The end of the week is all but upon us. That’s when I usually get excited, but I can’t get pumped up for the Army-Navy game. I already miss college football. But the bowl games are a mere week and change away, so I’ll manage somehow. Like the UCL final 16 being set. I look forward to the draw Monday morning. And I bet Liverpool end up against a Spanish side from Madrid. You heard it here first.
The US got off to a rocky start at the Presidents Cup matches in Melbourne. And Scott Boras got a lot wealthier as Anthony Rendon signed with Anaheim. This was hilarious. (Illinois beat Michigan in the game as well.) And your NHL winners were Washington, Montreal , and Colorado.
First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Jay was born this day. So were savior to train-hopping hobos Matthias Hohner, painter Edvard Munch, actor Edward G Robinson, “Old Blue Eyes” Frank Sinatra, flying ace Arthur Hawkins, pet-neutering activist Bob Barker, NY mayor Ed Koch, guitarist Dickey Betts, punk pioneer Rob Tyner, drummer Clive Bunker, racing legend Emerson Fittipaldi, singer/drummer Sheila E, MMA legend Royce Gracie, and triplet Playboy models Nicole, Erica and Jaclyn Dahm.
That was a music-heavy list…of heavyweights, in my opinion. Anyway, on to…the links!
I guess this is why Jim Comey’s twitter account was silent yesterday. But don’t worry, he’ll be back to his blathering as soon as someone not under oath says he wasn’t completely incompetent in his duties.
Biden’s campaign continues to be run about as well as his son’s life. Maybe a little cocaine would pep it up. And a trip to a strip club or two.
Speaking that son, he has until Friday to give his income information for the last five years to a judge in his child support case. I assume since its family court, the records will be sealed. And that means they won’t get leaked to the public for a couple days.
Chicago Police Department continues its unblemished track record of being a shitshow. Just read for yourself. They can’t decide how to even promote people without causing grief.
Donald Trump: Diplomat. I find it hilarious that we have somebody in office causing gasps of the professional political class by…talking like a normal person would in a similar interaction. And I suspect that’s part of why he’s so despised by that “class” of people and those who believe we have “top men” who should run the world.
Meanwhile, the British version of Trump keeps doing what he does, and the media goes bonkers. Too bad for Labour their party is in complete disarray and their officials spout anti-semitic garbage all the time. Otherwise they could defeat this buffoonish guy with fantastic hair.
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Makes me happy for our system of government and elections where we hold a vote and everybody grudgingly accepts the results and moves on with their lives. Well, not anymore, but at least we only have to get flooded with election propaganda on a set schedule.
Tomorrow might be tough to find a song for. Until I hit that wall, go ahead and enjoy this gem.
Now get out there and make it a great day, friends!
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Love the song, and I pledge to only serve one term as first.
That’s what they all say
Well, the term is for life, so…
Well, I won’t be releasing my tax returns, so there’s that.
Serve a term? Is that like a pregnancy, where a full term is 9 months? Some of that 4 years is gonna be in a home with his wife explaining what he really means.
Biden’s campaign continues to be run about as well as his son’s life.
I don’t know, fifty thousand a month sounds like it buys a pretty good life.
That was $83,000/ month.
Not counting China.
The China investment venture is obscene. I can’t believe that hasn’t come up more.
Because everybody in the media is scared to death of offending China.
One Escalade a month.
That’s my current measurement unit for money.
In toto, my house, car, gaming PC, watch collection, TV and media server – so basically everything of value I own – cost less than half of that.
Your PC didn’t cost almost twenty grand?
There’s a new Mac Pro build that costs $53k.
Your house costs less than 40k?
I’m guessing he’s subtracting the outstanding debt from the sale price.
Nah, it was a bank owned property in a depressed area and we bought it shortly before the housing market recovered. Transacted with one cashier’s check for less than $40k.
That’s not how costs work.
Pat’s an opportunistic carpetbagger.
To be clear that was a response to uncivil…
Good on you pat. I wish I’d not messed my life up such that I could have bought during that timeframe.
I have a feeling with Fed policy being what it is you’ll have another opportunity in the near future. The trick, of course, is timing it just right so you buy while the market is imploding, but before interest rates go neg and the dollar goes full peso.
I wouldn’t mind a negative interest rate on my mortgage. . . :p
But he couldn’t come up with a couple bucks to Mary Jo his stripper girlfriend? Piker.
Kind of odd that the media isn’t fact checking that number at all. Might be interesting to see how much the kid was getting paid, but then we’d be focusing on how much the kid was getting paid.
That’s about what the little grandkids will be making mid-career, thanks to inflation. Can you image what Babe Ruth would have said if you had told him in 1930 what even no-talent ballplayers were making today? Pitchers making $1mm per game!
Nitpicking: the title is “Chief Justice of the United States”. Something
inside tells me that somehow that matters. I can’t figure out what or
how though.
This will probably get fixed but “was boron this day” for some reason
made me immediately think, “I’d have gone for osmium or fluorine maybe,
but ok”. Free association is a terrible curse.
If you’re nitpicking what I wrote, you’re gonna be pretty busy. My links are always full of typos and grammatical errors.
Fortunately I have an edit button.
Meh…
e e cummings didn’t even bother to use punctuation or capitalization… because he claimed he was a mouse or something. And I had to study that dude in school. I’d say you are ahead of the game.
I can’t stand people who feel compelled to correct grammar on the internet knowing full damn well most of the time the errors are just typos.
I rarely, if ever, ‘proof read’ my comments trusting people will just get the gist of things.
I’ll proof read when I write a book. It’ll be about Muppet Orgies in Ancient Times.
Oscar Grouchicus did climb from his oubliette boasting manhood to rival that of Jupiter himself.
“Oh!’ did declaim Avem Maximus. “I have never seen the equal of his thundering delight ever before on Via Sesamae.”
Did you just say Trashy is hung like a swan?
You need to click on Trashy’s name when he posts. All questions will be answered.
Or hung like a bull. Or a golden shower. Or an eagle.
Bull would have been too complimentary to Trashy. Golden Shower would have required torturing meaning of words too much, and Swan just felt like the way to go.
Trashy is exactly as Henson did make him. Amen.
Fun fact… I’m the only Muppet that Jim Henson built with a baculum
I thought it was a speculum.
I feel a responsibility to Rule 35.
See, I just thought it was an obscure reference to the Borax Kid.
From what I understand, Boris was on some publicity event, some member of the press tried to drop ambush questions, he said “I’m otherwise occupied right now” or words to that effect, and continued with what he’d been doing, which involved going back into the refrigerator truck. Of course, the British press is pro-remain, so it’s “Boris hides in fridge”
He’s trolling them so hard they don’t know what to do. And they can’t cover Corbyn without him blaming the Jews for something or other.
It’s hilarious.
He’s like a mash up of Bill Belecheck’s media savvy and Bernie Sander’s hair.
That’s a hell of a metaphor.
First! Or so.
Yeah, and I AM SPARTACUS!
I’m Spartacus.
Nah, we’re all Poppy.
A visit from the Edit Fairy! I am truly blessed!
President Trump said in a closed-door White House meeting that French President Emmanuel Macron is “a pain in the ass” and disparaged Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau following the release of a video that appeared to show the world leaders gossiping about him, a report said.
I, for one, am glad we elected Billy Bob Thorton as president.
Saw Billy Bob Thornton at Top Golf here in Nashville. He is a rather petite little fella.
Actors have to be small so they can fit on the screen. If aspect ratios were biased the other way, i.e. 9:16 instead of 16:9, 1:1.85 instead of 1.85:1, then there would be more scope for taller actors to succeed on screen. The advent of vertical video due to the smartphone is a revolution in which we the statuesque and lofty proletariat take back the video from the video kulaks of the world like Tom Cruise and Billy Bob Thornton. Death to the short kulaks and their aspect ratios of oppression! Tall people of the world, UNITE!
Inshallah my fellow countrymen do not vote for (more) socialism.
Okay, just the same amount of socialism then . /conservative voter
That about sums it up.
This is the 10th election in a row where conservatives will definitely sell off the NHS, right? Just like they did in the last elections.
I hope so, L O L ! !! ! !!!111!!
Is there even a tiny party in the UK that wants to eliminate the NHS?
There is a “Libertarian” party, with hardly any candidates standing anywhere. Some years ago when I still had a facebork account, I remember seeing a page that claimed to be for some sort of UK libertarian party, but it seemed to be a single-issue page about Islamo-fascism and the threat of Sharia law, so apparently neglecting actual libertarian ideas and discussion for “oh no! Muslims!”, with little context. I have no idea whether that page was affiliated with the party or not. Little parties become ciphers for certain agendas and are quickly caricatured by the media, if they are covered at all, as either “right” or “left”, “racist”, etc.
I still don’t think any party would get anywhere if they really did campaign on actually reforming healthcare so it wasn’t a hugely inefficient mess in which any success in service is achieved despite it’s structure and bureaucracy. There’s little to no honest discussion of the NHS in any public forum because the left is “defend it at all costs” and subscribes to the narrative of “any criticism is an attack and anyone who criticizes it wants to destroy it”, whereas anyone else is just too chicken/knows it’s political suicide to even faintly suggest even modest reforms because much of the press immediately twists those words. The current scaremongering seems to boil down to an objection to any business profiting from contracts with the NHS (profits = bad!).
There is a deliberate, dishonest conflation of the quality of service provided, and how the service is facilitated. Often times the nurses, doctors, and practitioners themselves are said to be “under attack”, as if how dare those nasty tories attack these good, hard working people, which is of course nasty propaganda that really works to garner sympathy. A good doctor can still be a good doctor and provide excellent service in a non-single payer system. Quality care can still be affordable (more affordable!), in a free market where such things don’t have to be rationed and would not require such burdensome administrative overheads. I’m open to the idea that a minimal, more libertarian govt can include some form of NHS among the basic services and infrastructure it provides, were there any grown ups on the left to have that debate with. Even as a single-payer system in it’s current form, there are many possible reforms that could make it vastly more cost-effective and efficient, but unless they are espoused by the right people (i.e. it comes from the left), such measures would never be given a fair treatment in the media, the public square etc.
TL;DR – the NHS isn’t going anywhere and isn’t going to change any time soon because politics, so all the whining is largely hot air
I’m still surprised Boris is pm still after not delivering Brexit. Isn’t their extension over yet?
No. The EU determined how long their extension is. Because the Parliament are telling their constituents that their vote didn’t matter.
It’s already been 3 months. how long did they give them?
Also, who thought the eu would really kick then out? I’m sure they’re terrified PhD the prospect, which is why they play hardball, but cave on deadlines.
IIRC, the extension is open-ended and at the discretion of the EU. Which means they can keep them as a member indefinitely and the Brits can’t do a thing about it.
Wow, they’re never getting out.
Sure they can. They can do the same thing the colonies did yo the Brits.
The colonies had balls. The Brits have been neutered.
Don’t fool yourself, nothing like that will happen in the U.S. again.
“the department was “one of the last” police departments in the country to rely on merit promotions”
*Facepalm*
What’s funny and brutal is hitting a tee shot to 5 feet on a Par 4 for Eagle and then missing the putt
Much better than my great shot golf stories.
They all proceed according to this form (true story):
I was playing at the Jamestown golf course where the Greater Greensboro Open had just finished. A buddy worked on the greens crew and he got us in the next morning, right at sunup. So it was still set up for the pros.
In the quiet early morning, the grass was covered with dew and the course was beautiful. We were playing a par 5 with a big sweeping curve to the right over a hill. At the top of the hill stood a giant pine. Looking like something out of a painting, it was silhouetted against the morning sky… one lonely branch about a third of the way up extending over the fairway, Just perfect.
I stepped up to my ball in front of the guys, fairway wood in hand for my second shot and hit it perfect… the swack echoed through the morning like thunder. The ball was one of those slow rising driver shots, taking of low and the spin lifting it over the rise. One of the guys behind me exhaled…whoa!…..
Suddenly… THWACK! Louder than my T shot, by far. The ball rose and struck the center of the lonely tree branch and came screaming back toward us, rolling to a stop some 20 feet behind me.
This is golf.
LOL so brutal
On the other hand, I once badly hooked my drive into an abandoned quarry, ball hit a rock and caromed onto the green and into the hole. Hole in One?
Not quite, because I had also hooked my first drive into said quarry.
I once played a cheap course with power lines running over a few holes.
I hit the power lines TWICE with drives on 2 different holes (out of 9).
That should count for something, right?
I used to play with a guy (long since past) who was the Minneapolis high school’s state champion. On one of the holes you have to drive it over a pond. We were only about four holes into the game. He hit it into the pond three times in a row, looked at me and said, “Fuck it. We’re going home.”
I love that story….
And I identify with the futility… although for me it is water to the right. For some reason, I will always slice it into the water along the right. Even if I aim 45 degrees to the left…. right in the water.
Which is why I always go home with more balls than I arrive with.
Is “merit promotions” one of those terms that doesn’t mean what it says it means?
Yes. It means “we have a dozen Captain positions to fill. Go find me half a dozen black, three hispanic and three white Lieutenants to promote who will tow the line” rather than “find me the dozen people who scored highest on the Captain’s exam.”
What about genderqueer? At least one of those.
At least one of them should be a horse, and two of them K-9s, if it really is a merit system.
Captains exam? Something like 90% of LTs make Captain.
Why not? Every county sheriff and small town police chief is at least a four star general.
Yeah, that was confusing the hell out of me too.
They don’t want the tests because well let’s not talk about that, and they don’t want “merit” which isn’t a test… what the hell DO they want?
Promotions based on seniority.
“It was his turn!”
I guess I couldn’t read the reporter’s mind well enough to divine that 🙂
I don’t know if seniority will satisfy the quotas any better than the not-merit “merit” system.
When Dickey Betts got fired, the Allman Bros ceased to exist.
Yeh his guitar solo on ‘Blue Sky’ is just about as beautiful and perfect as they come.
I’m pretty sure it was Betts? I forget. Going on memory from when I bought that album waaaay back in the day.
You bilk the world’s shadiest oil company out of 80 million bucks the last you can do is take care of your baby mama.
That’s his money, he earned it fair and square the old fashioned way.
Prostitution?
Yes, except it was something else getting fucked.
Ah, pimping, the second oldest profession.
I wouldn’t really call it bilking if the oil company got what they wanted out of it, which it appears they did.
You’d think that was obvious. If the entire media wasn’t in my pocket I’d be furious at my son for not quietly solving his problems, after I hooked him up with enough cash to do it too.
What about the epidemic of gold-digging whores Bill Burr was talking about? Should that not be discouraged?
Now I realize I don’t even remember how old that bit was. At least 15 years…
Yep. Those gold digging whores are sucking meth dick by now.
You’re a damn liar, man. That’s not true. And no one has ever said that. No one has proved that. Listen, fat, push-ups at dawn!………….It’s a natural gas company.
“Virgo: 5 of Coins reversed – Disorder, chaos, ruin, discord, profligacy”
Damn you Not Adahn! Lol.
“Morning prime minister, would you come on ‘Good Morning Britain’,’ prime minister?” reporter Jonathan Swain asks before Johnson’s aide appears to mouth an expletive in response to the request.
“Piss off!”
Right? Why on earth would he want to speak with that smug prick Piers Morgan?
Thank TPTB! I woke up today thinking it was Saturday.
Well, you’re only 1 day early. Close enough.
It’s Thursday.
There you go again…
Instagram model slams ‘disgusting’ rumors that she staged an armed robbery to get followers after surveillance video shows her naked confronting a man in her apartment
• Instagram model Danii Banks, 29, was alerted to an intruder by her barking dogs
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7779945/Dramatic-moment-naked-model-confronts-armed-burglar-broke-home-sleeping.html
Sooo… thicc ?
Actual thicc. Thick, even.
I don’t know Rick…
Al usual for the mail, the ass is blurred in the video but not in the picture
So thicc. Would.
thicc ?
I wonder how much of her ass she injected into her lips.
Fake. She and the dogs seem quite relaxed, for being confronted with an armed robber while completely naked. Also, funny how the video never seems to show the robber’s face.
Did the Rose chick have the day off?
Union mandated
Is “merit promotions” one of those terms that doesn’t mean what it says it means?
“Good at unioning” not same as “Good at job”
In Pakistan, Angry Mob Of Lawyers Attacks Hospital, Causing Deaths Of 3 Patients
https://www.npr.org/2019/12/11/787109476/in-pakistan-angry-mob-of-lawyers-attack-hospital-causing-deaths-of-3-patients
Lawyers in Pakistan appear to be an unruly bunch. This is not the first time I’ve heard of something like this.
Guess who will not get particularly good or timely treatment now?
“Name?”
“Ahmed Khan”
“Occupation?”
“Lawyer”
…
“You wait over there”
How broken does a country have to get before you have doctor v lawyer riots?
I’ve rolled with Royce. It’s like jumping in a pool and wrestling the water.
Really?
If UFC wasn’t just strikes and takedown defense at this point, I would be following Kron Gracie.
How long before you tapped?
seconds. but only b/c he was humoring me.
While some expressed sheer dismay, others were flabbergasted by the prime minister’s actions.
Sheer Dismay and Flabber Gasted are on the ballot.
You will try…
Speaking to CBS 6 on Wednesday, Herring said when the General Assembly passes gun control legislation those laws will be enforced.
“The resolutions that are being passed are being ginned up by the gun lobby to try to scare people. What we’re talking about here are laws that will make our communities and our streets safer. We’re talking about universal background checks, finally, maybe, Virginia will pass universal background checks to make sure that people who are dangerous, who are criminals and who aren’t permitted to buy guns, won’t be able to buy guns,” said Herring. “So, when Virginia passes these gun safety laws that they will be followed, they will be enforced.”
The coming legislature is threatening to do things that fly directly in the face of article 1, section 13 of the document you are sworn to uphold. Fuck. Off.
You know who else’s election ushered in an era of turmoil?
King wladislas?
In Pakistan, Angry Mob Of Lawyers Attacks Hospital, Causing Deaths Of 3 Patients
They got tired of waiting for an ambulance to chase?
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
So ridiculous. Greta must work on her Anger Management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend! Chill Greta, Chill!
That is impeachable
Poking fun at a teen girl who injected herself into politics is totally hateful.
Making violent threats against smiling teens in MAGA hats is righteous
nice!
Our understanding of how diet affects health is limited to 150 key nutritional components that are tracked and catalogued by the United States Department of Agriculture and other national databases. Although this knowledge has been transformative for health sciences, helping unveil the role of calories, sugar, fat, vitamins and other nutritional factors in the emergence of common diseases, these nutritional components represent only a small fraction of the more than 26,000 distinct, definable biochemicals present in our food—many of which have documented effects on health but remain unquantified in any systematic fashion across different individual foods. Using new advances such as machine learning, a high-resolution library of these biochemicals could enable the systematic study of the full biochemical spectrum of our diets, opening new avenues for understanding the composition of what we eat, and how it affects health and disease.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-019-0005-1
Eat what you like in moderation and don’t get fat. You’re going to die regardless.
“We will program a computer to give outputs no one can verify”
Cool.
Pass the butter…
So no red meats, lay off the salt, and go whole hog on the breads.
/Science is settled, 1970 edition.
Oppression in the workplace
Some federal law enforcement officials are warning of a chilling effect inside the FBI amid attacks by President Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr over the bureau’s handling of the Russia investigation.
Current and former FBI officials tell CNN they’re concerned that the harsh rhetoric coming from Trump and Barr has only worsened the bureau’s already tenuous standing with the President, leaving them wondering whether federal agents could be less aggressive the next time they have to pursue a sensitive investigation.
“We’re constantly told to be agile and use all the legal tools available to us,” said one FBI employee who works on counterintelligence matters. “But who is going to risk sticking their neck out now only to have DOJ chop it off?”
Oh, horror. Obeying the laws is an onerous burden, when justice is on the line.
They should treat the FBI the same way they treated the Stasi after the Berlin Wall fell.
Disband it and make all records open to the public.
use all the legal tools available to us
Key-word.
“use all the legal tools available to us”
Er, lying to a court, falsifying evidence, withholding exculpatory evidence, and threatening the family of a suspect aren’t exactly legal tools.
A legal tool is either “a tool that is legal” or “a tool that is available to those who operate in the legal process” the same way a wood tool is either a wooden mallet or a chisel made out of 1095 steel and good for shaping wood.
No, the FBI agents in this case were themselves legal tools. Or maybe just tools.
“We’re constantly told to be agile and use all the legal tools available to us,” said one FBI employee who works on counterintelligence matters. “But who is going to risk sticking their neck out now only to have DOJ chop it off?”
Oh NO! The dreaded blue flu.
Translation: We won’t falsify warrant applications against the scary terrorists if we can’t get away with falsifying warrants against the President. Fuck these people, disband them all.
Please chill the FbI and then let’s see if we can chill the lapd.
Yesterday
Oh sure take Ted Cruz’s word for it. I was talking all about this yesterday but you need to here it from Horowitz’s mouth
“Did I say he ‘wasn’t’ a CIA informant? Ooops. My bad. I meant he was a CIA informant.”
That is going to be the defense. And the media will swallow it up.
Lawyer changed it should be disbarred and charged with a crime.
But the agent “didn’t know” and so she signed It as it stood as the lawyer gave to her.
Every error is: hmm must have slipped my mind, or I don’t remember why, or didn’t think to run this past the guy policy required me to ask.
It’s the FBI. The buck stops nowhere.
Deliberately uttering a false statement or causing another to utter a false statement to a tribunal is up there with stealing client funds on the Attorney no more list.
“Oh and I suppose you’re going to try to make something nefarious out of this!”
They don’t care that the FBI can do that to any citizen in the US if they want, but it’s Orange Man Bad so it’s all good.
And if you watched CNN (HA!) you might have missed some of it.
CNN covered every second of the impeachment hearings, but didn’t cover Lindsey Graham’s Opening Statement at the Horowitz hearing.
First comment nails it
Horowitz’s conclusion that none of this was motivated by bias is actually even more damning of the FBI than if he had concluded it was.
Because if this wasn’t motivated by bias, wouldn’t that mean its pretty much business as usual?
Is it a conclusion? Or is it what he was told in interviews and he’s not allowed to draw further conclusions?
Docs Would Question Patients About Guns Under Bill
The proposal, which drew criticism from gun rights activists, would instruct state public health officials to develop regulations that add screening questions about guns into regular medical care and would allow medical providers to recommend safety counseling.
Supporters say the conversations will be “non-judgmental,” similar to those medical professionals already have with patients about substance use and mental health, and will continue efforts to treat gun violence as a public health concern.
“Our priority is to encourage further conversations about gun safety, identify red flags for suicide and domestic violence and child access to guns,” Boston Health and Human Services Chief Marty Martinez told the Joint Committee on Public Health. “We know that gun safety is a public health issue. As such, doctors are uniquely positioned to help prevent gun-related injury and death.”
The legislation (H 2005), filed by medical doctor and Boston Rep. Jon Santiago, does not outline specifics for how the new screening program would work. It simply directs the state public health commissioner to create a program for firearm screening and counseling, leaving how and how often patients would be asked to be determined after consultation with a range of stakeholders.
The bill also calls for creation of “guidelines for safety counseling for individuals that screen positive for the presence of firearms in the home” without defining how those would look or how the counseling would be offered.
“Armed with that guidance, doctors can then feel confident having these important conversations with their patients,” said Dr. Jennifer Lo, medical director of the Boston Public Health Commission.
Sounds like an “encourage patients to lie to their doctors” bill.
Visits due to getting bruised up during a boating accident are going to skyrocket.
+1 first hand experience 😉
Nah, they want the gun and bible clinger class to stop going and die sooner.
Unintended consequences, this might actually extend life.
Indeed. *continues avoiding doctors*
If you want me to be honest, then stay in your fucking lane, Sawbones.
“Look, doc, if you don’t want me as a patient any more, just say so.”
When a doctor asks if you have firearms in your home, simply follow Nancy Reagan’s advice and just say no.
Did that, then trained my kids to do it too.
Now it’s not a lie. ?
In his criticism, Barr has used language that hews closely to conspiracies from Trump, who maintains that his campaign was illegally spied on. During a rally on Tuesday night, Trump used the word “scum” to refer to FBI employees he believes acted improperly.
“These comments will have a chilling effect on the workforce,” said one recently retired agent who has handled surveillance warrants under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the kind abused according to the inspector general report.
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Barr, in an interview with NBC News Tuesday, heightened the failure to an accusation of civil liberties abuse.
“The greatest danger to our free system is that the incumbent government use the apparatus of the state, principally the law enforcement agencies and the intelligence agencies, both to spy on political opponents, but also to use them in a way that could affect the outcome of the election,” Barr said.
As the head of the Justice Department, Barr is two steps above the FBI’s director, Christopher Wray, and defenders of the agency have called Barr’s pejorative use of the term “spying” inappropriate.
It wasn’t *spying* spying. They just wanted to keep an eye on things. You know, out of duty to their country. And the Party.
Lol, just don’t call it spying, you meanie.
The republic really is lost, isn’t it?
They weren’t spying they were surveiling. And it was just 4 members of Trump’s campaign and transition team, not the campaign.
MUH FEELINGS IZ HURT
There’s just no making ((those)) people happy. Is that why they keep having elections?
Jewish groups divided on Trump order targeting college anti-Semitism
Trump’s shocking antisemitism that conservatives refuse to recognize.
Oh, wait, it’s about Corbyn and Jews in London. Never mind.
Trump’s manifest bigotry is much worse.
The president bends the law to categorize Judaism as a nationality in order to give Jewish people protection under the CRA and it’s anti-Semitic.
After moving the capital, having no issues with his daughter converting to Judaism or raising his grandson Jewish.
Did not bend the law. Did not break from precedent to do it.
The NYT wrote a misleading article that got the left running in circles waving their hands in the air? I am shocked!
Mea culpa, I saw a couple of hysterical headlines but didn’t actually bother to even read about the details.
Musk, Bloomberg, Bezos: America’s aristocracy of tech robber barons lives by its own rules
I was gonna do a guess the source but here it is
https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2019/dec/12/musk-bloomberg-bezos-americas-aristocracy-of-tech-robber-barons-lives-by-its-own-rules
They’re not entirely wrong, although the class envy is unseemly and it’s hardly a new idea that the wealthy and well-connected have an easier time of it with the justice system.
Nearly as many Americans pay a tax to Jeff Bezos in the form of Amazon Prime membership each year as pay federal income taxes.
And if you don’t pay for your Prime membership, Bezos will throw you in jail.
One of those two things is a problem, and it’s not the number of people with prime.
The things they say do, I still prefer those barons to the ones in government.
Trump taught the GOP how to troll.
Professor Turley was right when he said this impeachment, quote, “will be the shortest investigation, producing the thinnest record of wrongdoing, for the narrowest impeachment in history,” end of quote. At the end of the day, I want to invoke the words of my colleague from the [House] Rules Committee, Congressman Alcee Hastings, who said during one debate that the majority’s efforts would backfire. He said, “You will lose. This will cost you the majority next year, and some of you aren’t going to be here in the next Congress. I hope you’ve had your fun.” Well, I tell my colleagues: go ahead, vote to impeach President Trump tomorrow. But when you walk out of this hearing room, call your freshman colleagues and tell them they’re not coming back, and you hope they’ve had their fun. Say goodbye to your majority status, and please join us in January of 2021, when President Trump is inaugurated again.
I don’t have his confidence. Too much of the country can’t tell the difference between chicks and dudes.
Can’t tell? Or too afraid to tell?
I can’t muster up the confidence either. I live in a Cong. district that narrowly went for Clinton in 2016 but still elected a Republican congressman. After the Court redrew the district boundaries in 2018, a freshman Dem. (a woman) squeaked in. Polls today are showing she would easily win re-election, so I don’t think she has much to worry about no matter how she votes on impeachment.
My uncle died in a Cong district.
“Did I say he ‘wasn’t’ a CIA informant? Ooops. My bad. I meant he was a CIA informant.”
That is going to be the defense. And the media will swallow it up.
Republicans
pouncenitpick!“Simple typo. I meant to write “now a CIA informant”, not “not a CIA informant”. My bad.”
Is Virginia Brewing the Next Harpers Ferry?
Lexington and Concord is probably a more apt comparison.
More like the next Ruby Ridge or Waco
These are dangerous times – I think the FBI would get sniped and attacked by others if it went down.
From Pie’s Guardian loink:
Perhaps we need to return to a two-tier system of justice, one that holds billionaires to a higher standard of behavior in recognition of their disproportionate influence and capacity for harm. Or perhaps we should abolish our modern-day aristocrats altogether, not, as the French did, with guillotine and pitchfork, but through taxation and confiscation.
Kill the rich. Take their stuff. Fap fap fap.
Now at 84 declared 2nd A Sanctuaries for VA
Rockingham had over 3,000 people pack the meeting. Even Chesapeake voted for the resolution, which surprised me.
It’s starting to cause some waves. Gov Blackface suggested they would withhold funding from any city or county with such a resolution. Other Dems have brought up calling out the National Guard, though I’m sure exactly what they intend. On the 2nd A side, there’s beginning to be talk of armed militias to enforce the Constitution. Several counties have included language in their resolutions specifically calling for the formation of county militias to protect from Richmond.
I thought we had established as a matter of federal law that withholding funds from non-compliant jurisdictions is illegal?
Only if you mention the Bidens in a phone call.
Calling out the Virginia National Guard will backfire spectacularly on the Governor. Who does he think enlists in the Guard? The Leftist DC bureaucratic elite?
^
This really should be the biggest story in the country right now, not the congressional circle-jerk with a predetermined outcome that will surprise nobody.
When “sanctuary cities” were popping up over immigration, it was all you’d hear about. I think even my stupid town declared itself a sanctuary city, but as usual the idiots in the city government didn’t catch the trend until it had already jumped the shark and nobody cared. Now you’ve got the same phenomenon occurring in bigger numbers over gun rights and there isn’t a peep from the media.
No bias, though. None whatsoever.
It drives me crazy when my wife tells me that she’s more informed from a more diverse group of sources than I am because she watches CNN *and* MSNBC. If you don’t go off the beaten path to find news you’re living in what amounts to an entirely different reality. I’m serious about that, too. The whole bit about “meme magic” was really just the latest incarnation of “fake it ’til you make it” or “die with the lie”; if you keep repeating something, eventually people will accept it as true, at which point it may as well be true.
during yesterday’s IG hearing at the Senate, Fox broadcast the whole thing, CNN didn’t broadcast it *AT ALL*, and MSNBC only started broadcasting after Lindsay Graham was done with his opening remarks and Feinstein started talking.
https://twitter.com/GOPChairwoman/status/1204880963676848129
Other than 1min commercial breaks & the Jersey City press conference (I understand that interruption), Fox News was the only cable news that aired the #HorowitzIGReport hearing.
Wasn’t there an article out by wired saying Fox News was clearly a national security threat because they were parroting Russian talking points? I guess the HorowitzReport was just a Russian plant.
I have been seeing a ton of stories lately like this one where some city or council votes to accept more refugees.
One of things Trump did was say that the Feds couldn’t just dump a ton of refugees somewhere unless that place had voted to accept them. So now the virtual signalers in all the right places are passing these resolutions and the press is reporting on each one.
So yeah, it is more important to read about Kandiyohi county in Minnesoda welcoming more refugees than it is to see a revolt in favor of guns in Virginny.
Ten years after they accept all of those ‘refugees’ none of the people who voted for it will be living there. They will have moved as far from those refugees as possible.
Sure, locally. But for my part watching national news media it’s at least as interesting to hear about popular uprisings in VA over impending gun rights shenanigans as it is to hear about somewhere in California deciding it won’t let INS arrest potential deportees.
If you don’t go off the beaten path to find news you’re living in what amounts to an entirely different reality.
No kidding. Most people don’t realize that, despite the headline “Horowitz found no bias”, Horowitz listed any number of wrognful acts, including some that are criminal, and confirmed that in sworn testimony just yesterday. I think most people believe Horowitz “exonerated” the Deep State, when he did no such thing.
Which moron came up with that? Must have been somebody in a DC District.
Democratic Virginia Rep. Donald McEachin according to this article:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/the-law-is-the-law-virginia-democrats-float-prosecution-and-national-guard-for-police-who-fail-to-enforce-gun-control-legislation
Ahhh, McEachin… the idiot who signed up for Ashley Madison and got doxxed.
yep, he sure did. what a sucker.
‘The law is the law’
Yup…
Section 13. Militia; standing armies; military subordinate to civil power.
That a well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defense of a free state, therefore, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; that standing armies, in time of peace, should be avoided as dangerous to liberty; and that in all cases the military should be under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power.
Mobilizing the National Guard to arrest the police at gunpoint? I’m sure it’ll be fine!
National Guard is a mixed bag. I’d wager ~ 10% of guard members are Cops or work for law enforcement. If i had my way, I’d outlaw cops from serving in the state militia (at least in my state)
Even more mixed – when I was in the Guard, some of the most adamantly pro-2A guys were rural cops.
Perhaps on the pro-2A issue they will have a “principle”, my proposition still stands. Cops are to indoctrinated in the horrible cop training and theory of “professionalisim” to be in the militia.
I agree. The law is the law. Here is the supreme law of the land: “A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
Any law that contravenes that is not a law but a crime committed by the state.
The law is the law.
:Laughes in Pelosi:
I mean that’s not the law, law. The Law is what we legislators have decided it is regardless of some piece of paper.
“Other Dems have brought up calling out the National Guard”
Gee. Nothing says electoral mandate like martial law. If only they had taken those guns the people couldn’t resist.
I am kind of surprised by these threats. The masks are completely off. They should really tread lightly (or not at all). The state is a sea of red that supports 2A (federal) and A1-S13 (state).
Apparently you didn’t read the last election results. The state, like most is a sea of red dominated by a big blue dot with double the population of the sea of red.
those numbers a little skewed. folks in about 10+ districts (like me) didn’t vote at all b/c our district didn’t have an option other than the Dem.
I heard that – what was the deal? Re-districting shenanigans or just a complete fail by the Republicans?
Or?
The VA GOP sucks balls is the deal. Totally incompetent.
Tommy Norment should be run out on a rail.
Oh no! The conservatives have discovered Henry George! (TW: Georgism)
https://dailycaller.com/2019/12/11/conservative-land-value-taxes/
“The Conservative Case For A Land Value Tax”
FTA:
“His message is simple. By taxing the unimproved value of land, the government could remove a barrier from both labor and capital, rather than pitting them against one another. Buckley was promoting the theories of Henry George, one of the most popular and successful liberal writers of the late 19th century. George, drawing on the classical liberal tradition of Adam Smith and David Ricardo, laid out the advantages to such a tax in great detail in his book Progress and Poverty, one of the best-selling American books of that century. Despite its origin, however, the idea (like much of classical liberalism) has considerable conservative appeal, meeting three typical criteria for a good, or in Buckley’s terms, “least bad,” tax: It requires minimal government intrusion, it taxes generally the same people who benefit from the government, and it does not discourage productive behavior.”
When you’re “driving the speed limit”, but also nostalgic for Route 66 and you wonder “hey, maybe the interstate highway system was a bad idea”.
Why not get there chestertonites while they are at it and go distributist
Truth be told, distributism isn’t a fully fleshed out ideology beyond “subsidiarity” (all government actions should be at the most local layer of government), “property is a natural right”, and “guilds are pretty sweet, labor unions not so much”. I feel like Georgism is sort of a cousin of distributism, though, due to its obsession with property. Although, Georgists don’t focus so much on “families rule, singles drool” as much as distributists.
But, if in two years young conservatives were reading papal encyclicals and writings by Dorthy Day, I would not be surprised.
For me the distributists are a matter of close, but still so far. There are some interesting things, but then they go into a wonky “Localism trumps everything, including individual choice.” It doesn’t help that every single one i’ve heard talk is just as self assured and obnoxious as an SJW, but just with more traditionalist planks.
“Localism trumps everything, including individual choice.”
Economics is not the strong suit of Catholic intellectuals who primarily interest themselves with literature and Thomistic philosophy. They’re not learning much about supply and demand by reading Flannery O’Connor and it shows.
“It doesn’t help that every single one i’ve heard talk is just as self assured and obnoxious as an SJW, but just with more traditionalist planks.”
Funny enough, the word “social justice” was originally stolen from Catholic labor activists. Socialists first appropriated their words and then skin suited a lot of their institutions. JPII tried to stamp out some of that, but alas now there is a Jesuit as pope.
but alas now there is a Jesuit as pope
I find the Jesuit hate funny. Not because i support them, just that the only thing i know about the Jesuits is from the move: “The Mission”
I’m half joking, in the sense that I despise most of the bishops and most of the institution anyways. I just have a particular disdain for the Jesuits as their rag “America” magazine. Jesuits are good for providing overpriced education to the elites in the West and, really, that’s about it.
Never really dealt with the Jesuits, the schools I went to were Ursuline and Notre Dame nuns. Not a lot of intellectual rigor there that I remember dealing with.
And just like that, TGA blew up the thread.
Enemy of free speech
President Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday that will make Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act apply to anti-Semitic acts. The order is generating concern that it will stifle free speech by those who oppose Israel’s policy toward the Palestinians.
The executive order takes indirect aim at the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement that has generated intense controversy on college campuses.
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The left-leaning Jewish group J-Street said in a statement that the order “appears designed less to combat anti-Semitism than to have a chilling effect on free speech and to crack down on campus critics of Israel.”
J-Street adds that “we feel it is misguided and harmful for the White House to unilaterally declare a broad range of nonviolent campus criticism of Israel to be anti-Semitic, especially at a time when the prime driver of anti-Semitism in this country is the xenophobic, white nationalist far-right.”
The White House said it had been spurred by a rise in anti-Semitic incidents since 2013, and that it was looking for a way to ensure colleges take anti-Semitic acts seriously.
Trump. Tearing the Constitution to shreds. Add that to the inventory of his high crimes and misdemeanors.
Utter fucking bullshit. For decades it’s been the black nationalists and now it’s the Islamists as well.
Not to mention white lefties for whom Jew hating isn’t even a speed bump at the intersectionality four-way.
I see you are not versed in “New” Journalism. In New Journalism, your opinions are facts and others facts are baseless.
the NYPD releases hate-crime statistics by race of perp for both complaints and arrests. crunching the three 2019 quarterly reports.. more whites are arrested for anti-jewish hate crimes than blacks 27:15. more blacks are arrested for anti-gay and anti-trans hate-crimes than whites 15:10. these numbers are so small in a city the size of NYC as to mean nothing. the stats for complaints (regardless of arrest) i don’t feel like reviewing.
https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/stats/reports-analysis/hate-crimes.page
more whites are arrested for anti-jewish hate crimes than blacks 27:15.
What’s the percentage of whites and blacks in NYC?
44%:26%
“ and that it was looking for a way to ensure colleges take anti-Semitic acts seriously.”
Why not just seek to extend civil rights protections to religion? I don’t like expansions of the law but it beats the president writing executive orders all willy nilly.
Agreed. And I could have sworn that religion was already protected in the Civil Rights Act (also exempted from the civil rights act if their beliefs conflict with the law).
I was thinking the same thing, but apparently Title VI only explicitly references “race, color, and national origin in programs and activities receiving federal financial assistance. ” The religious discrimination provisions are only in regard to employment.
That’s interesting. The First Amendment probably forbids that discrimination, at least that is what the courts have concluded.
I still don’t think that protected class status should exist, though. Not for the religious, either. But, then again, I also don’t think that any of these colleges should receive a dime of public money, so I pretty much hate all of this.
I fail to see how giving special protections and privileges on the basis of religion isn’t “establishment of religion”. But that’s just me and my old-fashioned belief that meanings have words.
You must really hate the second clause of the First Amendment and the prohibition against religious tests, too then.
They shouldn’t get protected class status, but the bulk of the Constitution involves a lot of protections for religion. Right or wrong, that’s inconvenient to the “establishment of religion” argument.
How the establishment clause came to trump the free exercise clause is a lesson in insidious progressivism. The point of both clauses was to prevent the federal government from burdening people’s right to worship as they saw fit. The government cannot establish a State Church, it cannot take any action to prevent the free exercise of a person’s religion. Establishing a State Church is a specific act, it does not stretch to every display of a a religious symbol or prayer. It does not actually stretch at all. But the progs gradually expanded the establishment clause to mean more or less the opposite of the free exercise clause.
Also. This is the correct reaction to what Trump did. Hate Crimes laws are an affront to the first amendment.
But what we got was a host of wannabes talking about how this is just like Hitler and the Neuremburg Code.
Hitler had to kill the Jews in order to save them.
I welcome the left’s new-found commitment to freedom of spee—
LOL almost got it out.
The state of impeachment summed up.
Trump must look at Justin and Macron and laugh to himself. I can see how two emasculated wannabe, left-wing, lightweight leaders are pains in the asses.
the prime driver of anti-Semitism in this country is the xenophobic, white nationalist far-right
Some anti-semitisms are more equal than others.
Virginia added 6 more 2A sanctuaries last night. Now at 84 or 85. Governor has said no confiscation planned. Only registration and no more new rifles sold in the state. 2A movement no longer “negotiating”.
no more new rifles sold in the state.
What? I’m not keen on gun laws in the Communist states in America, but is that even something they do in Jersey or York?
sorry, meant ban on new AWBs. not all rifles.
https://www.jerrysfirearms.com/ar-rifles/ar-15/ny-and-california-ar-15s
Good on the Virginians who are fighting back against this nonsense and the politicians and sheriffs who support them. Will it work? Who the hell knows but it’s better to go down swinging.
Nothing says “We need to end Gun Violence” like threatening to wage war on the people.
Think how few deaths there will be once we finishing murdering everyone. /progs
My thought as well when I first learned of what they want. “It sounds to me like this is something that may result in a lot of gun violence if attempted to enforce.”
no confiscation planned. Only registration
And what will the compliance rate be I wonder…
south of 10% if past is prologue. hell, they’re barely over 10% in New Zealand.
Good. 90% of gun owners are criminals. Excellent!
/mike bloomberg while lacing fingers together
And many (most?) of those will be people getting rid of old/possibly damaged guns that they no longer want in order to pick up some extra cash.
Only registration
“We’ll get to the confiscation later, after we get the paperwork in order.”
I have yet to hear a non-delusional use for registration other than “have a good list of guns to confiscate.”
it worked so so well for the (literally) Nazis.
‘Melissa’ and ‘Blue Sky’…..just sit back. And smile.
Mankind is a blight and a pestilence upon the Earth
But in 2016, the very last known Rabbs’ tree frog died in an Atlanta Zoo. And with the death of the last one — a male, nicknamed Toughie — all the biological machinery that came with the frog was wiped off the face of the earth.
The loss of this tree frog was one tiny chapter in one of the most important environmental stories of the decade: The great biodiversity of Earth is diminishing so fast that we are now in an extinction crisis.
In the past decade, 467 species have been declared extinct (though they might have gone extinct in decades prior), according to the global authority on species conservation status, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, or IUCN. Others have been brought to the brink and still more are seeing serious declines in their population numbers.
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In all, the UN’s Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services estimates many as 1 million species are now at risk of extinction if we don’t act to save them; that number includes 40 percent of all amphibian species, 33 percent of corals, and around 10 percent of insects.
But it’s not all depressing. We can still act. We know the causes of the crisis. And we know solutions that can work: namely, conservation.
“Every species on this planet had the right to be here,” Joseph Mendelson, the director of research at Zoo Atlanta, which housed Toughie, told me after his death, and with a great deal of sadness. “Our activities and our selfishness are taking them out.”
You know what to do. You know what species must be exterminated to save the glorious treasures of nature.
Kill Yourself, for Gaia’s Sake!
“Every species on this planet had the right to be here,”
I’m interested to hear Joseph’s theory of rights
Hey, Joseph, aren’t you the guy who let the frog die?
Malthusianism: now without numbers!
Funny Story about that.
I was sitting in the Economic History Class and the teacher explained how Malthus’ theory stated that because Humans breed exponentially, but Agricultural production can only be increased geometrically, that we were doomed to be subject to famines and mass starvation. The teacher then laid out the production of food per capita between 1800 and now and asked: Was Malthus right?
My gut was “Well the mathematical logic makes sense, but obviously it doesn’t bear our in reality or in the data, so he was wrong”. I got into a big argument with another kid who was sure Malthus was right because the Mathematical logic made sense. I kept telling him “Sure, but look at it. the Data doesn’t match his logical predictions, we produce way more food now per person than before.
Finally the teacher (a Chinese re-educated communist) stepped in and was like “Yeah Malthus was wrong, but that’s only because of the revolution of fertilizers which is only available because of fossil fuels.”
There are thousands of Irish whose deaths are largely the result of Malthus’ stupidity and yet some still must pretend as if he wasn’t the monster that he most certainly was.
Well he was wrong about everything, but at least he killed off the papists.
Agreed. And they were Irish, so were they actually people? Tough call all around
Climate activism = we must get the world to a sustainable population and technological level. For wealthy whites that means being less wealthy, for brown and black people that means being less alive. Yet those who deny it are the racists.
Well said.
“The poors be damned” seems to be the climate activism motto and then they wonder why the working class doesn’t vote for them
It’s not the poor, necessarily. They don’t see them. It’s all about Florida Man and the People of Walmart, whom they DO see and despise. And they will never admit it, but they don’t like black people, either.
Riiiiight. Nothing went extinct until there were humans.
Oh, wait, ‘only the correct number of species went extinct before humans.’
They can’t even present an argument, it’s just whining.
“we are now in an extinction crisis.”
Are we? Could it be that we are so technologically advanced that we can track species like never before. And the reality is species have been growing and dying off at the same rate consistently throughout the existence of this planet?
Modulo the occasional meteor strike.
Ultimately, each species’s risk of extinction is identical to each individual’s risk of death. 100%
Enviromentalist: We have an extensive fossil record, and it bears out that there have never been so many species lost.
Paleontologist: We have an extensive fossil record?
Most ‘ species’ would probably be indistinguishable, even if we did have a strong fossil record.
I thought we’ve been in an extinction crisis for decades already…
How many species that we have documented the extinction of were already on their way out. Some, no question we killed off a robust species. But for a lot, they seem like species that had already lost the race, and were confined to very small, fragile niches.
he was no Mick Foley but i thought the Mankind persona was miles ahead of Cactus Jack.
The most important question was left unasked. How tasty was this frog?
Not very or it would still be around.
Over 99.9% of all species that ever lived went extinct, and almost all of that had nothing to do with humans.
Pet peeve: Pandas. No matter to what extraordinary lengths people will go, pandas are determined to go extinct.
I’m gonna save the panda!
So, he bemoans the practical extinction of Smallpox?
Someone really ought to ask.
Checked FB for the first time in weeks and this was posted by a housewife friend of the family:
What is it about boys and dirty socks…EVERYWHERE!!! Ugh!
Gotta be a set up.
You should type “For the love of God, do not pick-up the random sock that he has tucked behind his bed. Trust me”
Might as well do that. Can’t watch the impeachment stuff anymore.
汚い靴下 has a nice ring to it!
Don’t pick up the crusty ones!
You have to juggle those ones
“Do they shatter when you drop them?”
I have a confession to make. I have literally never once in my entire life jerked off into a sock. I must be weird.
he has until Friday to give his income information for the last five years to a judge in his child support case.
As much as I enjoy Biden getting dragged through the muck of his own making, why? What does 5 years of income have to do with child support payments? Shouldn’t the onus be on the claimant to establish a yearly cost of raising the child, which half being assigned to each party (maybe scribbling around the edges so not quite half)?
In an ideal world, maybe. In our current system, child support is keyed off of income.
“…kept in the lifestyle to which she has become accustomed.”
There. Now try again.
In the meantime, assign custody is proportion to the support from each parent.
Kids shows have some disturbing undertones
“Don’t worry, it wasn’t anyone we knew“
You don’t have Human Skin Curtains?
okay, that is hilarious but probably only b/c i’ve sat through gobs of episodes with my kids.
Relevant
If any of you get weak and are tempted to start thinking good thoughts about Lindsey Graham, here is a story to remind you what a horrible person he is.
Christ, what an asshole.
Cy Vance love taking it in the ass!
They can blow smoke all they want but at the end of the day they aren’t going to destroy the economy by eliminating data privacy. One hopes.
Oh, Lindsey Graham is the embodiment of horrible, just because he suddenly has realized that secret FISA courts are not really the best way to ensure due process shouldn’t change anyone’s mind about the fact that Lindsey Graham is a Sith Lord.
The most amusing thing about this story is that anyone is making a pretense that any of the tech giants don’t already backdoor all of their encryption.
When your fifteen minutes are nearly up
A TV news reporter who was covering a road race in Georgia when she was slapped on the backside by a runner is seeking criminal charges against the man she said “violated” her.
Alex Bozarjian filed a sexual battery report with the Savannah Police Department on Monday, saying she wanted the department to pursue charges against the man, identified as Thomas Callaway. The department told NBC News on Wednesday that a detective has been assigned and the matter is under investigation.
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Bozarjian said she is considering whether to accept Callaway’s apology.
“I think what is most important here is that he took my power, and I’m trying to take that back. And whether I am open to it or not, I want to take my time with that,” Bozarjian said.
Yes, yes, of course. Destroy him. Crush him. With any luck, you can get him on a sex offender list. That’ll teach men everywhere not to mess with crazy self-obsessed bitches.
Buff that resume. Today Show, here you come.
Slapping her ass was stupid and immature but criminal? You could make an argument for misdemeanor assault, but sexual assault?
Don’t slap ass. I’m not saying the reporter isn’t being vindictive, but it’s not like the guy didn’t lodge himself into that position completely on his own.
I’ll stipulate that the guy should be ashamed and should have apologized on the spot, or at least gotten a mild to moderate ass beating. But someone who says things like “he took my power” desperately needs a parent to smack some sense into them.
The whole things just reminds me of this.
https://www.theonion.com/october-10-1991-1819587941
I’m sorry, he “took your power”? You have magic powers and you store them in your ass?
Her professional stock and trade is to look sexually receptive but perpetually out of reach. So yeah, in this case she is correct.
I don’t know, I mean, if you’re runnin’ the ring toss and someone actually wins the goldfish, that’s on you.
Isn’t that where you’re supposed to keep them?
If she was a professional magician, she’d keep her powers in a top hat. Then she would go around pulling rabbits and other things out of the hat as part of her act to trick the audience.
As a journalo, of course she keeps her magic in her ass. She’s constantly pulling facts, quotes and numbers out of her ass as she attempts to fool her audience into believing her.
You have no power if someone can so easily take it.
Look Mo, do you know how hard it is to actually have a deep-seated sense of self when, instead, one can just mindlessly mouth platitudes that they don’t really understand?!?
Yes. It’s taken me a lifetime to learn to stand alone (for when it’s necessary) and I’m trying to teach my kids how empowering it is–but as with everything, there is a price to pay and that is loneliness and sometimes ridicule and the possibility of being wrong.
Of course the OIG had to see why that was left out, And heres the reason why:
Huh.. I didn’t know about them cause i didn’t read the document i submitted.
As typically happens in these cases, we’re supposed to take it as vindication that the highest offices of the federal law enforcement apparatus are ostesibly run by bumbling stooges rather than malefactors.
*ostensibly. sumtimes I dunt spel too gud
Finally the teacher (a Chinese re-educated communist) stepped in and was like “Yeah Malthus was wrong, but that’s only because of the revolution of fertilizers which is only available because of fossil fuels.”
Needz moar McCormick Reaper.
“The Black Hebrew Israelites perpetrated the anti-Semitic attack in Jersey City this week.
@RashidaTlaib is literally whitewashing it right now.”
https://twitter.com/SirajAHashmi/status/1205142569543458816
Great googly moogly.
https://twitter.com/cjane87/status/1204784338778435584
That’s an unparalleled level of cognitive dissonance on display right there.
Black Hebrew Israelites are the white christians of black people?
I guess so, I mean that is an observation by none other than Jane Coaston, Fall 2019 Resident Fellow at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and Senior Politics Reporter at Vox
GAH! I can’t take it.
How stupid do you have to be to say something like that? That’s mind-numbingly dumb. That’s “your brain on bath salts and cocaine” dumb.
She’s saying “Christian Identity” is a European hate group.
Maybe the gun grabbers have a point, because I wouldn’t trust someone who’d say something like that with so much as a sharpened pencil. She’s clearly a danger to herself and/or others.
Isn’t that the same wackjob group that was harassing the kids that the media crucified for being disrespectful to Sitting Bullshit?
Slapping her ass was stupid and immature but criminal?
I agree completely, and if her camera man had tripped him and given him a strong rebuke on the spot, I would have no particular objection. Calling it a sexual assault is ridiculous.
My ears are deaf to her complaints about “objectification” because her whole job is to objectify herself for the entertainment of the viewer.
ps- get out of the road.
Well one thing is that this impeachment is going to make Utah 4th district election even more interesting than it was before.
https://twitter.com/MatthewFoldi/status/1204887528622510085
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
What’s with the clicking noise? Did they use a cassette recorder to dub the audio?
No, the joke is that Baby Yoda is turning the radio on, and The Mandalorian is turning it back off.
The supermarket next to me has a discount for pilsner urquel at 2.5 lei per 330 ml. That is a good deal. Original too, not like staropramen made in romania under license which does not taste the same.
Betrayal of trust
Former Attorney General Eric Holder believes William Barr is “unfit” to serve as the nation’s top law enforcement officer, writing in a Washington Post op-ed that recent controversial comments by his successor “have been fundamentally inconsistent with his duty to the Constitution.”
In the opinion piece published Wednesday night, Holder, who served in the Obama administration between 2009 and 2015, excoriated Barr for “a series of public statements and … actions that are so plainly ideological, so nakedly partisan and so deeply inappropriate” for an attorney general to make. He pointed to a number of recent headline-grabbing remarks by Barr, including his comments this week that the FBI may have acted in “bad faith” when it opened an investigation into the origins of the Russia probe despite the Justice Department’s inspector general report that said the bureau was justified in doing so.
“(It) was infuriating to watch him publicly undermine an independent inspector general report — based on an exhaustive review of the FBI’s conduct — using partisan talking points bearing no resemblance to the facts his own department has uncovered,” he wrote.
Holder, who said he was “reluctant to publicly criticize (his) successors,” also blasted Barr for comments he made last month at an event held by the Federalist Society, a conservative legal group, in which the attorney general affirmed his credentials as a staunch defender of presidential power, trashed the so-called resistance movement and mocked Senate Democrats.
We all know what a scrupulous, straight arrow guy Eric Holder is. He would never skirt the rules in furtherance of political goals.
Holder just authoritatively outed himself as a POS with that op-ed.
I would like to see him in a jail cell.
That’s about the most glowing endorsement of Barr that you could get.
True story about the moral bankruptcy of progressivism.
During the Obama administration, Eric Holder gave a talk at Northwestern justifying the president’s authority to unilaterally kill an American overseas without oversight from Congress or the judiciary. Not one college student protested.
Jeff Sessions went to Northwestern last year to give a speech about nothing in particular and literally half of the campus protested his visit.
Eric Holder- piece of shit extraordinaire. White progressives- morally bankrupt beyond repair.
But non-Democrats are icky.
Fast and Furious.
QED
“(It) was infuriating to watch him publicly undermine an independent inspector general report — based on an exhaustive review of the FBI’s conduct — using partisan talking points bearing no resemblance to the facts his own department has uncovered,”
Where was that independent report on “Fast and Furious”?
yeah yeah yeah, whataboutisim. Go fuck yourself, cause everyone who cries “Whataboutsim” really means, “stop pointint out that i’m a hypocrite”.
“have been fundamentally inconsistent with his duty to the Constitution.”
He’s acting like Trump’s wingman?
If Barr gets any worse he may have to be held in contempt of congress…
So, it looks like it was a couple Black Hebrew Israelites that shoot up the Jersey Kosher market. That’s the group that was taunting those Covington kids in DC before Chief Drums Like Asshole showed up. They were hardly mentioned in any of the mainstream coverage, but you could see it was clearly them in the longer videos. I’ve passed by groups of them a few times in SF. They are major racist assholes. I imagine that story will now fade away pretty quickly.
Well, you see, white-supremacy is the real problem even though hardly any exist anymore.
“More white supremacists died fighting Nazis in World War II than urban feminists”
I’m not sure if I quoted that correctly, but it’s probably one of the funnies troll tweets, because it’s also true
Guess I should have scrolled.
Listening to fallacious arguments by an anti-gunner debating a pro-gunner at work and I can’t interject with what the real issue (i.e. what is the government actually allowed to do on the matter?) because I am too busy. The pro-gunner is making the mistake of debating on the anti-gunners terms. I always move it to constitutional legality. You can wax tyrannical about what a person “needs” and provide any dishonest statistics you want, but that stuff doesn’t actually matter.
Utilitarian arguments reduce rights from fundamental concomitants of humanity to conveniences.
^
This
Burn in hell, John Stuart Mill
Aw come on now, without utilitarian justifications, how will the State maximize my happiness?
You misunderstand utilitarianism. The state isn’t trying to maximize your happiness.
But that’s what they told me they were going to do!
Constitution is not a suicide pact!
Nobody “needs” a refrigerator stocked with a variety of foodstuffs. That can cause obesity in the wrong hands. A few government approved food items is more than enough to keep you alive.
+ 11 servings of carbs a day according to the Food Pyramid
Sadly, neither does the constitution.
Being a history guy, I remind people that the Revolution was touched off with an attempted gun-grab and the Constitution was written by the violent revolutionaries who won it.
Gun grab artillery pieces. And founders who were ok with privately owned ships of war, and could act on behalf of the country when properly authorized.
I go straight for the emotional “so you want single mothers with abusive ex-husbands who violate restraining orders to die?”
No we need stricter rules an not letting Abusers get guns, duh!
She was stabbed to death?
Who cares if the abusers have guns? I have watched plenty of documentaries where some tiny gal beats the tar out of not one, not two, but a whole mob of bad guys using nothing but her glorious kung fu moves.
Most of the times those guys have guns, but still can’t take out some gal like Space Greta (I forgot her name, but she had autism and was really pissed at society in general) in Firefly.
All we need to do is pay for more kung fu training in women’s shelters and everything will be fine.
I’ve tried this. Apparently, there is at least one study out that concluded women who are beaten and own a gun are more likely to be killed than those who don’t own guns. The study design was shit and the conclusion foreordained, but it’s still used to deride that as a false talking point.
Do you believe in rape culture? Do you fear men? Then why don’t you have a gun?
I taught my daughter to shoot then bought her a Springfield 911 and a case of ammo to practice with.
I just quote Goebbels’ diary entries on the Warsaw ghetto uprising.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/joseph-goebbels-on-the-warsaw-ghetto-revolt
“There is nothing sensational in the reports from the Occupied Territories. The only thing noteworthy is exceptionally sharp fighting in Warsaw between our Police, and in part even the Wehrmacht, and the Jewish rebels. The Jews have actually succeeded in putting the ghetto in a condition to defend itself. Some very hard battles are taking place there, which have gone so far that the Jewish top leadership publishes daily military reports. Of course this jest will probably not last long. But it shows what one can expect of the Jews if they have arms. Unfortunately they also have some good German weapons in part, particularly machine-guns. Heaven only knows how they got hold of them.”
That kind of thing can’t happen here. Unlike Germany in 1908, the DC metroplex is one of the most cosmopolitan, progressive, educated places in the world. We all know that that Germany in 1908 was…one of the most cosmopolitan, progressive, educated… oh wait.
“I need guns to stop people like you from deciding which guns I need.”
“NEW: Obama gave the Saudis record arms deals & support in killing thousands of civilians in Yemen. Now Biden & former officials are urging a course correction.
The former president is silent. “The Khashoggi thing is over a year old,” Susan Rice told me.”
https://twitter.com/AkbarSAhmed/status/1205124998798725120
“It was because of a video” Susan Rice said
Susan Rice tries really hard to be the worst character from the Obama administration, but the competition is stiff.
What difference, at this time, does it make?
“Nicole, Erica and Jaclyn Dahm”
Butterfaces all.
People can rest easier and stop sheltering-in-place. The Manchester police have arrested the racist. I assume he’ll do more time than a Muslim rape-gang member.
That’s absolutely insane. They arrested someone on suspicion of making a “racist gesture”. George Orwell, please report to the white courtesy phone…
a man was arrested for allegedly making racist gestures
Coming soon to anywhere that Dems have complete control.
Did he make chinky eyes?
I’m not sure I know any other racist gesture.
Julian Sanchez
@normative
The Nunes memo was, indeed, total garbage and nothing in the Horowitz report changes that. The FBI screwed up a bunch of stuff, but not the stuff Nunes claimed.
With the civil libertarians that the Kochs fund, who needs fascists? Serious question
Serious question: Did Sanchez have an ischemic event?
If conservatism is progressivism driving the speed limit than Koch agents are going five miles over the speed limit, because they’ll be damned if those Nazis get “strange new respect” from the NYT before them
The FBI screwed up a bunch of stuff, but not the stuff Nunes claimed.
The laywer that changed the email to say Page was not an asset must have gotten to this tweet too!
This sounds just flat, pants-on-fire, wrong to me.
It is, but Trump (who totally stole the election) is such a threat to democracy that really anything to stop him is the truth.
I’m sure that this guy linked to a detailed list of links to the IG report that show what claims in Nunes’ memo were total garbage. Because Molly Hemingway has a nice piece on what Nunes claimed
So far, those claims seem to have been proven fairly conclusively by what i saw.
The pro-gunner is making the mistake of debating on the anti-gunners terms.
“What do I ‘need’ it for? None of your goddam beeswax. I will exercise my Constitutional rights. Now STFU and GTFO.”
That’s what I would have responded with. “I need my constitutional liberties upheld by the people that swear an oath to do so.”
Fending off steak thieves.
Posted this on the wrong thread, natch. It’s 10:30 a.m. WAY too early for me to be allowed out of bed.
Mornin’, Glibbies!
Festus! In case you happen to see this (not likely), glad you are on the mend.
@sean last night dropped a link about pork barrels full of cash in a semi that was stopped for “suspicious” reasons. @GT said …
[troopers were] … notorious for pulling over out-of-state plates on any pretense and making big drug busts.
There is/was a section of I-29 between Chouteau City Platte City, Missouri and St Joseph where the truckers (regular routes) were notorious for playing dangerous pranks on car drivers and motorcycles. This actually happened to me (in my little CRX). I drove that route daily to go to school, so I was also known.
Three semis penned me in and kept getting closer, squeezing me in like those moving walls you see on movies. Well, having a V6, a tiny car, and a manual transmission, I was able to dart around the lead truck on the shoulder and I ran like hell.
A couple of them did, in fact, kill someone for shits and giggles. There was a very good reason for the troopers to harass them, but they did not. They let the truckers have their jollies scaring people.
So truckers are not my favorite people in the world as they scare me, and driving beside semis on a motorcycle terrifies me. I’m glad that dude was stopped because he probably WAS driving suspiciously, but yeah, I am suspicious of cops’ motives until they nab someone *I* don’t like, but that’s how humans roll, amirite?
Your little Hondoo could benefit from a CB radio, I suppose. Break breaker one nine fuck off, Billy Bob!
I loved that little car so much.
I don’t know about the US but 80s and 90s Hondas are incredibly expensive here, for what they are, because scene tax. There’s a certain enthusiasm for buying old Hondas and making them low, covered in stickers, and sat on poor quality replica wheels cast from the finest chinese pot metal.
because most of them have rusted away to nothing. Here in the northeast, you’d be shocked how much a 92-95 civic hatchback is worth, if it’s clean and rust free.
Way back in the day when I did the weekend long LARP campout thing I remember showing up Friday night and finding out that a car full of people on their way to the campout were smashed between two tractor trailers. Apparently they were in front of one that was coming up behind them quickly and they were behind one that was slowing down. This is on a highway in the mountains at a spot where there’s a dip between two high points, so the truck in front was running out of momentum heading uphill as the one that was right on their ass was fresh from a long, straight shot downhill. I think the official story was that they were trying to get to the middle lane so they didn’t run into the truck in front and the truck behind them didn’t notice in time and had the same idea, and plowed into them sort of halfway between lanes. As I recall there were three people in the car and they all died on impact.
Try driving cross-country in the early 90’s with Dade County tags. It was kind of like traveling with a police escort.
County level license plates are evil. Particularly the further east and south you get where county size shrinks to a neighborhood.
Barney Fife is sure he’s hooked onto the drug runner this time!
Srsly If I was running drugs I’d find a nice gray 2014 Dodge Caravan and be running a DVD of Frozen all the time.
The latest dudes to do the Cannonball Run made their car very nondescript, which isn’t hard to do now since they almost all look alike. Damned laws of aerodynamics.
That CRX was a FANTASTIC little snow car. Once drove 70 miles on the interstate through a blizzard from school to my job (for the same reason I went to work sick–I needed the money).
Now I am mourning my little Grasshopper. I am still not over losing Granny.
California regulators clear way for natural gas bans to take effect
The California Energy Commission cleared the way Wednesday for six local governments to limit the use of natural gas in many new buildings. The policies, which encourage the installation of all-electric appliances, are scheduled to take effect in January.
Environmental advocates pushing to scale back fossil fuels hailed the commission’s move as a victory, but opponents argue that the gas bans will increase costs, harm businesses and limit consumer choice. Some noted that the all-electric push comes despite Pacific Gas & Electric Co.’s warning that wildfire-prevention power outages could persist for a decade.
Berkeley passed a trend-setting ban on gas appliances in new homes over the summer. Its example showed the way for more than 20 municipalities to pass similar ordinances, according to the Building Decarbonization Coalition.
As a result of the commission’s unanimous vote Wednesday, the cities of San Jose, Menlo Park, San Mateo, West Hollywood and Santa Monica, and Marin County will ban or limit gas appliances in many new buildings. Where gas is allowed, they will in some cases demand that new construction be more energy efficient than the state — a leader in energy savings — requires. Numerous other cities may come to the commission for approval of bans.
Where is Lex Luther when you need him?
They demonstrate many, many levels of stupid with this one.
Sure, natural gas results in CO2 emissions.
But burning natural gas to heat water and cook your food is massively more efficient than making electricity out of it (or coal, or oil, etc) and then transmitting it, then using it to heat a coil.
I’m sure they are thinking that they’ll force electricity to become all renewable. Which, of course, is impossible. Because we do not have a renewable base load other than hydro. And there’s not enough of that to go around.
Now, on the other hand, natural gas can be replaced with renewable biogas pretty easily.
So…. Maybe we should have a little more humility when we are using the organs of the state to control people’s lives?
But electricity just comes out of the wall, doesn’t it?
This in the same year that saw deliberate black outs. If you stay in California at this point you have no one to blame but yourself.
Well, those were to prevent forest fires… although they do have brownouts due to their arcane set of counter-productive environmentally inspired intensives and regulations.
I think you are misunderstanding me. I’m flat out saying that this is all deliberate and aimed at imposing misery on those the powers that be do not like. The black outs were not to prevent forest fires, they were a passive aggressive protest against the liability for forest fires. California is all the way into banana republic status now.
Hm…. I can’t conclusively refute this.
So, per US media rules…. it must be conclusively proven!
Berkeley passed a trend-setting ban on gas appliances in new homes over the summer. Its example showed the way for more than 20 municipalities to pass similar ordinances, according to the Building Decarbonization Coalition.
As we all know, electricity comes from those little things on the wall. Totally clean and magical.
And as Dave Barry said, most of us don’t understand what keeps the electricity from running out all over the floor when you pull the plug out of the wall.
When does Berkely pass the trends setting ban on shopping for food on certain days becasue they can’t keep the stores stocked?
Oh goddammit.
So…. Maybe we should have a little more humility when we are using the organs of the state to control people’s lives?
You slay me.
Dare to dream, LPB…. Dare to dream…..
The amazon driver delivering my parcel was 1 stop/50 yds away about 2.5 hrs ago, since which time that became 1 stop and 3+ miles away, and then totally off the map and “the driver has to make a few more deliveries on the way to your address”. I wasn’t home but since when do Amazon drivers not just leave things by the door? When I am home they seem to just put it by the door, take a photo for the app, ring the bell, then run back to the van so by the time I answer the door I see them drive off. I mean, I get that they probably have to do that to fit all the deliveries in, and it’s way more convenient than having to rearrange delivery – I digress, I’m just confused as to why my parcel is so near yet so far.
If you don’t like it tHen mAke yOuR oWn aMaZOn
Seriously, that is aggravating
Except that pre amazon the standard was 4-6 weeks for delivery so…
Amazon gets way too much credit for generic e-commerce improvements. In 1995 every damn online retailer in the world was offering the same shipping as Amazon. Even today I get my shit faster way faster from Newegg, Walmart and Costco for standard/free shipping. Unless you’re a Prime member or willing to pay out the ass for premium shipping service Amazon is pretty industry standard and always has been.
The mystery deepens – it seems the driver has been stopped in the middle of a derelict industrial site (power company land) for some time. I think the GPS is slightly off and he’s stopped for some afternoon delight at one of the houses about a quarter mile away.
Maybe he stopped to jerk off into a sock?
I don’t know about the US but 80s and 90s Hondas are incredibly expensive here, for what they are, because scene tax.
“Scene tax”?
When I was in Australia, I was talking to this guy and I mentioned my BMW 2002. He said, “Ooh, I’d love to have one of those old things, but I couldn’t afford the road tax.”
Apparently, one of the genius ways the Aussy govt supported the domestic car makers was to make it ruinously expensive to keep a car for more than a couple of years. They laid on a big tax to enforce turnover in the fleet.
enthusiasts reacting to a small supply of a given item and bidding up the price.
see also: MK IV Supras since F&F1 came out, 240SX’s since drifting became a thing, 99-00 Civic SIs because they were the best ones, etc.
I think “scene tax” in the sense that demand outstrips supply because a bunch of people in the “scene” want them. It’s that way with 80s and 70s Volvo station wagons around here. Seems like a weird thing to be highly desired but I’m one of the people who’s always on the hunt for one.
Scene tax, as in, the premium paid by certain enthusiasts to have something that objectively isn’t worth much to those who do not share their enthusiasm – i.e., it’s just the market value based on supply and demand, but more specifically could be seen as the market value as defined by an intangible, cultural aspect, which produces a value over and above what most would be willing to pay, so from the perspective of someone who doesn’t have a total hard on for old Hondas, but might quite like one, the value can seem inflated and the surplus in value is colloquially attributed to the aforementioned cultural aspects. Do I am explaining good? It’s a sort of “mania” I guess; if you’ve got it you might be £6000 for a clapped out old civic, but if you haven’t, that price seems inclusive of something over and above the value of the vehicle itself. It’s all irrelevant I suppose. This is all explained with actual economic vernacular in some fancy book-learnin’ way somewhere.
Two people done explained it good with less words while I was waffling
Holy crap….
Go read the NYT article about the Horowitz report.
Notice anything?
They talk about Steele, the former British agent and the Dossier at length and with derision…… and not one time on the entire page does the name Clinton appear. Nor does the DNC or the word “Democrat” other than in the subhead, which says republicans are now joining democrats in calling for surveillance reform….. which is a bit rich.
All the news that’s fit to print…. well, unless it doesn’t help our team.
Also, they print this:
“One of Mr. Horowitz’s biggest findings concluded that Justice Department and F.B.I. officials did not let their political views affect the opening of the case, called Crossfire Hurricane, or investigative steps.”
Which is objectively untrue. He did not say that at all. He said he could not conclude that they had acted because of political bias… meaning he lacked such evidence.
Funny, they actually print this a couple of paragraphs down:
“Mr. Horowitz said that while he found no evidence that the errors and omissions in the surveillance materials were intentional — as opposed to merely stemming from “gross incompetence and negligence” — he was also unsatisfied with the explanations offered for why they happened. He said he could not read people’s minds to learn their motivations.””
So they know exactly what he is saying …. that absent a confession or a written statement to the effect of “I am doing this because I want to get Trump because I am a democrat”, he would not conclude that bias played a role.
Which is objectively untrue. He did not say that at all. He said he could not conclude that they had acted because of political bias… meaning he lacked such evidence.
They were exonerated.
It’s interesting to contrast their characterization of the Horowitz report as complete vindication of the FBI’s process while the Mueller report reaching the same sort of non-conclusion was presented as a slam dunk implication of Trump’s treason.
It’s absolutely disgusting – and I know so many that get indignant and incredulous at the mere mention of anything that might implicate the Clintons, Comey, et al, in any wrongdoing, or suggest the NYT, Guardian, etc, are less than objective, and highly selective, and manipulative, with their “reporting”. In the UK, not many people have even heard of, or read about the Steel Dossier, or Christopher Steele, or understand the first thing about how this all came to be. It’s all just “Trump is bad and these noble public servants are acting with dignity within the proper bounds of the law to conduct lawful investigations,” etc. The arrongance and ignorance is astounding. You don’t have to like Trump to be appalled at the dishonesty and abuse of power here.
why didn’t CNN and MSNBC cover the IG hearing? “mundane scheduling decision”
MSNBC dedicated special coverage for the duration of the hearing, airing a little over 20 minutes of Graham’s opening statement and cutting away to discuss what had been said so far. As the network returned to the hearing to cover Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-CA) opening remarks, MSNBC’s Ari Melber explained that they would show “part of her opening statement as we did with the majority member” to give both “equal time.” But Feinstein’s opening statement ended up being less than 10 minutes long. MSNBC also aired Horowitz’s entire opening statement and has continued to air the hearing live.
CNN has given less coverage to the hearing than MSNBC and did not air Graham’s or Feinstein’s opening statements, but the network aired the entirety of Horowitz’s opening statement. The hearing coverage continued for over an hour, and included Graham questioning Horowitz, before the panel cut away to discuss.
While it is accurate that the networks devoted less coverage to this hearing than the impeachment hearings, it is patently false to claim MSNBC and CNN refused to air the proceedings live and stopped after only 30 minutes. The Federalist is merely jumping on another opportunity to spin a mundane scheduling decision into a nefarious conspiracy theory targeting conservatives.
here’s the first 60 minutes time-lapsed: https://twitter.com/GOPChairwoman/status/1204880963676848129
MSNBC shows talking heads talking over Graham. CNN shows who cares what but it aint the hearing. Fox shows the hearing.
MSNBC coverage was analogous to the new standard for networks covering Trump’s speeches and in the future, debates. They have gone to “real time fact checking” the republican speakers – in other words, acting as a second debate partner, operating from a position of implied authority as the final arbiter of Truth… protecting Democrats (or simply politicians they support) and blunting any ability of the politicians they don’t support to reach their audience.
BTW, that time lapse is worth looking at. It really underlines the point well.
OIG Report pg 171-172
I’m sure that the FBI was thrilled that their main informant was blabbing about the investigation to the media. (This is different than when he leaked it and the news report was used by the FBI as further eveidence in the inital FISA aplication)
Note that the FBI said Steele was not the source for that inital leak (even though he was). Why did they do that? well because they didn’t know he was the leak, and they never thought to ask. At least if they did they don’t remember and steele is sure he would have told the FBI if they had asked him.
This investigation was the new “don’t ask, don’t tell”.
Horowitz also found that they did not know the source of funding for the dossier. They said they didn’t ask. And Horowitz didn’t press the issue, simply taking that on its face.
It’s that way with 80s and 70s Volvo station wagons around here. Seems like a weird thing to be highly desired but I’m one of the people who’s always on the hunt for one.
Bah.
122 wagon or GTFO
Do I am explaining good? It’s a sort of “mania” I guess; if you’ve got it you might be £6000 for a clapped out old civic, but if you haven’t, that price seems inclusive of something over and above the value of the vehicle itself.
Ahhh. Sort of like me watching some stupid auction show on the teevee, and when a ’68 Nova goes across the block for $38k, I flap my arms and yell, “That’s a $1200 car!”
Some of the cars that have somehow become desirable were absolute crap when they were new. On the other hand I just bought almost $150 worth of tungsten because the thought of have a 1.5″ inch cube that weighs a kilo was irresistible, and I have several thousand dollars tied up in video games I will likely never play, so who am I to judge.
Nah… If you buy a 68 Nova as a collectible you are stupid.
On the other hand I just bought almost $150 worth of tungsten because the thought of have a 1.5″ inch cube that weighs a kilo was irresistible
I used to know a guy who used tungsten blocks as ballast for his shifter cart. He’d move them around to tune the handling, depending on the track.
why not just good ol’ fashioned lead?
Ooh… shifter carts!
For those who have not driven one… it is amazing! Similar thrust to weight and lateral g forces to a formula 1 car. But very, very compressed. Over 100mph sitting an inch off the tarmac.
And because they accelerate so fast, you fly through the gears in a blizzard of action. I’ve only done it once – on a curvy little track down in Miami. It was impossible… Shift-shift-shift… shift-shift-shift-shift… shiftshiftshiftshiftshift…
6 speed transmission, going from second to fifth and back to second 3 times in less than 5 seconds going through a double-hairpin section. Holy crap!
Yes… I was terrible. But I didn’t wreck and drove aggressively enough to scare all the guys that came with me who were watching. (they were not able to make it around the track at speed at all. Driving those things is really overwhelming.) Then we watched the pros go at it. (a bunch of kids who do it as their sport. Holy crap, they were fast).
I probably was able to get up close to 100mph by the end of the straight and follow-through. They were doing more like 135. Terrifyingly fast, if you know that track.
I really can’t recommend it highly enough…. but you really need to progress through the arrive and drive carts, through the rotax carts and finally to the shifters to get anything out of it. All that shifting really does make everything happen very, very quickly.