Hurricane Hermine To Strike Florida Panhandle

From CNN:

Life-threatening' Hurricane Hermine aims at Florida

I blame Hillary. She blames Trump.

Comments

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

I blame Hillary. She blames Trump....Trump takes credit.

[henry]

Obama will cheat at golf, blame someone else for ignoring whatever is left after the hurricane blows through.

[narciso]

news from yesterday,

https://twitter.com/Chief_MarshallR/status/771342456734580736

[Michael (fpa Patriot4Freedom)]

The answer was: "stateswomen."
Posted by: lyle | September 01, 2016 at 04:10 PM

Lyle - So that's how they spell 'lying bints' at the NYT nowadays?

[lurkersusie]

Excellent, I don't have a clue who this
guy is.

CSM
CSM – ‏@usacsmret

Yes Obama was historic, and Hillary would be too, but so were the bombs we dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

[rse]

Having stayed for dennis in 2005 as we were boarded up and a high pressure system meant the eye had to shift to nw, I also had to field phone call after phone call as friends and family watching the weather channel were led to believe we were risking life and limb.

They just want viewers to await the impending 'catastrophe'.

[Pagar a bacon, ham and sausage supporter]

Congratulations to Sandy and his wife, Capt Hate and his wife.
Frau and Frederick, hope you all have the best of happy days.
Hope I didn't miss anyone, but if I did it was unintentional.

[Ann on iPad]

Has anyone heard from Jane? Is she riding out the storm in Florida?

[clarice]

She posted several items on FB so I think she's fins--she's far south of the worst of it.

[jmo]

My son landed in Tallahassee this morning to visit his new girlfriend. Does he have great timing or what. He lives in Chicago. What does he know about Hurricanes?

[Frau Rutger Gefahrfeld]

jmo - as much as I from earthquake country know about hurricanes, floods and tornadoes. I was told not to worry because "I had a mattress," but no one told me what to do with it.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

I think you're supposed to tote it around Pitzer on your shoulder, Frau.

Not sure why but it seems to have some totemic value to the natives.

[narciso]

it's like the towel in the hitchhiker's guide, lol.

[Frau Rutger Gefahrfeld]

I'm relieved to see you have recovered quickly, Ignatz.
That was said to me in Cullman County, Alabama, Iggy, by farm people much smarter than any of the feather passing Pitzer dippoops.

[Frau Rutger Gefahrfeld]

lol, indeed, narciso, but at the time I was concerned. The tornado hit 9 miles away that night and left a lot of damage. I was staying in a wooden house not unlike the light weight cottages I knew from beach front southern California. The weather report preempted all TV and radio that night.

[narciso]

one of the stranger tales, to arise from spectre,

http://dailycaller.com/2016/09/01/emails-abedin-intervened-to-help-clinton-foundation-donor-with-dispute-over-will/

[Frau Rutger Gefahrfeld]

Checking out until tomorrow. Being the JOM elder dame requires some rest. I get tired just reading about Miss Marple's house moving and wonderful dedication to her family.*

I want to thank all who sent me good wishes for my birthday. The festivities continue tomorrow--at least in our house.
Sleep tasty (h/t JiB)

*No lapsed Catholic talk. Papa Ratzi did not lapse. He is standing guard and John Paul II is watching.

[Ann on iPad]

Thanks, Clarice

[clarice]

Heading out early tomorrow morning for Hawaii--I'll check in when I can. Behave.

[lurkersusie]

Mexico doing the bidding of Obama

Droves of African Migrants in Mexico Awaiting U.S. Asylum Under Secret Pact - Judicial Watch

http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2016/09/droves-african-migrants-mexico-awaiting-u-s-asylum-secret-pact/

[jimmyk]

Checking in late, happy birthday to Frau, Fredrick, and any others I've missed.

[narciso]

well why not, already there a whole passel from the middle east coming through, and how can we tell that they are not from there, yemeni for instance could pass for somali without a whole lot of effort,

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--I think she's fins--

I think that means something else in French.

[narciso]

captain's new criterion link, reminded me of the otherworldly character of soviet communism, which some thought had died by the time tim powers wrote declare, the premise of which I may have muddled, the operation of the time, was a multigenerational search for supernatural totems, disguised by the great game, the hero,
referred here,

A sub-plot concerns Hale's on-off romance with Spaniard Elena Teresa Ceniza-Bendiga. A devoted Comintern agent and lapsed Catholic when she first meets Hale, Ceniza-Bendiga eventually rejects communism. While imprisoned in Moscow's notorious Lubyanka prison, she returns to her faith upon discovering the horrible motivation behind the deliberate mass starvation and violent political purges of Stalinist Russia: the placation of an entity called Zat al-Dawahi ("Mistress of Misfortunes") or Machikha Nash ("our stepmother"), a demonic being who demanded human sacrifice in exchange for protecting the nation from foreign invasion.

[Momto2]

Happy Birthday Frau (and again to Frederick ) and Happy Anniversary to Sandy and CH.

Frau - you lived in Cullman, Alabama???? I once lived in Hartselle and Decatur! I remember driving into north Alabama and seeing all of those "bury it yourself" storm shelters for sale. They were weird little capsule looking things and they were quite commonly being sold on the side of the road.

[narciso]

the source of the term, came from here,

http://dinarzade.blogspot.com/2007/09/europe-christianity-and-crusades.html

[jimmyk]

It's business as usual with the NFL:

Razor ‏@hale_razor

So Colin Kaepernick can wear socks with police as pigs, but the Dallas Cowboys can't wear stickers honoring their city's slain officers.
1,931 retweets 2,249 likes

[Barbara]

narciso,

Thank you for that link on Haji Bakr.

Very interesting and informative analysis. Do you suppose the people in Washington are aware of all this?

"The Prince of the Shadows" - would have been a better title for Silva's book.

[narciso]

Fascinating isn't it, silva leads us on at the beginning, crying crocodile teeth over the ijitihad
'the purge' then he gives shows us it's the mcguffin, at the end,

he basically repurposed the saudi spymaster turned cell leader from the messenger, as I've discovered and the 28 pages has refreshed my memory, that story went down the memory hole quick

[narciso]

you look over the last quarter century, and all the 'conventional wisdom' in that region is flawed, I submit the Gulf War, not Iraq was like the Mexican War, led to much greater consequences down the road, Bosnia was another warren of snakes, which is where AQ really proved themselves, but too many reporters, Roger Cohen of the Times, Amanpour of CNN, Gutman of Newsday, made their reputations there,

[narciso]

angleton they say, went a little crazy, examining the doublecrosses of the Trust, that Dzerzinsky had let loose to catch the czarist emigres in paris, of course the ones who say this like david martin, and david wise, and tom mangold, made their reputations on this premise,

[narciso]

dan fesperman, rolled out this same meme, in the double game, more entertainly but obliquely,

three years ago it wasn't clear who any of these people except to perhaps michael flynn's staff and that of general petraeus, so who is further down the rabbit hole,

[narciso]

there's a thin line between clever and stupid, and sarkozy missed it this week,

http://www.france24.com/en/20160901-calais-jungle-migrant-camp-be-gradually-dismantled?

[Barbara]

he basically repurposed the saudi spymaster turned cell leader from the messenger

I agree, narciso. That whole part of the book had a "been there, done that" feel to it. It fit, though and provided a predicate for the "revanchists" referred to in the article who seem to populate that area of the world.

[narciso]

but it's the only way, the audience that reads flathead, (its suggested he's the columnist that saladin is targeting) since kristol no longer works for the times, and scott shane and joby warrick, would ever consider an alternate reality,

[Barbara]

angleton they say, went a little crazy, examining the doublecrosses of the Trust, that Dzerzinsky had let loose to catch the czarist emigres in paris

I suppose if one stays in that business long enough there are bound to be physical and mental consequences.

Re: Gulf War I & II

There are those who say we should have left well enough alone with Saddam running Iraq and keeping the Iranians in check. Everything would be lovely if only we hadn't invaded Iraq after 9/11.

Tampering with the Middle East has always been tricky. Obama and Clinton made the situation much worse. No matter what Obama says, he and the red witch let loose a problem that will not stay contained.

[narciso]

In retrospect, the purge may not have been the best idea in the world, but as kyle orton, who isn't often published in major publications, because breaks all the rice bowls at any one time, the baathists were not the great secular guardians ofthe regime, by 2003, they were making alliances with the stronger horses, who were the salafi,and they in turn worked with hamas and al aqsa, like saladin did, with hezbollah and the egyptian jihadists, this is how they were able to gin up an insurgency in weeks,

[narciso]

Some say, the revelation about philby unhinged him, but even robert littell floats the notion, in a backhanded way, that angleton was right, I guess churchill's aphorism about 'a mystery, wrapped inside a riddle, inside an enigma' isn't just about russia,

[jimmyk]

Chicago had its 467th homicide this year through August (and 90 in August alone), more than double the number in NYC, though Chicago is about 1/3 the size, and NYC has an even stupider mayor. Way to go Rahm.

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2016/09/01/with-90-homicides-august-was-chicagos-bloodiest-month-in-20-years/

[Barbara]

That Daily Caller article re: Huma Abedin's recently released emails shows what a bucket of worms the State Department under Clinton was. The stench from the Clintons is overwhelming!

[Barbara]

I guess churchill's aphorism about 'a mystery, wrapped inside a riddle, inside an enigma' isn't just about russia,

You've got that right!!!

[narciso]

jabba's palace, calls to say 'hey we have standards after all'

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/242830/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+pjmedia%2Finstapundit+%28Instapundit%29

was erickson ever good for anything, and conversely, was that song ever that agonizingly bad,

[GUS]

Barbara, the influence peddling is OBVIOUS. If everyday American citizens see how OBVIOUS it is, how on EARTH can all of our CREDENTIALED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS NOT SEE IT. And even if these LIBTARD CREDENTIALED sell outs, gave Rodham the benefit of the doubt. How in the name of GOD has a SPECIAL COUNSEL or SPECIAL PROSECUTOR not been established. There has never been anything like this in American History. And it's mainly because the MFM will not DEMAND it.

[GUS]

Narciso. Who the HELL is Erickson. How did Erickson earn any CREDIBILITY from ANYONE.
How did Erickson come to own his blog????
What does ERICKSON ACTUALLY BELIEVE

And. What is Erickson's net worth, and how did he get it??

[narciso]

good questions all,

re starship's illconsidered single, I mean abba's
dancing queen,' is clearly considered a war crime in several countries, yet it is still played, more than anyone should ever c0nsider it,

[narciso]

surprise, surprise,

http://www.thelocal.dk/20160901/christiania-shooter-is-isis-sympathizer

[GUS]

Starship......Built this City on Rock N Roll.
Abba, bubble gum as bubble gum could ever possibly be, had at least a modicum of talent, and Bennie certainly marketed the Quartet "to the hilt". Take a chance take a cha chance......
FERNANDO!!! Who writes a song called FERNANDO???
Abba, that's who!!!
I have a close pal in Perth Scotland that was quoted at a CLUB/DISCO, 20 years ago as saying.
In a PROPER SCOTS ACCENT.

"I FUCKIN' LOVE ABBA".

[GUS]

Narciso. The CHRISTIANIA MUZZ SHOOTER, was a NATIVE BORN individual.

What will we call the children of all of the UNVETTED "REFUGEES" Obama is forcing upon America?

Who were the Boston Bombers?
Who was the San Bernadino mass murderer,
Who was the ORLANDO murderer.

America used to be a MELTING POT. It is anything BUT, a melting pot. The Demotard Left and the Full Commie Activist and sick freak left, including OBAMA et al. Have no interest in IMMIGRANTS assimilating. NONE AT ALL. Their interests are in pandering to GROUPS for VOTES. CONSEQUENCES be DAMNED. Many LIBTARD SHEEP have bought into the THEY COME HERE FOR LOVE bullshit. H/T JEB BUSH.
I don't care WHY they want to come here. I want our borders secured, and I want any IMMIGRANTS to be PLEDGED to assimilating to OUR CULTURE. I know, I know. I'm ALT-RIGHT and RACIST.

[GUS]

BFD. A dog barks. A fish swims. A LIBTARD lies. BFD.
A hurricane EXISTS and blows MAS WIND.....much like your typical LIBTARD talking head.
A HURRICANE. We have become so CASTRATED and EMASCULATED as a NATION and SOCIETY, that the 1st Hurricane in 11 years, has our MFM 100% TURGID, ...I mean HUGH G. RECTION over a Hurricane. First hurricane in 11 years to make land fall in FLORIDA.
Anyone SMELL what I'm Cooking??????
Hurricanes have always existed, and LIBTARDS have screeeeeeeeched like silly bitches that HURRICANES would be BEEEEEEEGER, MORE DESTRUCTIVE and MORE FREQUENT.
Wrong ALL ALONG.

[Hermone and Potter, Inc.]

Isnt that a 'Harry Potter' character, huh🏆

More Eton commie marxists elitists spies!

http://www.unian.info/world/1499178-cnn-vladimir-putins-private-meeting-with-elite-british-schoolboys.html

Notice the quote. These are the words often last heard from those who fall under the hypno toad gaze! 🐸

[Miss Marple 2]

Good morning!

Radio says storm surge for Hermine was 7-10 feet.

Also heard a clip of Joe Biden being obnoxious in Ohio. I forgot how much I detest that guy.

Also heard a clip of Clem Kadiddlehopper, who is saying that he has foreign policy experience and such stuff shouldn't be left to amateurs like Trump.

I can see that I am going to have to keep the radio turned off as well as the television.

[Porchlight]

Belated happy birthday, dear Frau! I caught Frederick's birthday on the last thread but somehow missed yours.

Belated happy anniversary to the Hates and Dazes!

[rse]

MM-my understanding is that is on top of coming in at high tide. From watching dennis come in in 2005 and other tropical storms, my greatest surprise is that the waves come in with such momentum that they then go vertical, shearing the supposedly solid natural dunes of 30 feet or so.

Dennis took the crests all along 30-A and moved back about five feet. It really gave a sense for how repeated storms could change a coastline, but as others have noted it had been a decade since one hit.

I guess ol is shuttering up at least a bit. Red had a friend want her to come visit, but she looked into the logistics of traveling over Labor Day weekend and then trying to get back for a tuesday morning meeting. She stayed home.

[rse]

http://libertyunyielding.com/2016/09/02/football-follies-2016-ncaa-week-1/ for the football fans.

[henry]

This is not about a hurricane, We'll be honest, friends, we're PANICKING. Dems worried about turnout & polls. I expect more lawsuits on early voting hours and voter ID as this sinks in.

[Texas Liberty Gal]

Trump added line to speech re: Mexico paying for wall because of the earlier tweet from Mexico prez.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trumps-mexico-trip-was-weeks-in-the-making-1472779067

[Miss Marple 2]

http://dailycaller.com/2016/09/01/nasa-scientist-physics-defying-drive-actually-works/?utm_campaign=atdailycaller&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social

[Beasts of England]

I'd like to thank Hermine for sucking out all the clouds and humidity for my Labor Day weekend. It's so nice out, it feels like it's September...

[Michael (fpa Patriot4Freedom)]

Belated Happy Birthday wishes - Viel Glück zum Geburtstag - to the dear Frau . . .

and belated anniversary congratulations to CaptH and Sandy Daze.

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Hope everyone along the East Coast stays safe and dry as the hurricane passes.

[Old Lurker]

Scary enough for me to think about testing the diving boards on the Ledge:

The gist is, and all my Dem friends here on Nantucket take it as gospel, that Hillary has an iron clad in the bag firewall of 249 Electoral Votes so she only needs one or two more states to cinch the election. Since that is easy-peasy for her, they see a landslide for her.

Shoot me now.

[Old Lurker]

..Sorry...forgot the link:

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/clintons-advisers-tell-her-to-prep-for-a-landslide-227659

[Miss Marple 2]

Old Lurker,

I have heard that for months from all sorts, including Dana Perino who is just SO concerned that we are getting our hopes up for nought.

Well, maybe so. And maybe they are way over confident.

I was a registered democrat who voted for Jimmy Carter. After 4 years of Carter misery and alternately being disgusted and then trying to go back to being a loyal democrat (my dad and mom were yellow dogs) I threw in the towel in the summer of 1980 and decided to vote for Reagan.

My exact thought (I remember this like yesterday) was "Reagan can't be any worse, and he at least won't be embarrassing." (I did not know much about him other than he wasn't Jimmy Carter, he spoke well, and his wife dressed nicely. (I didn't follow politics that much as my children were small.)

The short answer is that the polls and conventional wisdom pundits just really do not know. If Hillary loses 25% of the black vote, she loses. If the democrats in the rust belt throw in the towel like I did, she loses. If we win on new voters, she loses.

I don't think any other candidate would have had a shot. Not Cruz, not Jeb, not any of them. All would have been destroyed by the attack ads after the convention. Trump was not, and is remaining a strong contender.

You also have to remember that your democrat friends here this type of stuff from the DNC and the Clinton campaign because they want to keep the money flowing. If dem voters think she might lose, they might be inclined not to donate.

This would be analagous to the call I got from the RNC on election day, 2012, when I was asked todonate last minute money to help get out the vote because it was looking like a landslide and Minnesota was in play. Of course, as we know, that was a lie and they were just trying to vacuuum up whatever money they could get before the disaster.

This is why I do not donate to the RNC, ever. My sole contribution this cycle was $25 to Donald Trump on his web site. That was really money I couldn't afford, but I wanted to help out a bit.

If Hillary steals this election, the Trump people aren't going away. Their anger will be volcanic, and the GOPe will feel their wrath as well as the dems.

I still think Trump will win.

[Porchlight]

OL, please. You should know better.

Trump closes gap in VA to 2 points. Previously Clinton +11.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/09/01/hampton-university-poll-virginia-voters-finds-hillary-trump-separated-two-points/

[James D.]

Good morning, everyone! And please stay safe, everyone in the path of the storm!

And happy belated birthdays to Frau and to Frederick!

I think that covers everything...

[Porchlight]

TLG,

Thanks for that link. Nieto's spokesman confirmed Trump's statement there was no discussion of payment for the wall. Nieto said "we're not paying for it," Trump didn't respond, therefore no discussion. MSM doesn't understand what words mean and so thinks "mention"="discuss."

https://i.sli.mg/aYDfdk.png

[Old Lurker]

I know, Porch, I know.

My secret dream remains a Trump landslide and an American Renewal.

I sailed yesterday with a guy who was so certain of a Clinton Landslide that I almost jumped ship to swim home, not caring that there was a Great White in the 'hood. Since my host is "connected", it was depressing I must admit.

[jimmyk]

Hillary's campaign people are probably afraid to tell her anything other than she's got the election in the bag, for fear of getting clonked in the head by a lamp. Too bad there isn't a feminine version of those "Hitler finds out about..." parodies.

[Truthbetold5]

Trump is a Trojan horse!

[Buckeye]

afraid to tell her anything other than she's got the election in the bag, for fear of getting clonked in the head by a lamp

Probably much worse.

What a god awful human being. Still praying for early onset rigor mortis.

[Porchlight]

OL, I can understand being depressed if the source is "connected." But the top 5 DNC people have now resigned and Brazile is reportedly spending all her time reassuring nervous donors. Hillary is literally doing nothing but fundraisers and debate prep while Trump dominates every news cycle that isn't dominated by fresh Clinton scandals. And he's gaining on her in both state and national polling.

Why not spread a few comforting rumors to the wealthy Dem gentry that it's in the bag?

[squaredance]

Well, if she does win it is profound mark of just how corrupt we have become--corrupt in the sense of a tyrannical, self serving political machine, but also in the sense of broad moral corruption.

Hillary is running what to me is absolutely the worst campaign I have ever seen. It is in a real sense not a campaign at all. She has lately put out what for any other person would be consider downright looney bit of paranoia: Trump is in league with Putin to hack her, that absolutely bizarre "Alt Right" speech, and the strange and almost indecipherable speech about "American Exceptionalism". She now is claiming that hacks on email are acts of war and she will respond accordingly. She has given but one press conference in 200+ days and does not answer questions but instead hands out candy. She looks absolutely dreadful, and yet no one is supposed to notice. On top of all of this is the snotty air about her that she is entitled to be POTUS so can we just get on with the theater so that she can claim her right to rule us. All in all, it is a pathetic and truly bizarre campaign.

It appears to me that she is relying on the MSM, voter fraud and indoctrinated numbskulls (some, evidently, quite well off) to put her over the top, and this despite the sort of open corruption that would not only throw anyone else out of politics but at the very least land them in front of a judge. OL's gilded Liberal friends are literally out of their minds not to see this.

If she does get in it will be a watershed in American History.

We at the very least see two things: 1) half of the nation, and I do mean half, will lose all faith in its institution, public and private, and 2) we will see the US government openly come out against the population as an oppressive and tyrannical force.

Push may just come to shove.

[squaredance]

"I sailed yesterday with a guy who was so certain of a Clinton Landslide that I almost jumped ship to swim home, not caring that there was a Great White in the 'hood. Since my host is "connected", it was depressing I must admit."

I have that sensation all the time--not out sailing, of course, but the sense that anything would be better than another second of listening to this idiocy. Better to hop out of a moving car in the middle of a bridge than take another second.

Too funny.

[henry]

moderators list. Typical lefty hacks.

[Old Lurker]

Squaredance, "It is in a real sense not a campaign at all."

I was thinking that she is running a Soviet style campaign where she knows the outcome so why bother getting out of bed...or a N Korean thing where she assumes 105% of the vote...

The great fear we share, of course, is that that might be exactly where we have arrived without knowing it. This election will answer that question.

[Beasts of England]

Fire can't melt Troy!!

[jimmyk]

Why not spread a few comforting rumors to the wealthy Dem gentry that it's in the bag?

So which is the better strategy, trying to make the Dem operatives complacent, or the donors nervous? It would be great to see the donor rats fleeing the sinking ship, but that is probably a fantasy.

[Truthbetold5]

A coward dies a thousand deaths.

[maryrose]

Happy Birthday Frederick.
Sorry I missed him yesterday.
I concur Potch.
After I saw that Vitginia poll I knew the media has been lying all along.
Hil is raising money because blowing through 100 million has gotten her to a tie with Trump.
She is going to need every penny.

[jimmyk]

OL, it's good to start with the presumption that it's tough to beat an incumbent, and tough for a party to stay in power after two terms of a not wildly popular president. That gives some ground for hope this time around.

[Old Lurker]

You know if she really does win in a landslide, it will be the political end-of-a-nation equivalence of that old line about going bankrupt being "slow at first and then all at once".

[henry]

kind of like how Venezuelan store shelves emptied.

[squaredance]

It is even worse than a Soviet "campaign"--at least they had to fear their peers in the state apparatus. I can tell you that one could not escape the droning broadcasts of ritualized speeches.

As to arriving there, well in a way it is worse. For a great many Americans it is the case that one cannot freely speak their mind, and this is enforced not by Secret Police but almost solely by their fellow citizens acting in "free will". That was not the case in Russia, at least not after the war. All the fear came from the State apparatus.

People do not seem to realize that in some very real way the USA has become more tyrannical than the USSR was in the daily lives of regular people. It is more subtle, and the cost is not an actual gulag, at least not yet, but the intrusions into our private lives are deep indeed. Moreover, the nature of what they are pushing against us is far beyond what the Soviets ever tried. Criminalizing Bakers for not serving homosexuals, trannies in the military, the notion that it is OK for a football player to wear socks like that but another team cannot put logos on their helmets to support cop. The Soviets would not have dared to try that, and indeed would not have wanted too. They pushed that sort of nonsense in the West, but never at home.

[Old Lurker]

I have concluded that if my secret dream of a Trump victory comes to be, I assume all of my Dem friends' heads will explode as they die of strokes. I mentally reviewed the list of said friends and decided I will not miss them at all.

Femall.

[Old Lurker]

SqD: "For a great many Americans it is the case that one cannot freely speak their mind, and this is enforced not by Secret Police but almost solely by their fellow citizens acting in "free will"."

And in that, the historical parallel is the French Revolution. All that is missing is the mass willingness to simply exterminate those with whom the mob disagrees and the willingness to take all their assets as the trundle down the lane. And the seeds of both have been sown, you must admit.

[Jack is Back!]

Frederick thanks all for the best birthday wishes.

Last night we went to Yappy Hour at the Southampton HIstorical Museum. Beth Stern (Howard's squeeze) was hosting our annual BYOD (bring your own dog) cocktail party. Frederick brought his 3 beagles and had a caricature done of them:)

[Old Lurker]

Why did trump accept this?

http://www.mediaite.com/online/breaking-presidential-debate-moderators-revealed/

[MAM]

Oh, JIB - I LOVE beagles. We shared 16 years with our girl Nacho and although she passed in 2007, my heart still aches each night when I go to bed just thinking about her. Frederick's Bandit looks just like our Nacho. We can't bring ourselves to get another dog especially now that my children are grown and the pup would be home all day alone. The picture of your three little beauties made my day - thanks so much!

[Old Lurker]

I walking down to the beach to look for that Great White so I can go swimming.

[Beasts of England]

Nice, Jack!! Mrs. Stern is a cutie - and that was a great photo of her and Frederick you posted...

[Texas Liberty Gal]

Porch - YW & TY for your link!! Trump had such a great day on Tuesday. I'm hoping today will be the same as he visits Detroit.

[James D.]

It appears to me that she is relying on the MSM, voter fraud and indoctrinated numbskulls (some, evidently, quite well off) to put her over the top, and this despite the sort of open corruption that would not only throw anyone else out of politics but at the very least land them in front of a judge. OL's gilded Liberal friends are literally out of their minds not to see this.

I think this paragraph pretty well sums everything up perfectly.

[Momto2]

JIB - great caricature of the beagles! I put my foster bluetick on an airplane this morning - she's flying from Atlanta to her new adoptive home in Lincoln, Nebraska. I had her for six months and miss her already.

The only solution = another foster! A very gray day here in Georgia - has RG checked in with anyone yet? I hope all is well with him. My friend just returned from helping with the flooding victims in LA. She posted such heart-breaking photos. She said people were reluctant to let go of their things, even though they were clearly ruined and covered in mold and mildew. I cannot imagine such a loss.

We have much to be thankful for and these disasters put things in perspective, don't they?

[Porchlight]

So which is the better strategy, trying to make the Dem operatives complacent, or the donors nervous?

I don't think Hillary actually has a money problem. She has shown for eons that Clintons can funnel money wherever they want whenever they want. That's part of the problem.

I think Brazile and the fundraisers Hillary is doing *are* part of the "calming the nerves" strategy among the Dem elite. They're not calming donor nerves because they need more money, but because the "nerves" are over the obvious disaster of a campaign, and they want the rumors to be positive rather than negative.

[Old Lurker]

"OL's gilded Liberal friends are literally out of their minds not to see this."

Tru Dat.

They are as deluded as are "Gays for ISIS" IMO.

[Beasts of England]

Gays for ISIS? Newsletter or it didn't happen! ;)

[Old Lurker]

Nothing would surprise me, Beasts.

[Beasts of England]

Not these days, OL...

[sbw]

Why did trump accept this?

Because he has dealt with the MSM enough to have learned how brittle they are when challenged.

These are like heavyweight fighters who know what happened to Candy Crowley and who don’t want their glass jaws touched.

If they try to roll Trump, it is a get-out-the-vote for the disaffected ... and most of us are disaffected.

[henry]

It's not the rolling Trump... its the protecting Hilligula.

[Thomas Collins]

What one thinks about The Hill's campaign depends on one's view of The Hill as a whole and her health. I happen to have concluded that The Hill is corrupt virtually beyond comprehension, and compromised to Val and Xi also beyond comprehension. In addition, although I don't think she has seen the Grim Reaper yet, I think the state of her health is precarious. In light of this, I think her handlers' run out the clock campaign has been brilliant.