Saturday Afternoon

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[henry]

Beer is good.

[daddy]

Reposted from the dead thread to start the discussion.

Just caught up to Iggy's link of George Wills latest in the WaPo.

Here's Will's position, contrasted with Dennis Prager's:

George Will: If Trump is nominated, Republicans working to purge him and his manner from public life will reap the considerable satisfaction of preserving the identity of their 162-year-old party while working to see that they forgo only four years of the enjoyment of executive power.

Dennis Prager: I will still vote for him as much as I dislike him because I care about America more than I dislike Donald Trump. Okay? That's the best way I can put it.

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One of them cares more about America, one of them cares more about the Republican Party.

I appreciate the clarity.

[henry]

Reposting (with an edit or two):

Republican Party?, or free money for no work, plus a dry cleaning Bennie for his togas. I think the latter with Will and the Pundits. It's not like that band has produced an original work thought in decades.

[Miss Marple 2]

Leaving for the evening for my brother's. He is a democrat as is my sister-in-law, as well as on of my 3 sisters. I will see if I can pick up any Hillary/Bernie scuttlebutt.

TBT will need a new target for the evening. One of you guys can step up to the plate. HA!

[Truthbetold]

MM

You're doing a fine job of exposing yourself.

[henry]

Lol Miss M! Already blew up his safe space in building 7.

[Agent J]

MM please don't feed the basement troll? :-) :-)

[Truthbetold]

henry

Is that a 911 joke? Yeah, that's a funny subject. Isn't it?

[Truthbetold]

It was real funny when Trump took 911 grant money.

[Jack is Back!]

BTW, at the Comic Con, lots of Feel the Bern stickers on tables. Most of the people there seemed like the type but you also had older guys and young kids just looking for their favorite comic books and ephemra.

But Bernie does appeal to the nerds.

[clarice]

Pics on fb of very very poorly attended Cruz rallies.

I take after will tomorrow--I think his was a really awful piece.

[Jack is Back!]

Clarice,

You can tell George is man who just found out he is no longer relevant.

[Truthbetold]

clarice

Your clan is really afraid of Cruz. Bad for crooked business, huh.

[Jack is Back!]

A young Arkansan boy goes off to college. Half way through the semester, having foolishly squandered all of his money on his girlfriend, he calls home.

"Dad," he says, "You won't believe what modern education is developing! They actually have a program here at Hendrix that will teach our dog, Ole' Blue how to talk!"

"That's amazing," his Dad says. "How do I get Ole' Blue in that program?"

"Just send him over here with $1,000" the young Arkie says "and I'll get him in the course."

So, his Father sends the dog and $1,000.

About two-thirds of the way through the semester, the money again runs out. The boy calls home.

"So how's Ole' Blue doing son?" his Father asks.

"Awesome, Dad, he's talking up a storm," he says, "but you just won't believe this -- they've had such good results they have started to teach the animals how to read!"

"Read!?" says his Father, "No kidding! How do we get Blue in that program?"

"Just send $2,500, I'll get him in the class."

The money promptly arrives. The Arkie and his girlfriend are able to buy enough marijuana to last the whole semester. But our hero has a problem. At the end of the year, his Father will find out the dog can neither talk,
nor read. Even though he was always pretty much able to lie his way out of trouble, the Arkie asked his girlfriend to help him think of a really good lie to tell his Dad. She very quickly came up with a plan for him.

So she has him shoot the dog.

When he arrives home at the end of the year, his Father is all excited.

"Where's Ole' Blue? I just can't wait to see him read something and talk!"

"Dad," the boy says, "I have some grim news. Yesterday morning, just before we left to drive home, Ole' Blue was in the living room, kicked back in the recliner, reading the Wall Street Journal, like he usually does".

"Then Ole' Blue turned to me and asked, so, is your Daddy still messing around with that little redhead who lives down the street?"

The Father went white and exclaimed, "I hope you shot that lying damn dog before he talks to your Mother!"

"I sure did, Dad!"

"That's my boy!"

The kid married his girlfriend, they both went on to law school in Fayetteville , he became Governor of Arkansas and President of the United States , and you already know what a lying bitch his girlfriend turned out to be!

[daddy]

Yesterday momma texted me news that CalTech was doing a 2 hour fundraising Seminar deal on Campus and it was being live recorded.
If anyone cares, here is a link to that where at 11 minutes, when the video opens, you'll see about a 10 minute presentation on the Campus, it's history, and what it does. I found it very interesting, especially since in my reading over the last couple decades, I recognize a lot of the names of the folks mentioned. DrJ I suspect knows a few of them personally.

Caltech Campus Campaign Celebration Symposium - 4/29/2016

[Threadkiller]

Beer is good.

Beer Becomes the Latest Scarcity in a Venezuela Crippled by Shortages

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3426205/posts

[henry]

YikesTK! Socialism is bad for beer? Do the BernBros know this?

[Janet]

"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer." ~ Frank Zappa

[daddy]

Ha! A multiobject obsessive, nutter

Posted by: clarice

LOL. As I was saying, catch-up is fun:)

[narciso]

what passes for a rational explanation,

http://hotair.com/archives/2016/04/30/man-who-invaded-baltimore-tv-station-believed-the-world-was-about-to-end/

[daddy]

Momma is laughing about Rubio potentially jumping on the Trump bandwagon..She laughs and say's "Eww, that'l make the fat man Christy awful mad, won't it."

Me, I just laugh and continue drinking my 4th cup of coffee this morning from my Ted Cruz 2016 coffee cup that she and the girls gave me for Xmas.

[pagar a bacon, country ham and sausage supporter]

This will not make Obamacare look any better.

http://denver.cbslocal.com/2015/10/16/largest-health-insurer-on-colorado-exchange-collapses/#.VyL-wDXr1sw.twitter

[Truthbetold]

daddy

The problem for you is you never will catch up. You're not capable.

[daddy]

POLITICO: GOP’s Stop-Trump fever breaks

George Will must have missed the memo.

I guess thats one of the benefits of being an "Up-scale" Voter.

[narciso]

anyone heard of this guy before,

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/alex-beinstein-saudi-arabia-congress_us_572257f3e4b01a5ebde4f58e

[narciso]

this is a detail rarely taken into account,

http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/04/30/exclusive-clinton-crash-hillary-received-hundreds-thousands-less-votes-2016-vs-2008/

[narciso]

is caltech, as hard a path, as they suggested in real genius,

[daddy]

Clarice-you don't have a problem with Trump bragging about the endorsment of the rapist - Mike Tyson?

Tough call, supporting a guy endorsed by a rapist, or putting back in the White House a certified multiple rapist, and his enabling wife. Let me put some ice on that and think about it.

jimmy,
I'm beginning to think blue-green algae has more sense than people.

There's a transgender joke in there somewhere, Iggy.

[Truthbetold]

daddy

That "certified multiple rapist" is one of Trump's golfing buddies. And oh yeah, he attended Trumps wedding as well.

[narciso]

actually will is kind of tepid compared to this guy,

https://twitter.com/GrayConnolly/status/726184823904194560

[pagar a bacon, country ham and sausage supporter]

narciso@6:17!

Anyone know why anyone would vote for her?

[narciso]

it would enter into psychological reasons,

https://www.commentarymagazine.com/politics-ideas/conservatives-republicans/re-the-reckless-rhetoric-of-palin-and-cain/

[henry]

This medical device is what our troll needs.

[narciso]

this will require a lot of wampum

http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/04/30/hillary-clinton-slammed-social-justice-warriors-saying-trump-off-reservation/

[Truthbetold]

henry

Your Ph.D is showing

[Buckeye]

Beer Becomes the Latest Scarcity in a Venezuela Crippled by Shortages

First toilet paper and now beer. If that isn't enough to start a revolution, I don't know what is!

[narciso]

well the rum, which was their earlier export, before oil will also suffer,

http://founderscode.com/al-qaeda-syria-heavy-recruiting/

[narciso]

it wouldn't have occurred to me, but after 13 hours,

https://www.yahoo.com/tv/john-krasinski-star-jack-ryan-222400107.html

[narciso]

so we'll be deluged as if we haven't already by promotions for civil war, next week, was that a big
part of the comic con, jib,

[daddy]

Does it get any lower than this: Man admits he lied about bear attack

[henry]

I was sure that story was about Leo DiCaprio

[GUS]

LeoTardo DeCrapio.

[daddy]

Clarice,

I think you've got a target rich environment:)

George Will: (August 2015)

The Republican National Committee should immediately stipulate that subsequent Republican debates will be open to any and all — but only — candidates who pledge to support the party’s nominee.

George Will today:

If Trump is nominated, Republicans working to purge him and his manner from public life will reap the considerable satisfaction of preserving the identity of their 162-year-old party while working to see that they forgo only four years of the enjoyment of executive power.

[Free James D!]

I guess the White House Correspondents Dinner is going on tonight.

Who, oh why can't a sinkhole suddenly form and swallow up the WashingtonHilton and everyone in it? Or a meteorite strike? Or some other act of God?

[Free James D!]

I wonder if George Will is there tonight, by the way?

[Texas Liberty Gal]

Daddy - You're really good at the smartass comments but they don't add much to the discussion...with all due respect (only because you're a pilot and I have a thing for pilots)

[clarice]

Heh--I wish I'd seen that before..Maybe I can get the editor to add it. XOXO

[Porchlight]

I like George Will and have defended him over the years, but that piece is a real piece.

[narciso]

he removed all doubt around 2008, he had bds almost to the same degree as trump, and proper contempt for maverick,

[clarice]

Because Will in his mind is the gatekeeper for "true conservatives"George Will even opposed Ronald Reagan:[quote] It is worth recalling here that once upon a time George Will was as down on Ronald Reagan as he is now on Donald Trump – and has been in the past on Texas Senator Ted Cruz. In a November 12, 1974 column appearing in the Washington Post on a potential 1976 challenge by Reagan to incumbent Establishment GOP President Gerald Ford, (titled “Ronald Reagan, the GOP and ’76”), Will wrote of Reagan:

But Reagan is 63 and looks it. His hair is still remarkably free of gray. But around the mouth and neck he looks like an old man. He’s never demonstrated substantial national appeal, his hard core support today consists primarily of the kamikaze conservatives who thought the 1964 Goldwater campaign was jolly fun. And there’s a reason to doubt that Reagan is well suited to appeal to the electorate that just produced a Democratic landslide. If a Reagan third party would just lead the ‘Nixon was lynched’ crowd away from the Republican Party and into outer darkness where there is a wailing and gnashing of teeth, it might be at worst a mixed course for the Republican Party. It would cost the party some support, but it would make the party seem cleansed.

Four years later, Will’s first and second choices for the 1980 GOP nomination were Tennessee Senator Howard Baker and George H. W. Bush, neither seen by conservatives of the day as “devoted to the project William F. Buckley began six decades ago with the founding in 1955 of National Review — making conservatism intellectually respectable and politically palatable.”[/quote]

https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2015/08/george-will-and-the-gop-divide#sthash.yUK28ErW.dpuf

[Truthbetold]

Clarice

George will is not running for president. Maybe you should point out all the flip flopping Donald Trump has done.

[newlurker]

Jane, Maybe you did come back too soon. When is your cruise with NRO where you can be with like-minded people? Kevin Williamson comes to mind.

[narciso]

on the latin billboard show, they had adriana lima on,

[narciso]

web griffith, had a tome that broached on this subject,

http://legalinsurrection.com/2016/04/marco-rubio-photo-op-with-che-guevara-assassin/#comments

[narciso]

how did the abbott purge turn out btw,

http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/mirandadevine/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/rage_of_the_tiny_delcons/#commentsmore

[narciso]

if you though brooksie ever had a clue,

https://twitter.com/GrayConnolly/status/726539593718190080

[henry]

Too funny, Mr. Pant Crease.

[henry]

lol narciso... great minds etc.

[Michael (fpa Patriot4Freedom)]

newlurker at 8:12

You are walking right up to the line that separates harassment from stalking.
You should back off before you cross it, lest you find that the cost is too high to pay.

Just a word to the wise, if you know what I mean.

[narciso]

they do have mo dowd's down under, why, use your best guess,

http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/margo_won/

[Porchlight]

Threats are a bit much, Michael.

[newlurker]

My goodness, Michael. Are you threatening me? Jane is a known devotee of National Review and their cruises and dislikes Trump. Why am I not allowed (by you) to mention that? What cost will be too high to pay? Why don't you direct your threats to TBT and Theo?

[Threadkiller]

Maybe you could exact that cost on TBT, Michael.

Assuming harassment/stalking is the problem and not who is getting harassed.

If he is the threshold I'm not to sure how close newlurker is to the line.

For the record I did think newlurker took a cheap shot.

[Free James D!]

Clarice @ 8:01

Boy, that bit at the end of the Will article about cleansing the party really is an ongoing theme with him, isn't it? I suppose he's just not big on having to listen to (or even look at) the untermenschen, is he?

[Threadkiller]

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/04/30/limbaugh-beck-levin-loesch-theyre-not-obtuse-theyre-not-opportunistic-theyre-liars/#more-115630

Sometimes they really nail their research. I cannot trust Cruz, but IVR.

[narciso]

he's going full tufnel,

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/04/30/kate-is-vogue-s-new-cover-girl.html?via=twitter_page

[jimmyk]

For the record I did think newlurker took a cheap shot.

There's been a lot of that going around lately. Must be spring in the air.

[Eric in Boise]

You're really good at the smartass comments but they don't add much to the discussion

Phew, good think I mostly just lurk these days!

[Threadkiller]

That time of the year.

[clarice]

It does sound as though Will has a need to define who's in and who's out--and like Brooks, sharp creases in pants, Ivy educations and a certain way of speaking seem to be the key.
Makes me think he'd be happier if the entire party were made up of such a select group even if they never won another national election.

[Marlene]

I'm watching the correspondent's dinner, inquiring minds,ha. Reince Priebus is sitting next to Wolf Blitzer. What a cozy group of people. The *ladies* from The View are there.
Greta just had her picture taken with Chris Dodd. Biden is working the room. There are more Hollywood types there than politicians.
I won't be watching for long. Someone invited a guy with a braided Mohawk wearing a biker jacket!?
Inquiring minds can watch on C-SPAN.

[Cynic fka Joan]

Eric, 8:52: I've been sitting here reflecting on the post you just mentioned. It took a great deal of restraint not to jump in, but I have done that several times these past weeks and wished I hadn't.

I also wanted to say 'I like daddy's smart ass and his smart ass comments' :) but didn't know if everyone would get my joke.

[jimmyk]

I thought smartass comments were the whole point of the discussion.

[Truthbetold]

TK

That's rich. A trump supporter pleading for a "safe space"

[narciso]

there's a lot of that going around,

http://www.thelocal.se/20160429/brussels-suspect-dumped-bomb-in-toilet

[Threadkiller]

Makes me think he'd be happier if the entire party were made up of such a select group even if they never won another national election.

I think he is a descendent of the generals that proclaimed that the venerable horse would never be replaced something mechanized.

[newlurker]

Well, I guess "crossing the line" means you are not to tell the truth.
We know that Jane loves the NRO Cruises and that she loves the NRO contributors who go on the cruises and we know she does not like Trump. How on earth is that crossing the line? If telling the truth is crossing the line, I guess I did it.

[Threadkiller]

...replaced by...

[Truthbetold]

TK

Is it your belief the GOP should replace conservatives with liberals?

[Beasts of England]

I think Tom Maguire needs to rent us a cafeteria so that we can have a big food fight and settle this once and for all!! ;)

[narciso]

well one is entitled to their opinion, as long as they are civil about it, some #nevertrump sites, are not so, some #nevercruz sites, as well,

[narciso]

on point, I think,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAeqVGP-GPM

[narciso]

we're shocked such things were going on,

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/29/british-extremist-preacher-linked-to-lee-rigby-killer-emerges-as/

[Porchlight]

I don't think newlurker crossed a line and I like daddy's smart ass....wait, did that cross a line?

[Marlene]

Oh my,a lady just brushed her hair at the freaking banquet table! Aren't these supposed to be sophisticated and high class people?

[henry]

Lol Marlene. They tell themselves that every day....

[narciso]

how stupid and self destructive is this,

http://gizmodo.com/today-kenya-is-torching-5-of-the-worlds-stockpiled-iv-1774028292

it's cash for clunkers, east africa division,

[Porchlight]

Yikes Marlene - who would do that? I bet Melania Trump would never. :)

[daddy]

Here in bullet points, using his column from August 2015 and from today, is George Will's logic for how to maintain the integrity of the Republican Party and win future elections:

1)---Every Republican Candidate must publicly pledge to the Republican National Committee and 330 million Americans, that they will support the Party's nominee.

2)---Now that Trump is the Party's nominee, every Republican who took that Pledge must publicly renig on it, else George Will will consider them (his words) quislings (traitors) and collaborationists.

3)---If they do not publicly renig on this Public Pledge, these Quislings (traitors) and collaborationists will have rendered themselves ineligible to participate in the party’s reconstruction.

4)---Only those nominees who renig on that Public Pledge will be allowed to join George Will in rebuilding the honesty and integrity of the Republican Party.

Did I mention that Donald Trump is a logical buffoon?

[Texas Liberty Gal]

I'm the guilty "don't like smart ass remarks" commentor. Its just sometimes certain things are important - like Trump bragging about Mike Tyson's endorsement! And when the only thing offered to counter it is a smartass remark I just find it irritating & off putting. But maybe its just the mood I was in, I normally like smart ass remarks-my husband & 3 sons are full of them.

[narciso]

that's damian lewis, I thought it was john glover, too inside baseball.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3567163/President-Barack-Obamas-chance-zing-Washington.html

[Truthbetold]

The problem is not the smartass remarks. It's the dumbass remarks.

[Michael (fpa Patriot4Freedom)]

Porchlight - Sorry if I offended you. I wasn't threatening 'newlurker', just pointing out that she was crossing the line.

I would do the same if 'newlurker' were doing it to you or any of the other ladies here. She has been taking cheap shots like that for quite some time.

Just for the record, I called for tbt's creepy posts that were attacking Clarice to be deleted a year or more ago. Calling him out is useless, because he has a psychological disorder that doesn't respond to normal conventions.

So, apologies once again to anyone offended.
It's off to the penalty box for me.

[narciso]

good question, the tories are doing their best to make them relevant,

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/30/does-the-labour-party-really-matter-any-more/

[clarice]

Ah--Michael, stick around. New Lurker, too. I' sure neither of you meant to offend anyone.

[Truthbetold]

Change that Patriot4Freedom to Safe Space Michael.

[Captain Hate]

For POI fans:

http://smashinginterviews.com/interviews/actors/michael-emerson-interview-person-of-interest-star-says-fans-of-the-show-should-expect-casualties

[narciso]

sheesh, not even a strange love reference works,

yes, I don't know how adriana could be at two places at the same time,

[Truthbetold]

Safe Space Michael

Is it creepy when Clarice points out what George Will has said?

[Captain Hate]

If you're not offending someone you're probably being boring. I'd hate it if everyone agreed with me; don't get me wrong, I'd make a great dictator, but you'd have to be a brainless [Redacted] like 404 to never want to be challenged.