Now What?

I am hitting the ground with a stumble and a stagger this post-holiday Tuesday.

Comments

[Cecil Turner]

First day on the new feet?

[Dave (in MA)]

Sounds like TM judged every beer not by its color, but by the character of its ABV rating.

[Sandy Daze]

Good morning.

Other words for writer's block, TM ?

[Beasts of England]

Palin on the ground with Trump in Iowa.

If there is a G-d, he'd make sure that Trump announced her as his running mate. Not saying it would be good politically, merely good for my own personal entertainment. I think a couple of libtards would spontaneously combust if this happened. That's all I want out if life...

[Thomas Collins]

There would be as much combustion, BOE, if Palin announced support of Trumpster and Trumpster said Palin would be his Secretary of Energy.

[narciso]

good shorthand,

http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/224306/

[Clarice]

Good morning, TM--

[narciso]

I don't get how the Allegiance Council would pick Salman jr, to replace the doddering pop,

[Beasts of England]

I think she is going to endorse him today, TC. Announcing her as his Energy Secretary would be equally as delightful, you're correct!!

[Thomas Collins]

Youngster Liz Warren is no doubt feeling out potential wallets at this very moment.

[Threadkiller]

A Reuters/Ipsos poll on Friday found that 25 percent of Republicans think Cruz is not eligible to be president because he was born in Canada to an American mother, with 27 percent of all voters and 28 percent of independents agreeing.

http://mobile.wnd.com/2016/01/trump-adviser-eligibility-attack-to-take-cruz-off-message/

There is also a story building that a no-name GOP candidate has started a procedure against Cruz in New Hampshire.

I haven't seen it anywhere other than my loon sites.

[Thomas Collins]

Holy Gaia, given The Hill's travails, Al Gore is probably feeling out potential wallets.

[Threadkiller]

From Saturday, BoE:

Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump

Big announcement in Ames, Iowa on Tuesday! You will not want to miss this rally!

Curious.

[Threadkiller]

Many will be sadden to find Palin rubbernecking at the clown car wreck.

[Jane]

Dave,

GE is going to be pissed!

[NK]

The collapsing House of Saud: I do have to acknowledge that ValJar Brennan and Donillon have been consistent and resolute in destroying the House of Saud and replacing it with the MB and the Mullahs as the power brokers in the ME. They have been consistent and very successful with that. Of course, the Oil Glut driving Brent to $29/bll was a big help. Once the Sauds are gone, the Egyptian military will also have to give in to the MB as the Turk military has and the MB takeover of sunni -Arabia will be complete.

[Beasts of England]

I'm not a Palin fan, but she certainly has a large and sincere following. Her endorsement is significant because of that. And considering the way she was treated by much of the GOPe, I'm sure she'd be happy to send a great big F-U to many of those turds. How sweet it is...

[Dave (in MA)]

I wonder if Don Felder's lawyer has expressed his condolences to Glenn Frey's lawyer yet?

[Jack is Back (but On )!]

Tried going down the stairs. Didn't even make past the first one. Ouch!

Back in the bedroom. Slept off the pain but I am still confident the rest, ice and meds are working.

From the other thread, my development experience on the private sector basis is in non-recourse but it still requires "skin in the game" and financial credibility. Hard to raise primary and secondary debt without it. That, and of course, the construction guarantee. Not many companies, special purpose or stand alone who can guarantee a multi-billion dollar project. Even sureities get the shakes at this stage.

It does keep the riff-raff out of the business, though.

[NK]

'Skin in the game' in the last 2 cycles 2002-2007 and 2010-2015, that has meant promoters using investor OPM for the 30% 'equity' required by institutional lenders and Mezz lenders.

[NK]

JiB-- so what is up with the knee?

[Jack is Back (but On )]

BERNIE'S NEW AD

[Jack is Back (but On )]

NK,

You need to keep up:)

Getting gel injections for the meniscus I got septic somehow. Had to go to hospial to have it drained and flushed and found loose bone among other issues.

Now I am healing albeit in bed.

[narciso]

apropo of nothing, it seems the director behind Concussion, will be directing Liam Neeson as Mark Felt, I don't think they'll be relying on Max Holland's excellent work,

[narciso]

he also was involved in "Kill the Messenger' another conspiracy tale,

[Jack is Back (but On )]

NK,

To us "skin in the game" is our own equity not some investor backer. We always controlled our own projects from inception througreeh completion. And I agree, the role of "owner" is often overlooked in the success and the failure of those projects.

[NK]

JiB-- OK your company satisfies the NK/OL 'developer' standard.

Get well soon, sorry to hear about the knee.

[narciso]

the first episode of Billions, by the folks who gave us Rounders, was suitably byzantine, and not in a good way

[Threadkiller]

A Sarah Palin endorsement of Donald Trump would do more damage to Palin's conservative credentials than it would to Ted Cruz, the candidate's communications director said Tuesday, remarking that he would be "deeply disappointed."

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/sarah-palin-donald-trump-ted-cruz-217958

[narciso]

so even on religious boards there is trolling,

https://www.baptistboard.com/threads/two-corinthians.97824/

[Jack is Back (but On )]

TK,

With all due respect but our you this cycle's Sarah at JOM?:)

[Jack is Back (but On )]

...are you...

[Threadkiller]

I'm this cycle's Threadkiller, JIB.

:-)

[DebinNC]

But the [Liberty U] crowd tittered, and several of the students audibly corrected him lTrump], pointing out that Christians say “Second Corinthians,” not “Two Corinthians.”

lol

[Miss Marple]

All I am waiting for is Jennifer Rubin's and Nicole Wallace's heads to explode! LOL!

Back to shipping. LOTS of work today and THEN I have to warm up the car and run this stuff over to my UPS store for a postal pick-up this afternoon.

Whine. It's cold!

[Dave (in MA)]

Jane, you mean because of the millionaire tax?

[narciso]

the rest of the story,

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/01/18/two-corinthians-trump-stumbles-over-bible-reference-but-still-wins-over-evangelical-crowd-at-liberty-university/

[Miss Marple]

East Coast JOMers, pay attention!

1-2 FEET of snow: Philly, Boston, DC, Baltimore!

[narciso]

good god, goose, will you give it up,

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/01/lindsey-graham-ted-cruz-is-most-divisive-senator-ever-trump-is-all-over-the-board-crazy/

[Miss Marple]

Right click for rest of map!

[Beasts of England]

Ted doth protest too much, methinks.

[Threadkiller]

Too bad he didn't goof up iniquity and inequity.

That goes unnoticed.

[Miss Marple]

Did anyone happen to see Amir the former hostage and former Marine on Fox about an hour ago? Very inspiring young man and well-spoken.

[DebinNC]

"Throughout the world, you look at Syria, where there are Christians and chopping off heads. If you look at the different places, Christianity is under siege,” Trump said. “We have to protect [them] because bad things are happening, very bad things are happening.”

Amen, Mr. Trump. But Jerry Farwell Jr. makes the case against nepotism imo with his comments vouching for Trump's Christian bona fides. And Trump assuring students when he's prez they can say "Merry Christmas" seems condescending to me. I very much doubt Trump understands evangelicals.

[centralcal]

A link to Amir on Fox that MM references above:

http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/01/19/video-us-marine-amir-hekmati-speaks-first-time-after-release-iran-prison

[jimmyk]

It's not as though Trump has pretended to be a devout Christian, unlike Jeremiah Wright's parishioner who regularly mangles the actual meaning of scripture.

[lyle]

One more nominee for the "Men Who Look Like Old Lesbians" award:

http://hotair.com/archives/2016/01/19/epa-chief-we-did-our-job-in-the-flint-water-disaster/

Huh? What's that you say? :)

[narciso]

talking about going full vizzini,

[narciso]

in perfect conquistador coffee tradition,

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/12108583/Labour-review-largely-absolves-Ed-Miliband-and-his-policies-as-blame-for-election-defeat-is-sent-elsewhere.html

[lyle]

http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2016/01/19/the-25-worst-quotes-from-donald-trump-n2106456/page/2

22) "(Michael Bloomberg is) a friend of mine. He's been an excellent mayor of New York City. He's a great guy and he means very well." (2013)

23) “I think pretty strongly that (Bill de Blasio will) end up being a good mayor, maybe a very good mayor and I don’t think he’s going to want to kill the golden goose. ...I think he’s a smart guy that knows what’s going on really big league and I think he is not going to want to destroy New York. I think he is going to want to make New York great.” (2013)

24) "(Hillary Clinton is) very talented, very smart. She's a friend of mine, so I'm a little prejudiced." (2007)

25) "I know Hillary and I think she’d make a great president or vice-president." – 2008

Good job, Palin.

[narciso]

are you kidding me,

http://observer.com/2016/01/iran-deal-gives-sanctions-relief-to-over-30-dangerous-terrorists/

[Miss Marple]

II dono't know that Palin is actually IN Iowa.

Hilarious how just the thought of her makes some in my Twitter feed go bananas.

It's like garlic in front of vampires.

[narciso]

this is the fellow I was referring to,

http://www.sundance.tv/series/carlos/cast/anis-naccache

[Beasts of England]

I think she is, Miss Marple.

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/TWY123/history/20160118/2030Z/PANC/KDSM

Jeff should add this site to his flight tracking arsenal. :)

[Old Lurker]

Catherine Herridge just now:

"EXCLUSIVE: Hillary Clinton's emails on her unsecured, homebrew server contained intelligence from the U.S. government's most secretive and highly classified programs, according to an unclassified letter from a top inspector general to senior lawmakers.

Fox News exclusively obtained the text of the unclassified letter, sent Jan. 14 from Intelligence Community Inspector General I. Charles McCullough III. It laid out the findings of a recent comprehensive review by intelligence agencies that identified "several dozen" additional classified emails -- including specific intelligence known as "special access programs" (SAP).

That indicates a level of classification beyond even “top secret,” the label previously given to two emails found on her server, and brings even more scrutiny to the presidential candidate’s handling of the government’s closely held secrets.

“To date, I have received two sworn declarations from one [intelligence community] element. These declarations cover several dozen emails containing classified information determined by the IC element to be at the confidential, secret, and top secret/sap levels,” said the IG letter to lawmakers with oversight of the intelligence community and State Department. “According to the declarant, these documents contain information derived from classified IC element sources.”

[Miss Marple]

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/judge-rejects-obamas-executive-privilege-claim-over-fast-and-furious-records-217970

[Miss Marple]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/01/19/inspector-general-clinton-emails-had-intel-from-most-secretive-classified-programs.html

[Miss Marple]

Old Lurker haaaaaas the scoop, which I didn't see when I posted my link.

Wow!

[DebinNC]

CNN to air big story on the death of Freddie Gray. Voice in promo authoritatively claims that FG "was critically injured when arrested" ... as a pic clearly showing FG standing on his own as he's put into the police van fills the screen. Liars.

[narciso]

deja vu all over again:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2013/10/fast_and_furious_judge_amy_berman_jackson_lets_congress_know_what_she_thinks.html

[anonamom]

Whoa! I missed how the trouble got started in the knee JiB.
NK, thanks for your perseverance at getting that story out.

What bugs grew out?? What are they treating you with???
Make sure you find out! Don't trust ANYBODY that they are following up with culture results and sensitivities.

(But trust me that you shouldn't trust anybody.)

AND--if you are on antibiotics--take probiotics NOW. Today. Not just yogurt with live cultures--you need pills with bugs in gelatin capsules so you don't get c dif colitis (which I suspect is what killed Glenn Frye. Just a guess.)

We happen to experts at this house. Pretty sure I know more about it than your orthopod. May know about it than your internist. Heck, more than some ID specialists. Kinda like rse and Common Core.

[Old Lurker]

:-) MM

Snooze you loose.

[Miss Marple]

OL,

Yep.

I'm so cold my fingers won't work!

One more box and then off to the UPS store.

[narciso]

well the JOM clinic is open all hours,

[Destiny Ignatz]

Palin is making a mistake if she endorses Trump.

[Beasts of England]

SAP means special access program or codeword programs. We used to be called 'black projects' because they don't exist on budget. While the classification exists, you can't even say the name of the program - it's that classified.

If this is true, then it's a much bigger deal than some 'mere' TS documents that were mishandled. I can't see this being swept under the rug. People who work, or have worked, SAP-level projects, such as myself, take this shit quite seriously.

[matt]

Wow, Obama's EP claims are finally being beaten back on F&F. I'm sure they have already destroyed the incriminating evidence, but at least something has been done to expose the fraud at the heart of this administration.

I don't know how the DoJ cannot indict Hillary at this point. The DoD is trying to cow Petraeus, who has been convicted for much less.

[narciso]

because the Ministry of Love doesn't care to, they prop up Red Queen, that is their raison d'etre,

[lyle]

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2016/01/understanding-caliphate-curve.html

The Caliphate is already on our shores facilitated by progs and gullible pols.

What ISIS accomplishes by brute force, the Muslim Brotherhood does by setting up networks of front groups. Both ISIS and the Brotherhood control large Muslim populations. ISIS conquers populations in failed states. The Muslim Brotherhood however exercises control over populations in the cities of the West. We could bomb Raqqa, but can we bomb Dearborn, Jersey City or Irvine?

[sbw]

Drudge: NPR: Univision bought controlling interest in The Onion.

Klein bottle.

[Threadkiller]

Maybe Palin will bring him down, Ig. ;-)

How did you prevail in court? Or has that happened yet?

[Beasts of England]

I don't want to be the SAP shill, narciso, but the DoD and intelligence leviathan understand the grave nature of this alleged transgression. I'd say that the entrenched powers in that group, coupled with the FBI investigation and their own interests, make a formidable opponent.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

A point that needs stressing; IS is not the biggest problem in the ME by a long shot and defeating it will fix nothing.
It is one of the symptomatic, regenerating hydra heads of expansionist islam.
There are two effective ways of dealing with expansionist islam;
1. Permanently level Mecca, Medina, Qom and every mosque and madrassa on earth and stamp it out root and branch. This will probably only happen when Armageddon arrives.
2. Build a real and or virtual wall around it and let its practitioners kill each other; mercilessly shooting or returning any practitioner who attempts to escape the perimeter.

No single part of islam constitutes an existential threat to the west yet, at least not one that exceeds the existential threat the west poses to itself.
But until we undertake number 2 we will continue to lose ground until we inevitably will face an existential showdown at which point number 1 will look more and more reasonable.

The grim reaper lives by the same rule the old Fram filter commercials did; you can pay me now, or pay me later.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--How did you prevail in court? Or has that happened yet?--

New judge who stupidly ordered us to mediation; trial rescheduled to March 15th.
Might as well send a cobra and a mongoose to marriage counseling.

[Clarice]

Oh dear, Iggy. Sorry. OL will be along shortly to hold your hand I', sure.

[narciso]

exactly, I was focusing on Nusra Font aront, back when Islamic State was an ephemeral thing, and the Army of Conquest is much the same, it's as with 40 years ago, you had Fatah, Arafat's group and Waddi Haddad's group, tacitly we had an alli,ance with the former and opposed the latter, Carlos was with the latter, Naccoche was both organizations, and later trained Hezbollah,

[lyle]

For those who are still wondering how bad Zero's final year will be, here's a foretaste:

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/pentagon-ordered-to-address-climate-change/

[Janet]

It's not as though Trump has pretended to be a devout Christian, unlike Jeremiah Wright's parishioner who regularly mangles the actual meaning of scripture.

Yes. That's what gets me.

The MFM & the professional political class are gonna care about all kinds of things that they didn't give 2 hoots about with Obama.
It will be that way for whoever the Republican nominee ends up being.

[jimmyk]

An alternative scenario is that Comey requests an indictment, Loretta refuses, Hillary limps to the nomination like a wounded walrus, and loses in the general by a landslide.

Or maybe nothing will happen at all before the election? Just an "ongoing investigation."

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

CA has a rule that if a case hasn't been tried in five years it's dead. That date arrives in early April.
I may solicit someone to brain me [within reason] with his or her handy knobkerry on Ides of March eve. :)

[anonamom]

Ig, I'm sorry about the waste of your time.
That's exactly how I felt about my sister and her sociopath being compelled to share custody of my poor nephews.
Really? If they could do that effectively, she wouldn't have divorced him, idiot.

[Jack is Back! (But Sitting up and on Alert)]

ananomom,

On Cipro. Something heavier in hospital. Some bacteria from somewhere. They suspect from me (GI tract issues, bladder but I have no probs there). Just as likely from the injections in the office no hospital or clinic.

All I want is to get the swelling, inflammation and pain down for rehabilitation to start.

Thanks for tip on probiotics which I take daily.

My Ortho is top sports guy here in Hamptons top rep and friend. He saw the possibilities and acted with urgency, if you get my drift.

[narciso]

some of the backstory,

https://kyleorton1991.wordpress.com/2015/01/19/the-long-history-of-middle-eastern-state-terrorism-in-paris/#more-1090

exactly what makes them think, I answered my own question didn't I?

[Miss Marple]

Governor Branstad came out opposing Cruz today, saying his election would be bad for Iowa and he hopes he loses.

What will be interesting is whether Branstad has more sway than Jim VanDerPlat (hope I spelled that right). Or Steve King, for that matter.

Adding Palin and you have a real mix-up.

Very interesting to watch!

[Porchlight]

I'm not sure how people who believe Palin is opportunistic, unpopular and irrelevant are disappointed by her failure to endorse Cruz.

Maybe she's secretly trying to help Cruz by allowing Trump to be damaged by by his association with her opportunism, unpopularity, and irrelevance. ;)

[NK]

The Herridge/Fox report about the IG letter to congress. How can Hilligula remain viable with a record like that? She sends TOP/Top Secret info on her home brew server which she set up to funnel inside info to Cronies and solicit $$$$ for her phony baloney foundation? We are no better than a Banana Republic, Chavez Venezuela, Kirshner Arg or Castro Cuba if she is politically viable. I am heartbroken.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

I can't see the Dem mandarins letting a Hillary, who is unindicted only because of an anti Lynch mob at DOJ protecting her, stay in the race.

I'm not even sure I can see Barry letting Lynch not indict someone he detests with the heat of a thousand suns like Secretary SeaHag if the FBI recommends it. A man who enjoys humiliating his enemies as much as Barry would seem unlikely to save her.

If BillyJeff Tweed and HotSprings Hall have the oomph to stop such an event it would have to be at the FBI level to prevent a mortal wound to the fishwife.

[Sandy Daze]

JE Dyer, writing at Liberty Unyielding, has performed an excellent disection of the known knowns, the known unknowns, and perhaps the unknown unknowns regarding the small boat incident in the Persian Gulf a week ago, in her latest:

http://libertyunyielding.com/2016/01/18/gulf-status-quo-collapsing-why-were-the-u-s-navy-boats-near-farsi-island/

MOST STRONGLY RECOMMENDED.

[Threadkiller]

Steve King is a nativest, MM.

I understand that hurts a candidate's chances.

[Miss Marple]

Update on all the ruckus in Iowa.

1. Cruz campaign put out a snarky statement saying endorsing Trump would hurt Palin more than Cruz.

2. Bristol Palin got on her blog and posted clips of Cruz thanking Palin for helping him get elected (she endorsed him in the Senate election)and felt like that statement was ungracious (only in Bristol-speak).

3. Now Cruz comes out with a statement that no matter what happens, he will always be grateful Palin helped him.

So, there you go.

Last box done and time to warm up car.

[Threadkiller]

Sorry to hear that, Ig.

[lyle]

https://pjmedia.com/election/2016/01/19/graham-on-cruz-vs-clinton-they-will-tear-him-to-shreds/2/

Click only if you're jonesin' hard for some GOPe Konsultant Krap©. He hits every one of them.

Graham opined that one of his fellow senators, Ted Cruz (R-Texas), would not be any better than Trump.

"He's going to get killed," Graham said. "When I think of Evangelical Christian, 'the first thing in my mind is Donald Trump.' No. When I think of problem solver, the first thing in my mind is not Ted Cruz. All I can say, I've learned one thing in 20 years, if a law is named after the president of the United States and they are still president, you are probably not going to repeal it."

"He took our party down a strange road of shutting down the government to repeal Obamacare. And those of us that thought it was a bad tactical choice, he said, you're actually for Obamacare. I'll never forget that, that is McCarthy stuff. Because you disagree how to repeal Obamacare, you're for the thing that you actually are against. I don't like that kind of politicking; they will tear him to shreds."

With apologies to any JOMer who lives in the Palmetto State, every time I see or hear this goober I'm ashamed of the people of S. Carolina. And I have relatives living there.

[Sandy Daze]

If memory serves, didn't the Huntress help push Mr Cruz to victory in his Senate campaign?

[Porchlight]

Yes, Sandy Daze, and Cruz has said so over and over again. I guess he was counting on her support.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--I'm not sure how people who believe Palin is opportunistic, unpopular and irrelevant are disappointed by her failure to endorse Cruz.--

Concur, but I have not thought any of those things about her, although her popularity outside of the right side of the ledger, and to some extent within it, seems problematic.
I thought she had some fairly rock solid political principles considerably more in line with Cruz's than Trump's.

[narciso]

what language is goose speaking, coloqquial klingon?

[Sandy Daze]

Ah. Well, there is the "pizza summit" bergen her and the Donald a few years ago too.

🍕🍻👍

[Sandy Daze]

bergen s/b between

[Porchlight]

Sandy Daze,

Maybe she made a deal with Trump this cycle. Maybe she told him she'd endorse him (and not Cruz) in the primary if Trump promised not to run third party. That was supposedly the reason for the pizza summit in '12.

Who knows?

[NK]

SandyDaze- that intel analysis of the riverine boat route makes perfect sense to me. The Saudis are royally pissed at Obummer and are denying routine transit rights to the US Navy. As I said earlier, one of the very few Obummer 'sucesses' has been the steady destruction of the House of Saud and replacing that power vacuum with the MB/Mullahs. The House of Saud has awakened to the danger, hence executing Shia Imams and breaking off relations with the Mullahs. Obummer treats the House of Saud as a hostile power and empowers the Saudis' most dangerous enemy, why shouldn't the Saudis react in kind. It also explains the quick release of the boats, the Mullahs want their $150B and the Saudis as US enemies, so letting the boats go served their current interests