take my sleeper pills my spelling gets really hit or miss

    happyfeet (831175)

  96. i know you’re kind
    happyfeet (831175) — 9/19/2015 @ 7:42 pm

    thank you for calling us kind.

    felipe (56556d)

  97. too late, no “backsies!”

    felipe (56556d)

  98. as much as we find fault in him, he’s not Loki,

    narciso (ee1f88)

  99. Trump has figured out when you play the media’s pointless kabuki apology game, you lose. And that’s something the scared nancified Mike Murphys, Frank Luntzes and Karl Roves have never understood.

    Bugg (fa64ec)

  100. #79: felipe, right on! As one media outlet after another closes its doors and sends its staffers packing, hopefully to a fast food franchise where they will find a useful job as a cashier or janitor, their owners must wonder why they chose not to cover Trey and his attempts to squeeze the truth out of the administration’s concrete block. My generation grew up with an unreasoned love of the press, and now, 150 million Americans later, we know that Walter was a smooth operator with a very sinister objective, and his predecessors were nothing but flimflam artists. The gold standard for journalists is said to be uncovering a Nixon-like conspiracy. These fools are immersed in, and participating in, the very same conspiracies, and they are of such limited intelligence that they don’t know it.

    Our teachers colleges have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams.

    bobathome (d43973)

  101. we do, but how many really understand that, vietnam was the template for iraq, watergate for libby gate, fitz doing his best jaworski impression,

    narciso (ee1f88)

  102. These Democrat operatives with bylines only exist to protect the Party and sh*tcan any info that puts them in a bad light. It has been like that for decades now.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  103. make that descendants … not predecessors … Walter’s predecessors included some extraordinary people, Samuel Clemens comes to mind, but the honest ones in our era went into sports broadcasting where they knew their audience expected them to play up the home team. No need for deception. The scoundrels gravitated to the professional political class, and those of modest ability aligned with the Democrats figuring that they were going to be the last ones standing as the country collapsed.

    bobathome (d43973)

  104. Cronkite got extremely batty in his declining years, which in my book was from 1968 on…

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  105. I have it on good authority that Patrick Fitzgerald throws like a girl. Ron Jaworski, he ain’t…

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  106. Well Walter regretted not covering the death of Elvis, so he’s got that going for him.

    felipe (56556d)

  107. Stanford wins 41 to 31 over USC. The Trojans were favored by 10 points at home.

    ropelight (216be6)

  108. I think they are reading the chart, upside down, or something,

    narciso (ee1f88)

  109. UT loses to Cal when Rose misses the extra-point to tie the game.

    felipe (56556d)

  110. Can Nick Saban and #2 Bama get a s__sandwich this evening? So far…

    Bugg (fa64ec)

  111. confidence is high, but not in a good way,

    narciso (ee1f88)

  112. Jeb is a good man. I’m sure that he’d be a calm, collected and reasoned president who would steer the boat steady-as-she-goes. Problem is nobody wants that.

    Trump wants — well, to be truthful, nobody knows what Trump really wants other than attention… He also seems to be a demagogue of the old school, railing against a useful “other” but not really say what he’d do on countless topics of concern, other than “Me, too!”.

    Kevin M, you generally avoid honing in on the innate ideological biases of people, meaning you sidestep the fact that Jeb would be a garden-variety, PC-beholden, squish-squish when it comes to one crucial issue of culture/politics/economics/demography—or what you dismiss as — in your words — Trump’s demagogic railing against the other. That all by itself makes Bush anything but “reasoned.” Perhaps business as usual but hardly reasoned.

    Similarly, you imply that Trump doesn’t know what he wants, suggesting you’re not wary (or aware) of the left-leaning sentiments displayed by Trump in the past and exposed in an anti-Trump video produced by Jeb Bush’s campaign not too long ago.

    Generally, Trump may be a squish (or closeted liberal) in general, but Bush is a squish-squish when it comes to a major controversy that has gone off the rails, referring to years — decades — of unfettered illegal immigration running in tandem with Nidal-Hasan-ized-PC insanity. If that’s a case of hollering about and against the “other,” in an America that has flipped towards the opposite extreme of xenophobia over the past 60 to 70 years, I’d say, hell, it’s about time.

    Cronkite got extremely batty in his declining years, which in my book was from 1968 on…

    That person expressed some surprisingly ultra-liberal biases throughout his latter years, which surprised me since, although I knew he wasn’t a centrist or rightwinger, I assumed he was at least smart and balanced (or “avuncular”) enough to not be an out-and-out, flaming leftist—or the type of mentality that people should grow out of well past their youth, past their grade-school and college years (and Cronkite was, as the saying goes, no spring chicken).

    Mark (3cf5c0)

  113. This Bama/Ole Miss game is insane. If you’r awake put on ESPN now.

    Bugg (fa64ec)

  114. Stanford wins 41 to 31 over USC. The Trojans were favored by 10 points at home.

    I wake up in London and find that the SC defense took a pratfall. Now this. Here is what I posted on Chicagoboyz about what I think is happening.

    “The value of the Trump movement, if it has any, is not to elect him, but to cause a large, previously inchoate, segment of the electorate to realize that they are not the outliers, but, in fact, part of a significant group whose ideas are not only legitimate, but widely shared.”

    I agree with this and believe it is a major factor in all revolutions, which this might be the early signs of. The French Revolution was a revolution of the bourgeoise that was captured by the left after the Girondin Ministry was over thrown by the Montagnards.

    “The Girondists campaigned for the end of the monarchy but then resisted the spiraling momentum of the Revolution. They came into conflict with The Mountain (Montagnards), a radical faction within the Jacobin Club. This conflict eventually led to the fall of the Girondists and their mass execution, the beginning of the Reign of Terror.”

    The American Revolution was likewise a revolution of the Bourgeoise but was not captured by the left.

    The coming revolution may not be violent but it will over throw the present ruling class. There may be some violence by such factions of the left as “Black Lives Matter” but they may be creatures of the Democrat ruling class and paid by Soros, for example.

    The illegal immigrants will probably just go home rather than fight.

    The radical Muslims are too small a faction yet but Obama is doing what he can to increase them. Further efforts in this line may precipitate the revolution.

    I tend to agree that Romney failed partly because he did not react forcefully to such provocations as the Candy Crowley intervention. Also, there is a large segment of the electorate that is simply ignorant and concerned with “stuff” and where it comes from. Romney was getting strong support at rallies from Bourgeois supporters but too many people were passive as they lost their chance at recovery.

    Anyway, that’s my take. Goodnight all.

    Mike K (557d1f)

  115. If you’d pick Jeb over Trump

    You really don’t get it then. I don’t oppose Trump on policy grounds. I oppose him on sanity grounds, on esthetic grounds, on self-effing-respect grounds. I do not want this classless loudmouth yahoo as president. He’s the kind of person you hate to have on your side because he makes everything your side stands for look stupid.

    His “policies” are all hogwash anyway. “I’ll make America Awesome” isn’t a policy. It’s not even a good bumper sticker. And all this is assuming that he’s not a Moby, which he probably is.

    I will take nearly any Republican over this fraud. I would like some far better than others.

    I am amazed that so many normally reasonable people are taken in by this charlatan.

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  116. The gold standard for journalists is said to be uncovering a Nixon-like conspiracy involving Republicans

    FIFY.

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  117. Trump is right that he has no obligation to defend the president, but he should have shut the idiot down for asking when are we going to get rid of the Moslems. That suggestion is right out of bounds.

    Milhouse (34ce24)

  118. Mark, I hope to hell that the choice isn’t Bush or Trump. Because that’s lose-lose, and a false choice.

    Let’s say it’s Cruz or Walker or Fiorina or Trump. Three of those are legitimate Republicans who are saying all the right things and each has at lest 30 IQ points on the other one.

    Pick any one of them, and win.

    (Yes, I know that people say that Fiorina was for centrist things, but she was running for Senate in California, and trying to win. Things that are helpful in Texas don’t work there)

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  119. Mike, you may be right. It’s called a preference cascade. All of a sudden people find out that what they thought wasn’t widely shared because it was unspoken, was actually being self-censored by many.

    Just ask the Ceaușescus

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  120. But you can accept the message and still despise the messenger.

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  121. This is a thing? Really? I’ve seen Hillary and numerous Internet users say the same thing about Obama? Hey, believe me, I consider Trump a whiny, thin-skinned man-child who has no business being president, but to pick on him over this is ridiculous. Critics should get him on his half-formed policies, poor debate performance, and general arrogant “I can make it happen because I’m me” attitude–not nothing stories like this.

    tops116 (d094f8)

  122. “It’s called a preference cascade. ”

    Absolutely agree. Europe, where I have been for the past two weeks, is being rocked by the “migrants” and the reaction.

    Look at this

    Viktor Orban’s fence may have earned the wrath of rights groups but it’s going down well at a flower market near the Hungarian border town of Roszke, where the flow of migrants through fields of corn and sunflowers has suddenly dried up. The right-wing prime minister’s critics say the fence on the frontier with Serbia flies in the face of international law. But to many on Hungary’s southern frontier, the end justifies the means.

    “Thank God that Viktor Orban is our prime minister,” said a 46-year-old man who gave his name as Istvan and was selling flowers on Thursday at the Roszke market. “He doesn’t have to be loved, but what he does is good.” Echoing Orban in framing the issue as a defense of Europe’s “Christian states” against mainly Muslim migrants from the Middle East, Africa and Asia, Istvan said: “So far it seems that Hungary is the most Christian of all.”

    It’s not very chic to be Christian these days, but Orban and a sizable number of Hungarians don’t care. They have vivid cultural memories of several centuries of oppression under the Muslim Turks and they’re not prepared to surrender their hard-won freedom for the sake of some guilt-ridden European notion of asylum.

    This is preference cascade and it’s not just the US.

    The idiot Pope sides with Palestinians while Christians are massacred by Muslims all over the middle east. He may regret that.

    Mike K (557d1f)

  123. Well this was true of the Russian revolution till kerensky allowed Lenin an opening by silencing kornilov

    narciso (ee1f88)

  124. Mike K, there’s also this:

    Orbán may be leading the opposition, it’s not as if he’s isolated in Europe. Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic also continue to reject the idea of mandatory EU quotas. Indeed, the Hungarian prime minister has so far emerged as the political victor in the European refugee crisis.

    I suspect that the countries that Reagan freed from the Soviet terror may turn out to be the heart and soul of a revived Europe. Unlike the fools in the western half of Europe, who were given four decades of peace and prosperity at very little cost thanks to the U. S., their eastern European counterparts should have no illusions about the wonders of rule by foreign elites, whether these elites are known as the EU or the USSR. I wonder what’s going on in Serbia right now. That would seem to be a likely ignition point given a massive influx of young, violent muslim men in this “refugee” crisis.

    bobathome (d43973)

  125. bah–

    Serbia & a Muslim invasion. Hadn’t thought of that. Wonder how this is playing in Kosovo. I think there are still several hundred US troops in Kosovo.

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  126. I suspect that the countries that Reagan freed from the Soviet terror may turn out to be the heart and soul of a revived Europe.

    Agree completely. The TV here today is all about the “migrants.” The TV personalities are critical of the Hungarians but that is probably the left wing view.

    Home to sanity tomorrow. Compared to Europe, even California seems sane.

    Mike K (557d1f)

  127. The media have only one story, don’t they, Mike K? It’s all about racism and the poor oppressed minorities.

    Patricia (5fc097)

  128. At this late hour I’m amazed any of you inbred illiterates are spewing over the GOP and their faux candidates.

    I have more respect for peep-show pocket fiddlers.

    DNF (36ae6c)

  129. I don’t care whether Obama is a Mislim or not, there’s nothing wrong with it… at least as far as I know. What bothers me about Obama is the fact that he sides with Islam in every instance. When these ISIL pukes were beheading Christians in overrun cities and on beaches, Obama chose the National Prayer Breakfast to pontificate about the Crusades and try to draw some sort of moral equivalency. He stirs up racial animosity, class warfare, promotes dependency and self-destructive behaviors, sells out friends, sucks up to enemies and pretty much does everything that runs counter to common sense and the national interest.

    He’s a stain on America’s soul.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  130. Muslim, not Mislim.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  131. Geeze, Gary, turn it down a notch or three. Afterall, you are from Minnesota.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  132. Trump is right that he has no obligation to defend the president, but he should have shut the idiot down for asking when are we going to get rid of the Moslems. That suggestion is right out of bounds.

    Milhouse (34ce24) — 9/20/2015 @ 12:40 am

    We have almost 3 million Muslims in the United States. Over 50% want Sharia law and anywhere from 10% to 30% believe in jihad like the terrorists. That’s 300,000 to 900,000 potential jihadists. I’m not suggesting that we should get rid of all the Muslims or intern them like we did with the Japanese in WW2, but something needs to be done. We have a ticking bomb.

    I noticed the pictures of the “migrants” from Syria contain at least 90% younger male. Many are not from Syria. Where are the families? They’ve already had skirmishes with jihadists pretending to be migrants. We need to change our immigration policies to weed out jihadists.

    The suggestion the man made is out of bounds, but Trump has no obligation to correct him and he did shut him down by ignoring him.

    Tanny O'Haley (c674c7)

  133. We have a ticking bomb.

    no picklehead it’s just a clock

    happyfeet (831175)

  134. Unload all barrels, Gary.
    The season has opened.
    fellow loon.

    mg (31009b)

  135. It’s hard cider season! Get ’em opened!

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  136. “We have a ticking bomb.

    no picklehead it’s just a clock”

    This is the best explanation for why that kid got arrested.

    jmann (cfaec1)

  137. And all this is assuming that he’s not a Moby, which he probably is.

    I will take nearly any Republican over this fraud. I would like some far better than others.

    I am amazed that so many normally reasonable people are taken in by this charlatan.
    Kevin M (25bbee) — 9/20/2015 @ 12:38 am

    Quoted for emphasis.

    John Hitchcock (e1806a)

  138. The media have only one story, don’t they, Mike K? It’s all about racism and the poor oppressed minorities.

    The real people, like the friends I spent the last two weeks with, don’t talk about it but are very aware of what is going on. They live in a gorgeous small city on the southeast coast south of Portsmouth. He told me that we would see very rare “faces of color” there and the housings prices are astronomical. Even higher than Orange County and for the same reason. I saw lots of baby prams on the streets and young families although I don’t know how many can afford it there.

    Lots of Muslims in London although I saw only two headscarves among thousands at the Tower of London today, a gorgeous warm day. I guess they don’t dig British history.

    Mike K (557d1f)

  139. Except it’s a click with no digital display or click face. How does that work exactly.

    narciso (b2e077)

  140. The kid got arrested because the smart ass little Muslim turd manufactured a suspicious contraption which looked enough like a bomb to terrorize teachers and school children. He’s a terrorist in training.

    ropelight (a254d4)

  141. “This is the best explanation for why that kid got arrested.”

    jmann (cfaec1) — 9/20/2015 @ 9:38 am

    From the dog feces-filled basement of his widowed mother’s house, jmann’s stubby little sausage fingers waged a grim, teary-eyed keyboard war against his own impotence…

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  142. The little Islamic idjit “repurposed” a Radio Shack clock and called it his “invention”.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  143. Colonel, I think that is indeed part of it; they kid was, um, misrepresenting what he did (“invented” versus “took apart something I bought on eBay”) to look extra smart…and was worried about getting caught.

    Sure, his father is a little…controversial. But fourteen year olds can be like that.

    Simon Jester (c8876d)

  144. Colonel Haiku produces some great esoterica for the proletariat. Literarily.

    John Hitchcock (e1806a)

  145. CNN/ORC post-debate poll

    http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2015/images/09/20/rel10a.pdf

    Among Republicans or GOP leaners:

    (fritst choice/second choice)
    Trump 24/8
    Fiorina 15/11
    Carson 14/19
    Rubio 11/13
    Bush 9/11
    Cruz 6/5
    Huckabee 6/8
    Paul 4/3
    Christie 3/6
    Kasich 2/1
    Santorum 1/1
    Walker 0/2
    Graham 0/1
    Pataki 0/1
    Gilmore 0/0
    Jindal 0/0

    Among Republics/leaners who watched debate:

    “Who won?”

    Fiorina 52%
    Rubio 14
    Trump 11
    Christie 6
    Carson 3
    Cruz 3

    “Who lost?”

    Trump 31%
    Paul 22
    Bush 9
    Huckabee 7
    Walker 6
    Carson 4
    Christie 3

    The GOP voters also think that Trump can best handle the e3conomy, illegals and foreign policy, while Carson leads on social issues.

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  146. At this late hour I’m amazed any of you inbred illiterates are spewing over the GOP and their faux candidates.

    Sadly, I can’t read that and neither can my sister-mother, but I’m sure that it isn’t nice.

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  147. His “policies” are all hogwash anyway. “I’ll make America Awesome” isn’t a policy. It’s not even a good bumper sticker. And all this is assuming that he’s not a Moby, which he probably is.

    Kevin M, in this era of Nidal-Hansan-ized political correctness, fueled by a two-faced media — and two-faced liberals in general — policies (or “policies” or policies per se) by themselves aren’t necessarily going to be standing on their own two feet. IOW, this society, more than ever before, also needs plenty of passion and conviction to be expressed by Republicans or non-liberals along with the specificity of policy A, B or C.

    There is no shortage of loud-mouthed, big-mouthed grandstanders from the left (eg, can you envision a rightwing version of Al Sharpton surviving all these years?) — again, egged on and enabled to by the left (eg, in the media) — so Trump (beyond his ideological squishiness) is pretty much the only person on the right (or who at least isn’t clearly linked to the left or isn’t expressing an opinion that’s clearly leftwing) who is fulfilling that role.

    My sense is that someone like me feels that the dishonesty and hypocrisy of political correctness are at the core of quite a few of America’s socio-economic problems (much less those of the Western World), whereas you appear to take that particular phenomenon more in stride.

    Mark (3cf5c0)

  148. This kid’s made a bunch of bigoted adults look like fools. So now a bunch of other adults, sympathetic to that first set of adults, and seeing themselves as potentially made into fools as well, are very concerned with the accomplishments of a 14 year old.

    jmann (cfaec1)

  149. someone needs to take this kid out for an ice cream cone

    and then after that maybe catch Scorch Trials

    and then go for a psl and explain to him in short punchy sentences how there’s lots of different clock interpretations and nobody but effing nobody needs homemade clocks you can get perfectly good ones at target but stay away from the “capello” brand cause that stuff is poorly-designed and crappy i hate mine so much I’m hoping to replace it with my echo that i’ve been too lazy to dig out the box

    happyfeet (831175)

  150. While in your case, you’re a self-made man.

    ropelight (a254d4)

  151. I think Mark Steyn said it best.

    the 14-year old all-American schoolboy clockmaker who didn’t make a clock at all and is the son of a belligerent Muslim activist and perennial Sudanese presidential candidate whose brother runs a trucking company amusingly called Twin Towers Transportation

    Plus his parents are on the DHS do not fly list. Other kids have made clocks and brought them to school and haven’t been arrested, but their clocks looked like clocks, not a briefcase bomb. Also, Ahmed Mohhamed was less than cooperative with the police.

    And according to the cops, Ahmed was significantly more cooperative with friendly media than with the police who came to ask some simple questions.

    http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/09/18/real-story-istandwithahmed/

    Yet another created story by Muslim activists that is not to be taken for face value.

    Tanny O'Haley (c674c7)

  152. He did tell them it was a clock. And they apparently agreed there was no danger in the clock, since they didn’t treat it like it was dangerous.

    jmann (cfaec1)

  153. is clock not bomb

    is clock not bomb see?

    make time

    no boom

    just tells wakey wakey sleepy sleepy

    you get dog

    you get dog make sniff

    see?

    no bomb

    just clock

    make time

    no boom

    happyfeet (831175)

  154. #158, ,jamann, Muslim terrorists always tell airline passengers they won’t get hurt if they remain calm and cooperate. And we know how bloodthirsty religious fanatics have a well established record of always telling the truth. Like when they strap explosive vests on their own children and send them to playgrounds so that the children of other religions can suddenly experience Allah’s compassionate love.

    ropelight (a254d4)

  155. The story about the “clock” might have been closer to the truth if it was called a timing device. Having built a number of such things back in my Heathkit/Commodore64 days, there are a number of uses for the underlying circuitry. The projects I played with did simple arithmetic illustrating assembly language control of the CPU, but counting clock cycles would have been within reach. The display and the keyboard input was the complicated part from a construction standpoint. I imagine all this is now fully modularized and can be wired together rather easily.

    We’d all be better off if more of our kids and their teachers, even English teachers, understood the technology. But I suppose the response of Homeland Security will be to ban the unauthorized dissemination or use of such knowledge. We can all pretend that we are much safer if we simply imagine that those who might wish us harm are as poorly informed and incompetent as we are.

    It’s also the case that we suffered more casualties from IEDs (both Improvised- and Iranian Explosive Devices) and the like than bullets. But our public concern is with semiautomatic rifles that look menacing. And the Soviet tanks that put down the rebellions in eastern Europe had more trouble with dinner plates (that looked like land mines) and Molotov cocktails than with partisans armed with pistols and AK-47s. Time marches on while we ponder sexual rights and language codes on our college campuses.

    bobathome (d43973)

  156. There is no shortage of loud-mouthed, big-mouthed grandstanders from the left

    So, we need to engage them on this loud-mouthed grandstanders-gap?

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  157. You don’t need all that crap for a timer. A 555 chip, a couple of glue parts to set bias, and off you go.

    mojo (a3d457)

  158. “#158, ,jamann, Muslim terrorists always tell airline passengers they won’t get hurt if they remain calm and cooperate. And we know how bloodthirsty religious fanatics have a well established record of always telling the truth. Like when they strap explosive vests on their own children and send them to playgrounds so that the children of other religions can suddenly experience Allah’s compassionate love.”

    You know. The cops believed him. They didn’t think the clock was a danger. They’re not as dumb as you. But they were able to take it out on the kid.

    jmann (cfaec1)

  159. that school’s a clock free zone how hard is that to understand

    he was clockin in the boyz room

    mohammed he was clockin in the boyz room

    teachers don’t you fill him up with your rules cause of everybody knows that clockin ain’t allowed in school

    happyfeet (831175)

  160. Of course, this isn’t what happened at all. Obama sat silently along side the wife that had never yet been proud of her country, and neither one ever raised a peep, never denounced Reverend Wrong, never defended the America that was about to put them both in the White House.

    Um, that isn’t true. He did denounce Wright’s views, and ridiculously claimed to have been unaware of them. Even Wright acknowledged that he was under the bus, and said he understood that 0bmma was doing what he had to do, and no hard feelings. Publicly and officially, as far as I know, he has had no further contact with Wright or his church; the White House visitor logs tell a different story.

    Milhouse (34ce24)

  161. Why would people think a birther at the rally for the most popular birther is a plant?

    Um, what makes you think the guy was a birther? What has his place of birth got to do with this? Who even mentioned it?

    Milhouse (34ce24)

  162. So the guy who is going to stick the Pope’s face into a gay Episcoplain bishop and pro abortion nun and a group of transvestites at a White House reception needs to be defended by Trump?

    I’m fast losing track of who is the clown.

    Honestly I have a hard time hyperventilating over a Trump presidency. He’d be, what, our third worst maybe?

    Steve57 (e812c3)

  163. So, there are four Americans being held hostage by Iran.

    And, the Democrats are offended by Donald Trump.

    Do I have this calibrated correctly?

    Steve57 (e812c3)

  164. “Um, what makes you think the guy was a birther? What has his place of birth got to do with this? Who even mentioned it?”

    Watch the video again. The questioner says “You know he’s not even an American.”

    jmann (cfaec1)

  165. Kate Steinle gets killed by an illegal alien who has been deported five times.

    And, the Democrats are offended by Donald Trump.

    Do I have this calibrated correctly?

    Steve57 (e812c3)

  166. Not only that Steve57, the Senate voted down a bill because attached to it was a rider that said 2 things.
    Recognize Israel.
    Release American hostages in Iran.

    What had the world come to?

    Gazzer (956640)

  167. As JD has said, jmann is special. DWS special.

    So, PP commits infanticide for fun and profit.

    And, the Democrats are offended by Donald Trump.

    Do I have this calibrated correctly?

    Steve57 (e812c3)

  168. I used to be unable to imagine a Donald Trump presidency.

    Then the Democrats slapped me into reality.

    Steve57 (e812c3)

  169. Kate Steinle gets killed by an illegal alien who has been deported five times. National news that doesn’t register with Obama or his scurrying staff. Obama can’t find it in his heart to call the grieving Steinle family.

    Idjit Islamic midget retools a Radio Shack clock, calls it his invention, gets arrested and gets invited to the White House by Obama to be properly exploited.

    The nation’s conscience, common decency and our intelligence is insulted by this self-worshiping sh*t disturber in the Oval Office.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  170. One need not look for further evidence of America’s demise than the Plymouth Volare.

    http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=plymouth+volare&id=519EE2ACBD55195C05D3774CB88291A9BA506536&FORM=IQFRBA

    We effin’ did it to ourselves. We were asking for it.

    Steve57 (e812c3)

  171. Volare. Woe
    Volare. Woe. Woe. Woe. Woe.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  172. I am amazed that so many normally reasonable people are taken in by this charlatan.

    Bravo. My sentiments exactly.

    Milhouse (34ce24)

  173. If actions speak more loudly than words, Barack Hussein Obama is more of a Muslim than he is Christian any way you look at it. Compare Obama’s words to his actions, there’s very little to confirm his claim and all the hard evidence accumulated over a lifetime he’s a Muslim. Same with the so-called church Obama attended – Reverend Wrong preached racial hatred and religious bigotry – which for the wittingly uninformed are in direct opposition to the underpinnings of Christianity.

    The truth of Obama’s allegiance to Islam is obvious for anyone with the intelligence to see through the tissue of deception and the courage to call a spade a spade. Islam is as Islam does, and Barack Obama does Islam on a scale to make Muhammad himself jealous.

    ropelight (a254d4)

  174. our troll displays much category error, illustrated here,

    http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/09/9_18_2015_23_12.html

    narciso (ee1f88)

  175. @177, I guess I was asking for it.

    Woe, woe, woe.

    I honestly do see the Plymouth Volare as the symbol of the End Times.

    Not only was America going down the drain, it was happy with it. Rich Corinthian leather and all.

    Steve57 (e812c3)

  176. I think Chrysler’s K cars were far worse. Four cylinder, ferrcrissakes!

    Gazzer (956640)

  177. when ahmed the big bang theory reject misrepresents the facts it’s a big goddamn deal

    when carly fetalrrhea does it no harm no foul we all make excuses for her

    ahmed humped that clock all the way to the white house

    but can carly do the same with a dead fetus?

    don’t get clocky carlycakes

    happyfeet (831175)

  178. Name one redeeming virtue of the Plymouth Volare?

    Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, I give you the Hillary! presidency.

    Steve57 (e812c3)

  179. I see that DRJ and MD gave up. Who can blame them?

    Simon Jester (c8876d)

  180. 184. I think Chrysler’s K cars were far worse. Four cylinder, ferrcrissakes!

    Gazzer (956640) — 9/20/2015 @ 1:34 pm

    We’re going to have to disagree on this one. Although I think we can find common ground. When it comes to which cars sucked @ZZ harder, it is a close call among the Chrysler K car, the AMC Pacer, the Ford Pinto, the Dodge Aspen/Plymouth Volare, and the Cadillac Cimmaron.

    I’m sure I’m leaving something off my list.

    P.S. Pontiac Aztec

    Steve57 (e812c3)

  181. they might could just be catching up on Teen Wolf and enjoying this beautiful weekend

    we stand on the precipice of a glorious autumn I believe

    one day soon we’ll awake to the first melancholy squackerings of the canadian geese flappering south

    and you know what that means

    time for pancakes

    happyfeet (831175)

  182. Watch the video again. The questioner says “You know he’s not even an American.”

    And he isn’t. Which has nothing to do with his place of birth or his citizenship; it’s who he is.

    Milhouse (34ce24)

  183. So, we need to engage them on this loud-mouthed grandstanders-gap?

    Yes, Kevin M, I think the situation has become and is becoming so unbalanced — so extreme — that it now brings into focus a matter of, or a necessity of, fighting fire with fire.

    Let me ask you this. Did you ever envision a time when the US military, no less (which presumably is not a clique of leftwing fools and loons, along the lines of Act Up, Emily’s List, Planned Parenthood, the NAACP, etc), would be caught up in the liberal lunacy of political correctness in 21st century America?

    In a way, if the ethos of PC run amok can tolerate a Nidal Hasan, then the following person and all the socio-political dynamics around him are merely a skip and hop in the park.

    washingtonpost.com, September 18: President Obama, in a historic first for the Pentagon, has chosen to nominate Eric Fanning to lead the Army, a move that would make him the first openly gay civilian secretary of one of the military services.

    In a sign of how much the country has changed in the past decade, Fanning’s sexual orientation seemed a non-issue among Republicans and Democrats in Congress, who were far more worried about the state of the Army. Fanning’s nomination, which must go to the Senate for confirmation, reflects a major shift for the Pentagon, which only four years ago prevented openly gay troops from serving in the military. The policy didn’t extend to civilian leaders, such as Fanning.

    “There is a real crisis in morale and retention that has developed for the Army over the last several years,” said Joe Kasper, chief of staff to Rep. Duncan D. Hunter (R-Calif.). “The Army needs a leader who will stand up for soldiers, who recognizes war can get ugly and who won’t shy away from the tough issues. If Fanning is that type of person, he’ll be embraced.”

    Fanning’s historic appointment didn’t seem to cause a stir in the Army, either.

    ^ I’d be quite surprised if there isn’t plenty of PC-squish-squish in a person like Fanning, if only because he apparently pings the consciousness of a leftist like Obama and also because, for various reasons, same-sex orientation seems to go hand-in-hand with a person’s liberal orientation.

    Mark (3cf5c0)

  184. If actions speak more loudly than words, Barack Hussein Obama is more of a Muslim than he is Christian any way you look at it.

    No, he isn’t. Based on his actions he’s exactly as much as Moslem as a Christian, i.e. not at all.

    Compare Obama’s words to his actions, there’s very little to confirm his claim and all the hard evidence accumulated over a lifetime he’s a Muslim.

    His actions give no evidence that he is or has ever been a Moslem, any more than they give evidence that he is or has ever been a Christian.

    Same with the so-called church Obama attended – Reverend Wrong preached racial hatred and religious bigotry – which for the wittingly uninformed are in direct opposition to the underpinnings of Christianity.

    Wright’s ideology is no more compatible with Islam than it is with Christianity. Maybe “Nation of Islam”, but that is not real Islam.

    The truth of Obama’s allegiance to Islam is obvious

    On the contrary, it’s obvious that he believes in no god but himself.

    Milhouse (34ce24)

  185. I saw Rouvann sing Volare (Flying) at the Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas. It was the highlight of the hit show Casino de Paris in 1968. I’ve remembered it fondly ever since: Nel blu dipinto di blu.

    ropelight (a254d4)

  186. Ya wanna have a go at nitpicking that apart too, Milhouse?

    ropelight (a254d4)

  187. you know who has a lot in common is reverend wright and this pope weirdo

    they should go in on a timeshare together – somewhere southern and tropical

    where the natives take their time preparing extravagant renditions of che guevara’s favorite dishes

    but they don’t take American Express

    happyfeet (831175)

  188. he was of the left, consider the folks he met with in Zia era Pakistan, but in the intramural setup, that is against the west, wright, khalidi ayers, part of the same nationalist marxist continuum,

    narciso (ee1f88)

  189. “And he isn’t. Which has nothing to do with his place of birth or his citizenship; it’s who he is.”

    Then the questioner mentions “birth certificate.” Are we at the point where there are truthers about there being birthers? I understand it’s embarrassing, but you don’t have to go truther on it.

    Mark, is there a problem with gay people?

    jmann (cfaec1)

  190. On the contrary, it’s obvious that he believes in no god but himself.

    And the current misshapen occupant of the White House prays at the altar of liberalism gone berserk, a theology (or “theology”) so pathetic and deluded that even a very reactionary religion like Islam is tolerated, if not embraced, by plenty of such people throughout the Western World.

    Mark (3cf5c0)

  191. I’m not nitpicking. There is no basis for calling 0bama a Moslem, and those who insist he is one are paranoid bigots. But the alternative is not that he is a Christian. His actions show that he is exactly what his mother and grandparents raised him to be: an atheist.

    Milhouse (34ce24)

  192. That’s why he took out Bin Laden.

    jmann (cfaec1)

  193. Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it’ll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.”

    Yeah, he’s no Muslim…

    Gazzer (956640)

  194. there is no basis for calling 0bama a Moslem

    yeah there is Mr. Milhouse

    what you mean is there’s no basis for calling 0bama a nice pro-American Moslem

    happyfeet (831175)

  195. you don’t just go out of your way to trade 5 hardened and murderous muslim terrorists for one gangly traitorous bergdork if you’re not trying to earn you a young virgin boy or two in the afterlife

    happyfeet (831175)

  196. Mark, is there a problem with gay people?

    jmann, yea, due in part to a high percentage of such people being liberal or leftist, and also due to the gut reaction illustrated by the scenario of practically no father, when witnessing his teenage son proclaiming “I’m dating George, the hunky captain of the football team!!” not flinching or squirming at such news compared with his reaction to his son saying “I’m dating gorgeous Susan, the head cheerleader!”

    Mark (3cf5c0)

  197. and yet zawahiri has a territory from the indus river to the niger river delta,

    narciso (ee1f88)

  198. Look, I don’t care what the guy said about 0bama. 0bama is a good-for-nothing bum, and It’s not Trump’s job, or mine, to defend him. The real problem with what the guy said was that we should get rid of all the Moslems, and I wish the press would focus on that, instead of on his daring to insult the trash in the White House.

    Milhouse (34ce24)

  199. That’s why he took out Bin Laden.

    Really? That’s what you’ve got? Do we really have to deal with that tired old line again?

    No, he did not take out bin Laden, in any meaningful sense at all.

    Milhouse (34ce24)

  200. we should get rid of all the Moslems

    in context i thought he was a little bit more ambiguous than that

    as if he was asking why can’t we get rid of the ones blah blah something about terrorist camps

    brb I’ll ask the googles

    i might could be mismembering

    happyfeet (831175)

  201. Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.”

    Yeah, he’s no Muslim…

    Really? His taste in music makes him a Moslem?!

    you don’t just go out of your way to trade 5 hardened and murderous muslim terrorists for one gangly traitorous bergdork if you’re not trying to earn you a young virgin boy or two in the afterlife

    Sure you do. There are lots and lots of other, much more plausible reasons why a president might do a stupid thing like that.

    Milhouse (34ce24)

  202. here

    When Donald Trump kicked off the Q&A at his town-hall event in Rochester, New Hampshire, Thursday night, he was probably hoping for a terrific question about something super-luxury and really fantastic, like his hair or his money. Instead, the first question came from a man whose main concern was “a problem in this country … called Muslims.” Uh-oh.

    “We know our current president is one. You know he’s not even an American,” the man continued. “But anyway, we have training camps growing where they want to kill us? That’s my question: When can we get rid of [it/them]?” (The last word of the man’s question is cut off, so it’s not quite clear what he wants to get rid of.)

    and that’s not from townhall or fox that’s from “nymag.com”

    happyfeet (831175)

  203. Millhouse, you continue to beclown yourself.

    Gazzer (956640)

  204. nonono Mr. Milhouse has a different pov on some of the nuances is all Mr. Gazzer

    happyfeet (831175)

  205. Millhouse, you continue to benuance yourself.

    Gazzer (956640)

  206. 🙂

    happyfeet (831175)

  207. #199, Milhouse said, There is no basis for calling 0bama a Moslem…

    No basis? How about Obama’s middle name? You know any guys named Hussien who aren’t Muslims?

    ropelight (a254d4)

  208. #209, Milhouse says, There are lots and lots of other, much more plausible reasons why a president might do a stupid thing like… (exchanging 5 top level terrorist leaders for one traitor).

    Care to name a few of the those lots and lots of other plausible reasons?

    Or maybe consider there are lots and lots of much more plausible reasons a Muslim jihadi would abuse Executive authority to stab Uncle Sam in the back.

    ropelight (a254d4)

  209. Steve57 (e812c3) — 9/20/2015 @ 1:35 pm

    My 79 Plymouth Volare station wagon gave me over 200k miles before I gave it to my younger brother!
    I never had to do anything more than the regular maintenance. O.K., not entirely true – I had to replace the ball-joints in 1989. Was I just lucky?

    You left off the Pontiac Trans-Am.

    felipe (56556d)

  210. Did you mean Grand Am? The TA was a fine vehicle. I had one in Bahrain in 81.

    Gazzer (956640)

  211. D’oh! Yes, I meant the Grand-Am! I had a “senior” moment. Thanks for the catch.

    felipe (56556d)

  212. Care to name a few of the those lots and lots of other plausible reasons?

    Sure. Here’s two:

    1. Start with the fact that Israel has made much worse exchanges to get back their hostages, including some who were not much better than Bergdahl. Even a patriotic president (which 0bama is not) could be so dedicated to getting our hostages back that he would make such a bad deal.

    2. Now add a president who’s been pretty clear that his view on foreign policy is that the USA is a bully, and that’s why everyone hates us, and his agenda is to take the USA down a notch so it will have to play nicer with others. This deal would be perfectly in line with such an agenda. There’s no need to invoke his hopes for the afterlife, if any.

    Milhouse (34ce24)

  213. No basis? How about Obama’s middle name? You know any guys named Hussien who aren’t Muslims?

    That’s ridiculous. He’s had the name since he was born. Was he a Moslem then?! His mother and grandparents were communists, not Moslems, and that’s how they raised him.

    Milhouse (34ce24)

  214. Actually, his father was Muslim which makes him Muslin, per Islam, so unless he denounced it (punishable by death) he still is.

    Gazzer (956640)

  215. “jmann, yea, due in part to a high percentage of such people being liberal or leftist, and also due to the gut reaction illustrated by the scenario of practically no father, when witnessing his teenage son proclaiming “I’m dating George, the hunky captain of the football team!!” not flinching or squirming at such news compared with his reaction to his son saying “I’m dating gorgeous Susan, the head cheerleader!””

    Depends on what pop thinks of George, I suppose. But good to know where Mark stands.

    “No basis? How about Obama’s middle name? You know any guys named Hussien who aren’t Muslims?”

    Can’t argue with this logic. Literally. Nothing you say will convince someone who thinks like this.

    jmann (cfaec1)

  216. I’ve had the same name since I was born, and I bet most us here have the same name they were born with. How about you? Were you named Milhouse at birth or were you named after a famous Kiwi mountain climber?

    Was he a Moslem then?! (with an exclamation mark, no less) I don’t know. He was a baby then, Barack Hussein Obama Sr was supposedly his father and he was a Muslim. So, although both you and I don’t know if the current occupant of the White House was a Moslim at birth, surely we can agree that it’s not beyond the realm of his father’s reasonable expectations.

    You say, His mother and grandparents were communists, not Muslems, and that’s how they raised him.

    Well, if you say so, I won’t dispute the point. But I will point out that he’s gone by several names in the past and his mother and grandparents had ample opportunity to name him Boris, or Vladimir, or Nikita if they were so inclined.

    I’m pretty sure Barack Hussein Obama only pretended to be a Christian to get elected, just like Reverend Wrong pretends to be a Christian. I suspect both of them are Black Muslims.

    ropelight (a254d4)

  217. Obama has a moslem name. Non moslems are not named Hussein just as moslems are not named Patrick. To deny this is ignorant. He was born to a moslem father which automatically makes him a moslem. He once stated that the moslem call to prayer was one of the most beautiful sounds in the world. Not O’ Holy Night, Jesus Loves Me, Onward Christian Soldiers (my favorite) and not even Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. He was educated in Indonesia as a child, a moslem country and attended a madras, a moslem school. He is a liar and a deceiver and he is a moslem. Now I’m sure politically he is no doubt a damn communist, but that’s just more sh!t on the pile. And it is a mighty pile we know as Barack Hussein Obama.

    Rev. Barack Hussein Hoagie (f4eb27)

  218. obama’s just a muslim whore (this is just an honest fact)

    carve him up on mount rushmore (it’s easy with his burka-sack)

    a prezzy prizzy prazzy slut

    he drove the car into a rut

    so git yo ass up

    and git yo head down

    face mecca y’all

    and pray it out loud

    if you need a lil late-night pick-me-up

    i hope you get lonely tonight

    happyfeet (831175)

  219. 211 and 213… Some funny stuff, gazzer!

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  220. beclown or nuance
    his choice to be thought a fool
    or contrarian

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  221. Simon Jester (c8876d) — 9/20/2015 @ 1:37 pm

    Actually, I was simply occupied with more immediate concerns,
    (including the total chaos coming to the Delaware valley when the Pope appears, even affecting where we can and can’t park ourcar and go to dinner for our daughter’s B-day on TUESDAY before he even gets here…)
    A certain person is known to make outrageous and vulgar comments on occasion and reminds us just how vulgar he can be; the anti-“jamming” squad (“AJS”, easier than WKWWAAWAWY) rolls into action when the vile bile spews over and dominates rational discourse.

    Tanny O’Haley (c674c7) — There is an ongoing request for you to fabricate the disgusting comment cloaking device(“DCCD”) if you would be so willing.
    (IDK how much you would like to be reimbursed for it, or if we could afford it.)

    MD in Philly (f9371b)

  222. Anyone remember when George Stephanopoulous was interviewing Obama on TV during his first presidential campaign and admitted in passing that he was a Muslim: It’s true John McCain hasn’t talked about my Muslim faith…

    Stephanopoulous’ startled reaction tipped Obama off he’d let the cat out of the bag, and he quickly tried to cover his tracks. Psychiatrists call that a Freudian Slip.

    ropelight (a254d4)

  223. Actually TFG did not realize he had even said. Georgie boy fixed it for him unbidden.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMUgNg7aD8M

    Although, this clip was just a couple seconds longer than others I have seen and I think it gives TFG the benefit of the doubt. I dislike him, but I have to fair.

    Gazzer (956640)

  224. How so? Fair in fair and it sure looks and sounds like Obama said what he said. If you see something there I don’t see please point it out. Thanks for your efforts, Gazzer, I take you for an honest and fair man.

    ropelight (a254d4)

  225. He’s stumbling a bit but when GS corrects he mumbles something about McCain citing his faith as Muslim. And he even does a little laugh which seems to indicate he knew he had said “my Muslim faith” but he is alluding to what McCain was purporting. I think that is why every time I have seen this clip they cut that part off. I myself had come to believe he said it, but now I think he mis-spoke. Mrs Gazzer will tell you I always correct something that I later find to be incorrect, because I want to be fair, and let’s face it, there are plenty of other reasons to despise him.

    Gazzer (124d91)

  226. What difference at this point does it make?

    nk (dbc370)

  227. I agree nk, I was just saying the vid is not quite so clear cut, IMHO.

    Gazzer (124d91)

  228. I meant, if Obama were a Kenyan Communist Muslim (Mau Mau for short like baby daddy who was a minor apparatchik under Jomo Kenyatta), what would he have been doing differently?

    nk (dbc370)

  229. Not a damn ting…

    Gazzer (124d91)

  230. .Non moslems are not named Hussein just as moslems are not named Patrick.
    But there are exceptions. I know a Muslim (American black). whose family name is Christian. He’s not a convert, either, but born to black Muslim parents ( not Black Muslim of the Farrakhan sort).

    kishnevi (28fa9f)

  231. I guess this belongs here without an “O/T” warning. Via Ace:

    http://weaponsman.com/?p=25646

    When the US Isn’t Serious, Who Is?

    The US isn’t serious, and the fiasco this week where Lloyd Austin stammered in front of a committee, clearly unprepared to answer questions about what his own command is doing, was only one sign…

    …The youthful-looking Secretary-designee, Acting Undersecretary Eric Fanning comes by his youthful looks honestly: he’s young (46) and callow, a career midrange bureaucrat without significant executive experience (.pdf), or private-sector experience, although he’s been parked in Democratic lobbying firms during Republican administrations. He has never served in the military and has never displayed much respect for those who do and have. They are there to serve him. He has never held a job in the productive economy.

    …Why pick him, then? To Send A Message™, to count a valuable bean among people for whom the military exists to enable bean-counting. Fanning is fabulously gay, and his tasking is to increase the social engineering pressure on the Army to make it more friendly to GLBTQWERTY individuals, and more hostile to those who are not, whilst presiding over the readiness and end-strength declines he’s already been managing as Acting Undersecretary. He has said that his highest priorities are to forbid criticism of gay (etc) soldiers and to encourage transgender soldiers.

    Obama is the one who needs to defend what he’s doing. Not Trump, for failing to criticize a follower. Obama. For his own deeds.

    Why, it’s almost as if someone could have predicted this whole gays in the military/women in combat would have turned out badly. It’s almost as if someone said there might be a way to do it, but this Klown Kar administration of ideologues wasn’t the crew to pull it off. Why, it’s almost…

    Screw it. Who could have seen this coming?

    Steve57 (e812c3)

  232. If the LHMFM reports are to be believed, this preezy plans to defile a Pope’s visit with gay bishops, pro-abortion nuns, and transvestites.

    Regardless of how you feel about this Pope even the Washington Post has to observe this preezy would never treat the Castro brothers of Cuba or the man this preezy calls so reverently the Supreme Leader of Iran with similar disdain.

    http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2015/09/diversity-thursday.html

    C. LGBT.
    LDAC Issue: There are significant misunderstandings or lack of information regarding programs or benefits available to LGBT members.
    Action 1: Develop a consolidated list of CG policy and guidance on LGBT entitlements and specific concerns.
    Action 2: In coordination with CG-1, identify barriers, benefits and draw backs in, a policy allowing LGBT members to state a preference to not transfer to states with restrictive laws regarding the LGBT community. This evolving policy or guidance will need to balance the need to develop members and needs of the service while protecting individual rights.

    Are you F***ING kidding me? The deputy commander, and therefore the commander, of the Coast Guard for the Atlantic area is validating the belief that certain US states are unfit?

    I don’t want to harsh your gay mellow, if that’s what you are into. I do want to draw your attention to how Tiger Beat operates. He’s a bully and consequently a coward.

    Steve57 (e812c3)

  233. I don’t know how to express the revolutionary nature of the COMLANTAREA Coast Guard message I cited.

    Who determines what is and what is not restrictive when it comes to state laws? Clearly the LGBT community, whatever that is.

    Whatever it is, it isn’t the USCG.

    …Action 2: In coordination with CG-1, identify barriers, benefits and draw backs in, a policy allowing LGBT members to state a preference to not transfer to states with restrictive laws regarding the LGBT community. This evolving policy or guidance will need to balance the need to develop members and needs of the service while protecting individual rights.

    And even if it was, who the h3ll are they to pass judgement on civilian laws?

    Raise your hands, folks, if you saw this coming. Raise your hand if you realized everything the gastapo was demanding was just the beginning.

    Steve57 (e812c3)

  234. Confirmed: It Was Hillary Who Started Rumor Obama Was Not Christian

    John Heilman, MSNBC’s political analyst: (9/21/15)

    John Heilemann was a rather reluctant witness. But when called on to testify, so to speak, Heilemann confirmed a stunning fact: that during the 2008 presidential race, it was Hillary Clinton who started the rumor that Barack Obama might not be a Christian.

    The matter arose when on today’s Morning Joe. Joe Scarborough ripped Hillary’s hypocrisy on Face the Nation yesterday for criticizing Republicans who question Obama’s religion, “when it all started with her and her campaign passing things around in the [2008] Democratic primary.” When Steve Rattner asked Heilemann, in his role as inside-campaign-baseball expert, to confirm whether Joe’s allegation was true, Heilemann tersely said “it was the case.”

    ropelight (398147)

  235. Fanning is fabulously gay, and his tasking is to increase the social engineering pressure on the Army

    Fanning’s appointment appears to reflect Obama’s growing contentment in pushing a pro-GLBT agenda onto the system. It’s merely a matter of time before Barry drops any pretense and comes out and acknowledges his own background of homosexuality. In fact, he may be raring to do exactly that, to make history in another category, from being the first black president to the first openly acknowledged non-strictly heterosexual one.

    Mark (3cf5c0)

  236. “In fact, he may be raring to do exactly that, to make history in another category, from being the first black president to the first openly acknowledged non-strictly heterosexual one.”

    Besides Lincoln?

    jmann (cfaec1)

  237. That’s our imdw. You work here done, yet?

    nk (dbc370)

  238. Standing up in mendacity for a gay crack whore nihilist thug is our Lord of the Flies reign working out.

    Thankfully the war is already won.

    DNF (36ae6c)

  239. MD,

    Here you go. It’s near the bottom of the page.

    https://github.com/tannyo/bookmarklets

    Tanny O'Haley (c674c7)

  240. thank god in his heaven now Mr. Dr.’s got no excuse for all that incessant whining

    he was getting really annoying

    happyfeet (831175)

  241. Tanny, I have IE 11 and haven’t been able to get your bookmarklet to be saved in my “Favorites”. I copied the javascript (compressed) text, without the comments, into a file using notepad and gave it an htm extension. I then used the File > Import > operation from the IE menu to copy this into my Favorites/Software area. Everything goes fine until the last step (after I selected the destination folder) but when I hit next, all I get is this error message “Some settings were not imported successfully”. The same thing happens with an “html” extension.

    I really enjoyed looking over your code, and I’d like to get this working. I’ll switch to another browser if that is what you recommend.

    bobathome (a52abe)

  242. just create a new shortcut and instead of a url put this code

    javascript:(function($){‘use strict’;var n=/^(happyfeet|jmann)/i,aa=$(“.fn”),end=aa.length,i,el,v,p;for(i=0;i<end;i++){el=$(aa[i]);v=el.text();if(n.test(v)){p=el.parents(".comment-body");p.children().not("span,br,.reply").hide();p.css("padding","1em 0 0 3em");p.css("cursor","pointer");p.click(function(){if($(this).children()[0].style.display==="none"){$(this).children().not("span,br,.reply").show();$(this).css("padding","");}else{$(this).children().not("span,br,.reply").hide();$(this).css("padding","1em 0 0 3em");}});}}}(jQuery));

    then when you're at patterico.com you click it and you make the comments collapse to where you have to do special clicks to see certain commenters like for example me

    happyfeet (831175)

  243. it’s super easy!

    the happyfeet what knows how doing the bookmarklet is super easy (831175)

  244. Tanny,
    on behalf of many couth people who find many of hf’s uncouth comments as disgusting and vile as they truly are,
    I thank you

    I myself will not use it, as i can tolerate a degree of his vileness,
    and I reserve the right to be “annoying” when he does his “jamming” routine
    all that is required for evil and hf’s nonsense to prevail is for good men to do nothing
    and I plan not to comply
    AJS, do not abandon me to quench the darts myself

    MD in Philly (f9371b)

  245. Bobathome,

    happyfeet ‘s instructions should work.

    MS,

    I wrote it, but won’t use it either. Some days I get tired of certain commenters with their one way street arguments who don’t even have the courtesy to respond, even when directly called on to do so. Usually I just manually skip over their comments.

    What I like about most commenters is that they engage people with different points of view. Even our host Patrick has different views than I, but I still respect him because he will engage others.

    Tanny O'Haley (c674c7)

  246. MD darn that autocorrect!

    Tanny O'Haley (c674c7)

  247. Double thank you for your unselfish service to others.

    Now, if you could write a program where I could send a jolt to someone at their keyboard I might use that one…

    MD in Philly (f9371b)

  248. Shazam!!!! I copied one of my Favorite Bar links into a work area. Then I renamed it TScrpt. Next I copied (ctrl-C) your script with a minor modification to ensure it returned a null, I didn’t know enough about JQuery to take that chance (I’ve been whacking on this thing for an hour or two …), next I examined the properties of TScrpt, and right there was a text box entitled URL, and I pasted your code over the existing code.

    And now, to my immense satisfaction, when I open this link and then press my TScrpt link on my favorites bar, all of hf’s comment are condensed to the sequential blog number and the signature. This one:

    the happyfeet what knows how doing the bookmarklet is super easy

    escaped the condensation, but then this was a helpful comment and I appreciate it.

    Next, G Green gets the treatment.

    And, best of all, it is optional and reversible, so I can clear the air when it gets hopelessly smoggy, but otherwise I can coast and enjoy an occasional chuckle.

    bobathome (a52abe)

  249. Yeah, I’m not gettin’ the G Green guy. An entire Theocratic nation screams “death to America” every time one of them farts and he thinks their rules are like blue laws? They are a cancer and the G Green’s are it’s enablers. We need a surgeon not a carrier.

    Rev. Barack Hussein Hoagie (f4eb27)

  250. I forgot a step. After I modified the shortcut file in the work area, I copied it back into my Favorites Bar folder so it appears on the menu above the webpage.

    Since it is related to Patterico, I also put a copy in my Patterico folder and renamed it Enema. I think I will remove the TScrpt file from my Favorites Bar as it is rather full.

    Thanks a lot Tanny and Happyfeet! It’s always fun to learn something!

    bobathome (a52abe)


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