All About The Fashion Choices

OMG, shoes? This is what we are talking about?

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[James D.]

I'm just catching up from yesterday, and I wanted to repost M's brilliant comment from last night:

I have spent years listening to various conservatives (won't name names here but you know who they are) talking about blue collar workers like they are simply unwilling to take a risk and move, or too lazy to get re-educated in computer programming.

If the mine closes in your town, you CAN'T move, unless you want to abandon your house. A mining town with no mine is nothing more than a small town with no prospects, and no one will buy your house.

If you are 50 with a high school education, you aren't going to easily be retrained.

The insensitivity of these people is exactly why Republicans keep losing elections. They have no idea of the struggles of the working class.

Let me tell you guys something. You can live in a world of decent salary and job, and it can all be gone in a heartbeat. I have lived a version of this life over the last few years. People like McCarthy have no idea what it's like to worry about your legal bills and your wife's medical bills. Arpaio does, and Trump had actual EMPATHY for him, just like he cared about blue collar workers.

What this country needs is compassion for all of its citizens. I am seeing little of it from both the Never Trump group and the Leftists.

That whole comment needs to be printed out and nailed to the foreheads of every single GOP politician and strategist and pundit.

[James D.]

Wow, first, AND second? Yay, me!

[Threadkiller]

Infamous Footwear

[Old Lurker]

Using 6" nails, James.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Repost from tail of last thread:

http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/28/new-orleans-flood-pump-breaks-as-harvey-approaches-how-many-more-will-shut-off/?utm_campaign=atdailycaller&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social

Nothing ever seems to change in New Orleans.

[henry]

St Hubbins* will get a workout.

[henry]

From Miss M's link: "New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu told reporters one of the city’s pumps broke just one week after being repaired"

Gotta love contracts awarded to the biggest bribe.

[Captain Hate]

Belated congrats, OL. The next year should be really easy.

[RattlerGator]

Back to Palin -- in my casual reading so far, I've noticed little discussion about this being a perfect case to appeal up the chain in hopes it reaches the Supreme Court but that's the way it looks to me.

We are a fundamentally different nation from when that incredibly broad decision was rendered and the absolute prophylactic the Court provided in Sullivan is unsustainable.

A cloak of protection has been extended to a protected corporate class that the nation simply will no longer accept.

This decision is an extremely bad look grounded in absurd logic that renders the definition of actual malice meaningless.

[henry]

Oh my, reading further: "Landrieu urged residents to stay home and wait out the storm. Harvey is expected to move into the Gulf of Mexico before moving up the coast through Louisiana."

Yeah that whole staying put worked so well in Houston.

[Threadkiller]

Ralph says:

NPR attacked Olsteen this morning. His church should have had its act (and PR) together before hand, since they had to have known they'd be attacked by the MSM.

Followed by cboldt's unrelated but related comment:

Feel good tweet from yesterday ...

I just walked on the tarmac to cover @realDonaldTrump' visit to Corpus and was heckled by a crowd shouting derogatory things. Unbelievable.

The people that Osteen serves don't give a crap about bad PR from a group that bashes them anyways.

[Captain Hate]

Landrieu sounds as corrupt and stupid as his fatass sister.

[cboldt]

henry - link to the 7th Circuit "John Doe fallout" case ... Archer v. Chisolm

I haven't read it, but the pivot point is prosecutorial immunity vs. 4th amendment. Prosecutorial immunity wins because the prosecutor was not the investigator.

[henry]

cboldt, under the WI John Doe law, the prosecutor acts as investigator. The circuit got the law wrong.

[Captain Hate]

The homeless encampments around here are already called Obamavilles.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 30, 2017 09:47 AM (QQ+il)

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

RG,

I would agree with you. CNN was heckled in Texas yesterday and some news stations were cautioning reporters not to wear jackets with network logos.

I will not be surprised when we start to see assaults.

[Thomas Collins]

RG, the case would not be reversed on appeal. The judge reasoning about reckless disregard falls short, and some of the statements about the Loughner shooting made by the judge are, to put it as politely as possible, ill-informed. However, the quick correction by the NY Times and the incredible amount of protection SCOTUS gives to journalist to slime public figures will carry the day. Palin would be wasting her money.

[narciso.]

Words fail, bolt, that's one of those 'how did you like the theater Mrs Lincoln decisions.

http://watchdog.org/294618/wisconsin-focus-gubernatorial-candidate-tony-evers-says-renegotiate-foxconn-deal

[henry]

Narciso, Evers would reverse all Walker decisions and make IL look sane.

[Buckeye]

NPR attacked Olsteen this morning.

Olsteen is not particularly my kind of guy, but somehow I think his megaphone will prove to be louder than NPR's.

NPR is singing to their choir. Olsteen's choir is pretty big and pretty devoted.

[cboldt]

henry - the 7th Circuit gets into that, that the John Doe law is odd that way (prosecutor is assigned investigator function).

Like I said, I haven't studied the arguments in Archer's case. No surprise that the court protects its own. Prosecutors and courts are functionally part of the same branch of government. Any "separation of powers" there is fairy tale fiction.

[Clarice Feldman]

TC, I should think the corrections mitigate the damage, as Pallin tacitly concedes, but does not obviate the claim.

[Clarice Feldman]

Jane, if your still around--your meeting yesterday was fascinating,

[James D.]

Sullivan v NY Times needs to be gutted, and so does the whole doctrine of qualified immunity/prosecutorial immunity.

The GOP could do it without recourse to the courts, since they do control both houses of Congress, and they have a President who'd certainly sign legislation overturning Sullivan.

But of course they won't.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2017/08/30/cnn-reporter-exits-bubble-discovers-just-how-much-texas-hates-cnn/

[henry]

cboldt, to me it appears the Constitution is inferior to court traditions (prosecutorial immunity) in that decision. Monsieur Guillotine solved that kind of imbalance back in the day.

[cboldt]

Noel - Osteen

I figure many if not most of the people cheering CNN at the tarmac were not Osteen churchgoers.

Funny how the press is concerned about invective directed their way (it's dangerous -- for the press -- to criticize the press) while holding that nothing it says can create danger for, oh, say for example, Trump supporters and Republican politicians.

[DebinGA]

That Politico hit-job is almost unbelievable. Faulting Mrs. Trump for not yet announcing a cause to exploit for pr purposes? MOzo took time before announcing her plan to ruin school lunches and send millions of poor kids home hungry. When that soured, she milked a "our girls" theme to globe-trot with her posse on our dime, justifying the multiple trips by throwing in a short speech at some unimportant conference along the way. Remember MOzo and friends in Spain demanding a US Navy ship be brought in and positioned to be seen in photos taken from her balcony? That was just dandy, but Mrs. Trump walking across the WH lawn in heels is beyond the pale? Ugh.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Can't remember who linked pictures of that impossibly grotesque gargoyle that was criticizing FLOTUS's "optics" yesterday but may I respectfully suggest an extended time out in the corner for whoever it was?

[Buckeye]

Happy Anniversary CH.

Is the Mrs. home from the west coast?

[cboldt]

Rakoff didn't even apply the law. He crafted a bogus test that allows defamation with impunity by being anonymous. He also plays a logic trick using "knowing false," when what defamed people really seek damages for is "without regard for the truth."

If NYT had never published "no connection between the add and the shooting," there would be no way to discern "known false." So, as long as the ONLY things the press prints are defamatory statements, there is no contradiction in their own reports, and all of the reports are what, magically true?

Rackoff took a million dollar bribe from NYT to render this decision. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

[cboldt]

henry - the constitution is always inferior to the desired outcome. Outcome first, rationale after.

[GUS]

Why isn't NPR taking care of the Houston victims? Osteen doesn't get HIS MONEY from the government.

[Clarice Feldman]

Another look at the Vogue writer who criticized Melania's stilettos :https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10155755651894319&set=a.46449794318.71692.679029318&type=3

[narciso.]

The Horror, the horror,

And speaking of the gorgon (see what I did there) so its a controversial decision hence archer is an unperson, that we can do anything to, judge woods is upset she didn't getvthe nagnitsky treatment I think

[Clarice Feldman]

In case you're not on FB--here it is again:https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwje_bXYnv_VAhWLjVQKHfB0B64QjRwIBw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gettyimages.com%2Fevent%2Fthom-browne-front-row-fall-2016-new-york-fashion-week-604023167&psig=AFQjCNGAw6DcEujLON4XwWiN0WuzFXWAjg&ust=1504192152599847

[henry]

TK, our Chicago Lurking unit found this: https://twitter.com/decider/status/902906861904691200

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Spices!!

https://twitter.com/SteveRHardy/status/902198792950358016

[narciso.]

The author of that piece wrote that hagiography if red queen which is on remaunder shelves at two discount stores

[Janeprobably about 10 minutes after getting there]

Clarice, it was this morning, and I'm still wallowing in it. Ron Blago is much taller and better looking than his brother, and very chatty, at least to us. He talked a bit about Jesse Jackson jr trying to buy Obama's senate seat, which is what he was indicted for, and hinted about Obamas role. Since it's all Chicago dem politics, it's hard to know. What I thought was funny is he assumed we knew nothing about it.

[Porchlight]

If Joel Osteen had opened the church earlier, he would have been criticized by the same people for recklessly endangering lives by inviting people to a flooded area.

We've seen this movie before.

Trump in my town today! Wish I could go hang out with him, but work is crazy. First day of classes at the statue-less campus.

[Extraneus]

A lot of places are picking up that "no public interest" exception excuse for the FBI's denial of a request for Hillary's emails. Pretty obviously bogus, and Trump must have seen it by now. Can't he simply tell Sessions to tell the FBI to give that up?

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Speech on tax reform is at 2:30 Eastern.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Well, I have seen alligators and red ants in Houston. Now Fox just showed a shot of wild hogs running through neighborhoods.

[henry]

On the John Doe, the thing that gets me is the part in common with SC Mueller. If the Prosecutor / Investigator goes beyond the boundaries of what they were asked to investigate (fraud in a veterans charity in the John Doe by Chisolm), do subsequent victimks hav any rights at all? It appears per the 7th the answer is no. I'm sure they politically want the same answer for Mueller investigating whether Barron brushed his teeth on a random Tuesday in 2004.

[Clarice Feldman]

funny isn't it, Jane, that just as Obama's name was about to enter the case, someone leaked that Blago's line was being tapped and Fitz never bitched about that or conducted an investigation into who leaked that and warned Obama off.

[Momto2]

Sometimes pictures need no words! (the fashionista who criticized Melania)

[Old Lurker]

"Monsieur Guillotine solved that kind of imbalance back in the day."

Where Henry joins me in noting the parallels of DC-NY-LA vs Versailles.

[Extraneus]

New York Times fashion critic describes Melania Trump's Corpus Christi outfit as a 'costume'

"Women in the capital are generally more associated with sensible pumps than teetering patent leather numbers," she wrote. "This Mrs. Trump understands, which is why she changed into a more suitable costume (I use that word deliberately) for her arrival in Corpus Christi, Tex. The problem is that, as first lady, in an environment as fraught as the current one, there is no such thing as offstage."

[Old Lurker]

Ext "Can't he simply tell Sessions to tell the FBI to give that up?"

Sessions probably has Caller ID.

ducking.

[Thomas Collins]

I agree, Clarice, that corrections should go to damage mitigation and not recklessness. I also think that throwing something out there without the teeniest bit of due diligence should at the very least cause a motion to dismiss to be denied. I just don't think the federal courts will look at it this way. I hope I'm wrong if Palin appeals.

Is Rakoff really twisting NY Times v. Sullivan, cboldt, or have subsequent glosses on NY Times v. Sullivan done the twisting when it comes to the reckless part? Looks as if I have my weekend leisure reading activity to figure that one out.

[GUS]

Wow Extraneus. WOW. If only Melania had TONED ARMS, all would be well in TEXAS.

[Old Lurker]

TC, I hope you find a glimmer of hope in an appeal or else we are truly beyond the point of no return.

Reservation Desk on the Ledge is open for business.

[Marlene]

Good Morning! I'm starting to think that the only sane person I've seen on the internet the past couple of days was the young mother with the children at the shelter who cursed out the CNN reporter. That was awesome!
I've seen the picture of the so-called fashionista and also a picture of a big blob of fire ants. I don't know which picture is more horrifying.

[Janeprobably about 10 minutes after getting there]

Yes, Clarice. We were trying to figure out the real puppet masters at lunch today. Obviously Blago hates Fitzpatrick even more than we do, if that is even possible.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

The picture I saw of that Vogue fashion critic was like the top one, only better color.

What you cannot see in that photo is two bright pink circles of rouge under her eyes but above her cheekbones, no eyebrows, and dark brown lipstick made into a Clara Bow type cupid's bow.

She looks like she is made up to be one of those Munchkins in the Wizard of Oz.

[sbw]

why she changed into a more suitable costume (I use that word deliberately)

“Blue” scene from Devil Wears Prada.

Brilliant. Glenn Close earns street cred for this. Watch it all the way through.

[GUS]

Marlene, the ugly HAG was talking about how women in "The Capital" should dress.
Rodham looks like a jumbo sized Teletubbie.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Jane,

This is another conflection point in which we could make common cause, like my liberal daughter and me and our shared hatred of Paul Ryan.

How did we get sold such a bill of goods on Fitzpatrick, anyway? I remember someone giving an interview and talking about how he was so dedicated he forgot and left a pan of lasagna in his oven for a month.

This was sold as a humorous example of dedication and single-mindedness, but I am sort of thinking it signifies mental illness.

[Comanche Voter]

Many of these ill educated, but definitely snotty, female reporters and fashionistas couldn't explain how to make a sandwich, much less figure out climate change. But they understand clothes, and commenting on them is right in their wheelhouse of knowledge. On the other hand when Queen Moochie burst down the stairs of Air Force One wearing flip flops, a stained tee shirt and bermuda shorts that hadn't seen the laundry, much less an iron for three weeks--well-crickets.

[cboldt]

TC - Rakoff cites half a dozen follow on cases (pp 15-16). The upshot of the collection, in Rakoff's terms, is that defamation requires mens rea; e.g., serious doubt the statement is true. Thoughtless remarks (total absence of due diligence) will always lack the mens rea.

[Marlene]

MM,yes! She looks like the Mayor of Munchkin City!

[GUS]

If I left a pan of lasagna in the oven for a month, how would anyone know about it.

[Janeprobably about 10 minutes after getting there]

Btw Commancjhi it is also fashionista week on the ship so we will learn what they truly think.

[Marlene]

Gus,you're on vacation and left the oven on? :)

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

My middle sister, the democrat, has worked in fashion retail for almost 40 years. She has managed several designer areas of major stores and has met people like Bill Blass due to trunk shows.

This is how I learned that Evan Bayh wouldn't allow his wife to wear pants in public.

I used to hear all sorts of tales about new trends, colors, etc. She was the first to alert me to the trend of not wearing stockings. (I am opposed to this and stick with the Queen Elizabeth protocol.)

[GUS]

God Bless you Marlene. Yes, I am on vacation.

First time off in over 13 months.

[Sue]

Melania should just say "bless her heart" and leave it at that. I have relatives that would say you could tie a pork chop around her neck (the Vogue critic) and even the hounds wouldn't play with her.

[Old Lurker]

MM "so dedicated he forgot and left a pan of lasagna in his oven for a month. This was sold as a humorous example of dedication..."

Next you will be telling me that Sandy Berger having a messy desk is just cute...

Whatever works at the moment is what you will hear.

[GUS]

Old Lurker, stuffing National Archives documents down your pants is SLOPPY!

[Old Lurker]

cboldt "Thoughtless remarks (total absence of due diligence) will always lack the mens rea."

And you, cboldt, will next tell me that Hilary Clinton could break the national security laws at will because she too lacked criminal intent and anyway, no prosecutor would take the case...

[henry]

Yeah, replace a pipeline before it leaks, and Environmental and tribal groups oppose, where by opposed they mean sabotage and vandalism.

[GUS]

Old Lurker, the "MATTER" has been settled.

[Marlene]

Fox reporter is in Port Arthur,looks terrible. People clutching kids and dogs,kids walking barefoot. The people are being evacuated to makeshift shelters,including a bowling alley.

[GUS]

Nothing says ENVIRONMENTALISM like vandalizing oil pipelines.
Nothing says NON-FASCIST, like baseball bats, chains and masks. You see anti-fascists, need to beat people, smash stuff and burn things in the name of NOT SMASHING, BURNING and BEATING.
And the compliant American left believes this shit.

[cboldt]

OL - no prosecutor who valued the life of themselves and their family would take the case, because "that's not who we are" (political case).

The outcome of any case depends, of course, on who the parties are. We are a nation of men, and don't you ever forget it, or else the men will use the law on you.

[Old Lurker]

:-) cboldt

[Old Lurker]

Gus "Old Lurker, the "MATTER" has been settled."

See Gus, you slipped up. Lawsuits, where there are two sides, get "Settled".

"Matters", well they just go away.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Marlene,

I was watching that, too. They said they may get another 3-4 feet of water as the water moves out of Houston and downstream.

There are 55,000 people in Port Arthur, and the mayor said almost the entire town was underwater. A rescuer said they were pulling people off roofs and out of attics.

[Extraneus]

Speaking of settling, was it here that I read that the DoJ has settled with the ACLU over their lawsuit on the first travel ban?

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Estate sale, north side of Indy (NOT anywhere near where I live):

http://cbs4indy.com/2017/08/30/photos-entire-contents-of-voicemail-inventor-scott-jones-carmel-mansion-to-be-sold/

Video of the series "Megamansions" where the home was featured. Only the first half covers the Carmel property. Lyle might be interested in the computerized huge wine cellar.

[Extraneus]

If so, here it is again:

http://nypost.com/2017/08/29/aclu-doj-settle-legal-challenge-against-trump-travel-ban/

[Sue]

Port A and Beaumont are northeast of Houston. Not sure about their downstream comment.

[henry]

Miss M, I saw that and checked twitter for "Orange TX"... also under water, exactly 0 roads open. Orange, Beaumont and Port Arthur are right by each other. When we lived in Orange, our house was the local high ground at 12' above sea level. The bayous fill up, you will get stuck there, then wet.

[Sue]

The Neches River runs into Beaumont. Port A is south of Beaumont. Maybe the reporter meant the water leaving Beaumont would go downstream into Port A.

Y'all remember Jasper Texas don't you? Well, they are flooding.

[Sue]

Jasper is north/northeast of Beaumont.

[Extraneus]

Gov. Chris Christie took swipes at both Donald Trump and Ted Cruz this morning

“My understanding has always been that one of the prerequisites you look for in giving a pardon is contrition for what you were convicted of,” Christie said. “I didn’t see that in Sheriff Arpaio.”

“This is not one that I would have done,” Christie added.

Christie, who appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” primarily to discuss the federal government’s handling of Hurricane Harvey, was even more brazen when addressing Cruz’s recent remarks defending his vote against the $50 billion Hurricane Sandy relief bill in 2013. Cruz told MSNBC’s Katy Tur on Monday that he voted against the relief package because two-thirds of the bill contained unrelated pork and expenses that had nothing to do with assistance for Sandy victims.

“The worst thing about it — and this is why politics has become so cynical in Washington — is statements like that. He should just stand up and say, ‘You know what, I was wrong,'” Christie said. “What was wrong was for Ted Cruz to exploit the disaster for political gain — that’s what he was doing.”

When asked by co-host Joe Scarborough to describe Cruz in one word, Christie simply said, “Crap.”

[rich]

Congratulations to Hates. Happy Anniversary.

[Extraneus]

I didn't realize they'd already been sued.

Trump voter commission admits to ‘chaotic’ start, apologizes for botching transparency

President Trump’s voter integrity commission had to beg for forgiveness from a federal judge Wednesday, admitting the panel got off to a “chaotic” start and vowing to be more transparent to the public going forward.

Elizabeth Shapiro, the Justice Department lawyer representing the commission, painted a picture of a panel in disarray ahead of its first meeting in July, not even sure what official business commissioners would actually be doing at the meeting.

That, she said, made it difficult to obtain and share materials with the public before hand, as required by open-records laws.

Facing a skeptical U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, Ms. Shapiro said the problems weren’t evidence of bad faith, but rather bungling and misinterpretations of what the judge had wanted.

“It was truly an honest misunderstanding,” the lawyer said, adding later that “there was no intention to misrepresent.”

“Alright, I accept that,” the judge said — then she ordered a series of new steps the commission must take to be more transparent about documents it’s already collected, and how it plans to make the public aware of its business going forward.

[narciso]

we'll burn that bridge, when we get to it, stay puft, the chutzpah of that guy,

[Sue]

The Texas Rangers and Houston Astros played in Florida last night. The Rangers won. One of the Astros players' wife was trapped in an apartment with their young children and couldn't get out. She was safe, had plenty of food, etc., but you know he was worried sick about her. They should have postponed those games. The Houston players' heart wasn't in it.

[henry]

when you have your own gravity field narciso, you are the center of a small planetary system.

[Sue]

The series was supposed to be played in Houston. They moved it to Florida.

[Old Lurker]

Christie is an idiot.

Contrition is BS as a predicate.

The Executive's absolute right to pardon was to be a check on either a runaway prosecution, or a runaway law which leads to a prosecution.

No schools in NJ when you were growing up, Fatman?

[cboldt]

Extraneus - ... seventh group to file federal lawsuit vs. "voter fraud commission" - July 18.

Might be up to 27 suits by now.

[narciso]

this was a package, where his own constituents had to wait up to a year, to get aid, then we have the practical joke his aides supposedly pulled, the following year,

[cboldt]

"We'll close that bride when we get to it"

[cboldt]

no exxtra charge for typos

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/371343.php

Ace thinks we're in The Crazy Years.

[daddy]

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