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3/23/2018

Democrats Spike the Ball Over Omnibus — Too Early? [UPDATED]

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 9:00 am



[UPDATE by JVW: It’s signed into law.]

Democrats are spiking the football over the omnibus today. Indeed, the headline in the Washington Examiner says exactly that: Schumer, Democrats spike the football over the spending bill.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., boasted Monday that the $1 trillion spending deal struck between Democrats and Republicans over the weekend is a win for Democrats and the public, in part because it doesn’t provide $1.5 billion in funding for a wall along the U.S./Mexico border as requested by President Trump.

“It’s a great deal. We think it’s a very good deal for the American people,” Schumer said before pointing to over 160 “poison pill riders” that Democrats got rid of prior to the agreement, including on proposed cuts to women’s health and the environment and rollbacks of Dodd-Frank. “We’re very gratified with the result.”

It might have been smart to wait. Today, as Brandon Morse notes, Trump is threatening a veto:

Who can blame Democrats for assuming Trump would sign the bill? He sent every signal that he would. If you doubt this, don’t. Trump sent out Mick Mulvaney yesterday to say in no uncertain terms that Trump would sign the bill, as reported at the notoriously left-wing anti-Trump #FakeNews site Breitbart:

President Donald Trump will sign the proposed Omnibus spending bill, White House officials confirmed on Thursday, even though the 2,232-page bill has yet to pass through Congress.

“Let’s cut right to the chase: Is the President going to sign the bill?” Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney told reporters at a White House briefing. “The answer is yes.”

The budget director made a practical case for the Republican-led budget process, even though he admitted that it was not “perfect.”

“This is what a bill looks like when you have 60 votes in the Senate when the Democrats get a chance to take their pound of flesh in order to defend the nation,” he said.

Mulvaney said the $1.3 trillion spending bill funded the president’s budget priorities including a big boost in defense spending, opioids, border security, school safety, workforce development, and infrastructure.

Trump’s own Twitter feed echoed Mulvaney’s sentiments yesterday, boasting about the good aspects of the bill and taking a “Democrats got their pound of flesh but whaddya gonna do?” attitude towards the bad parts:

Anyway, what changed between yesterday’s “the President will sign the bill” and today’s veto consideration? Hmmmm:

Schumer and Pelosi spiking the football too early + Fox & Friends = a potent brew for erratic presidential behavior.

Anyway, it seems exciting that Trump is considering a veto — until you look at what his complaints are in the tweet above: not enough amnesty and not enough spending.

I get the anger over the bill, which I share. Look at my post from earlier this morning, which lists a whole host of problems with the bill. But “not enough amnesty and not enough spending” were not among the listed problems.

Trump is not saying, let’s cut some funding from this monstrosity so we can fully fund a border wall. He’s just saying: toss another $24 billion on top. I’m all for funding a wall, but not by adding billions and billions of dollars to this already bloated bill. Life is about trade-offs, not about just paying for everything that everybody wants, like we do every time. We need to make spending choices.

But that’s not what this veto threat is about. Thomas Massie is worried too:

Anyway. You literally never know what this Trump guy is going to do from one moment to the next. His advisers may take him aside and tell him he has to sign it. Here’s an indication that might be happening:

He might go along with the advice from his advisers. He might not. This is all what makes this episode so special. It’s must-see teevee. STAY TUNED!!!!

But Democrats know as well as anyone else that he is unpredictable. So they might have waited to spike the football.

All that said, he’ll probably still sign it.

[Cross-posted at RedState and The Jury Talks Back.]

393 Responses to “Democrats Spike the Ball Over Omnibus — Too Early? [UPDATED]”

  1. RIP Zell Miller, former Georgia governor and US senator, 86 years

    papertiger (c8116c)

  2. Thanks for the post, Patterico. No idea how this will play out.

    But there will be some weirdness being posted in this thread momentarily, I’m sure.

    Simon Jester (c8876d)

  3. mr. trump the president is a very stable genius who plays 3-d chess with the democrats and that’s why i love him so there

    nk (dbc370)

  4. That was the finest impression of happyfeet ever, nk.

    Rev.Hoagie (1b0402)

  5. I swear. I was reading the comments through the moderation page and it took me more than a second to realize that it wasn’t happyfeet. I started to check what the problem was. Well-played. 😉

    Stashiu3 (466cdf)

  6. The only thing missing that could have made it better was a link to a President Trump cameo in any movie ever. I would still be checking what went wrong.

    Stashiu3 (466cdf)

  7. Trump to hold a press conference in 15 mins to discuss the bill…

    Dana (023079)

  8. If Trump passes this disastrous bill, he should be impeached for being a sh!thead.

    mg (9e54f8)

  9. ugh trannyboi mattis must be running low on his transition hormones

    deep breaths sweetie

    you need to calm down your little military isn’t really doing anything too important right now anyway

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  10. OT and less humerous. I just got a call from my sister who informed me that within the last several weeks our cousin from outside Capetown S.A. was murdered and her husband made comatose in an attack by a gang of Khoi or Hottentots when on their way home from a dinner. I don’t yet know the details but it seems they were severely beaten, robbed and left for dead by the gang. My cousin, a 32 year old mother was also slashed with a machete. She died at the scene. I’ll get more info when my other cousin (her father) Skypes with my sister later. They usually Skype around our dinner time.

    These stupid white people just won’t leave. Post Apartheid was just a ruse to get the communists and Marxists in power (as I told them) which explains why all the leftists in America and Europe were so anti apartheid in case you guys haven’t figured that out. This is the tenth family member murdered by blacks since 1990.

    My cousins and their families are in great danger and they just won’t listen. Mainly because they are farmers and they have fresh water wells on their property which makes it primo land. And the blacks want that land. At any cost to the family. But they just won’t listen.

    Rev.Hoagie (1b0402)

  11. I’m sorry, Hoagie. They should listen if they want to live, but for some people life doesn’t seem like it is worth living if they have to give up their roots, property, and culture. I hope they have a religious faith to help them.

    DRJ (15874d)

  12. So sorry about that Hoagie, sadly its like the elm massacre that the west ignored for decades,,the Griffiths family finally brought it light

    narciso (d1f714)

  13. Condolences, Rev.

    mg (9e54f8)

  14. i’d pour gasoline down the well and catch the next flight to St. George, Utah, the fastest-growing city in America

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  15. It’s possible to view Trump’s tweet not as a veto threat so much as a gesture to the DACA Dreamers that the Democrats abandoned. He could be trying to keep Dreamers on the sideline. He thinks his supporters will rationalize and forgive anything.

    DRJ (15874d)

  16. If Trump passes this disastrous bill, he should be impeached for being a sh!thead.

    Congress too!

    No veto will happen. Congress went home.

    AZ Bob (f60c80)

  17. Indeed congress is full of turds.

    mg (9e54f8)

  18. Why would any conservative vote again? Patterico has been correct about Trump. Such a disaster this bill is.

    mg (9e54f8)

  19. voting sucks but if President Trump wants us to vote we owe it to him to get out there and vote for the candidates and causes he endorses

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  20. At the signing ceremony, Trump just told the DACA Dreamers that the Republicans wanted to help them but the Democrats wouldn’t agree. He said the Democrats are using the Dreamers. That suggests to me Trump’s tweet wasn’t about the veto, it was about the Dreamers.

    DRJ (15874d)

  21. Hunt is really about, yes the dreamers are being used like the childrens crusader of which little is mentioned of who is,behind them.

    narciso (97bdaa)

  22. UPDATE: It’s signed into law.

    JVW (42615e)

  23. Rev. Hoagie, sorry to hear how the RSA has fallen to s***t.

    I haven’t been to Africa since 2009. My last trip was to Zim, to kill an elephant. I only mention the last part because it p^^^es all the right people off.

    Get off your high horse. The subsistence farmers whose crops were being raided and whose lives were being destroyed got the meat. More meat than they’d seen in their lives.

    So, I’m going to Zim to kill an elephant and I see in one of the shops surrounding the departure lounge in Johannesburg a T shirt. “Rob Mugabe!” Then on the back it said, “Before he robs you.”

    Now the RSA is as screwed up as the the rest of the continent. Except possibly Namibia, which is run by the Owambo tribe who are devoutly capitalist.

    If I go back I’ll have to fly Lufthansa as they have direct flights from Germany to Windhoek. I won’t stop over in RSA anymore. Anybody ever spent a night in Frankfurt while traveling with a rifle? Is it even possible, legally?

    As an aside, I was just listening to our president make a really, really painful speech. And the thing is, I could tell his heart was in the right place. Every plane he’s going to buy is incredible. The KC-135, the P-8, the F-35. Yeah, got it Mr. President, they’re good aircraft “because of everything.” Also those 34 Navy ships. That’s important because the Obama admin “pivoted” to Asia without a Navy. Prompting the Chinese to fortify islands in the SCS and to tell Hillary! to her face (it’s in her book) to pivot her immense @$$ back to the states.

    Yeah, this is a step up. Anything short of shipping cargoes of cash to Iran is a step up. You can stop now.

    Don’t get me wrong. I like the guy when he’s not spending money he doesn’t a. But really, isn’t that what we knew we were going to get when we elected a frequently bankrupted Manhattan realtor? And he’s worlds ahead of the other liberal New Yorker we had to choose from.

    Thank you for the KC=135s.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  24. Trump:

    the 800,000 plus DACA recipients have been totally abandoned by the Democrats

    This is not true. A federal judge or two has ordered that DACA be conrinued for the time being, so now Democrats won’t vote to make it legal unless some people not currently covered by DACA are added.

    Trump has offered that very thing but only in exchange for further restricting legal immigration, some of which Schumer et al might go along with (the diversity lottery) and some of which he won’t.

    Trump wants the Democrats to abandon everyone but people who participate in DACA.

    The question is: Who does he believe he is fooling? It can only be people who know nothing. But peoiple who know nothing don’t know about this either.

    Trump feels he is stuck with his position oin immigration and is trying to make the best of it.

    Sammy Finkelman (02a146)

  25. I wouldn’t say DJT put brakes on the ship of state as it heads for the cliff of the decline.

    More like he put a playing card between the spokes of the wheels.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  26. The irony for Trump and the GOP is so many of these awesome military toys are being built in districts that elect frothing-in-the-mouth Democrats to Congress. Our Congressman here, Ted Lieu, is as anti-Trump as anti-Trump can get, but Boeing, Lockheed Martin, the Aerospace Corp, and other defense contractors in our district are going to do very nicely thanks to this budget.

    But I do agree with Steve57 that this beats shipping pallets of cash to Iran.

    JVW (42615e)

  27. No this is what you get, when you keep McConnell and Ryan in charge, it’s like a magnesia enema those two.

    narciso (97bdaa)

  28. I thought you lived in nevada.

    narciso (97bdaa)

  29. the takeaway here is that our slutty tranny-b!tch secretary of defense, coward-punk James Mattis, doesn’t give a crap about the fiscal health of america

    he just wants his piggy slop and his hormone injections for his nasty undeployable tatted-up tranny soldiers

    this is why you don’t put panty-wearing democrat filth in charge of your defense

    lesson learned

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  30. For you, Mr. Feets.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU1HV5IK7YU

    Toronto Argonauts Cheerleaders “Starships” by Nicki Minaj

    Toronto apparently has some hot cheerleaders. I suppose a simple duckduckgo search would clear up my last remaining question. Toronto?

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  31. This sort of sums up what the administration and Congress think of the American taxpqyer:

    New $1.3 trillion Congressional spending plan prohibits Members of Congress from spending more than $1,000/month on a taxpayer-funded car lease

    $1,000????

    Dana (023079)

  32. I hear the Torontoans have elected Justin Treudeau queen of the may day parade and emperor of the far north.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  33. Patterico was right about this and Trump was wrong. So was I.

    Stashiu3 (466cdf)

  34. I am saddened today. Living in Paradise does lessen the kick in the nut

    mg (9e54f8)

  35. S

    mg (9e54f8)

  36. $1,000????

    It had to be something that they could live with. What they did is they capped it.

    This has apparently been a long standing issue.

    In 2010:

    https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2010/08/congress-vehicles/

    In all, 13 Energy and Commerce committee members utilized the House’s program leasing official-use vehicles with taxpayer money, from January to March of this year. The average cost to taxpayers rings up at about $2,000 per member. (The U.S. Senate has no comparable program.)

    That’s $2,000 over three months.

    There was also a requirement (since 2007) that all leased vehicles meet a certain minimum standard of fuel efficiency.

    Sue Myrick, (R-N.C.) was proud of her economy. She had a 2009 Honda Civic Hybrid with a combined MPG of 42, and leased it for $586 per month.

    Sammy Finkelman (02a146)

  37. I’m being unfair to an entire country. Lord knows I should have had enough of that, lackey running dog of the globalist capitalist cabal of internationalist bankers that I am.

    https://ppcli.com/

    You do not want to anger these lumberjacks.

    https://www.sofx.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/ljc.jpg

    I mean this from the bottom of my heart.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  38. cheerleaders are fun!

    they’re just fun people

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  39. http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=15961

    …Hayler, a Spruance-class destroyer, and Gosport, a Navy-owned 210-foot research vessel operated by Norfolk Naval Shipyard – both decommissioned ships – were used as targets in support of weapons testing, as well as readiness training in naval gunnery and missile systems.

    Since September, a variety of warships from the United States, Canada, and STANAVFORLANT have sailed and operated along the Eastern seaboard of North America. In addition to a host of exercises and port visits from Florida to Canada, many of those ships demonstrated their lethality and readiness during the “Sink-Ex” – or sinking exercise.

    “It always hurts to see beautiful ships sink, and my sympathy goes to all Sailors who sailed on them, but the important thing is that the weapons fired did their job. That’s the thing it’s all about in the end,” said Rear Adm. Leon Bruin, commander, Standing Naval Force Atlantic.

    Upon completion of the firing exercises, Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 2, Det. 26, assisted in sinking the ships through detonating positioned explosives along the hull…

    I’m over it Canada. You can come back now.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  40. Sue Myrick, (R-N.C.) was proud of her economy. She had a 2009 Honda Civic Hybrid with a combined MPG of 42, and leased it for $586 per month.

    A car that is over eight years old was going for $586 per month? Maybe I don’t understand the cost of living in Washington, DC, but that seems out of whack. The Hybrid model for 2009 seems to be selling for about $8,000 in the DC area, or approximately 15 months of lease payments.

    JVW (42615e)

  41. maybe she was leasing it TO somebody

    like a really stupid person

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  42. Condolences to Hoagie on that awful news.

    Patterico (cf4526)

  43. Impeach. Let him testify. Whatever it takes for him to step on his own crank hard enough that he’s booted from office. Vice President Pence would be fine as President… compared to President Trump and his betrayal today, VP Pence would have to be better.

    No way President Trump gets a second term anyway. This is worse than “Read my lips… no new taxes!”

    Stashiu3 (466cdf)

  44. …to all Sailors who sailed on them,

    IN THEM. ((**&&* it all, IN THEM not on them. B#s*a(*&s.

    We inhabit our weapons systems.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  45. Condolences to Hoagie on that awful news.

    Patterico (cf4526) — 3/23/2018 @ 12:10 pm

    I hope I didn’t come across as making light of the news. My heart breaks.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  46. cheerleaders are fun!

    they’re just fun people
    happyfeet (28a91b) — 3/23/2018 @ 12:06 pm

    Yes! Like all the Victoria’s Secret models I hang with.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  47. Rev, I stored my guns at …

    http://cityguns.co.za/

    …when I got back from Namibia.

    I wasn’t allowed to keep them in my hotel, and the flight was the next day.

    Ask we why I am glad to be an American.

    I am positive there is nothing I can say. So I’ll put a lid on stupid. If there’s anything I can do let me know.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  48. Omnibus resurrected. I hope they put a bell on Zell Miller.

    papertiger (c8116c)

  49. Pfft. Veto tweet merely distraction to quash morning chatter over doodling McDougal.

    In his TeeVee statement, our Captain rationalized negotiating a lousy deal by couching his decision to sign as a matter of ‘national security’ citing the military–it’s their fault- always someone else’s fault you know– yet the military has said many, many times the biggest ‘threat’ to ‘national security’ is the national debt. Go figure. Because our Captain hasn’t but vows never to sign anything like this again. And we know loyal he is to his vows.

    Off to Mar-a-Lago; Sunny skies for Stormy Sunday, eh, Captain, sir!!

    DCSCA (797bc0)

  50. . That suggests to me Trump’s tweet wasn’t about the veto, it was about the Dreamers.

    Every Trump tweet has one and only one subject, even if it is generally not mentioned overtly:Donald J Trump.

    Kishnevi (2f2613)

  51. JVW@41
    The article date was 2010, so Myrick probably got her car brand new, or close to new.

    Kishnevi (2f2613)

  52. A Florida nursing home where 12 elderly patients died of overheating after Hurricane Irma knocked out its air conditioning made matters worse by using portable units that were not properly ventilated and increased temperatures in most of the facility, an engineer testified in a deposition.

    William Crawford, an air-conditioning engineer, said in a deposition released by the state late Thursday that the Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills didn’t have nearly enough portable units and those they had wound up heating much of the facility because they were not being vented to the outside.

    jesus h

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  53. Preventing crime wss one thing thatw as not negotiated successfully in 1994. Mostly the better off people live in secured communities, and that’s how they get along. Most of teh time they avoid getting robbed and killed. South Africa actually has a lot of ghettos.

    Sammy Finkelman (02a146)

  54. S-57, you weren’t in the Air Force were you? The KC-135 (Boeing 707) has been in service for well over 50 years.

    During that time, the aircraft has been configured, and reconfigured again and again, for a wide variety of specialized roles and has performed remarkably well in all but its initially intended role as a cargo carrier: it sits too high off the ground and has relatively small loading doors which open perpendicular to the cargo compartment.

    ropelight (299687)

  55. Condolences to you and yours, Hoagie.

    Just fvck me to tears on this bill. Not a pair of balls among all of ‘em, especially Trump.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  56. The $1.3 trillion spending package allocates around $4 billion to the opioid epidemic, much of which is new money appropriated this year.

    Oh it’s wonderful. They’re going to build animatronic Tom Petty and Prince. Send them on a tour of New Hampshire and Vermont. Don’t take the brown fentanyl kids.

    papertiger (c8116c)

  57. I think that is Jacobson trying to rationalize this, narciso. If we are really about to go to war, why agree to any of the Democrats’ wish list? Trump could have briefed the Big Four at their final meeting before the vote and made sure they knew any shenanigans would be made public when the war came.

    DRJ (15874d)

  58. @55. FWIW, retired pilot did a talk on the history and upgrades of that aircraft on CSPAN last weekend. Amazed how fast the g/c could reload for fueling- like 45 minutes.

    DCSCA (797bc0)

  59. Given the enthusiasm in congress for this monstrosity, from both R’s and D’s, a veto was probably going to be a futile gesture and Trump knew it. Even if not, the only likely cuts would have been to the military.

    It’s pretty tough to come up with silk purses with this hogs ear of a congress.

    Reminds me of the 2004 republican congress that gave rise to the TEA Party. But yeah, hey, it’s all Trumps fault. Get rid of him and I’m sure things will change.

    Sure they will.

    the Bas (3bcea0)

  60. He signed it with a caveat of “never again”, which will be the mood of conservative voters in Nov.

    We’re going down the tubes folks. Govt for the elites and those who depend on them, everyone else is a rube cash cow for Central Planning.

    Dems coming for your guns, your retirement and your property rights comin up! Don’t complain or the speech police will come after you.

    harkin (574a19)

  61. We’ve had a dozen missile launches in the last year, the intelligence committee hasn’t been focused on matters of note, like miniaturized warheads

    narciso (d1f714)

  62. Are we great again yet?

    Dave (445e97)

  63. I am heartened by the response of most of the commenters here. I don’t care about Trump near as much as I care that people still care about fiscal responsibility, and most do. I honestly thought most people would say they don’t care about the debt or the budget.

    DRJ (15874d)

  64. With some exceptions.

    DRJ (15874d)

  65. you have to wonder why such a profligate brokedick slutcountry even needs such a fancy tranny-trash military

    it’s like having a fancy cadillac but you can’t afford gas for it

    so let’s put the cards on the table in the room with the elephant ok

    dirty slutboy mattis needs to stop being such a gaywad all the time and focus on what’s realistically sustainable military-wise

    I’m not saying we need to skimp on hormone treatments for our trannies (this could impact self esteem)

    but you have to make some choices jimmy boi

    you have to grow up and act like an adult and maybe that means doing some things and making some sacrifices you’re not gonna like

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  66. I have the same sick feeling that I did with TARP. What a complete fiasco. Short cons hurt… long cons are devastating because they make you question your self-image.

    Stashiu3 (0d2d5b)

  67. For Beldar. I think this is good.

    DRJ (15874d)

  68. I think that is Jacobson trying to rationalize this, narciso. If we are really about to go to war, why agree to any of the Democrats’ wish list?

    think about how completely slutty and trashy it was for dirty slutboy general mattis to come out today and say if we don’t pass this crappy bill then our already sucky military is going to suck like a billion times harder

    does this have any precedent?

    that sent a signal today – a loud and clear signal to our adversaries that’s for sure

    so given his shenanigans today, it’s entirely possible to imagine a perv-slut like general mattis threatening President Trump and saying either you sign this bill or I go public with how precisely suck-ass our tranny-trash military is, and see how you like that

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  69. Stepping around the multiple piles of vulgar trollish dog crap in this thread, I wanted to tell Hoagie how very sorry I am for his family losses. I am so glad to see that many commenters reached out to support him.

    There are days when these comments sections look like walls covered with sick graffiti. But I was happy to see some of the support to a person who lost family members.

    Simon Jester (c8876d)

  70. happyfeet,

    I’m getting multiple calls for you to be benched. I’m starting to lean towards asking Patterico if he agrees. He doesn’t watch the comments as closely as I do. I can certainly bring quite a few of your recent comments to his attention. Lighten up.

    Stashiu3 (0d2d5b)

  71. How many of you live in a red district, I lived in blue districts for 15 years, voting republican was a quixotic exercise

    narciso (d1f714)

  72. Or don’t. Your choice.

    Stashiu3 (0d2d5b)

  73. At the risk of disappointing DRJ, let me play devil’s advocate as usual. Hold onto your hats, as I’m actually about *gasp* defend something done by Donald Trump (although not the feckless and irresponsible way he did it).

    The senate is very evenly divided. Passing a bill without Democrat support means you need every single GOP senator currently in Washington.

    In such a situation, is it reasonable to expect to pass a bill that checks off even the most hard-line conservative priorities, and flips the bird at every liberal priority that a conservative might disagree with?

    Politics involves a balancing of interests. When you have a solid majority, you can call the shots. When you have a razor-thin majority that requires total agreement among fifty different people, shouldn’t you expect that compromises are going to be necessary? Isn’t that evidence that the system is working (i.e. a 50-49 legislative body does not correspond to a situation where one side can, or will, or should get everything it wants, and deny the other side everything THEY want?)

    It would be wise, in such an environment, to take a long view and do what you can to shift the balance of things so that you have larger majority and can get more of what you want in the future. Trying to govern like you have a 10-seat majority when you have a 1-seat majority just strikes me as foolish and delusional. Yet it is what nearly everyone here (even Patrick, who I almost never disagree with on substance) vehemently demands.

    If you demand the impossible, you are sure to be disappointed.

    Dave (445e97)

  74. yes yes you can say hey happyfeet you’re wrong if you want but I personally think the tranny-trash slutboy military has become one of the greatest existential threats this nation has ever faced

    this debt is very serious (underline underline undxerline) and far and away the bulk of new spending in this bill is to slop the piggy-filth in the pentagon

    and moreover you actually saw the secretary of defense publicly pressure the president to blow a hole in the budget proportionately way bigger than the holes them cargo ships routinely put in our dilapitated joke navy boats

    so given the rank sluttiness of general mattis, and given that fulfilling the commander in chief role is a sine qua non of a successful presidency, it’s clear who’s wagging the dog and pulling the strings here

    (hint: it’s an out of control corrupt tranny-trash military)

    i think it’s very sweet that Mr. Jacobson takes the view he does, and yes yes yes *if* we’re serious about looking for genuine solutions on the north korean front particularly and on the Iranian front to some degree as well, we have to roll the dice and provide the resources (… the resources for the military solution that should have already been in place given what we spend every year on these losers)

    but that’s not what we saw happening today

    we saw a snotty little tranny-trash pentagon princess pitch a fit like a four year old girl

    and you have to wonder what’s up with that

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  75. oops i spelled underline wrong

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  76. Gentlemen and ladies. I now have the complete low down on my second cousins murder.
    She and her husband were coming home from dinner at a local spot around 10pm. They blew out a tire and pulled over to repair it. At that point they were attacked by a gang of 8-10 Khoi and beaten to the ground. My cousin was gang raped, beaten with cricket(?) bats and slashed with machetes while her husband was beaten with bats and his own tire iron as he watched helplessly.

    After she was dead they poured gas (again from my cousins own spare can) on her genitals and set her afire. The police came as they saw the gang and the ire from the road as they passed. My cousin was dead at the scene. Her husband sufferer a fractured eye socket, list his left eye, a broken jaw, 12 teeth knocked out, a broken collar bone, arm, 3 ribs, and pelvis. He also had a ruptured spleen and a cracked skull. He was in a coma for several weeks and as of now has brain damage but they are not sure of the extent.

    This entire nightmare could have been avoided had they left when the black government took over. They refused. Now they are considering going to Amsterdam to join some other cousins who left SA many years ago. Great! Then they can be raped and murdered by moslems.

    My sister was very close with our cousin and she’s devastated. She treated her like her own kid so it’s like losing a child for her.

    Interestingly, it seems the constabulary has no clue as to who did the crime. That usually means family or “protected” tribes. The entire event has been buried. It’s almost like those fake crimes on our college campus’ that “disappear”. The left is taking over the world. Our grandchildren can look forward to a new freedomless Dark Age.

    Thanks to you guys for your support. This is what happens when hate-filled, revenge-filled communist inspired people get power. BRW, the only “safe” whites are cuckolds doing the commie blacks bidding. They are in “gated communities” as much to keep them corralled together as to keep them safe. You know, like Warsaw with benefits. Oh, and they can’t own firearms!!!

    Rev.Hoagie (1b0402)

  77. you’d think they’d want to publicize it to send a message to other people who are reluctant to leave

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  78. Terrible news hoagie, I was a fan of chief buthelezi, who seemed a sensible sort, as opposed to the ‘spear of the nation’ that mandela and later zuma headed. The sort that Cheney among others were worried would take power.

    narciso (d1f714)

  79. is there any chance this might could draw your grandson homewards

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  80. That’s horrible, Hoagie. It was hard to read your comment. I can’t imagine how your family must feel knowing it happened to someone you love.

    DRJ (15874d)

  81. The truth is covered with pillows, whether at elim or hue or phnomh penh, the last was something John Kerry told us would never happen and Noam Chomsky denied for the better part of three years

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/russia-the-nra-and-fake-news-1521761296

    narciso (d1f714)

  82. I saw Nelson Mandela in Boston in the summer of 1990 when he did his triumphant post-jail tour. It’s hard to imagine going back to that day and telling all the excited people gathered there for the dawning of a new post-apartheid South Africa that within 30 years the nation would be run by lawless Marxist-inspired gangs. So very sad.

    I’m sorry for what your family is having to go through, Hoagie. I hope you can find solace and healing, slow as that process may be.

    JVW (42615e)

  83. Yes happyfeet, the military sucks up about half the federal budget. On the other hand, the military is about the only thing the Fed’s should be funding. Constitutionally speaking.

    Yeah, there is a case to be made for spending less on the military, but there is a stronger one for not spending any on social programs. Including any of the welfare programs, education, arts, most law enforcement agencies, and a hundred other agencies. In fact, most states also have mirror agencies creating a lot of redundancy. For example, here is a list of California law enforcement agencies:

    California Department of Justice
    -Bureau of Investigation Special
    Agents
    -California Bureau of Firearms
    Special Agents
    -California Bureau of Forensic
    Services
    -California Bureau of Gambling
    Control – Special Agents
    -California Bureau of Medi-Cal
    Fraud & Elder Abuse –
    Special Agents

    California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
    -California Office of
    Correctional Safety – State
    Fugitive Apprehension Teams &
    Special Service Unit

    California Department of State Hospitals
    -Department of Police Services –
    Hospital Police Officers

    California Department of Fish and Wildlife
    -Game Wardens

    California Highway Patrol

    California State Parks Peace Officer

    Department of Insurance

    Franchise Tax Board

    California Lottery Security and Law Enforcement Division

    California Department of Consumer Affairs, Division of Investigation

    California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection

    California Department of Health Care Services

    California State University Police Department

    University of California Police Department

    Plus county sheriff’s departments, municipal police departments, airport cops, transit authority cops, harbor patrol, railroad cops, animal control, and various county park rangers.

    I’m sure most states are similarity burdened.

    Meanwhile, There are 65 federal agencies and 27 offices of inspector general that employ full time personnel authorized to make arrests and carry firearms.

    So how about we worry about the unconstitutional federal expenditures, then work on the military? After all, I don’t think any states are going to do well operating a navy.

    the Bas (3bcea0)

  84. I love devil’s advocates, Dave. My gut says it’s hard to herd Congresscritters without something that unites them. I think you’d have an easier time keeping them United if they are from the same Party, even if the margin is thin.I

    Finding the right combination of incentives that unites Congresscritters from different Parties is just too hard. As this bill showed, it only works if everyone decides to agree on one Party’s goals. With this bill, it was the Democratic goal of spending lots of money.

    DRJ (15874d)

  85. Hoagie, my sympathies and prayers for your family. Anything sounds trite in light of such a horrific occurrence.

    I have a friend in SA, and this confirms what I’ve learned of the level of violence there. She too is white and owns a farm.

    Dana (023079)

  86. Trusting the left with power is a dangerous thing, in Algeria it lead to third noir ( white settlers) leaving followed by the harkis and much of the rest, in greece, it became sanctuary for the PLO and openly pro soviet, including those nov 17th ruffians in Venezuela which is run by Cuban proxies, food and toilet paper along with fuel are a rarity plus a murder rate on the par with juarez mexico

    narciso (d1f714)

  87. So how about we worry about the unconstitutional federal expenditures, then work on the military?

    i wanna do both

    and to be honest i would love spending monies on the military if it wasn’t such a blatantly gay social justice experiment anymore that had utterly neglected its core mission

    you may have heard me talk about my disdain for cowardpig crash dummy john mccain the chairman of the senate armed svcs committee

    do you know what he said out loud

    he said we needed to slop the pentagon piggies more because we needed to be able to forward-position supplies in case of a Korean conflict

    Hello Amerioca let that sink in

    these dorkwads get a half trillion a year plus year in year out

    and they haven’t forward-positioned supplies in case of a Korean conflict.

    Jesus H that’s beyond shameful

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  88. ugh Hello *America* i mean

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  89. S-57, you weren’t in the Air Force were you? The KC-135 (Boeing 707) has been in service for well over 50 years…

    ropelight (299687) — 3/23/2018 @ 2:38 pm

    Yes, I know the KC-135 is Air Force.

    https://fightersweep.com/2881/why-navy-pilots-hate-the-kc-135/

    epending on who you ask, the response to uttering the words “Iron Maiden” bring about very different emotions. Ask any fan of rock music and chances are the reaction is the sign of the horns. Ask any Naval Aviator, however, and the response is almost certainly dread.

    The trouble starts seemingly as a result of USAF vs USN rivalry. The Navy, while forever validating its own masculinity, designed its refueling system exactly opposite that of the Air Force. The Navy receiver will have its phallic male end plug into the the tanker. Of course, the Air Force is just the inverse, with the tanker plugging into the receiver aircraft.

    In the Navy system, each aircraft is equipped with a refueling probe. Department of the Navy tankers are designed from the start to be equipped with a drogue, such as on the KC-130 or the ARS pods on the Super Hornet. The Air Force tankers are fitted with a special drogue receptacle, commonly called “the basket,” specifically to accommodate their Navy customers…

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  90. I have a friend in SA, and this confirms what I’ve learned of the level of violence there. She too is white and owns a farm.


    Thanks for the kind words, Dana. It seems that the rural farmers are moly targeted. The whites in the cities like Capetown and Johannesburg are mostly herded into what can only be called elite white ghettos. They most all have high government or industrial posts (mostly export/import dealing in diamonds and gold) and the government has currently no backs that can replace their expertise or honesty. But when the day comes they can replace them they will. With a vengeance.

    To us what’s going on looks like politics. To the whites there it’s racial genocide. The revenge from keeping the tribes fed, housed, clothed etcetera for years under apartheid is death to whites. Americans seem not to be able to see that.

    Rev.Hoagie (1b0402)

  91. What’s even more troubling is in the past 236 years we have been fighting some type of conflict for 214 years.

    the Bas (3bcea0)

  92. So how about we worry about the unconstitutional federal expenditures, then work on the military?

    How about we elect a President who doesn’t suck?

    nk (dbc370)

  93. yeah that’s borderline sociopathic, but at the same time there’s a lot of people what need killing

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  94. Rev, the reason I won’t return to Zim is how anti-white it is. The h3ll of it is, the Shona and the northern Zulu I hunted with are the nicest, bravest people you would ever want to meet.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  95. Well compared to a another settler state, in our first 70 years we fought the cherokee the Brits the Spanish and the Mexicans

    narciso (d1f714)

  96. Rev, I stored my guns at …

    http://cityguns.co.za/

    …when I got back from Namibia.

    I wasn’t allowed to keep them in my hotel, and the flight was the next day.

    Steve57 (0b1dac) — 3/23/2018 @ 12:29 pm

    My son shot a nyala in SA but he just used a loaner.

    Pinandpuller (5fe447)

  97. I want the Air Farce to know I’m still feeling around for my (blank).

    Oh, wait. Found it.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  98. yet the military has said many, many times the biggest ‘threat’ to ‘national security’ is the national debt.

    DCSCA (797bc0) — 3/23/2018 @ 1:08 pm

    So they should attack The Beast from Jekyll Island.

    Besides, the number one answer on the board is Global Warming.

    Pinandpuller (5fe447)

  99. Pinandpuller, I have to tell you. I thought I saw biggest thing in my life when I hauled up to an aircraft carrier. I was wrong. There I was, looking at an elephant, and all I had was a puny rifle. And when he stepped two steps forward, ears out, like a windjammer, I practically **** myself.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  100. I pride myself on my mad first aid skillzz. But if you’re ever really in trouble you call the Air Force.

    https://www.pararescue.com/

    That others May Live

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  101. They blew out a tire and pulled over to repair it. At that point they were attacked by a gang of 8-10 Khoi and beaten to the ground.

    Rev.Hoagie (1b0402) — 3/23/2018 @ 4:46 pm

    I’m sorry Hoagie. It sounds like a set up.

    I see quite a few of the real old school Land Rovers around here, I’d really like to buy one. I guess with a right hand drive I could do rural mail delivery.

    Pinandpuller (5fe447)

  102. Here’s the best (yeah, worst) thing about this budget:

    The Dems will take at least one House of Congress this year. If not, party margins will be so paper-thin that nothing will get accomplished in the next Congress. So guess what? This garbage budget and all of it’s irresponsible spending will be extended via continuing resolution for the next three years, until President Harris and her sweeping Democrat majorities get to write one for themselves in spring of 2021. Thanks Speaker Ryan, thanks Majority Leader McConnell, thanks President Trump.

    JVW (42615e)

  103. As this bill showed, it only works if everyone decides to agree on one Party’s goals.
    With this bill, it was the Democratic goal of spending lots of money.

    That seems like a pretty one-sided view. The White House put out a long list of everything they considered a “win”. And there is a sizable increase in defense spending, if I’m not mistaken, which I’m pretty sure was not a Democratic goal.

    So it was a compromise.

    Dave (445e97)

  104. Air Force Pararescue is the only United States Department of Defense elite combat force specifically organized, trained, equipped, and postured to conduct full spectrum personnel recovery to include both conventional and unconventional combat rescue operations. These Battlefield Airmen are the most highly trained and versatile personnel recovery specialists in the world. Pararescue is the nation’s force of choice to execute the most perilous, demanding, and extreme rescue missions anytime, anywhere across the globe.

    Boarding. Compliant, non-compliant, hostile or opposed. We leave the the hostile boardings to the SEALS or the Marines. Because, it’s not my daily business. A collateral duty. But a a non-compliant boarding can turn into a hostile boarding in a New York minute.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  105. It was a spend-a-thon, not a compromuse. Everyone got something on their wish list, except: How was it a compromise for fiscal conservatives who want to spend less?

    DRJ (15874d)

  106. compromuse compromise

    DRJ (15874d)

  107. Hmm. Interesting. Try again:

    compromuse compromise

    DRJ (15874d)

  108. Well close to 2/3 voted for this dogs breakfast,

    narciso (d1f714)

  109. @95- I know huh? If only by some miracle Cruz had been elected in the general, congress would have been putty in his hands, the media would have only said nice things about him, the deficit would be gone and the debt halved, obamacare gone, taxes a mere pittance, our military restored, Iran, N. Korea, Russia and China would be prostrate at his feet, the Syrian mess all cleaned up, and a general sense of joy and contentment would have settled on the world.

    If only…

    the Bas (3bcea0)

  110. Oh, and I forgot, the wall would have been built and the Muslims would have seen the light and declared Israel legitimate and a partner of a peaceful, thriving middle east.

    Ah, what could have been.

    the Bas (3bcea0)

  111. Compromuse: ˈkämprəˌmuz: to think about settling a dispute by mutual concession.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  112. Rev.Hoagie,

    Words are just inadequate. Condolences and prayers to you and your family. There is so much evil in the world.

    Stashiu3 (466cdf)

  113. Cruz? We should have kept Obama and the 114th Congress and not wasted all that energy, time and money with a meaningless election.

    nk (dbc370)

  114. And not have had a so-called President who gives new meaning to the word “disgrace”.

    nk (dbc370)

  115. The revenge from keeping the tribes fed, housed, clothed etcetera for years under apartheid is death to whites. Americans seem not to be able to see that.

    Yes. Next thing I know you’ll be saying slavery was good for the blacks.
    Apartheid meant keeping blacks poor and penned up in ghettos, and there was never anything good about it. What’s playing out now in SA is the simple case of the suppressed realizing they can take everything the suppressors have and no reason not to. If Marxism is involved it’s simply window dressing for might-makes-right.

    Kishnevi (5a7bdb)

  116. Really we would have gotten us out of the Iran deal and the kyoto protocol tell us another one.

    narciso (d1f714)

  117. epending on who you ask, the response to uttering the words “Iron Maiden” bring about very different emotions. Ask any fan of rock music and chances are the reaction is the sign of the horns.

    Steve57 (0b1dac) — 3/23/2018 @ 5:34 pm

    Bruce Dickenson, lead singer of Iron Maiden, got his commercial pilot’s license:

    For the 2008–09 “Somewhere Back in Time World Tour”, he piloted Iron Maiden’s chartered Boeing 757, dubbed “Ed Force One”, specially converted to carry the band’s equipment between continents, which subsequently led to a documentary film, Iron Maiden: Flight 666. Dickinson flew “Ed Force One” again for “The Final Frontier World Tour” in 2011. For the 2016 The Book of Souls World Tour, the band upgraded to a Boeing 747-400 jumbo jet, which meant that Dickinson had to undertake type conversion to fly the aircraft. In 2014, Dickinson purchased a Fokker Dr.I triplane replica G-CDXR and joined the Great War Display Team, which re-enacts First World War air battles at airshows across the UK.

    Wiki

    Pinandpuller (5fe447)

  118. Paris accord Islamic state would probably to topple king abdullah, if not a full on campaign against the kingdom

    narciso (d1f714)

  119. I blame Hillary. I think she’s the real Russian deep cover sleeper charged with creating chaos in our national elections and putting the worst possible dish!ts in the White House and in Congress.

    nk (dbc370)

  120. President Trump on Friday moved to formally ban most transgender people from serving in the military, with limited exceptions.

    The White House issued a memorandum on policies determined by Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, stating that transgender people are “disqualified from military service except under limited circumstances.”

    yay this is the correct policy!

    President Trump’s doing the good leadership that’s for sure

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  121. Pinandpuller, I have to tell you. I thought I saw biggest thing in my life when I hauled up to an aircraft carrier. I was wrong. There I was, looking at an elephant, and all I had was a puny rifle. And when he stepped two steps forward, ears out, like a windjammer, I practically **** myself.

    Steve57 (0b1dac) — 3/23/2018 @ 5:50 pm

    My grandpa took the big five and then some. I guess the closest any of them came to death was from the Cape Buffalo. He took about eight shots before he went down and when they cut him open it was just a bloody mess.

    There’s a real crazy guy named Adam Greentree who hunts them with bows.

    Pinandpuller (5fe447)

  122. If Cruz were President, there would be no possibility of a Mueller probe, no guessing about we think of Putin, no threats that would be waved off as bluster (meaning a foreign policy that might produce results), a repeal of Obamacare, and immgration reform and a budget much more inclined to conservative wishes because of a conservative who could credibly threaten a veto.

    Oh, and no need to titillate over possible pictures of the presidential membrum virile.

    Kishnevi (5a7bdb)

  123. 124.

    My theory is both Hillary and T

    Kishnevi (5a7bdb)

  124. I better look that one up, kishnevi…

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  125. That does seem crazy, from the holomodor to the cultural revolution, to the baathis bloodbath to the umap to the derge it seems to end the same way

    narciso (d1f714)

  126. I liked that word, too, Haiku. For a typo, it made sense.

    DRJ (15874d)

  127. My apologies: the best choice would have continued the alliteration but run afoul of The Filter

    Kishnevi (5a7bdb)

  128. Those all weren’t communist regimes, the baath styled themselves against the icp but it ends the same way. Now it was Barack sr that lamented in 1965 that Kenya had deviated from it’s promising Mau Mau roots.

    narciso (d1f714)

  129. Wow, kishnevi… that’s a new one. Kinda dresses the Johnson up in a toga.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  130. Didn’t the Baath say they were socialists?

    But it goes way back. See Rome 1st century BCE populares v optimates.

    Kishnevi (5a7bdb)

  131. Actually it was standard 19th century medical jargon.

    Kishnevi (5a7bdb)

  132. BTW, Julius Ceasar was a patrician who took up the populares side. Let us hope the parallels stop there.

    Kishnevi (5a7bdb)

  133. We can go back to the reign of terror, that prefigurex these things,in the modern era.

    narciso (d1f714)

  134. @127- uh-huh, and the swamp would have begged for mercy.

    In other news, at this point the budget probably isn’t our biggest worry.

    The world is being shaped in large part by two long-time trends: first, our lives are increasingly dematerialized, consisting of consuming and generating information online, both at work and at home. Second, AI is getting ever smarter.

    These two trends overlap at the level of the algorithms that shape our digital content consumption. Opaque social media algorithms get to decide, to an ever-increasing extent, which articles we read, who we keep in touch with, whose opinions we read, whose feedback we get

    Integrated over many years of exposure, the algorithmic curation of the information we consume gives the systems in charge considerable power over our lives, over who we become. By moving our lives to the digital realm, we become vulnerable to that which rules it — AI algorithms

    f Facebook gets to decide, over the span of many years, which news you will see (real or fake), whose political status updates you’ll see, and who will see yours, then Facebook is in effect in control of your political beliefs and your worldview

    This is not quite news, as Facebook has been known to run since at least 2013 a series of experiments in which they were able to successfully control the moods and decisions of unwitting users by tuning their newsfeeds’ contents, as well as prediction user’s future decisions

    in short, Facebook can simultaneously measure everything about us, and control the information we consume. When you have access to both perception and action, you’re looking at an AI problem. You can start establishing an optimization loop for human behavior. A RL loop.

    A loop in which you observe the current state of your targets and keep tuning what information you feed them, until you start observing the opinions and behaviors you wanted to see

    A good chunk of the field of AI research (especially the bits that Facebook has been investing in) is about developing algorithms to solve such optimization problems as efficiently as possible, to close the loop and achieve full control of the phenomenon at hand. In this case, us

    the Bas (3bcea0)

  135. When Adam delved and Eve span who then was the gentleman?

    –the medieval version.
    You’re right about the Jacobins being the beta version of Communism.

    Kishnevi (5a7bdb)

  136. the Bas– only if Facebook is your primary source of info.

    The techies and political class think so, but real life not so much…

    Kishnevi (5a7bdb)

  137. And don’t imagine Google is missing out on the fun.

    the Bas (3bcea0)

  138. add Facebook to the list of sleazy institutions what our president, President Donald Trump, has caused to be revealed as corrupt and morally deficient and untrustworthy

    it’s quite a list

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  139. The local pAper take the sun sensible please, and the ap new feed is very limited, but there are options if you where to look.

    No jacobinism was the hell on earth 1.0, Whigs like Charles fox were mistaken, Burke knew better.

    narciso (d1f714)

  140. Yes. Next thing I know you’ll be saying slavery was good for the blacks.


    Is that the next thing I’ll be saying, Kishnevi? You got it all figured out, don’t ya?

    Apartheid meant keeping blacks poor and penned up in ghettos, and there was never anything good about it. What’s playing out now in SA is the simple case of the suppressed realizing they can take everything the suppressors have and no reason not to. If Marxism is involved it’s simply window dressing for might-makes-right.
    Kishnevi (5a7bdb) — 3/23/2018 @ 6:41 pm


    You don’t know dick about apartheid except what you’ve been spoon fed by the leftist press. I guess you think Zimbabwe is better off now too. You have absolutely zero experience nor involvement in South Africa so your opinion is basically worthless. My family has been there since the 1700’s and we are well aware of the people and needs of the area. The hero of the Elite White Leftists was Nelson Mandela and his murdering wife Winnie and they were both communists as was Bishop Tutu. My family knew who they were and exactly what they were but you chose to believe the Walter Duranty’s of South Africa News. So you are now defending taking “everything the suppressors have and no reason not to” except “the suppressors” are all gone Kishnevi, they are murdering innocent people who weren’t alive during apartheid nor had any part in it. You are condoning the same racial genocide Hitler perpetrated when he claimed the Jews were “the oppressors” but it’s okay because you hate whites?

    I’m not allowed to tell you what I really think because I’ll be banned forever like comrade Ben. So you have the unfair advantage of being able to say any damn crap you want to me but I already came close to a flag so I’m gaged. I also don’t want to tell you what I think because any fellow American who suggests my family deserves to be raped and murdered because almost 30 years ago there was racial segregation is a pig. Segregation isn’t genocide, it’s separation. Your willingness to basically say my cousin deserved to be gang raped and murdered by kids who weren’t alive during apartheid is the most vile thing I’ve ever heard at this site.

    Thank you for your sympathy.

    Rev.Hoagie (1b0402)

  141. @141- if you went to that link and read it, I think you miss the point on it being just about Facebook.

    the Bas (3bcea0)

  142. No its about Twitter and Instagram, not Pinterest yet:

    Take this exercise in category wrror:

    narciso (d1f714)

  143. With the Presidency at the top.

    nk (dbc370)

  144. Error, the same carp we heard for 70 years

    https://aeon.co/essays/the-merits-of-taking-an-anti-anti-communism-stance

    narciso (d1f714)

  145. You know what? I’m so aggravated over your hate filled anti white ignorance I’m giving myself a hiatus, Kishnevi. I’m giving myself off till May Day. I’m pretty sure that’s good news for you. I hope that if and when I return you will block me as I will be blocking you.

    Now I’m going to try and help my family including my grandson who has gone all Farrakhan on us and is now an anti white racist also.

    Rev.Hoagie (1b0402)

  146. In Russia’s particular case, with a few exceptions the post communist regime were various factions of the nomenklatura the current ministers,came from the security services the oligarchs came from young pioneers and bureaucrafs

    narciso (d1f714)

  147. Note there is no wide spread progressive that he finds ridiculous, not Marxism not agw not existensialism

    narciso (d1f714)

  148. No its about Twitter and Instagram, not Pinterest yet

    Maybe ask Alexa or Siri?

    the Bas (3bcea0)

  149. If you haven’t noticed how comey traded places with rosenstein Mueller with fitz, goldsmiths with some character yett to

    narciso (d1f714)

  150. Samsung is betting there is a market for brainwashing.

    the Bas (3bcea0)

  151. Be named, fitz ends up a senior partner at a firm neck deep in the russia matter but he apparently skates Scot free.

    narciso (d1f714)

  152. A thing like Stormy Daniels being mentioned without spitting and an orange-skinned baboon occupying the White House are much more serious symptoms of our society’s disease than some manipulative social media.

    nk (dbc370)

  153. Hoagie… it is gut wrenching to read that… sickening. I remember reading a Car and Driver, one of those car mags, several years ago describing the latest hot-selling product in SA… it was designed to discourage auto theft… it was a spring-loaded iron bar that was mounted low in the footwell of the driver’s side, with a switch of some sort… if an “unauthorized” driver started the car, the iron bar sprung into action and normally broke both ankles of the miscreant. Sounds like things have gotten considerably worse.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  154. Since the Rev H has apparently blocked me, will someone please tell him
    1)I think what happened to his cousin and her husband was an evil thing?
    2) Marxism might be the excuse , but was not the reason for that evil.
    3) If he wants to have a hope of rescuing his grandson he needs to be understand segregation is inherently evil.

    Kishnevi (5a7bdb)

  155. As with greitens foolishness, there is less than meets the eye, now what this Nixon twerp did to Missouri is certainly nc 17

    narciso (d1f714)

  156. Simply for Trump this is a disaster; he’s been hoodwinked and coopted by the exact people he ran against.

    Bugg (08921e)

  157. It is the vehicle, of all revolutionary regimes, we had a small farm, the regime that so many right minded people slobber over dammed and flooded it, laying wAste to it, this is what Marxism is, it is the reverse of man exploiting man,some men seaming heaven on earth and,opening the gates to hell.

    narciso (d1f714)

  158. On the bright side, there’s a Fairly OddParents marathon on NTOONS tomorrow.

    nk (dbc370)

  159. So it’s really a question for the west, including the UK and France, thEy were given an opportunity with brexit but the wet Tories squandered in part because they have become ashamed of their history their culture,

    narciso (d1f714)

  160. Because silly me, I notice patterns Sarkozy was undone not by the swag that quadaffi handed him, but when his glass has was broken in touloise

    narciso (d1f714)

  161. Across the pond Boris Johnson isn’t a perfect vehicle, neither was Churchill in the early days, but better than Teresa may

    narciso (d1f714)

  162. So miss Clifford, Larry flynts admitted tool means nothing except squirrel.

    narciso (d1f714)

  163. @160- So, your saying Rev Hoagie’s difficulties with his grandson stem from Rev’s misunderstanding of segregation.

    Na, I ain’t telling him that, you’ve pis$ed him off enough for one day.

    Are you always this arrogant, or just on the internet?

    the Bas (3bcea0)

  164. @158, manipulative social media IS a disease, not a symptom.

    You are showing symptoms of the disease in your TDS.

    the Bas (3bcea0)

  165. It’s like groundhog day, thEy were screaming that Reagan was going to cause ww 3, that was the gospel of Caldecott scheer shell and talbott.

    The Sandinista and the mullahs were properly aggrieved and our problem wasn’t acquiescing to them sooner.

    narciso (d1f714)

  166. That was in the foreign front, criminals and welfare cheats,were equally entitled to their animus, restoring the study of the West in the name of then nouveau english professor skip gates was cannon as in lethal weapon.

    narciso (d1f714)

  167. Yeah, Reagan was a dunce who’s claim to fame was playing second fiddle to a chimp on TV, and his second wife spent all her time with astrologers while voodoo economics were bringing the country to ruin.

    Now it’s the next morning and the beat goes on.

    the Bas (3bcea0)

  168. It’s the Trumpkins who are deranged. Not to mention Trump himself.

    nk (dbc370)

  169. Comparing Trump to Reagan is like comparing Ru Paul to John Wayne.

    nk (dbc370)

  170. So a little perspective is in order.

    https://mobile.twitter.com/RobbieGramer/status/977347115725803522

    narciso (d1f714)

  171. I’m mAking the point the left’s playbook never changes, just kitty Kelley got to the scene late, but in time,for Dowd to do pr.

    narciso (d1f714)

  172. It was a spend-a-thon, not a compromuse. Everyone got something on their wish list, except: How was it a compromise for fiscal conservatives who want to spend less?

    The same way it was a compromise for the liberals who wanted to spend even more?

    And which fiscal conservatives wanted to spend less on the military? Not many, I think. (Note: I’m in favor of the increase in military spending)

    Devil’s advocate hat on again: the GOP wanted to spend more on the military and (generally) less on everything else; the Dems wanted to spend less on the military and more on everything else.

    So the compromise was a smaller increase in military/security spending than the GOP wanted, and a smaller increase in spending on non-defense/security programs than the Democrats wanted.

    We should always look to avoid or cut wasteful spending, but the fact is that non-defense discretionary spending is not the problem. We spend a considerably smaller fraction of GDP (1.5% of GDP less in 2016) on non-defense discretionary spending today than we did in 2000, when the government ran a surplus.

    The reason the budget as a whole nevertheless eats 3% of GDP more than in Y2K is because of defense (+0.3% of GDP compared to 2000) and entitlements (+4.2% of GDP compared to 2000). All numbers based on 2016 stats from the Trump White House website.

    tldr; “It’s the entitlements, stupid.”

    Dave (445e97)

  173. Actually I was comparing the narratives of Trump and Reagan.

    But still, Reagan imposed tariffs, significantly increased the debt, rattled sabers at communists, cut taxes, and made amnesty deals with democrats, so there are some pretty good comparisons between the two men.

    As for deranged, I’m not the one that he’s made bitter, full of rage, and scapegoating with all the world problems. You’ll find him in the mirror.

    the Bas (3bcea0)

  174. Marxism is never the answer. If that’s the path the SA people choose, they will learn the hard way.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  175. That professor at u miami,finds,that as ridiculous as flying spaghetti monster, which I’m guessing is a very selective creed.

    narciso (d1f714)

  176. For the record, I’m not full of rage, but I am pretty bitter about the republicans in congress. A more worthless, cowardly, self serving pack of back stabbers seldom are seen outside of prison.

    the Bas (3bcea0)

  177. They are a dissapointment, but then again I know the Florida legislature so dissapointment is not new.

    narciso (d1f714)

  178. For the record, I’m not full of rage, but I am pretty bitter about the republicans in congress. A more worthless, cowardly, self serving pack of back stabbers seldom are seen outside of prison.

    So you expect to have everything your way with a 50-49 split in the senate?

    Dave (445e97)

  179. When that crew includes mccain Graham flake and corker add tollie for flavor, you need a belt to avoid getting shanked oh burr as well.

    narciso (d1f714)

  180. heller’s pretty much a scumsuck too and harvardtrash ben sasse’s a preening narcissist while gardner’s an obnoxious prissy lightweight more in the kirsten gillibrand mold than anything recognizably male and republican

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  181. No, I don’t expect to have everything our way, but I expect the republicans to TRY and have everything our way. The democrats do when they have a majority.

    Take Obamacare. McConnell says he wants to repeal, but we only have one half of one third of government, we need the Senate. Then he gets the Senate, and he says it would take the president too. Then he gets the president too, and it turns out they got nothing.

    Dave, I understand what you are saying, and agree to a point, but do you really believe this budget was the best republicans could do?

    the Bas (3bcea0)

  182. by prioritizing the rapid confirmation of his corrupt pig wife early on Mitch McConnell established the now-prevailing ethos of self-dealing and self-enrichment what’s proven to have a robust appeal to many Republicans, particularly in the Senate

    you saw how President Trump is playing with the idea of bringing back earmarks?

    He knows *exactly* who these people are, and he’s thinking outside the box about how he can exploit their weakness and cowardice to accomplish at least some part of his agenda

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  183. President Trump reportedly used a vulgar remark while dismissing his advisers’ warnings against vetoing the massive spending bill this week.

    After aides told him that he could face backlash for allowing a government shutdown on a weekend he was scheduled to spend at his Florida resort, Trump responded “F— that,” according to The Wall Street Journal.

    that’s interesting

    he’s a very complex man, our president

    but this next part is even more intriguing

    The president disputed reports last week that he would fire national security adviser H.R. McMaster, telling advisers the reporters were “total f—ing bullsh!t,” according to the Journal.

    He announced Thursday that he would replace McMaster with former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton.

    the complete media blackout we’ve seen since Trump took out the McMaster trash is impressive – no mention anymore about how it was his corner of the office that leaked the briefing materials pertaining to President Trump’s call with Putin this week

    before President Trump poop-canned the loser the CNN Jake Tapper fake news propaganda sluts were quite chatty about it, but the new narrative is that getting rid of sleazy compromised leaking trash like HR McMaster was actually just President Trump being keyword hashtag “erratic”

    and the narrative is all they have anymore

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  184. I bet bet you called it right.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  185. your linker’s broken Mr. 57

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  186. Dave, I understand what you are saying, and agree to a point, but do you really believe this budget was the best republicans could do?

    I doubt it. On the other hand, I just don’t see the small increases involved as meriting the degree of hysteria on display.

    The number I saw (in National Review’s editorial slamming the omnibus) was a 13% increase in discretionary spending. The largest absolute increase, by far, is in defense (roughly $60B). If the 13% number is right, then that is $60B out of about $150B (in increases) going to defense. Another $7B went to Veterans Affairs, and $5B to Homeland Security. So we’re up to $72B out of $150B in areas that conservatives traditionally support, and that’s only three agencies.

    There are also examples of economizing. The State Dept. budget was reduced by 6%. The EPA budget was unchanged. Labor Dept. only 1.1% increase (less than inflation). Education (learning is bad!) only 3.8%.

    A 13% increase in discretionary spending corresponds to a 3.5% increase in total spending. That is less than the sum of real annual GDP growth + inflation.

    We have a long term problem with entitlement spending – that hasn’t changed. No doubt there are specific programs and waste that should not have been funded, as there always are. But these modest budget increases – after several years of nearly flat budgets due to continuing resolutions – are not the end of the world.

    Dave (445e97)

  187. Dave,

    Just because Republicans could have crammed even more Democratic priorities into the Omnibus doesn’t make it a compromise. The GOP controls Congress and the Presidency. Fiscal responsibility is supposed to be part of its DNA, not a negotiating ploy, and any compromises should be made between the various interest groups within the Party. This is not the time to include the funding priorities of the minority party unless they want to be the minority party again (especially when they promised restraint this year after last year’s budget buster.

    DRJ (15874d)

  188. National Review’s editorial makes good points, too. The Omnibus bill was produced in a terrible, non-transparent process; gives the minority party far too much power; benefits selected liberal groups/interests that most Republicans oppose; and spends money without any attempt to sunset, privatize or establish controls over waste/fraud. A compromise would try to do some of those things, unless the GOP doesn’t believe in them any more. (It doesn’t.)

    DRJ (15874d)

  189. “Fiscal responsibility” is a sham without reforming entitlement spending.

    Non-defense discretionary spending is currently about 1.5% of GDP *less* than in FY2000, when the budget was in surplus. Defense spending is only slightly (0.3% of GDP) larger. Entitlements are eating 4.2% MORE of GDP than in 2000, though.

    That is why we have $600B deficits instead of surpluses.

    (Numbers based on FY2016)

    Dave (445e97)

  190. We won’t have the willpower to take on “big” things like entitlement reform if we can’t say No to the “little” things like this.

    DRJ (15874d)

  191. Like trying to sustain a cocaine habit by collecting Green Stamps…

    Dave (445e97)

  192. Heh. That would be hard. And kind of nerdy.

    DRJ (15874d)

  193. Hoagie, such an awful thing to happen to your family. I can’t imagine what you must be feeling right now. My deepest condolences, sir.

    Leviticus (24b272)

  194. DRJ

    Republicans didn’t cram democrat priorities into the budget. Democrats, crammed wasteful spending to hold us hostage.

    This has been the messaging problem, it’s not the Republicans who are the problem, Daschele, Reid, and Schumer have misused the 60 vote rule to rule from the minority

    This needs to change

    Give trump t8he line item veto and it’s game over

    EPWJ (4dc563)

  195. Ha, ha, ha! What would Trump do with it? Line item vetoes are for real Presidents. The orange-skinned pansy does what the last person he spoke with tells him.

    nk (dbc370)

  196. Happyfeet: more of posts like #188, please.

    urbanleftbehind (cdd9e8)

  197. Thank you for confirming this is a wasteful omnibus that Trump and the GOP, who control the Presidency and Congress, let the minority decide. People who are that incompetent don’t deserve any power, let alone more power.

    DRJ (15874d)

  198. Trump trusts his instincts, which suggests he will run the White House like he ran Trump Tower, so this is probably true:

    Aides said there was no grand strategy to the president’s actions, and that he got up each morning this week not knowing what he would do. Much as he did as a New York businessman at Trump Tower, Mr. Trump watched television, reacted to what he saw on television and then reacted to the reaction.

    It also fits what we see, especially in his Twitter rants. Trump isn’t playing 3D chess, he’s winging it. That means he could be leading us to success or bankruptcy.

    DRJ (15874d)

  199. DRJ

    You can keep blaming Trump for something he didn’t ask for and probably a veto would have been overridden, or you can blame the democrats who blew out the bill…

    EPWJ (4dc563)

  200. Like Bill Clinton, that used it to punish Idaho potato farmers.

    narciso (d1f714)

  201. 160.Since the Rev H has apparently blocked me, will someone please tell him
    1)I think what happened to his cousin and her husband was an evil thing?
    2) Marxism might be the excuse , but was not the reason for that evil.
    3) If he wants to have a hope of rescuing his grandson he needs to be understand segregation is inherently evil.
    Kishnevi (5a7bdb) — 3/23/2018 @ 8:19 pm


    Every time you comment they become more absurd and deranged. So let’s take these three idiotic comment one at a time.

    First you do not “think what happened to his cousin and her husband was an evil thing?”. Why the question mark?

    You already stated “What’s playing out now in SA is the simple case of the suppressed realizing they can take everything the suppressors have and no reason not to” which sounds to me like you support them taking “everything the suppressors have” up to and including their lives. You also haven’t explained how a 32yo mother constitutes a suppressor or how ten 25yo thugs constitute the suppressed when none of them were alive nor participated in apartheid. BTW, that greed and envy “played out” back in the eighties. The fact it continues proves you’re wrong about it’s motivation.

    Second you foolishly or ignorantly state “Marxism might be the excuse , but was not the reason for that evil.” Wrong again. Do you spend your time reading Pravda, the New York Times and listening to CNN because that’s the only way one could ever believe Marxism or communism is not behind most of the worlds misery and death. The entire ANC was designed and promoted by communists to wrench power from the white SA people and place it and all the assets and natural resources in the hands of the “controllable” black tribes. They did to SA whites what the left in America is currently doing with gun control. They’re putting sad faces of the injustice in the form of victims and children before the people (with the help of the usual suspects like the NYT and CNN) to demand, demand I say a change in the status quo. Damn who gets hurt or whether it’s good or bad for those very people.

    And the reason the communists wanted SA was for it’s natural resources: gold, platinum, diamonds, tin, iron, uranium, copper, silver, petroleum and many more. Chinese small businessmen who have been part of SA for decades are now leaving in droves because it’s unsafe under the black régime. But, and this you won’t see in the NYT, large state owned Chinese companies are quietly moving in and taking over the formerly white mining, etcetera.

    In case you haven’t sufficiently observed from the last century, Marxism and communism are never an “excuse” for murder, theft, rape and conquest. They are the reason for them since they are part of the plan. You now, features not bugs.

    Finally, the third leg of your milking stool of stupidity: “If he wants to have a hope of rescuing his grandson he needs to be understand segregation is inherently evil.”

    Segregation is not inherently evil any more than integration is inherently good. What segregation is, is inherently natural. People like to be with their own kind. That sir, is human nature (something that you leftist fight against constantly). Most of my friends are white. Most of my wife’s friends are Asian. Most of my sons friends are black. Wonder why? Segregation, that’s why. Personal, individual, natural segregation. I live in a predominantly white neighborhood because I want to and frankly neither you nor anybody else has the moral right to tell me I can’t.

    If OTOH, Kishnevi you were to state: “Government enforced segregation is evil” then I would most certainly agree. But I also believe government forced integration is evil. The government has no moral right to tell me who I must deal with, live with, work with or associate with in any way but voluntarily and it also has no moral right to tell me who I can’t. It’s no more up to the government to decide if there are too many Asians at Harvard than it is for them to decide there are too many Lutherans at my church so we have to accommodate 10 Catholics, 2 Jews a Mormon and a moslem.

    Furthermore, since when do you get off telling me how to “rescue my grandson”? My sister and I were marching with Dr. King most likely before you were born. I lived in segregation times and saw what government enforced segregation looked like. I drank at “colored only” fountains, went in “colored only” entrances to diners and got hosed by Southern cops enforcing the “law” in Mississippi. My grandson is under the allure of anti white racism prompted by communist agitators in Black Lives Matter and egged on by Black racist-separatists in the Nation of Islam.

    These are not you usual racist segregationists promoting a government enforced policy on all the people. These are blacks who seek revenge, retribution and reparation for slavery that ended 150 years ago. You know, Kishnevi, just a ” simple case of the suppressed realizing they can take everything the suppressors have and no reason not to” like you said about South Africa. And just like it doesn’t matter how many innocent people who had nothing to do with the grievance committed must be raped or murdered in SA, it won’t matter here either. That’s how communism works. It seduces men’s hearts toward the ugly because “they deserve more” and it’s the other guys fault they don’t have it. They are communism’s features: greed, envy, lust, sloth, anger, gluttony and pride. Are you beginning to see a pattern? All the Marxist/commies need do is fan the flames of these small fires and Humanity and Liberty are consumed. Or isn’t the examples of the 20th century good enough?

    P.S. I can’t find the stupid blocking code anyway so I’ll just go away for a while.

    Rev.Hoagie (1b0402)

  202. Hoagie, kishnevi has a question mark because he was asking a question: “Will someone please tell him (Hoagie) that I think what happened to his cousin and her husband was an evil thing?” We all think it’s horrible and evil.

    DRJ (15874d)

  203. When will the RICO statute be used against the Obama Crime Family? https://pjmedia.com/trending/obama-regs-on-for-profit-colleges-finance-railroads-and-airlines-all-profited-his-best-friend/

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  204. The anc is roughly comparable to the naacp, when they embraced communism after 1948, and adopted a,solidly Stalinist line, umkhonto is similar to the plo having similar eastern European sponsorship

    narciso (d1f714)

  205. Thank you for commenting, EPWJ.

    DRJ (15874d)

  206. Trump is fortunate to have such a faithful supporter.

    DRJ (15874d)

  207. And who allowed the dems to do that, McConnell and Cornyn, the mics Bill might be of some use, also not all appropriated funds need to be spent

    narciso (d1f714)

  208. If nationAl review addressed Cornyn and McConnell and Ryan and McCarthy by name:

    narciso (d1f714)

  209. DRJ

    Clinton had low budget deficits
    GWB had much lower deficits

    Few here would say they were more conservative than Reagan

    EPWJ (ce1bf7)

  210. Do you think Reagan believed increasing the deficit was a good thing?

    DRJ (15874d)

  211. No but it was a trade-off re the defense budget, he incurred a lot of carp from Bill Moyers for minimal reductions in the rate of growth in domestic provrams.

    narciso (d1f714)

  212. We’re discussing deficits but there is also the other D word — debt, EPWJ. Trump’s budget request as projected in his FY2019 budget would add a lot of debt, wouldn’t it?

    DRJ (15874d)

  213. The problem with Trump trusting his instincts is what hey are built upon: vacillating emotions changing at any given moment. This is acceptable and expected when you’re a child/teenager and in the process of maturation but not when you’re a sitting president and in your 70’s. Trump has little, if any inner life and certainly no mooring or foundation upon which it has been built to inform him of decision-making. Thus trusting his instincts is instead something that is momentary, and in his particular case, determining who is on his side, no matter what (Fox & Friends), and then going with whatever they say. I guess there is some “strategy” in that because he knows they best speak for his base, and he is a man that likes to be adored and he needs to keep his base fed.

    Dana (023079)

  214. I agree Reagan made a trade-off between defense and the deficit, narciso. I think it was worth it to defeat the Soviet Union.

    I also think Trump and many supporters believe Trump had similar motives in getting military funding in the Omnibus bill … but, if so, at what cost? Will the GOP always be willing to fund the Democratic wishlist in order to fund the military? I don’t think voters signed on for that when they elected Republicans.

    DRJ (15874d)

  215. Dana, vacillating is such a good word to use for Trump. He is very strong-willed so I think he could be an effective President if he had principles to help him identify and accomplish specific goals.

    As a property developer, he knew what properties he wanted and was determined in obtaining them. He knew he wanted to be President, too, and was relentless in pursuing that. But he has no clear goals or principles as President, other than the vague MAGA and something-something-tariffs and The Best Wall.

    DRJ (15874d)

  216. Dana,

    This is totally off-topic but I love this article and want to share it with you because I know you will love it, too.

    DRJ (15874d)

  217. DRJ

    Yes, he thought it was good if the economy was growing, after all he started the pattern of massive deficit growth

    EPWJ (4dc563)

  218. DRJ

    I’m not familiar with “The Balance”, nor with the author. I think the best evidence is the fairly neutral source, the exact numbers…

    https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/historical-tables/

    Any meaningful discussions can be made by the data therein

    EPWJ (4dc563)

  219. Actually his been rather direct in what he wanted, tillerson for instance wanted to keep the Rhodesia road show enabler, like nourazadeh, we see kirikaou never stopped being a traitor, a he sells him to the Russians cheap, wylie is as fake as a three pound note, but by all means more stormy, eleventh!!!

    narciso (d1f714)

  220. Year. Revenues. Expenditures. Deficit/surplus
    2017 3,316,182 3,981,554 -665,372
    2018 estimate 3,340,360 4,172,992 -832,632
    2019 estimate 3,422,301 4,406,696 -984,395
    2020 estimate 3,608,933 4,595,882 -986,949
    2021 estimate 3,838,197 4,754,116 -915,919
    2022 estimate 4,088,682 4,996,465 -907,783
    2023 estimate 4,386,112 5,164,605 -778,493

    These are from the OMB spreadsheet as of this morning

    Note, do these growth patterns match the Reagan cuts which were not as deep as DTJ’s?

    Also, this reflects why we need more R’s and less D’s In office

    EPWJ (4dc563)

  221. Dana,

    This’s is totally off-topic but I love this article and want to share it with you because I know you will love it, too.

    I was talking with a good friend about this issue yesterday. I just texted him the link.

    Patterico (8f0cf2)

  222. Well … Reagan told his biographer that the federal budget deficit was “one of my greatest disappointments” so I don’t think it’s accurate that “he thought it was good.” However, Reagan never really seemed to try to balance the budget. I view his budgets as effectively war-time budgets but it was the Cold War he fought, not a declared war.

    DRJ (15874d)

  223. I was talking with a good friend about this issue yesterday. I just texted him the link.

    Patterico (8f0cf2) — 3/24/2018 @ 8:44 am

    I love the moments when our lives intersect unexpectedly.

    DRJ (15874d)

  224. this is so us

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  225. Apparently Rs and Ds are not that different anymore, EPWJ. We need more conservatives.

    DRJ (15874d)

  226. I like it when you are friendly and kind, too, happyfeet. That doesn’t happen much anymore.

    DRJ (15874d)

  227. Yes my experience is they are wonderful sweet children, there is something evil in the euthenist movement,

    narciso (d1f714)

  228. DRJ,

    I agree we need more republicans

    EPWJ (4dc563)

  229. The cold war could turn hot, at the fulda gap, in Cuba, Afghanistan posed the potential against Afghanistan this what Reagan’s constructive engagement concerned, there was no love for the Boer regime.

    narciso (d1f714)

  230. As Dana ward kept snarling me, Miami was a crossroads for the central American operations, which often didn’t involve persons you might not want to invite to dinner.

    narciso (d1f714)

  231. No, we don’t agree, EPWJ. Republicans aren’t conservative now.

    DRJ (15874d)

  232. Trump has little, if any inner life and certainly no mooring or foundation upon which it has been built to inform him of decision-making.

    Self-love Self-worship is his mooring, foundation and inner life.

    I like it when you are friendly and kind, too, happyfeet. That doesn’t happen much anymore.

    happyfeet and I have diametrically-opposite views of many things. His intemperate language and endless insults to our military are in extremely poor taste. But he is one of the few people here who are light-hearted, and he is never nasty to other commenters; I like that about him.

    Dave (445e97)

  233. Yes Phil bryants recent decision makes it clear, cutting mcdaniel out entirely

    narciso (d1f714)

  234. Look at your “neutral White House” budget numbers at comment 238, EPWJ. 2017 and 2018 are based on Obama’s Presidency, and 2019- on are Trump numbers. There is no difference.

    DRJ (15874d)

  235. At least Obama had big hands, good hair and good manners.

    nk (dbc370)

  236. And a much healthier skin tone.

    nk (dbc370)

  237. And his own teeth.

    nk (dbc370)

  238. happyfeet was one of the reasons Patterico posted the disappearing comment tool. I don’t use that tool and still read some of his comments. They may not be aimed at people here (other than Patterico, which is a big exception), but they are often harsh. I certainly wouldn’t describe his John McCain comments as light-hearted.

    DRJ (15874d)

  239. Trump has his own teeth, nk, he bought ‘em, just like your mom did.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  240. At least Obama had big hands, good hair and good manners.

    Trump is twice the man Obama is. In terms of mass, anyway.

    Dave (445e97)

  241. Hoagie,

    The stupid blocking code is conveniently located on the sidebar.

    I’d hate for you to go away for any period of time after your 207, which is largely one of your better comments — not the parts that aim fire directly at kishnevi, but many of the other parts.

    I think DRJ explained at least one misunderstanding between you and kishnevi, but let’s put your upset with him aside.

    I think your distinction between segregation and government-ordered segregation is important and quite correct. And it’s moving to see that you fought some of these battles yourself, at no inconsiderable risk to yourself. I think that’s admirable and I bet it would surprise a lot of people.

    Again, I don’t think you need to block kishnevi, who (if you talk to him with an open and charitable mind) is one of our better commenters.

    But if you want to? Right sidebar. The instructions are so clear even I was able to understand them.

    Patterico (115b1f)

  242. I certainly wouldn’t describe his John McCain comments as light-hearted.

    They are, and they aren’t. I think he is trying to be silly, but going too far.

    Dave (445e97)

  243. Ok, Haiku, I’ll concede the teeth.

    nk (dbc370)

  244. What you call silly, I call being mean. Either way, hf’s comments end up generating sympathy for McCain. McCain’s policies are emotion-driven and inconsistent (like Trump’s), and that makes them easy to criticize and discredit. But it rarely happens because hf derails the discussion (perhaps intentionally) and that is the opposite of light-hearted.

    I know from experience that hf can be light-hearted, extremely clever, and make excellent contributions … when he isn’t trying to be so snarky or cruel. I hope that nicer hf returns.

    DRJ (15874d)

  245. McCain and Trump are a lot alike. Older, Alpha males who control their domains, don’t tolerate criticism, operate based on instinct, and often show emotion. No wonder they butt heads so much.

    DRJ (15874d)

  246. it’s not “our” military anymore 🙁

    food stamp purged that one

    this frilly panty mattis military

    it’s got its own agenda

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  247. Of course mccain knows deripasha Milan, most of these dossier varmints, he was in touch with the Libyan and Syrian task force leader through Mrs obagy, he slobbered all over quadacfi in 2008 and became frenemies in 2011-2, which makes his banging on about benghazi so ironic

    narciso (c4f62b)

  248. McCain and Trump are a lot alike.

    I disagree. I don’t think McCain operates based on instinct or is governed by emotion. I think he has a well-defined set of principles, and he weighs his decisions according to all of them. Loyalty to party just has a lower weight for him than it does for some others.

    Dave (445e97)

  249. What I like most about McCain is his opposition to the torture of prisoners a/k/a enhanced interrogation which he has consistently maintained to this day.

    As a pilot he went through SERE training, and as a prisoner he underwent the actual torture and brainwashing the CIA indulged in at Gitmo and at extraordinary rendition facilities overseas, so he knows that the “our troops undergo it too as part of their training” mantra is bullschiff.

    And he and I have something else in common. They did something to my brain too.

    nk (dbc370)

  250. DRJ

    Conservatives are Republicans, Republicans are conservatives. People have different views on levels of conservative, just like people have different taste in coffee.

    Im not happy w this bill, im not happy that we dont have 70 gop senators.

    EPWJ (4dc563)

  251. DRJ

    The estimates of future revenues and spending come from various sources. They are meaningless

    EPWJ (4dc563)

  252. here is a good example of crash dummy mccain principle

    he went to the wall for years and years like a brainwashed hateful trash-bigot to retain the policy where gay soldiers were dishonorably discharged

    trannies?

    no problem! boys in frilly panties just what the military needs!

    principle!

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  253. Dave, I don’t expect you to take my word for it. McCain has described his decision-making as “instinctive, often impulsive.” He put it in his memoir.

    DRJ (15874d)

  254. Whatever happyfeet does, he means to do. I am confident of that.

    Leviticus (24b272)

  255. Then why did you reprint the numbers above, EPWJ, if you think they are meaningless? No wonder you don’t care about the Omnibus or the budget if you are ignoring future numbers as meaningless. Is that the difference between my Not-A-Republican Conservatism and your idea of Republicans?

    DRJ (15874d)

  256. mr, trump the president the president will change that policy so that now when a lesbian tatter puts her hand up another tatter’s skirt she won’t get a nasty surprise

    nk (dbc370)

  257. mr. the president

    nk (dbc370)

  258. The views of the country as a whole on the toleration of homosexuals have evolved considerably over the last decades.

    McCain voted against MLK Day in 1983, too, and later admitted he was wrong.

    We can’t all be infallible 100% of the time, like Donald Trump.

    Dave (445e97)

  259. Leviticus, how do I donate to your daughter?

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  260. It’s only going to be ten bucks. So I’m still the jerk you always knew.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  261. “The poetry of Octavio Paz does not hesitate between language and silence; it leads into the realm of silence where true language lives.” – Ramón Xirau

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  262. We can’t all be infallible 100% of the time, like Donald Trump.
    Dave (445e97) — 3/24/2018 @ 10:41 am

    Here I was thinking I’m the only guy who is always right all the time on the internet.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  263. The article you linked describes McCain as deliberative and self-critical.

    [H]e has also learned to cultivate what Navy pilots called “situational awareness” — gathering as much information as possible about the context of any decision, including an inventory of his weaknesses and his enemy’s strengths.
    […]
    He reads widely, not only in public policy but also in fiction and history.

    Doesn’t sound much like Donald Trump to me.

    Dave (445e97)

  264. DRJ @ 224,

    Absolutely wonderful story. Thanks.

    A reminder of just how condescending and self-righteous Macus was in what she *knew* she would do if carrying a baby with an extra chromosome. A few days mourning for aborting them and then back to the vending machine to choose a more preferable type of candy.

    Dana (023079)

  265. “The poetry of Octavio Paz does not hesitate between language and silence; it leads into the realm of silence where true language lives.” – Ramón Xirau

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNocWjBqA-8

    A poem.

    The Death of the Ball turret Gunner

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  266. Steve57 (0b1dac) — 3/24/2018 @ 10:49 am
    go here to donate, Steve 57. Send the money to Patterico.

    felipe (023cc9)

  267. Off how thorsness day and a host of other Hanoi Hilton veterans didn’t have a,problem with it, maybe it’s nccainx category

    narciso (1c8b1e)

  268. Because they knew the difference between military official who qualify for Geneva and stateless terrorist that dont abide by any flag

    narciso (1c8b1e)

  269. I am stoopid.

    Which should be obvious, since I joined the Navy.

    So I gave the minimum 75 bucks

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  270. DRJ

    The estimates of future revenues are unknown, most likely on the low side. Growth, jobs do several things, they stop people from using welfare because they are working, which should slow growth in spending.

    It also increases revenues to the treasury.

    The dems got too much, why? They would rather see our service men and women die, they would rather see a city of a million die, than not.

    That’s the point.

    EPWJ (4dc563)

  271. as long as “conservatives” keep stroking their obscene military fetish the democrats will always always always be able to use military funding increases to extort yummy welfare increases – the left doesn’t care: big military budgets help them do cloward piven all up in it and displace productive capital from the real world economy to the bizarre sordid and wasteful pentagon piggy economy

    this is why food stamp never really worried much about drawing down in the laughably humiliating theaters of iraq and afghanistan where America has made such a clownish goddamn fool of herself

    and when you combine democrat extortion with the extortions and special pleadings of cowardly trash like john mccain and sloppy panty-wearing pentagon piggies like General Mattis what you have isn’t a tendency towards higher spending

    you have a de facto ratchet effect

    and this is not President Trump’s fault

    his thinking is he needs to have a strong military at the table with us with North Korea

    we’ll see if he’s right – he’s relying on a partnership with a sleazy corrupt incompetent military that’s had decades to prepare for a korean conflict but what’s spectacularly dropped the ball (and not for a lack of funding)

    what we do know

    and if there’s any comfort to be drawn from this sad and sorry situation

    is that we’ll know in the fairly near term whether President Trump made the right choice in trusting the skeevy sketchy pentagon

    buenos and also suerte with that mi presidente

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  272. Stepping over what I am certain is another steaming pile of vulgar trolling….

    Thank you DRJ, Dana, and Patterico for suggesting this link:

    http://www.weeklystandard.com/ruth-meet-gracie/article/2012068

    It was effective and moving. Uplifting.

    Simon Jester (87bfcc)

  273. Dave,

    First, that is an excellent point about McCain’s fondness for reading. That is definitely a characteristic he doesn’t share with Trump.

    Second, my understanding about situational awareness for pilots comes primarily from my father who was a military pilot. I think it means being as prepared as you can be and then trust your instincts.

    McCain the pilot may be better at preparation than Trump the real estate developer, or he may not be. However, both believe they have a lifetime of learning they bring to every decision, so they aren’t afraid to make quick decisions based on their instincts. I think they have that in common.

    DRJ (15874d)

  274. The dems got too much, why? They would rather see our service men and women die, they would rather see a city of a million die, than not.

    Wow. Do you think that about all Democrats?

    DRJ (15874d)

  275. Hi Simon Jester. Are you having a good Saturday?

    DRJ (15874d)

  276. That was a generous gift, Steve57. I think Leviticus might have been up early with his daughter this morning and he dropped in here. I know they will appreciate your gift.

    DRJ (15874d)

  277. DRJ, McCain was a legit hero.

    https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Air_Medal_with_numeral_2_-_John_McCain

    for service as set forth in the following

    CITATION:

    For meritorious achievement aerial flight as a pilot in Attack Squadron ONE HUNDRED SIXTY-THREE, embarked in USS ORISKANY (CVA-34), during missions in support of combat operations in Southeast Asia against the insurgent communist guerrilla forces from 25 July to 21 October 1967. In the successful completion of these missions, Lieutenant Commander McCain contributed materially to the success of United States efforts in Southeast Asia. His skill, courage and devotion to duty in the face of hazardous flying conditions were in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.

    The Numeral “2” to represent Two strike/Flight Awards is authorized.
    For the President,
    John W. Warner
    Secretary of the Navy

    There is no slack in light attack.

    I despise the politician. I respect the aviator.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  278. I’m so old I can still remember giving soviet recce training to the Harley drivers.

    Also known as the A-7 pilots.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  279. Bringing up Reagan v Trump is all well and good but the last democrat that was anywhere close to Daniel Patrick Moynihan just got planted in the ground.

    Pinandpuller (e81c8f)

  280. Is it true John McCain hasn’t left Arizona since December?

    Pinandpuller (e81c8f)

  281. The shy one, behind the island.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  282. He is a hero, Steve57. I can’t think of words to describe what he went through, and how amazing it is he not only survived but prevailed.

    DRJ (15874d)

  283. You got me! I actually clicked on the link and was ready to count faces.

    DRJ (15874d)

  284. You can’t see me, DRJ. I’m behind steel.

    Which is where I need to be.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  285. Steve57,

    Many thanks to you, sir. My wife and I really appreciate it.

    The gift that the members of this community have given to our daughter is truly special. It will be a very cool feeling, years and years from now, to tell her that the beginnings of her college fund came from members of this community.

    Leviticus (24b272)

  286. Steve #286: that is exactly right, and thank you. I simple despise this awful habit that has developed where if we do not like a person’s politics, we feel the need to insult and degrade them in a “mean girls” kind of way.

    It’s everywhere—not just in the comments section of blogs—and it turns my stomach. It’s part of the inflammation that drives our hyperpolarized system.

    Simon Jester (87bfcc)

  287. And that will be a great story, Leviticus. May your beautiful daughter live in sunnier times when she is ready for college!

    Simon Jester (87bfcc)

  288. Hi DRJ: I didn’t see your message. Thank you very much. My wife is out of town at an academic conference, and I have been ferrying our sons to music lessons. My 17 year old is narrowing his choice of colleges (so proud of him), and my 14 year old has one heck of a report card.

    I am rich in all the ways that truly matter.

    My wife was invited to give a research talk in Panama in late June. I hate hot weather, but she has been wonderful to me. So wish me luck avoiding mosquitos!

    Simon Jester (87bfcc)

  289. That’s a lot of great news, Simon. Congratulations, but I’m having trouble getting past 14 and 17. To me, they are still darling 5 and 8-year olds and now you’re talking about college.

    DRJ (15874d)

  290. If either one ever wants to talk to someone about a legal or law-related career or about a Texas college, email me.

    DRJ (15874d)

  291. This, right here, is what makes Patterico’s place worthwhile. I can get (and I do) irritable with some of the people. A couple just make me not want to post. But the kinds of events that have happened here recently: honorinf Leviticus’ daughter, support for Hoagie’s sad news, and so forth….well, they remind me of the true value of the people here. That’s independent of differences…and should be the goal for everyone, including me.

    Simon Jester (87bfcc)

  292. Oh, and DRJ, I will send you photos of these two as little ones and now. Time doesn’t fly; it flees.

    Simon Jester (87bfcc)

  293. Hmmm, this is interesting, particularly with Bolton signing on as NSA.

    And let’s not forget Joe diGenova.

    the Bas (3bcea0)

  294. you’re irritable a LOT and you know that sort of thing only gets worse as you get older just look at poopstain mccain

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  295. you’re irritable a LOT and you know that sort of thing only gets worse as you get older just look at poopstain mccain

    Or Donald Trump

    Patterico (115b1f)

  296. In all seriousness, happyfeet, keep your views about Simon Jester to yourself. It doesn’t add anything, it’s not funny, and I respect him a lot more than I respect you. So run your yammering mouth about how much you love Donald Trump blah blah blah, but leave him alone or I’ll put you in a timeout.

    If your response to this comment even mentions him or alludes to him that’s a day timeout minimum. I’m serious.

    Patterico (115b1f)

  297. i think he has a lot of fools around and he’s not very inclined to suffer them, but it’s getting better 🙂

    sleazy leaky diaper HR McMaster’s grilling brat-style sausage product with Andy McCabe this afternoon what they got on sale at the dollar general

    and neither one of them have any place to be come Monday

    it would be depressing to be them I think but this is what happens when you don’t add value

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  298. oh to be clear #308 is a response to your comment at #306, if the numbers are tracking on this thread

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  299. Full disclosure if you start suspending people: I criticized happyfeet today for being mean. I intended the criticism in a constructive way and I also complimented him, but it’s hard to take blunt criticism. I’m happy to take a break if you want because I think it should be said.

    DRJ (15874d)

  300. Earlier this week, I also thought narciso should try to be more clear and I’m not sorry I discussed that with him. I’ve been on a bluntly honest kick but I’m finished now.

    DRJ (15874d)

  301. i love you a bushel and a peck a bushel and a peck you bet your purdy neck

    oh btw i think i have dinner plans later

    a new “modern mexican” place I’m having a hard time getting worked up about but the guy what did the cocktail menu is legit and the have some sotol cocktails to try

    sotol’s in the agave family but it’s NOT agave – very different looking plant

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  302. Full disclosure if you start suspending people: I criticized happyfeet today for being mean. I intended the criticism in a constructive way and I also complimented him, but it’s hard to take blunt criticism. I’m happy to take a break if you want because I think it should be said.

    I just told him I don’t respect him. There is a sliding scale for the respect you deserve based on what you earn. You were right to say it and if anyone takes an enforced break, it will be him and not you.

    Patterico (115b1f)

  303. oops *they* have some sotol cocktails i mean

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  304. It must be hard moving from California to Illinois, Mexican restaurant wise.

    May you find deliciousness if not authenticity.

    the Bas (3bcea0)

  305. here is a sotol plant like many desert plants it grows that thing (botanical term)

    whenever you see a desert plant with that thing you have to know the little plant is not long for this whirl

    apparently making “the thing” is pretty much their whole mission in life and then they die

    I don’t think any of them make multiple things

    not that I’ve ever heard of

    Desert plants!

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  306. What does modern Mexican mean in Chicago?

    DRJ (15874d)

  307. The popular thing here is Spanish tapas.

    DRJ (15874d)

  308. I never liked you. But that wasn’t the point. I hope you show up for the funeral.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  309. Proverbs 24:23
    These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.

    the Bas (3bcea0)

  310. Mr. Bas i still don’t have a go-to Mexican place

    i guess the closest, going just by how many times I been, is Casa Laredo, which is a chain restaurant but the one here has nice execution

    but it’s happy hour mexican not Sunday morning hangover mexican

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  311. I guess what happyfeet is saying is – Chicago needs more Mexican immigrants, to start restaurants and feed him

    Dave (445e97)

  312. modern Mexican in chicago takes its cues from Rick Bayless largely

    this is his best most-celebrated effort

    the obamas are relatively frequent diners there

    i been a couple times and I’ll do quite a few more restaurants before circling back

    their motto is

    “we always try to do authentic but if we can’t do authentic we do local”

    which is not a very fun motto if you ask me

    so we go

    and we do a tasting menu what was focused on oaxacan food (the tasting menu I had in mind when I booked had been retired)

    and the most substantial dish what came towards the end

    was… elk with mole

    and yeah it was delicious

    but it was also gimmicky and silly

    but that’s kinda par for the course of what you’re in for when you go to “modern mexican”

    oh – their desserts are frankly pretty joyless and terrible – that’s another great lens through which you can get a quick handle on this modern mexican thing

    they’ll take odd fruits that are sharp with unpleasant textures and work them into something kind of recognizable like a tort or a sundae

    it’s all just kind of contrived

    for that dinner we got to sit at the barack and michelle table

    when they told us that all of us struggled to come up with a polite reaction

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  313. There is pretty good menudo in a can, Juanita’s, if you can find it there.

    Saves you having to put on pants while hungover.

    the Bas (3bcea0)

  314. the thing about topo I should say is it’s very very *pretty* food

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  315. yes yes I know Juanita’s from LA i love their pozole

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  316. Tapas are mostly pretty. I like mole but it’s hard to do right.

    DRJ (0280d9)

  317. You crave what is familiar, there are tradeoffs to being an more or less metropolitan area.

    narciso (d1f714)

  318. the other thing about Topo is to go to the bathroom you walk through the kitchen, which ok that’s fun

    but all of us kinda felt that the kitchen and wait staff weren’t being spoken to in an appropriate tone at all

    that’s something that can take the shine off a place really fast

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  319. i LOVE mole but the best mole I’ve ever had was a shredded chicken mole dish I’d get in LA with NG all the time and eat every bite and it was $8.99

    we still talk about that place

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  320. Tapas came up here recently

    i think cause of something maybe Mr. nk brought up let me see if i have a bookmark

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  321. Dave, There are plenty of Americans of Mexican descent enough to fulfil the countries dining desires. No need for more immigrants.

    I know my town could spare a few, ya can’t throw a dead cat without it hitting a Mexican restaurant where I live.

    Yet no decent steak house. Go figure.

    the Bas (3bcea0)

  322. Wonderful Simon, what will she be lecturing on.

    narciso (d1f714)

  323. i think it might have been a potato omelette

    probably there’s an analog in greek cuisine maybe

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  324. She’s a math genius, narciso. There’s probably some specific title and substance to her talk but I’m going with math genius.

    DRJ (0280d9)

  325. I married up, narciso and DRJ. Way up.

    I highly recommend that strategy.

    Simon Jester (87bfcc)

  326. but it’s happy hour mexican not Sunday morning hangover mexican
    happyfeet (28a91b) — 3/24/2018 @ 3:31 pm

    You should be more careful what you ask for, Mr. feets.

    Mike Benevidez.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=26&v=_oUtJxE4sjs

    MSG Roy Benavidez speech 1991

    Ask me about White Feather.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  327. oops apparently “modern mexican” is booked solid for the next 6 weeks so we’re gonna wait and see if we can get a shoulder seating at 9 or so

    the other option is to go on monday

    i didn’t make reservations cause my friend F is besties with the GM and I kinda thought they’d handled that part

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  328. that doesn’t sound like no Benavidez that sounds like Ronald Reagan

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  329. I find mole sauce way overpowering and not in a good way. Like smothering a steak in catsup. The wife likes it on a chicken enchilada.

    Me?, I’m more chili verde type.

    the Bas (3bcea0)

  330. I married up, narciso and DRJ. Way up.

    I highly recommend that strategy.

    Simon Jester (87bfcc) — 3/24/2018 @ 3:59 pm

    Does she have a sister?

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  331. there’s a TON of different moles Mr. Bas a *myriad* as they say

    mole just means sauce hence *guaca* mole

    try the jarred versions – the cute kind where you can use the jar as an orange juice glass when you’re done

    they’re *super* easy to work with and you control the consistency

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  332. Dear Steve:

    Thanks for that link! I remember 1980 very well:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Benavidez#Medal_of_Honor

    Wow.

    Yes, my wife has several sisters. It seems to be a family trait, to have them find people to help and support! My brothers-in-law agree.

    Simon Jester (87bfcc)

  333. that doesn’t sound like no Benavidez that sounds like Ronald Reagan
    happyfeet (28a91b) — 3/24/2018 @ 4:03 pm </blockquote

    They call me Shrimp Cocktail. My nickname.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  334. Oh, well what’s generically known as mole sauce around here, if you just ask for that at El Tapitito for instance, is a chile and chocolate concoction like this. I’m a huge fan of chocolate, don’t get me wrong, I just prefer it isn’t on my main dinner course. YMMV.

    the Bas (3bcea0)

  335. why aren’t you living on a boat cause your life your love and your lady is the sea

    i’d do that in a goddamn minute except for the ocean scares the crap out of me

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  336. Actually my nickname was Holy. Because my last name rhymed with Toledo.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  337. yes yes i remember getting mole in san antonio when i was little cause it was “chocolate”

    i didn’t circle back on mole for a good couple decades

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  338. It kills me that people think I’m a racist.

    http://articles.latimes.com/2005/nov/13/local/me-then13

    ‘The Pied Piper of Saipan’ Stood Tall During WWII

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  339. Dave, There are plenty of Americans of Mexican descent enough to fulfil the countries dining desires.

    After they’ve eaten McDonalds enough times though, it becomes like Taco Bell. No bueno.

    Dave (445e97)

  340. we have a new taco bell downtown it serves alcohol

    this is the future except for you can get it right now

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  341. There is a tijuana flats place down here, that is pretty good, don’t know if its regional.

    narciso (d1f714)

  342. There are some very good Mexican restaurants in Berwyn. In fact, I’d venture to say that “the good Mexicans restaurants are in Berwyn”. Lalo’s and Zacatacos are two that my family and I patronize regularly. Lalo’s has something for everybody, from takeout to a normal dinner to a fancy-shmancy dining-room/lounge with a mariachi band.

    nk (dbc370)

  343. From Steve57’s link

    “Latinos have fought in every war since the American Revolution and were never given due credit,” said Orange County Superior Court Judge Frederick P. Aguirre, founding president of Latino Advocates.

    Yeah, that’s probably because Latino, or Hispanic, wasn’t really recognized as a racial category differentiated from just national origin until the census bureau decided it was in 1970.

    Before that there were a lot less racists.

    And xenophobia wasn’t even a thing.

    the Bas (3bcea0)

  344. tijuana flats makes me a lil heartsick for taco cabana

    taco cabana isn’t in my life anymore but that doesn’t i don’t care

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  345. oops that doesn’t *mean* i don’t care

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  346. Berwyn’s hard to get to

    but if it has good mexican i’ll do it

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  347. Well I’ve never been to taco cabana, so I done have a basis for comparison

    narciso (d1f714)

  348. it’s fast casual with queso

    remember i went to LA from texas

    LA has no queso

    just fundido

    it’s so weird

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  349. and queso reminds me of earl campbell sausage

    don’t judge me

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  350. Slight change of direction, you guys ever been to a Brazilian restaurant?

    I tried one in Hyannis last fall, and basically it’s like a smorgasbord, but you sit down and guys rotate around with long pointy sticks of meat, everything from ribeye to chicken gizzards, and you just wave them over to fork some on your plate. It’s off the wall. Ya gotta try it. That one had the biggest salad bar I’ve ever seen too, and a hot plate bar with stuff like seafood gumbo, and stuffed yams. OMG. Heaven.

    the Bas (3bcea0)

  351. An honest question, don’t know if you will answer it, why do you have to be a jackalop on certain subjects?

    narciso (d1f714)

  352. I lived in Lakeview for twelve years. There was a very good Mexican restaurant, Lindo Mexico, across from the Biograph Theater (yes, where Dillinger was killed) on Lincoln near Sheffield. It closed because the demographics changed. A Mexican restaurant cannot survive in a neighborhood where the main fare of the residents now is an all-whites tofu and spinach omelette with a Perrier.

    nk (dbc370)

  353. Because my last name rhymed with Toledo.
    Steve57 (0b1dac) — 3/24/2018 @ 4:16 pm

    Steve Libido? Sounds right for a squid. 😉

    Stashiu3 (466cdf)

  354. i went to Fogo in LA but not here

    i thought it was stressful

    trying not to fill up on the wrong stuff while waiting for the choice stuff to come around

    and on top of that they start you at the salad bar

    i remember though we ran into that indian guy from Heroes

    he had this harem of hot indian girls with eyes that flashed daggers

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  355. Like the Chopra girl from quantico.

    narciso (d1f714)

  356. i really really tried with that little show

    but it was just too snidely whiplash

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  357. Yes but its not as crazy as homeland has become, good grief,

    narciso (d1f714)

  358. Modern Mexican to me is whatever I feel like whipping up. I will admit much of my post divorce weight loss comes from not eating corn tortillas and beans and rice at the inlaws. Narciso, Kish (and hell, Ropelight since they get out Naples way sometimes), what’s your opinion of Dexter…its my my first binge watch on Netflix post cord cut.

    urbanleftbehind (cdd9e8)

  359. No thread for the Kids’s Choice Awards?

    nk (dbc370)

  360. i only ever saw one homeland

    claire danes has a limited appeal anymore i think

    she’s like jared leto with tits

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  361. Well it’s very accurate in its depiction of Florida (They still mix up metrodade and miami) however it’s not exactly a calling card for the chamber of commerce.

    narciso (d1f714)

  362. I really started with the third season, I think that cuny professor on set has bollixed it ip.

    narciso (d1f714)

  363. Magicians keeps getting better

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  364. I gave up on it, krypton seems,mildly interesting

    narciso (d1f714)

  365. i clicked that on the googletv

    we’ll see

    hey wasn’t this food stamp’s wife’s signature issue she worked like 8 years on?

    American Adults Have Never Been Fatter

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  366. Dexter was popular at my house but it’s an acquired taste, urban.

    The Bas, we have a Brazilian restaurant like that and it’s very good. The salad bar is impressive but 12 kinds of meat at one meal is incredible. The key for me was learning to take only one bite of each meat, or incredible turns to miserable.

    DRJ (15874d)

  367. we have a Brazilian restaurant

    How much is a Brazillian?

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  368. A thousand Australians.

    nk (dbc370)

  369. I’m sure you are priceless, DRJ.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  370. julie benz was at one time ranked among the top 20 figure skaters in the united states

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  371. No, you’ve never met the Diggers.

    I don’t normally lie. But I think now it can be told.

    I told the South Koreans that my friend was from Boston.
    He was from Sydney.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  372. I like the ROKs.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  373. Also the Kiwis.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  374. Heh. I phrased that poorly, Steve57. My town has a Brazilian restaurant.

    DRJ (15874d)

  375. But surely a Brazilian is twice as much as a bazillion.

    DRJ (15874d)

  376. They call me Shrimp Cocktail. My nickname.

    Steve57 (0b1dac) — 3/24/2018 @ 4:13 pm

    My Navy friend’s nickname is Meatball. I see a trend.

    Pinandpuller (d1e5fe)

  377. we have a new taco bell downtown it serves alcohol

    this is the future except for you can get it right now

    happyfeet (28a91b) — 3/24/2018 @ 4:33 pm

    Why would I ever go home? Do they have free refills?

    Pinandpuller (d1e5fe)

  378. What a girl wants.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  379. Berwyn’s hard to get to

    but if it has good mexican i’ll do it

    happyfeet (28a91b) — 3/24/2018 @ 4:49 pm

    You should find a reputable Coyote. Make sure you’re on birth control first though.

    Pinandpuller (d1e5fe)

  380. I will admit much of my post divorce weight loss comes from not eating corn tortillas and beans and rice at the inlaws.

    urbanleftbehind (cdd9e8) — 3/24/2018 @ 5:45 pm

    Did you run that by Dave Ramsey?

    Pinandpuller (d1e5fe)

  381. The Bas, we have a Brazilian restaurant like that and it’s very good. The salad bar is impressive but 12 kinds of meat at one meal is incredible. The key for me was learning to take only one bite of each meat, or incredible turns to miserable.

    DRJ (15874d) — 3/24/2018 @ 6:32 pm

    There’s a guy named Shawn Baker MD who has eaten nothing but red meat for over a year. He said he went to a Brazilian place and ate about six pounds worth.

    He has an interesting CV actually. He became an orthopedic surgeon in the Army. He told a story about how an Afghani kid suicide bomber survived. They saved him and patched him up and as soon as he could leave the Afghani army took him off base and shot him.

    Then he became an orthopedic surgeon in New Mexico. When he started doing dietary and nutritional counseling for his patients his overlords didn’t take too kindly and railroaded him. I don’t know if he got clear of everything. For instance, did you know that an orthopedic surgeon can do a reverse shoulder joint? It limits range of motion but sometimes it’s a better fix for the patient. They brought in a retired doctor to look over his cases and that doctor didn’t know all that and said he was a hack…basically.

    Though not all patients benefit from a reverse shoulder replacement, those who also have a tear in the rotator cuff may find it helpful, explains About.com. For these people, traditional options for surgery often do not work. During a traditional shoulder replacement, the top of the bone of the arm is fitted with a metal ball instead of bone. The socket of the shoulder is replaced with plastic; however, this easily loosens in patients who also have a torn rotator cuff. In addition, the implant does not move properly.

    When it comes to the reverse shoulder replacement, there is also a ball-and-socket joint used, according to About.com; however, the ball of the joint is placed on the shoulder blade, and the socket put on the top of the bone of the arm. This is the opposite of the natural anatomy. Typically, this procedure is only recommended to those who have severe arthritis in the shoulders in addition to a rotator cuff tear.


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