Legacy Building, Brick By Brick

Jonathan Tobin on Obama's foreign policy legacy achievement:

Obama got his [Iran] deal despite the opposition of the majority of Congress and the American people.

Which makes a nice bookend with his ObamaCare achievement, which has never polled well and was jammed through Congress despite the good people of the great state of Massachusetts replacing Ted Kennedy with a Republican in a futile attempt to slow the express.

OTOH, a man who can stare down a glacier can stare down an unhappy public. And since you ask, the glacier retreated, as well it might and as it has for years.

TAKING US BACK: Woody Harrelson had thoughts about bricks in White Men Can't Jump:

What, you still throwing up bricks? What is this, a Masons convention? Wha... clank, clank! I need, like, a welding torch to play in this league! I got an idea... let's just stop right now and gather up all these bricks and let's build a shelter for the homeless so maybe your mother will have a place to live!

 

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[daddy]

Jimmy Hendrix celebrates Marlene's recovery.

[Thomas Collins]

The most effective constitutional check Congress has is the power of the purse. Michie and Boner won't use it. Expect Obama to continue to pursue his fundamental transformation checked only by federal courts.

[Dave (in MA)]

the great state of Massachusetts

Pretty good, not great.

[henry]

Let them make bricks without straw. Then build the legacy brick by brick.

Yup, without straw it's just a big pile of mud the first time it rains. Kinda carp Israel's enemies have been up to for millennia.

[Dave (in MA)]

First instance of a glacier laughing in recorded history

[Catsmeat formerly Gussie formerly ...]

I see there's a Gussie Fink-Nottle who comments at the WaPo--who's not me. So I am going to become Catsmeat for a while instead. Apologies for any confusion.

[Dave (in MA)]

I'll make all of the necessary adjustments.

[narciso]

Cue that abomnable snowman clip with daffy, what these fool's have done cannot be forgiven and certainly not forgotten.

[peter]

daddy @ 8:36, your post is so, I don't know, litho-trippy

[Plum Orchard.]

Potter-Pirbrights galore.

[The air dried out over Kilimanjaro.]

Glaciers respond to local stimuli. One third of the world's glaciers are growing. That there is less glaciation worldwide than 200 years ago is pretty much a given. The question, as always, is to what do we attribute the warming.

[Jeff Dobbs]

henry:
Let them make bricks without straw.

After all the burnt strawmen, they have no choice.

[It's the money power and fame, quite a troika.]

Heh, and of course, why do we complain.

[narciso]

They won't stand up to moloch's minions, they flaked on the nuclear deal, only a pro forma vote on Obama are who is being disloyal to whom.

[daddy]

So did they castrate McKinley before they transgendered him, or did they transgender him before they castrated him?

DENALI
GENDER: Unisex (Male and Female)

10 feet lopped off Denali's official summit altitude

[henry]

10 feet lopped off ... Wow. I have a new appreciation for Presidential Stature.

[henry]

You might be a criminal if the IT staffer in charge of your email pleads the 5th. Especially if the WaPo bothers to report it.

[While I'm President, the United States will have Chinese vessels offshore.]

Stared down, my ass. That glacier's still staring, and Obama's flitted off like a maddened butterfly.

[Steve]

Bill O'Reilly Talking Point Memo - Iran Nuclear Deal is a bad deal

http://commoncts.blogspot.com/2015/09/bill-oreilly-talking-point-memo-iran.html

[narciso]

So it was a lateral promotion, where is the alphom group in all of this?

[But George, I tried so hard, but the press, you see?]

Stephan Hayward @ Powerline expands on my point about the BRICs and Obama in Alaska.

What I'm beginning to wonder about is, given Obama's intentions, why hasn't he wreaked even greater destruction on the US than he has? This is the most powerful man in the world.

I say it speaks to his incompetence.

[Jane on Ipad]

Dave,

Any word on the Millis cop shooter?

[Dave (in MA)]

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/gunman-large-after-cop-car-fired-near-boston-n420521

A man who fired shots at a marked Millis, Massachusetts, police cruiser, causing it to crash and catch fire, remained at large Wednesday night, and schools will be closed Thursday while state and local police look for him, authorities said.

[Dave (in MA)]

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/gunman-large-after-cop-car-fired-near-boston-n420521

[Miss Marple]

Nytol!

[Beasts of England]

IT guy taking the 5th? Makes no sense. Doesn't bode well for Hill at all.

[lyle]

Just thankful for the demise of the end of that last thread. Who's with me?!? I mean really icky bodily stuff? Ick.

[Davod]

Re Alaska. Obama is getting ready to give Alaskan islands back to Russia.

[narciso]

So pagliano works for gartner, his linked in ties to at least two Platte river executives

[daddy]

Abe Lincoln: “My dear McClellan: If you don't want to use the Army I should like to borrow it for a while."

I'm waiting for Ted Cruz to say something like this: “My dear McConnell: If you don't want to use the Senate Majority I should like to borrow it for a while."

[narciso]

Don't recall of the previous Belmont piece ' the power of symbolism' was mentioned.

[Rick Ballard]

Beasts,

If you had seen the Benghazi cover being concocted in real time before the American bodies cooled, it might make very good sense. Loyalty with the Red Bitch is strictly one way and no one 'close' to her has any doubt about it.

Why give away info which might be traded fora plea bargain?

[Beasts of England]

Does the committee have the authority to make a plea deal with him?

[narciso]

So re John schindler, guess which other official was louche with classified information, rhymes with rusan since.

[narciso]

Now I don't mind senor Medici speaking in spanish, just the trite things he says as he does in English.

[Rick Ballard]

Beasts,

The committee can immunize his testimony but they would be very foolish to do so. The FBI, IG State and IG DNI can each refer him to JustUs for prosecution - "I was just following orders." would prove to be an inadequate defense. He would be much better off cutting a deal. Who knows, he may have some thumb drives of his own to use for barter.

[Frau Edith Steingehirn]

daddy, why didn't the preezy rename this nappy Alaskan growth? It's time.

[Frau Edith Steingehirn]

Rick - they also know where he lives.

[narciso]

And he has not learned ' the art of not being seen' ht python.

[Gentlejim]

My thought on the IT guy was that he may have feloniously transferred data hence the 5th. To me, thumb drives in his possession create quite an issue for him. On one hand they would be evidence of at least one criminal act by him more than likely. On the other they would also have evidence of criminal acts by others. IT guy or Huma, Sid, Hilligula. I keep the IT guy. Fit the others for nice new orange pantsuits with numbers.

[daddy]

As we continue to see American Cops becoming targets of the Left, both literally and figuratively, thought it worth mentioning this bit I came across in a small book I happen to be reading this trip: Kaleidoscope City: A Year in Varanasi

Just a short book by some Euro travel writer, who spent a year in the ancient overpopulated Indian River town of Benares, trying to get a feel for the place. This part, on corruption of the Police struck me:

...He's the one too, who, who monitors transactions with the local Police, who regular bribes serve to keep silent.

Author: Are the Indian Police really as corrupt as everyone says?" I ask. "It's one of the great stereotypes. I know..."

Sangeeta shrugs, a gesture that seems to include acceptance and frustration in the same measure. "It's just completely ingrained here.' she says. 'One can't blame the individuals. Almost everyone in India is part of this conspiracy.'

I notice the anger in her face, the anger of a generation that wants change.

"We bribe the schools to get out kids admitted into nursery. We bribe to pay road tax, municipality tax, get a birth certificate, a death certificate, an electricity connection...The fact is India is a great creaking machine that needs rupees to grease the axles or nothing happens.

"I remember one foreigner telling me the biggest shock he had on moving to India was in realizing what it was like to live in a society where one can't trust the police,' Sangeeta says. 'That really struck me. I mean, it's equally incredible for us to imagine a society where one can trust them.'

"You said you don't blame the individuals who succumb to corruption?' I ask. 'That seems unduly compassionate. Why can't you" Surely, every one of them is making a choice at some stage?'

"Look, if the officers want promotion to the next rank they have to bribe their superiors an amount which is several times their annual salary. So they cannot get promotion without corruption. The system maintains itself. This is the subject, I think, that most foreigners simply cannot understand about India; the depth of corruption here, the level to which it's imbedded in every aspect of our society. New India wants to change, it wants to be modern and strong, but old India just keeps reaching out and holding us back. I can't tell you how much that pisses me off.'

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Anyhow, that bit about "it's equally incredible for us to imagine a society where one can trust them.'" really struck me, as I think we are so very fortunate to have our wonderful decent American police force, to the very great extent mostly trustworthy, which we often take for granted. Yet the Left in their pursuit of power via cultural, societal and political revolution is doing everything it can to demean them and trash them, and ultimately, whether the Left knows it or not, to force them for self protection to turn into the sort of partisan, corrupt and untrustworthy police forces rampant in India and Mexico and most of the rest of the world.

[maryrose]

IT guy is in big trouble
Start with the low level folks and work your way up
Dems have an albatross around their neck with Iran Deal
Man him better hedge his bets or he could end up a big loser

[narciso]

There was a novel by a Pakistani police officer, who worked for a legendary local police chief murdered by the taliban, the prisoner, which touched on these same themes.

[narciso]

Omar shahid Hamid is the author, shows the perils of an honest officer in a not only corrupt but lethal system to bystanders

[maryrose]

Manchin better vote the right way

[Beasts of England]

I can't imagine the DoJ going after the IT guy. Unless, of course, King Putt decides to slide the nomination to Biden. Sheesh

[maryrose]

Gillebrand and Booker are sacrificing future Jewish votes

[narciso]

That's one way of looking at it.

[Rick Ballard]

Beasts,

How can Obama cash in like a Clinton with a Clinton in the White House?

[Cispigmented Heteronormative Microagressive Vulgarian Ignatz]

--Obama is getting ready to give Alaskan islands back to Russia.--

We can only hope he stops at the islands.

[daddy]

Frau,

I am so happy to be gone from home while our moron in Chief is strutting the State like the latest diva at a NYCity Fashion cat walk show, being ogled and applauded by the press imbeciles who report on that fluff.

[Cispigmented Heteronormative Microagressive Vulgarian Ignatz]

Gillebrand and Booker are sacrificing present Jewish lives.

[narciso]

You see why the huntress brought property in arizona, don't you.

[daddy]

We can only hope he stops at the islands.

I wouldn't mind if he gave 'em Seattle.

[Beasts of England]

Maybe he hopes that HRC will return the favor and appoint Michelle as SoS and then run his own foundation scam.

[lyle]

I can live without Seattle but not Victoria.

[Cispigmented Heteronormative Microagressive Vulgarian Ignatz]

Well, if we're heading south there's some beachfront CA property Vlad could have his way with.
After all the Russkies had a fort not too far north of San Fran; Fort Ross.

[maryrose]

Hillary is done
Taking the 5th implies guilt
She never expected to get caught or that the scandal would last this long
Charles Hurt's article is excellent
She's toast but doesn't know it yet
Sounds like the story of her life
Unexpectedly derailed

[Cispigmented Heteronormative Microagressive Vulgarian Ignatz]

As a sign off I got my copy of Anasazi today.
Goose bumps to follow. Thanks Cecil.

[Beasts of England]

Am I the only one who has noticed Michelle being out of the news lately? Lynch being more low key than Holder. Sharpton demoted from five nights per week to a single slot on Sunday morning.

I don't believe anything that group does occurs in a vacuum...

[maryrose]

Beasts
Yes they all seem to have lost their mojo or have gone underground with their stealth moves like this filibuster idea on Iran deal
Major push to make Obama look good and semi presidential
Too late the train has left the station
He will always be remembered as the Liar in Chief

[rich@gmu]

Posted by: Beasts of England | September 02, 2015 at 11:49 PM -

saving up for the final act?

[rich@gmu]

via the other thread ...

>>>On the biz shows today the general consensus is that with the #IranDeal more oil will be coming on the market further depressing the price.

Posted by: glasater | September 02, 2015 at 03:32 PM<<<

I would at first blush be skeptical. The Iranian oil industry has been in a long term decline-well before international sanctions started to bite-and the labor pool to get their industry going isn't itching at the bit to get over there. There production peaked in the late 1970s, collapsed during the Iran-Iraq War and recovered-probably to its limit of 4 million/bbl a day-during the booming 1990s-2000s with foreign investment. The fields are old and technologically obsolete and the political risk of doing business there is probably as bad as cutting a deal with Russia or Venezuela.

the graph is busy, but shows total production of oil and gas (and future estimates)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/IRAN_oil%26gas_production.jpg

[Dave (in MA)]

Denali/denial.

[Dave (in MA)]

http://www.dailypundit.com/?p=106166

[glasater]

Thanks, Rich. These biz news shows get carried away on stuff like the #IranDeal and try to make it applicable to the day..especially CNBC which is a Yuge Obama cheerleader.

[Janet]

"While the Democrats turn left, the Republicans turn in circles. The left acts on its ideology, the right talks about it."

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-truth-about-congressional-pro.html

[peter]

Did anyone see that Gwen Ifill tweet? the anti-Semitism is becoming more blatant. LUN

[daddy on iPad]

CNN morons now for the last 2 hours when they come up to the topic of the Jeb vs Trump affair have this headline spelled exactly this way Jeb versus Trump Fued.

That's right " Fued"

teams of editors. Gee-zus.

[henry]

Remember daddy, they are smarter than we vulgarians.

[Janet]

http://diplopundit.net/2015/09/02/question-of-the-day-is-the-secretary-of-state-bound-by-the-rules-of-the-foreign-affairs-manual-or-not/

"QUESTION: — rules and standards are so important that everyone in this building has to follow them, can you say from that podium categorically that Secretary Clinton followed the rules and the law?

MR TONER: I’m just not going to answer that question. It’s not our goal, it’s not our function in this regard in releasing these emails. ...

QUESTION: Isn’t it a little odd that the State Department can’t state categorically that the Secretary of State followed the rules?"

[danoso]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/09/02/arby-apologizes-after-officer-is-denied-service-for-being-cop/

Can't remember that last time I've been to Arby's, but it was the last time. To think this turd wasn't fired immediately, on the spot.

[Extraneus]

Migrants defiant as Hungary blocks train links for 2nd day

Hungary's prime minister, Viktor Orban, is scheduled to meet EU chiefs Thursday to discuss his country's handling of its unprecedented flow this year of more than 150,000 migrants, chiefly from Syria and other conflict zones. While Germany says it expects to receive 800,000 migrants this year, quadruple last year's figure, many EU members face criticism for failing to commit to housing more asylum seekers.

In non-EU member Iceland, a populist movement is challenging the government's pledge to host just 50 Syrians. The newly launched "Syria's Calling" pressure group said thousands of island residents had gone online over the past 48 hours to commit to opening their homes to a war refugee. Others called on Iceland to open a disused army base for migrant housing.

Surreal.

[Janet]

Is the Obama administration being blamed AT ALL in the MFM for worldwide chaos?

Seeing what is happening in the world & our country....& then to see the POTUS worried about some ice melting in one spot is unbelievable.
Ice melting?...really?...that is the BIG danger?
It is all so ridiculous.

[The regrets to come.]

I was struck, Janet, by Obama saying that while he was President the United States would lead the world in fighting climate change. I suspect he knows that the US population is central to skepticism over climate change and that his party and his party's candidate are going down, in part over the issue. But he's too indebted to the Tranzis, and so engaged by the power of the myth of Anthropogenic Catastrophe to give it up.

A stupid and dangerous man, but also very clever and devious.

[danoso]

From the NY Times on this IT guy

Mr. Pagliano was the information technology director for Mrs. Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign and then worked at the State Department as an adviser and special projects manager for its chief technology officer, according to his LinkedIn page. He left the State Department in February 2013, the same month Mrs. Clinton stepped down as secretary of state.

It is not clear why Mr. Pagliano is refusing to answer questions about the server. The F.B.I. is investigating how classified information was handled in connection with the account, but no evidence has surfaced that Mr. Pagliano had anything to do with those materials.

And with this action (pleading the fifth) I'd say we have our candidate for felony charges. Special projects manager for the CTO? Indeed.

[Jeff Dobbs]

TM:
Legacy Building, Brick By Brick

Obama's trip to Alaska: Legacy building by bric a brac.

[henry]

FYI: Sheriff Clarke is filling in for Hannity tonight.

[Janet]

Wretchard T. Cat wrote - "The politicians may abolish the second, they may even abolish the first and the fourth. But they ain't never going to abolish the fifth."

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/hillary-clinton/former-hillary-clinton-email-staffer-subpoenaed-plans-plead-fifth-n420711

[Janet]

All of a sudden the Constitution matters.

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

Trump, Carson and Fiorina must have gotten big poll bumps yesterday.

[I don't know about the publicly educated ones.]

Lobsters clearly smarter than humans; they're adapting.

[danoso]

I've been curious as to how someone working for Hillary could have been given the means to transfer classified material to a writable device. That's simply not allowed, at least for regular users. Someone with root permissions would have to enable this, and I can't see anyone but a loyal, true believer in Hillary doing that.

And wouldn't you know, the IT department at State just happens to have a guy working there who was Hillary's IT director. Small world.

[Beasts of England]

I'm probably not alone in my disdain for Charlie Rose, but he just had a show featuring one of my favorite chefs (Corey Lee of Benu - San Franciso) and one of the most inspirational (Massimo Bottura of Osteria Francescana - Modena). It's amazing how good of an interviewer he is when he's not trying to interject his ideology into the calculus.

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

Levin listed the primary Senate recipients of cash from the Iran lobby. Funny how the MFM isn't interested in "following the money" when it comes to a regime which has as a goal to kill the Jews and homos.

[Jane]

"Is the Obama administration being blamed AT ALL in the MFM for worldwide chaos?"

I think the entire world is going around him and keeping quiet because he loves revenge. I'm so embarrassed for our country.

BTW Elijah Cummings said he thought it was great the IT guy took the 5th because the republicans are evil.

There should be a law that government employees cannot take the 5th.

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

Here's my loyalty oath to the GOP: I'm not voting for a single one who hasn't represented my values. Rob Portman cares more about representing his homo son by going on MSNBC and yammering about how he's "evolved" on homo marriage but couldn't be bothered to make a case against this Iran deal. He'll have to beat Twitch Strickland without my vote.

[Miss Marple]

Good morning!

I see things are still in a terrible state.

[Beasts of England]

Cummings is evidence that you should have at least an IQ of 70 to be sworn into the House. I say that will all due respect, of course.

[Jeff Dobbs]

IQ scores are rasciss

[Miss Marple]

Powerline: The Treason of the Professors

http://linkis.com/powerlineblog.com/iaHCy

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

Cummings is another reason for Trump's popularity. A proven liar who colluded with the IRS against True The Vote and nobody in the GOP will point that out.

[jimmyk]

On this refugee problem, I hesitate to suggest the UN for anything, but I would think rather than expecting countries to take in hundreds of thousands of Syrians, the UN could set up DP camps like those at the end of WW II, for the women and children. Put the able-bodied men to work digging latrines. But they might have to take some money out of their Climate Change Junket budget, and actually do something useful.

[Jeff Dobbs]

Quick look at the polls as it relates to the CNN debate...

Using RCP - and using the original CNN debate rules - Carly would be in 11th at 2.9% in the polls, with Christie edging her out with 3.2%

Using the new rules - only poll since the 1st debate, Carly moves up to 7th place - passing Kasich, Huckabee, Paul, and Christie - all of whom would still be on the main stage if the decision were made today (we'd have 11 on the main stage, no one will be kicked off for not being in the top 10 since the first debate if they are still in the top 10 since 7/16).

However, using CNN's reason for altering their rules - that there just have not been enough post 1st debate polls - if we assume there were 3x as many polls (putting it roughly close to what CNN said happened in 2007 and 2011), and assuming those polls mirrored the ones that have come out since the first debate, Carly would be in 10th and Christie would be kicked off the main stage.

FWIW, no matter how you slice the polls, Christie comes in with 3.2%

[James D]

Beasts @ 8:24

Even with that threshold, I doubt Cummings would qualify.

[Miss Marple]

Not usually a fan, but on this Erickson is right:

http://www.redstate.com/2015/09/03/that-dead-boy-is-barack-obamas-fault/

[Extraneus]

Check out the pics of these migrant-invaders. What's the ratio of men to women?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3220673/All-aboard-migrant-express-Germany-Chaos-Budapest-police-reopen-station-following-two-day-stand-hundreds-immediately-swarm-trains.html

What logical explanation could there possibly be for "refugees" - people fleeing in fear for their lives - to be mostly young, able-bodied men?

Europe is suicidal. The Hungarian border is only 109 miles long.

[Old Lurker]

Ext, I keep repeating the rules for taking territory: Kill or enslave the men and impregnate the women. So migrants need not bring their own women, that would slow them down and cause other problems for the guys.

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

Erickson is obviously correct in what he wrote but where's anyone in the opposition party making that exact point?