Psych!

Do the youngsters these days still say "Psych", or is the new phrase "JK"?

Franken urged to reverse his resignation

The demands from Democrats that he step down were 'the most hypocritical thing I’ve ever seen done to a human being,' Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) says.

I'm not sure "hypocritical" is the same as "phony and opportunistic", but yeah - Dems had a chance for a win over Rep. Roy Moore in the Alabama Senate race but attacking his sexual history while defending Franken wasn't quite convincing anyone.

Now the same shining lights have moved on to demanding Trump resign, as if the voting public was unaware of the allegations against Trump prior to the election.

Well. The article strongly suggests Franken will follow through on his announcement and actually resign in early January but wow - that would be a heckuva stocking stuffer from the Dem "organization" if he decides to un-resign.

Comments

[James D.]

What a shocker.

[Robin....10 Square....]

Carried over....

https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2017/12/18/some-real-talk-for-conservatives-about-2018-n2423833

Do not nominate weird candidates.

[DebinGA]

Totally agree with Schlichter.

[JimNorCal]

Huh? I thought Schlicter was advocating for Do Not Care.

[henry]

The second half of Franken's plan... he's too impo'tent to resign. Just ask him.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Jimmyk had an excellent response to Schlichter on the last thread.

My response is if they don't want "weird" candidates like Moore the GOPe should stop pushing useless ones on us like Strange while undercutting people like Mo Brooks.
Like virtually every problem the GOP has it can be traced back to GOPe shenanigans.

[henry]

Now Leahy can't live without Franken.

https://twitter.com/aterkel/status/942741774161842176?ref_src=twcamp%5Eshare%7Ctwsrc%5Eios%7Ctwgr%5Eph.telegra.Telegraph.Share

[rse]

Bringing this over since it is a ubiquitous concept these days. responding to iggy's comment.

SMART is also an acronym tied to evidence-based decisionmaking by governments at all levels steering people, the economy, and all the social institutions they can control directly or indirectly.

Governments set goals which are to be Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Timely. The data can show the gap between the goals and what has happened. It's considered to be far more flexible than the old Five Year Plans but it is state-directed nonetheless. It also ties to Pay for Success Public private Partnerships where insiders can benefit from being the provider of declared obligations of the state.

[Extraneus]

Leaving the grocery store early this morning, still dark out, the loudspeaker blared some Bad Company:

♫

Well I take whatever I want
And baby, I want you
You give me something I need
Now tell me I got something for you

♫

I think we're gonna have to memory-hole a lot more than Baby It's Cold Outside.

[DebinGA]

Alabama primary rules are weird - closed for Dems (only registered Dems can vote) but open for Rs (come one, come all chooses the R candidate) A recipe for mischief-making that produced the polarizing Roy Moore.

[Captain Hate]

I might be the only person who feels this way but, even though I hate Franken and think he's a worthless creep, what he did doesn't even come close to what Slick's done and I'm not ever on the bandwagon that he should resign.

From Miss Marple's willowed link on Fatboy Erickson leaving Fox:

While I would like to think I am useful as a political commentator and contributor for conservatives, I am just not a bandwagon Republican anymore and cannot with a straight face call the President a conservative.

It's probably the multiple chins that prevent "a straight face" because Levin, who knows a bit more about conservatism than this four flusher, has called DJT the most conservative President since Reagan. And to be a "bandwagon Republican" meant pretending GWB and his massive spending were conservative.

[Captain Hate]

Hell must have Bad Company on an 8 track.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Captain Hate,

Erickson conveniently forgets his enthusiastic support of Rick Perry as a candidate back in 2011 when he orchestrated a rather embarassing announcement by Perry through Red State .

Perry is now Secretary of Energy in the Trump administration, so either Perry wasn't as conservative as Erickson thought, or Trump is more conservative. Either way, Erickson was wrong.

Guys like Erickson just will not admit that they didn't like Trump because of his accent and attitude, because he was an outsider and not a familiar face in Beltway circles, and most importantly, he wasn't going to give them or their cronies JOBS.

[narcisoyea]

Re that controversial piece, gEssen flushed up this week:
http://defendinghistory.com/footprints-adolfas-ramanauskas-vanagas-mass-murder-jews-druskininkai/65177

Of course this was do in part to the tender mercies of the nkvd the smersh squad

[henry]

However, there is no doubt justice has not been served for those like Eric O’Keefe who had their homes raided simply for participating in the political arena in Wisconsin.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/12/what-happened-in-wisconsin-sen-tiffany-comments.php

[Appalled]

If Sen. Gillebrand is intent on creating a one size fits all punishment for all the consequences of sexual misconduct and the Democrats are willing to sign on to that, then they can sweat the consequences. Since this will likely put an end to her Presidential aspirations (Democrats not being a forgiving tribe), this is likely good. As for Franken -- he's the doofus that agreed to quit, so I don't have much sympathy for him.

It would be nice to have the Republicans on the side of due process -- particularly if the current movement knocks off more members of the Congressional Black Caucus, and increases the tension between the progressives and the blacks.

[henry]

Franken is a weasel, he never said when he would quit. It was a fake to get clods like Appalled to focus on Moore (who harassed no one).

[Davod]

.Do you really think Moore would still have lost if the Republican hierarchy had supported him from the moment he won the Primary?

[Davod]

"...It would be nice to have the Republicans on the side of due process --"

Now that Moore has gone.

[Extraneus]

I'm with you on Franken, Captain. Maybe his staying could restore some sanity by helping to delineate between boorishness and criminality. (The 85-year-old owner of the Carolina Panthers is forced to sell the team because he had an appreciative eye for the ladies on "jeans day"?)

Plus, Franken's next opponent could easily paint him as a lying hypocrite perv and take him out when he comes up for re-election.

[Janet 🚬]

Do not nominate weird candidates.

Who gets to define 'weird'?

Here's jimmyk's excellent comment -

Schlichter has a point, but it's a bit hard to generalize between Gillespie and Moore. Gillespie was more like Strange, but he lost (granted, very different electorate).

In any case, maybe the more important lesson, since there's no way to control who gets nominated, and I'm not sure I would want the RNC to have more control, is to STOP UNDERMINING NOMINEES. And stop buying into the leftist/MSM double standard that people with very conservative ideas are "weird," whereas those with far left ideas are well-meaning idealists.

Posted by: jimmyk | December 18, 2017 at 07:59 AM

[jimmyk on iPhone]

Landsburg, though a NeverTrumper, has some positive thing to say about the tax bill. And I agree with his take overall.

http://www.thebigquestions.com/2017/12/16/the-tax-bill/

[James D.]

I agree 1,000% with Ig @ 8:17

Moore was a weak candidate. Fine. But the reality is, as Ig, says, it was GOPe meddling (and, no doubt, Dem meddling) that helped him win the primary.

Us conservatives who need to not nominate "weird" candidates have no control over the actions of the national GOP establishment. We have no control over the behavior of Dems. We have no control over election laws that were passed years ago. And we have no control over local voters, who all have their own reasons for their votes.

So I think, in this particular case, Schlichter is completely, 100% off base.

[Janet 🚬]

I'm with you on Franken, Captain.

Me too.

[Momto2]

The worst news in that E. Erickson article is that he will now be on the radio *more* (implied)! Yuck! I already turn it off or switch stations if I hear his voice doing a commercial!

[Captain Hate]

Miss Marple, I just wish the NeverTrumps would use the example of hrtshpdbox, who fought the good fight, and then some, for Jeb and, when that didn't work out so well, got on, perhaps reluctantly at first, the DJT bandwagon and has been enjoying it ever since. I guess that's what Erickson calls being a "bandwagon Republican" and it has a large amount of accuracy in its description. It's also what we were demanded to do behind squishes like Mutt Rombley and look what that got us.

I know it must hurt to be proven wrong when your career is based on having people believe you're really really smart in a field, but continuing to double down isn't helpful to his future whether he knows it or not. And placing your hopes in the likes of weirdos like Egg McMuffin is just ignorant.

[Momto2]

Who gets to define 'weird'?

That's a great question, Janet!

[Captain Hate]

.Do you really think Moore would still have lost if the Republican hierarchy had supported him from the moment he won the Primary?

We have no way of knowing if it's true or not, but if you believe it's true, why have a party do anything in a campaign since it's impact is minimal at best.

[DebinGA]

"Moore took nearly 55 percent of the vote, rolling over Strange, who pulled in about 45 percent, according to results from Alabama’s Secretary of State" (WaPo) ... That's what allowing Dems to vote in an R primary gets you.
As for the meaning of "weird", I don't think Judge Moore defying the law re same sex marriage and an order to remove the huge monument to the 10 Commandments he'd installed in the courthouse rotunda in the dead of night is best described as "weird". It's "alarming" imo.

[Another Bob]

"... particularly if the current movement knocks off more members of the Congressional Black Caucus..."

As if the CBC would actually have an open mind?

[Captain Hate]

Want to get real upset?

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/12/15/prosecutor-investigators-didn-t-do-their-jobs-in-probe-police-killing-unarmed-australian-woman.html

[henry]

The accused judge just quit to focus on defending himself from the claims.

https://twitter.com/mattzap/status/942755637066457089

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Do any JOM attorneys have an opinion on the Trump transition vs GSA privilege kerfuffle?

[jimmyk]

IANAL, Ig, but from what I've read, one would need to look carefully at the contract between GSA and the transition team, and that a judge will probably have to decide. But I think the Trump team will have a good case that the e-mails were private and a warrant should have been necessary to snatch them.

[Janet 🚬]

Dems were defying the law on same sex marriage before the courts changed the definition of marriage.

And defying our immigration laws is cool for Democrats.
No 'weird' label for Dems.

[Robin....10 Square....]

Look, I’d be happy as a clam if Moore had won, but my god, the man said some stupid things and allowed his wife to open her mouth and say some more stupid things. I’m tired of defending loser (weird) candidates based on party. If I lived in Alabama, I would have held my nose and voted for him, but I wouldn’t have spent much time drumming up support.

Grassroots support is how candidates win. Sure, you can go out and pull the lever for your party, but are you going to beg your friends on social media to get out and vote? Are you going to volunteer a day to drive people to the polls?

I live in a closed primary state, which is the ONLY reason I am affiliated with a party. Funny how Democrat run states don’t have open primaries for fiddling with primaries. The RNC should be encouraging all states to close their primaries to party only.

[Another Bob]

Jimmy, I'm also fairly sure that nobody waived attorney-client privilege to use the .gov system.

Mueller seems to be implying that they had warrants, or the permission of the "account owners". Might they be assuming that some GSA holdover wad the "owner" of all the accounts?

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

A man who pays a doctor to cut his penis and testicles off is not only a woman but he has a right to force his neighbor to pay the doctor.
But Dems aren't weird.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

The claim is there was no expectation of privacy by using GSA equipment.

[Robin....10 Square....]

Net Neutrality is one of those issues I’ve had a hard time wrapping my head around, especially given which corporations support it and which don’t. This article makes the most sense to me because of the zero rating issue, which it explains quite well:

“In the United States, the FCC’s 2015 Open Internet rules, unlike the older 2010 Internet Order, did not explicitly ban zero-rating schemes or data caps, choosing to instead examine practices on a case-by-case basis. Zero-rating practices were nonetheless a hot topic in the Open Internet Proceeding. Because of its potential to prioritize certain types of traffic (thereby violating net-neutrality principles) and to favor incumbents who could pay for their services to be zero-rated, parties that supported a ban on paid and unpaid forms of zero-rating included civil rights organizations, the startup community, and public interest groups. Nick Grossman of Union Square Ventures filed a letter of ex parte with the FCC warning that even a zero-rating scheme that did not require a fee could still raise the costs of innovation, distort competitive markets, and encourage carriers to choose scarcity by reducing their data caps.”

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2016/02/why_activists_are_fighting_facebook_t_mobile_over_zero_rating.html

[Extraneus]

Sarah Palin's son arraigned after second domestic violence incident

[Robin....10 Square....]

And who benefitted? Facebook is one....

[narcisoyea]

Right pick the guy who put Richard jewel in jail, and let Eric Rudolph rampage for at learnt two more years?

[jimmyk]

The claim is there was no expectation of privacy by using GSA equipment.

Except that apparently the contract between the PTT and the GSA explicitly said otherwise, and that all contents were to be wiped from the GSA servers at the end of the transition.

[Another Bob]

"no expectation of privacy by using GSA equipment"

Wonderful. Let's force even more gubbmint officials onto gmail. That'll help bunches.

[jimmyk]

AB, I think the kind of 'privilege' being asserted is executive privilege, not lawyer-client. And while Trump was not President, apparently there is some precedent for the P-E to have EP.

[Appalled]

narc:

For the record, Jewell was never put in jail. (He was libeled by the media and the FBI.)

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

It is largely lawyer client privilege although executive privilege is also being invoked.

[Clarice Feldman]

Iggy, I think the evidence was illegally obtained and under the fruit of the poisonous tree potentially taints every SC prosecution. GSA was the holder, not the owner, of the material .The bank holds your records and cannot disclose them to others without a subpoena and notice to you. In that sense GSA was the holder, not the owner. But my spidey sense says Trump knew the stunt they had pulled just as he knew about the misuse of FISA court and materials.

[narcisoyea]

Shorthand, but you voted for him or did you vote nick Satan?

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

I see I am in the minority here, but that's ok. I found myself in the same position as President Trump. He supported Strange because he was the incumbent and had voted with him on every bill. When Strange lost, he supported the nominee. He even got the RNC to throw their support back into the mix, but it was too late to help.

What Moore did NOT do is make a credible case for himself, didn't have good spokespeople, and generally ran a crummy campaign. I think Trump had sympathy for him because he had also been the target of Gloria Allred's smear machine.

Moore was vulnerable to bogus charges like Allred made because he had set himself up as an arbiter of all that is morally correct. Guys who do that are vulnerable to people looking for an Elmer Gantry example, even though in most cases that's nothing but something in Hollywood's imagination.

The GOPe are poor strategists who don't understand the ruthlessness of democrats nor the will of their voters. In this case, McConnell thought that Strange would win the original election, and never saw that Moore would come in second instead of third. Once the run-off was bound to happen, instead of preparing Moore and giving him some counseling and extra staff who knew how to fight, they all ran away.

A variation of this tactic will be used whenever the dems think they can get away with it. If it's not sex, it will be drugs. Imagine the impact of an anti-drug candidate being accused of using cocaine and selling it 30 years ago. Imagine if physician candidates are accused of doing abortions after hours. Ex-military candidates will be accused of war crimes.

My position on Moore was this: I thought him a poor candidate and I was unenthusiastic about him. Once he got the nomination, I kept my opinions pretty much to myself as I didn't want to undermine him (the problem jimmyk so aptly alluded to).

Going forward, I suggest all candidates be vetted AND that the GOP realize that these last-minute attacks that I described are going to happen for almost all candidates.

[Janet 🚬]

I’m tired of defending loser (weird) candidates based on party.

Well I'm tired of defending Dem-lite candidates.
If I am willing to help & vote for "Romneycare" Romney....then I at least expect the Republican party to support candidates that are more socially conservative.

I voted for Corey Stewart in the Rep. Virginia primary (a loud, 2nd amendment supporting, stop illegal immigration guy)...but establishment Gillespie won.

I didn't tear down Gillespie.

[Robin....10 Square....]

One last thing and then I’ll shut up about it. The word is that Moore plans to run again in 2020. It would be much better for the party if he didn’t, and hopefully someone he respects will lay that out for him. Sometimes pride and vanity gets in the way of common sense. Moore running again would be due to the former and in no way improve Republicans’ chances for gaining that seat back.

I live among Democrats. I know ALL ABOUT their weird and their foibles.

[narcisoyea]

You never can tell, the fellow who came in 3rd in the gubernatorial primary, Bentley a for minister turned up a bad apple, same for promise keeper ensign, who paid off his mistress's whole family, but he was in charge of finances for the senate campaign.

[Captain Hate]

I don't have any problem with the reason Moore lost was he wasn't a very good candidate for subjective reasons. Some people are just easier to vote for than others; Reagan and Goldwater, for example. In all my railing about the GOPe, I'm not excusing Moore for not running a better campaign in terms of energizing his supporters.

[Robin....10 Square....]

The point of Schlictor’s essay was that we should try harder not to nominate lousy candidates. Moore was a lousy candidate. I kept my opinion to myself because it wasn’t my vote, but my goodness, we would be very foolish to not see the weakness of the candidate when we know we are fighting on TWO FRONTS - against Democrats at the face and the flanking GOPe to our left.

[Appalled]

narc:

Living in Georgia, I didn't vote for anyone, and Soros wouldn't bus me over for a 10 city voting tour.

[jimmyk]

Robin, then it's the responsibility of Alabama Republicans to produce a strong candidate to oppose Moore. And to fix their voting rules so that only Republicans can vote in the primary, if that's not the case now.

[Neo]

The New York Federal Reserve on Friday raised its estimate of U.S. gross domestic product growth for the fourth quarter of 2017 closer to 4 percent, based on revisions of prior data that suggested stronger economic activities.

The regional central bank's "Nowcast" model calculated the economy was expanding at an annualized pace of 3.98 percent in the fourth quarter, quicker than the 3.92 percent rate calculated a week ago.

... clearly, Barack Obama can take some credit for this. His efforts to hold-back the economy helped to set the launching pad for Trump MAGA.

[narcisoyea]

I point out the alternative, the fellow who was beaten by Bentley was hammered for his creationist views, and yet has been a congressman since 2013, he may run for that seat.

[Robin....10 Square....]

JimmyK, let’s hope they do.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--The point of Schlictor’s essay was that we should try harder not to nominate lousy candidates.--

The GOPe 'trying harder' is how we ended up with Moore.
How about the party leadership let the voters lead them for a change instead of trying to shove turds down our throats?
Moreover, how do you know who is a lousy candidate until they run a campaign? Moore seemed to be a good enough candidate to beat Strange and Brooks.
I understand Schichter's point and agree with it in principle, but am hard pressed to see how it can be practically applied.
"Weird" candidates will always occur. Question is what do you do with them; abandon them and insure a prog victory or work to get them elected?

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

I don't like open primaries either, but is there actual substantive evidence Dems were responsible for Moore's primary win?

[narcisoyea]

For all the kerfluffe over odonnell, the fellow who ran against the bearded Marxist lost at approximately the same percentage as the Dupont (copeland) and the Asian scientists, and the other long time senator from macho grand has issues like retraining order

[Robin....10 Square....]

Oh, don’t assume that I support the GOPe position in abandoning a nominee once the primaries are over. THAT was appalling. I just want voters recognizing that the is a two front war and there is a price to be paid for flipping off the establishment with a vocal opponent. Honey and bees....we can do that too.

[DebinGA]

Results of closed AL Dem primary: Doug Jones won 66% of votes, despite multiple challengers. My takeaway is that Jones winning big was foreseeable, leaving a pivotal number of Dems free to Operation Chaos the polarizing Moore.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

OK, but did they?

[Janet 🚬]

we should try harder not to nominate lousy candidates.

That usually means - Don't pick the guy that actually believes what he says he believes. Don't pick the guy that will actually speak up.

No thanks. We have done that for decades & look where we are. Marriage redefined, trans agenda, selling baby scalps for cash, open borders, green scams sucking us dry,...

The establishment "we" definitely thought Trump was a "lousy candidate".

[jimmyk]

Judge Kozinski retires over sexual "harassment" brouhaha. Seems to me his actions were even less egregious than Franken's. Anyway, glad Trump is in office to choose his successor.

[Clarice Feldman]

Ditto, jimmyk. Now to find a non-nutter in that Circuit.

[Jim Eagle]

Trying to catch up. Been busy installing new wifi enabled CO detectors and changing out an outside GFI outlet for the Christmas lights.

In Re, the Hartsfield airport power outage, I am surprised that they didn't have a HALON system installed to snuff any electrical fire out.

BTW, the new approach on grid outages (which this was not) is similar to the old football defense of bending but not breaking. As the outage begins the dispatchers start backing the grid out so as to have a viable grid once the origination cause is corrected.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/the-smarter-grid/learning-from-grid-failures-a-conversation-with-nicholas-abisamra

If you go to Spectrum article you will see a companion article about the $17 billion (yes billion) restoration of the Puerto Rico electric grid. This is what happens in Progland when you let corruption flourish.

[Captain Hate]

Federal Agents Provoked Nevada Rancher Standoff, Memo Says
BLM agent claims supervisor ran 'punitive and ego-driven' buildup at Cliven Bundy's ranch
-WSJ

Top. Men.
Posted by: Under Fire at December 18, 2017 09:35 AM (r9UYA)

What's the recourse for this when some bureaucratic asshole runs roughshod over the concept of good practices not putting citizens in the crosshairs? I'm tired of taxpayers being on the hook for shitheads like this, in case Bundy wins a judgement which he probably should, without having the ability to draw and quarter the persons responsible, financially and literally

[Jim Eagle]

CORRECTION: I know that HALON 1301 is banned but I am referring to any number of "clean agent" fire suppression systems. HALON is my default designation for that.

[henry]

How cute, the UN thinks it can tell us whether to recognize Jerusalem. France and UK to volte with Palis.

https://twitter.com/KentUNCBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

[Extraneus]

Liberal Hack Tamara Holder BREAKS FOX News Lawsuit Confidentiality Agreement After Collecting $2.5 Million

[narciso]

But O'Donnell was an avowed Christian, there is the lesson. Angle won the primary because the establishment candidate started talking about bartering chickens for health care or words to that effect.

Rove was caught in a similar perjury trap to Flynn but his very able atty was allowed to revise his remarks yet he probably was crowing all over flynn's mizfortune.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Headlines on Drudge right now, with a good picture of the President:

OPTIMISM SOAR

STOCKS ROAR

GDP FOUR

[narciso]

Well London is already IslamabAd east, Paris nearly the casbah eauivalent.

[Beasts of England]

Don't forget McTurtle questioned whether he'd seat Moore in the Senate. And don't forget that Shelby said he didn't (absentee) vote for him - and Shelby's words were used ad nauseam in Jones' ads the week before the election.

Please remember that Alabama is a very traditional state. Many here - particularly the elderly - still respect our institutions and their leaders. Had Shelby and McConnell kept thier pie holes closed, Moore would have won.

[narciso]

Wasn't she jesses gal or was that an unfounded rumor.

[Captain Hate]

Sharron Angle was a worse case than COD because she's had a successful political life before and after Top Men shortsheeted her against the Searchlight Exercise Band Expert. You'd think for the number of times they're lambasted for being anti wimmenz they'd tell geniuses like Rove to shove their whiteboards.

[Captain Hate]

The establishment "we" definitely thought Trump was a "lousy candidate".

How many times did we read the Bill Kristols whining before November that we nominated the only person who would lose to the unlikeable Curb Dive when we here were almost all thinking "no, the guy/woman I initially supported probably would wilt under the MFM barrage"? I know I felt that way about Cruz. DJT, for all of the things which made him a caricature of a candidate, understood that citizens were tired of business as usual mutts and understood media well enough to mobilize the previously dispirited base behind him with that message. It's still the most amazing political occurrence of my lifetime and is reaping outstanding results.

[Captain Hate]

Here you go, narc:

http://www.usasurvival.org/home/ck05.17-1.12.html#axzz51d5fUW5i

[Captain Hate]

Not sure why a gratuitous shot at Tomi Lahren was necessary but otherwise this skewering of the demented subject is bang spot on:

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/454701/jennifer-rubin-trump-obsession-mindless-opponent

[Clarice Feldman]

Like we need NR to tell us Jen Rubin is insane.

[GUS]

Patterico is Ericksons butt buddy.

[henry]

Amtrak derailed onto highway in Olympia WA.

https://twitter.com/CNBCnow/status/942793121376563201

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Captain Hate,

Being as how you were the first person I ever heard use the nickname "Pope Che," I am here to report that one of my friends heard that term used at the local YMCA by a guy who is friends with her husband.

Well done!

[Clarice Feldman]

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/239475
Trump new policy re Israel--because he's Hitler, amiright?

[Appalled]

Clarice:

Maybe Jen Rubin needs NR to tell her that her robotic oppositionism is a problem. I mean, a genuine conservative ought to at least find Trump's stances on North Korea and Jerusalem liberating from an elite do nothing consensus.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

http://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/21804776/john-skipper-resigns-espn-president

Substance addiction, which one Twitter guy says might explain the direction ESPN has taken over the last few years.

[Tom W]

DebinGA,

This was the first year in Alabama that voters who voted in the Democrat primary were not allowed to vote in the Republican runoff. That didn't stop Democrats from voting in the runoff, only those who voted in the Democrat primary. I know some who held off voting in the Democrat primary just so they could help nominate Roy Moore.

Democrats put our recently ousted Governor in office by voting for him in the Republican runoff instead of the better candidate, who was strongly opposed by the teachers union. The Democrat candidate was the former head of the Alabama Education Association.

[GUS]

Yes Trump is not CONSERVATIVE, that's why LIBTARDS like him so much.
Erickson is a wannabee king maker. His man RICK PERRY is the real Conservative.
As for Jen Rubin. Who the FUCK is Jen Rubin, and why do I care?

[henry]

For fans of asset forfeiture, the police don't follow the law:

http://www.maciverinstitute.com/2017/12/did-state-patrol-follow-wisconsins-civil-asset-forfeiture-law/

[Sue]

A white 17 year old boy shot and killed a black 18 year old boy yesterday in my town. I'm hoping BLM stays the hell away from here.

[glasater]

Here in Washington state we had open primaries forever until I think it was about a decade or so ago a lawsuit was brought against this system.

Then our Sec of State Sam Reed an R but a squish jumped through all kinds of hoops to make our primary voting system better. Rs in this state have lost ground ever since.

[rse]

jib--ga power is quite the good ole boy network and the airport crony system is notorious so my guess is no one thought of this in the way a private vendor worried about keeping a contract with a desired client would have.

One of my neighbors was the on-staff physician at that small city of 27,000 employees for a while and that place is run as a lucrative fiefdom.

I also understand that the big airline hq'd in atl now keeps jets at two area airports for its exec's to get around. Few seem to really regard passengers as customers. Like healthcare too often, the customer is simply the excuse for an existing system of employment that needs revenue to sustain it and its perks.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

This is Patrick Madrid, noted Catholic apologist, noticing that the Vatican Nativity is bizarre. I debated whether to tell him that "This is what you get with Pope Che" but I didn't want to get on his ban list.

https://twitter.com/patrickmadrid/status/941083134841556992

[Beasts of England]

And speaking of Alabama, Avery Johnson was just spotted at the Space and Rocket Center. He's in town for tomorrow night's basketball game versus Mercer, which - wait for it - Beasts will actually be attending. Roll Tide!!