Fight Night!

Senior Night Out turns into Fight Night as Bernie and Hillarity! drop the gloves. Who won? Well, after twenty-five years on the national stage it is hard for Hillary to change many minds. As the national front-runner, so she really needs only to reassure her supporters and sit on her lead. I think she failed. Bernie needs to get people to take a look and persuade them he is something other than a kook and a crank. He succeeded. Of course, experts differ.

Was the best moment when Hillary hopped on her broomstick and flew over the stage spitting flames and cackling "Afraid of fire, scarecrow"? Or was it when Hillary, challenged about her Goldman Sachs speeches, found her inner Jack Nicholson and delivered a riff on "A Few Good Candidates", shouting

"You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at debates you want me at that Goldman Sachs fundraiser. You need me at that Goldman Sachs fundraiser.

We use words like "Access", "Super-PAC", "cronyism". We use these words as the backbone of a life spent making progressive progress, or something. You use them as a punch line."

Roll the tape!

From the transcript:

Time and time again, by insinuation, there is this attack that he is putting forth, which really comes down to, you know, anybody who ever took donations or speaking fees from any interest group has to be bought. I just absolutely reject that, Senator. I really don't think these kinds of attacks by insinuation are worthy of you. Enough is enough. If you've got something to say, say it directly. You will not find that I ever changed a view or a vote because of any donation that I ever received. 

First, forget about Jack Nicholson - she really was channeling her inner Mitch McConnell, who made exactly that argument on the Senate floor while opposing Sen. McCain on campaign finance reform (this is a late 90's edition):

Within moments of taking up campaign-finance reform Thursday, the Senate floor became the stage for a series of rare personal attacks and recriminations among majority Republicans.

Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., the legislation's chief opponent, challenged reform advocate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., to name Senate colleagues who have been corrupted by high-dollar political contributions.

''How can there be corruption if no one is corrupt?'' McConnell asked, zeroing in on McCain's frequent speeches about the issue in his presidential campaign. ''That's like saying the gang is corrupt but none of the gangsters are.''

When McCain refused to name names, Sen. Robert Bennett, R-Utah, confronted him. Standing just eight feet from him on the Republican side of the chamber, Bennett charged that McCain had accused him of corruption in seeking pork-barrel spending for his home state.

''I am unaware of any money given that influenced my action here,'' Bennett said. ''I have been accused of being corrupt. ... I take personal offense.''

Its a good enough argument for Mitch, and good enough for Hillary.

Secondly, how many Democrats are going to buy Hillary's nuanced view that every Republican and possibly one or two Democrats are captive to their donors but she is not?

Finally, many argue, no doubt including Hillary on other occasions, that donors are buying access, not votes. They want to be sure they are heard when legislation affecting their interests moves through Congress. Is Hillary seriously going to pretend she doesn't even return phone calls from top donors?

And double-finally, filed under "Homework Fail" - how could Team Hillary have been unaware of this St. Elizabeth video from 2004? Elizabeth Warren claims that Hillary opposed a Wall Street supported bankruptcy reform bill as First Lady, ultimately leading to a Bill Clinton veto in 2000. A few years later Senator Hillary switched sides, due to (Ms. Warren claims) fundraising duties and Wall Street money, and supported a revived and revised version. Team Sanders is flooding the zone with this clip and hard times await the progressive who crosses Pocahontas.

On net, that was not a good moment for Hillary, and her lack of a cogent response continues to be surprising.

ERRATA: The WaPo has been piling on this Goldman Sachs issue (her Wall Street money, bad answer at the town hall, terrible answer at the town hall). The kinder, gentler Times has yet to endure the inevitable newsroom revolt when, as in 2008, the editors back Hillary and the reporters back the latest progressive darling.

BONUS HILLARITY!

From the Times:

On Thursday, Mrs. Clinton expanded on her paid speechmaking, saying she also spoke to other groups, like heart surgeons and camp counselors. But again, she seemed to struggle, this time when pressed by the moderators if she would release the transcripts of all of her paid speeches.

“I will look into it,” she said. “I don’t know the status, but I will certainly look into it.”

Yeah, those speeches probably need to be vetted for classified information. Or maybe the dog ate them.

 

Comments

[Jeff Dobbs]

Not gonna forget to hit publish on this one, were you...

[Sandy Daze]

Good Morning !

[Jeff Dobbs]

TM:
The WaPo has been piling on this Goldman Sachs issue (her Wall Street money, bad answer at the town hall, terrible answer at the town hall).

BUT BUT BUT....Heidi Cruz!

[Threadkiller]

The moderators never pushed for the Khalidi tape.

[Captain Hate]

That Teh Bern received 84% of the millennial vote in Iowa points out just how little enthusiasm there is for Rodham DeFarge. A real political party could take advantage of that if they could concentrate on real issues rather than act like barking seals for the Rove News Channel.

[henry]

But they gotta keep their phony baloney jobs CH.

[henry]

Or maybe the dog ate them.

or they got wiped by a rag or something.

[Buckeye]

I am not sure that anything really sticks to this bitch.

Until I personally see the wooden stake driven through her heart, I will continue to consider her "armed and extremely dangerous".

[NK]

TomM-- come back to us!! Hilligula as the Wicked Witch? Few Good Men riff (love that riff BTW, I had a good one about Brady doing that riff about deflating balls). But let me ask you, do your wife and female friends and daughter(s) talk to you these days? Hilligula is an icon for a lot of the ladies.

[Threadkiller]

Once the ladies see Sippy singing Babalú, Hil's iconic status will finally be over.

It is how persuadeable voters think.

[henry]

Great jobs news / sark

From our industrious lurking unit, the new employment numbers.

absolute employment declined. Yet unemployment unchanged. How? the infamous seasonal adjustment -- which is turning into whatever Mann did to tree ring data to produce his hockey stick.

"The only job growth was if you were Foreign Born." (per lurking unit)

[Captain Hate]

Hilligula is an icon for a lot of the ladies.

Speaking strictly anecdotally, in my family her support is inversely correlated to the functionality of the ovaries.

[Captain Hate]

Per Chris Wallace, if someone is working two part-time jobs instead of one full-time job that's job growth we should be proud of.

[NK]

CaptH-- understood. Indelicate, but understood.

[Threadkiller]

Hil's support seems to be slowing

But RCP's average isn't showing

That they ask about orgasims

And if she still has 'em

Is Huma doing the polling?

[NK]

well this isn't good: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/construction-crane-collapses-manhattan-injures-2-article-1.2521130

[Thomas Collins]

In the latest UMass Lowell tracking poll, The Hill continues her NH surge and Rubio's NH surge stalls for now.

http://www.uml.edu/News/press-releases/2016/TrackingPoll02052016.aspx

[Thomas Collins]

The Hill isn't slowing down in NH, TK. Look for a lot of disappointed social justice warriors for The Bern next Tuesday night.

[Threadkiller]

On Thursday, Florida Gov. Rick Scott declared a state of emergency in four affected counties: Miami-Dade, Lee, Hillsborough and Santa Rosa. There have been a total of 12 cases of Zika reported in Florida; all among people who obtained the virus while traveling to countries hard hit by the virus.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/05/health/zika-virus-aids-comparison/

Sure. It isn't people traveling from those countries. Any illegals with the virus, Rick?

[NK]

If Hilligula loses by double digits? It's a disaster for her; ValJar may make her move and indict the shrill harpy.

[Jack is Back!]

NK,

Its the old Western Union building on Houston St. in Tri-Beca. I think WOR is in that building but could be wrong. Looks like a crawler crane with too much boom and not enough counterweight. In an urban environment like that rigging plans should be reviewed and approved like any architectural or engineering plans.

[narciso]

Yes and as we saw on tuesday, that progress is ephemeral, if nonexistent, they crave the crazy from the aadvark, pink panther reference.

[Jane]

"Speaking strictly anecdotally, in my family her support is inversely correlated to the functionality of the ovaries.'

On the Alaska cruise we had a panel of MK Hamm, Katie Pavlich, Eliana Johnson and maybe someone else talking about "the war on women".

Equal pay, baloney, BS and issues I no longer recall. I wanted to tell them, and should have, that the war on woman was over 40 years ago, and has been recreated for the democrats. In my generation I got more opportunity because I am a woman than anything. My first professional job was for a company who was told by the government to hire women,(1976) my second job they were looking for a woman,(1978) law school they wanted 50% women (1983). It is such a joke. The only thing I can recall being discriminated against was I was required to have a co-signer on a car loan, because I am a woman.

The dems manufacture this joke for every generation, and we should tell people who believe it that they are being used.

The real people being discriminated against are white men.

[James D]

So I now have a semi-official description for the new book:

It should have been a simple job. All archaeology student Jane Barnaby had to do was pick up a box her professor needed and deliver it to him at his dig site, along with his new car. Yes, his office was in Oxfordshire, and his dig site was in Spain, a trip of 1,300 miles across three countries and two bodies of water. Still, it should have been simple.

And it was, until Jane discovered she picked up the wrong box by mistake. Not the one with boring pottery samples, but instead the one with priceless ancient Egyptian artifacts. The one that a team of international art thieves is after.

Now she’s chasing – and being chased – by the thieves. And she’s picked up a pair of passengers who claim they can help her outwit them, get her professor’s pottery back and return the artifacts to their rightful owner. If only she could figure out which one of them is working with the thieves, and which one she can trust in this high-stakes game of finders keepers.

[narciso]

How could red queen vote for a bill, that happened the year before she entered the Senate.

[narciso]

Moynihan was in the senate, when it passed, that's a whipper right up there with red squaw pretending to be a staffer for the swimmer.

[narciso]

Look up bankruptcy reform bill of 2000.

[Buckeye]

JiB

Couple of decades ago, we had a civil PE on the city staff in our suburb. The position was eliminated when a new City Manager was hired. Now we have pols giving "approvals".

A 5 story building is going up adjacent to our favorite grocery store. One of those cranes sticks out over one of the access roads.

I think I will go to the grocery a different way.

[Old Lurker]

Same way she was named for Sir Edmund Hillary, Narc.

Prog calendars differ from yours and mine.

[Miss Marple]

http://www.businessinsider.com/r-german-spy-agency-says-isis-sending-fighters-disguised-as-refugees-2016-2?r=UK&IR=T

The German official's name is NOT Captain Obvious, although it would fit.

[Threadkiller]

Speaking of non-functioning ovaries.

After last night's Democratic debate, Rachel Maddow, one of the debate moderators, hugged the candidates.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/article/2000942/

[Dave (in MA)]

http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/225865/

Na, or Ta, or whatever the hell his name is, thinks that a vote for Comrade Bernie is a vote for racism.

[_peter]

Man! that crane collapse is a big one. Picture at LUN. I walk down that particular block frequently as it is close to the Manhattan courts complex.

[_peter]

Here's hoping that Michael Moore gets transferred to a hospital in Cuba or the UK stat. (he's in ICU with pneumonia.)

[James D]

Dave @ 9:54

I get why the progs hang on Tennis Coatrack's every word. But i don't see why any sane people ought to.

[Jack is Back!]

peter,

Looks like a 180' main boom with a 60' jib. I think it may have counter collapsed backwards from the position of the cab. Covers two blocks of Worth St. Whoever Bay Crane and Rigging's surety is better be on their red phones to the ReIn guys in Dublin. One dead.

[DublinDaveForever]

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[DublinDaveForever]

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[pagar a bacon, country ham and sausage supporter]

CH@09:15. "Per Chris Wallace, if someone is working two part-time jobs instead of one full-time job that's job growth we should be proud of."

IMO, leftists are INSANE.

[DublinDaveForever]

"You're welcome" -- The DNC

[NK]

yet DuDa remains on dole? like 37% of population who won't work for the lousy jobs on offer as a result of the Obamaniacs making it too expensive to hire. Simple truth that the millennials have caught on to, and what make Bernie and Trump popular.

[Tom Maguire]

But let me ask you, do your wife and female friends and daughter(s) talk to you these days? Hilligula is an icon for a lot of the ladies.

Very interesting. The 21 yr old daughter is feeling the Bern and thinks Hillary is a crook.

My wife is fascinating, as always. Within our age group she claims her female friends are all-in for Hillary but purely because she is a Dem and a woman. My wife is mystified because she too thinks Hillary is a corrupt say-anything phony and that the youth of America see right through her.

Of course, my wife didn't like having to explain blow jobs to our pre-teen daughters when Wild Bill was in the White House, so there is that...

[Tom Maguire]

How could red queen vote for a bill, that happened the year before she entered the Senate.

She opposed as First Lady a 2000 version Bill eventually vetoed. She supported a revived, revised version a few years later. I tried a clarification in the post.

[caro]

What are the chances one would get killed by a collapsed crane?

My daughter was married on the roof of 40 Worth.

[Buckeye]

Jane said:

"In my generation I got more opportunity because I am a woman than anything. My first professional job was for a company who was told by the government to hire women,(1976) my second job they were looking for a woman,(1978) law school they wanted 50% women (1983). It is such a joke."

Being a black female is even better...

One of my BILs is about 15 years my junior. He entered Med School late 80s at Ohio State. One of the things 1st year students do in pairs is carve up a cadaver in an anatomy class.

He got paired with a black female student with an attitude. She was being provided an "opportunity" to "right" many of the School's past sins and was quick to let him know it.

As you might expect, she was not really qualified to be there. BIL said it was very quickly apparent to him and the professors that she wasn't cutting the mustard so they assigned someone to tutor her.

She didn't pass to 2nd year. Not once, but three years in a row before they quietly gave her the boot.

BIL's comment was "would you want her treating your kid"?

[NK]

TomM-- very interesting and it tracks my wife and 22 yo daughter. My wife detests Hilligula, considers her to be a lying corrupt BJ-enabler who rode his coattails per their 'deal'. And since they probably have the same type of cohorts, my wife's gal pals of a 'certain age' LUV Hilligula, my wife can't believe it. My 22yo daughter considers Hilligula 'gross,' but she thinks Bern is a doddering old fool. She doesn't like any politicians, and thinks her future is screwed by the national debt and old age entitlements for old fools like me. I can't disagree with her about that.

[Buckeye]

Gee, at the rate the unemployment numbers are coming down, it won't be long before DuDa is the only remaining person no one will hire.

[NK]

caro-- Manhattan crane collapses are no bueno. High likelihood someone is going to die when something that big collapses in congested Manhattan.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Looks like a 180' main boom with a 60' jib. I think it may have counter collapsed backwards from the position of the cab.--

They had just used it to lift Michael Moore into ICU.
Now, we all know correlation is not causation. Just sayin....

[henry]

he does resemble a wrecking ball in shape and function.

[jimmyk]

thinks her future is screwed by the national debt and old age entitlements for old fools like me.

NK, does she politely suggest that you should leave her a larger bequest as compensation?

[Texas Liberty Gal]

MM

Missed your comment 2 threads ago about watching the hearse go by-thanks for starting my morning off with a chuckle.

[Buckeye]

TM

Gotta be tough living in a politically divided family.

My biggest challenge is to not say anything negative about Cruz in front of my wife or daughter.

[clarice]

After watching Hillary's performance as Sec of State, how dumb do you have to be to consider her up to the next level of govt?

[jimmyk]

Why isn't Michael Moore going to Cuba for his hospitalization? Or Canada? If he's in the Detroit area that's just a short drive away.

[clarice]

http://www.steynonline.com/7445/that-smell-isnt-the-ethanol

[Captain Hate]

Tennis Coatrack's

Tsetse Fly Overcoat is just taking advantage of the cottage industry created by Bill Ayers 404 to write not at all erudite self-obsessed victim porn for clueless white people like Brooksie who either don't know any blacks or are scared shitless of them.

[NK]

jimmyk-- no, she knows that's not gonna happen.

Instead, she assures me that she will not be the one dabbing oatmeal off of my chin, and occasionally she says things like, "there are such things as ice floes ya know" Great kid, but tart tongue. Must get that from her mother.

[pagar a bacon, country ham and sausage supporter]

Remember the bldg our President was so proud to be in with all the symbols of this bunch?

http://www.weaselzippers.us/254695-debate-over-sharia-law-finds-its-way-to-sc-state-house-local-imam-voices-support/

http://i-supportisrael.blogspot.co.il/2016/02/8-year-old-bride-died-after-being-raped.html

"She was only 8 year old, but it is legal under sharia law in Yemen"
"8-Year-Old Bride died After being raped by her 40-Year-Old Husband"

[Jeff Dobbs]

Buckeye:
Being a black female is even better...

Wait. What? Are you saying that you're a....oh wait.

One of my BILs is about 15 years my junior. He entered Med School late 80s at Ohio State.

Wait. What? Are you saying you have a brother in law who is...oh wait.

He got paired with a black female student with an attitude.

Whew. That was a wild ride.

[danoso]

Shame Obama can't have another 8 years, he'd have that rate down to 0.0%, a feat not accomplished since the fall of the Soviet Union.

[Jane]

Buckeye,

Same in my law school. Between the old people (me at 31) and the minorities, the difference between the young white kids and the rest of the class was glaring. I had one black woman friend who was absolutely brilliant and clearly would have gotten in on merit. I felt badly for her because she was considered a minority acceptee.

At least we old people brought experience to the table but even so it was obvious who was smarter.

TM, my niece was in HS during the Clinton days and it was amazing how acceptable blow jobs became overnight. Clinton is responsible for the "sexual revolution"

[Janet]

Good questions, links, & info on Clinton's private computer setup while at the State Dept..

"At some point in the near future, there will need to be a reckoning about what the senior officials, the career senior officials in Foggy Bottom knew about what during the Clinton tenure."

http://diplopundit.net/2016/02/03/did-we-ship-anyone-off-to-timbuktu-who-at-senior-levels-knew-what-and-when-about-hrcs-communications/

and this link from from March 2015 - https://nsarchive.wordpress.com/2015/03/05/analysis-of-the-state-department-emails-in-hillary-clintons-possession-and-much-more-frinformsum-352015/

"The Secretary of State was charged to be the watchdog of our history; she was not. Hundreds of others at the State Department including the IT Department, its FOIA shop, and career civil servants had to have seen and known that the leader of their agency was improperly using a personal email address and –as far as the evidence has borne out– did nothing. They should have alerted the Archivist of the United States, their Inspector General, blown the whistle to congress, or leaked the misconduct to the press."

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Finally, many argue, no doubt including Hillary on other occasions, that donors are buying access, not votes.--

What they're buying is influence and power.
When you're a fat kid with your mouth open, the adult who pours the most M&Ms in is the one who already knows your affection can be bought.

Hillary knows it's not a matter of changing your vote because of some extemporaneous quid pro quo; it's acting as the reliable agent for your paymaster from the get go.

Crony and state interests align and so the graft creates the crony-state axis that boxes out the guys trying to get the state's thumb off the scale.
Worse and increasingly, it is all cronies all the time and the only one boxed out is the individual and the citizen/taxpayer.

[Rick Ballard]

"their Inspector General"

There was no IG to report to. Clinton and Obama made sure of that. The IG DNI will probably refer a few State underlings to JustUs to kick off the formal Burn the Witch process. I would prefer to see a continuing investigation with some low level referrals for the time being. Just enough to keep the straw smouldering nicely.

[clarice]

http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/02/04/reince-priebus-and-the-insufferable-rnc-being-stupid-again/

[Jack is Back!]

Video at WPIX of the crane collapse. Not counter but forward. Looks like they were lowering it because of wind speed and it got away from them. Guy sitting in his car at a traffic light never saw what hit him.

I can't post because of WiFi speed here.

I can't see the vid clear enough but there doesn't seem to be a nest of counterweight you'd associate with that much boom and jib.

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[Old Lurker]

I wish more of her peers had the wisdom and insight of NK's daughter regarding the rape performed on her generation by mine.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

LOL, Dave.

[narciso]

of course, amy poehler is not going to come within a parsec of this,

http://twitchy.com/2016/02/05/often-confused-this-demdebate-gem-from-hillary-makes-absolutely-no-sense-vine/

[narciso]

some signs of intelligent life,

http://legalinsurrection.com/2016/02/big-2a-win-4th-circuit-applies-strict-scrutiny-to-maryland-gun-control-law/

[Marlene]

rse's dire warnings about our education system have reached fruition. The Portsmouth paper has a story about UNH students who gathered at the Memorial Union food court to watch the debate. They love Bernie. Even more disturbing is the student who said he had been at Bernie and Hillary events and shook Hillary's hand. He said,"I told her she looked even lovelier in person." I like her charisma and goodness."

[Comanche Voter]

Since when was Hillary capable of a cogent response. Cogent responses are for the little people---and as you can observe Ol Grandma is no longer one of the "little people". Her campaign staff has to keep buying ever larger horse blankets for the old nag to wear.

[Porchlight]

It is terribly un-Christian of me, but why can't Hillary drop dead? These people appear to be in terrible health and yet they hang on for freaking ever and are somehow allowed maximum ability to damage the country the whole time.

[narciso]

she should retire, and tend to those sentient flowers like in minority report,

[Old Lurker]

None of them have to accept anything as pedestrian as Obamacare, Porch.

[Porchlight]

No, OL, and it's testament to the incredible healthcare system that we were able to build absent single payer. But they've just got to tear that down, for the people of course.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--On net, that was not a good moment for Hillary, and her lack of a cogent response continues to be surprising.--

Why surprising?
It's been obvious for years she is a terrible candidate. She can handle, in a journeyman rather than a master's way, routine rote stuff.
As soon as something hits her from an unexpected angle she starts sputtering until "splunge" pops out of her perplexed face.

And because she is such a crook she has all sorts of unexpected angles that simply won't square. In that situation you need a master bullshitter like BillyJeff Rape Kit to spin the flim flam bafflegab web until everybody has their head cocked to the side like RCA's Nipper confused but soothed at the sound of their master's voice.

Flim flam men however are born not made and hideous Hillary was not born into a denim gene pantsuit.
She'll forever be the incompetent understudy who could only survive, remora like, next to her shark of a spouse.
Sharks without teeth don't last long and BJ is looking like he's not far from a strictly tapioca diet these days so the remora has to fend for herself. Parasites don't last long when the host is sick.

Those who sow the wind will reap the whirlwind which is why HILLARY WILL NEVER BE PRESIDENT.

[Old Lurker]

We should require that all government employees and politicians be required to use only the VA system for their medical needs. No exceptions.

[Gus]

She "Opposed as first lady"....... How nice.
I don't remember voting for First Lady.

[Old Lurker]

It was a two-for-one deal they sold us, Gus.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

"this dem debate gem from Hillary makes absolutely no sense"

Excellent; the veritable creme de resistance.

[Sue]

OL,

You got an amen and hallelujah from me!

[Sue]

But I should point out that you are preaching to the choir.

[Old Lurker]

I know.

[Captain Hate]

As you might expect, she was not really qualified to be there.

I had a similar but opposite attitude experience when I was going to grad school at Crewe (or whatever James calls it). When I had Saturday classes I'd often go over to the campus gym to play pickup games with other students and the campus workers. A few times this tall guy named Lucky (I never found out his real name) showed up who was very pleasant as he absolutely thrashed my ass. One day he took me aside and told me he was starting undergrad in the fall under a scholarship and was worried that coming from a crummy city school he wouldn't be able to cut the mustard.

I told him that being concerned about it enough to talk with me was a good sign. He struck me, based on what little I knew about him, as smart enough to succeed if he kept up with the work, which I told him should be his highest priority. Also, the school didn't give him a scholarship for him to fall so they had an investment in him, which he should take advantage of by asking for a tutor if the light wasn't going on. I finally told him that college wasn't for everybody so that if he gave a good effort but it just didn't work out, he could still figure out how to have a successful and happy life.

I hope he's having a happy life.

[NK]

OL-- be careful about that sentient millennial stuff. If too many of them figure it out as my daughter has, it would be the ice floes for us oldies fer sure.

[NK]

CH@11:42-- you're a good man CH.

[narciso]

what field is he looking into, some are harder then others,

[Captain Hate]

I wish more of her peers had the wisdom and insight of NK's daughter regarding the rape performed on her generation by mine

History will not be kind to our generation.

[Old Lurker]

No worry, NK. By the time they wake up you and I will have Dacha's in the country which we access by limo in dedicated lanes.

[Gus]

Old Lurker, I remember, so Rodham was impeached twice??

[Captain Hate]

Dunno, narc; I assumed that he had chosen wisely in that regard

[NK]

OL-- wait!! I never got my sooper secret crony decoder ring. Can I still get the Dacha?

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

That Legal Insurrection 2nd Amendment article is, in the vernacular du jour, YUGE!
If we end up with different districts applying different levels of scrutiny to gun laws it is almost certain the SCOTUS will take the issue up and with Heller and McDonald as precedent it is hard to see how 2nd amendment rights are the only constitutional rights not the beneficiaries of strict scrutiny...at least with the present court makeup.

[NK]

TomM-- how goes the snow blowing. I am told 4+ inches of heavy wet snow.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--it would be the ice floes for us oldies fer sure--

Won't climate change have you treading water instead?