Conservatives Pursue A Conservative Agenda

The NY Times really breaks news with this one:

Where Trump’s Hands-Off Approach to Governing Does Not Apply

The Trump administration opened the door to allowing more firearms on federal lands. It scrubbed references to “L.G.B.T.Q. youth” from the description of a federal program for victims of sex trafficking. And, on the advice of religious leaders, it eliminated funding to international groups that provide abortion.

While these initiatives lacked the fanfare of some of President Trump’s high-profile proclamations — like his ban on transgender people in the military — they point to a fundamental repurposing of the federal bureaucracy to promote conservative social priorities.

The aggressive regulatory effort, which runs counter to the Trump administration’s less-is-more credo about government meddling, has led to policy changes related to gun ownership, gay rights, reproductive choices, immigration and other divisive political issues, according to a New York Times review of government documents and court records, as well as interviews with more than four dozen people involved in or briefed on the efforts.

This is a long story about nothing but their basic grievance is that the progressive ratchet isn't working the way they would like. Per the Times it is fine for progressives to pursue a progressive agenda, as under Obama, but conservatives are betraying their principles by dabbling in Federal rules and regulations. Uh huh.

They do buttress their case with a classic quote from the only government official willing to go on the record:

“All of the things you count on the Justice Department’s institutional bureaucracy for — thoughtful, deliberate attention to process, including all stakeholders — it seems to have been thrown out,” said Sharon McGowan, a former senior career official who joined the Justice Department in 2010 and worked in the civil rights division until departing a few weeks into the Trump administration.

Ms. McGowan, the only former career official who agreed to comment for this article, noted that some of her former colleagues are staying despite concerns.

“Some are absolutely staying because they feel like they’re afraid of who’d get put in their seat if they left,” said Ms. McGowan, who now works at Lambda Legal, an advocacy organization focused on L.G.B.T. rights.

Wow, an Obama holdover left because Team Trump was insufficiently progressive. Breakthrough stuff. I blame Putin and hope Mueller is investigating this carefully.

Comments

[lyle]

Primero, amigos

[rse]

Secondo, compadres

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Sarah Sanders just said that Comey went outside the chain of command and politicized an investigation. BOOM.

[Captain Hate]

Willowed:

I never knew as many as 200 people jumped. I thought the number was closer to 35.

More horrror to pile on my memories.

Don't feel bad; the MFM has been trying to minimize the event starting almost immediately.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

LOL! You guys should be listening to Sarah.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Unfortunately my comment came out sounding like I was laughing about the jumpers.

Sanders is fielding a bunch of questions on the Bannon interview, and she has left the comments about McConnell & Ryan not refuted, but rather sidestepped with "The President remains committed to getting things done with the GOP leadership" but THEN says "The President remains committed to getting things done, as he demonstrated last week when he struck the deal with democrats.."

[Comanche Voter]

Dagnab it! Elections have consequences--as we were once advised by the New "Light" Worker. Didn't the Times get the memo?

[lyle]

http://dailycaller.com/2017/09/10/christians-provide-more-aid-to-hurricane-victims-than-fema/?utm_source=site-share

Faith-based relief groups are responsible for providing nearly 80 percent of the aid delivered thus far to communities with homes devastated by the recent hurricanes, according to USA Today.”

How much did Antifa and BLM and La Raza and PP and NEA and AFGE provide?

[narciso]

I disagree with bannon, it was necessary to fire come but follow up with McCabe prietap wybicli st al, do the same with all the holdovers from foggy bottom company et al.

[daddy]

Sarah Huckabee Sanders answers the first question which is about Steve Bannon (My transcript)

Reporter Jeff: ...Do you have a reaction to Steve Bannon's comments on 60 Minutes saying that the firing of James Comey was the biggest Political mistake in modern History?...

Sarah Huckabee: First, on the Comey firing, I think that we've been pretty clear what our position is, and certainly I think that it has been shown that in the days that followed that the President was right in firing Director Comey. Since the Director's firing we've learned new information about his conduct that only provided further justification for that firing, including giving False Testimony and leaking Privileged Information to journalists. He went outside of the Chain of Command and politicized an investigation into a Presidential candidate. I think the President has been very clear about his position on that front. He's very pleased with the new Director and has full confidence in him to fully restore and lead the FBI.

[Ralph L]

Somehow, I missed photos of the jumpers until today, but thought it was just a handful. Just thinking about it makes my hands sweat. Same with skydiving.

Lyle's linked article gets less obnoxious [the article, not what happened] later:
He brought his print of Drew's photograph with him and showed it to ... the oldest of Norberto's three daughters. [at the man's funeral!] She ... ordered him to leave.
What Cheney [the reporter who deduced the man's name] remembers her saying, in her anger, in her offended grief: "That piece of shit is not my father." [it's you!]

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

daddy,

See if you can find those exchanges about McConnell and Ryan. That really made me laugh because "talk about damning with faint praise.."

[JimNorCal]

The "all gay cruise" ads on this page are now NRA ads. Yay!!
I guess the post about shooting guns at Irma is responsible.

Great to see multiple Kev posts.

[daddy]

Very next question from another reporter is also on Bannon's interview, asking if the President agrees with the obvious characterization of McConnell and Ryan as not wanting Trump's "populist economic and nationalist agenda to be implemented."

Sarah: (Smiling a bit) The President is committed to working with Congress to get some big things done. We've got a very big agenda. The President wants to work with all members of Congress. Obviously that includes Republican leadership as well as Democrats. I think you saw some of the Presidents leadership last week when he helped strike a deal to make sure that we got the Funding that was necessary. We're focused on moving things forward and certainly hats the goal and the priority of the Administration.

Reporter: Would he like to see, given his past criticisms of McConnell and Ryan, would he like to see different leadership from the Republican Congress?

Sarah: Right now the President is committed to working with the leadership that we have and nothing beyond that at this point.

[daddy]

3rd Reporter in a row asks a Bannon interview question:

Johnathan Karl: To follow up on Bannon's comments... about Ryan and McConnell (Sarah starts smiling again) ...he actually also said that they wanted to nullify the 2016 Election results. So just a simply Yes or No question, does the President agree with that assessment?

Sarah: Not that I'm aware of. I haven't had that conversation with him, Jonathan.

Karl: Is he still talking to Steve Bannon? Is he still seeking his counsel?

Sarah: I know they've has one conversation but I don't think anything beyond that since he left.

[Janet the expert 🚬]

#September11th: Remembering The 9/11 Jumpers

http://victorygirlsblog.com/september11th-remembering-the-911-jumpers/

video at the bottom.

Also, there was a TV special that had live footage of fire & rescue teams on 9/11 in (I guess) the lobby areas of the towers.
It was dangerous to exit the bldg because of the jumpers' bodies coming down. You can hear the thuds on the video.

tragic beyond words.

[anonamom]

I DESPISE the MSM for hiding the people who jumped. They made the decision to "shield" us all from them, and pull back the cameras. I only learned of them many years out--maybe from that Esquire article lyle posted.

Keeping people from seeing those who jumped to their deaths rather than burn to death allowed a level of distance from the reality of that great evil.

I don't need to have anyone deciding how to sanitized information for me, or what information I should be exposed to and pretend they are transmitting "the news."

[jimmyk]

Wasn't that fire department chaplain killed by a falling jumper? Or maybe it was debris.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Thanks, daddy!

Anyone who thinks Trump doesn't know what they are up to is pretty foolish, if you ask me.

Also, Alex Jones has decided to push the idea that Trump is being drugged by the "generals" so I unfollowed him after telling him he was irresponsible and skirting sedition.

[Janet the expert 🚬]

Kevin Cosgrove's LIVE 911 call as he DIES

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F-avME48W0&feature=share&has_verified=1

[daddy]

Next Reporter opens with a 4th consecutive Steve Bannon question: Big smiles all around.

Sarah: (Smiling) I think we may be answering more questions about Steve Bannon not that he's not here than when he was.

Reporter Decker: Did the President happen to watch the Interview? Did you watch the Interview?

Sarah: I'm not sure he watched it in its entirety but I know he's seen clips it. I did watch parts of it.

Reporter Decker: As a former colleague of yours who worked with him at the White House, were you disappointed with any of his comments? Were you surprised with any of his comments? Did you like the fact that a former staffer is speaking so openly about some of the inner workings that happen here at the White House on a regular basis.

Sarah: (Still smiling big time) I am sure that it made for great TV. I'm sure CBS will be happy to put those ratings up. As for me I'm here to speak on behalf of the Administration.

[jimmyk]

The day is unforgettable, and not in a good way. It's not a matter of just remembering where I was, it's remembering practically every minute of the day, the sounds, the smells.

I'm grateful for Sultan Knish's post that Clarice linked verbalizes all the frustration over these bathos-filled memorials.

[anonamom]

This is when I get all tin-foilish. Let us not forget that Jimmy Carter is still tootling around with Stage 4 melanoma, which my friend who runs the cancer registry at a local hospital says is usually fatal within a few months.

I've got some good news/bad news--there's an immunologic treatment for metastatic melanomas that is a real game changer, and I suspect Jimmy got that.
It's no longer the death sentence it once was.

Not so sure what is really going on McCain.

[lyle]

Wasn't that fire department chaplain killed by a falling jumper? Or maybe it was debris.

Probably both. Does anyone but me remember the live footage from ground level around the towers while they were still standing and hearing the loud thumps of what had to be bodies hitting the ground?

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

anonamom,

This "shielding" was what happened to my grandchildren. My youngest granddaughter wasn't born yet, and the middle one was a toddler, but grandson was 5 and should have had a simplified explanation given to him.

It's the only time I ever disagreed with my daughter-in-law on child-rearing. Not only did she keep the television off, we were forbidden to talk about it in my grandson's presence. When he got into the upper grades of elementary school I had to answer questions because he knew only "something bad happened."

I am not saying that children should be given a non-stop diet of news like that, but her shielding him from that then led to her keeping the TV off during the Afghanistan War, too.

An abbreviated bit of information would have been more helpful, I think.

[lyle]

It's no longer the death sentence it once was.

Not so sure what is really going on McCain.

Dammit!

[lyle]

https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/09/11/hillary-clinton-calls-trump-inauguration-speech-a-cry-from-the-white-nationalist-gut/

On Sunday, Hillary Clinton recalled President Donald Trump's inauguration speech, saying that it was "a cry from the white nationalist gut."

The former secretary of State and former first lady told CBS News's Jane Pauley that it was a conundrum whether or not she should attend Trump's inauguration. Pauley noted that "defeated candidates don't necessarily show up, but you're a former first lady."

Dear Dems: Puhleeeze keep this insane crone front and center for several years.

On another note: Jane Pauley is still around? Who knew?

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

lyle,

I think that was the documentary made by the French film makers. Big booms every time one hit. The documentary was only shown once.

You kknow when I decided Hillary Clinton was evil, and when I was pretty sure Murdoch was, too?

The New York Post ran that headline "Bush Knew" with a picture of the WTC and Hillary went to the well of the Senate and waved it around, demanding answers. I believe this was right after we went into Afghanistan.

The story that went with that headline didn't say much of anything. But getting that printed was Murdoch's deal, and Hillary waving it around was absolutely staged to draw people from Bush's popularity.

She is truly evil.

[Janet the expert 🚬]

A 9/11 remembrance video. Audio from that day with pictures. The song is Jo Dee Messina & Tim McGraw, 'Bring On The Rain'.

http://www.link4u.com/911.htm

[daddy]

John Roberts brings up Sarah's earlier comment about "Comey giving False Testimony" and wonders about that but Sarah says she is not a Lawyer and will let the DOJ look into that.

I ran out of tape to transcribe anymore, but I am sure the Media will now roll in hot and heavy on that "Comey giving False Testimony" comment.

2 or 3 other comments from reporters on Steve Bannon's Interview before the Presser ended, so Bannon sure got some Media interest in his Interview which I think was one of his purposes. Good job, Steve and good job Sarah. She really is unflappable, funny and excellent. I wouldn't be surprised if Bannon is now in the position of saying for Trump what Trump would say publicly if Trump had the luxury and freedom to speak freely without the limitations and constraints that come with being President.

[Clarice Feldman]

Carried over from last thread:jimmyk. the goddess said Mohammed couldn't appear.

[lyle]

I think that was the documentary made by the French film makers. Big booms every time one hit. The documentary was only shown once.

Good memory, MM. I had forgotten this but I remembered seeing footage with those awful--obvious--sounds.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Hey, Jane Pauley's sister and I dated the same guy without either of us knowing it!

I found out because a friend of mine had a friend who went to her house and saw his picture. (We went to different high schools.) However, she must have found out about me, too, because we ended up seated nest to each other (alphabetically) at a county scholarship awards ceremony. When they called our names, we both looked at each other in horror. Pretty funny.

The guy was a weasel and another example of me being a bad picker. But, 6 degrees of separation and all of that.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

60% of Florida is without power. This will be the biggest effort to restore power in history.

[Janet the expert 🚬]

Have You Forgotten? by Darryl Worley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6yLQRF-cEU

"They took all the footage off my TV
Said it's too disturbing for you and me
It'll just breed anger that's what the experts say
If it was up to me I'd show it everyday
Some say this country's just out looking for a fight
After 9/11 man I'd have to say that's right"

[daddy]

How much did Antifa and BLM and La Raza and PP and NEA and AFGE provide?

From the police video's it appears BLM tried to aid in the relief effort by giving away free stolen Sports Shoes---Does that count?

[Dave (in MA)]

9/11, never forget: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thNjxRMYOII

[Ralph L]

As I understand it, FEMA once was just supposed to write large checks to clean up after the damage. Did Katrina change that?

[Extraneus]

While these initiatives lacked the fanfare of some of President Trump’s high-profile proclamations — like his ban on transgender people in the military — they point to a fundamental repurposing of the federal bureaucracy to promote conservative social priorities.

Actually, they're rolling back progressive over-reach, which isn't the same thing.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Ralph L.,

I don't really know. They preposition assets and I think they attempted to do that in Katrina, but Blanco refused to declare an emergency and ask for federal help (after a highly suspicious conference call to dems in DC.

She also refused to call up the national guard. Bush even got the head of the hurricane center to call her. No dice. Meanwhile, Nagin didn't order any evacuation.

brown got somewhat of a raw deal, but Bush should have been on TV immediately castigating Blanco on her delay, but he was too polite or something.

[lyle]

https://spectator.org/unlearned-lessons-of-the-endless-war/

[daddy]

Caught Talk radio guy Chris Plant on the radio earlier, specifically noting how in this change with Hillary it is actually Jane Pauley who aids and abets Hillary's racism by Pauley herself bringing up Whites:

Hillary on Trump: "He was quite successful in referencing a nostalgia that would give hope, comfort, settle grievances, for millions of people who were upset about gains that were made by others because—"

The racist Jane Pauley: "What you're saying is millions of white people."

Hillary: "Millions of white people, yeah," Clinton replied. "Millions of white people."

----------------

Yet we're supposedly the racists:(

[Ralph L]

I only saw the WTC once, in 2000 from the palisade crest in NJ where Hamilton was shot and then from the Hoboken shoreline. No photograph captures the way I remember them towering over everything.

[Janet the expert 🚬]

This is good -

Evan Sayet

"It has become a tradition for me to repost this article I wrote for Big Hollywood on the anniversary of 9/11 some years ago."

http://evansayet.com/911-thousands-die-one-saved/

[Threadkiller]

They do buttress their case with a classic quote from the only exgovernment official willing to go on the record:

FTFY

[Ralph L]

after a highly suspicious conference call to dems in DC.
I hadn't heard that, but it explains why she was apparently so incompetent. Never let a crisis go to waste, and bigger is better.

[Extraneus]

My son was 4 on 9/11 and I sat him down and explained the whole thing. He took it like a trooper and to this day he gets it.

[Buckeye]

but Bush should have been on TV immediately castigating Blanco on her delay, but he was too polite or somethingmuch of a pussy.

I think that was what you were trying to say.

[Marlene]

Good afternoon...from the UU Church discussion on the previous thread. My dear late sister-in-law had her memorial service at a UU Church. At the time,we were not *ahem* lapsed Catholics. After the service I said to hubby,did you notice that God wasn't mentioned one time?!

[Extraneus]

Isn't it interesting that they think Trump voters are disgruntled whites, pissed off at the "gains" of non-whites? They really think they've helped minorities.

[lyle]

First time I was in the WTC was in '87. I had just been hired by a Shearson Lehman Brothers in their training program and they flew the entire training class from across the country to NYC to parade the top brass in front of us and confirm we were going to work for the top firm on WS. They put us up in what was then the Marriott right next door. After a reception/light dinner, several of us got extremely inebriated in the bar of Windows on the World. I was extremely hungover the next day for the meetings but I'll never forget the views as the sun set.

[lyle]

My son was 4 on 9/11 and I sat him down and explained the whole thing. He took it like a trooper and to this day he gets it.

Good for you, Ex. Well done.

[Buckeye]

I was extremely hungover the next day for the meetings but I'll never forget the views as the sun set.

That was about the same time your eyeballs quit bleeding:)

[Barbara]

Does anyone but me remember the live footage from ground level around the towers while they were still standing and hearing the loud thumps of what had to be bodies hitting the ground?

lyle,

Yes, we remember. At first we didn't realize what the sound was. As awful as it was to hear, I felt that it was important to listen. A human life was ending because of the horror of that day. It was someone's child, husband, wife, parent or sibling, and we had to witness it.

Thank you for posting the link to the story of the Falling Man. It was very well written - respectful and necessary.

[emzed]

I can't help commenting after the thread about the poor souls who leapt to their death on 9/11, and about the attempts by the media to "shield" us from that unspeakable sight.
I attended a small commemorative service this morning, only to be forced to listen to some guy who insisted on serenading us with a song he composed shortly after 9/11. Apparently,he makes a great effort to perform it every year. It included "rainbow bridges of love" and other sappy feelz lyrics, with angelic choirs dubbed in--the only thing missing were candles and teddy bears, and "all we need is love" crap.

As someone who was living just 50 miles north of NYC and with close ties to many military friends who were working at the Pentagon that day, I'm just furious at these attempts to mitigate the evil of that day--as if the events of 9/11 were just like some tragic accident or other. One can't help comparing to the reaction to Pearl harbor--what the hell has happened to this country???

[Marlene]

On 9/11,the daughter had been in DC a couple of years,in her first job as a staffer for a Maine Senator. (not the current one) We were watching a show on Nat Geo yesterday,in between hurricane coverage. It was about what happened on 9/11 from a DC point of view,after the Pentagon was hit. There was some footage from the chaos in DC that we had never seen,including Senators leaving the Capitol. My very selfish and bitter memory from that day was the daughter and the other 20-something year old staffers fleeing the Congressional office buildings on their own,with no direction from the "boss."
In fact, the daughter asked her supervisor about a plan to evacuate and when she didn't get an answer,she said,I've got my own plan,I'm leaving! Thousands of people suffered thru more horrific experiences that day,but I will never forget the fear and worry we experienced.

[Extraneus]

what the hell has happened to this country???

Liberals got power. Remember how they tried to squelch showings of the flag not a week after 9/11? Too divisive.

[lyle]

Good lord, emzed. I fight feelings of sorrow and blind rage every year on this date. I'm afraid I would not have been able to restrain myself to not visit physical violence on your balladeer...

[Barbara]

They really think they've helped minorities.

Extraneus,

Of all the lies that the left propagates, that is the worst one. They haven't done squat for the minority communities across this nation. I dare any reporter or politician to ride around deep in those communities and come away with the notion that things have got better for the people who live there. It's a disgrace they dare not show.

[Account Deleted]

"What the hell has happened to this country???"

why the enemies within of course.

[lyle]

At first we didn't realize what the sound was. As awful as it was to hear

Curiously, I realized it immediately.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

emzed,

I cannot tell you how much clearer my thinking has become since I removed cable television.

I only use this freeby Fox News live feed when something like the hurricane is happening. I have become expert in which web sites give facts and which are peddling the DNC approved narrative.

The American public is manipulated in almost all media, print and video, music and radio.

It's not just news either. They have some movie out about September 11 and people trapped in a WTC elevator. Guess who it stars: Charlie Sheen and Whoopie Goldberg, who will no doubt make the rounds promoting it by talking about how Bush didn't stop it and it was all his fault.

Are the Millennials strapped for cash and burdened with student loan debt? Make Tiny Houses a new craze and promote minimalist decor, so their austere lifestyle isn't suffering, it's trendy!

Is there ANY type of weather that isn't conected to "climate change?" From hurricanes to blizzards, all is caused by the Skydragon and even past reputable places like the Weather Channel push this societal wrecker and globalist moneymaker.

Michelle Obama is a fashion icon dressed in clown clothing. Melania Trump is the invisible woman.

Advertising is now almost always populated with minorities. Advertising itself has been infiltrated by the left, so that corporations get duped into supporting causes and policies that their customers actually don't want.

Trump is a godsend in that he tells it like it is, sometimes awkwardly, but at least he says it. This is one of his most valuable qualities. Frankly, the only reason he was able to win is because he was already a known quantity in pop culture. Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio would have been smashed by the Clinton juggernaut because all of these forces I outlined above would have been extolling her as the first woman president and "It's time" and ginning up female resentment against men.

They couldn't do that with Trump. I imagine Kid Rock will be immune too, if he decides to run for the Senate.

Anyway, that is what has happened to this country. And if you try to tell people like my democrat sister, she acts like you are crazy.

[daddy]

The "Comey Gave False Testimony" Sarah Huckabee Sanders exchange already generating coverage on FOX Business.

Reporter Blake Burman: ...Sarah Huckabee Sanders declining there to say what, if anything Comey might have said that was incorrect under Oath.

FOX Host: ...Jason there was a hint there.. that maybe the DOJ might be looking at whether Comey perjured himself. What do you think?

Jason Chaffetz: ...I think you need to go back and look at the testimony he gave to John Radcliffe before the House Judiciary Committee,... I was on that panel at that time. It's about 8 minutes of questioning and he was very definitive, Director Comey was, that he had made the decision after interviewing Hillary Clinton, but as you heard from Senator's Grassley and Graham, there's documentation to show that Director Comey had actually made up his mind and started drafting the exoneration of Hillary Clinton before that, some 16 or 17 weeks before.
---------------------------

Chaffetz says that if there is not currently an investigation, there should be one.

For the record I really dislike reporter Blake Burman. Just my personal feeling but he sure strikes me as a smarmy turd and I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him.

[Extraneus]

When I was a kid in NYC there were plenty intact black families, and even more in my parents' time. How many now? Whose fault? Even Moynihan knew his party was destroying these people for votes. Disgusting.

[emzed]

I guess this, taken from Instapundit, brutally answers my question about what has happened to our country.

http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/36614/

[lyle]

I think someone has already link this:

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2017/09/memorials-of-grief.html

Last time I was in NYC was sometime in '04 (IIRC). The hole was still there. My wife had to steady me as I was shaking with rage and grief as I peered into it.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Extraneus,

That destructio of families has now moved into poor white neighborhoods. Same thing with illegitimacy, food stamps, WIC, welfare, etc. The only difference in lifestyle is the music they listen to.

[Threadkiller]

When Gowdy-Doody isn't doing a bang up job collecting evidence against Lois Lerner this is how he passes the time:

South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy has had his differences with former National Security Advisor Susan Rice in the past, most notably after Rice gave false statements about the Sept. 11, 2012 attacks in Benghazi.

But Gowdy is offering up some praise of Rice following her interview with the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) last week.

“I thought she gave a very good accounting of herself, frankly, and I’d be the first to say otherwise,” Gowdy told The Daily Caller in an interview on Friday.

http://dailycaller.com/2017/09/11/exclusive-gowdy-discusses-susan-rices-house-intel-interview/

I guess we will have to wait for him to hand this nothing burger over to the DOJ so we can blame Sessions.

#Treytor

[common man]

If Janet is around, or anyone else who knows. Corey Stewart is filling up my inbox. Can this dude send Tim Kaine packing?

[lyle]

From emzed's 5:04:

“When we asked why he was destroying our tribute to the victims of 9/11, [the employee] informed us that he had been ordered to do so by the university’s Director of Facilities Maintenance, Shehadeh Abdelkarim,” Roberts said.

Roberts added the employee also told her the memorial was being erased because “there is no chalk allowed on campus.”

What, you thought I'd bold this? Shehadeh Abdelkarim Hah.

[lyle]

Just my personal feeling but he sure strikes me as a smarmy turd and I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him.

So, not one bit of difference than any other scumbag in the MFM.

[narciso]

Aargh

http://babalublog.com/

[emzed]

Yep, Lyle, I nobly refrained from highlighting the name--I virtue signal and pat myself on the back!

[Extraneus]

Curiously, I realized it immediately.

I did, too, and it led to a murderous rage that still hasn't fully abated. I went to the trade center two or three days after the attack. Had to pass cops on the West Side Highway checking car trunks for bombs. The ruins were still smoldering, and people were walking around like zombies, holding pictures of their loved ones. Pictures were plastered everywhere.

"Have you seen my father?"

"Have you seen my wife?"

"Have you seen my son?"

I'm not proud to say it, but something inside me wanted to kill Muslims after that. Even now, when I see head-covered mothers with their little sons at the mall, I think to myself, "These will one day be my son's enemies."

Obviously, I'm not going to strap on a six-gun and go hunting them, but so few of them were penitent after 9/11 that I just about hate them now. Not all, of course. A Muslim surgeon at Sloan Kettering saved my wife's life, and I work with numerous great people of the faith. But the feeling is still there after all this time.

[lyle]

Huzzah, emzed!

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Extraneus,

I went to school with a couple of Muslim guys, and had an Iranian as my first boss at the coal company. Nice guys but dismissive of women (although the students always asked me to correct their papers before submitting).

I am conflicted because I see so many weaving themselves into the fabric of this country and they are truly an alien culture. Then I feel bad because of Sisi and King Abdullah, because I think those guys are pretty good leaders and allies.

Wictor thinks there is a big change goingon in Saudi Arabia (secret trip of Crown Prince to Israel is one such example). I also noticed Melania wore no headcovering the whole time the trumps were in SA and Jared Kushner, an Orthodox Jew, has been received as an emissary of the President multiple times.

It's a horrible way to feel, because you KNOW all of them cannot be murderous barbarians, yet every single one you don't know personally you distrust.

At least that's how I am.

[maryrose]

Emzed:
Liked your posts today.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer had a picture of one person falling head first on its page covering 9/11.
I can still see it in my mind's eye.
Yes I recognized the sounds of people falling but worse for me were the people at the windows waiting for a helicopter rescue.
There was even an account of a helicopter missing the first time but then rescuing some amidst the smoke and fire.Sad today was a young girl after reading her group of names just having tears rolling down her cheeks and her shoulders sagging.
Cavities had a son of Mr Fazio who held the door for others and was probably hit by debris.
His daughter is 18 months and knows about her grandfather.

[maryrose]

Cavities should be Cavuto

[Janet the expert 🚬]

If Janet is around, or anyone else who knows. Corey Stewart is filling up my inbox. Can this dude send Tim Kaine packing?

I don't know.
He lost to Ed Gillespie in the Republican primary to run for Governor of Virginia.

I voted for him. He gave Gillespie a run for his money & all he got was negative press.

I don't know though. I can't read Virginia. Half the prim Virginia Republicans bail on Republican candidates if they are too rough & loud.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

lyle,

Chitown Lurker wants me to let you know that he was in WTC 2 in 1984 with DWR, before he got locked into the No Branch Offices Available CBOT in 1986.

[Extraneus]

Well then he knows a bunch of my Staten Island homies.

[Extraneus]

I mean she.

[jimmyk]

and when she didn't get an answer,she said, I've got my own plan

Can't remember where I heard it, but someone who was in the South Tower (the 2nd building hit) was told after the North Tower was hit, "Remain where you are." This person said, more or less, "The hell with that, I'm out of here." If he was anywhere above the 70th floor or so, that saved his life.

[Barbara]

Well, narciso, we're stuck with Pope Che for now. (I really like that name. 😊)

Pope Benedict in exile has not remained silent. He picks his spots, and speaks with courage. It will be up to the body of the Church to determine the outcome.

[daddy]

Narciso,

When you surface. Dan Fagan sat in last week for a local Talk Radio Host for a few days and wound up endorsing Mark Begich for Alaska's next Governor.

[maryrose]

Jimmyk:
I think he was on an upper floor and it did save his life.

[JimNorCal]

Dang I was on the wrong thread.
JOMers, do I/we need to worry? Instapundit:

SAD! IPAs Are Giving You Man Boobs. “Those hops in your favorite IPA are actually wonderful medicine for insomnia and menopause, thanks to their high phytoestrogen content. These same phytoestrogens, however, can also cause a condition known among brewers as Brewer’s Droop.”

Beer used to be brewed with yarrow instead of hops.

[Frau Papa Razzi]

Ext - A long time ago, I went to kindergarten in the Boyle Heights area of Los Angeles. It was mostly a mix of Mexican and Jewish (with gold BofA signs in English and Hebrew), but there were others, too, from all over the world. I later thought that I knew why those Lebanese came to the US, why the Russians came, the British, the gypsies and all the others who made up that neighborhood. We were all Americans.
Today, post-9/11, when I see veiled women, I wonder why *they* came here. Linda Sarsour has made it clear to me that she does not want to be an American.

[henry]

Legumes have more phytoestrogens than beer does. Especially soy.

[Frau Papa Razzi]

Thinking about it, many in the US do not want to be an American.

[Kate Upton]

I love IPAs!

[daddy]

Breaking News! New sanctions on North Korea at the UN passes 15 to 0.

Don't know if in the long run it'll really accomplish anything positive, but its a heck of a lot better than Obama 's UN weasel, Samantha Power, unjustly joining the conglomeration of Evil Nations in damning Israel.

[sbw]

Cavities should be Cavuto

Cavities works for me.

[sbw]

UN: No soup for you!

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

daddy,

Am listening to Baier interviewing Pompeo of CIA.

Recommend watching the replay.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Important stuff from Pompeo interview (only caught last half):

Trump supports intelligence community and war with IC is a construct of media.

Trump is a good consumer of intelligence, asks hard questions.

Pompeo is in White House every day, often stays longer than scheduled.

Iran is probably a consumer of NK technology, although he can't be sure. Norks have a history of spreading technology around.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

MimiUSA‏ @PatriotMommaC

CNN Reports Tennessee Senator Bob Corker Considering Retirement http://bit.ly/2y0lC5G via @BreitbartNews
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This is a sign Trump may be winning.

[maryrose]

SBW:
"No soup for you"
Love it!
MM:
Dibs on Pompeo.
Loved him in the Benghazi hearings.
I believe former WestPoint graduate.
Obama people hate him.

[Captain Hate]

CNN Reports Tennessee Senator Bob Corker Considering Retirement

Good. Go live in Iran.

[maryrose]

MM:
Corker has 7million for re-election so can't predict the result of this one.
Will have to wait and see.