Off To Rehab

In a foreshadowing of a prospective Weiner Administration, San Diego Mayor Bob Filner is headed to sexual harasser's rehab.

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[Captain Hate]

The party of pervs and lowlifes

[Jeff Dobbs]

Anthony Weiner has vowed that he is a changed man. He's turned his life around. To show how serious he is about this, he has revamped his campaign, starting with a new slogan.

Anthony Weiner: New York City Needs a NewD irection

[Cecil Turner]

Well, if that doesn't work, he can always get some religion.

[clarice]

Did you see? Spitzer attacked Weiner for being a bad husband. This is now officially beyond parody.

[James D.]

The Washngton Post deserves to go bankrupt

What motivates a lawyer to defend a Tsarnaev, a Castro or a Zimmerman

?

Assholes. Sorry for the rude language, but there isn't a better word. They can all go to hell, every singgle employee there.

Here's the link:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/what-motivates-a-lawyer-to-defend-a-tsarnaev-a-castro-or-a-zimmerman/2013/07/25/e81737e8-f2e5-11e2-ae43-b31dc363c3bf_story_1.html

The full article is every bit as bad as the healiine.

[Jeff Dobbs]

After that, Filner can come out as gay. The sexual harassment of women was just a cover for the shame a herteronormative society made him feel as a Gay-American.

Of course, no one will believe that the harassment was faked. He was really, really into those women.

So then it's transgender-surgery. Ever since he was a young boy, Bob Filner has identified as a (lesbian) female.

[henry]

Clarice, maybe Clinton can explain how to be a good husband to the rest of the Dems.

Happy cruise(s) to Clarice, Jane, & Caro!

[Gmax]

maybe Clinton can explain

Or Ted Kennedy on the hotline from Hell...

[Danube on iPad]

I am not a praying man, but last night I offered one up anyway: Dear God, please keep Weiner in the race and keep Filner in office until he is recalled.

[jimmyk]

Via Iowahawk, another writer who should be working for the Onion. On meeting Huma:

"She approached in a knit white top and navy-blue business skirt, her dark, almost black hair down to her shoulders. She wore bright-red lipstick, which gave her lips a 3-D look, her brown eyes were pools of empathy evolved through a thousand generations of what was good and decent in the history of the human race. The harsh, cheap buck lighting in the coffee shop couldn’t lay a glove on her. By the time she sat down, the harmony of angels had vanquished the tinny background music from every corporate space on the planet. Of course, you’d seen pictures before. But you’d also seen pictures of the Taj Mahal. It didn’t quite come up to actually being there."

And there's more.

http://nymag.com/news/features/anthony-weiner-2013-7/index5.html

I wonder how New York magazine feels about devoting 8 pages to this wonderful couple a week before Weinergate II broke out.

[jimmyk]

James D., it's encouraging that the writer in that WaPo trash is getting fisked in the comments.

[Jeff Dobbs]

Yeah, but let's face it - the comments in that WaPo article are now Instapundit readers, not regular WaPo subscribers.

[Manuel Transmission]

Reposted from old thread:

First chance to check in since last weekend with Caro. Never had a chance to talk about Norway, because we had such a full plate absorbing Montana. The flights over and back were spectacular. Best visibility in countless trips I've flown. Great being able to point out places where we had each been and then tell a story about it. (Three of the four of us had many connections.)
Re Grieg's place, I've been to a cousin's place a couple of times where we could look directly across the water to his place. There is no boring scenery anywhere in Norway. And with North Sea oil revenues, there is little sign of any poor living conditions that was evident 30+ yrs ago.
If I get s chance later, I'll write about our wake experience Saturday.

[narciso]

Ah, Jacobson, has a history, he was the one who tried to rehabilitate Frank Lucas, the drug kingpin, who was sympathetic to the Ground Zero Mosque, yet couldn't find a single person who was sympathetic to Sarah, when they sent him up their after the election, he also wrote a terrible Godzilla novel, years ago.

[MarkO]

"pools of empathy evolved through a thousand generations of what was good and decent in the history of the human race."

Words fail.

[narciso]

To cite bgates paraphrase of the Kim's, why don't I get press like that.

[Barry Dauphin]

Two weeks? How is he gonna change in two weeks? Maybe they're gonna go medieval on him...with a pair of pliers and a blow torch.

[MarkO]

He'll find himself in Vegas with a handle in his hand.

[Cecil Turner]

From that Huma hagiography:

A few days later, I saw Huma again, this time in the couple’s apartment, a nifty, reportedly $3.3 million spread owned by a longtime backer of the Clintons.

Must be nice to be able to deliver that level of patronage to one's supporters. Not implying that there's any graft involved, of course. [/eyeroll]

[narciso]

Why so cynical ?

http://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2013/07/27/gop-hawks-this-will-not-stand-rand/

[Jane -walk like an Egyptian]

Wonder if they will keep it Cecil if Huma gets indicted and Weiner doesn't win.

[MarkO]

No fair-minded grand jury could indict a woman whose eyes are pools of empathy evolved through a thousand generations of what was good and decent in the history of the human race.

Wouldn't be prudent.

[hit and run's poor mommy]

Why do they always blame their mothers?

[Jane -walk like an Egyptian]

No fair-minded grand jury could indict a woman whose eyes are pools of empathy evolved through a thousand generations of what was good and decent in the history of the human race.

LOL - sadly you are probably right. We wouldn't want to target the Muslim Brotherhood when there are so many "white hispanics" we can go after.

[narciso]

One wonders if Teneo is returning the favor, and flacking for her, we know Anita Dunn's firm, specializes in this sort of claptrap.

[Frau Folterknecht]

Two weeks? How is he gonna change in two weeks? Maybe they're gonna go medieval on him...with a pair of pliers and a blow torch

I don't know who "he" is, but I can think of a lot of candidates for this specific treatment.

[matt]

I just threw up at the Huma quote. How could Carlos Danger ever cheat on such a saint/hottie? She sounds like a combination of Mother Teresa and Ava Gardner.

The Noonster is keeping the heat on the IRS very nicely.I am simply amazed at the Administration's three card monty with these scandals.

They are pushing the Trayvon "Stand Your Ground" meme so hard it is going to blow up in their faces, I think. Listening to National Progressive Radio on the way home last night it was all Martin, all the time. The map of participants in the phony assault on SYG is a roamap of the Left's nuttery. And Holder is right in the middle of it like Cab Calloway leading the band.

Disgraceful people.

[narciso]

I think only the full 'Clockwork Orange' will work with him,

[MarkO]

He'll be singin' in the rain.

[narciso]

Speaking of the absurd;

http://hotair.com/archives/2013/07/27/crisis-averted-eu-and-china-manage-to-avoid-a-solar-powered-trade-war/

[Ignatz]

So, did the same cunninglinguist write this crotch kissing Huma-fest as went down on Mrs. Chinless Ophthalmologist for Vogue?

[narciso]

Different weasel, has a soft spot for drug kingpins, imam frontmen, and 9/11 denialists.

[Frau Folterknecht]

Re: SYG and guns in the city. Cleoville's mayor--elected by the council and not the town folk--declined to sign Bloomberg's 'Mayors Against Illegal Guns' claptrap and other members wanted to have the mayor pro tem sign in his place just so they could jump on the latest bandwagon carpola. This is so disgusting and insulting as the mayor, a *real* Kenyan birth certificate and all, is one of two no nonsense people on our sustainability ship of fools council.

Not all mayors are dupes of Bloomie. I read yesterday that some mayors have figured out the movement is against *all* guns and have pulled out of the group.

[centralcal]

Some good and bad news.

The Bad: Megan McCain is getting her own TV show.

The Good: It is a network no one has ever heard of.

"Raising McCain" will debut on Pivot, a general entertainment network that launches Aug. 1. It's described as a documentary-talk series for viewers ages 15 to 34. McCain will star and serve as executive producer.

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha - "general entertainment" - snort.

Most 15 year olds will not watch her. The 34 year olds (still living at home) probably will.

[narciso]

the circus continues;

http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2013/07/in-leak-case-prosecutors-allowed-to-keep-information-secret.html

[Jeff Dobbs]

Don't start with me mom.

[Frau Folterknecht]

narciso, the article stated the case is moving slowly towards a trial in April...but did *not* specify a year. 2014, 2015, 2016????

[Frau Folterknecht]

cc - beats working, doesn't it?

[Captain Hate]

And Holder is right in the middle of it like Cab Calloway leading the band.

I'm sorry but I can't stand for a talented and entertaining individual like Cab Calloway to be mentioned in the same sentence as the boring and droning chinless skidmark.

[daddy]

Off To Rehab

I'm off to Guam---same thing!

[Captain Hate]

"Raising McCain"

A documentary of the Mav's poor parenting skills in raising such an entitled, slutty and ignorant brat? What has My Friendsh been a bigger failure as: Father, Senator, Presidential candidate or pilot?

[narciso]

One recalls when she thought 'Julianne's Bender' would be a fair representation of the campaign, surprise, she found out.

[narciso]

Steve Malanga has a devastating Op Ed in the Journal, about what Young did to Detroit, (alas it's behind the paywall)

[DrJ]

Here's narciso's link, not behind the pay wall:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324110404578625581152645480.html

Usually you can find "unlokced" editorials from a simple search.

[narciso]

You still can't get to the piece, Young extorted Detroit, hampered his successor Dennis Archer's reform plans, I thought Robocop was fiction, apparently not.

[daddy]

Speaking of sick bastards...

I was drunk and lonely: Geraldo explains his half-naked selfie

"There I was, 2:30 in the morning on Sunday morning. You know, I do the show Saturday night, I did a great show on black-on-black crime and race relations and the Trayvon Martin fallout and federal charges ... and I get home and there's no one to talk to, everyone's asleep...“And you just sit around, I had a drink and, you know, I had taken that picture Saturday morning and I was looking at it, just going through and I said 'you know, I gotta tweet this thing.

[DrJ]

Odd. I searched for "wsj malanga" and clicked on the link, and it took me right to the complete article. But when I click on the link I provided (which came from the search) it didn't work.

So if you want to read it, I suggest you do the search yourselves and click on what you find.

[narciso]

Thanks Dr, J, the first link hit a brick wall, for some reason.

[narciso]

I read it, that's why I brought it to your attention;

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324110404578625581152645480.html

[narciso]

Welcome to the party. Pal;

http://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2013/07/27/al-qaeda-is-back/

[DrJ]

narciso, that's the same link I provided. It seems you have to search for it and click from that. The link itself, if transmitted, hits the paywall. Splat!

[narciso]

You have to you use those search terms, the link runs into the deflector shield.

[henry]

If Malanga thinks a grifter like Norquist is an improvement, Detroit needs to be flushed ASAP and the ground beneath it salted.

*Norquist, standard Dem mayor who got caught in bed with an underling after chasing pointless baubles (Miller Park) paid for by others while chasing businesses (Miller Beer) out of the city.

[narciso]

Just one example;

Young's divisive brand of governing extended to economic policy, such as it was. When General Motors agreed to build a new plant in the 1980s to help the city's revival, Young and GM targeted the still vibrant, largely white ethnic neighborhood of Poletown to locate the facility. In one of the nation's most infamous cases of eminent domain, the city sued in 1981 to raze some 1,500 homes and 144 businesses and displace 3,500 people.

[Patriot4Freedom]

Had to post this classic comment from the WSJ's Best Comments link, credit to Pete Tentler:

"I heard George Zimmerman is going to change his name to Ben Ghazi, so Obama and the media will never mention him ever again."

[twin falls]

"Not all mayors are dupes of Bloomie. I read yesterday that some mayors have figured out the movement is against *all* guns and have pulled out of the group."

I rather think it was the inconvenience of leaving the city for a 20 oz soda.

[narciso]

You wonder why anyone would ever invest there;

As some Poletown residents hung on, hoping that court challenges would overturn the takings, Young withdrew services. Residents lived among demolition crews by day and looters by night. Documentary filmmaker George Corsetti described the chaotic last days of Poletown in a 2004 article in CounterPunch: "The night air was always smoke-filled and people slept with guns nearby."

It's like Athens on the Great Lakes.

[narciso]

History was not his strong suit, I take it;

[narciso]

And DSK is back in the news.

[bgates]

Time for a bit of light editing:

She approached while wearing clothing, and she had hair. Her lipstick transformed the flatness of her mouth in an effect also seen in certain fast food chain mascots, her brown eyes were pools of empathy evolved through a thousand generations of what was good and decent in the history of the human race, and then evolved into a generation or two of people who want to murder literally every Jew on the planet, then evolved right back into the empathy pools in time to land in the appropriate holes in her skull. The harsh, cheap buck lighting in the coffee shop produced by those horrible expensive toxic new bulbs that everybody hates but the government makes people buy anyway couldn’t lay a glove on her. By the time she sat down, the harmony of angels had vanquished the tinny background music from every corporate space on the planet, so if you were on hold last Tuesday and thought your cell phone dropped the call, that was probably just us. Especially if you heard the harmony of angels at the same time, which was all like, "LAAAAAAAA!" Of course, you’d seen pictures before. But you’d also seen pictures of the Taj Mahal, an enormously expensive palace and nifty spread in its own right built for the personal use of the Muslim emperor of a land filled with starving peasants of other religions. It didn’t quite come up to actually being there.

All else in the universe seemed to fall away in her presence; you could scarcely credit the existence of yourself as an observer external to her. But as you fought against your own wishes to maintain awareness of the world outside of Huma Abedin, you could see the table between you, and her husband sitting beside her, cell phone pointed at his lap, furiously masturbating.

[rse]

You made me smile bgates.

[Captain Hate]

The Noonster is keeping the heat on the IRS very nicely.I am simply amazed at the Administration's three card monty with these scandals.

As one of Dame Peggy's most consistent critics she'll never get her reputation back as far as having any insight into anything with her witless infatuation in 2008 with Gaylord Focker and catty dismissal of Palin. But if she continues to bang away at this IRS story she'll deserve some amount of praise for her doggedness in doing so. Extra credit if she goes on ScarredRINO's show and explains it effectively enough for bird brained Meeka to comprehend it well enough to at least recite some of it back like a slow parakeet.

[Jane on Ipad hi there NSA]

BGates,

I'm so glad you are on our side!

[narciso]

Yeah, she's been persistent over the period, she deserves some credit, whereas Katherine Parker is completely useless.

[Captain Hate]

It gives me a great amount of pleasure that Client 9's former co-host is insanely jealous of Palin.

[narciso]

Well ditto, the same for 'Norma Desmond' but she's thoroughly useless as a pundit, hence the Washington Post employs her.

[Danube on iPad]

Bgates, you need to publish to a wider audience.

[Jane on Ipad hi there NSA]

If I was "drunk and lonely". The very last thing I would do is tweet a half naked picture of myself.

And I mean the very last...

[Captain Hate]

narc, that entire page of Rupert's gazette was outstanding: the railroaded West Pointer by Taranto, the Coleman Young chronicles and Gaylord's mangling of Ho's history by Radosh.

[narciso]

I meant to bring up the Cromartie case, it's rare than they score a 10, I think there was a silly piece by Zuckerman, but still a very good selection,

[narciso]

Jane his bio, was called 'Exposing himself' it's par for the course for him.

[Ignatz]

--Bgates, you need to publish to a wider audience.--

He was, but Althouse lost her mind. :)

[twin falls]

Outhouse doesn't like being shown up. Them academics, ya know.

[Danube on iPad]

Ho was a radical Communist Party member in Paris in the early 1920's and went to Moscow to further his studies.

[anonamom]

What happened to make Ann take her ball and go home?
I missed it.
Show up one day and it's all "No comments for you littles."

[centralcal]

Ann or Anne, anonamom? (Yes, there is a difference!)

A random, completely unrelated to anything comment, but - I love Megyn Kelly. But, seriously - Thatcher Bray Brunt???? Seriously?

[Ignatz]

--Thatcher Bray Brunt--

Must have been the first firm that hired her out of law school.

Better than Solitary, Poor, Nasty, Brutish and Short.

[Jane on Ipad hi there NSA]

I had the same reaction CC.

[Ignatz]

Something tells me we're going to learn shortly that anonamom is a ditzy broad and possibly a slimy Jew.....
and since I pointed out Anne's probable comments, we'll relearn that my wife is a mythical being and I need a psychiatrist.

[Ignatz]

Maybe if I tell Extraneous he's a psychopathic sockpuppet and DoT he's a doddering old fool it will serve as a sort of dead virus vaccine to inoculate the place from that particular germ.

[jimmyk]

I'm confused--anonamom was talking about Ann Althouse, not our Ann.

Is there a name that really goes well with Brunt? Therein lies the problem, I think.

[centralcal]

I dunno, Iggy, I was traumatized by watching the movie "Exorcist" when I was moderately young, so I imagine a low, growling moan through gritted teeth, a spinning head and the mother-to-be harshing out "Thatcher Bray Brunt," right at the point of delivery in the labor room.

[centralcal]

Ooops, sorry Jimmyk - now that I re-read that comment I see exactly what she was saying. I have been only hit and miss on comments and I was thinking "Evil Anne," not Ann Althouse. My bad!

[bgates]

Is there a name that really goes well with Brunt?

Bear.

[centralcal]

OMG - I nearly spit out a valued sip of my Brandy Manhanttan, bgates!!! P E R F E C T!

[Extraneus]

Wouldn't be prudent.

lol

MarkO is a funny dude.

[Ignatz]

--I'm confused--anonamom was talking about Ann Althouse, not our Ann. --

Oh well, if you're going to go all perceptive and reading and understanding other people's comments then I'm taking my ball and going home.

BTW I don't necessarily endorse the preceding editorial comments.

[jimmyk]

No problem, cc, I was also confused by Iggy's reference to A***.

Perfect, bgates.

[Porchlight]

Hahaha, that's awesome, bgates.

[Extraneus]

And I agree about bgates.

[Extraneus]

Washington area homes fly off the listings fast

Homes in the $300,000 to $600,000 price range are selling the most quickly — usually in a week, according to June data — making the market particularly hard to navigate for first-time home buyers who want to live close to the District. Just a year ago, those homes sat around for at least three weeks.

How to comment on this? We suck? That's all I can come up with.

[Frau Folterknecht]

cc - what time zone are *you* in. I'm still waiting patiently for 17:00. Do you folk to the north of TK, DoT, matt and me use a different clock?

[Frau Genever]

Speaking of rehab - one in and one out. Mrs. Raisins-n-Gin has been released and will make no further (???) comments about her seizures.

[MarkO]

bgates doesn't always Tweet, but when he does, he Tweets genius.

Or beer.

[Porchlight]

I am a fan of somewhat unusual names. My girls have old-fashioned ones that you don't hear much nowadays - Harriet and Judith (Judy). But I think if the last name is Brunt you go with something a little more traditional. Or a lot more traditional. Bill Brunt, Fred Brunt, Tom Brunt, Ed Brunt.

Of course, something traditional might sound incongruous with Yates and Yardley.

[jimmyk]

How to comment on this? We suck?

Somehow this image came to mind (sorry if it doesn't size right):

[Porchlight]

I saw what you did with your name there, Frau. :)

[MarkO]

I play a doctor on JOM and I say old lady Kerry had a serious stroke. Or, she had nothing and was admitted to take the heat off of Johnny for his then-current idiocy. (Conducting foreign policy from his yacht and lying about it.) I can't even type it without laughing.

Yes, fans, conducting foreign policy from a yacht.

[MarkO]

Yardley? Acqua Di Brunt.

[Captain Hate]

Yes, fans, conducting foreign policy from a yacht.

And surely Thurston Howell the Turd bought said yacht with Lovey's money. And by "Lovey's money" I mean the jack which her deceased Republican husband left her.