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Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh Confirmation Circus, Day 2

by coldwarrior ( 175 Comments › )
Filed under Democratic Party, Open thread, Politics at September 4th, 2018 - 9:39 pm

Well, day one was full of infantile histrionics by the Democrat Party who, like a small child, cant stop the inevitable and decide to throw themselves on the ground and have a tantrum. The wise adult ignores them, let them have their tantrum, and lets them tire themselves out. This time it is the entire Democrat Party making a spectacle of themselves by throwing the infantile fit while the adults allow the spastic gyrations to continue purely for entertainment and educational values. This stuff is very revealing and can be used as political ads in the future.

The Dems can’t stop the inevitable. This behavior will backfire on them as they move closer and closer to insanity.

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175 Responses to “Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh Confirmation Circus, Day 2”
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  1. eaglesoars
    1 | September 4, 2018 10:04 pm

    I think Harris and Booker are just trying to get their faces out there so they’ll develop a high recognition quota. They both want to run in 2020

    Of course Liz will stomp them into the mud and walk it dry


  2. 2 | September 4, 2018 10:57 pm

    “But in the 1930s, during the Great Depression, the Statists successfully launched a counterrevolution that radically and fundamentally altered the nature of American society. President Franklin Roosevelt and an overwhelmingly Democratic Congress, through an array of federal projects, entitlements, taxes, and regulations known as the New Deal, breached the Constitution’s firewalls. At first the Supreme Court fought back, striking down New Deal programs as exceeding the limits of federal constitutional authority, violating state sovereignty, and trampling on private property rights. But rather than seek an expansion of federal power through the amendment process, which would likely have blunted Roosevelt’s ambitions, Roosevelt threatened the very makeup of the Court by proposing to pack it with sympathetic justices who would go along with his counterrevolution. Although Roosevelt’s plan failed, the justices had been effectively intimidated. And new justices, who shared Roosevelt’s statism, began replacing older justices on the Court. It was not long before the Court became little more than a rubber stamp for Roosevelt’s policies.”
    —Mark Levin, Liberty and Tyrrany, 2009

    https://youtu.be/VMrvbTyFURA?t=45s


  3. 3 | September 4, 2018 11:12 pm

    @ Bunk X:


  4. AZfederalist
    4 | September 4, 2018 11:22 pm

    @ Bunk X:

    Yep. This goes way back. Wilson started it, FDR injected it with Steroids. Wickard vs. Filburn (the wheat case) was during the FDR administration.


  5. 5 | September 4, 2018 11:27 pm

    Wow. They’ve got something big here – Jewish-Mexican woman flashes “white power sign” behind Kavanaugh. Pheew.

    https://twitter.com/eugenegu/status/1037063912896643072


  6. 6 | September 4, 2018 11:29 pm

    @ AZfederalist:
    Hey, AZf. Wasn’t sure if this place was still alive.


  7. AZfederalist
    7 | September 4, 2018 11:52 pm

    Bunk X wrote:

    @ AZfederalist:
    Hey, AZf. Wasn’t sure if this place was still alive.

    It ain’t dead yet.

    I make it here on a near-daily basis in the evenings. It’s a more leisurely pace than places like Weasel Zippers.


  8. 8 | September 5, 2018 12:05 am

    @ AZfederalist:
    The one-trick-pony Diary of Daedalus is fading, but there are some regulars that still play around in it, myself included. Aah, the glory days…

    I’ll probably be stopping by here (The Mothership) a bit more often.


  9. yenta-fada
    9 | September 5, 2018 12:25 am

    Bunk X wrote:

    @ AZfederalist:
    Hey, AZf. Wasn’t sure if this place was still alive.

    Hi! (different time zone) Here’s an astute observation about the various offended groups. They are POWER grabs.

    https://spectator.us/2018/08/millennials-arent-taking-offence-theyre-hunting-victims/


  10. yenta-fada
    10 | September 5, 2018 12:31 am

    Bunk X wrote:

    Wow. They’ve got something big here – Jewish-Mexican woman flashes “white power sign” behind Kavanaugh. Pheew.

    https://twitter.com/eugenegu/status/1037063912896643072

    That’s been walked back already. But Bash’s husband had to act quickly with the truth. Everyone in public life is a potential target of leftist lying tweets. The left gets more paranoid all the time. Delusional.


  11. yenta-fada
    11 | September 5, 2018 12:33 am

    AZfederalist wrote:

    Bunk X wrote:

    @ AZfederalist:
    Hey, AZf. Wasn’t sure if this place was still alive.

    It ain’t dead yet.

    I make it here on a near-daily basis in the evenings. It’s a more leisurely pace than places like Weasel Zippers.

    Leisurely is such a nice euphemism.


  12. 12 | September 5, 2018 1:03 am

    @ yenta-fada:
    Yeah, it happened today and already it’s Cofefe.


  13. 13 | September 5, 2018 7:42 am

    Well, my Sister-in-law,. who is about as political as a gummy-bear, is watching the CBS coverage of the Kavanaugh Hearings, she is laughing her ass off, alternating between calling the Democrats and the Media lying assholes.

    I haven’t seen any of the hearings, so I don’t even know what she is laughing at.


  14. RIX
    14 | September 5, 2018 7:48 am

    Good morning from Phoenix. I watched some of the Kavanaugh confirmations on the plane.
    These Democrats are a bad example for yoots. The are petulant children,and bad examples for kids.
    To me Durbin is the worst, he is my senator. That special interests lackey smeared Kavanaugh , who
    from what I can tell is a fine man all in front of his two small children.
    At least he did not call them Khymer Rouge, Nazis and Soviets like he called our troops.


  15. rain of lead
    15 | September 5, 2018 8:49 am

    morning y’all
    kabuki all the way down


  16. rain of lead
    16 | September 5, 2018 8:55 am

    interesting….very interesting
    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/09/04/nike-and-levis-strauss-political-business-strategy-the-much-bigger-geopolitical-and-trade-picture/#more-153640

    this Nike branding campaign doesn’t make sense…. unless, you realize a much bigger picture. A hidden bigger picture.

    “a multinational corporation would never make a branding decision adverse to their financial interests. Unless there is a hidden risk unrelated to what is visible on the surface.”


  17. 17 | September 5, 2018 8:57 am

    A few quick thoughts on Bob Woodward and his newest work of fiction.

    https://thewildernessofmirrors.wordpress.com/2018/09/05/the-journalistic-ethics-of-bob-woodward/


  18. RIX
    18 | September 5, 2018 10:30 am

    @ doriangrey:
    Woodward is a dick, and so is his girlfriend Bernstein. they show up on cable news and drivel nonsense while
    giving an air of gravitas.
    They are. living off of old glories, but that is not totally justified. While investigating Watergate and writing they wanted
    to go with an unverified story. In all of the Presidents Men Ben Bradlee admonishes them ” You better be right”
    Turns out they were, but the point is that they represented an unverified story as factual.


  19. eaglesoars
    19 | September 5, 2018 10:44 am

    @ rain of lead:

    Well, guess who else has a contract with Nike? West Point.

    This needs a bit more attention


  20. yenta-fada
    20 | September 5, 2018 10:45 am

    @ RIX:

    Well stated. Woodward & Bernstein are like the rooster who thought his outcries were the reason that the sun rose in the morning.


  21. yenta-fada
    21 | September 5, 2018 10:47 am

    eaglesoars wrote:

    @ rain of lead:

    Well, guess who else has a contract with Nike? West Point.

    This needs a bit more attention

    Nike makes all of the uniforms for the NFL.


  22. eaglesoars
    22 | September 5, 2018 10:49 am

    eaglesoars wrote:

    This needs a bit more attention

    someone else who might need a look-see. Levi-Strauss. They’ve just gone bullhorn-public jumping on the Nike bandwagon. I don’t know where their stuff is made, maybe someone should find out


  23. coldwarrior
    23 | September 5, 2018 11:43 am

    @ eaglesoars:

    these folks are in violation of the micheal jordan rule.


  24. RIX
    25 | September 5, 2018 12:28 pm

    yenta-fada wrote:

    @ RIX:

    Well stated. Woodward & Bernstein are like the rooster who thought his outcries were the reason that the sun rose in the morning.

    Hi Yenta. You are exactly right.


  25. coldwarrior
    26 | September 5, 2018 3:11 pm

    @ coldwarrior:

    and the flu was picked up on the hajj in mecca.


  26. rain of lead
    27 | September 5, 2018 5:57 pm

    watching these screeching leftards lose their shit over the Kavanaugh
    nomination makes me smile

    what makes me smile even more is when Trump nominates a second justice
    and the balance of power is 6-3


  27. eaglesoars
    28 | September 5, 2018 5:57 pm

    Guess what the New York Times did today? They printed an anonymous – there’s that word again – op-ed from someone who claims to be a senior person in the Trump admin. The NYT sez they know who the author is. The writer claims to be part of the ‘resistance’, doing their best to thwart Trump’s agenda and keep his ‘erratic’ personality on a steady keel. The writer also claims Trump is – get this – anti-trade.

    https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2018/09/05/great-work-did-the-nyt-just-serve-donald-trump-his-deep-state-talking-point-on-a-silver-platter/?utm_campaign=twitchywidget


  28. rain of lead
    29 | September 5, 2018 6:09 pm

    This is epic. Must Watch.
    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/09/05/epic-republican-rep-billy-long-uses-auctioneering-skills-to-shut-down-committee-protester/

    “we’re selling the cell phone here”

    bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah


  29. coldwarrior
    30 | September 5, 2018 7:06 pm

    @ rain of lead:
    And THAT is how you handle these idiot lefties.


  30. eaglesoars
    31 | September 5, 2018 7:07 pm

    @ rain of lead:

    so she was filming herself the whole time. no narcissistic personality disorder there.

    As to the NYT op-ed – this is the 3rd leg of a 3-legged stool. First the McCain funeral which was nothing but a Trump hate-fest, then the Woodward book, now this.

    This is not a coinky-dink


  31. 32 | September 5, 2018 7:41 pm

    Bunk X wrote:

    @ AZfederalist:
    The one-trick-pony Diary of Daedalus is fading, but there are some regulars that still play around in it, myself included. Aah, the glory days…

    I’ll probably be stopping by here (The Mothership) a bit more often.

    I should stop by more often, but frankly Jazzy McPimplebutt has become a bore. Hell, I should stop by HERE more often. Work and new baby has intruded.

    @ yenta-fada:

    Actually, the sign she gave is sign language for “assh*le.” Which is what I think she was flashing at the Senator. I’m surprised he or she hasn’t seen it before.

    And that stunt by Guttenberg and his flat-out lying of how it actually went down. I guess the idiot didn’t realize there’d be VIDEO of it from two different angles. Turns out it was Feinstein to invited him to sit in the audience, so this friggin’ stunt was pre-arranged.

    I do not remember ANY Republican Senator behaving this way when the most unqualified idiot ever nominated for the Supreme Court – Elena Kagan, had her confirmation hearing. NO judicial opinions, no time on ANY bench. But the GOP was respectful.

    And yeah, Booker, Harris, et al., are preening for the cameras in advance of their Presidential runs. And we will have a field day with both of them.


  32. eaglesoars
    33 | September 5, 2018 7:58 pm

    The Barbarian wrote:

    And we will have a field day with both of them.

    It’s going to be a conundrum. Both check the race minority box, but Harris checks the gender box. But so does Liz. So, it’s Harris, 2 out of 2.

    But I think Liz has some big money behind her and will probably stomp both of them. And, she can come across as a really cool grandma type. Harris is a bitch on wheels, some hard edges there.


  33. 34 | September 5, 2018 8:21 pm

    Harris has a SERIOUS problem. It’s well known that she was the mistress of the Speaker of the Assembly (I don’t call her “Senator Spread Your Legs” for nothing) and got no-show California jobs from him.

    One problem is going to be her steadfast refusal to seek the death penalty for cop killers when she was SFDA and California AG. But her biggest problem is going to be the Bologna family. Father and two sons MURDERED by a criminal illegal affiliated with MS-13 that she as SFDA REFUSED to turn over to ICE, citing San Francisco’s “Sanctuary City” policy. That is NOT going to play well nationally. I can tell you flat out that if the “Sanctuary” policy was put to a vote of the citizens, it would be defeated. That’s why Sacramento made it a state policy.


  34. eaglesoars
    35 | September 5, 2018 8:26 pm

    The Barbarian wrote:

    Speaker of the Assembly

    was that Willie Brown?


  35. lobo91
    36 | September 5, 2018 8:37 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    The Barbarian wrote:

    Speaker of the Assembly

    was that Willie Brown?

    Yup


  36. 37 | September 5, 2018 8:38 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    Yes, and a more corrupt politician has never been seen in this state. I had a friend who had an executive level job with the San Francisco Airport Commission and he told me that Willie Brown was one of the biggest grifters and con men he’d ever seen. Willie Brown was in many ways one of the reasons term limits passed so easily in the state. He kept getting re-elected and paid off his buddies to keep his Speakership (jobs, contracts for family members). However, the REST of the State couldn’t stand his criminal ass.

    He actually believed HE was going to be the first Black President.


  37. eaglesoars
    38 | September 5, 2018 8:46 pm

    The Barbarian wrote:

    He actually believed HE was going to be the first Black President.

    hunh. So, Harris is his protege, who probably thinks she can win the electoral votes of California.

    Should be ugly


  38. AZfederalist
    39 | September 5, 2018 9:43 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    someone else who might need a look-see. Levi-Strauss. They’ve just gone bullhorn-public jumping on the Nike bandwagon. I don’t know where their stuff is made, maybe someone should find out

    Dang! That sucks. Levis are the jeans that fit me best.


  39. yenta-fada
    40 | September 5, 2018 9:52 pm

    @ The Barbarian:

    Thanks for extra info from the California (possibly bottomless) rabbit hole. Hell, I can’t even find out what’s going on in Canada because of the nearly absolute control of the State media. The corpgov
    fascism is so tight VERY few people know what is happening. TV news can talk about whether jam should be kept in the fridge or in the cupboard (true example today) endlessly. Too tolerant and too Socialist a population. So we are led by androids and Elitists.

    WINTER IS COMING.


  40. yenta-fada
    41 | September 5, 2018 9:57 pm

    AZfederalist wrote:

    eaglesoars wrote:

    someone else who might need a look-see. Levi-Strauss. They’ve just gone bullhorn-public jumping on the Nike bandwagon. I don’t know where their stuff is made, maybe someone should find out

    Dang! That sucks. Levis are the jeans that fit me best.

    Wear the Levis. I think it is rare for conservatives to boycott unless it is a small target like The Red Hen restaurant who kicked out Sarah Sanders & her family.


  41. eaglesoars
    42 | September 5, 2018 10:02 pm

    Did anybody catch Joe DiGenova on Hannity? He broke some news. Rod Rosenstein is under investigation over FISA issues. I assume by Huber. He can’t sign nuthin’ no more.


  42. yenta-fada
    43 | September 5, 2018 10:08 pm

    Look at that GIANT Big Brother Billboard of creepy Colin Nike put up in San Fran.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6133873/Huge-Kaepernick-billboard-goes-central-San-Francisco.html


  43. eaglesoars
    44 | September 5, 2018 10:12 pm

    @ yenta-fada:

    Looks like an FBI Most Wanted poster


  44. AZfederalist
    45 | September 5, 2018 10:12 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    Did anybody catch Joe DiGenova on Hannity? He broke some news. Rod Rosenstein is under investigation over FISA issues. I assume by Huber. He can’t sign nuthin’ no more.

    Now that is some good news.

    Lot’s of Drano is going to be needed to clear this swamp


  45. yenta-fada
    46 | September 5, 2018 10:19 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    @ yenta-fada:

    Looks like an FBI Most Wanted poster

    Indeed. Especially in an alternate world without an NFL.


  46. yenta-fada
    47 | September 5, 2018 10:20 pm

    Holy Pacific ‘Ring of Fire’ earthquake activity!

    http://ds.iris.edu/seismon/


  47. 48 | September 5, 2018 10:26 pm

    One of the names being tossed around as the anonymous Trump Administration official is Pence.


  48. eaglesoars
    49 | September 5, 2018 10:30 pm

    @ right_wing2:

    keep tossing


  49. eaglesoars
    50 | September 5, 2018 10:31 pm

    AZfederalist wrote:

    Lot’s of Drano is going to be needed to clear this swamp

    I don’t have the patience. I go with the dynamite and backhoe


  50. eaglesoars
    51 | September 5, 2018 10:34 pm

    yenta-fada wrote:

    Especially in an alternate world without an NFL.

    National Felon League

    wonder how many anti-capitalist types are shelling out for Nike gear in the name of social justice solidarity.

    suckers


  51. eaglesoars
    52 | September 5, 2018 10:47 pm

    heh

    OBAMA THREATENS TO CANCEL TAXPAYER-FUNDED SPEECH IN DENMARK IF HIS CONTRACT IS RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC

    Representatives for Barack Obama have threatened to cancel the former president’s upcoming paid speech at a Denmark university if details of his speaking contract are released to the public.

    Obama will participate in a moderated question and answer session on Sept. 28 at the University of Southern Denmark before local business leaders, university students and local dignitaries, according to Business Kolding, the event’s organizer.

    But the event has already sparked criticism from citizens of Denmark’s Kolding Municipality, which is providing 750,000 kroner, or $117,000, in taxpayer funds to support the behind-closed-doors event titled “A Conversation with President Barack Obama.”

    Kolding currently faces a deficit of 100 million kroner in its next year’s budget. The town’s mayor, Jørn Pedersen, justified using taxpayer dollars to fund Obama’s invite-only talk, claiming the event is effectively a marketing opportunity for the town, according to Danish news outlet JydskeVestkysten.

    https://dailycaller.com/2018/09/05/obama-speech-denmark-contract/

    Tell Denmark we’ll pay them to keep him.


  52. yenta-fada
    53 | September 5, 2018 10:51 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    yenta-fada wrote:

    Especially in an alternate world without an NFL.

    National Felon League

    wonder how many anti-capitalist types are shelling out for Nike gear in the name of social justice solidarity.

    suckers

    My Socialist friends are mostly rich by birth and/or by education and by Professional choices.


  53. AZfederalist
    54 | September 5, 2018 10:51 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    I don’t have the patience. I go with the dynamite and backhoe

    Yeah, your way will work better and faster. Along with a real good grinder to grind up all of the green stuff backing things up.


  54. yenta-fada
    55 | September 5, 2018 10:54 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    QUICK. You’re having an Obama flashback. Eight years of Oblabla was 8 years too many. Erase Obama thawts.


  55. eaglesoars
    56 | September 5, 2018 10:56 pm

    yenta-fada wrote:

    My Socialist friends are mostly rich by birth and/or by education and by Professional choices.

    My rich friends are mostly not socialists


  56. eaglesoars
    57 | September 5, 2018 10:57 pm

    yenta-fada wrote:

    Erase Obama thawts.

    I earned those things, I’m keepin’ ’em.


  57. eaglesoars
    58 | September 5, 2018 11:05 pm

    This is a really good piece about what a lousy ‘journalist’ Woodward is

    https://nationalpost.com/opinion/tanner-colby-deconstructing-bob-woodward


  58. AZfederalist
    59 | September 5, 2018 11:17 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    This is a really good piece about what a lousy ‘journalist’ Woodward is

    https://nationalpost.com/opinion/tanner-colby-deconstructing-bob-woodward

    Very apt description of modern “reporters”: It’s not that they get the facts wrong, they report them incorrectly.


  59. yenta-fada
    60 | September 5, 2018 11:25 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    This is a really good piece about what a lousy ‘journalist’ Woodward is

    https://nationalpost.com/opinion/tanner-colby-deconstructing-bob-woodward

    That’s one of the papers we get. It is well written and proves that Woodward is not fit to teach writing in a high school. Woodward completely misses the point of an incident. That does happen with dyslexia ya know.


  60. 61 | September 5, 2018 11:30 pm

    @ eaglesoars:
    They should announce how much he was paid immediately after the speech.


  61. eaglesoars
    62 | September 5, 2018 11:36 pm

    @ right_wing2:

    It would be hilarious if they passed the hat. And then deducted all the taxes.


  62. eaglesoars
    63 | September 5, 2018 11:40 pm

    yenta-fada wrote:

    That does happen with dyslexia ya know.

    dyslexia? srsly? I thought that was a reading problem (I was mis-diagnosed with it at one point)

    I have to go. Mia has the puppy zoomies and I’ve had to put the baby gate up. Time for intervention


  63. yenta-fada
    64 | September 5, 2018 11:53 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    yenta-fada wrote:

    That does happen with dyslexia ya know.

    dyslexia? srsly? I thought that was a reading problem (I was mis-diagnosed with it at one point)

    I have to go. Mia has the puppy zoomies and I’ve had to put the baby gate up. Time for intervention

    Actually it is a complex disorder that can run from reading letters incorrectly to many other difficulties with comprehension and expression of language. I had a friend who was diagnosed as dyslexic, but he got a PhD in Public Health. The brain is beyond complicated.


  64. 65 | September 5, 2018 11:58 pm

    Waiting at Walgreens for a couple of prescriptions. Unfortunately all the clinics close by the time I’m off work, so I went to the ER, diagnosed with a ‘felon’ in my thumb. A bit of an infection and some junk drained out but nothing serious. They’ve got my hand wrapped up like a mitten so trying to type tomorrow should be interesting. No PTO left so I can’t take time off.


  65. yenta-fada
    66 | September 6, 2018 12:05 am

    @ eaglesoars:

    Here’s the actual definition of dyslexia.

    Reading is complex. It requires our brains to connect letters to sounds, put those sounds in the right order, and pull the words together into sentences and paragraphs we can read and comprehend.

    People with dyslexia have trouble matching the letters they see on the page with the sounds those letters and combinations of letters make. And when they have trouble with that step, all the other steps are harder.

    Dyslexic children and adults struggle to read fluently, spell words correctly and learn a second language, among other challenges. But these difficulties have no connection to their overall intelligence. In fact, dyslexia is an unexpected difficulty in reading in an individual who has the intelligence to be a much better reader. While people with dyslexia are slow readers, they often, paradoxically, are very fast and creative thinkers with strong reasoning abilities.

    Dyslexia is also very common, affecting 20 percent of the population and representing 80– 90 percent of all those with learning disabilities. Scientific research shows differences in brain connectivity between dyslexic and typical reading children, providing a neurological basis for why reading fluently is a struggle for those with dyslexia.


  66. yenta-fada
    67 | September 6, 2018 12:17 am

    @ eaglesoars

    What Bob Woodward has is a lack of reasoning and comprehension skills. He cannot understand the context of what he is observing. He takes notes and fails to extract the meaning of a sequence of events. His filter is hopelessly biased like the article says.


  67. yenta-fada
    68 | September 6, 2018 12:18 am

    @ right_wing2:

    Hope it’s not painful at work.


  68. 69 | September 6, 2018 1:10 am

    @ rain of lead:
    There should be no “balance of power” in the Supreme Court at all. Either the law is applied fairly, or it isn’t. It’s not their job to enact or overturn laws.


  69. 70 | September 6, 2018 1:18 am

    @ rain of lead:
    Excellent.


  70. 71 | September 6, 2018 1:24 am

    @ eaglesoars:
    There’s a big wad of Orr coming down the pipeline. Stand clear.


  71. 72 | September 6, 2018 1:29 am

    @ right_wing2:
    I seriously doubt that VP Pence was the author of the NYT OpEd smear piece. I suspect that the inside operator doesn’t exist.


  72. 73 | September 6, 2018 1:31 am

    @ eaglesoars:
    Nike is still recovering from the revelation that they employ cheap asian slave labor.


  73. 74 | September 6, 2018 1:36 am

    @ yenta-fada:
    I knew two dyslexics. Neither could read or write past 3rd grade level, but both were able to memorize incredible amounts of technical material.


  74. 75 | September 6, 2018 1:40 am

    @ yenta-fada:
    I read a description of dyslexia a few years ago.
    Imagine you’re reading a page, and all the letters are rotating, and all the words are rotating, too. Then the sentences are rotating them all.


  75. Buckeye Abroad
    76 | September 6, 2018 4:26 am

    I tend to see the actions of corporations and big government to be done out of desperation, more than anything else of late. Nike products are made from slave labor, but they have billions wrapped up in China investments and possibility of trade tariffs and sanctions have them on edge. I wonder when contracts come up for various sports teams how many Nike is going to lose?


  76. Buckeye Abroad
    77 | September 6, 2018 4:38 am

    @ yenta-fada:

    “My Socialist friends are mostly rich by birth and/or by education and by Professional choices.”

    Same for me. The worst culprit I am acquainted is an Irish prick who is a public school math teacher who eventually inherited his fathers fortune. He proclaimed to me his socialist idealism once and I told him, “it’s easy to come to that conclusion when you are already feeding off the taxpayers and knowing you will inherit a few million soon. Isn’t it?”

    You can bet he will demand to collect his public pension as well.


  77. eaglesoars
    78 | September 6, 2018 9:00 am

    Buckeye Abroad wrote:

    I told him, “it’s easy to come to that conclusion when you are already feeding off the taxpayers and knowing you will inherit a few million soon. Isn’t it?”

    heh.

    what did he say?

    Bunk X wrote:

    @ eaglesoars:
    There’s a big wad of Orr coming down the pipeline. Stand clear.

    Until one of the Big Swinging Dicks goes to prison for what effectively remains of his/her natural life, it’s all B.S.


  78. lobo91
    79 | September 6, 2018 9:35 am

    Cynthia Nixon on getting single-payer health care in New York: ‘Pass it and then figure out how to fund it’

    In her quest to become New York’s next governor, Cynthia Nixon has advocated for a single-payer health care system in the state – something studies have shown would be a costly endeavor.

    The proposed New York Health Act (NYHA), which would establish universal health care for everyone in the state, including undocumented immigrants, would require the state’s tax revenue to increase by about 156 percent by 2022, according to a study by the RAND Corp. But it also found state spending on total health care under NYHA would be slightly lower – about 3 percent – by 2031 than under the current system.

    Nixon recently told the New York Daily News editorial board she did not yet have a plan to pay for single-payer.

    “Pass it and then figure out how to fund it,” Nixon said.

    Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who Nixon is challenging in the Democratic primary next week, has said it should be up to the federal government to pass a universal health care system. During a debate between the two candidates last month, Cuomo said the NYHA was good “in theory,” but would cost more than New York’s annual budget to implement it “in the long-term,” according to the Albany Times Union.


  79. RIX
    80 | September 6, 2018 9:38 am

    Good morning. Just a thought, the NY Times will not reveal the identity of “Anonymous” who wrote the op-ed
    ,Journalistic integrity and all that.
    But when Trump speaks off the record the Media have no problem taking his remarks public.
    Apparently journalistic integrity is situational.


  80. 81 | September 6, 2018 9:54 am

    @ RIX:

    “Journalistic integrity” applies to “sources” tapped for information for reporting purposes. This is not a “source”. This is the New York Times allowing someone to post anonymously what may very well be LIBEL in their editorial pages without having to identify themselves or establish their bona fides for the statements made.

    For all we know, it was Omarosa. She is, after all, claiming to know who it was.


  81. 82 | September 6, 2018 9:57 am

    eaglesoars wrote:

    heh

    Tell Denmark we’ll pay them to keep him.

    We know just how to do it, too. Pallets of cash in an unmarked plane in the middle of the night.


  82. 83 | September 6, 2018 10:07 am

    The Barbarian wrote:

    eaglesoars wrote:

    heh

    Tell Denmark we’ll pay them to keep him.

    We know just how to do it, too. Pallets of cash in an unmarked plane in the middle of the night.

    In small denominations of foreign currency…


  83. 84 | September 6, 2018 10:26 am

    @ doriangrey:

    Ah yes – I forgot that stunning little detail.

    Looks like Corey Booker is snotting that he’s going to release “Confidential” documents about Kavanaugh. Has been told that “running for President is not a reason to violate rules of the Committee.”

    I think this is the next phase in the concerted plan to delay Kavanaugh. Booker should be immediately removed from the Committee. Chances are there is nothing in these memos at all and Booker knows it, just wants to create the “illusion” that Kavanaugh is hiding something. He’s counting on being told he can’t release them. Would have served him right if Grassle had said “okay, release them. You will be removed from this Committee if you do, but hey, if you think it’s significant, you should be willing to put up.”


  84. eaglesoars
    85 | September 6, 2018 11:27 am

    @ The Barbarian:

    he released them.

    I’m not clear as to why they are ‘confidential’.


  85. Buckeye Abroad
    86 | September 6, 2018 12:22 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    Stunned silence. He is used to controling the conversation, not receiving contra-opinions. His sister later applauded me though. Heh.


  86. RIX
    87 | September 6, 2018 1:43 pm

    The Barbarian wrote:

    @ RIX:

    “Journalistic integrity” applies to “sources” tapped for information for reporting purposes. This is not a “source”. This is the New York Times allowing someone to post anonymously what may very well be LIBEL in their editorial pages without having to identify themselves or establish their bona fides for the statements made.

    For all we know, it was Omarosa. She is, after all, claiming to know who it was.

    Omarosa sounds like a good candidate for the source.


  87. 88 | September 6, 2018 2:05 pm

    @ RIX:

    Which means it’s entirely made up. And it also would explain why the NYT did not want to reveal the name. At this point Assorama is a laughing stock – her bombshell tapes revealed nothing, her so-called explosive “VIDEO” revealed only that Michael Cohen boarded a campaign flight. Wow….

    It also wouldn’t surprise me to find out she submitted this using the name of someone that still worked in the White House. After all, remember her claims that someone had told her they had the “n” word tape and when confronted, they said Assorama was full of it.


  88. RIX
    89 | September 6, 2018 2:07 pm

    Shannon Breem just on FNC reporting that the documents that Cory Booker is threatening to release had
    already been cleared for realease. They were cleared at 5pm last night and they are reporting that Booker was
    informed before his courageous drama.


  89. 90 | September 6, 2018 2:21 pm

    @ RIX:

    Speculation is now what will Kamala Harris do to top this in he grandstanding department since they’re both campaigning and not legislating.


  90. eaglesoars
    91 | September 6, 2018 3:37 pm

    Buckeye Abroad wrote:

    His sister later applauded me though. Heh.

    Oh, I bet she did. Especially if Daddy’s estate was subject to primogeniture laws and she got bupkiss


  91. eaglesoars
    92 | September 6, 2018 3:49 pm

    RIX wrote:

    Omarosa sounds like a good candidate for the source.

    nonsense. She’s only moderately shrewd, no one I would consider intelligent.

    When you look at stuff like this, ask yourself who has had practice doing this before? Look at the post-release analysis. Everyone focuses on a couple words, ‘lodestar’, etc., to throw suspicion on Pence, Mattis and Kelly. It’s no accident that everyone is asking the same questions and coming up with the same answers

    We’ve seen this before, but in another context.

    Code that Brennan released to prove that hacking was done by THE RUSSSIANS. And the post release analysis used the same tactics, language analysis. Oh! We’ve seen these pseudonyms and this code before in source we know were Russian.

    Yeah, fine, except it was utility code and people build libraries of that stuff so that they don’t have to re-invent the wheel every time. It says nothing about who was actually using the software.

    It was meaningless crap. And so is this. Whoever wrote this did it as psy-ops.


  92. 93 | September 6, 2018 4:14 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    Actually, I was sort of joking about Assorama. But she’s all over Twitter saying she knows who it is. Probably to get herself back on TV.

    I seem to recall Rush saying that our intelligence services knew how to leave “code” behind if they broke into something that would indicate it was the Russians. Hmmm…..remember how they wouldn’t let the FBI near the servers but instead used CloudStrike? How far-fetched would it be to think that CloudStrike was instructed to leave those Russian breadcrumbs so that could claim “RUSSIANS!” and if government agencies subsequently examined the computers, they would find the signs of Russian involvement.

    Assange has claimed since Day One that it was not the Russians that gave him Hillary’s emails, even though the DNC wants you to look there and only there.


  93. 94 | September 6, 2018 4:16 pm

    Oh man….Burt Reynolds has died.


  94. yenta-fada
    95 | September 6, 2018 4:19 pm

    HERE YE HEAR YE HEAR YE.

    These sources are reliable and extensively follow by Conservative Americans. It is today’s release of two ex-FBI agents reporting on treasonous actors of the deep state. I’m going to listen before it gets pulled off the net.

    https://youtu.be/TwGtIlYilhY


  95. 96 | September 6, 2018 4:23 pm

    @ yenta-fada:

    Yenta has a scoop! We can’t access YouTube here at the office and I don’t have my laptop with me so I can’t wait to hear your synopsis.


  96. eaglesoars
    97 | September 6, 2018 4:28 pm

    The Barbarian wrote:

    How far-fetched would it be to think that CloudStrike was instructed to leave those Russian breadcrumbs

    I’ve said before, just reading Donna Brazille’s book (tho more evidence came later) that Crowdstrike IS the culprit, it had TO be an inside job. After I do yenta’s link, I’ll repost the good stuff on the Crowdstrike CEO


  97. eaglesoars
    98 | September 6, 2018 4:31 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    After I do yenta’s link

    ok, I’m listening.

    Back to the Crowdstrike guy. Shawn Henry. He worked for the FBI under Mueller and was promoted by Mueller to Ast Dir Cyber Security.

    This whole thing is a set up


  98. eaglesoars
    99 | September 6, 2018 4:38 pm

    Ok, Bill Binney, the guy being discussed in the yenta video. You’ve heard the name before because he was the NSA whistleblower you met in the 2-part PBS documentary coldwarrior posted here called The United States of Secrets, operation “Thin Thread”. It’s still available onine.

    Here’s a PBS interview with him about that documentary

    https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/government-elections-politics/united-states-of-secrets/the-frontline-interview-william-binney/


  99. eaglesoars
    100 | September 6, 2018 4:41 pm

    I TOLD you Brit intel is in this up to their fucking eyeballs

    have an errand, back later


  100. 101 | September 6, 2018 4:51 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    Dan Bongino substituted in for Mark Levin yesterday. Fascinating as he credibly outlined not one or two but THREE total conspiracies. First conspiracy had no effect, second conspiracy had no effect*; third conspiracy was covering their collective asses because now that Trump was President, he was going to to have access to all of this stuff.

    *It’s so multi-level that I can’t synthesize at this moment. Worth a listen on his free podcast.


  101. yenta-fada
    102 | September 6, 2018 5:27 pm

    THIS was SO annoying to listen to. Tracy keeps interrupting the agent to add background and hogs all the time. First FANTASTIC thing to report is that this is the beginning of accurate information from agents and others. They are building a website FOR President Trump and everybody else. There will be more about it coming up.

    I’m going to look around and see if I can find another source without commentary from Tracy. I don’t have yinz background to get the juice from the info. They discuss the SET UP in place during the campaign and before the election. They can prove that Obama changed the wording on his own Executive order AFTER the election. They know that there were spies within the Trump campaign operation.

    It is a series of interviews they have clearly planned in advance. I can only imagine the risks that these patriots are taking.

    Off to find something with fewer interruptions if I can. The crucial point is that the process of attacking the tentacles of the Deep State has started.


  102. yenta-fada
    103 | September 6, 2018 5:29 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    This is so not the yenta video. 🙂 I’m not qualified to parse this info properly.


  103. yenta-fada
    104 | September 6, 2018 5:36 pm

    btw, the FBI agents are calling Flynn a hero. They are careful about naming names, but they have no hesitation about calling out Brennan.
    That makes me very happy.


  104. eaglesoars
    105 | September 6, 2018 5:41 pm

    Coldwarrior:

    Would it be possible to, within this blog, start a library of all things pertaining to this conspiracy, such as this video. I’m thinking of something that wouldn’t allow comments, but we need a one-stop repository.

    The Barbarian wrote:

    his free podcast.

    !!!!!

    didn’t know there was such a thing


  105. eaglesoars
  106. yenta-fada
    107 | September 6, 2018 5:49 pm

    OK. Here’s the real interview from yourvoicesteeltruth.com. This is the vid.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wffo7kig-kI

    Off to listen to BETTER vid.


  107. yenta-fada
    108 | September 6, 2018 5:55 pm

    @ yenta-fada:

    START WITH THIS VID. Forget the first one.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wffo7kig-kI


  108. eaglesoars
    109 | September 6, 2018 5:55 pm

    yeah, big surprise

    Elizabeth Warren: Time to use 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office

    https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/06/politics/elizabeth-warren-25th-amendment/index.html


  109. yenta-fada
    110 | September 6, 2018 5:56 pm

    @ yenta-fada:

    By first one, I meant the one with the nattering. I’m a little excited. 🙂


  110. eaglesoars
    111 | September 6, 2018 5:58 pm

    ok, Bongino is forgetting that we DID know this – the 702 queries were being abused so Mike Rogers shut the program down. And remember that they tried to fire Rogers?


  111. 112 | September 6, 2018 6:08 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    Oh heck yeah – Mark Levin doesn’t charge for his podcast. Apple iTunes Store (I cannot assist vis-a-vis Android) – download from the store and it will update automatically every day. The nice thing? You can fast forward through his incessant playing of liberals and their talking points.


  112. eaglesoars
    113 | September 6, 2018 6:10 pm

    one thing Bongino seems to be unaware of – Nellie Ohr, a Russian lang expert, was not hired JUST by the FBI. She was also hired by the CIA to translate Russian language documents – as a contractor, not an employee


  113. rain of lead
    114 | September 6, 2018 6:13 pm

    @ eaglesoars:
    @ yenta-fada:
    @ The Barbarian:

    awesome ladies are awesome


  114. 115 | September 6, 2018 6:14 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    I remembered it vaguely. Rogers was the one that went to Trump Tower as I recall.

    These people must have sh*t BRICKS the day after the election. Obama, Lynch, Comey, Rosenweasel, Clinton. Although I’m pretty sure they had a contingency plan to execute just in case. I’ve always wondered if their internal WH polling didn’t lie to them like the media did and they knew a real possibility existed that Clinton could lose – even if they didn’t share that intel with her.

    I’m sure Obama would have relished initially watching her be humiliated on election night even though he would have to scramble afterward to cover his administration’s malfeasance. Even then, I think he never believed Trump would be able to dismantle his agenda as fast as he did – they thought they’d drive him from office before that could happen or that Trump would be forced by public opinion to backtrack.


  115. eaglesoars
    116 | September 6, 2018 6:14 pm

    Bongino is missing something else about Michael Cohen in Prague. This was reported back during the campaign and immediately debunked because Cohen provided his passport. The media had the wrong Michael Cohen and this was all done YEARS ago – nobody had to be read into anything, this has been public knowledge.


  116. yenta-fada
    117 | September 6, 2018 6:33 pm

    @ The Barbarian:

    One of the agents in this interview got on a plane to Trump Tower in NY to tell him his campaign was infiltrated. I know nothing about Rogers.

    CORRECTION about the Obama executive order that was changed. It was James Clapper who changed the wording & sent it out to 16 public agencies (whatever that means) Later on Loretta Lynch altered it more.

    THE UNITED STATES IS IN A NATIONAL EMERGENCY according to these 2 amazing Patriots. This is FANTASTIC!!!!


  117. yenta-fada
    118 | September 6, 2018 6:40 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    Eagle. I beg you. Start watching the full Ann Vandersteel interview ASAP.

    Same for anybody who has the time. It was released Sept.3. It will make you joyful because they know that the Intel Agencies have been compromised for political power for a long period. One of these agents worked on the Echelon mass surveillance project.


  118. yenta-fada
    119 | September 6, 2018 6:46 pm

    Two websites with this info & more. Game on!

    reportforthepresident.com

    voterproof.com


  119. 120 | September 6, 2018 6:49 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    Not only that, they were pretty specific initially as to when the Prague visit occurred. Michael Cohen provided photographic evidence that during the time period they said he was in Prague, he was visiting USC with his son. The coach they met with verified this. I thank after that, they started hedging on when he was in Prague.

    @ yenta-fada:

    If it’s only a listening thing, I’ll listen on my ride home tonight.


  120. eaglesoars
    121 | September 6, 2018 7:15 pm

    ok, no spoilers, there IS one helluva bombshell at the end of the Bongino podcast for Sep 5. Well worth it.

    Now, yenta, off to your stuff


  121. eaglesoars
    122 | September 6, 2018 7:19 pm

    just an fyi – in the event youtube, the bastards, start removing videos, I have a copy of the first video yenta posted w/the FBI agents (posted by Tracey Bean) and arranged for a second copy to be made off site. If that thing disappears and you want it, I’ve got it.


  122. yenta-fada
    123 | September 6, 2018 7:31 pm

    @ The Barbarian:

    yourvoicesteeltruth.com

    You might be able to listen.


  123. yenta-fada
    124 | September 6, 2018 7:34 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    ok, no spoilers, there IS one helluva bombshell at the end of the Bongino podcast for Sep 5. Well worth it.

    Now, yenta, off to your stuff

    You will jump for joy! Hubby will be riveted I think. Forget the tracy thing. She’s promoting her patreon site. DEFINITELY store the other.


  124. eaglesoars
    125 | September 6, 2018 8:18 pm

    yenta-fada wrote:

    They can prove that Obama changed the wording on his own Executive order AFTER the election.

    Note quite. According to the interview, it was CLAPPER that changed the EO. I didn’t know that could be done by anyone but POTUS


  125. eaglesoars
    126 | September 6, 2018 8:20 pm

    Another omission from the Bongino podcast I find odd – he totally skipped McCain’s involvement. I draw no conclusions from that, it may be a time issue.


  126. eaglesoars
    127 | September 6, 2018 8:24 pm

    Back to the Ann Vandersteel interviews – these guys were at a meeting in Norfolk with HUNDREDS of IC people from all the alphabet agencies to ensure the election wasn’t rigged.

    Since when does that happen? Am I the only one who is surprised that all the IC agencies monitor elections? How do they do that? Do they do the same with primaries? Then how did Hillary get away w/stealing hers?


  127. eaglesoars
    128 | September 6, 2018 8:50 pm

    Another thing: a coalition of 119 IC people are going to be coming together to do this? Every last one of them signed some form of oath non-disclosure agreement that binds them unto death, so how do they do that w/o violating that oath?


  128. yenta-fada
    129 | September 6, 2018 8:59 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    Another thing: a coalition of 119 IC people are going to be coming together to do this? Every last one of them signed some form of oath non-disclosure agreement that binds them unto death, so how do they do that w/o violating that oath?

    I surely don’t know, but good questions. I have a bias that wants this to be true. I did correct the Clapper involvement earlier in the thread. I have yet to check the websites. That’s next.


  129. yenta-fada
    130 | September 6, 2018 9:03 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    My little gray cells are older than yours. I’m not a journalist. I
    have prepared a list of excuses. 🙂


  130. RIX
    131 | September 6, 2018 9:11 pm

    jThe Barbarian wrote:

    @ RIX:

    Speculation is now what will Kamala Harris do to top this in he grandstanding department since they’re both campaigning and not legislating.

    Maybe rhe will go for Joan d’ Arc.


  131. yenta-fada
    132 | September 6, 2018 9:16 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72doHOUf4mI

    This is a vid with Vandersteel the next night (9/4). It’s a different show. Ann and the agent start at the 20 minute point. I need dinner.
    btw, the 2 websites mentioned are gone. no surprise either way.


  132. yenta-fada
    133 | September 6, 2018 9:17 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    The agent does say that a lot of his data is open source.


  133. eaglesoars
    134 | September 6, 2018 9:31 pm

    RIX wrote:

    Maybe rhe will go for Joan d’ Arc.

    oh goodie! I’ll bring the firewood……………….


  134. eaglesoars
    135 | September 6, 2018 9:32 pm

    yenta-fada wrote:

    the 2 websites mentioned are gone. no surprise either way.

    gone or not up yet? I checked as soon as I was done watching and just assumed they hadn’t gone up yet


  135. lobo91
    136 | September 6, 2018 9:53 pm

    Cory Booker may have reached a new low today:

    Booker Accuses Reporter of Violating Constitution by Asking Him a Question

    Sen. Cory Booker accused a reporter of violating the U.S. Constitution after he asked the New Jersey Democrat a question in the halls of Congress on Thursday.

    During the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing on the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, Booker threatened to release confidential documents relating to Kavanaugh’s service as a lawyer in the George W. Bush administration.

    “I understand the penalty comes with potential ousting from the Senate,” Booker said before releasing Kavanaugh’s old emails, adding, “This is about the closest I’ll probably ever have in my life to an ‘I am Spartacus’ moment.”

    After the display, however, the Washington Post reported that the “confidential” emails were already cleared for public release before Booker’s dare, citing both Democratic and Republican aides on the judiciary committee.

    “We cleared the documents last night shortly after Senator Booker’s staff asked us to,” confirmed Bill Burck, Bush’s presidential records representative. “We were surprised to learn about Senator Booker’s histrionics this morning because we had already told him he could use the documents publicly. In fact, we have said yes to every request made by the Senate Democrats to make documents public.”

    When Wall Street Journal reporter Byron Tau asked Booker whether his actions during the morning session were a stunt, the senator accused him of violating the U.S. Constitution:

    Democrats knew full well that the documents that Booker and Hirono released this morning were no longer confidential, according to D+R lawmakers and aides.

    I asked @CoryBooker if his remarks in committee were a stunt. He told me I violating the constitution by being in his way.

    — Byron Tau (@ByronTau) September 6, 2018

    It is not entirely clear what Booker was referring to, but the Speech or Debate Clause of the Constitution does state that members of Congress cannot be arrested on their way to session and “in going to and from [session] … shall not be questioned in any other Place.” The prohibition against “questioning” lawmakers on their way to session, however, has generally been interpreted to apply to law enforcement, not reporters.


  136. eaglesoars
    137 | September 6, 2018 10:02 pm

    lobo91 wrote:

    Cory Booker may have reached a new low today:

    well, IIRC my history Spartacus was crucified before he made it to Rome, so there’s that………..


  137. eaglesoars
    138 | September 6, 2018 10:08 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    I forget his name – Catalus, maybe? – was the Roman general responsible for finishing off Spartacus. He marched them all toward Rome. Then, he’d take a bunch from the back of the line, and when the line had marched out of sight, crucify that bunch, and on and on. Miles and miles of decomposing bodies for months. Spartacus had been killed in battle before that, so he missed his star turn.


  138. rain of lead
    139 | September 6, 2018 10:22 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    ahh…the good old days


  139. eaglesoars
    140 | September 6, 2018 10:31 pm

    @ rain of lead:

    I’ve been reading about ancient Rome a lot recently. Amazing society. Wouldn’t want to live there tho.


  140. yenta-fada
    141 | September 6, 2018 11:58 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    yenta-fada wrote:

    the 2 websites mentioned are gone. no surprise either way.

    gone or not up yet? I checked as soon as I was done watching and just assumed they hadn’t gone up yet

    Dunno, they said Friday, but they will need a lot of cybersecurity.


  141. yenta-fada
    142 | September 7, 2018 12:07 am

    @ eaglesoars:

    Silly me. I bet the deep state counts on the fact that VERY few people will listen to an hour long vid of talking heads. Some of the people here will, partly because we are focused and realize the stakes. We value each others time and find the subject matter compelling. Most would just rather watch TV. Hell, that vid IS my TV.


  142. yenta-fada
    143 | September 7, 2018 12:35 am

    eaglesoars wrote:

    RIX wrote:

    Maybe rhe will go for Joan d’ Arc.

    oh goodie! I’ll bring the firewood……………….

    You are so cute when you’re blood thirsty. 🙂


  143. 144 | September 7, 2018 1:08 am

    @ rain of lead:
    THAT is killer.
    Now about that NYT anonymous OP ED piece, what if the author was POTUS?


  144. 145 | September 7, 2018 1:15 am

    @ The Barbarian:
    https://youtu.be/gsC4kf6x_Q0


  145. 147 | September 7, 2018 1:45 am

    @ Bunk X:
    https://youtu.be/PBgxdROTTrE


  146. coldwarrior
    148 | September 7, 2018 1:49 am

    @ Bunk X:

    burt was fun to watch.


  147. 149 | September 7, 2018 2:10 am

    @ coldwarrior:
    Yep. “Deliverance” promoted more stereotypes and did more damage to the reputation of Southern culture than “Easy Rider” did.

    After “Deliverance,” everyone between Milwaukee and Shreveport were labeled redneck inbred assholes.


  148. 150 | September 7, 2018 2:24 am

    @ Bunk X:
    On the other hand, I give Burt credit for doing Judy Carne, Dinah Shore, Loni Anderson, Sally Field, Tammy Wynette, Lucie Arnaz, Adrienne Barbeau, Tawny Little, Johnny Carson, James Hampton, Dom DeLuise, Jerry Reed and Charles Nelson Reilly.


  149. Buckeye Abroad
    151 | September 7, 2018 5:46 am

    eaglesoars wrote:

    Buckeye Abroad wrote:

    His sister later applauded me though. Heh.

    Oh, I bet she did. Especially if Daddy’s estate was subject to primogeniture laws and she got bupkiss

    She did ok– dad (who I met and liked) split it all up evenally, however oddly enough she is currently going thru a divorce and it seems her soon to be ex- is subject to receiving half her properties. Damn shame as I was friends with both of them when they met and attended their wedding.


  150. coldwarrior
    152 | September 7, 2018 8:12 am

    Bunk X wrote:

    @ coldwarrior:
    Yep. “Deliverance” promoted more stereotypes and did more damage to the reputation of Southern culture than “Easy Rider” did.

    After “Deliverance,” everyone between Milwaukee and Shreveport were labeled redneck inbred assholes.

    everyone holds stereotypes about everyone else’s group. i dont let it worry me. i don’t care what some coasty elitist thinks of me, nor do they care what i think of them.

    those candaians tho…boy, lemme tell ya!

    😆


  151. coldwarrior
    153 | September 7, 2018 8:14 am

    Musk muses about life over whiskey and weed…

    Wild and wide-ranging podcast…

    Probably Living in a Simulation…

    from drudge, i guess musk is trying to out-weird howard hughes…well,
    elon, you aint even close to hughes in genius or weirdness.


  152. 154 | September 7, 2018 8:41 am

    Ok, this is going to leave a bruise…

    https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1038018199449567232


  153. Buckeye Abroad
    155 | September 7, 2018 9:00 am

    @ coldwarrior:

    Elon has been subsidized to the gills and I think Tesla is overpriced hype.


  154. RIX
    156 | September 7, 2018 9:03 am

    Good morning. I am Spartacus.


  155. coldwarrior
    157 | September 7, 2018 9:06 am

    RIX wrote:

    Good morning. I am Spartacus.

    hey spartacus…i have to be road warrior for the next 6 weeks..can’t wait to wake up in a bland business suite and eat boring corporate breakfast again! its been a while

    I AM RIXICUS!

    😆


  156. coldwarrior
    158 | September 7, 2018 9:07 am

    Buckeye Abroad wrote:

    @ coldwarrior:

    Elon has been subsidized to the gills and I think Tesla is overpriced hype.

    the end is nigh…

    https://autoweek.com/article/luxury/mercedes-benz-eqc-electric-suv-sets-its-sights-tesla


  157. eaglesoars
    159 | September 7, 2018 9:18 am

    RIX wrote:

    I am Spartacus.

    somebody somewhere is coming up with some really brutal t-shirts

    coldwarrior wrote:

    the end is nigh…

    It probably is for Tesla, but I hope Musk pulls himself together. He has a lot to offer. His successes are undeniable and perhaps he started to believe the crap every genius hears – there are no limits – and can start to respect his own w/o feeling like a failure. I suspect he’s a major asshole, but so what?


  158. coldwarrior
    160 | September 7, 2018 9:20 am

    doriangrey wrote:

    Ok, this is going to leave a bruise…

    https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1038018199449567232

    my portfolio has taken a couple of politically motivated hits recently. moved some money out of FANG and bought some large cap industrial funds.


  159. 161 | September 7, 2018 9:25 am

    Buckeye Abroad wrote:

    @ coldwarrior:

    Elon has been subsidized to the gills and I think Tesla is overpriced hype.

    Everything Elon Musk does, is about going to Mars. EVERYTHING. Tesla is about going to Mars. His Battery factories are about going to Mars. SpaceX is about going to Mars.

    Elon Musk is that rare individual with a vision willing to do damned near anything to achieve that vision.

    Keep this in mind. The atmosphere in Mars is .002 millibars, and 90 percent carbon dioxide. There will be ZERO internal combustion power generation on Mars. All vehicles will be electric. Most power consumed there will be Solar, there will be NO fossil fuel generated electricity. Electricity must be generated and stored by means that on earth are to expensive to be of any significant use.

    Elon is by most peoples standards eccentric, but his is a genius, and he is driven to do something that just 30 years ago it was conceded by everyone that only a Government could do.

    Yes, the government does subsidize his businesses, that because his goal of putting men on Mars coincides with NASA’s goal of doing the exact same thing. The US Government is subsidizing Elon Musk the exact same way it subsidized Boeing and Lockheed-Martin back in the 1960’s for NASA’s Apollo missions. The Exact same way it subsidized Intel in the 1980’s for the Space Shuttles.

    (For those unaware, Gordon Moore was a engineer for Fairchild Semiconductor who was lured away from Fairchild to produce processors on a chip for NASA’s use in the Space Shuttle, the 8086 processor was designed for the Space Shuttle, we profited from that design)


  160. RIX
    162 | September 7, 2018 9:28 am

    @ eaglesoars:
    Oh yeah, those Spartacus Tee Shirts will probably be in the stores Monday.
    He is still looking fot protected documents to expose. This is not Mr Emith goes to Washington.


  161. 163 | September 7, 2018 9:30 am

    eaglesoars wrote:

    It probably is for Tesla, but I hope Musk pulls himself together. He has a lot to offer. His successes are undeniable and perhaps he started to believe the crap every genius hears – there are no limits – and can start to respect his own w/o feeling like a failure. I suspect he’s a major asshole, but so what?

    Elon Musk came out of the closet a few weeks ago as a Conservative and Trump supporter (he maxed out his political contributions on Trump $115,000.00 or so). If the end is nigh for Musk, its because the media now hate him and will do anything to destroy him because they discovered he supports Trump and other genuine Conservatives.


  162. coldwarrior
    164 | September 7, 2018 9:33 am

    @ doriangrey:

    the guy is a genius, i give him that and we do need to get off this rock. i’d like to see him actually make a profit with tesla instead of sucking up massive tax subsidies tho.


  163. 165 | September 7, 2018 9:34 am

    RIX wrote:

    jThe Barbarian wrote:

    @ RIX:

    Speculation is now what will Kamala Harris do to top this in he grandstanding department since they’re both campaigning and not legislating.

    Maybe rhe will go for Joan d’ Arc.

    I’d tune in if she set herself on fire.


  164. coldwarrior
    166 | September 7, 2018 9:35 am

    Buckeye Abroad wrote:

    @ coldwarrior:

    Elon has been subsidized to the gills and I think Tesla is overpriced hype.

    i drove one a few weeks ago. nice.damn.car

    NICE.


  165. coldwarrior
    167 | September 7, 2018 9:37 am

    coldwarrior wrote:

    Buckeye Abroad wrote:

    @ coldwarrior:

    Elon has been subsidized to the gills and I think Tesla is overpriced hype.

    i drove one a few weeks ago. nice.damn.car

    NICE.

    my tax dollars helped one of our MDs buy it.

    that is what bothers me.


  166. coldwarrior
    168 | September 7, 2018 9:38 am

    the friday open escaped..so it’s up.


  167. 169 | September 7, 2018 9:38 am

    coldwarrior wrote:

    Bunk X wrote:

    @ coldwarrior:
    Yep. “Deliverance” promoted more stereotypes and did more damage to the reputation of Southern culture than “Easy Rider” did.

    After “Deliverance,” everyone between Milwaukee and Shreveport were labeled redneck inbred assholes.

    everyone holds stereotypes about everyone else’s group. i dont let it worry me. i don’t care what some coasty elitist thinks of me, nor do they care what i think of them.

    those candaians tho…boy, lemme tell ya!

    I don’t worry about it much either. Anyone talks about ign’rnt Southerners, I just point to my Summa diploma from Cal and my Phi Beta Kappa key, all the while sweetly muttering “you were saying?”


  168. 170 | September 7, 2018 9:39 am

    @ coldwarrior:

    And that reminds me that the Sunday open needs to be written. Amazing what I can accomplish when someone has me on an actual deadline.


  169. coldwarrior
    171 | September 7, 2018 9:40 am

    The Barbarian wrote:

    I just point to my Summa diploma from Cal and my Phi Beta Kappa key, all the while sweetly muttering “you were saying?”

    😆

    me too. Econ/Stats MS

    ‘flyover’ this, bitches!

    😆


  170. coldwarrior
    172 | September 7, 2018 9:42 am

    The Barbarian wrote:

    @ coldwarrior:

    And that reminds me that the Sunday open needs to be written. Amazing what I can accomplish when someone has me on an actual deadline.

    yep. deadlines.

    i have to spend these three days off writing papers. MSN work.

    when i am done with this degree, i will have more letters after my full name than in my name! and those will go on my tombstone.


  171. coldwarrior
    173 | September 7, 2018 9:43 am

    i am out of tequila. must rectify this situation STAT!

    see yinz later!


  172. 174 | September 7, 2018 9:49 am

    coldwarrior wrote:

    @ doriangrey:

    the guy is a genius, i give him that and we do need to get off this rock. i’d like to see him actually make a profit with tesla instead of sucking up massive tax subsidies tho.

    When I was making the Arm for the International Space Station that captures the DragonX Capsules (the resupply capsules) what the SpaceX engineers told me was, that the Tesla automobiles were always designed as vehicles for Mars. That’s why the government subsidizes Tesla, because it is a “Proof of concept” vehicle.

    Yes, it would be nice for Tesla to earn a profit, but pretty much Elon Musk is a NASA proof of concept creation himself. Back in the early 2000’s NASA and the US Government decided that space exploration was to expensive for any government to do because popular support was to fickle. So they decided that a significant portion of the financial burden had to be shifted to private corporations.

    In order to convince private corporations to take this risk, they invented Elon Musk. Elon was/is a private citizen with the dream of space exploration, so NASA made him the face of private industry tackling space exploration and kicked off the whole private corporation assault on space exploration. Now we have Jeff Bezos and Sir Richard Branson also throwing their hats in the ring. Which they would not in all likelihood have done without Elon going there first.

    Sometimes, you have to prime the pump before you get anything out of it.


  173. RIX
    175 | September 7, 2018 1:46 pm

    The Barbarian wrote:

    RIX wrote:

    jThe Barbarian wrote:

    @ RIX:

    Speculation is now what will Kamala Harris do to top this in he grandstanding department since they’re both campaigning and not legislating.

    Maybe rhe will go for Joan d’ Arc.

    I’d tune in if she set herself on fire.

    Must see TV.


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