DESPERATION?

Maybe.  Claire McCaskill's a lot of things but one of the things Claire McCaskill isn't is stupid.  While Missouri has isolated pockets of radicalism here and there, this place ain't Cali and Claire can't win running as Kammi Harris.

Trump crushed it here two years ago so regardless of their personal views, every Show-Me Democrat's going to have to run way to the right of the national party if they want to have any chance of victory at all.  They can always tack back left after they win.

So off the top of my head, I'd say that this statement means that Claire's internal polls must be cratering.  Her base won't be enough, the St. Louis and Kansas City suburbs aren't as close as they need to be, she needs more conservative support and she's not getting it.

TAKE IT TO THE BANK

If some time in the next two to six years, it is announced that a massive asteroid is headed directly toward Earth which will result in the complete destruction of the planet and/or the extinction of all life thereon, Donald Trump will be blamed.  For inhibiting science and technology or some other really stupid crap.

In Donald Trump’s abhorrence for globalism and in his inability to smack down David Duke, it was easy to hear the ominous chords of history, to see how he was activating dormant hatreds with his conspiratorial tropes. But it was always easy to see how Jews, with their well-developed institutions and communal resources, were not the most vulnerable targets of Trump’s racialism. I felt pride that so much of the organized Jewish community resisted the impulse to elevate its own problems above those of the more vulnerable.

 

Of course, this was not every corner of the Jewish community. After the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, Gary Cohn couldn’t bring himself to resign from his job. After Squirrel Hill, Jared Kushner and Sheldon Adelson will likely stand their ground. In response to this massacre, every synagogue will protect itself with great security, with more cameras and more guards. They will do what is necessary to create a sense of safety, which will also invariably inhibit the sense of escaping from the secular world. The gunman committed a crime on Shabbat, and it will reverberate as a crime against Shabbat.

 

Any strategy for enhancing the security of American Jewry should involve shunning Trump’s Jewish enablers. Their money should be refused, their presence in synagogues not welcome. They have placed their community in danger.

 

Sure thing.  Excommunicate anyone who politically disagrees with you.  That'll make anti-Semitism go away.  And hey, they can always become Presbyterians or something.

 

Moron.

UPDATE: Exhibit B.

PERENNIALS

Oh sweet mother of Dal Maxvill, Sally Kohn is a BONECRUSHINGLY stupid person.

This election is really about one question: Do you like your tax breaks more than you love your fellow human beings?

I guess that makes sense if you believe that "love" means giving somebody else's money to anyone and everyone who will promise to keep voting you into high political office. 

And that's all that it can possibly ever mean because shut up.  But if you happen to have a differing opinion, then you're a Nazi or something so shut up.

Or something. 

I can't keep up anymore.

SERIOUSLY?

To a certain class of European, any murder of any Jew anywhere is always the fault of the Jews.

UPDATE:  Really, bitch?  You're actually going to go there?

THE WHEELS ON THE BUS FLY OFF AND OFF

Look at it this way, Claire.  At the very least, you'll come out of this with a lobbying gig with Murder Inc. Sons Of Nazi Concentration Camp Guards Pol Pot Was Right And You Know It Cooking With Baby Parts Planned Parenthood.  Won't be much help to that money-grubbing sack of crap you're married to but if you want to make an omelette and all that.

There’s brutal and then there’s BRUTAL and this is the latter.

During a Missouri Senate debate, Democrat incumbent Claire McCaskill was busted in a bald-faced lie.

The issue of Project Veritas’ undercover videos arose during the debate. McCaskill accused Hawley of being involved in the videos and then all but demanded Hawley (the state’s AG) investigate Project Veritas.

Again, Hawley denied being involved in the videos and said, “and to accuse me of fraud, which is what Senator McCaskill did. She said that I committed fraud. That I participated in a fraud. She said that on television."

McCaskill interrupted him and said, “I didn’t say that on television.”

SPOILER: She said that on television.

“Well, it is startling that Josh Hawley would be part of fraudulently embedding somebody in my campaign. He’s the Attorney General of the state of Missouri. He’s supposed to be going after fraud, not participating in it,” she said. On television.

Mad props, as always, to Katherine.

JEFF GOLDSTEIN SEZ

The left will once again overplay its hand & tie half the country to a series of bomb threats — then be genuinely shocked when millions of people who’ve never sent bombs react to being accused of terrorism by digging in further against the witch hunters and their sad Inquisition.

THIS...IS FNN

Know what NBC stands for?  Not Been Covering.

NBC News published a bombshell report Thursday that undercut claims made by Michael Avenatti and his client, Julie Swetnick, regarding Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

The company is coming under fire in the wake of the report because the series of events its Thursday report described occurred three weeks ago, before the Senate voted on whether to confirm Kavanaugh. The conservative jurist was confirmed by a narrow 50-48 margin on Oct. 6.

NBC did not respond to requests for comment about why they withheld the story for so long.

We are told that reporters hate Trump's term "fake news" because it's "divisive" or something.  If that is, in fact, the case, then why have so many mainstream US "journalists" been working so incredibly hard lately to prove Trump's exact point?

For almost a month, NBC deliberately sat on information that could have and probably would have killed the Kavanaugh controversy deader than Cicero.  How can anyone possibly interpret that as anything other than open hostility to Trump and to most of the United States?

If it walks like a duck, Chuck Todd.  And you still wonder why Trump won.

Of course, none of this is a surprise to anyone with a functional brain.  Most of us watched for eight years as Barack Obama wasn't substantively covered at all.  But I guess "journalism" is hard when you spend all that time with your lips on the presidential junk.

He's our guy.  Don't rock the boat.

So don't expect me to get even remotely concerned about the utter contempt in which American "journalism's" practitioners are currently held.  You people have earned every bit of it.

And you, and only you, are the only ones who can fix it. 

Because we're not going to fix it for you. Makes me no never mind if we plow your whole profession under and start completely anew.

DEAL WITH THE DIABLA

Got a proposition for you, kitten.  Give us back Turtle Bay, I'm sure we could turn it into office space or something.  You know the Manhattan real estate market.

Officially move that whole excrement festival to Geneva or Brussels or Berlin or anywhere else you care to go.  Then follow it there.  FYI, this country won't be joining you.

The United States, whose taxpayers account for some $10 billion a year in contributions to the United Nations system, was criticized at a meeting in New York on Tuesday for being late with its payments, with Cuba leading the charge – and suggesting it should be paying more.

“We know full well who is responsible for the current critical financial situation of the organization,” Cuban Ambassador Anayansi Rodriguez told the General Assembly’s budget committee. It was “alarming,” she said, that the biggest debts to the U.N. were the responsibility of one country – the United States.

Rodriguez suggested the U.S. should be paying more than 22 percent of the regular budget, complaining that it had pressed for a reduction of the ceiling to 22 percent, down from 39.89 percent in 1946.

“It is also alarming that this same country talks about getting better returns on its investment in the United Nations,” she said. “This shows that it considers international peace and security, development and human rights, as a business.”

I know you Commies don't know anything about business.  Or international peace and security, development and human rights, for that matter.  So here's a quick financial tip.  When you spend all of your time flushing your money down the toilet, nobody wants to listen to you bitch about how broke you always seem to be.

UPDATE:  Or you could move the whole sick joke to Frisco. You wouldn't be in a different country yet but most of us think that will soon be remedied.  But you'd be in Cali which means that you'd be among people just like you who think that there isn't a problem in the world that can't be solved with somebody else's money.

DEAL WITH THE DEVIL

In their shrieking, hysterical, psychotic desperation to find someone, anyone, to defeat Donald Trump in 2020 and once again restore sense and decency to the universe, the Democrats have floated many possible candidates.  One of the most prominent of these (at least in his own mind) is lawyer Michael Avenatti, he of the stripper client and anti-Brett Kavanaugh "witnesses."

Mikey Nats has spoken at just about every Democratic forum or gathering that will give him a stage and more than a few lefties who don't like or even understand the United States at all are praying to whatever it is that such people pray to that he will be the Democratic Trump, a prospect that's suddenly looking increasingly unlikely.

When Sen. Chuck Grassley referred attorney Michael Avenatti and his client Julie Swetnick to the Justice Department for criminal investigation Thursday, he cited Swetnick's interview with NBC News as evidence the two were trying to mislead the Senate Judiciary Committee.

In the NBC News interview that aired on Oct. 1, Swetnick back-tracked on or contradicted parts of her sworn statement where she alleged she witnessed then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh "cause girls to become inebriated and disoriented so they could then be 'gang raped' in a side room or bedroom by a 'train' of boys."

NBC News also found other apparent inconsistencies in a second sworn statement from another woman whose statement Avenatti provided to the Senate Judiciary Committee in a bid to bolster Swetnick's claims.

In the second statement, the unidentified woman said she witnessed Kavanaugh "spike" the punch at high school parties in order to sexually take advantage of girls. But less than 48 hours before Avenatti released her sworn statement on Twitter, the same woman told NBC News a different story.

Referring to Kavanaugh spiking the punch, "I didn't ever think it was Brett," the woman said to reporters in a phone interview arranged by Avenatti on Sept. 30 after repeated requests to speak with other witnesses who might corroborate Swetnick's claims. As soon as the call began, the woman said she never met Swetnick in high school and never saw her at parties and had only become friends with her when they were both in their 30s.

When asked in the phone interview if she ever witnessed Kavanaugh act inappropriately towards girls, the woman replied, "no." She did describe a culture of heavy drinking in high school that she took part in, and said Kavanaugh and his friend Mark Judge were part of that group.

 

In a statement Thursday about his referral of Swetnick and Avenatti for a criminal investigation, Grassley said, "When a well-meaning citizen comes forward with information relevant to the committee's work, I take it seriously….But in the heat of partisan moments, some do try to knowingly mislead the committee. That's unfair to my colleagues, the nominees and others providing information who are seeking the truth."

Mikey's even lost CNN's Chris Cilizza and when you've lost CNN...

Everywhere you turn, Michael Avenatti is there.

Says the guy from the network that couldn't televise Mikey Nats enough.

Of late, that's turned into not such a good thing for the celebrity-lawyer-turned-2020-presidential aspirant. A brief review of Avenatti's recent problems includes:

 

* Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, referred Avenatti and his client Julie Swetnick, who alleged that Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh attended a party where she was drugged and gang raped, to the Justice Department for possible criminal investigation Thursday. Grassley charged that Swetnick and Avenatti lied to committee investigators looking into the allegations against Kavanaugh. Avenatti denied that he or Swetnick misled investigators.

 

* In a Time magazine profile on him, Avenatti said that he believed that it had "better be a white male" running against President Donald Trump in 2020. Avenatti told CNN that he had been misquoted and taken out of context.

 

* A California judge ruled earlier this week that Avenatti had to pay almost $5 million to make good on a debt he owed to his former law partner. Avenatti responded by saying that his ex-partner owes him even more money.

 

* The Daily Beast published a piece suggesting that Avenatti has personally owed more than $1 million in unpaid personal taxes. Avenatti referred to the story as a "hit piece."

 

I guess this is what pilots refer to as augering in.  Get out the butter and the Marmite because as a plausible presidential candidate, Mikey Nats is toast.

UPDATE: They're bailing, ambulance-chaser.  Chuck Todd's on board.

WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG WATCH

I don't see any problems or potential for abuse here.  End sneering, contemptuous sarcasm.

Lithium is a potent psychiatric drug, one of the primary prescribed medications for bipolar disorder. But it’s also an element that occurs naturally all over the Earth’s crust — including in bodies of water. That means that small quantities of lithium wind up in the tap water you consume every day. Just how much is in the water varies quite a bit from place to place.

Naturally, that made researchers curious: Are places with more lithium in the water healthier, mentally? Do places with more lithium have less depression or bipolar or — most importantly of all — fewer suicides?

A 2014 review of studies concluded that the answer was yes: Four of five studies reviewed found that places with higher levels of trace lithium had lower suicide rates. And Nassir Ghaemi, the Tufts psychiatry professor who co-authored that review, argues that the effects are large. High-lithium areas, he says, have suicide rates 50 to 60 percent lower than those of low-lithium areas.

Ghaemi and a number of other eminent psychiatrists are making a pretty remarkable claim. They think we could save tens of thousands of lives a year with a very simple, low-cost intervention: putting small amounts of lithium, amounts likely too small to have significant side effects, into our drinking water, the way we put fluoride in to protect our teeth.

"Likely too small to have significant side effects," Gracie?  Sign me up.