I heard about Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s grilling by the Senate Foreign Relations committee on 25 July 2018. Mark Levin and others said it was awesome, so I decided to watch. 20 minutes in and I was hooked, watched the whole 3 hours. I wish I’d marked the time of the start of each “question” for easy reference, but I didn’t.
Mike Pompeo does indeed sound and look like George Wendt (Norm from “Cheers”) with a dose of John Goodman, but he never lost his cool during the three hour grind. His attackers (both Democrat and Republican) rephrased and repeated questions hoping to trip him up, yet Pompeo’s answers didn’t change. He balked on some answers for security reasons and for some that were beyond his jurisdiction / authority to comment on. There was a lot of pontificating by his interrogators, but Pompeo listened to and refuted the nebulous allegations.
If you can’t watch the entire 3 hours, watch the first 30 minutes, then skip ahead to another question. Do it again a few times. The last 30 minutes reprises the first.
Note that during this grilling, the EU caved on tariffs. #Winning
Tags: Mike Pompeo, Politics, Secretary of State, Senate Foreign Relations Commitee
thx bunk!
today is also GDP day! 4% plus seems to be the consensus.
i like a solid 3%, but. i’ll take a bit of overachieving.
and…my birthday season hath begun!
verily i say! HARUMPH!
I just got Diana West’s book ‘American Betrayal’ yesterday. Highly recommended by my history teacher friend, a former liberal.
coldwarrior wrote:
Good morning. Some optomistic analysts are predicting the GDP will blow past the fours, and hit five.
That might be a stretch, but it would be great.
Watching this that smug, corrupt cretin Menendez needs to be slapped silly.
@ right_wing2:
It’s interesting that just on page 2, she describes testimony from William Wirt before a House committee over conversations with government personnel regarding ‘concrete plans’ for the ‘proposed overthrow of the established American social order’. Most of these officials were employed by FDR’s New Deal agencies.
On a series of 3-2 votes, Wirt wasn’t allowed to read his opening statement, couldn’t have counsel, and wasn’t able to rebut charges, including the claim he was jailed for German sympathies during WWI. He also had Hitler invoked against him.
On the same 3-2 vote, the officials he named weren’t called.
2nd quarter GDP growth just real eased at 4.1%, more than twice the 1st quarter.
It is the largest since 2005.
The MSM is no doubt in full smear mode to diminish this.
Say coldwarrior, I was thinking… You probably should put a warning sign near those scorpion peppers of yours… Something to the effect… “If you eat one of these pepper’s, you will die”… Though, by now that might not be necessary, however… keep in mind, teenagers really are not very bright as a general rule.
Friday morning humor.
Harry was born a healthy head. No body just a head.
Harry spent his years living on the fireplace mantle until his 21st birthday.
At his party his brother Billy stood next to him drinking a beer.
Harry said, “Hey Billy , can I have a drink of that?”
He took a drink and poof! He grew a torso complete with arms!
Harry screamed great! and took another drink and poof, he grew a full body with legs!
He hopped down and said “this is great” and chugged the beer.
Poof! he disappeared,
And the moral is………..
Wait for it………
Harry should have quit while he wa a head.
I will now take cover.
right_wing2 wrote:
when that book first came out, the neo-con right excoriated it, a lot of it came from the National Review side. THAT was my first clue that the people at NR weren’t all they were cracked up to be. She is STILL sidelined because of it. It’s never been clear to me whose ox she gored, but she made a lot of people squeal.
Leave it to the Chinese to figure it out. Divide and conquer.
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In Chinese eyes, Mr Trump’s response is a form of “creative destruction”. He is systematically destroying the existing institutions — from the World Trade Organization and the North American Free Trade Agreement to Nato and the Iran nuclear deal — as a first step towards renegotiating the world order on terms more favourable to Washington. Once the order is destroyed, the Chinese elite believes, Mr Trump will move to stage two: renegotiating America’s relationship with other powers. Because the US is still the most powerful country in the world, it will be able to negotiate with other countries from a position of strength if it deals with them one at a time rather than through multilateral institutions that empower the weak at the expense of the strong.
https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/07/26/report-chinese-are-awed-by-trumps-skill-as-a-strategist-and-tactician/
Just ordered “The Russia Hoax” by Greg Jarrett. I understand it’s well researched and annotated – is anyone else reading it? Also just got “Licensed to Lie” for my iPad (since Amazon is not selling the hardcover). Something good for the BART train, since I don’t need the libturd passengers giving me grief.
Pompeo was a DREAM witness. And I do love his throwing it back at Menendez, et al. for asking basic BS and grandstanding.
Holy cow. GDP hits 4.1% for Q2. Great figures available from this thread at Twitchy:
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2018/07/27/hellooo-midterms-q2-gdp-full-of-great-news-for-americans-but-bad-news-for-dems-running-against-trump/
Waiting for the MSM to tell us how Obama’s policies made all this possible (of course, they cannot cite which policies those were).
The Barbarian wrote:
It’s on my wish list. I have an amazon budget,so maybe next month. I’ve had License to Lie forever and still haven’t got around to reading it. Rush has been talking it up recently.
I think Greg jarrett is seriously underrated. And what the hell happened to Judge Napolitano? It’s like the Murdoch brothers told him to play with a different script and he went along with it.
@ eaglesoars:
And what the hell happened to Judge Napolitano? It’s like the Murdoch brothers told him to play with a different script and he went along with it.
It would not surprise me in the least to find out that was exactly what had transpired. The Murdoch spawn have decided that they want to become the “Never Trump” network, which is problematic considering the conservative lineup in the evening, which gets the highest ratings. But I’ve no doubt they’d LOVE to dump Hannity, Gutfeld, Carlson and Ingraham.
I’m seeing on Twitter major dissatisfaction with the Fox Network and asking if there are any alternatives. OANN is getting a lot of push. Also Newsmax has a channel as well.
The Barbarian wrote:
get woke, go broke
4.1.
Heh.
There is something to be said about an AJ Fernandez la gran llave
2005 was a false economy. Peeps were using their houses as atm as jobs flew out of the country
@ coldwarrior:
True that. I know at least five people who were forced out of their homes because they had refinanced at 125% and appraisals were jacked up. When they tried for one last “reset” in financing, they couldn’t get it because now their property was worth about half of its financed value.
These same people kept telling me to refi and get “some money” out of my house. My response was “sorry, I DO believe there is a housing bubble burst coming.”
@ The Barbarian:
I called it in 2005. My real estate friends called me an idiot. This idiot has an MS in econ, they had BA in english.
coldwarrior wrote:
this idiot has half a brain and saw it coming. The new houses that went up next to ours started at one million. Hubby and I laughed until we were sick. The sucker buyers started trying to unload about 9mos later. Everybody bitched to the HOA about possible foreclosures bringing our property values down. It got ugly.
@ eaglesoars:
Houses are not atm machines
@ eaglesoars:
That.
Final numbers for the cancer challenge bike ride last month.
Over 50,000 riders rode nearly 4.7 million miles and raised $6.85 million.
Thanks!
@ eaglesoars:
@ coldwarrior:
When 1-bedroom homes in Silicon Valley were going for a little under a million in 2006, I said “this is going south soon.” Flyboy said he felt bad for any of his friends buying houses at that time, because he said flat out that they were going to be stuck with a mortgage on a house that was going to see its value cut in half within three years.
I cannot tell you how many of my friends purchased multiple homes in 2007 in developments (that were springing up everywhere in California) in anticipation of flipping them for a $100K profit within three months only to find themselves filing for bankruptcy a year later.
@ right_wing2:
Most excellent! Congrats to all!
Trump supporters who were victims of police neglect have been given the green light by the Ninth Circuit to sue the San Jose Police Department for their failure to protect them from violent Bernie Sanders supporters at a 2016 Rally:
https://www.breitbart.com/california/2018/07/27/ninth-circuit-lets-trump-supporters-hurt-in-san-jose-riot-sue-police/
Turns out that the District Court Judge assigned to the case is Lucy Koh, an Obama appointee….
….and a first-class effing judicial MORON.
so the girl just drove off by herself in my truck
damn
that was A LOT harder than I thought it would be
she’ll be fine
I have been teaching her for the last 8 months….right?
rain of lead wrote:
It will be fine. You’ve trained her right, she knows the rules of the road. She’s growing up and this is part of that developing independence.
@ AZfederalist:
you’re right, all true
and I WANT her to do this
now the first time she takes momcats car…
rain of lead wrote:
😆
@ rain of lead:
Momcat and three of her friends will ride along just to be sure she knows what she is doing. And they will tell her every single little thing that they believe you taught the girl incorrectly. And dozens of other things that are only important to women drivers.
Q: What’s the difference between a guitarist and a mutual fund?
A: A mutual fund eventually matures and earns money.
nite
eaglesoars wrote:
What is the difference between a sign that says… No U-turn and Shoe Sale?
If you are a woman, you can ignore the sign that says No U-turn if the sign right next to it says, Shoe Sale…
@ coldwarrior:
Kinda busy in meatworld these days, and I try to keep DoD alive as well. Once in a while I find something that I think belongs here instead of there.
Sorry I haven’t commented more, but I’ve been lurking. Rock on me bloogs.
@ RIX:
Decades ago there was an indi-comic strip entitled “Ed Head.” Mr. Google couldn’t find it for me.
@ Bunk X:
Bunk! 🙂
Reality ain’t what it used to be.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b557b6d30c6e701fc7e9cfc290c359c59f755a00b59270794f7056c9695e8093.jpg
Mike Pompeo for President 2024.
@ yenta-fada:
What.
Bunk X wrote:
What’s the difference between a duck?
@ yenta-fada:
Heh. That’s easy. One leg is the same.
Bunk X wrote:
rats. foiled again
@ yenta-fada:
How did you know that? Did the Illuminati tell you? BASTARDS.
Bunk X wrote:
psst *Bohemian Grove*
@ yenta-fada:
I had to google that.
I don’t think either of us would be allowed entrance to Bohemian Grove.
Dorian might be allowed in, not sure though.
@ yenta-fada:
Bohemian Grove leaked a fart, but I was talking about a joke from a HS Philosophy Class that I refused to take. I took Play-Doh engineering instead.
@ Calo:
Dorian might give us the secret handshake, but he’d be risking a lot. I don’t want to put him in jeopardy.
@ Calo:
Calo!
Bunk X wrote:
Dorian prolly does a killer Kissinger imitation.
@ yenta-fada:
My goodness, glad to be here.
I’m sick of the holidays already. Just finished Valentines Day through Fathers Day shopping for 2019.
Some days, I have no idea what month it is.
Bunk X wrote:
Everything I know I learned at summer camp.
@ Bunk X:
Hah, Dorian might just write an essay on how we are doing the secret handshake wrong.
Calo wrote:
It’s comforting to know I’m not the only confused person out here.
Calo wrote:
No, that would be possum.
@ yenta-fada:
Kissinger never played guitar, I was looking for Dorian’s BlogMock Radio intro. No dice.
@ Calo:
It’s Devember.
Bunk X wrote:
Worth the effort. 🙂
@ yenta-fada:
Plaster casts of possum prints.
@ Bunk X:
Getting Breitbart was EPIC.
@ Calo:
I know how to do it, unless the rules changed.
@ yenta-fada:
I miss guessing what snacks Rodan was eating during Blogmock Radio.
Fun times.
@ Calo:
The First Lady in TN going to visit a Children’s Hospital.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-QZVPW145UPE/W1sFRKTv_gI/AAAAAAABusA/Q73jt6eMa5gODfggm6we0vFrcCYyNBCUgCHMYCw/s1600-h/1532575429-Melania-nashville%255B4%255D
Calo wrote:
It helped us get through Ovomit’s Reign of Error. A balm for the balmy. 🙂
Bunk X wrote:
And Dorian was never a war criminal.
@ yenta-fada:
All I did was ask. Breitbart said yes, and Rodan ran with it. The behind-the-scenes lead up was killer (Rodan, M, Savage can confirm, we didn’t know if Andrew Breitbart would call in. At the last minute he emailed, “I’m in.”). After the BlogMock podcast, AB emailed and asked if I thought Charles Johnson had heard it. I emailed back: “I guarantee it.”
@ yenta-fada:
All I did was ask.
@ Calo:
He was eating avocados on tortuga shells.
@ Bunk X:
That day was hella fun for everyone involved.
Bunk X wrote:
And Breitbart said he only wanted to talk about Chuck because Breitbart owned up to being a really really petty person. 🙂
@ yenta-fada:
When I spoke with him on the phone, I axed him why he cared about Chuck, and his answer was “Because I’m petty.” He said the same on the BlogMock podcast.
@ yenta-fada:
Johnson was in full TwitterWar mode, attacking everyone and anyone of being a racist zenophobe, and the BRC offered Breitbart the Archives.
@ Bunk X:
https://thediaryofdaedalus.com/2012/09/03/ride-the-decline-the-breitbart-project-intro/
oh look, california is being california again
https://abcnews.go.com/US/northern-california-wildfire-taking-path/story?id=56859441
hey barbarian
any thoughts
ZINKE IS CONSIDERING TEARING DOWN A DAM FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AND SAN FRANCISCO IS IN AN UPROAR
http://dailycaller.com/2018/07/27/zinke-yosemite-environmentalists/
Bunk X wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzLqo_nG-5A
“I’d rather be judged by 12 than carried by 6”
Agree 100%
However….
And I forgot to buy a radish.
@ Possum:
hey
it’s all good man, no worries
been a hellava day
redoing the bedroom, removing furniture, hauling junk to the dump,
repainting the ceiling, pulling up old nasty carpet
momcat wants a new bedroom and by god the girl and I are doing our best to give it her
Possum wrote:
The idea of you… playing with a radish… disquiets me. I must lobby my Texas congress friends to pass very strict Radish Regulation Laws. If it saves the life of 1 single possum, it will be well worth the burden of requiring Radish Licensing.
@ doriangrey:
you will take my radish when you pry it from my cold dead fingers
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2018/07/28/Judge-allows-release-of-printed-3D-gun-blueprints/6511532783162/?utm_source=fp&utm_campaign=ls&utm_medium=2
rain of lead wrote:
Somebody, OK, a lot of somebodies, got their panties in a wad over a freakin’ zip gun.
Another quick UPDATE on Tommy Robinson’s appeal by Ezra Levant.
UPDATE: Tommy Robinson could be free as early as Tuesday!
July 27, 2018
The appeal court judges who heard Tommy’s case say they will finally be issuing their verdict. They say they will do so on Tuesday, July 31st or on Wednesday, August 1st. (The judges were not more specific than that.)
Tommy’s lawyers say that if the appeal goes the way we all hope it will, Tommy could be released right away.
At the family’s request, I will be going back to London, not only to cover the verdict as a journalist. I have to go back over there, to report from the verdict, because I don’t trust a word that the mainstream media says about Tommy.
The media told bald-faced lies about his appeal hearing. The Guardian lied, Channel 4 lied, the BBC lied — and they’ll lie this time.
I want to be there to report accurately on the verdict.
Some new music for a lazy Sunday morning:
This is an interesting problem:
I love being able to send the girl out on a food run
@ rain of lead:
Cheaper than grub hub
@ coldwarrior:
Have you had a chance to check out the video I posted above?
I’m constantly amazed by the number of really talented young women who are turning up in the blues/roots rock genres these days.
Bonus points for the lap steel guitar, too.
I’m not the suspicious type (but UFOs are real) but I swear there really is a Trump Curse. That recording Michael Cohen made of Trump that the media’s been playing over and over? Did you catch that Cohen also recorded calls with journalists? I gather that the Feds had to share what they collected with Rudy Guiliani as Trump’s lawyer and he’s out there yelling ‘short hairs’ and nobody is picking up on it.
https://twitter.com/TheLastRefuge2/status/1023686850551181312
At 3:25-3:35 in video, Giuliani discusses Cohen’s surreptitious taping of CNN’s Chris Cuomo, a two-hour recording, to which Giuliani now has access. THEN Giuliani says: “He did that at least four other times.”