The Judge Kavanaugh saga continues…resolution of this saga cannot be at hand until 1652 Eastern Time tomorrow
Bloodsport IV…Revenge of the GOPsters
by coldwarrior ( 129 Comments › )Filed under Open thread at October 5th, 2018 - 1:34 pm
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We're not easily offended and don't want people to think they have to walk on eggshells around here (like at another place that shall remain nameless) but of course, there is a limit to everything.
Play nice!
So Collins is making a statement at 3:00 p.m. on her vote.
Jason Van Dyke verdict to be announced at 1:45 CDT today.
I’m in Oakland. This could be dicey.
First attempt at Turkish flat bread came out quite nicely, gotta make a small adjustment and it will be perfect…thread on that later.
Susan Collins really sounds like she’s bringing it home
Van Dyke convicted of 2nd Degree Murder. Of course, the mob wanted 1st Degree. I hate it when prosecutors over-reach in their indictments. Unless he drove there to kill him premeditation is not evident.
@ eaglesoars:
I hope so. But I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Now Murkowski is trying to say she hasn’t made up her mind about confirmation. Guess Alaskans are burning up the phone lines. That or maybe McConnell told her she’s going to be sitting on committees that don’t do crap, if ANY.
The Barbarian wrote:
I’ve seen more than my share of cop videos and that one was heartbreaking and infuriating. I simply cannot imagine any defense for that one.
And Susan becomes an American hero.
Seems we still have a few
@ eaglesoars:
None.
@ eaglesoars:
Well done. I think this Mob Rule is starting to make a lot of people angry, even the moderate Dems.
Oh, and McCaskill is now down 8 points in polling in Missouri after announcing she won’t vote for Kavanaugh.
@ The Barbarian:
here’s a good backgrounder on what is needed to convict on ‘witness tampering’
But the language in 18 U.S. Code § 1512 is “corruptly persuades.” Was McLean’s effort “corrupt”? That, I think, would be much harder to prove. It is not a crime to talk to a witness and try to convince them that they are wrong, or that they are failing to remember a pertinent detail. Nor is it illegal to tell them that they should “believe” what another person says, even as they catastrophically undermine the story they say they think is true. Unless Keyser came forward with evidence that she was bullied, bribed, or threatened in some way, it seems unlikely that this will lead anywhere legally. (That is in no way to say that it shouldn’t be taken as yet more evidence that Ford’s claim is extremely weak.)
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/christine-blasey-ford-friend-witness-tampering/
Let’s all sing along with Lisa Murkowski….”The Cheese stands alone.”
Manchin is a yes. That’s 51.
and of course Manchin is a yes
what a gutless POS
I see Ben Sasse declared his ‘yes’ vote a few hours ago but no one is paying attention to him
@ eaglesoars:
You know, I wonder in the end if Murkowski will be a “yes” but she doesn’t want the batsh*t mobs outside her office door.
So I wonder if McConnell will call the vote for Sunday to allow Daines to go to his daughter’s wedding.
The Barbarian wrote:
And Trump gets him there on Air Force Two! HA!
oh, he’s already IN Nebraska. I misunderstood the direction of travel required.
I do so love Sarah Palin sometimes……
The Barbarian wrote:
In the Navy, that is what they call “A shot across the bow”. It means, the next shot will sink you.
@ doriangrey:
I got to see naval gunnery once. Holy shit.
@ The Barbarian:
She should run.
@ coldwarrior:
Yes she should.
coldwarrior wrote:
When my step father was stationed on the USS Blue Ridge, I got to shot one of the 5 inch guns. Aim, stomp peddle on floor… BANG….. What a fucking HOOT… From the gunners chair, you could see the projectile headed down range. A glowing red dot moving like a bat out of hell.
Feelin’ like Harry Belafonte in “The World, the Flesh and the Devil” ….
Where did everybody go ? Pretty good news, no ?
@ 4_Sticks:
i’m having a don julio resposado neat, and a very nice Avo Uvezian Nicaraguan cigar.
every day should be this good.
@ coldwarrior:
i might add that I am doing this on the deck as fall approaches.. each day the colors of the leaves change, slowly…relentlessly.
fall in PA is really nice.
I know about the ‘left’ and ‘right’ wings (sides of the room etc) but anyone know of studies that show ones political beliefs corresponding with either the left and right hemispheres of ones brain ?
I remember back in the 70s, psych 101 learning about one side being keyed into the arts and creativity and the other to more techy things, math etc., but I’ve been outta school for a LONG time now.
Yeah I can google it but I trust the crowd here to steer me in the right direction (no pun…) more than I trust google (and not adverse to kissin’ a little a** to get what I want either, lol). If its a ‘dead end’ then knowing this upfront would also be a big help.
Thanks in advance.
@ coldwarrior:
Ah, I see. Victory (almost but lookin’ real good) smoke ? Vaping here myself… NO comparison !
coldwarrior wrote:
And WET…
doriangrey wrote:
😆
well, yeah…it is
@ doriangrey:
The rain in the north east has kept the leaves from changing too early not to mention the warm temps. It should be a fantastic fall.
4_Sticks wrote:
yes, victory.
@ 4_Sticks:
the big maple in the yard is still very green, its gonna be colorful this year
The hive mind in all its glory. Jonathan Chait, one of the swains of NYC ‘journalism’, Sep 26
<emJulie Swetnick’s Allegations Likely to Finish Off Brett Kavanaugh
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/09/julie-swetnicks-allegations-brett-kavanaugh-withdraw.html
As the heady brew of threatened male prerogative — the principle that withdrawing Kavanaugh would expose any man to such charges — and partisan tribalism wears off, cold calculation will soon set in. The odds that many people are conspiring to lie about Kavanaugh are growing ever more slender. And the odds are growing that Kavanaugh committed to a lie, and sunk ever deeper into it, knowing that he would either have a lifetime appointment to the most prestigious legal job in America or be disgraced, and that is why he has refused to concede even an inch. That, too, is why he dodged a question from Fox News about letting his friend, Mark Judge, testify under oath.
Do you think these nutbars will stop? I don’t, although they may jump on the bandwagon of some other squirrel.
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/leaked-email-public-university-giving-free-class-credit-to-students-who-protest-kavanaugh/
@ eaglesoars:
I can’t read that. I’m desperately holding on to my remaining little grey cells.
@ eaglesoars:
Is he trying to write like hunter Thompson?
Such drama, beginning the paragraph with a participle..
Use bold words….
Yawn.
Only HST can write like HST.
yenta-fada wrote:
but evriething is spel rite!!
I’m just wondering if society has always had such a great number of robots and we’re just now seeing them due to social media or if there really is a change in people who simply must go along with what is essentially a mob
@ eaglesoars:
This is why I asked the above question. How can 2 people see the same situation so differently ? There is virtually zero evidence, in fact quite the opposite, that he did what she claims and yet …
I’m still losing old friends (and I mean looong ass time friends) over this crap and I just sit here shaking my head not even knowing where to start with them or even if I should bother. I go back and forth, ‘let it go’ and then ‘give ’em a call’. The latest isn’t some flighty sjw, hes a retired construction foreman and as rough and tough as a guy can get yet he insults me over this Kavanaugh accusation and doesn’t talk to me anymore. I can deal with it, no baby here myself but wtf ? There has to be some logical explanation.
coldwarrior wrote:
well, first off, Thompson had a nose for bullshit and a mind that could articulate it. Chait has a nose for chardonnay and is a mental automaton.
@ 4_Sticks:
Tribalism…pure and unadulterated fed by the soft reinforcements of friends and likes
@ eaglesoars:
I was rereading fear and loathing on the campaign trail…
Brilliant.
4_Sticks wrote:
CW would know better. On the surface of it though, people who are tremendously accomplished in the Sciences and the Arts are capable of really nutty political opinions. Human behavior has so many variables
attached. The most mature people can retain child like belief systems. From there you can go towards a discussion of free will versus determinism. And I still can’t answer your question, lol.
4_Sticks wrote:
There is and altho I hesitate to classify people I’ve never laid eyes on, I noticed a big difference between liberal/progessives and everyone else a long time ago.
They DESPERATELY need to belong, to something, anything, anywhere. They will DO anything to be accepted and stay accepted in that group. There is zero emotional/psychological self-reliance. They are somehow unable to define the boundaries of self.
coldwarrior wrote:
you know that game where you get do invite any 3 people – deceased – to dinner? Can you imagine Thompson, Eric Hoffer and Tocqueville?
eaglesoars wrote:
Only if they are all tripping.
@ eaglesoars:
All day.
@ eaglesoars:
Throw Hitchens in there and we are gold
“So much for Objective Journalism. Don’t bother to look for it here–not under any byline of mine; or anyone else I can think of. With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.
Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72
@ yenta-fada:
Whens the last time you hear Roy Moores name ? Nope, they gear up for the next battle and leave their own on the field.
@ eaglesoars:
Astute observation and I was content with it for years but this latest friend fits none of that. Maybe just one outlier, I dunno. Baffling.
eaglesoars wrote:
That is way too general imo. To make a similar sweeping statement, liberals are less tolerant of any point of view that doesn’t suit their belief system. Conservatives by their nature are less inclined to riot if an election doesn’t go their way. Liberals are far more likely to label you as a bigot. (out loud I mean)
Journalism is “a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a strange seedy world of misfits and drunkards and failures.
Hunter S. Thompson
@ coldwarrior:
“fed by the soft reinforcements of friends and likes”
His wife.
coldwarrior wrote:
Is that like the Uncertainty principle? You change the situation by the very fact that you are observing it.
@ yenta-fada:
And that would be another explanation, yes. It is so bizzare at my age learning this now about a friend I’ve been like a bro to since the 60s.
coldwarrior wrote:
We are going more “Lord of the Flies” until the cycle turns again.
coldwarrior wrote:
oh HELL YEAH!
coldwarrior wrote:
You would be surprised to know how erudite Groucho Marx was.
4_Sticks wrote:
and there ya go. That’s his ‘group’
yeah, and I’m not buying that Christine Ford has been ‘used’ and ‘victimized’. That’s a ‘narrrative’ coming up and it’s bull
Just a heard a string of barbs from Lindsey Graham that I hadn’t heard before (not from the hearing) and hes really showing that he has a set !! Wonder what freed him up ? Hopefully its contagious !!
@ yenta-fada:
Groucho has always been one of my favorites
eaglesoars wrote:
She has 2 sons from what I’ve read. THEY are victims of her failure to give a sh!t about anyone but herself. You know how I love narcissists.
Sen John Kennedy on Pelosi:
“Billy Goat brain,
Mockingbird mouth”.
this fits
Perfect Strangers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ_kez7WVUU
4_Sticks wrote:
“People” say the death of McCain freed him up. Blackmail?
@ rain of lead:
Ian Gillan years, the BEST !!
@ 4_Sticks:
damn straight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfVsfOSbJY0
What day is it? It’s Friday!
@ yenta-fada:
Certainly makes ya wonder … like a light switch.
@ RIX:
Gotta give a man a heads up, LOL What if one of my boys had walked in unexpectedly 🙂
coldwarrior wrote:
I thought that was a great book when I read it. Fun read.
If theres any justice in this world …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdXjm8pZMws
Minimum !!
4_Sticks wrote:
I know , it’ frightening.
@ RIX:
wait whut?
autotune bs
bleh
need some REAL rock and roll to the taste of THAT outa my mouth
have some DIO
Heaven and Hell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idn50Xj_CiY
@ 4_Sticks:
that was pretty good too
4_Sticks wrote:
I heard that, it was great! But he also said ‘nobody won’.
Yeah, we did and so did Kavanaugh and we won clean, the right way. That’s like walking thru the rubble of Berlin and saying ‘nobody won’. The good guys DID win, it’s the losers that insisted on the rubble, we just obliged them.
@ eaglesoars:
“They asked for war… they got it”
@ eaglesoars:
I didn’t catch that … old ears, Marshall stacks and all.
Like Phoenix rising from the ashes ?
@ RIX:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgRYncR1Nog
Try this
Lisa Murkowski is now speaking in the Senate. Damn, this woman is a human sleep aide zzzzzzz!
@ eaglesoars:
Imagine the furor when Ginsburg finally retires and Trump gets a 3rd pick.
right_wing2 wrote:
I imagine at this point she’s so pissed, she’ll die on the bench
4_Sticks wrote:
Good God y’all, that’s heinous.
@ eaglesoars:
hopefully, being pissed will speed up the process
@ RIX:
dis mo better
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMqNFAU0tOw
rain of lead wrote:
Yeah, way mo better!
@ RIX:
Don’t make me pull out the Larkin Poe 🙂
The first video from their upcoming album. Great song:
@ RIX:
I think lobo just likes to show off that he can post vids
the girls ARE cute
lobo has a crush I think 🙂
damn
nobody can bring it like ace
http://ace.mu.nu/
I had thought that Clinton’s single quarter of 3.8% unemployment would stand as the all-time post-war low, and that Democrats would always be able to point to that as proof that Socialism Can Work.
Nope! Now there’s a new post-war record to beat: Trump’s.
From now on, that will be the reference-standard of post-war economic strength.
Not Clinton’s weak, cuckish 3.8%.
Has the world blown up yet? Just checking. I keep being told the world will blow up if Trump is president.
3.7%.
Suck a dick, h8rz.
Or, as Dennis Reynolds said in this week’s Always Sunny: “Begone from me, you soy-boy beta cuck. Our transaction is complete. BEGONE!!!!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pnfzrABrzk
@ lobo91:
She’s hot.
rain of lead wrote:
He does like da good lookin wominz. True dat!
@ RIX:
No Supreme Court appointments in my future, I guess…
Through Sansui G9000db 160 watts, old school and JBL L112s. No freakin’ ‘smartphone’ bs.
I can’t tell what the neighbors dog is hollerin’ about … think he don’t like crazy old men !!
@ lobo91:
Where ya pull them outta ? Makes me feel ‘dirty’ watchin’ LMAO !!
@ rain of lead:
“I had thought that Clinton’s single quarter of 3.8% unemployment would stand as the all-time post-war low”
And where would it have been without Gates and Co ? That period was like Henry Fords mass production, Edison’s electricity and Bells telephone.
Clinton got lucky.
Trump walked in, took over and is making it look like a part time hobby as he swats gnats off his neck.
@ 4_Sticks:
hell
lobo has been posting larkin poe vids for months now
try to keep up 🙂
here have a cover song
Godsmack, nothing else matters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAVFOcVC92A
4_Sticks wrote:
Try this one on for size. Just ignore the blonde bimbo “host” who sounds like she’s auditioning for NPR:
@ rain of lead:
Whats that sheet in his nipple ?? Jayzaz … kids.
Now where them youngins get off to ? 🙂
Wany eye candy ? ‘Scuse me ladies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH-_9cwdLug
lobo91 wrote:
No, and I do not even think about what they would do to me. Did some livingbeforeI got married.
@ rain of lead:
But its FRIDAY night !!
I don’t care what anyone says this ol’ gal can ROCK:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV7uCami9JA
66 years old here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3OBcgQXJ_k
Penance for looking at those youngins earlier…
4_Sticks wrote:
I would love to see her play with Keef
The Barbarian wrote:
Boom!
eaglesoars wrote:
I think that throughout history, the bulk of humans are ready to follow the crowd. The crowds being whipped up with “Crucify him1” comes to mind. It’s very easy to be led and most people are lazy, they don’t really want to do the hard work of finding out the facts. Besides, it feels good to be part of “the crowd”, so there is a self-reinforcing element to mob actions.
Ok, Lisa Murkowski has announced that tomorrow her vote will be PRESENT!
that’s so that Senator Danes can stay at his daughters wedding in Montana.
That is decent.
@ 4_Sticks:
yeah, she’s still hot
4_Sticks wrote:
“Leave their own on the field”. Yep, what was name of the Gold Star mother they used during the Iraq war protests? Used her up and dropped her like a bad habit. Oh, yeah — Cindy Sheehan.
Lots of other examples.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CYsOGTA0eo
Friday night and all uze youngins already in bed ? Well kids, you should get your sleep – tomorrow COULD be a BIG DAY !! We all know what happens when little dems don’t get their way ….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en1uwIzI3SE
Yep,thats what they do …
@ AZfederalist:
Yes, great example !!
@ eaglesoars:
Never thought of that combo before but yeah, you’re right !!
eaglesoars wrote:
The question is whether they won the next battle. How hard will it be for Trump to get his next nominee to accept the nomination when RBG goes the way of all flesh? Will the next highly qualified judge be willing to go through and put their family through what Kavenaugh just endured?
There needs to be some serious, no kidding prosecution and convictions from this debacle — or the democrats will have won by intimidating the next nominee to turn down the nomination.
rain of lead wrote:
Thought his crush was on the cigar box guitar girl.
4_Sticks wrote:
well, it’s pretty obvious once you realize their eye makeup is the same
😆
@ AZfederalist:
she got tossed to the side as soon as he found those two new chippies
AZfederalist wrote:
good points all. BUT. There are two armies here and theirs is demoralized. How do you keep mentally ill people satisfied if you can’t fulfill their fantasy utopia? They’ll drift away, get overtaken by the normal events of life. The hardcore will stay and redraft new battle plans. What will they look like and where will the cannon fodder come from?
There is one great risk and it is a serious one. Assassination. In that case, all bets are off and it’s a shooting war.
AZfederalist wrote:
Amy Barrett.
If you are going to go
GO HARD
I just love seeing Progressive heads exploding all over the place.
Amy would be Kavanaugh on steroids to the leftists.
I’d pay good money just to see that!
🙂
James Woods is apparently back on twitter
I’m gone a week and @LindseyGrahamSC actually IS Spartacus.
https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1048399181839261696
bed time. nite.
4_Sticks wrote:
Mitsubishi DA10 amp and preamp driving B&O redline 120s with subwoofer.
Boom.
coldwarrior wrote:
Turn it up to 11….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQRprgbYdTw
@ rain of lead:
But Trump only cares about the 1%. Just as the left.