Ask A Silly Question, Or, Defending The Donald

I am a few days late on this but Obama and the Times joined in so I will too. Here is the Times, noting a recent Trump stink-bomb:

Obama Rebukes Donald Trump’s Comments on Nuclear Weapons

WASHINGTON — President Obama on Friday questioned Donald J. Trump’s fitness for office after statements from the Republican front-runner that the United States and its allies should move away from decades of constraints on the use of nuclear weapons. “We don’t want somebody in the Oval Office who doesn’t recognize how important that is,” Mr. Obama said.

Here is the Times summary of Trump's remarks [detailed at Red State]:

Mr. Trump said he was open to allowing Japan and South Korea to acquire nuclear weapons to deter their rogue neighbor, North Korea. He also declined to rule out using nuclear weapons in a military conflict in Europe, saying, “You don’t want to, say, take everything off the table.”

Let me take the easy one first - nuking Europe may sound extreme but the US has never adopted a "No First Use" policy in Europe because we feared NATO's ability to hold off the Soviets with exclusively conventional arms. Trump may even have a vague recollection of the Pershing missile debates during the Reagan era, and even today, the current Obama doctrine under the most recent Nuclear Posture Review would have the US use nukes against Russia.

The document to be released Tuesday after months of study led by the Defense Department will declare that “the fundamental role” of nuclear weapons is to deter nuclear attacks on the United States, allies or partners, a narrower presumption than the past. But Mr. Obama rejected the formulation sought by arms control advocates to declare that the “sole role” of nuclear weapons is to deter a nuclear attack.

And since you asked, this was as of 2010:

“We are going to pursue opportunities for further reductions in our nuclear posture, working in tandem with Russia but also working in tandem with NATO as a whole,” [Obama] said.

An obvious such issue would be the estimated 200 tactical nuclear weapons the United States still has stationed in Western Europe. Russia has called for their removal, and there is growing interest among European nations in such a move as well. But Mr. Obama said he wanted to consult with NATO allies before making such a commitment.

So, the concern exhibited in outlets such as the Washington Times and Mother Jones seem to misapprehend current US policy with respect to nuking Europe.

Of course, the obvious caveat is that there is virtually noting in the Trump oeuvre to suggest he has any idea what current US policy regarding first use of nuclear weapons is, or what the various arguments might be for changing it. But he does seem to grasp that nukes make a big BOOM, so we have that going for us.

And to be fair to the critics, the Red State transcript (although not the subsequent breathless "analysis") show Trump was initially talking about using nukes against ISIS. The segue to a broader discussion of US nuclear deterrent strategy is not obvious.

Well. As to Trump's suggestion of encouraging Japan and South Korea to go nuclear in order to save the US a few billion of our defense budget, TIME Magazine provides some budget math showing that the numbers aren't there.

However! I have certainly advocated a comparably bold strategy at various cocktail parties, from a different perspective. China, which has its reasons, has never exerted the kind of restraining influence on North Korea that the US and our allies would like to see, and Chinese enforcement of the new UN sanctions does not appear to be energetic. On the other hand, change may be in the wind.

So, somewhere on the border between bold and reckless is this suggestion - remind the Chinese leaders that the US can only promise so much to its allies, but if North Korea remains uncontrolled we won't be able to stop South Korea and Japan from developing their own nuclear deterrent.

The Chinese will never tolerate that. As to how they would express their lack of tolerance for nuclear diversity in eastern Asia, well, the plan would be that they would crack down on North Korea. Obviously, if they instead engaged in a pre-emptive invasion of Taiwan to stave off US containment the bluff would have to be viewed as a disastrous failure. I mean, really disastrous. And given Trump's lack of knowledge and self-restraint, this is a diplomatic gambit I would not like to see him try.

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[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

This week in pictures sample made me laugh the most. Right click for whole pic;

[Porchlight]

President Obama on Friday questioned Donald J. Trump’s fitness for office

The nerve.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--The Chinese will never tolerate that.--

Yes, well, the problem is of course once a country has nukes it is of no concern to that country what their bullying, expansionist neighbors will or won't tolerate.
Therein lies much of their appeal.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

As far as I can tell Trump's position on nuclear weapons is considerably closer to the US's historic position and vastly safer for us than Barry's insane unilateral disarmament.

[Free James D!]

Yes it is, Ig, not that the MSM will bother to tell us that.

[Free James D!]

I think the reality is that Obama would not use nuclear weapons under any circumstances.

Not even in the event of a WMD attack by a rogue state like North Korea or Iran.

Every single military action Obama has engaged in has either been deliberately counterproductive to our national interests (Libya), or designed to fail from the outset (the "surge" in Afghanistan). I would never expect him to use any military force in the actual defense of this country or its citizens.

[daddy]

A tad OT, but hopefully you guys won't mind.

Last night I went to the retirement ceremony for probably the craziest of my co-workers whom I have known these last 20 years. It was so odd, but somehow in character with his bizarre character. I think I have in previous years mentioned how if I write a novel he'll be the character. We first met 20 years back when we would do trips from Oakland to Alaska, and get 3 to 4 day layovers up here---he was an excellent pool player and always wanted a partner, so I wound up being it.
He is also the guy that 15 years back, once we both jumped from the 727 to the much larger MD-11, after a 2 AM out and back from Paris to Frankfort to Paris, he decided we needed to take the Flat Stanley drawing, done by his adopted daughter during wife number 2 phase, and take it to Père Lachaise Cemetery to be photographed at the tombstone of Jim Morrison.

It seemed like a good idea at the time (4 AM and 3 sheets to the wind) and of course it was, n'est pas?

Anyhow, to cut to the chase, walked into the Crows' Nest lounge on the top floor of our most elegant downtown hotel, the Captain Cook, with huge glass windows overlooking the city and the Cook Inlet.
Very lavish spread of wonderful foodstuffs, an open bar, and 40 or so assorted guests and friends, of whom I knew about a quarter.

My buddy, a very wealthy guy due to an industrial patent invented by his pop, I mingle around and discover that he has unexpectedly unloaded wife number 3, and new wife number 4 is standing there welcoming me, and I suddenly realize that I know her as we have been dog-walking acquaintances for the last few years who have on and off waved to each other and exchanged "Hey's" on the back trails at Kincaid Park. A very, very pretty lady, I am stunned and floored all at once.

In quick fashion I discover my man was able to hold on to the house in San Francisco, in Maui, and in Anchorage, and number 3 is apparently now back in China with the ex-in-laws. Amazingly, none of that part stuns me at all. It'd be exactly what I'd expect:)

So that was for openers.

Anyhow, as the evening proceeds, I notice that back in one section of the room he has set up a big screen monitor playing numerous shots of planes and locations around the world where he has landed and fooled around on layovers these last 38 years of his career. I notice, while watching some excellent shots of the big stone heads from Easter Island,
with my man in the the center of the pics, that the young Argentinian guy standing next to him is the guy I have heard scuttlebutt about thru the crew force---my man's new Spiritual Advisor. Then there is pics of the the 2 of them in St Peter's Square in the Vatican Courtyard in Rome underneath a double rainbow,
and finally there is a shot of the guru and the current Pope Francis hugging, and the young Guru handing Francis a letter. The rumors I'd heard turn out to be true---Ha!

Later, after much hobnobbing with all sorts my acquaintance/buddy/hero/partner in crime, takes the microphones and relates to us all many episodes of how much fun he has had these last 4 decades, but that how he now has become a "LightBringer," working to bring a new consciousness to the world. Number 4 then steps up to read a translated letter from the Guru, and the new game plan is that my man and a small entourage plane to spend 5 years flying around the world in his twin Engine private Business Jet, and visit Earth's "chakras" as discovered by the Guru, following the Guru's study of Plato's comments on Atlantis, and the intersection of the points of Pythagorus's Icosahedron and dodecahedron when mapped on the Globe.

The trip we are told, will originate in Antarctica, where the Spiritual Master has recently discovered a previously undiscovered pyramid, (erected by the Sumerians in some distant age, after they arrived here by spaceships), and 5 years later the trip will conclude back in Antarctica at the very same pyramid.

Then we had dessert.

Anyhow, tho' that project is not exactly my cup of tea at the moment, having (full disclosure) always been more a Mu fan than an Atlantean devotee, I think my former pool shooing partner is the perfect guy to undertake the job, especially since his son's career as an actor in Hollywood is starting to take off, after he did such a good job of getting stabbed in a reality TV episode of "Wives With Knives,"
therefore we might finally get the serious pushback those Hollywood Scientology dupes deserve.
Go Atlanteans!

I can go into more detail if anyone is interested, but I think I've pretty much covered the high points of last nights shindig. I am sorry that the Coen Brothers were not there to film it all, and most of all I am sorry that my friend is retiring from the company, because he was so good at drawing the attention of the muckity-mucks in power, that the rest of us were able to stay off the radar screen and pretty much out of trouble. That luxury is soon to be winging it's way to Antarctica, and lord knows it's going to be tough to find another "one of a kind character" like my buddy to step up and take the place as the new 'lightning rod' for the crew force that he was. Oh well, hope it ain't me.

Go 'Heels!

[narciso]

Great story, daddy.

'tiger beat doesn't dissapoint does he?

[Buckeye]

Gee daddy, I had to read that twice to be sure I wasn't missing anything.

I thought one of my friends was eccentric when he bought his second jet because he needed enough seats to haul his friends to NFL games.

But haul them all around the world?

I don't think I know anybody I want to hang out with for five years!

[narciso]

of course, eisenhower used nukes as a force multiplier, the french did develop the force de frappe, an undertow in the Topaz story,

[narciso]

some perspective,

http://twitchy.com/2016/04/02/pot-meet-kettle-obama-blasts-trumps-foreign-policy-understanding/

[Would we had such leaders today.]

Well, De Gaulle's threat to 'tear off an arm of the Russian Bear' was a threat to use his French weapons against Russian cities, when the US was only willing to use theirs to strike military targets.

[Threadkiller]

Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump

.@HeyTammyBruce- Thank you for your nice words on Fox today. They never use my full statements on nuclear, which you would agree with!

[narciso]

the problem is degaulle had the sapphire ring, uris named it topaz, that fed him desinformatya, just like with some kennedy conspiracy craziness, I found in talbot's book long screed about Dulles,

[narciso]

what I said, about clan led organization, it's a big tribe, so he may not be related,

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2016/03/us-strike-on-camp-targeted-local-aqap-fighters-not-external-network-commander-claims.php

[maryrose]

Great story daddy
Your friend sounds like a real character and a fun friend
Don't you love going to those kind of parties where you keep pinching yourself to determine you are really there!
I love hearing about other people daily lives and try to picture what all of you look like
Iggy
I am thinking about your family today
What a great love story

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Jeebus, daddy.
Tell that nut to go down to the local church, say a couple of Hail Marys and then use the money he's going to waste on five years of visiting non existent chakras to save a few score thousand lives of real, live starving, sick and dying children.

[Threadkiller]

Honorable:

"Yeah, it was a mistake," he told columnist Maureen Dowd. "If I had to do it again, I wouldn't have sent it."Dowd was asking about an incident last month in which Trump retweeted a picture of Cruz, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's wife, during a spat involving a nude photo of Trump's wife, Melania, that was circulated by an anti-Trump super PAC.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/02/politics/donald-trump-heidi-cruz-tweet/index.html

With the right amount of humility.

Leadership...

[pagar a bacon, country ham and sausage supporter]

James D @04:45.
Believe you have stated it perfectly.
---------------------------------
Daddy, IMO, you have to write a book. Your stories are too good to lose. A friend of mine who has led a very meaningful life is writing one, but IMO, your's could surpass his in appealing to readers.

[daddy]

Great story daddy

Thank you Maryrose for those kind comments. When my alien ancestors come and take over this planet I will do my best to ensure that you, being one of the kind ones, are well served!

[maryrose]

TK
Of course he is sorry it is going to cost him Wisconsin and possibly the nomination
Shows a lack of good judgement
We already have one of those in the WH
Too little too late and no it doesn't show honor or leadership
A leopard doesn't change its spots
We know who he is now

[Threadkiller]

?

[maryrose]

Daddy
I just posted a not very nice comment about Trump
Oh well being the year of mercy I denounce myself and hope he means what he says

[Frau Flitzebogen]

Brought forward only to thank TK for the funny bee bit at the end of the last thread

[Porchlight]

I agree, daddy should write a book!

[Frau Flitzebogen]

I second Porch's motion even though she did not "so move."
Robert's is so Old School.

[narciso]

certainly, you are the steinbeck or the michener if you prefer of this group,

there are some interesting people I was acquainted with, one was a walter mitty type, who pretended to
some secret counter terror specialists, one good natured bohemian anarchist, who I encountered in the last brick and mortar bookstores down south,
I found a used one up here in palm coast,

[narciso]

there is an Argentine historian and one time music producer, 'who saw the wicked wind, they way coming
back in 2008, past is prologue,

[Frau Flitzebogen]

Iggy, did you notice Mt. Shasta was listed on the chakra map? We always acknowledge the vortex as we zip by on our way northwards or southwards. We've nicknamed it Mt. Schatzi.

Mt. Shasta is California’s most beautiful mountain. On a clear day you can see it from at least 100 miles away. People who live near it have remarkable stories about the 14,162-foot Cascade volcano.

The most remarkable stories are the legends about the mysterious people who supposedly live inside the mountain. They are said to be descendants of an ancient society from Lemuria, a lost continent that sunk eons ago. These Lemurians supposedly live deep inside the mountain in apartments plated with gold. In this secret colony, they preserve their ancient customs.

Lemurians are commonly described as graceful and tall — seven feet and up — with long, flowing hair. They dress in white robes and sandals. They are said to have long, slender necks which they adorn with beautiful decorative collars made of beads or precious stones.

Perhaps their most unusual physical characteristic is a walnut-sized organ that protrudes from the center of their foreheads. This sixth-sense enables Lemurians to communicate among themselves by extra-sensory perception.

daddy, more about the Lemurians and Mt. Schatzi @ LUN

[pagar a bacon, country ham and sausage supporter]

Bees win!

http://news.sky.com/story/1671461/swarm-of-bees-attacks-worshippers-at-mosque

[Frau Flitzebogen]

For once, a burka could be useful, pagar.

[daddy]

Villanova is killing them in the first half 35 to 21. Wow!

Hope you guys are all set to root for my Team when the really Big NCAA Basketball Game goes down later:
Anchorage Alaska Lady Sea Wolves (38-2) Versus the undefeated (34 and 0) Lubbuck Texas Christians

Go Wolves, Eat them Christians alive!

[Truthbetold]

TK

You really are making a fool of yourself.

[Threadkiller]

Honey Bee don't give a s**t.

[Truthbetold]

Carry on.

[Threadkiller]

Abdul? This is Achmed.

Our cell has been flushed out.

Bee well.

[Threadkiller]

LOL Frau!

[daddy]

Iggy, did you notice Mt. Shasta was listed on the chakra map?

Frau,

That might explain why somebody's, shall we say, "'possibly possessed' relation" is always trying to steal the property, so he can close the inter-dimensional doorway and keep us from our spiritual oneness with Astral reality.

[Truthbetold]

TK

Guess while you were reading the NYT you did not notice this article.

Electoral Map Is a Reality Check to Donald Trump’s Bid
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/03/us/politics/donald-trump-general-election.html?_r=0

[daddy]

On the other hand Frau,

It is also interesting to note that in 1911 a solitary character walked out of the woods near the south side of the Mt Shasta Chakra stargate and explained in his lost language that his name was Iggy, which sadly was misunderstood and was then spread around as the name Ishi: THE STORY OF ISHI

There are coincidences in this world of course, but with such evidence staring us in the face surely it's time for somebody we all think we know and love, to come clean don't cha' think?

[Miss Marple 2]

daddy,

Great story! I am glad you wrote it all down. Like someone else said, I read it twice.

Too funny about the new wife being a dog walking acquaintance, plus somehow Pope Francis! Amazing stuff!

[narciso]

this was one of the reasons the Division was set up,

https://books.google.ca/books/about/The_Sapphire_Affair.html?id=BdprAgAAQBAJ

[Times have changed.]

daddy, I read your story of Ishi, and what strikes me is the difference between the respect offered by his friends after his death about his disposal, and the disrespectful fight over his brain by activists eighty years later.

[Thomas Collins]

Today, defending The Donald, despite his outrageous remarks, is easier than defending 'Nova.

[Times changed then, too.]

Another striking thing is the sensibility of the researchers, circa 1910 contrasted with the fact that 40 years earlier his relatives were still being massacred.

[narciso]

even four years after, they were verklempt,

http://www.nytimes.com/1984/09/29/books/books-of-the-times-arms-and-reagan.html

the pathology has percolated to the present day, with winik among the few correctives,

[daddy]

Thanks Miss M,

The most astonishing thing is that it's all true---I didn't exaggerate a single word:) I don't know if the rest of you guys have an acquaintance like him, where no matter where or when you meet him, daily or just sporadically every few years, that whatever his/her latest energetic kick du jour is, is so nutty and interesting and stupid and funny, that you can't help from laughing and being hugely entertained by just watching it all.

What a world we live in, no? Thank the gods for laughter.

Speaking of laughter, Oklahoma could use a good dose of laughter right about now---losing 77 to 41 with only 7 minutes remaining---yikes.

[narciso]

that constitutes a nuking from orbit,

the last griffin series, is a tale of several iconoclasts, including a standin for butterworth, a portly lad, clearly meant to be kissinger, stumbling around in post war Germany, at the eve of the CIA, but with the aplumb of the 4077th

[Buckeye]

Okies couldn't look more awful.

Worse case of "we suck" flame out I have seen in a long time.

[Thomas Collins]

Is this a Final Four game, or a first round 1/16 matchup?

[daddy]

Is this a Final Four game, or a first round 1/16 matchup?

LOL. And here I was sweating meeting Oklahoma in the finals:)

Like my wife used to say about The Dave Clark Five, Pee Yew!

[Dave (in MA)]

Posted by: Frau Flitzebogen | April 02, 2016 at 06:47 PM, Dammit Frau, that's exactly what I was going to say. :)

[daddy]

Gee Bus,

'Nova beat Oklahoma like Trump beat !JeB.

[Miss Marple 2]

daddy,

I had a friend sort of like that, although given my age and that she was a female, she only got arrested by Interpol and spent some time in a Canadian prison. Her ex-husband let her take the rap for smuggling hash into Canada, back in the glamorous 60's. She dumped him and got a Ph.D in econ and worked for one of the liberal think tanks in DC, but probably is now retired.

[Michael (fpa Patriot4Freedom)]

Oklahoma was getting beaten so badly, they seemed at times to have almost forgotten how to play the game. Something only the worst nuking does to a team.

Not surprisingly, the *worst* blowout in Final Four history.

[pagar a bacon, country ham and sausage supporter]

Isn't this the guy who wants Mexicans to vote in the US elections?

http://www.weaselzippers.us/264730-mexican-president-enrique-pena-nieto-paid-600000-to-rig-elections-with-hacking-and-fake-social-media-profiles-alleges-jailed-hacker/

[narciso]

this was the piece I referred to this morning:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/02/world/middleeast/a-cia-grunts-tale-of-the-fog-of-secret-war-douglas-laux.html?_r=0

he's a low man on the totem pole, the 500 million went somewhere,

[narciso]

guess who said it,

"And a disappointed Sanders voter with that yearning [to rebel] could, in a general election, sit on the sidelines or vote for Trump before siding with Clinton, unless she makes some adjustments defter than any that she has made so far. Worst of all, an epically nasty general-election campaign would do nothing to unite the country and give the next president much of a chance of governing effectively.

[daddy]

Kim,

I recall years back, probably in the 1980's reading the Ishi book and then visiting some display on campus at Berkeley of his life story and artifacts. I do recall how very respectful his scientist/friend was of him. I didn't know about the brain wars of the 1990's.

Odd how we have had books and incidents of Broca's Brain, Einstein's Brain, and Ted Williams head, being hauled around the country in Buick's and such over the last 50 years or so. What odd critters we are.

I hope Steven Hawking's head doesn't wind up in a Prius:(

And don't get me started on John Dillinger.

[Skoot]

I was going to share an oddball fact I learned about one of our nukes but I can't find it online and I can't recall the setting in which I was told, so I'm not typing it.

Anyhoo.. just the other day, with Hillary emails in the news and all, I brought home an email I received to show my kids how one might discuss classified on an unsecure network.

We're going to need the roll motion equations for that thing we talked about awhile back in the vault downstairs.

easy peazy :)

And I keep seeing these articles on Trump's narrow path to 1237 and I'm thinking Cruz's path to get wins in 3 more rule 40 states is narrower. I think it's more likely Trump gets to the 1237 mark than Cruz makes it onto the first ballot. Not by a lot but still... it's gonna be interesting.

[lyle]

Wow, that was an ass-kicking. I actually feel sorry for those Sooners. Wait. Nah.

I have no skin in the final four but I love seeing the Sooners look the same way when my alma mater beat them in the Fiesta Bowl '07.

[narciso]

it had to come from a den of scum and villainy,

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/02/the-wolf-of-wall-street-dragged-into-malaysia-corruption-scandal/

[narciso]

was it about permission action links, or something more obscure,

[narciso]

I remember when I saw the first shots from the avengers, they made sense, this is something else,

http://mcuexchange.com/doctor-strange-and-baron-mordo-shown-in-new-set-photos-and-clip/

[narciso]

vicious seems to be a family trait:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/02/charity-backing-anti-israel-rallies-has-state-cash-pulled/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

[daddy]

If I loved Rap Music I would love the NCAA commercials during the breaks.

Too bad I hate Rap Music.

Is there such a thing as Elevator Rap Music? If not, why not? Wonder what it would sound like?

[narciso]

something even dante would have been loath to envision, when I watch I have the tv on silent,

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/obama-nixed-cia-plan-could-have-stopped-isis-officials-n549111

[Miss Marple 2]

DRUDGE REPORT
‏@DRUDGE_REPORT

'BATMAN V SUPERMAN' Box Office Plunges 70% in Second Weekend...
-----------------------------
Deservedly so, according to what I have read.

[clarice]

daddy..I llove your stories so much. Before you retire smuggle me aboard to follow you on your last gambol around the world.

[daddy]

Name your Chakra, Clarice:)

[narciso]

what I suspected after all the buildup,

http://www.weeklystandard.com/men-of-steal/article/2001785

maybe put chris nolan back in the director's chair or hire berlanti, before this franchise, goes pearshaped,

[Miss Marple 2]

daddy,

What will you do when you can't check in with those friendly barkeeps in various Asian countries?

Alas, you will probably never return to Indy!

[daddy]

Ha! Reading my above out loud, see how hard it is to say "Chakra Clarice" quick.

Try it thrice out loud:

Ckakra, Clarice.
Ckakra, Clarice
Ckakra, Clarice.

Man, that hurts the roof of my mouth!

We ought to make bets on who could say it faster, Chris Matthews, Ben Shapiro, or Barney Frank!

[narciso]

Iron Man 3, beat it in this same initial week, and it's 81%, supposedly it needs 800 million just to break even,

[daddy]

I hate this announcers guts.

Man, does he love the Syracuse Orange. I hope we beat the snot out of the Orangemen just to get the announcer to shut the hell up.

[Free James D!]

I know they're cheats, and I know they have no right even being in the tournament with 13 losses, but if Syracuse wins tonight, I officially clinch first place in my pool (for the first time in 29 freaking tries!), so Go Orange!

If UNC wins tonight, I still win the pool if Villanova beats them Monday, which doesn't seem like an unreasonable bet after the way they played earlier tonight.

[Miss Marple 2]

narciso,

I never thought an American franchise would produce something as bad as my all-time favorite bad horror movie, the Mexican "Wrestling Women vs. the Aztec Mummy."

The villain was some guy named The Bat, who looked like Xavier Cugat in a fedorah and cape.

Favorite line:

Narrator: "He threw him into a nearby pit of snakes."

My sisters and I (who used to stay up late and watch this stuff when we were in junior high and high school) still laugh about that line.

[Centralcal on iPad]

Daddy: you are gifted at observation of everything around you, plus well read and well versed on the human condition, which you relate back to us so entertainingly.

Just think what the rest of us miss in life, because we do not have your eye or ear or talent in recognizing.

The big "joke" at JOM (started by Clarice, I think) was to say "xxx you are my favorite!" I betcha quite a few of us could say with all sincerety, "daddy, you are and always will be my favorite"

Now, please, go shut the damn garage door!!

[Buckeye]

daddy

switch to TNT

[narciso]

it's a classic, like spock said of 'harold robbins and jacqueline susann,' in star trek 4, there weres some beauts, that mst3k reviewed in the course of the series,

[clarice]

Live--https://youtu.be/X1qOA2PVDS8

Eau Claire wi live Trump meeting==revealing Cruz' un reported action to increase immigration to US.

[clarice]

correction--Racine, wi

[narciso]

a full chimp circle,

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/03/donald-trump-2016-terrorist-attack-foreign-policy-213784

[daddy]

What will you do when you can't check in with those friendly barkeeps in various Asian countries?

beats me Miss M,

I had thought about going and working as a bartender for a month simply for room and board at all my favorite bars around the world so that I can stay in the loop, but I don't think momma would go for it since I wouldn't be getting a paycheck:)

Also years back, having been a Hanglider in younger days, I considered writing a book going around the world and high gliding the religious sites of the world, with good pics, explaining the launch and lift conditions, and a bit of the local religion history---(i.e.) jumping of Meteora in Greece,
or launching from Masada in Israel and seeing if I could make it to Jerusalem---that sort of stuff. Who wouldn't want to do something like that?

Oh well, possibly my jabbering about such stuff 20 years back sunk into my buddies brain and lead to his "Chakra" phase. I left out his tale of Machu Pichiu and of the Devali Festival in Delhi, but some other time, as the games about to restart.

Thanks Buckeye, I didn't know it was on different channels.

[Skoot]

I'm watching Worlds. Little Kazakhstan girl killed it. Lots of potential. Final group on the ice. Gold and Wagner vs. the Ruskies. Could be first US winner since 2006

[narciso]

they are as toadyish as politico,

http://screenrant.com/batman-dceu-solo-movie-warner-bros-affleck/

[narciso]

cool, daddy, although you would need a back up chute or something,

[daddy]

Heels by 14.

Woo Woo Woo Woo Woo Woo Woo!!!

Much easier and way more fun than saying Chakra Clarice:)

[clarice]

http://conservativerefocus.com/blogs/blog5.php/2016/04/01/reuters-national-tracking-poll-shows
Reuters Trump's national lead growing.

[narciso]

any words, marko,

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3416913/posts

[narciso]

william goldman's theory holds here,

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3416903/posts

[Frau Flitzebogen]

daddy, no one has brought up the connection between Ishi and Ursula Leguin who wrote, among others, "The Left Hand of Darkness" and "The Lathe of Heaven".

In the 92 years since the so-called last wild Indian was found cowering in an Oroville slaughterhouse, Alfred Kroeber's descendants have resisted speaking for him. After all, by what right does a privileged California clan represent a persecuted Indian simply because their father was the anthropologist who studied him and their mother, Theodora Kroeber, wrote a book that made him famous?

But that logic hasn't stopped people from quizzing the pair's sons, Karl and Clifton Kroeber. Their daughter, Ursula K. Le Guin, also deflects questions about Ishi that come up at readings of her bestselling science fiction books. Fellow police officers sometimes ask LAPD Capt. Scott Kroeber, Clifton's son, about the Native American once called "the wild man of Mt. Lassen."

It seems the family is inextricably tied to Ishi, the man said to have been the last North American Indian roaming the wilds. As the tale goes, his Yahi tribe was hunted and massacred in the late 1800s until only a handful remained. They hid out in the Mt. Lassen foothills, about 130 miles north of Sacramento, for 40 years. Finally, Ishi, apparently the last survivor, was driven out of the wilderness by hunger or despair, maybe both.

Slaughterhouse butchers found him, barefoot and emaciated, wearing a canvas shirt, with buckskin thongs hanging from his pierced ears. He was promptly jailed but was soon sprung from captivity by anthropologists Thomas Waterman and Alfred Kroeber, curator of the Museum of Anthropology at UC San Francisco. (The museum later moved to UC Berkeley and became the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology.)LA Times 2003

Ishi was too short to have been a Mt. Schatzi Lemurian.

[Truthbetold]

clarice

Do you think Trump is going to self fund a general election?

[narciso]

all you needed was the right voltage to the shock collar,

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3416765/posts

no, I still don't trust him

[daddy]

Frau,

Fascinating. Knew none of that and will have to reread it after the game and dog walk. Momma is already hollering at me to get up and go.

Arghhh Here's come a Syracuse pushback

[daddy]

Me and my UNC niece up here have our fingers blazing on our iPhones at lightning speed at every play. She's even nuttier than I am.

I hope u guys are having as much fun as we 2 are sweating this contest out. Whew

[narciso]

this was a full year after laux quit,

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/10283758/First-Syria-rebels-armed-and-trained-by-CIA-on-way-to-battlefield.html

[Texas Liberty Gal]

Trump's support among women is so small to be almost non-existent and yet his lead is increasing nationally??? I don't think so no matter what a national Reuters poll says

[Truthbetold]

TLG

Yeah, who do you think the dems want to run against?

[Texas Liberty Gal]

"In recent head-to-head polls with one Democrat whom Mr. Trump may face in the fall, Hillary Clinton, he trails in every key state, including Florida and Ohio, despite her soaring unpopularity ratings with swing voters."

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/03/us/politics/donald-trump-general-election.html