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Does he let Cecil in? oops. too late.
Posted by: henry | July 29, 2015 at 02:08 PM
Second!
Posted by: Threadkiller | July 29, 2015 at 02:10 PM
Yes TM. It is odd that we need to become whatever culture shows up and wins the cage match of immigration -- provided it is not the culture they immigrated to join (e.g the American one).
Posted by: henry | July 29, 2015 at 02:14 PM
"Internal Poll Shows Donald Trump Generating Strong Support Among Minority Voters – “LANDSLIDE”"
http://dcwhispers.com/internal-poll-shows-donald-trump-generating-strong-support-among-minority-voters-landslide/
Posted by: Babo | July 29, 2015 at 02:39 PM
"Shock poll: Donald Trump leads Jeb Bush 26-20% … in Florida"
"A St. Pete Polls survey released on Wednesday shows the New York businessman with 26 percent support, with Jeb Bush in second place with 20 percent.
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is in third place with 12 percent, and Marco Rubio is in fourth place with 10 percent. He’s followed by Dr. Ben Carson at 5 percent, Ted Cruz and John Kasich at 4 percent, and Rand Paul at 3 percent. 16 percent are unsure or are supporting another candidate not named in the survey."
http://floridapolitics.com/archives/187293-shock-poll-donald-trump-leads-jeb-bush-26-20-in-florida
Posted by: Adios Jeb | July 29, 2015 at 02:43 PM
So I guess this place is now a dumping ground for sTrumpet trash comments?
Great.
Posted by: Cispigmented Heteronormative Microagressive Ignatz | July 29, 2015 at 02:47 PM
Here's from Mickey's finish:
Posted by: Extraneus | July 29, 2015 at 02:53 PM
I'm with you, Ig.
Groan.
Posted by: Threadkiller | July 29, 2015 at 02:55 PM
If you weren't pissed off already; read what you are required to think about yourself if you are white.
If this is the bullshit Chinless Eric and Barry had in mind for a national conversation on race I think it likely they and their ugly little vanguard will not be pleased with the results.
It is especially unlikely to cause anything other than a white backlash in a period of economic stagnation and increased competition over jobs and other scarce resources.
Whites stupidly and lawlessly go out of their way to make things "easier" for minorities with idiocies like protected classes and AA. The result after 30 or more years of it is resentment by minorities and more demands that we now barf up our non-existent guilt (along with our neighborhoods and money we earned) to supposedly shut them up.
The sad thing is those minorities that didn't listen to the commies and worked hard to succeed will find themselves pushed away along with the whining thieves and will find their own neighborhoods filled with the thugs and parasites they worked to leave behind.
Barry's twin legacies; the races at each others throats at home and the nations at each others throats abroad.
A pygmy for all seasons.
Posted by: Cispigmented Heteronormative Microagressive Ignatz | July 29, 2015 at 03:01 PM
--Groan.--
I don't mind people talking about, criticizing or defending Trump.
I mind them mindlessly shilling for him.
Posted by: Cispigmented Heteronormative Microagressive Ignatz | July 29, 2015 at 03:03 PM
From what I can tell, white kids just around college age are getting very pissed off, Ig.
Posted by: Extraneus | July 29, 2015 at 03:05 PM
Obama transparency record under fire again after request on Planned Parenthood denied
Posted by: Extraneus | July 29, 2015 at 03:08 PM
Posted by: Extraneus | July 29, 2015 at 03:10 PM
New Hampshire baby receives lifetime hunting-fishing license
Posted by: Extraneus | July 29, 2015 at 03:11 PM
Ace (in a commentary on Camille Paglia):
Camille Paglia on "Snark Atheism," and How Jon Stewart Has Debased Political Discourse
Posted by: Extraneus | July 29, 2015 at 03:16 PM
Um, sure I'll see your ValJar and raise you.
Posted by: henry | July 29, 2015 at 03:25 PM
That was from the lurking unit.
Posted by: henry | July 29, 2015 at 03:25 PM
Lake County murder suspect found to be in country illegally during July 7 traffic stop
Posted by: Extraneus | July 29, 2015 at 03:35 PM
While they're at it, just close the place:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jul/28/epa-must-rewrite-cross-state-pollution-court-says/
Posted by: Captain Hate | July 29, 2015 at 03:38 PM
Surprisingly CNN is not focusing on the missing airliner mystery.
Instead they are running an excellent attack piece from some female Lawyer, Elizabeth Beck, who was deposing Trump in 2011, and she is saying that when during the Deposition she realized that she needed to take a break to breast pump, Trump went bananas, waving his finger at her and saying "You're disgusting" and he left, and they couldn't finish the deposition that day.
Beck: "I think non-Presidential is the least of what you can call his behavior that day, and I don't say that personally, but I, I say it's uhhh, it was unprofessional, it was a lack of self-control, it was fear, it was panic, it was a whole host of things. And I don't think any of those things should attach to anybody running for President."
My question of Ms Beck. How would you say it personally if you did want to say it personally, instead of not saying it personally? Please school us on the difference.
I'm saying you're a despicable piece of [email protected]#$, but I want you to know that I'm not saying that personally.
Posted by: daddy | July 29, 2015 at 03:51 PM
Question for the lawyers out here. If Tom Brady takes his case to court, doesn't he subject himself to a possible perjury charge regarding his phone records?
From his Facebook Page
Posted by: Rocco | July 29, 2015 at 03:53 PM
Prosecutors charged Rep. Chaka Fattah, D-Pa., Wednesday in a 29-count indictment with racketeering conspiracy, bribery and wire fraud as part of a probe into the 11-term congressman launched by the FBI and IRS in March 2013.
... notice anything about this lead paragraph ?
If you caught it, you know Chaka Fattah is toast.
Hint: they mentioned something that is usually missing.
Posted by: Neo | July 29, 2015 at 04:00 PM
Rush, in the closing minutes of Hour 3 today, plays clips of New York Times Sports Reporters yesterday answering questions on Charlie Rose and elsewhere, speaking straightforward on Brady, and totally convicting him of intentional criminality for destroying evidence.
Rush does it to highlight the utter hypocrisy of the NYTimes, in how they excuse Hillary's destruction of her E-mails and servers. An amazing contrast.
Posted by: daddy | July 29, 2015 at 04:03 PM
This from a fourth generation military man?
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/07/28/how-we-got-into-such-a-bad-nuclear-deal-with-iran/
Harumph!
He has soiled the family name as far as I'm concerned.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/four-generations-of-zumwalt-family-receive-bronze-star/2012/06/19/gJQADirwoV_story.html
Apparently a ship was named after his father but I have no intention of looking that up.
Shame on Brietbart.
Posted by: Threadkiller | July 29, 2015 at 04:05 PM
Henry I saw that website first as “fire and ream Mitchell.
Posted by: sbw | July 29, 2015 at 04:15 PM
Tom Brady offered to retrieve every single message and text the NFL requested but Roger Goodell said it would be too difficult
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/07/28/brady-offered-to-help-nfl-gather-missing-text-messages/
Posted by: Rocco | July 29, 2015 at 04:18 PM
Rocco, I suppose a Facebook post could be used to contradict subsequent court testimony. But I don't see anything in the Facebook post that would contradict what Brady is likely to say in a court proceeding.
Posted by: Thomas Collins | July 29, 2015 at 04:19 PM
Rocco, I suppose a Facebook post could be used to contradict subsequent court testimony. But I don't see anything in the Facebook post that would contradict what Brady is likely to say in a court proceeding.
Posted by: Thomas Collins | July 29, 2015 at 04:19 PM
Elizabeth Beck, who was deposing Trump in 2011, and she is saying that when during the Deposition she realized that she needed to take a break to breast pump
She's deposing The Donald and doesn't take care of her "pumping" needs beforehand and needs to interrupt the process rather than wait for the next break? That's ridiculous and highly unprofessional imo.
Posted by: DebinNC | July 29, 2015 at 04:20 PM
Although I don't think Brady is stupid enough to do this, I'll bet there are people who post the truth about an event on Facebook and then lie about the event under oath.
Posted by: Thomas Collins | July 29, 2015 at 04:21 PM
Can someone please tell me the appeal at Fox for Meghan McCain?
I just realized that Fox also seems to think Geraldo and Juan and Alan are also appealing to their viewers.
Posted by: Jack is Back! | July 29, 2015 at 04:25 PM
In any event, the only one involved in Deflategate to have credibly been called a liar is Goodell.
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/11949855/ray-rice-baltimore-ravens-wins-appeal-eligible-reinstatement
Yes, I realize that Judge Jones in her decision did not use "liar" in relation to Goodell, but that's the import of her decision.
Posted by: Thomas Collins | July 29, 2015 at 04:27 PM
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-on-the-left/072815-763838-washington-worked-when-lawmakers-were-friends.htm
It's Milbank so don't bother clicking unless you're feeling full from lunch and looking for some light purging. It's just so touching that a hack like Milbank yearns for the times when all the Senators were friends despite alternate sides of the aisle. Which of course means Ds getting everything they want. All the time.
Oddly he doesn't mention that one of the candidates running for the nom in his own party is a full-throated marxist/socialist and the other is an old white guy from VT.
Posted by: lyle | July 29, 2015 at 04:31 PM
Brit Hume is 73, but he doesn't seem that old to me because I've aged along with him. It makes sense for Fox to seed GenXers and younger, less identifiably conservative peeps into their aging lineup in non-primetime slots. Based on the little I've read about her, Ms. McCain is personable and less offensive than many alternatives [see Farrow, Ronin].
Posted by: DebinNC | July 29, 2015 at 04:35 PM
The way Goodell handled the Ray Rice situation was just horrible and the owners were idiots for not canning him at that point.
Posted by: Captain Hate | July 29, 2015 at 04:35 PM
Does anyone of our Boston fans think that Brady's attorney's hair had nothing to do with the decision?
Posted by: Jack is Back! | July 29, 2015 at 04:36 PM
Jack,we are watching less of Fox lately.Hubby has no tolerance and I watch an old movie on Turner Classic Movies while reading.
Oh,I'm listening to Howie Carr just now and he's saying the Scarborough (ME) police never received a request to patrol Goodell's home.Interesting,why did the police chief say the NFL contacted him?
Posted by: Marlene on Kindle | July 29, 2015 at 04:36 PM
"She's deposing The Donald and doesn't take care of her "pumping" needs beforehand and needs to interrupt the process rather than wait for the next break? That's ridiculous and highly unprofessional imo."
Some depositions take a long time - even days.
Pat Caddell wears the same tie every time I see him.
Posted by: Jane | July 29, 2015 at 04:39 PM
Oh, for the pre-CSPAN days when Minority Leader Bob Michel was best buds with his overlord Tip O'Neal. Ditto Sen. Bob Dole and the nonpartisan George Mitchell.
Posted by: DebinNC | July 29, 2015 at 04:41 PM
I'm with Marlene. I was already down to just the News Hour but lately even that makes my blood boil.
I am learning a lot about rebuilding old cars on the nearby channels though.
Posted by: Old Lurker | July 29, 2015 at 04:42 PM
The worst PR thing the NFL did was not ban Brady 4 games but blacklist Rush. He was en fuego today and may have turned his 25M listenters into a bunch of Capt. Hates.
Posted by: Jack is Back! | July 29, 2015 at 04:42 PM
I surprised Trump didn't offer to help the poor lactating woman out. IYKWIMAITYD
Posted by: lyle | July 29, 2015 at 04:43 PM
BOB DOLE, people!
Posted by: lyle | July 29, 2015 at 04:44 PM
Some depositions take a long time - even days.
Yes, but baby milk pumping takes less than 10 min. if the mom gets at it, and I assume the parties involved stop for lunch and have potty breaks. No excuse for her needing to interrupt the process when the need was foreseeable.
Posted by: DebinNC | July 29, 2015 at 04:46 PM
stop for lunch
...must resist urge to make a joke...
Oh hell, see my 4:43.
Posted by: lyle | July 29, 2015 at 04:50 PM
I was once involved in a depostioin that took 6 months. They suspedned my interrogatorie because I brought up something they didn't even know and had to investigate it. When I came back I was in Hong Kong and they had to pay my expenses to come back to DC.
They lost eventually but thanks for the trip.
Posted by: Jack is Back! | July 29, 2015 at 04:52 PM
Also, why not just say you needed to be excused for a bathroom break? Why make a big statement about how you are breastfeeding and have to go pump your breasts?
Posted by: Miss Marple | July 29, 2015 at 04:53 PM
TK, per my uncle, Elmo Zumwalt sucked because he allowed the Navy enlisted long hair and porn staches. There may have been operational reasons (trying to move all Pacific commands from Pearl to San Diego), but the hair bit ruined the family name right there.
Posted by: henry | July 29, 2015 at 04:56 PM
Your daily People's Cube:
Pope outraged by Planned Parenthood's "unfettered capitalism," demands equal redistribution of baby parts to each according to his need
Posted by: lyle | July 29, 2015 at 04:57 PM
From the Federalist:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CLGCizuUwAA_pz2.jpg:large
Posted by: Miss Marple | July 29, 2015 at 04:59 PM
Ughh.
Now Neil Cavuto has on Meghan McCain, to comment on her dad's comments that we shouldn't be attacking Trump, but I'm transcribing this long bit because I'm detecting in his Neil Cavuto's comments that he's not hunky-dory with having Meghan McCain on as the new "go-to- girl."
McMuffin: We can't let Hillary co-opt the Millenial Vote. We can't let Hillary co-opt the Women's vote, the Minority Vote. If we have a candidate like Donald Trump who is preaching to a very specific, very small audience, that's exactly what will happen.
Cavuto: But Meghan, how do you know that? How do you know that? Whatever he's doing right now is working.
McMuffin: But statistically....
Cavuto: Wait a minute. Every time he has said something, even when he attacked your father, and you know he tried to back it down a little bit, he went after Mexican' and you know all the commentary. Every controversial thing he has said that would sink every other candidate, it might have sunk your dad if he said the same, doesn't happen to him. In fact he's now leading in Florida. So almost everywhere...
McMuffin: With Republicans.
Cavuto: I understand that. But that was unthinkable right after the remarks he made about your dad and yet he's more popular now than he was then.
McMuffin: (Nods head in agreement) I'm not negating that Donald Trump has a huge audience right now, err not a huge audience, a huge following right now, and what he's saying is resonating with people. But his negativity polls nationally are huge. 60 Percent of the American Public has a negative perception of Donald.
Cavuto: Yeah, but 50% of the American Public has a negative impression of Hillary Clinton.
Meghan: We're trying to win an election.
Cavuto: Believe me, I see what you're saying and I understand your frustration, especially concerning your dad. But what I think people are missing in looking at the Trump phenomenom , is confusing the messenger with his message, and his message is frustration and anger over Trade deals and we always seem to get the short end of the stick, and repeated failures of Republican and Democratic Administrations . That might be something that's reaching out to Independents at well. You don't buy that?
McMuffin: (Shaking head in disagreement) I' don't. (Looks angry that she has been challenged by Neal:) He was saying that he though Sarah Palin should be a part of his cabinet. Donald Trumpa and Sarah Palin are debatably the most polarizing figures in American Politics, and I think we need...
Cavuto (interrupting): That's not what your dad says. Your dad doesn't say that about Sarah palin.
McMuffin: (Very high pitched voice) My father and I agree on many things. I'm not my father's minion in many ways...
Neal laughs. I laugh.
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I suppose I am a hypocrite in that I didn't rail against FOX having on Dick Cheney's daughter, but at least I think Liz Cheney accomplished something, instead of simply being a total product of celebrity nepotism.
Posted by: daddy | July 29, 2015 at 04:59 PM
Exactly, MM. I can't imagine making such an announcement in the middle of any professional setting, much less one involving Donald Trump.
Posted by: DebinNC | July 29, 2015 at 04:59 PM
lyle,
Yep. That's my Pope whether in reality or in the satire papers. In fact, they should have waited to see what he would actually say.
Posted by: Jack is Back! | July 29, 2015 at 04:59 PM
Oops
L'il help:(
Posted by: daddy | July 29, 2015 at 05:00 PM
Thanks, daddy!
Posted by: lyle | July 29, 2015 at 05:03 PM
Deb,
My old friend Common Tator (maybe you remember him from FR) used to say "Watch what politicians DO, not what they say."
So what do we have here? Some attorney comes out and portrays herself as persecuted because she made a very personal statement to Donald Trump, one which has a high ick factor to men his age.
So why would she make this public and embarrass herself further? Of course, as a leftist she is incapable of embarrassment, but what is important is that they are dragging out the "war on women" topic again. First we had the rape thing. Now this. It tells me he is drawing voters from the dems, particularly blue collar voters.
Posted by: Miss Marple | July 29, 2015 at 05:07 PM
Deb:
I can't imagine making such an announcement in the middle of any professional setting, much less one involving Donald Trump.
Unless one might think getting Trump to lose his shit in the courtroom was a winning strategy worthy of such a stunt? I mean, we're talking about a lawyer here...
Although.....from a CNN article:
But it also says she was setting up shop right there in the courtroom . . . she was not asking to be excused.
I'm going with the stunt theory...
Posted by: Jeff Dobbs | July 29, 2015 at 05:08 PM
I didn't really have much of an opinion one way or another on Brady or Goodell before this episode.
Now, I'm pretty sure I'd give CH a hand if he actually did have them both trapped in a building and a can of kerosene and a lighter handy.
Posted by: Cispigmented Heteronormative Microagressive Ignatz | July 29, 2015 at 05:10 PM
Good find, Jeff.
So, she is a liar and that confirms my theory; the Left is getting worried about him.
Posted by: Miss Marple | July 29, 2015 at 05:10 PM
courtroom should be deposition room i guess.
I'm not familiar with a "deposition" room.
I have seen the inside of a few courtrooms in my day. Those I am familiar with.
Posted by: Jeff Dobbs | July 29, 2015 at 05:10 PM
Oh, brother. Sounds like someone attempting to sound smarter than she really is. The word she is looking for is simply "denying." I'm surprised she didn't try "gainsaying."
Posted by: lyle | July 29, 2015 at 05:10 PM
That's bizarre and hilarious, Jeff.
Posted by: DebinNC | July 29, 2015 at 05:11 PM
http://dailysignal.com/2015/07/29/7-women-and-men-share-why-they-oppose-planned-parenthood/
I was one of the 7. Yikes!
I was very nervous. My rule is to always say no (remembering what they did to Joe the Plumber), but I did it anyway. They misspelled my name though...so that is GOOD! Hah!
Posted by: Janet | July 29, 2015 at 05:17 PM
Trump is rubber, they are glue....
If these nitwits keep it up they may just elect him president.
The only thing a Huey Long needs to get elected is idiot enemies insulting his followers and manufacturing more of them.
Every Man a Trump!
The Kingfish's campaign and election story reads not a little like the Donald's.
Posted by: Cispigmented Heteronormative Microagressive Ignatz | July 29, 2015 at 05:19 PM
Re:
I recently overheard two white high school kids reviewing their fall schedule. One said "What is this 'Human Values' class? The other replied, "Oh, you know, white people suck and white men - forget about it."
My guess is they didn't overlook any nuance.
Posted by: Tom Maguire | July 29, 2015 at 05:19 PM
Good job, Janet!
Posted by: Threadkiller | July 29, 2015 at 05:22 PM
"Janet Shagan revealed that while she just recently got physically involved in the pro-life movement, she’s always been an advocate for the unborn.
“In this country, we are for every person. All through history it has been dangerous when some group is defined as less than human,” Shagan said. “In these times we are living in, it is the unborn that are defined as less than human, and there is something incredibly sad about that.”
That's fantastic, Janet. Great pic of you too.
Posted by: DebinNC | July 29, 2015 at 05:23 PM
Love your quote, Janet.
I do wish they would have spelled your name Janet Shazam.
Posted by: Jeff Dobbs | July 29, 2015 at 05:25 PM
From Ext's link at 03:35, on the murdering Illegal Alien, previously released from custody because he was an illegal alien:
Razo told Cicconetti he has a birth certificate from Mexico, to which the judge replied, "That doesn't help you here in the United States."
That Judge is a fool who has not been paying attention. Razo's Mexican Birth Certificate is his "Get Out Of Jail Free" card.

Posted by: daddy | July 29, 2015 at 05:27 PM
Hah! Shazam would have been GREAT!
Posted by: Janet | July 29, 2015 at 05:29 PM
Janet,
You are awesome.
Posted by: Sue | July 29, 2015 at 05:31 PM
I accept your apology Mr. Kraft...I'm ready to die for you again!
http://boston.cbslocal.com/video/3274103-robert-kraft-apologizes-to-patriots-fans-says-he-was-wrong-to-put-faith-in-league/
Posted by: Rocco | July 29, 2015 at 05:32 PM
I'm going with the stunt theory...
Yeah, in any event bringing up stupidity like this during election season is ridiculous. I'd also like to note the bias in the lead para of the CNN article:
That's reporting as fact a disputed claim from a losing lawyer. If it was supposed to make me think Trump was unstable, it backfired badly. (OTOH, CNN may be playing a deeper game, trying to keep Trump alive . . . nah, not that smart.)Posted by: Cecil Turner | July 29, 2015 at 05:43 PM
Now that United Airlines Frequent Flyer passenger info has been hacked by the Chinese, I believe my personal info has been hacked in each of the following celebrated hacks:
---WalMart
---Target
---Anthem
---BlueCross/Blue Shield
---OPM (Govt background check info)
---FAA Medical info
---United Airlines
Can you guys think of any I'm missing?
Posted by: daddy | July 29, 2015 at 05:50 PM
Does anyone here actually think that if this deflate gate charge was argued in a legal court of law it would stand the way Goodell decided? Evidence, discovery, testimony, jury selction and intstrucitons. You know all those little trivial things from a constitution of over a humdred years or such?
As an engineer and not a Pat's fan by any measure, it is a ridiculous decision based on suspicion and not emprirical evidence. Do all the naysayers really think that this could stand up?
Posted by: Jack is Back! | July 29, 2015 at 05:50 PM
Daddy, I assume the Ashley Madison hack is not on the list for reasons other than memory failure. ;)
Posted by: henry | July 29, 2015 at 05:53 PM
JiB, new Brady thread.
Posted by: henry | July 29, 2015 at 05:54 PM
(OTOH, CNN may be playing a deeper game, trying to keep Trump alive . . . nah, not that smart.)
Cecil,
They started and finished the segment by saying that something like "Yesterday we had the revelations about Donald Trump and the sexual violence allegations, today we've got this.
They used them as bookends to slam Trump, so my impression is that, unlike Marc Anthony, they were indeed trying to bury Trump, not to praise him.
Posted by: daddy | July 29, 2015 at 05:56 PM
Cruz on lost IRS emails: ‘Nixon’s ghost must have been smiling’
Posted by: Extraneus | July 29, 2015 at 05:56 PM
Henry,
Shhhhh...
Posted by: daddy | July 29, 2015 at 05:59 PM
http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/donald-trump-is-the-nickelback-of-gop-candidates/?ex_cid=story-twitter
Posted by: clarice | July 29, 2015 at 06:13 PM
its a perfectly cromulent word, the whole barrage on Trump, reminds of the first Dr. Who episode I saw, it featured a robot and a powerful raygun, but when the UNIT team, aimed at the robot, it just grew largerm
Posted by: narciso | July 29, 2015 at 06:14 PM
daddy, mccain's daughter is dead wrong about who he's attracting. look up "pump the trump" on youtube
Posted by: jojo | July 29, 2015 at 06:32 PM
First of all, a deposition takes place in a conference room. You need at least 4 seats. The witness, his lawyer, the other lawyer and a stenographer. I assume in the Trump matter each side had 15 lawyers or so.
Secondly if I am holding a depo and I want to take a break I don't give a rat's ass what the witness wants. He can pound sand, I'll break when I want to.
So it all sounds a bit funky.
Posted by: Jane | July 29, 2015 at 07:12 PM
My friend Janet is a celebrity! I am sooooooo impressed!
Posted by: Jane | July 29, 2015 at 07:13 PM
Why would anyone want to hook themselves up to a breast pump in a room full of men? Is she a cow?
Posted by: Sue | July 29, 2015 at 07:49 PM
Is that what she did? I thought she wanted to leave the room.
Posted by: Jane | July 29, 2015 at 08:42 PM