Open Threading It

Yeah, what took so long?

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[Outlandrr]

1st...

[_peter]

watching the Derby on TV. thinking that there are an awful lot of horses that probably should not be in the race

[henry]

Even more commentators that should not be on TV.

[narciso]

yes, about that,

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/markaz/posts/2016/02/10-obama-syria-policy-experts-hamid

[_peter]

The favorite is named after a hockey player, but not Bobby Nyquist, legendary Islander, go figure

[anonamom]

Love the hats!

[narciso]

and why wasn't this interview run long ago,

http://www.breitbart.com/hillary-clinton/2016/05/05/hillary-clinton-server-hundreds-folders-says-hacker/

[_peter]

Even more commentators that should not be on TV.

Posted by: henry | May 07, 2016 at 06:33 PM

Amen

[Jack is Back!]

Its 20 now but it will be only 6 or 7 in Pimlico and even less at Belmont if there is no Triple Crown possible.,

[Captain Hate]

NBC is the worst in covering anything.

[Jack is Back!]

Okay, based on that, I think Exagerrator is good bet for the Preakness.

[_peter]

exaggerator made some run in the stretch, just ran out of track

[Miss Marple 2]

Catain Hate,

They have ruined the Olympics, the Derby, and the football playoffs.

Pribably other sports, too, but I am not a big sports watcher.

I miss the old days of ABC sports. They were great!

[maryrose]

From former thread
Trump presumptive nominee No power in Oz
Ryan elected by the people and the Congress to his current position as Speaker third to the presidency.
Despite Lipscomb's job as a journalist in a dying career his coronation of Trump doesn't wash because we are not England and there is no throne for Trump to ascend to.He isn't president yet and he needs to hone his people skills before he can be an effective leader
Unimpressed with this screed
I picked Exagerator ,came in second.
Will watch PBS tonight to see Branagh as a Swedish detective .

[henry]

Miss M, it used to be we got to see the best athletes in the world, then human interest stories and whatever chopped liver the US offered in random events, now just the announcers.

[Stephanie]

Come on Dover! Come on Dover! Move your bloomin Azz!!!

Wait, what?

Happy Birthday, JimmyK and to anyone I've missed lately. Too damn busy with the new gig. Yike!

[narciso]

this post does expand to the whole twitter feed therein, but it does cover the big story I think from this week,

http://narcisoscorner.blogspot.com/?view=sidebar

[Jack is Back!]

maryrose,

Branagh as Kurt Wallander? Good pick. Read everyone of the books and even watched the Swedish TV adaptations. Thank God for close captioned subtitles. Good choice. But layoff the Trump stuff. Nothing you can do now but sit out and that is not a legitimate opinion.

You can always reconsider like I have.

[narciso]

Caterva is one crazy ride, perhaps too crazy for first try,

[Miss Marple 2]

narciso,

Good points in that blog post. Thanks!

[Captain Hate]

JiB's attitude on how to deal with Trump probably changed at about the same time mine did.

[Miss Marple 2]

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/279125-former-gop-senator-trump-is-a-sociopath

Yeah, it's Trump's responsibility to bring all the GOP into the fold.

[Captain Hate]

narc, there is something to be said for rereading; I can't think of one instance where I didn't get more out of a work the second time, assuming a certain level of complexity.

[maryrose]

JIB
I won't sit out but I don't give him a pass when he does something to hurt his chances in the general.
Dissing Paul Ryan is schoolyard bully behavior
As a grown man he should know better.
Scolds like Lipscomb just aggravate the situation.
"Lay off "Trump"
Never!
I will hold his feet to the fire until he wins the election and maybe after for good measure.

[maryrose]

Trump wants the nomination
Be a leader and convince people you have their interests at heart.

[Truthbetold5]

Trump will see to it that republicans lose the House and the Senate.

[maryrose]

Stephanie
Loved your post.
It made laugh really hard!
My best friend played Eliza Doolittle in her high school's performance of My Fair Lady.
Tell me what is worse being called Lucifer or a sociopath?

[Miss Marple 2]

http://heatst.com/politics/obnoxious-ben-rhodes/?mod=sm_tw_post

[Miss Marple 2]

http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2016/05/07/nyquist-wins-kentucky-derby-at-churchill-downs-for-eighth-straight-victory.html

[Miss Marple 2]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-07/alberta-wildfires-may-double-as-flames-head-toward-oil-sands

[narciso]

they practice very droll standup comedy over there,
wait they are serious,

http://www.conservativehome.com/leftwatch/2016/05/can-khan-keep-city-hall-free-of-the-extreme-left.html

by comparison when miami got it's first cuban american mayor, he was a technocrat, who was inspired by william donald schaeffer, the last sane mayor of baltimore, he had few ties to la causa, as they call it,

[narciso]

have you talked to your cousin, prince talal,

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3578552/Prince-Turki-al-Faisal-begs-American-voters-not-make-Donald-Trump-president.html

[Captain Hate]

Tell me what is worse being called Lucifer or a sociopath?

I thought the sociopath accusation was way out of line but for whatever reason Ben Carson chose to overlook it and endorse Trump. Boehner was surely sloshed when he made those stupid comments about Cruz who I assume is still very upset by it.

[Lurker Susie]

Very moving, but not sure if I copied this correctly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxaKUo5naoY&sns=em

[narciso]

for a change of pace,

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3578963/Blonde-stunner-Kate-Upton-leads-way-fashion-stakes-Kentucky-Derby-Day-Churchill-Downs.html

[maryrose]

Narciso
Some very good links.

[narciso]

you did, lurker susie,

[Miss Marple 2]

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/03/15/trump_s_first_believers_from_joe_scarborough_to_a_masculinity_expert.html

People who called his nomination, early on.

To that I would add a couple who are friends, a hospital administrator and a retired biochemist, both of whom backed him early and thought he would be the nominee.

[maryrose]

Ben Carson got the job of vetting for the Veep spot so all is forgiven. Politics and strange bedfellows
Cruz will live to fight another day.

[Miss Marple 2]

narciso,

I swear she had that top on with a black skirt when I saw her on TV. The hat had a black ribbon.

Anyway, she looked great, understated, and non-tacky, which is wonderful since so many look like they are in a circus.

[maryrose]

Captain
As someone who had defended Boehner I was shocked by that over the top and mean comment.

[narciso]

he's part of the quarrelsome ateybah clan, no worries,

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3578888/Navy-officer-trained-British-college-joins-ISIS.html

[hrtshpdbox]

The top three betting favorites ran 1,2,3; an $86. triple in a 20-horse field is really peanuts. A chalk-lovers paradise, a boring race.

[Captain Hate]

Poppin' needs one of those fainting couches at sea:

http://hotair.com/archives/2016/05/07/trump-hillary-was-nasty-mean-enabler-of-bills-affairs/

[Captain Hate]

Thank you, maryrose, we've reached an agreement.

[jimmyk]

Thanks again for all the birthday wishes.

I spent a good part of the day at the bar mitzvah of friends' twin sons. They were born at 6 months gestation 13 years ago, both weighed around 2 lbs., spent 6-8 weeks in the NICU. Now they're strapping 13-year-olds, great kids, not 100% without learning issues, but there was hardly a dry eye in the house.

Then I played 2 hours of singles tennis with my regular partner who's 15 years my junior. (We split two sets.) Now we're off to the bar mitzvah party in Greenwich Village.

Clarice, I remember when my grandmother was losing it in the 1980s, and we'd visit her and she'd talk about how President Reagan had visited her. Funny and sad at the same time. Now my dad is 94 and his short-term memory is almost non-existent, but he's still pretty grounded. We're lucky to have parents still around.

[Free James D!]

hold his feet to the fire until he wins the election and maybe after for good measure.

After the election, I will join you in holding his feet to the fire, maryrose.
Every single day, without fail.

[Jack is Back!]

How long before the stupid injun Warren figures out it is a zero sum game to go twitter to twitter with The Donald?

[Centralcal on iPad]

What a wonderful way to spend your birthday, Jimmyk.

[Jack is Back!]

jimmyk,

I'll bet he remembers McClain's 31 victories but not Gibson WS wins:)

[Captain Hate]

How long before the stupid injun Warren figures out it is a zero sum game to go twitter to twitter with The Donald?

Have you ever heard her talk? Like the Searchlight Creep's weird sister. I think it's a safe bet that she doesn't surround herself with people likely to push back against Princess Vaginitis doing whatever her empty head dictates.

Four years ago JMH helped me come to grips with the nomination of the author of RombleyCare by pointing out that a conservative GOP congress would take the edges off his squishy tendencies. In retrospect that maybe shouldn't have been so effective, although God knows how such a different dynamic would've played out, but it was very effective then.

[Meow]

Isn't it time for maryrose to go feed her cats?

[Centralcal on iPad]

I love to read maryrose' posts. She always holds firm to her positions, never resorts to name calling, just keeps on keeping on with what she believes. We should all try to be a little more like that.

[Miss Marple 2]

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/279121-romney-slams-demagogues-in-commencement-address

Commencement address at a small private college in Angola, Indiana.

[narciso]

snarky nazgul, have we been instalaunched,

[Miss Marple 2]

Centralcal,

You may have missed some of her name-calling.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Kevin Drum thinks women who are abused by presidents and governors should sit down, shut up and be forgotten.

But that's not a war on women. Making fun of Chief Warren on twitter is.
They have no idea how to handle this guy.

[henry]

Heap. big PowWowChow Butt have heap big butthurt from tweety bird.

The injun is doing better than the rest of them, as in responding in near persuasive manner but always too little, too late.

[Miss Marple 2]

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/09/shock-poll-trump-receives-25-of-black-vote-enough-to-ensure-a-gop-landslide/#st_refDomain=t.co&st_refQuery=/PnJYnbTZvm

[Captain Hate]

The squaw must hit the firewater before getting on Twitter.

[narciso]

this character I mentioned upthread, al osaimi, is right out of a dan silva tale, of course he thinks assad is totally responsible, in his world, the sauds were properly shamed so little to worry about there,

[Centralcal on iPad]

Maybe, MM, but it must have been rare. I do lurk most days, but may have missed something

[Captain Hate]

Kevin Drumm has a dislocated mangina. Poor baby.

[Miss Marple 2]

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/05/07/the-voting-block-every-pundit-never-discusses-the-monster-vote/

[narciso]

he's also not the sharpest butter knife in the drawer,

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/07/judges-stop-theresa-may-deporting-terror-suspects/

what could go wrong,

[narciso]

the house of conquistador does it again,

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tory-conservative-u-turns-policies-david-cameron-benefit-cuts-junior-doctors-academies-a7018276.html

[henry]

Excellent! Bearded Spock on ME! TV right now.

[Beasts of England]

@centralcal: I was called a conspiracy theorist (and paranoid) on the previous thread this afternoon, by the person in question. Just sayin'...

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Guy writes story shedding a little reality on Tesla operations at tech site.
Tech site commenters cry real tears.

[DrJ]

Iggy,

Those who comment at Ars are left of Marx. According to most of them, there is nothing good that is not done by government.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Yeah, I'm thinking we've had this conversation about them before Doc.

[Captain Hate]

what could go wrong,

Just put a fork in the UK. [Redacted] them. Maybe that jugeared idiot prince will be the first choppee. Set the entire island on fire and shoot anybody trying to escape.

[Miss Marple 2]

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-05-07/trumped-why-it-happened-and-what-comes-next-part-3-jobs-deal

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Obama Administration To Take Harder Anti-Israel Line.
Well, the thing after that I presume is a declaration of war.

[Captain Hate]

This is a perfect opening for Trump to call out the Jew haters in State. Go for it!

[Miss Marple 2]

http://www.patdollard.com/saudi-prince-cannot-believe-americans-would-have-president-who-would-ban-muslims-begs-voters-to-reject-trump/

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

The country that gave us 9/11 doesn't want us voting for Trump?
Don't know about you guys, but I'm convinced.

[narciso]

yes, and he was the head of general intelligence weeks who stepped down weeks before 9/11, and the nephew of the previous chief, who was part of bcci, where he employed ed rogers,

[Centralcal on iPad]

Oh, Beasts! I am sure you have been called worse . . . (She said laughing) . . . Looks like you survived! I am pretty certain, maryrose is easily swatted away by you. No?

[Miss Marple 2]

Centralcal,

That isn't the point.

You said you hadn't seen any name-calling. She obviously did.

I am sure Beasts and others (including me) can take it.

But she does do it.

[Beasts of England]

Dang, centralcal, I'm such a sooper-dooper nice guy that nobody's ever had a disparaging thought or word about me!! ;)

[clarice]

Love ya, jimmyk. You should live a long healthy life and dance at your great great grand daughter's wedding.

[Miss Marple 2]

Think I will head to bed.

Good night, everyone!

[Free James D!]

JiB, looks like the Caps will live on for at least one more game.

I would love to be proven wrong, but I'm expecting hideous, soul-crushing heartbreak still. If I had to guess, they win game 6, too, but find some new and as-yet-unimaginable way to blow game 7 late in the third period or overtime.

[clarice]

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/09/shock-poll-trump-receives-25-of-black-vote-enough-to-ensure-a-gop-landslide/#st_refDomain=t.co&st_refQuery=/PnJYnbTZvm

Dems must be having fits--and then there are those pesky ID laws showing up in so many places.

[narciso]

well there's always next week, miami residents live with dissapointment,

civil war seems to be doing decent business but not gangbusters, about 75 million yesterday,

[narciso]

don't confuse us with the facts,

http://www.timesofisrael.com/un-official-spurns-netanyahus-jerusalem-history-lesson-offer/

[Captain Hate]

I thought from the get go that Trump's trash talking would mark the best chance for the GOP to make inroads into the black vote. This isn't your father's Oldsmobile.

[narciso]

shocker,

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/05/06/cologne-govt-looks-prosecute-nye-whistle-blowers/

[Buckeye]

I did too CH. Just wait until he really starts to ridicule her. 35-40% wouldn't surprise me.

[narciso]

I don't know about this,

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/05/anti-islamist-geert-wilders-will-travel-gop-convention-support-donald-trump/

[Captain Hate]

Buckeye this is so foreign to the GOPe finishing schools that it would've never happened otherwise. They can complain about how coarse it is and how this degrades the whole process while getting their clocks cleaned. The real question is do you want to win.

[Captain Hate]

Any time the libs claim to support whistle blowers, it's only the ones doing what they like. Ask Linda Tripp.

[clarice]

Win? You say WIN, CH? I thought this was about who kept their togas whitest?

[Buckeye]

http://youtu.be/cSCUWwc__Uo

Not many people have seen or heard a spread fret guitar. Optimized for certain alternate tunings.

This is a really sweet fingerstyle duet.

Glad to see Don taking this young kid under his wing.

[Catsmeat]

Poor Linda Tripp--she did the right thing but because she's what the 19th c. called plain, she had no chance in the wider public. And she was laser-prosecuted to boot.

[Captain Hate]

Somebody should have gone to jail for leaking Tripp's personnel records. The eunuchs representing us have never understood that which is why they're looking up at Trump. I'm sorry this offends some of the commenters here but I'm tired of losing and putting up another tomato can is not the way to change that. In fact it adheres to Einstein's definition of insanity.

[Threadkiller]

I love to read maryrose' posts. She always holds firm to her positions, never resorts to name calling, just keeps on keeping on with what she believes. We should all try to be a little more like that.

Then you must be head over heels for me!

😍

Since name calling doesn't count when the name called can handle it, I have been pardoned.

[clarice]

Nytol

[GUS]

I admire Maryrose, she is an optimist.