Not In This Democracy...

Some interesting but irrelevant news from The Hill:

Poll: Majority want Congress to reject Iran nuclear deal

So what? it will take a super-majority in both houses of Congress to derail the Obama/Kerry Peace Prize Express.

 

Comments

[The Printer.]

A Republic, if you can keep it.

[henry]

Apparently two Marines were injured tackling a gun wielding "North African" on a train from Amsterdam to Paris. GP has a post, which TP won't let me link.

[Jeff Dobbs]

TM:
So what? it will take a super-majority in both houses of Congress to derail the Obama/Kerry Peace Prize Express.

In a Trump administration we'll have a super majority. A terrific, really fantastic majority.

[henry]

More detail on the shooting in France. Apparently US Marines on the train saved the day.

[Jack is Back!]

A train we take all the time when back in Belgium.

U.S. Troops Stop Gunman on French Train.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2015/08/21/americans-stop-gunman-on-french-train.html

Sunday we are on the Eurostar which is famous for all kinds of immigrants trying to masquerade as passengers. Situational awareness comes in spades here.

[Jack is Back!]

henry,

Sorry, didn't see your post. Beat me to it.

Its only beginning. The UK has sent police over to Calais to work with the French to mitigate the migrant crisis. Only way to do that is send them all back. But that won't happen.

Another herding of cats, at the taxpayers expense.

[Jack is Back!]

Of course, it takes the go-to service of the Daily Mail to provide the story and photos.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3206426/U-S-Marines-armed-gunman-onboard-high-speed-train-Amsterdam-Paris.html

[henry]

JiB, no problem. I was hoping you could add context (without being on the train while events occurred).

[Jack is Back!]

Played 18 today plus a few vodka tonics and wine at dinner. You might say I am ready for bed.

Slaap lekker, tots morgen.Pas op.

[Old Lurker]

Down down 450

[Old Lurker]

Dow down

[Buckeye]

Hope the Marines got a few good punches in before turning him over to the Police.

[lyle]

http://news.investors.com/blogs-capital-hill/082015-767516-federal-reserve-official-says-no-proof-45-trillion-qe-program-did-anything.htm

Sorry to say, but the Fed has repeatedly erred in conducting its policy, and has been implicated in most of our nation's postwar recessions. With Fed Chair Janet Yellen ready to embark on another policy shift in September with a rate hike, no one should be surprised if this, too, turns out to be the wrong move.

[lyle]

Are the marines facing criminal charges yet?

[Old Lurker]

Dow now down 500

[narciso]

The fellow was a known wolf, to the security forced.

[Captain Haiku, in a Scat Mood]

The Dow doobie doo
Down down, comma comma Dow
Doobie doo down down

[Old Lurker]

To old guys, it seems the DOW was just at 500!

[Old Lurker]

-531

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Young guys may see that day yet, OL.

[lyle]

No problem. The Fed will save us. They can lower interest rates, print more money and stimulate the economy. Oh, wait...

[Buckeye]

Fine job you're doing with the World economy Zero.

Coming recession will make Bush's look like a walk in the park.

[henry]

This crisis won't go to waste. Obviously the Feds need to take over management of our retirement funds because they crashed the economy and stock market instability isn't fair.

[Dave (in MA)]

Joint CNN/ORC Poll...

You're going to believe a poll conducted by Orcs?

Disclaimer: When I wrote that sentence I thought that an "Orc" was a Star Wars thing. It appears to be a hobbit movie thing.

[henry]

Dave, truth in labeling?

[Jane]

Dave did you see the video of the truck in Westwood?

[henry]

Jane, I'm going to be in FL in January. Could you send me an email for coordination / conspiracy? (We upgraded our email to cloud from our servers, your address is in the old files that are hard to search anymore).

[daddy]

On topic!

Nice to see Melissa Francis on FOX Business tell creepy Admin apologist Alan Colmes that he's wrong on the Iran Side Deals:

Melissa: They are supposed to allow the International Atomic Energy Agency to establish a baseline as to where the program is by December. In this first step we see that they are not furnishing scientists, they are not furnishing their Military leaders that they're supposed to. We're already hearing from the Japanese Diplomats that they're not complying already, Alan.

Colmes: At any point we have the ability to go back and use any option we ever had, the Military option is already there. This doesn't take anything off the table. And by the way, there's an AP report about this inspection, that Iran would do it's own inspections, that turned out that was debunked.

Melissa: No it wasn't. No it wasn't debunked, I have it, I have it right in front of me. The exact document is on FOX News website, and it says right there, Iran will provide the samples, Iran will video the locations, they'll take photos, it wasn't debunked at all.

Colmes: The IAEA Inspection, the IAEA has...

Melissa: No, not with them. They're going to bring it back to the IAEA and say here are our photos. It wasn't debunked in the slightest.

Colmes: The IAEA has 24/7 access. That's...

Melissa: No they don't. They don't even get to go there. I've got to move on tho'.
------------------------

Good job Melissa. (Other 2 panelists laughing at Colmes.)

[danoso]

Clinton Campaign On Alert For Undercover Conservative Sting

The kind of paranoia that leads to setting up your own illegal server.

[Jim Miller]

"So what? it will take a super-majority in both houses of Congress to derail the Obama/Kerry Peace Prize Express."

True. As of now, the odds are heavily against defeating the deal in Congress. (I'd say less than 1 in 10, perhaps less than 1 in 100.) And not entirely clear what would happen if it were defeated.

However, House members, senators, and presidential candidates will be running for office in 2016 -- and this will be an issue in that election.

(I've been thinking about this both ways, because I plan to write letters to Senators Murray and Cantwell, and to Congresswoman DelBene. I will write them one way, if I am trying to persuade, and another way, if I am trying to make it a bigger issue for their next campaigns.)

Most political writers seem to think this will be an issue only in heavily Jewish districts.

They are wrong. It will be an issue with all those who support Israel, and (an overlapping group) all those who believe in peace through strength.

(Oh, and the letters? Right now, I am planning to write them straight and, if necessary, as seems likely, follow them up with political posts.)

[Marlene]

Melissa Francis is great daddy.She had the Hollywood mother from hell.Melissa escaped all that trauma and made her own way.

[clarice]

fires have made Lake McDonald's air covered in small. The old lodge I am staying in a magnificent p;d family retreat and, yes, I am mostly staying inside though IT access is iffy.

[Marlene]

I think we need a Florida meet up in January.We'll be there January-March.

[Dave (in MA)]

Jane | August 21, 2015 at 04:55 PM,

Yes, but you already know that by now.

The best one is the Lobsterpocalypse from last year.

[Jim Miller]

clarice - I'm not surprised that the smoke has reached you. As of this morning, there was poor air quality in about half of Washington state -- and all of Idaho.

[daddy]

Did the rare morning dog walk so caught Rush. In hour 3 he played the clip I've heard 20 times of Jeb pushing back at the reporter, explaining why he's using the term "Anchor Baby" until he hears a better term, but the clip I've heard multiple times was always cut short just after "Don't yell at me behind my ear..." giving the impression that Jeb's response was tough, rivaling Trump's tough, unapologetic response.

But Rush played the full response from Jeb, and the clip finishes this way, with Jeb once again instinctually distancing himself from having the guts to personally use the term:

REPORTER: Do you regret using the term "anchor babies" yesterday on the program?

JEB: No, I didn't. I don't regret it.

REPORTER: You don't regret it?

JEB: No. Do you have a better term?

REPORTER: I'm asking you. A lot of folks find it offensive.

JEB: You give me a better term and I'll use it. I'm serious. Don't yell at me behind my ear, though.

REPORTER: Sorry about that. The language "anchor baby," is that not bombastic?

JEB: No, it isn't. Give me another word. Here's the deal. What I said was it's commonly referred to that. That's what I said. I didn't use it as my own language. What we ought to do is protect the 14th -- you want to get to the policy for a second? I think that people born in this country ought to be American citizens. Okay, now we got that over with.

The clip is here.

Once again, "Leadership material", not in evidence.

I just pray no reporter asks him about "Midget Raisins:"

I didn't use the term "Midget Raisins," as my own language. I said what it's commonly referred to. That's what I said. Give me a better term for "Midget Raisins."

[Buckeye]

The Marines on the train is even a better illustration of cultural differences than my story about dinner at the German owned resort in Jamaica.

The Europeans usually defer to someone "in authority". Many on the train would have died waiting.

American culture is more hands-on, self-reliant. The Marines just took care of business.

[Neo]

Deja Vu

“You can’t erase e-mails, not today,” said Leahy, D-Vermont. “They’ve gone through too many servers. They can’t say they’ve been lost. That’s like saying, ‘The dog ate my homework.’ ” (Watch Leahy compare e-mails to Nixon tapes Video)

I guess Hillary was busy with Clinton Foundation Senate work while this was going on.

LUN

[GMax]

Florida is a pretty big place, so driving distances could be a bit daunting, but if the Panhandle is in your plans do look me up. We might convince RSE to come down to her place and may even the poster formerly known as Hit&Run will make a run down.

[daddy]

How long do you think it will be before Obama praises the actions of these Marines?

2nd question. If/When he does, will he use the word "Islam" in describing the perp or the incident?

[Janet]

REPORTER: I'm asking you. A lot of folks find it offensive.

The Trump reporter said that too.

WHO? Who finds it offensive? Those reporters?

Name some of the "folks".

[Janet]

Journalism Warning Labels

[Dave (in MA)]

"Anchor baby" is offensive because as we all know, it's not a baby, it's just a clump of cells.

[maryrose]

daddy
You are so funny
Repubs must push back on these goofy reporters and their gotcha questions
Call it a gotcha and move on
I wonder where we will be at this time next year

[henry]

Marlene and GMax, my niece is getting married in Naples near my mom's place. Not far from Jane.any conspiring should be soon ( my SiL is pushing me to book tickets etc sooon).

[Jim Miller]

BTW, since there are some Floridians here, I'll mention that Michael Medved just added a station in Miami.

Didn't catch the station, but I imagine you can look it up on his site. (I suppose i should warn some of you that Trumpsters won't like his show.)

[Neo]

Krugman: Believe it or not, many economists argue that the economy needs a sufficient amount of public debt out there to function well. And how much is sufficient? Maybe more than we currently have. That is, there’s a reasonable argument to be made that part of what ails the world economy right now is that governments aren’t deep enough in debt.

LUN

[Janet]

ABC's Tom Llamas said to Trump -

"...the term anchor baby...that's an offensive term. People find that hurtful."

What people? Name them.

[Extraneus]

They'll probably win on this. "Anchor baby" will be verboten, except to people with spines.

[lyle]

VERY(!) smoky in all of Idaho. Hate it.

[daddy]

"Some people say" it's not a baby, it's just a clump of "midget" cells.

[henry]

Yes, immigration reform, for the anchor midgets!!!

[maryrose]

Janet
So true some people is a catchall phrase used to express indignation
Faux outrage
People want straight talk
The babies born here deliberately provide an anchor for the parents to stay
New expression
FOMO. Fear of missing out

[Jane]

Henry,

Oh I'm excited. I'll send you an email on Monday - and if I forget, remind me. (Hopefully I'll have some action on my house by then)

[DebinNC]

Iirc Patrick Leahy got booted from the Intelligence Committee for earning his nic "Leaky Leahy".

[narciso]

Well besides praising aphids soaring oratory, med bed has been a critic of Cruz and the huntress, still better than some of the lineup that included Todd Schmitt out of tampa

[henry]

Jane, great! I will remind you Monday.

[Jim Miller]

lyle - The smoke should ease off in a few days, if the weather forecasters here are right. They are saying that the winds will die down tomorrow, which will slow down the growth of the fires, maybe even allow the firefighters to get some of the fires contained.

(BTW, thanks for that list of jokes the other day. I'll be linking to them, soon.)

[DebinNC]

What alternative expression for "anchor babies" is the pc crowd pushing?

[daddy]

Belgian journalist Marin Buxant Tweeted that the US Marines were on leave in Brussels when they spotted the man and followed him on the train. When the suspect went into the toilet, the Marines recognised the sound of a weapon being armed and decided to act immediately.

I'll wait for more info, but however it played out, God Bless our Marines, and lets pray that our Marine reported to be critically injured pulls through.

[Janet]

The Trump reporter was pushing - "the American born child of an undocumented immigrant"

[DebinNC]

lol, Janet. I wonder what's the pc term for the babies in the PP videos? Fetal tissue providers?

[daddy]

What alternative expression for "anchor babies" is the pc crowd pushing?

Janet:

TRUMP: You mean it's not politically correct and yet everybody uses it? So, you know what? Give me a different term. Give me a different term. What else would you like to say?

REPORTER: "The American born child of an undocumented immigrant."

TRUMP: You want me to say that, okay. I'll use the word "anchor baby." Excuse me. I'll use the word "anchor baby."

Jeb: " What I said was it's commonly referred to that. That's what I said. I didn't use it as my own language."

Which one sounds Presidential?

[Miss Marple]

Somebody called in to Dana Loesh's show and said that Latinos find the termoffensive because they think it means "dragging the country down."

So, because they do notunderstand the origin of American colloquialism because of not being native English speakers, we are supposed to avoid using the term.

How about EXPLAINING it to them and telling them they are wrong?

It means "hold in place", as in a US citizen baby holds a place for the parents as relatives who can legally reside in the US?

I am sick of this carp.

[Jane]

Marlene,

I'm in!

GMax, believe it or not I have no idea where the panhandle is.

[DebinNC]

That's interesting, MM. Maybe something on the line of "bitter clingers" would pass the pc test, like "bitty clingers".

[Jane]

Dave,

I hope you captured some of those lobsters.

[daddy]

Simply want to praise FOX's Catherine Herridge
as a great reporter. Consistently excellent, and the story is never about her:

[Jim Miller]

Sure hope that wounded Marine survives.

[Marlene]

We'll be in Venice.We are trying to find the perfect spot for us.It will be somewhere between Sarasota and Naples.

[henry]

Marlene, perhaps I can help with a good spot for lunch in Naples? Or at least ask mom for suitable help....

[daddy]

Bret Baire: Kansas Republican Congressman Mike Pompeo tells FOX News that a second Side Deal, allowing Iran to avoid disclosing it's past Nuclear work or possible Military dimensions until after Congress votes, was intentional.

[maryrose]

Charles Payne is an excellent business analyst

[Jim Miller]

Here's the "worst rated" comment after that Daily Mail article, from "Kevin Sullivan":

"So, US Marines were travelling on the service 'by chance' ..... I f you believe that you believe in the fairies! What this incident tells us is that the US operating within European countries, with or without the consent of their governments. WE should be very, very worried!"

Don't laugh too hard. As I write, it's got 132 up arrows to go with the 1387 down arrows, so some people agree with him -- or are just glad to see him saying that.

(Though I must admit, I kind of like the idea that our intelligence is that good.)

[maryrose]

Daddy
I concur about Catherine Herridge and her Benghazi coverage was excellent

[daddy]

You bet, Maryrose.

There's a lot of talent at FOX operating beneath the big ego's of some of the Headliners.

[Extraneus]

Which one sounds Presidential?

Er...

I'm starting to warm to Trump.

[Miss Marple]

Extraneus,

He's having a huge rally in Alabama this evening. I bet Greta covers it.

I am fascinated. It's like some sort of unstoppable force.

[DebinNC]

Trump is having a big stadium rally tonight in Mobile, AL. Sporadic thunder storms may keep crowds down, but 30,000+ is the goal. The announcement was made in a press release 3 days ago. About a week ago Team Jeb announced a big townhall event in Pensacola next Wednesday with 10,000 expected. Mobile and Pensacola are only 60 mi. apart. I think Trump is purposely messing with Jeb's head. Trump also tweeted today his invite to speak at a private event at Clint Eastwood's CA home.

[Jim Miller]

If you are looking for p"presidential", it's hard to beat this:

"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."

[daddy]

Rush did another of those great bits where he runs clips of everybody in the MSM magically on the same day suddenly using the exact same new term of the day, ala "Gravitas," or "Verbal Ju-Jitsu."
-----------------------------------

RUSH: A media montage, Drive-By Media starting to fear or assume or figure out or think that Trump isn't going to go away.

ASHLEIGH BANFIELD: Banish any notion that Donald Trump is just a flash in the pan.

JIM SCIUTTO: You look at his campaign as one that's a flash in the pan?

KEVIN MADDEN: It's wrong to make the assumption that Donald Trump is just a flash in the pan.

ALISYN CAMEROTA: Does this mean he's not a flash in the pan?

DOUG BRINKLEY: I think he's not a flash in the pan.

CHRIS CUOMO: Of course he's not a flash in the pan.

RUSH: How does this happen? Flash in the pan? Gravitas. They've all come to the conclusion now, it all happened yesterday, folks, somebody somewhere sent the Drive-Bys a memo: "Trump is not a flash in the pan.

[Marlene]

henry,Sea Salt in Naples is wonderful.The daughter's wedding dinner was held there.I believe they serve lunch.

[DebinNC]

lol, daddy

And speaking of Lincoln ...Abraham Trump

[henry]

Ah, now to conure with Jane! ;)

[henry]

Cunure????? I don't even know what that could possibly mean. Stupid autospell. I typed conspire.

[maryrose]

Jake Sullivan and Cheryl Mills will testify before the Benghazi committee in the beginning of Sept
Perhaps questions will be asked about their email sorting session in the basement at State and on whose orders they did it

[narciso]

The give mind is a predictable thing, one of those madden, has a long history of derision

[narciso]

The sisters of the poor have been soared the administration's indignation once again.

[daddy]

The Panel discussion is on the use of the term "Anchor Baby's", and the actual policy of illegal immigrants and Anchor babies.

I wish Mark Levin would be invited to that panel to kick ass and take names, by simply explaining the Constitution. Laura Ingraham does a decent job pushing back against DrK, who is positive that Birthright citizenship is settled Law.

Laura Ingraham Back to the point of why Trump is resonating. Trump's rise annoys a lot of people in this town. And I get it. But the people in this town who've been propping up 2 parties that have failed the Middle Class, failed on the Globalism game, where these trade deals have absolutely not delivered what they've promised to deliver to the Middle Class, failed them on enforcing the border, failed them on all these ideas that America was going to be exporting values around the world and things were going to get a lot calmer. We see our power diminishing. We see our economic power diminishing on the home front. People are frustrated. They're ready to throw in with a guy who has all these conflicting positions, because the guys who said they were going to be consistent, weren't.

DrK: It's easy to go in and attack Washington. It's a clever dodge. The issue here is Birthright Citizenship. The issue is not the citizenship itself, it's the chain migration, and that ought to be what we are discussing.

Ingraham: And Bush and Obama didn't stop it. Neither stopped it. Neither did McConnell or Boehner when they had the chance. They're not stopping it, and people are tired of it.

DrK: But that does not change the fact that talking about changing the Birthright Citizenship that's been around for a 150 years is a sideshow for the real issue. I don't care who talked about it, or who hasn't...

Ingraham: Most people don't think it's a side show Charles. Most people actually think it's important. It's important that when people break into your home you don't allow them to force you to take care of their family. Most people wouldn't do that in their own home and they don't want us to do it in the United States.

DrK: You think Chain Migration is an issue?

Ingraham: It's a huge issue! In addition to the Birthright problem. I've talked about all these issues and have been for about 14 years on the radio.

[narciso]

Ted gently corrected the medici's category error re him and Marco.

[henry]

DrK, oh attacking us is just a dodge.

What part of we're tired of your shit do you not understand?

DrK, oh attacking us is just a dodge.

You are the problem, quit ducking the American people.

DrK, oh attacking us is just a dodge.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

The best thing about Trump, even more so than kicking the DC elites in the teeth is the exposure of the fastidious, GOPe, Marquis de Queensberry (and I do mean Queens) leadership at the top of the GOP and just how pervasive it is. Even people otherwise claiming to be rock ribbed conservatives get the vapors if he blurts out what half of America has been screaming for decades.

Having said that I'm still on Cruz control and will remain there and consider Trump a nut but a very effective and perceptive one.

[Steve]

LIVE STREAM:
Huge Donald Trump rally in Mobile, AL

http://commoncts.blogspot.com/2015/08/watch-live-stream-donald-trump-huge.html

[daddy]

Catherine Herridge: With Classified information the chain of custody matters. So in an ideal situation everyone who managed or handled the data would have a Clearance, and it would be held in a Secure Facility, know in the Intelligence community as a SCIF, and this was clearly not the case here (Platte River). This was not even a Classified contract...

...it's not clear whether it got transferred out to Denver. And then on top of that don't forget, that David Kendall had 3 Thumb Drives, with copies of the e-mails. Who made those copies of the e-mails? It's a question of access, whether all of those individuals had Clearances to handle this information and whether in the interim it was held in a Secure Facility known as a SCIF, and we know that that is simply not the case here...

...The bottom line from the Intelligence Communities Inspector General, this is an independent 'watchdog', is that it was Classified at the time it was sent, and the markings don't matter. Because there were no markings, that's not like some "Get Out Of Jail Free" card.

[Jane]

What exactly is a "flash in the pan"? When the vegetables catch on fire?

[lyle]

Deglazing a pan with some kind of alcohol, Jane. Flash.

[henry]

Jane, somehow I don't think it is tied to the original flintlock firing sequence of the metaphor.... or maybe Quartz in a gold prospector's pan... too much male patriarchy either way. (I'm pretty sure it's the latter, though the gun reference would be more fun).

[boatbuilder]

Gold panning term, Jane--sometimes it's not gold it's just a flash in the pan.

[Tortured language as to death.]

Explain 'flash in the plan' when real bullets escape the barrel. Heh, wounded, by the flash in the pain.

Anchors don't drag ships down, and I doubt immigrants think that. Who made up that canard?

[boatbuilder]

People find the term "sideshow" offensive...