Summer Of Love For Hillary

Just today the NY Times mentions four torpedos in the water aimed at the Good Ship Hillary.

First, that pesky FOIA which her defenders think Hillary hoped to circumvent with a private email server:

WASHINGTON — A former aide to Hillary Clinton when she was secretary of state testified behind closed doors for two hours Wednesday in the first in a series of depositions that are likely to raise more questions about Mrs. Clinton’s use of a private email server just as she prepares for an election campaign against Donald J. Trump.

The former aide, Lewis A. Lukens, testified under oath about his knowledge of Mrs. Clinton’s private email system as part of a lawsuit brought against the State Department by a conservative legal advocacy group, Judicial Watch.

And what did he say? Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon...

Thomas Fitton, the president of Judicial Watch, who took part in Mr. Lukens’s deposition, said afterward that he could not discuss the substance of the testimony because of the ground rules set by Judge Sullivan.

But Mr. Fitton predicted that once the testimony is publicly released — perhaps as early as next week — it would show “why the State Department and Mrs. Clinton have slow-rolled this and withheld a complete explanation of what went on with her email system. What we learned is going to be embarrassing to Mrs. Clinton and the administration — maybe more than embarrassing.”

He refused to elaborate, citing the court’s restrictions.

And this is just the first of a few:

At least five other officials — including two of Mrs. Clinton’s top aides at the State Department, Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin — are also scheduled to testify in the lawsuit over the next six weeks in what promises to be an unwelcome distraction for the Clinton campaign.

The last deposition is set for June 29 — less than a month before the start of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, where Mrs. Clinton is widely expected to win her party’s nomination for president over challenger Bernie Sanders.

Assuming the depositions continue to be released roughly a week later, we should have a complete set around Independence Day.

The Judicial Watch story also notes the ongoing FBI investigation, which needs to be wrapped up so AG Loretta Lynch can formally quash it:

Meanwhile, the F.B.I. is continuing to investigate the issue of Mrs. Clinton’s private email server to determine whether any federal laws regarding the handling of classified material or other issues may have been broken.

There is more - Bernie has no intention of going quietly into that good night:

Bernie Sanders, Eyeing Convention, Willing to Harm Hillary Clinton in the Homestretch

Defiant and determined to transform the Democratic Party, Senator Bernie Sanders is opening a two-month phase of his presidential campaign aimed at inflicting a heavy blow on Hillary Clinton in California and amassing enough leverage to advance his agenda at the convention in July — or even wrest the nomination from her.

Advisers to Mr. Sanders said on Wednesday that he was newly resolved to remain in the race, seeing an aggressive campaign as his only chance to pressure Democrats into making fundamental changes to how presidential primaries and debates are held in the future.

Between Judicial Watch and the FBI he may have a lot to work with. But one last thing! Color me skeptical but the House Republicans may manage to make news with their maybe-some-day-soon Benghazi report:

Benghazi Panel, Plodding Along, May Conclude Near Conventions or Election

I think Bernie and Judicial Watch take us into Game of Thrones territory here. The CW, which I currently share, is that Loretta Lynch won't allow Her Inevitability to be indicted. However! Suppose the Judicial Watch revelations are sufficiently damaging and Bernie sufficiently successful that Hillary's baggage becomes too heavy for the Dem Establishment to carry (I currently picture them slogging along to the strains of "She Ain't Heavy, She's My Crony". Obama, with one eye on his legacy and another on the polls, might decide that Bernie or Biden are necessary and credible alternatives. A Biden cram-down at this point would complete the 1968 flashback (Hubert Humphrey became the Dem nominee without entering the primaries, prompting massive rule changes), so maybe Bernie is the guy. Keep hope alive!

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER: Slogans that ought to be old by now: Hillary - Putting The 'Crone' In Crony Capitalism!

OK, I am claiming independent invention but clearly I am not first with this.

Comments

[Momto2]

Cannot keep up!

Reposted from (I think) 3 threads ago....

Happy Birthday Glaster and Tom Collins!!

Story doesn't mention whether sex reassignment surgery, including antler removal, will also be made available for bucks who identify as does, but I think we can safely assume it will be.

SEE - where else would you find a gem like this other than JOM? Iggy- you are a treasure!

[Dave (in MA)]

Some guy who lives up the street from me is running for VP.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/2016/05/libertarian_gary_johnson_to_name_ex_mass_gov_william_weld_running_mate

[-peter]

3 torpedoes. I saw in a naval museum in Italy a manned torpedo.

[rich@gmu]

and she is considered an electable, reasonable choice as president ...

[narciso]

daddy was referring to this,

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/19/egyptair-flight-from-paris-to-cairo-disappears-from-radar/

yes she's like thunderbolt ross's high light reel.

[daddy]

OK, Thinking caps on, please.

"Lying" Ted, "Little" Marco, "Low Energy" Jeb, "Ignorant" Obama, and "Crooked" Hillary. If it winds up being Bernie, what's his moniker?

"Make America Poor" Bernie?

Open to suggestions.

Special Bonus Points if it winds up being "Bathroom Boy" Biden.

Good Morning.

[DrJ]

"Commie Bernie."

[Momto2]

Does there seem to be less attention to the Egyptian plane crash than is usual? I don't have on CNN but not noticing much on SM.

[GUS]

Bernout Bernie
Bourgeois Bernie

[narciso]

I dubbed der commissar, before.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/19/escaped-chibok-girl-amina-ali-due-to-meet-nigerias-president-buh/

why do I have reservations about this?

[Momto2]

Clueless Bernie

[henry]

"Wrong-way Sanders"

[GUS]

It has occurred to me that this nation is in a bigger world of hurt than we even imagine.
We have at least 50% of our adult population that finds COMMUNISM, yes COMMUNISM a better alternative to Capitalism. We have most people under 40 completely brainwashed or ignorant of what actually works. And as I've said here for 8 plus years. The LEFT has gone THE FULL COMMIE.
Meanwhile the GOP tries to play nice with them, in fact the GOP capitulates to EVERY GAME THE LEFT PLAYS. Every single one.

[rich@gmu]

>>>Does there seem to be less attention to the Egyptian plane crash than is usual? I don't have on CNN but not noticing much on SM.

Posted by: Momto2 | May 19, 2016 at 12:42 PM<<<

the calm before the storm.

[cheerleader]

I think he's already called him, "Crazy Bernie" or something that meant the same thing.

[cheerleader]

Just a quick search for Donald Trump Crazy Bernie returned:

Donald Trump blasts "Crazy Bernie Sanders" - CBS News☑

Donald Trump is hitting "Crazy Bernie Sanders" -- but not "too hard" -- just a day after the Vermont senator notched two more wins in the Democratic primary contest.

[James D]

I have a fairly low opinion of Dan Snyder, but one thing I have to say that I've been with him on is his refusal to change the name of the Redskins.

And now it seems as though he has some tangible support for his stance:

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/new-poll-finds-that-9-in-10-native-americans-not-offended-by-redskins-name

The WaPo article about the poll is hilarious. The proponents of forcing the team to change the name all come across like idiots who care far more about making themselves feel good than about the people they are claiming to represent (which they are)

[rich@gmu]

focused on the important points ... its an Amazon Daily Worker article so some may have used their allotments

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/this-is-how-fascism-comes-to-america/2016/05/17/c4e32c58-1c47-11e6-8c7b-6931e66333e7_story.html

[Momto2]

Everywhere I look there is nothing but transgender this and transgender that...

The guide says businesses can avoid penalties “by creating a policy of asking everyone what their preferred gender pronoun is so that no individual is singled out for such questions and by updating their system to allow all individuals to self-identify their names and genders. They should not limit the options for identification to male and female only.”

http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/may/18/de-blasio-fine-businesses-wrong-gender-pronouns/

[cheerleader]

It wasn't "Little Marco" it was L'il Marco. He spelled it out at a rally.

[GUS]

Maybe the PC crowd would like the WASHINGTON TRANSGENDEREDS.

Every week or so another bullsh(redacted) new MEME is introduced by the LEFT to SCREW AMERICA.

Free college.
Black lives matter
Transgendered bathrooms
Campus rape epidemic
on and on and on and on.

[jimmyk]

Does there seem to be less attention to the Egyptian plane crash than is usual?

Late last night Fox News was doing complete non-stop coverage, even though almost nothing was happening. They kept interviewing pilots and asking the same (largely hypothetical) questions and getting the same answers, while zero new information was coming in.

[daddy]

On the Dog Walk last night I heard news clips of Dem Congressman Dick Durbin in high dudgeon damning the Republican's for "taking chances with the Publics safety" by refusing to fully fund the billions Obama wants for the Zika Virus. Then they dragged in some CDC head to make the same charge, only more fervently.

It struck me that releasing 40,000 Illegal alien criminals from American Prisons, including, rapists and murderers isn't considered "taking chances with the Publics safety." Nor is urging the acceptance of 100,000 unveiled Syrian refugees considered "taking chances with the Publics safety." Nor is ordering hundreds to thousands of unknown, unvetted, illegals per day to be released at the Border to go wherever they will inside the country "taking chances with the Publics safety."
Nor is dumping thousands of Somali immigrants into Minnesota with an astronomical Tuberculosis infection rate considered "taking chances with the Publics safety." Nor is allowing Ebola exposed individuals entry into the country "taking chances with the Publics safety." Nor is giving Iran $150 Billion to continue their Terror Funding and Nuclear Enrichment Program "taking chances with the Publics safety." And how come it's not "taking chances with the Publics safety," when we continue to plan for our athletes to go to Brazil for the Summer Olympics?

Only when we refuse to give Obama all the Billions he asks to combat Zika is it considered "taking chances with the Publics safety," and amazingly the only body taking these anti-Safety chances are "the Republicans."

How come all those exceptionally risky items I listed up top that the Dem's are doing and have done, isn't "taking chances with the Publics safety?"

And how many Billions does it cost to fire up some 1950's era DDT trucks?

[cheerleader]

He's and Christie are doing a fundraising event in NJ today at 5 pm EST. It looks like the venue is a big place, so maybe it'll be live-streamed. I think the purpose is to help Christie pay off his campaign debt.

Thursday, May 19, 2016
Lawrenceville, NJ
Lawrenceville National Guard Armory

Doors open at 5:00 PM
Event begins at 6:00 PM
Mr. Trump and Governor Christie are expected to speak at 7:00 PM

[GUS]

Rich reading garbage like that makes people dumber.
Maybe this Kagan douche bag could consider the $70 MILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLION dollars in fines, FASCIST Obama fined the LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR, before he runs his LIBTARD CAKE HOLE.
Trump is seen as an antidote to the FASCISM we have put up with for 8 years.
I'm not a Trump fan, but the GOPe has sat with it's thumb up it's collective ASS as Obama has done as he chooses.
That is where Trump comes from.
This LIBTARD MEME that Trump hates "People of color" is beyond retarded.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Robert Kagan joins Trump campaign hyperbolic-reverse-psychology-ops GHQ with This is how fascism comes to America.
Brilliant effort, Mr Kagan.
It's hair-on-fire idiocies should mean thousands more votes for your secret employer.

[cheerleader]

I like watching the live events so that I can tell when the media filters are misrepresenting him. He usually includes something that's newsworthy.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

I suspect the Egyptian Board of Tourism borrowed some moola from the Saudis to pay the Clinton Foundation to organize Operation Spike on another downed airliner story.

They're just hoping AQ and ISIS don't make a "contribution" to the CF to unspike it.

[narciso]

I keep telling them, stop with the in kind contributions, talk to vicente and prince talal,
they have to pick a talking point, is he too rich like usa today suggests, or too poor,

[daddy]

Rich,

Dennis Prager did a convincing segment last night covering the angry Left driven protests in the streets when opposing Trump and now doing the same with the death threats against the head Dem Lady in Nevada. Dennis's well made point was that the only way Facism will come to this country is if it comes in via the Left, not the Right.

He also was very angry in that we on the Right never name the Enemy, and it fit in well with his latest column: Why Don’t Republicans Name the Enemy?

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Some dopey broad improbably named Kaley Cookoo is presently on my TV outraged about Canucks clubbing baby seals and asking for donations to the Humane Society or some such guilt tripping goldbricks.

We'll know we're back on the right track as a nation when Adelson or the Kochs set up a charity that pays them Canucks to wade ashore in Malibu and start clubbing baby-brained actresses.

[lyle]

http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/05/think-americans-are-angry-now-wait-until-hillarys-in-charge/

The author is Christopher Buckley. Here's the opening paragraph:

Predicting what might happen in a Donald Trump presidency is easy. Day 1: A fabulous, really great inaugural, the best ever, with amazing entertainment by fabulous, top people. Day 2: War with Iran. Day 3: War with North Korea. Day 4: Mexico builds a wall to keep out Americans.

I'm sure I need not remind anyone here who the cretin "conservative" author was slobbering over about this time of the year in '08.

[GUS]

Who is Barry Hussein Beyonce von Obama for $1000.00? Lyle.

[narciso]

I meant to ask, isn't there a feed on the avionics re the aircraft, that would detect any severe strain, on the fuselage,

[lyle]

Righto, GUS. And no, I didn't read the whole piece, but if anyone thinks that [redacted] "conservative" is voting Trump, well...

[glasater]

Trying again..

Thanks for the birthday wish Momto2 :-)

CNBC is reporting that satellite imagery shows a catastrophic event for the Egypt Air flight.

[henry]

CNBC on plane:

BREAKING: Imagery in region of missing plane strongly indicates an explosion on Egyptair 804 - US intel. officials

[daddy]

Good point by Rush in Hour -1.

Riffing on Ed Rendell having to apologize for his "Ugly Women will vote for Hillary" comment, Rush makes the point that no Democrat ever gets in trouble for lying---they only get in trouble when they screw up and tell the truth. Then lists, Ben Rhodes, Gruber, and now Ed Rendell to buttress his point.

Good point Rush.

[JM Hanes]

daddy:

I can't come up with anything better than henry's "Wrong-way Sanders," on the Bernie front. Now that Hillary has promised to put Bill in charge of the economy, however, I think "Crooked Hillary" should give way to the criminal partnership of "Bonnie & Clyde."

Excellent rant on public safety! I've clipped it to my files.

[Dave (in MA)]

Happy B-Day to JOM's finest photographer and also to our treadmill champ.

[lyle]

HB, glasater! TC, keep the tips flowing to Destiny and Tatiana in the Champagne room for your B-day!

[lyle]

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/nyc-hits-peak-gender-idiocy/

Could you imagine being a business owner in NYC under this fanaticism? “Terror is nothing more than speedy, severe and inflexible justice; it is thus an emanation of virtue,” said Robespierre. So it is with the Gender Robespierres. First they make us all lose our minds and our integrity by acquiescing in their bizarre fantasies, and then, if we don’t, they make us lose our livelihoods. (But not our heads; be thankful for small mercies.)

Give 'em time, pal. Give 'em time.

[Truthbetold5]

A KLEPTOCRAT IN THE BOARDROOM?
CONRAD BLACK AND THE LOOTING OF HOLLINGER INTERNATIONAL

http://www.corp-research.org/e-letter/kleptocrat-boardroom

[daddy]

I think "Crooked Hillary" should give way to the criminal partnership of "Bonnie & Clyde."

Ha! Beautiful, JMH.

[lyle]

http://thefederalist.com/2016/05/17/media-want-to-make-sure-you-never-hear-about-the-little-sisters-of-the-poor/

They won a major religious battle yesterday. The Obama administration wanted to fine them $70 million per year for their religious objection to taking part in a government scheme to distribute birth control. Nine times the government rewrote regulations that would force the nuns to take part in the plan or be fined out of existence, each time claiming that the present version of regulations was as far as they could go to accommodate religious belief.

But just to be clear, Trump is the face of the coming Fascism, right?

[James D]

A quote from Insty (it's posted along with a link about the latest twists and turns in the Rolling stone rape-hoax story):

Hysterical girl creates rape hoax as part of effort to land guy. And the Obama White House, and pretty much all of the press and much of Congress, wanted to change policy nationwide because of this story.

And THIS is why I went on and on about the horrible college rape bill, and what a disaster it was for GOP Senators (like Rubio and Ayotte and others) to support it.

[JM Hanes]

I would like Camille Paglia (via Instapundit), just for calling out her fellow lefty travelers on their misc. idiocies, but she can also write. This seemed too in keeping with TMs maritime theme not to post:

Hillary is a stodgily predictable product of the voluminous briefing books handed to her by a vast palace staff of researchers and pollsters—a staggeringly expensive luxury not enjoyed by her frugal, unmaterialistic opponent, Bernie Sanders (my candidate). Trump, in contrast, is his own publicist, a quick-draw scrapper and go-for-the-jugular brawler. He is a master of the unexpected (as the Egyptian commander Achillas calls Julius Caesar in the Liz Taylor Cleopatra). The massive size of Hillary’s imperialist operation makes her seem slow and heavy. Trump is like a raffish buccaneer, leaping about the rigging like the breezy Douglas Fairbanks or Errol Flynn, while Hillary is the stiff, sequestered admiral of a bullion-laden armada of Spanish galleons, a low-in-the-water easy mark as they creak and sway amid the rolling swells.

There's probably an alt moniker in there somewhere.

[daddy]

Once we determine this crash was caused by Islamic Terrorism I hope we don't upset General Petraeus by saying this crash was caused by Islamic Terrorism.

[henry]

daddy, it will be Trump's fault for hurting the Islamists' feelings.

[lyle]

Since we're all apparently lifting links from Insty:

http://www.autoblog.com/2006/05/24/hillary-clinton-pushes-for-reinstatement-of-national-55-mph-limi/

Please keep pushing this, you despicable hag. PLEASE.

[JM Hanes]

James D:

"And THIS is why I went on and on about the horrible college rape bill, and what a disaster it was for GOP Senators (like Rubio and Ayotte and others) to support it."

I remember you posting on that, because it put an irreversible dent in my support for Rubio.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

The double nickel reborn?

Hillary is like the kid who, no matter how many times he gets shocked, can't resist sticking the fork in the outlet.

[Truthbetold5]

DAVID PETRAEUS TO ATTEND BILDERBERG WHILE ON PROBATION FOR LEAKING CLASSIFIED INFO

http://www.thedailysheeple.com/david-petraeus-to-attend-bilderberg-while-on-probation-for-leaking-classified-info_062015

[narciso]

of course they won't be using max holland's bio as a template,

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3598655/Liam-Neeson-63-unrecognisable-cuts-super-slim-figure-set-Felt.html

[narciso]

what the redacted, do they pay these people to do:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3569302/The-French-die-thousands-ISIS-cell-France-threatens-rocket-attacks-passenger-jets-new-Charlie-Hebdo-style-massacre-chilling-undercover-video-filmed-journalist-infiltrated-them.html#i-ede4cf6a3b89536a

[Theo]

I think "Comrade Bernie" works nicely. His supporters will not complain since they probably call him that anyway. But the message will get across to the rest of the country.

[Dave (in MA)]

James D | May 19, 2016 at 01:58 PM, what a horrible thing in this day and age for an identifying-as-female to have to suffer thru college with a 20% chance of getting raped by an identifying-as-male only to enter the workforce and get paid 75 cents on the dollar to what the dude in a dress one sink over is pulling down.

[Dave (in MA)]

He was "Comrade Bernie" to me, long before he ever got it into his head that he could run for Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSA.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Why you should never retire;
Morley Safer retires last week, dies this.

[Dave (in MA)]

Well, that was quick,

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-morley-safer-dies-at-84/

[narciso]

I would say inspector clousseau but that would be too charitable,

http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2016/05/19/01016-20160519ARTFIG00086-vol-egyptair-paris-le-caire-la-surete-aerienne-francaise-en-question.php

[lyle]

Unfortunately progtardism doesn't kill you off soon enough...

[narciso]

still looking for the pony, karl:

https://twitter.com/OwenBrennan/status/733305132369252352

did the lun work this time, or do I need to go back to blogger,

[lyle]

To wit:

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/geoffrey-dickens/2016/05/12/bye-bye-morley-safer-retiring-60-minutes-correspondents-most

[narciso]

ah remember this fellow.

http://www.jammiewf.com/2016/shady-islamist-gets-sharia-compliant-financing-for-apartment-complex-on-failed-ground-zero-mosque-site/

[daddy]

Sebastian Gorka is on with Trish on FOX Business, mentioning how this particular plane had recently landed at other airports with much less Security, where something could have been placed on board for later detonation, thus avoiding the tighter Security that exists at the major Western Airports like CDG.

Again, FWIW, a company I am familiar with, about 6 months back initiated a Security Training program where at different times items are placed inside an aircraft in order to test if crews are able to detect them during their preflight inspections. There are lots of cubby-holes.

We know from the previous explosion onboard Somali based Daallo Airlines some months back, that the terrorist was somehow given his laptop bomb simply walking through the terminal.

I think this is the shot of the guy with the explosive computer exchanging it with an accomplice who got it on board the plane to the perp---something like that.

[henry]

Oh, a mosque with dorms for jihadi trainees. How nice.

[Thomas Collins]

Thanks for the birthday wishes for the 5/19ers. As for Destiny and Tatiana, lyle, they have a present for me: they are hooking me up with their tattoo artist so I can pay off the bet if the current GOP POTUS nomination race trend continues!

[narciso]

dan simmons had a riff like that in his dystopian tale, flashback,

[lyle]

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/paul-ryan-puerto-rico-debt-deal-223333

Drudge headline:

Ryan Strikes Puerto Rico Debt Deal With Obama

lyle headline:

Ryan Bends Over For Obama. Again

[narciso]

ever since the mexico deal, that made carlos slim, this has been bad ju ju,

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/05/donald-trump-tax-returns-2016-213901

they have no fracking shame, now as for gutman,...

[lyle]

Oh, I forgot about the wager, TC. Do the terms of the bet dictate location and image of said tat? :)

[JM Hanes]

daddy:

I first started doubting Trey Gowdy's skilz, when his Benghazi committee finally got a fact-to-face with Clinton, and he couldn't even manage to lay a glove on her. It seemed so strange to me that I've always wondered if the Clinton team didn't actually take him by surprise when she agreed to sit for his committee, because the Republicans seemed stunningly ill-prepared for that. I sympathize with his desire to cross ts and dot is, but it's hard to believe he was naive enough to think that he could avoid being accused of playing politics that way.

On the other hand, it's not the first time I've been amazed at how cautious Congressional inquisitors (at least on the Republican side) so often seem to be. I began to question Cruz's savvy, when he so clearly bungled the logistics of his climate change hearing.

Oversight and accountability is a key Congressional function, and we've got to figure out how to do it effectively or governance by White House Diktat is not just here to stay. It's going to get much, much worse, and it's going to take more than just electing a Republican president to change that.

[lyle]

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/05/random-thoughts-for-a-wednesday-evening.php

2. Donald Trump is not a country club Republican. He’s the guy who built the country club for the kind of Republicans who wouldn’t approve him for membership.

So true.

[Thomas Collins]

No, lyle. I was not so reckless as to agree to a tat of The Donald's visage on my nether regions. I have the choice of image and location. So you will need to find someone else for this look:

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTFz7pqFu6YgECtyzV_G2EIr0EblRxweafsAfQtpd397aFu972EF6Rbv2ji

[Captain Hate]

And THIS is why I went on and on about the horrible college rape bill, and what a disaster it was for GOP Senators (like Rubio and Ayotte and others) to support it.

I think it's easier to list the things that Henny Penny Ayotte hasn't screwed her Tea Party supporters on.

HB to glasater and TC, the latter to which SS&D's AB would send a heartfelt "bottoms up".

Mrs. H and I spent the latter part of the morning and early afternoon in the Amish areas of Middlefield and Mesopotamia Absolutely gorgeous day with temps in the mid sixties and a sky full of fluffy clouds. Saw a monument on the town square that I initially thought commemorated WW1; wrong-o, it was from the Civil war and inscribed with every local who served with a special designation if they were killed. Real history in front of my eyes

[lyle]

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/05/the-tragedy-of-democratic-socialism.php

Do click on this.

[Lurker Susie]

2. Donald Trump is not a country club Republican. He’s the guy who built the country club for the kind of Republicans who wouldn’t approve him for membership.

I remember Gus referring to Trump a while back as Rodney Dangerfield.

[narciso]

well the skydragon hearing was an ambush, by the top men like sullivan, the other could have been cleaned up some,

david abbott kirkpatrick has a new chimp in training,

[daddy]

FOX Business: In a segment titled "Google Honors America Hating Al Qaeda Sympathizer" FOX reports that if you click on the Google Homepage today you will see an image of some Asian woman protester, Yuri Kochiyama, speaking into a microphone in front of protest signs:

FOX News continues with this quote from Yuri: ...I consider Osama Bin laden as one of the people that I admire. To me, he is in the category of Malcom X, Che Guevara, Patrice Lumumba, Fidel Castro, all leaders that I admire...They all had sever dislike for the US government and those who held power in the US. I think all of them felt the US government and its spokesmen were all arrogant, racist, hypocritical, self-righteous, and power hungry."

If, to take an example, there's a better description of murdering racist Che' than arrogant, racist, hypocritical, self-righteous, and power hungry," I'm unaware of it.

[Thomas Collins]

Ah, yes, CH. AB did have the reputation of one for whom a morning or afternoon swig helped the billable hours along.

[Buckeye]

Ryan Strikes Puerto Rico Debt Deal With Obama

And yet people are shocked at Trump's popularity.

[narciso]

it's a poser, buckeye,

[Dave (in MA)]

Surely no-one would be so mean-spirited so as to hold TC to his promise to bespoil his gossamer hide with trailer-park markings.

[narciso]

all right does this explain the details enough,

[narciso]

I've been struck how prevalent tattoos are up here, vis a vis, south florida,

[daddy]

With Morley Safer of "60 Minutes" dead, and Camille Paglia mentioned and linked earlier, worth mentioning that in a short segment today Rush discussed years back being invited to some New York dinner-party shindig. He wound up being seated next to Camille, and as the night wore on he noticed multiple "60 Minutes" honchos, (Safer, Ed Bradley, Mike Wallace) stopping by his table to overhear the conversation and hoping for fireworks, not realizing that Camille and Rush, tho' political opposites, had been buddies from way, way back and really like and admire each other, and that the "60 Minutes" guys were bummed, not getting the fireworks that they were obviously hoping for.

[JM Hanes]

Thomas C:

If you haven't seen this already, you might want to bookmark it for your files, just in case.

[Dave (in MA)]

Her Inevitability

If anyone's Evitable, it's her.

[Captain Hate]

TC, you have no idea what it was like to be with him camped out in Columbus for a week at a time for rate hearing. Other worldly volumes of consumption. A Rabelaisian character.

[Captain Hate]

Camille has admired Rush for a long time as an exquisite entertainer and she doesn't care how many snobbish noses get disjointed over that.

[narciso]

keep kicking that football

http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nb-staff/2016/05/19/mrcs-bozell-meeting-i-left-encouraged-facebook-wants-address-erosion

[Theo]

From Nate Silver's latest:

"Although many Sanders supporters will start the general election campaign with a negative view of Clinton, they aren’t necessarily eager to vote for Trump. In the YouGov poll, just 55 percent of Sanders supporters said they’d vote for Clinton over Trump in November. However, only 15 percent said they’d vote for Trump. That leaves 30 percent of Sanders voters who say they are undecided, would vote for a third-party candidate or would sit out the election."

He goes on to say that these voters -- Sanders supporters who identify as "independent" and not as Democrats and who have an unfavorable view of Rodham -- may be the key to the election.

Maybe the party with the greatest danger of losing through disunity is the Democratic Party.

Maybe.....

[henry]

[FB] could be compared to the IRS scandal in that “[t]here were rogue elements in the IRS sure dude.

[JeanD]

narciso at 3:03,

Yes! That worked for me. Thank you for spelling things out.

Sometimes I worry that I can't follow your posts, and other times I worry that I can. :)

[daddy]

Catherine Herridge on FOX just adds this from the French equivalent of the head of their CIA:

Herridge: Also this morning a transcript was released from a secret brief last week for a French Government Committee, from Frances equivalent of the CIA Director, who warned that a string of Terrorist attacks by ISIS, using package bombs, was possible in France, though his comments focused on Stadiums and places where large crowds congregate, and did not specifically refer to aircraft. Quote "Clearly France is the most threatened and we know that Daesh (Islamic State) is planning new attacks" Patrick Calvary told the French Government Committee on May 10th. "It's in a position where it would try to hit as quickly as possible and as hard as possible...it is facing Military difficulties on the ground and so will want to divert attention and avenge coalition air strikes."

[James D]

I think it's easier to list the things that Henny Penny Ayotte hasn't screwed her Tea Party supporters on.

The thing is, siding with the Dems on the fake campus rape bill doesn't just screw over her supporters. It screws over other Republicans, and it screws over ALL her constituents, and it screws herself over, too.

Siding with the Dems on a bill that uses fake statistics to combat a nonexistent "war on women" is basically saying "Yes, we're sexist, but we're only 55% as sexist as the Democrats say we are!" That is a losing argument, and it damages other GOP candidates (Tea Party and other wise), and ultimately herself in her next campaign.

But it also damages all the men in her state, because the bill paints them all as rapists and strips away due process rights from them. And it damages the women, too, by reinforcing the harmful idea that all they are or can ever be is victims.

It is bad policy. It is bad politics. It is bad on every level, and there is absolutely no upside to it.

It boggles my mind that they can't see that.

[lyle]

You mean this Nate Silver?

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-i-acted-like-a-pundit-and-screwed-up-on-donald-trump/?ex_cid=538twitter

[narciso]

when nate silver puts away his dart collection, and gets out the abacus, then there'll be room for discussion,

[narciso]

you're welcome,jean d, I tried it in wordpress, which had the namesake icon, but it is buggy,