This Day In History

[Guest post by hit and run*]

Most notably - 150 years ago on this day, Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth.

In 1818, Noah Webster published the American Dictionary of the English Language.

In 1860, the first Pony Express rider arrived in San Francisco.

In 1912, the RMS Titanic collided with an iceberg, before sinking the next day.

In 1988, the Soviet Union signed an agreement pledging to withdraw all Soviet troops from Afghanistan.

Last year on this day, Boko Haram abducted 276 school girls in Nigeria.

Eight years ago, the equivalent to today in terms of the presidential election calendar, the political outrage engulfing the nation was . . . missing government emails.

And today, Hillary bought a Masala Chai and a caramallow latte at a coffee house somewhere in Iowa, heroically connecting with everyday people in the first official stop in her historic campaign to break once and for all the ultimate glass ceiling and rightfully claim her throne.

What a day to be alive!

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Comments

[henry]

Video of a witness to the event.

[Porchlight]

April 19 yet to come. 20th anniversary of OKC bombing, 22nd anniversary of Waco.

[Dave (in MA)]

I heard a radio interview with an author in the last week or so. He was talking about his book that offers a theory that John Wilkes Booth was still alive until 1903 when he killed himself.

[Dave (in MA)]

Lincoln's son witnessed the assassination of Garfield and was in the same building when McKinley was killed. He thereafter swore to steer clear of all Presidential functions.

[Stephanie]

The van. Driving Miss Crazy

[JWB]

150 years ago on this day, Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth.

Conservative households proudly fly the Confederate flag in honor of this day.

[GMax]

Also on this day, Gmax and Mrs. Gmax embarked on their bucket list journey to Prague and down the Danube.

[Threadkiller]

Van naming on this thread too?

Here goes...

[Threadkiller]

Kidding.

[daddy]

I think John Hay, one of Lincoln's 2 live in Secretary's, was also with McKinley when he was killed. John Hay eventually became Secretary of State, and was very widely recognized as a great Secretary of State, until of course Pres Obama told us Hillary was possibly the finest Sec State America has ever had.

Camp John Hay in the Philippines was obviously named after John Hay.

Hay is the guy on the right.

[Threadkiller]

Have a wonderful trip GMax family!

[Dave (in MA)]

JWB:

http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2009/08/polls-and-postmortems.html?cid=6a00d83451b2aa69e20120a55b9273970c#comment-6a00d83451b2aa69e20120a55b9273970c

Posted by: bgates | August 19, 2009 at 10:46 AM

[Beasts of England]

RIP Percy Sledge

De mortuis nil nisi bonum? Nah.

He played a friend of mine's club about ten years ago and when he finished his set he went upstairs with his significant other before the encore. Something went down between the two and he pushed he down the flight of stairs. He then came onstage to sing 'When a Man Loves a Woman'.

No report on whether he followed that up with Roy Orbison's 'Love Hurts'.

[lyle]

Envious, Gmax. Have a great trip.

[lyle]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hillary-clintons-hollywood-support-is-788019

Hillary Clinton‘s Sunday announcement that she will seek the presidency in 2016 is not getting Hollywood’s universal applause, as her most fervent supporters predicted.

As the first female candidate and a partner in a political marriage that has close and long-standing ties across the entertainment industry, Clinton enjoys the support from key Hollywood fundraisers. But her backing is hardly unanimous, and some of what she has is softer than it may appear because industry liberals regard her as a party centrist.

“You’d be surprised by the number of people I’ve heard from who aren’t supporting her,” one top executive told The Hollywood Reporter. . .

The current reservations about her candidacy appear to spring mainly from questions about what she stands for — apart from personal ambition.

[Old Lurker]

I call BS on Tom Brokaw on at least two points"

"There's a process underway," Brokaw said at an event held at the University of Chicago's Institute of Politics on Monday night. "And the important thing is that the process is very carefully constructed, and we owe it to everybody -- including Brian and his family and certainly the people who work at NBC News who risk their lives everyday, and to the integrity of what NBC News has stood for all these years -- to let the process play out, to hear what the final conclusions are and then deal with it at that point."

[daddy]

Carp@#$

Local Talk Radio pulled Dennis Miller and now I'm stuck with Dana Loesch and Clark Howard. Ughh.

Even worse, I'm sitting at a Mid-Town coffee shop and since I have the headsets off I'm having to listen to them blaring from the overhead speakers one of my least favorite songs, The Eagle's "Hotel California."

Anybody got a spare butcher-knife?

[Stephanie]

http://clashdaily.com/2015/04/hillarysoold-hilarious-yo-mama-style-jokes-about-hillary-tearing-up-twitter/

#HillarySoOld

[Dave (in MA)]

daddy,

Dennis Miller pulled Dennis Miller.

What's wrong with Dana Loesch?

[Jeff Dobbs]

daddy:
I'm sitting at a Mid-Town coffee shop

Did you get the masala chai or caramallow latte?

[Beasts of England]

I assume 'JWB' means John Willes Booth? Heck, even I don't own a Confederate flag...

[Frau Oy Vey!]

John Wilkes Booth labors under the delusion that the CSA produced today's conservatives. That's only one of c!e0's insane personalities.
What a maroon!

[Beasts of England]

Thanks for that background info, Frau!

[lyle]

Liberals fly the ISIS flag every day to honor their great friends.

[daddy]

Anyone know from the photo's what the make and model is of the Scooby Doobious Hillary van?

Wonder if it's American made?

[Frau Oy Vey!]

daddy, I wondered what had happened to Dennis. I hope I can continue to have dibs on him and Thomas Sowell. I don't want to watch O'R just to catch Dennis but...what's a groupie to do?

My husband and I like to say "Let's light this candle" before we go out walking.

[Beasts of England]

As a non coffee drinker, I take great delight in an appropriate guffaw toward those goobers who would order whatever the heck a caramallow latte is.

::guffaw::

[Eric in Boise]

It's a Chevrolet, daddy.

[daddy]

Did you get the masala chai or caramallow latte?

"Americano, no room, and an ice cube please to cool it down. And a Butcher-kinife if you have a spare."

[lyle]

I heard Cankles' campaign will be trench warfare.

[Beasts of England]

Too bad they weren't playing this one Daddy:

She's gonna love me in my Chevy van and that's all right with me.

h/t Sammy Johns

[Beasts of England]

p.s. Try getting that song out of your head this afternoon.

#MeaCulpa

[Stephanie]

If the house is a rockin then don't come a knockin.

Evidently it sports a bed... and Huma.

The Cunnivangus.

[Beasts of England]

Does the Cankles Chariot have a 'If this van is rockin', don't bother knockin' bumper sticker?

How about 'Ass, cash or grass - nobody rides for free'?

[daddy]

Dana's not Dennis Miller. Did he cancel his show?

Depressing if he did. I Just think that his brand of quick wit and comic sense was unmatched anywhere on the radio, and his callers were overall witty and wonderful as well.

Dana, in the few times I've heard her in layover city radio stations, has so far failed to capture my attention.

Dennis Prager, my second fav, has also been pulled from the morning line-up. On the plus side, Alex Jones is deleted, Michael Savage is moved to a later time period so it's easier to miss him, and in Savages old time slot time-slot is some new guy named Michael Pags, who I think is from Seattle. So far he is listenable and much better than Savage, but nobody up here is filling the Dennis Miller void.

My husband and I like to say "Let's light this candle" before we go out walking and touch some Indians!

Fixed that for you, Frau:)

[lyle]

Just a reminder:

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2015/04/14/flashback-jeb-bush-awarded-hillary-clinton-liberty-medal-on-the-eve-of-1st-anniversary-of-benghazi-attack/

[Beasts of England]

Dang it, Steph! Great minds...

[Beasts of England]

'My other car is a Gulfstream V'

'Honk if you've slept with Bill Clinton!'

[Frau Oy Vey!]

Thanks, daddy. We do have some Indian neighbors.
No one can replace Dennis Miller or Dennis Prager. We should kidnap them for the island.

lyle, that explains the big order of special beer for the van.

It's tops for trench- foot and mouth.

[lyle]

http://www.theonion.com/articles/hillary-clinton-to-nation-do-not-fuck-this-up-for,38416/

[Stephanie]

Yep, beasts. We're the greatest. ;)

[daddy]

It's a Chevrolet, daddy.

A Chevrolet? Well that makes sense Eric:

Bill Clinton Owned One: The 42nd President of the United States drove a 1970 El Camino with a bed lined in Astroturf.

"You don't want to know why, but I did," he winked and told an audience during a stop at a Louisiana truck plant in 1994. Later, though, he backtracked: "It wasn't for what everybody thought it was for," he told radio show host Don Imus. Sure, Bill, we believe you.

[Beasts of England]

'Dont laugh it's paid for by a foreign government!'

[lyle]

Good one, Frau. It appears my vulgarity was politely ignored.

[daddy]

How come Hillary isn't driving around in some sort of Electric van? Doesn't she care about the environment?

[Beasts of England]

I just can't stop laughing at her logo! I mean, what happened? Was her brain trust sitting around and somebody said 'Oh, shit! We've gotta send the logo to the printer in five minutes! Anybody got PowerPoint on their laptop?'

[lyle]

If you've already hit that Onion link, tell me how utterly believable it actually is.

[exdemocrat]

Too funny, lyle

[Beasts of England]

It's perfect, lyle. Political satire is getting harder and harder to do given the bizzaro crap coming out of DC.

[Eric in Boise]

An Astroturf lined El Camino? That's what I call a real grassroots movement.

[Dave (in MA)]

BoE, That logo could have easily been done with Paint 1.0 from Windows 95 back when Clenis was still waving the salami around the Oval.

[Threadkiller]

Ann Coulter on Ted Cruz: Look, I don't want everyone calling in yelling at me. But, I don't know if he can be President. ... I don't care what Dershowitz says. He (Cruz) is what the birthers accused Barack Obama of being. Ted Cruz actually did only have one American parent, one non-American parent, and he was born in Canada.

Coulter notes that if Cruz gets the nomination the Democrats will go after his Article II ineligibility.

Before being diverted from the topic she says don't forget it voters!

https://youtu.be/4Ey7nTvGykw

[Threadkiller]

I swear I meant to post that on the dying thread.

I will not respond to the Cobra here on the Skull Shifters revelations.

Apologies.

[lyle]

If you find the Onion bit too plausible, here's some REAL satire/parody for ya:

http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-on-the-left/041315-747589-hillary-clinton-should-not-reinvent-herself.htm

[lyle]

Rich Lowry gets off a good one:

To say that she lacks the light touch is almost as much of an understatement as saying her husband is not a monk.

[Beasts of England]

'JPMorgan is my co-pilot'

[Beasts of England]

'Caution: I brake for Super PACs'

[Beasts of England]

'HUMA on board'

[Threadkiller]

http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2015/04/isis-camp-a-few-miles-from-texas-mexican-authorities-confirm/

[lyle]

NRO:

”Maybe this is my ideology, but I’m sorry,” Brzezinski continued as the show broadcast images of both candidates on the screen. “That’s a little boy and that’s an experienced, accomplished women who has been elected to the Senate twice, served as first lady, served as secretary of state.”

Rubio is 43 years old, while Clinton is 67. As has been pointed out elsewhere, on inauguration day in January 2017, Rubio, at 44, would be the third-youngest president at the time of his swearing-in; Hillary Clinton, at 69, would be the second oldest.

[Threadkiller]

During the course of a joint operation last week, Mexican Army and federal law enforcement officials discovered documents in Arabic and Urdu, as well as “plans” of Fort Bliss – the sprawling military installation that houses the US Army’s 1st Armored Division. Muslim prayer rugs were recovered with the documents during the operation.

Asymmetrical...

[Beasts of England]

And her Twitter hash for the road trip is:

#GrannyGoesWest

I am NOT making that up.

[Porchlight]

Coulter notes that if Cruz gets the nomination the Democrats will go after his Article II ineligibility.

Undeniably true.

[lyle]

http://www.ijreview.com/2015/04/296880-hillary-visits-college-see-everyday-iowans-students-locked-classrooms/

Students at Iowa’s Kirkwood Community College were apparently on ‘lockdown’ if their classes were along Hillary Clinton’s walking path when she visited their campus Tuesday.

That Hobbes fella knew his shit, eh?

[Stephanie]

Someone needs to plaster the back of the Scooby do van pic with ALL those bumper stickers...Just like a good lib would do.

Bonus points for any good reworkings of the coexist craptastic bumper sticker.

[Beasts of England]

You'd have a better chance of swiping the newkular football than getting close to the HMV Pantsuit...

[Beasts of England]

Coronation Carriage

[Extraneus]

Secret Servicing Mobile

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--”Maybe this is my ideology, but I’m sorry,” Brzezinski continued as the show broadcast images of both candidates on the screen. “That’s a little boy and that’s an experienced, accomplished women who has been elected to the Senate twice, served as first lady, served as secretary of state.”--

Maybe? Let's go to the tape of what the plankheaded bitch said in 2008 to find the answer to her question.

[Threadkiller]

The Gutter Duster

[Beasts of England]

'The only Bush I trust is my own'

'I *heart* scissoring'

[Janet]

Someone needs to plaster the back of the Scooby do van pic with ALL those bumper stickers...Just like a good lib would do.

Bonus points for any good reworkings of the coexist craptastic bumper sticker.

Yeah Steph! Instead of a NO NUKES bumper sticker, her van can have a NUKES FOR IRAN! one.
Hah!

[Beasts of England]

'I'm voting for Monica Lewenski's ex-boyfriend's wife'

[Stephanie]

Lol beasts! But do ya figure Hill's a bush or landing strip kinda gal?

Only Huma knows for sure.

I'll denounce myself and offer up the requisite brain bleach...

[Captain Hate]

This is what supporting state run radio gets you:

http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=356153

[Threadkiller]

The Wax Wagon

[Captain Haiku]

While Granny goes West
Huma goes another way
We denounce ourselves

[lyle]

'Coexist With My Cooter'

[Beasts of England]

'Ask me about my foundation'

[Beasts of England]

Granny Gremlin

[Beasts of England]

Huma's best girlfriend
Tries again post menapause
Illegal funding?

[Extraneus]

So, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 19-0 to have Obama's Iran deal approved by the Senate, but instead of the normal 67 votes required for treaty ratification, rejection of the deal would require a veto over-ride, so only 34 votes are needed to "pass" the deal.

http://hotair.com/archives/2015/04/14/oh-my-senate-foreign-relations-committee-unanimously-backs-bill-demanding-congressional-vote-on-iran-deal/

[maryrose]

You guys are a riot with those bumper sticker ideas
How about Hil is a Westward. Ho
Or I brake for Hookers
Or. Bill Clinton won't you please come home
Jam dying here talking to all these hicks that won't vote for me anyway

[maryrose]

Honk if your husband hearts hookers and hos

[maryrose]

Earnest says Hussein Barack will now not veto
Checkmate. Obama

[maryrose]

And I am talking to myself
My only regret Babs Boxer favors it

[Beasts of England]

Westward Ho! lol, Janet!!

[daddy]

Caught Mark Levin on the drive home and he says that this Bill written by Senator Corker and seconded by Lindsay Graham is horrible. Levin says that instead of actually doing anything with regard to making a Treaty Deal with Iran, the specific language in it has done something catastrophic---it has taken the Constitutionally granted power of the Senate to make Treaties and turned it completely over to the President.

In essence Levin says that whereas always before @2/3rds of the Senate must approve any Treaty to become valid, what this Bill's language does is grant Obama the power to make a Treaty with Iran, and that that treaty can only then be prevented from becoming valid if 2/3rds of the Senate votes against the Treaty.

Levin is livid. He says it will allow Senators to look cosmetically as if they are fighting against this treaty while actually authorizing the President to usurp their authority to make Treaties. He says that is why Senator DiFi and Obama have said they will sign onto this thing, because even they are smart enough to see what Corker's Bill stupidly does. It empowers the President and emasculates the Senate.

Have not caught up yet today so don't know if that has been put out there yet by anyone else, or if it is true, but I don't believe I can recall Levin any more discouraged/angry than what I just heard from him.

[lyle]

Hadn't heard Levin but my first thought when I read about the bill is if Precious will sign it, he's getting what he wants.

[Extraneus]

They took a fat ass
For a ride to Iowa
Canker sores were raised

[peter]

Someone here asked what make the van was. I saw a photograph of it, and I believe it was a GMC, which by the way does not stand for Grandma Cankles.

[lyle]

Are you quite sure, Peter?

[daddy]

I see Extraneus at 06:28 has posted Levin's take on the Corker Bill undercutting the power of the Senate to approve Treaty's.

So my take as of today, is that

1) The architecture of the Iranian Sanctions has collapsed.

2) Russia has given Iran the worlds best anti-aircraft missiles.

3) The Iranian regime will become 100 legitimated and their nuclear program will continue.

4) With sanctions lifted Iran will be much better able to fund terrorism and aggression.

5) The Senate has castrated itself in regard to its Constitutional power to approve Treaties.

6) Cuba has been taken off the list of nations supporting Terrorism.

7) And no more Dennis Miller:(

[Extraneus]

Hamas and Hezbollah are off the list, too, right?

[Stephanie]

Just in time to lose your dinner..

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153165988117777&set=p.10153165988117777&type=1&theater

Resistance is futile.

[daddy]

TK,

Anne Colter also said this over the weekend:

Kudlow: Before we take a quick break, can she (Hillary) be beaten? Can Republican's beat her?

Colter: Yes. It just depends on the Republican, it doesn't depend on the Democrat.

Kudlow: Who beats her?

Colter: Well you know what my fantasy is?

Kudlow: No. Please don't go there. Please. We're having such a good time.

Colter: It's going to happen!

Kudlow: No, it's not going to happen. (Moans)

Colter: You are going to acknowledge that I was a genius and Mitt Romney was a genius to sit out this nonsense of Republican Primary voters lunging from one candidate to the next, and then finally realizing "Oh crap, we were lied to by Sarah Palin! He was the best we ever had!" And then they'll demand Mitt Romney will get in and he will crush her!

-----------------------

Anne Colter, re: Mitt Romney, is a loon.

[daddy]

FOX News reporting that ISIS is gaining ground in Anbar province.

[clarice]

There is no deal. There never was a deal. I think Levin with his hair always on fire is getting tiresome, and Coulter seems to have gone round the bend.

[clarice]

They were playing for time, and they got it. That's all they wanted.Plus humiliating Obama and diminishing him even further on the world stage. He agreed to this because there's someone in the WH who can count, and if he were overridden it'd be even worse.

[Beasts of England]

Could this country really allow the queer Muslim to be followed by a lesbian Wiccan?