THIS Is A Stud Athlete?

My goodness - three-time NFL defensive player of the year JJ Watt of the Houston Texans has raised $37 million for Hurricane Harvey relief but he needs to raise his game if he wants to pass himself off as a premier athlete. OK, he is throwing from one leg and using one crutch, evidently impaired by a broken leg. Still, his ceremonial first pitch at the Astros-Dodgers Game Three is Obamaesque.

C'mon, don't embarrass us out there.

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[daddy on iPad at the Jet Lag]

NEW THREAD!!!

[JimNorCal]

Uh, daddy. Sposed to post that on the PREV thread ...

[JimNorCal]

."third"

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/professors-like-me-cant-stay-silent-about-this-extremist-moment-on-campuses/2017/10/27/fd7aded2-b9b0-11e7-9e58-e6288544af98_story.html?undefined=&utm_term=.785422816940&wpisrc=nl_headlines&wpmm=1

This is actually a liberal professor who has been intimidated by the radical left.

This follows the discussion on the previous thread about the book "Republican Like Me" written by an NPR executive who went undercover in GOP and conservative circles for a year and was surprised to discover we weren't all knuckle-dragging racists.

To discover a liberal prof writing a bit disapprovingly about the far left seems to me to be an interesting development.

[2 minute duda]

The Mueller indictments will drop Monday. Which is kind of a shame because I've been loving the Right-wing campaign to muddy the waters on Russia and deflect blame from Heir Trump. Loved how the Clinton funded dossier fell apart when it was revealed a Republican entity initially funding the Oppo research. Heh heh heh...that was sweet.Loved Nunes little GPS fusion stunt allowing the President to tee up his now infamous tweet.And even the Uranium one fallacy was dusted off.

Everything a Right-wing media empire would need to falsely accuse Democrats and the people investigating Trump of being the ones colluding with Russia. Nice.

Now, normally I'd let this shit go.....I got a full-time trolling job and these kinds of coordinated strategies between the media, the WH and the RNC don't really interest me.But man.....the amount of effort that went into this particular one got me thinking that there's a lot of Republicans out there who are really fucking worried about Mueller's findings.The only reason this level of effort went into this kind of obfuscation campaign is because someone from Trumpworld is 100% guilty of colluding with the Russians......and it aint Ivanka.

Holy shit!

[JimNorCal]

I thought duda promised to go away till Nov 8th?
Another lib promise ... unfulfilled.

[Captain Hate]

Heir Trump

Drunk at 7:46 AM thanks to Soros throwing his ill gotten gains away.

[GUS]

JJ Watt is a Milwaukee (Pewaukee H.S.) boy.
University of Wisconsin.

[2 minute duda]

Then again, ole DUDA has a drinking problem and isn't the smartest sandwich in the shed. Hillary et al could be in prison this time next year with Trump safely cruising toward the highest approval rating of any President in history thanks in part to his eventual vindication.

But then.....oh man..... there's that deflection campaign. Why so much effort? Someone knows something. Something shook the GOP world to it's core.

Nah,it's just doubdouche inhaling the fumes from a bag of glue cause he already spent his disability check on Dewars and chicken wings.

Trump will be vindicated.

[2 minute duda]

"I thought duda promised to go away till Nov 8th?
Another lib promise ... unfulfilled"

You know I did promise to go away until November 8th.I am a lying sack of shit but on this one I will make good and I'll even go one better.

You won't see or hear from me till December 1st. To

[GUS]

Must be going to jail for a drunk driving conviction.

[henry]

Kev, from the last thread. I assume Mueller knows what the NDA informant knows as Mueller (with RR, Comey, Lynch, the guy that just "retired", etc) was running the investigation. Tying an ex-President and current Sec State to Russian bribery and uranium will go to the corner office pronto. There to be covered with a pillow it seems.

[Old Lurker]

Why is Fox pushing the meme that the DoJ and the AG are supposed to have no links to the President or the WH?

Is that what the Constitution intended?

[JimNorCal]

CH 7:52 I wonder if the Soros mega donation to that anti Trump org means there will be shortfalls in the pocket change used for funding paid trolling of rightie blogs?

It's early, but does anyone have icons, memes or YouTubes they will be dusting off and revisiting for the anniversary of the election?

http://www.vividmaps.com/2016/12/trumpland-and-clinton-archipelago.html

[Buckeye]

Exactly right henry.

Mueller's "duty" is to come up with anything that will lend cred to the Russia-Trump collusion meme.

Regardless, the air is leaking out of that balloon pretty quickly.

[Ralph L]

I was expecting some bounces in the pitch, but it wasn't that bad. They don't want defensive players to know how to throw. More importantly, why couldn't the BB player catch it?

[Buckeye]

Why is Fox pushing the meme that the DoJ and the AG are supposed to have no links to the President or the WH?

Is that what the Constitution intended?

Sure as hell weren't pushing that meme when Obama was Prez.

[Gentlejim]

Must be going to jail for a drunk driving conviction.

Posted by: GUS | October 28, 2017 at 08:03

What makes you think he's smart enough to operate a vehicle?

[Captain Hate]

Why is Fox pushing the meme that the DoJ and the AG are supposed to have no links to the President or the WH?

Is that what the Constitution intended?

No, that's what the ambulance chasers and journalists are making up. If Saint JFK could name his brother as AG, where was all that concern during Camelot?

[Buckeye]

Cold, rainy and ugly gray in Columbus today.

Hope Penn State forgot their long johns.

We are going to need all the help we can get.

[pagar, a bacon, ham and sausage supporter]

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/10/the_russian_collusion_narrative_is_falling_apart_there_will_be_many_embarrassed_politicians_in_the_near_future.html

Had no idea one could embarrass a politician.

[Ralph L]

OL, remember they went after Andrew Johnson for firing a Cabinet member.

[Captain Hate]

Buckeye, I'm counting on Urban Meyer to be able to outcoach that jackass Franklin and his offensive coordinator, Moorhead, who is the real brains behind their success and will be a head coach elsewhere next season.

[2 minute duda]

Is it December 1st yet?

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Thanks jim nj and clarice from the last thread.
Unfortunately my legs are the same length and my feet while a bit flat still work fine. My problem is forty years of accumulated trauma to that ankle. My first bad sprain was in high school then again at about 30 and again at 55.
It's been warning me lately to give it a rest but I ignored it.
My concern is this time my cartilage may have been the victim rather than previously when it was my ligaments. Cartilage, without a blood supply, either takes forever to heal or just doesn't.
Time will tell.

[pagar, a bacon, ham and sausage supporter]

On last thread by Janet (Thanks) at 07:37.

http://nypost.com/2017/10/21/the-other-half-of-america-that-the-liberal-media-doesnt-cover/

""The mainstream media is constantly under attack by the president."..."

IMO, with the exception of maybe 5 or so, the rest of the so called mainstream media is really just a bunch of leftist propaganda spreaders who print whatever George Soros and his Anti-America sidekicks tell them to.

The President is doing what he should be, IMO.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Schiff is hilarious. Lynch and Barry slap a gag order on a guy to protect themselves from the consequences of their misdeeds and to hide the truth.
Trump lifts their coverup to let the people know what happened and Shiff preposterously tries to say it's somehow improper.
BTW who are Trump's "political opponents"? A bunch of retired hacks and criminals?
Good luck with that professional grade projection Adam.

[Buckeye]

Yesterday both Doug Schoen and Leon Panetta went to great lengths to distance themselves from Hillary.

The flunkies that are on the tube defending Hillary are the scrapings from the bottom of the barrel.

The party is getting ready to give her a big order, in fact three:

"Get out, stay out, and don't come back".

That dog ain't gonna hunt anymore.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

At least Nazis and communists have the decency to declare themselves the enemy of Americans.
The media want to be our enemies and have us thank them for it.

[daddy on iPad at the Jet Lag]

Test

[Old Lurker]

Well there was no doubt that Bret Baier in his interview with Sessions drilled into "How much did the WH know and when did they know about what the AG is doing..." and with that tone of voice too. Then his next clip was that Preet scum hyper ventilating about how the POTUS must not have anything whatsoever to do with the DoJ, and if he does, then that is the end of the world.

I do hate them all.

[maryrose]

Pagar:
So true! I totally ignore them now.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

The Week in Pictures: Happy Halloween Edition

[sbw]

Windansea from the last thread: perepeteia

I actually used that word in Individuals, Journalism, and Society in a meaningful way.

Not sure it was a smart thing to do, but I did.

“Couple that with a new appreciation how to enable people to become self-actualized learners, responsible for their own growth as individuals and anagnorisis and peripeteia are at hand. Anagnorisis is a moment in literature when a character makes a critical discovery, and peripeteia is a sudden reversal, a turning point dependent on intellect and logic. That opportunity is upon us and happening none to soon.”
   “Why do you think so?”
“Once you figure why society matters, you can advocate for it. Once you learn why society matters, you become armed to defend it.

[maryrose]

OL:
Lynch and Holder lived in Obama’s pocket.
No the Libs don’t get to change the rules now.
I love having them on the ropes now.
They all to the very last criminal thought that Hillary would win.
Tammy Bruce said they were sloppy in their cover- up.
That will be their undoing.

[Old Lurker]

Hell, even Wiki understands who works for whom:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Justice

Did I say I hate these people?

And if we learned one thing last night it was how cross contaminated and up to their necks is/was the NT "conservative" press wing of the Uniparty and how it overlaps with the usual names of front men Romney, Rubio, Bush, Ryan.

Femall.

Did I say I hate them?

[Old Lurker]

Maryrose, they were sloppy in their coverup because they were 110% certain Hillary would win.

[Captain Hate]

Must be going to jail for a drunk driving conviction.

Posted by: GUS | October 28, 2017 at 08:03

What makes you think he's smart enough to operate a vehicle?

Maybe he was that 10 year old that went 100+ in a stolen car.

[maryrose]

OL:
Pride goeth before the fall.
Words Hillary will learn to live by.

[Old Lurker]

Also, in this town where the nuclear codes could be leaked in ten minutes, how can 12 hours go by without learning the name of the about to be indicted?

[Captain Hate]

Maryrose, they were sloppy in their coverup because they were 110% certain Hillary would win.

Can you imagine how much it must've chafed Cock Curious to campaign for the stumbling lush, whom he surely hated as much as his nympho tramp mother who abandoned him, as the only way to secure his precious legacy. I'd love to be a fly on the wall, assuming they aren't all attracted to the stench coming off him, when he and Mommy Ferret are discussing the Clintoons. "White bitch" must get used frequently.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Even better:

Pride goeth before destruction
And a haughty* look before a fall.

*Note: not hotty.

[Porchlight]

Buckeye, can you give more details on what Schoen and Panetta said to distance themselves from Hillary? It's impossible to keep up.

[sbw]

WFB

And I was thinking, he funded William F. Buckley?

[anon ( AKA common man )]

I went looking for some comfirmation of my previously stated sense that not much has changed in the electorate since the 2016 election. I thought that Fox News hype poll of D + 15 was ridiculous. Well here is a survey done of 1000 likely voter nationwide, cross tabbing by region. Its mostly graphs and charts well labeled and worth your time to look at if you want to understand where we stand today as we begin to approach an off year election in 2018.

http://mclaughlinonline.com/pols/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/National-Omnibus-10-13-17-Presentation-MA-Questions-Only.pdf

For those of you who wont ever click a link. Its D + 3 today according to McLaughlin. That wont produce more than a ripple, not a Tsunami like some wild eyed salivating jackwings seem to be pining for.

[Porchlight]

Given what seems a now-permanent reluctance on the part of conservatives/GOP/Trump supporters to respond to polls, anon, could be more like R+3.

[Extraneus]

Here's the Panetta comment, Porch:

http://www.breitbart.com/video/2017/10/27/panetta-intel-committee-investigate-payments-russia-dossier/

[ALberto]

"without learning the name of the about to be indicted?"

I would like to know the "why?". Is it a Russian double agent or 10 year old banking related charges or someone not properly filing a government form?

I am guessing a Special Prosecutor assigned to Uranium One or illegal unmaskings of US Citizens by the Feds would have much more exciting charges.

[Old Lurker]

Way OT, but for those curious about the view from the Summer Ledge, this tells the tale of all that gets talked about at cocktail parties in my little village. BTW, they passed the hat a few years back and we all chipped into the $10M cost to move the pictured lighthouse a few hundred feet back from the bluff.

As YL always says "Mo money. Mo problems."

http://prospect.org/article/slip-sliding-away-nantucket

[anon ( AKA common man )]

Porch

I doubt its R + 3 except in the South. But that is the thing that we should now look for. Running up the score in New England, New York, Illinois and especially California does not get Democrats to a majority.

Go look at the Midwest crosstabs, remember that Illinois is blended into them and realize that every Democrat Senator in that region outside of Illinois must lie awake at night wondering if they may be forced to get a real job.

[Old Lurker]

BTW if you missed it, Mueller has to release his spending accounting in two weeks so he probably wanted to show we are getting something for the cash.

[anon ( AKA common man )]

For one example of what I am talking about look at the second question:

Would you like President Trump and Congress to :

A) continue the policies of President Obama

B) Change direction and move away from the policies of President Obama.

Continue lose 43 to 50 in the South. But it also loses badly in the Midwest 41 to 47.

For those keeping score at home that is +7 for the good guys in the South but also + 6 for the good guys in the midwest.

Not time to get cocky but I can say with confidence based on this snapshot, certainly no wave and Fox can stuff their ridiculous + 15 D poll so far up their keister that if they invert their eyeballs they can read their trash in private.

[Buckeye]

Snowing like crazy in Columbus, but a little too warm to sri k.

[Buckeye]

Stick

[Old Lurker]

well don't srik on the ice, Buckeye.

[Old Lurker]

:-)

[Threadkiller]

https://jonathanturley.org/2017/10/28/muellers-mountain-or-molehill-prosecutors-mum-on-first-chargesovb/#more-129947

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump 12h12 hours ago

“WHAT HAPPENED”

“How Team Hillary played the press for fools on Russia”
➡️http://nypost.com/2017/10/26/how-team-hillary-played-the-press-for-fools-on-russia/ …

NOW WE KNOW!

[mockmook]

Donald Trump to be perp walked Monday morhing!!!

(or, not)

[BTW, everyone (especially doodoo) knows that any interaction automatically becomes illegal by merely attaching the word 'collusion' to it]

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump 2h2 hours ago

Very little reporting about the GREAT GDP numbers announced yesterday (3.0 despite the big hurricane hits). Best consecutive Q's in years!

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump 2h2 hours ago

Just read the nice remarks by President Jimmy Carter about me and how badly I am treated by the press (Fake News). Thank you Mr. President!

[James D.]

Just getting back from the cruise this morning. Anything happen while I was gone?

[mockmook]

I refuse to do a post correcting my spelling mistake -- take that, JOMers...

[Buckeye]

Just saw my neice (6 months older than Jr.) in the crowd on Gameday.

If Meg is true to form, she probably is warding off the cold with Al K. Hall:)

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/27/opinion/twitter-first-amendment.html

"How Twitter killed the First Amendment"

Seriously, that's the title. Apparently having the plebes talk back isn't acceptable.

[James D.]

Full report and photos to come (on FB). Great time, loved the cruise, all was wonderful except for the bursitis/lower back spasm/whatever the heck I did to myself right before we sailed (I’ll hopefully be getting a full report on that as well as treatment from the doctor Monday afternoon)

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/10/25/tucker_carlson_source_podesta_brothers_and_manafort_not_trump_central_figures_in_mueller_probe.html

[daddy]

From Janet's link on the previous thread:

"The mainstream media is constantly under attack by the president."...

" We should all be worried that more than 65 percent of voters think there is a lot of fake news in the mainstream media and that our major media institutions are seen as creating, not combating, our growing partisan divide."....

"Some of this loss of reputation stems from effective demagoguery from the right and the left, as well as from our demagogue-in-chief,"...

"None of this justifies the attacks from President Trump, which are terribly inappropriate coming from the head of government."....

Then who do they think should be doing the public criticizing of the News Media which is without question so biased? Anyone? No one? Only approved mouthpieces of the Media? Who? Tell us please who should be doing this criticism?

The Media is claiming here that they have the right to criticize all of America in every way possible they choose, but that they themselves, like Caesar, are sacrosanct from criticism unless from their approved sources. What a bunch of bull-shiitting media assholes:

"None of this justifies the attacks from President Trump, which are terribly inappropriate coming from the head of government."....

To the contrary, all of this justifies the attacks from President Trump, which are totally appropriate coming from the head of Government.

[Buckeye]

I refuse to do a post correcting my spelling mistake -- take that, JOMers...

My mom was an English teacher.

I sense her looking down with a disapproving look:)

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Title of my link at 10:27 was truncated. It says "Podesta brothers and Manafort not Trump the target of Mueller probe."

[Extraneus]

Actually, spelling corrections are against the rules. (If I remember correctly, the rule was approved several years ago after Clarice mis-spelled consecutive spelling corrections.)

[JimNorCal]

James D, welcome back!
Hope all went well, that you had a nice time, and didn't wind up sleeping in anyone else's cabin :) :)

It's a small thing, but my fave over the past few days was DJT welcoming small MSM children to the Oval Office for candy and then announcing publicly and quite genially that he couldn't believe the JournoListers had such beautiful children. Puff 'em up and puncture them in the same sentence!

[Jane (Stand against the Coup)]

What was your favorite port James?

OL Nantucket has had houses ready to fall into the ocean for 30 years. Have any actually plummeted?

[Buckeye]

If it turns out Manafort was being paid by the Dems to spy on Trump, they can nail his ass to a cross for all I care.

[Threadkiller]

Welcome back, James.

[James D.]

Kane, either Bar Harbor or Halifax. The harbotwalk in Halifax is fantastic, and it’s a gorgeous city. We also lucked out with the weather st all five port stops.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump 4m4 minutes ago

Today is National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. Everyone can help fight the #OpioidEpidemic by participating! http://DEA.gov

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-coming-russia-bombshells-1509059214?mod=e2two

Kim Strassell discusses the importance of Fusion GPS bank records.

[Old Lurker]

A few, Jane, but mostly the town knows ahead of time and they jump on the homeowners to move them back.

That said, we often find debris from houses washed up on our beach. I like to think that came up from Jack's hood to our southwest.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

http://dailycaller.com/2017/10/28/finally-a-definitive-timeline-showing-when-clinton-dnc-started-the-russian-dossier/

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Sarah Sanders‏Verified account @PressSec 6m6 minutes ago

Clinton spokesman just said he's "damn glad" Clinton campaign colluded w/ Russia to spread disinformation about @POTUS & influence election

Sarah Sanders‏Verified account @PressSec 5m5 minutes ago

The evidence Clinton campaign, DNC & Russia colluded to influence the election is indisputable-> http://thefederalist.com/2017/10/25/top-10-things-to-know-about-dossier/#.WfEBIiMHSjc.twitter

[narciso]

Hey james d when I went on a cruise back in 2006, around this time, I couldn't communicate out either,

Time to break out the atomics. No.

[Captain Hate]

OL, is Nantucket a big rock that has houses with foundations?

[narciso]

In other news:https://mobile.twitter.com/Charles_S_Viar/status/924167445245505536

[Beasts of England]

Say what you will about ol' W, but that first pitch - while wearing a flak jacket - was pure Alpha.

[narciso]

So how did the Steve Trevor outing with wonder woman go?

[Beasts of England]

Can't wait for the Penn State v. Ohio State game!

And since Alabama is off today, Go Buckeyes!!

[Beasts of England]

It was more fun than I anticipated, narciso. Believe it or not, I'm not a party kinda guy...

[narciso]

I find that improbable, not impossible mind you.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5003775/Boston-lawyer-tells-Mueller-tried-entrap-him.html

[Old Lurker]

Very interesting question, Cap'n.

No to the rock question. It is hard packed sand and clay all the way down with the turtles except for some areas where rocks were pushed ahead of the glaciers in the last ice age. (Those areas attract lightning strikes).

So for hundreds of years the houses were mostly built on stacked fieldstone foundations and small crawlspaces. One reason the houses survived over the centuries is because they leaked air and they moved so they survived the storms.

The big change in the last decade or two, as houses evolved from "summer camp" structures to year round copies of what we live in at home, and as objections to footprint size and land prices forced, newer houses all tend to make use of basement spaces. (we don't refer to them as "basements" of course, they are "lower levels")

The result is a big business in lifting existing houses, digging beneath them, pouring a modern foundation, then lowering the house down onto it. Complicated as that sounds, it is so routine you can practically order it up over the phone.

The unintended consequence of course is that the rigid sealed houses on rigid foundations do not sway in the storms like the old houses, so constructing for 130 mph winds is a real trick.

[mockmook]

Totally gratuitous image of JJ's main squeeze (on the left)

[Captain Hate]

Thanks for the detailed answer which was exactly what I was looking for, OL.

[Captain Hate]

Say what you will about ol' W, but that first pitch - while wearing a flak jacket - was pure Alpha.

Yes, it was moments like that which make his GOPe tendencies even more infuriating.

[Momto2]

OL - this sentence stuck out to me in the article:

On top of those concerns, all the stakeholders agree that climate change will only exacerbate these problems. “As sea level rises, waves are going to be breaking further up on the beach, further up on the bluff

Is that so? Do they ALL agree?

That one photo of the house on Smith's point is rather frightening!

[Buckeye]

And since Alabama is off today, Go Buckeyes!!

Thanks Beasts!

[Old Lurker]

You are welcome, Cap'n. I love talking about that stuff and became an "expert" once we decided to build our own house there.

[Old Lurker]

Mom, that line jumped out at me too! Let's just say that NOBODY will speak up in opposition to that. Nobody. The social price is just too high. At a party the only way to spot the smart people is to see who is just being quiet when the libs are ranting.

[Old Lurker]

Also Mom, when that house gets set back down on a foundation, it will sell for $2M.

Smith Point is where Mr. Rogers lived.

[mockmook]

OL, you'd think all those 'smart' stakeholders would be cashing out and letting those stupid 'climate deniers' buy their homes.