Since It Is All About Hillary...

Doesn't the bungled ouster of Jill Abrahmson at the NY Times make their inevitable endorsement of Hillarity in 2016 a bit awkward?

Back in 2008 the editors pretended that "firstness" didn't matter when they sparked a newsroom revolt by going for the NY state Senator rather than Barack. What are the editors going to pretend in 2016 - that they are all in favor of pushy broads as long as they aren't at the Times? 

They'll think of something.

Comments

[jimmyk]

pushy broads

If you were an 82-year-old police chief you'd be out of a job.

[narciso]

Abramso, got her big break, defaming an African American, Clarence Thomas (Althouse still doesn't understand this, so there's a touch of irony, th

[Jane]

If you are dying to dole out birthday wishes, today is the resident lesbian's birthday. Except she doesn't read here, so don't kill yourself.

It's also the anniversary of our partnership (I think 8 years). Best thing I ever did.

It's also the 40th birthday of the Rubick's cube which means Amy is older than that little box.

[Dublindave 2016]

Mitch McConnnel is a God. After he made good on his promise to crush every single Tea party candidate wherever they decide to run, no one can stand up to the Man.

He's an animal.

[narciso]

Congrats, Jane, now the Pinch and Jill show gets a little annoying after a while, the question is better phrased, how has either
least affected the future sale of the Grey Lady to a respectable Russian oligarch

[Danube on iPad]

Gus, Henry and everybody in Wisconsin should check out Shotgun Lovesongs by Nickolas Butler.

[narciso]

So D'Nesh D'Souza, has decided to plead guilty' 'speaking truth to power' is not what it's cracked up to be

[Jane]

Narc, I think the truth is he did it. The real story is why he was targeted.

[narciso]

It was a lesson as with Eich,

[Dublindave 2016]

"So D'Nesh D'Souza, has decided to plead guilty' 'speaking truth to power' is not what it's cracked up to be"

D'Souza's personal worth is about to be downgraded to 4 pall malls.

Though something tells me he wont mind that much.

[narciso]

Althouse, fills in one of those Taranto categories' questions no one is asking'

[Every Progressive's Worst Nightmare]

Hillary puts her pants on one-leg-at-time

[narciso]

the question was 'whatever happened to Vox'

[narciso]

Of course, the only time ABC covers WEhby is the 'scandal' which is a bunch of unicorn droppings,

[narciso]

Glancing at Pinch's interview with Vanity Fair, I wouldn't recommend he be around sharp objects, for his own good.

[rich@gmu]

jimmyk-

answered and a link on the other thread: it is called Operation Chokepoint and it has targeted businesses and individuals.

first day of classes for the summer.

digital signal processing and money and banking ...

i need luck and prayers.

[Janet - the districts lie fallow, while the Capitol gorges itself]

pushy broads

If you were an 82-year-old police chief you'd be out of a job.

Excellent, jimmyk.

Let's hear some of the private conversations of leftists.

[Jim Eagle]

Speaking of the resident Lesbian, apologies if narciso has already linked this from his fishwrap but its big news all over Florida today:

Republican Rep. Charles Van Zandt: Common Core will make all your children homosexuals

So it begins and so it ends.

[Jane]

Trust me JIB, the resident lesbian would not approve.

[rse]

No, jib, but the psychosocial is definitely the focus. http://www.invisibleserfscollar.com/shaping-a-mind-is-more-important-than-stuffing-it-grasping-the-psychosocial-key-to-fundamental-transformations/

From yesterday while jom was in the abyss and we were playing email buddies instead.

[Jim Eagle]

digital signal processing and money and banking ...

Well, Rich, if you want to make money to bannk in the field of digital signal processiing look to the advent of GSM-R technology here in America. [Global System for Mobile Communications - Railroad] It is the comms component of a Rail Traffic Management System like ERTMS in europe and integrates with Rail Traffic Control Systems.

There should be some pretty good entry positions with the rolling stock vendors, infrastructure operators and component providers.

[narciso]

Well it's a ThinkProgress production, but mostly stuck on stupid, i've never heard of Van Zandt, and as 'God is my witness' I'll never hear from him again,

[narciso]

This was Pinch in his Sweeney Todd mode,

http://althouse.blogspot.com/2014/05/sulzberger-explains-himself-with.html

[Marlene]

Mark Steyn in for Rush.

[Danube on iPad]

Private conversations of leftists:

"That's all Hymie wants to talk about, is Israel; every time you go to Hymietown, that's all they want to talk about."

--Jesse Jackson, May 1999

[Extraneus]

This NYT saga reminds one of what junior high school was like. Do you think they play spin the bottle there?

[narciso]

Would it be too much to do a little research;

http://www.utahnsagainstcommoncore.com/american-institutes-for-research-the-sexualization-of-children-and-the-gay-agenda-in-utah-schools/

[lyle]

Althouse has the weirdest prose style. Something like a cross between a bodice-ripping authoress and a car manual writer.

[Extraneus]

Chickens. Roosting.

"When 400,000 veterans are stuck on a waiting list for claims, we need a new sense of urgency," said Sen Obama in 07: http://t.co/HlayjGUWsd

— Steve Krakauer (@SteveKrak) May 19, 2014

[GMax]

So the lying liar in the WH never took the paycut he so proudly proclaimed to be in solidarity with federal workers? What a putz.

[narciso]

Well the Kos illustrated (Vanity Fair) was too much, Pinch plays spin the bottle with other persons, I already denounce myself,

[lyle]

Percent that Barry cares about the VA? Zero.

[narciso]

Steyn is pointing out, the pregnant wife of a US Citizen, is going to executed in Khartroum

[GMax]

This one is going to leave a mark, make no mistake Fournier is no conservative:

Ron Fournier concluded that the veterans scandal is “a policy travesty magnified by an insulting public-relations strategy.”

Perhaps we can cane a few VA bureaucrats?

[rich@gmu]

thanks for that JiB.

[rich@gmu]

and for the eclectic mix of classes, I'm much closer to an economics degree than an electrical engineering degree and still thinking of changing the minor to my major.

anyway...

[Danube on iPad]

Loving what Jonah has to say about the VA mess:

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/378357/va-and-limits-liberalism-jonah-goldberg

[narciso]

I'm reminded of what happened with this woman, Jennifer Harbury, who was married to a Guatemalan Marxist guerilla, who wanted to 'be like Che, the Guatemalan army obliged not in the way he intended, so she pestered Sen. Torricelli, who was dating Bianca Jagger, well you know the rest of the story,

[Frau Weltschmerz]

Saw elsewhere this morning that the VA had *its* death panel already up and running. It's a good reminder that the death panel is real. The single payer govt. agency is, after all, the model for Pres. Hashtag's crowning achievement.

rse - that's a sobering history you rolled out in your blog. I was already depressed yesterday to see that Valerie "I done plenty of nothing" Jarrett was the commencement speaker at Pomona College here in town.

[narciso]

Nuccio and the dweeb that ran the CIA, John Deutch asked 'how high' they had to jump, but
then again, Guatemala was not considered a regime worthy of understanding, like apparently Sudan is.

Is it really that much to ask, that a veteran not linger and die, on some gurney somewhere, I understand the ideological point, but really is this where we've gotten to?

[narciso]

Worthwhile reporters at Rupert Pupkin's I can count on one hand, you almost never see him,

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/05/cnn-obamas-va-scandal-anger-seems-rather-hollow-he-should-be-mad-at-himself-video/

[rich@gmu]

>>>is this where we've gotten to?<<<

yep. pretty much.

DOOM!!!!

[Danube on iPad]

Private conversations of leftists:

"Deny, deny, deny."

--Bill Clinton, 1992

[narciso]

Well, Frau, Valerie was a hit over at Pomona;

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/05/20/obama-insider-tells-creepy-joke-during-commencement-address/

[NKon Laptop]

Obummer cares about the VA?

sure he does. He cares about which middle aged white guy he'll blame for this.

PS: we all knew the death panels were an absolute result of SP government healthcare, but the bureaucrats using the rationing and appointment delays to fund their own bonuses.... even I didn't think that would happen. I'm just not cynical enough.

[rich@gmu]

i know the topic has moved on but I saw this headline flagged up ...

CHINA SUMMONS US ENVOY

this is what I don't get. The admin does these trivial, pointless, look busy things, then they get punched in the nose for annoying the target.

their modest, annoying sanctions of Russian individuals. The Russians turn around and ban the sale of Russian rocket engines to US firms.

Advantage Russia

US indicts a few Chinese for hacking. The Chinese have already provided shelter to Snowden (and whatever he stole) and they decided to call in the ambassador for a meeting.

Advantage China.

They fuck up the big stuff and small stuff.

[rich@gmu]

>>> bureaucrats using the rationing and appointment delays to fund their own bonuses.... even I didn't think that would happen<<<

why not? when I first heard it that was the first guess I had. the vets are just numbers in a spreadsheet to the VA bureaucracy.

[GMax]

When incompetence and incoherence is all you are good at, you just roll with that...

[NKon Laptop]

Richgmu-- why do the Obamaniacs do it, despite the fact it hurts US interests?
You answered your own question.

[Man Tran on iPhone]

JiB and Rich,

I've poked around a bit with GSM-R and I don't think it will sustain combustion. EUtards, yes, but not here afaik. A pal in Leesburg ran the Comms committee for a couple decades and the RR guys never saluted it. The Chinese are paying lip service, but I haven't seen any build out. (Plus that would be all Huawei.)

For my own selfish needs, I would love to have it. Wayside comms is a real hash up when you need it along 150k miles of RoW. BNSF's exploitation of MeteorCom was a poor start with about the BW of a string and two cans.

[narciso]

deja vu, all over again;

http://www.interpretermag.com/kremlin-playing-with-orthodox-terrorism-just-as-tsars-did-with-black-hundreds-mitrokhin-says/

[rich@gmu]

Posted by: NKon Laptop | May 20, 2014 at 01:17 PM -

it is just a cringe inducing facepalm. had a pretty good idea the Russians would target the space program if the administration persisted with the sanctions talk.

the whole administration is a backpfeifengesicht

[rich@gmu]

ManTran-

Leesburg? here in Nova?

anyway I'm back to looking for suitable employment and something that I can fit around my class schedule. had the perfect job for that, too perfect as it turned out.

[Porchlight]

Abramso, got her big break, defaming an African American, Clarence Thomas (Althouse still doesn't understand this, so there's a touch of irony, th

She wrote Strange Justice? I actually own that POS book. My lefty brother gave it to me and it sits on a bottom shelf behind a table where you can't see it. Been meaning to get rid of it for years, but when you can't see something, you forget about it. Plus I have a thing about getting rid of books that were given to me by family members, even if I don't like or want the books.

[Man Tran on iPhone]

Rich,

Yeah NoVa, but he's retired now. There's a major brain drain in the RR community -- especially on the research side. Among other efforts, I'm working at a loss to mentor the kids at UIUC, because they have shown a serious leap beyond the usual grad student effort to reinvent Nadal's Limit or some other pretend effort.

[narciso]

Yes, Porch, along with Jane Mayer, before she slimed the Koch brothers, and was the Gitmo detainee devils advocate, she trawled this muck.

I actually talked to the subject of one of Mayer's 'hit and run' profiles, which attempted to Voxplain how the Huntress, came to the attention of the GOP

[jimmyk]

She wrote Strange Justice?

with Jane Mayer. She was actually with the WSJ at the time. Here's Brent Bozell's fisking of the book and the media circus:

http://www.mrc.org/bozells-column/strange-justice-selling-jane-mayer-and-jill-abramson

and Andrea Peyser has at her:

http://nypost.com/2014/05/20/dont-feel-sorry-for-the-overpaid-self-pitying-jill-abramson/

[Stephanie]

Ace has a great tweet highlighted showing Obama's efforts to throw a baseball again yesterday. Hysterical.

http://minx.cc:1080/?post=349302

[jimmyk]

Should have refreshed, or have just known that narciso had all the background info.

[Porchlight]

Yuck, narciso.

I used to get her mixed up with Leslie Abramson.

[narciso]

Needless to say, her account was incomplete,

[Porchlight]

Thank you for those links, jimmyk. I was just thinking I would like to revisit the Anita Hill case and refresh my memory.

Joe Biden also had a despicable role in that travesty.

I really hate these people.

Things seem to be spiraling downhill rather rapidly. How many people reading this blog today will be punished somehow in the future (fired, audited, worse) for their political views?

[Porchlight]

"spiraling downhill"

Apologies to Taranto for the mixed metaphor...

[lyle]

More from the "smartest guy in the room," again:

“I hate to be blunt about it, but that’s the play. And, by the way, when I say a party has been captured, it’s because I actually want an effective, serious, patriotic, capable, sober-minded Republican Party. And we’ve had that in the past,” he continued. “I come from the land of Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln thought infrastructure was a pretty good idea. That’s part of why we got a Intercontinental Railroad system.”

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/05/19/obama-to-fundraiser-were-debating-about-what-benghazi-obamacare-its-not-serious/

[narciso]

John Podesta was one of those staffers for Leahy at the time, that's how he won his spurs before putting out his shingle,

[Porchlight]

He doesn't flipping come from the land of Lincoln, he comes from the land of Dole pineapple. Stupid idiot evil jerk.

BTW here is my favorite analysis of Bush's 2001 first pitch vs. Obama's 2009 first pitch.

http://bryanallain.com/2009/07/27/bush-vs-obama-first-pitch/

[lyle]

Agreed, Porch. But I'm stumped as to which other continent our rail system connects to. Any ideas?

[Porchlight]

That’s part of why we got a Intercontinental Railroad system.”

Again? Does he do this on purpose?

I hope someone is keeping track.

[Porchlight]

lyle,

The defense will be that there are trains to Canada, or something.

Of course, not when Lincoln was president, which was the context of his statement.

[narciso]

It's even unfair to say he throws like a girl;

http://www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/050907/news_20070509001.shtml

[Porchlight]

Ha. I was out late last night.

Someone on PJ Media said "you know, the bullet train between Washington DC and Paris."

[Stephanie]

Things seem to be spiraling downhill rather rapidly. How many people reading this blog today will be punished somehow in the future (fired, audited, worse) for their political views? Porch

Who says no one here hasn't already been targeted and punished? FTR: Some already have...

[narciso]

Interesting it was left out of this account;

http://news.yahoo.com/obama-criticizes-republicans-focusing-benghazi-obamacare-002605641.html

[Happy, happy, joy, joy Ignatz]

Sometimes it is hard to believe how pedestrian and banal his mind is. It's a Tommy Gun of malapropisms, mixed metaphors and misquoted cliches....
.....and most of the girls I know throw way better than him.

[GMax]

Is every single person in Rhode Island a blithering nincompoop?

EAST GREENWICH, R.I —Citing concerns about the "exclusive nature" of the annual honors night at Archie R. Cole Middle School, school officials have decided to scrap the tradition.

Instead, students who would normally be recognized at the annual spring tradition will be honored during team-based recognition ceremonies and graduation.

The notice was sent to parents over the weekend in an e-mail signed by School Principal Alexis Meyer and Assistant Principal Dan Seger.

These folks should be shown the door on a rail with tar and feathers the announced price of any resistance...

[GMax]

Fixed it?

[lyle]

This is so much bullshit, I'm surprised no one has commented on it:

And, by the way, when I say a party has been captured, it’s because I actually want an effective, serious, patriotic, capable, sober-minded Republican Party

[Jeff Dobbs]

lyle, quoting Obama:
That’s part of why we got a Intercontinental Railroad system.”

Google: "intercontinental railroad" "remarks by the president" site:whitehouse.gov

9 results

If he'd only held out another two and a half weeks, he could have made it an entire year without that blunder.

[Old Lurker]

Lyle. "But I'm stumped as to which other continent our rail system connects to. Any ideas?"

Well since he and I inhabit different planets but live but 11 miles apart, he might have a point.

[Porchlight]

Who says no one here hasn't already been targeted and punished? FTR: Some already have...

I didn't say it had not happened yet. I don't have personal knowledge of it happening, but of course it wouldn't surprise me.

[Happy, happy, joy, joy Ignatz]

I actually want an effective, serious, patriotic, capable, sober-minded Republican Party.....like that one we used to have with Bob Michel as our bitch...wait I meant to say minority leader.

[James D.]

But I'm stumped as to which other continent our rail system connects to. Any ideas?

I don't know either, but I'm guessing that if you did find that continent, you would find states #51 through 57 there, too.

[Porchlight]

Wow, hit, I didn't know it was that many times. If only we had some news organizations in this country.

[Happy, happy, joy, joy Ignatz]

Will Cry Baby be able to abandon the tanning booth long enough to kick some sand in the little shit's face about calling the GOP unpatriotic?

[Eric in Boise]

Who says no one here hasn't already been targeted and punished? FTR: Some already have...

...hence my growing interest in retiring overseas. Porch's comment yesterday that if America falls life in all parts of the world will get a lot more interesting is well taken, however.

[matt]

I think he was referring to our Intercontinental Ballistic Trains.

The level of dumb in this society is sickening. Went to get a cup of coffee this morning and I swear there wasn't an everyday ordinary person in the place. Metrosexuals, pansexuals, housewives thinking they're 21 years old. Young girls wearing the most revealing clothing imaginable. Morbidly obese people. It is as if their body and brain chemistries have gone haywire.

[Jeff Dobbs]

Porch:
I didn't know it was that many times.

Just happens to be one of those things I used to keep track of.

Hey, back then even Steyn paid attention to me.

...and then threw it all away.

[Frau Weltschmerz]

Porch @ 2:36, our Russian JOMer is one I know of.

[centralcal]

Frau: Is that what happened to the Russian commenter? I completely missed the explanation when it all happened and learned after the fact that she/he was no longer commenting.

[Porchlight]

Oh yes - I did know about that, Frau. Sorry to have forgotten it.

[Old Lurker]

Matt "The level of dumb in this society is sickening"

Did you see the story yesterday about MacDonalds testing kiosks for taking orders and credit cards?

Ooops...there goes another slice of jobs.

[narciso]

'Mr. President, I gather all that, but you know what also sounds like the Intercontinental Railroad, the Keystone pipeline, which you have refused to approve, btw, I imagine the Railroadhad a sizable carbon footprint, since it was run with coal,'

Btw, Mr. President, I agree that Benghazi was just a 'bump in the road' although why are we preparing to evacuate the American Embassy there,

[Porchlight]

My understanding was that a job was not lost, but there was a warning of some sort. I could have misinterpreted, though.

[Porchlight]

Did you see the story yesterday about MacDonalds testing kiosks for taking orders and credit cards?

It really makes complete sense. You can already order online from tons of restaurants - why not make it possible in the restaurant itself, too?

Stupid minimum wage hikers will never figure out the pattern here.

[Old Lurker]

I know, Porch. And once you are used to them, who would not rather get a boarding pass from a kiosk than some surly non English speaking person at the airport? If you need cash, would you go to a free ATM or stand in line at the bank? Would you rather use the self checkout at Home Depot or the semi-live person?

Next up, one only has to watch a few "How its Made" shows on the History Channel to wonder why humans flip the burgers in the first case at McD's.

And on and on.

[Old Lurker]

In the 30's and 40's my Grandfather owned coal mines in WV. Lot's of people worked there. In the 60's my Father was the tax lawyer for the guy who automated WV mines and put most of the old miners into retirement.

John L Lewis never made the connection.

[Porchlight]

I kind of like the human interaction at Home Depot and the grocery stores, but otherwise I'm with you, OL.

Eric in Boise, I hope we can turn it around so that your retirement project abroad isn't necessary. Feeling squaredancey today though.

[rich@gmu]

Man Tran-

had to look up Nadal's Limit. such a wide variety of experience here. Not sure that is in my wheel house ...

[Old Lurker]

You would be hard pressed to find human interaction at our HD's in the DC area, Porch.

[narciso]

You have to realize he's pandering to the stupid, or the willfully self deluded, I put it to you to pick which nazgul Maher is in,

There are questions that occur, like why the ARRA had no large construction projects that could have served as demonstration, just the proverbial 'dig a ditch, to cover it up again'
and often not even that,