Fret and the world frets with you; smile and you smile alone. That, at least, is the advice offered to Team Hillarity! by two NY Times columns today. From the left, Frank Bruni:
The Trouble for Hillary
...
That included President Obama, who answered Trump’s shockingly gloomy vision of America with a stirring assurance that we have every reason to feel good. Clinton forcefully amplified that assessment. She peddled uplift, not anxiety.
Some polls suggest they may not be:
But she nonetheless faces possible troubles, and the potential mismatch of her message and the moment is a biggie. She has to exploit the opportunity of Trump’s excessive bleakness without coming across as the least bit complacent. That’s no easy feat but it’s a necessary one. The numbers don’t lie.
In a Gallup poll two weeks ago, just 17 percent of respondents said that the country was on the right track, while 82 percent said it was on the wrong track. In an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shortly before that, the corresponding figures were 18 percent and 73 percent.
Well, now. In 1992 her devoted hubby ran against twelve years of Bush/Reagan oppression during a weak economic as the Man from Hope. Of course, he also represented a change from the prior regime in a way that Hillary surely does not. The Clinton message in '92, like the Reagan message in '80 or the Trump message today, is that things are bad can can be fixed by a change in leadership. Hard for Hillary to adopt that while also running as Obama's heir.
Ramesh Ponnuru has a guest piece making a similar point:
Why Hillary Should Fear Optimism
...
Instead of reasons for hope, the Democrats offered these voters bromides about optimism: America’s best days are always ahead of it, etc., etc. These bromides came with a liberal spin, the genius of America being defined as its closer and closer approximation of egalitarian ideals. The idea that American patriotism consists of loyalty to a future country clearly speaks to many of our citizens. Will it be enough in an anxious era, when Americans are deeply dissatisfied with their politicians? And when Mr. Trump is offering a more pointed explanation of that dissatisfaction than the Democrats are?
Mr. Ponnuru makes another point also emphasized by regular Times columnist Ross Douthat - Hillary tried to woo Republicans unhappy with Trump by offering them... nothing other than a commitment to be Not Trump. Mr. Ponnuru:
As much as the Democrats of Philadelphia invited Republicans to join them, though, they did little to make themselves attractive to them. The Democrats insist on hurtling to the left on issue after issue.
Pro-lifers are less welcome than ever in the party, which is now more firmly committed not to the maintenance of the status quo on abortion but to the elimination of restrictions on taxpayer funding for abortion that have been in place for decades.
At the Democratic convention four years ago in Charlotte, N.C., Bill Clinton spoke about the federal government’s long-term debt problem. That candor was absent in Philadelphia, where speakers, including Hillary Clinton, talked about expanding Social Security instead of fixing the shortfall it is already projected to have.
...
Some middle-of-the-road voters who find Mr. Trump alarming nonetheless share some of his stated concerns about crime, the Islamic State and immigration. Democrats did little to reassure them that they shared those concerns. They ignored the preliminary evidence that the violent crime rate, while still well below its peak rates, has started to increase again. Mrs. Clinton affirmed our existing strategy against the Islamic State, but her remarks stood out at the convention, where the topic was rarely mentioned, especially by progressive favorites. The Democrats also made it clear that they viewed illegal immigration almost exclusively through the eyes of illegal immigrants themselves: If it has costs, or enforcement of the laws against it has benefits, they weren’t mentioned. You don’t have to think it wise to “deport them all” to find this treatment of the issue cavalier.
And Ross Douthat:
Liberalism’s Big Bet
THE key pivot point in the Democratic convention arrived during President Obama’s speech on Wednesday, when he told the throng of Democrats that Donald Trump’s baleful convention rhetoric “wasn’t particularly Republican — and it sure wasn’t conservative.”
With that olive branch to anti-Trump Republicans, he shifted his party’s convention from the mission of its first two days (shoring up the base, mollifying Berners) to the mission of its grand finale: the appropriation of conservative tropes and themes — God and country, the flag and 9/11, the founding fathers and the Constitution — in the service of symbolic outreach to Republicans and right-leaning independents.
As a gesture, it was immensely powerful. Anyone who came of age with Ronald Reagan found more to recognize in the Democratic Party’s rhetoric last week than in Donald Trump’s self-aggrandizing George Wallace imitation.
But it was also just a gesture. Yes, the convention’s showmanship was strikingly unifying, bipartisan, moderate — but Hillary Clinton’s domestic agenda is not. She’s running as a liberal, full stop, with a platform well to the left of where her party stood five or 10 or 20 years ago.
She’s happy to make right-leaning voters feel a little better about fleeing Trump, but she isn’t offering them substantive concessions, or seeking a grand centrist coalition. Instead she’s telling them: It’s me or Trump, and you know you can’t put the nuclear codes in his undersize hands, so my offer is … nothing.
Abortion, immigration, fiscal sanity - her message was 'go left of go home'.
I’m baaack!
Posted by: sbw | July 31, 2016 at 05:24 PM
I was expecting a guitar post given all the frets in the title.
Posted by: henry | July 31, 2016 at 05:24 PM
I trust you had plenty of reason to smile this weekend sbw!
Posted by: henry | July 31, 2016 at 05:27 PM
Good thing Centerist Kaine is her running mate!
Posted by: Threadkiller | July 31, 2016 at 05:30 PM
Comey said the FBI was able to retrieve 2000 emails
from the destroyed servers.
My guess is JOM has had a million comments in the last 20 years, yet I bet there's no way they contain more than a dozen mentions of Yoga, and only a couple hundred max mention wedding planning. If she could write 30,000 emails on Yoga and Wedding planning she's unfit to be Prez just due to being so damn boring.
Yevginy:. "Hey, Ivan, what'd the US Secretary of State post today, more Super Top Secret satellite shots of critical installations?"
Igor: Nah, Igor, Vlad is gonna' be pissed! It was more Imperialist shit about Chelsea's wedding dress. Chelsea wanted it made out of Leather, but Ivanka Trump told here no.
Yevgeny: Well is there anything new on illegal arms shipments to Libya? Any new backstabbing at the DNC? Or did she maybe out another undercover CIA Agent we can capture and torture?
Igor: No, it's all E-Mails about Yoga, Yoga and getting that hog of a daughter married off to some sleazeball felons kid! But she did screw up and include some great financial info you and me ought to be able to get rich off personally.
Yevgeny: . What is it?
Igor: Invest heavily in Greek Hedgefunds!
Posted by: daddy on iPad | July 31, 2016 at 05:35 PM
Is it the consensus among the lawyers who comment at JOM that Hillary most likely broke federal law by setting up her home grown server, by sending and receiving classified information on through it, and by deleting emails without oversight?
I'm trying to imagine how we avoid a national crisis if she gets elected, when more than half the nation thinks she should have been prosecuted.
Posted by: Tom Bowler | July 31, 2016 at 05:48 PM
Re-education camps, Tom Bowler. It was foretold.
Remember going to summer camp? It will not be as much fun.
Posted by: Frau Nie Wieder Clinton | July 31, 2016 at 05:54 PM
The first Tea Party in DC was able to get a permit, restricted in area but still given and with adequate port-a-potties.
After the documented mistreatment of the Bernie delegates in Philly, I envision a protest area behind double fences and off in some dark industrial corner of DC for dissenting citizens who will be identified and renamed disturbed subjects.
Posted by: Frau Nie Wieder Clinton | July 31, 2016 at 06:01 PM
Camp Hillary where sleep deprivation is caused by recordings of cackling.
Every one of the assholes screaming "in the hole" and other inane crap in the PGA gallery belong in the first cattle car.
Posted by: Captain Hate | July 31, 2016 at 06:04 PM
DrJ, it wasn't me directing you to the nekkid pix of Trump's wifey on the previous thread. Just so that's clear.
(I got caught up post-nap. Now for a workout and then a swim and a nice cold glass of dry rose about 5:30.)
Posted by: lyle | July 31, 2016 at 06:04 PM
So Loretta Lynch's old law firm that is profiled here for its ties to clinton is also where Khazr Kahn worked.
If we're lucky, in 3 years Loretta lynch will be the wrong answer to a Jeopardy Question about which one was a Country/Western Singer from Tennessee?
Posted by: daddy on iPad | July 31, 2016 at 06:08 PM
NB: not that I'm completely free from the prurient impulse now and then, donchaknow...😬
Posted by: lyle | July 31, 2016 at 06:10 PM
I thought a bunch of them yelled 'Dairy Pure' earlier, Captain. Very strange.
Posted by: Beasts of England | July 31, 2016 at 06:12 PM
It's hard to tell what they're yelling, Beasts.
Btw, the correct name of the donk stooge is Khan, not jimmyk's last name.
Posted by: Captain Hate | July 31, 2016 at 06:18 PM
What's this about nekkid pix of Melania? Can't some caring soul post them here? 😬
Let's cut to the chase. Opinions mandated of all JOMers per double secret Delta House rules. Who would you rather see naked? Hillary, or Trump?
For me of course, it's another historic glass ceiling broken by Hillary. First time in my life I'd rather see a guy naked than a gal.
How's it hanging, Donald!!!
Posted by: daddy on iPad r u guys drinkin' enough? | July 31, 2016 at 06:20 PM
Comey warned in his testimony that a person--in the FBI--* doing the same things as HRC would face the consequences.
(*weasel words, Hillary and her 300 were not FBI.)
Words to remember:
"The director agreed that a sophisticated government employee should have recognized what the marking meant, but said he believed Clinton may not have. “I think it’s possible, possible she didn’t understand what a ‘C’ meant when she saw it in the body of the email like that.”(LATimes)
We may be treated to an unsophisticated government employee as C-I-C, and one who does not listen to warnings from the FBI about security.
It's a two-fer: a woman at the helm and an unsophisticated one!
Posted by: Frau Nie Wieder Clinton | July 31, 2016 at 06:22 PM
Frau,
Never went to summer camp, though I don't consider myself deprived because of it. And I didn't do so well on the education front the first time around, so I'm not sure how re-education will do me any good.
Didn't the Democrats already designate free speech areas a couple of DNC conventions ago.
I don't know if I'm hopeful or fearful.
Posted by: Tom Bowler | July 31, 2016 at 06:24 PM
Tammy Bruce has said that any true feminist is horrified at the thought of a helpless shrew like Rodham being the first woman President.
Posted by: Captain Hate | July 31, 2016 at 06:26 PM
Lovely wedding yesterday for our son and his bride in a small country church, carried off with warmth, style, and grace.
At the reception, for their dance, they chose a waltz. During the planning, my wife suggested they learn some basic steps so that it would be true ballroom dancing.
They have been so busy, planning the wedding, building an addition on their home-to-be, working at their day jobs.
While juggling all of that, they raised the reception to another level: a 3-1/2 minute choreographed waltz worthy of Dancing with the Stars.
In secret, they drove 30 miles to Syracuse three evenings a week for twenty-two lessons plus practicing at home. Stunning. A lovely show put on for the benefit of all their guests.
How nice of them to exceed expectations for us. It leads us to believe their marriage will exceed expectations, too.
Now my good wife and I get to relax and recover.
Posted by: sbw | July 31, 2016 at 06:26 PM
Congrats sbw.
Posted by: Captain Hate | July 31, 2016 at 06:27 PM
Walker up by two over Day with four holes remaining. 17 and 18 are Par 5's, so it could be interesting...
Posted by: Beasts of England | July 31, 2016 at 06:29 PM
Joel Kotkin has had it with the Zombie Democrat party of today. Despite his rejection of Trump, he really shows who the Dems of Today are, how repulsive they are and how bad they are for the country. There are many good points in his j'accuse article.
*From economic growth to cronyism and socialism *The class divide *Race and identityhttp://www.pe.com/articles/party-809449-democrats-economic.html
Posted by: Frau Nie Wieder Clinton | July 31, 2016 at 06:34 PM
Beautiful, sbw!!
Posted by: Beasts of England | July 31, 2016 at 06:35 PM
Let's see, a Muslim died valiantly 12 years ago fighting in a war for which Hillary Clinton voted, therefore neither Donald Trump nor anyone else is allowed ever again to have opinions on how many Muslims we should import into the United States.
Do I have that correct?
Glad to see your lightbulb has come on, Poch!
For the record, JOM catch-up, when drunk, takes about 4 times as long, and then of course it becomes impossible
Posted by: daddy on iPad I wanna' be a public servant | July 31, 2016 at 06:37 PM
Poch? Poch? I blame the typepad God. porch.
Posted by: daddy on iPad I wanna' be a public servant | July 31, 2016 at 06:38 PM
And here ai thought Melania Trump was the plagiarist !
Porch, good to see you. Jane was concerned you mighty have been in the hot air balloon accident.
Posted by: Captain Hate | July 31, 2016 at 04:41 PM
Miss Marple 2
Porchlight!
Glad to see you. Jane was worried you might have been involved in the balloon disaster.
I have been looking for you ever since!
Posted by: Miss Marple 2 | July 31, 2016 at 04:42 PM
Posted by: daddy on iPad what she said | July 31, 2016 at 06:44 PM
Wonderful sbw.
So dou*** didn't notice how cops and soldiers were dissed at this circus ?
Posted by: buccaneer morgan | July 31, 2016 at 06:55 PM
Has anyone ever explained why after OBL was purportedly killed he was allegedly given a proper Muslim burial?
Great point TK. The frogs aren't burying the Islamist murderers of that Christian Priest in Normandy, and attention ought to be paid to who and what does bury him because, as Obama and Khan tell us, Terrorists aren't Islamic. So let's sprinkle a little pork blood in the grave, and...
Posted by: daddy on iPad what she said | July 31, 2016 at 06:57 PM
Arrested for quoting Winston Churchill: European election candidate accused of religious and racial harassment after he repeats wartime prime minister’s words on Islam during campaign speech. DailyMail
I do see that Winston Chrichill is still not on the 5 LB British note as he was supposed to be, so maybe the Brits are reconsidering what Muslim apologist to stick on their currency.
Posted by: daddy on iPad With a stiff upper lip | July 31, 2016 at 07:08 PM
Sounds wonderful,sbw!
We spent the week-end at hubby's college reunion and shared memories with several of his friends and their spouses.
We were blessed with beautiful weather last evening on Sebago Lake.
Posted by: Marlene | July 31, 2016 at 07:31 PM
We have nothing to fear from sharia.
Gettin' ready for my portrait.
Posted by: Rowan Williams,Archbishop of Canterbury | July 31, 2016 at 07:33 PM
congratulations sbw
Posted by: rich | July 31, 2016 at 07:37 PM
Khizr Khan
18h18 hours ago
Khizr Khan @RealKhizrKhan
America is #StrongerTogether because of Muslims and our values, such as modesty for women. Mrs. Trump should learn. https://twitter.com/nypost/status/759548757662990338 …
Posted by: Lurker Susie | July 31, 2016 at 07:38 PM
14h14 hours ago
Khizr Khan @RealKhizrKhan
It shows the quality of American journalism that nearly all of them advocate for @HillaryClinton.
Posted by: Lurker Susie | July 31, 2016 at 07:39 PM
Has anyone ever explained why after OBL was purportedly killed he was allegedly given a proper Muslim burial?
Posted by: Threadkiller | July 31, 2016 at 05:27 PM
Professional courtesy . . . One Muslim terrorist honoring another Muslim terrorist.
.
Posted by: Michael (fpa Patriot4Freedom) | July 31, 2016 at 07:41 PM
This man is something else
Khizr Khan
Khizr Khan – @RealKhizrKhan
Our favorite founder is Thomas Jefferson, of course, who was inspired by the Holy Quran. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/09/29/thomas-jefferson-s-quran-how-islam-shaped-the-founders.html …
Posted by: Lurker Susie | July 31, 2016 at 07:44 PM
daddy,I read your comment about Kerry Kennedy on one of the previous threads. Funny story...earlier this year the daughter was at an early morning event and was minding her own business when someone tapped her on the shoulder. The person said to her,where did you get that? The daughter said,this old thing?She thought the person meant her jacket. The daughter said,oh at Walmart. The person said oh no,I mean where did you get that,pointing at the Starbucks cup in her hand.
The daughter laughed telling me the story,because the person was Kerry Kennedy.
Posted by: Marlene | July 31, 2016 at 07:44 PM
well he was dubbed the sheikh, even though he had no formal religious training,
Posted by: buccaneer morgan | July 31, 2016 at 07:44 PM
time for sharknado 4, now it's gotten ridiculous, on a rollercoaster,
Posted by: buccaneer morgan | July 31, 2016 at 07:55 PM
Jefferson was inspired by the Koran? Yeah. That's extraordinarily false. He thought they were severely misguided, to put it mildly.
Posted by: Beasts of England | July 31, 2016 at 07:58 PM
No words
Jake Tapper
Jake Tapper – Verified account @jaketapper
Khizr Khan wants McConnell & Ryan to fully reject Trump, says he will continue to speak out until they do. #CNNSotu http://cnn.it/2a9m0qd
Posted by: Lurker Susie | July 31, 2016 at 08:04 PM
Ryan inserts his opinion
AshLee Strong
AshLee Strong – @AshLeeStrong
Speaker Ryan on the Khan family's sacrifice & his long-standing opposition to a religious test: http://www.speaker.gov/press-release/statement-house-speaker-paul-ryan …
Posted by: Lurker Susie | July 31, 2016 at 08:07 PM
no, not a rollercoaster, a sharkstorm in vegas, that's much more realistic,
Posted by: buccaneer morgan | July 31, 2016 at 08:08 PM
Michelangelo Sistine Chapel paintings? Inspired by the Q'ur''a'a'n. Same for Peter Paul Reubens, people. Maybe not that Titian feller. Too much bare breasts...
Posted by: lyle | July 31, 2016 at 08:13 PM
big surprise that Ryan would chime in ... didn't we see a preview of this back in 2006 and "the culture of corruption".
The nevertrupers locked-and-loaded
Posted by: rich | July 31, 2016 at 08:19 PM
See, Khan is proving to be a nut case.
Posted by: squaredance | July 31, 2016 at 08:20 PM
gotta let this one roll around in the ole' brain bucket for a while ...
"America's greatness is built on the principles of liberty and preserved by the men and women who wear the uniform to defend it. As I have said on numerous occasions, a religious test for entering our country is not reflective of these fundamental values. I reject it. Many Muslim Americans have served valiantly in our military, and made the ultimate sacrifice. Captain Khan was one such brave example. His sacrifice—and that of Khizr and Ghazala Khan—should always be honored. Period."
Thanks Speaker Ryan.
Posted by: rich | July 31, 2016 at 08:22 PM
Sharknado 4???
Really. WTF?
Posted by: rich | July 31, 2016 at 08:24 PM
Maria Bartiromo took apart the governor of TM's state on her show today.
Hight taxes were driving business out of CN.. A beautiful thing to watch..
Track it down if you have the time. She was a little irate. Wonder if she lives there.
Posted by: glasater | July 31, 2016 at 08:29 PM
WTF???
Posted by: rich | July 31, 2016 at 08:30 PM
For the love of God, Ryan: STFU.
Posted by: lyle | July 31, 2016 at 08:30 PM
winning the future, it's what's for dinner,
even roger corman says seriously.
Posted by: buccaneer morgan | July 31, 2016 at 08:33 PM
I've been wondering if Trump is secretly backing Nehlen's campaign. He supported David Brat.
Posted by: cheerleader | July 31, 2016 at 08:33 PM
I miss OrangeDrank.
Posted by: Captain Hate on the iPhone | July 31, 2016 at 08:34 PM
On his first trip to Arizona in the primaries, he met on Trump Force One with a woman whom he wanted to see run against McCain. At the time there was a brief local news story about. I can't remember her name. Which pointed to the fact that he's working on multiple levels.
Posted by: cheerleader | July 31, 2016 at 08:36 PM
Excellent letter, please read
An Open Letter to Khizr Khan | Global Security, Privacy, & Risk Management
https://globalriskinfo.com/2016/07/31/an-open-letter-to-khizr-khan/
Posted by: Lurker Susie | July 31, 2016 at 08:36 PM
Is that Pee Wee Herman because he was definitely inspired by the Pornan when he was jacking it in a skin flick dump.
Posted by: Captain Hate on the iPhone | July 31, 2016 at 08:39 PM
In a week it wil be "Khan who?"
Not the least bit surprised to hear the old hag cancelled Cleveland. She is about due for a fling with Grey Goose.
Another week or so and she will be sucking wind.
Posted by: Buckeye | July 31, 2016 at 08:39 PM
WI religious stats put Muslims there at 0.48%. What galls me about Ryan is his preaching tolerance about a deadly situation that doesn't affect him or his loved ones.
Posted by: DebinNC | July 31, 2016 at 08:41 PM
Perfect
Sebastian Gorka
Sebastian Gorka – @SebGorka
Election year 2016 as described in one of the best lines from one of best movie ever: http://youtu.be/gtIYkoL4P48
YouTube
YouTube
This Business Will Get Out of Control
Posted by: Lurker Susie | July 31, 2016 at 08:44 PM
I'd love to see him Cantored.
Posted by: cheerleader | July 31, 2016 at 08:45 PM
Posted by: buccaneer morgan | July 31, 2016 at 08:33 PM
i didn't believe it so I went and found the trailer ... yeah. Sharknado 4 wtf? really?
anyone here like Chevelle?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMfIZ4ArK_I&list=PLFoCc_y_ch200W5hwSx3QMj7Pt2jTKj6Y&index=7
Posted by: rich | July 31, 2016 at 08:46 PM
Posted by: Captain Hate on the iPhone | July 31, 2016 at 08:39 PM
??? this one's got me stumped
Posted by: rich | July 31, 2016 at 08:48 PM
sbw - Congrats on the beautiful wedding. Agree that your son's and his wife's commitment to their ceremony indicates a commitment to their marriage that should serve them well.
Their parents should be quite proud. :)
Posted by: Michael (fpa Patriot4Freedom) | July 31, 2016 at 08:49 PM
DebinNC-
His paymasters in the Chamber of Commerce probably wrote it up for him. Can't say anything too bad because we wouldn't want Boeing to lose a big contract to keep Iran's planes flying.
Posted by: rich | July 31, 2016 at 08:52 PM
or for colleges and universities to miss the opportunity to have some Saudis pay 3x freight to "go to school" here
Posted by: rich | July 31, 2016 at 08:53 PM
Went to see the new "Jason Bourne" movie on Friday evening.
There is the scene where a Mark Zukerberg-like character, Aaron Kalloor, stands in front of an auditorium and gives the biggest collection of high-tech buzzwords ever seen in a Hollywood movie. I turned to my son and said ... "Did you notice that he said absolutely nothing?"
Posted by: Neo | July 31, 2016 at 08:53 PM
??? this one's got me stumped
As well it should; I posted without pasting the reference to Peter Paul Reubens.
Posted by: Captain Hate | July 31, 2016 at 09:16 PM
I don't recall about Jefferson, Brad thor had some thoughts before he went rabid, but this was the precursor event,
http://www.usconstitution.net/tripoli.html
a little like estrich's limited hangout, concessions don't work,
there's also another apocryphal example attributed to ibn saud, he was petitioned by two sets of claimants to include churches or alcohol, among the rules of what would become the aramco concession, he told them to chose
which priority, they said alchohol, he mused for a while and then reproached them, saying if you had requested churches I would have granted you both, as you requested alcohol, I grant you neither,
Posted by: buccaneer morgan | July 31, 2016 at 09:24 PM
Brad thor had some thoughts before he went rabid
I ran an errand Friday morning. Radio in the car was tuned to the station that carries Glenn Beck. Erick Erickson and Brad Thor were both on with Beck.
3 nut jobs, pure loony tunes.
Posted by: Buckeye | July 31, 2016 at 09:34 PM
Cam Erickson and Beck sounds like the definition of an asylum.
Posted by: Captain Hate | July 31, 2016 at 09:40 PM
I've gotten three emails from the Restrainig Order in the last 24 hours begging for money to fight Josh Mandel in November 2018.
Posted by: Captain Hate | July 31, 2016 at 09:44 PM
Porch, you picked up a copy of the new Potter book yet. It's good. Got it via Kindle at 1:30 last night was done by 4. Warning it's in a stagecraft format.
Posted by: Stephanie | July 31, 2016 at 09:46 PM
Congratulations SBW. My daughter got married last Sep. she and her husband had taken many dance lessons for their first dance. I'm glad there were no pictures taken of me at that time with my mouth wide open. It was awesome.
It is so refreshing to see young people commit to marriage in this day and age. We married off two last year. Two to go.
Posted by: JohnH | July 31, 2016 at 09:47 PM
I never thought anyone could make me miss John Boehner but let's face facts, he was considerably better than Eddie Munster.
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | July 31, 2016 at 10:04 PM
Totally agree, Iggy.
Am I the only person that found the PGA a complete snooze? As Beasts and I already said it was too close to the Brit Open plus that course when wet plays extremely boring. I hope the PGA learned from this for 2020 or Rio completely destroys the future of the Olympics (please, God, I don't ask for much...).
Posted by: Captain Hate | July 31, 2016 at 10:11 PM
I don't recall about Jefferson, Brad thor had some thoughts before he went rabid, but this was the precursor event,
Yes, if Mr. Khan thinks Jefferson is so great he probably is unfamiliar with that bit of American history. Whatever Jefferson may have thought in the abstract about Islam, in practice he saw its practitioners without any rose-colored glasses, unlike our current leaders.
Typical Jefferson: Some dreamy ideals in the abstract, but when push comes to shove very pragmatic.
Posted by: jimmyk | July 31, 2016 at 10:32 PM
This will sound stupid but my heart was pounding a little for Jimmy Walker.
He's been such a good player the last couple of years when it didn't count and I'm such a sucker for an underdog that I was really pulling for him.
And between Day's eagle on 18 and virtually Walker's only mistake there it had a pretty dramatic finish.
As an aside, as a southpaw and from some French Canuck stock on my pop's side I was always a bit of a Mike Weir fan.
But as an analyst, his monotone, sonorous delivery and non exceptional insights are kinda snooze inducing.
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | July 31, 2016 at 10:43 PM
This is what she thinks of her supporters
thomaslake
thomaslake – Verified account @thomaslake
Hillary Clinton was 90 minutes late to outdoor rally in Columbus, OH. Nearly 50 treated for heat-related illness, deputy fire chief told CNN
Posted by: Lurker Susie | July 31, 2016 at 10:44 PM
as shakespeare might have said, it's a good start,
http://basementrejects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/sharknado-3-oh-hell-no-today-show-eaten-by-sharks.jpg
Posted by: buccaneer morgan | July 31, 2016 at 10:55 PM
daddy,
Captain Hate brought me to this site, probably because we think so much alike.
I am a refugee from the Ewok. Captain Hate left shortly after me.
It's not surprising we think so much alike. I just am more socially acceptable than he is. LOL!
Posted by: Miss Marple 2 | July 31, 2016 at 10:55 PM
of course, there's a continuity issue, because al roker survived,
Posted by: buccaneer morgan | July 31, 2016 at 10:56 PM
So let's sprinkle a little pork blood in the grave, and...
A reminder...the Boston Islamic murderer ended up being buried in a Muslim graveyard in Virginia because nobody would claim his body.
A Muslim graveyard. Why would that be?
Posted by: Janet the expert | July 31, 2016 at 10:57 PM
Khan does not have the intellectual heft or the educational depth to even vaguely understand the founding of this country, or even what America is. In the absence of that, he does not have the cultural bearings to understand it either.
He understands America--and it is a deeply flawed understanding--from the vantage of the "propositional, multicultural America" hogwash the Left puts out, coupled with a "legalistic" understanding of the country, and one can bet that the latter is decidedly 3rd rate too.
This is an clearly underlined by his extraordinary arrogance in standing before this nation waving the constitution in our faces. This is revolting in the extreme. Imagine a white Christian moving to a Muslim country and then standing up and shaking the Koran at the citizens there.
Nations are not propositional in essence--those that think America primarily "is an idea" have little understanding of anything. Nations exist in the real world in real places with real histories, and they are built by real people over generations. The is much more to being an American than taking the oath of citizenship. At best, this is a starting point down that path.
Mr. Khan does not know what he is talking about, and that the Democrats put him out there like that just shows how fundamentally flawed and dangerous is their comprehension and apprehension of of our Nation, polity, and indeed our Civilization.
They need to be called on it.
Posted by: squaredance | July 31, 2016 at 11:00 PM
Heading to bed.
Good night, everyone!
Posted by: Miss Marple 2 | July 31, 2016 at 11:07 PM
we are a propositional nation, first other than that it becomes a tract of land like any other,
see the uk as an example, now mr. khan like mr. abedin seems to have strong wahhabi influences from his time in the kingdom, and they come out even in his unguarded social media,
Posted by: buccaneer morgan | July 31, 2016 at 11:08 PM
Hillary PR Team @OnMessageForHer 51m51 minutes ago
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Posted by: Momto2 | July 31, 2016 at 11:12 PM
NO we are not a propositional nation. I most stridently disagree. This has been noxious notion for perhaps the last 45 years or so, and it has been put forward by sections in both the right and the left, but it most decidedly not true. We certainly did jot consider ourselves this prior to the 60s and the vast waves of immigration that followed, no matter what the Propaganda of the Left may say. You are much to young to remember this.
There is no such thing, and in flies in the face of all History, Philosophy, and common sense.
Nations are inhabited by a people, who create it, and Nations are rather different things than States. This distinction is obscured in America due to the long continuity of our State, but it is merely obscured, not absent. The left and the rightist globalists push the propositional nonsense in order to destroy it. If America is to be restored, this must be abandoned.
Lastly, I cannot parse this phrase:
"first other than that it becomes a tract of land like any other". What do you mean here.
Posted by: squaredance | July 31, 2016 at 11:21 PM
That's good Momto2!
Posted by: Janet the expert | July 31, 2016 at 11:31 PM
that's not the proposition, what has kept us together even through the strife of the mid 19th century, albeit imperfectly, a nation's identity is the glue that holds it together,
Posted by: buccaneer morgan | July 31, 2016 at 11:31 PM
DrJ, it wasn't me
Uh huh.
As your punishment here is Liszt, Solti, Chicago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJmZPWJTuuY
Posted by: DrJ | July 31, 2016 at 11:32 PM
Again, I cannot parse grammatically what you are say.
If you are saying that the notion of America being "an idea" is what kept us together after the Civil War, you could not be more wrong. What held us together was the fact that the north and the south were basically the same people: Englishmen and Celts, with a smattering of northern Europe, with traditions and culture in the country long before it was the USA, and whose forbears had a part, often a large part, in the creation of that state. Not "propositional" at all.
In fact the creation of the broader USA herald by the Civil War really to the rest of the 190th century to come into full bloom and was only accomplished by the settling of the West.
Posted by: squaredance | July 31, 2016 at 11:39 PM
a nation's identity is the glue that holds it together,
You and I both know the nation's founders were ok with dual identities. Especially when it came to CIC.
Yeargh
Posted by: Threadkiller | July 31, 2016 at 11:39 PM
really to the rest of the 190th century = really took the rest of the 19th century
Posted by: squaredance | July 31, 2016 at 11:41 PM
well I was pointing out the inflection point, however, denied that proposition that 'all men are created equal' and what flows from it, has a lot to do with where we find ourselves now,
Posted by: buccaneer morgan | July 31, 2016 at 11:43 PM
This guy has been adamant that Trump will win:
https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/759619470109319168
Posted by: BeenThereDoneThat | July 31, 2016 at 11:44 PM
ruh roh,
http://www.weaselzippers.us/287071-explosion-at-rio-olympic-stadium-after-police-find-suspicious-device/
Posted by: buccaneer morgan | July 31, 2016 at 11:45 PM
effendi will rationalize this as well,
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/07/belgian-priest-stabbed-asylum-seeker-home-offering-man-assistance/
Posted by: buccaneer morgan | July 31, 2016 at 11:59 PM
I would say that "where we are now" has much more to do with the wave of Central and Southern Europeans in the late 19th and early 20 century than anything else.
Here the meaning of "all men are created equal" becomes radically transformed from the older sense, that sense being that there were not separate political structures for an aristocracy. It merely meant that all were citizens and not subject, and that all stand as notional "equals before the ballot box and the courts. This was possible because of the fact that we were the same people. It then morphed into the notion that "equality" meant that one section could pillage another section in the name of "equality".
These waves eventually gave us the disaster of the New Deal and the Democrat coalition, and we have be struggling to preserve us as a nation (and state) ever since. We are at the final breaking point of that assault on this nation.
This is why the very idea of a propositional nation is so noxious.
If we do not confront it soon we will not have a nation at all. What will replace it will be neither nation or state but a wholly artificial construct that cannot possibly endure, followed by chaos, tyranny, and eventual complete civilization collapse.
All of history points to this; it will be no different for us.
Posted by: squaredance | July 31, 2016 at 11:59 PM
submitted without comment,
http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/
Posted by: buccaneer morgan | August 01, 2016 at 01:00 AM