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January 07, 2017

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lyle

The Red Scare lives!!!

lyle

Oops, should have prefaced my comment with, "let me be first to say..." 😬

Captain Hate

Warriors fans being irritating assholes; film at 11.

lyle

Having not watched more than three NBA games in 10 years, I just don't give a damn.

Beasts of England

Jill Stein demands a recount!!

daddy on a hotel computer

Joe Stalin was from Georgia. Did ZaZa ever meet Zsa Zsa? How come this Paris Computer has the a and the q swapping positions, and the M AND THE W ARE SCREWED up as well? THESE AND OTHER questions are racing thru my brain like chipped beef on toqst races past that new organ they just discovered in our big intestine: I think we need a name for this new intestinal organ: I suggzest we call it "THE ZAZA." later;

maryrose

TK
Did they rule out pleurisy?

Miss Marple the Deplorable

Hey! Captain Hate will remember (I hope) that I was laughed at on the Horde for this theory, which I proposed over 3 years ago:

"Admiral James 'Ace' Lyons told the group that he believes the raid on the Benghazi compound was intended as a kidnapping exercise, aimed at snatching U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and demanding a prisoner swap for the 'blind sheikh' Omar Abdel-Rahman.

Abdel-Rahman is serving a life sentence in federal prison for planning the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center garage in New York City. He also masterminded a plan, later foiled, to blow up the United Nations, both the Lincoln and Holland tunnels, the George Washington Bridge and a federal building where the FBI had a base of operations.

A senior FBI source, Lyons said Tuesday, 'told me that was the plan.'

The attack, history shows, grew in intensity and resulted in the deaths of Stevens and three other U.S. personnel."

From this article:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2610598/Group-US-switched-sides-War-Terror-facilitating-500-MILLION-weapons-deliveries-Libyan-al-Qaeda-militias-leading-Benghazi-attack.html

Hmph! I was mocked for a theory which is now proposed by a retired ADMIRAL, How about those apples?

JimNorCal

Already posted? Sorry!

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/01/dems_may_regret_leak_of_topsecret_report_on_russia_to_nbc_.html

The Democrat-Media Complex has gone all in on the propaganda campaign to convince Americans that Donald Trump’s election is illegitimate because “Russia hacked the election.”
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But they may have made a fatal overstep with the release of the top-secret report on Russian influence to NBC News.

It is a crime to share top-secret information with people who do not have the requisite security clearance.
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REPORTER: “Just to button that up, you’re ruling out that the White House leaked that information to NBC, but you’re not ruling out that another — that an agency that’s part of the intelligence community or another federal agency might have done so?”

EARNEST: “I can’t speak to the inner workings of the intelligence community, particularly as it relates to the compiling of the specific report. The intelligence community was charged by the President of the United States with compiling a report. And as we’ve discussed at some length over the last couple of months here, the men and women of the United States intelligence community are patriots. And these are people who serve their country. They set aside their own personal political views to do the right thing for the country. So the President has got enormous confidence in them, believes that he’s been extraordinarily well served by them over the last eight years in providing to him timely, accurate, specific information that was not shaded to advance a political or ideological agenda, but rather was oriented toward providing him the best possible information so he could make the best possible national security decisions. But for questions about how the intelligence community has handled specific pieces of information, you should go talk to them about that.”

I think the headline is: “Obama spokesman refuses to deny that top-secret report was leaked from White House.”

Another Bob

Threadkiller | January 07, 2017 at 01:42 PM

I caught the Coulter 13 thing too.

Progs keep setting new records for stupid.

Another Bob

KK, thanks for the fentanyl explanation. Will be interesting to watch over the next few years.

Beasts of England

I'm not sure how to process the idea that they leaked a TS report to the media in light of all the tribulations regarding Hillary's abuse of data handling laws, but I'm losing my ability to be shocked at their behavior. If true, there has to be pain. I've had enough of this crap.

Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki

Really entertaining story on Al Davis's son Mark who has been the Raiders owner since Al croaked.
The apple fell far from the tree but IMO that seems like a pretty good thing.
Eccentric but in a funny way.
The haircut alone is worth the price of admission.

Another Bob

Make that 14.

DebinNC

NBC evening news yesterday, Friday, Jan. 6:
" A senior U.S. intelligence official with direct knowledge confirmed to NBC News that the report on Russian hacking delivered to President Obama Thursday says that U.S. intelligence picked up senior Russian officials celebrating Donald Trump's win. ... The U.S. has also identified Russian actors who turned over stolen Democratic material to WikiLeaks, the source told NBC News Thursday"

Wow. BOzo wasn't even clever enough to wait for a semblance of plausible deniability.

DrJ

fentanyl

Funny you should mention that. I'm considering starting a project to distinguish fentanyl from heroin from poppy seeds from cough syrup. Currently the diagnostic tests are pretty awful, and I think we have the technology to do it.

The downside is that this is an incredibly regulated area, materials are hard to come by, and we'd have to be really careful when we work with it (it is terribly potent).

But there sure is a market for the test.

FWIW, last week I submitted the first proposal of two on a new breast cancer diagnostic. It is a good proposal, but it is terribly competitive these days. The CRs don't help.

DebinNC

I'm pretty sure I'd lie and say I voted for Hillary, if asked, to get on this jury.

henry

Russian Hackers? amateur hour. Best Buy's Geek Squad used passwords to spy for the feds while repairing phones / PCs. Since 2007. Only losers need warrants these days.

Beasts of England

Fine article, Ig. I had no knowledge of the guy before, but like him already...

JimNorCal

I'm with you, Deb!
Delivery truck driver accidentally kills 6 anti Trump protestors blocking freeway.

henry

the remaining protestors should be booked as accessories

jimmyk

Already leading contenders for the 2017 Darwin Awards.

EmpoweredvVctimClaimergov jobs and cash

Oh, the obaminators just read the brochures from the IC, but congress, who just read the brochures too, are actually culpable for actions/ inactions, unless they decide they're not; kinda like a raise,!😌

Yup Mrs.mysterio has got a double naught license and unlimited drone sanctions. No wonder we all know wonder woman as god of war.🙎

Threadkiller

The Seattle Tribune is a satire site, I think.

Threadkiller

maryrose, I left you a reply on the last thread.

Thank you.

Captain Hate

Captain Hate will remember (I hope) that I was laughed at on the Horde for this theory, which I proposed over 3 years ago

I don't remember them doing that, which is strange because to me it never seemed like a not plausible reason for things happening the way they did.

jimmyk

The Seattle Tribune is a satire site, I think.

I believe you are correct, young whippersnapper.

http://theseattletribune.com/disclaimer/

It conceals its parody well by not being all that funny.

Beasts of England

http://www.snopes.com/anti-trump-protesters-killed-on-freeway/

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Donnelly: Dear Mr. President-Elect, Please ‘Pick a Fight’ with California on Behalf of the American People

http://www.breitbart.com/california/2017/01/07/dear-mr-president-elect-please-pick-a-fight-with-california-on-behalf-of-the-american-people/

DebinNC

"It was at this time when Richard L. Porter, a 32-year-old Seattle resident employed by Waldrum Brother’s"

What a laugh riot it would be if some nutjob not in on the "joke" killed some unsuspecting guy named Richard L. Porter.

jor

TM -- its ok; we know republicans love russia now after 2012 being told it was #1 threat to our country.

You guys are the party of principle.

Hence, I'm sure we will rigorously evaluate conflicts of interest in Trump administration -- like we did the never-ending clinton foundation stories right?

Or perhaps we will worry about trump lying, like we did with Bill Clinton?

or maybe sexual misconduct with trump, like with bill clinton?


Or perhaps deficit spending with trump like with obama (don't worry this will happen)

I'm sure you guys have "principles"

I think the only one is "hate liberals". And now its clear "hate liberals more than foreign nations attacking america".

Good job on building a destructive, nihlistic, power hungry, moral-less, god-less, media ecosystem.

KEEP going, you guys are doing great.

Willy

Loll..like Monterey shale is gonna be exploited.

Ho-o-ly shite with bangers and mash.

Bannon and comany are getting high.on their own farts.

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A completely jibless dipstick said:

"I think the only one is "hate liberals". And now its clear "hate liberals more than foreign nations attacking america".

buccaneer morgan

As with the new yirker, they are now indistinguishable from satire.

buccaneer morgan

Do you finish off the season of westworld, Kev?

Willy

If you don't like California, Texass or N. Dakota will be more than happy to receive you.

Account Deleted

Buccr, Haven't begun. Lookin ferd to it tho.

Account Deleted

Raiders are stinkin up the joint. Caint buy a break.

Account Deleted

https://www.yahoo.com/news/obama-set-pardon-frenzy-leaves-office-055925757.html

Miss Marple the Deplorable

I figure the pardons will be stacked high on the Resolute Desk, KK.

He's been grinding out a fair amount every week since October.

Captain Hate

In another leak case, Chelsea Manning is serving a 35-year sentence in solitary confinement for handing 700,000 sensitive military and diplomatic documents to WikiLeaks, some of them classified.

Activists say her sentence is excessive and point to the psychological frailty of the transgender soldier who has already made two suicide attempts.

Third time the charm for this mentally ill freak taking his name from The Omen?

Account Deleted

True dat, MM. He's saving the splashy ones for the end.

Miss Marple the Deplorable


Donald J. Trump Verified account
‏@realDonaldTrump

Congratulation to Jane Timken on her major upset victory in becoming the Ohio Republican Party Chair. Jane is a loyal Trump supporter & star
----------------------------------

He pays attention (or KellyAnn does). I am sure he was gratified to see Kasich's lieutenant defeated.


buccaneer morgan

Ouch that its a nuking. I agree they shouldn't go full vizzini

maryrose

Deb:
Since the Republican convention,
I am totally in favor of massive security forces at all big events.
It makes you feel safer and deters the criminal element.
These protectors will not be told to stand down.

buccaneer morgan

Did they do powrlines week in pictures yet.

Captain Hate

Zebras aren't doing the Raidazz any favors with two offensive pass interference calls against this beast of a defense. Having a one man sack machine like Clowney means you can double all the stud receivers.

lurkersusie

I only was able to watch 10 seconds.


The Hill ✔@thehill
Celebrities share emotional goodbye video for Obamahttp://hill.cm/BDVX4Ma
4:28 PM - 7 Jan 2017

maryrose

Lurkersusie:
I just to yell get off the stage!
Somebody get the hook...

lurkersusie

This is who the left is, this is who CNN is. Why did she feel so comfortable laughing on the set of CNN? Can't people see https://twitter.com/CriticalAnalyst/status/817831223993176064 …

Porchlight

DrJ, great to see you!

TK, I am glad you're feeling better. Hope they solve the mystery soon.

OT, speaking of mysteries, I've been deeply immersed in the British post-war mysteries of Michael Gilbert. Some are very masculine and deal with espionage and organized crime; the later ones are more traditionally cozy. He seems conservative in outlook. I detect influences of Dorothy Sayers, Helen MacInnes, and Josephine Tey.

He is a wine and dog lover, as well. There is a prominent dog character in the collections of short stories about the middle aged special agents, Mr Calder and Mr Behrens.

It is such a relief to be able to enjoy regular reading habits again now that the election anxiety has lifted. I swear I haven't enjoyed a novel properly in several years.

maryrose

Captain:
The final insult are the multiple shots of Romeo Crenell on the sidelines.

Captain Hate

narc, a book group member today, whose tastes usually dovetail with mine and who I hadn't seen for a while, gave extremely high praise for Klingsor.

maryrose

Porch:
Totally agree.
It is like when you finally stop studying for school and can enjoy reading for pleasure.

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http://thefederalist.com/2017/01/06/gop-does-have-a-plan-to-replace-obamacare-thats-what-scares-democrats/

Captain Hate

maryrose, they've got the #1 defense with JJ Watt on the sidelines. I think Wade Phillips initially put this defense together before moving on to Denver and giving the keys to Crennell, who to his credit has done quite well with them.

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Good Luck, Texans. Goin to Foxboro. Yikes.

Account Deleted

Raider defense was uninspired. Oh well. Get ready for the draft. Always a fun look forward.

Captain Hate

Of course the GOP has developed multiple replacement plans which the Disney News Cartoon Shows persistently ignore.

Momto2

As an antidote to the long-long-long goodbye coverage- here is this:

An hour by hour review of media on election night!
Quite entertaining :)

http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/05/media/election-night-news-coverage-oral-history/index.html

buccaneer morgan

Thanks capt, its a gem of a book, Unlike much of the overflacked dreck. I'm about a third through web griffin (his son's actually) post war series, sort of mash in Berlin with the CIA.

daddy

A 32-year old man driving a Waldrum Brother’s delivery truck is responsible for the death of 6 Anti-Trump protesters that were blocking traffic while chanting “Dump Trump” in the middle of a Seattle freeway.

So no responsibility whatever accrues to the people stupid enough to stand in the middle of a Freeway at Rush Hour?

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Paul Krugman ✔ @paulkrugman
Watching Republicans trying to grapple with the reality of ACA repeal is both entertaining and deeply dispiriting. 1/
8:34 AM - 5 Jan 2017

<<<<<>>>>>

Paul the Crack Baby comes up for air. What is he good at again?

Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki

Jiminnorcal linked em this morning, narc.

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From that Federalist link on OCare repeal/replace:

"It is worth reiterating that the replacement plan doesn’t have to be conceptually or functionally similar to Obamacare, no matter how often the Paul Krugmans of the world demand it. The comprehensiveness and rigidity of Obamacare are things to avoid. So replacement plans can be passed piecemeal."

And repeal can have a fuse attached so it blows that pile of shitake to smithereens once people have a chance to catch their breath over premium shock.

Yes, we will get sick of "winning."

buccaneer morgan

Must have missed it, the only surprise about ashiq hammed , is he didn't off himself, but then again neither the Berlin mauler.

Truthbetold5

Secret Pedophile Playground Discovered. Alefantis threatens mother & girlfriend in writing. Screenshots of chat.

https://steemit.com/pizzagate/@gizmosia/james-alefantis-threatens-kill-room-finder-breaking-news

maryrose

Captain:
I wish. Crenell had done well by us while in Cleveland.
We need a good quarterback and not other team's sloppy seconds.

Captain Hate

maryrose, Crennell, in addition to not having much to work with here (although came closest to getting the team in the playoffs), is a much better defensive coordinator than head coach; just like Wade Phillips. Taking the step from offensive or defensive coordinator to head coach is a big one and isn't for everybody. I'm hoping that Haslem has the right people in the front office for talent evaluation because this draft will be huge for the team to improve because there are still a lot of holes to fill

Captain Hate

Paul the Crack Baby comes up for air. What is he good at again?

Testing flea collars.
Getting paid by Enron while doing nothing to keep them from failing.
Getting paid by Carlos Slim while doing nothing to keep his fishwrap from failing.

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CH: do you know how many picks the Browns have in the coming draft?

Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki

what The Week in Pictures; just for Narciso addition.

Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki

What?

Miss Marple the Deplorable

Momto2,

Thanks for that hour-by-hour account of election night.

What I think is what Franklin Graham said: God intervened.

DebinNC

Just started Momto2's link and stopped at:

"In the days leading up to Tuesday, "I was talking with people on both campaigns and I was getting the same prediction from Team Trump that I was getting from Team Clinton -- which was that Hillary would end up with a few more than 300 electoral votes," CNBC anchor and New York Times columnist John Harwood said."

John Harwood was outed in early October in a Wikileak showing he'd been advising Team Hillary, but we're supposed to believe Team Trump was giving him inside info "in the days leading up to" election day?

JimNorCal

"The Seattle Tribune is a satire site"

Dang. I'm normally suspicious but I fell hook line and sinker for that story :)

Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki

The Monterey formation has been producing oil for decades.

buccaneer morgan

I think they are all satire, to the extent that they are a parody of what each publication should be.

Porchlight

My dad's oldest childhood friend attended the MN Republican Party's election night shindig. He said that word was going around early in the evening that Trump had it. The Reps took the MN legislature and Trump damn near won MN. Must have been a fun night.

Porchlight

maryrose @7:45, just so!

deplorable new lurker

Thanks so much for that link, Momto2. I read it to my husband, and he loved it. The night of the election we were in Atlanta with one of our daughters having just left NY visiting another daughter. We went to bed in Atlanta thinking that Trump had lost and were SO delighted to wake up and have Atlanta daughter tell us that Trump had won!! CNN Money is appropriately snarky, I think.

Momto2

Deb - you should keep going. It is full of gems like this:

"'People on the Clinton campaign who don't even smoke are outside smoking. There's this crazy nervousness.'"

Truthbetold5

VIDEO 3 - Alefantis Kill Room Found - SUMMARY AND NEW LEADS

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t3-UHwhK3T4

Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki

It's kind of funny when you think about it but progs simultaneously believe the world can be placed in some ideal stasis from the past and that history is on an inevitable deterministic course, neither of which is true. Meanwhile they think immutable human nature is limitlessly malleable which is also false. But holding all those falsehoods as their catechism makes them a potent political force.

Meanwhile mainstream republicans understand human nature is essentially unchangeable and that history is not an already written script and that the earth is in constant natural flux much of it quite inhospitable to our survival. But they have so acquiesced to the prog narrative they are rendered helpless politically.
The mushy reps are very similar to the citizens in totalitarian countries who are forced to accept the obvious, humiliating lies of the propaganda organs, except mushy reps don't need a gun or a gulag to cow them; mere social pressure, shaming and name calling are enough.
Let's hope those days of childish fears and manipulations are finally behind us.

DebinNC

Deb - you should keep going. It is full of gems like this:

Oh, I kept reading and enjoyed it thoroughly when I wasn't fuming. The msm have no clue how in the tank for Dems they obviously are and how apparent their "tankdom" is to everyone but themselves.

DebinNC

The msm had us so convinced Hillary would win we purposely went camping to avoid all news.

Clarice Feldman

I hope that's true, Iggy.

Miss Marple the Deplorable

I thought he would win until the day of the election when my damn phone kept sending me Fox alerts about how Hillary was ahead in various polls. It was constant, about every 15 minutes.

I had early voted, so went over to my sisters because I was upset. Drove home actually in tears and prayed like I hadn't prayed in years.

Steeled myself to watch the returns because I felt like it would be disloyal not to stick ith him if he lost. As the evening went on, it was like some sort of magic was happeningg.

I managed to stay up for the whole thing. My son called me from a bartending job and was darn near hysterical with glee when Wisconsin was called. My grandson was calling his dad at the bar and then me, because he was so overjoyed.

And I still think Franklin Graham was right: God intervened.

Jack is Back!

We are back home in Southampton after a snow and ice revival show: Brussells was icy so we held the flight up to Zurich for 1 1/2 hour. But good news. The Flight from Zurich to JFK was also held up, they got snow finally, so we made it. Got in at 6:45 in JFK and I arrived in Southampton at 9:15 driving a rental SUV. We have 8 inches of climate change and the roads our 75 mile drive here were being plowed. Traffic light but speeds around 35-40mph.

Interestingly, no traffic coming into the village but plenty of people at the restaurants and cafes. .

Looks like the Lions can't rush the passer. Sorry to see Del Rio's Raiders lose but expected with Carr out.

I was reading Paris Match on the plane and believe it or not it featured the Omen in a cameo role. I almost brought up my char mi-ciuit seeing that.

[test for the culinary set out there].

Threadkiller
On Tuesday, November 8, "Donald Trump elected president" graphics and gizmos were ready, just in case, but few expected to use them. "We went into the night knowing there was a chance Trump could win," PBS "NewsHour" anchor Judy Woodruff said. "But all the smart people said it was not going to happen."

Later:

2:32 a.m.: Judy Woodruff reported the AP's projection on PBS. The Cook Political Report national editor Amy Walter, seated near Woodruff, called the result "the most unbelievable thing that any of us have seen in our lifetimes."

Most of the quotes from the experts sound like the post car chase reflections, on COPS, by rookie officers that had nothing to do with the chase or apprehension.

"The cars were moving fast, we knew there were red lights but we also knew there were a few green lights that could come into play. I told my partner that anything can happen at this point."

Jack is Back!

...char mi-cuit...

Too be fair!

Beasts of England

That was a great article, DebinNC!!

I had to laugh at Hewitt saying that no one predicted the Trump victory. Several of us here at JOM did. And, speaking for myself, it wasn't from emotion - it was from assessing the swing state polls and adjusting for turnout.

Those polls ran from +4 to +6 for the Dems, but that wasn't realistic. The passion from the left was mostly Bernie, and they weren't going to be motivated to vote en masse for Hillary while they were still freshly angry over the super-delegate situation. There was still a degree of 'historic first woman' voting to be had, but she did little to bolster her claim to the title.

The passion on the right was on Trump's side, but there were enough rumbles on the Rep side to recognize that it wouldn't be a complete tsunami for him, either. NeverTrumpers would ensure top-of-the-ticket undervotes or defections to McMullin or Johnson.

Furthermore, both candidates were successfully demonized to the point of voting against the other - not a recipe for massive turnout, but probably a wash as to whether it impacted one candidate more than the other.

Considering the above, I adjusted the swing state polls down to a range of D+1 to +3 and ended up with 310 EV for Trump - and only missed New Hampshire, which was extremely close.

Hugh should recognize that he's as susceptible to the prog narrative as anyone else that close to the lefty bubble. Maybe he needs to read (and comment) at JOM more often. :)

Clarice Feldman

why did these geniuses think Hillary canned her planned fireworks show? My guess is her internal polls showed it was far more iffy than the polls the broadcasters were relying on.

Miss Marple the Deplorable

Beasts,

I still remember Dana Perino saying that rallies didn't mean anything, and she just didn't want trump supporters to be broken-hearted.

I get mad whenever I think of that.

One or two rallies at the end of a campaign do not equal daily rallies for months.

So much bad reporting even from people who I thought were on our side!

Glad I cancelled cable!

Threadkiller

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/01/07/was-fridays-declassified-report-claiming-russian-hacking-2016-election-rigged.html

The Gipper Lives

Unless it happens to hurt Barry's brackets or helps America's standing in the world, it's all good.

Momto2

I'm just still in a happy euphoria about the election. :::confession::: I still go sometimes and re-watch those YouTube compilations of election night and compilations of "Trump will never be President" videos. It makes my heart sing. Yes, I know, I know he isn't God and he is fallible and will disappoint us in some ways. BUT we certainly dodged a bullet with Hillary and I am *so* grateful. I agree with you MM that many were praying and God had mercy on our country.

If the MSM thinks on Jan. 20th they can go on and on about the Russians they are really pathetic. Most people are happy, optimistic and want to go forward. Those that don't can go sit in the corner!

Beasts of England

My prediction in February of a Trump victory was based solely on the enthusiasm of his rallies, Miss Marple. And, yes, the continuous yuge turnout at his rallies convinced me - when I made a final 'scientific' analysis - that it would hold. Had his rally attendance ever subsided, I'd have never predicted a win...

Beasts of England

I'm with you, Momto2 - I haven't stopped smiling since election night. I also agree that he will likely do some things that I hate, but that's always true. I don't expect him to completely reverse eight years of stupidity, but he prevented four to eight years more of it.

Clarice Feldman

Nytol

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