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Brace yourself: Harvard seems to have both an Affirmative Action push and faculty politics. The Times hints at both in this 'libs chewing on libs and blaming cons' story:

From Prison to Ph.D.: The Redemption and Rejection of Michelle Jones

Michelle Jones was released last month after serving more than two decades in an Indiana prison for the murder of her 4-year-old son. The very next day, she arrived at New York University, a promising Ph.D. student in American studies.

In a breathtaking feat of rehabilitation, Ms. Jones, now 45, became a published scholar of American history while behind bars, and presented her work by videoconference to historians’ conclaves and the Indiana General Assembly. With no internet access and a prison library that hewed toward romance novels, she led a team of inmates that pored through reams of photocopied documents from the Indiana State Archives to produce the Indiana Historical Society’s best research project last year. As prisoner No. 970554, Ms. Jones also wrote several dance compositions and historical plays, one of which is slated to open at an Indianapolis theater in December.

N.Y.U. was one of several top schools that recruited her for their doctoral programs. She was also among 18 selected from more than 300 applicants to Harvard University’s history program. 

Well that is very cool and good for her. But plot twist!

But in a rare override of a department’s authority to choose its graduate students, Harvard’s top brass overturned Ms. Jones’s admission after some professors raised concerns that she played down her crime in the application process.

Oh my, why?

While top Harvard officials typically rubber-stamp departmental admissions decisions, in this case the university’s leadership — including the president, provost, and deans of the graduate school — reversed one, according to the emails and interviews, out of concern that her background would cause a backlash among rejected applicants, conservative news outlets or parents of students.

A more colorful version ran later:

“We didn’t have some preconceived idea about crucifying Michelle,” said John Stauffer, one of the two American studies professors. “But frankly, we knew that anyone could just punch her crime into Google, and Fox News would probably say that P.C. liberal Harvard gave 200 grand of funding to a child murderer, who also happened to be a minority. I mean, c’mon.”

So they were worried about rejected applicants screaming "What do I have to do to get into Harvard, kill someone?" A worthy concern, since grad school applicants are given a solicitous treatment everywhere. Except Planet Earth. What, grad students will stop vying to get into Harvard?

Fears that Rush Limbaugh and Fox News would mock them caused trembling in Cambridge, since we know the Massachusetts public is sensitive to that sort of thing. No, they're not. Resist! Love trumps hate! 

Finally, the administration had a fear of troglodyte parents worrying that their darlings had a ex-con killer as a graduate assistant. Really? I had no idea the Harvard money machine was so worried about speed bumps.

My guess is that this is faculty politics and an AA backlash. John Stauffer and Daniel Carpenter, the two professors cited as leading the opposition are privileged white guys who seem to be straight and fifty. In other words, guys with no PC cred at all who should stand aside and make way for the future. Prof. Stauffer even let himself be quoted saying something ghastly:

“One of our considerations,” Professor Stauffer said in an interview, “was if this candidate is admitted to Harvard, where everyone is an elite among elites, that adjustment could be too much.”

Ouch. OK, twenty years of collaborating with fellow inmates is not exactly the same as spending twenty years in the Harvard faculty lounge and attending graduate student seminars, but surely some skills overlap.

We also learn that Harvard has been active in diversity outreach (as fans of Pocahantas remember):

Instead, the spokeswoman offered a general statement saying the graduate school “is committed to recruiting and enrolling students from all backgrounds” and “strives to create an inclusive and supportive environment where all students can thrive.”

Harvard has, indeed, made room for a wider range of voices on its campus in recent years, including the formerly incarcerated. Drew Faust, a historian who is departing as Harvard’s president in June after a decade, has expanded global outreach and financial aid, and hired a host of minority faculty who have broadened perspectives about prison reform and black culture.

So maybe this is a rear-guard action by the privileged pale males. Who knows? Yale also turned her down for reasons they have (so far!) been able to keep secret. Other top schools recruited her, and NYU is surely not chopped liver.

As to what Harvard 'should' have done, why ask me? I have no idea as to the merits of the other applicants. It's their school, their money and their reputation so they should have done whatever they wanted.

My guess is that they are spinning like weather vanes because of the environment they have embraced. When PC, identity politics and faux diversity (no welcome mat for conservatives!) are the more important than some hazy notion of scholarly merit it is hard to set a clear course.

ERRATA: It's not like libs have a big problem with murderous females.

Comments

[hrtshpdbox]

A clear case of reverse reverse discrimination, with a dollop of logic on top.

[Sbw on iPhone]

I thought Chelsey Manning set the standard?

[daddy]

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[daddy]

I can't figure out why Harvard is wasting time recruiting murderers to be incoming students, when they could get much more "bang, bang, bang for their buck" by recruiting murderers to be Law Professors:

FREE (Professor) MUMIA!

And lets not forget Biology Prof Amy Bishop.

Who else am I missing? OJ? The UniBomber? Surely there's tons of other well educated triggermen out there who could impart those beneficial skills to Harvard undergrads.

[Captain Hate]

I skimmed the article (you're welcome, TM) and think that this case gets into the question that if a person serves their time, are they then rehabilitated and eligible to be evaluated solely on the basis of their work. I'm curious about whether her work is any good or not as far as a finished work of history. It's pretty obvious that she, and fellow inmates at her direction, did a large amount of raw research for something I find mildly interesting at best. I can't imagine it being particularly well written, either in terms of being grammatically correct or written in anything other than sterile and boring academic jargon making no attempt to be more than a compendium of barely coherent data. But maybe that's all the school requires.

[Appalled]

I realize the story is slanted in favor of the woman. But it seems like Harvard is rejecting the possibility of redemption, and blaming Rush Limbaugh for it. That's so NE Progressive.

[Captain Hate]

Who could ever forget DR. AMY BISHOP?

[Neo]

Former acting CIA Director Michael Morell resigned his non-resident Senior Fellow position at Harvard on Thursday in protest of convicted military leaker Chelsea Manning joining the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics.

[anonamom]

Remeber how Rep. Scalise had tha post op infection and had to have more surgery??

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/09/13/official-trauma-hospital-dc-powerbrokers-cuts-costs-amid-sewage-leaks-safety-problems/608083001/Sewage that leaks down the walls and on the operating room floors is among the many problems at the go-to hospital for Congress and the White House, according to interviews and documents obtained by USA TODAY.

The D.C. health department is now investigating the leaks at MedStar Washington Hospital Center only after the department received a complaint, not because it was alerted by the hospital. The problems included the room in which Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise had his last surgery after being shot at a congressional baseball practice in June.

[Thomas Collins]

Twenty years for murdering her child? Why only twenty years?

As far as redemption goes, I am all for murderers dedicating their lives to atonement. That doesn't mean they get out of jail or get out of the electric chair.

[daddy]

On Jan. 24, 2017, Becerra vacated his congressional seat to become California's attorney general. "He wanted to wipe his server, and we [a 'senior official'] brought to his attention it was under investigation. The light-off was we asked for an image of the server, and they deliberately turned over a fake server," the senior official said.

What I want to know is who is "They"? Is it Bacerra or is it Awan Imran, or somebody else? Sadly tho, if there aren't any consequences forthcoming I suppose it doesn't make a damn bit of difference who "They" are.

I find it perplexing that we already have some DOJ IG looking into Steve Mnuchin's supposed unwarranted request for some Government plane to fly him up to see the Eclipse, and Ron Widen's already mouthing off about it, yet for massive corruption like this we apparently don't even have Barney Fife on the case. We need to nip this in the bud.

[Old Lurker]

WOW A'mom 3:11, just WOW.

[Ralph L]

The light pole guys must have thought it was all copper. Looks like they were in the Big House many years.

[henry]

Murderers at Harvard? lots of Kennedy types went through there.

[henry]

Medstar Hospital... owned by SEIU?

[Appalled]

TC:

She's a better addition than Chelsea Manning.

[Tom Maguire]

Tom Collins on the last thread raises the key issue:

I believe if the [Indians] win tonight, they set the record for consecutive wins in Major League Baseball. I believe the New York Baseball Giants' 26 game streak without a loss was punctuated by a tie.

Yes, but... its complicated. The gist - baseball does not have ties if fixable. That game was erased and replayed the next day, with a Giants victory.

When that happens today (as in 2005, 2016) players stats still count.

A tie was never an acceptable result of a baseball game," explained Steve Hirdt, executive vice president at the Elias Sports Bureau, Major League Baseball's official record keeper. "If one happened because of darkness or rain or some certain circumstance, the game was played over.

"Sports fans are used to the nuance in hockey and football of the difference between a winning streak and an unbeaten streak or consecutive games streak without a loss. Baseball has never had those two different records. They would replay the game until a legitimate won or loss result was achieved."

That said, there are rare late-season ties that aren't re-played (eg., 2016 Cubs-Pirates) because they don't affect the standings. The Reds-Astros June 30 2005 tie was re-played the next day. Player stats from the tie game do count.

[Ralph L]

Why only twenty years?
Someone at Althouse says it was mandatory parole on a 50 year sentence in Indiana. Anyone verify?

[GUS]

Tom Maguire, do you figure Rodham puts on her ORANGE TELETUBBIE MOO MOO or is it MAO MAO outfit, as she eats TRUMP sized hand fulls of GOLDFISH right out of the 2lb box???

that vision is DEAD SEXY!!!

[GUS]

CHECK THIS OUT BASEBALL FANS.
Milwaukee Brewers trail Chicago Cubs by 2 and a half games.
This weekends series VS the Miami Marlins has been reversed to MILWAUKEE HOSTING.
So in it's infinite FAIRNESS and WISDOM, MLB has limited the ATTENDANCE in MILWAUKEE to 10,000 on Friday, and 23,000 for Saturday and Sunday, because the games are in Milwaukee.
Does Roger Goodell work for MLB too???
Only the 1st of Miller Parks 4 decks will be used.
AND, They are closing the roof and heating the STADIUM to 100 degrees and 90% humidity!!!!!

I made that last part up.

[daddy]

Ughh, Anonamom, though I did think it cool that they just discovered that bacteria in Zero-G aboard the International Space Station can apparently shift their shapes to better survive: 'Shape-shifting' bacteria spotted on International Space Station

Bacterial cells treated with a common antibiotic have been spotted changing shape to survive while aboard the International Space Station...

The "clever shape-shifting" was detected in bacteria being experimented on in the near-weightlessness of space, and is believed to help the bacteria survive.

An experiment on the common E coli bacteria subjected it to different concentrations of the antibiotic gentamicin sulfate, a drug which kills the bug on Earth.

However, in comparison to a control group on Earth, the space bacteria showed a 13-fold increase in cell numbers and a 73% reduction in cell column size.

Isn't life amazing?

In other fascinating stuff, apparently we just learned via this discovery that the earliest use of the numeral 0 appears a few hundred years earlier than previously believed. The origin of zero: First evidence of the symbol is discovered in the Indian Bakhshali manuscript dating back to the 3rd century

The linked story says they thought Zero didn't appear until the 900's but Amir Aczel 2 years back wrote a book about having discovered the number 0 on a carved Stella near Cambodia from the 600's so you can't even trust this story to get it right. Oh well:(

Here's Amir Achel's earlier "zero" stella to prove I'm not crazy, and you can see that it very closely matches the depiction of "zero" in the newly uncovered Indian manuscripts from the 300's.

[lyle]

That's it. I'm swearing off Goldfish for good!! 😎

[GUS]

ZERO first appeared July 27, 2004, at the Democrat Convention.

[Texas Liberty Gal]

I for one was glad to see Melania wearing skinny white jeans. I was told by some so called fashion maven that skinny jeans were out. Huh! I will make my fashion choices based on what Melania wears thank you very much!!!! 😉

[GUS]

Lyle, was it something I said?????

[GUS]

Hot women in skinny jeans.....OUT
Bradley WoMANNING .......IN.

High heels on HOT FLOTUS....OUT.
Chubby cackling Shrew dress like an ORANGE TELETUBBIE, stuffing handfuls of GOLDFISH CRACKERS down her GAPING MAW, as she swill MAD DOG 2020..........IN!!!

[Texas Liberty Gal]

This is great!!!! http://dailycaller.com/2017/09/13/state-department-slaps-visa-restrictions-on-countries-that-wont-take-back-deportees/

[Texas Liberty Gal]

Also great ! http://nypost.com/2017/09/13/trump-admin-blocks-chinese-buyer-from-taking-over-us-tech-firm/

[jimmyk on iPhone]

Regardless of the merits of admitting her given her criminal past, she lied on her application. That's grounds for rejection right there--academic dishonesty. Even the future Lion of the Senate couldn't get into Harvard Law after cheating.

[GUS]

Jimmyk, ACADEMIC DISHONESTY is what HARVARD does.

Ask E. LIES ABITCH WARREN.

[Texas Liberty Gal]

I almost..ALMOST feel sorry for her

http://www.dailywire.com/news/20996/nancy-pelosi-getting-so-weird-creepy-weird-joseph-curl

[GUS]

TLG, remember when Pelosi Galore had a U.S. JET to cart her back to SF.

Lots and lots of liquor.

[Clarice Feldman]

http://freebeacon.com/issues/feds-give-berkeley-97999-honor-legacy-black-panther-party/

[cathyf on iPad]

Post-surgery Will update from his dad--

Will seems to be doing fairly well so far except for some bleeding issues, which were expected. He is still in the OR and will be there until his bleeding decreases.

He also needs to have a HD catheter placed to allow for dialysis now.

The heart surgeon told us Will was one of his more difficult cases, if not the most difficult he has done.

That's is what we know as of now...

#journeytoWillsnewheart

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Rep. Todd Rokita‏Verified account @ToddRokita 30s30 seconds ago

House voted to make gang membership deportable offense. Recent local arrest of MS13 members shows need for action.

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This is my rep I had before I moved. GOP fairly conservative, and one of 2 running in the senate primary.

[jimmyk]

ACADEMIC DISHONESTY is what HARVARD does.

You have a point--Teddy's rejection was probably 60+ years ago, when Harvard still had a shred of integrity.

[Account Deleted]

Raw sewage leaking into hospital surgery facilities---- we've achieved 3rd world status.

And the Gummint isn't running the whole show yet.

Eeegad.

Since returning home from the hospital we've been cleaning every surface in the house in an effort to sterilize and reduce the odds of getting any kind of blood infection going forward.

There's only so much one can do but the home front is where we can be most vulnerable due to the number of hours of daily exposure.

I'm not in danger of becoming a germophobe fanatic---- but I'm doing a lot to reduce the chances of infection.

Here's a good tip for Road Warriors who travel and then tend to come down with something upon returning home after flying and staying in hotels-----

The dirtiest culprit on that trip is the HOTEL TV REMOTE CONTROL. Solution: take an extra sandwich sized zip lock bag and toss the remote into it. Do not touch the remote!

Also, do not drink out of glassware in the hotel room until you've soaped it, scrubbed it and rinsed it with blazing hot water.

The help seldom runs the glassware through a sanitary dishwashing cycle. There's no time. What they do is use pump spray surface cleaner that leaves a nasty chem residue on the glass and doesn't disinfect the vessel near as much as it needs. Even in the "best" hotels.

[Account Deleted]

So what does Pelosi Galore have to say about this?

http://amp.dailycaller.com/2017/09/14/house-agrees-to-1-6-billion-for-border-wall/

[Threadkiller]

The stories at 3:51 and 4:28 can't possibly be true. This morning I heard that Trump gave the Dems everything they wanted.

[daddy]

Howie Carr just said that he doesn't think the Wall will ever be built.

I think enough of the Wall will be cosmetically built to allow Trump to say the Wall is being built while allowing enough openings for illegals to enter to satisfy the Uni-Party, the Dems, the Media, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Pope.

MAGA MAGOG.

[Captain Hate on the iPhone]

Hard to believe my house's ancient plumbing is better than in SEIU General Hospital.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

daddy,

I am not discussing this since NO DEAL is yet announce, the President just said the wall is being built, and I am tired of talking about it.

[Threadkiller]

Did Howie come up with a design idea for The Rio Grande portion of the wall?

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Captain Kirk speaks:

William Shatner‏Verified account @WilliamShatner 2m2 minutes ago

Yes, Sharon what did happen? Nobody wants equality anymore; they want to be the dominant group making the rules & controlling the outcome.

[Captain Hate on the iPhone]

Remember when we thought that TREY GOWDY was this great conservative dreamboat?

http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=371564

[JimNorCal]

Hot email from Pres The Donald!
OK, just a fund raising letter. Still, pretty quick turnaround I'd say.

"There’s been a lot of noise today and a lot of rumors.

Let me set the record straight in the simplest language possible…

...WE WILL BUILD A WALL (NOT A FENCE) ALONG THE SOUTHERN BORDER OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO HELP STOP ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION AND KEEP AMERICA SAFE.

Apparently, liberals in Congress and the mainstream media need one more reminder that building the wall is non-negotiable."

[Threadkiller]

Amash appears to be the only republican that voted against the Gang Banger Act.

He is an odd duck.

Other than a handful of dems that voted for it, this was pretty much a partyline gig.

On to the Senate. Will Mitch be having any dinners with the successful half of the uniparty?

[daddy]

Howie is asking for the US to implement the same entry restrictions to America that the Mexicans impose on American citizens entering their country.

[Old Lurker]

Maybe the noise and the rumors were caused by poor message control from the WH and perhaps Trump himself (if those Wash Times words were really what he said)?

Maybe it was all trail balloon to see how we would react?

Wasted my day, that's for sure.

[Threadkiller]

Gowd-mouth was on my rader for a long time. I took some heat for calling him a soapboxing stooge.

[narciso]

Incarcerated researchers, shirley

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/history/2015/03/indiana_women_s_prison_a_revisionist_history.html

[Threadkiller]

Maybe the media/Dems lied and thought, once again, Trump wouldn't fight back against their misrepresentations.

[daddy]

I'm about ready to go listen to the Beatles White Album to see if Charlie Manson was on to something.

[maryrose]

Cathyf:
Will keep praying for him
Appalled:
Your statement about President Trump's ability to succeed and how it is irrelevant to you tells me all I need to know.

[narciso]

Now that's possibly the weakest excuse possible, now one recalls there was a UAE Prince at bin Laden's falconry camp pre 9/11. I don't know what to thinl.

[maryrose]

Still like Gowdy and Ryan
Nyah Nyah. Nyah...

[Threadkiller]

?

[Threadkiller]

Is that the sound they make when they mock you, maryrose.

[Threadkiller]

My 4:57 is for narciso.

[Eric in Boise]

Manson on to something? Probably just on something.

Of course, that was true of the Beatles as well...

[narciso]

Rice arguing that she had to know why king zayed was visiting ny.

[Threadkiller]

Ahh. Thanks.

[Porchlight]

Medstar is where Seth Rich died.

FWIW, the rumor is that the ambulance guys were surprised to hear later that he didn't make it. Apparently - again, this is the rumor - his injuries didn't look that serious.

[Captain Hate]

Jeet Heer? No, I had lunch across the street.

https://newrepublic.com/article/144796/hillary-clintons-legacy-huge-lasting

[Porchlight]

How many times does this have to happen? Oh noes, Drumbledumpf is betraying hiz base!!! And up go the lighters to ignite the hair.

[narciso]

Do they use crayons for their features over there?

[Appalled]

maryrose:

I don't want Trump to make this country worse. If he's effective at getting what he appears to want, he likely will.

Look at this as the flip side of Rush not wanting Obama to succeed. And draw your conclusions accordingly. I take politics seriously, but I also admire and am interested practitioners of the art of politics, whose policies make me cringe.

[lyle]

Oh noes, Drumbledumpf is betraying hiz base!!! And up go the lighters to ignite the hair.

Brilliant, Porch. Brava.

[Captain Hate]

Oh c'mon Porch, that story's been thoroughly scrutinized by the MFM. NPR's Morning Sedition devoted a complete week to it. Charlie Rose was more confrontational with the gumshoes working round the clock on it than with Bannon.

[The Gipper Lives]

They keep telling how "elite" they are...and proving the opposite. At any rate, they should do it on their own dime for a change.

For example, Treason at Harvard, Then and Now:

Then... "This act was done deliberately, because the traitor, like Benedict Arnold, loved money better than he did principle, friends, honor and his country, all combined."--John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage, 1957

...and Now: "The John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University has named convicted felon and transgender activist Chelsea Manning as a visiting fellow at its Institute of Politics for the 2017-18 academic year."--The Free Beacon, 2017

In sixty years, Democrats have gone from condemning treason to celebrating it, recruiting for it and practicing it openly. Hell, it's all but mandatory. I'm glad JFK didn't have to see what they are perpetrating in his name. The Japanese once sliced his PT boat in half. Today, Democrats do the job for free.

The post-Obama/Clinton Democrat leadership of today are largely either traitors, criminals, grifters, perverts, child molesters, baby-killers, cannibals, extremists, communists, Islamist sympathizers, race hustlers, Deep State seditionists or anti-American globalists, or some combination thereof.

What a sorry, disgusting collection of miscreants.

[Jack is Back!(On his iPhone)]

Back in the 90's I attended a Infrastructure Conference at the Plaza Hotel and they had Trump as the Key Noter. Could be wrong but this was during his Marla Maple period and a fellow attendee who worked for the Trump Orginization confided that DJT was a germaphobe and didn't even like to shake hands. I don't see that now with all the personal interaction on his trips.

Kev,

Good tip but according to CondecNast Travel magazine it's the hotel bath tub that is the most dangerous for germs. Ugh!

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Attention people in northeast!! Hurricane Jose models!

https://twitter.com/MJVentrice/status/908364455024709632

[maryrose]

President Trump is not making this country worse

That was Obama's claim to fame.
You voted for that tool twice. Our country will thrive under President Trump and you sir will egg on your face.

[maryrose]

Have egg

[lyle]

http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/12/media/what-happened-hillary-clinton-media/index.html?sr=twmoney091217what-happened-hillary-clinton-media0653PMVODtopLink&linkId=42132353

In her new book, Hillary Clinton says many political reporters "can't bear to face their own role in helping elect Trump, from providing him free airtime to giving my emails three times more coverage than all the issues affecting people's lives combined."

She believes the media playing field was tipped in Donald Trump's favor during the campaign.

And she thinks there should be more liberal-leaning shows and publications to counteract a right-wing media apparatus that she calls "propaganda."

This woman is clinically insane.

[narciso]

Stark raving lyle.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

lyle, narciso,

I bet she will have a breakdown before this book tour ends. She seems pretty close right now.

[Dave (in MA)]

will travel

[lyle]

I'd reckon she's already had several, MM.

[Dave (in MA)]

Miss Marple the Deplorable | September 14, 2017 at 05:14 PM,

Yike.

[Porchlight]

What a gift this harridan has been. 90% of the country is laughing openly at her or embarrassed for her or both.

All she is doing is making people more glad that Trump won.

[Captain Hate]

She's needed a supervised living arrangement where the doors open only from the outside for a long time. Not that I care about such a malignant shrew, but she's obviously not been well for a long time and her pervert husband either doesn't care or is afraid of her.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump 3h3 hours ago

Just left Florida for D.C. The people and spirit in THAT GREAT STATE is unbelievable. Damage horrific but will be better than ever!
=================================

There are a series of tweets done while he was coming back from Florida. This is the first.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump 2h2 hours ago

Spoke to President of Mexico to give condolences on terrible earthquake. Unable to reach for 3 days b/c of his cell phone reception at site.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump 2h2 hours ago

Bernie Sanders is pushing hard for a single payer healthcare plan - a curse on the U.S. & its people...

(More to follow)

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump 2h2 hours ago

...I told Republicans to approve healthcare fast or this would happen. But don't worry, I will veto because I love our country & its people.

[Captain Hate]

Spoke to President of Mexico to give condolences on terrible earthquake. Unable to reach for 3 days b/c of his cell phone reception at site.

Pay for the wall, get better cell phone signals.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

This is a tweet with emergency information and a video:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/908438028980490240

[daddy]

From Capt Hate's New Republic link above, titled "Hillary Clinton’s Legacy Is Huge and Lasting."

Far from being a historical footnote, she's a pathbreaking pioneer...These dismissive judgments (against Hillary) aren’t just wrong, but betray a fundamentally flawed view of what’s important in politics.

This insane column jibes with my point about why it is essential to have Hillary's missing 33,000 E-Mails published. As the years ahead soften our current view of Hillary from repulsive conniving evil shrew to the reincarnation of Saint Eleanor Roosevelt, we will grow to appreciate how privileged we happy few were to be alive during her blessed scene upon this mortal stage, and with that in mind nothing is more important than learning all we can about her wonderfulness. This why we need her 33,000 mundane scribbles and innocuous tweets pawed thru like Indian peasants gleefully pawing thru Monkey turds looking for treasured coffee beans excreted tangy and whole from the digestive tracts of such venerated primates. Only by this method will we get to know the deeper side of Hillary that posterity demands we preserve for future generations.

sniff, sniff.

[Porchlight]

Hahahaha, this had to hurt:

Newsweek: Trump Really is 'Bombing The Shit' Out Of ISIS Just Like He Promised

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Porchlight,

That link brings me to an archive site but no article.

[GUS]

Daddy, Rodhams' ASS is YOOOOOGE and lasting.

[Porchlight]

MM, sorry, try this:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170914205144/http://www.newsweek.com/trump-really-bombing-shit-out-isis-just-he-promised-664844">http://www.newsweek.com/trump-really-bombing-shit-out-isis-just-he-promised-664844">https://web.archive.org/web/20170914205144/http://www.newsweek.com/trump-really-bombing-shit-out-isis-just-he-promised-664844

[Porchlight]

Lord, archive.org sucks. I didn't want to give Newsweek the clicks but here:

http://www.newsweek.com/trump-really-bombing-shit-out-isis-just-he-promised-664844

[Jane (Stand against the Coup)]

Somewhere in the last few days I read a story about the Canadian health care system which included a story about someone waiting 13 months for a kidney stone. Was it here? Anyone else see it?

[Threadkiller]

Tried staying away from the predictably teary-eyed talk shows but I failed. Just turned on the radio in prep for Larry Elder's sensible show and caught a few minutes of Fair-weather Fanitty's belly aching.

My best guess is he thinks he has a shot at tickling Ann Goulter's Adams Apple from inside her throat.

What a bunch of wimps.

[JimNorCal]

http://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/2017/09/12/exclusive-dws-it-guy-was-banned-from-house-after-trying-to-hide-secret-server/

Police grew suspicious and requested a copy of the server early this year, but they were provided with an elaborate falsified image designed to hide the massive violations. The falsified image is what ultimately triggered their ban from the House network Feb. 2, according to a senior House official with direct knowledge of the investigation.

The secret server was connected to the House Democratic Caucus, an organization chaired by then-Rep. Xavier Becerra. Police informed Becerra that the server was the subject of an investigation and requested a copy of it. Authorities considered the false image they received to be interference in a criminal investigation, the senior official said.

[Frau Mirabile dictu]

TK - Just don't badmouth Larry Elder, the son I wish I'd had.

[James D.]

this case gets into the question that if a person serves their time, are they then rehabilitated and eligible to be evaluated solely on the basis of their work

Putting this specific case aside, that is a difficult question. In a truly free society, it ought to be up to individual employers whether they're willing to hire someone who committed whatever crime is at issue, regardless of what the state parole board says regarding their rehabilitation.

And that would totally depend both on the crime, and on how that crime related to the employer's business. I wouldn't expect MADD to hire somebody who killed a carload of kids while driving drunk, no matter how remorseful they were, or what a model prisoner they'd been, for example.

[Threadkiller]

I love his show, Frau. The local station cuts off his last hour in favor of a one hour rerun of The Jay Sekulow Shamwow Screamers.

It is very irritating.