Waiting For Big John

The Supreme Court listened to arguments about Obama's a la carte approach to faithful execution of our nation's laws. As is so often the case with this precariously balanced court, Big John's a coming!

OK, not that big. But scarier.

Comments

[No Votes Needed]

First!!!!

[Skeptical Voter]

Big John Roberts is a cautious politician--and a disappointment to many---on both ends of the spectrum.

[Dave (in MA)]

It's a tax.

[narciso]

we call him dread pirate roberts@mark o, will he listening to tribe's call to be 'on the right side of history,

[glasater]

Kennedy sounds skeptical..

[Thomas Collins]

This case should be 8-0 if the progs know what's good for them. A small government POTUS can do more damage to progism if Obama's overreach is allowed than a prog POTUS can do to natural liberty.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

John Roberts' career is the Peter Principle applied to Bartleby the Scrivener.

[Dave (in MA)]

h/t Clarice (FB)

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/04/18/thousands-voters-celebrities-register-to-wrong-party.html?intcmp=hpbt1

I'm hoping this doesn't show up on Snopes.

[Captain Hate]

Regarding Queen Roberts, in the words of Mary Jo Kopechne "I've been down this road before..."

[Gentlejim]

I'll bring this over from the prior thread.

DICK Lugar... That worm is probably still trying to figure out why he got primaried. Stack him on Captain Hate's fire.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Dave,
I guess we now know that lefties are too stupid for voter ID.
Not only can they not successfully ID an entire party they can't even successfully not belong to a political party.

[Porchlight]

Guess whose car just got hit in the parking lot by an illegal with no drivers' license. Who was drunk, according to Mr. Porch. Very minor damage, everyone's fine, but STILL....

[Dave (in MA)]

http://media.wrko.com/a/114684214/amb-john-bolton-on-russian-war-games-4-15-16.htm

10 minutes from Bolton on Obama repeatedly getting pantsed by Pooty-Poot.

[pagar a bacon, country ham and sausage supporter]

Is this the same Big John who stock every one with this mess.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-04-18/obamacare-exodus-accelerates-after-georgia-and-arkansas-biggest-health-insurer-exits

[James D.]

Big John Roberts is a cautious politician--and a disappointment to many---on both ends of the spectrum.

I think I'd go with "archtraitor, whose clearly illegitimate decision in the Obamacare case will haunt this nation for decades to come" but I suppose it's one of those tomato, tom-ah-to things.

[daddy]

I personally am for the death penalty for any humans that names their dog "boo."

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Porch,
I hope Mr Porch gave him his SS number so the guy can file and pay his taxes, collect his EITC, per Commissioner Koskinen.

[daddy]

Here is my argument for the death penalty in the case of any human naming their dog "boo."

[Porchlight]

It totally sucks that we have to exchange addresses with the other person, Ignatz.

Mr. Porch wasn't 100% sure about the drunk part but he was pretty sure, because he was following the guy into the parking lot and on the main road the guy was weaving. He had a wife and child in the car, too. Then they get into the parking lot (which is a big, congested one) and the guy inexplicably slams on the brakes and throws the car in reverse. Mr. Porch said he thought he smelled alcohol but he didn't want the guy to get arrested in front of his family (and ours)....tough call though if he's driving his family around while under the influence. Yow.

So now - do we file a claim or don't we? The other guy had insurance but no license. If we file a claim we have to tell Uber and Lyft (Mr Porch's current employers). Damage is near invisible but we have to get the engine checked out for safety.

[Porchlight]

And of course it's a new car so it means a plastic bumper replacement and you know how much those cost.

Ah well, first world problems (sort of).

[Marlene]

Good Lord. The local news is going to make me either laugh or cry. A naked guy randomly shot his gun in Bangor and "may need a mental health evaluation."
Today is the first transgender HIV testing day and local help is available. The marijuana crowd held a protest in front of a county courthouse. All upstanding citizens.
Do you hear me yelling at the TV?!

[peter]

daddy @ 6:04. Motion granted.

[maryrose]

Porch
Nothing is as frustrating as this
You can't anticipate what these drunk drivers are going to do
Would the police arrest him because of no license or just impound the car?

[Old Lurker]

Porch, let the lawyers here give you better advice, but even though you have no damage to claim, I would inform my own insurance company in case this was a scam. We know the guy backed into Mr. Porch but if tomorrow he sobers up and decides he did not back but was rear ended and they all have stiff necks etc etc...you know the drill.

[maryrose]

Marlene
What is the world coming to when this type of lunacy runs rampant?

[daddy]

I don't want to ham it up or nothing but if "Boo" Radley had killed the proper person perhaps we wouldn't have to suffer through this latest "Boo Hoo."

[maryrose]

Did any witnesses see him back up besides your family?

[NK]

Re-Post from last thread:

This is the best thing Trump-Cruz can do for America: Mattis- Carly. Whose with me? http://thefederalist.com/2016/04/15/4-reasons-general-james-mattis-should-be-president/

[jimmyk on iPhone]

Porch, I'm no authority, but I would have said be damn sure to get the guy arrested, file a police report, etc. That's your best bet to protect yourself, especially given the guy backed into you. (I know it wasn't literally you.) what if he claims Mr Porch rear-ended him? At this point I'm less clear on what to do. I would think Uber/Lyft would be forgiving if it knew the facts, but it may be hard to establish the facts now.

[jimmyk on iPhone]

Guess I should have refreshed.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Your tax dollars at work;
Corruption, Incompetence Scandal at DOJ's Ferguson Unit Widens.

[daddy]

Me neither!

Death to Honey Boo Boo's momma!

[NK]

Ig@5:26-- I can't imagine you having been more wrong about anything beyond this one comment.

BTW-- the Obamacare decision has already been used once to validate repeal ObummerCare by Budget Reconciliation, and will be so used again; because as a tax, it is by definition subject to reconciliation.

You can call Roberts arrogant, or a political coward, for putting institutional concerns of SCOTUS above political reality, but he's anything but incompetent.

[MarkO on an airplane, doing magic]

I'm old enough to remember Marxism and that it was Nikita Khrushchev who was the one to utter the words “Whether you like it or not, we are on the right side of history."

One should expect Obama to say it, except he's just not that smart and likely has no idea where the phrase originated.

Roberts? Vidkun Quisling had more loyalty.

[maryrose]

The burning question is whether John Roberts is going to disappoint us again
If they defer a decision Obama loses and lower Appeals Court ruling stands
I prefer go see Cruz's speech as standing on principle rather than grandstanding
I favored the shutdown as well
Not very many people of principle these days.

[NK]

OL-- can you re-post the stats about illiegals/unlicensed drivers and traffic accidents/fatalities. Astounding.I drove past one last week in leafy Darien. Illegal driver --presumably without license/insurance-- obvious shorting a left turn into an oncoming car. Fortunately for the guy who crashed into him, the illegal's car was apparently undriveable, so he couldn't drive off. Fortunately, no one injured. Hopefully the Darien PD put his illegal ass in jail.

[NK]

Loyalty? it doesn't work that way with men like Roberts. He owes his loyalty to institutions of the law, not the petty politics of the day. Thomas More is a saint-- in Rome-- after all.

[maryrose]

Agree with Jimmyk
In one car accident I had (not my fault)'the women later tried to deny she hit me but someone captured it on their phone and showed it to the police officer.

[NK]

The risk of the Texas case is standing, not the merits.

[lyle]

It's NOT a tax. That was yesterday.

[narciso]

sorry to hear that porch,

it's about 50/50 with dread pirate roberts,

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Why I can never completely hate George Clooney.

Clooney noted "we had some protesters last night"..."I went over to try to talk to them and he said I was some corporate shill, which, you know me, that's one of the funnier things you could say about me. And then he just said, 'You sucked as Batman,' and I was like, 'Well, you kind of got me on that one.'

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Ig@5:26-- I can't imagine you having been more wrong about anything beyond this one comment.--

You're right and I stand corrected.
A guy who knows right and does wrong is evil, not incompetent.
Better?

[narciso]

he didn't seem that bad in peacemaker, and he was a good conman in ocean 11,

[NK]

Hate is a powerful emotion, so I try not to waste it; it is reserved for a very few people in this world, Clooney is a pompous ass not worth my hate. Clooney is a hypocritical smug bastard who has the temerity to dictate to the rest of us from his compound on the west bank of Lago di Como. How many teenage muzzies does he have living with him in that 4 villa compound? He has plenty of space for dozens, so what is the count?

[narciso]

those words she was using,

http://hotair.com/archives/2016/04/18/hillary-once-praised-transparency-of-impeached-brazilian-lawmaker/

[narciso]

as for miss depp, well I showed you why her other half would be so willing to immolate himself

[NK]

Brazil? is it really a shock that they have shat the economic bed... yet again. We owe so much to the men and women of the anglo-sphere who for centuries created and ran, albeit imperfectly, a market system based on property rights, legal process and disclosure, rather than using national wealth as a source of Kleptocracy. Alas the UK/USA are being ragged into the continental Old World of doing things, just like the rest of the kleptocrats. We are not immune. Tragic.

[narciso]

is it the rule of law, or man,

http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2016/04/18/stakes-are-high-in-mcdonnell-corruption-case-before-supreme-court/?mod=WSJBlog

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

All it took was a little rain on their parade and the BRICS reconstituted as mud.

[maryrose]

NK
Remember Clooney made his tv debut as a bit player on Facts of Life.
RIP. Doris Roberts.

[NK]

BRICS Code = Pirate Code. Steal everything ya can, give nothing back. Commodities tanked, and OPM had already been stolen and spent by the kleptocrats for the kleptocrats. This is what meat hooks and lamp posts are for.

[jimmyk on iPhone]

"A guy who knows right and does wrong is evil, not incompetent"

As I recall, Bartleby wasn't incompetent, just unwilling, and a tad 'off' in the head.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

The "incompetence" angle arose from my invocation of the Peter Principle regarding Roberts, jimmy.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--This is what meat hooks and lamp posts are for.--

Careful there, NK. You may be asked to name names.

[NK]

heh!

[NK]

is Bartleby worth a read?

[NK]

Names? that's for the Brazilians, Venezuelans and Bolivians to decide. Long list of candidates.

[narciso]

I've rambled on about the jugurthan war, and marius and sulla's part in it, and how they helped unwound the roman republic, events in that part of the world, play a part in this tale,

http://www.michaellivingston.com/fiction/novels/the-shards-of-heaven/

[DrJ]

NK,

You might prefer not to. :)

I read it in college, and wasn't that favorably or unfavorably impressed. IIRC it goes pretty quickly.

[Catsmeat]

Absolutely Bartleby is worth a read--in a way, an early John Galt. He dies, and the narrator just stands agape--can we do better? By the way, my international conference (for which I was responsible) was a boffo production --now I will be signally more relaxed. For those of you at home, I am actually (I swear) a real full professor.

[narciso]

congrats catsmeat, could you give me a hint who you are.

[Jack is Back! (As An Officially Declared Islamaphobe)]

Dana Ward? If anyone was catsmeat thats him.

[daddy]

Oh shut-up!

Boo Name Meaning and History:

What Does Boo Mean and History? From the French meaning “beautiful” and used in English to mean “admirer” or “sweetheart”.

Origin of Boo Name
French

But of {redacted} course!!!

Gender of Boo
Boy

Unless he wants to [redacted] in the girls shitter!

Analysis of Boo
Users of this name Energetic , Gentle
Horse-[redacted!]" See video linked above!

Boo Statistics
Color of Boo name: Blue
What the hell? Go hunt some pyramids in Antarctica to get a {redacted} clue, mate!

Number of letters of Boo: 3
Letter Analysis:

Specific analysis for each letter;

B : Successful, Smart
O : Mysterious
O : Mysterious

What is the Numerology of Boo?
Boo name analysis
Who gives a {redacted}, Yogi?

Numerology offers an insight (Bull shit!!!) into the personality by assigning numeric values to the letters contained in names.

B : 2
O : 15
O : 15

Total = 32

Popularity of Boo Name

Hasn’t added any information.

Characteristics of Boo
Boo Numerology Analysis; Calm, Quiet , Perfectionist

Acrostic Poem About Boo

B is for Bountiful, you’re so rich to me,
O is for Original, you’re the only one.
O is for Original, you’re the only one.

Is there a more beautiful poem for the name Boo?

(right {redacted} click)
Send us will publish it for you.

Is there Boo name in the Bible/Torah/Quran?
Ask John Kacish, Hasidic {redacted} Mailmans son.
Boo name hasn’t been found in the Bible/Torah/Quran
Not {redacted} yet!

Spelling Alphabet
Is there some other {redacted} kind?

A spelling alphabet, voice procedure alphabet telephone alphabet etc.

NATO U.S. States Countries
Bravo
Oscar
Oscar –
Ohio
Ohio Belgium
Ottoman
Ottoman
Famous People and fact Named Boo

Beau Brummell was an early conniseur of fashion, he has been credited with bringing to fashion the modern mens suit and tie. His style of dress was later called dandyism.

Another worthless 'effing faggot!

Is Boo name fit for baby name ?

You better hope not a**hole

Our research results for the name of Boo (Boo name meaning, Origin of Boo, Pronounced etc. ) is fit name.You can give to your baby with complacency.

Similar names and nicknames for Boo
Beau

My work here is done.

Martinis.

What are you guys drinking?

[daddy]

Guess whose car just got hit in the parking lot by an illegal with no drivers' license. Who was drunk,

If you shoot him Porch it might make the news.

[Captain Hate]

From Iggy's 6:25

Congress, through its oversight authority, should demand answers from Loretta Lynch about what is being done to investigate and correct this problem and to punish those who, it seems, may have defrauded American taxpayers.

Unfortunately the opposition party has been working so hard on the Koskinen impeachment that it leaves precious little time for anything other than fundraising and schmoozing with lobbyists. I'm sure they'll apply the power of the purse against the DOJ corruption just like they've done in the last six years.

[narciso]

this would drive one to drink;

http://www.wsj.com/articles/alaskas-permanent-fund-loses-its-sacrosanct-status-1460799000?mod=rss_US_News

[Miss Marple]

Daddy,

Am drinking an Australian wine and watching Midsomer Murders on Netflix.

[narciso]

maybe they need some william wallace,

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/18/remain-pulls-ahead-of-leave-in-eu-referendum-poll-as-david-camer/

[daddy]

Separated at birth?

[Captain Hate]

Maybe Alaska can tap into the Human Fund's contributions.

[daddy]

For those of you who have not been following the most important news on the planet.

[jimmyk]

is Bartleby worth a read?

I thought so, 100%, but I could see how it might be not to everyone's liking. One thing to keep in mind is that the title is a bit of a trick: the story is really not about Bartleby, but about the narrator.

[Jack is Back! (As An Officially Declared Islamaphobe)]

daddy,

Johnny and Amber are old news. You need to catch up.

[Catsmeat]

Hi Jimmy K--I used to be "Laura White" but was advised against it, perhaps by you or some other prudent JOM regular--went to another P. G. Wodehouse name and then settled on Catsmeat. Have been lying low since roughly June.

[Texas Liberty Gal]

MM - Thanks for the Netflix recommendations on previous thread - here are several of my favorites - Longmire, The Fall, The Killing and Bloodline.

[Catsmeat]

Or rather I meant that in answer to narciso!

[Jack is Back! (As An Officially Declared Islamaphobe)]

Laura,

Thank God, you are not Dana Gilbert Ward. My apologies.

[Captain Hate]

Anybody read The Confidence Man? Well written, weirdly funny but very dry.

[Mis]

TLG,

Thanks! Will check them out!

Current murder is a oenophile staked down in his front yard with croquet wickets. Murderer then launched bottles of wine on him with a catapult nail he was bludgeoned to death. Also, a s crest wine cellar in the house which no one can find!

[Texas Liberty Gal]

MM - Oh and Lilyhammer!!! One of my favorites. Sadly they did not do a 3rd season

[henry]

Congrats on the conference Catsmeat! Plus welcome back.

[Catsmeat]

Thanks, Henry! Am definitely not Dana Gilbert Ward! Am lifelong hard-right conservative who's been here since the Libby traumas if not particularly vocal--

[Captain Hate]

Congrats Catsmeat!

Did I just hear correctly that the Cackler will be on Colbert tonight or was she what Supergirl saw in the pod for next season? Assuming it was the former, definitely must not watch TV even out of morbid curiosity like gaping at auto accidents.

[Catsmeat]

Watching tv has often dire consequences --I avoid generally and just read-- just taught Wind in the Willows and am reading The Priority of John by J A T Robinson--

[Agent J]

Cats meat what general area of the nation is called home?

You do know you are an odd person out if you are in higher education and you are a Right Winger.

Or do I stand corrected.

[Catsmeat]

All true and I'm in Nebraska!

[Catsmeat]

Originally from Georgia and Florida--intend to retire to the intercoastal or otherwise known as the Halifax--

[The Wolf Who Cried Boy]

Roberts claimed he was just trying to let Congress legislate in the Obamacare decisions. That's okay, but he had to undo their compromises, make words mean the opposite of what they mean and help them correct their homework to do so. He did get marriage right however, or more precisely, who should decide what marriage is.

The question in the current dispute is shall the Legislature be dissolved?

[jimmyk on iPhone]

"You do know you are an odd person out if you are in higher education and you are a Right Winger."

Hi Agent J! :)

[Catsmeat]

The last real conservative in my dept. retired 5 years ago--I'm it as far as a remnant goes. He was wonderful--an expert on 18th c horror who wrote a book on Defoe and demonology--

[lyle]

It's already near dissolution.

[daddy]

He owes his loyalty to institutions of the law, not the petty politics of the day. Thomas More is a saint-- in Rome-- after all.

NK,

Your comment about St Thomas More reminded me that in my current read about the carved Walrus Chess pieces from the 1100's, the author makes the point that in about 1160 a young Icelander named Thorlak. winds up becoming the Bishop of Iceland, which had recently converted from Paganism. It appears that during his travels and education he had met Thomas Beckett in Lincoln and in Paris and had become a fan, so that Thomas Beckett was revered in Iceland as a Saint and his bio was translated into Icelandic only 20 years after his murder in the Cathedral in Canterbury. Here's Beckett getting murdered on a carved Ivory Walrus tusk:

Anyhow, after Bishop Thorlak's death, his sisters illegitimate son, Pall Jonsson, son of the current big local chieftain, becomes the new Bishop of Iceland, and he has the Icelandic Parliament of the time declare Thorlak the first Icelandic Saint, so that instead of Iceland and Greenland devotees sending donations all the way to England in honor of Saint Beckett, instead they start sending donations to this new Bishop of Iceland, Pall, to honor his dead Uncle Thorlak.

Nice trick!

Pall supposedly winds up using some of the donations, paid as homage to his dead uncle, to have the Lewis Chess pieces carved. The most valuable commodity of the Greenland/Icelandics at the time was Walrus Tusk Ivory, so it makes sense that Walrus tusk was lying around as a commodity, and current speculation is that the carver was some Icelandic gal named
Margret The Adroit.

More info as I come across it. Bjork says "Hey!"

[narciso]

that's an interesting area to investigate, apparently captain, or it could be like the alien plant, that induced a dreamstate,

[lyle]

Not that you've asked nor has anyone else volunteered, but if it's all the same, Laura White seems more genteel.

[glasater]

Guess whose car just got hit in the parking lot by an illegal with no drivers' license. Who was drunk, according to Mr. Porch. Very minor damage, everyone's fine, but STILL....

The EXACT same thing happened to me years ago. We only keep liability insurance on all our vehicles and since I got hit on private property we had no recourse because of the state laws. The mexican who hit me didn't have insurance and sure didn't have the dollars to pay for repair so we had to foot the bill.

[Catsmeat]

Well, Lyle, it's unfortunately real and thus unwise! Night all--can't say I'm very good at pseudonyms!

[Agent J]

I new I would bring forth you jimmyk, but I wondered about the many others.

I live outside of a smaller liberal college town just East of KC, Mo. They also run the town, sometimes it reminds me of Detroit and Chicago.

I am primarily an old luurker.(Really old) However I have far more favorite posters then I can name.

[narciso]

there are many rooms in the mansion, as angleton once said, not least of which were those four qataris who appeared on wikileaks, as scouts for the operation,

http://observer.com/2016/04/uncovering-the-hidden-truths-of-911/

[narciso]

I was totally unaware of this aspect of defoe, I looked into him, because of a reference to the south sea island bubble in david liss's tale,

https://www.bookdepository.com/History-Devil-Daniel-Defoe/9781514286432