I Coulda Said That

In the recent debate Donald Trump (after a moderator prompt) took a shot at Jeb Bush for speaking in Spanish on the campaign trail. Jeb's response:

BUSH: Well, I've been speaking English here tonight, and I'll keep speaking English.

But the simple fact is, if a high school kid asks me a question in Spanish, a school - by the way, a voucher program that was created under my watch, the largest voucher program in the country, where kids can go to a Christian school, and they ask me a question in Spanish, I'm going to show respect and answer that question in Spanish.

Even though they do speak English, and even though they embrace American values.

Snore. Next time, he should go with a simple "Sure I speak Spanish, Donald, but you'll understand me just fine when I tell you 'hasta la vista, baby'".

 

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[BB Key]

uno

[BeenThereDoneThat]

Scarier to speak Palestinian:

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-worlds-fastest-growing-faith-is-not-islam-2/

[DebinNC]

Jeb left office on Jan. 2, 2007. All his "I did this and that" examples are long ago and far away when he was FL governor. In the 9 yrs. since, he's enriched himself via corporate boards and advocated around the country for Common Core and "immigration reform", none of which he voluntarily mentions now.

[Threadkiller]

¿cómo se dice “tippy-toes” en español?

[anonamom]

A companion piece to Clarice's.

http://www.thediplomad.com/2015/09/another-progressive-fairy-tale-ahmed.html

TK--good one!

[Beasts of England]

Great link, anonamom! Last I heard, little Ahmed had a GoFundMe site, trying to raise $100k. Because the precious snowflake has been micro-aggressed, I suppose.

He should be on the no-fly list.

[Extraneus]

I'd send Ahmed some money if I were a Muslim.

The tell, though, is how they act as if the fact that they're under suspicion is beyond the pale. Rather than blame other Muslims for this, they fight the suspicion, proving that they don't blame Muslim terrorists, and in fact support them.

What could be more obvious?

[Beasts of England]

Another tell that it was agitprop was the speed in which it propelled from a local non-story to the president's desk. Nothing by accident with the left. Ever.

[Extraneus]

No votes cast in small-town Iowa school board race

MCINTIRE, Iowa (AP) -- An Iowa farmer who was running unopposed for his local school board failed to earn any votes - not even his own - but he'll probably still get the job.

Randy Richardson, 42, didn't find time to vote for himself between his full-time maintenance job at a bean processing plant in Riceville and his chores on his farm near McIntire, The Des Moines Register reported (http://dmreg.co/1KuptW7 ).

[matt]

Yo quiero Yonald Troomp....

[Extraneus]

I grew up Italian in NYC, and I hated the mafia guys. Due to their crimes, regular everyday Italians were looked at as if we were the same as them.

Even though movies like the Godfather romanticized it, I hated those bastards even as a kid, and once when I was on a jury I gladly convinced the whole jury to convict one of them after an initial 11 to 1 vote.

I get no sense that Muslims have the same feelings. Quite the contrary.

[rse]

jib-I met a flight attendant years ago who regularly flew the dc to la route and she said bab's density was what all the flight attendants on the route talked about.

Cruz would do well to get a sense of humor about being noticeably bright. And as I have pointed out in the past with links from within last two years he is no conservative economically and seems quite fond of dirigisme. If you want to be considered a genuine conservative do not attend "Bipartisan" Leadership summits that CAP and Open Society types seem to be running.

I frankly wish all the candidates would stay off my radar. It is depressing to be tracking a troubling idea and have someone who is know running either at the forum or embracing it wholeheartedly.

I would put Walker in the latter which is why I was so troubled by his statement in SC the other day.

[Threadkiller]

http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/nbc-online-survey-fiorina-won-debate-trump-still-leads-n430316

[Old Lurker]

Has anyone linked this from George Will?

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/424287/pope-francis-economics-poverty-capitalism

[Janet S.]

TK, You should send that to Trump!

[Extraneus]

Russia military backing for Syria counterproductive: Kerry

Counterproductive to what objective?

"We will now go up to 85,000 with at least 10,000 over the next year in Syria specifically. And in the next fiscal year we will target 100,000," Kerry said.

200,000 more "refugees."

[Extraneus]

Four out of five migrants are NOT from Syria

Gee, that's NOT surprising.

[Beasts of England]

George Will wrote that? Holy shit!! What perfect evisceration of the Pope's fanciful economic and environmental twaddle. Three cheers for George!!

[Old Lurker]

And they are not "migrants" either Ext.

[Extraneus]

This pic of the Hungarian border from the last link is heartening:

This one from the Slovenian-Croatian border isn't:

(Right-click for full images.)

[anonamom]

Newt and the former ambassador to the Holy See respectfully introduce the Pope to American capitalism (as he obviously doesn't know what he's talking about).

http://www.wsj.com/articles/introducing-pope-francis-to-america-1442613272

[narciso]

those bylines in farsi, are going to be problematic:

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/09/report-ny-times-co-sells-access-to-iranian-oil-contracts-minister/

[GUS]

We are in fucking BIZARRO WORLD.

Why not have Krugman be Pope and the Pope can be Krugman. Both have no idea what they are talking about.

[narciso]

well flight from reason, and any sense of christian ethics, is probably why,

http://www.politico.eu/article/decline-of-french-intellectual-culture-literature-art-philosophy-history/

[Joan]

Old Lurker, the George Will article was good (and not as bombastic as usual) -- I enjoyed it. To me, from everything I have read, the Pope is a communist. People of his ilk only want control. They can control poor, miserable, peasants--while they retain their exalted positions and riches (plus year-round air conditioning.) They can't, however, control free, vibrant, upwardly mobile, healthy, educated people. No wonder they hate capitalism.

[GMax]

Chip Kelly is a super jeenus, aint he? He has the best back in the NFL and he gets 11 yards out of him last week, and so far its more of the same this week.

[GUS]

GMAX, on the blocked punt, did you see HELMET TO HELMET contact? Troy Aikman did. Yet the won't show the replay of it.

[Beasts of England]

The Dallas player went out of his way to block the punter in the side and front of his body. Any helmet contact was very much incidental.

[GUS]

Beasts you are correct. You know what. Aikmen sounds quite good, but he's of average intelligence at best.
Romo is a Wisconsin boy, as is his center Frederick. We don't like the Cowboys here.

[GMax]

-15 yards for Murray? Yikes

[GUS]

Aikman notes that Dallas has only 1 back up quarterback, and Aikman says "apparently" the back up is going to come into the game when Dallas gets the ball. NO SHIT TROY.
Maybe TROY-BOY could have noted that the ONLY BACK UP is NOT warming up.
Like I said, Troy Aikman is not a genius.

[GUS]

Oh goodie TROY noticed!!

[Extraneus]

The linebacker Philadelphia got in a trade for career leading rusher LeSean McCoy is out for the game with a knee injury.

Kiko Alonso, acquired from Buffalo, left the game in the first half against the Dallas Cowboys. Alonso was hurt in the second quarter and headed to the locker room with a left knee injury.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/latest-mccoy-play-buffalo-despite-hamstring-155715468--nfl.html

[GMax]

Sean Lee is having a monster of a game. Sam throws him a pick. Philly can do nothing right.

[Beasts of England]

Philadelphia fans don't appear to be of the touchy-feely variety - is that correct?

[daddy (Vote for Pedro)]

ON TOPIC!

Jeb Bush: ...the simple fact is, if a high school kid asks me a question in Spanish, a school - by the way, a voucher program that was created under my watch, the largest voucher program in the country, where kids can go to a Christian school, and they ask me a question in Spanish, I'm going to show respect and answer that question in Spanish.

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ABC News Reporter: "The 2 players allege the Referee, Robert Watts, used Racial Slurs during the Game."

High School thug, Victor Rojas: "One of my Hispanic friends, he told him, "Speak English, this is America."

[Beasts of England]

This game has it all...

[Tom Maguire]

Interesting pic of the frustrated would-be migrants at the Hungarian fence.

Either Hungarian can-do and know-how has it all over the pale American version, or our friends from south of the border have a lot more energy and enterprise than these hapless Middle Eastern refugees. But "everybody" knows a fence on the US border couldn't stop anyone.

Baffling.

[daddy (Vote for Pedro)]

Tony Romo just diagnosed as having a broken clavicle (broken collarbone).

If you SOB's pick up Tebow and I have to start pulling for "The 'Boy's," I'm gonna' be PO'd.

[Frau Schweinerei]

And now, some pigskin humor...

[Centralcal on iPad]

Did any of you see the gigantic haul Ahmed made from Microsoft. It was on Twitter this morning. He can make a small fortune just selling off some of the stuff - he doesn't need a Go Fund Me bs account at all.

[Miss Marple]

Maybe I should put on a burka and make up a story.

Then maybe I could keep my house instead of selling.

[Frau Schweinerei]

Crime pays. That's not a good lesson to learn, is it, cc?

[Janet S.]

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/09/20/stephanopoulos_grills_trump_why_cant_you_say_that_obama_is_american_not_a_muslim.html

George workin' hard for the Dems.

...he doesn't have time to look at any videos, but he can badger Trump over & over & over with the same question.

[Sue]

We may win this game but our season is over. ::sigh::

[Frau Schweinerei]

That razor wire looks mean to me, TM. Of course, a real migrant learns to dig a tunnel at night.

[Janet S.]

MM, label yourself a "refugee" & you can have anything.

A self-certified "refugee". It is all the rage these days.

[Sue]

And then,, maybe we don't.

[Extraneus]

The total length of the American-Mexican border is around 2,000 miles.

From the pic, it looks like the Hungarian border guards are around 15 feet apart.

Assuming our border was similarly guarded, it would take around 700,000 border guards to guard the entire American-Mexican border.

Who wouldn't agree to use tax dollars to pay for that?

(I kid, I kid.)

[Sue]

And then, maybe we will. Holy cow.

[GMax]

Sam Bradford was a first round draft pick right? He looks like a fish out of water right now...

[Threadkiller]

Did any of you see the gigantic haul Ahmed made from Microsoft.

Did the terror-tot get enough electronic swag to build the real deal this time?

[Threadkiller]

our friends from south of the border have a lot more energy and enterprise than these hapless Middle Eastern refugees.

Killing yourself to get in vs killing yourself afterwards.

[Centralcal on iPad]

Honey, ... er, TK, Ahmed doesn't need to build a damned thing. No way he can even use a fourth of it. I say cash out Ahmed. Cash out!

[Centralcal on iPad]

Of course, it would have much more value if it was Apple swag. Maybe he won't make much after all - being it's Gate's products. LOL

[daddy (Vote for Pedro)]

I think it's worth contrasting how the MSM and the Left deal with these 2 items:

---The Planned Parenthood Fetus Video mentioned by Carly, and

---The Secret UN/Iran Side Agreements.

In the case of the PP Video, which is publicly available to anyone who wants to click on it and watch it, it is obvious that no one in the MSM has watched it, nor are they interested in watching it. From Chris Wallace to George Stephanopoulos, the talking point is that the video does not exist, and Carly must apologize for lying about it. Therefore regardless of the evidence of your ears and eyes, anybody who doesn't accept the fact that the media says the video does not exist is partisan, is ignorant, and is perpetuating a lie.

On the UN Side Deals with Iran, we know that neither the President nor John Kerry has read them, nor has any member of Congress. Yet we are told that some anonymous bureaucrat somewhere, has read them, and that this anonymous bureaucrat has assured us that though no one else will be allowed to read these Secret Side Deals, there is absolutely nothing in these Side Deals that constitutes any problem with the US/Iran agreement. Therefore, on the basis of no information whatever, we are all to accept the Administrations word on the veracity of this claim, and anybody who doesn't accept that fact is partisan, ignorant, and perpetuating a lie.

Samo, samo.

[Frau Maschinenmensch]

Insty commenters are pondering if Hillary! is human or near-human. One of them is comforted by the fact that she may be the latter:

Abe the Silentiary:
I'd be relieved to learn that she's a replicant. With a four-year lifespan, she'd at very worst only get one term.

[GMax]

Another pick? Chip Kelly may need to pack his bags...

[narciso]

OT, what is the deal here

http://dailycaller.com/2015/09/14/whose-commercial-was-sexier-mariah-carey-or-kate-upton-video/

[narciso]

as my rant indicated, on the other thread, there is an actual tape of what happened at benghazi, but we aren't allied to view it,

[Beasts of England]

Weeden looks pretty good, Sue.

[daddy (Vote for Pedro)]

Ben Carson said, when asked today, that he "would not advocate that a Muslim be put in charge of this nation." Asked "Do you think Islam is consistent with the Constitution?" Carson answered, "No, I do not."

This was big news on the AM Radio "top of the hour" News updates on the morning dog walk. I could tell just from the excitement of the news readers voices that she/they were excited to have another example to illustrate how Racist/Intolerant/Hateful Republicans are.

[Jane]

What are "The Emmy's"? It sure is hot there.

Meanwhile it's getting quite cold here.Don't know if I am happy or sad.

I do hate how early it gets dark.

[anonamom]

Jane, if you find you miss the seasons, you can move to NC.

Or like lots of Floridians, get yourself a place in our mountains, and spend May-October there.

[narciso]

welp, that's not encouraging,

http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/09/18/exclusive-the-pentagon-is-preparing-new-war-plans-for-a-baltic-battle-against-russia/

[Frau Maschinenmensch]

"... there is an actual tape of what happened at benghazi..."

narciso, do you think Trey Gowdy has seen it or is it merely whispered about?

[James D.]

As depressed as I am about the awful Giants, seeing the loathsome Eagles get crushed, and super-genius Chip Kelly get shown up, makes me feel better.

[Frau Maschinenmensch]

I wonder what that "Reset" button really meant in Russian?

[maryrose]

Narciso. Mad ciao
So true because you know it might prove that hilliga and Hussein mucked everything up stood by and did nothing
Everyone knows this but is afraid to say it because these feckless fools will scream prove it
Mad ciao is how your name comes out

[narciso]

when I started my series of posts on the subject, I referred to 'rules of engagement' that very prescient film, which featured a telltale tape of the assault on the embassy in Yemen, Eli Lake referred to it, in at least one piece, and there were stills that the FBI used to show some of the 'persons of interest' whether it still exists, or it's archived like the ark is an open question,

[Threadkiller]

Don't be that Tony Romo...

[maryrose]

15 more months of these idiots in the WH

[narciso]

use the contraction, like captain does, or abbreviation, for Narciso Lopez,

[maryrose]

Guilty pleasure
After a stressful week I am watching g the Emmys
I denounce myself
Best dress so far. Maggie Gyllenthal

[maryrose]

I really dislike Sophia from Modern Family

[Frau Maschinenmensch]

Thanks, narciso.

[maryrose]

Romo
We hardly knew ha
I am still In shock that the Browns won

[narciso]

there has 'indeed been a disturbance in the force',

[sbw]

maryrose: After a stressful week I am watching the Emmys

A better man than I, maryrose. ;-)

[maryrose]

Jane
We only have 12 hours of daylight now

[Threadkiller]

I am still In shock that the Browns won

Hugh Hewitt will be more insufferable than ever.

[maryrose]

Weedon used to be our quarterback Sue
Don't get your hopes up

[narciso]

they complained about the narration, but how else were people to understand it,

http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/555e4e536da811a62c12bddb-1200-600/sean-young-blade-runner.jpg

[maryrose]

Taylor schilling is stunning
From Orange is the New Black
Trivia Capt
Kate Mulgrew is on this show and she is Tim Hagan's new wife

[maryrose]

Showtime
How come POI is t nominated
I want the gal from How To Get Away With Murder to win

[narciso]

she was in that much panned atlas shrug first film,
and also in revenge, as a guest star,

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2015/09/20/greek-elections-first-official-results-show-clear-syriza-victory-at-35-5/

[maryrose]

Rob Lowe
Says about Tom Brady
We need to let pretty boys have a break

[Janet S.]

Bringing all those Syrians (or whoever they are) here is just awful. Is there any way to stop that?
Label someone a "refugee" & they can come?
Insanity.
Do "We the people" have any say at all?...
Seriously, how can we stop that from happening?

[Jane]

The WH just issued a statement about MKH's husbands death and spelled her name wrong.

What a bunch of disrespectful assholes.

Fox read it and also spelled her name wrong - and she works for them.

[Beasts of England]

Where are our JOM Packer Backers?

[GUS]

Beasts. I'M HERE.

[henry]

Time for another brat & beer before kickoff. I'll be back.

[Beasts of England]

I just didn't want y'all to miss Carrie singing the SNF song. :)

[GUS]

Ben Carson said he believes Obama is a Christian.

How did Dr Carson arrive at this belief????

We are truly fucked. Even our Conservatives are COWED by the MFM and are deathly afraid to say anything to offend the MFM.

There is ZERO evidence that Obama is a Christian. So how would an esteemed man like Carson come to believe Obama is a Christian. Is it because the LYING SACK OF SHIT says he's Christian???

I'm King Tut. Because I say so.

[narciso]

well he's no green arrow, that's for sure:

http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2015/09/19/arrow-star-stephen-amell-apologizes-for-ahmed-mohamed-tweets-defending-texas/

[narciso]

well you see how much trouble, one gets for a hypothetical statement,

[Janet S.]

Mary Katharine Ham does spell her name a bit different. I'm used to spelling Katherine with an 'e'.

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

What type of deal with Satan did Jerry Jones make to have Brandon Weeden look like a credible GFL QB? Even intense work with Norval couldn't make him look like anything but a pathetic bum and he even had pre pot suspension Josh Gordon to throw to. Even Jason Candle was a better choice.

[Miss Marple]

By their fruits he shall know them.

I cAnt prove 404 is a Muslim, but I a positive he is not a Christian.

👳🏾

[GUS]

Running to his left, throwing to his right, that Aaron Brady is AWESOME.