Quick Hits
[guest post by Dana]
First, Susan Rice leaked “nothing to nobody”:
Second, Neil Gorsuch accused of plagiarism, or as Ed Whelan puts it,
“Another desperate 11th-hour smear, something that appears to have become a rite of passage for Republican Supreme Court nominees.”
Third, a 23 word response from Secretary of State Tillerson:
“North Korea launched yet another intermediate range ballistic missile. The United States has spoken enough about North Korea. We have no further comment.”
This comes just days before President Trump is scheduled to meet with China’s President Xi Jinping at the Southern White House.
(Cross-posted at The Jury Talks Back.)
–Dana
Good morning.
Dana (023079) — 4/5/2017 @ 7:05 amFollow the unmasking.
–Deep Throat
AZ Bob (f7a491) — 4/5/2017 @ 7:15 amAnd Hillary is still not our President.
Jim (a0d3dd) — 4/5/2017 @ 7:31 amSomebody should tell Trump that Obama is not President anymore, too.
nk (dbc370) — 4/5/2017 @ 7:38 amThe chemical weapons deal that lurch negotiated dudnt work out, quelled surprise
narciso (d1f714) — 4/5/2017 @ 7:43 amThat’s very ominous sounding. (they don’t want to tip off North Korea to a possible attack. It must
be at least in the advanced stages of planning for this to be something that could tip them off.)
It might be being accelerated because of the upcoming election in South Korea, which might elect a president who might veto that. Also, North Korea might come up with a military defense to any plan..
It’s not definite that there will be an attack. China will be given a chance to handle it. They’re not in the mood yet, with the Chinese government saying North Korea is ony doing this to giarantee the survival of the regime. Trump wants China to squash at least the intercontinental missile threat from North Korea..
The Trump Administration will not take no for an answer, and it will not take yes for an answer. Itwill only take success for an answer.
Otherwise they go ahead. Trump is not going to rely on Star Wars, or on deterrence. Kim Jong Un seems too darn serious about attacking the United States.
Sammy Finkelman (ca4c0f) — 4/5/2017 @ 7:45 amhatTillerson said about North Korea is not like the semi-silence about Syria, where the United States did not point out it was NOT saying Assad must go.
By the way, people are losing sight of the most important thing about that attack in Idlib , Syria with nerve gas: The target. An enemy hospital.
They don’t want the injured to be killed.
This reverses the very first limitation on war that dates back to the Crimean War.
Arrests and attacks on doctors and hospitals has been a feature of the Arab Spring.
If the government shoots demonstrators, well, they don’t want them to be treated – the shooting isn’t ust to disperse them, it’s to kill a few accidentally on purpose to deter the others. Doctors and hospitals undermine that strategy.
It was actually first used in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, and Assad probably got the idea from the Saudis, at a time when they were trying to help him (but he wouldn’t listen – he wouldn’t offer amnesties, as they counseled)
It’s probably now being pushed by Russia.
Now, North Korea is a worse regime than that of Syria.
Sammy Finkelman (ca4c0f) — 4/5/2017 @ 7:48 amIt is very easy to give nobody nothing. In fact,it is quite hard to give nobody something, since nobody can not receive anything.
But did she give something to somebody? And if so, who was somebody and what was something? She evaded answering those questions.
kishnevi (a9a964) — 4/5/2017 @ 7:52 amand i need u today oh mandy
happyfeet (930eb8) — 4/5/2017 @ 7:52 amTrump should retract and apologize for statements made by U.S. officials saying things like that the status of Assad will be decided by the Syrian people.
It’s good that he’s not saying empty words, but that is worse than empty words. Maybe it has stopped.
Sammy Finkelman (ca4c0f) — 4/5/2017 @ 7:57 amGreetings:
Admittedly, I’m still in recovery from 13 years of Catholic school education (with no do-overs) but, somewhere along those lines, I was taught about “double negatives” and that a statement like “I leaked nothing to nobody” didn’t at all preclude that “you leaked something to somebody” unless the listener really, really wanted it to.
11B40 (6abb5c) — 4/5/2017 @ 8:11 amWhen I rule the world, that level of pedantry will be “remediated” by five years of “rehabilitation” as a spittoon-emptier in a Jacksonville roadhouse. The lady made her point to any fair-minded person: “I leaked nothing!” “To nobody!”
And grammatical or not, it is infinitely classier than “alternative facts”. And so is she compared to the other lady.
nk (dbc370) — 4/5/2017 @ 8:22 amFunny how folks are now upset Trump has not started nuclear was in Syria and North Korea.
OMG OMG OMG Assad and Kim did bad things and Trump has nothing to say!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
These #nevertrumpers are mental.
24 years of hand wringing about Kim but now Trump must solve this ASAP!
Syria is another ball of wax. Sasse and McCain should go their to fight and take their entire families with them also.
Blah Blah (44eaa0) — 4/5/2017 @ 8:47 am11B40:
You never experienced a “To Whom” treatment? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehgfdZeigFI
urbanleftbehind (5eecdb) — 4/5/2017 @ 8:51 amAnd the young padre in the clip could totally be Sean Spicer.
We should take note that the prior thread on Susan Rice garnered 354 posts.
AZ Bob (f7a491) — 4/5/2017 @ 8:54 amQuick Hits:
Bannon removed from NSC.
“Pity. I shaved very close this morning in preparation for getting smacked by you.” – Gen. Patton [ George C. Scott] ‘Patton’ 1970
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/5/2017 @ 8:58 am‘Or as Ed Whealan put it…’ a non-denial denial.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/5/2017 @ 9:00 amGreetings, AZ Bob: ( @ 15 (f7a491) — 4/5/2017 @ 8:54 am )
I didn’t post nothing to nobody.
11B40 (6abb5c) — 4/5/2017 @ 9:01 amHe Ha
AZ Bob (f7a491) — 4/5/2017 @ 9:04 am“I leaked nothing to nobody no how.”
— Susan Rice
Colonel Haiku (be4c6e) — 4/5/2017 @ 9:14 amAnybody w/experience in media and publishing reading the Politico piece can see the examples noted indicate Gorsuch’s veiled plagiarism- particularly w/o citations when a simple, ‘Per XYZ’ or such would have smoothed this out. Honest professionals would have flagged this and suggested a rewording. Won’t stop the nomination but speaks to a character flaw of obtuse judgment and questionable temperament. Yes, a perfect replacement for Scalia.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/5/2017 @ 9:20 amWho will ‘leave’ first? Check Vegas…
[ ] Bannon
[ ] Tillerson
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/5/2017 @ 9:23 am@15. We should take note that alt.right nut job Mike Cernovich has not received proper credit for breaking that story, too.
That’s M-I-K-E C-E-R-N-O-V-I-C-H.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/5/2017 @ 9:32 amIn point of fact, leaving Kim oil Sung’s camarilla in power was the key mistake, they have provided nuclear research as far as Syria, remember that reactor near dear oz sour.
narciso (d1f714) — 4/5/2017 @ 9:34 amAnd remember it was albrights deal, negotiated by Wendy Sherman ( where have i heard that name)
narciso (d1f714) — 4/5/2017 @ 9:37 amWas that mire carrying the rizzotto tray
https://mobile.twitter.com/dmartosko?p=s
narciso (d1f714) — 4/5/2017 @ 9:51 amhttp://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/229062/did-the-obama-administrations-abuse-of-foreign-intelligence-collection-start-before-trump
narciso (d1f714) — 4/5/2017 @ 9:54 amGreetings, urbanleftbehind: ( @ 14 (5eecdb) — 4/5/2017 @ 8:51 am )
By high school, we were mostly (except for the Eye-ties) fine broths of lads so corporal punishment was kind of downplayed. Detentions ruled our days. Grammar school though, not so much. The good Sisters of Mercy in the lower grades were huggers and tsk-tsk-ers, but 7th grade involved the largest nun in the free world and her 4×18 inch strip of neo-lite (shoe soling material) but she never called it “Patience”. Our 8th grade sister was a “lefty” (biologically) which was a continuing problem for some guys, but not me.
On a somewhat lighter note, our grammar school principal mentioned to me a number of times that she was going to have may name permanently engraved on that ridiculously small chair she had in her office for her “after school visitors”. I used to charm her by using my contribution to Catholic school discipline which went, “Is this a one-parent problem or a two-parent problem, Sister?”
11B40 (6abb5c) — 4/5/2017 @ 10:08 amRice don’t know nothin’ ’bout birthing no babies…
Horatio (f653bf) — 4/5/2017 @ 10:16 amThat sounds like Pointy, Horatio!
Colonel Haiku (be4c6e) — 4/5/2017 @ 10:22 am“Ain’t nobody got no time to leak nothing to nobody!”
Colonel Haiku (be4c6e) — 4/5/2017 @ 10:24 amSo now the cover is that they did spy on Trump and his team, but didn’t leak the information? Do I have that correct?
They just changed the rules to allow thousands of government officials to see these documents and one of them released it instead.
Plausible deniability.
NJRob (43d957) — 4/5/2017 @ 10:29 am“The world is a mess; I inherited a mess. We’re gonna fix it.” – President Donald J. Trump
Sounds familiar. Strawberries, for dessert, tonight, Donald?
“I assumed command of a badly-handled ship. I tried to bring in into line.” – Captain Queeg [Humphrey Bogart] ‘The Caine Mutiny’ 1954
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/5/2017 @ 10:43 amThere’s paperwork showing Rice as being the one, or one of the ones, ordering/requesting the unredacting of names. Which is legal for her to do in her position with her clearance.
It’s who she gave it to that’s the problem.
Ingot (e5bf64) — 4/5/2017 @ 10:55 amYour use of The Caine Mutiny is hilarious DCSCA. As they say, if the noose fits…
Now it looks like our new squirrel! is no less than a new war – or two! Way To Go Trump.
Tillman (a95660) — 4/5/2017 @ 11:11 am@27 That’s a solid theory. I won’t be surprised to learn it goes back much farther.
crazy (d3b449) — 4/5/2017 @ 11:19 amIt’s probably now being pushed by Russia.
Now, North Korea is a worse regime than that of Syria.
Sammy Finkelman (ca4c0f) — 4/5/2017 @ 7:48 am
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Now, North Korea has more potential to harm–more capability, and is in a location to cause more possible unrest.
Syria has already almost maxed out in it’s potential for unrest in the area.
Conversely North Korea is a ticking time bomb in a fresh box of tinder.
Rae (2fd998) — 4/5/2017 @ 11:21 amedit:its potential
Ack–I need coffee.
Rae (2fd998) — 4/5/2017 @ 11:25 amSo if Syria attacks Israel and North Korea attacks South Korea it’s Trump’s fault? Wow. That’s why I was against Trump letting those two rogue nations develop the bomb. He should have stopped them when he had the chance.
Rev. Hoagie® (785e38) — 4/5/2017 @ 11:36 amLefties never want to acknowledge the devastation they leave behind when the country has tired of their experimentation with nitwit policies and the sober,responsible folks have regained control.
It never fails.
Colonel Haiku (be4c6e) — 4/5/2017 @ 11:37 amThe word games that lefties play are not accidents. “is” is not “was”, for example.
Rice’s words very cleverly leave the question of who is the somebody she gave something to unanswered. She relies on the bias of the MSM and other lefties to overlook this, since she is a black woman. She knows they expect slang, and they will instinctively translate this to mean what they’d like it to mean. For what it’s worth, Rice is a graduate of Stanford and holds a PhD from Oxford.
We know Willy lied because Monica preserved the seamen stained blue dress. I hope that Rice will be undone by a similarly unexpected source.
BobStewartatHome (448c1e) — 4/5/2017 @ 11:55 amthere’s no such thing as squirrell
happyfeet (a037ad) — 4/5/2017 @ 12:05 pm*squirrel* i mean
no such thing
happyfeet (a037ad) — 4/5/2017 @ 12:06 pmTwo months if office, on the verge of two wars, but of course it’s all Obama’s fault. Got it.
Tillman (a95660) — 4/5/2017 @ 12:08 pmnarciso (d1f714) — 4/5/2017 @ 9:34 am
President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster dulles did that – and they stopped the war by secretly (nobody knew this for decades, so it hasn’t sunk in, into how we think about nuclear weapons) threatening to use nuclear weapons, not as explosivess, but to put radiation along the border or something like that. Of course, Truman had earlier stopped MacArthur, because he didn’t want to get into a war with Mao’s China.
It could be argued that maybe Truman stopped him too late for that purpose because Chinese troops poured in and drove United Nations forces from almost at the Yalu River two thirds of the way down the Korean peninsula. (they eventually got back to approximately the 38th parallel, but it was not exactly the original division line.)
The situation has remained absolutely frozen since 1953, in a virtual time warp, with regular meetings in Panmunjon with the Red Chinese on the North Korean side regurgitating harsh propaganda, and occasional outbursts of murderous violence by North Korea.
North Korea, all this time, has been planning to invade the South, but was always deterred. I think sometimes the plans got quite advanced but the invasion was always called off. This kind of situation can eventually become dangerous if the standoff lasts a long time, and the basic politics doesn’t change, and then new people get in charge and have different ideas. (cf Germany 1871-1914. The most significant fact of the 19th centry, Bismarck said, wa sthe England and America spoke the same language. I think this meant the U.S. would side with England, and since England wouldn’t permit Germany to conquer France, Germany had to not only stop its conquests, but withdraw from France in 1871. But eventually this got forgotten by the german General Staff, who manuvered Germany into a war in August, 1914. War had been averted several times before, but finally it wasn’t averted.)
Nuclear weapons were part of a North Korean strategy to win this war (I think the idea was the U.S. would not expose its troops to radiation and so would not be able to reinforce and supply its army in South Korea, which wasn’t strong enough by itself to defeat an invasion but acted as a tripwire.)
North Korea knew, at a minimum, that they would get boycotted for years if they conquered South Korea, so the policy was always to make North Korea as independent as possible from all other countries, and to stockpile food for the army.
But the invasion was always called off, however close it got, and it maybe got to within a year or so of D-day and holding.
Sammy Finkelman (ca4c0f) — 4/5/2017 @ 12:16 pmTillman, your snark is so incompetent that it only rebounds upon you.
SPQR (a3a747) — 4/5/2017 @ 12:29 pmNorth Korea is a deeply ideological regime that sees the south as a puppet of western powers, the park impeachment seemingly has given an opportunity.
narciso (d1f714) — 4/5/2017 @ 12:34 pmGet the lot of them testifying under oath. See what happens.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 4/5/2017 @ 12:39 pmSammy Finkleman, the reality has been that starting in the late ’60’s, South Korea was probably strong enough to defeat North Korea in a rematch. For many decades, the US Army was in South Korea and nominally in command of South Korean forces, specifically to prevent South Korea from restarting festivities. Today the North Korean army is very large, very poorly maintained and there is good reason to believe it is a very fragile force. North Korea’s main threat is the use of nuclear and chemical weapons against the South Korean population, the bulk of which is within conventional artillery range of the DMZ in the greater Seoul metropolitan area.
SPQR (a3a747) — 4/5/2017 @ 12:41 pmRae (2fd998) — 4/5/2017 @ 11:21 am
Syria is in no condition to do anything right nww, but can become a virtual puppet of Iran/Hezbollah, and Iran seems to be interested in starting a war with Israel – jointly with Hamas in Gaza – at the earliest opportunity, something that assad probably doesn’t actually want – but he might not be in charge in that case.
Iran has had its military buildup in Syria near the Israeli border frustrated several times by Israel, including killing commanders. (By the way, Iran likes rockets that attack civilians.) Israel never announces any military activity it engages in in the territory of Syria except retaliatory fire right by the Golan ceasefire lines, but they keep on knocking down its military buildup and not allowing rockets and other things to be transferred from Syrian units to Hezbollah units. (Iran has now been trying to set something under the auspices of the Syrian army so that maybe Israel won’t bomb it.)
Not so in Lebanon or Gaza, where the policy is quiet for quiet with some advantage taken of periods of non-quiet to degrade their capabilities.
Syria has no army that means anything – its army is Hezbollah and other members of the Iranian “foreign legion” (they’e got Pakistanis there, and Afghans, too) plus the Russian Air Force, and some troops.
I mean Syria has an army, but it’s full of unwilling draftees, and not well trained, and they;ll cut and run if they get a chance. Syria has an Air Force, but it’s small and cannot stand up to any good, or even a basic, air defense system. It can only drop horrible bombs on undefended targets. This is just my general impression.
Netanyahu has somehow managed to deter Putin from any kind of clash, with Israel deciding what they absolutely cannot tolerate, which is mainly transferring of arms to better run units under Iranian control. They will bomb it, Russians or no Russians, so there are no Russians interfering. ISIS is not ready to fight Israel (and Jordan, which is under Israeli protection, in the sense that an invasion by an real enemy will not be tolerated) either, or even Lebanon.
Sammy Finkelman (ca4c0f) — 4/5/2017 @ 12:42 pmTwo months if office, on the verge of two war
Yes, it is Obama’s fault for kicking the can down the road. If Hillary was in office, you’d say it was Bush’s fault, disregarding all reason.
North Korea is such a bad actor they get elected to play the role of “Stupid fu*ks who thought they could build nuclear missiles and no one would care.” The movie will then be dubbed into Farsi for the Iranians.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 4/5/2017 @ 12:42 pmIf you love you some war SPQR, Trump’s your man.
If Trump wasn’t flagrantly playing footsie with Russia, I don’t believe that Syria would have pulled this stunt. So I don’t think that Trump can shirk responsibility on this one. It’s of his own making.
Tillman (a95660) — 4/5/2017 @ 1:03 pmWe’re on the verge of two wars? Really? That’s nonsense Tillman and you know it. Or maybe you wish we were so you could blame it on Trump. BTW, exactly what has Trump done or not done to bring us to the verge of war? Did he blow up something or invade somebody we don’t know about? Has he blockaded some country or sent an ultimatum of war? Please fill us in.
You’re a typical leftist, Tillman. You’d love to see a war with all the death and destruction so you could pin it on Trump. Your leftist “compassion” is showing. #FakeAmerican
Rev. Hoagie® (785e38) — 4/5/2017 @ 1:10 pmSammy
Agree with pretty much all of that, kind of knew I was being too simplistic.
One interesting thing is that the Sauds traveled to Russia during all of this contre temps.
I just think given the situation of some sort of “balance” with China and the economic power houses of Taiwan and South Korea–that economically–North Korea has the power to disrupt and disturb on a much larger level than a Syrian collapse.
Syria is much better kept in check by the strength of Israel, Operation Orchard comes to mind –especially after seeing narcisco’s comment.
Hopefully China is interested in global economic stability also.
I think there is a divide in China that most don’t talk about. There is the globalist doves–that hope the economic environment keeps China and the world “interested” in global economic stability–and then there is the China hawks that want an excuse to build up China’s military. I’m not sure who in the China internal conflict is winning the debate.
Maybe–we are about to find out.
(as an aside I was reading an article about Atta’s time in Aleppo–and he was bitching about the damn globalists(hence why they targeted the World Trade Center) he had that in common with Hitler who hated the globalists that flitted from Paris, to Brussels and then Berlin–the problem is that mutual interests in global economic stability often has the side benefit of–not losing blood and treasure in war. Some of the most dangerous times rise out of great depressions.)
Rae (2fd998) — 4/5/2017 @ 1:14 pmNo Hoagie, I am absolutely against war. I’m warnings against it. Trump likes his secrets, especially for troop movements and plans: we could be gearing up for war right now and not know about it until after it has begun, and of course by then it’s too late.
Tillman (a95660) — 4/5/2017 @ 1:18 pmTillman, are you that ignorant or just think we are? It was Obama that allowed the Russians to pretend to remove Syria’s chemical weapons three years ago (with evidence a year ago of Syrian deception reported ) but you blame Trump?
You are simply the most incompetent of hacks.
SPQR (a3a747) — 4/5/2017 @ 1:20 pmYikes forgot to add Japan into the mix.
Rae (2fd998) — 4/5/2017 @ 1:22 pmSPQR, the timing sure is suspicious. It’s only after Trump got into office that they decided to use those chemical weapons. Why’s that?
Tillman (a95660) — 4/5/2017 @ 1:22 pmTillman, I find it “suspicious” that you came up with this brilliant piece of detective work.
SPQR (a3a747) — 4/5/2017 @ 1:25 pmTillman, are you that ignorant or just think we are? It was Obama that allowed the Russians to pretend to remove Syria’s chemical weapons three years ago (with evidence a year ago of Syrian deception reported ) but you blame Trump?
You are simply the most incompetent of hacks.
SPQR (a3a747) — 4/5/2017 @ 1:20 pm
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Unfortunately it works because the media does not report when a Democrat president is in power.
Syria is probably dangerously close to a genocide and the liberal media is only just starting to show it now.
Rae (2fd998) — 4/5/2017 @ 1:25 pmYou’re a typical leftist, Tillman. You’d love to see a war with all the death and destruction so you could pin it on Trump.
Tillman would be OK with the sun going nova, so long as he could blame Trump.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 4/5/2017 @ 1:30 pmIt’s only after Trump got into office that they decided to use those chemical weapons. Why’s that?
They used them while Obama was in office, too. And I suspect they used them more recently, but Obama’s folks kept it secret so they wouldn’t have to react.
As for the Norks, they’ve been building nukes for 20 years and all the people who don’t want war have been saying “Not yet! Not yet!”. Then when the Norks nuke San Francisco, it’ll be “Why didn’t anyone do something?!”
Kevin M (25bbee) — 4/5/2017 @ 1:33 pmThe good old Sergeant Schultz defense for Susan Rice, “I saw nozzing, I did nozzing.”
Skeptical Voter (1d5c8b) — 4/5/2017 @ 1:43 pmPBS NewsHour’s Judy Woodruff asked Rice about Nunes’ disclosure two weeks ago (March 22) [YouTube] that Trump “and the people around him may have been caught up in surveillance of foreign individuals and that their identities may have been disclosed. Do you know anything about this?” Woodruff asked.
Compare and contrast. Rice moved from “didn’t unmask nobody” in March to “routinely unmasking Americans as part of her duties” and “unmasking accelerated in Dec and Jan” and “didn’t leak nuthin to nobody” in April.
But “didn’t leak nuthin” is the only part people want to talk about.
papertiger (c8116c) — 4/5/2017 @ 1:46 pmBull[edit].
As for the Norks, they’ve been building nukes for 20 years and all the people who don’t want war have been saying “Not yet! Not yet!”. Then when the Norks nuke San Francisco, it’ll be “Why didn’t anyone do something?!”
Kevin M (25bbee) — 4/5/2017 @ 1:33 pm
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You could give San Fran a three hour warning to evacuate and they still wouldn’t get it done because the highway building has been blocked to save the wetlands in Sonoma, etc.
So thousands of people dead–but the wet water newt–lives on! Winning!
Rae (2fd998) — 4/5/2017 @ 1:46 pm@9 happyfeet
It’s raining men. Hallelujah.
“That’s a shame when folks be throwing away a perfectly good white boy like that.” Better Off Dead
Pinandpuller (ba5ff1) — 4/5/2017 @ 1:53 pm@33 DCSCA
Aren’t you one of the people here always breaking The President’s balls over what he inherited?
And not for nuthin’, nobody’s ever gonna’ not get you for not citing nothin’never.
Pinandpuller (ba5ff1) — 4/5/2017 @ 2:01 pmAbout those Nork’s and their nuclear ambitions.
North Korea is a small country that google maps has satellite covered every inch.
Funny part of that is there’s a road between the bomb plant and the bomb test area. The only thing it’s used for is bomb makings testings.
No civilian traffic at all.Some gulag to gulag traffic of political prisoners.They hide it by calling it something clever like “Nuclear Test Highway”. I don’t know if that’s the exact name, but it’s close.
papertiger (c8116c) — 4/5/2017 @ 2:05 pmhttps://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/how-not-to-disguise-a-nuclear-test-nuclear-test-road?utm_term=.kmN81l11l#.avQ9dMddM
narciso (d1f714) — 4/5/2017 @ 12:34 pm
No, it doesn’t see it that way. That;s the accusation it makes. It’s an obvious lie. They would like, if possible, to make adeal with United States.
Not so seemingly. The person most likely to be elected has a base that has been taught to favor appeasement. It’s really contradictory – to be against mild misrule in the south and want to treat what’s going on in the Borth as tolerable, without ecen saying the fact it is armed is the reason.
Sammy Finkelman (ca4c0f) — 4/5/2017 @ 2:12 pmStill a surfeit of nuts but some good comments.
North Korea’s main threat is the use of nuclear and chemical weapons against the South Korean population, the bulk of which is within conventional artillery range of the DMZ in the greater Seoul metropolitan area.
Yes. The Seoul population has been the Nork’s hostages for decades. Too bad McArthur did not stop at Pyongyang but that is long ago.
South Korea seems to be on the verge of another leftist takeover, which will be followed by a “Unite with the North” delusion. It’s happened before. It may be happening again.
If so, we should get out and rely on Japan as an ally.
We’ll see what happens with Trump and Xi. China should be concerned but they may be lulled by Obama’s incompetence.,
Mike K (f469ea) — 4/5/2017 @ 2:22 pmFinally, a post where people aren’t being so mean to Donald Trump. Leave Donald alone!
Leviticus (efada1) — 4/5/2017 @ 2:25 pm@44 Tillman
When the plane has plummeted 20k feet and you hand the yoke over to a new pilot to whom do you assign the blame of the plane crashing?
At least lawyers are proficient at divvying up blame between parties.
For instance, Henry John Deutchendorf Jr built his plane, put the fuel tank switch in a bad spot and didn’t fill up his main tank before flying off to his death. He’s 100% responsible.
President Donald J Trump-he didn’t build that.
He could put US into a flat spin. He could put US into the ground with some loss of life. He could Sulley US. He could land the plane on the tarmac.
We’re still flying.
If he does land the plane will you give him all of the credit?
Pinandpuller (ba5ff1) — 4/5/2017 @ 2:25 pm@65 Rae
Kim Jon Null could go Old Testament and spare San Francisco if they could name 10 righteous men.
All I can think of are Michael Savage and Brian Sussman.
Pinandpuller (ba5ff1) — 4/5/2017 @ 2:37 pmThere was a time when it would have been possible to convince the American public to support a war to prevent a rogue state from getting chemical, nuclear, or biological weapons. That time ended during the Bush administration, when the war waged for that ostensible reason resulted in the widespread conviction that there never had been any such weapons. That belief persists, in spite of the fact that chemical weapons were used by Saddam on the Kurds, a fact which is not disputed by anyone.
orcadrvr (54410e) — 4/5/2017 @ 2:40 pmNow we have a state, North Korea, which could in the near future pose an existential threat to the USA, which is openly threatening to annihilate us on a regular basis, and which periodically launches a few missiles toward Japan to prove the point. A sound argument could be made that this would be a good time to take out the North Korean leadership and missile sites, but I doubt public opinion would permit it.
Particularly with a rabid Trump hating press that will oppose any action taken by him, no matter whether or not it is in the best interests of the USA.
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/foreign-policy/middle-east/syria/the-new-york-times-takes-trumps-bait-on-syria
Sammy Finkelman (6f9f42) — 4/5/2017 @ 2:41 pmPinandpuller, I’m sure that if the foot was on the other shoe, and it was Obama’s first two months in office when all this hit the fan, that you’d be defending Obama too. Not.
I will say this: at this point I won’t blame Trump for our problems with North Korea. That’s been an ongoing problem for a while now. I just hope that he handles it wisely, we’ll see.
Tillman (a95660) — 4/5/2017 @ 2:41 pm@65 Rae
Kim Jon Null could go Old Testament and spare San Francisco if they could name 10 righteous men.
All I can think of are Michael Savage and Brian Sussman.
Pinandpuller (ba5ff1) — 4/5/2017 @ 2:37 pm
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Heh. Ya–I can’t add to that.
Oy.
Rae (2fd998) — 4/5/2017 @ 2:44 pmhttp://www.nationalreview.com/morning-jolt/446455/gorsuch-plagiarism-charges-north-korean-nukes-susan-rice-unmasking
Sammy Finkelman (6f9f42) — 4/5/2017 @ 2:44 pmReading between the lines, it sounds like Rice thinks the leaks are originating in the Trump administration.
Barry Jacobs (a1ee42) — 4/5/2017 @ 2:44 pm73, cmon, THor’s from out that way unless your talking City/County of SF proper.. At least the Tiburones will be well fed the couple of hours before they get mutated.
urbanleftbehind (847a06) — 4/5/2017 @ 2:44 pmWho was it that just tossed out a totally made up nothing burger, which morphed into a former national security adviser not knowing nothing about it, then into “well we do that all the time” and finally into “I didn’t leak it, I promise. Trust me.”?
That’s M-I-K-E C-E-R-N-O-V-I-C-H. – said DCSCA.
How do you like that short cake with your strawberries? Huh Pal?
papertiger (c8116c) — 4/5/2017 @ 2:57 pmI think someone should give another look into that Hillary Clinton pre-school prostitution ring.
A real close look.
papertiger (c8116c) — 4/5/2017 @ 3:00 pm@67. Nyet.
“Gotham City. Always brings a smile to my face.” – The Joker [Jack Nicholson] ‘Batman’ 1989
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/5/2017 @ 3:02 pm@81. Ice cream, PT. Two portions.
“…And I had four.” – Captain Queeg [Humphrey Bogart] ‘The Caine Mutiny’ 1954
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/5/2017 @ 3:05 pmI think it’s time that San Francisco started providing more for its own defense. The American taxpayers have been bearing the cost long enough. Maybe it should also get its own nuclear weapons to defend itself from such threats as North Korea and China. We can’t carry them under our nuclear umbrella forever.
Donald J. Trump @ the real nk (dbc370) — 4/5/2017 @ 3:08 pmHere’s an illustration of how orcadrvr thinks that war will go. [YouTube]
papertiger (c8116c) — 4/5/2017 @ 3:15 pmNow the President of the United States suggests, without citing evidence, Susan Rice might have committed a crime.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-suggests-citing-evidence-susan-rice-committed-crime/story?id=46598432
Looks like his fourth portion of squirrel stew.
Smells like a boiling pot of borscht.
Tastes like… strawberries.
“I don’t know what lies have been sworn to here, but a duplicate key definitely DID exist!” – Captain Queeg [Humphrey Bogart] ‘The Caine Mutiny’ 1954
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/5/2017 @ 3:22 pmActually, Marin county is a national leader in suborning military desertion, so the case can be made, nk. Fewest military volunteers per county – with minus -6.
papertiger (c8116c) — 4/5/2017 @ 3:23 pmShow the EVIDENCE, you orange-skinned badgerheaded New York pansy! It’s your “White House lawyers” and your “multiple sources” supposedly. Bring them out with the proof. But there isn’t any proof, is there, Shortfinger? Just a fake story your toadies planted.
nk @ the real nk (dbc370) — 4/5/2017 @ 3:27 pm@81. Pshaw, PT. Do you mean alt.right wackjob, pizzagate and related fake news guru Mike Cernovich?
That M-I-K-E C-E-R-N-O-V-I-C-H??? The nut that feeds the squirrel?
“D’oh!” – Homer Simpson, every episode, “The Simpsons” Fox TV
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/5/2017 @ 3:28 pmI’m told that we could lose San Francisco without losing a single Sequoia. I’m fine with that.
nk (dbc370) — 4/5/2017 @ 3:29 pmIf, as is entirely likely, the increasingly frequent post election unmasking of Trump transition team figures was unrelated to any sort of incidental national security investigations (like bomb makings per Susan Rice’s example), then President Trump is likely to be right.
I’m willing to bet there will be exactly zero conversations about selling Russia bomb making plans.
What about you?
papertiger (c8116c) — 4/5/2017 @ 3:32 pmShow the EVIDENCE, you orange-skinned badgerheaded New York pansy! It’s your “White House lawyers” and your “multiple sources” supposedly. Bring them out with the proof. But there isn’t any proof, is there, Shortfinger? Just a fake story your toadies planted.
nk @ the real nk (dbc370) — 4/5/2017 @ 3:27 pm
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Hopefully the Senate Intel investigation will end–shortly.
I don’t think Eli Lake is a stooge. He says he has his own sources.
Rae (2fd998) — 4/5/2017 @ 3:33 pmnk @ the real nk (dbc370) [I got a YouTube for that]
Are we suffering a plethora of nk’s?
papertiger (c8116c) — 4/5/2017 @ 3:41 pm@92. I’m willing to bet there will be exactly zero conversations about selling Russia bomb making plans.
PT will take 1950s Espionage for $500. And the answer is: why the Rosenbergs were were caught, convicted and executed.
=ding,ding,ding,ding,ding=
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/5/2017 @ 3:42 pm@93. I don’t think Eli Lake is a stooge.
Have you seen him? He’d give Jerry Howard a run for the money.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/5/2017 @ 3:48 pmIf Trump had texted “nothing to nobody”, they’d be demanding mental evaluation from every corner of Lib Central (aka the msm).
harkin (dde7a8) — 4/5/2017 @ 3:50 pmTrump pushing this fake story without evidence so hard tells me there’s some serious stuff that’s worrying him. Much more serious than Flynn being in the pockets of Putin and Erdogan.
nk (dbc370) — 4/5/2017 @ 3:52 pmAhh yes San Francisco – the loyal American city whose residents find battleships offensive.
harkin (dde7a8) — 4/5/2017 @ 4:03 pmTrump pushing this fake story without evidence so hard tells me there’s some serious stuff that’s worrying him. Much more serious than Flynn being in the pockets of Putin and Erdogan.
nk (dbc370) — 4/5/2017 @ 3:52 pm
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Possible. I cannot wait for it to get resolved in a more official–real way. The continued trial via the Court of the Public Opinion –if that goes on much longer– not only does it hurt Trump but it might send our external enemies the wrong message. It needs to get resolved.
Rae (2fd998) — 4/5/2017 @ 4:05 pmHis track record has been. Very good on balance:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/contributors/eli-lake.html
narciso (d1f714) — 4/5/2017 @ 4:07 pmNow he’s even bad mouthing Ike. Unless your mention of $500 is meant to signal a wager. I’ll take that bet.
$500 there’s no mention of bomb making in any of the Trump conversations Susan Rice unmasked.
Done.
the future WSJ editorial be judge. Agreed?
papertiger (c8116c) — 4/5/2017 @ 4:09 pmHis track record has been. Very good on balance:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/contributors/eli-lake.html
narciso (d1f714) — 4/5/2017 @ 4:07 pm
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He’s always been one of my favorites. Smart guys are sexy–DCSCA
Rae (2fd998) — 4/5/2017 @ 4:11 pm“We know Willy lied because Monica preserved the seamen stained blue dress. I hope that Rice will be undone by a similarly unexpected source.”
BobStewartatHome (448c1e) — 4/5/2017 @ 11:55 am
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So Clinton staining the dress wasn’t enough!?!? So now I know teh rest of the story!
Colonel Haiku (be4c6e) — 4/5/2017 @ 4:18 pmMaybe not bomb-making but with the Trump Family definitely money-making.
“You asked about opening another brothel in Toka-machi the other day.” Zatoichi’s Revenge, 1965
nk (dbc370) — 4/5/2017 @ 4:20 pm@103. Smart guys are sexy–DCSCA
Yes. We are. But alt.right Trump backer and nut feeder to squirrels Mike Cernovich, deserves the credit as the original ‘source’ who released this shiny object… not Lake.
In fact, DJT,Jr., says he deserves a Pulitzer: ‘The president’s son says the man who promoted the lie that a child-sex ring operated underneath a Washington, D.C. pizza parlor deserves a Pulitzer Prize for “breaking” a story about Susan Rice.Donald Trump Jr. tweeted, “Congrats to @Cernovich for breaking the #SusanRice story. In a long gone time of unbiased journalism he’d win the Pulitzer, but not today!”‘
http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Trump-Jr-Pizzagate-blogger-deserves-Pulitzer-11049765.php
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/5/2017 @ 4:24 pmYes. We are.
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Oh gawd–I walked right into that. Touche.
Rae (2fd998) — 4/5/2017 @ 4:29 pmthe freedom filth are doing God’s work keeping the cash flowing to planned parenthood
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/5/2017 @ 4:31 pmIn a long gone time of unbiased journalism he’d win the Pulitzer
i wonder if New York Times propaganda slut Maggie Haberman will get a pullitzer for trying to suppress the story
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/5/2017 @ 4:34 pm*pulitzer* i mean
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/5/2017 @ 4:35 pm@98. Trump pushing this fake story without evidence so hard tells me there’s some serious stuff that’s worrying him. Much more serious than Flynn being in the pockets of Putin and Erdogan.
Think less about the politics and more about his business- that’s really where his head’s at when it’s not up in his other warm place. Russian financing has likely been the laundering service and go-to deep well for many Trump projects which is why the tax returns won’t see the light of day. U.S. banks got wise to him long ago– and burned in the 80s. A U.S. president w/a family business w/financing by the Rooskies would be a nyet-nyet. The stink of borscht is all over him.
But WOW, what a show Season 1 has been so far! ‘Cause Americans don’t want to be governed; they wish to be entertained.
“There’s an old saying in England; where there’s smoke, there’s fire.” – James bod, 007 [Sean Connery] ‘From Ru$$ia, With Love’ 1963
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/5/2017 @ 4:36 pm@107. 😉 We all need a laugh through this comedy of errors.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/5/2017 @ 4:37 pm“Did Obama Illegally Divert Money From Fannie and Freddie Mae to Prop Up Obamacare?
—Ace
Might be another scandal from the Scandal-Free Administration (TM).
Note that this story started with allegations from Jerome Corsi, Alex Jones, and InfoWars — however, it seems to be snowballing into a genuine story, not just a speculation or rumor.”
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/369161.php
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 4/5/2017 @ 4:38 pmHis mouth says one thing, but his wallet and common sense (keeping the former to himself) say another.
papertiger (c8116c) — 4/5/2017 @ 4:40 pm“At some point, the administration weaponized the NSA’s legitimate monitoring of communications of foreign officials to stay one step ahead of domestic political opponents,” says a pro-Israel political operative who was deeply involved in the day-to-day fight over the Iran Deal. “The NSA’s collections of foreigners became a means of gathering real-time intelligence on Americans engaged in perfectly legitimate political activism–activism, due to the nature of the issue, that naturally involved conversations with foreigners. We began to notice the White House was responding immediately, sometimes within 24 hours, to specific conversations we were having. At first, we thought it was a coincidence being amplified by our own paranoia. After a while, it simply became our working assumption that we were being spied on.”
http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/229062/did-the-obama-administrations-abuse-of-foreign-intelligence-collection-start-before-trump
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 4/5/2017 @ 4:41 pmEnough of Canucks channeling Roger Ebert and squirrelly lawyers fantasizing about a successful, married old man.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 4/5/2017 @ 4:44 pm@109. not w/those legs.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/5/2017 @ 4:45 pmi haven’t seen her legs i just hate her nyt propaganda slut guts cause she’s such a liar
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/5/2017 @ 4:48 pmis it even possible for us to have a more ineffective speaker of the house than perverted Mitt Romney’s rode-hard-and-put-up-wet obamacare-loving sex toy Paul Ryan?
it’s hard to imagine huh
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/5/2017 @ 4:50 pm119… yep. Could’ve been a lawyer.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 4/5/2017 @ 4:55 pmSquirrel borscht!
nk (dbc370) — 4/5/2017 @ 5:02 pmIt’s smart for the administration to put Ivanka Trump out there to speak to the media. She has a likable, sincere quality about her and they’d be smart to recognize that.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 4/5/2017 @ 5:15 pmDon know nuffin.
The Hugh Hewitt interview with Andy McCarthy is required reading,.
Yeah, the question, Hugh, is for example, why did the NSC around the beginning of the Obama administration have, you know, a few dozen people, and now they have a staff of 400? Why do you need 400 people at the NSC? Why did they become so intrusive, and not just on this, but on many of the functions of the executive branch? And we’ll be discussing more of that. But the one thing I would add to what Haass said, which I agree with, is that you know, you have to remember that it’s not just the privacy of Americans they’re concerned with. They’re concerned with the preservation of the ability to do their own jobs.
400 ? Holy shit !
Mike K (309f6b) — 4/5/2017 @ 5:16 pmi never tasted squirrel my whole life
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/5/2017 @ 5:21 pmConsider all the dating you’ve done in your past, feets. Still feel confident about that?
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 4/5/2017 @ 5:27 pm@122. And yummy eye-candy, too! No one listens but everyone watches.
“I’ve said if she wasn’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her.” — Donald J. Trump, President of the United States
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/5/2017 @ 5:57 pmDoes she report those 1,000 ruble notes Putin stuffs down her G-string on her taxes, I wonder.
nk (dbc370) — 4/5/2017 @ 6:09 pmGreetings, DCSCA: ( @ 125 (797bc0) — 4/5/2017 @ 5:57 pm )
You sure that that wasn’t Joe Biden, exVice President of the United States ???
11B40 (6abb5c) — 4/5/2017 @ 6:09 pmIt was Trump.
nk (dbc370) — 4/5/2017 @ 6:12 pm126… sounds like someone’s jealous. Your murmurings about “Vlad the Impaler” not working now?
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 4/5/2017 @ 6:15 pmhttp://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/04/05/reports-in-unmasking-controversy-were-detailed-had-info-about-everyday-lives.html
narciso (d1f714) — 4/5/2017 @ 6:31 pmLawyers Guild gathers in front of Ivanka Trump’s place… https://youtu.be/nl53YL9ZES0
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 4/5/2017 @ 6:46 pmWall Street Journal editorial 4/3/17
Swear to God I did not know they had already put Rice’s lie to bed, and settled our bet yesterday.
If you still want to send me $500 that will be between you and your God.
papertiger (c8116c) — 4/5/2017 @ 6:49 pmHerridge? Take it to the bank, it’s gold!
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 4/5/2017 @ 6:50 pmThanks for the “Dance Party” Colonel. I was going to look for it but got sidetracked. Now I have it to send to all my liberal friends. They have such class!
Rev. Hoagie® (785e38) — 4/5/2017 @ 6:58 pmIf I were anywhere close to the neighborhood @ “Dance Party for climate justice” pepper spray by the gallon.
Enough to serve a steakhouse.
papertiger (c8116c) — 4/5/2017 @ 7:04 pmThis is the neighborhood in question:
narciso (d1f714) — 4/5/2017 @ 7:14 pmhttps://www.almasdarnews.com/article/syrian-army-violently-disrupts-al-nusra-meeting-khan-shaykhun-idlib/
Let’s hear the Trump haters continue to defend the Obama administration.
This should be hysterical
NJRob (9f5253) — 4/5/2017 @ 7:22 pmThere are people saying Susan Rice didn’t commit a crime. Here’s the relevant statute you need to review.
papertiger (c8116c) — 4/5/2017 @ 7:23 pm134… those lawyers are flamin’ crazy, Hoagie!
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 4/5/2017 @ 7:33 pmnicely said monsieur tigre de papier
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/5/2017 @ 7:34 pmHere’s the FISA Reauthorization act of 2012:
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/hr5949
Here’s who voted for it in the House and Senate:
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/112-2012/h569
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/112-2012/s236
If you don’t like it, one of the parties is significantly more in agreement with you than the other.
Davethulhu (c75fb7) — 4/5/2017 @ 8:54 pm@76 Tillman
I can honestly say I wasn’t all up in BHO’s beeswax for quite some time after he was elected.
I think that anyone could see that W handed him a fair ration of sh*t. It’s also fair to say he spent a great deal of time pointing the elevators and ailerons in the wrong direction. But he made damn good time.
Pinandpuller (4cd42d) — 4/5/2017 @ 9:13 pmRetired lawyer hears from dissatisfied client… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0veiTgUQLKw
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 4/5/2017 @ 9:18 pmlaughing so hard my staples are coming out, Col.
mg (31009b) — 4/5/2017 @ 9:21 pmHell of an arm, mg
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 4/5/2017 @ 9:34 pm@136 papertiger
Nick Nack! Tabasco!
Christopher Lee The Man with the Golden Gun
Pinandpuller (4cd42d) — 4/5/2017 @ 9:34 pmThe Founding Fathers did not forsee gay men twerking when they wrote The First Amendment.
Nobody saw gay men twerking.
Nobody should ever see gay men twerking.
Pinandpuller (4cd42d) — 4/5/2017 @ 9:41 pmWSJ @133
But did the parts about the Trump transition’s plans come from eavesdropping, the media, or personal communications between the Trump people and the spy agencies?
Sammy Finkelman (ca4c0f) — 4/5/2017 @ 9:53 pmI don’t see it as violating anyone’s right to twerk down the middle of the street (although the case could be made it was lewd behavior in violation of community standards).
What I’m thinking is they would be violating my celebration of national pepper sauce day. We like to broadcast it with high pressure hose. It’s traditional.
papertiger (c8116c) — 4/5/2017 @ 10:03 pm113.
The story apparently is true, but it’s not new, and the Obama Adminsitration never hid it, although they didn’t issue press releases about it maybe, and claimed it was legal, but they are being sued by the House of Representatives, and now by stockholders in Fannie and Freddie. (Trump, and/or his people, have decided to continue doing this, because it would lead to an immediate health insurance crisis.)
And it wasn’t exactly a diversion of money from Fannie and Freddie but that could be one interpretation of the manuever they tried.
….which I wish someone making this accusation would explain, except of course they don’t want to, so that it could sound stranger, and sound worse, than it is.
Sammy Finkelman (ca4c0f) — 4/5/2017 @ 10:05 pm106/ Well, the child-sex ring was probably created by Putin’s people – does that measn they also tried to get people to focus on Susan Rice as the villain?
What’s surprising in all this is how rarely the consumers of intelligence see the raw intelligence> If they don’t, how can they judge the quality of their work? Or improve it?
Sammy Finkelman (ca4c0f) — 4/5/2017 @ 10:09 pmAmong other things, Monica Lewinsky had to hold onto the dress, and not wash it, and had to be put into a situation where she wanted to prove the truth of the allegations – in fact had to make them in the first place to someone who wanted to tell someone else about them. (if only to put Monica Lewinsky out of her misery.)
Bill Clinton’s big tactical mistake was exiling both Linda Tripp and Monica Lewinsky, two people whom he wanted to keep quiet about totally different matters, to the same office!
He compartmentalized a little bit too much.
Sammy Finkelman (ca4c0f) — 4/5/2017 @ 10:18 pmWall Street Journal editorial.
“We don’t know”.
“We are told”.
“We are told”.
“We are told”.
That and five rubles will get you a bowl of borscht. How do you say asspull in Russian?
nk (dbc370) — 4/5/2017 @ 11:57 pmsusie lie
mg (31009b) — 4/6/2017 @ 2:46 ampeeps die
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/04/susan_rice_lied_about_syrian_chemical_weapons.html
rubles? didn’t pedestal receive a million of them?
mg (31009b) — 4/6/2017 @ 2:48 ampedesta
mg (31009b) — 4/6/2017 @ 2:48 ampodesta.
mg (31009b) — 4/6/2017 @ 2:49 amThere’s been so much pulling, these last six months, surgery has been required
http://circa.com/politics/accountability/nsa-unmasking-congress-notified-as-ocirca.com/politics/accountability/nsa-unmasking-congress-notified-as-often-as-once-a-month?fb_action_ids=10210777569427394&fb_action_types=og.likesften-as-once-a-month?fb_action_ids=10210777569427394&fb_action_types=og.likes
narciso (d1f714) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:41 am“Wall Street Journal editorial.
“We don’t know”.
“We are told”.
“We are told”.
“We are told”.
That and five rubles”…yada yada…
Reads like a typical closing argument in court… why the feigned consternation?
Colonel Haiku (49aad2) — 4/6/2017 @ 7:25 amSounds like nk is proposing a wager.
How much is a ruble anyhow? 1.80 pennies
Not too confident of your position, are you nk.
If your bowl of borscht costs only five rubles you better not eat it.
papertiger (c8116c) — 4/6/2017 @ 8:41 amI was just thinking, General Flynn has standing to take the FISA court, secret surveillance by government traitors, and scum like the former President down altogether.
Might be able to take away Barry’s lunch money in a civil suit even.
papertiger (c8116c) — 4/6/2017 @ 8:46 am@159. There’s no reason to fear “they” said because no President would ever use the mind-boggling capabilities of worldwide technical collection for nefarious or political purposes and if one tried the professionals would never allow it and yet here we are. Anyone expecting jail time for offenders should consider the challenge of prosecution for officials operating “IAW” the rules.
crazy (d3b449) — 4/6/2017 @ 8:47 amYeah, a guy with a money trail from Putin and Erdogan who is asking for immunity from prosecution has standing to sue Obama. But why shouldn’t he give it a shot? What other ways will he have to pass the time in prison?
nk (dbc370) — 4/6/2017 @ 8:54 amSo whatpt, Obama has actually performed services for volidya and the sultan, is the textbook definition of a subversive target but as maverick reminded us ‘there is nothing to fear from obama’
narciso (d1f714) — 4/6/2017 @ 8:59 amThe Rhodes road show was something volodya wanted as much as uranium one’s stake, or a new banya
narciso (d1f714) — 4/6/2017 @ 9:05 amLemme tell you what I suspect. Obama left little landmines for Trump with Deep State. Some of them may be conversations caught by NSA “tapps”, that show Trump and/or his people in a bad light, but that cannot be legally revealed. Until Nunes and Gowdy get them as part of the Russia investigation and then it can be legal to reveal them.
But by all means let’s go after Rice and let’s find out “what she knew”. (“When did she know it” optional.)
nk (dbc370) — 4/6/2017 @ 9:10 amThey went after IntEl ‘for being a wicked animal’ and trying to prevent the Iran deal.
narciso (d1f714) — 4/6/2017 @ 9:13 amHard to argue he wasn’t damaged by Obama’s FISA court fishing trip.
Hell, hard to argue the whole country isn’t damaged by secret surveillance directed by the CIA, NSA, rogue White House (read any Democrat in charge).
It’s an unconstitutional abomination in direct conflict with the 4th amendment.
(That’s the one Ruth, Sonya and Elana, pretend gives you the right to kill millions of children a year in Planned Parenthood death mills – for any Democrat lurkers)
Let’s ask Neil Goresucks. He’ll tell ya.
papertiger (c8116c) — 4/6/2017 @ 9:14 amSo far they have been lying abiut the contents of said intercepts as resolutely as they blamed nakoulah.
narciso (d1f714) — 4/6/2017 @ 9:18 amFinally the republicans have a fighter in Nunes and they replace him with a proven loser in gowdy. I fricken give up. where my meds at?
mg (31009b) — 4/6/2017 @ 9:21 amNumbskull Nunes under ethic investigation for mishandling classified info; forced recusal from Intel committee chair on Russia matter by Ryan. Slinks off Hill in borscht stained civies amidst driving rainstorm.
“It just isn’t your day, is it.” – James Bond, 007 [Sean Connery] ‘From Russia, With Love’ 1963
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/6/2017 @ 9:35 amnk is Switzerland in all of this. Neutral… dispassionate (except for the current administration)… no, on second thought, he’s Gump… and in for a surprise when what he thinks is a box of fine Swiss chocolates turns out to be something far less tasty.
Colonel Haiku (49aad2) — 4/6/2017 @ 9:36 amYes. DCSCA, lefties have never pulled this ethics charges horsestuff before, have they.
Mince on…
Colonel Haiku (49aad2) — 4/6/2017 @ 9:38 amNunes is from the “grower” part of CA, I would be afraid to ask the price of his loyalty, though yes, Gowdy seems to be a, appearance-wise more so than ideologically, a Miss Lindsay protege.
urbanleftbehind (5eecdb) — 4/6/2017 @ 9:39 amNo hump would invariably come to the right conclusion, except possibly with jenny, but you can’t blame him for that
The huntress was deluged
narciso (d1f714) — 4/6/2017 @ 9:40 am“Reads like a typical closing argument in court… why the feigned consternation?
– Colonel Haiku
You mean a court where people testify openly, in their own names? You may be Colonel of the Haiku, but you’re still King of the Asspull.
Leviticus (efada1) — 4/6/2017 @ 9:41 amnnearly 30 baseless complaints, which cost her 500 k to dismiss, and there was no end in sight ‘the process is the punishment’ as mark stein has pointed out.
narciso (d1f714) — 4/6/2017 @ 9:43 amWe’ve has six months of ouvno looking for that pony, leviticus.
narciso (d1f714) — 4/6/2017 @ 9:46 amNorth Korea’ Kim Jong-Un hasn’t actually played a nuclear card.
Kentucky’s Mitch McConnell has.
“We have met the enemy and he is us.” – Pogo [Walt Kelly] 1970
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/6/2017 @ 9:47 am@174. Colonel, the House ethics committee is 50/50- a GOP member had concerns but it was Lyin’ Ryan told him to jump w/o a parachute. Nunes was Bannonized; a drop-forged, Channel Lock tool.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/6/2017 @ 9:51 am@ 180. You mean the Harry Reid card. Which if the Republicans had been willing to play first (e.g. Bolton), we might not have had an angry mob electing Trump.
nk (dbc370) — 4/6/2017 @ 9:53 amBannon was on the NSC to watch Flynn??
Bwahbwahbwahbwah!
Like Abbott watched Costello and Dean watched Jerry over at Moe, Larry and Curly’s house.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/6/2017 @ 9:55 amAt least two members of that committee, Clarke and Deutsche employed the awan bros,
narciso (d1f714) — 4/6/2017 @ 9:56 amSpeaking of nuclear … McConnell DOES SOMETHING.
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-senate-gorsuch-showdown-20170406-story.html
Kevin M (25bbee) — 4/6/2017 @ 9:57 amI’ll tell you, narciso, some “ethics complaints” can put a smile on a person’s face. Like this one.http://fortune.com/2017/03/27/jeff-sessions-criminal-inquiry-justice-department/ If all these guys could get to sign on are 23 people from five states, it means the U.S. population has not gone totally bananas.
nk (dbc370) — 4/6/2017 @ 9:59 am@182. Nope. The fallout from this nuclear blast came from a bomb dropped from a B-29 named name ‘McConnell’s Baby.’ Conservatism is as radioactive to Americans as Kryptonite is to Superman.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/6/2017 @ 10:02 amin new mexico
Colonel Haiku (49aad2) — 4/6/2017 @ 10:02 amunshaven gal walks down Main
chased by whelp lawyer
Yes they are usually that ridiculous, but that isnt the point its to keep the unicorn chase, and there is always a shadow after you
narciso (d1f714) — 4/6/2017 @ 10:04 amSail goodman does get tedious.
narciso (d1f714) — 4/6/2017 @ 10:07 am@182. Bolton’s out of another job title on Friday: Fox News cancelled ‘Red Eye.’
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/6/2017 @ 10:07 amgutfeld did a Mclean stevenson,
narciso (d1f714) — 4/6/2017 @ 10:11 amYou mean a court where people testify openly, in their own names?
Yeah. Exactly not like Obama’s FISA court.
papertiger (c8116c) — 4/6/2017 @ 10:16 amGonna quote myself:
Davethulhu (fab944) — 4/6/2017 @ 10:26 amAll the more reason for General Flynn to take it to the courts.
The real courts. Not the phony balogna, hidden away, secret court.
papertiger (c8116c) — 4/6/2017 @ 10:35 amThat was supposedly to track terrorist, the last administration funded groups allied with al queda.
narciso (6e008d) — 4/6/2017 @ 10:39 amErr, you do know that that was what Flynn was doing the whole time he was working for the government, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_T._Flynn#Military_career Spying. Some for Reagan, some for Bush I, some for Clinton, some for Bush II, and some … you’ll never guess … for Obama.
nk (dbc370) — 4/6/2017 @ 10:40 amIs this the first thing Mcconnell has accomplished as head nit-wit?
mg (31009b) — 4/6/2017 @ 10:40 am“SO DEVIN NUNES’ RECUSAL WAS A BAD IDEA. My 1997 book (written with bigshot DC lawyer Peter Morgan), The Appearance of Impropriety: How the Ethics Wars Have Undermined American Government, Business, and Society, deals with how appearance ethics are manipulated — often by wrongdoers to punish those looking into wrongdoing. It is as timely now as it was 20 years ago, and pundits, attorneys, and members of the Administration would be well-advised to give it a read.”
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/261873/
Colonel Haiku (49aad2) — 4/6/2017 @ 10:56 am@198- Love to see him in a flaming red turtleneck.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/6/2017 @ 11:04 amHe’s just a big ole copycat. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/senate-poised-to-limit-filibusters-in-party-line-vote-that-would-alter-centuries-of-precedent/2013/11/21/d065cfe8-52b6-11e3-9fe0-fd2ca728e67c_story.html?utm_term=.60d33f1523b1
nk (dbc370) — 4/6/2017 @ 11:12 amtime loves a hero
Colonel Haiku (49aad2) — 4/6/2017 @ 11:17 amwon’t be mouthpiece from Hell but
only time will tell
They oughtta ban Big Gulp Headline Lies… https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-04-06/gop-begins-nuclear-rule-move-to-advance-trump-high-court-pick
Colonel Haiku (49aad2) — 4/6/2017 @ 11:20 am@198- Love to see him in a flaming red turtleneck.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/6/2017 @ 11:04 am
I bet you would rather it be nekkid on a bearskin rug.
Colonel Haiku (49aad2) — 4/6/2017 @ 11:21 amAnd Obama, in service to his Islamic allies, spied on Flynn illegally, then leaked bogus material through Colin Powell illegally forcing Flynn into early retirement (the universal “reward” bestowed by Democrats upon patriots for competent national service).
Then Obama spied on General Flynn some more, illegally.
We all up to speed now?
papertiger (c8116c) — 4/6/2017 @ 11:25 amR.I.P. Don Rickles
Icy (0be6a1) — 4/6/2017 @ 11:28 amGosh, he should totally go to court and reveal all of these illegal acts.
But he won’t, because none of that is actually true.
Davethulhu (fab944) — 4/6/2017 @ 11:29 am@204. Tiger skin.
“Mmmmmm. Kinky.” – Hedley Lamarr [Harvey Korman] ‘Blazing Saddles’ 1974
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/6/2017 @ 11:31 amYou can tell the difference between say local boy David headley,* and a public official can’t you nk
*He hit no 1 with mumbai
narciso (12c204) — 4/6/2017 @ 11:32 amR.I.P. CPO Sharkey, eh.
No tears for a hockey puck.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/6/2017 @ 11:33 amgo-go chicago
Colonel Haiku (49aad2) — 4/6/2017 @ 11:36 amthat toddlin’ windy city
and windy lawyers
Gonna go watch Kelly’s Heroes again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kqw0Gz9GahM
Davethulhu (fab944) — 4/6/2017 @ 11:39 am“Square knees was asking for a reason
Colonel Haiku (49aad2) — 4/6/2017 @ 11:42 amHow can I go sleeping in a car
I got red hot tires my tires are smokin’
I’m so broke I don’t want to stop
My gears are crying
My gears are crying
I got the ha hamburger
ha hamburger
I got the ha hamburger midnight blues
Got a grease mother she’s a holder finder
Keeper of the scooter gas
You gotta lift your tail and seal your fate
Snort the crank your old man stashed
And ride a tin can
Ride a tin can street machine
Square knees was asking for a reason
How can I go sleeping in a car
I got red hot tires my tires are smokin’
I’m so broke I don’t want to stop
My gears are crying
My gears are crying
I got the ha hamburger
I got the ha hamburger
I got the ha hamburger midnight blues”
Gosh, he should totally go to court and reveal all of these illegal acts.
YES. Now you’re getting it.
from BREAKING: @ gotnews BarackObama’s CIA Director John Brennan and His Allies Were Targeting Trump Supporters For Surveillance
Sean Hannity on Allegations Obama Admin Spied on Him: “I Will Sue All Involved!”
Oh. Good enough. Never mind about General Flynn then.
papertiger (c8116c) — 4/6/2017 @ 11:57 am180. DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/6/2017 @ 9:47 am
That’s using a different meaning of the wword nuclear.
The change in the Senate rules is called nuclear because it is something that is never done.
What’s never done is NOT the particular change in the rules here – with nominations the Senate just goes back to the way it was de facto before – a simple majority is all that’s needed to confirm. This is how the Senate de facto functioned. The best proof is the Clarence Thomas (and also Samuel Alito) nominations, both of whom were confirmed with a vote total of between 51 and 59 votes in favor of confirmation. Going back to that is not “nuclear.”
What’s “nuclear” is overturning the Senate rules, especially outside the rules for changing the rules, which is the key point.
It’s doing that without a two thirds majority for changing the rules because then any rule could be overturned by a simple majority, and maybe they could get rid of the legislative filibster also, and restrict possible amendments to a bill, and the Senate could become like the House. With nominees, of course, it’s a binary choice – up or down, yes or no, so not much is lost.
There is a question as to whether there really are, or can be, any rules for changing the rules. And some say they can adopt any rules at the start of new Congress, but there was a counterargument for that – that the Senate is a “continuing body” because no more about one third of its members turn over at any time. There were these three positions.
Few Senators wanted to change the rules outside of the rules for changing the rules.
That’s “going nuclear.”
Sammy Finkelman (ca4c0f) — 4/6/2017 @ 11:57 am@212. Appropriate.
“A DEAL, deal! Maybe the guy’s a Republican. “Business is business,” right?”- Crapgame [Don Rickles] ‘Kelly’s Heroes’ 1970
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/6/2017 @ 11:59 amAbout Nunes: Rush Limbaugh said the Republicans take members of their team off the field, but the democrats never do.
On the other hand, Nunes was showing signs of incompetence.
Sammy Finkelman (ca4c0f) — 4/6/2017 @ 12:00 pmNunes got too close to the truth.
crazy (d3b449) — 4/6/2017 @ 12:00 pmAhahahahahaha
Davethulhu (fab944) — 4/6/2017 @ 12:01 pmAnd now, the Sports Report:
Melania was looking VERY ‘Jackie-O’ as she deplaned in Palm Beach.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/6/2017 @ 12:02 pmNow, in spite of the existence of the filibuster, the Senate functioned almost always on the premise that only a majority was needed to confirm presidential nominations, like the constitution says.
The reason it functioned that way, even though there could always be a filibuster, is because first of all, the general belief that they cannot just vote down a president’s nominees you disagree with because then, in certain circumstances, (like when the Senate and the president are of different parties oe ideologies) almost nobody could be nominated to fill a position, and the government wouldn’t function. So Senators in general don’t, or didn’t tend to vote against nominations, and
nominations rarely got less than 80 or 90 votes in favor.
Senators figured that when they got aa president they liked, his nominees would be confirmed rathewer easily, and it was better for all concerned if things worked that way.
Starting around 1969, following the lead of Senator Proxmire (D-Wis) the Senate got very tough on nomiees, but this was always on politially neutral “conflict of interest” grounds. Many nominations would be withdrawn well before a vote, and it happened this year with the Secretary of Labor, and the Secretary of the Army, and a few other nominations.
A withdrawal also happens when someone might lose a confirmation vote for other reasons, but usually I think a filibuster (getting 51 votes but not 60) was not a factor.
There was a filibuster of Abe Fortas’ nomination to tbe Chief Justice of the United states supreme Court in 1968, but it was bipartisan, and if they didn’t have somewhat good grounds, other Senators would have invoked cloture, even though you the needed two thirds, or 67 Senators, because in general they didn’t want to vote against nominees because if you do that, you could get into a situation where it would be practically impossible to fill Executive branch jobs, even if you only needed a majority, a situation well over a majorty agreed was very undesirable.
And they also didn’t filibuster nominations because they didn’t want to overuse the filibuster.
It used to be also that a filibuster actually required speaking, but then they gave people shortcuts – the way baseball for instance now is going to allow an intentional walk without actually having the throw four pitches.
So the minority party, or any group of 41 Senators, could just announce they were doing a filibuster and everybody woud agree they needed 60 votes in order to vote. And filbusters were getting more and more common, to the point where they say a bill needs 60 votes for anything to happen.
Now what also happened, and happens, with nominations was that individual Senators would place a “hold” on nominations. This was based on the idea they could filibuster. It was always just one or a few Senators. The nominations were delayed. The nominations were not usually stopped, nor was that the intention. It usually was over secondary issues and not opposition to the nomination itself.
A single Senator filibuster could only delay things but they didn’t like to see the Senate tied up, so this was respected. It worked because other Senators also wanted that power, but had it been overused, or done to completely stop a nomination, they would have stopped honoring these holds.
Sammy Finkelman (ca4c0f) — 4/6/2017 @ 12:05 pmGot anything from Elizabeth O’Bagy, papertiger?
Charles C. Johnson.
Ahahahahahaha
(Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Davethulhu.)
nk (dbc370) — 4/6/2017 @ 12:05 pmThat Brennan’s a real piece of work. Face caught fire, rescuer put it out with an ice pick and he’s never recovered.
Colonel Haiku (49aad2) — 4/6/2017 @ 12:08 pm183. DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/6/2017 @ 9:55 am
The CBS Evening News (and also NBC apaprently) reported it that way last night, but according to the New York Times, that’s only Bannon’s version of the story.
Sammy Finkelman (ca4c0f) — 4/6/2017 @ 12:08 pmDon Rickles Roasts Clint Eastwood
papertiger (c8116c) — 4/6/2017 @ 12:08 pmhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-oItsU_l4c
Windy is right, Colonel:
http://abc7chicago.com/weather/chicago-weather-loop-streets-close-due-to-falling-debris/1841808/
urbanleftbehind (5eecdb) — 4/6/2017 @ 12:10 pmyou are teh greatest
Colonel Haiku (49aad2) — 4/6/2017 @ 12:13 pmno it is you who am great
Looks like 🐙 🐑 love
The CBS Evening News (and also NBC apaprently) reported it that way last night, but according to the New York Times, that’s only Bannon’s version of the story.
Sammy Finkelman (ca4c0f) — 4/6/2017 @ 12:08 pm
CBS still covering the Rice story… with a blanket… until it stops breathing, Sammeh?
Colonel Haiku (49aad2) — 4/6/2017 @ 12:14 pm171. mg (31009b) — 4/6/2017 @ 9:21 am
Actually, it’s the Senate
intelligence committee that looks bad.
They took testimony last week on the existence of 1,000 paid Russian trolls, who were trying to swing votes in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin last October, except that there’s probably no evidence for that.
Trolls maybe. Paid trolls, maybe. But restricted to swing states (that woud only matter if the election was close and Trump won other states but lost New Hampshire and Nevada and Virginia) or having very much effect on public opinion at large, maybe another thing.
senator Mark Warner on he senate sdie
Sammy Finkelman (ca4c0f) — 4/6/2017 @ 12:15 pm@225. Eastwood gets last laugh: Clint’s alive; Don’s dead.
“Ya hockey puck.” – Don Rickles, almost any Tonight Show
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/6/2017 @ 12:17 pmR.I.P. Don Rickles?
Good.
What a loser.
Who write his jokes? Helen Keller?
Kevin M (25bbee) — 4/6/2017 @ 12:17 pmDon Rickles final speech at tribute to Don Rickles (sub Ita)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOcWkUxbP8s
Fit for the occasion.
papertiger (c8116c) — 4/6/2017 @ 12:17 pmColonel Haiku (49aad2) — 4/6/2017 @ 12:14 pm
They did cover it earlier this week, when NBC and ABC didn’t. although they did open the newscast with the claim that Trump had been revealed to be doing something wrong – he was getting money from his trust, instead of, presumbably, treating it like a time deposit.
Sammy Finkelman (ca4c0f) — 4/6/2017 @ 12:17 pm@233- The story was stillborn, Sammy. GOP blames ‘Russian’ healthcare.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/6/2017 @ 12:20 pmThere’s other things going on, and other interesting news or magazsine articles. The New York Times magazine had astory this sunday about medical billing. It is completely irrational and unfair, and some of the information is condidered to be trade secrets. In some other cases information is withheld in vioation of law. And leaves people with loss of savings.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/magazine/those-indecipherable-medical-bills-theyre-one-reason-health-care-costs-so-much.html
Sammy Finkelman (ca4c0f) — 4/6/2017 @ 12:27 pmBannons tells you exactly why he does things, he wouldn’t tell an unnamed official, as the basilisk suggests.
Rhodes, rice, Brennan and co, have been shoveling ouvno for months now.
narciso (6ac269) — 4/6/2017 @ 12:33 pmjared kushner texting joe scarborough. Trump has to fire this democrat punk.
mg (31009b) — 4/6/2017 @ 12:33 pmIt really is striking how every paper sans martosko’s mail got the bannon story wrong. Like every paper got the sanford, benghazi, fast and furious, or iran deal wrong.
narciso (6ac269) — 4/6/2017 @ 12:37 pmFootnote to history.
American legend, former Ohio senator, the last of the ‘Original Mercury Seven’ and the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth, John Glenn, was buried today, April 6, 2017, in a gentle rain at Arlington on what would have been he and his wife Annie’s 75th wedding anniversary.
Since Glenn died nearly four months ago on December 8, 2016– he rightly gets the last laugh– truly “The Ripe Stuff.”
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/6/2017 @ 12:43 pm@232. Rickles was fit for no occasion.
He probably won’t be invited to his own funeral.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/6/2017 @ 12:47 pmBut Jared Kushner has a certain card to play, if Bannon gets out of pocket. Bannon should goad Miller into that particular fight.
urbanleftbehind (5eecdb) — 4/6/2017 @ 12:49 pmIts like the ethics committee is not serious
https://spectator.org/the-invisible-awan-brothers-scandal/
narciso (d1f714) — 4/6/2017 @ 1:00 pmAcross the :www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/french-presidential-campaign-part-2
narciso (d1f714) — 4/6/2017 @ 1:09 pmAnything from Elizabeth O’Bagy…
Isn’t it interesting, a Democrat operative lying about her credential, lobbying the Obama admin to arm ISIS before O declared them the JV team.
General Flynn was surveilled, called a crank, and pushed out for lobbying the other way.
papertiger (c8116c) — 4/6/2017 @ 1:12 pmAnd maverick hir
narciso (d1f714) — 4/6/2017 @ 1:15 pmlol looks like failmerica wants to get oodles more of its tatted up semi-literate soldiers slaughtered in syria
good luck with that, losers
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/6/2017 @ 1:20 pmhttp://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=369179
narciso (d1f714) — 4/6/2017 @ 1:21 pmi have a question for Mr. Nunes
what does “temporarily recused” mean?
is that kinda like the temporarily pregnant hoochies running to enjoy the Planned Parenthood services Justin Amash and the rest of the freedom filth refuse to de-fund?
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/6/2017 @ 1:23 pmmark meadows is holy hell on them goalposts
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/6/2017 @ 1:25 pmIts only till they’ve rounded up all the unicorns:
narciso (d1f714) — 4/6/2017 @ 1:27 pmhttps://mobile.twitter.com/MPPregent/status/850069632883068928
yay! i clickered on that one and it worked
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/6/2017 @ 1:32 pmwhat moron other than Meghan McCain’s useless cowardly geriatric p.o.s. daddy thinks removing assad to the tune of god knows how many borrowed chineser dollars and to the tune of god knows how many luckless failmerican lives is gonna make things more better in syria
hello?
let’s put our thinking caps on and chaw on this one a bit
we have some recent data points on this scenarios
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/6/2017 @ 1:35 pmhappyfeet (28a91b) — 4/6/2017 @ 1:23 pm
Till the House Ethics Committee finishes its inquiry into the accusations of his having made unauthorized disclosures of classified information, which he hopes will end with a dismissal, soon, of all claims of havinbg violated House rules or any other standard of conduct.
Sammy Finkelman (6f9f42) — 4/6/2017 @ 1:38 pmHanging does not concentrate the mind, in retrospect:
http://ww.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/french-presidential-campaign-part-2
narciso (d1f714) — 4/6/2017 @ 1:39 pmthe national soros radio propaganda sluts are already running hit pieces on the guy “temporarily” taking over from our boy devin
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/6/2017 @ 1:42 pm252. Well, they want to remove Assad without putting any worse guys in power. They were even willing to have Assad approve his immediate successor (an orderly succession.) Assad is near the bottom of the list of bad guys in Syria. There is an argument that some not bad people are relying on him for protection.
They didn’t make any provision as to how Assad was going to stay out of jail or avoid getting killed. Russia I think indicated they didn’t want him.
Sammy Finkelman (6f9f42) — 4/6/2017 @ 1:43 pm254. The webpage cannot be found
Sammy Finkelman (6f9f42) — 4/6/2017 @ 1:43 pmYes pointing out the emperor’s new clothes is frowned upon.
narciso (d1f714) — 4/6/2017 @ 1:48 pmhttps://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/magazine/those-indecipherable-medical-bills-theyre-one-reason-health-care-costs-so-much.html?_r=0
Sammy Finkelman (6f9f42) — 4/6/2017 @ 1:58 pmA previous New York times series:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/health/paying-till-it-hurts.html
While things are impossible for the uninsured, insurance companies probably take on only teh easuest cases but pass on thje res.
Prices have become disconnected from reality. The first thing that has to be done is this whole system has to come to an end. There are probably people who have thought hwo to do this.
Sammy Finkelman (6f9f42) — 4/6/2017 @ 2:07 pmthe fish rots from the top
you can’t have a corrupt fbi cia nsa irs epa fcc
a completely trashy joke of a secret service
and a bunch of sleazy corrupt unethical douchebags in your congress
and have an ethical efficient healthcare system
failmerica’s a deeply embedded cultural thang anymore
sucky loser-assed country gonna suck
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/6/2017 @ 2:12 pm262.
This system was largely created by Congress, and maybe some presidents, not the FBI, CIA, IRS or EPA or NSA.
From the article:
One thing: it’sot malpractice lawsuits that cause unnecessary medical tests (or at least claims of having done them) when medical providers get money for each one. Or for a lot of things. The codes are supposed to prevent charging extra.
Sammy Finkelman (6f9f42) — 4/6/2017 @ 2:20 pmhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/05/health/think-the-er-was-expensive-look-at-the-ambulance-bill.html
Sammy Finkelman (6f9f42) — 4/6/2017 @ 2:24 pmhttps://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/26/us/as-insurers-try-to-limit-costs-providers-hit-patients-with-more-separate-fees.html
Sammy Finkelman (6f9f42) — 4/6/2017 @ 2:28 pmyes yes but the fish still rots from the top
this is obvious to anyone who is willing to do the analysis
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/6/2017 @ 2:32 pmLook where we are now:
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/06/health/even-small-medical-advances-can-mean-big-jumps-in-bills.html
Sammy Finkelman (6f9f42) — 4/6/2017 @ 2:35 pmhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnosis-related_group
Sammy Finkelman (6f9f42) — 4/6/2017 @ 2:42 pmMike “Pizzagate” Cernovich says the Syrian gas attack was a false flag.
Davethulhu (fab944) — 4/6/2017 @ 2:50 pmMr. Cernovich is probably right but who cares whose flag it was
it’s in Syria!
hello?
nobody gives a crap about the rubble and misery in syria except pedophile putin and meghan’s cowardly and disgustingly bloodthirsty weirdo daddy
everyone else has real lives
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/6/2017 @ 2:54 pmthere’s no one train what will get me to hyde park from here where i live i have to transfer downtown
it’s springtime and i never been to hyde park my whole life you know
i heard they have pork chop sammiches there
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/6/2017 @ 2:55 pmNot worth it, happy, if you are still North of Roosevelt Rd, turn back.
urbanleftbehind (39dadd) — 4/6/2017 @ 3:07 pmoh no i was thinking next weekend
but yeah it definitely looks like kind of a hassle
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/6/2017 @ 3:12 pmor is that easter
i have people coming for easter
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/6/2017 @ 3:12 pmMike “Pizzagate” Cerovich says what the Russians want him to say like a good little Yugoslavian Trumpkin.
nk (dbc370) — 4/6/2017 @ 3:13 pm@175 urbanleftbehind
The difference between Devin Nunes and Paul Reubens:
The first one’s a grower and the second one’s a shower.
Pinandpuller (16b0b5) — 4/6/2017 @ 3:14 pmYeah, I “prepped” in the area and not at the place that costs 20k per annum (i went where the Obama girls should have been exiled to in January 2013). Hype Dark is not a typo.
urbanleftbehind (39dadd) — 4/6/2017 @ 3:18 pmoh.
i just wanted to mosey through the park and maybe go see the frank lloyd house
and then eat something
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/6/2017 @ 3:19 pmthere’s a frank lloyd in gold coast i go by sometimes
it’s very very difficult to photograph I’ve deleted every attempt so far
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/6/2017 @ 3:31 pmMike “Pizzagate” Cerovich says what the Russians want him to say like a good little Yugoslavian Trumpkin.
nk (dbc370) — 4/6/2017 @ 3:13 pm
*********
Probably Serbian.
Rae (2fd998) — 4/6/2017 @ 3:41 pmGoulash
mg (31009b) — 4/6/2017 @ 3:52 pmfar out and outa site, happyfeet
mg (31009b) — 4/6/2017 @ 3:55 pmWas fortunate to see Rickles a few times. Extremely talented he could sing, dance, act and tell jokes. In my Vegas top 5.
mg (31009b) — 4/6/2017 @ 4:04 pmJonathon Winters, George Burns, Buddy Hacket, Steve Allen
He was 90. We should all live so long.
nk (dbc370) — 4/6/2017 @ 4:13 pmSending Nunes to the Ethics Committee for allegedly disclosing classified info is a clever move by his critics. How does he prove his innocence without bringing the Ethics Committee and staff into the Russia/Rice investigations? How many members and staff are even eligible for access? Why does the Speaker want him sidelined?
crazy (d3b449) — 4/6/2017 @ 4:22 pmThis situation in Syria is the result of the catastrophic policy failure of the Obama administration. Those nitwits had ignored what was going on for years, had convinced many Americans they’d prosecuted a super successful policy and were bragging as recently as January that this policy had caused Assad to “voluntarily and verifiably give up its chemical weapon stockpile.”
But you shouldn’t base policy on gut wrenching photos. Hell, the NoKos only have to send one nuke over the border and it would kill 250k or more South Koreans. Maintain perspective and make sober assessments.
Colonel Haiku (49aad2) — 4/6/2017 @ 4:33 pmIs there a more Soviet (read Communist) friendly country in the “West” than Greece? They cozied up to the Russkies for decades. Hell, if there not sucking up to Russia, they’re renting krypsonas on islands, browning their bodies under the sun, eating roasted goat, swilling wine and entreating each other to perform shinshi-shinshi (before it was outlawed… in Greece, amazingly enough!!!… as being “unclean”).
Colonel Haiku (49aad2) — 4/6/2017 @ 4:45 pmThe fierce moral urgency of “if not US, who?” hasn’t solved too many of the problems it was hoped it would.
crazy (d3b449) — 4/6/2017 @ 4:58 pm@283. Saw Rickles in Vegas as well.
Unimpressed. An hour of gutter jokes and racist insults capped with a closer using a microphone as a penis. A frat boy .
Winters was gifted magic; Burns a total bore but made better use of a stogie than Clinton; Hackett too blue for school yet marble-mouth was at his best in ‘It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World’ but Steve Allen was absolutely, positively the most talented of the lot– w/Winters a close second. But Rickles?? Wheel him to the curb; Friday’s are trash day in Beverly Hills.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/6/2017 @ 5:01 pmI bet we do,
http://thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/04/05/think-you-know-everything-httabout-obama-guess-again-says-david-garrow.html
Yes the syriza/right alliance is an odd duck, yet they paying the NATO danegeld
narciso (d1f714) — 4/6/2017 @ 5:13 pmwhen i heard he died it remindered me of that scene in OA where they talk about Don Knotts
when these people die it’s a lot like this
it was totally on my list to go and i never got around to it
and now i’ll never get to
and i only have myself to blame
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/6/2017 @ 5:17 pmstupid stupid stupid
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/6/2017 @ 5:18 pmThe fierce moral urgency of “if not US, who?” hasn’t solved too many of the problems it was hoped it would.
preach it brother
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/6/2017 @ 5:19 pmKhan sheikhoun,like easT ghouta, are Islamic stronghold:
http:thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/media/327665-with-susan-rice-reporters-forgot-the-facts
narciso (d1f714) — 4/6/2017 @ 5:19 pmToday is the 100th annniversary of the enrry of the United States into World War I.
There was some ceremony at the world war I memorial, which is in Kansas City. (Because Truman was World War I veteran?)
Sammy Finkelman (ca4c0f) — 4/6/2017 @ 5:21 pm@286. Not just Obama- Congress was of little help– they refused to vote authorization for military action but hr does bear responsibility for the red line crap. And Trump tweeted repeatedly back in the day not to get into it a well.
Now he sees a little disturbing TV. It’s sucker bait.
The West lets itself get weaseled by video a hundred dead from a gas attack– some of them kids. Yeah, it sucks; it’s reprehensible– a war crime for all to see on the TeeVee. But the United States ain’t the world’s policeman (unless Syria has secret oil reserves, of course.) But if you think pictures of 100 dead civilians in 2017 phase anybody in the Kremlin you’re in for a surprise. Bear in mind Soviet Russia lost 25 million people in WW2. A few dead Syrians are nothing. Chump change at best – the cost of doing business to them, especially when the goal is to maintain a regime w/access to the Mediterranean.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/6/2017 @ 5:28 pm@295. Yeah, let’s remind Americans that they invaded the Soviet Union for a time back in that era, too. Americans hardly remember that. Russians never forget it.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/6/2017 @ 5:31 pmSammy @ 295. Because Senator Jim Talent and Rep. Karen McCarthy were from Missouri in 2004. The National WWI Memorial is in Washington DC. The Liberty Memorial in Kansas was one of several local ones that pre-existed it, and was re-labeled the National WWI Museum in 2004 as a little bit of pork thrown to Missouri by Bush 43. And the official WWI holiday is Armistice Day on November 11.
nk (dbc370) — 4/6/2017 @ 5:37 pmWWI was ridiculously stupid i blame germany
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/6/2017 @ 5:38 pmWe were playing both sides,the gulf states and erdogan armed the Syrian rebels to the tune of 500 million, yet Syria was Iran and Russia’s ptoxy
narciso (d1f714) — 4/6/2017 @ 5:47 pmmaybe we should just build some nice infrastructure and call it a day
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/6/2017 @ 5:48 pmSyria is Russia’s base in the Middle East. Literally. The insurgency is a headache for Putin. Alleviated to some degree by now having a U.S. President who is not going to help the rebels or encourage U.S. allies to help them.
And, no, dead Syrian babies will not bother the Kremlin. But dead Russian soldiers and pilots will. Like they did in Afghanistan and Chechnya. Less likely to happen without Stinger missiles supplied to the rebels.
nk (dbc370) — 4/6/2017 @ 5:53 pmAnd all roads lead back to Iran. Another Obama success story.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 4/6/2017 @ 5:54 pmYou forgot Bosnia, how many times do we need to see this film, now some Chechen and Libyans went to Syria, and some are coming back.
narciso (d1f714) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:05 pmThis was six months before the Samuel’s piece:
narciso (d1f714) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:08 pmhttps://mosaicmagazine.com/essay/2015/02/obamas-secret-iran-strategy/
america’s done more than its share for middle east peace
arranging for the nuclear holocaust of israel was a particularly brilliant move
god bless america land that i love
genocidal
suicidal
while the Lord smiles in glee from above
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:11 pmHe’s gonna call Putin on the QT w/a head’s up then fire off a flurry of cruise missiles costing taxpayers $1.7 million to make more rubble out of the rubble in places w/o any Rooskies and crow how tough he is.
Oh wait- breaking news– sure enough– 50 Tomahawks fired at Syria. your tax dollars at work.
Told ‘ya.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:13 pmI still can’t believe that he invaded.
Davethulhu (c75fb7) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:16 pmI suspect there will be a response–and it isn’t so much about “the children”–it’s about the use of WMD.
Rae (2fd998) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:16 pmOh wait- breaking news– sure enough– 50 Tomahawks fired at Syria. your tax dollars at work.
Told ‘ya.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:13 pm
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Do you have a source for that?
then how do you know that is all there is?
Rae (2fd998) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:17 pmwhere’s the link about the tomahawks (sp?)
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:17 pmLooks like this broke six minutes ago
Hillary Clinton Calls For Strike On Syrian Airfields
Rae (2fd998) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:18 pmThe Huffington Post · 6 minutes ago
Clinton, the 2016 Democratic nominee, said at the Women in the World summit in New York City that a retaliatory strike would prevent Assad from carrying out similar attacks in the future. “Assad has …
@310– Put your TV on. NBC News is reporting this live now. 50 tomahawks at $1.7 million each fired off into Syria.
Sleep well America.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:19 pm@31- its LIVE on TV now.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:20 pm@313- It’s live on television now. NBC News.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:20 pm@31- its LIVE on TV now.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:20 pm
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Oh gawd–well I guess I’ll have to tune on the boob tube–yikes!
Rae (2fd998) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:21 pm43 missiles fired at 2 air bases.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:21 pmif it’s true then the tatted-up failmerican military was super tardy to go along with that i think
President Trump must’ve promised them espresso machines or free facial peels or something
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:22 pmnk, the original groundbreaking of the Kansas City Liberty memorial was actually attended by flag officers of five allied nations, including Adm Beatty, Marshal Foch and Gen Pershing. So I’d not necessarily denigrate it as a “local” memorial.
SPQR (a3a747) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:22 pm@312- It’s live on television now. Been so for about 15 minutes. It’s a pinprick response.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:22 pmNow its upped to 60 tomahawks.
60 X $1.7 million. Ka-ching!
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:23 pm43 to 47
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:23 pmNow 60 reported by Pentagon.
I sure hope Brian Williams is safe!
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:26 pmTrump lost my support with this idiotic intrusion in Syria.
Babies die all the time and I care more about Chicago Babies than I care about 1MM Syria babies.
Why are we starting armed conflict with Russia when they are busy killing each other?
When my enemy is killing my enemy, let them.
I am 100% disgusted in the Neo-Cons and Democrats (who goaded this response from Trump with all the Russia BS hysteria)
Blah Blah (44eaa0) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:27 pmNuts. 100% nucking futs.
Sunnis killing Shia is a good thing. Let it roll.
Blah Blah (44eaa0) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:29 pmhaving sprinkled a hundred million borrowed chineser dollars worth of tommywhatevers on syria, the failmerican military must be feeling pretty good about itself right now
and isn’t that what really makes it all worth it
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:29 pmWell that was mostly useless
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/u-s-officials-cant-confirm-obama-era-counter-terror-efforts-ever-succeeded
narciso (d1f714) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:32 pmcontrary to early reports, ivanka did *not* drop her top and do a sultry shimmy for daddy upon learning of the failmerican military’s bold and decisive attack on syria (sp?)
**DEVELOPING**
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:35 pm@327. So was firing off 60 tomahawks to make more holes and rubble on top of more holes and rubble.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:35 pmEli was pretty sharp even then
http:www.nysun.com/foreign/bush-weighs-reaching-out-to-brothers/56899
narciso (d1f714) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:36 pm#327 Sadly Happfeet this is 100% Trumps fault.
To me, this is about him wanting to have push back on the Russia issue with the Press and Democrats. This has ZERO to do with dead babies or Sarin or whatever.
Democrats and the Media are complicit in pushing war for N Fing reason. McCain, Rubio and the rest of these war mongers in the GOP are simply disgusting vile humans. And WTF is the CIA doing? Didn’t they love the fact Obama did a deal to remove WMD in Syria? And Obola?
Yikes, we have gone mad as a Nation.
Blah Blah (44eaa0) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:37 pmNow its upped to 60 tomahawks.
60 X $1.7 million. Ka-ching!
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:23 pm
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Eh–they might have been close to their expiration dates and due for demolition anyways.
Rae (2fd998) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:37 pmIs good. Even if Trump did get Putin’s permission first like DCSCA says (which even I think is taking this “Manchurian” thing too far). Is positive message to King Abdullah who was just here, and message to Chairman Xi who will be here (not necessarily positive).
nk (dbc370) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:38 pmBe nice if the Captain interrupted his strawberries and ice cream dessert w/t Top Chinaman and let ‘We the People’ know what the hell he did and who the hell he’s killed.
Don’t worry, Donald, we’ll keep an eye on the mess boys.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:38 pmThe thing I hate to most about our Wars is we refuse to kill enough people to actually win them.
Blah Blah (44eaa0) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:40 pmIf it is limited to this – what amounts to a warning – may not be a terrible move. He has four others bases. We’ll see if he wants to lose it all. If
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:40 pm@333- There was likely Rooskie personnel on that airfield so giving a head’s up to Putie Bird at 4 AM Moscow time might have been a wise gesture– or at least irritated Vlad by waking him up so early.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:41 pmthis is vile but worse than that it’s silly
i wonder if that freakshow mattis goofball tried to stop it or if he was all pumped up and eager to sprinkle these fancy rubble-bouncers on the syrian (sp?) … rubble
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:41 pm#337 And what if he just killed a few hundred Russian soldiers. You think Putin is going to allow that?
This is nuts.
When Sunnis are killing Shia and Shia are killing Sunnis … let them. In fact help them.
Blah Blah (44eaa0) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:42 pmNow its upped to 60 tomahawks.
60 X $1.7 million. Ka-ching!
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:23 pm
Meh… whole operation is much cheaper than Obama vacations taken during the first term.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:43 pmSave the Christians in Syria, the Muzzies, let them kill each other.
Sad day for USA.
Reminds me of Clinton dropping some missiles on a milk factory in Somalia to deflect from blue stained dresses.
Blah Blah (44eaa0) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:44 pm@336. So, kill a hundred more next week, fire off 60 more tomahawks. It’s a waste of assets. It’s a feel good move; literally a knee-jerk reaction. And in the end, useless. There are smarter and more fiscally clever ways to squeeze Vlad’s nuts.
But then, he’s a friend of the Captain.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:44 pmyou can bet you whole paycheck Meghan’s ex-military weirdo coward daddy’s gonna want us to add some extra to the budget to compensate for this burning and itchy discharge of tommywhatevers
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:45 pm@341. Blah, blah, blah….
Look on the bright side, Trump’s going to crow about how tough he is now for the next 5 months and not a Russian boot licker.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:46 pm#43 Winning a “just” war means killing enough of the other side till you get total surrender. Whether the number is 10 or 10,000,000 is irrelevant.
And sure, I am sure Putin is a great ally. (* You are part of the deranged problem in the Nation. No matter the facts contradicting you, you press on.)
Blah Blah (44eaa0) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:46 pmIs good. Even if Trump did get Putin’s permission first like DCSCA says (which even I think is taking this “Manchurian” thing too far). Is positive message to King Abdullah who was just here, and message to Chairman Xi who will be here (not necessarily positive).
nk (dbc370) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:38 pm
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There was a message out there today from the Russians saying essentially that they do not give blanket approval to everything Assad does.
The King of Jordan is a very impressive man.
I’m glad to find out that Trump doesn’t buy into cockamamie screwballs like that Cernovich–or whatever the hell his name is.
This is about WMD and other war crime violations–such as the bombing of the hospital –I was almost willing to bet that Mattis would respond rapidly so that even Assad could figure out the connection.
Rae (2fd998) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:47 pmPutin loves a guy who wants lower energy price policy and confronts them militarily …. yeah. Makes sense.
Blah Blah (44eaa0) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:48 pmSo if Putin goes out and bombs our Troops and kills 200-300, then what?
Blah Blah (44eaa0) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:50 pmWill McCain and Rubio strap up and go into the shooting war?
Blah Blah (44eaa0) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:50 pm@341. Blah, blah, blah….
Look on the bright side, Trump’s going to crow about how tough he is now for the next 5 months and not a Russian boot licker.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:46 pm
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Sometimes when you don’t have much leverage on a man because you’ve left him little to lose that frees him up to do what he wants, as rapidly as he can.
Trump tried to give a pass to Assad–Assad was emboldened in the wrong way–and embarrassed Trump and now Trump has to clue him in by other means.
Rae (2fd998) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:51 pmWe shattered an airfield.
“We’ve sunk a truck!” – Lt. Cmdr. Sherman [Cary Grant] ‘Operation Petticoat’ 1959
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:51 pmWell, we now know where this president’s red line is…
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:52 pmoh my goodness we shattered an airfield everybody gets a medal (and a new tattoo!)
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:52 pm5 more to go. Assad’s move.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:52 pmMattis and McMaster got it covered.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:53 pmBrian Williams is a bevy of fake news tonight.
He keeps low-balling the cost of those tomahawk missiles and he’s off by a million bucks a piece.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:54 pmSo if Putin goes out and bombs our Troops and kills 200-300, then what?
Blah Blah (44eaa0) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:50 pm
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If Assad used WMD on them–then what?
Or–do you pre-empt that?
Rae (2fd998) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:55 pmmattis is such an unbelievable dork
who can take him remotely seriously after this gay-assed rubble-bouncing clown show
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:55 pmOr Iran retaliates through hezbollah in Lebanon, the houthis in Yemen, or sympathetic militia in Iraq? Leaving the Russians out of the picture
narciso (d1f714) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:56 pmMattis and McMaster got it covered.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:53 pm
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Oh yes. WMD near our troops is not to be tolerated. Assad tested Trump–and now he has an answer.
Rae (2fd998) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:57 pm“Goodnight, Xi, you might want to watch a little TV… we’ll talk in the morning.”
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:58 pm@357- What did Reagan do in Beruit when nearly 300 Marines were killed in that barracks bombing?
Hint- the USS Missouri is a museum.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:58 pm@361. LOL Yes, he should know how his borrowed money is being spent.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/6/2017 @ 6:59 pmSyrian response:
“Ouch.”
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/6/2017 @ 7:00 pm“Brian Williams is a bevy of fake news tonight.
He keeps low-balling the cost of those tomahawk missiles and he’s off by a million bucks a piece.”
You question Brian Williams’ veracity at your own peril. The man is a fount of facts and on-the-ground/in-teh-sh*t experience.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 4/6/2017 @ 7:03 pm