We're going nuclear in the Senate, we're going conventional in Syria - what a way to end the week.
The "Putin's stooge Trump is bombing Putin's puppet Assad" storyline confuses me, but I never claimed to be smart enough to be a progressive.
Philip Klein of the Washington Examiner tries to square Trump's campaign rhetoric with his current bellicosity. His conclusion:
For now, it's fair to say, that though both the act of attacking Syria itself and the failure to get Congressional approval contradicted numerous Trump statements, Trump's action was consistent with the general "I'm gonna be a badass but don't want to spend money building other countries while our airports fall apart" ethos of his campaign.
David French provides background and describes some of the ways this could end badly.
First?
Posted by: jimmyk | April 07, 2017 at 12:24 PM
David French is worried Egg could get scrambled?
Posted by: henry | April 07, 2017 at 12:28 PM
I do not care what David French has to say, and will not click on the link.
Posted by: Miss Marple the Deplorable | April 07, 2017 at 12:28 PM
henry,
I believe I will mosy over to Twitter and see what Egg has to say.
Posted by: Miss Marple the Deplorable | April 07, 2017 at 12:29 PM
Last page thingy
http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2017/04/bombs-away/comments/page/99/#comments
Posted by: daddy on iPad | April 07, 2017 at 12:30 PM
Anyone see my ex-husband??
Posted by: JULIA WARD | April 07, 2017 at 12:31 PM
I, for one, am pleased with developments.
Posted by: Specter | April 07, 2017 at 12:32 PM
So right to not take smart creds.
You're falling for it again..lol
Posted by: Nookular Prop | April 07, 2017 at 12:34 PM
Good Morning!
Posted by: daddy on iPad | April 07, 2017 at 12:34 PM
I don't think my Daddy did anything to that young girl. She can't prove it.
Posted by: MAYA WARD | April 07, 2017 at 12:36 PM
Last page thingy second try
http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2017/04/bombs-away/comments/page/99/#comments
Posted by: daddy on iPad | April 07, 2017 at 12:39 PM
Pitzer should never have listened to that girl.
She asked for it.
Posted by: DYLAN and JESSE WARD | April 07, 2017 at 12:41 PM
I believe I will mosy over to Twitter and see what Egg has to say.
The most noteworthy thing is one of his twitter correspondents tells him to go grow some hair.
Seriously, one hears nothing from Johnson, and very lttle from Stein (since the whiole recount nonsense flopped). Why has this guy not gone to the cuckoo Valhalla of all other former third party candidates?
Posted by: Appalled | April 07, 2017 at 12:50 PM
MY Granddaughter's husband Memorial Service is 1:00 this afternoon Pacific time.
His obit is now on the LUN. She is still far behind financially. I hope no one ever has a child that has to go thru a mess like this. Know that it happens every day to lots of young people and few have a chance to prepare, but preparation does make it better.
Thanks again to all that have helped her.
Posted by: Pagar, a bacon,ham, and sausage supporter | April 07, 2017 at 12:50 PM
Appalled, someone is still paying him (unlike Johnson and Stein). The questions are who? and why?
Posted by: henry | April 07, 2017 at 12:51 PM
Congratulations to Justice Gorsuch, and thank you to Senate Republicans including McConnell in getting this done.
I saw that Manchin, Donnelly, and Heitkamp voted aye.
Posted by: Porchlight | April 07, 2017 at 12:55 PM
Hang in there, pagar. xoxo
Posted by: Porchlight | April 07, 2017 at 12:55 PM
President TrumpVerified account @POTUS 6m6 minutes ago
President Trump Retweeted Gorsuch Facts
Congratulations to an exceptionally qualified and respected judge on his confirmation to the Supreme Court! #SCOTUS
Posted by: Miss Marple the Deplorable | April 07, 2017 at 01:03 PM
The red state Democrat Senators who voted against Gorsuch are going to see a retribution they didn't expect. They think that Trump's declining poll numbers are going to help. Not going to happen.
Posted by: Buford Gooch | April 07, 2017 at 01:03 PM
The Associated PressVerified account @AP
BREAKING: Senior U.S. military officials say Russia has agreed to maintain hotline aimed at preventing mid-air collisions in Syria.
Posted by: Miss Marple the Deplorable | April 07, 2017 at 01:10 PM
Tom Bowler from other thread...
Yes I agree that the intel community was on a long decline going back to at least the 70's and perhaps before.
But MM & I are contending that when they openly crossed the wall to allow themselves and their tools to become political weapons and when the public came to realize (via Snowden) just how powerful and pervasive they were spying on regular folks, then they moved from just a semi competent public agency into "hated like the IRS and EPA" voracious government pit bull.
Good luck getting that toothpaste back into the tube. And that is all on Obama, seems to me.
Posted by: Old Lurker | April 07, 2017 at 01:20 PM
More fundamental transformation:
http://tammybruce.com/2017/04/cdc-discloses-zika-now-in-all-50-states-birth-defects-greater-than-expected.html
Forward this to Tim Kaine and that other Virginia goof that are trying to bring more of this to their state.
Posted by: Captain Hate | April 07, 2017 at 01:21 PM
Does anything every happen "as expected" to this government?
Didn't think so.
Posted by: Old Lurker | April 07, 2017 at 01:24 PM
[–]TheMattyMonsterARMY 1 point 3 minutes ago
Nikki Haley is killing it at the UN right now. Calling out everyone's bullshit.
Above is a quote from Reddit. Also saw she is apparently ripping into Russia who was supposed to have gotten rid of the chemical weapons 6 years ago.
Posted by: Miss Marple the Deplorable | April 07, 2017 at 01:30 PM
Xi's statement on the meeting:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C801OrFXUAAWjjD.jpg
Posted by: Miss Marple the Deplorable | April 07, 2017 at 01:32 PM
I see your point, OL. Obama was certainly the champion of weaponized government, and the agencies became more blatantly political on his watch. Political actors have always been with us, I suppose. They just haven't been so open about until Obama.
Posted by: Tom Bowler | April 07, 2017 at 01:32 PM
"about it"
Posted by: Tom Bowler | April 07, 2017 at 01:33 PM
A comment from PL blog about the Gorsuch vote.
I watched most of the Gorsuch voting, it was agonizing as the Dems have a new (I think) way of voting. They give a voice note + a thumbs down. Cute. Ms. Liz Warren is especially happy with herself and the thumb down show as yesterday when Orrin Hatch was presiding, she walked close and gave the scary thumbs down. I suppose they think it is mocking Trump somehow. Not all Dems did it, our Amy didn't and Ms Feinstein and Ms Stabienow gave a point down index finger. Perhaps they wanted to be part of the "in crowd" and forgot which finger. Very, Very immature of all of them.
Posted by: JimNorCal | April 07, 2017 at 01:35 PM
From A'Mom's interesting link on Prisoner's studying latin and improving their Language skills:
“Students who study Latin develop an interest in words. They learn something they had never thought of before. Words don’t just drop out of the sky—they come from some place; words have a history, sometimes a very long and interesting history. Many words are world travelers, traveling from Greece to Rome to France to England. Words are fascinating.
So, Latin is the next step after phonics because it continues the study of the Latin half of English vocabulary in a systematic, orderly way. Skip the vocabulary courses. Learn Latin.”
Cool. Was interested in listening yesterday to our new Talk Radio Show, Buck Sexton, who replaced Glenn Beck! (Yippee) He did an historical derivation on the word "filibuster" yesterday, and we learned that it had lots to do with Pirates:
NPR: History of the Word Filibuster
The word `filibuster' comes from piracy.
MELISSA BLOCK, host:
The term first appeared in the English language in 1591, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. The word was then `flee-booters.' Its origins are probably Dutch, with some Spanish and French influences.
NORRIS: In the 17th century, flee-booters raided the Spanish colonies in the Caribbean and earned a bad reputation. They were also called buccaneers and freebooters. The stuff these flee-booters stole was called booty.
BLOCK: Eventually an extra syllable wormed its way into the word, and flee-booters became filibusters. It also took on political meaning in the 1850s. Filibusters were people from the United States who traveled to Central America and the Spanish West Indies in order to illegally encourage revolutions.
Posted by: daddy | April 07, 2017 at 01:40 PM
MAGA - Approval of Judge Gorsuch opens the door to others considered unworthy by the prog pack.
Let's roll!
Posted by: Frau Reistafel | April 07, 2017 at 01:43 PM
How them open border thingies working in Europe?
"In a violent attack causing trepidation amongst Paris’ Jewish community, a 66-year-old Orthodox woman, Sarah Halimi, was murdered to the cry of ‘‘Allahu Akbar’’ early Tuesday morning, pushed from the window of her top-floor apartment in Paris’ 11th arrondissement. The accused, a 27-year-old of Muslim origin known to police for a string of offenses, had broken into the apartment of his victim – reportedly scaling the exterior wall from the floor below where he lived with his parents – to stab his victim before throwing her to her death. The lifeless body of Ms. Halimi was found on the ground..."
Posted by: Old Lurker | April 07, 2017 at 01:48 PM
Who would have imagined that on the day the Senate finally voted Judge Gorsuch on to the Supreme Court that it didn't even garner a Headline at the Drudge Report. Amazing.
54-45. Whoot, whoot, whoot!
Posted by: daddy | April 07, 2017 at 01:49 PM
French has it exactly backwards: the best way to ensure we have a bloody confrontation with Russia is to appease their pursuit of their "national interests" (the biggest of which, at least from the view of the thugocrats led by Putin, is MidEast instability leading to higher oil prices).
That said, there are few good options left. If we'd kept 10K troops in Iraq in 2011, we could quickly ramp up air power and have a credible threat. If we'd established a no-fly zone back in 2013, Assad would likely have been ousted by the opposition (and we'd have a different mess there). There's no credible opposition left in Syria except ISIS, and I doubt we're planning on allying with them; which makes a no-fly zone both difficult and likely fruitless.
There's an obvious limit to the zero risk Tomahawk strategy, and we're getting close to it. I have no idea what we're going to do next, but then again, neither do our enemies. And that at least is probably a good thing.
Posted by: Cecil Turner | April 07, 2017 at 01:49 PM
Norwegian police are being armed following Muslim murders in Sweden.
Posted by: Frau Reistafel | April 07, 2017 at 01:58 PM
daddy,
I have been teaching Frederick Latin for the last few weeks using my old Wheelock's. He is taking next year in 9th grade and wanted him to get a head start on it.
My "nuclear" stress test came out fine. No issues. Will do an "echo" at end of the month. They use a Technenium 99m isotope injected in your arm vein and then paint your chest with a Gamma camera using SPECT (single photon emission computed tomography). The irony is that I am reading Feynman's "QED: Quantum Electrodynamics" which is the science behind all thes photon based imaging systems.
The radiology tech and I got along and he guided me through the resultant vertical and horizontal slices of the heart imagery. Also showed my liver to be in a state of bliss:)
Posted by: Jim Eagle | April 07, 2017 at 02:00 PM
Daddy, I noticed that and it pissed me off.
Funny how fast what was THE issue for many voters got buried halfway down the middle column by Drudge. I had to search for it.
Posted by: Old Lurker | April 07, 2017 at 02:00 PM
Jack, congrats on the stress test. I knew all that studying you did would pay off.
Posted by: Old Lurker | April 07, 2017 at 02:08 PM
Just got a Fox News Alert that Norway's police will now be armed after the attaack in Sweden today.
Posted by: Miss Marple the Deplorable | April 07, 2017 at 02:12 PM
That video is pretty funny. After the Stanford student got in with an essay which was nothing but typing "Black Lives Matter" 100 times, I don't have much faith in the whole application process.
On catch up caught Miss M's funny video of how to fluff up the Chinese girls college application to get her accepted to the Ivy's.
I've mentioned this before but will again for fun. My grandfather Herald from St Louis (born I think 1891) was a very smart kid who had dropped out of school in 8th grade and wound up working hauling beer like a Chinese coolie to construction workers, then hated that job so he became a photographers assistant. He fell off a street car an broke his leg, and while laid up in bed, one of the tenants in his Father's apartments cut a deal to pay her rent by tutoring bed bound grandaddy Herald in his Latin and Greek, as he had had a ton of that in his school years and did very well.
He wound up recuperating but continued his studies with the Tutor, and then won a Scholarship to Harvard in 1913 by writing his application to Harvard in Latin:) (WE always suspected the Tutor helped:)
Anyhow, that Scholarship and and ROTC sScholarship got grandaddy Herald into Harvard, and he graduated in 3 years, then spent the next 32 years in the US Army.
God Bless Latin and Latin tutors!
Anybody know how to write "#Black Lives Matter" in Latin?
Posted by: daddy | April 07, 2017 at 02:17 PM
Thanks, daddy for the last-page-link and for reposting that lovely photo!
Posted by: JimNorCal | April 07, 2017 at 02:18 PM
A word about "bellicosity ending badly."
Given how The Rat was so busy polishing Russian and Chinese Communist knobs, to have informed those overlords of any intention to strike would have looked like a bribe. Bad form. So he just kept polishing.
And now, we are where we are.
Meanwhile, POTUS DJT as an aside *tells* the Russkies and CHICOMS "Hey. It's happening. Watch this. Nice talkinnaya."
No prostration bribes. No Santty Claws oil company deals or banking board chairmanships.
Binness. Taking care of binness---- using military force....politics by other means.
Bellicosity of POTUS?
Laughable given that the region is ablaze with human slaughter after all that knob polishing by King Flinchy the Binghole.
The US looks more like Justice League Super Heroes under DJT by comparison to the previous bunch.
Lurch McCandleFace's, Hildo's and The Rat's fingerprints are all over the Syrian Sitch. And don't forget who was running the NSC during that time: Cream Cheese Rice. (What a winner. I hear she's now worth $43 million.)
Aint it a bitch?
DJT will exploit this unanticipated misstep by The Opthamologist. It's exposing more ramifications of the Knob Polisher's "flexibility."
Aint that a bitch too?
The hyper-Vietnam phobia over a military strike is uncalled for.
Perhaps DJT can sell to us everyday Americans that sarin gas in the hands of ISIS is a bad idea. Those corksoakers have no scruples.
Motive is everything.
DJT needs to keep selling his motives directly and in detail while contrasting them with the on-record motives of The Knob Polisher's loyalists.
Posted by: Account Deleted | April 07, 2017 at 02:21 PM
Putin really torquing the poutrage. Methinks he protests a little too much for credibility.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/us-russia-air-strikes-syria-suspend-agreement-memorandum-direct-conflict-military-donald-trump-putin-a7671631.html
Posted by: Nookular Prop | April 07, 2017 at 02:22 PM
I'm of about 12 minds on the Syrian bombing. Though I'm quite content to defer to the folks making the decision.
It reminds me though of a memory from the Iraq War. I recall reports that Syria was allowing cars to be outfitted as suicide vehicles, which were then driven into Iraq to attack various targets. I never heard of them being punished for it.
Channeling our own JamesD :) I remember thinking a nice response would be something like:
1) secure one of those vehicles which had not been detonated
2) announce to Syria that we had intelligence of an attack on some target such as Presidential Palace or secret police HQ, and give full specifics on the vehicle
3) Drop one of those massive MOABs onto said target
4) Drop the vehicle from a second transport into the crater.
5) Let the Syrians connect the dots
Posted by: JimNorCal | April 07, 2017 at 02:25 PM
Haven't caught up yet, but Trish Regan tells us on FOX that David Corn's theory is that Trump launched this attack as a distraction to sucker people into thinking Trump isn't Putin's puppet.
Posted by: daddy | April 07, 2017 at 02:33 PM
Ukraine Sanctions soon to disappear without fanfare..or press release..or creds.
Posted by: Nookular Prop | April 07, 2017 at 02:34 PM
Quid pro quo.
This phrase should be taught Frederick asap..lol.
Posted by: Nookular Prop | April 07, 2017 at 02:35 PM
David's Corns has removed all doubt.
Posted by: Account Deleted | April 07, 2017 at 02:42 PM
Speaking of smoking piles of shit, I see KillFile has shotdown about 20 comments from Nookular Poop and the WARD's (of the state) today.
Nice shootin' KF.
Posted by: Account Deleted | April 07, 2017 at 02:44 PM
"But remember, Trump fired 59 million-dollar missiles last night. That's a bridge that won't get built in Mississippi."
$59 Million? That'd hardly pay for the industrial clean-up of the Demsty Dumpsters full of broken Solar Panels out back of the bankrupt and bordered up Headquarters of Solyndra.
Posted by: daddy | April 07, 2017 at 02:44 PM
Kev, sometimes on my screen it looks like KF targets are talking to themselves more than we are!
Posted by: Old Lurker | April 07, 2017 at 02:45 PM
JiB--- best wishes re the healing processes. Kev
Posted by: Account Deleted | April 07, 2017 at 02:46 PM
JIB we knew your heart was in the right place
Posted by: -peter | April 07, 2017 at 02:46 PM
The cardio techs that do all of the testing at the Health Pen where I go said they see all kinds of weird stuff.
A 10 year old boy had a heart that was facing the opposite direction from what's considered normal and all arteries and venal constructs had developed accordingly.
He's hittin on all 8 though. Turns out he had some leaky valves that got replaced with piggy valves and he is good to go.
Cool stuff.
Posted by: Account Deleted | April 07, 2017 at 02:50 PM
Pagar, condolences. A beautiful family, such a heartbreak.
I guess the Dem talking points on Syria are now that it was the Rs' fault for not granting Bozo an AUMF back in 2013. Nothing is every Barry's fault.
While I don't think we should be the world's policeman, when did it happen that every move by the President in military matters has to be approved by Congress? That seems self-defeating.
Posted by: jimmyk | April 07, 2017 at 02:51 PM
And yet they have jobs still:
"Fact-checking website PolitiFact on Wednesday retracted a 2014 article that found it "Mostly True" the Obama administration helped broker a deal that successfully removed "100 percent" of chemical weapons from Syria.
"We struck a deal where we got 100 percent of the chemical weapons out," then-Secretary of State John Kerry said on NBC's "Meet the Press" in July 2014. Kerry was referring to a deal the U.S. and Russia struck in September 2013 in which the Russians agreed to help confiscate and then destroy Syria's entire chemical weapons stockpile.
Posted by: Old Lurker | April 07, 2017 at 02:51 PM
*Ni hen piano liang!
*(You are beautiful:)
Posted by: daddy | April 07, 2017 at 02:53 PM
Grrrrr "Piao Liang"---damn spellcheck@#$
Posted by: daddy | April 07, 2017 at 02:55 PM
Great news jib.
Posted by: narciso | April 07, 2017 at 02:55 PM
Prosecuting the DeepStateUniparty will be like shooting fish in the barrel.
The coverups abound.
Posted by: Account Deleted | April 07, 2017 at 03:00 PM
The Chicken to David Corn: It's sickening enough what you do to me but could you at least find the right hole?
Posted by: Captain Hate | April 07, 2017 at 03:03 PM
"GUS, right you are. We need to ask John F'n Kerry and Typhoid Susan Rice how they know the chemical weapons were really, truly removed. Maybe Doctor Assad crossed his heart. Frau's post..
--------------------------
John Kerry & Susan Rice: Because The UN told us they were removed.
So how does The UN know they were removed?
The UN: Because Putin told us they were removed.
So how does Putin know they were removed?
Putin: Because John Kerry and Susan Rice told us they were removed.
But how does...
General Shep Smith is up---time to change the channel.
Posted by: daddy | April 07, 2017 at 03:06 PM
"Ms. Liz Warren is especially happy with herself and the thumb down show as yesterday when Orrin Hatch was presiding, she walked close and gave the scary thumbs down."
Posted by: JimNorCal | April 07, 2017 at 01:35 PM
Jim,
I watched her during vote this morning. Her mannerisms are odd in any event, but that thumbs down followed by the way she walked away after casting her vote this morning was positively loony.
Posted by: Barbara | April 07, 2017 at 03:06 PM
"was positively loony."
And so dignified and classy.
Posted by: Old Lurker | April 07, 2017 at 03:09 PM
Stockholm police make terror arrest: Injured man 'confesses that he drove hijacked lorry into shoppers' killing four
#WeWillProbablyNeverKnowHisMotivation...
Posted by: daddy | April 07, 2017 at 03:09 PM
State radio expends a lot of disinformation on trying to make the Fraud Squaw seem like a normal human being.
Posted by: Captain Hate | April 07, 2017 at 03:15 PM
Time to reinforce Hadrian's Wall.
Posted by: Captain Hate
Screw Hadrian's Wall. They need to rebuild The Antonine Wall, and this time make it for keeps!
Posted by: daddy | April 07, 2017 at 03:16 PM
Heh. How long before the Solyndra ledger of Trump excuses runs out?
Couple weeks more should do it.
Posted by: Nookular Prop | April 07, 2017 at 03:18 PM
Thanks to the Mailman's Son my state tax bill has been moving in sync with his disapproval ratings. I'll be so glad when that backstabbing loser goes away.
Posted by: Captain Hate | April 07, 2017 at 03:18 PM
What was Scalia doing on the Firth of Forth?
Posted by: sbw | April 07, 2017 at 03:19 PM
Just a question:
If a Supreme goes into a coma and is brain dead but on life support, can we appoint another or do we have to wait for the plug to be pulled and the breathing to stop?
Posted by: daddy | April 07, 2017 at 03:24 PM
OL,
She looked like a disapproving member of the Women's Temperance Union who had just learned that liquor was being consumed on the premises. Either that or she was in a great hurry to get to the little Senators' room.
Posted by: Barbara | April 07, 2017 at 03:24 PM
Frothin'a Fifth?
Posted by: daddy | April 07, 2017 at 03:25 PM
I think dead-dead, Daddy. Or else we could move on several of them already.
Posted by: Old Lurker | April 07, 2017 at 03:27 PM
Hey, does someone have a link for Killfile? I wan't paying attention when that was discussed and I would sure like to use it, if it works on Firefox.
Thanks!
Posted by: Miss Marple the Deplorable | April 07, 2017 at 03:28 PM
Hannity was doing a gret service while I was out running errands. He played clips of the smug trio, Obama, Kerry and Rice all BRAGGING about how the chemical weapons were all gone.
Kerry was especially irritating. "Never before in human history have weapons of mass destruction been removed from an active conflict while the battle was going on..." Then he bragged how they did it without bombing anything to "send a message."
I swear, I could see his smug horceface in my mind's eye as I listened to him. What a creep!
Posted by: Miss Marple the Deplorable | April 07, 2017 at 03:32 PM
Barbara:
Can you imagine having the likes of Warren in the Senate for a long time because she comes from a prog state like Kennedy and is a woman also?
She is so immature and her behavior during the Sessions hearings bordered on the bizarre.
She is used to getting her own way and as a narcissist can't adjust to being in the minority and her vote counting for bupkis.
Posted by: maryrose | April 07, 2017 at 03:37 PM
In her speeches Warren refers to herself as as a nasty woman.
She has got that right!
Posted by: maryrose | April 07, 2017 at 03:41 PM
Jennifer JacobsVerified account @JenniferJJacobs 12m12 minutes ago
Jennifer Jacobs Retweeted Zeke Miller
No staff shakeup, a White House spokeswoman says amid reports Bannon and Priebus could be reassigned.
"Completely false story."
Posted by: Miss Marple the Deplorable | April 07, 2017 at 03:51 PM
.
" Look at that 25 Carat or 30 Carat ring on
Melania'sPresident Xi's wife's finger. It could feed Millions of starving people. It's a bad look, a bad, bad look."Posted by: daddy | April 07, 2017 at 03:54 PM
maryrose,
Someone on Reddit said she looked like one of those militant anti-liquor women of the Temperance movement. HA!
I also have to say that she has no self-awareness about how she looks or sounds. She is very proud of her snarky comments on twitter (which come across as shrill and unhinged and low-class) and she, like Hillary, wears the same clothes all the time. With Hillary, it's pantsuits. With Warren, it's those short-sleeved jackets in blue.
Something is wrong with that woman, let me tell you. Sad!
Posted by: Miss Marple the Deplorable | April 07, 2017 at 03:57 PM
daddy,
I love the rings. If I ever get some money, I am buying one for myself. I sold my old diamond several months ago.
Posted by: Miss Marple the Deplorable | April 07, 2017 at 03:59 PM
I have to go to work to study now, so I will leave you with this tough question:
A) Ginger:
B) Mary Anne:
or
C) Aunt Bea:
Posted by: daddy | April 07, 2017 at 04:02 PM
Brain dead is not a disqualification for JOSCOTUS
Posted by: -peter | April 07, 2017 at 04:02 PM
daddy - half the women in shanghai have one similar these days ;-)
Posted by: exdemocrat | April 07, 2017 at 04:04 PM
Aunt Bea was a hottie!
Who knew?
Posted by: Buckeye | April 07, 2017 at 04:04 PM
Assad and the Dictators just met #TheResistance.
After Eight Long Locust Years, President Trump stood up for Humanity and against the Dictators for a change.
President Trump drew a Red Line--and enforced it within 48 hours. He kept his word.
President Trump used our Intelligence Services the way its supposed to be used: against a Syrian butcher, not against American journalists, senators and opposition party-candidates.
And while the Left blathers on against "normalizing Trump", that is, accepting the results of an election, President Trump said we will not accept the Normalization of Dictators Spraying Children With Pesticides Like They Were Cockroaches.
Even the Chinese approved; now they know that the military technology that they purchased from the Clintons works as advertised.
Bravo, Mr. President. You struck a long overdue blow for America, for freedom and, dammit, For The Children(tm).
It's been so long since we had a president who didn't beg for Putin's permission or the Ayatollah's approval before acting, we'd almost forgotten what its like to have our leader stand up for us.
Well done, sir.
Posted by: The Wolf Who Cried Boy | April 07, 2017 at 04:08 PM
MM The kill file is at the Get Add-ons link in FF with the name Blog Killfile. I just tried it and it was still not working for me. FF has become so slow that I have changed everything to Chrome.
Posted by: asw | April 07, 2017 at 04:08 PM
I clicked it just for chuckles:
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/04/07/arnold-schwarzenegger-says-kasich-should-run-against-trump-in-2020.html
Posted by: Old Lurker | April 07, 2017 at 04:14 PM
FF has become so slow that I have changed everything to Chrome.
I did the same, for the same reason.
The only exception is for my laptop, since it does not have much memory. Chrome can be a memory hog if you keep a lot of tabs open (who, me?). All of my desktops have a minimum of 20 GB memory, so that's not a problem there.
And killfile for Chrome is outstanding:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/blog-comment-killfile/kpoilnkelonbaapoapibddjaojohnpjf?hl=en-US
Posted by: DrJ | April 07, 2017 at 04:15 PM
daddy | April 07, 2017 at 04:02 PM, Aunt Bea? No way!
Next I suppose you're going to dig up cheesecake photos of Aunt Harriet and Hazel!
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | April 07, 2017 at 04:17 PM
Well, I guess I will wait then. I can SOB nad am very disciplined about it, but it would be betterto not have to do that.
Maybe they will update it soon.
I currently have 6 tabs open, so I don't think Chrome would work for me.
Posted by: Miss Marple the Deplorable | April 07, 2017 at 04:19 PM
me too! re: Drudge/ Gorsuch coverage.
Honestly--THE reason I voted, and I had to look for it, to confirm it happened. matt, were you so sure it would happen it was old news to you??? Such faith.
Posted by: anonamom | April 07, 2017 at 04:21 PM
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/04/07/syrias-bashir-assad-vows-to-fight-isis-even-harder-in-wake-of-president-trumps-chemical-weapon-warning/comment-page-1/#comment-3802102
This has the complete transcript of McMaster's and Tillerson's statements last night.
Very processional people, unlike the last 8 years. I have high confidence in them, and in President Trump.
Posted by: Miss Marple the Deplorable | April 07, 2017 at 04:21 PM
I currently have 6 tabs open, so I don't think Chrome would work for me.
Six tabs is nothing. I usually have 40 or more open!
Posted by: DrJ | April 07, 2017 at 04:26 PM
Oklahoma where the crabs come sweeping down the plain...
"Ms. Liz Warren is especially happy with herself and the thumb down show as yesterday when Orrin Hatch was presiding, she walked close and gave the scary thumbs down."
What a maroon! I know which finger *I* would show her if I did that sort of thing.
btw - Just like her intellect, Warren's fingers are small.
Posted by: Frau Reistafel | April 07, 2017 at 04:33 PM
The Firth of Forth? Is that anything like the quatro de cinco?
Posted by: Frau Reistafel | April 07, 2017 at 04:34 PM
Diz Warren... there *IS* a special place in hell for that wench.
Imitation NDNz are the lowest life form on earth, land or sea.
Some big chickens are headed for her doorstep lemme tay-ya.
She is nasty. Period. And a dithering fool from what her domestics have said to gossip mags.
I know, how about a reality show. CH's moniker would capitalize on the Baby Boomer market that used to watch "Mod Squad".... I like it "Fraud Squaw."
JOMerz rock.
So does Killfile. Lovin it on Chrome. Day two.
Posted by: Account Deleted | April 07, 2017 at 04:34 PM
40 tabs? The advantage of playing the piano, no doubt.
Posted by: Frau Reistafel | April 07, 2017 at 04:35 PM
Nah, Frau, it is more a consequence of never getting anything done!
Posted by: DrJ | April 07, 2017 at 04:37 PM
Diz Warren is a professional grass killer. Nothing more.
Posted by: Account Deleted | April 07, 2017 at 04:38 PM