Weekend Open Thread
[guest post by Dana]
Let’s go!
First news item
Amplifying the outraged voice of freedom fighters in Iran:
After President Raisi condemned the West at the United Nations General Assembly last week, President Biden offered a brief and weak comment about the protests taking place in Iran:
“Today we stand with the brave citizens and the brave women of Iran who right now are demonstrating to secure their basic rights.”
And yet, although President Biden said that we stand with the Iranian protesters, the State Department extended entry visas to the Iranian president, and at least one Iranian guard member to enter the U.S.
One way for the U.S. to keep attention fixed on the protests is to amplify the voices of the protesters:
The challenge for Biden is to help the protesters without allowing the regime to portray them as American stooges. The most useful thing the US can do is amplify the voices of the protesters and help them evade the regime’s blackouts, the better to communicate with each other and coordinate their protests.
Suggestions include allowing satellite equipment to be sent to Iran while lifting international sanctions. Also this:
[T]he State Department should also use every opportunity to draw attention to the protests and encourage American allies to do likewise. Every statement relating to the negotiations over the revival of the Iran nuclear deal should be accompanied with a strong reiteration of solidarity with the protesters and an equally forceful denunciation of the crackdown.
Finally, the White House must become more involved:
[T]he White House should make it clear that any Iranian official linked to abuses against protesters will be subject to sanctions under the Global Magnitsky Act. Here, too, the Biden administration has made a good start, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken announcing sanctions against the “morality police.”
Meanwhile, while it’s difficult to get an accurate count of protesters killed and arrested, an estimated 83 protesters have been killed by security forces, and a reported 3,000 protesters are currently detained.
Iranian-in-exile, human rights worker and journalist Masih Alinejad, who currently lives in an FBI safehouse after several recent kidnapping plots with the goal of taking her back to Iran to face consequences were uncovered by the FBI, addressed politicians in the West for appealing to the Iranian government on behalf of protesters:
It’s disappointing that politicians still ask Islamic Republic to address Iranian people’s need, when brave people are shouting Down With The Islamic Republic every night.
A regime who organizes terror attacks in US soil & is killing protesters is illegitimate.#مهسا_امینی https://t.co/VDUITBy9tY— Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) September 27, 2022
Dear Americans &Europeans please listen:
Iranians are endangering their lives for freedom. Soon, they’ll start national strikes.
Your emphasis on a nuclear deal will send billions of cash to kill more innocent people like #MahsaAmini.@MSNBC#مهسا_امینیpic.twitter.com/lbRADqqtfH
— Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) September 28, 2022
Second news item
A humiliated President Putin announces annexation:
Russian President Vladimir Putin proclaimed the biggest annexation of territory in postwar Europe on Friday, claiming control over swaths of Ukraine in defiance of international law and in spite of his forces facing another significant battlefield setback.
The Russian leader repeated his threat of nuclear war, suggesting he would be prepared to use his vast arsenal to defend the four partially occupied regions of his neighbor’s south and east. It was a dramatic escalation in the seven-month conflict, which has seen Putin respond to heavy losses by calling up hundreds of thousands of reservists while intensifying his confrontation with the West.
Heh:
The ceremony at the Kremlin came hours after shelling killed 25 people in Ukraine’s southern region of Zaporizhzhia.
“I want to say this to the Kyiv regime and its masters in the West: People living in Lugansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia are becoming our citizens forever,” Putin said.
Immediately after Putin’s announcement, President Biden slapped new sanctions on Russia, which include:
Department of Treasury sanctioned 14 international suppliers for supporting Russia’s military supply chains. Treasury is also sanctioning 278 members of Russia’s legislature for enabling Russia’s attempt at annexation. The State Department is imposing visa restrictions on Russian national Ochur-Suge Mongush for torturing a Ukrainian prisoner of war. The Department of State is also imposing visa restrictions on another 910 individuals, including members of the Russian military, Belarusian military officials and proxies acting in Russia-held portions of Ukraine. The Department of Commerce is also adding 57 entities to the Entity List for violating U.S. export controls.
Meanwhile, President Zelensky announced that Ukraine has signed and submitted a hoped-for fast-tracked application to NATO, and said that “Ukraine will not hold any negotiations with Russia as long as Putin is the president of the Russian Federation. We will negotiate with the new president”.
Alexander Baunov provides an interesting analysis of Putin’s speech today:
Putin’s speech on the occasion of the annexation of four Ukrainian regions by Russia was a rather tedious enumeration of myths and legends about an ancient and imaginary West. But there were three aspects worthy of attention from a practical point of view.
“The Nord Stream gas pipelines were blown up by the USA.” The practical consequences are that Russia is now “entitled” to respond in kind, Russia is not responsible for stopping energy supplies to Europe, & Gazprom may not have to pay for missed deliveries.
The appeal to Ukraine to immediately cease hostilities, withdraw its troops from the new “Russian” territories and sit down at the negotiating table.
Since all four annexed regions are only partially controlled by Russian troops, this is an announcement that conventional warfare will continue unless the Russian ultimatum is followed. The same ultimatum was issued on the eve of Russia’s invasion in February.
“The US, without any military necessity, dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and ‘set a precedent, by the way.’”
Guess who the precedent is for? The implication is that Russia is better than the US, it won’t drop atomic bombs without military necessity—but what if such a need arises? It’s practically an announcement of things to come.
This says it all:
Without unnecessary ceremonies.
81st Airborne Brigade liberated the village of Drobysheve, Donetsk region. The future of the world is no longer decided in the kremlin. pic.twitter.com/Twg8G3O01D— Defense of Ukraine (@DefenceU) September 30, 2022
And finally, here is the NATO Secretary of General making it very clear that the four illegally annexed regions and Crimea are all Ukraine, as well as pledging NATO support:
❝Donetsk is Ukraine.
Luhansk is Ukraine.
Kherson is Ukraine.
Zaporizhzhia is Ukraine.
Just like Crimea is Ukraine.❞@JensStoltenberg | #StandWithUkraine🇺🇦— NATO (@NATO) September 30, 2022
Third news item
It’s unclear why they did this??:
At the center of the change are borrowers who took out federal student loans many years ago, both Perkins loans and Federal Family Education Loans. FFEL loans, issued and managed by private banks but guaranteed by the federal government, were once the mainstay of the federal student loan program until the FFEL program ended in 2010.
Today, according to federal data, more than 4 million borrowers still have commercially-held FFEL loans. Until Thursday, the department’s own website advised these borrowers that they could consolidate these loans into federal Direct Loans and thereby qualify for relief under Biden’s debt cancellation program.
On Thursday, though, the department quietly changed that language. The guidance now says, “As of Sept. 29, 2022, borrowers with federal student loans not held by ED cannot obtain one-time debt relief by consolidating those loans into Direct Loans.”
It’s a real puzzle… Progressive lawmakers were caught off guard and not happy with the announcement.
Fourth news item
Ginni Thomas told the Jan. 6 Committee that she believes the 2020 election was stolen, but also said that she didn’t discuss it with her husband:
“Regarding the 2020 election, I did not speak with him at all about the details of my volunteer campaign activities,” Thomas said under oath in her opening statement obtained by CNN. “And I did not speak with him at all about the details of my post-election activities, which were minimal, in any event. I am certain I never spoke with him about any of the legal challenges to the 2020 election, as I was not involved with those challenges in any way.”
Fifth news item
Fort Myers Beach, which sits on a 7-mile-long island along the Gulf of Mexico, saw “total devastation, catastrophic,” Fort Myers Beach Town Councilman Dan Allers said Friday. “Those are words that come to mind when you see what you see.”
He also said that pictures show the damage but don’t “show the magnitude of exactly what it is.”
“I’d say 90% of the island is pretty much gone,” Allers said. “Unless you have a high-rise condo or a newer concrete home that is built to the same standards today, your house is pretty much gone.”
Allers told CNN that many people in the town struggled to get to higher ground amid the storm surge.
“I’ve heard stories of people getting in freezers and floating the freezers to another home… and being rescued by higher homes,” Allers said.
Sixth news item
One of Apple’s top executives is leaving the tech giant after he was filmed making a crass joke about how he “fondles big-breasted women” for a living. Tony Blevins, Apple’s vice president of procurement, made the *wacky comment when he was approached by Daniel Mac, a creator whose shtick is asking people in luxury vehicles how they make their money. “I have rich cars, play golf and fondle big-breasted women,” Blevins said in the video as he got out of his Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren. “But I take weekends and holidays off. Also, if you’re interested, I got a hell of a dental plan.”
Seventh news item
Navalny opines on the war and the end game in a strongly worded and insight op-ed. Read the whole thing!:
What does a desirable and realistic end to the criminal war unleashed by Vladimir Putin against Ukrainelook like?
If we examine the primary things said by Western leaders on this score, the bottom line remains: Russia (Putin) must not win this war. Ukraine must remain an independent democratic state capable of defending itself.
This is correct, but it is a tactic. The strategy should be to ensure that Russia and its government naturally, without coercion, do not want to start wars and do not find them attractive. This is undoubtedly possible. Right now the urge for aggression is coming from a minority in Russian society.
[…]
In my opinion, the problem with the West’s current tactics lies not just in the vagueness of their aim, but in the fact that they ignore the question: What does Russia look like after the tactical goals have been achieved? Even if success is achieved, where is the guarantee that the world will not find itself confronting an even more aggressive regime, tormented by resentment and imperial ideas that have little to do with reality? With a sanctions-stricken but still big economy in a state of permanent military mobilization? And with nuclear weapons that guarantee impunity for all manner of international provocations and adventures?
[…]
War is a relentless stream of crucial, urgent decisions influenced by constantly shifting factors. Therefore, while I commend European leaders for their ongoing success in supporting Ukraine, I urge them not to lose sight of the fundamental causes of war. The threat to peace and stability in Europe is aggressive imperial authoritarianism, endlessly inflicted by Russia upon itself. Postwar Russia, like post-Putin Russia, will be doomed to become belligerent and Putinist again. This is inevitable as long as the current form of the country’s development is maintained. Only a parliamentary republic can prevent this. It is the first step toward transforming Russia into a good neighbor that helps to solve problems rather than create them.
Have a great weekend.
–Dana
Hello.
Dana (1225fc) — 9/30/2022 @ 9:13 amSixth news item: More tech executives behaving badly:
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 9/30/2022 @ 9:23 amGenesis selling itself for more than a pound:
The best Genesis albums are those with Peter Gabriel.
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 9/30/2022 @ 9:31 amBiden should withdraw all our diplomatic personnel from Russia, and advise all other Americans to leave as well; declare all Russian diplomatic personnel in the United States persona non grata, and revoke all other temporary visas granted to Russians in the United States; and then we can see what Putin makes of that “message”. Brinkmanship.
nk (b9023d) — 9/30/2022 @ 9:39 amFirst News Item:
Related:
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 9/30/2022 @ 9:45 amBiden should withdraw all our diplomatic personnel from Russia, and advise all other Americans to leave as well….
Security Alert for U.S. Citizens in Russia 9/27/22
A skeleton staff will probably remain for the time being, absent a total break of relations. The embassy staff has been forcibly reduced by tit for tat expulsions ordered by the Russian government.
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 9/30/2022 @ 9:53 amSorry about the missing formatting. Should be:
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 9/30/2022 @ 9:54 am……
There has been a Do Not Travel Advisory for Russia since August 15th.
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 9/30/2022 @ 9:57 amWe need to make China choose. You can trade with Russia, or you can trade with us. All Chinese imports are contraband until they make up their minds.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 9/30/2022 @ 10:05 amMaybe there’s a better diplomatic way to get the same result.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 9/30/2022 @ 10:06 amGood idea. I mentioned to Jim Miller yesterday that there several op-eds in the WSJ and NYT that ran at the beginning of the invasion that suggested that the U.S. grant visas to Russians who refused to fight and wanted to defect. I think your suggestion, particularly at this time, would definitely send a necessary message of a certain kind to Putin. Btw, two days ago, the United States advised all American personnel in Russia to get out asap because commercial flights out may be curtailed:
Dana (1225fc) — 9/30/2022 @ 10:09 am@4: “Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.”
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 9/30/2022 @ 10:10 amOr they can dump our Treasury debt and stop buying any more.
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 9/30/2022 @ 10:15 amFor DCSCA, there’s this plan
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 9/30/2022 @ 10:16 amOr they can dump our Treasury debt and stop buying any more.
Someone will buy it. The dollar is king. Haven’t you heard?
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 9/30/2022 @ 10:18 amChina can invest in their allies’ bonds. North Korea, Zimbabwe, etc
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 9/30/2022 @ 10:20 amRIP CBS News legend Bill Plante (84).
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 9/30/2022 @ 10:20 amAdded to the post: Alexander Baunov’s analysis of Putin’s speech today.
Dana (1225fc) — 9/30/2022 @ 10:28 amPutin: The US, without any military necessity, dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Nuts.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 9/30/2022 @ 10:33 amPutin is, of course, going to use this annexation to declare that Ukraine is invading the Sovi … um Russia, and so all acts by Russia are self-defense.
Break relations. Suspend Russia from the Security Council. Deny them all diplomatic immunity. Close all air routes. Confiscate all their assets and divide them up among all Russians living abroad as of 1/1/2024.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 9/30/2022 @ 10:39 am@14. Randolph Scott and John Wayne are dead. And Clint Eastwood, now 92, is too damn old. Hell EVERYbody is too damn old. ‘Course Joe could send Beau. Hey, Jackie, is Beau there in the crowd with you? Where’s Beau and Jackie?! Stand up and take a bow, kids!
DCSCA (3e78dd) — 9/30/2022 @ 10:46 amCBS’s Bill Plante was a fine reporter and a classy journalist. One of the more forgotten assignments he had was the live remote he did w/t studio bound Cronkite reporting from Central Park– amidst excited Americans and rain showers- the evening of July 20, 1969- as Neil Armstrong prepared to step on the moon. He handled the crowd with memorable aplomb- and it’s preserved on tape for history.
DCSCA (3e78dd) — 9/30/2022 @ 10:52 amThe dollar is king. Haven’t you heard?
Meh. 1922- a hundred years ago- the global reserve currency was the British pound sterling t’was ‘king.’
DCSCA (3e78dd) — 9/30/2022 @ 10:57 amThis demented moron Biden inspires so much confidence. Watching him is sad and painful.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 9/30/2022 @ 10:59 amBiden just declared another $13 billion will go to Ukraine; declares pipeline attack was ‘deliberate act of sabotage.’ Are you awarding the SEAL team medals in public or will it be a private ceremony? Will Beau attend? Ask Jackie.
DCSCA (3e78dd) — 9/30/2022 @ 11:00 am@24.
“Putin knows, if I am president of the United States, his days of tyranny and trying to intimidate the United States and those in Eastern Europe are over. I’m going to stand up to him; he’s a bully. Vladimir Putin doesn’t want me to be President. He doesn’t want me to be our nominee. If you’re wondering why — it’s because I’m the only person in this field who’s ever gone toe-to-toe with him.” Squinty McStumblebum, 2019
Stand up? You can barely shuffle on level ground and hardly walk up stairs.
IDIOT.
DCSCA (3e78dd) — 9/30/2022 @ 11:04 amBiden should withdraw all our diplomatic personnel from Russia, and advise all other Americans to leave as well; declare all Russian diplomatic personnel in the United States persona non grata, and revoke all other temporary visas granted to Russians in the United States; and then we can see what Putin makes of that “message”. Brinkmanship.
You musta missed out on the lessons from the Cuban Missile Crisis. Always give your adversary an out.
DCSCA (3e78dd) — 9/30/2022 @ 11:11 amThis demented moron Biden inspires so much confidence. Watching him is sad and painful.
That’s an insult to the truly sad and painful souls in the world.
This jackass is the Peter Principle on display to the world. He’s an incompetent, incontinent idiot.
DCSCA (3e78dd) — 9/30/2022 @ 11:17 amDCSCA,
Putin is the idiot who keeps pushing more chips on the table every time he gets beat, and loses the farm on a pair of deuces. Even if Biden can’t remember the guy’s name — he can still beat him. Because Putin’s a one trick pony and his one trick has become known.
Appalled (03f53c) — 9/30/2022 @ 11:19 am@29.
Today:
US sanctions Russia over Ukraine annexations, which Biden says have ‘no legitimacy’
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/us-sanctions-russia-ukraine-annexations-biden-says-have-no-legitimacy
In March:
Biden Admits That Sanctions Don’t Work and They Make Us Poorer
https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/biden-admits-that-sanctions-dont-work-and-they-make-us-poorer/
Joe’s not playing with full deck- Putin is; he can walk upstairs and doesn’t call out to dead people, too.
Joe’s not just an idiot. He’s a goddamned idiot.
DCSCA (3e78dd) — 9/30/2022 @ 11:36 am> “And I did not speak with him at all about the details of my post-election activities, which were minimal, in any event.
I find this improbable. I assume that unless there are specific agreements around it most spouses discuss the details of their activities with each other.
> I am certain I never spoke with him about any of the legal challenges to the 2020 election, as I was not involved with those challenges in any way.”
*This* I believe, and assume it’s the case for any lawyer or judge.
aphrael (4c4719) — 9/30/2022 @ 11:52 am> which sits on a 7-mile-long island along the Gulf of Mexico
Can we please not rebuild and abandon the land to the sea? I’m all for helping the people who lost their homes and businesses rebuild homes and businesses, but it’s *insane* to do it where the city was.
aphrael (4c4719) — 9/30/2022 @ 11:54 am@32. Can we please not rebuild and abandon the land to the sea?
Depends. If your life investment is there, you may feel differently. Living on barrier island properties is precarious as is. The folks had a place on the Jersey Shore for 35 years and as insurance issues, environmental matters and populations growth encroached, laws were passed forcing new homes to be built on pilings. homes lost to storms rebuilt w/them as well– and land lost to storm erosion not rep[laced w/fill to replenish- beyond what the US Corps of Engineers & USCG deemed essential for maintaining existing properties and minimized effects of natural erosion.
DCSCA (3e78dd) — 9/30/2022 @ 12:01 pm> If your life investment is there, you may feel differently.
I’m aware. It *sucks* to have to move away from where your life is. But at the same time, it makes no sense for us societally to continually reinvest in rebuilding in places that are this vulnerable. At some point we have to say it isn’t worth it.
I have similar feelings about some of the places California rebuilds after fire.
aphrael (4c4719) — 9/30/2022 @ 12:04 pm@34. If only it was that easy; the ripple down the economic chain for states w/property laden barrier islands is massive. I’m mostly familiar w/NJ’s coastal issues [just getting permits to sink pilingas and build a dock took many months] but it is quite the cash cow to mess with for South Jersey alone; a similar problem for Joe’s Delaware, NC, SC, Texas, etc. And businesses and property owners invested and pay for living there- as their insurance rates show. Insurers can make a move by no longer insuring properties in risk areas- but the Feds may cover as an alternative; and the Federal government can cease maintaining beaches and back bays and let them return to the natural effects of the elements. The barrier islands formed naturally and it has really only been over the past 70-90 years that heavy building has occurred on them. But lest you forget, places like Texas [Houston for example] built a great deal of housing on natural flood plains; and Florida is little more than a marshy peninsula- extremely vulnerable to even the slightest rise in ocean levels. The issues in California are equally problematic- not just w/fires but w/cliff collapse along an unstable coastline. Some rain, a quake or two- and property -as well as the properties on them– tumble into the Pacific.
DCSCA (3e78dd) — 9/30/2022 @ 12:20 pm> built a great deal of housing on natural flood plains; and Florida is little more than a marshy peninsula
Yes. And the net effect of global warming and sea level rise will be that we either abandon those spaces or put an increasingly-large-over-time percentage of our GDP into maintaining them.
> w/cliff collapse along an unstable coastline
sure, and we shouldn’t be doing that, either.
aphrael (4c4719) — 9/30/2022 @ 12:26 pmI was this many days old when I learned that pop star Lizzo plays the flute. In the future I might learn the name of one of her songs.
I’m still trying to figure out why her playing a flute that was given to James Madison 200 years ago is source for outrage and humiliation. From the clip I saw she handled it respectfully and give the Library of Congress some publicity.
This may be the dumbest culture war incident since yokels gave themselves nerve damage by taking sheep de-wormer to prevent Covid. But I like this one better since no one was physically harmed. I felt bad for the yokels who got sick on that stuff.
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/watch-lizzo-plays-former-president-james-madisons-crystal-flute-and-twerks
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2022/09/29/lizzo-flute-james-madison-racist-history-huppke/8125708001/
Time123 (f28c06) — 9/30/2022 @ 12:33 pmWow would l ever like to fix the typo’s in that last comment.
Time123 (f28c06) — 9/30/2022 @ 12:35 pm@32, Federal gov should buy the land and just keep it. We’re not equipped as a society to tell people impacted by that type of inevitable tragedy to suck it up. Making it federal land would save money in the long run.
Time123 (f28c06) — 9/30/2022 @ 12:37 pm#37 The problem is that she is afican-american, heavy, and in spandex while handling the flute and playing it quite well. That combination triggers some of the MAGA brethern. Too often, “culture war” is an excuse for “having an opportnity to be a total jerk”. Works that way for the woke-sters too.
Appalled (b57919) — 9/30/2022 @ 12:41 pmOld Blevins – what a tiresome fellow.
felipe (484255) — 9/30/2022 @ 12:56 pmPutin’s Navy…..
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 9/30/2022 @ 1:03 pmSAD!
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 9/30/2022 @ 1:12 pmThe Lizzo thing may be the stupidest social media controversy i’ve ever encountered.
aphrael (21f392) — 9/30/2022 @ 1:16 pm> Federal gov should buy the land and just keep it. We’re not equipped as a society to tell people impacted by that type of inevitable tragedy to suck it up. Making it federal land would save money in the long run.
This is a good idea. We’re *never* going to refuse emergency funding after a hurricane or fire or flood, nor should we — so we should intervene to get ahead of the problem.
aphrael (21f392) — 9/30/2022 @ 1:17 pmI’m also totally in favor of the people out on the internet reminding everyone that one of the first things DeSantis did when he was in the House was vote against hurricane aid. At the very least he owes the people of New York an apology.
aphrael (21f392) — 9/30/2022 @ 1:18 pmI’ve just added excerpts from Navalny’s smart op-ed in today’s Washington Post. Read the whole thing.
Dana (1225fc) — 9/30/2022 @ 1:22 pmAphrael, It’s amazingly silly. I understand how the professionally outraged need to jump on it. Gotta get those clicks. But the people who aren’t getting paid to be angry still being angry sort of confuses me.
Time123 (f28c06) — 9/30/2022 @ 1:28 pmhttps://www.newser.com/story/326087/zelensky-ukraine-is-submitting-accelerated-nato-application.html
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 9/30/2022 @ 1:32 pmThat didn’t take long (and good thing he got paid in advance):
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 9/30/2022 @ 1:33 pmGood summary of Putin’s speech here.
Time123 (f28c06) — 9/30/2022 @ 1:34 pmhttps://twitter.com/konstantinkisin/status/1575853684852150272?s=21&t=M94XL3kJUYkv6CqPvR-QVg
Now with link
Time123 (f28c06) — 9/30/2022 @ 1:34 pmStunning images of the DART mission impact event from the Hubble and Webb space telescopes.
Click here for a cute Google animation of the impact.
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 9/30/2022 @ 1:40 pmI keep reading that Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in 155 games. I thought the season then was 154 games. Why did the Yankees play 155 games in 1927? Was there a one game playoff to break a tie? And did they count that last game as part of the regular season? What number game did Babe Ruth hit #60?)
Anyway it took 61 years for Roger Maris to hit 61 home runs. (although the first two years they played in Baltimore and were known as the Baltimore Orioles) They were called the Americans or the Highlanders from1903 and didn’t become known as the New York Yankees until 1913.
And it took another `61 years for Aaron Judge to hit 61 home runs.
Unlike Roger Maris, who hit number 61 in the 162nd and last game of the 1961 season, Aaron Judge hit his in game 155.
And he could go on to hit, 62, 63 or 64or more…
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 9/30/2022 @ 1:46 pmI used to think when I was in low grades that Roger’s name was Roger Amaris, or was confused and thought Amaris more likely than Maris.
Even now Maris seems like something is left out…
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 9/30/2022 @ 1:49 pmA website for getting information on the hurricane is https://www.floridadisaster.org
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 9/30/2022 @ 1:50 pmRelated:
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 9/30/2022 @ 2:05 pmI’m going to add that, while there is no doubt that it is indeed at stupid controversy, it’s also instructive. We can clearly see from reactions on the far-right that there is anger about what happened. I think it’s mostly due to the fact that an black woman played a highly valued instrument owned by a Founding Father and former president. But along with some great irony that a black woman played a prized instrument that belonged to a slave owner, it was also one in a long line of coming-full-circle moments in our country. And hasn’t that sort of been the goal all along – that we come full circle on the ugliest parts of our history, whether in small or large ways? As Allahpundit observed:
Dana (1225fc) — 9/30/2022 @ 2:05 pmNow, in any other context they willacknoledge that the poorest people do not may much in taxes (except for Social Security taxes)
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 9/30/2022 @ 2:12 pmDana, thank you for posting that. It helps make sense of some of the outrage, even if it is sort of a racist way for the offended to look at things.
Time123 (f28c06) — 9/30/2022 @ 2:15 pmThe VEEP boasts of our alliance w/North Korea; the POTUS talks to the dead; the stock market tanks to 28,750, Putin’s tanks roll on; the Idiot In Chief literally gives $13 billion of your money to one of the most corrupt countries in Europe while desperate U.S. citizen founder in Florida, the Carolinas and Puerto Rico.
But no mean tweets!
Sleep well America.
DCSCA (6c7e3b) — 9/30/2022 @ 2:22 pmYou negotiate when an agreement is in sight, and then it doesn’t take to long. There is no benefit to negotiation for the sake of negotiation. In fact, it’s counterproductive (if you place much importance on it)
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 9/30/2022 @ 2:24 pmNavalny thinks a presidential system (with fixed terms, and no need for constant backing by a large group of people) is conducive to autocracy.
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 9/30/2022 @ 2:27 pmI agree that if Lizzo wasn’t an overweight black woman and had been attired in a more conventional outfit while playing the flute, there would be fewer hissy fits about it. Also, as a classically trained flutist, she knew what she was doing with the instrument. You can listen to her play here.
Dana (1225fc) — 9/30/2022 @ 2:27 pmHe think Ukraine has a problem because it has the same system.
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 9/30/2022 @ 2:29 pmWasn’t James Madison’s flute probably played some of his slaves??
African Americans used to be pretty well known for flute playing until the rot in Wilmington North Carolina in 1898, in the aftermath of which southern Jim Crow whites trued to wipe the very memory of their flute playing.
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 9/30/2022 @ 2:33 pm@Time123 and @Dana:
Never understood the bruhaha over Lizzy.
That was an excellent performance.
I think the outrage would’ve been justified if it was a publicity stunt of someone who was an amateur flute musician. But, Lizzy had a great performance imo.
whembly (b770f8) — 9/30/2022 @ 2:35 pmKevin M (eeb9e9) — 9/30/2022 @ 10:39 am
That’s not possible but you could form a new organization that excluded Russia and China and some others, like I think John McCain once bruited about.
Who don’t take other citizenship?
I think you could declare that all debts contracted by Russia after a certain date will not need to be repaid, and all money paid for goods will not be counted as paid.(That last would reduce the price Russia gets for oil and gas to at most one third of the price)
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 9/30/2022 @ 2:40 pmhttps://som.yale.edu/story/2022/over-1000-companies-have-curtailed-operations-russia-some-remain
The list of firms- both in the U.S., in NATO nations and non-NATO “allies” STILL doing business w/Russia- be it full bore or in a curtailed fashion, remains startling– and keeps all reactive, bogus, Biden bluster all the more windbag senatorial in nature, void of any proactive leadership content and more embarrassing blather from a boob who is hard-wired for the last century, surrounded by weaning piglets who lack the experience or gravitas to go head to head with seasoned world leaders- and were hired to check boxes rather than for competence. Ask Jackie.
DCSCA (efcb98) — 9/30/2022 @ 3:24 pmThe constant talk in the US Press by Biden about “Putin threatening to us Nukes” and NATO retaliating, is rather disturbing. what is the purpose of it? The same message can be sent behind the scenes and directly between leaders.
And what is NATO aka Biden’s exit strategy for this war. As it stands now, the plan seems to be: (1) Putin withdraws from the Ukraine and leaves office OR (2) endless war.
rcocean (7e8262) — 9/30/2022 @ 3:56 pmMy two favorites in this week’s collection of Politico cartoons are Breen’s, which is subtle and Tom Tomorrow’s, which is not. (That may be the first time I’ve linked to one of his cartoons.)
Jim Miller (85fd03) — 9/30/2022 @ 3:57 pmWho came up with the concept of “exit strategy”? It’s a BS term. A war ends when it ends. Did I mention that “exit strategy” is a BS term?
nk (d76da1) — 9/30/2022 @ 4:02 pm> Putin withdraws from the Ukraine
That’s somewhat the only acceptable exit strategy, right there.
The world has too many Munich analogies, but this is a Munich analogy.
aphrael (4c4719) — 9/30/2022 @ 4:11 pmOr (3) Putin is toppled in a Kremlin putsch, which was the norm during the USSR days. Few if any USSR leaders left voluntarily.
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 9/30/2022 @ 4:13 pmThe body count keeps growing and growing:
……..
Pavel Pchelnikov, 52, was the director of communications at Digital Logistics, a subsidiary of Russian Railways.
His body was found at 6.30 a.m. local time on Wednesday on the balcony of his apartment in central Moscow, local newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets reported.
…….
…..[T]he website Top Cargo 200, which uses open source intelligence to track and publicize the deaths of senior Russian officers in their war in Ukraine, said Pchelnikov had been killed by a gunshot.
Top Cargo 200 said that Digital Logistics was reportedly being blamed for failing to protect the infrastructure of the Russian Railway network from hackers based in Ukraine, leading to delays in critical supplies getting to Russian troops.
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 9/30/2022 @ 4:20 pm…….
This would be funny in a toddler, but is distressing in a supposed adult:
The Navy did what it could to keep the loser from seeing that name. I guess they feared that the little boy might throw a tantrum.
Jim Miller (85fd03) — 9/30/2022 @ 4:24 pmTrump is a toddler, in essence. And one of the frustrating things about Trumpism is that it’s leading many people to argue, and perhaps to believe, that behaving like a toddler is *preferable* to behaving like an adult.
aphrael (4c4719) — 9/30/2022 @ 4:31 pmI think preventing Russia from conquering its neighbors, demonstrating that the US will oppose wars of conquest, and weaning a hostile authoritarian leader is in our interests. So long as we’re just providing weapons I support the policy.
Not saying I want us troops fighting in Ukraine.
Time123 (178599) — 9/30/2022 @ 4:33 pmTime123, in the world where Putin uses tactical nukes in Ukraine, how should the US respond?
aphrael (4c4719) — 9/30/2022 @ 4:45 pmI wouldn’t say preferable, aphrael 79, but acceptable. That is even more disturbing to me. The former is about acting in a way that impresses your supporters. The latter is acting in a way that society condones. At this point, society accepts Trump and his imitators’/supporters’ behavior.
DRJ (12d455) — 9/30/2022 @ 4:46 pm@79. Let’s ask Jackie.
“Jackie, are you here? Where’s Jackie? She must not be here.” – Squinty McOuijaboard
She’s lunching with Queen Elizabeth II and Beau, Joe; the soup is getting cold, too, but they’ve saved you a seat. Ice cream for dessert!
DCSCA (f582af) — 9/30/2022 @ 4:55 pmThe constant talk in the US Press by Biden about “Putin threatening to us Nukes” and NATO retaliating, is rather disturbing. what is the purpose of it? The same message can be sent behind the scenes and directly between leaders.
Yep.
We’re not dealing with diplo-pros w/seasoned backchannel links nor savvy reporters these days, who seek camera face time for career advance rather than cultivating sources. The the box checking in the media and the government has cut deep and burned a lot of bridges. It’s amateur hour. Hell, several years ago when another forgotten ‘crisis’ befell the Bush administration, the lovely and talented Dana Perino, then Dubya’s press babelette, was asked about the seriousness of the situation by a reporter who compared it to the Cuban Missile Crisis and Perino’s stunningly ignorant response was, ‘What Cuban Missile Crisis?’ Gobsmacking. And she was schooled in the moment.
These clowns now would do well to review earlier scenarios managed by pros who know an essential element of the de-escalation strategy is to always give your adversary an out rather than champion humiliation.
DCSCA (f582af) — 9/30/2022 @ 5:08 pmWho came up with the concept of “exit strategy”? It’s a BS term.
BS? See 60 years ago for details and learn something; for starters, it’s why you aren’t glowing in the dark today.
DCSCA (f582af) — 9/30/2022 @ 5:12 pmI think preventing Russia from conquering its neighbors, demonstrating that the US will oppose wars of conquest, and weaning a hostile authoritarian leader is in our interests. So long as we’re just providing weapons I support the policy.
This is a European problem to manage and finance. The largest/powerful military in Europe is France. This is not an American problem to deal with; Florida, the Carolinas and Puerto Rico are.
DCSCA (f582af) — 9/30/2022 @ 5:16 pm@86. Why thank you, Jack.
“I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.” – Brig. General Jack D. Ripper [Sterling Hayden] ‘Dr. Strangelove’ 1964
DCSCA (f582af) — 9/30/2022 @ 5:24 pm@75. Not gonna happen. Kissinger projected how this is all going to eventually settle out. The exit strategy is some form of partition. And you know who’ll move in to rebuild the rubble? Halliburton, subsidiary contractors of same and any Euro infrastructure firms just waiting for the dust to settle. War is good business.
DCSCA (f582af) — 9/30/2022 @ 5:31 pmTrump on McCain:
Totally unsurprising and believable that he’d make a stink about the U.S.S. John S. McCain.
Dana (1225fc) — 9/30/2022 @ 5:34 pm@ aphrael,
I believe that ship has sailed. So far, in fact, that acting like Trump is now a litmus test for the MAGA lawmakers and MAGA politicians currently running in the midterms. It’s not only how they garner Trump’s endorsement, but it’s also how they keep the MAGA voters in their camp. Unfortunately, that “toddler” behavior includes throwing tantrums and hissy fits, maintaining indignant anger toward those who oppose you and/or will rig your election, blaming everyone else for everything else, and
Dana (1225fc) — 9/30/2022 @ 5:40 pmdisseminating false informationlying about the 2020 election.I have listened to a lot of people who oppose our support of the Ukrainians against the Russians. I can identify two main groups: The neo-Nazis and the neo-Soviets. The neo-Nazis call our support of Ukraine a “proxy war”. The neo-Soviets call Putin’s invasion a “civil war”.
nk (d76da1) — 9/30/2022 @ 5:42 pmOkay, Jim Miller, the Breen one was too subtle for me…were they searching for classified docs and coming up empty? I like the second one, and it reminds me that if Trump believes that he can declassify docs with his mind, then it would stand to reason that he could also classify docs with his mind. Imagine if either of these ridiculous thoughts were true: national security would be one helluva big joke!
Dana (1225fc) — 9/30/2022 @ 5:46 pm@90. Thing is, it’s essentially a correct though clearly caustic comment with the bark off.
Consider what JFK said back in the day when question about his ‘heroism’:
‘When John F. Kennedy was asked about what he did to become a hero in the Pacific War in 1943, he responded by saying, “It was involuntary. They sank my boat.”‘
https://www.military.com/history/john-f-kennedy-became-wwii-hero-after-swimming-ten-sailors-safety.html#:~:text=When%20John%20F.%20Kennedy%20was%20asked%20about%20what,whether%20or%20not%20the%20Japanese%20sank%20his%20boat.
DCSCA (f582af) — 9/30/2022 @ 5:47 pm@92. Your hearing needs checked; it’s covered under Obamacare.
DCSCA (f582af) — 9/30/2022 @ 5:48 pmHere’s a little collection of Republicans who are backing Russia – whether by saying the quiet part out loud, or nimbly implying it.
Dana (1225fc) — 9/30/2022 @ 5:49 pmTucker wasn’t shy about it:
Dana (1225fc) — 9/30/2022 @ 5:50 pmTwo new additions to the Russia/Ukraine post (2nd news item).
Dana (1225fc) — 9/30/2022 @ 6:02 pmDana – The Breen cartoon took me a little while to get, too, but then I looked at the outline the dogs were making.
Jim Miller (85fd03) — 9/30/2022 @ 6:04 pmRegarding Putin’s comment about our nuclear “precedent”.
If Putin is stupid enough to drop a “tactical” nuke (which would achieve hardly any tactical objectives) or a strategic nuke that will murder an untold number of civilians, I don’t believe we should respond in kind. The more important response will come from the other major nations, especially the Xi regime and India, but the main objective should be to isolate Putin, make him pay an even higher economic price, and arm Ukraine to the teeth.
I still think it’s unlikely he’ll go that route, and I hope I’m right. He was KGB during the Cold War era, and he’s thoroughly versed in MAD and Article 5 of NATO
Paul Montagu (753b42) — 9/30/2022 @ 6:18 pm@96. Consider the source:
The Republican Accountability Project [formally named Republican Voters Against Trump] was launched in May 2020 by Defending Democracy Together for the 2020 U.S. presidential election cycle. The project was formed to produce a US$10 million advertising campaign focused on 100 testimonials by Republicans, conservatives, moderates, right-leaning independent voters, and former Trump voters explaining why they would not vote for Donald Trump in 2020. By August 2020, they had collected 500 testimonials. On January 29, 2021, it transitioned to the Republican Accountability Project (RAP), which focuses on defending “Republican principles”, and attacking Republicans whom they hold responsible for the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol.
Organizers included Republican political strategist Sarah Longwell, conservative writer Bill Kristol, GOP strategist Mike Murphy, and former Jeb Bush aide Tim Miller. (Republicans for the Rule of Law is the principal initiative of the conservative, anti-Donald Trump political group Defending Democracy Together, founded by Bill Kristol, Mona Charen, Linda Chavez, Sarah Longwell, and Andy Zwick in 2019.) The project, a 501(c) (social welfare) group, created an advertising campaign to pressure Republican members of Congress to “demand the facts” about the Trump-Ukraine scandal during the impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump.
These are the same elitist, NeverTrumper ideologues thrown out of favor by the rank and file members of the now populiat GOP. Members who quilled that NeverTrump National Review issue back in the day.
The Philadelphia Inquirer said the group was “waging guerrilla warfare within the GOP”. Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin called the pieces “some of the best pro-Biden ads”.
So thank these ideological fleas brushed out of the tail that no longer wags the dog for the Hell that is Squinty McStumblebum.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Accountability_Project
DCSCA (f582af) — 9/30/2022 @ 6:19 pmThat’s not possible but you could form a new organization that excluded Russia and China and some others, like I think John McCain once bruited about.
Why not? They are NOT an original member. Give their seat to India.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 9/30/2022 @ 6:22 pmI find this improbable. I assume that unless there are specific agreements around it most spouses discuss the details of their activities with each other.
As in “For the Love of God, woman, don’t tell me about your political activities!”
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 9/30/2022 @ 6:26 pmI’m aware. It *sucks* to have to move away from where your life is. But at the same time, it makes no sense for us societally to continually reinvest in rebuilding in places that are this vulnerable. At some point we have to say it isn’t worth it.
Gonna be tough when Newport Beach goes. The peninsula floods during extreme high tide. Add a meter to the sea level and oops. Of course, half of Florida is like that.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 9/30/2022 @ 6:29 pmIs this the Trump’s Greatest Hits thread?
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 9/30/2022 @ 6:31 pmYes. And the net effect of global warming and sea level rise will be that we either abandon those spaces or put an increasingly-large-over-time percentage of our GDP into maintaining them.
Imagine Holland. Neal Stephenson wrote a book about fighting global warming about 20 years from now (“Termination Shock”). Not his best book, but some interesting viewpoints.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 9/30/2022 @ 6:32 pm“Mishandling”
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 9/30/2022 @ 6:36 pmThey said the words, DC, caught on tape. It’s irrelevant who compiled it.
Paul Montagu (753b42) — 9/30/2022 @ 6:37 pmIf Putin is stupid enough to drop a “tactical” nuke (which would achieve hardly any tactical objectives) or a strategic nuke that will murder an untold number of civilians, I don’t believe we should respond in kind. The more important response will come from the other major nations, especially the Xi regime and India, but the main objective should be to isolate Putin, make him pay an even higher economic price, and arm Ukraine to the teeth.
The worst possible thing would be to respond in kind, as it opens a door that we do not need to open. We should respond, however. Wiping out the Black Sea fleet, then maybe an amphibious landing in Crimea. But maybe you’re right. We create a coalition that includes NATO, India, China and whoever else has the sense to join, then demand Putin’s resignation and delivery for trial.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 9/30/2022 @ 6:45 pmI’m keeping an open mind on PM Meloni, and I haven’t seen her act in a “fascist” manner as her alarmist left-wing critics allege. It was interesting to see her nail a left-leaning guy like Macron, which is a point in her favor.
Paul Montagu (753b42) — 9/30/2022 @ 6:51 pmWar gaming… excellent.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 9/30/2022 @ 6:52 pm@108. Pfft. Context is everything; at least w/elected officials.
Entertaining talking TV heads mean little unless you’re an advertiser buying air time and reaching millions with your message to viewers. Only idiots actually listen to talking heads and load up on salt-laden Swanson TV dinners.
“I gotta be honest with you, I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine one way or the other.” – JD Vance, Senatoral candidate
God bless him.
“Remember that Zelenskyy is a thug. Remember that the Ukrainian government is incredibly corrupt and it is incredibly evil and has been pushing woke ideologies.” – Madison Cawthorn
Who? Bugs Moran??? Yep. Let’s give him $13 billion more and let Florida, Puerto Rico and the Carolinas founder. =sarc=
“I’m more concerned with the US-Mexico border than the Russia-Ukraine border. Not sorry.” -Matt Gaetz Yep– though traffiking underage girls across the southern border is easier these days thanks to Squinty, right Matt? 😉
Those ideologues can try but the likes of Kristol, Charen, Murphy and crew are donew. Now they’ll hqve to go get a real job.
Yep. The old banking adage is ‘pay yourself first.’ Not giving a damn or a dime to corrupt Ukraine is hardly ‘pro-Putin’ but as pro American as it comes. Sell war bonds; make your case for ‘freedom’ about a corrupt Ukraine that won’t even let men between the ages of 18 and 65 leave for starters Piss on them; FLORIDA FIRST!
DCSCA (f582af) — 9/30/2022 @ 7:00 pmThanks, Jim Miller. Now I’m wondering how I didn’t get it in the first place. Too subtle and clever for me, I guess.
Dana (1225fc) — 9/30/2022 @ 7:05 pmIf Putin is stupid enough to drop a “tactical” nuke (which would achieve hardly any tactical objectives) or a strategic nuke that will murder an untold number of civilians, I don’t believe we should respond in kind. The more important response will come from the other major nations, especially the Xi regime and India, but the main objective should be to isolate Putin, make him pay an even higher economic price, and arm Ukraine to the teeth.
He’s not stupid. Desperate perhaps, but not stupid. And from a purely strategic POV his annexation was a very clever move given Russian government and nuclear policy — and it has Squinty with NATO in tow again being reactive rather than proactive. Though he did say in February he’d nail the pipeline. [He said it Paul- it’s caught on tape. 😉 ]
DCSCA (f582af) — 9/30/2022 @ 7:11 pmThe Economist reported on a fascinating study that compares reported GDP to the growth in the brightness of a country’s lights, using satellite measurements, and serves as a measure of country’s accuracy in reporting GDP growth.
Paul Montagu (753b42) — 9/30/2022 @ 7:11 pmOn the cartoon: I just thought “what are the dogs focused on?” and then my attention shifted to the white space. And I’m boasting, because it didn’t take me very long.
Radegunda (5d8be6) — 9/30/2022 @ 7:12 pmMore on Iran Protests:
Footnotes omitted. Bold headings in original.
Rip Murdock (288136) — 9/30/2022 @ 7:18 pmNew research finds that autocrats greatly overstate their countries’ economic growth.
Volkswagens, autobahns, jet fighters, cruise missiles and ballistic rockets aside. 😉
DCSCA (f582af) — 9/30/2022 @ 7:24 pm#113 Dana, well, I’d give you a pretty high grade overall, so you shouldn’t let one miss bother you. (And I grew up before the days of grade inflation.)
Here’s a “grook” from Piet Hein:
Good advice, and I like to think I follow it, occasionally.
Jim Miller (85fd03) — 9/30/2022 @ 7:25 pm119,
Same here. And thanks!
Dana (1225fc) — 9/30/2022 @ 7:28 pmParagraph breaks added. Footnotes omitted.
Rip Murdock (288136) — 9/30/2022 @ 7:52 pmHere’s a little collection of Republicans who are backing Russia – whether by saying the quiet part out loud, or nimbly implying it.
Dana (1225fc) — 9/30/2022 @ 5:49 pm
ridiculous
most of the quotes have nothing to do with “backing russia”, and it’s a complete misrepresentation to claim otherwise
is an acknowledgment that the administration cares more about Ukraine’s border than ours a case of “backing russia”?
or, that ukraine has no strategic value to us and isn’t a member of nato is “backing russia”?
but that it’s the Republican Accountability Project says it all, a hack organization that is less about backing ukraine than about backing democrats
JF (98c18a) — 9/30/2022 @ 8:53 pmTrump’s latest “truth” calls McConnell’s Taiwan-born wife “Coco Chow”?
Can I get a ruling here? How is that not racist?
What about McConnell, that he “has a DEATH WISH”?
Paul Montagu (753b42) — 9/30/2022 @ 8:59 pmIs this the Trump’s Greatest Hits thread?
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 9/30/2022 @ 6:31 pm
LOL Trump is the opiate of the commentariat
JF (638eb8) — 9/30/2022 @ 9:01 pm3rd item student loans. You answered the puzzle in your next statement progressives were caught off guard. The battle for control of the democrat party for 2024 is heating up between AOC and the left vs the donor class and corporate establishment with the minorities (mostly older black women in the south) watching the fight for the soul of the democrat party.
asset (8688a4) — 9/30/2022 @ 11:27 pmJF (98c18a) — 9/30/2022 @ 8:53 pm
Is this now-deleted CPAC tweet pro-Russia enough for you? If not, don’t let me stop you from arguing that calling the land annexed by Putin “Ukrainian-occupied territories” is just Matt Schlapp’s way of objecting to the Green New Deal.
lurker (cd7cd4) — 10/1/2022 @ 12:19 amNever foeget- this is the corrupt regime FREE American money is financing:
Ukraine bans all male citizens ages 18 to 60 from leaving the country
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2022/02/25/russia-invasion-ukraine-bans-male-citizens-leaving/6936471001/
DCSCA (341eaf) — 10/1/2022 @ 2:46 amHow about DeSantis spending $12 million of Florida’s taxpayers’ money to fly Texas illegals to Massachusetts instead of using it for hurricane relief in Florida?
nk (2a013e) — 10/1/2022 @ 5:10 amhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11266921/Law-student-groups-Berkeley-amend-bylaws-develop-Jewish-free-zones.html
Actual Nazi behavior coming from California’s institutions of indoctrination. But keep ignoring the culture as so many continue to attack Republicans.
NJRob (eb56c3) — 10/1/2022 @ 5:21 amHaiku,
it’s sad.
NJRob (eb56c3) — 10/1/2022 @ 5:22 amhttps://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-allegedly-engaging-purge-conservative-employees-retaliating-against-whistleblowers-jim-jordan
While people ignore what our current government is doing to ensure ideological purity.
NJRob (eb56c3) — 10/1/2022 @ 5:24 amJF: “LOL Trump is the opiate of the commentariat”
My first instinct was to analogize JF to an abused wife who submissively and routinely comes back for more, but then I realized that I was just getting lured into his black hole of incivility. And I want no part of JF’s massive black hole, thank you very much.
But in its tediousness, JF’s lament did make me wonder not just how we got to a point where so many good people remain enthralled for Trump’s Barnum circus, but what exactly will it take to persuade them back to normalcy. I like AllahNick’s articles because he clinically analyzes dynamics from multiple angles and lets logic drive his conclusions. But he never outlines the long slog back to normalcy.
Patterico, the Dispatch, and AllahNick are therapeutic. Normal people can get together and agree that they’re not crazy, the emperor is in fact naked, and a lot of Republicans have lost their collective minds. And interlopers will invariably intrude upon therapy to announce their bursting schadenfreude, like a drunk tumbling into an AA meeting. Of course DCCCP and JF won’t pay to do it at TD, and it’s probably why patterico now regularly comments there and not here. Hmmmm, not that I’m blaming him.
But, the question persists as to what to do. Today’s GOP is just a bumper car careening off of obstacles. No real direction except for collisions. Long-term friend or foe, it doesn’t matter. The object is the exhiliration of collision….and the performative theater of both side’s reaction. Weeeeeeee.
I suppose the answer remains elections….provided we still decide to have them….and having enough clowns lose or win and beclown themselves. It’s excruciatingly slow, messy, agonizing, frustrating and irritating….but it’s better than violence…I suppose.
So I now rather analogize JF to an intruder alert system. His reaction indicates that there is still an opposition out there. Dare we call it a counter-rebellion? His prickly irritation means the patient still has a heart beat. And for now, that will have to be enough….
AJ_Liberty (242c56) — 10/1/2022 @ 5:25 amhttps://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/alex-christy/2022/09/30/pbs-suggests-desantis-republicans-blame-hurricanes
And then there’s the constant push on the left for using weather as the excuse to control even more of our economy and lives in the name of “climate change.”
So many would rather talk about nonsense though.
NJRob (eb56c3) — 10/1/2022 @ 5:32 amYou must understand that the chief and foremost characteristic of a Trump supporter is projection. The mere thought of Trump sends them to Nirvana, so how could it possibly be otherwise for the rest of us? As undeserving as we might be?
nk (2a013e) — 10/1/2022 @ 5:36 amhttps://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1676190/Joe-Biden-pound-plummeted-liz-truss-economic-plan-uk-us-tensions-update
Biden publicly attacks sovereign nation for engaging in conservative economic policies.
But keep focusing on the shiny object.
NJRob (eb56c3) — 10/1/2022 @ 5:51 amThat was DC’s Saturday edition of blaming the victim and absolving the bully and apologizing for the bully’s evil.
Paul Montagu (753b42) — 10/1/2022 @ 6:03 amYou must understand that the chief and foremost characteristic of a Trump supporter is projection. The mere thought of Trump sends them to Nirvana, so how could it possibly be otherwise for the rest of us? As undeserving as we might be?
Well NK get us someone who has the balls to cut regulations, cut taxes, drill drill drill, expand the military and appoint real judges then…..
I understand your frustration, Trumps a first class jerk, but his policies were gold
EPWJ (650a62) — 10/1/2022 @ 6:05 amMeh! If I had been President, I would have cut more regulations and more taxes, drilled more, tripled the military, and my judges would have been the envy of Solomon.
nk (99858d) — 10/1/2022 @ 6:11 amAnd we would not have an illegal alien problem, either, because in a genius move I would have annexed Ontario and Chihuahua and settled all the undocumented there.
nk (99858d) — 10/1/2022 @ 6:17 amThe Trump his supporters imagine does not exist. He is a dream in their minds. A projection of their hopes and fears. A cloud of smoke. A balloon covered in glitter.
nk (99858d) — 10/1/2022 @ 6:20 amThe indomitable Ms. Young.
Paul Montagu (753b42) — 10/1/2022 @ 6:35 amLyman has been reclaimed by the Ukrainian freedom fighters. It was only a matter of time after all the roads out of town were cut off. Slava Ukraini!
Paul Montagu (753b42) — 10/1/2022 @ 6:39 amAny comment on Newsome’s shutting down free speech for CA physicians citing alleged ‘Covid misinformation’?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/health-news/critics-denounce-california-bill-punishing-doctors-who-spread-covid-misinformation/ar-AA11zFIj
Strangely, it’s the ‘misinformation’ that turned out to be mostly true.
Obudman (a1c23a) — 10/1/2022 @ 6:47 am134… Do better.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 10/1/2022 @ 7:04 amPutin wanted to hold the line in Lyman, a key rail hub, and refused to allow his soldiers to retreat, resulting in an unnecessary 1,000± dead Russians and Russian-friendlies. The thread is informative, especially the map and a comment from a Russian milblogger.
Paul Montagu (753b42) — 10/1/2022 @ 7:08 amThe Trump his supporters imagine does not exist. He is a dream in their minds.
True, but after that clown Reagan, and the meltiest Bushies, Trump fed on the need of the electorate – he could again, but IDK he’s so pissed right now
EPWJ (650a62) — 10/1/2022 @ 7:27 amThe long, dark days of the Mariners being out of playoffs are finally over, clinching a wildcard berth, the first post-season in 21 years, via walk-off homerun at our T-Mobile Park.
Paul Montagu (753b42) — 10/1/2022 @ 7:31 amIt didn’t hurt that, just weeks ago, we locked up budding superstar Julio Rodriguez and #1 starter Luis Castillo to long-term deals.
In more ordinary parlance, the DOJ is saying, “C’mon 11th Circuit, you already busted her once for abusing her discretionary powers, and now she’s pulling this? Please, fast-track this appeal and get this hyperpartisan shill out of the picture.”
Paul Montagu (753b42) — 10/1/2022 @ 7:48 amI wonder if they can see Sarah Palin’s house?
Rip Murdock (288136) — 10/1/2022 @ 7:50 amRussian Media Watch:
Rip Murdock (288136) — 10/1/2022 @ 7:59 amBad Timing……
The mobilization is a double whammy to the Russian economy because you are taking working age men out of the jobs market and essentially putting them on the government dole (Russian conscripts do get paid after all), increasing government spending. With all the other economic problems, wages (and prices) will be increasing due to all those men pulled out of the job market. Sad!
Related:
Rip Murdock (288136) — 10/1/2022 @ 8:32 am“But keep focusing on the shiny object.”
Hating on Biden is fine, though in the extreme it transforms him into a Machiavellian cartoon rather than a man and a party hamstrung generally by bad guiding assumptions. He is far from evil and he is not busily tearing down institutions and norms for giggles. But that’s Step #1. The real work is Step #2, replacing him with a better individual…..not just a different Machiavellian cartoon.
The supposedly healthy GOP is SO healthy that most MAGA members can’t imagine another nominee…say with fewer pending criminal investigations, fewer impeachments, fewer intentional trolls, and fewer election steal attempts. Oh, they’ll proudly hold out DeSantis but he’s the poor-man’s mini-me Trump, with at best one measly potential criminal investigation. DeSantis still needs time to become the leader of the party of “law and order”. We need someone who will do and say what we’re thinking….there’s only one of those.
Now EPWJ ticks off the case for Trump. Much like Reagan except for the fact that Reagan’s accomplishments have survived the test of time. Tax rates did not return to the 70-90% levels, the countries freed from the Soviet Union are still largely free, and the U.S. still has the baddest military and is one of the best places to invest. Trump couldn’t get a lousy wall built, couldn’t keep the Congress, and couldn’t beat a guy past his prime stuck in his basement, and then soiled everything with a tantrum insurrection. His Court is more an accident than anything that required actual political skill and planning. Regulatory legislation is even farther away from being a reality. We prefer to be ruled than governed….a sad change.
There’s something wrong with Trump and his cast of characters. They don’t want rules, norms, and institutions. They want lavish military parades and the military going off and collecting election boxes….sort of like in those Ukraine provinces. How about you do better….
AJ_Liberty (242c56) — 10/1/2022 @ 9:04 amTo those who are upset and complaining/sneering about certain topics not being talked about: This is an open thread, bring up any subject that interests you. So talk about it. Link to it as well. You are free to do so at any time. However, there is no guarantee that others will find it as compelling as you. Them’s the breaks.
But let’s be very clear: The fact that others may not want to engage is not necessarily a bright, shiny object or we can’t be bothered response. Personally, the silly, smart-ass bright shiny object type digs are off-putting because I know from the get-go that an honest discussion is not going to happen. Instead, it will be little more than regurgitating partisan talking points. But, if you are so convinced of your position on an issue that concerns you, try stimulating discussion with something other than a hyper-partisan premise or put down of those who aren’t taking what is obviously partisan bait. Use logic, persuasive argument, and sound reasoning to present your point of view, and then see what happens.
Dana (1225fc) — 10/1/2022 @ 9:13 am…a lot of Republicans have lost their collective minds
… said Rocky to Barry.
Welcome to 1964.
DCSCA (38f2c4) — 10/1/2022 @ 9:59 amThe retreat from Lyman means either Putin isn’t the strategic genius he thinks he is, or his generals have decided to disobey his orders not to withdraw from the battlefield. Either way it’s another humiliation.
Rip Murdock (288136) — 10/1/2022 @ 10:01 am… just how we got to a point where so many good people remain enthralled for Trump’s Barnum circus…
This is how…. and “you” lapped it up like a kitten devouring a saucer of cream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYeNuISN4Dc
Trump is a Reagan creation;
He is “you.”
DCSCA (38f2c4) — 10/1/2022 @ 10:06 amow EPWJ ticks off the case for Trump. Much like Reagan except for the fact that Reagan’s accomplishments have survived the test of time. Tax rates did not return to the 70-90% levels, the countries freed from the Soviet Union are still largely free, and the U.S. still has the baddest military and is one of the best places to invest. Trump couldn’t get a lousy wall built, couldn’t keep the Congress, and couldn’t beat a guy past his prime stuck in his basement, and then soiled everything with a tantrum insurrection. His Court is more an accident than anything that required actual political skill and planning. Regulatory legislation is even farther away from being a reality. We prefer to be ruled than governed….a sad change.
Reagan had no accomplishments – the tax reform was a Republican Senate initiative – Reagan raised taxes the biggest increase in world history – sure we got rid of some mythical 60% brackets but he signed into place an unlimited ability of social security to tax ans spend, before it was tightly regulated. He wrecked the airline industry, he cancelled and outlawed commercial ship building (we went from the number one producer of steel and ships to less than sweden overnight)
He opened too many acres to offshore drilling collapsing the oil industry for almost a decade. He appointed total disasters as judges, and it was the Pope, and Poland and East Germany that brought down the wall – the USSR was fading since the late 70’s
EPWJ (650a62) — 10/1/2022 @ 10:17 am@123. Read up on the history of Coco Chanel, Paul.
DCSCA (38f2c4) — 10/1/2022 @ 10:20 amMore on Iran Protests:
We should send Jimmy Carter to talk to the Mullahs.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/1/2022 @ 10:29 amIt’s the “Chow” that’s racist, DC, not the “Coco”, but thank you for the backdoor insult.
Paul Montagu (753b42) — 10/1/2022 @ 10:30 amThe Trump his supporters imagine does not exist. He is a dream in their minds. A projection of their hopes and fears. A cloud of smoke. A balloon covered in glitter.
They see the banana, but get the peel.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/1/2022 @ 10:34 am“the tax reform was a Republican Senate initiative – Reagan raised taxes the biggest increase in world history”
So Reagan alone raised taxes and the Senate cut them? Got it. Ludicrous.
“the Pope, and Poland and East Germany that brought down the wall”
I hope you’re able to feed yourself today.
“Trump is a Reagan creation;”
You too.
AJ_Liberty (242c56) — 10/1/2022 @ 10:34 amIn more ordinary parlance, the DOJ is saying, “C’mon 11th Circuit, you already busted her once for abusing her discretionary powers, and now she’s pulling this? Please, fast-track this appeal and get this hyperpartisan shill out of the picture.”
Cannon is probably a better, more honest judge than the Hawaiian judge(es) who kept blocking Trump’s actions. The 11th Circuit is surely faster at knocking this stuff down than the 9th Circuit ever was for the Hawaii crap.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/1/2022 @ 10:37 amReagan had no accomplishments – the tax reform was a Republican Senate initiative – Reagan raised taxes the biggest increase in world history – sure we got rid of some mythical 60% brackets but he signed into place an unlimited ability of social security to tax ans spend, before it was tightly regulated. He wrecked the airline industry, he cancelled and outlawed commercial ship building (we went from the number one producer of steel and ships to less than sweden overnight)
Every word in this, except “sweden” is wrong, and Sweden should be capitalized.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/1/2022 @ 10:42 am“Effects of This Tax Cut to Individuals and Businesses
EPWJ (650a62) — 10/1/2022 @ 10:49 amThe tax cut was so huge that it hugely increased the national debt and blew up budget deficits. As a result, with Reagan’s signature, Congress had to undo the tax cut by increasing tax rates from 1982 through 1987 for economic recovery. Shortly after, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton had to do the same in 1990 and 1993, respectively. It has been learned from this tax history that tax cuts are extremely challenging to sustain and often implies future massive increase in taxes.”
Dana,
Now do NeverTrump and their constant digs at those who won’t go down the well of only bashing conservatives who don’t turn their back on their beliefs, i.e. God, family and counrtry. See how quickly many have ran from their previous pro-life positions now that it actually matters. See how they attack stalwarts like Cruz and DeSantis while boosting frauds like French and Kristol.
So have them come again when you want to speak honestly and fairly. But try to do it without calling people racist or cult members.
NJRob (abde56) — 10/1/2022 @ 10:51 amJimmy Carter pushed the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 which freed air travel pricing from regulation and specified that the CAB would eventually be disestablished.
The top tax rate in 1980 was 70%, not 60%, and Reagan tried to bring it down to 28% in one go. The Senate phased in in over a couple of years. Later, they raised it back up in a deal with Reagan for matching spending cuts that never happened. Bob Dole — GOP Senate leader — led the Social Security “reform” that raise FICA taxes (and tripled them on the self-employed) and narrowed the spending to core needs. Before then, SS monies for dependents were more loosely spent.
Reagan’s actions on Russia were mostly economic. He and Shultz started an “insane arms race” that forced the USSR to spend all its hard currency to keep up, while the US simply borrowed. This, and the Afghan War (ably stoked by US arms to the rebels) broke them. Reagan and Gorbachev set the stage for the Cold War’s end at Reykjavik, with Reagan offering a peaceful end if the USSR would do a couple of things (which Gorbachev did). Events took it further, but to say that Reagan had nothing to do with it is like saying Churchill had nothing to do with Hitler’s end.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/1/2022 @ 10:54 amKevin
Its a fact not fiction that Reagan was a horrible President – one of the worst – He rarely vetoed anything nor in his 2nd term he was too ill to run the country. He was much better than Carter or Clinton but compared to Ike, Nixon or Trump – he sucked
EPWJ (650a62) — 10/1/2022 @ 11:10 amIs this now-deleted CPAC tweet pro-Russia enough for you? If not, don’t let me stop you from arguing that calling the land annexed by Putin “Ukrainian-occupied territories” is just Matt Schlapp’s way of objecting to the Green New Deal.
lurker (cd7cd4) — 10/1/2022 @ 12:19 am
whaddabout….
and, we already know that anyone who objects to getting militarily involved and wasting $50b+ on a non-nato country with microscopic strategic interests to the US is a modern day Lindbergh
your comment is to be read in that context
(or perhaps ukraine is a modern day archduke Ferdinand — pick your favorite world war)
maybe if putin fails to “de-nazify” ukraine, you might succeed here so keep trying. Great minds do think alike
JF (9a7bee) — 10/1/2022 @ 11:20 am@170, thanks Kevin for the good synopsis….Reagan was certainly not perfect…but let’s do justice to history
AJ_Liberty (242c56) — 10/1/2022 @ 11:31 amDana’s point is that this is an open thread, so you can do that yourself. I’d rather read that than your whining about what you feel she left out.
Paul Montagu (753b42) — 10/1/2022 @ 11:37 am@163. Pfft. Paul; tilting at windmills and shiny objects; Elaine Chao/Elaine Chow…
Donald Trump & ‘Covfefe’ Tweet: What Did He Mean?
Most people think he originally meant to write “press coverage,” and covfefe was a typo/spelling error.
https://heavy.com/news/2017/05/trump-covfefe-tweet-definition-dictionary-what-does-mean-donald-typo/
You wanna probe for racism, Paul? Let’s have a ruling on these knuckleheaded gems; but first, let’s ask Jackie:
“Jackie, are you here? Where’s Jackie? She must not be here.” – Squinty McOuijaboard
She’s having lunch w/your KKK Klansman chum Robert Byrd, Joey…
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“You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.” – Joe Biden
“[Obama is] the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean.” -Joe Biden
“They are used to being experimented on—the Tuskegee Airmen and others…” – Joe Biden
“They’re saying, ‘Jeez, the reason I was able to stay sequestered in my home is because some Black woman was able to stack the grocery shelf…” – Joe Biden
“I tell you if you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black…” – Joe Biden
“Poor kids are just as bright and talented as white kids… Wealthy kids, black kids, Asian kids.” – Joe Biden
“We’ve got to recognize that the kid wearing a hoodie may very well be the next poet laureate and not a gangbanger…” -Joe Biden
“I was in a caucus with James O. Eastland… He never called me boy. He always called me son.” – Joe Biden
“Unchain Wall Street! They’re gonna put y’all back in chains.” – Joe Biden
This ‘ruler’ is not only a plagiarist but a racist.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bidens-history-of-controversial-racial-comments
https://www.heritage.org/progressivism/commentary/bidens-history-getting-away-racist-remarks
DCSCA (4fa0be) — 10/1/2022 @ 11:41 amThe Reagan Wreckage
“I hope it is not just me who thinks the Ronald Reagan Legacy Project is going too far. This group has taken upon itself the ambitious task of naming at least one notable landmark in every state for the ailing former president. But that’s not all. No, they want more. Much more. They also want one notable landmark in every county in the country too. Advocates are already pressing for a Reagan Memorial on the Mall. Can’t the man die first?
In the eyes of Republicans of course Reagan is their hero. Consequently he must be our hero too. One reason he perhaps looms so large in the imagination of Republicans is that really there weren’t that many great Republican presidents, so beggars can’t be choosers. It is unlikely any Republican president will ever match Lincoln’s legacy. But since Lincoln, the pickings for Republicans have been slim. The Great Depression occurred on Hoover’s watch. (Hoover and Jimmy Carter have a lot in common: presidents who were in power in troubled times that were largely beyond their control, but who managed to excel as leaders and statesmen more after they left office than when they were in it.) Eisenhower is the best of the bunch since Lincoln; he knew how to balance a budget and run a country. Nixon of course, was the biggest embarrassment of all time for the Republican Party. Ford was a transition president. One term presidents don’t qualify as legacy material, as Bush I found out although he was one of the better ones.
Clearly the current Bush is running hard to meet and exceed the Reagan legacy and, unfortunately, he is doing a great job. He’s created deficits far larger than Reagan achieved, and Reagan created deficits on a magnitude never seen before.
I wonder if the people supporting this project were asleep during the 1980s. I certainly wasn’t. I was a newly minted civil servant. Although I had no exposure before the bizarre workings of government, things quickly went beyond comical to ludicrous. I worked at the Defense Mapping Agency at the time and remember being just astounded by the amount of money being thrown at our agency. When it came to defense spending, Star Wars was just the tip of the iceberg . We literally couldn’t find enough places to spend the money. Much of it went to create systems way beyond their time to move maps produced on paper to digital maps. I was part of a massive reengineering effort at the time. I remember business trips for hush hush requirements sessions with defense contractors as they tried to automate our enterprise business processes. I’m not sure whatever happened to these systems, or even if they got off the ground. I do know when I left in 1987 they weren’t operational. But there was no let up in the defense money pouring in. I am sure we did our best to prop up the share prices of bloated and wasteful defense contractors. (The Meese Commission, which was charged to look into waste and fraud in federal agencies, gave our agency high marks. This was a source of considerable amusement to us at the time, and another sign that the Reagan Administration had lost touch with reality.)
The downsizing of the federal work force was another constant started when Reagan took office and has continued ever since. Early in my career I was fortunate in the sense that I was working in the Defense Department, and that put us largely off limits. But by the 1990s, downsizing had hit DoD too. About the time I left the Air Force my office was being looked at to be A-76’ed (referring here to Circular A-76, otherwise known as the “let’s fire feds and replace them with overpaid contractors” Executive Order.)
We seem to have forgotten just what a wreck Reagan made of the government. Defense money was squandered for bombers costing billions of dollars and for laser satellite systems that were supposed to shoot down enemy missiles from space (but never did). The Savings and Loan fiasco also happened on the Reagan watch. In an attempt to make banks compete, the Reagan Administration let S&L’s invest in all sort of murky investments that caused S&L’s and banks to fail all across the country. The U.S. taxpayers bailed out these mistakes to the tune of over $100B.
And then there were the cast of bizarre characters populating the top ranks of government. As one example, we had Anne Burford Gorsuch, at the EPA, whose idea of improving the environment was to decimate the agency, and who set the sterling example of chain smoking in her office. And of course who can forget Energy Secretary James Watt, who showed his sterling political skills by saying he had the perfect staff because “I have a black, a woman, two Jews and a cripple”.
Meanwhile, we had Reagan involving the CIA and our military in all sorts of banana republics. We invaded Grenada because a few Marxists were running around. We funded what amounted to government terrorists in a civil war in El Salvador that killed and terrorized thousand of people for more than a decade. We did similar operations in places like Guatemala and Costa Rica. Reagan approved a brilliant strategy of providing “freedom fighters” in Afghanistan with shoulder-launched Stinger missiles. These same freedom fighters, of course, are today’s Taliban and many of the weapons we supplied are now being turned against our forces. Reagan also cozied up to Saddam Hussein and sent no less than current Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld to Baghdad to make nice and to offer U.S. military aid. And then there was the plainly illegal but under the table shenanigans that Oliver North directed from his office at the National Security Council in the White House. Lets also not forget the hundreds of marines killed by a terrorist bombing in Lebanon for which Reagan assumed “full responsibility” but naturally didn’t pay a political price.
Arguably Reagan did change the shape of government. Before he took office most of us thought of the government as an institution by and for the people. Reagan portrayed the government as a somewhat evil institution not to be trusted. His “legacy” continues today to portray the government this way. He embraced supply side economics that led to the largest deficits in the history of our country, during either peace or war.
Is this the stuff of legacy? Apparently. Because here in Washington the Reagan Legacy Project has been very busy. First National Airport was renamed to Ronald Reagan National Airport. Those of us who remember Reagan were very puzzled by this. He hated Washington and couldn’t wait to get away from it for extended vacations in California. Why name an airport after him next to a city he loathed? But there was also the Ronald Reagan Building at Federal Triangle, which has the dubious honor of being the most expensive federal building every constructed, busting its budget numerous times (all that marble gets expensive!) The Reagan Building may well be a fitting landmark to the man. As a president who gave us the largest deficits of all time, it is fitting to name the most costly and badly managed federal construction project after him.
Will Ronald Reagan make it on Mount Rushmore? Rest assured the Reagan Legacy Project is working hard on this endeavor too. But also be confident of this: history will judge Reagan as a lesser president, not a great president. Naming so many things after him and putting him on Mount Rushmore won’t change the facts. He was a nice guy but a disaster of a president. Fifty years from now his name will only evoke snickers.”
https://www.occams-razor.info/2003/11/12/the_reagan_wrec/#.YziLXtjMK00
DCSCA (4fa0be) — 10/1/2022 @ 11:51 amIf I am reading this correctly – and please correct me if I’m not – it appears that you assume that those who are NeverTrump (maybe including those who don’t call themselves that but have left the GOP or are still in the party but loath the Trump/MAGA takeover) have, by default, turned their back on their beliefs (God, family, country). As if NeverTrump couldn’t possibly still be for God, family, country. If this is what you are saying, then what an arrogant and presumptuous assumption to make about people. You’re not God. You don’t know what people may or may not have turned their backs on unless they specifically tell you. You are playing God when you presume to assert that they have turned their backs on God, family, and country, as if being NeverTrump means just that.
I don’t know if you read the abortion thread this past week, but I put my cards on the table and explained the thought process behind my stance on abortion. And I’m glad I have solidified in my mind more clearly because it does actually matter now. I hope more people think the issue through more thoughtfully and with more seasoning in life. The goal for me is to be at peace in my soul, down to the bone, with my views, and hope that God isn’t offended by them. It’s incredible that you accuse people of running away because they took the time to think through their views and may have arrived at a place adjacent to yours. You see it as a weakness, as a betrayal, as a turning one’s back on what is noble and right. Who made you God?
Ted Cruz has given us plenty to criticize him over. DeSantis is another gasbag but with executive experience. You see, while I may share some of their views, that doesn’t mean I have to like or respect them, nor even vote for them. Again, you insulting David French as a fraud, reveals more about you than anything else.
It’s ironic that you who have insulted people who don’t think the way you do (see above for insult references) are upset about racist or a cult member insults (which I don’t think I’ve accused you of).
However, I do believe Trumpism is a cult. And I believe Trump is the cult leader. I do believe that a large swath of MAGA believers are racist. Anyone can pull of up photographic and text evidence to support the claim.
Finally, let me ask you a question: If you support Trump and esteem him by giving him your vote, does that signify that you agree with, or at least tacitly support his racist tendencies, his dishonesty, his avarice, his corruption, his amorality?
Dana (1225fc) — 10/1/2022 @ 11:57 amNice whatabout, DC. Well done.
Paul Montagu (753b42) — 10/1/2022 @ 11:57 amI wonder if the 10-year penalty applies to all soldiers when senior officers surrender entire combat units, or only to individual soldiers just walking away. Sad!
Rip Murdock (288136) — 10/1/2022 @ 12:06 pmWell said, Dana.
Paul Montagu (753b42) — 10/1/2022 @ 12:14 pm@178. Facts are stubborn things.
DCSCA (0306f5) — 10/1/2022 @ 12:22 pmSome of the hardest-hitting cases against Trump have been made by people who chose to work in his administration. They aren’t leftists, nor Deep State hacks who just wanted to undermine him from within. But they saw up close that he is really not wiser, saner, better informed, more honest and honorable, less aggressively self-centered than he gives every appearance of being. On the contrary, “It’s worse than you know” has been a common theme coming from inside.
I’ve heard multiple former insiders say that Trump himself had little if anything to do with what are touted as his major achievements. At crucial times, it was more likely to be Mike Pence who carried the ball forward. Some former insiders have said that things had the best chance of going well if Trump didn’t get involved at all.
I’ve read narratives meant to show some aspect of the Trump presidency in a positive light, but Trump himself is largely absent; it isn’t clear what he actually did, if anything, to accomplish what’s being showcased.
This is hardly surprising, given Trump’s well-known lack of interest in studying anything, his belief that his native instincts are superior to anyone else’s knowledge, his frequent displays of ignorance and idiocy when he speaks publicly about issues, and all the indications that he saw the rallies where he was revered like a demigod as the heart of the presidential office.
Then there are the reports that administration officials were starting to whisper about the 25th Amendment as early as the summer of 2017.
But Trumpites want us to believe that Trump possesses some extraordinary genius for leadership and an exceptionally deep patriotism that outweigh his pathological narcissism, congenital mendacity, contempt for ethical rules and laws that get in the way of his desires, and willingness to use fraud and intimidation to become more like the dictators-for-life that he openly admires and envies.
Trumpites are getting in the way of elevating a sane, competent, reasonably honest and honorable alternative to the Democrats — not just for the presidency but at other levels too. They are making the GOP toxic to many people who have generally voted R in the past.
Radegunda (3ae21a) — 10/1/2022 @ 12:26 pmEveryone who points out the ways that Donald Trump violates their own long-hold principles is called a “fraud” by the people who decided to make Trump their moral North Star. Maybe some of those MAGA people are, deep down, uneasy about all the moral compromises they’ve made in order to hold Trump perpetually above criticism. Or maybe they don’t realize that the world of normality looks fraudulent to people who are in a cult.
Radegunda (3ae21a) — 10/1/2022 @ 12:35 pmLiz Truss giving it the British good and hard:
Related:
Rip Murdock (288136) — 10/1/2022 @ 12:35 pmHowever, I do believe Trumpism is a cult. And I believe Trump is the cult leader.
Nah.
He may have a core base – just as the Goldwater/Reagan wing had– or any elected politician in office- but he’s no more a cultist than P.T. Barnum or any number of characters portrayed by W.C. Fields. OTOH, Reagan has a cult following for sure. But what Trump succeeded in doing was carrying the populist flag to a victory-and I firmly believe it was accidental; he was likely as surprised at defeating the establishment ideological weenies in the primaries and HRC in the general as was the rest of the country and the ideologue elitists who turned a deaf ear and blind eye to the rising rage of American populism. And it was only by the EC tally he won; HRC rec’d more of the popular vote.
Carrying the populist flag forward to a win should tell you a lot; the cauldron of discontent has been a simmering to a boil for nearly 40 years. They’ve tasted a victory now, too. Indies and voters fed up, in the dwindling numbers of both major parties, are fueling it– and have had it with stupid neocon wars, a shrinking middle class, wasted billions to lost causes, checking boxes, incompetence, life-long bureaucrats safe in their gigs avoiding accountability for incompetence— while jobs, careers and factories sent overseas sacrificed on the altar of globalism and so on and so on.
This wave of populism isn’t going away any time soon, either. But eventually, one of the younger, major party candidates will clear out the old, entrenched guard and channel the anger to their advantage; tap it, absorb the changes and implement them– and the fires beneath the cauldron will subside for a time. But as it stands now, even after Trump, someone else will pick up the populist flag and move it forward. They’ve tasted a victory, purged the ideologues and made change happen– and want more. More power to them– it is long overdue.
DCSCA (0306f5) — 10/1/2022 @ 12:52 pmWell said, nk.
Dana (1225fc) — 10/1/2022 @ 12:52 pmOr maybe they don’t realize that the world of normality looks fraudulent to people who are in a cult.
The Ultimate Cult:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYeNuISN4Dc
Reaganoptics, Reaganaurics, Reaganomics.
DCSCA (0306f5) — 10/1/2022 @ 12:58 pmThe Trump his supporters imagine does not exist. He is a dream in their minds. A projection of their hopes and fears. A cloud of smoke. A balloon covered in glitter.
A shadow projected on a screen…
Ronald Reagan.
DCSCA (0306f5) — 10/1/2022 @ 12:59 pmSome of the hardest-hitting cases against Trump have been made by people who chose to work in his administration.
Resume padders. Sucks when government weevils used to shuffling paper work for a boss who will actually wants to kick some ass and fire you for poor performance and incompetence.
DCSCA (0306f5) — 10/1/2022 @ 1:11 pmDana (1225fc) — 10/1/2022 @ 12:52 pm
LOL Trump, DeSantis, Noem, Haley, Cruz, Paul, Youngkin are actual people with names
the cultists and racists that would back any of them, should they win the nomination, seems to be in the range of 74 million strong
the folks in your corner can’t seem to name anyone, and can’t even hold a house seat in wyoming, but yeah we’re the ones fixated on a cloud of smoke
too funny
JF (9a7bee) — 10/1/2022 @ 1:15 pmIt’s ironically funny that DCSCA sees Reagan as a failure and post-Apollo NASA as a success.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/1/2022 @ 1:28 pmParagraph breaks added.
Rip Murdock (288136) — 10/1/2022 @ 1:33 pmTalk about failure to launch.
Rip Murdock (288136) — 10/1/2022 @ 1:36 pmaphrael– follow up to earlier comments; see what I mean:
Amtrak suspends San Diego-Los Angeles service due to shifting ground
‘Metrolink and Amtrak have suspended train services linking San Diego to Los Angeles – along with the rest of the US – because ground underneath a stretch of seaside track in southern California has shifted, according to officials.
The San Diego Union-Tribune reported Friday that service has been suspended indefinitely in the community of San Clemente, on the border of Orange and San Diego counties. The move comes after a recent ocean surge associated with Tropical Storm Kay caused high tides and waves that shifted the coastal tracks. The tracks serve as the only viable link that connects San Diego with LA and the rest of the country, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports. The tracks are part of the 351-mile Los Angeles-San Diego-San Luis Obispo Rail Corridor, also known as the Lossan Corridor, which serves as the US’s second busiest intercity passenger rail corridor.
Last year, the community faced a similar problem, and officials shut the tracks down for two weeks. Workers brought in additional boulders to help shore up the coastline, which has been eroding amid the ongoing global climate crisis. The Orange County Transportation Authority, which owns the tracks, planned to hold a special meeting Monday to discuss potential solutions.
“The emergency plan will likely involve driving large ground anchors into the bottom of the slope next to the track to prevent movement,” OCTA spokesperson Eric Carpenter told the San Diego Union-Tribune. Metrolink said service will remain suspended “until we have confirmation from the experts the slope movement has stopped”.
“Unfortunately, continued movement to the right of way in the San Clemente area is forcing Metrolink to suspend Orange County Line and Inland Empire-Orange County Line service south of the Laguna Niguel/Mission Viejo Station beginning Friday and until further notice,” Metrolink said in a statement on Thursday.
It added: “Working with geologists, geotechnical engineers, and surveyors, we have determined to ensure passenger safety service suspension is necessary. Until we have confirmation from the experts the slope movement has stopped, we will not resume Metrolink service.”
In an email to the San Diego Union-Tribune, Metrolink spokesperson Scott Johnson said that the company has placed over 20,000 tons of rock and boulders along the tracks to secure the right of way.
Amtrak released a similar statement, saying, “This is a temporary track closure in San Clemente that will allow crews to repair and strengthen areas near the tracks – a team of geologists and engineers noticed a need for repairs after recent storms. “We plan to run modified service while repairs are made.” That may take several weeks, Amtrak’s statement added.
Amtrak also said it is working to provide train service through a partner with connecting bus service to cover the route. According to Amtrak, train service between Oceanside and San Diego will resume next week with a bus bridge connecting Oceanside and Irvine.
Amtrak’s Pacific Surfliner trains have an annual ridership of nearly 3 million passengers while Coaster and Metrolink commuter trains see up to 5 million riders each year, according to the Orange County Transportation Authority.’
So this means even more road congestion on the 5 & 405– and gas locally here hit $7.20/gal., for Shell regular.
Memo to Amtrak Joe:
‘We’re all out of corn flakes. F.U.’ – Oscar Madison [Walter Matthau] ‘The Odd Couple’ 1968
DCSCA (0306f5) — 10/1/2022 @ 1:38 pmI hope more people think the issue through more thoughtfully and with more seasoning in life.
Indeed. I had not realized just how much I disliked the hardline no-abortions-never-ever position until a few states enacted it. I think that it is just as horrendous to force a woman to bear a child at the risk of her life, health or (in the case of rape) willingness to sacrifice for the child as it is to casually kill a fetus that could otherwise survive.
I also find it risible that people would deny women birth control options, when the worst possible birth control option (abortion) will always be available, if only by mail order.
I am aghast that state officials would prevent women from getting proper treatment for a miscarriage, on the theory that “it was probably an illegal abortion” (and would deny medical treatment as punishment in that case).
All of this could be described as “social conservatives behaving badly” as if they were sent in from Central Casting by the Hollywood liberals.
I can think of nothing more likely to result in a liberal national abortion policy than the overreach we are seeing in some states and the widespread revulsion that is not at all hard to stoke.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/1/2022 @ 1:43 pm………
Levi Roy Gable, 37, of Chouteau, faces up to one year in prison and a $100,000 fine. His sentencing was set for Jan. 10 in federal court in Washington, D.C.
“Are you pleading guilty because you are guilty?” U.S. District Judge Jia M. Cobb asked him during a hearing held by video.
“Yes, your honor,” he replied.
……….
“I was among the first people to make our way into the US Capitol Building,” he purportedly posted on Facebook, according to the FBI.
“Those in the building first were there in protest of Vice President Mike Pence’s statement that he would not stand with the American people and challenge the results of 2020’s stolen presidential election.
……….
In the statement of his offense, Gable acknowledged that he traveled by plane from Oklahoma to Washington, D.C., on Jan. 5, 2021, to protest the certification.
He acknowledged that he attended the “Stop the Steal” rally on Jan. 6, 2021, and then marched with other protesters to the Capitol.
He entered the Capitol at approximately 2:19 p.m. through the Senate Wing Door after windows on both sides of the door had been smashed. according to the statement. ……..
“Gable, together with others, remained inside the Capitol at various locations … until approximately 2:53 p.m.,” according to the statement. He “falsely denied having entered the Capitol” during a law enforcement interview on Jan. 21, 2021.
……….
Ratted out by a frat brother.
Rip Murdock (288136) — 10/1/2022 @ 1:44 pmShorter: Ugly winners are soon losers.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/1/2022 @ 1:45 pmLink to post 197.
Rip Murdock (288136) — 10/1/2022 @ 1:46 pmIt’s ironically funny that DCSCA sees Reagan as a failure and post-Apollo NASA as a success.
Now there’s a desperate non-sequeteur.
Reagan’s Rodents pushed the civilian agency, NASA, to privatize a la beancounting 101 (like the USPS) and the Reagan foolishness of such policy pressures eventually killed seven astronauts, lost a $5 billion shuttle and crippled American access to space for both civilian and military purposes for several years. [Newtie even wanted to close it down.]
Yep. Funny. But the shuttles got flying for years after Reagan dying.
DCSCA (0306f5) — 10/1/2022 @ 1:49 pmIf you support Trump and esteem him by giving him your vote, does that signify that you agree with, or at least tacitly support his racist tendencie
Many of them, like Trump himself, don’t see those tendencies as “racist.” This isn’t because they aren’t racist, it’s because they haven’t a frigging clue how to behave.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/1/2022 @ 1:50 pmRussia to give troops who surrender 10 years in prison unless they are able to flee captivity
Stalin killed them, so maybe this is a new liberalism in Russia.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/1/2022 @ 1:51 pmThis isn’t because they aren’t racist, it’s because they haven’t a frigging clue how to behave.
ROFLMAOPIP
Tail tries to tell dog how to walk.
Film at 11.
DCSCA (0306f5) — 10/1/2022 @ 1:52 pmDCSCA — that train line has a real problem, because it’s sandwiched between *a marine base* and *the ocean*, and the ocean is eating it. Normally you’d just move it inland and maybe tunnel under a mountain or two, but Pendleton is in the way.
aphrael (4c4719) — 10/1/2022 @ 1:53 pmI hope more people think the issue through more thoughtfully and with more seasoning in life.
Abortion is the crabgrass in the backyard of a house on fire.
The arc of history for the Republic has been to expand rights. Freedom of choice is what matters– the option to or not to; to choose. Rescinding any right, adding layers of complexity and difficulty as well, only makes the next right to tumble just a little easier.
DCSCA (0306f5) — 10/1/2022 @ 2:01 pmDesatan’s rethugliKKKans strike again in floriduh. RethugliKKKan controlled Lee county floriduh refused to order evacuation orders while other counties around them did. When on tuesday they were finally shamed into ordering evacuation it was too late. At last count lee county has the highest death count of any county in floriduh. Yahoo news
asset (a51536) — 10/1/2022 @ 2:01 pm@204. Yeah, and problem elements of it are north of Pendleton as well– anything along those crumbling coasts are at risk. They’ve still got issues w/t de-ccomissioned nuke plant there as well– and the rail line runs right by it.
DCSCA (0306f5) — 10/1/2022 @ 2:03 pmlocally here hit $7.20/gal., for Shell regular.
Outside of CA, regular is about $3 – $3.50. Now, you might claim this is just in the oil patch, not in the big city, but gas is UNDER $3 at some stations in Brooklyn.
You got some great government there in California.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/1/2022 @ 2:04 pm@208. Distribution issues as well; pipelines and so forth. No argument- CA sucks.
DCSCA (0306f5) — 10/1/2022 @ 2:06 pmDana and others, could you please repost the instructions for blocking particular commenters? There are some folks whose posts I would like to read, but I have to wade through some unpleasant and sadly predictable ones to get there. I guess I would like to make such people invisible/inaudible to me.
Simon Jester (c8876d) — 10/1/2022 @ 2:09 pmBut don’t take my word for it, Californians.
https://www.gasbuddy.com/home
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/1/2022 @ 2:16 pmhttps://patterico.com/2017/09/24/how-to-make-the-comments-of-annoying-commenters-disappear-from-your-screen/
nk (1dc077) — 10/1/2022 @ 2:16 pmThe problem with this proposal is that it would take weeks if not months after a Putin nuclear strike to train Ukrainians to use Western aircraft or tanks.
It’s also a canard to argue that had not Ukraine given up the Russian nuclear weapons on its territory the war with Russia could have been avoided. Ukraine did not have command and control over the missiles or warheads, they were tightly centralized by Moscow.
Of course, the deal that was made to trade the nuclear material for Russian security guarantees proved to be a lie, which is why no one trusts the Russians to keep the peace.
Rip Murdock (288136) — 10/1/2022 @ 2:17 pm@209: It’s not “distribution” unless that includes “non-tariff barriers.” It is ILLEGAL to import gasoline into California from any other place due to speical formulation requirements.
It’s a sick collusion between Big Oil and Big Green.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/1/2022 @ 2:21 pm@210 I thought it was the liberals who were supposed to be the sensitive snowflakes who needed to block and censor unpleasantness. Am I wrong?
asset (a51536) — 10/1/2022 @ 2:22 pm@213: I’m reminded of that bit from “Dune” where each great family had nukes, but the agreement was that any family which used them would be expunged by all the others. Perhaps that is the way forward: a global MAD — all protect all.
We should probably do all we can to pry India and China away from Putin, for Russia’s own good.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/1/2022 @ 2:28 pmasset, I’m pretty sure you’re not on the prospective block list. I block 3 people, on the basis of clownishness mostly.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/1/2022 @ 2:30 pmAnd sometimes they still slip through.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/1/2022 @ 2:30 pm@210 I thought it was the liberals who were supposed to be the sensitive snowflakes who needed to block and censor unpleasantness. Am I wrong?
Yes, you are absolutely wrong. On all counts.
Liberals are, by and large, indiscriminate pantywaists who consider the lowest common denominator to be the ideal, and for whom it would be unthinkable to rate the grunting of a pig lower than the Song of Songs.
Conservatives, on the other hand are persons of sense, sensibility and taste, and don’t want the odor of pig “pffts” around them.
nk (07a0b7) — 10/1/2022 @ 2:56 pmI don’t know about illegal (unless you have a link), but California does receive crude oil from out of state (as well as foreign sources). The entire West Coast is relatively isolated from the national pipeline network due the distances involved.
Source
The real problem is the lack of refining capacity. The are only 17, so if a couple have problems prices can spike.
Rip Murdock (288136) — 10/1/2022 @ 3:02 pmLiz Truss getting pounded good and hard:
I’m sure she would prefer Biden’s numbers.
Rip Murdock (288136) — 10/1/2022 @ 3:20 pm@220: I said “gasoline” not oil. California has long had a special formulation for gasoline.
They really don’t like to mention that MTBE was an additive required under earlier parts of the program.
Rather than use the EPA low-smog formulation, which is used in most major cities, CA has stuck with its own program. ONLY gasoline that meets these specs may be sold. It’s a classic non-tariff barrier. While the crude oil can come from anywhere, only the state’s 4 refineries make this special gas, and they are increasingly unable to meet demand.
So the price goes up. A bit hard on the secretaries commuting 60 miles to their West LA jobs, but they should be buying electric cars, right?
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/1/2022 @ 3:30 pmI see they list 17 refineries, but some of them are very small and some of them are counted several times. Any imported gasoline must still meet CA’s rules, which limits interest.
Right now the price difference is over $3. It has rarely been less than $1/gallon.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/1/2022 @ 3:32 pmThe real problem is the lack of refining capacity. The are only 17, so if a couple have problems prices can spike.
It’s a terrible problem for anyone who doesn’t own a refinery. Captive market, non-tariff barriers, limited supply locally. Every time the price spikes, the politicians go looking for the culprits. But they never find them for, as Pogo pointed out, they are them.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/1/2022 @ 3:34 pmRamzan Kadyrov, head of Russia’s region of Chechnya, said on Saturday that Moscow should consider using a low-yield nuclear weapon in Ukraine after a major new defeat on the battlefield.
I think that Putin should explode a nuke in Chechnya, as an example.
“See, Ukrainian Nazis, I did this and I LIKE Chechnya! Imagine what will happen to you!”
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/1/2022 @ 3:37 pmPutin versus the FSB?
The FSB didn’t think almost 4-1 was a fair trade. There is speculation that the “confidant” explains why Putin accepted the deal, anyway.
(Those who helped make the trade happen include Roman Abramovich, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.)
Jim Miller (85fd03) — 10/1/2022 @ 3:42 pmDana, wrt Iran, I forgot about this, that the Iranian theocrats were elected to the UN Commission on the Status of Women, starting their 4-year term last spring. It’s like appointing Chairman Xi to the Committee on the Care and Welfare of Uighers.
Paul Montagu (753b42) — 10/1/2022 @ 3:42 pmThank you for the laugh, nk.
Kevin M, do you remember this from long ago?
https://www.imao.us/docs/NukeTheMoon.htm
Simon Jester (c8876d) — 10/1/2022 @ 3:43 pm>A bit hard on the secretaries commuting 60 miles to their West LA jobs, but they should be buying electric cars, right?
We should be building housing in sufficient quantities to make it possible for them to afford to live closer to their jobs than 60 miles.
aphrael (d9db76) — 10/1/2022 @ 3:47 pm#223 Kevin – Do you happen to know how the EPA “low-smog” gasoline compares to the required California mix as far as air pollution goes? Better, about the same, worse?
Jim Miller (85fd03) — 10/1/2022 @ 3:47 pmTeam RDS-_? for now, but one can dream:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/brian-kemp-says-gop-shouldnt-162116288.html
urbanleftbehind (11cf10) — 10/1/2022 @ 3:47 pmThere appears to be no real data, at least not any Google can reach. California Reformulated Gasoline is exempted from the EPA requirements for the federal RFG program. Apparently a state certification that it meets federal requirements is all that was necessary. See here for some possible exceptions.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/1/2022 @ 3:57 pmKevin M, do you remember this from long ago?
Yes, imao is sorely missed, along with USS Clueless and the like
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/1/2022 @ 4:03 pmBTW, nuking the moon was a mainstream proposal at one point. The idea was that people really did not understand how utter fracking terrible the hydrogen bomb was and nuking the moon would make this much clearer. It may have been a Herman Kahn idea.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/1/2022 @ 4:06 pm@214. It’s distribution as well, Kev. Spot pricing for monthly loads to stations keeps rising along w/constricted product availability. Supply chain issues still all over, too. It’s actually ‘driven’ several local indy stations out of business– they can’t afford the loads w/t price spikes and increases; and a few still operating close up toward the end of the month when their tanks run dry. Add to it the ppg tax load in CA and the shift to winter blends and it’s a precarious mess. Any refinery stoppage- fire or mechanical, cause issues fairly fast as well. And Newsom is pushing all things electric- with a grid that strung together with bailing wire and rubber bands that has a history of poor maintenance practices. The slighted weather – heat, rain or wind- knocks it down. This state desperately needs a change in management.
DCSCA (7e97b2) — 10/1/2022 @ 4:07 pm#233 Kevin – Thanks. So it is at least possible that Californians are paying more for gasoline — but not getting any cleaner air in return for the higher price.
Sadly, that wouldn’t surprise me.
Jim Miller (85fd03) — 10/1/2022 @ 4:10 pmAn exit for Putin? Perhaps we could find a nation that would take him, in return for a bribe. Right now Cuba is asking for our help to recover from Hurricane Ian, so that’s a possibility.
(The chances that he will need a nation to run to soon are not high, but I think they are growing.)
Jim Miller (85fd03) — 10/1/2022 @ 4:21 pm@235.
Project A119
Project A119 was a top-secret plan developed in 1958 by the United States Air Force. The aim of the project was to detonate a nuclear bomb on the Moon, which would help in answering some of the mysteries in planetary astronomy and astrogeology. If the explosive device detonated on the surface, and not in a lunar crater, the flash of explosive light would have been faintly visible to people on Earth with their naked eye. This was meant as a show of force resulting in a possible boosting of domestic morale in the capabilities of the United States, a boost that was needed after the Soviet Union took an early lead in the Space Race and was also working on a similar project.
The project was never carried out, being cancelled after “Air Force officials decided its risks outweighed its benefits”, and because a Moon landing would undoubtedly be a more popular achievement in the eyes of the American and international public alike. If executed, the plan might have led to a potential militarization of space. A similar project by the Soviet Union (Project E-4) also never came to fruition.
The existence of the US project was revealed in 2000 by a former executive at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Leonard Reiffel, who had led the project in 1958. A young Carl Sagan was part of the team responsible for predicting the effects of a nuclear explosion in vacuum and low gravity and in evaluating the scientific value of the project. The project documents remained secret for nearly 45 years, and despite Reiffel’s revelations, the United States government has never officially recognized its involvement in the study.
In May 1958, ARF began covertly researching the potential consequences of a nuclear explosion on the Moon. The main objective of the program, which ran under the auspices of the United States Air Force, which had initially proposed it, was to cause a nuclear explosion that would be visible from Earth. It was hoped that such a display would boost the morale of the American people.
At the time of the project’s conception, newspapers were reporting a rumor that the Soviet Union was planning to detonate a hydrogen bomb on the Moon. According to press reports in late 1957, an anonymous source had divulged to a United States Secret Service agent that the Soviets planned to commemorate the anniversary of the October Revolution by causing a nuclear explosion on the Moon to coincide with a lunar eclipse on 7 November. News reports of the rumored launch included mention of targeting the dark side of the terminator—Project A119 would also consider this boundary as the target for an explosion. It was also reported that a failure to hit the Moon would likely result in the missile returning to Earth.
A similar idea had been put forward by Edward Teller, the “father of the H-bomb”, who, in February 1957, proposed the detonation of nuclear devices both on and some distance from the lunar surface to analyze the effects of the explosion. A ten-member team led by Leonard Reiffel was assembled at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago to study the potential visibility of the explosion, benefits to science, and implications for the lunar surface. Among the members of the research team were astronomer Gerard Kuiper, and his doctoral student Carl Sagan. Sagan was responsible for the mathematical projection of the expansion of a dust cloud in space around the Moon, an essential element in determining its visibility from Earth.
Scientists initially considered using a hydrogen bomb for the project, but the United States Air Force vetoed this idea due to the weight of such a device, as it would be too heavy to be propelled by the missile which would have been used. It was then decided to use a W25 warhead, a small, lightweight warhead with a relatively low 1.7 kiloton yield. By contrast, the Little Boy bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945 had a yield of 13–18 kilotons. The W25 would be carried by a rocket toward the shadowed side of the Moon where it would detonate on impact. The dust cloud resulting from the explosion would be lit by the Sun and therefore visible from Earth. According to Reiffel, the Air Force’s progress in the development of intercontinental ballistic missiles would have made such a launch feasible by 1959.
The project was canceled by the Air Force in January 1959, seemingly out of fear of the risk to the population if anything went wrong with the launch. Another factor, cited by project leader Leonard Reiffel, were the possible implications of the nuclear fallout which would affect future lunar research projects and colonization. The signing of the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in 1963 and the Outer Space Treaty in 1967 prevented future exploration of the concept of detonating a nuclear device on the Moon. By this time, both the United States and the Soviet Union had performed several high-altitude nuclear explosions, including those of Operation Hardtack I, Operation Argus, Operation Fishbowl, and Project K.
The existence of Project A119 remained largely secret until the mid-1990s, when writer Keay Davidson discovered the story while researching the life of Carl Sagan for a biography. Sagan’s involvement with the project was apparent from his application for an academic scholarship at the University of California, Berkeley’s Miller Institute in 1959. In the application, Sagan gave details of the project research, which Davidson felt constituted a violation of national security.
[The FBI outta raid his grave.]
The leak consisted of Sagan revealing the titles of two classified papers from the A119 project—the 1958 paper Possible Contribution of Lunar Nuclear Weapons Detonations to the Solution of Some Problems in Planetary Astronomy, and the 1959 paper Radiological Contamination of the Moon by Nuclear Weapons Detonations. A 1958 paper titled Cosmic Radiation and Lunar Radioactivity, credited to I. Filosofo, was also named by Sagan in a 1961 paper written for the United States National Research Council. These were among the eight reports created by the project, all of which were destroyed in 1987. The resulting biography (Carl Sagan: A Life) was published in 1999. Shortly after, a review published in Nature highlighted the discovery of the leaked information. This led Reiffel to break his anonymity and write a letter to the journal confirming that Sagan’s activity had at the time been considered a breach in the confidentiality of the project. Reiffel took the opportunity to reveal details of the studies, and his statements were widely reported in the media. Reiffel’s public admission of the project was accompanied by his denouncement of the work carried out, with the scientist noting that he was “horrified that such a gesture to sway public opinion was ever considered”.
As a result of the publicity the correspondence created, a freedom of information request was lodged concerning Project A119. It was only then that A Study of Lunar Research Flights – Volume I was made public, over 40 years after its inception.’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_A119
And the cost???
“Billions and billions…” – Dead Carl Sagan
DCSCA (7e97b2) — 10/1/2022 @ 4:22 pmThe “narco nephews” served about 5 years out of 18 year sentences.
Rip Murdock (288136) — 10/1/2022 @ 4:49 pmGiven the non-existent “penalties” in this case (and with the ringleader conveniently dead), there is really no incentive not to this again.
Rip Murdock (288136) — 10/1/2022 @ 5:07 pmThe new estimate is 21 million lives saved:
It makes me proud to be a citizen of a nation that could — and would — save that many lives.
For the hard-eyed realists: Saving these lives is in the long-term interests of the United States, for two reasons: Many of those lives are in nations who we want as friends. We have less chance of getting a new, and even worse, version of the disease here, if we control it elsewhere.
(Here’s a recent report from the Bush Center on how we did it. Measurement was key. It’s almost as if the program was established by a Harvard MBA.)
Jim Miller (85fd03) — 10/1/2022 @ 5:20 pmGiven the non-existent “penalties” in this case (and with the ringleader conveniently dead), there is really no incentive not to this again.
Or repeat them in ballot=harvesting states.
Kevin M (211bfb) — 10/1/2022 @ 5:57 pmSaving lives from AIDS in Africa is difficult. Many cultures have no solid idea of time, and watches are rare, so these anti-viral cocktails that require careful dosing are hard to administer.. Steve Jobs and the iPhone probably saved many of these lives by making time-keeping ubiquitous.
Kevin M (32224b) — 10/1/2022 @ 6:01 pmThat’s a good report, Jim Miller, and I agree with why your two reasons are viable, but I also think saving lives because we can is an even better reason. Especially in third-world countries.
Dana (1225fc) — 10/1/2022 @ 6:18 pmGiven that ballot collection or “harvesting” is explicitly legal in 36 states (25 allow anyone to deliver ballots; 11 restrict who can); explicitly illegal in one (Alabama), and 13 states have no laws either way, it appears to be a fairly common practice. North Carolina allows “ the voter’s near relative or verifiable legal guardian” to deliver an absentee ballot.
Rip Murdock (288136) — 10/1/2022 @ 6:30 pmNew Mexico law states that a caregiver or immediate family member (defined by the law) can return a voter’s absentee ballot.
Rip Murdock (288136) — 10/1/2022 @ 6:34 pm@192
Lawyer who threw Molotov cocktail at NYPD car during George Floyd protests says she was drunk and dealing with ‘unprocessed trauma’ at the time, as she asks for reduced sentence
Life imprisonment, then 10 years, now 18 to 24 months for an open and shut case
next, maybe free for time served at home
cuz they attacked NYPD cops instead of Capitol cops
two tiered justice in action
JF (7db24d) — 10/1/2022 @ 6:43 pmDana,
abortion is murder. I accept from a practical standpoint that we need to allow some instances of it because there are too many who find it convenient or pick and choose what they believe. I do know there are horrendous situations that cause you to grieve and the left loves pushing those instances. It’s why difficult cases make bad law. Having a child impregnated should result in the immediate death of the rapist, but the same society that loves abortion dislikes capital punishment.
I see constant hate directed at those who voted for Trump. There is zero charity given to them. The man hasn’t been in office for almost 2 years, but he is still the target of vitriol. Now those who want to carry forward an agenda favored by his supporters is considered too extreme by those who claimed just a few years ago to be against abortion, wanted to stop illegal aliens, supported voter id, and didn’t want us to engage in never ending wars. Who has changed?
I’ve mentioned in the past my issues with Trump and I didn’t support him in the primaries. I still don’t want him to run in 2024, but if he’s the nominee I will vote for him over Biden, Harris, Newsom, Clinton or any other lunatic the left selects. And that’s because I’m still involved in the cultural issues facing our nation.
The leftist agenda is anti-Christ. They’ve stated as much when they removed God from their platform. I don’t believe Trump is a Christian, but he hasn’t attacked us for our beliefs. Can’t say the same about those running the leftist party.
NJRob (eb56c3) — 10/1/2022 @ 6:59 pmThe politicians in DC who are angry about Jan 6th wouldn’t have cared if it was the police that were attacked. We know that from the violence that occurred in the Summer of Love including when the church in DC was attacked and President Trump was forced to relocate to a secure location. It’s only because they feel they were attacked that they are trying to destroy the lives of so many who didn’t commit violence. They want to punish those who so publicly disagreed with them and made them look weak and impotent.
NJRob (eb56c3) — 10/1/2022 @ 7:03 pmRamzan Kadyrov is a Putin puppet installed in Chechnya after two bloody wars initiated by Russia to bring Chechnya under subjugation.
It was Putin’s Plan A in Ukraine. To occupy Kiev, kill, capture, or chase off Zelensky, and install a puppet government. But the Ukrainians shoved it up Putin’s Spetnaz and Zelensky told the world “I need ammunition, not a ride”.
Of course the Pomeranian would want to see the wolfhound nuked.
nk (c6b6de) — 10/1/2022 @ 7:04 pmWe have a racist who is the current VP who wanted to violate federal law to give preferential help to certain groups of people based on the color of their skin. That’s the world where we currently reside.
NJRob (eb56c3) — 10/1/2022 @ 7:07 pmFirst of all, if The Daily Mail ever reports a story accurately it is entirely accidental and because the editor lacked the imagination to create something more lurid.
Second, in a federal plea, the prosecution’s sentencing recommendation is only a recommendation. It is not binding on the judge. The judge will sentence the bomb-throwers based on the presentence report and the federal sentencing guidelines. Remember Mike Flynn and his sweetheart prosecutors?
nk (c6b6de) — 10/1/2022 @ 7:16 pmGreat video and photos at link. Sad!
Rip Murdock (f192bb) — 10/1/2022 @ 7:18 pmhttps://redstate.com/mike_miller/2022/10/01/2020-federally-backed-election-integrity-partnership-targeted-20-news-sites-for-spreading-misinformation-n635848
Lost the link.
NJRob (eb56c3) — 10/1/2022 @ 7:20 pmThis site is much more charitable toward pro-life and Trump supporters. Not so much towards others.
Rip Murdock (f192bb) — 10/1/2022 @ 7:21 pmDana – Of course I think that we should do the right thing to reduce AIDS in poor countries, regardless of whether that helps the US — but I recognize that not everyone is as charitable as we would like.
And so I added those two reasons for the people who don’t believe in the Golden Rule.
By the way, I think our diplomats deserve considerable credit for the way they administered PEPFAR. They had to work with governments that lacked resources, and sometimes had serious corruption problems, without being domineering or patronizing.
They did it well enough so that when Obama came into office, he contemplated changes in PEPFAR — and Archbishop Tutu told him, more or less, that it was working fine, and to leave it alone. Which Obmama mostly did.
Jim Miller (85fd03) — 10/1/2022 @ 7:28 pmhttps://thefederalist.com/2022/09/30/newsom-signs-bill-to-let-california-strip-gender-confused-teens-from-parents-even-when-they-live-in-other-states/
Newsom and California declare war on the rest of the nation and the “full faith and credit clause” of the Constitution. They believe your children belong to the government of California.
Leftism is about destroying society and what God created.
NJRob (eb56c3) — 10/1/2022 @ 7:28 pmSummer-Fall 2020 George Floyd Protests-
Tracking federal and non-federal cases related to Summer-Fall protests, riots, & uprisings
Data as of July 2022.
Rip Murdock (f192bb) — 10/1/2022 @ 7:32 pmThe judge will sentence the bomb-throwers based on the presentence report and the federal sentencing guidelines.
nk (c6b6de) — 10/1/2022 @ 7:16 pm
yeah, the Daily Mail article said that already:
“U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan said he was not bound by the sentencing recommendations under the new plea deal, but would take it into account when he sentences the two attorneys this fall.”
JF (7db24d) — 10/1/2022 @ 7:33 pmhttps://nypost.com/2022/10/01/fdny-lt-alison-russo-elling-stabbing-brings-defund-politicians-plea/
NJRob (eb56c3) — 10/1/2022 @ 7:36 pmEmilee Carpenter is a gifted photographer whose lavish images celebrate all kinds of people — Christian, Jewish, black, white, straight, gay and everything in between. She aims her lens at clients without fear or prejudice — with one notable exception.
She refuses to take pictures of same-sex weddings. That’s non-negotiable. And it could cost her — big time.
“I serve everyone, including those who identify as LGBT. But I now face threats of up to $100,000 in fines, a revoked business license and even jail time simply because of my Christian beliefs about marriage,’’ Carpenter, who lives and works near upstate Elmira, said this week.
“The government shouldn’t banish people from the marketplace because of their faith,’’ she continued. “Free speech is for everyone, not just those who happen to agree with the government.”
The state of New York would differ.
Carpenter is in the vortex in which a professional’s deeply held religious belief that holy matrimony is the union of one man and one woman is being attacked as a hate crime.
NJRob (eb56c3) — 10/1/2022 @ 7:38 pmStewart Rhodes et. al. indictment.
Rip Murdock (f192bb) — 10/1/2022 @ 8:16 pmNew Mexico law states that a caregiver or immediate family member (defined by the law) can return a voter’s absentee ballot.
As of 2019 when the Democrats took total control after the “We Hate Trump” midterms. Trumpies should consider just how much of the center detests the man.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/1/2022 @ 8:26 pmFrankly, the Democrats have only their repeated overreach on bending historic balloting norms to blame for the GOP’s disbelief in the results of recent elections.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/1/2022 @ 8:28 pmThis site is much more charitable toward pro-life and Trump supporters. Not so much towards others.
Free Republic? No sh1t?
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/1/2022 @ 8:29 pmThe fact is that Trump keeps making news, by his speeches, endorsements, continual denials he lost the 2020 election, and his possible of national security laws. It’s not like he has retired-he’s actively organizing for the 2024 election. If he had disappeared to MAL or Bedminster no one would care.
If you can’t stand the heat ………
Rip Murdock (f192bb) — 10/1/2022 @ 8:30 pmcuz they attacked NYPD cops instead of Capitol cops
No, because the NY DA is one of the Soros squad.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/1/2022 @ 8:31 pmSome posters would be much happier there. Trump criticism is not allowed.
Rip Murdock (f192bb) — 10/1/2022 @ 8:32 pmIt was in Federal court.
Rip Murdock (f192bb) — 10/1/2022 @ 8:34 pmCorrection to post 270:
Rip Murdock (f192bb) — 10/1/2022 @ 8:37 pmthose who claimed just a few years ago to be against abortion, wanted to stop illegal aliens, supported voter id, and didn’t want us to engage in never ending wars. Who has changed?
Gee, I dunno. The GOP also claimed to be for balanced budgets, but even before the pandemic Trump wasn’t even slightly interested. The GOP once talked about free trade, but Trump was actually against that. The GOP put judges on courts to further the Rule of Law. Trump was more interested in the Rule of Trump. We’re now finding out that, at a very basic level, Trump viewed the federal government as a tool to go after his enemies.
Why are people like Patterico pissed off with Trump? These and otehr things, and his single-handed destruction of the GOP’s best chance at a permanent majority. All subordinated to What Trump Wants (and Wants It Now).
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/1/2022 @ 8:38 pmIt was in Federal court.
OK, the USA appointed by Biden. Same difference.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/1/2022 @ 8:39 pmThe legislation was supposedly aimed at blocking red states from enforcing laws barring extreme treatments for underage victims, and instead invited those minors to seek surgeries in California.
Red states should create a crime of “having lived in California.”
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/1/2022 @ 8:40 pmWhen Donald Trump expresses “malice toward none and charity for all” in word and deed, I’m sure he (and his supporters) will receive the same.
Rip Murdock (f192bb) — 10/1/2022 @ 8:53 pmCondemning yourself?
Rip Murdock (f192bb) — 10/1/2022 @ 8:55 pmR.I.P. Saturday Night Live, 47
DCSCA (e919ef) — 10/1/2022 @ 9:13 pmUnder Senate Bill 107 introduced by San Francisco-area State Sen. Scott Wiener,
No shock at all that bug-chasing degenerate was the one who introduced this.
Sacramento’s going to have to be considered a hostile entity at the rate it’s going.
Factory Working Orphan (bce27d) — 10/1/2022 @ 10:01 pmCondemning yourself?
1) I’m not in a red state
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/2/2022 @ 12:35 am2) I wouldn’t be coming from California.
3) If you have an NRA live membership, it’s a Get Out of Jail Free card.
No shock at all that bug-chasing degenerate was the one who introduced this.
Thank God for term limits
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/2/2022 @ 12:36 am@248/251 O.J. simpson and john hinckley on the left and young blacks/civil rights killers in the south were open and shut cases too. Any NY lawyer worth their salt would get an all black jury throwing off whites in the jury pool. In the south they did the opposite. Trump jury in NY/DC Guilty. Floriduh innocent or hung jury. Speaking about lawyers tenured penn law professor amy wax is in trouble for saying their are too many asians in this country especially in ivy league collages! Earlier she said derogatory statements about blacks. This is surprising since legacy admissions to ivy league schools came about to keep the number of jews entering schools down in the early twentieth century. The ss st.louis was turned back in 1939 because prejudice people in ameriKKKa thought their were two many jews in this country.
asset (0289f0) — 10/2/2022 @ 3:36 amKevin M (32224b) — 10/1/2022 @ 6:01 pm
That’s not the problem (and anyway I doubt that anything needs to be more precise than morning, afternoon or night.)
The problem, especially for the prevention pills, is that a lot of women do not control their lives, and, there is, as is to be expected, a stigma to being infected – and while there exists, or could exist, an injectable version that would need to be given very infrequently, once every few months, it is expensive and the governments are probably not ready to buy it or give it away for free.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/27/health/injectable-prep-hiv-africa.html
Sammy Finkelman (b434ee) — 10/2/2022 @ 6:42 am267. possible precaution against fraud organized in the election office is to require that, when ballots are picked up in person and not mailed, the voter list by name and some identifying detail, who can pick up the absentee ballot.
The Daily News ran a column about a vote fraud that was stopped (most get caught if too many people are involved and there is any organized opposition) in New York in the 1980s.
https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-when-an-election-rigging-was-real-20220926-wxrz7lruo5d2jdqshjdnmosrki-story.html
Sammy Finkelman (b434ee) — 10/2/2022 @ 6:52 am\The secret to why “bail reform” was bad is that before a lot of defendants were given high bail with the intention that they should not make it, but stay in jail. This legal fiction cost New York in the end.
Also supervised release isn;t really supervised apparently.\\And they madea half dozen other changes for the worse. Lower the age. Tougher discover rules..
Sammy Finkelman (b434ee) — 10/2/2022 @ 7:00 amPutin seems to be trying to claim that hem is fighting the war in Ukraine because of this or that this is an indication of how evil NATO is (he accused the west in general of being for this)
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/09/putin-decries-u-s-satanism-annexes-parts-of-ukraine.html
Sammy Finkelman (b434ee) — 10/2/2022 @ 7:07 amSaturday Night Live in Weekend Update made two references to Biden thinking someone was alive who wasn’t , one of them about Biden being present to the swearing in of his Justice and saying something like (in the joke) Where’s \Ruth. Rth where are you? Come up.
Sammy Finkelman (b434ee) — 10/2/2022 @ 7:10 amSNL will drag its own corpse until either mid January of or May of 2025…why miss the next presidential election e and hitting a milestone (season 50)!
urbanleftbehind (153056) — 10/2/2022 @ 7:54 amThat’s not the problem (and anyway I doubt that anything needs to be more precise than morning, afternoon or night.)
It’s a lot more than that. It’s set by hour, and people use an alarm.
Your doubts notwithstanding.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/2/2022 @ 8:02 amGiven that Newsom could be a likely 2024 nominee in the event Biden has a major, uh, episode, maybe I should pay more attention, considering this…
Creeping state control over parental rights is a big flashing cautionary sign about Newsom.
Paul Montagu (753b42) — 10/2/2022 @ 10:24 amCreeping state control over parental rights is a big flashing cautionary sign about California.
FIFY
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/2/2022 @ 11:40 amIn a letter sent to the House Oversight Committee, Debra Steidel Wall, the acting U.S. archivist, said the archives was working to retrieve electronic messages from certain unnamed White House officials who had used personal email and messaging accounts to conduct official business.
Hillary’s IT guy and Lois Lerner were not consulted in this inquiry. Vague laws vaguely enforced.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/2/2022 @ 11:42 amMore good news.
Paul Montagu (753b42) — 10/2/2022 @ 12:24 pmThe Ukrainian freedom fighters are closing in on Kherson, reclaiming Dudchany, and they’re moving toward Kreminna, another strategically important city.
Kremlin-controlled media are sh-tting their pants and hose.
Top lines and cross tabs.
Rip Murdock (2ad945) — 10/2/2022 @ 12:28 pmQuestion 2 from the Grinnell College poll top lines is interesting…….
Rip Murdock (2ad945) — 10/2/2022 @ 12:35 pmIt’s really interesting to see the actual questions and responses, then to see what the reporter chooses to bring forth.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/2/2022 @ 1:00 pmDeSantis, who opposed Hurricane Sandy relief, now desperate for Biden’s aid as Ian ravages Florida
On his second day in Congress, Ron DeSantis voted against a federal relief package for New York and New Jersey in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, but almost a decade later, the Florida governor’s response to Hurricane Ian hitting his home state is much different.
DeSantis asked President Biden on Wednesday to approve a major disaster declaration for 67 counties impacted by Hurricane Ian and to cover 100% of the costs of debris removal and emergency protective measures for the first 60 days after the hurricane. The House passed a bill providing $9.7 billion in flood insurance aid for Hurricane Sandy victims. DeSantis joined the 67 Republicans who voted against the measure.
“I sympathize with the victims of Hurricane Sandy and believe that those who purchased flood insurance should have their claims paid. At the same time, allowing the program to increase its debt by another $9.7 billion with no plan to offset the spending with cuts elsewhere is not fiscally responsible,” DeSantis said in a statement.
https://www.salon.com/2022/09/30/desantis-opposed-hurricane-sandy-relief-now-desperate-for-bidens-aid-as-ian-ravages-florida/
GOP hypocrisy: When DeSantis sought the very relief post-Ian he denied Hurricane Sandy victims
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/9/29/2125979/-DeSantis-is-happy-to-receive-emergency-aid-that-he-callously-voted-to-deny-Hurricane-Sandy-victims
And lest you forget… Governor Ron DeSantis Helps Raise $1.76 Million for Ukraine Relief Efforts in Partnership with Barrett-Jackson at Palm Beach
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/governor-ron-desantis-helps-raise-1-76-million-ukraine-relief-efforts-partnership-barrett-jackson-palm-beach/
So “piss on America’s Sandy victims in the Northeast, help Ukraine, MY Florida and MY political career”– eh, DeShamis??? Just another ‘Little Marco’ in work; an Everglades sauteed swamp creature w/a short fuse and penchant for mimicking – if not plagerizing- another’s act.
A bum.
Trump/Haley 2024
DCSCA (7d8080) — 10/2/2022 @ 2:11 pmThe “hurricane sandy” bill was larded up with pork that had nothing to do with alleged relief.
But DCSCA forgot to mention that.
NJRob (dc1e44) — 10/2/2022 @ 2:33 pm@302. Pfft. They all are; see Ukraine’s freebees for details. So you’re living in Mosquitoburg, New Jersey with black mold growing in your kitchen for weeks, salt water killing your yard and a cabin cruiser from Seaside Heights lodged in your Toms River living room… and you whine about pork.
DCSCA (ff278b) — 10/2/2022 @ 2:44 pmWell, I guess if the title of the bill is woke, who cares what’s in it, eh?
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/2/2022 @ 3:24 pmDCSCA,
THEY WERE all insured in Jersey. Millions of dollars over book value. They didnt need any aid. The damage was light than most hurricanes
EPWJ (d001bc) — 10/2/2022 @ 3:34 pm@305. Bull. Don’t tell me what I know; family/friends lived/managed/dealt w/properties- private homes and businesses- along the Jersey Shore for four decades.
DeSantis was, is and will always be a short-fused swamp creatured, bum.
Trump/Haley 2024.
DCSCA (aac8df) — 10/2/2022 @ 3:47 pmWelcome to Ukraine, the most corrupt nation in Europe
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/feb/04/welcome-to-the-most-corrupt-nation-in-europe-ukraine
DCSCA (aac8df) — 10/2/2022 @ 3:50 pmhttps://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/peter-strzok-termination-letter-released-and-its-awesome/
But somehow people were falling over themselves throwing money at him
steveg (7b52e3) — 10/2/2022 @ 5:29 pmClassic, you going back seven years to blame the victim and absolve Putin’s evil.
Paul Montagu (753b42) — 10/2/2022 @ 5:44 pm@309. Corrupt is corrupt is corrupt. Capone, Nitty, Moran… and America’s tax dollars are financing these crooks. Here’s the deal: Kickback Big Guy and his punk kid, Hunter can tell ‘ya- let’em ask ask Jackie:
“Jackie, are you here? Where’s Jackie? She must not be here.” – Squinty McOuijaboard
DCSCA (6fb12f) — 10/2/2022 @ 5:58 pmRussian Media Watch:
Rip Murdock (dee8eb) — 10/2/2022 @ 6:13 pmTrump/Bubba 2023 and thereafter
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/2/2022 @ 6:15 pmBut DCSCA forgot to mention that.
Nah. He didn’t forget. And he’s going to defend not mentioning it.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/2/2022 @ 6:17 pmNote to self: Push the filter button.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/2/2022 @ 6:18 pmThe slavish channel is owned by the media wing of Gazprom
Dear Russia: Last time you lost there were no trials. Be different next time.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/2/2022 @ 6:20 pmDeSantis’ mission to transport Venezuelan migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard was so secretive that the Florida governor wasn’t briefed on the operation. Plausible deniability, I guess.
Instead, someone in DeSantis’ crew must have enlisted Perla Huerta, “a former combat medic and counterintelligence agent, was discharged last month after two decades in the U.S. Army that included several deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, according to military records.”
Ms. Huerta’s job was to fool Venezuela migrants into taking a plane ride, apparently from a Migrant Resource Center in San Antonio. It also looked like this wasn’t intended to be a one-off.
My opinion about the whole operation hasn’t changed. He shouldn’t recruited them from Texas, and he shouldn’t have used Venezuelans for his PR stunt.
Paul Montagu (753b42) — 10/2/2022 @ 6:23 pmDCSCA
Bull, first do you have friends? I doubt it
2nd – NJ law requires heavy property insurance – its literally the wealthiest place in America, those piece of crap Jersey 2 dollar buildings were insured for tens of millions
3rd very little damage
4th Fema doesnt give you money they lend it to you, then they bill you years later for big bucks, they even charge you for the bottled water, tent rent, etc.
EPWJ (650a62) — 10/2/2022 @ 6:38 pmThe damage was light than most hurricanes
Mainly because it WASN’T a hurricane when it hit New Jersey and New York. Rather it was a “post-tropical cyclone” with gale-force winds.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/2/2022 @ 7:08 pmCase in point.
Rip Murdock (dee8eb) — 10/2/2022 @ 7:14 pmAP has a detailed report on ten torture sites in one town, Izyum, and of course the Russian fascist invaders were brutal as hell.
The Russians “heavily mined” two other mass graves. The article should be read fully to capture the breadth of Putin’s barbarity. This only covers one town, and there are countless others under occupation. There’s no reason to believe the rashists operated others differently.
Paul Montagu (753b42) — 10/2/2022 @ 7:19 pmGavin Newsom’s Gas Price Premium
Read the whole thing … it gets worse
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/2/2022 @ 7:22 pmEPWJ,
the shorelines experienced major damage due to the storm surge.
The rest of NJ was mostly fine.
I lived through it unlike DCSCA.
The bill was a pork monstrosity that Christie sold his soul for.
NJRob (eb56c3) — 10/2/2022 @ 7:32 pmMy father dealt with this current mess. The storm was disastrous. Massive amounts of property damage miles inland due to the wind and rain that had nothing to do with the storm surge. Nature’s fury is truly magnificent and well beyond what people claim they can control.
NJRob (eb56c3) — 10/2/2022 @ 7:35 pm@323. Family/friends lived on LBI in Beach Have Park, bayfront for decades, NJ; the infrastructure was wrecked and the islansd all but unhabitable for well over 6 months; insulation, siding, electrical grid– gas mains — salt water wrecked… you don’t know what you’re bloviating about; neighbors denied access to the island for ages; the damage much deeper and worse than the ol’ ’62 storm– which split the frigging island in half up in Harvey Cedars– where my negighbor’s boss was killed due to it. Sandy survivors– especially the year round residents- chiefly retirees- were forced to live in trailers in Manahawkin and surroundings. And the summer businesses were flooded, destroyed– and many never reopened. But I’ll pass along your quaint BS to my college frat bro- now a retired NJ judge- in Toms River, who dealt with all the crap and legalities in his neigborhood up the coast, that floated in from Seaside Heights.
DCSCA (6fb12f) — 10/2/2022 @ 7:46 pm@317. Pfft. You don’t know what you outgassing about– but will pass it along to the LBI and Toms River folks. They’ll get a chuckle. Ignorance is bliss– stay happy!
DCSCA (6fb12f) — 10/2/2022 @ 7:55 pmTexans moving to Illinois.
Rip Murdock (dee8eb) — 10/2/2022 @ 8:02 pm@317. Ignorance is bliss so you must be one helluva happy fella:
Long Beach Island officials shocked at extent of damage from Hurricane Sandy
‘LONG BEACH — Long Beach Island sustained enormous and widespread damage during Hurricane Sandy, the scope of which was revealed for the first time today as awe-struck officials pondered the seemingly enormous task of rebuilding.
The storm ripped houses from foundations, covered some roads in waist-high sand and sent the ocean raging all the way to the bay on this popular Ocean County vacation destination know to locals as LBI. The first floors of hundreds of beach houses, designed to break away in a major storm surge, did just that. Trees were uprooted, some older houses snapped in half and boats were moved hundreds of feet, deposited in the middle of roads.
“You go back and look at images of ’62,” said Long Beach Township Mayor Joe Mancini, [we knew him- Mancini was a family friend and a real estate broker there as well] referring to another devastating storm. “Now we’re living it.”
The cost of rebuilding is staggering: It will take at least $700 million to remake this 18-mile strip of land, an estimate that could certainly surpass $1 billion as more is learned, Mancini said as he surveyed the damage on the southern tip of the narrow barrier island. He figures it will cost $200 million just to get the sand off the roads and back on the beach.
There, in communities like Holgate, the destruction was most evident. As National Guard soldiers in humvees navigated around fallen power lines and debris, bulldozers and bucket loaders tried to clear away the sand that covers more than a mile of Bay Avenue and every side street that connects with it. The sand was piled into mounds 15 feet high to what seemed like little effect. It buried cars and surrounded the few buildings that weren’t shredded by the raging water. Some areas were inaccessible without four-wheel drive.’
https://www.nj.com/news/2012/10/lbi_hurricane_sandy_damage.html
BTW, there were still rusting hulks along the ICW from the March, ’62 storm well into the 90’s.
DCSCA (6fb12f) — 10/2/2022 @ 8:06 pm@317. Sandy devastation: A first look at Long Beach Island
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkpEDkofIks
EPWJ: tagged and bagged.
DCSCA (6fb12f) — 10/2/2022 @ 8:15 pmBREAKING: Biden is suing the State of Arizona to stop them from checking citizenship status before allowing people to register to vote.
There are conservatives who voted for this.
Obudman (a1c23a) — 10/2/2022 @ 8:22 pm@331. Absolutely unearthly. And what does Jackie have to say to Joe about this…
““Jackie, are you here? Where’s Jackie? She must not be here.” – Squinty McOuijaboard
DCSCA (6fb12f) — 10/2/2022 @ 8:40 pm@319. Pffffft. Another ignorance is bliss but such a happy fella….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkpEDkofIks
“You really are a funny guy!” – Henry Hill [Ray Liotta] ‘Goodfellas’ 1990
DCSCA (6fb12f) — 10/2/2022 @ 8:46 pm‘Biden’s seemingly spontaneous comments on crucial issues of international policy to which he has devoted decades of study—whether they concern Putin or Taiwan—are not gaffes.’
Gaffes? Guffaws! ‘Biden’ and ‘study’ in the same sentence is in the realm of the supernatural.
Ask Jackie; he would.
DCSCA (6fb12f) — 10/2/2022 @ 8:55 pmBREAKING: Biden is suing the State of Arizona to stop them from checking citizenship status before allowing people to register to vote.
The ignominy!
nk (fb4e2d) — 10/2/2022 @ 8:55 pmThe outrage!
The truth!
It is beyond easy to audit a small county with a high Hispanic population (or Norwegian if there are a lot of those in your state) and compare voters to census and other data. In California, one would audit Imperial County with a lot of seasonal farm workers and the like in a county adjacent to Mexico. If it isn’t happening there, it isn’t happening. I’m sure there is a similar choice in Arizona.
But really, all the sound and fury was for raising campaign donations, just like the Democrats raised it for decades over the mythical threat to overturn Roe (and it still didn’t help, did it?).
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/2/2022 @ 11:13 pmRip, I’ve been saying for weeks now that if Putin’s that effing crazy, someone needs to K.I.L.L. him.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/2/2022 @ 11:15 pmNot only should people have to prove they are citizens, they should have to prove they are 18 or older. None of this wink and a nod about “they look old enough”! No sir! They should produce a notarized copy of their birth certificate. I’d also want to see their social security card, their draft card, their library card and two major credit cards.
I’d ask for a literacy test and $10 but people tell me they don’t allow that any more.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/2/2022 @ 11:21 pmSupremes back at work Monday.
Wetlands case Monday, Alabama redistricting Tuesday.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/2/2022 @ 11:23 pmThe actual questions/responses are always available when I link to a survey’s top lines and cross tabs, which is for most of the polls I post.
Rip Murdock (dee8eb) — 10/2/2022 @ 11:31 pmSupremes back at work Monday.
And working hard looking for the leaker like OJ be lookin’ for the real killer.
DCSCA (37bfae) — 10/3/2022 @ 1:23 am@327. If you’re gonna call the game you best know the players– or get back to peddling popcorn in the stands:
Putin Has Left the World No Other Option But Regime Change
He means financial world, of course. Rothkopf is a Democrat.
In 1993, he joined the Clinton administration as Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade Policy and Development. Rothkopf later served as Acting U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, directing the 2,400 employees of the International Trade Administration including the U.S. Commercial Service, the International Economic Policy Bureau, the Bureau of Import Administration, and the Bureau of Trade Development.
He left government service and became managing director of Kissinger Associates, the international advisory firm founded and chaired by former U.S. Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger.
The firm was founded in 1982 by Henry Kissinger. In 1999 Mack McLarty joined Kissinger to open Kissinger McLarty Associates, the firm’s office on Eighteenth and Pennsylvania streets in Washington, D.C. McLarty was White House Chief of Staff under Bill Clinton. Kissinger McLarty is a corporate member of the Council of the Americas, the New York-based business organization established by David Rockefeller in 1965. As of January 2008, the two firms have separated and McLarty Associates, headed by Mack McLarty, is an independent firm based in Washington.
Kissinger Associates is located in River House on Park Avenue at Fifty-first Street, in a building also occupied by Peter Peterson’s Blackstone Group. It was established in July 1982 after loans had been secured from Goldman Sachs and a consortium of three other banks. These loans were repaid in two years; by 1987 annual revenues had reached $5 million.
Kissinger Associates doesn’t disclose its clients under U.S. lobbying laws. The firm once threatened to sue Congress to resist a subpoena for its client list. It has in the past advised American Express, Anheuser-Busch, Coca-Cola, Daewoo, Midland Bank, H. J. Heinz, ITT Corporation, LM Ericsson, Fiat, and Volvo. But the firm does belong to the U.S.–Russia Business Council, a trade group that includes ExxonMobil, JPMorgan Chase, and Pfizer.
So his opinions and commentary are financially motivated. Putin is costing their clients $.
DCSCA (37bfae) — 10/3/2022 @ 1:40 am@292 for what its worth newsome say he wont run for president in 2024 he says the recall election scared him.
asset (e5f3fc) — 10/3/2022 @ 1:40 amSupremes are on borrowed time as abortion ruling came to late for candidates running in 2022 primaries. In 2024 the left will be able to finance and field candidates who will fight the supreme court or do even more.
asset (e5f3fc) — 10/3/2022 @ 1:46 amIn 2024 the left will be able to finance and field candidates who will fight the supreme court or do even more.
That’s what the GOP said in 1964, as Goldwater took on the Warren Court.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/3/2022 @ 2:45 amSo obudman is correct and the left wing spin is that the feds dont require ptoof of citizenship so nobstate can require it.
Thanks nk for the left wing spin.
NJRob (eb56c3) — 10/3/2022 @ 4:18 am@292 for what its worth newsome say he wont run for president in 2024 he says the recall election scared him.
asset (e5f3fc) — 10/3/2022 @ 1:40 am
Newsom is fully a creature of the DNC; if they tell him to run, he’ll run, whether he actually wants to do so or not.
Factory Working Orphan (bce27d) — 10/3/2022 @ 5:27 amThen don’t use Motor Voter. You can’t eat your federal pork and have it too, said the Supreme Court in 2013. Pay for your own voter registration and you can ask them to show you their tattoos. (Provided you do it for the voters for the most numerous chamber of the state legislature, too.)
Cheap political stunt pulled by pudding-brained election deniers.
nk (804314) — 10/3/2022 @ 5:32 amLive! From the Land of Ward Politics!
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 10/3/2022 @ 5:57 amAnd I’ll tell you who else is pissed off about the Arizona law. Trump, that’s who. Because it does not require proof of Soviet-bloc citizenship.
nk (804314) — 10/3/2022 @ 5:57 amIf you must throw potato, throw it hard.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 10/3/2022 @ 6:16 am@348
Mind elaborating on this as to why you think this is legally problematic?
whembly (b770f8) — 10/3/2022 @ 7:49 amhttps://www.frontpagemag.com/ny-judge-rules-polygamy-on-same-level-as-couple-relationships/
Leftist judge rules Supreme Court recognized polygamy.
NJRob (3a15ab) — 10/3/2022 @ 8:03 amCheap political stunt pulled by pudding-brained election deniers.
I have to say that Trump has brought new
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/3/2022 @ 8:10 amcurrencylife to the term “bloody-minded.”Mind elaborating on this as to why you think this is legally problematic?
Beats me. I don’t consider it worth looking up (as far as I’m concerned if Arizona does not like our federal system it can rejoin Mexico’s) but as best as I recall that was the basis for the Supreme Court decision in 2013. That the states could not amend the federal Motor Voter law.
nk (91fe5f) — 10/3/2022 @ 8:15 am354… as we’ve witnessed. Here’s to hoping they all find some peace, given their struggles with mental health.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 10/3/2022 @ 8:15 amAlito on SCOTUS critics: ‘Questioning our integrity crosses an important line’
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/09/29/politics/alito-supreme-court-kagan-roberts/index.html
Yeah; the bottom line, leaker.
DCSCA (b38dfa) — 10/3/2022 @ 8:26 amhttps://nypost.com/2022/10/02/nyc-migrants-pile-into-vans-they-say-are-headed-to-florida-for-hurricane-ian-cleanup/
lol. lmao.
Davethulhu (204c9e) — 10/3/2022 @ 9:37 amNot quite true, the case is based on New York rent control law and whether a polyamorous relationship (the practice of engaging in multiple romantic relationships, with the consent of all the people involved) is covered by the law’s noneviction provisions. The court ruled that polyamorous relationships are entitled to the same sort of legal protection given to two-person relationships, and required that a hearing be held to determine if the three individuals had such a relationship. The eviction court did not say the Supreme Court recognized polygamy.
Polygamy involves marriage among several different partners and is still illegal.
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 10/3/2022 @ 9:45 amRIP Sacheen Littlefeather (75). Native American Apache activist who on behalf of Marlon Brando refused his best actor award at the 1973 Oscars for The Godfather. She was booed off-stage for her speech decrying the portrayal of Native Americans in the film industry, thereby proving her point.
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 10/3/2022 @ 9:54 am@359, shocking that Rob was (again) misrepresenting the facts about something that outraged him.
Time123 (4ec7a0) — 10/3/2022 @ 10:07 amhttps://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w30512/w30512.pdf
Interesting study on the impact of party affiliation on excess death during covid.
TL:DR
Republicans experienced higher rates of excess death in OH and FL after the vaccine came out.
Which doesn’t seem like an unreasonable outcome, even if it’s an unfortunate one.
Time123 (4ec7a0) — 10/3/2022 @ 10:11 amEven more shocking that a New York eviction court judge would not automatically believe a landlord (can you say “Trump”?) trying to break rent control on an apartment on the basis that the tenants are engaging in free love. The hippies!
nk (f82a5f) — 10/3/2022 @ 10:21 amI decided to be charitable, since he feels oppressed.
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 10/3/2022 @ 10:29 am@362, not sure that study is all the shocking since both states are trending Republican for some time now. (particularly Florida as it’s a retiree destination).
whembly (b770f8) — 10/3/2022 @ 10:47 am#360
The John Wayne story has been persuasively debunked.
https://selfstyledsiren.substack.com/p/john-wayne-and-the-six-security-men
Appalled (229764) — 10/3/2022 @ 11:00 amDCSCA,
THEY WERE all insured in Jersey. Including your imaginary friends. Very little damage. Out of 3.2 million homes only 22k suffrered enough damage that insurance wrote them off
From your imaginary work in Uvalde to many other fantastical claims. Youre inner walter middy is showing
EPWJ (5d3039) — 10/3/2022 @ 11:39 am“Our study has several limitations. First, our mortality data, while detailed and recent, only includes approximately 80% of deaths in the US. However, excess death patterns in our data are similar to those in other reliable sources. Second, because we did not have information on an individual’s vaccination status, analyses of the association between vaccination rates and excess deaths relied on county-level vaccination rates. Third, our study is based on data from the only states where we could obtain voter registration information (Florida and Ohio); hence, our results may not generalize to other states.”
Colonel Haiku (7236ca) — 10/3/2022 @ 11:54 amI started to watch the CNN special on the Dobbs decision last night. It would have been more interesting if they would have focused on the legal arguments and not just the politics. There is a valid legal argument for reversal. There is also a valid political argument to have accepted the Dobb’s regulations but to not have reversed Roe. There undoubtedly will be blowback in some states, especially where there might have been legislative over-reach. If you believe your side is correct, then win the Senate decisively and pass federal legislation. There’s nothing awful about insisting that democracy work rather than having robed elites deciding tough questions with little true guidance from the Constitution, precedent, or the common law. Change minds. Make arguments. Stop whining that you’re not getting your way.
AJ_Liberty (5f05c3) — 10/3/2022 @ 12:07 pmMore vote fraud! RethugliKKKan party chairman of alabama caught making and using phony id to vote. (DU) Hope Neil Young will remember southern man don’t need him around to vote!
asset (0d8d7c) — 10/3/2022 @ 12:25 pmMore vote fraud! RethugliKKKan party chairman of alabama caught making and using phony id to vote. (DU) Hope Neil Young will remember southern man don’t need him around to vote!
asset (0d8d7c) — 10/3/2022 @ 12:25 pmJF (775fa3) — 10/3/2022 @ 12:27 pm
Rip and Time both being dishonest as to the decision. Yes the word polygamy wasn’t used. They used a synonym since polygamy is still illegal till the next step down the slippery slope. For historical context see “civil union.”
The decision took a situation that only applies to married partners and applied it to a trio. A rose by any other name…
NJRob (bad3a2) — 10/3/2022 @ 12:48 pmLiz Truss thrown under the bus by her own Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 10/3/2022 @ 1:16 pmhttps://www.fightforthefuture.org/Authors-For-Libraries
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 10/3/2022 @ 1:51 pmThis NY eviction court decision will not lead to the legalization of polygamy, which is against the law in every state and by the federal government (upheld by the Supreme Court in Reynolds v. United States (1878)). Given the conservative nature of the current Supreme Court, it is highly unlikely polygamy will ever be legalized, so the fear that this one eviction case involving a polyamorist relationship will not doom Western civilization or the nuclear family. As long as all of adults consent to the arrangement, I don’t see what the problem is.
Of course, most polygamous “marriages” are never discovered anyway because no one requests a second marriage license from the government.
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 10/3/2022 @ 1:52 pmAJ_Liberty (5f05c3) — 10/3/2022 @ 12:07 pm
The whole thrust of the Democratic Party talking points on abortion is that there is not — or maybe no legal arguments on either side.
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 10/3/2022 @ 2:05 pmRethugs getting desperate in lee county floriduh for not ordering evacuation until it was too late. Just like uvalde not my fault! We did every thing right! We weren’t late everyone else was too early!
asset (0d8d7c) — 10/3/2022 @ 2:05 pmIn the short term the time for legal arguments has passed. It’s all about implementing Dobbs to the political advantage within each individual state through at least 2024. I doubt that there is a viable legal argument against Dobbs, under stare decisis, the federal courts are obligated to follow Supreme Court rulings.
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 10/3/2022 @ 2:14 pmAnd there is very little chance that either party will have a veto-proof majority in Congress to overrule Dobbs (any federal law would be constitutionally suspect to begin with).
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 10/3/2022 @ 2:16 pmRe; Joe Biden and Congresswoman Jackie Walorski.
Henry Kissinger once was going to say something that would have involved Saudi Arabia’ King Feisal being still alive — he caught himself and had to substitute other thoughts This was in 1974, You’d have to be paying very careful attention to notice he was going to say something and then had to change it. King Feisal was no longer king.
That in the context of that event, Joe Biden would think – at first – that Jackie Walorski should be there is not unusual, but the thing is he never caught himself.
He had authorized a condolence statement, had flags set to half mast for two days, made a condolence call, signed a bill renaming a post office after her, and was going to meet with the family two days after that event.
He maybe could take Prevagen
https://prevagen.com
Or lithium , which is good not only for bipolar syndrome, but anything where there is a reduction is a certain kind of brain cell, like Alzheimer’s or Huntington’s chorea.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34119602/#:~:text=Abstract,amnestic%20MCI%20and%20Alzheimer%27s%20disease.
Lithium for Alzheimer’s has been talked about for more than 15 years, but there’s no money in it for any pharmaceutical company to do a clinical trial so it can be approved. Lithium can’t be patented.
There’s an argument for high drug prices, but if price controls stop progress, then there are all sorts of other possible treatments that are not going anywhere, unless the non-patentable therapy gets tweaked and combined with some patentable that is mostly or entirely irrelevant.
Lithium for Huntington’s Disease:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3574462/#:~:text=Lithium%20has%20been%20used%20to,account%20for%20its%20neuroprotective%20effects.
You probably never heard of this because it can’t be advertised.
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 10/3/2022 @ 2:23 pmOne possible surprise upset in a United States race is the one in Washington State.
Patty Murray has coasted for 5 terms (or 4 re-elections) since 1992 when she was elected in the “Year of the Woman.”
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 10/3/2022 @ 2:25 pmA movie was made with the idea of getting prizes. But the “Woke” people came out against it and the producer apologized.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/25/us/sundance-jihad-rehab-meg-smaker.html
The very thought that some Muslims might be “converted” to a religious belief that they should kill people was not to be breathed…
Some reviewers thought some conservatives might not like it because it implied that someone might be cured of terrorism, but that was not who organized against it and got the producer to apologize and the movie cancelled..
It was Muslims who took the position that Abigail Disney, came from the wrong background to make a movie about this, and basically, even if they didn’t say so, that anything about Muslims being bad was no good. Characterized essentially as that it hurt their feelings.
Being led out of a more American cult is still OK, though. Probably even if it’s Scientology.
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 10/3/2022 @ 2:38 pmLittle Marco doesn’t know if he is coming going……:
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 10/3/2022 @ 2:42 pmRe; Bail law. yesterday on Marcia’s Kramer’s local WCBS interview show, former Governor David Paterson noted that the ability of NY judges to consider dangerousness was removed in 1971, when the state legislature and the Governor (Nelson Rockefeller) were Republicans.
What had of course been going on was that judges did consider dangerousness or recidivism and set bail with the intention of it not being met.
When high bail is met, usually the person is being represented by lawyers, and has family who pretty much get them to stop. Or they are rich enough not to be committing street crimes or stealing from strangers for the money.
Even if bail is met by ponying u 10% to a bail bondsman high bail limits repeating the offense..
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 10/3/2022 @ 2:43 pmOn a Columbo show shown Sat night on Cizi TV Ukraine was referred to “the Ukraine.”
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 10/3/2022 @ 2:44 pmIt’s been raining, lightly or moderatl=ely since late last week.
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 10/3/2022 @ 2:44 pmOf course, that show is like 30-50 years old (depending if the episode was the original NBC or later ABC run).
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 10/3/2022 @ 2:49 pm@367. EPWJ: tagged and bagged.
You poor, sad soul; stop embarrassing yourself.
DCSCA (739f70) — 10/3/2022 @ 3:06 pmEPWJ- tagged and bagged:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkpEDkofIks
https://www.nj.com/news/2012/10/lbi_hurricane_sandy_damage.html
DCSCA (739f70) — 10/3/2022 @ 3:10 pm@386. It’s the region moniker.
DCSCA (739f70) — 10/3/2022 @ 3:13 pmLittle Marco doesn’t know if he is coming going……
Apparently he does- as long as it isn’t his job:
New Orlando Sentinel report details Marco Rubio failing to show up for work
Florida Democratic Party Executive Director Marcus L. Dixon released the following statement on a new report that found Marco Rubio is yet again failing to show up and do the job Floridians are paying him to do:
“Marco Rubio’s repeated failures to show up for work leave Florida without a voice on critical issues, including important national security concerns, and they’re an insult to the hardworking people who pay his salary. If Marco Rubio had any other job, he would be immediately fired, and next November Floridians will see to it that he loses his job.”
Rubio has missed over a dozen recent hearings about protecting senior citizens, helping small businesses, and vital issues of national security, including the nomination of an ambassador to China. The recent news is part of Rubio’s long history of failing to show up for his job. During his failed presidential campaign, Rubio skipped critical national security briefings for fundraisers, earning the worst attendance record of any sitting Senator at the time.
https://www.charlottedems.com/new-orlando-sentinel-report-about-marco-rubio-failing-to-show-up-for-work/
And in the last term…
Rand Paul: Marco Rubio ought to show up for Senate votes
https://edition.cnn.com/2015/10/29/politics/rand-paul-marco-rubio-senate-filibuster/index.html
DCSCA (739f70) — 10/3/2022 @ 3:18 pmRob, you continue to misrepresent the eviction courts ruling as flowing from the SC decision. It didn’t. It’s based on NYC law.
Time123 (2de50c) — 10/3/2022 @ 3:57 pm“Queen B*tch David French Calls The Blaze To Try to Get a Reporter Fired for Making Fun of Him
Plus: Avenging the Wrong This Simpering Sissy Did to Julie Kelly, Once and For All…”
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/401217.php#401217
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 10/3/2022 @ 5:51 pm@394. France is relevant; French is irrelevant.
DCSCA (e39499) — 10/3/2022 @ 6:00 pmTrump suing CNN for definition of character…….
This lawsuit will probably end up just like his RICO lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, Democratic National Committee, James Comey, Lisa Page, Peter Strzok, etc. That is, it won’t get passed a motion to dismiss. SAD!
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 10/3/2022 @ 6:08 pmUS Money Committed to Ukraine Has Already Exceeded Cost of First 5 Years Afghan War
In the roughly four months since Russia invaded Ukraine, the United States spent more money keeping Russia at bay than it did in the first five years of the Afghan conflict.
Overall, the United States has promised at least $54 billion in spending related to the war, some to support NATO nations, part to support Ukraine through “tradition channels” and other funding to support U.S. military in Europe, according to Fox News. Direct military-related spending on the Ukraine war has reached $8 billion
According to ForeignAssistance.gov, through 2006 the United States spent $7.4 billion in the first five years of its fight against the Taliban. The peak year for costs was 2011 when the U.S. spent $11.4 billion in its 20-year war that ended with the debacle of the evacuation from Kabul last summer. – https://www.westernjournal.com/us-money-committed-ukraine-already-exceeded-cost-first-5-years-afghan-war/
Initial estimates of Ian storm damage costs to Americans in Florida: $100 billion.
Storm. The. Castle.
DCSCA (e39499) — 10/3/2022 @ 6:18 pmPeremoha Ukrayini!
Rip Murdock (dee8eb) — 10/3/2022 @ 7:53 pmPro life candidate hershall walker like dubya says No exceptions even for rape and incest. Well one exception when he got his girl friend pregnant like dubya did. Daily beast has the details.
asset (823f8f) — 10/3/2022 @ 9:32 pmFrench has receipts for his allegations. (The lies Kelly told about French’s wife are vile and contemptible.) Ace and Kelly have none for theirs. Believe what you want. I believe French.
lurker (cd7cd4) — 10/3/2022 @ 10:12 pmFrench calls Kelly’s tweet a lie, and so does French’s wife.
Paul Montagu (753b42) — 10/3/2022 @ 11:09 pmI believe the French couple over a dishonest Trumpist hack like Ms. Kelly. Other readers here can judge for themselves.
https://twitter.com/lawrencehurley/status/1577039660676747285
Details in the tweet.
The second amendment doesn’t exist.
Davethulhu (204c9e) — 10/3/2022 @ 11:53 pmI am puzzled by what Haiku thinks is important.
Somebody in the fever swamps comes up with a despicable lie about his wife and gets it printed in a fever swamp website. The pearls are clutched over a (false) accusation that he tried to get the “reporter” who perpetrated the lie fired. Honestly, whats the terrible behavior here? And why is David French so important that his behavior must become the stuff of fever swamp frolic?
Love to know if there is a serious explanation Haiku could offer. Because I don’t understand the point, other than the joy of being evil.
Appalled (bb128c) — 10/4/2022 @ 7:04 am“ Either way, the ‘damage’ done by those walking through the Capitol on January 6, 2021 pales in comparison to the arranged and encouraged riots which covered the entire country in the summer of 2020. Outrage enflamed by professionals, both in the media and political class. It spawned an entire industry. And it destroyed businesses, murdered people, destroyed entire sections of cities and neighborhoods. Backed, marketed, kept up by the Democrats and their media divisions. Coincidentally, the very same people perpetrating this theater on us now.
One of these things- January 6 or the George Floyd Riots- are empirically far worse than the other. By an order of magnitude. The entire Outrage over January 6 is just so much theater. Never in my life have I seen so many politicos with a history of denigrating our country and it’s citizens, suddenly finding their patriotism come alive when they know they can play it up to alter not just one- but two elections if possible.
This is theater. A real insurrection would be felt by all and it would not require a constant debate on the nuances of walking through the Capitol and what it really meant. There is nothing nuanced about an actual insurrection, just as there is nothing nuanced about what took place in the summer of 2020, and the visible remains scattered in cities across our country.
That there is so much fear of a person even saying out loud that they have doubts about the outcome of the 2020 election tells me all I need to know. They protest too much. Well beyond the actual incident.”
—- Temujin
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 10/4/2022 @ 7:05 amFrench will continue to enjoy his Drag Queen hours and other “blessings of Liberty”.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 10/4/2022 @ 7:19 amRegarding Herschel, the story of him–at 47 years old–paying for a girl’s abortion will likely ding him, but not a lot, IMO, because his shiddy character is already factored in.
Paul Montagu (753b42) — 10/4/2022 @ 7:25 amBut, to me, the video of the son railing on his lying dad is way worse.
Another word for those “walking through the Capitol” is rioters.
Paul Montagu (753b42) — 10/4/2022 @ 7:29 am407… dehydrated horse reporting for doody…
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 10/4/2022 @ 7:36 amFrom Victor Davis Hanson…
“At home, the Biden Administration inexplicably destroyed the southern border, as if civilized nations of the past never needed such boundaries.
Utter chaos followed. Three million migrants have poured into the United States. While some cross over clandestinely, others clear border stations without an adequate audit, and largely without skills, high-school diplomas, or capital.
The streets of our cities are anarchical – and by intent.
Defunding the police, emptying the jails, and destroying the criminal justice system unleashed a wave of criminals. It is now open season on the weak and innocent.
America is racing backwards into the 19th-century Wild West. Predators maim, kill, and rob with impunity. Felons correctly conclude that bankrupt postmodern “critical legal theory” will ensure them exemption from punishment.
Few Americans know anything about agriculture, except to expect limitless supplies of inexpensive, safe, and nutritious food at their beck and call.
But that entitlement for 330 million hungry mouths requires massive water projects, and new dams and reservoirs. Farmers rely on steady supplies of fertilizer, fuels, and chemicals. Take away that support – as green nihilists are attempting – and millions will soon go hungry, as they have since the dawn of civilization.
Perhaps nearly a million homeless now live on the streets of America. Our major cities have turned medieval with their open sewers, garbage-strewn sidewalks, and violent vagrants.“
https://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2022/10/02/the-thinnest-veneer-of-civilization-n2613861
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 10/4/2022 @ 7:44 amIs applauding yourself ill-mannered? Yes:
(It took me longer than it should have to realize that many fans of the loser like his bad manners.)
Jim Miller (85fd03) — 10/4/2022 @ 7:50 am#399 – Will pro-death extremists now flock to support Walker? If they are consistent, they will.
Jim Miller (85fd03) — 10/4/2022 @ 7:54 amWe all know how VDH has failed in recent years, but it is cruel — and a possible violation of copyright laws — to display his decline at such length. It’s like laughing and pointing at an old lady when she stumbles.
Jim Miller (85fd03) — 10/4/2022 @ 7:57 amNo it isn’t. It’s an unlawful change to the law done by a judge who cites the examples done by the Supreme Court. Just keep pretending otherwise.
NJRob (eb56c3) — 10/4/2022 @ 7:59 amOf course you do. French loves to say it’s conservative to elect leftists and turn his back on Republican candidates. It’s the only way to win.
NJRob (eb56c3) — 10/4/2022 @ 8:00 amHaiku,
it is amazing how many so called conservatives keep saying don’t support the more conservative candidate running for office, isn’t it?
NJRob (eb56c3) — 10/4/2022 @ 8:02 amhttps://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1577029634042253313
The American Medical Association is demanding to allow the mutilation of children and if anyone speaks out against such evil behavior they must be censored and punished.
NJRob (eb56c3) — 10/4/2022 @ 8:04 amhttps://hotair.com/david-strom/2022/10/04/doctors-against-dissent-trans-edition-n500664
More on the AMA violating the Hippocratic oath and destroying children in the name of their 30 pieces of silver.
NJRob (eb56c3) — 10/4/2022 @ 8:07 am415… it’s their “principles”, Rob. Civilization crumbling all around them and they reveal who they are/have always been.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 10/4/2022 @ 8:15 amRIP Loretta Lynn (90).
Rip Murdock (dee8eb) — 10/4/2022 @ 8:21 amLynn outlived most of her fans. A country music legend.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 10/4/2022 @ 8:25 am412… my… aren’t you something.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 10/4/2022 @ 8:28 amOr seditionists. Oh wait….
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 10/4/2022 @ 8:56 amAgain, the NY court decision involves polyamorous relationships (in the context of NY eviction law), which are legal, not polygamy or polyandry, which are not. The New York anti-polygamy law (enacted as a prohibition against bigamy) was not declared unconstitutional, and it is unlikely in the extreme that the current Alito Court majority would allow that to happen. It is a complete overreading of the decision.
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 10/4/2022 @ 9:10 amHere in WA State, Tiffany Smiley is the Republican challenger to perennial lightweight Patty Murray, and Smiley is down by 8.6% on average, which isn’t bad appears out of reach.
Paul Montagu (753b42) — 10/4/2022 @ 10:02 amOrdinarily, Ms. Smiley would be the easy choice but she scrubbed the election denials from her website and refused to acknowledge that Biden is the legitimately elected US president.
Unless she changes her tune, my write-in protest vote goes to Slade Gorton, the last Washington State Republican who served in the Senate, losing to Maria Cantwell in 2000.
For those say who I’m betraying my party for not voting for Smiley, no, my party is betraying me for nominating a candidate who stands against our democracy. Country over party.
Nonsense. The NY existing law only permits 2 people and those 2 people need a recognized status by the state. This lying judge just ignored the law to permit polygamy by another name.
No different than the bigot judge in California did to overturn the law banning homosexual marriage.
Just another crack in the wall to destroy civilization.
NJRob (ecac7a) — 10/4/2022 @ 10:03 amI’m sure we’ll survive a NY eviction court judge.
Do you favor banning polyamorous relationships?
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 10/4/2022 @ 10:11 amCountry over party…
Pfft… weeping crockodile tears by the hypocrite RINO who backs shoveling billions of FREE American tax dollars to the most corrupt regime in Europe that forbids the freedom for men between the ages of 18 and 60 from leaving the nation as Floridians founder in storm wreckage.
https://nypost.com/2022/02/25/ukraine-men-ordered-to-stay-and-fight-russia-as-others-flee/
DCSCA (4c363e) — 10/4/2022 @ 10:13 am#414&415
So you don’t like French supporting Democrats. Understood and even understandable. However
Why is making horrible insinuations about his wife reasonable political discourse? Why is clutching pearls that French may have “tried to get the reporter fired” for having made such dragged his wife thrugh the mud worthy of national notice?
Do you guys just enjoy being foul? Is it important to intimidate RINOs?
Please explain. Because the charges have nothing to do with electing Republicans or supporting Republicans, do they?
Appalled (a68863) — 10/4/2022 @ 10:22 amDeath by a thousand cuts, Rob. These people don’t care how long it takes, just that it ends.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 10/4/2022 @ 10:24 am386. 388.
I write:
On a Columbo show shown Sat night on Cizi TV Ukraine was referred to “the Ukraine.”
* Cozi TV
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 10/3/2022 @ 2:49 pm
It’ the one with Dick Van Dyke. looking old (but he wasn’t at the time) as a photographer who murders his English wife, from 1974.
https://columbophile.com/tag/dick-van-dyke
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071348
There are some mild implausabilities , like how, at the end, can Columbo be so sure at the end that he will reach for the camera that took the picture of his kidnapped wife – picking the correct one out of 12 or so – without Colombo doing a thing to try to get him to grab the camera (besides displaying a reverse picture to prove him guilty (it really was closer to 10 am but he’d moved the clock ahead when he photographed her before killing her.)
It’s a nice surprise to the viewer but sometimes they are surprising the viewer rather than the characters.
This episode also has Columbo at a food pantry where he is mistaken for a bum, and then the nun thinks he is undercover.
And it was predictable the drunk would forget the next day what he had seen – they didn’t know that would happen? I was thinking here’s something they overlooked – but they didn’t. That(that that happened) was a bit of realism that you might not expect in a movie. Anyway they got his statement that night before he went to sleep – Colombo later pretended the statement was still good as evidence.
But the implausabilities here nowhere compare to those in shows like the Equalizer (which I saw Sunday night) Implausabilities not only in the background but in what is possibilities. Deep fakes are not so good – for one the speed of talking may vary in the different splices.
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 10/4/2022 @ 11:20 amOPEC set to cut production in order to boost prices. How much the U.S> produces doesn’t matter so much. (they are cutting production because of the recession
Everyone knows there is going to be severe recession except the Federal Reserve Board.
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 10/4/2022 @ 11:22 amAppalled,
His wife has brought up her status as a victim to repeatedly rail against republican candidates for office and against Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination. She tries to wear her victimization as a shield and as a badge of authority. Do you think that prevents her from criticism or mockery?
French is a dirtbag that claims to support free speech, but goes through back channels to ruin people for speech he doesn’t support. He’s a cancer on society.
NJRob (ecac7a) — 10/4/2022 @ 11:28 amAs I was saying, Putin held those referendums just in time.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2022/oct/04/russia-ukraine-war-live-updates-ukrainians-break-through-russian-defences-in-south-advance-rapidly-in-east
Putin knew he was going to pull back his forces.
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 10/4/2022 @ 11:31 amhttps://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/03/desantis-federal-relief-cash-fund-priorities-00060020
This is how leftists think. Our hard earned dollars belong to them. They just allow us to keep a portion of our money.
NJRob (ecac7a) — 10/4/2022 @ 12:02 pmApparently Hershel Walker paid for a woman to have an abortion a few years ago.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/pro-life-herschel-walker-paid-for-girlfriends-abortion-georgia-senate
I doubt this will have much (if any) impact on the race. Democrats are generally pro-choice so this won’t make them more likely to show up to vote.
The GOP mostly doesn’t care about the moral character of its candidates or the principles they espouse so I expect they’ll default to “this is bad but we need to win the election” and support him anyway.
Maybe I’m being unfair in my assumptions about the moral bankruptcy of MAGA and social conservatives. If so please point me at the examples so I can retract my statement.
Time123 (936713) — 10/4/2022 @ 12:13 pmNJRob #433,
I dug a little more into this and get a sense of what happened here. I see a husband reacting to his wife being attacked in print for what anyone except an extreme partisan would call a sexual assault. It’s probable that the twitter person who did this did not know, at the time, that the incident happened when she was 12. An apology, when she figured that out, would have ended things.
Did French try to use his influence (with the Blaze?? — are you kidding??) to get her booted from the paper? He says not. I don’t care. In his shoes I would have done what I could to get her canned, particularly because the woman, to the best of my knowledge, never apologized.
Why the twitter woman would decide to paint herself as a victim a few years later (rather than just let the thing lapse in silence) is beyond me. A little sense of shame would be nice.
I don’t get the obsession with French among the MAGA crowd. Like DCSCA would happily point out, he’s irrelevant. Which suggests to me that the point is simple cruelty and a warning to others who defy the MAGA beast. Is there another explanation?
Appalled (814283) — 10/4/2022 @ 12:36 pmNJRob is right. Monogamy predates Christianity in Western Civilization.
The only True Blue Patriotic Conservative American polyamory is shtupping a stripper when the Dior Dalmatian is pregnant and then suing her (the stripper, not the wife) for a refund of the hush money.
nk (282728) — 10/4/2022 @ 1:06 pmAs I explained and showed, my assessment is evidence based. As you demonstrate, yours is tribal. Quelle surprise.
lurker (cd7cd4) — 10/4/2022 @ 1:13 pm232. If the Fed does as promised, given their premises, which are wrong.. But the exchange rate of the Dollar is getting very strong and so some people apparently think the Fed may reverse course sooner than they previously expected.
Sammy Finkelman (19edaf) — 10/4/2022 @ 1:42 pm#437 The cruelty was definitely the point in these incidents:
That’s their adopted daughter from Ethiopia. Who was 7 years old at the time.
(Here’s a link to the interview for NJRobb.)
Jim Miller (85fd03) — 10/4/2022 @ 3:04 pmCorrection: “NJRob”
Jim Miller (85fd03) — 10/4/2022 @ 3:17 pmJim,
now do the Bush daughters, Barron Trump or countless other kids who are thrust into the limelight by mean people. You won’t because you cannot use them as a shield to distract from French’s despicable actions to try and get someone fired.
NJRob (eb56c3) — 10/4/2022 @ 3:19 pm441… h/t the Temptations
People swinging bats, people grabbing gats
Why, because of the color of the hats
Run, run, run don’t forget to hide
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
Vote for me or you’ll hang from a tree
Rap on, Biden, rap on
Well, the only person talking about love thy brother ain’t no preacher
And it seems nobody’s interested in learning, even teacher
Segregation, extermination, demonstration, integration
Aggravation, examination, humiliation to our nation
Blog of confusion
Oh yeah, that’s what the blog is today
Woo, hey, hey
The trill of shills is in a terrible rut
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 10/4/2022 @ 3:37 pmYoung folks walking round with their heads up their butts
The cities ablaze in the summer time
And oh, the beat goes on
Evolution, revolution, gun control, “it’s in the hole!”
Shooting rockets in the sky, kids wonder “what am I?”
Democrats say more taxes will solve everything
NeverTrump yanks on
So, it’s such a blur, that I must confess
Where the world’s headed, anyone’s guess
Oh, great ooga-booga, can’t you hear me talking to ya
Just a blog of confusion
Oh yeah, that’s what the blog is today
Woo, hey
French has shared he believes that Drag Queen Hours for school-aged kids are a “blessing of liberty”.
All I need to know about him.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 10/4/2022 @ 3:44 pm@445. Oooh La-la; does he claim creation of the French kiss, too? 😉
DCSCA (2d06cf) — 10/4/2022 @ 3:50 pmThat’s a gross distortion, bordering on dishonest. He has a more complete answer to the smears here.
Paul Montagu (753b42) — 10/4/2022 @ 4:05 pmFlorida contractors are recruiting illegal immigrants from NY for hurricane clean up. 😂 https://nypost.com/2022/10/02/nyc-migrants-pile-into-vans-they-say-are-headed-to-florida-for-hurricane-ian-cleanup/
Time123 (5ec3a9) — 10/4/2022 @ 4:06 pmJim, you’re wasting you breath. Rob is long past caring about anything like a man defending his minor daughter & wife from lies and personal insults.
Time123 (5ec3a9) — 10/4/2022 @ 4:08 pmIs Truss Toast?
Related:
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 10/4/2022 @ 4:39 pmIf the the fight for a Senate majority comes down to Ohio, and if Vance loses by a razor-thin margin, going by the study referenced here, an argument could be made that he lost because too many unvaccinated Republican Ohioans died from Covid and were thus unable to put him over the top.
Paul Montagu (753b42) — 10/4/2022 @ 4:47 pmVaccinations could have electoral consequences.
NJRob (eb56c3) — 10/4/2022 @ 8:00 am
Here’s French’s answer to the despicable smears you’re tacitly defending. It’s comprehensive and it’s devastating. I recommend you read it.
(Just noticed Paul linked to the same post. So consider it two recommendations.)
lurker (cd7cd4) — 10/4/2022 @ 5:03 pmAnother lie. If you’re interested in the truth, see the post Paul and I linked above.
Never mind. I don’t want to make it too hard for you. Here’s the link again.
lurker (cd7cd4) — 10/4/2022 @ 5:05 pmLurker,
well, either French is lying, or he says so much warbly crap, fence sitting, dip toe in water – that he can’t read a room (called all of America) or forgets what he spews
Here he is LIVE in person being the human weasel that he is
praising child rapists and groomers enablers cause “liberty”
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/viewpoint-neutrality-protects-drag-queens-and-millions-american-christians/
AOS is a crap weasel, and attacks on his wife are horrible and uncalled for.
EPWJ (650a62) — 10/4/2022 @ 5:38 pmThat’s BS. Nowhere does he praise child rapists and groomers. You should point to the quote or withdraw the accusation.
lurker (cd7cd4) — 10/4/2022 @ 5:46 pmsure he does, he’s an attention whore and he trolled America to get it.
He needs to retract the lies he told, especially against Beck and Twitchy
EPWJ (650a62) — 10/4/2022 @ 5:52 pmsure he does, he’s an attention hound and he trolled America to get it.
He needs to retract the lies he told, especially against Beck and Twitchy
EPWJ (650a62) — 10/4/2022 @ 5:53 pmProjection is the chief characteristic of Trump and his cult. French’s wife investigated and reported on evangelical pedophile camps. So, of course, the Trump pedo network turns and accuses French of the things that it has been doing. Anybody for pizza?
nk (0cd826) — 10/4/2022 @ 5:59 pm“There’s this idea that victory is the natural state of affairs and defeat is the intolerable intrusion. What I’ve been trying to tell people is that none of this stuff is fixed. There is not necessarily an arc to history, and you don’t have to surrender first principles to fight over stuff that you care about. The day is not lost in any way, shape, or form. And, oh, by the way, you can’t define victory as the exclusion of your enemies from the public square. There are going to be Drag Queen Story Hours. They’re going to happen. And, by the way, the fact that a person can get a room in a library and hold a Drag Queen Story Hour and get people to come? That’s one of the blessings of liberty.”
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/david-french-sohrab-ahmari-and-the-battle-for-the-future-of-conservatism
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 10/4/2022 @ 6:03 pmnk,
Have a link? French loved the attention, thats how he gets paid – you work to the bone for what you got in life- he was given every thing. lies about being a war veteran and hid administrative bronze star (all rear force majors and up were given one) he is just like Trump – not worth your time
EPWJ (650a62) — 10/4/2022 @ 6:09 pmGoddamn it, enough of this tit-for-tat crap. THIS IS HOW WARS GET STSRTED. Where are the adults in this government?
S. Korea missile accident panics public on edge over North
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean ballistic missile malfunctioned and crashed into the ground during a live-fire drill with the United States, panicking confused residents of a coastal city already uneasy over increasingly provocative weapons tests by rival North Korea. The military said the test was meant to be a show of strength by South Korea and the United States, following North Korea’s firing just hours earlier of a nuclear-capable ballistic missile that crossed over Japan. – AP.com
DCSCA (aea2e1) — 10/4/2022 @ 6:19 pmTony Bobulinski is very credible and has surfaced again, as he says nothing has been done about the laptop evidence against the Biden Crime Family.
Don’t hold your breath, though.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 10/4/2022 @ 6:20 pmAn informative interview with him on Carlson’s show. It’s all on the DOJ/FBI now.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 10/4/2022 @ 6:24 pmTip of the cap to the Soviet Union; 65 years ago today, October 4, 1957, w/their successful launch of Sputnik 1. The birth of the Space Age changed life on Earth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHCeLvy5z-I
DCSCA (aea2e1) — 10/4/2022 @ 6:31 pmSurvivors, ex-employees say Kanakuk Christian camp ‘ministered’ to its sexual predators
One link of many. Google *nancy french pedophile camps* for more.
nk (76acca) — 10/4/2022 @ 6:32 pmYour own link shows no such thing. Maybe you should check your prejudice.
Paul Montagu (753b42) — 10/4/2022 @ 6:43 pmIt was viewpoint bias that kept religious groups out of college campus buildings, and it was those First Amendment issues that French actually litigated against and won, because they’re accorded the blessings of liberty. Here’s the part of the link Haiku left out.
The way I understand the First Amendment, with a couple exceptions, people have the right to express points of view that Ahmari and French strongly disagree with, but Ahmari doesn’t want to be bothered with going along with the Bill of Rights. He wants viewpoint censorship, to shut down speech he doesn’t like, and he and his tribe want to be arbiter.
Paul Montagu (753b42) — 10/4/2022 @ 7:04 pmSomewhere along the line the, Trump right and the gutter right mistook civility for being a pushover.
“Somewhere along the line the, Trump right and the gutter right mistook civility for being a pushover.“
French said the words, denials posted here in the thread are BS.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 10/4/2022 @ 7:20 pmWell, yeah, French said them, and you mischaracterized the meaning. I’m really coming around to his idea that there is a gutter right.
Paul Montagu (753b42) — 10/4/2022 @ 7:43 pmDid I now. He said the words. And it’s clear that it’s still difficult to find an honest lefty in the Seattle area.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 10/4/2022 @ 7:50 pmSohrab Amari? That guy? Good grief!
He should have stayed in Iran. He would have made a good religious police officer. (And he cannot even go back anymore, because he would be beheaded for apostasy, having gone from Shia to atheism to Catholicism.)
Using him against David French? Seriously? I don’t think so. Troll-la-la-la-la is the song I hear.
nk (76acca) — 10/4/2022 @ 7:55 pm“We face a darkening political future, potentially greater loss of life, and a degree of polarization that makes 2016 look like a time of unity,” he [French] wrote after the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville.
Boy, did he have his finger on the pulse of the nation… /sarc
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 10/4/2022 @ 7:59 pmI look forward to his testimony under oath.
Don’t hold your breath, though.
Rip Murdock (dee8eb) — 10/4/2022 @ 8:09 pmYes, he said words, and these words are assembled into sentences that convey a meaning, a meaning you distorted. But hey, I’m sure the tribe appreciates your contributions.
Paul Montagu (753b42) — 10/4/2022 @ 8:10 pmPaul
He’s greatly misrepresented – and he’s not the only one by aby means – his role in Iraq which – was administrative – has been twisted by some – and in his presence – who he didnt correct – and the embarrassment of getting bronze stars which were meant for valor in combat – but were given to all majors who served more than 14 days in the green zone.
I would not die on this hill, he’s not worthy of you
EPWJ (650a62) — 10/4/2022 @ 8:44 pm472… fully documented and the FBI has it all. What was shared on the program appeared to be obvious wrongdoing… names, dollar amounts, specific actions committed to and then taken. TB did say the FBI had spoken to him in October of 2020 and indicated they would be taking some action and would soon be hearing back from them. He stated there had been no contact since then. Or interest from MSM. What a shock.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 10/4/2022 @ 8:47 pmHe said he said. When Bobulinski says whatever he has to say in public under oath during an open Congressional hearing or a public trial rather than Tucker’s show it would be more believable.
Don’t hold your breath, though.
Rip Murdock (dee8eb) — 10/4/2022 @ 9:01 pmI hope he kept copies.
Rip Murdock (dee8eb) — 10/4/2022 @ 9:05 pmBullsh-t.
Paul Montagu (753b42) — 10/4/2022 @ 10:22 pmThat’s right, he said the right of anyone, including people you disagree with, e.g., Drag Queen Story tellers, to hold forth in a public library is a blessing of liberty. You claimed he said the Drag Queen Story Hour itself, not the right to hold it, is the blessing of liberty. He did no such thing, and you’re smart enough to know the difference.
lurker (cd7cd4) — 10/4/2022 @ 10:36 pmI know Haiku is smart enough, lurker.
Paul Montagu (753b42) — 10/4/2022 @ 10:50 pmThere’s a lot of overlap these days between the Putin Wing, the Fascist Wing, the Gutter Wing, the Ahmari Wing, the Trumpist Wing, the Tribal Wing, the Populist Wing and the Christian Nationalist Wing of the GOP.
There’s no room for the traditional conservatives who were cool with Ronald Reagan, Martin Friedman and Jack Kemp. I suppose it’s why Patterico and Beldar comment at The Dispatch.
I suspect the Venn Diagram of all those groups is pretty much a circle.
lurker (cd7cd4) — 10/4/2022 @ 11:19 pmThere’s no room for the traditional conservatives who were cool with Ronald Reagan, Martin Friedman and Jack Kemp.
And long overdue; what goes around comes around: welcome to 1964.
DCSCA (126afe) — 10/4/2022 @ 11:46 pmSean hannity to herschel walker ;but she has a receipt from the abortion clinic and a $700 check you sent her in a signed abortion card! Herschel walker Sean I send a lot of women I get pregnant checks. I got 4 kids by 4 different women that I know about.
asset (62beb5) — 10/4/2022 @ 11:49 pm@484. You Got To Be A Football Hero To Get Along With The Beautiful Girls!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LicB8xovxsc&t=2s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0reywtH5Cw
DCSCA (126afe) — 10/4/2022 @ 11:56 pm^for 483
DCSCA (126afe) — 10/4/2022 @ 11:57 pmlurker: “I don’t get the obsession with French among the MAGA crowd. Like DCSCA would happily point out, he’s irrelevant. Which suggests to me that the point is simple cruelty and a warning to others who defy the MAGA beast.”
French calls out Trump and advocates for a more civil politics. Much of the internet snipes are dedicated to the opposite. They’ve learned from Trump that lies, nastiness, and cruelty are acceptable and the new normal. Good conservatives used to understand concepts like honor, truth, and civilty. Some here chose poorly in 2015, aligned with Trump, and are now forever rationalizing that decision by attacking the critics. It’s a whole subculture. People here know what French said and what happened to his wife. They choose to be dishonest because they’re anonymous, there’s zero penalty for promoting garbage, and it’s tribalism uber alles.
Paul: “There’s no room for the traditional conservatives who were cool with Ronald Reagan, Martin Friedman and Jack Kemp.”
I think you meant Milton. The reality is that the Republican Party is no longer a party that talks policy and an actual agenda. Trump could be out stumping for any number of political objectives, but what is he instead focused on? Himself. Even the one policy that is ever present, the border, is not approached soberly with a concrete legislative plan. Political stunts now substitute for conservative solutions. There’s not even the pretense of building a broader consensus and hashing out compromises. Once you give up on the principle and value of compromise, the American experiment is on life support. The foolish here don’t understand what replaces it when it dies….
AJ_Liberty (242c56) — 10/5/2022 @ 4:08 amI know Haiku is smart enough, lurker.
No, he is not. Only enough to know that other people will not descend to his gutter when he flings obscenities.
Like Trump. And like this Ahmari character. Who spewed his bile on French, confident that French would not tell him: “Take that Shia back to Iran. This is America, and we don’t have Ayatollahs and morality police. We have Thomas Jefferson and the First Amendment.”
nk (211aa4) — 10/5/2022 @ 4:20 amDCSCA,
The only similarity to Nelson Rockefeller and Donald Trump is that they inherited a lot of money. Trump is more a return to the politics of Nixon (or Spiro Agnew) than he is to the TR, LaFolette, Wilkie, Dewey, Rockefeller tradition that you mourn.
Appalled (03f53c) — 10/5/2022 @ 6:06 amHelping finance the Ukrainian resistance IS expensive. BUT, for $80B…about 1/10 the pentagon budget…..if someone promised that the Russian army would be gutted, there would be a mass exodus of men from Russia to avoid forced conscription, that Putin would see real opposition in the streets, and that there might be a 5% chance that Putin is forced from power, would the keen strategist spend the money?
2,000 tanks destroyed, nearing 20,000 Russian dead and 80,000 casualties, logistic disarray, energy gambit spent, Ukrainians fighting for their country and to control their fate, Finland and Sweden joining NATO, unambiguous message sent to China about naked aggression…..things could still go south, but only the naive would miss the geopolitical significance….
AJ_Liberty (242c56) — 10/5/2022 @ 6:30 amAJ, they view Putin as being part of their Tribe. So opposing him, even if it’s in US interests, is bad. Simple as that.
Time123 (5ec3a9) — 10/5/2022 @ 6:38 amC’mon, you people. You shouldn’t allow one person to dominate your thoughts, conversations, dreams (I suspect)… you aren’t that weak-minded. Even mr. windy sponge-brained-sh*ts pants.
You are stronger than that.
You can do it.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 10/5/2022 @ 7:04 amMy GOP: Come for the exercise of raw power, stay for the cruelty. Policy is whatever comes out of Trump’s mouth, so shut up and fall in line.
AJ, my only excuse on Friedman is that I was on glass 3# of a tasty grenache.
Paul Montagu (753b42) — 10/5/2022 @ 7:08 amAJ, they view Putin as being part of their Tribe. So opposing him, even if it’s in US interests, is bad. Simple as that.
And they would also need to admit to themselves that Putin was juicing their Orange for four years while the Orange was lighting candles to him.
nk (211aa4) — 10/5/2022 @ 7:09 am“view Putin as being part of their Tribe”
Yeah, it’s a weird fascination with authoritarianism…..and using force to get what you want. Trump has incubated this. But it’s still really bizarre that people don’t see Putin as a villain who wants to see America weakened and torn apart by internal strife. AllahNick writes about this internal GOP tension at TD. The GOP is lost in the desert. This is what happens when character and honesty is eschewed and the rabble get their carnival barker…..
AJ_Liberty (242c56) — 10/5/2022 @ 7:12 am“my only excuse on Friedman is that I was on glass 3# of a tasty grenache.”
Haaa! In these times, good for you. I had to actually look up Martin Friedman to see if I was completely missing someone. Apparently he’s the guitarist for Megadeath. Maybe that can work too….
AJ_Liberty (242c56) — 10/5/2022 @ 7:15 amAJ_Liberty (242c56) — 10/5/2022 @ 7:12 am
putin is certainly a villain, but to prove we really believe this we have to cheerlead wasting tens of billions of $$, tens of thousands of deaths, devastation, and risk escalation to aid a country that has virtually zero strategic value
isn’t it a little embarrassing that trump fixation makes you think like this?
JF (1db79c) — 10/5/2022 @ 8:26 amJF, Did you not see AJ’s previous comment that laid out the strategic importance of what’s happening in Ukraine? Or did you just not understand it? Check out 489.
Time123 (715640) — 10/5/2022 @ 8:37 am@AJ 494, I think part of it is that Authoritarianism is the only way left to achieve many of their aims. For instance even if the SC overturns Obergefell many large and prestigious institutions (Colleges, large companies, etc) will just go back to “civil unions”. It will impact gay families in a many ways, but much of society is so far past opposing homosexuality that few GOP leaders are even talking about ending gay marriage. An authoritarian freed of the constraints elector politics could take strong action.
Might even be able to use the government to fight ‘the war on Christmas’ and make clerks at Home Depot stop saying “Happy Hollidays” in a way elected officials bound by the first amendment cannot.
Time123 (715640) — 10/5/2022 @ 8:46 amPP… come for the wild imagination, stay for the thinking that apes DNC talking points.
Colonel Haiku (7236ca) — 10/5/2022 @ 9:07 am@436 Time123
Yes, you’re being unfair, appallingly so.
1) This is an October surprise perpetuated by an extremely partisan rag, so please don’t assume everything is 100% accurate.
2) Walker vehemently denies it. The “story” is fair game journalistically, but we must be aware what time it is as well.
3) Furthermore, there’s nothing in that story that directly links Walker to an abortion. What they have are circumstantial evidence that is compiled to advance a narrative. That’s it.
4) “The GOP mostly doesn’t care about the moral character of its candidates” is really appalling, especially in this Walker context, and I’ll tell you why:
Let’s stipulate that yes, Walker did pay someone to have an abortion. He’s campaigning as a pro-life candidate. In the pro-life movement, you have to give grace to folks who have done/supported abortions to allow them to change their minds to eventually move and support the pro-life movement. Much of the pro-life movement are spearheaded by former abortion supporters.
Perfect example coming: Donald F’n Trump. Whatever you think of the man, and whatever you believed him or not during 2016 election campaign as a “pro-life” candidate, Trump ended up being the most pro-life President in our lifetime.
Whatever Walker’s past support for Abortion and/or if this story is true that he paid for an abortion decades ago… he’s campaigning to be a pro-life senator.
We votes can, and should, be able to separate a candidate’s past from how a candidate would perform in office. In fact, I’d argue EVERY voters has done this to some degree or another.
Furthermore, if you are the kind of voters who’s turned off by someone who support abortions, whether currently or historically, you’d still would probably rather vote for “Pro-life campaigning” Walker and take the chance, over the obvious radical-abortion supporting Warnock.
whembly (b770f8) — 10/5/2022 @ 9:34 amAlec Baldwin is taking another shot at the movie “Rust”.
I’m pretty sure it is just to spite Trump. Isn’t it a little embarrassing that trump fixation makes him think like this?
nk (211aa4) — 10/5/2022 @ 9:36 am@496, So your policy would have been to NOT allow Ukrainians to defend themselves and simply allow Russia to take over control of the country? There would still have been deaths, mainly Ukrainian, destruction, and the effective Russian border would then have been reset at Poland. This would then have resulted in an inevitable NATO response of deploying more troops to dissuade further aggression. You would still be committing more US tax dollars, and you would have lost the buffer of an EU-friendly (NATO interested), western leaning country. It would have likely also resulted in Finland and Sweden still looking for accelerated entry into NATO, and increased security concerns in the Baltic countries. Nothing would have been learned about the Russian army…since it would not have been tested…to dissuade Putin from further adventurism. Putin would have gained political support in his country and his notion of reviving Soviet imperialism (while thumbing his nose at the EU) bolstered. In the end, penny wise, pound foolish.
The increased risk of a nuclear attack is palpable, except when you game out what happens after the first strike. It’s a no-win scenario for Russia and there would be immense pressure from its military (and the Oligarchs)…who would pay the immediate and total cost….to overthrow Putin. I would even doubt that the military would allow the escalation. A nuclear attack on Ukraine creates fallout with unpredictable effects. It can blow over a NATO country or it could blow over Russia itself. You irradiate the very prize you’re trying to steal, and create even more sympathy for Ukraine and more antipathy for Russia. Oligarchs lose money and lose even greater access to the west. Unlike religious extremists, I don’t buy Russians going down in flames for Putin’s ego. The current mass migration suggests otherwise.
Putin wants NATO to collapse. He wants the US to become isolationist and internally rip itself apart. He loves political forces in the US that promote all of that. He wants a weak US military industrial base. He wants our institutions to crumble and for democracy to fail (he laughs at the current Right’s simmering war with the FBI and Justice Dept). He wants authoritarianism to flourish. We have an interest in opposing all of that and to see authoritarianism fail…decisively. We want the Russian military to flounder and break. We want Ukrainians fighting for Ukraine. We want the world siding against naked aggression and standing up for signed treaties and agreements. There is a battle of geopolitical philosophies at stake. Giving in to evil never delivers less evil…
AJ_Liberty (5f05c3) — 10/5/2022 @ 9:39 am@437 Appalled
FWIW, I like David French and much of the things he writes I usually nod along as I read. I simply disagree a lot of his NeverTrump articles.
However…I get this “obsession”.
It’s not really because of his #NeverTrump stance (although, I’m sure it exacerbated it).
His disconnect from the right started long before Trump descended from that escalator at Trump Plaza.
He comes off as this high and mighty person, who writes articles supporting his various stances on things such that…if you don’t support his rationale, then you’re not a good “x”.
“X” being a “good Christian”, or “American”, or whatever the red meat of the day.
What we should recognize, though among other things, is that French is an anti-populist and I think much of his points makes more sense when you know where he’s coming from.
In regards to this spat between the Frenches and this “maga” journalist Kelly: I see no angels here, as both are wrong and wrongly escalated when both could’ve understood that this whole thing was a simple misunderstanding.
whembly (b770f8) — 10/5/2022 @ 9:47 amI know Haiku is smart enough, lurker.
No, he is not. Only enough to know that other people will not descend to his gutter when he flings obscenities.
Like Trump. And like this Ahmari character. Who spewed his bile on French, confident that French would not tell him: “Take that Shia back to Iran. This is America, and we don’t have Ayatollahs and morality police. We have Thomas Jefferson and the First Amendment.”
nk (211aa4) — 10/5/2022 @ 4:20 am
Amhari is also converted to Catholic and there’s an increasingly restive strain within the evangelical right that seeks to take back conservative think tankism and the courts from the Kaffolicks and the J…
urbanleftbehind (ba1f92) — 10/5/2022 @ 10:16 amwhembly, yes, it’s an October surprise, but Walker’s denials are overcome by the documentation. Also, there’s a lot more about Walker’s shiddy character than just an abortion story, but a shiddy character like Trump nevertheless endorsed him and my party went along and looked the other way. Anyone who knows anything about Walker knows that he’s a ticking character time bomb.
I suspect that the lady who Walker paid off will appear on CNN or MSNBC and fill out the rest of the details. This still may not backfire on Walker and the GOP, but if they don’t reclaim the majority, Trump will again be known as the guy who went to Georgia and sabotaged a Republican Senate, just like he did in 2020/2021.
Paul Montagu (753b42) — 10/5/2022 @ 10:21 am@488. You still don’t get what’s going on. All the better for populists. Your homework assignment- discover what High Priest Buckley mused when The Big Dick got the nom nod in ’68 after LBJ was run off the ranch. And Nixon?:
“What America needs are leaders to match the greatness of her people.” -The Big Dick, August, 1968
That went well. =sarc=
DCSCA (9c8ed3) — 10/5/2022 @ 10:25 am@506
Let’s clarify here:
• She provided “a” receipt with no verification & admits there is no documentation connecting it to Walker
• She says she has a check made out by Walker for a different amount on a different day
• She has an undated get well card with no abortion reference
Furthermore, in the actual story the woman says she’s doing this because she is a pro-abortion activist who wants to keep Walker from winning. Like she literally admits this.
There’s nothing there that could be described as a receipt for Walker paying for an abortion. Which, the DailyBeast literally claimed they had. Like they actually advertised this story as:
“WE HAVE THE RECEIPT!”
No… no they don’t.
whembly (b770f8) — 10/5/2022 @ 10:33 am“They [Biden Administration] know that, by repressing oil production, they’re making these resources scarce and expensive. That’s how they want it. They think high prices will force people to buy costly electric cars. But they know that their position of effectively rationing energy is highly unpopular.
It would have been easy for Biden to make up for loss of Russian oil imports through expanded domestic drilling. Instead he lifted sanctions on Venezuela, begged the Saudis, and, now, threatened OPEC members. It’s as insane and as dangerous to American security as it looks.”
—- Michael Shellenberger
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 10/5/2022 @ 10:39 amThe story has been circulating for months. It’s not a new allegation, and it fits in with his four children by four different women suddenly being revealed. Trump and Walker are made for each other.
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 10/5/2022 @ 10:40 am508… sounds like shid-for-brains thinking/evidence all the way around.
Perhaps more honest to call it evidense.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 10/5/2022 @ 10:43 amDana has written a post on the HW story.
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 10/5/2022 @ 10:48 am@508, that’s not very convincing. You undoubtedly agree that (1) the two WERE in fact dating, (2) the woman did in fact have an abortion during the time they dated, (3) that Walker did give her a check for more than the cost of the abortion proximate to the time of the abortion, and (4) that no rational person would include reference to the abortion in a “get well” card. Walker’s not on trial. What would a reasonable person conclude from these details? Does Walker’s previous conduct make it more or less probable that he got the woman pregnant?
AJ_Liberty (5f05c3) — 10/5/2022 @ 10:55 amBTW, it’s no secret that I want the Ukrainians to reclaim all their occupied territories from Putin, but they’re not above reproach if they commit war crimes or assassinate civilians, like what likely occurred with Dugin’s daughter.
Paul Montagu (753b42) — 10/5/2022 @ 11:03 amThey’ve also targeted other pro-Russian civilian officials. Not good. I get the sentiment, the wanting to take out traitors, but still not good. Stick to military targets, please.
Also, this my no means implies an equivalency between the Ukraine and Putin, because there isn’t one.
So fetterman, who was never that bright, had a stroke. He’s been trying to avoid situations where the impact of the stroke will make him look bad….and Oz is still not projected to win.
Amazing how bad the GOP primary is at picking candidates that can easily win key races.
Time123 (5ec3a9) — 10/5/2022 @ 11:16 amFetterman is toast.
Interesting read…
The Uncivil Civility of David French
“ Debates are about making points, yes, but they’re also about comportment. The exchange between Sohrab Ahmari and David French, which took place at the Catholic University of America last Thursday, centered on just this point. It was a debate about debates—namely, “How do we best engage with our opponents on the Left?”
As it happens, we had ringside seats to watch these two men duke it out about the role of Christians, conservatives, and the state. I must admit, I was completely unprepared. I was expecting wholly different men than those who went to the ropes…”
https://www.crisismagazine.com/2019/the-uncivil-civility-of-david-french
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 10/5/2022 @ 12:16 pmJF, Did you not see AJ’s previous comment that laid out the strategic importance of what’s happening in Ukraine? Or did you just not understand it? Check out 489.
Time123 (715640) — 10/5/2022 @ 8:37 am
i had read it already
obviously, only putin fanboys who hate America would disagree with any of it
JF (54e182) — 10/5/2022 @ 12:31 pmEven more shocking that a New York eviction court judge would not automatically believe a landlord (can you say “Trump”?) trying to break rent control on an apartment on the basis that the tenants are engaging in free love. The hippies!
The point is that this process can and will be abused, to chain custody of the apartment through numerous successive relationships. It’s bad enough in the binary case, this just makes it easier.
And as far as polygamy is concerned, a lot of polygamy advocates just bookmarked this case for eventual reference.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/5/2022 @ 12:34 pmI doubt that there is a viable legal argument against Dobbs, under stare decisis, the federal courts are obligated to follow Supreme Court rulings.
State courts will discern much the same thing as Roe in their state constitutions. Unless the Supreme Court or Congress is going to declare that fetal life is protected, those state constitution-based lies will stand.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/5/2022 @ 12:38 pmCountry over party.
Looks more like a Party of One.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/5/2022 @ 12:41 pmThere’s a lot of overlap these days between the Putin Wing, the Fascist Wing, the Gutter Wing, the Ahmari Wing, the Trumpist Wing, the Tribal Wing, the Populist Wing and the Christian Nationalist Wing of the GOP.
Luckily we have the Purer-that-Driven-Snow Wing to keep us all straight. And “tribe” can mean a lot of things.
In actuality, the opposition is the Anti-Trump Wing, the Ship Jobs to Asia Wing, the Elite Wing, the Bluenose Wing, the Rich Wing, the Open Borders Wing, the Gun Control Wing, the Preserve the Thrifty Working Class Wing, the Other Fascist Wing and the Dow is Everything Wing.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/5/2022 @ 12:49 pmThe story has been circulating for months. It’s not a new allegation, and it fits in with his four children by four different women suddenly being revealed
Do you have a point? That’s he’s a typical late 20th century black male?
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/5/2022 @ 12:50 pmThe persistent attacks on David French remind me of this story:
(Links omitted.)
French’s consistent principles may annoy those who admire the loser, who has none.
Jim Miller (85fd03) — 10/5/2022 @ 1:40 pmThe LA Times reports on the high price of gas in CA, but nowhere in the article do they mention that it’s double the price people pay in other metro areas.
It’s almost as if they were told not to, the way they tiptoe around it.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/5/2022 @ 4:16 pmBefore asking us to consider your next attack on French, how about maybe taking responsibility for your last one, which was demonstrably false?
lurker (cd7cd4) — 10/5/2022 @ 4:24 pmNo, that it not just an October Surprise story, it’s only a surprise to those outside of Georgia.
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 10/5/2022 @ 4:31 pmIt’s mostly a surprise to people who are unaware of current black culture, such as it is.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/5/2022 @ 4:35 pmSCOTUSblog: Court agrees to hear nine new cases, including challenge to tech companies’ immunity under Section 230
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 10/5/2022 @ 4:36 pm525… take the gerbil out of your pocket – his “condo” – and return to the link that includes the description of the “blessings of Liberty”… read slowly and drink deeply of the gerbil tears.
Colonel Haiku (1b6504) — 10/5/2022 @ 4:37 pm“It’s almost as if they were told not to, the way they tiptoe around it.”
As if they needed to be told. You are a funny man, Kevin!
Colonel Haiku (7236ca) — 10/5/2022 @ 4:39 pm@528. the question before the court: WHERE’S THE LEAKER?
Until that is run to ground, it is a meaningless bunch of berobed bureaucrats more and more Americans have every right to ignore.
DCSCA (67c56e) — 10/5/2022 @ 4:39 pmAfter the Saudis just rammed it hard up his butt today, Putin keeps pissing in his Ovaltine and Ukraine keeps picking his pocket of our money, Joey said this today in Florida– surely plagiarized off a grave marker where Beau is buried– and is the #1 candidate for the quote to be etched on his own tombstone
“Nobody fvcks with a Biden.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7y5UsBCtvk
DCSCA (67c56e) — 10/5/2022 @ 4:44 pmI’ve read it. You’ve read it. But what the hey, let’s look at it again:
As anyone with elementary reading comprehension skills can tell you, he was calling the right to express unpopular opinions a blessing of liberty. It’s unambiguous and beyond dispute. You said he called Drag Queen Story Hours a blessing of liberty. That’s false, also beyond dispute. So please tell us, are you sticking to a story you know is BS, or are your perceptions and judgment so blinded by bias that we shouldn’t take you seriously?
lurker (cd7cd4) — 10/5/2022 @ 6:36 pmBugger off, lad.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 10/5/2022 @ 6:45 pmSad.
lurker (cd7cd4) — 10/5/2022 @ 7:13 pmBobby Wagner should get NFL Player of the Week for tackling this yahoo running across the field during Monday Night Football, and now the yahoo is filing charges for a perfect form tackle.
Paul Montagu (753b42) — 10/5/2022 @ 7:32 pmPaul Montagu (753b42) — 10/5/2022 @ 7:32 pm
much like the border jumpers suing DeSantis
JF (cc6522) — 10/5/2022 @ 8:18 pmBobby Wagner should get NFL Player of the Week for tackling this yahoo running across the field during Monday Night Football, and now the yahoo is filing charges for a perfect form tackle.
Bobby Wagner had no right, duty, or legal justification to do that.
nk (637a58) — 10/6/2022 @ 4:46 amPerhaps the NFL should place a warning signs to protect against legal jeopardy:
!WARNING!
TO AVOID SERIOUS
INJURY OR DEATH
Improvised running on the field NOT recommended
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 10/6/2022 @ 5:54 amDo NOT carry oval-shaped, leathery objects into the Tatum Zone
Model it on the wonderful work done re:step ladders…
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 10/6/2022 @ 5:57 amMore evidence for the truth of the second part of this brief summary: Following Trump can be bad for your wealth, your health, and even your freedom.
It is odd that some Republicans should have shunned vaccines and other common-sense ways to avoid COVID, considering that Trump coudld take some credit for the vaccines, but they did. Many seem to have reasoned that if the “regime” was for vaccines, then they should be against them.
(Few noticed that they were following RFK, Jr., which would be funny if it weren’t for all the lives lost.)
Jim Miller (85fd03) — 10/6/2022 @ 6:33 am#538 nk – He’s a great middle linebacker, so we shouldn’t be surprised when he tackles someone on a football field.
Jim Miller (85fd03) — 10/6/2022 @ 6:36 am“Biden has been president for less than two years, and look how things have changed: Gas prices, crime, war, inflation — pretty much everything has gotten worse. It’s not like there was no warning given.”
https://instapundit.com/546379/
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 10/6/2022 @ 6:39 amThe ref didn’t throw a flag. No foul.
Paul Montagu (753b42) — 10/6/2022 @ 7:11 amI hadn’t seen that the streaker was carrying some burning thing when I wrote that.
nk (cdf6dd) — 10/6/2022 @ 7:27 amAnd one would think that an animal rights activist would know better than to get between two bands of gorillas fighting over a coconut.
nk (cdf6dd) — 10/6/2022 @ 7:33 amhttps://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2209306
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 10/6/2022 @ 1:56 pmWhat this WA Post piece tells me is that Hunter Biden could well be indicted after the midterms.
An ex-president should not be above the law, and nor should the son of a sitting president. Here’s what I said last August…
Paul Montagu (753b42) — 10/6/2022 @ 2:12 pmHunter lied about not having used drugs on a form he needed to filll out to purchase a firearm. Giuliani tslked about that,
Sammy Finkelman (02a146) — 10/6/2022 @ 2:34 pmWABC 770 AM keeps talking about celebrating its 100th anniversary since they started broadcasting October 1, 1921.
It’s 101 years now.
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 10/6/2022 @ 2:36 pmRIP Bernard McGuirk
https://wabcradio.com/2022/10/06/beloved-77wabc-host-bernard-mcguirk-passes1957-2022/
https://nypost.com/2022/10/06/wabc-radio-host-bernard-mcguirk-dies-at-64
https://www.nj.com/news/2022/10/wabc-talk-radio-host-bernard-mcguirk-former-producer-of-imus-in-the-morning-dead-at-64.html
He did read a lot of books, when he was employed by Don Imus (Imus never read them and McGuirk fed him the questions he asked authors.)
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 10/6/2022 @ 2:42 pmOctober 5 is the 75th anniversary of the first time a president gave an address on television (Truman in 1947, when television was rare but possible and raadio still dominated – the transition took place from 1948 to 1952, except for soap operas which continued on radio till about 1959)
http://eyesofageneration.com/october-5-1947-first-live-television-speech-from-the-white-houseon-this-day
Also October 6 is the anniversary of the premiere of the Jazz Singer in 1927 – the first talkie – or semi-talkie.
https://www.wired.com/2010/10/1006warner-bros-premieres-jazz-singer
And 49 years since the Yom Kippur war.
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 10/6/2022 @ 2:48 pmMs. Ham has an amazing piece on why she was put in the cooler at CNN. Turns out she was a casualty of the Toobin Missile Crisis…
Paul Montagu (753b42) — 10/6/2022 @ 3:25 pmA couple weeks ago, I mentioned a video from last May of Trump people loading eight boxes of documents onto his private jet, destined from Palm Beach to Bedminster. I don’t know if that or something else raised suspicions, but…
Yes, I’m speculating, but I have no doubt that Trump is still obstructing, and he’s practically daring DOJ to get another search warrant and get the rest of the documents he stole. I doubt Garland has the stones to go back to that well, and I’m guessing Trump is counting on that, but what do you do with a spoiled child who won’t stop breaking the law and who keeps messing with more classified files?
Paul Montagu (753b42) — 10/6/2022 @ 5:45 pmNavalny:
The problem with that is the fear that Vladimir Putin will use nuclear weapons to prevent his downfall, if he thinks it will help.
One thing that happens is that people delude themselves with other possibilities, like some negotiated agreement.
The closest thing you could et with negotiations is like what Israell has with Hamas.
Sammy Finkelman (63a266) — 10/13/2022 @ 7:33 am