Sunday Evening Open Thread

This is my favorite time of the week. Just enough weekend left to relax. I am assiduously not yet thinking about Monday and work.

It is still the weekend, and I am steadfastly resolved to milk every last minute of it. Sitting and watching the sun go down is a special kind of calm. 

ON THE MENU: I'm making fried chicken, mashed potatoes and creamed corn for dinner. Wish you were here.

I just might also have a beer. Yeah, I'll probably have a beer. Ok, I'm definitely gonna have a beer. Maybe two. Ok, I'll definitely have two. Maybe three. I should have three. I might have four. Counting is for losers.

 

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[Extraneus]

Yeah, yeah.

[henry]

TCFAB! And an Adirondack on the deck.

[rich@gmu]

TCF3Bs [This calls for 3 beers]

had some leftover lasagna and asparagus again. still delicious.

[rich@gmu]

good thing Obama was elected for all the racial healing (and atonement for all our racial sins).

Its Victor Davis Hanson, just read it all

http://pjmedia.com/victordavishanson/racial-relations-tragic-collapse/?singlepage=true

[Cispigmented Heteronormative Microagressive Ignatz]

Told a friend on Friday Spieth would have to shoot, 65, 65 on the weekend to win. 65, 68 didn't make it and even if he had it only would have tied.

[Beasts of England]

Day grabbed the trophy, but golf was the biggest winner today! What a couple of fine young men...

[rich@gmu]

BEASTS!!!!

good to see you back.

[jimmyk]

From the last thread:
Other artists at the event threatened to cancel their own performances if Matisyahu was allowed to take the stage because he was “seen to represent Israel,” according to the Times of Israel.

Matisyahu is not Israeli, he's an American Jew. So much for the idea that these scum are only opposed to Israeli policies and not anti-semitic.

[maryrose]

Love having you back Beasts
Jeff
I would love to come to dinner sounds delicious

[Agent J]

I cooked breaded pork chops, fresh corn on the cob, rice topped with gravy. The cook had at least one glass of wine. Or maybe it was two.

The cook also over indulged in the food part of the meal.

[Extraneus]

Is this the beer and golf thread?

Sorry, I'll have to bow out.

Oh wait.

had some leftover lasagna and asparagus again. still delicious.

Made a nice linguine sauce with canned tuna in oil and a couple of tuna steaks braised in it at the end.

Perfecto.

[daddy]

Uh Oh,

Doug Schoen says that if there is no clear Repub winner in the Primaries, and Trump hangs in there, that Mitt Romney will re-enter the Presidential race to save the Republicans from themselves.

Ai yi yi yi yi!

[narciso]

He and Ann counter 'e por se move'

[Jane]

Just read an article from Drudge about how Obama is spending all his time planning how to spend all his time post presidency. It's all about money -of course. And he's got Hollywood in there to make sure he knows how to bamboozle the world.

In my dreams no one gives him the time of day, post presidency.

[Jeff Dobbs]

Ext:
Is this the beer and golf thread?

Yes. The title that says "Open Thread" is just a ruse.

[Stephanie]

Beasts! Any interest in going to Eastlake?

[rich@gmu]

Posted by: jimmyk | August 16, 2015 at 07:30 PM -

hope he can sue them into bankruptcy (the festival promoter etc ...

[maryrose]

Jane
This does not surprise me at all about Obama
He is clearly bored with the job people aren't fainting anymore and his Iran deal is DOA
He is not getting anything on guns and his EPA is feckless
No wonder he dreams about a new life

[Jeff Dobbs]

Jane:
Just read an article from Drudge about how Obama is spending all his time planning how to spend all his time post presidency.

OK, let's to the right thing...

The heart of the postpresidential planning is Mr. Obama’s own outreach to eclectic, often extraordinarily rich groups of people. Several aides close to Mr. Obama said his extended conversations over the lengthy dinners — guests say his drink of choice at the gatherings is an extra-dry Grey Goose martini — reminded them of the private consultations Mr. Obama had with donors and business leaders as he sought to build a winning campaign.

Don't drink Grey Goose. Grey Goose is for wusses.

Titos. Obama would never drink Titos.

(i have a cousin who is now making vodka in a dallas suburb. i haven't tried it yet, but based on my lack of discernible taste buds - i will drink the living bleep out of it if i can ever get my hands on it)

[maryrose]

Everyone is having a better dinner than me
Burgers and tater tots because my son loves them
I also attended two weddings this weekend and you can only eat so much chicken cordon blue and prime rib

[rich@gmu]

and good to see Agent J checking in!

[maryrose]

Jeff
I love vodka as a tonic or a Bloody Mary or a screwdriver
It must be the Slovenian in me
Though my Irish part loves whiskey

[Jeff Dobbs]

maryrose:
you can only eat so much chicken cordon blue

I honestly think I could eat that every meal until my dying day. Huh, I've never tried making it at home. I have a new challenge.

[daddy]

I'm watching the FOX Show, "Political Insiders", with host Harris Faulkner and regular guests Caddell, Schoen and the other guy.

I did not watch Chris Wallace, but from Captain Hate's commentary on it, it seems to me that Harris Faulkner's panel is criticizing the mindset of the Wallace panel:

Caddell; We are a different political paradigm. Three quarters of Americans believe that this country is in absolute decline. 3/5ths of them believe that their children lives will not be as good as their's was that they inherited. And 85-90% believe that the system is rigged. Doug has had surveys done showing that people believe that neither Party is capable of bringing change, yet in Washington, the political class, what they cannot grasp, the paradigm they defend, which is somehow it will be normal, somehow we will be only Democrats and Republicans,...the revolution is here.

Leboutillier: And Pat, we watch, we talk all of us about the Sunday Morning Political Shows on all the networks, and if you watched them today, everyone of these people on all the networks they don't pay any attention to what Pat just said, and instead, "Oh, it's the summer, it's a fling, it's August, they'll get over it, Trump and Carson are just the next version of Michelle Bachman and Herman Caine." They're not. This is a different thing. What he just said..."

Schoen: Right. And also Bernie Sanders. Let's be bipartisan here. There's anger across the board, it's not just the Republicans, it's the Democrats. There's a sense that the established order will be Hillary Clinton or Jeb Bush, just represents the failed politics of the past.
-----------------------
Sounds to me like they are completely dismissing the George Will's.

[Eric in Boise]

Sitting out on the patio nursing a Black Butte and watching the action at the squirrel bird feeder. Son is barbecuing chicken. Grandson is practicing his Tae Kwon Do moves. Life is good. A very pleasant Sunday evening to all.

Burgers and tater tots because my son loves them

Definitely nothing wrong with that. You can spend money or time on your kids. Time is better.

[narciso]

well the mittens boomlet was silly, but generally they are sharper then Wallace, Will didn't embarass himself as profoundly as last week, with the category error, but still pretty bad,

of course, the jeff lord piece, showed his roots, which he has returned to, his earlier bout of clutching, was when the Huntress was on the hustings,

[narciso]

of course I might have been too charitable,

http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/08/16/george-will-gives-middle-finger-to-angry-american-conservatives-get-over-it/#comments

as for Doc Brown, it seems he has been absorbed by the BLM borg,

[Miss Marple]

Beefeater's Gin is my martini choice. Vodka martinis are for amateurs.

The Queen Mother drank a tumbler of Beefeater's every day.

Sounds like a good prescription to me.

[GUS]

Daddy, the MARXISTS are angry and going to Bernie Sanders because they don't believe Obama has fuxed up the country enough.
They are too IGNORANT to understand what they are asking for. Marxism, does not favor dead beat hippies.

[Jeff Dobbs]

EiB:
Sitting out on the patio nursing a Black Butte

#BlackButtesMatter

[narciso]

why do they have to give credence to the stupid comments, rhetorical,

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3199750/They-selling-looks-commodity-Historic-University-Alabama-sorority-slammed-racially-homogeneous-recruitment-video.html

[narciso]

now, you wouldn't know where that would be, btw,

http://therightscoop.com/abc-its-highly-likely-a-backup-of-hillarys-private-server-exists/

[GUS]

I was listening to a LIBTARD on a sports radio show this p.m.. The Radio dude was saying participation trophies and awards were perfectly fine. Everyone deserves a trophy even if they lose. He said it's just like getting a Varsity letter. All you have to do is show up and hang around til seasons end. What a tard. You have to MAKE THE TEAM to earn a Varsity letter.

[Eric in Boise]

Heh, Jeff. Two or three matter even more :)

[henry]

MissM, my grandfather Generalled through WWII on vodka martinis-- including several shared with Patton at their houseboats on Anacostia before the war. Not that there is anything wrong with gin, I enjoy both forms.

[Jane]

I love grey goose, but if it is Obama's drink of choice I might have to give it up. I like Tito's too, but grey goose is my true love. There is nothing better than a grey goose dirty martini.

Maryrose, the Iran deal is far from dead. Obama has no intention of losing.

BTW has anyone else seen that nuke ad reminiscent of the Goldwater ad? It freaks me out.

[Miss Marple]

henry,

Didn't mean to offend. Perhaps it's because I learned to drink gin martinis first, and vodka martinis to me seem to have no flavor.

Probably makes them more dangerous, though.

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

I'm polishing off a growler of Stone Stochasticity Project HiFi LowFi Mixtape which is fine but I think the brewery spends more time thinking up names than making something noticeably different tasting than Arrogant Bastard.

As somebody at Conservative Treehouse pointed out, Will has readily admitted that his wife works for Walker's campaign and I think it's dirty pool by Ailes to include him on panels discussing candidates. I'm really getting sick of the Rove News Channel.

[lyle]

Grilled upright whole chicken, Caesar salad, '08 PRV Rutherford Cab. Gorgeous temps but quite smoky with all the fires. Did I mention the Cab? Are you sure? Well, ok, then. I must have mentioned it.

[cindyk on IPad]

jimmyk, et.al.....we have a beautiful summer home here on Flathead Lake....invite extends to you anytime....the cabin is not huge, but has two masters so we could handle a couple at a time....it is paradise😎❗️

[daddy]

i haven't tried it yet, but based on my lack of discernible taste buds -

Jeff,

Because of this tastebud problem of yours I have pored thru my Churchill (My Early years) and come upon the section where he provides a solution (page 125-127). It is during the campaign against some tribes whilst in India, so I ask JOM's indulgence for a fairly long but interesting paste:

{ The General took only five days to coax and quell the
Bunerwals, but it seemed a very long time to me. I en
deavoured to turn it to the best advantage. I acquired an entirely new faculty. Until this time I had never been able to drink whisky. I disliked the flavour intensely. I could not understand how so many of my brother officers were so often calling for a whisky and soda. I liked wine, both red and white, and especially champagne} and on very special occasions I could even drink a small glass of brandy. But this smoky-tasting whisky I had never been able to face. I now found myself in heat which, though I stood it personally fairly well, was terrific, for five whole days and with absolutely nothing to drink, apart from tea, except either tepid water or tepid water with lime-juice or tepid water with whisky.

Faced with these alternatives I 'grasped the larger hope.' I was sustained in these affairs by my high morale. Wishing to fit myself for active-service conditions I overcame the ordinary weaknesses of the flesh. By the end of these five days I had completely overcome my repugnance to the taste of whisky. Nor was this a momentary acquirement. On the contrary the ground I gained in those days I have firmly entrenched, and held throughout my whole life. Once one got the knack of it, the very repulsion from the flavour developed an attraction of its own and to this day although I have always practised true temperance, I have never shrunk when occasion warranted it from the main basic standing refreshment of the white officer in the East.

Of course all this whisky business was quite a new departure in fashionable England. My father for instance could never have drunk whisky except when shooting on a moor or in some very dull chilly place. He lived in the age of the 'Brandy and Soda/ for which indeed there was much respectable warrant. However, surveying the proposition from an impartial standpoint after adequate experiment and reflection, I am clear that for ordinary daily use whisky in a diluted form is the more serviceable of these twin genii.

Now that I have been drawn into this subject while
perched upon the Malakand Pass, let me say that I and other young officers had been brought up quite differently from the University boys of those times. The undergraduates of Oxford and Cambridge used to drink like fishes, and they even had clubs and formal dinners where it was an obligation for everyone to consume more liquor than he could carry.

At Sandhurst, on the other hand, and in the Army, drunkenness was a disgraceful offence punishable not only by social reprobation often physically manifested, but if it ever got into the official sphere, by the sack. I had been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who got drunk; except on very exceptional occasions and a few anniversaries and I would have liked to have the boozing scholars of the Universities wheeled into line and properly chastised for their squalid misuse of what I must ever regard
as a good gift of the gods.

In those days I was very much against drunkards, prohibitionists and other weaklings of excess: but now I can measure more charitably the frailties of nature from which their extravagances originate. Subalterns in those days were an intolerant tribe 5 they used to think that if a man got drunk or would not allow other people to have a drink, he ought to be kicked. Of course we all know much better now, having been civilised and ennobled by the Great War. }

[lyle]

Oh, and hummingbirds, several of them feeding and battling each other. Awesome.

[lyle]

I've been to Flathead many years ago, cindyk. Beautiful barely describes it. Crap. I think it was '85! Where'd the time go?

[Miss Marple]

daddy,

Just finished that book a couple of months ago. Fascinating, not only for Churchill's life but the times he lived in, Victorian and Edwardian Britain.

[narciso]

they have come to their sense, albeit briefly:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/08/16/tebow-tebow-eagles-quarterback-gets-standing-ovation-after-taking-field-for-first-time-in-two-years-calls-it-a-blessing/

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

Kudos to Chip Kelly for giving Tebow a chance, like I said about Belichick. I believe that, for whatever reason, there's a present dearth of Goodell Football League caliber QBs so maybe a spot exists for him.

[Joan]

Oh, my, your menu sounds wonderful. I ate some vegetables with Ranch dressing from one of those little trays you buy ... raw green beans, raw broccoli, raw everything. Nothing to say rah about. (Yes, this is corny. :)

[narciso]

OT, it's dissapointing that film about the detestable gangster rap band, seems to have won the box office, this weekl

[daddy]

Miss M,

Hope Nathan has a chance to read it!

I had forgotten that Churchill decided he needed to learn to drink Whiskey 'for the needs of the service.'
I thought he just wanted to better fit in as one of the boys. God Bless such devotion to the military service:)

Jeff,

I have really developed a taste for the Balvenie 12 single malt. I recall that when our British Petroleum friends, (she from Aberdeen Scotland, he from England) first introduced me to it at their home after dinner, I considered it totally putrid and undrinkable.
But in the interest of international relations, I sipped "once more unto the breach," and magically that genii of Churchill's so modified my taste buds that I consider it now as exquisite mother's milk as exists on the planet. I'm sure it's not the best nor the worst, just somewhere in the great middle of fine Scottish sauces, but to this plebeian tongue it's mighty hard to beat!

If/when we do meet up, we'll share a jug, and if you do convert, 't'will be great fun to watch Jess's eye's light up when you order a shot neat at the Pool parlor.

[narciso]

so what is it about vodka martinis, just an affectation on Fleming's part, he borrowed alot of Bond, from the playboy spy, Dusan Pupov, and the
Russian specialist, Bruce Lockhart, with a touch of Sidney Reilly,

[daddy]

Dogs.

[Miss Marple]

That is very good Scotch, daddy. I ration it out as I cannot be buying it for myself.

I will enjoy it this winter when cold beer isn't quite as tempting. My son tried it and pronounced it quite good.

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

Is the Feast of the Assumption celebrated in other cities, particularly in the Italian areas; or is it something specific to the Little Italy part of Cleveland?

[jimmyk]

Interesting story in today's NYT sports about IK Enemkpali, the guy who broke Geno Smith's jaw. Not to excuse the punch, but Smith seems like a first-class a**hole, and IK seems like a generally stand-up guy who made a mistake, apologized, and is getting a second chance.

The back story is that IK was running a summer football camp for kids, Smith said he'd come, and IK had promoted it and paid for Smith's plane tickets. Smith was a no-show, never even called, leaving a bunch of disappointed kids, disgruntled parents, and embarrassing IK. Then rather than apologize and repay IK, Smith apparently was taunting IK in the locker room.

As someone joked, Smith will miss about 13-15 interceptions.

[jimmyk]

Very kind and generous offer, Cindy K. The missus seems to have her heart set on Flathead Lodge, but if we make it next summer we'll try to arrange a meetup.

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

Purportedly Geno threw the first punch(es?) but, like his passes, failed to connect. He was a horrible first round draft choice even by the J-E-T-S miserable standards. He was a choking mutt with the Mountainqueers and taking him to the next level has had the expected results.

[Pierrot]

A comment on Hillary's server and emails as a response to a post on the previous thread about the possibility of there being a copy of that material.

It doesn't matter if there is a copy. The FBI has the original server now. FBI Forensics can recover the data, no matter how the drive has been scrubbed. As long as there is no serious physical damage to the drive, they can get it.

More than that, there are a finite number of ".gov" locations from which classified material could have been sent to her. The NSA, for one, could reconstruct as much of the traffic to her server as they want. Or from it.

It will take time to put it together, so I wouldn't expect to hear anything definite right away. But it's all there

[Miss Marple]

The Feast of the Assumption is a Catholic Feast Day. It wasn't a holy day of obligation this year, but sometimes it is.

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

My point, which I didn't make clear at all, is that it's a weekend long carnival with a Catholic underpinning in Little Italy. I used to live within walking distance of it (parking is in short supply) and it was a fun thing to do before I was married and shortly thereafter. Now, many years later, it has assumed, rightly or otherwise, iconic status to the point where I was considering going there.

[Man Tran]

Wanted to pass along a new thing we enjoyed yesterday: Pocket Concerts. A couple of musicians from Toronto are formally promoting it, but we have been enjoying variations of it via pals of ours here on our rock.

In this instance, there were four brilliant young musicians: violin, viola, harp and piano. They played for about two hours in our friend's home which was designed to allow chamber music to be performed in front of about 60 people. All the performances were duets and with barely any practice together, they did wonderfully. The two from Toronto were violist and pianist while the violinist was from Houston and the harpist is a native of Seattle. Great fun was had by all.

[GUS]

Good thing IK wasn't in an elevator and on camera, when he hit JEAN O.

[Miss Marple]

Heading to bed.

Nytol!

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

Jets fans have been overwhelmingly supportive of IK.

[GUS]

The FBI is NOT going after Rodham. This is a Kabuki dance. A sickening Kabuki dance.

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

Yes, GUS, I lost a lot of respect for Gowdy when he was fellating the FBI on Rove News Sunday. Just shut up and let the cards fall.

I'm still laughing over Jean O.

[narciso]

well he can't say that Comey is an untrustworthy weasel, brad thor nor judge jeanine, don't seem to notice that,

[narciso]

Eickenrode in the libby case, miss kempner, Bill Allen's handler, one only needs only one seemingly to spoil the broth,

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

He went way beyond the de rigueur vote of confidence imo.

[jimmyk]

I lost a lot of respect for Gowdy when he was fellating the FBI on Rove News Sunday.

I tuned in in the middle, so maybe I missed something, but I didn't see it that way. Wallace was suggesting that the whole thing is just a partisan attack on Hillary, and Gowdy was deflecting that by saying the FBI is non-partisan. And I thought he did say something like, let's see what their investigation finds.

And, IIRC, he also said that the lengths to which Hillary and friends went to expunge data is significant. To have the data professionally wiped implies intent to conceal and destroy evidence. (Someone on FNS said that anyway, I think it was Gowdy.)

[narciso]

yes, I was giving him the benefit of the doubt,

[Man Tran]

I chuckle at all this server stuff. Back in the late '90s, we had one of our coders throw an Apache server on a 386 tower for our little shop of nearly 20 people. It ran unattended and never even shut down for service for about 5 yrs. one little SATA drive worth $100 could be swapped out in about five minutes and smashed with a hammer and dropped in the dumpster months before any of this stuff even started.

More modern offsite services certainly make sense today, but if it was all in the ol Hag's basement, good luck.

Separate from all that, can anyone pass the laff test when explaining why the NSA can't cough it all up?

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

In a rare defense of Wallace, I think he was suggesting that Rodham would (and already is) use the partisan canard. I can't copy and paste effectively with this so I am using memory, but Gowdy was talking about when he was in the DoJ how great the FBI was and I was thinking "just shut up".

You can check the transcript on the Rove News Sunday website to see if I overreacted, which I've been known to do.

[Pierrot]

Gus, I think this will turn out differently.

During Watergate, everyone was sure Nixon would skate. His problem, and Hillary's now, was that it had gotten outside the bounds of politics.

No. If the fix was in, it would have gone in six months ago and there would have been no more stories. Every day this is talked about hurts her. I think it's out of her control.

Anyway, my $0.02

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

There's a new generation of voters who supported 404 over Rodham because there was NFW they could ever vote for a dirty dishrag. She will never get their support and quite frankly she looks deranged when talking about Benghazi which is additionally insulting to the families of the victims.

[narciso]

the comfy chairs seem to be migrating,

http://thefederalist.com/2015/08/16/donald-trumps-immigration-plan-make-america-a-police-state/

[jimmyk]

You can check the transcript on the Rove News Sunday website to see if I overreacted, which I've been known to do.

Well, I could have missed the nuance, hard to say. It's in the first couple of minutes of the video.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/08/16/gowdy-clinton-to-testify-in-october-before-benghazi-panel-all-questions-asked/

My memory was faulty: It wasn't in response to the "partisan attack" question, it was just a question about whether the FBI could be objective. I'm not bothered by his answer, but I may be insufficiently cynical, which I would not have thought likely.

[MarkO]

Is there a better stonewall than having the DOJ hold on to the server through the election?

[rich@gmu]

>>>Is there a better stonewall than having the DOJ hold on to the server through the election?

Posted by: MarkO | August 16, 2015 at 11:36 PM<<<

and they wouldn't hold the material over her ... just think how many people are sweating wondering what the fbi might have of them (foreign corrupt practices act perhaps ...)

Posted by: Pierrot | August 16, 2015 at 10:12 PM -

she could have had the hdds replaced-would have taken all of 30 seconds to insert the new drives.

[narciso]

yep, he went there:

http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/08/16/george-will-do-we-really-want-to-give-nuclear-weapons-to-donald-trump/

[narciso]

scott adams, who has made a living ridiculing top down structures, has a different view,

[rich@gmu]

Posted by: Pierrot | August 16, 2015 at 11:02 PM

we'll see. I've been skeptical of her candidacy (as CH above says she got beat in 2008 by a then little known back bencher).

would think that there are some downside risks to WDC from pushing to hard too-the Clintons aren't below crushing their enemies (mostly Bill's girlfriends, but they did manage to dirty up some republicans along the way).

[rich@gmu]

Posted by: narciso | August 16, 2015 at 09:30 PM

read about that too. surprised in a way but it is the lazy days of summer and the audience for it has been overwhelmingly black (some 50%) and older (hard to believe nwa was only around for 5 years 88-93 or thereabouts). can't help the timing either-Ferguson, Baltimore, BLM et al. Universal is going to push for some Oscar buzz unsurprisingly.

think of it as Hollywood's atonement for not having enough blacks in movies (think it was last year they were getting bashed about it).

[narciso]

yes, they had a short cycle, the gangster milli vanilli, this was when they started mainstreaming
this dreck, which is still is relatively literate compared to the modern offerings,

[narciso]

the misogynist hyperviolent rage virus, that the urban youths are immersed in, and we wonder why things are the way they are?

[Captain Haiku]

OT Trump boorish
and obnoxious but at least
Not politician

[maryrose]

Rich
I really think this time Hillary is going to lose
She survived by lies and cries of " I can't remember!
People don't like her
Biden will get in and his votes and Bernies will finish her off in Iowa New Hampshire and South Carolina
She can cry all she wants
She's not going to be President because she doesn't deserve it

[Cispigmented Heteronormative Microagressive Ignatz]

--If that’s your jam, then jam on, but if you want to actually have a smaller state with less bureaucracy and government intrusion, then Trump is not the droid you seek.--

God, these dumbass Republicans may achieve the impossible and make me a Trumpet myself.
The above is from that Federalist link.
Who wants a smaller part of the government that prevents us from being invaded by millions of illegal aliens and does one of the very few things the Feds are actually tasked with by the constitution?
Even normally intelligent people are reduced to gibberish in trying to look smart dumping on Trump.

[narciso]

well in the case of mr. cromwell, 'facts not in evidence,'

[narciso]

buenos noches, adieu, the german phrase escapes me,

[rich@gmu]

narciso-

i would hardly call it "literate" even by todays sliced and diced oversampled noise(straight outta compton was their debut album {the core group only made 2} and it was hyperviolent ... a reflection of times as la went up in flames a few years later.

surprisingly though Ice Cube is a good actor (he is a producer on the film, his son was cast as the younger Cube) and recall his performance in 3 Kings.

[rich@gmu]

Posted by: maryrose | August 17, 2015 at 12:33 AM

it isn't so much seeing Hillary losing ... we can recount her failures starting with Hillarycare all the way to her 2008 nomination run and her recent failures as Secretary of State and this disastrous run. it is that the utter shamelessness of her lying and dissembling as she weasels out of trouble again.

sure she'll lose but the Clinton's have already raked hundreds of millions and she won't be a hot ticket on the speaking circuit anymore but still would like to see news footage "will the defendant please rise".

[maryrose]

Rich
Sometimes justice is delayed and the only reason she has escaped the criminal justice system so far has been because she lies or says she can't recall
She is a truly loathe some individual
I remember in 2008 telling people to vote for Obama instead of her in the primary
She won the primary with more lies about helping the middle class
She won New Hampshire by crying on cue

[daddy]

In the long run Wretchard maintains hope:
How Political Machines End

The bad guys win for season, but they always fail in the end because the boot stamping on the human face eventually rots and gives its wearer toenail fungus.

[Jane on Ipad]

You home, Daddy?

[daddy]

Hi Jane. Arrived home yesterday about 2:30 PM.

Came in and laid on the rug with my insanely excited dogs for about 15 minutes, then after they exhausted themselves rough-housing and play-biting me, I headed up to bed.

Woke about 01:30 this afternoon, caught up a bit of the threads, then had a very good walk with the pups this evening in slightly rainy weather. Should be almost back to a normal schedule by tomorrow morning.

[Miss Marple]

Good morning, all!

[Jack is Back (in Europe)]

Goedemorgen van Belgīe.

This is to verify that depending on your location: US or UK, the Daily Mail is a different edition but with a section for the other locale.

Today's story of interest is how Putin is trying to imitate Monty Python with a dodgy recording purported to be CIA operatives plotting to bring down MH17. The bad American accents and reading from a script give it away as a sad Russian joke.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3200535/The-embarrassing-audio-clip-proving-Russian-claims-CIA-downed-MH17-exposed-hopeless-propaganda-American-pair-barely-speak-English-use-sayings-common-Moscow.html

[James D.]

Watching the news here in Boston, they're talking about the "opioid crisis".

Never heard of that - can anyone explain what it is? Apparently the MA governor is going to appoint a czar to fight it, which sounds like a bad idea in principle.

[James D.]

I have to say, being at our national meeting and seeing so many enthusiastic and very smart science-y people who've come from across the country, makes me feel just a tiny bit less hopeless about everything.

At least, until I look at the news, and see what our "betters" are doing every day to make life harder and more unproductive for all those enthusiastic and smart people.

[Miss Marple]

Ben Carson at the Iowa State Fair, to which the Daily Mail sent a reporter. As an aside, I would like to meet whoever is in charge of the US division, because they seem to have reporters everywhere.

http://linkis.com/www.dailymail.co.uk/oIquO