Monday, December 31, 2018
M-I-Z! Z-O-SHUT UP!
I got a Masters from this joke...sigh.
For years, we have been told that one must receive “affirmative consent” before anything of a dating or sexual nature takes place. Critics of such policies, such as this reporter, have often wondered what would happen if the mere ask is unwanted, does that also constitute sexual harassment or assault?
Now we appear to have our answer: Yes.
When a Mizzou official was questioned regarding a case where a black male Ph.D. candidate at the school asked out a white female fitness trainer, she bizarrely suggested that the fact that the male student was larger than the female student gave him “power over her” and violated school policy.
#ThingsNEVERtomentionaroundChris
For years, we have been told that one must receive “affirmative consent” before anything of a dating or sexual nature takes place. Critics of such policies, such as this reporter, have often wondered what would happen if the mere ask is unwanted, does that also constitute sexual harassment or assault?
Now we appear to have our answer: Yes.
When a Mizzou official was questioned regarding a case where a black male Ph.D. candidate at the school asked out a white female fitness trainer, she bizarrely suggested that the fact that the male student was larger than the female student gave him “power over her” and violated school policy.
#ThingsNEVERtomentionaroundChris
Sunday, December 30, 2018
ABORTIANITY
The "pro-choice" philosophy distilled to its essence. You're a human being if AND ONLY IF I want you to be a human being. If I don't, you're a disease.
Have fun in Hell.
So Israel needs to apologize to whatever family Adolf Eichmann has left, Dr. Mengele? Because any rational person knows that there is absolutely no difference between what the Nazis both espoused and attempted to put into practice and your monstrous opinion.
Have fun in Hell.
Saturday, December 29, 2018
QUICK QUESTION
Meghan Murphy-Gill? What do you do with the fact that Jesus of Nazareth, who came into this world, was crucified and died for the sins of all of us, walked out of the tomb three days later, ascended into heaven and will one day return, referred to God in precisely these terms?
But at the root of how the church understands itself in relation to God is the language it uses to talk about and to God.
If the church wants to change, we have to stop referring to God in only male pronouns and metaphors. King, lord, he, him, his, father. They are insufficient. Just as female pronouns alone are insufficient because God is God, ineffable mystery. No single way to talk about God will ever be enough because God is always more.
But the language we use to address, refer to, and describe the divine is where the rubber hits the road in a life of faith. We must use it, despite the fact that it is never enough. I can’t recall if this metaphor came from Elizabeth Johnson or if I dreamed it up myself while studying her work on precisely this topic in her book She Who Is : Naming “toward” God is sort of like swimming. Each stroke that cleaves into the water is important, necessary, but ultimately you push the water behind you and take another stroke. You have to keep going, or you will sink. In the life of faith, we can never be satisfied with one way to talk about God. If we do, we make idols of our metaphors. Our god becomes a golden calf.
Meggie, are you suggesting that God Incarnate was, well, wrong? Or are you suggesting that Christians have the right to rewrite the Word of God whenever the mood strikes us and make it say whatever the Zeitgeist wants it to say?
In either case, Meggie, you people would be a lot happier if you'd just come out and admit that you're nothing more than High-Church atheists. Your "deity" is a fictional Episcopalian motivational speaker of your own creation whose job it is to approve of everything you do while making you feel entirely good about yourselves.
Not interested. I'll stick with Yahweh and His only begotten Son. Win some, lose some, Meggie.
But at the root of how the church understands itself in relation to God is the language it uses to talk about and to God.
If the church wants to change, we have to stop referring to God in only male pronouns and metaphors. King, lord, he, him, his, father. They are insufficient. Just as female pronouns alone are insufficient because God is God, ineffable mystery. No single way to talk about God will ever be enough because God is always more.
But the language we use to address, refer to, and describe the divine is where the rubber hits the road in a life of faith. We must use it, despite the fact that it is never enough. I can’t recall if this metaphor came from Elizabeth Johnson or if I dreamed it up myself while studying her work on precisely this topic in her book She Who Is : Naming “toward” God is sort of like swimming. Each stroke that cleaves into the water is important, necessary, but ultimately you push the water behind you and take another stroke. You have to keep going, or you will sink. In the life of faith, we can never be satisfied with one way to talk about God. If we do, we make idols of our metaphors. Our god becomes a golden calf.
Meggie, are you suggesting that God Incarnate was, well, wrong? Or are you suggesting that Christians have the right to rewrite the Word of God whenever the mood strikes us and make it say whatever the Zeitgeist wants it to say?
In either case, Meggie, you people would be a lot happier if you'd just come out and admit that you're nothing more than High-Church atheists. Your "deity" is a fictional Episcopalian motivational speaker of your own creation whose job it is to approve of everything you do while making you feel entirely good about yourselves.
Not interested. I'll stick with Yahweh and His only begotten Son. Win some, lose some, Meggie.
Tuesday, December 25, 2018
CONFLICTED
Part of me regrets this. The rest of me REALLY wants to try whale meat before I die.
JUST IN: Japan says it has decided to end a 33-year old ban on whaling, withdrawing from the International Whaling Commission
JUST IN: Japan says it has decided to end a 33-year old ban on whaling, withdrawing from the International Whaling Commission
Monday, December 24, 2018
WHORE OF BABYLON
Kammi and Mazie go full Know-Nothing.
A judicial nominee faced questions from Senators this month about whether membership in the Knights of Columbus might impede his ability to judge federal cases fairly. The Knights of Columbus say that no candidate for public office should have to defend his membership in a Catholic service organization.
Senators Mazie Hirono (D-HI) and Kamala Harris (D-CA) raised concerns about membership in the Knights of Columbus while the Senate Judiciary Committee reviewed the candidacy of Brian C. Buescher, an Omaha-based lawyer nominated by President Trump to sit on the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska.
In written questions sent to Buescher by committee members Dec. 5, Sen. Hirono stated that “the Knights of Columbus has taken a number of extreme positions. For example, it was reportedly one of the top contributors to California’s Proposition 8 campaign to ban same-sex marriage.”
You know, this whole Hawaiian statehood thing is just not working out. What say you people dig up a member of Hawaii's royal family somewhere and take a walk.
In her questions to the nominee, Sen. Harris described the Knights as “an all-male society” and asked if Buescher was aware that the Knights of Columbus “opposed a woman’s right to choose” and were against “marriage equality” when he joined.
I know, right? A Catholic organization espousing Catholic principles in this day and age?
Moron.
Harris raised a statement from Supreme Knight Carl A. Anderson, who said that abortion constituted “the killing of the innocent on a massive scale” and asked Buescher if he agreed with Anderson.
Got nothing to do with jurisprudence, Kammi, you dumb sack of nothing worthwhile.
“I did not draft this language. If confirmed, I would be bound by precedent of the United States Supreme Court and the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals and would not be guided by statements made by others,” Buescher told the senator.
Never ever go full Know-Nothing. Makes you look like a world-class idiot.
A judicial nominee faced questions from Senators this month about whether membership in the Knights of Columbus might impede his ability to judge federal cases fairly. The Knights of Columbus say that no candidate for public office should have to defend his membership in a Catholic service organization.
Senators Mazie Hirono (D-HI) and Kamala Harris (D-CA) raised concerns about membership in the Knights of Columbus while the Senate Judiciary Committee reviewed the candidacy of Brian C. Buescher, an Omaha-based lawyer nominated by President Trump to sit on the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska.
In written questions sent to Buescher by committee members Dec. 5, Sen. Hirono stated that “the Knights of Columbus has taken a number of extreme positions. For example, it was reportedly one of the top contributors to California’s Proposition 8 campaign to ban same-sex marriage.”
You know, this whole Hawaiian statehood thing is just not working out. What say you people dig up a member of Hawaii's royal family somewhere and take a walk.
In her questions to the nominee, Sen. Harris described the Knights as “an all-male society” and asked if Buescher was aware that the Knights of Columbus “opposed a woman’s right to choose” and were against “marriage equality” when he joined.
I know, right? A Catholic organization espousing Catholic principles in this day and age?
Moron.
Harris raised a statement from Supreme Knight Carl A. Anderson, who said that abortion constituted “the killing of the innocent on a massive scale” and asked Buescher if he agreed with Anderson.
Got nothing to do with jurisprudence, Kammi, you dumb sack of nothing worthwhile.
“I did not draft this language. If confirmed, I would be bound by precedent of the United States Supreme Court and the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals and would not be guided by statements made by others,” Buescher told the senator.
Never ever go full Know-Nothing. Makes you look like a world-class idiot.
Sunday, December 23, 2018
KNOW SOMETHING?
There are times when I really resent being kicked off Twitter. And there are times when I consider that to be one of the greatest compliments I've ever received. Guess which one this is.
Thursday, December 20, 2018
IT'S THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR
Guess who really doesn't like pregnant women.
Despite ongoing criticism from activists, fast food chain Chick-fil-A is projected to become the third-largest restaurant chain in the U.S., according to an analysis from Kalinowski Equity Research.
The fast food chicken chain will rise from its seventh-place spot to rank as the third-largest U.S. restaurant chain by 2018’s close, according to the group’s research, Business Insider reported.
“We have long pointed out that Chick-fil-A is the restaurant competitor with which McDonald’s … should most concern itself — and by extension, investors should, too,” analyst Mark Kalinowski wrote in his report.
If there was one within walking distance, I'd eat there every single day, probably more than once. Finally, Missouri's soon-to-be-former US senator Claire McCaskill just doesn't get it.
“I think those people who are upset that I wasn’t talking about [abortion] — shame on them if they don’t know my voting record, and shame on them that they’re not working as hard as they can for me and not trashing me because of my voting record in a hard state,” she said defiantly.
“What do you want to say to them?” asked the host.
“Shut up!” said McCaskill, obviously frustrated. “You know, really? I mean, this is hard. It would be one thing if I had ever wavered, but I’ve had to take a lot of tough votes over the years on this issue.”
Adding that she has been “standing the breach” all her adult life, McCaskill said: “The fact that these young women didn’t realize that and just be quiet, roll up their sleeves, and work their ass off for me is just beyond irritating. Can you tell?”
Yeah, that's what beat you, Claire. The pro-abortion crowd in Missouri didn't work hard enough.
As a medical assistant at Planned Parenthood, Ta’Lisa Hairston urged pregnant women to take rest breaks at work, stay hydrated and, please, eat regular meals.
Then she got pregnant and couldn’t follow her own advice.
Last winter, Ms. Hairston told the human-resources department for Planned Parenthood’s clinic in White Plains, N.Y., that her high blood pressure was threatening her pregnancy. She sent the department multiple notes from her nurse recommending that she take frequent breaks.
Managers ignored the notes. They rarely gave her time to rest or to take a lunch break, Ms. Hairston said.
“I had to hold back tears talking to pregnant women, telling them to take care of their pregnancies when I couldn’t take care of mine,” she said. “It made me jealous.”
Discrimination against pregnant women and new mothers remains widespread in the American workplace. It is so pervasive that even organizations that define themselves as champions of women are struggling with the problem.
That includes Planned Parenthood, which has been accused of sidelining, ousting or otherwise handicapping pregnant employees, according to interviews with more than a dozen current and former employees.
I know, right? The New York Times accidentally committing journalism? But I guess I understand Murder Inc.'s frustration. Look at all the baby organs it can't sell. In other news, the years of leftist curses leveled at Chick-fil-A and anyone who walks into one have taken a serious toll on that chain.
The fast food chicken chain will rise from its seventh-place spot to rank as the third-largest U.S. restaurant chain by 2018’s close, according to the group’s research, Business Insider reported.
“We have long pointed out that Chick-fil-A is the restaurant competitor with which McDonald’s … should most concern itself — and by extension, investors should, too,” analyst Mark Kalinowski wrote in his report.
If there was one within walking distance, I'd eat there every single day, probably more than once. Finally, Missouri's soon-to-be-former US senator Claire McCaskill just doesn't get it.
“I think those people who are upset that I wasn’t talking about [abortion] — shame on them if they don’t know my voting record, and shame on them that they’re not working as hard as they can for me and not trashing me because of my voting record in a hard state,” she said defiantly.
“What do you want to say to them?” asked the host.
“Shut up!” said McCaskill, obviously frustrated. “You know, really? I mean, this is hard. It would be one thing if I had ever wavered, but I’ve had to take a lot of tough votes over the years on this issue.”
Adding that she has been “standing the breach” all her adult life, McCaskill said: “The fact that these young women didn’t realize that and just be quiet, roll up their sleeves, and work their ass off for me is just beyond irritating. Can you tell?”
Yeah, that's what beat you, Claire. The pro-abortion crowd in Missouri didn't work hard enough.
Wednesday, December 19, 2018
BE CONFORMED TO THIS WORLD
Roman Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Francis kneecaps a few more faithful Christians.
Msgr. Vincent Guo Xijin, an underground bishop of Mindong, recognized by the Vatican, but not by the government and to date ordinary bishop of the diocese, will leave his ordinary post and give it to Msgr. Vincenzo Zhan Silu, recognized by the government, and one of the seven formerly excommunicated bishops whom Pope Francis has re-admitted to communion.
Msgr. Celli presented a letter signed by card. Pietro Parolin, secretary of state, and by card. Fernando Filoni, prefect of Propaganda Fide to Msgr. Guo in which they asked the underground bishop to cede his role as ordinary to Msgr. Zhan. Also according to the report of the priests of Mindong, Msgr. Celli would have told Msgr. Guo that Pope Francis himself asks for this gesture of obedience "and of sacrifice for the general situation of the Chinese Church".
At the meeting in Beijing, Msgr. Celli also announced that the underground bishop of Shantou, Msgr. Pietro Zhuang Jianjian will give way to the official bishop Giuseppe Huang Bingzhang, also recently reconciled with the Holy See.
In any case, the decision to give the ordinary position to the two official bishops, much appreciated by the government, seems to have been already made a year ago, on another trip to Beijing by Msgr. Celli. On that occasion, Msgr. Celli would have explained to Msgr. Guo that the Pope himself demanded this step back "because otherwise the [sino-vatican] agreement cannot be signed". The Pope feared that without the agreement - on episcopal appointments - the Chinese Church would be invaded by dozens of illegitimate bishops, with serious consequences for Church unity.
Msgr. Vincent Guo Xijin, an underground bishop of Mindong, recognized by the Vatican, but not by the government and to date ordinary bishop of the diocese, will leave his ordinary post and give it to Msgr. Vincenzo Zhan Silu, recognized by the government, and one of the seven formerly excommunicated bishops whom Pope Francis has re-admitted to communion.
Msgr. Celli presented a letter signed by card. Pietro Parolin, secretary of state, and by card. Fernando Filoni, prefect of Propaganda Fide to Msgr. Guo in which they asked the underground bishop to cede his role as ordinary to Msgr. Zhan. Also according to the report of the priests of Mindong, Msgr. Celli would have told Msgr. Guo that Pope Francis himself asks for this gesture of obedience "and of sacrifice for the general situation of the Chinese Church".
At the meeting in Beijing, Msgr. Celli also announced that the underground bishop of Shantou, Msgr. Pietro Zhuang Jianjian will give way to the official bishop Giuseppe Huang Bingzhang, also recently reconciled with the Holy See.
In any case, the decision to give the ordinary position to the two official bishops, much appreciated by the government, seems to have been already made a year ago, on another trip to Beijing by Msgr. Celli. On that occasion, Msgr. Celli would have explained to Msgr. Guo that the Pope himself demanded this step back "because otherwise the [sino-vatican] agreement cannot be signed". The Pope feared that without the agreement - on episcopal appointments - the Chinese Church would be invaded by dozens of illegitimate bishops, with serious consequences for Church unity.
Monday, December 17, 2018
INDULGE ME
Set-up.
A federal court says New York’s ban on nunchucks, the martial arts weapon made famous by Bruce Lee but prohibited in the state for decades, is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment.
Punchline.
Groundchucks, however, remain illegal.
A federal court says New York’s ban on nunchucks, the martial arts weapon made famous by Bruce Lee but prohibited in the state for decades, is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment.
Punchline.
Groundchucks, however, remain illegal.
DAVE SEZ
Why David Burge is the best there is or ever will be.
Your sexy Hollywood superstar name is your main internet password, credit card number, and 3-digit security code.
Damn.
Your sexy Hollywood superstar name is your main internet password, credit card number, and 3-digit security code.
Damn.
Sunday, December 16, 2018
WORDS TO LIVE BY
If you're walking into church some Sunday morning and you see your pastor or his wife roll up in a Lambo, immediately turn around, walk back to the parking lot, get in your car, drive back home and never EVER set foot in that church again.
"You light my fire, let this Lamborghini light your fire, baby." So said Pastor John Gray when he gave his wife a Lamborghini Urus last Sunday—a gesture that sparked some criticism of his spending habits, the Houston Chronicle reports. But Gray, an associate pastor at Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church in Greenville, SC, is defending the $200,000 buy. "God helped me to make my wife's dream come true," he wrote on Instagram, per the Chronicle. "Why not? She's made mine come true!" In a Facebook Live video, he also denied using any church funds, saying a reality TV show on the Oprah Winfrey Network, savings and investments, and book deals paid for the flashy vehicle.
Shakes head, thoroughly humiliated for my Savior.
Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
"You light my fire, let this Lamborghini light your fire, baby." So said Pastor John Gray when he gave his wife a Lamborghini Urus last Sunday—a gesture that sparked some criticism of his spending habits, the Houston Chronicle reports. But Gray, an associate pastor at Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church in Greenville, SC, is defending the $200,000 buy. "God helped me to make my wife's dream come true," he wrote on Instagram, per the Chronicle. "Why not? She's made mine come true!" In a Facebook Live video, he also denied using any church funds, saying a reality TV show on the Oprah Winfrey Network, savings and investments, and book deals paid for the flashy vehicle.
Shakes head, thoroughly humiliated for my Savior.
Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
CAN'T POST, HAVE TO GO TO THE MARKET
To paraphrase Mark Twain, if you don't like "food science," wait a minute.
Unless you eat organ meats, fish eggs, bugs or blubber — items most civilized people find repulsive — you are missing out on essential nutrients that can be found only in grass-fed butterfat, argues the “politically incorrect” nutrition organization, the Weston A. Price Foundation.
Within the last century, “Diet Dictocrats” have decided that saturated fats, butter chief among them, are to blame for heart disease and cancer, WAP cofounder Sally Fallon says in an article titled “Why Butter is Better.“
“Isolated Swiss villagers placed a bowl of butter on their church altars, set a wick in it, and let it burn throughout the year as a sign of divinity in the butter. Arab groups also put a high value on butter, especially deep yellow-orange butter from livestock feeding on green grass in the spring and fall. American folk wisdom recognized that children raised on butter were robust and sturdy; but that children given skim milk during their growing years were pale and thin, with ‘pinched’ faces.”
Heart disease was rare in America at the turn of the 20th century, Fallon notes, but between 1920 and 1960, it became America’s number one killer. During the same period, butter consumption plummeted from 18 pounds per person per year to four.
“It doesn’t take a Ph.D. in statistics to conclude that butter is not a cause,” Fallon writes.
In 2015, American butter consumption reached a 40-year-high of 5 pounds per person per year, Fallon noted. New Zealanders consumed 24 pounds!
Meanwhile, only 1 in 20 adults in New Zealand has heart disease, compared to 1 in 4 Americans.
That means New Zealanders consume 5 times as much butter as Americans and have a fifth of the heart disease.
Look. This is not Asgard and you are not (at the moment) immortal. SOMETHING is going to kill you eventually. So here's an idea.
Stay out of my life.
But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Unless you eat organ meats, fish eggs, bugs or blubber — items most civilized people find repulsive — you are missing out on essential nutrients that can be found only in grass-fed butterfat, argues the “politically incorrect” nutrition organization, the Weston A. Price Foundation.
Within the last century, “Diet Dictocrats” have decided that saturated fats, butter chief among them, are to blame for heart disease and cancer, WAP cofounder Sally Fallon says in an article titled “Why Butter is Better.“
“Isolated Swiss villagers placed a bowl of butter on their church altars, set a wick in it, and let it burn throughout the year as a sign of divinity in the butter. Arab groups also put a high value on butter, especially deep yellow-orange butter from livestock feeding on green grass in the spring and fall. American folk wisdom recognized that children raised on butter were robust and sturdy; but that children given skim milk during their growing years were pale and thin, with ‘pinched’ faces.”
Heart disease was rare in America at the turn of the 20th century, Fallon notes, but between 1920 and 1960, it became America’s number one killer. During the same period, butter consumption plummeted from 18 pounds per person per year to four.
“It doesn’t take a Ph.D. in statistics to conclude that butter is not a cause,” Fallon writes.
In 2015, American butter consumption reached a 40-year-high of 5 pounds per person per year, Fallon noted. New Zealanders consumed 24 pounds!
Meanwhile, only 1 in 20 adults in New Zealand has heart disease, compared to 1 in 4 Americans.
That means New Zealanders consume 5 times as much butter as Americans and have a fifth of the heart disease.
Look. This is not Asgard and you are not (at the moment) immortal. SOMETHING is going to kill you eventually. So here's an idea.
Stay out of my life.
But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Saturday, December 15, 2018
OH WELL
I guess I'll have to give up goofing on Mikey Nats because it can't be done any better than this. Here's some supermarket samples.
Remember when Michael Avenatti was the Democrats’ big hope for 2020? He wasn’t just that, though. Parachuting in to launch his presidential campaign to the DNC’s “Ethnic Council” and its black caucus in Chicago in August, he enthusiastically adopted the party’s guiltspeak. “People that look like me, white men, we need to stand up,” he told his minority audience, exactly the kind of cost-free identity-politics self-castigation without which no Democrat can hope to rise very far. In the same month, Avenatti spoke at the “Democratic Wing Ding” dinner in Iowa and announced plans to visit at least 20 more states.
The response was fanatical. Avenatti was hailed as a hybrid attack dog and sex god. All Democrats bowed to the Trumpslayer. Picture a two-fisted, high-T version of 2008 Barack Obama, and you’ll have some idea of how professional Democrats viewed him as they rushed to polish his boots with their tongues. “Hottie Avenatti” became a meme. If geothermal hatred of President Trump was warming the Democratic party’s heart, Avenatti was the cause of significant engorgement in its undies. “I wouldn’t not f*** him,” one activist said. “Unprompted, several Democrats admiringly discussed Avenatti’s physique to VICE News,” ran one reporter’s account, noting that “I have a thing for bald guys” was a typical remark. (Great news, Joe Biden, you can take out your plugs!)
This was less than four months ago: Peak Avenatti. Since then his stock has followed somewhat of a Pets.com trajectory. In August, Avenatti stepped into a Twitter slap-fight between Jim Acosta and Sean Hannity and tried to invite himself to appear on the latter’s show (“Let’s go big boy”), earning only blunt dismissal for his efforts. Hannity informed the lawyer that only the president and “top newsmakers” could hope for an entire hour on his show anyway. Avenatti was reduced to looking like Jack Lemmon at the moment Alec Baldwin informed him that coffee is for closers.
Avenatti aimed his salvos at Republicans but wound up blasting off his own toes. September was when he announced with immense fanfare a new client: a woman spinning lunatic stories about Brett Kavanaugh’s supposed involvement in a high-school rape gang. When her account failed to attract any shred of corroboration from any of the many others who supposedly attended the felony fiestas she described, she backed off some of her claims in a TV interview while a supposedly corroborating second witness produced by Avenatti instead blamed him for misrepresenting her story. “I do not like that [Avenatti] twisted my words,” the second woman told NBC News.
Be SURE to read the whole thing.
Remember when Michael Avenatti was the Democrats’ big hope for 2020? He wasn’t just that, though. Parachuting in to launch his presidential campaign to the DNC’s “Ethnic Council” and its black caucus in Chicago in August, he enthusiastically adopted the party’s guiltspeak. “People that look like me, white men, we need to stand up,” he told his minority audience, exactly the kind of cost-free identity-politics self-castigation without which no Democrat can hope to rise very far. In the same month, Avenatti spoke at the “Democratic Wing Ding” dinner in Iowa and announced plans to visit at least 20 more states.
The response was fanatical. Avenatti was hailed as a hybrid attack dog and sex god. All Democrats bowed to the Trumpslayer. Picture a two-fisted, high-T version of 2008 Barack Obama, and you’ll have some idea of how professional Democrats viewed him as they rushed to polish his boots with their tongues. “Hottie Avenatti” became a meme. If geothermal hatred of President Trump was warming the Democratic party’s heart, Avenatti was the cause of significant engorgement in its undies. “I wouldn’t not f*** him,” one activist said. “Unprompted, several Democrats admiringly discussed Avenatti’s physique to VICE News,” ran one reporter’s account, noting that “I have a thing for bald guys” was a typical remark. (Great news, Joe Biden, you can take out your plugs!)
This was less than four months ago: Peak Avenatti. Since then his stock has followed somewhat of a Pets.com trajectory. In August, Avenatti stepped into a Twitter slap-fight between Jim Acosta and Sean Hannity and tried to invite himself to appear on the latter’s show (“Let’s go big boy”), earning only blunt dismissal for his efforts. Hannity informed the lawyer that only the president and “top newsmakers” could hope for an entire hour on his show anyway. Avenatti was reduced to looking like Jack Lemmon at the moment Alec Baldwin informed him that coffee is for closers.
Avenatti aimed his salvos at Republicans but wound up blasting off his own toes. September was when he announced with immense fanfare a new client: a woman spinning lunatic stories about Brett Kavanaugh’s supposed involvement in a high-school rape gang. When her account failed to attract any shred of corroboration from any of the many others who supposedly attended the felony fiestas she described, she backed off some of her claims in a TV interview while a supposedly corroborating second witness produced by Avenatti instead blamed him for misrepresenting her story. “I do not like that [Avenatti] twisted my words,” the second woman told NBC News.
Be SURE to read the whole thing.
OWNING IT
Another Boomer triumph.
Millennials lacking life skills - like cooking, budgeting, or time management - are now signing up for classes designed to teach them those basics. These are crash courses in Adulting.
Millennials lacking life skills - like cooking, budgeting, or time management - are now signing up for classes designed to teach them those basics. These are crash courses in Adulting.
HARPOONING THE WHALE
Slate? You spelled "homosexual" wrong.
In a September interview with GQ, Paul McCartney revealed that he and John Lennon once masturbated together when they were growing up in Liverpool. According to McCartney, they were with a group of their friends at John’s house: “The lights were out, and somebody started masturbating, so we all did.” The rock legend went on to qualify that “it wasn’t a big thing. … But it was good harmless fun. It didn’t hurt anyone.”
In a September interview with GQ, Paul McCartney revealed that he and John Lennon once masturbated together when they were growing up in Liverpool. According to McCartney, they were with a group of their friends at John’s house: “The lights were out, and somebody started masturbating, so we all did.” The rock legend went on to qualify that “it wasn’t a big thing. … But it was good harmless fun. It didn’t hurt anyone.”
Predictably, McCartney’s quote about the circle jerk hit the Twittersphere, comedians trotted out their best Beatles-themed masturbation jokes, and the whole, uncomfortable matter seemed to go away within a few days. But while everyone was laughing, there was one place where people took the revelation that two of the Beatles once beat off together very seriously: the website known as BateWorld.
I will admit to conducting the New York Philharmonic on many occasions but I never thought that it was EVER "good, harmless fun." It was always something that you profusely repented to God for and if I'd ever thought that someone else was there in the room with me, either physically or virtually, while I was playing the back nine at Sawgrass, you wouldn't know my name.
AGAINST UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE
Because people this stupid shouldn't be allowed to influence anyone's political affairs.
Whether you like it or not, Joseph Stalin was one of the greatest anti-fascists in the history of the anti-fascist movement. Under Stalin's command, the Red Army defeated the nazis and saved several ethnic groups from nazi extermination. This is a legacy we cannot forget.
The 25,000,000 or so Russians that Stalin murdered might beg to differ, dumbass.
Whether you like it or not, Joseph Stalin was one of the greatest anti-fascists in the history of the anti-fascist movement. Under Stalin's command, the Red Army defeated the nazis and saved several ethnic groups from nazi extermination. This is a legacy we cannot forget.
The 25,000,000 or so Russians that Stalin murdered might beg to differ, dumbass.
Tuesday, December 11, 2018
WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?
Politico has a suggestion for the Democrats in two years.
The former vice president is clocking in well above the closest competition in the latest 2020 presidential polls. And, as he said last week, he is the “most qualified person in the country to be president.” Yet in a Democratic primary he could be cannibalized by his own kind. Other Democratic candidates with more ambition than ability to win a general election against Donald Trump will inexorably and gleefully erode his standing by rehashing the Anita Hill hearings, pushing him to the left on domestic policy and endlessly reminding voters of his support for the Gulf War. Biden is the clear front-runner now—with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders at 13 percent—but plenty of early favorites have ended up as also-rans (i.e. Jesse Jackson in 1988, Jerry Brown in 1992, Howard Dean in 2004 and Hillary Clinton in 2008). Running in a Democratic primary could deeply damage Biden’s legacy.
Biden could run as the major third-party candidate with a principled conservative by his side (Lieberman, a one-time Democrat, technically categorized himself as an independent at the time McCain ran for president). A number of Republicans stand out: Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse, outgoing Ohio Gov. John Kasich and newly minted Utah Sen. Mitt Romney. Many past third-party bids have failed because they came from the lunatic fringes—think Jill Stein and Ralph Nader of the Green Party or Ross Perot with his quirky North American Free Trade Agreement obsession. Biden, by picking someone from the principled wing of the GOP, would instantly signal that he intends to run from the center.
Sounds great. An elderly leftist and a "conservative Republican" who doesn't seriously believe much of anything.
Why You Got Trump Reason #563,799.
The former vice president is clocking in well above the closest competition in the latest 2020 presidential polls. And, as he said last week, he is the “most qualified person in the country to be president.” Yet in a Democratic primary he could be cannibalized by his own kind. Other Democratic candidates with more ambition than ability to win a general election against Donald Trump will inexorably and gleefully erode his standing by rehashing the Anita Hill hearings, pushing him to the left on domestic policy and endlessly reminding voters of his support for the Gulf War. Biden is the clear front-runner now—with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders at 13 percent—but plenty of early favorites have ended up as also-rans (i.e. Jesse Jackson in 1988, Jerry Brown in 1992, Howard Dean in 2004 and Hillary Clinton in 2008). Running in a Democratic primary could deeply damage Biden’s legacy.
Biden could run as the major third-party candidate with a principled conservative by his side (Lieberman, a one-time Democrat, technically categorized himself as an independent at the time McCain ran for president). A number of Republicans stand out: Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse, outgoing Ohio Gov. John Kasich and newly minted Utah Sen. Mitt Romney. Many past third-party bids have failed because they came from the lunatic fringes—think Jill Stein and Ralph Nader of the Green Party or Ross Perot with his quirky North American Free Trade Agreement obsession. Biden, by picking someone from the principled wing of the GOP, would instantly signal that he intends to run from the center.
Sounds great. An elderly leftist and a "conservative Republican" who doesn't seriously believe much of anything.
Why You Got Trump Reason #563,799.
Thursday, December 6, 2018
SURPRISE, SURPRISE
International anti-Semitic organization is fine with killing Jews.
The United Nations General Assembly failed on Thursday to adopt a U.S. resolution that condemned terrorist acts by Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups -- a blow for the U.S. push to curb anti-Israel bias at the body.
But after a procedural move by Kuwait and Bolivia, the body adopted a rule that meant the U.S. resolution needed a two-thirds majority to be adopted. The resolution picked up a plurality of 87 votes in support and 57 against -- with 33 abstentions. But it was not enough to meet the two-thirds threshold.
Ahead of the vote, U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley accused those who pushed for the two-thirds threshold of "double standards" and of trying to torpedo the resolution. In a speech to the chamber, she noted that, despite the many resolutions condemning and criticizing Israel, the U.N. has never passed a resolution condemning Hamas.
"That, more than anything else, is a condemnation of the United Nations itself," she said.
The United Nations General Assembly failed on Thursday to adopt a U.S. resolution that condemned terrorist acts by Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups -- a blow for the U.S. push to curb anti-Israel bias at the body.
The U.S. resolution would have condemned Hamas for “repeatedly firing rockets into Israel and for inciting violence, thereby putting civilians at risk.” It would also have demanded that Hamas “and other militant actors, including Palestinian Islamic Jihad,” cease all provocative and violent actions; and condemn Hamas efforts to construct tunnels to infiltrate Israel and launch rockets into civilian areas.
Ahead of the vote, U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley accused those who pushed for the two-thirds threshold of "double standards" and of trying to torpedo the resolution. In a speech to the chamber, she noted that, despite the many resolutions condemning and criticizing Israel, the U.N. has never passed a resolution condemning Hamas.
"That, more than anything else, is a condemnation of the United Nations itself," she said.
Wednesday, December 5, 2018
WINNING STRATEGY
Good luck running on "Americans are retards" in two years, Democrats.
Sen. Mazie Hirono (Dumbass., Hawaii) said Tuesday that Democrats have a hard time connecting with voters because they "know so much" and need to tell people "how smart" they are.
Hirono's comments came at the Bend Towards Justice conference in Washington, D.C., where journalist Dahlia Lithwick asked the senator how Democrats can make voters care more about the judicial system.
"I wish I had the answer to that, because one of the things that we Democrats have a really hard time is connecting to people's hearts instead of here," Hirono said, pointing to her brain. "We're really good at shoving out all the information that touches people here," she continued, again pointing to her head, "but not here," she said, touching her chest.
"I have been saying at all of our Democratic Senate retreats that we need to speak to the heart, not in a manipulative way, not in a way that brings forth everyone's fears and resentments, but truly to speak to the heart so that people know that we're actually on their side," Hirono added.
"We have a really hard time doing that, and one of the reasons that was told to me at one of our retreats is that we Democrats know so much that is true," she said. "We have to kind of tell everyone how smart we are, so we have a tendency to be very left brain and we think, this—really, that is not how people make decisions."
Content edited slightly.
Sen. Mazie Hirono (Dumbass., Hawaii) said Tuesday that Democrats have a hard time connecting with voters because they "know so much" and need to tell people "how smart" they are.
Hirono's comments came at the Bend Towards Justice conference in Washington, D.C., where journalist Dahlia Lithwick asked the senator how Democrats can make voters care more about the judicial system.
"I wish I had the answer to that, because one of the things that we Democrats have a really hard time is connecting to people's hearts instead of here," Hirono said, pointing to her brain. "We're really good at shoving out all the information that touches people here," she continued, again pointing to her head, "but not here," she said, touching her chest.
"I have been saying at all of our Democratic Senate retreats that we need to speak to the heart, not in a manipulative way, not in a way that brings forth everyone's fears and resentments, but truly to speak to the heart so that people know that we're actually on their side," Hirono added.
"We have a really hard time doing that, and one of the reasons that was told to me at one of our retreats is that we Democrats know so much that is true," she said. "We have to kind of tell everyone how smart we are, so we have a tendency to be very left brain and we think, this—really, that is not how people make decisions."
Content edited slightly.
Tuesday, December 4, 2018
COMES THE DAWN
Has outgoing Missouri Democratic senator Claire McCaskill learned anything from her recent defeat? Maybe. As far as Claire's concerned, her party has basically written off the United States west of Pennsylvania and east of California.
Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., is about to head home after losing her bid for re-election, and in defeat she's blaming her own Democratic Party for abandoning moderates.
McCaskill has represented Missouri in the Senate since 2007. During her tenure, President Obama lost Missouri twice and President Trump won it handily. McCaskill was one of 10 Senate Democrats running for re-election in states Trump won; four lost.
In an interview with Morning Edition host Rachel Martin, McCaskill characterized her loss as a "failure" of the Democratic Party "to gain enough trust with rural Americans," and she predicted her party will struggle to win other seats as long as President Trump remains in office.
"This demand for purity, this looking down your nose at people who want to compromise, is a recipe for disaster for the Democrats," she said Thursday in her Capitol Hill office. "Will we ever get to a majority in the Senate again, much less to 60, if we do not have some moderates in our party?"
The Brett Kavanaugh business didn't help.
I don't think my vote [against Kavanaugh] hurt me as much as the spectacle that occurred. There were mistakes made by my party in terms of how that was handled. I don't think that communication [from Christine Blasey Ford] to the judiciary committee should have been kept private as long as it was. The FBI deals with a lot of confidential information, and that would have absolved [judiciary committee ranking Democrat Dianne Feinstein] of the very real perception that this was an 11th-hour attempt to gut a guy.
Which it was but no matter. Claire's actually not that far off. When you've decided that the views of the folks in Flyover Country are irrelevant, evil or both, good luck winning national elections or holding on to a house of Congress for very long.
Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., is about to head home after losing her bid for re-election, and in defeat she's blaming her own Democratic Party for abandoning moderates.
McCaskill has represented Missouri in the Senate since 2007. During her tenure, President Obama lost Missouri twice and President Trump won it handily. McCaskill was one of 10 Senate Democrats running for re-election in states Trump won; four lost.
In an interview with Morning Edition host Rachel Martin, McCaskill characterized her loss as a "failure" of the Democratic Party "to gain enough trust with rural Americans," and she predicted her party will struggle to win other seats as long as President Trump remains in office.
"This demand for purity, this looking down your nose at people who want to compromise, is a recipe for disaster for the Democrats," she said Thursday in her Capitol Hill office. "Will we ever get to a majority in the Senate again, much less to 60, if we do not have some moderates in our party?"
The Brett Kavanaugh business didn't help.
I don't think my vote [against Kavanaugh] hurt me as much as the spectacle that occurred. There were mistakes made by my party in terms of how that was handled. I don't think that communication [from Christine Blasey Ford] to the judiciary committee should have been kept private as long as it was. The FBI deals with a lot of confidential information, and that would have absolved [judiciary committee ranking Democrat Dianne Feinstein] of the very real perception that this was an 11th-hour attempt to gut a guy.
Which it was but no matter. Claire's actually not that far off. When you've decided that the views of the folks in Flyover Country are irrelevant, evil or both, good luck winning national elections or holding on to a house of Congress for very long.
Sunday, December 2, 2018
Friday, November 30, 2018
COALITION OF THE STUPID
The only time in my life that I ever got SERIOUSLY drunk happened years and years and years ago. I had just finished a church softball game and, as usually happens during or after Episcopalians do pretty much anything social, my team hit the beer hard after the game.
At least I did, anyway. Our team's coach, a really good guy, kept handing them to me and I kept drinking them. I drove myself home, which was a sin by itself, and why I didn't get pulled over and slapped with a DUI, God only knows.
My mom knew I was plastered.
And that would have been that except for the fact that the next day, I was scheduled to take a civil service exam to get a job with the Postal Service.
And I was SERIOUSLY hung over.
I think that was the only time in my life that I actually kind of impressed my dad. He suggested a few things to deal with it. Long story short, I took the test and, of course, didn't get the job.
Which still irritates me.
Gavin Clarkson, a recent candidate for New Mexico secretary of state, experienced a one-of-our-50-states-is-missing moment earlier this month when applying for a marriage license in the nation's capital.
Clarkson, who lives in Las Cruces, and his then-fiancée visited the District of Columbia Courts Marriage Bureau on Nov. 20 to apply for a marriage license.
But, once there, the couple encountered a small problem, Clarkson said. The clerk wouldn't accept Clarkson's driver's license – from New Mexico – as proof of his identity. Rather, the clerk, who mistakenly believed Clarkson was a foreign citizen, said he would have to provide an international passport to get the marriage license.
After Clarkson objected, the clerk went to check with a supervisor, who confirmed Clarkson would need a passport.
"You know you are from flyover country when you are applying for a marriage license, give them your New Mexico driver's license, and they come back and say: 'My supervisor says we cannot accept international driver's licenses. Do you have a New Mexico passport?'" Clarkson posted on Facebook recently.
At least I did, anyway. Our team's coach, a really good guy, kept handing them to me and I kept drinking them. I drove myself home, which was a sin by itself, and why I didn't get pulled over and slapped with a DUI, God only knows.
My mom knew I was plastered.
And that would have been that except for the fact that the next day, I was scheduled to take a civil service exam to get a job with the Postal Service.
And I was SERIOUSLY hung over.
I think that was the only time in my life that I actually kind of impressed my dad. He suggested a few things to deal with it. Long story short, I took the test and, of course, didn't get the job.
Which still irritates me.
Gavin Clarkson, a recent candidate for New Mexico secretary of state, experienced a one-of-our-50-states-is-missing moment earlier this month when applying for a marriage license in the nation's capital.
Clarkson, who lives in Las Cruces, and his then-fiancée visited the District of Columbia Courts Marriage Bureau on Nov. 20 to apply for a marriage license.
But, once there, the couple encountered a small problem, Clarkson said. The clerk wouldn't accept Clarkson's driver's license – from New Mexico – as proof of his identity. Rather, the clerk, who mistakenly believed Clarkson was a foreign citizen, said he would have to provide an international passport to get the marriage license.
After Clarkson objected, the clerk went to check with a supervisor, who confirmed Clarkson would need a passport.
"You know you are from flyover country when you are applying for a marriage license, give them your New Mexico driver's license, and they come back and say: 'My supervisor says we cannot accept international driver's licenses. Do you have a New Mexico passport?'" Clarkson posted on Facebook recently.
Thursday, November 29, 2018
GAME CHANGER
It astonishes me just how much of a professional sports revolution has occurred in my home town in the last several years. Although this is just a preliminary step, the following is, from all indications, going to happen. The ownership group is solid, political support in the City of St. Louis seems to be strong, the media here have run story after story about the MLS and quite a few regular people in this area, including me, are genuinely excited about the prospect.
The St. Louis Housing, Urban Development and Zoning committee unanimously passed a resolution in support of an MLS stadium plan in the city on Wednesday.
The vote, which came after a hearing, means the plan will next go before the St. Louis Board of Aldermen, the legislative body for the city. That vote could come as soon as Friday, but a report from local outlet KMOX indicates it could be delayed to raise more support among the aldermen.
The plan is for a privately funded $250 million stadium of approximately 20,000 capacity in St. Louis, to be located west of Union Station in the city.
Contrast that with what would happen if the NFL's Los Angeles Chargers decided that they didn't want to be Stan Kroenke's bitches and started nosing around here wondering what St. Louis would be willing to do for them.
Well, we'd tell them, we still have the dome which isn't that old. We'll get it ready for you, make what improvements we can in it and you can play there for at least the next fifty years. If you don't like that, all we can suggest is to return to San Diego and beg their forgiveness.
The NFL killed this market.
UPDATE: It's pretty close to a done deal.
The St. Louis Housing, Urban Development and Zoning committee unanimously passed a resolution in support of an MLS stadium plan in the city on Wednesday.
The vote, which came after a hearing, means the plan will next go before the St. Louis Board of Aldermen, the legislative body for the city. That vote could come as soon as Friday, but a report from local outlet KMOX indicates it could be delayed to raise more support among the aldermen.
The plan is for a privately funded $250 million stadium of approximately 20,000 capacity in St. Louis, to be located west of Union Station in the city.
Contrast that with what would happen if the NFL's Los Angeles Chargers decided that they didn't want to be Stan Kroenke's bitches and started nosing around here wondering what St. Louis would be willing to do for them.
Well, we'd tell them, we still have the dome which isn't that old. We'll get it ready for you, make what improvements we can in it and you can play there for at least the next fifty years. If you don't like that, all we can suggest is to return to San Diego and beg their forgiveness.
The NFL killed this market.
UPDATE: It's pretty close to a done deal.
Tuesday, November 27, 2018
DOUCHEBEARD GIVES UP
I appreciate this kind of honesty. I know this is what they think but to have one come out and admit it is actually refreshing.
MILLENIALS ARE STUPID
or, The Case For Raising The Voting Age To 40.
Younger Americans are turning on the country and forgetting its ideals, with nearly half believing that it isn’t “great,” and many eyeing the U.S. flag as “a sign of intolerance and hatred,” according to a new and disturbing survey.
Those who came of age under former President Obama also have a larger than life view of the 44th president and feel that he had a “bigger impact” on the United States than the father of the country and leader of the Revolutionary War, former President George Washington.
Younger Americans are turning on the country and forgetting its ideals, with nearly half believing that it isn’t “great,” and many eyeing the U.S. flag as “a sign of intolerance and hatred,” according to a new and disturbing survey.
Those who came of age under former President Obama also have a larger than life view of the 44th president and feel that he had a “bigger impact” on the United States than the father of the country and leader of the Revolutionary War, former President George Washington.
Monday, November 26, 2018
GOOD LORD, MOVIES
If you don't want me to show up, just tell me.
ROBIN HOOD: Within its first five minutes, nefariously-coated Ben Mendelsohn draws up a series of fancy calligraphed scrolls, stamps them, sends them off. Robin gets one, unfurls it, at the top it says “DRAFT NOTICE.” He gets a DRAFT NOTICE FOR THE CRUSADES.
Pitch: how the Transformers won the Battle of Gettysburg.
ROBIN HOOD: Within its first five minutes, nefariously-coated Ben Mendelsohn draws up a series of fancy calligraphed scrolls, stamps them, sends them off. Robin gets one, unfurls it, at the top it says “DRAFT NOTICE.” He gets a DRAFT NOTICE FOR THE CRUSADES.
Pitch: how the Transformers won the Battle of Gettysburg.
BADGE OF HONOR
I'm starting to think that getting run from Twitter was the single greatest compliment I've ever received. Because Glenn Reynolds has officially had it.
People seem to want more, and although there’s nothing duller than posting a screed on why you’re quitting a platform, here’s the gist: I’ve never liked Twitter even though I’ve used it. I was a late adopter, and with good reason. It’s the crystal meth of social media — addictive and destructive, yet simultaneously unsatisfying. When I’m off it I’m happier than when I’m on it. That it’s also being run by crappy SJW types who break their promises, to users, shareholders, and the government, of free speech is just the final reason. Why should I provide free content to people I don’t like, who hate me? I’m currently working on a book on social media, and I keep coming back to the point that Twitter is far and away the most socially destructive of the various platforms. So I decided to suspend them, as they are suspending others. At least I’m giving my reasons, which is more than they’ve done usually.
UPDATE: Yup. I've got less and less use for the damned thing.
People seem to want more, and although there’s nothing duller than posting a screed on why you’re quitting a platform, here’s the gist: I’ve never liked Twitter even though I’ve used it. I was a late adopter, and with good reason. It’s the crystal meth of social media — addictive and destructive, yet simultaneously unsatisfying. When I’m off it I’m happier than when I’m on it. That it’s also being run by crappy SJW types who break their promises, to users, shareholders, and the government, of free speech is just the final reason. Why should I provide free content to people I don’t like, who hate me? I’m currently working on a book on social media, and I keep coming back to the point that Twitter is far and away the most socially destructive of the various platforms. So I decided to suspend them, as they are suspending others. At least I’m giving my reasons, which is more than they’ve done usually.
UPDATE: Yup. I've got less and less use for the damned thing.
Saturday, November 24, 2018
WHO SHOT MR. BURNS?
Humor is dead in America.
Scientists are proposing an ingenious but as-yet-unproven way to tackle climate change: spraying sun-dimming chemicals into the Earth's atmosphere.
Scientists are proposing an ingenious but as-yet-unproven way to tackle climate change: spraying sun-dimming chemicals into the Earth's atmosphere.
The research by scientists at Harvard and Yale universities, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, proposes using a technique known as stratospheric aerosol injection, which they say could cut the rate of global warming in half.
The technique would involve spraying large amounts of sulfate particles into the Earth's lower stratosphere at altitudes as high as 12 miles. The scientists propose delivering the sulfates with specially designed high-altitude aircraft, balloons or large naval-style guns.
What could go wrong? Damned if we know.
Despite the technology being undeveloped and with no existing aircraft suitable for adaptation, the researchers say that "developing a new, purpose-built tanker with substantial payload capabilities would neither be technologically difficult nor prohibitively expensive."
"We make no judgment about the desirability of SAI," the report states. "We simply show that a hypothetical deployment program commencing 15 years hence, while both highly uncertain and ambitious, would indeed be technically possible from an engineering perspective. It would also be remarkably inexpensive."
The researchers also acknowledge potential risks: coordination between multiple countries in both hemispheres would be required, and stratospheric aerosol injection techniques could jeopardize crop yields, lead to droughts or cause extreme weather.
The proposals also don't address the issue of rising greenhouse gas emissions, which are a leading cause of global warming.
But ScienceTM and crap.
ON THE OTHER HAND...
People in this country don't give a diarhetical crap whether or not people in other countries consider American presidents to be "legitimate."
Howard Dean, a former Vermont governor and 2004 Democratic presidential candidate, said Thursday that America's perception in the world isn't suffering too badly under President Trump because many don't see him as the nation's legitimate leader.
"I think people don’t actually really consider Trump a legitimate president," Dean said on MSNBC. "He was obviously elected and all this business, but he does not represent American values. George W. Bush did represent American values and our numbers went down as a result."
"I think people are beginning to understand that Trump does not represent American values," he continued. "He doesn’t even really represent the values of most people who voted for him."
Yeah, just keep telling yourself that, HoDo.
Howard Dean, a former Vermont governor and 2004 Democratic presidential candidate, said Thursday that America's perception in the world isn't suffering too badly under President Trump because many don't see him as the nation's legitimate leader.
"I think people don’t actually really consider Trump a legitimate president," Dean said on MSNBC. "He was obviously elected and all this business, but he does not represent American values. George W. Bush did represent American values and our numbers went down as a result."
"I think people are beginning to understand that Trump does not represent American values," he continued. "He doesn’t even really represent the values of most people who voted for him."
Yeah, just keep telling yourself that, HoDo.
Friday, November 23, 2018
HITTING FOR THE CYCLE
Chuckie's really good at Twitter, you have to give him that. Two mutually-exclusive opinions in 280 characters would be tough for anyone to pull off.
Wednesday, November 21, 2018
WHY YOU GOT TRUMP
Long story short, it's as simple as it can possibly be. The American people prefer their presidents to actually like the country they wish to lead.
Former President Barack Obama said "racism" and "mommy issues," among other contributors, were limiting the country's ability to make progress on everything from education to climate change.
Obama, speaking at the Obama Foundation Summit on Monday night, said the answers already exist to solve many of the problems facing both the U.S. and the world, but that the nation was not making progress "because we are still confused, blind, shrouded with hate, anger, racism, mommy issues."
The former president said people "literally can remake the world right now," which "badly needs remaking."
And let's be honest. The GOP's institutional "conservatives," in the party and out of it, knew who Obama was back in 2008. So who did they run against him? John McCain, the most institutional candidate possible.
Who, as we all know, lost. So who did big-league Republicanism put forward against Obama four years later? Mitt Romney, a liberal Republican that the party unsuccessfully attempted to pass off as a jen-yoo-wine conservative.
Who also lost, which gained Obama four more years to lead a country that he and his party basically detest.
Isn't that a bit strong, Chris?
Not at all. If you live in Missouri, you just got done seeing it if you saw any of Claire McCaskill's campaign ads. Claire talking to Missouri farmers. Claire and Missouri's veterans. Claire running for the tall grass rather than associating with the national Democratic Party.
If she'd gone back to the Senate, Claire would have immediately resumed her position as one of Chuck Schumer's wind-up toys and would have immediately forgotten that a place called Missouri actually exists and that Missourians live there.
Lather, rinse, repeat. In American politics, six years is forever.
Bottom line? I'm not going to vote for anybody who's implicitly or explicitly embarrassed or humiliated to share a nationality with me.
Which is why you got Trump.
Former President Barack Obama said "racism" and "mommy issues," among other contributors, were limiting the country's ability to make progress on everything from education to climate change.
Obama, speaking at the Obama Foundation Summit on Monday night, said the answers already exist to solve many of the problems facing both the U.S. and the world, but that the nation was not making progress "because we are still confused, blind, shrouded with hate, anger, racism, mommy issues."
The former president said people "literally can remake the world right now," which "badly needs remaking."
And let's be honest. The GOP's institutional "conservatives," in the party and out of it, knew who Obama was back in 2008. So who did they run against him? John McCain, the most institutional candidate possible.
Who, as we all know, lost. So who did big-league Republicanism put forward against Obama four years later? Mitt Romney, a liberal Republican that the party unsuccessfully attempted to pass off as a jen-yoo-wine conservative.
Who also lost, which gained Obama four more years to lead a country that he and his party basically detest.
Isn't that a bit strong, Chris?
Not at all. If you live in Missouri, you just got done seeing it if you saw any of Claire McCaskill's campaign ads. Claire talking to Missouri farmers. Claire and Missouri's veterans. Claire running for the tall grass rather than associating with the national Democratic Party.
If she'd gone back to the Senate, Claire would have immediately resumed her position as one of Chuck Schumer's wind-up toys and would have immediately forgotten that a place called Missouri actually exists and that Missourians live there.
Lather, rinse, repeat. In American politics, six years is forever.
Bottom line? I'm not going to vote for anybody who's implicitly or explicitly embarrassed or humiliated to share a nationality with me.
Which is why you got Trump.
Tuesday, November 20, 2018
YOUR JIM ACOSTA JOKE OF THE DAY
Analysis: A turkey has spent more time on-camera in the briefing room this month than the press secretary.
JOHNSON LIFE ADVICE
I have one request for any of you who, from time to time, find yourselves tempted to regard humanity with cynicism, contempt, despair or all three.
Stop doing that.
Stop doing that.
FAKE NEWS
Curling and drinking are closely linked? Yeah, right. Next thing you'll try to tell me is that Episcopal church softball players REALLY enjoy their liquor.
Saturday, November 17, 2018
SUN RISES IN EAST
Democrats overreach.
Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Saturday threw her weight behind a new national campaign to mount primaries against incumbent Democrats deemed to be ideologically and demographically out of step with their districts.
The incoming star congresswoman from New York again put the Democratic establishment on notice that she and activist groups on the left aren’t content with a Democratic-controlled House: They are determined to move the party to the left.
"Long story short, I need you to run for office," Ocasio-Cortez said Saturday on a video conference call hosted by Justice Democrats, as the group launched a campaign dubbed “#OurTime.” Justice Democrats supported Ocasio-Cortez's primary campaign against powerful Rep. Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.).
"All Americans know money in politics is a huge problem, but unfortunately the way that we fix it is by demanding that our incumbents give it up or by running fierce campaigns ourselves," Ocasio-Cortez added. "That's really what we need to do to save this country. That's just what it is."
Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Saturday threw her weight behind a new national campaign to mount primaries against incumbent Democrats deemed to be ideologically and demographically out of step with their districts.
The incoming star congresswoman from New York again put the Democratic establishment on notice that she and activist groups on the left aren’t content with a Democratic-controlled House: They are determined to move the party to the left.
"Long story short, I need you to run for office," Ocasio-Cortez said Saturday on a video conference call hosted by Justice Democrats, as the group launched a campaign dubbed “#OurTime.” Justice Democrats supported Ocasio-Cortez's primary campaign against powerful Rep. Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.).
"All Americans know money in politics is a huge problem, but unfortunately the way that we fix it is by demanding that our incumbents give it up or by running fierce campaigns ourselves," Ocasio-Cortez added. "That's really what we need to do to save this country. That's just what it is."
Thursday, November 15, 2018
FOOD WITH A CAUSE
Lots of people on Twitter jumped all over this. But TBH, it's why I wouldn't eat Ben & Jerry's if they were giving it away so sauce for the goose and all that.
House Dems serving thanksgiving-type meal for their first caucus meeting in HC-5, where the majority typically meets. No chick-fil-a/ideological food.
House Dems serving thanksgiving-type meal for their first caucus meeting in HC-5, where the majority typically meets. No chick-fil-a/ideological food.
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
AND BOOM GOES THE DYNAMITE
Seems that noted women's champion Mikey Nats has been a bad boy.
Michael Avenatti, who became famous for representing Stormy Daniels in her battle with President Trump, has been arrested for felony domestic violence ... law enforcement sources tell TMZ.
Our law enforcement sources say Avenatti was arrested Wednesday after a woman filed a felony DV report. We're told her face was "swollen and bruised" with "red marks" on both cheeks.
Our sources say the alleged incident occurred Tuesday night, but there was another confrontation Wednesday between the two at an exclusive apartment building in the Century City area of L.A.
We're told Wednesday afternoon the woman was on the sidewalk on her cellphone with sunglasses covering her eyes, sobbing and screaming on the phone, "I can't believe you did this to me. I'm going to get a restraining order against you."
We're told security brought her inside the building, took her upstairs and Michael showed up 5 minutes later and ran into the building. He screamed repeatedly, "She hit me first." We're told he angrily added, "This is bulls***, this is f***ing bulls***." We're told he tried getting into the elevator but security denied him access.
Michael Avenatti, who became famous for representing Stormy Daniels in her battle with President Trump, has been arrested for felony domestic violence ... law enforcement sources tell TMZ.
Our law enforcement sources say Avenatti was arrested Wednesday after a woman filed a felony DV report. We're told her face was "swollen and bruised" with "red marks" on both cheeks.
Our sources say the alleged incident occurred Tuesday night, but there was another confrontation Wednesday between the two at an exclusive apartment building in the Century City area of L.A.
We're told Wednesday afternoon the woman was on the sidewalk on her cellphone with sunglasses covering her eyes, sobbing and screaming on the phone, "I can't believe you did this to me. I'm going to get a restraining order against you."
We're told security brought her inside the building, took her upstairs and Michael showed up 5 minutes later and ran into the building. He screamed repeatedly, "She hit me first." We're told he angrily added, "This is bulls***, this is f***ing bulls***." We're told he tried getting into the elevator but security denied him access.
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
PERENNIALS
The New York Times recycles an evergreen concept. It's ALWAYS the fault of the Jews.
On Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu assured Israelis weary of conflict with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip that he was “doing everything I can in order to avoid an unnecessary war.”
On Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu assured Israelis weary of conflict with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip that he was “doing everything I can in order to avoid an unnecessary war.”
A day and a half later, Israel appeared to be on the brink of just that.
After a botched intelligence mission by undercover commandos left seven Palestinian fighters dead, the militant group Hamas and other armed factions mounted an intense and escalating rocket and mortar barrage across much of southern Israel that continued into Tuesday morning.
With air-raid sirens wailing from the Mediterranean to the Dead Sea, and after a Palestinian anti-tank missile blew up an Israeli bus, seriously wounding a 19-year-old soldier, Israel retaliated with airstrikes and tank fire that grew steadily more destructive.
There could be Middle East peace yesterday if those stupid Jews would just quit trying to prevent the murder of themselves and their loved ones.
Monday, November 12, 2018
AMAZING SIGHTING
An Episcopal bishop with an actual spine.
An Episcopal bishop in upstate New York says the church has been "hijacked by the 'Gay Rights Agenda'" in a directive barring same-sex marriages in his diocese, the AP reports. The pastoral directive from The Rev. William Love, who is based in Albany, New York, highlights lingering opposition three weeks before a resolution goes into effect setting rules for same-sex marriages in Episcopal churches nationwide. Love's letter sent Saturday said the policy going into effect Dec. 2 "turns upside down over 2000 years of Church teaching" about marriage. "The Episcopal Church and Western Society have been hijacked by the 'Gay Rights Agenda,' which is very well organized, very strategic, very well financed, and very powerful," Love wrote in the eight-page letter. He added: "Satan is having a heyday bringing division into the Church over these issues."
Church leaders in July overwhelmingly passed the same-sex marriage resolution, which gives bishops with theological objections to same-sex marriages the option to have other clergy perform services.
A few things have got to be said here. Lots of us, Bishop, were saying this exact thing ten years ago and really could have used the pointy-hat support. I mean, something far stronger than your countless open letters or your tepid enthusiasm for GAFCON and/or ACNA.
For that matter, you could have taken the occasion of the 2008 Lambeth Conference and told my gracious lord of Canterbury that yes you all were all going to discuss The Issue and that if he shot you another Real African WordTM, you were going to immediately head home.
And immediately get in close touch with GAFCON and/or ACNA.
But none of you said anything like that back when it might have made a difference and now it no longer makes a difference at all.
Because most of us are done with you.
Bishop? The Episcopal Organization may take action against you personally but I seriously doubt that it will go to the trouble since all it has to do is wait you out. When you retire, the EO will make sure that Albany's next bishop will have correct opinions.
"Better late than never" is often the worst expression in the world, Bishop.
An Episcopal bishop in upstate New York says the church has been "hijacked by the 'Gay Rights Agenda'" in a directive barring same-sex marriages in his diocese, the AP reports. The pastoral directive from The Rev. William Love, who is based in Albany, New York, highlights lingering opposition three weeks before a resolution goes into effect setting rules for same-sex marriages in Episcopal churches nationwide. Love's letter sent Saturday said the policy going into effect Dec. 2 "turns upside down over 2000 years of Church teaching" about marriage. "The Episcopal Church and Western Society have been hijacked by the 'Gay Rights Agenda,' which is very well organized, very strategic, very well financed, and very powerful," Love wrote in the eight-page letter. He added: "Satan is having a heyday bringing division into the Church over these issues."
Church leaders in July overwhelmingly passed the same-sex marriage resolution, which gives bishops with theological objections to same-sex marriages the option to have other clergy perform services.
A few things have got to be said here. Lots of us, Bishop, were saying this exact thing ten years ago and really could have used the pointy-hat support. I mean, something far stronger than your countless open letters or your tepid enthusiasm for GAFCON and/or ACNA.
For that matter, you could have taken the occasion of the 2008 Lambeth Conference and told my gracious lord of Canterbury that yes you all were all going to discuss The Issue and that if he shot you another Real African WordTM, you were going to immediately head home.
And immediately get in close touch with GAFCON and/or ACNA.
But none of you said anything like that back when it might have made a difference and now it no longer makes a difference at all.
Because most of us are done with you.
Bishop? The Episcopal Organization may take action against you personally but I seriously doubt that it will go to the trouble since all it has to do is wait you out. When you retire, the EO will make sure that Albany's next bishop will have correct opinions.
"Better late than never" is often the worst expression in the world, Bishop.
CESSPOOL
If you spend any time there, you'll soon realize that the largest collection of blinkered, philistine, pig-ignorant stupidity on face of the Earth is Twitter. Mitigated, somewhat, by the conservatives @jack allows to remain on his little platform. One of those currently isn't me, @TheRealCSJ, and I still don't know why I and my 300-some-odd followers got shown the door.
But every now and then, you'll run across something there that you can only describe as a bottom-of-the-ninth, walk-off grand slam home run.
For example.
Forget Year Zero. It's Day Zero when it comes to Trump. Everything he says and does has never, ever been said or done before. I'm astounded that presumably intelligent adults are saying this with a straight face.
Ballgame. Thanks for playing.
I'm not astounded by any of this. If your profession spent eight years ignoring or justifying EVERY SINGLE THING OBAMA DID WHILE IN OFFICE, you've got no right to complain when Obama's successor does the same thing to you.
Might want to sit this one out, Chuck Todd.
But every now and then, you'll run across something there that you can only describe as a bottom-of-the-ninth, walk-off grand slam home run.
For example.
Forget Year Zero. It's Day Zero when it comes to Trump. Everything he says and does has never, ever been said or done before. I'm astounded that presumably intelligent adults are saying this with a straight face.
Ballgame. Thanks for playing.
I'm not astounded by any of this. If your profession spent eight years ignoring or justifying EVERY SINGLE THING OBAMA DID WHILE IN OFFICE, you've got no right to complain when Obama's successor does the same thing to you.
Might want to sit this one out, Chuck Todd.
Friday, November 9, 2018
Thursday, November 8, 2018
YEAH, WHATEVER WATCH
Yeah, whatever.
In the quixotic battle against old age, some people use skin care and spin class.
That’s not enough for Emile Ratelband, a 69-year-old who feels like he’s in his 40s. The Dutch pensioner is asking a court in his hometown of Arnhem, southeast of Amsterdam, to change his birth certificate so that it says he took his first breath on March 11, 1969, rather than on March 11, 1949. The judges heard his case Monday and promised they would render a verdict in the next several weeks.
Ratelband sees his request as no different from a petition to change his name or the gender he was assigned at birth — and isn’t bothered that this comparison might offend transgender people, whose medical needs have been recognized by the American Medical Association. It comes down to free will, he maintains.
“Because nowadays, in Europe and in the United States, we are free people,” he said in an interview with The Washington Post. “We can make our own decisions if we want to change our name, or if we want to change our gender. So I want to change my age. My feeling about my body and about my mind is that I’m about 40 or 45.”
It's the Netherlands so I'm guessing his request will be granted. Then the idea will cross the Atlantic and the next thing you know, Bette Midler will be some high school kid's prom date.
Not really sure where that came from.
But why the forties? Why not 35 or 23 or even less? Think of the chicks you could do.
Wednesday, November 7, 2018
BROKEN CLOCKS
Actress Alyssa Milano gets called out a lot here and other places for being a typical Hollywood lefty. But even Hollywood lefties are right once in a while and Milano is absolutely right here.
Alyssa Milano says she will not speak at the next Women's March as long as Linda Sarsour and Tamika Mallory remain a part of the leadership and refuse to condemn Louis Farrakhan's anti-Semitism.
Which prompted this shot from Gleen Grennwald
White actress announces boycott of Women's March unless its gets rid of the Palestinian-American woman and African-American woman who founded it, or until they recite from the script she demands.
And this one.
Equating my defense of Linda Sarsour and Tamika Mallory with a defense of Louis Farrakhan is quite racist and Islamophobic. I'm sure you have reasons you tell yourself why your politics means that you can't possibly be guilty of such things, but you are nonetheless are.
This one too, while we're at it.
You really don't understand even a small amount of the meaning of this discussion, but I love that I made a Trump-supporting MAGA cheerleader defend Alyssa Milano.
Gleen pushes all-in.
I'm accurately describing what took place. If you believe there are any parts of my tweet that are factually inaccurate, you should point them out. "Mis-framing" just means: "he's pointing out facts I wish remained invisible because they undermine my political agenda."
Whatever you say, Gleen. You defended three non-white anti-Semites. We get it.
Alyssa Milano says she will not speak at the next Women's March as long as Linda Sarsour and Tamika Mallory remain a part of the leadership and refuse to condemn Louis Farrakhan's anti-Semitism.
Which prompted this shot from Gleen Grennwald
White actress announces boycott of Women's March unless its gets rid of the Palestinian-American woman and African-American woman who founded it, or until they recite from the script she demands.
And this one.
Equating my defense of Linda Sarsour and Tamika Mallory with a defense of Louis Farrakhan is quite racist and Islamophobic. I'm sure you have reasons you tell yourself why your politics means that you can't possibly be guilty of such things, but you are nonetheless are.
This one too, while we're at it.
You really don't understand even a small amount of the meaning of this discussion, but I love that I made a Trump-supporting MAGA cheerleader defend Alyssa Milano.
Gleen pushes all-in.
I'm accurately describing what took place. If you believe there are any parts of my tweet that are factually inaccurate, you should point them out. "Mis-framing" just means: "he's pointing out facts I wish remained invisible because they undermine my political agenda."
Whatever you say, Gleen. You defended three non-white anti-Semites. We get it.
THE WAY BACK
Josh Hawley seems to have destroyed Claire McCaskill and will be Missouri's next United States senator, completing the total GOP takeover of Missouri. The Democrats have a congressional seat in St. Louis and one in Kansas City and that's all they've got left here.
I'm not quite sure what to say about that except, maybe, this. I'm old enough to remember when the Democrats owned this state. There might have been congressional Missouri Republicans here and there but the Donks ruled Show-Me-Land.
Harry Truman and all that.
Then there was one Missouri statewide GOP win. And another. And another. Then there started to be GOP pickups all over the place. Then Pukes stopped caring about the Civil War and about how their fathers and grandfathers voted back in the day.
Then the floodgates opened.
What, if anything, can the Democrats do about it? Check back.
I'm not quite sure what to say about that except, maybe, this. I'm old enough to remember when the Democrats owned this state. There might have been congressional Missouri Republicans here and there but the Donks ruled Show-Me-Land.
Harry Truman and all that.
Then there was one Missouri statewide GOP win. And another. And another. Then there started to be GOP pickups all over the place. Then Pukes stopped caring about the Civil War and about how their fathers and grandfathers voted back in the day.
Then the floodgates opened.
What, if anything, can the Democrats do about it? Check back.
Tuesday, November 6, 2018
END OF THE DAY
Of all of the reasons to oppose Donald Trump, David French articulates the worst.
Beautifully said, by @bariweiss. In that vein, the Southern Baptist convention is right: “Tolerance of serious wrong by leaders sears the conscience of the culture, spawns unrestrained immorality and lawlessness in the society, and surely results in God’s judgment.”
Let me try an analogy. You have a plumbing problem at your domicile that you don't know how to fix (which, in my case, would be every single conceivable plumbing problem).
So you're going to have to hire a plumber. Do you (A) talk to every single local plumber you can in order to determine whether the personal religion or morality of that plumber agrees with your own? Or (B) do you hire the best, highest-rated plumber that you possibly can regardless of whether they're Jewish, Muslim, Zoroastrian or Taoist?
Thought so.
The president of the United States is a great many things but when you get right down to it, the president of the United States is one thing and only one. He's not a prophet or a priest. He's not another Moses, called by God to lead this country into some kind of golden era.
He's the First Federal Employee. Full stop.
If he does an acceptable job, he'll get another four years. If he doesn't, he won't. Think of a US president as anything more than that and you risk developing a serious drinking problem when your preferred candidate loses to a reality TV show star because she never visited Wisconsin.
Besides, how seriously are conservatives supposed to take calls for the advancement of conservative values coming from institutional conservative politicians or writers who don't seem to take those values all that seriously themselves?
Exhibit A? Mitt Romney.
Mitt's probably a good guy. Way more devoted to his marriage vows than Donald Trump ever was, that's for sure. And not long before he ran for president, about as liberal as Donald Trump supposedly was, if not more so. Called himself pro-choice, participated in gay pride parades, etc.
Hey, if you want to be governor of Massachusetts, you have to do stuff like that. Maybe. But here's a thought. Kick around the idea of maybe not letting the institutional GOP repackage you as a "conservative" and run you for president.
That is, if you want anyone to take you seriously.
And whatever you do, don't seriously respond to your various attacks or call out the media on its obvious bias. Because that would be unseemly or something. Just sit back, accept your inevitable defeat and await your Strange New RespectTM down the road.
The institutional GOP would have had its "okay, we tried it your way, now shut up and leave the serious stuff to serious people" moment and Jeb Bush would have been obliterated by Hillary last time out. But Donald J. Trump is the president of the United States.
I don't think I can explain why any better than that.
Beautifully said, by @bariweiss. In that vein, the Southern Baptist convention is right: “Tolerance of serious wrong by leaders sears the conscience of the culture, spawns unrestrained immorality and lawlessness in the society, and surely results in God’s judgment.”
Let me try an analogy. You have a plumbing problem at your domicile that you don't know how to fix (which, in my case, would be every single conceivable plumbing problem).
So you're going to have to hire a plumber. Do you (A) talk to every single local plumber you can in order to determine whether the personal religion or morality of that plumber agrees with your own? Or (B) do you hire the best, highest-rated plumber that you possibly can regardless of whether they're Jewish, Muslim, Zoroastrian or Taoist?
Thought so.
The president of the United States is a great many things but when you get right down to it, the president of the United States is one thing and only one. He's not a prophet or a priest. He's not another Moses, called by God to lead this country into some kind of golden era.
He's the First Federal Employee. Full stop.
If he does an acceptable job, he'll get another four years. If he doesn't, he won't. Think of a US president as anything more than that and you risk developing a serious drinking problem when your preferred candidate loses to a reality TV show star because she never visited Wisconsin.
Besides, how seriously are conservatives supposed to take calls for the advancement of conservative values coming from institutional conservative politicians or writers who don't seem to take those values all that seriously themselves?
Exhibit A? Mitt Romney.
Mitt's probably a good guy. Way more devoted to his marriage vows than Donald Trump ever was, that's for sure. And not long before he ran for president, about as liberal as Donald Trump supposedly was, if not more so. Called himself pro-choice, participated in gay pride parades, etc.
Hey, if you want to be governor of Massachusetts, you have to do stuff like that. Maybe. But here's a thought. Kick around the idea of maybe not letting the institutional GOP repackage you as a "conservative" and run you for president.
That is, if you want anyone to take you seriously.
And whatever you do, don't seriously respond to your various attacks or call out the media on its obvious bias. Because that would be unseemly or something. Just sit back, accept your inevitable defeat and await your Strange New RespectTM down the road.
The institutional GOP would have had its "okay, we tried it your way, now shut up and leave the serious stuff to serious people" moment and Jeb Bush would have been obliterated by Hillary last time out. But Donald J. Trump is the president of the United States.
I don't think I can explain why any better than that.
Monday, November 5, 2018
FIRE IN THE HOLE
Ezra Klein readies the next leftist line of attack.
I don't think people are ready for the crisis that will follow if Democrats win the House popular vote but not the majority. After Kavanaugh, Trump, Garland, Citizens United, Bush v. Gore, etc, the party is on the edge of losing faith in the system (and reasonably so).
Seriously, kid? If a Republican wins, say, District 3 here in Missouri but the nationwide House popular vote favors the Democrats, the Missouri District 3 Republican congressman is illegitimate? Seems that that would make every single winning Democrat congressman in this country as illegitimate as that Missouri District 3 Republican congressman.
After all, it's the same election. Why would one election be illegitimate but not another? Unless, of course, you think that only Democratic Party wins are political legitimate in which case...
Okay, now I'm getting it.
UPDATE: Right on schedule.
UPDATE: Once again.
I don't think people are ready for the crisis that will follow if Democrats win the House popular vote but not the majority. After Kavanaugh, Trump, Garland, Citizens United, Bush v. Gore, etc, the party is on the edge of losing faith in the system (and reasonably so).
Seriously, kid? If a Republican wins, say, District 3 here in Missouri but the nationwide House popular vote favors the Democrats, the Missouri District 3 Republican congressman is illegitimate? Seems that that would make every single winning Democrat congressman in this country as illegitimate as that Missouri District 3 Republican congressman.
After all, it's the same election. Why would one election be illegitimate but not another? Unless, of course, you think that only Democratic Party wins are political legitimate in which case...
Okay, now I'm getting it.
UPDATE: Right on schedule.
UPDATE: Once again.
Sunday, November 4, 2018
THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES
Let's put it this way. SCTV was ALWAYS a better show than SNL, one of the two most overrated American "comedy" shows (the other one's Seinfeld). Great comedy is always built on an underlying intelligence, something SNL rarely had and certainly doesn't have now. In fact, the only time SNL was ever genuinely funny or interesting was when Eddie Murphy was there.
YOONEES
Major League Baseball has just been handed a wonderful new marketing idea because some of these are really cool. If these things existed right now they'd be flying out of the stores as I type this. I'd buy one. Maybe two or three different ones.
Except for one thing.
There's a but?
There's always a but. The St. Louis Cardinals version is just...wrong.
Except for one thing.
There's a but?
There's always a but. The St. Louis Cardinals version is just...wrong.
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| The Rangers ought to adopt the Yankees version right now. And if Kansas City ever gets an NHL team, and they should, they should be called the Royals (or the Monarchs; KC history and all that) and they should wear this exact thing. |
PLATFORM
Be my guest, dumbass. Run on this.
That’s why we need to ban civilian firearms and make illegal possession a capital crime. Publicly execute a few hundred thousand illegal gun owners and the rest will get the message
That’s why we need to ban civilian firearms and make illegal possession a capital crime. Publicly execute a few hundred thousand illegal gun owners and the rest will get the message
Saturday, November 3, 2018
SMUG SEZ
Climate change is a myth. The weather doesn't change because of cars. The weather changes because there aren't enough birds in the area.
If birds leave an area it gets cold and might start snowing. If birds arrive in an area it gets warm and could start spring or summer.
Can't argue with the science.
Can't argue with the science.
Friday, November 2, 2018
KANSAS-NEBRASKA II
In a perfect world, this Senate Judiciary Committee letter would accomplish two things. It would reelect Donald Trump in 2020. And any presidential aspirations Kamala Harris might entertain would be deader than whatever's left of William Henry Harrison. Selections follow.
I am once again writing regarding fabricated allegations the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary recently received. As you know, the Senate Judiciary Committee processed the nomination of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh to serve as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States, leading to his eventual confirmation on October 6, 2018. As part of that process, the Committee has investigated various allegations made against Judge Kavanaugh. The Committee’s investigation has involved communicating with numerous individuals claiming to have relevant information. While many of those individuals have provided the Committee information in good faith, it unfortunately appears some have not. As explained below, I am writing to refer Ms. Judy Munro-Leighton for investigation of potential violations of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1001 (materially false statements) and 1505 (obstruction), for materially false statements she made to the Committee during the course of the Committee’s investigation.
On September 25, 2018, staffers for Senator Harris, a Committee member, referred an undated handwritten letter to Committee investigators that her California office had received signed under the alias “Jane Doe” from Oceanside, California. The letter contained highly graphic sexual-assault accusations against Judge Kavanaugh. The anonymous accuser alleged that Justice Kavanaugh and a friend had raped her “several times each” in the backseat of a car. In addition to being from an anonymous accuser, the letter listed no return address, failed to provide any timeframe, and failed to provide any location -- beyond an automobile -- in which these alleged incidents took place.
On September 25, 2018, staffers for Senator Harris, a Committee member, referred an undated handwritten letter to Committee investigators that her California office had received signed under the alias “Jane Doe” from Oceanside, California. The letter contained highly graphic sexual-assault accusations against Judge Kavanaugh. The anonymous accuser alleged that Justice Kavanaugh and a friend had raped her “several times each” in the backseat of a car. In addition to being from an anonymous accuser, the letter listed no return address, failed to provide any timeframe, and failed to provide any location -- beyond an automobile -- in which these alleged incidents took place.
Then, on October 3, 2018, Committee staff received an email from a Ms. Judy Munro-Leighton with a subject line claiming: “I am Jane Doe from Oceanside CA -- Kavanaugh raped me.” Ms. Munro-Leighton wrote that she was “sharing with you the story of the night that Brett Kavanaugh and his friend sexually assaulted and raped me in his car” and referred to “the letterthat I sent to Sen. Kamala Harris on Sept. 19 with details of this vicious assault.” She continued: “I know that [‘]Jane Doe[’] will get no media attention, but I am deathly afraid of revealing any information about myself or my family.” She then included a typed version of the Jane Doe letter.
Eventually, on November 1, 2018, Committee investigators connected with Ms. Munro-Leighton by phone and spoke with her about the sexual-assault allegations against Judge Kavanaugh she had made to the Committee. Under questioning by Committee investigators, Ms. Munro-Leighton admitted, contrary to her prior claims, that she had not been sexually assaulted by Judge Kavanaugh and was not the author of the original “Jane Doe” letter. When directly asked by Committee investigators if she was, as she had claimed, the “Jane Doe” from Oceanside, California who had sent the letter to Senator Harris, she admitted: “No, no, no. I did that as a way to grab attention. I am not Jane Doe . . . but I did read Jane Doe’s letter. I read the transcript of the call to your Committee. . . . I saw it online. It was news.”
Eventually, on November 1, 2018, Committee investigators connected with Ms. Munro-Leighton by phone and spoke with her about the sexual-assault allegations against Judge Kavanaugh she had made to the Committee. Under questioning by Committee investigators, Ms. Munro-Leighton admitted, contrary to her prior claims, that she had not been sexually assaulted by Judge Kavanaugh and was not the author of the original “Jane Doe” letter. When directly asked by Committee investigators if she was, as she had claimed, the “Jane Doe” from Oceanside, California who had sent the letter to Senator Harris, she admitted: “No, no, no. I did that as a way to grab attention. I am not Jane Doe . . . but I did read Jane Doe’s letter. I read the transcript of the call to your Committee. . . . I saw it online. It was news.”
She further confessed to Committee investigators that (1) she “just wanted to get attention”; (2) “it was a tactic”; and (3) “that was just a ploy.” She told Committee investigators that she had called Congress multiple times during the Kavanaugh hearing process – including prior to the time Dr. Ford’s allegations surfaced – to oppose his nomination. Regarding the false sexual-assault allegation she made via her email to the Committee, she said: “I was angry, and I sent it out.”
And now for the punch line.
When asked by Committee investigators whether she had ever met Judge Kavanaugh, she said: “Oh Lord, no.”
Read the whole thing.
In a perfect world, other things should also happen. This woman and ANYONE else directly or indirectly involved in this hit job, for that's all it ever was, should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. I'm not interested in jail time for any of them. Having to explain a felony conviction to a future prospective employer or voter is more than enough punishment.
In a perfect world, most Starbucks baristas or McDonald's drive-through window people would be unemployable poli-sci majors.
In a perfect world, American "journalists" would take a long, hard look at themselves and their alleged "profession." And that class of "conservative" writers and politicians who would rather gouge out their own eyes and eardrums rather than say anything nice about Donald Trump would realize just how much the American left hates them and always will.
But we won't live in a perfect world until Jesus returns.
Wednesday, October 31, 2018
AND NOW...IDIOTS
Communist with three houses says whaaaaat?
Sen. Bernie Sanders (Babbling Moron-Vt.) on Tuesday went after President Trump, calling him “the most racist, sexist, homophobic, bigoted president in history" during a campaign event for Maryland gubernatorial candidate Ben Jealous (D).
Campaign staffers “are working to make sure that the agenda of the most racist, sexist, homophobic, bigoted president in history will go nowhere because Democrats will control the House and the Senate,” Sanders said of campaigns across the country.
I guess that means that the slaveholding US presidents are off the hook. By the way, I might have rewritten that copy a little.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (Babbling Moron-Vt.) on Tuesday went after President Trump, calling him “the most racist, sexist, homophobic, bigoted president in history" during a campaign event for Maryland gubernatorial candidate Ben Jealous (D).
Campaign staffers “are working to make sure that the agenda of the most racist, sexist, homophobic, bigoted president in history will go nowhere because Democrats will control the House and the Senate,” Sanders said of campaigns across the country.
I guess that means that the slaveholding US presidents are off the hook. By the way, I might have rewritten that copy a little.
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
BREAKING
Claire McCaskill is in WAY worse trouble than I thought.
Speaking exclusively to Fox News on Monday, vulnerable incumbent Missouri Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill dropped the names of two high-profile colleagues, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, when asked to identify the "crazy Democrats" from whom her campaign has distanced itself in recent days. McCaskill said she wouldn't call the two "crazy," but noted they had disagreements with each other.
"The crazy Democrats are people who walk in restaurants and scream in elected officials' faces," McCaskill told "Special Report" anchor Bret Baier. In recent weeks, progressive activists have hounded Republican Sens. Ted Cruz and Mitch McConnell as they ate dinner, as well as Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.
"We have a state senator here in Missouri that actually advocated for the assassination of President Trump. That's a crazy Democrat," McCaskill continued, referring to state Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal, who was censured for her comments last year. "I don't do those things. I am not somebody who thinks that we should ever be uncivil."
Wow.
The fact that Claire's even talking to Fox News at all, never mind what she told them, indicates the toxicity of the national Democratic Party in Missouri. In football terms, what this suggests is that Claire's losing the game by eight points, has the ball on her own half-yard line and has to go 99 and a half yards just have a chance to tie the game and go to overtime.
Her internals must be through the floor and still dropping.
UPDATE: How much trouble is Claire in? A crazy Missouri Democrat is not a fan.
In a scathing series of tweets on Monday and Tuesday, Missouri Democratic state Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal referred to McCaskill as “Dixie Claire,” described her as a “piece of sh_t,” compared her to a slave owner and accused “McCaskill and her racist democratic friends” of alienating the party’s base voters.
“Claire McCaskill is desperate. She’s a piece of sh_t. Instead of knowing why people of color are angered by this administration, she chooses to put us [and] our families in harm’s way,” Chappelle-Nadal wrote in a tweet on Monday.
“If my family is harmed, blame it on Claire McCaskill. She deserves to lose. She is not a Democrat,” the state senator added.
“Claire McCaskill and her racist democratic friends continue to alienate the base,” Chappelle-Nadal wrote in a Tuesday morning tweet. In another she referred to McCaskill as “Dixie Claire.”
When I was growing up, the Democrats ran this state, partly due to the lingering affects of the Civil War which lasted longer here than they did in the rest of the Confederacy. They owned the General Assembly and while there were Republican congressmen here and there, these were usually gerrymandered down to a minimum.
I'll never forget the astonishment at the fact that Episcopal clergyman and Republican John Danforth won election as Missouri's attorney general. But where are we now?
The Republicans control the General Assembly with a vice grip that I can't remember the Democrats ever having. Missouri's governor is a popular Republican and if Claire loses, as I expect she will, both US senators from Missouri will be Republicans while the Democrats will be reduced to a congressional seat in St. Louis and one in Kansas City.
Sic transit Gloria and all that.
Speaking exclusively to Fox News on Monday, vulnerable incumbent Missouri Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill dropped the names of two high-profile colleagues, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, when asked to identify the "crazy Democrats" from whom her campaign has distanced itself in recent days. McCaskill said she wouldn't call the two "crazy," but noted they had disagreements with each other.
"The crazy Democrats are people who walk in restaurants and scream in elected officials' faces," McCaskill told "Special Report" anchor Bret Baier. In recent weeks, progressive activists have hounded Republican Sens. Ted Cruz and Mitch McConnell as they ate dinner, as well as Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.
"We have a state senator here in Missouri that actually advocated for the assassination of President Trump. That's a crazy Democrat," McCaskill continued, referring to state Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal, who was censured for her comments last year. "I don't do those things. I am not somebody who thinks that we should ever be uncivil."
Wow.
The fact that Claire's even talking to Fox News at all, never mind what she told them, indicates the toxicity of the national Democratic Party in Missouri. In football terms, what this suggests is that Claire's losing the game by eight points, has the ball on her own half-yard line and has to go 99 and a half yards just have a chance to tie the game and go to overtime.
Her internals must be through the floor and still dropping.
UPDATE: How much trouble is Claire in? A crazy Missouri Democrat is not a fan.
In a scathing series of tweets on Monday and Tuesday, Missouri Democratic state Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal referred to McCaskill as “Dixie Claire,” described her as a “piece of sh_t,” compared her to a slave owner and accused “McCaskill and her racist democratic friends” of alienating the party’s base voters.
“Claire McCaskill is desperate. She’s a piece of sh_t. Instead of knowing why people of color are angered by this administration, she chooses to put us [and] our families in harm’s way,” Chappelle-Nadal wrote in a tweet on Monday.
“If my family is harmed, blame it on Claire McCaskill. She deserves to lose. She is not a Democrat,” the state senator added.
When I was growing up, the Democrats ran this state, partly due to the lingering affects of the Civil War which lasted longer here than they did in the rest of the Confederacy. They owned the General Assembly and while there were Republican congressmen here and there, these were usually gerrymandered down to a minimum.
I'll never forget the astonishment at the fact that Episcopal clergyman and Republican John Danforth won election as Missouri's attorney general. But where are we now?
The Republicans control the General Assembly with a vice grip that I can't remember the Democrats ever having. Missouri's governor is a popular Republican and if Claire loses, as I expect she will, both US senators from Missouri will be Republicans while the Democrats will be reduced to a congressional seat in St. Louis and one in Kansas City.
Sic transit Gloria and all that.
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