Russian Spies Were Actually Spying?!?

Breakthrough stuff - Russian spies may have been operating in the US for years. Fortunately, Mueller is on it, and he may yet find some link to Trump. The Resistance is Keeping Hope Alive!

And speaking of keeping those candles burning, David Ignatius of the WaPo assures us that the reputation of the FBI is emphatically NOT in tatters and sure, it was George Papdapoulos talking to an Australian diplomat that ignited the Russian collusion investigation, not that tedious Steele dossier.

Sure, whatever. For my money, Trump made many Russian contacts hosting Miss Universe in Moscow and selling high-end flight capital real estate to Russian oligarchs. Don Jr. was also someone the Russians were able to locate, not to mention one-time campaign head Paul Manafort. But if Ignatius wants to pretend to believe that despite a wealth of current contacts the Trump campaign would coordinate surely-embarrassing possibly illegal collusion with the Russians through a guy who had no prior connection to the Trump campaign or anyone in it, working on the periphery out in London well, good for him. And good for me, since I have some Bitcoin I would like to sell him.

ERRATA: Readers with elephantine memories will recall the excitable but not always reliable Buzzfeed reporter Jason Leopold from the Plame days.

Comments

[Matt - deplore me if you must]

First!

[Thomas Collins]

https://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/1594035229/ref=la_B001HMOKVU_1_1/140-2813535-6944561?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1516213288&sr=1-1

The problem for President Trump and his family and associates is illustrated by the book reviewed at the above link. Could Mueller find enough evidence to indict Trump on Russian related crimes (if not "collusional", financial)? Of course he can! Our system is now so corrupt the federal prosecutors can charge virtually anyone they want. Thus, amassing a nuclear arsenal of evidence against Clinton, Obama, Wasserman-Schultz et al becomes crucial. Say what you want about Senator Graham, but it seems to me he understands this (Grassley has long understood this, I think).

What is playing out is a resistance movement using the establishment media and criminal law as weapons. I just hope the Duke and Dukers realize that if Trump is brought down, the Duke and Dukers are next.

There is no grand Trump plan with plants inside the resistance. Hopefully, there will be Machiavellian savvy in combating this. There wasn't at the beginning of President Trump's administration, but Trump is a fast learner.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Thomas Collins,

"There is no grand Trump plan with plants inside the resistance."

You know this, how? This is the same error that Extraneus accuses Sundance of making. You believe that, but you don't KNOW it.

[GUS]

RUSSIAN SPIES????? pffffffft.
We've got BOWE and CHELSEA walking free.
In fact, the American tax payer, paid for Manning's hormone "therapy".

It's like changing BORIS BADENOV into NATASHA, at the AMERICAN tax payers expense.

[Momto2]

Oops - posted on old thread....

Any guy that spends as much time on his tan and his hair as the Flake obviously has some security issues.

Speaking of men who love mirrors....certain things about him remind me of John Edwards...What do you think?

[narcisoyea]

Why would they spend money after the election, how do they think operations are paid for in any country.

[GUS]

Comey, Lynch, Ohr, his wife, McCabe, Strzok, and Page, would all be candidates for insiders having a
TRUMP PLAN (whether grand or just an insurance policy). The CFPB kerfuffle would also indicate, that the FULL COMMIE has a game plan to disrupt the PRESIDENT.

[GUS]

The DOSSIER will be in the FISA applications.
Reading the DOSSIER and INFO GARNERED from RUSSIANS by paying them CA$H.....HOW COULD ANY PROFESSIONAL law enforcement person, not laugh out loud and scoff at the DOSSIER. Or at least get off their fat asses, or in Page and Strzok's case, some motel 6 bed, and FACT CHECK the shit.
This WAPO dude is a fuxstix.
BTW, the WAPO is a SHIT HOLE.

[narcisoyea]

If they expect us to believe they paid for the hack after the election, then there is a reason gubarev is going to take Ben Smiths office.

[Extraneus]

Interior Department tells national park advisers: Good riddance

The Interior Department said Wednesday it welcomes the mass resignation of nearly all members of a key National Park Service advisory panel, saying it soon will appoint new members and hold a meeting with Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke.

Interior spokeswoman Heather Swift accused some of the panel members of choosing to ignore sexual harassment while praising a repeat offender of ethics violations in expressing the agency's praise for the departures.

“We welcome their resignations and would expect nothing less than quitting from members who found it convenient to turn a blind eye to women being sexually harassed at National Parks and praise a man as 'inspiring' who had been blasted by the inspector general for ethics and management failures, all while taking credit for the extensive work of private companies during the NPS centennial celebration," Swift said in a statement to the Washington Examiner.

[Kevlar Kid]

Mueller can make his move once he's decided what it's going to be. The President will foil it and will do so quite simply because Swiss cheese comes with holes. Such is the law.

Having said that, POTUS is the most powerful man in the known universe and has lived in understudy to this role for a long time--- but not as a pantload elected official.

POTUS knows things. He OWNS his own gunpowder. And it is in no danger of getting wet. He also masters the Media Message daily with his base growing with his boldness in calling out the "Boars in Brassieres" of the MFM.

The tide is turning. And make no mistake, when it comes to Mueller's chicanery, POTUS *is not* poodjie woodjie aint gonna boogie Boosh.

[daddy]

Good Morning!

Having my first cup of coffee and I see that
the DOW is flirting with 26,060!

[GUS]

Kev, one more time, WHAT BRAND and size MAGNESIUM do you buy.

PLEASE.

[Extraneus]

What is with this dude?

Trey Gowdy slams Steve Bannon for helping people write books, but dodging House questions

[jimmyk]

Apple to pay $38B in taxes on repatriated funds.

That will build a pretty big wall!

[jimmyk]

And I'm sure Twitter wouldn't let it appear on its "Trending" list, but #ManginaCory is going strong.

[glenda]

So, Ignatius, Kristoff, (insert any other left blatant Baghdad Bob or Tokyo Rose)..don't have a single " free speech" cell in their propagandists' mind, or immunity or protection from those pesky 702 "about inquiries", yet, they continually speculate, twist words to siphon their platform of public communication--to conform to a brave new world "shakedown" .

And insert epithets against any who don't follow the left's progressive decay of individual free will Or those pesky little notions of : Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness" ...or "All men are created equal" "Inalienable rights"
OF, BY AND FOR THE PEOPLE ...

What all nevertrumper media, politicians, swamp-dwellers have in common:
Hate, Envy, Fear, Greed and disdain for anyone WOKE to their failed ideas, policies and personal behaviors .
Trump is forcing accountability for all the resistance to changes needed, and is revealing the cowards and collaborators.

[Jim Eagle]

From the Wayback Machine:

How long are we going to put up with this?

"Most likely until Jan 20, 2017, unfortunately. Unless we elect veto-proof R majorities in both the House and Senate this November, or some Dems get scared and vote with Rs.

One thing we've learned from this is that there is no legal means of stopping a lawless President except by impeachment."

Can you guess who answered the question and when?

Every time I exit JOM and then re-enter I get a Wayback page and this is the first comment.

[Extraneus]

SCOTTeVEST CEO Says He Advertises on FOX News Because Their Viewers “Gullible” and “F*cking Idiots”

[Rocco]

TM, HODL!

[henry]

Never heard of ScotteVest.

[Ralph L]

Both stopped being their best about the time Lennon died.
In fact, Lennon started to stink.

[Neo]

former Russian ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak, received $120,000 ten days after the election of Donald Trump

Seems obvious. The ambassador won a bet with George Soros.

[Patrick R. Sullivan]

Jason Leopold convinced Paul Krugman that then Army Sec'y Thomas White was engaging in stock fraud over Enron (General White had retired from the Army to take a logistics position with Enron). Which turned out to be easily disproven, using Leopold's own evidence.

Krugman's editors made him apologize, after Salon magazine admitted Leopold was unreliable (to say the least). One of my claims to internet fame was that I predicted, to Brad DeLong, that Krugman was going to be sorry. When it all exploded in Paul's face, DeLong was big enough to admit, in a blogpost headline that I'd been right.

Then Leopold showed up at Semi-Daily Journal to argue with me. I was supposedly part of the vast right wing conspiracy to destroy poor ol' Jason. Turned out that Jason was, himself, a convicted felon and drug addict. Quite amusing. I remember it well, as Maurice Chevalier was wont to sing.

[sbw]

Gus, On Amazon: Mother Earth Minerals Angstrom Minerals, Magnesium-8 ozs. Sold by: SpiritualNutrients

[anonamom]

My husband, the only guy in my class smarter than I, was not at all impressed with the very little he could find on KK's magnesium:

https://www.amazon.com/Mother-Earth-Minerals-Angstrom-Magnesium-8/dp/B004PJIP2W/ref=sr_1_1_s_it?s=hpc&ie=UTF8&qid=1516219807&sr=1-1&keywords=mother+earth+magnesium

as far a what is even the dose, or absorption, so he
did a massive amount of research, and has purchased this for his use:

https://www.amazon.com/Doctors-Best-Absorption-Magnesium-Glycinate/dp/B000BD0RT0/ref=sr_1_sc_1_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1516219714&sr=8-1-spell&keywords=doctors+best+highly+absorbtion+magnesium+100%25

[anonamom]

oops!
I forgot the ;-) after the only guy in my class smarter than I!!
I beg your pardon.

[Extraneus]

Never heard of ScotteVest.

Me neither. Maybe it's bogus. If not, the guy's insane for posting that. The Gateway piece says the post has been deleted.

[anonamom]

He is "smarter", but I "know more."
Takes both kinds.

[Extraneus]

Dow up over 300, currently at around 26,100.

What's next, daddy? Have we covered lions or tigers yet?

[Jim Eagle]

In Re: Shit-Holes.

I am watching the Chelsea v. Norwich replay in the League Cup, live from Stamford Bridge, Chelsea. On my Chelsea Football app. there is a chat section where you are asked to post the location where you are watching the game and your predicted score.

So far, 155 comments and at least 95% of them are from every shit-hole in Africa - Nigeria, Ghana, Zimbabe, SA, Namibia, Tanzania, Zaire, etc.

So, we need to modify shit-hole to note you can one watch TV and either get cable or streaming devices.

Next thing you know they'll tell us they have washing machines to clean the shit off their clothes.

[Thomas Collins]

MM, at the level of KNOW, as you put it, noone has the level of knowledge that this is a grand plan with plants, or that grand plan/plants theory is wrong. The evidence, however suggests that grand plan with plants is highly unlikely. First of all, President Trump not immediately firing Comey, but having conversations with him including conversations about Flynn, suggests that Trump when he started as POTUS was somewhat naïve about the resistance he would be facing. Second, the notion that Mueller, an inside operative if there ever was one, and his assistants, more establishment insiders, would actually be working for Trump suggests wishful thinking on the part of those asserting that view. Third, if there are inside operatives, why haven't there been inside leaks combating the Russian collusion/Papadopolous-Australia meme? The information that has come out has come out due to the normal investigative process. Fourth, in regard to the normal investigative process, if these inside operatives are biding their time while collecting irrefutable evidence, it looks as if the normal investigative processes, such as the IG report, are going to beat them to it. Given the ongoing financial burden on those subject to Mueller's investigation, it seems that if there are plants, they are not growing quickly enough. Fifth, the idea that Flynn would subject himself to what he has faced as part of some grand plan strains common sense knowledge of human nature. If Flynn were a plant, he wouldn't be facing sentencing.

It is more than a belief that there is no grand plan. I think the course of events is more in line with a resistance and fighting back than a grand plan. People are free to argue otherwise. But to dismiss my arguments as simply "belief" leads me to conclude that wishful thinking may be the center of gravity of the grand plant/plant aficionados (unless one thinks that part of grand strategy is subjecting oneself to criminal prosecution or acting in a way to facilitate a special counsel investigation sucking up time and money, and holding forth the possibility of criminal prosecution).

Now, to say there is no grand plan or plants is not to deny that Trump has supporters in the intelligence community, and is not to deny that there are those in Congress who, despite having differences with Trump, will pursue misconduct by the resistance as strongly as the resistance in trying to unseat Trump (Graham comes to mind in this regard). To say there is no grand plan is simply to apply common sense to what we know happened. For example, the set of circumstances resulting in the appointment of a special counsel, far from being suggestive of a grand plan, is suggestive that the resistance knows what it is doing in its efforts to unseat Trump. The pushback, such as we have seen with folks such as Graham and Nunes, is not suggestive of a grand plan, but a spirited defense.

Let me leave my friends who are grand plan/plant aficionados with one final thought. I have seen arguments here that Flynn is part of the grand plan. If that's the case, when is the Perry Mason ending coming in which Flynn avoids sentencing and is exonerated? Do you really think Flynn has exposed himself to criminal prosecution as part of a plan?

[Clarice Feldman]

I remember we had a discussion on NAC but I cannot remember what the substance was.

[Clarice Feldman]

Scottevest makes clothing for travelers with all sorts of hidden pockets to hold things.

[Davod]

"What I Learned in the Peace Corps in Africa: Trump Is Right"

"Three weeks after college, I flew to Senegal, West Africa, to run a community center in a rural town. Life was placid, with no danger, except to your health. That danger was considerable, because it was, in the words of the Peace Corps doctor, "a fecalized environment."

In plain English: s--- is everywhere. People defecate on the open ground, and the feces is blown with the dust – onto you, your clothes, your food, the water. He warned us the first day of training: do not even touch water. Human feces carries parasites that bore through your skin and cause organ failure.

Never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined that a few decades later, liberals would be pushing the lie that Western civilization is no better than a third-world country. Or would teach two generations of our kids that loving your own culture and wanting to preserve it are racism..."

The above is just the start.

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/01/what_i_learned_in_peace_corps_in_africa_trump_is_right.html#ixzz54TYSctpP

"

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/01/what_i_learned_in_peace_corps_in_africa_trump_is_right.html#ixzz54TY6Hq93

[Kevlar Kid]

GUS:

Mother Earth Minerals
3 oz bottles

order direct:
1-866-989-9876
meminerals.com

happy trails, caballero!

Kev

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

I am so glad they are awarding the Congressional Gold Medal to Bob Dole. I am watching the ceremony on Fox.

[Kevlar Kid]

Oh no! Not Liver again.

Just a brief follow on.

To be sustained, diabetic recovery requires concerted efforts to subvert a body's tendency to build insulin resistance.

For the AB+ blood type, the youngest on earth, it is prone to insulin resistance from meat consumption.

So, be liver a worthy preventive measure against recurring infection (we ate it once a month as kids), it creates risk in the bloodstream of a different kind.

Just got off the phone with my recovery doctor. Strategic substitute: lentils, 4 oz a week. Veganics. This is cooked food. I was 98% raw. So will be re-callibrating.

Raw foods stimulate vital organ purging. Lord knows how much staph and strep have been downing boat drinks in my liver, kidneys, and bladders over these decades of free-wheelin livin.

As I remount for this next 18 month campaign I've got to stay on top of the bowel cleansing lest things get reabsorbed. It feels different looking at the graveyard and not whistling---- such is this recovery program. I have acquaintances that are dying from infections. Of course these are given different pharma-based names.

May I live longer than my Abuelita....97 God Bless Her. Now what could I do with 35 more strong years?

Chow!

[Kevlar Kid]

anonamom- "My husband, the only guy in my class smarter than I, was not at all impressed with the very little he could find on KK's magnesium:"

I take the same shit made by the same company. Pardon my ommission of the "angstrom".

Mother Earth Minerals. Details provided above.

[Kevlar Kid]

Davod:

I lost three classmates from college who went off to the Peace Corps: Togo, Mali, and Chad.

Causes of death were all liver failure "of unknown causes".

My niece nearly died in India this past summer from a water-related incident.

My Dad used to say the difference between being dirt poor in Powell Wyoming and dirt poor in rural Chihuahua Mexico is that you weren't forced to drink the water your waste went into.

It is the basic measure of affluence.

[JimNorCal]

An email from my local library makes me wonder: could I get free tax prep as an illegal using someone else's Tax ID? (Asking for a friend). (I assume I am overly suspicious)

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[Neo]

he case of Colin Kaepernick
Height: 6 feet, 4 inches
Weight: 230 pounds

His BMI is 28, in the Overweight category

[Neo]

The case of Hillary Clinton
Height: 5 feet, 7 inches
Weight: 143.3 pounds yeah right

Her BMI is 22.4, in the Normal category

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Jack Posobiec
🇺🇸
‏Verified account @JackPosobiec
4m4 minutes ago

If 94-year old Bob Dole can stand for the anthem so can everyone else

[Davod]

RE. BMI. When I was in the RAAF in the early 80s, they moved to using BMI as a measure of fitness. My boss was as wiry as they come. He ran and exercised daily. One day he came back from medical cursing. They pegged him as overweight. He was not a happy camper.

[Captain Hate]

Weight: 143.3 pounds yeah right

Nobody can possibly believe that.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

There is no way Hillary weighs 143 pounds.

No way.

[Kevlar Kid]

JiB-- excellent point.

Durable goods like washing machines and clay pipe to carry potable water from disinfecting plants don't attract capital spending like micro-fiber optics and sattelite gizmometries.

The explosion of cellular phone usage and mobile devices might suggest some kind of advance in places such as you mentioned. But that is the liberal wish bubble personified.

"We're all connected now." Sheepers creepers I fuckin hope not. My agua is free of all human disease signatures and birth control residue.

Go Jags!

Kev

[Ralph L]

It is the basic measure of affluence.

And effluence.

[Kevlar Kid]

HamRod the Clintoona is like a pot-bellied stove: she belches exhaust, is round, but there any connection to stability and solidity ends.

[daddy]

Thanks for the Queen Tut link, Miss Marple. Was there ever a kid that didn't love the Ancient Egyptians? I doubt it, and I think if we were to take a worldwide poll the Ancient Egyptians would top the list as most interesting and most cool of all the ancient Civilizations.

Number 2 I'd probably rate as the Mayans.

[lyle]

I believe she only weighs 143 pounds. From the waist down.

[Jim Eagle]

Biggest mistake people make when visiting a "shit-hole" is not drinking the water but using ice with their bottled water or liquor.

Now where do you think the water for the ice comes from?

Many a dystentary or cholera is/was directly attributable to ice not water.

In parts of Brazil and Argentina I never used the local water or ice. You can never be too careful. Also, if using bottled water you need to be careful. Sometimes they will just pour their unsanitized water in the bottle and sell it. Always check the cap for a seal.

[Kevlar Kid]

HamRod Clintoona's *WEIGHT*....

I'll use my livestock auctioneering background to suggest that Bovina Grandota tips the scales at 202.

She may have a belly, a turnip shape, and two thighs that are no longer capable of allowing free passage to each other. But that is not the measure of the beast.

Back fat, the choke fat around the neck, and no visible wrist joint (hence she is never in short sleeves and uses drapery fabric to clothe herself) all suggest the needle has gone beyond the 200 mark and is rising. Her WODKA consumption is no help neither. (sic)

[daddy]

143 pounds of hot love.

[Kevlar Kid]

"And effluence.

I love servin up softballs, Ralph! ;)

[Jim Eagle]

My personal trainer a few years back told me that BMI is terrible indicator of fitness and fat::body ratio. Example would be a guy like Schwartznegger in his prime. Weighed close to 260 but it was all muscle. He would have had a sky high BMI.

Same with Davod's old boss.

[Kevlar Kid]

When the Body Mass Index came into schools in the early 80s in rural southern Illinois (where we were farmin at the time), my kids were listed as hopelessly obese. My daughter was hitting her chub stage and my younger son was a bean pole. Boy did that mess them up. Had something to do with lunch menus. Cockbags in the name of "research."

[narciso]

He didn't know there were several turtle layers but you had to remove one player Yates, similarly rogers likely told him of the intercept but who ordered it, heck we still don't know.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

That was a beautiful speech President Trump gave in recognition of Senator Dole.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

daddy,

Just think. That picture of Bill and Hill was released with the idea of showing them acting romantic, and they apparently thought they looked good! Boggles the mind.

My eyes detect lumpiness in those thighs, and that picture was taken quite some time ago. I can only imagine what they look like now, but I am not going to dwell on it.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

After delivering his tribute to Bob Dole, President Trump kissed him on the forehead. Remarkably touching scene.

[Ralph L]

After that staged photo, Bill was seen arranging rocks in a cross on the sand, thanking God that it was over.

[Davod]

The Spectacle Blog, Must See Churchill, by R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR.

Tyrell's review includes this factual interaction with 'The common man'

"Winston was walking from Admiralty House across Horse Guards to a gate that leads to Number 10. A group of construction workers saw him and cheered. Winston became very agitated and could not unlock the gate. His aide, I believe it was Anthony Eden, asked him why he was so troubled. The new Prime Minister answered with tears in his eyes, “Because I can’t help them.” His darkest hour was that dark.

Even if you rarely go to the movies go to this one."

https://spectator.org/must-see-churchill/

[mike in houston]

Way back in the early 50's we were living in Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia (my dad worked for Aramco) my mom went over to Bahrain to do some shopping. While there she picked up some fresh grapefruit. Needless to say that as they were sold by weight those rascally Arabs had injected them with water to make them heavier. It took many months for my mom to get over amoebic dysentery

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

President Trump's speech at the award ceremony:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=BJ3ra1NhFkY

[jimmyk on iPhone]

Wow, would not have recognized Dole in that pic. He's really aged.

My parents went to Mexico in the 50s, both almost died from one thing or another: Dad got hepatitis, Mom got dysentery. They never went back for about 40 years.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

http://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/369112-trumps-first-year-in-office-was-the-year-of-the-woman?rnd=1516118031

[daddy]

Kelli Ward on with Melissa Frances on FOX calling Flake despicable. Says it is unbelievable and unacceptable, and she calls on everyone running for his Senate seat to call Flake out.

Says her constituents want a Wall built, they want E-verify, they want border security, and dealing with Obama's un-Constitutional DACA Executive order should be something we deal with afterward.
---------------------
What do you guys think Trump has scheduled if the Government shuts down?

My guess is that Trump has a plan for implementing how to run things if the Government is shut down. He may not want the Government to shut down, but I think it is a situation he can push to some advantage, especially since so many people hate the Government.

Since IIRC from listening to Mark Levin during Government shutdowns in the past, only about 20-30% of Government actually gets shut down, I'd be interested in what you guys think Trump can do to make the best of a shutdown. Any ideas?

[daddy]

Off to work. Bye!

[anonamom]

jiminNJ--thank you for your posts in the wee hours of this morning.
I so appreciate your sharing and insight on the topics you do.

My city has made a concerted effort at supplying housing via a number of different charitable groups as well as local governance for the homeless, with targeted help to follow the shelter, and we are having good results with that.
Your posts reinforce my inclination to support that as a meaningful intervention.

[boris]

Trump can do to make the best of a shutdown

Get private sector patriotic volunteers to fill in for missing civil servant positions, especially those that deal with the public.

Make the public sector unions scream bloody murder.

Yeah ...

[Extraneus]

There is no way Hillary weighs 143 pounds.

One forty three point three, MM.

[Neo]

Obama:

Why can't that work come home? Obama asked.

Jobs' reply was unambiguous. "Those jobs aren't coming back," he said, according to another dinner guest.

The president's question touched upon a central conviction at Apple. It isn't just that workers are cheaper abroad. Rather, Apple's executives believe the vast scale of overseas factories as well as the flexibility, diligence and industrial skills of foreign workers have so outpaced their U.S. counterparts that "Made in the USA" is no longer a viable option for most Apple products.

Trump:

The headline from Apple is that it will "contribute" $350 billion to the U.S. economy over the next five years, although it's unclear exactly how the company came to that number.

But the company promised to create 20,000 new jobs and a new campus thanks, in part, to the prospect of tax reform.

It anticipates a $38 billion tax bill for repatriated cash, as a result of the new tax bill. This implies it will bring back virtually all of its $250 billion in overseas cash.

Apple also said it would spend over $30 billion in capital expenditures over the next five years. About $10 billion in capital expenditures will be investments in U.S. data centers, the company said.

[Extraneus]

I'd bet you're right, daddy. Obama fenced off the national parks. Trump won't do that, but the Planned Parenthood funding will probably be cut off.

[Extraneus]

He could also NOT reimburse federal workers for time not worked. They won't be rooting for the next Dem-engineered shutdown after that.

[Jim Eagle]

You can bet one thing: The Vietnam Wall and WW2 memorials won't be barricaded to keep the honor flights out. I expect Zinke will be there on horse back personally to keep them open. Same with Mt. Vernon and other DC memorials.

It will be a stark contrast to the way Zippy handled itl

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

This is from the guy who played J/ Peterman and currently is the host of the Wesrminster Dog Show:

ohn O'Hurley
🎄
❄️
☃️
‏Verified account @ImJohnOHurley
6m6 minutes ago

Gosh .... what a mess we are in with the new tax cuts ... what will we do with $350B repatriated and 20k new jobs... ? Apple to build 2nd campus, hire 20,000 in $350B pledge #thankGodforTrump

[Jim Eagle]

Off with Frederick to Youth Court. He has Jury duty:)

Last week it was a young (14y.o.) hispanic drug dealer. Couldn't speak English (most likely an illegal or part of a chain). Don't know what this week's case(s) will be but its 2+hours of citizenship.

[Davod]

The people of DC will love Trump if he keeps the tourist attractions open. Well. Maybe love is a little bit over the top.

[Extraneus]

Welp, I just set up my new Echo Show and it's pretty sweet. The so-called "smart speaker" market includes products from Google and Apple, but none of those have display screens. Echo Show has a pretty nice one, and Echo Spot has a small round one. Both make the products far more appealing, to me at least. The can play videos, show recipes, lyrics to music that's playing, etc.

Both have the capability to pair with a bluetooth speaker, so "Alexa, play Virgil Fox's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" or "Alexa, play Joe Satriani's Souls of Distortion" is all it takes to have your house rocking to doom or destruction.

[Captain Hate]

Restart the waterworks:

https://mobile.twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/953705613774630912

[anonamom]

Unless HRC is 5'0", she weighs, at a minimum, 165, and I'm guessing well north of that.

[anonamom]

Her BMI is at least 34.
She is unquestionably obese--and not by a pound, like POTUS may be.

And I am telling you, something else is going on. People who fall flat out like she did on 9/11 do NOT GO HOME when that happens unless they have a long standing diagnosis of that kind of stuff, it happens regularly, and there is a treatment plan.

The first event of that kind of stuff sends you to an ER!

Just sayin'

[Threadkiller]

After delivering his tribute to Bob Dole, President Trump kissed him on the forehead.

Things germaphobes do...

[Dave (in MA)]

https://www.scottevest.com/pages/our-response-to-scott-comments.shtml

The recent offensive and inexcusable social media post by Scott Jordan does not reflect the views of SCOTTeVEST. In 2017, Mr. Jordan stepped down from the management of SCOTTeVEST and he is not involved in our daily operations.

We are extremely sorry for his unacceptable comments. Mr. Jordan’s post was impulsive and inappropriate for too many reasons to list, and rightfully offended so many people.

We strongly disagree with the views expressed by Mr. Jordan.

[Buckeye]

Also, if using bottled water you need to be careful. Sometimes they will just pour their unsanitized water in the bottle and sell it. Always check the cap for a seal.

SOP in China. NEVER buy a bottle on the street.

Only ice I have had in Brazil was in the bar at the Copocabana hotel.

[lyle]

I'm with Kev: she's two bills. Easy. I'm 6', 195 and her ass is twice as wide as mine.

[JimNorCal]

If they shut down govt I hope the Senate goes out of session so that PDJT can make recess appointments.

Jeez, Dems are psycho but can't the Repub Senators get a clue?

[lyle]

Rhetorical question, JNC.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Reminder: General John Kelly will be interviewed live on Brett Baier's program, which begins at 6:00.

[lyle]

Must be killin' Tim Cook to give Trump moar winnin'.

[Davod]

"Mr. Jordan stepped down from the management of SCOTTeVEST"

Maybe Mr. Jordan was trying to screw with SCOTTeVEST's sales.

[Dave (in MA)]

I think if you got one of those old balancing scales and you put Trump on one side and Hillary plus whatever her daily wine intake is on the other side, they'd balance out.

[henry]

Davod, given the corporate response from ScotteVest, this may be a brilliant viral marketing ploy.

Yes, I'm that jaded.

[henry]

I believe Hillary is 143. Kilos.

[Extraneus]

this may be a brilliant viral marketing ploy.

Interesting, henry. They may have a particularly talented, devious and clever person there. Should we assume it's a man? If so, get that guy an interview with Trump.

[Kevlar Kid]

Is the "shutdown" CONSTITUTIONAL or a Democrat regulatory construct?

An end run would be possible if it's regulatory.

DACA is CACA.

[anonamom]

Hoping that a Magnesium question is not too far off topic:
Is there any record that it helps with muscle cramps?

Any info appreciated.

Posted by: art in newport

Art, magnesium can help muscle cramps, big time.

[Kevlar Kid]

POTUS needs to bring junior congressional leaders together and paint the picture for them.

DACA may be a bridge too far. But it might well be the last hurrah for the "Lion of the Senate's" immigration legacy.

Start solving the problem by cutting the nacho baby problem out at its core:

"If Congress determines that a solution can be achieved by defining a single word, they might look at other areas where this would be a useful technique. For example, the definition of "natural born" in the Fourteenth Amendment has already been kicked back to Congress by SCOTUS to define. It should be defined as an individual born in the USA or territories of at least one parent who is a U.S. citizen or of two parents who are both legal residents of the USA. This will end the concept of "anchor babies" as a means of invading the USA."

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/01/end_judicial_tyranny_with_one_single_word.html#ixzz54UHEdynX
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