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At least one of these headlines looks wrong. Here is ABC News from last November:

Trump says he agrees with US intelligence community that Russia meddled in election

And from Resistance HQ:

Indictment Makes Trump's Hoax Claim Harder To Sell

Although The Resistance will remain mystified this Gordian Knot can be cut by acknowledging that Trump has (mostly) claimed that the charge of Trump collusion with Russia is a hoax; he was a reluctant convert to the Russian meddling charge. But we knew that. Here is CNBC with a litany of Trump's claims.

CUE THE WORLD'S SMALLEST VIOLIN: Here is a LOL headline from Resistance HQ:

Trump’s Conspicuous Silence Leaves a Struggle Against Russia Without a Leader

They are looking for Trump's leadership? What happened to "No Normalization" and "Resist!"?

Comments

[Porchlight]

First?

[Old Lurker]

Hi Porch.

[Porchlight]

Hi OL. I couldn't catch up with the other threads, so I'm starting fresh here.

[narciso]

Morning Jeh had effectively shut down Phil haneys targeting center, that what the lawsuit against heck was about

[Old Lurker]

I do the same. It works because now that they have been told not to, more posters bring over their good-ones from the prior thread so it makes it easy for us to stay current.

[Captain Hate]

According to the Horde this is what I'm missing:

Excuses for US olympic athletes:
Trump sucks, Pence sucks, #MeToo, food no good, it's too cold, it's too windy, Global warming, climate change, Park City training complex not good enough, I'm a victim, Ihave the flu, I have a cold, i have my period, rink ice soft. ski run too icy, i'm getting hit on, Europeans want it more, not enough blacks, whole thing is based around in- equality, broke a nail, trouble sleeping, time zones, too much pressure. On and on.

European women:
Ledecka won a gold on a pair of borrowed skis.
Posted by: redenzo at February 18, 2018 09:18 AM (14qvS)

[Another Bob]

Apparently, NBC showed the homosexual skier kissing his boyfriend. When asked about it, the skier said "if I'd have known we'd have made out".

Of course he would have. Isn't that the point of Olympics coverage anymore?

[Another Bob]

now that they have been told not to, more posters bring over their good-ones from the prior thread

LOL OL...

[narciso]

Jason Matthews the former Russian division chief turned novelist did an interesting thing he made the company's chief asset to be like Chapman's handler and in the course of time, Chapman replace him in real life they are nowhere as creative.

[clarice]

OL, look what the beautiful and gracious Mrs. OL could make for tutti familia https://www.britishlarder.co.uk/choux-buns-filled-with-cinnamon-baked-damsons-and-vanilla-cream/

[Jim Eagle]

Good morning from socked-in First Coast Florida where the sun is trying its damnest to burn off the fog.

In re using trusts and lawyers to buy homes and keep the owner secret, it is the normal practice in the Hamptons to use an LLC as the title holder. I have yet to see any home on Gin Lane or Meadow Lane listed other than an LLC selling and another LLC buying.

But that doesn't stop an intrepid reporter from researching the LLC and finding its major partners.

[Momto2]

If you aren't going back to the old thread - you might miss the link to Clarice's excellent Pieces!

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/02/the_mueller_dogs_bark_but_the_caravan_moves_on.html

[Momto2]

Ed - finally caught up on older posts and have to ask - did you find your Walker hound? (I hope so!)

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

If you missed it this morning, here is a link to President Trump's Twitter feed. He was VERY chatty this morning - and hilarious!

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Oops! Forgot the link!

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Another Bob,

Tapper's salary is $300,000/year and the taxes and mortgage payments on the house are around $280,000.

The author makes the point that his wife isn't wealthy and is a stay-at-home mom, and that he didn't have much equity built up since he lived in a shabby apartment until a few years ago.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Going with the mysterious sources of income category, I'll take suddenly wealthy Congressmen for $500, Alex.

[Another Bob]

I read that link MM. Tapper has to be making more than $300K.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

WAnother Bob,

That is the only part that shuoold be investigated further.

Maybe he's trying to draw Tapper out by low-balling his salary. LOL!

[Comanche Voter]

As for the "Resistance" nit wits? To paraphrase an old saying, "Stuff 'em if they can't take a joke."

[Extraneus]

I'm enjoying this Laura Ingraham calling out of LeBron James thing. Now the high-school dropout says he won't stop spouting off about politics because:

"I mean too much to society, I mean too much to the youth, I mean too much to so many kids that feel like they don't have a way out and they need someone to help lead them out of the situation they're in."

Of course, she can now question how an ignorant jock came to mean a lot to society, and what that says about the kids he's "leading."

Lots of other butt-hurt jocks are weighing in as well.

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/22481008/lebron-james-cleveland-cavaliers-doubles-will-continue-discuss-social-issues

[Another Bob]

Tapper: "Chief Washington correspondent" and his own daily show? Definitely way more than $300k.

[Captain Hate]

LeBron graduated high school.

[Extraneus]

Didn't know that. Didn't he come out as a junior or something?

[Another Bob]

Wow. Lebron does think highly of himself doesn't he.

Not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Tells you a lot about the people he surrounds himself with too.

Five years after he quits basketball, it'll be "Lebron who?".

[maryrose]

Ext:
Like it or not LeBron is an inspiration to these kids even though he attended private high school in Akron.
Many hope to have a career like his but will be sadly disappointed if they put all those eggs into that one basket.
Clarice:
An excellent “Pieces”.
I love how people from JOM are featured in it.Of course no one summarizes our current situation better and the tweets from President Trump are the icing on the cake.
Ed:
I enjoy your posts very much.
Unlike Jane, Henry and yourself , Iwould like to be a hermit but my family won’t let me.

[maryrose]

Another Bob:
Ah no wrt LeBron who?
He will rank up there with Jordan, Kareem, Johnson, DrJ, Larry Bird et al.

[Captain Hate]

No, he was on the cover of Sports Illustrated as a junior iirc (maybe before but he was the first non senior). He declared for the NBA draft immediately on graduating.

Just to be clear imo he's making a fool out of himself by ragging on DJT all the time and these dogshit statements about doing that for the youth just displays his ignorance.

[Extraneus]

Yeah, the point she's making is that the political views of celebrities and jocks probably shouldn't be taken so seriously by the yutes. Lots of people have made that same point but she appears to be over the target.

I just find the whining kind of fun.

[Jane]

I bet Tapper makes a million bucks a year at least.

[Jane]

News Hosts/Anchors Salary Net Worth Chuck Todd (NBC) - Paradigm ...
www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/graphics/CHI/TV_News_Salaries.pdf

Salary. Net Worth. Chuck Todd (NBC) (moderator). $1 million +. [$2 million]. Gretchen Carlson (FNN). $1 million. [$2.5 million]. Don Lemon (CNN) (moderator). $1 million. [$3 million]. Major Garrett (CBS) (moderator). $1 million +. [$3 million]. Jake Tapper (CNN) (moderator). $1 million +. [$4 million]. Andrea Mitchell (MSNBC).

[maryrose]

Wilt the Stilt, Bill Russell etc.
JI B:
Please don’t say I don’t know basketball.
I have been following it for years.

[GUS]

I'm sorry CAPN, I watched the MENS figure skating competition, and you can't tell which one of the MEN is having his period.

[Old Lurker]

"But that doesn't stop an intrepid reporter from researching the LLC and finding its major partners."

Unless you do that in my case and you discover that the LLC is owned by another LLC in another state and the second state knows only the name of the law firm which set it up. If they get through that, they will find a Trust.

That said, Lois Lerner and anybody else at the IRS knows the whole chain.

:-(

[Another Bob]

You've missed the point Maryrose. What impact do those five have on society? Who talks about them? Who asks "I wonder what Doctor J thinks about this?" Answer: Nobody.

Lebron is no different. As soon as the media finds the next shinier object, and the marketers find someone who sells more shoes, Lebron will be spit out like used gum.

[Old Lurker]

"You've missed the point Maryrose"

Bumper Sticker of the day.

Sorry MR...it was low hang fruit.

[GUS]

I wonder what Lindsey Vonn thinks labout trade deficit.
It's really quite humorous that a High School grad from Ohio believes his basketball skills and mouth make him credible to talk about anything except anti-fungal foot powder.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

https://nypost.com/2018/02/17/its-time-to-believe-tipsters-when-they-warn-us-about-maniacs/?utm_source=twitter_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons

[Beasts of England]

'I mean too much to society...'

Snorfle.

[Captain Hate]

I just find the whining kind of fun.

For someone who's managed his career effectively otherwise he's incredibly dense about this, particularly being from a state that voted for DJT. He bought into Cock Curious's garbage hook line and sinker. I have a feeling the ESPN dimwits have fed into this too, particularly when they ragged on Jordan for being too apolitical as if they're these great thinkers.

Here's some free advice: alienating approximately half of a potential market isn't smart.

[Old Lurker]

Cap'n "Here's some free advice: alienating approximately half of a potential market isn't smart."

Sadly, that thinking is why we get so much gay ice skating, in depth deep background sob stories, and synchronized swimming in the Olympics rather than, you know, sports.

:-)

[Beasts of England]

Trump's tweets from this morning are stunning. He's be a fine addition to JOM!! ;)

[sammy small]

Maybe they should shorten the Dunning–Kruger effect to the LeBron effect.

[Old Lurker]

This headline "Human speech will be replaced by brain to brain communication by 2050, claims expert"

Got me thinking about Diogenes wandering through a newsroom holding up his cell phone looking for bars, any bars.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Captain Hate,

Celebrities involved in poliics can be traced back to JFK, whose brother-in-law, Peter Lawford, brought a whole bunch of Hollywood people out to campaign for him. I remember it distinctly because I was in junior high and the idea that movie stars cared about politics was something new. (Especially coming out of the Eisenhower years.)

Ever since then, stars from Hollywood have opened their mouths and annoyed half of the population, one way or the other. Now sports guys are doing it as well.

I think this has been a bad influence on American politics and society in general. I wish we could dial things back to the days when I didn't know how anyone voted.

[clarice]

Buy are those mouthpieces overpaid.No wonder there's no network money left to pay actual--you know real--reporters.

[Old Lurker]

And THIS headline "Passenger plane crashes in Iran, killing all 66 on board" got me wondering immediately which Clinton-Kerry-Obama connections were on it.

[Captain Hate]

Beasts,

I was disappointed in how Bama ended the game at Kentucky yesterday, as was apparently Avery.

[JimNorCal]

Fascinating bit of history linked at BJG blog
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/02/an_18thcentury_hero_versus_the_deep_state.html

[Old Lurker]

Using up my one-liners "no network money left to pay actual--you know real--reporters"

Brought immediately to mind Jack Nicholson's famous line about "Truth".

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

GOP‏Verified account @GOP

Brian in Pennsylvania told us what President @realDonaldTrump’s tax cuts mean to him and his daughter. Tell your story at http://paycheckpresident.com
=========================
This had a video of a guy who is a single dad and is going to school. You can see it here:

https://twitter.com/GOP/status/964531633197068288

===============================
I would like to commend Rnna McDaniel for her leadership in the GOP, which seems to be very well-coordinated with the White House. "Paycheck President" is genius branding, if you ask me.

[Another Bob]

Clarice, they don't make actual reporters anymore.

The crap we see at the national level is happening at the local levels too. I've seen the local papers (as expressed by their websites) in all the places I've lived go the same direction. Younger people are brought in that have been steeped in the nonsense, and the older ones continue to think the AP, WaPo, NYT are their betters and follow their lead.

Curious what SBW thinks. I know he's done his share of tilting at the AP windmill.

[Beasts of England]

I haven't heard anything about it, Captain. Some happy talk about us making it to the big tournament this year, but I don't know if that's accurate either...

[Old Lurker]

I am as uncomfortable predicting that Friday's indictments mean Mueller is done with Trump as I am predicting the IG's report will be Deep State's Waterloo.

amirite?

[Captain Hate]

CNN's type of Repuke:

''Sunday on CNNs State of the Union, Gov. John Kasich (R-OH) said President Donald Trumps tweet saying the FBI missed the warning on Florida shooter because they are working on the Russia investigation is an absurd statement. ''

What an a**hole. Ashamed he's my governor. Ungrateful shit he is. PDT was offering condolences and called Kasich about the 2 murdered policemen almost before the story came on the local news. I doubt Obama would have taken time out from his golf game.
Posted by: Tuna at February 18, 2018 11:13 AM (jm1YL)

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

JimNorCal,

It reminds me of how I actually believed we had LOST the Tet Offensive until "We Were Soldiers" was released and people started discussing it on radio talk shows.

I wasn't the only one. When I discovered this I called on of my long-time friends and SHE didn't know it either!

I can still see Walter Cronkite TAKING OFF HIS GLASSES and walking around pointing at a big map.

I still can't get over it, all these years later.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

https://nypost.com/2018/02/17/faith-is-no-longer-a-virtue-in-america/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow

Column by Salena Zito.

[jimmyk]

Just catching up:

Great Pieces, Clarice, and thanks for the cite.

It would be amusing to see an actual journalist asking LeBron questions like, "What do you think of the tax reform legislation?"

[Stephanie Nene Not your normal Grandma]

Mentioned to my hubs last night that local reportage is the shits, too.

Some new 'at the scene' reporter couldn't pronounce O co nee county and kept saying O con ee county. If you don't know the damn area you are reporting about, maybe you should educate yourself before pontificating about things. Just as ignorant of the suburbs as the DC fools are about flyover country.

[Old Lurker]

Steph, my pet gripe of late is that the on air talent all seem to have gone to some "actors' seminar for TV" where they were told to emote more with their hands, words, and facial gestures.

So now they give you BS while looking and sounding like 7th grade acting class.

[Old Lurker]

Course, my other gripe having watched DC stations for 50 years is how come the stations can't get rid of the news readers who were cute and on their games back in the 70's but now just look as old and washed up as, well, I do?

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

https://ijr.com/the-declaration/2018/02/1067722-teacher-florida-shooting-saved-class/

This is a new story about a teacher I hadn't heard about. Very smart lady!

[DebinGA]

During Colonial times, Kasich would have chided the Minute Men for running and shooting from cover, rather than facing the redcoats in open fields to be "honorably" mowed down.

[Buckeye]

This headline "Human speech will be replaced by brain to brain communication by 2050, claims expert"

The guy ManTran was mentioning who had tumor surgery recently was an early adopter of a Bluetooth headset for cellphones.

They had to temporarily remove his ear to get to the tumor.

He was on the phone morning till night.

You want something like that implanted?

[middyfeek]

There is a point on the spectrum of celebrity where they become somewhat divorced from reality. They surround themselves with sycophants who tell them what they want to hear.

When LeBron James feels the urge to make public comment about politics he's really just embarrassing himself. So let him go.

When celebrities step out side their field of expertise their always on very thin ice.

Stephen Hawking, who supposedly has an IQ of three zillion, feels the need occasionally to say publicly and categorically that there is no God. Perhaps he thinks his status as a cosmologist warrants this.

The simple truth is that he has not the slightest idea whether or not God exists.

[exdemocrat]

“It would be amusing to see an actual journalist asking LeBron questions like, "What do you think of the tax reform legislation?"”

Exactly. Instead of inviting celebs to shut up, the far better approach would be to see their vacuous, soundbite views properly exposed for the nonsense they are.

We’d need actual journalists for that, however.

[Stephanie Nene Not your normal Grandma]

That, too. OL. The ad libs by the on air copy readers is exasperating.

And the local news here is 4 - 7 with hourly resets reporting the same stories over and over and over BUT each of the first two report the story with a tease of "more to this story we are putting together for the 5 pm or 6 pm newscasts" to which I always bitch "what the f were you doing earlier in the day that you couldn't broadcast the whole damn story at once!!" I don't want to watch 3 damn hours of the same shit with more added each time. I thought 3 hours of news was so you could get it all at a time that was convenient to you, not to snag ratings numbers for 3 hours. Asses.

[Davod]

I was just flicking through the TV channels and came across a PBS show - Solutions Journalism. Is that a new name for activist journalism?

[Captain Hate]

The Flash has recently been dealing with meta humans who are telepathic, i.e. you can't think an untactful thought like in response to "does this dress make me look fat".

No thanks.

[Extraneus]

Maybe LeBron will accept Ingraham's invitation to come on her show.

[Davod]

Celebrities involved in politics -John Wilkes-Booth!

[Captain Hate]

Laura is a shameless self promoter and she's probably checkmated LeBron on this.

[jimmyk]

The left always scoffed at Reagan, with his background as an actor. But he spent years boning up on policy while working for GE, along with his executive experience as president of the SAG. Nothing like these dimwits who think they can just jump from Hollywood to Congress, though I guess they can if they're Democrats (Franken).

[clarice]

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/02/stunning-mueller-patched-together-much-indictment-2015-radio-free-europe-article/

heh--just took warmed over hash and wrote up indictments.

[DebinGA]

Kudos, teacher Shanthi Viswanathan. Surprised, after Columbine, hearing a fire alarm alone is enough to empty a school without a p.a. announcement from the principal indicating there's an actual fire.

[Captain Hate]

$7 million to cut and paste an old Radio Free Europe article. Best work the FBI's done recently. Plus it impressed sooper jeanyuses Jethro Bodine Stedman and Costanza Nadler.

[Buckeye]

Laura is a shameless self promoter and she's probably checkmated LeBron on this.

Roger that CH.

Her and Sean's schtick when he hands his show off and she starts hers is enough to make me wanna puke.

[jimmyk]

From the Gateway Pundit link at 12:11,

The indictment named 13 Russian operatives from the internet Research Center LLC. in St. Petersburg who attempted to “interfere” with the 2016 US presidential election.

Shouldn't more be made of the fact that the indictments were explicitly not for interfering with the election, but for fraud of various kinds? Every MSM outlet is reporting it as some variant of "Russians indicted for interfering with the election," which is fake news. Was it McCarthy who pointed out that the reason for that is otherwise they would have had to indict Steele, and thereby implicated Felonia von Pantsuit's campaign?

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Donald J. Trump
‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump
19m19 minutes ago

Thank you to KenStarr, former Independent Counsel, Whitewater, for your insight and powerful words on FISA abuse, Russian meddling etc. Really great interview with @MariaBartiromo

===================================

Hah. Praise for Starr from the President should get the Never Trumpers agitated.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

hrtshpdbox,

It could also mean that Mueller knows something about Gowdy.

[boris]

"wonder if Gowdy knows something we don't, to be so supportive of Mueller"

Could be Gowdy is simply a member in good standing of the prosecutors club.

Another possibility, telling Mueller his kudo's are secure at this point in time but pushing ahead with sketchy lawfare puts them at risk.

[jimmyk]

Gowdy has a serious case of McCarthy's Disease.

[Buckeye]

One thing is for sure, Cock Curious and Curb Dive are keeping a low profile.

Good to have them STFU.

[Extraneus]

Hmmm...

Sessions: FBI’s Handling Of The Dossier ‘Will Be Investigated’

[simply stupid]

Old Lurker Trump holds the cards he is allowing the onion layers to be peeled slowly . If things go sideways he always has the ability to unclassify all the Uranium One transcripts plus the actual FiSA application. He is not doing it so that this soap opera can stretch out until late summer and to push the democrats near the ledge , their ledge not yours.

[JimNorCal]

New to me. Best abortion meme I've seen

[Extraneus]

Was it McCarthy who pointed out that the reason for that is otherwise they would have had to indict Steele, and thereby implicated Felonia von Pantsuit's campaign?

McCarthy wouldn't suspect Mueller of such skulduggery. :-)

It was Hinderaker.

[simply stupid]

Gowdy is uniparty who was smatly used by Nunes in reading the Fisa and now trying to make amends with the uniparty by giving the old partyline that Mueller is honorable.

[narciso]

Another way of looking at this, is prigoshin is 84th of 300 some oligarch's, this is more promotion like the intelligence 'estimate' was of rt, the Kremlin's caterer shirley.

[JimNorCal]

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[maryrose]

DrJ:
He is a man who sponsored basketball camps for inner city kids.
Magic Johnson has done other charity work
Perhaps you have forgotten “ I want to be like Mike campaign.
Yes I know what I am talking about.
Le Bron graduated with a good grade point average.
It is you Bob who doesn’t know what he is talking about.
OL;
Try to resist the impulse to play along.

[Captain Hate]

Glad to find out that Jake Tapper is hauling down such long green; Clarice was panicking the neighborhood was going Section 8. And LOL at TruePundit calling it "suburban DC"; STFU Dunce.

[Janet 🚬 - I wish my family had a poncho]

President's Day Sale 30% off - use promo code: POTUS

https://shop.donaldjtrump.com/collections/headwear

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

I ran across this on Twitter and thought you guys would find it interesting - particularly those interested in education:

Gen. Dumas
‏ @paulhue
1h1 hour ago

High Schools have gotten way, way too big. Large school size only helps matters unrelated to scholarship, such as maximizing sports team performance & having many goofoff electives. Among the casualties of large school size: academic performance & good conduct.

Gen. Dumas‏ @paulhue

Turns out that low student number for the entire school is much more helpful than low student:teacher ratio. Money saved by herding so many students into shopping mall-sized schools is offset by lower academic performance & higher behavior incidents, especially when extrapolated.

[Another Bob]

MR, you have, again, 100% missed the point.

OL, you want to send me one of those she bumper stickers?

[Jim Eagle]

JI B:
Please don’t say I don’t know basketball.
I have been following it for years.

Posted by: maryrose | February 18, 2018 at 10:52 AM

maryrose,

You have me confused with someone else. Never commented on your knowledge of basketball.

[clarice]

jimmy, I apologize for hashing your quote though. For the first time I'm using word on my new air Mac and it kept crashing so I missed it. You did not make a grammatical mistake--you said this indictment is--and for clarity I made it these indictments, missing the singular verb which followed the original.

If someone has a trick fo keeping word from crashing on an air Mac, please let me know. It drove me mad on Saturday..

[sbw]

Another Bob: Curious what SBW thinks.

From Take Back Your News - final draft finished today:

Journalism worked better when our grandparents were children because most newspapers were locally owned and edited by an independent and curmudgeonly lot. They held multiple wire services accountable for content.
Managers of the Associated Press—a member-owned cooperative wire service—told publishers back then, “You own us.”

“Damn right we do,” owner/editors replied. Quality reporting was expected. At annual national and state bureau meetings they held AP accountable for it.

Since 1950, the total number of daily newspapers dwindled from 1,772 to perhaps less than 1,300 today and corporate newspaper chains with different priorities swallowed many of those that remain. Their accountants eying the bottom line reduced the number and experience of reporters and editors. Numbers have diminished, and the quality, too.

Radio stations of the 1950s were often derided for a “rip-and-read” approach to wire service news. Staff tore wire service copy off the Teletype and, without looking at it first, read it unchanged and unedited on the air. Many newsrooms place copy on pages unchanged and unedited before printing. Local wire editors don’t see a need to edit wire copy. Copy that is not reviewed at the local level gives national media a license to fail.

[clarice]

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/02/17/behind-the-sanctimonious-tweets-james-comey-has-a-very-serious-book-problem/

And SBW most metro areas had 2 papers, a morning and evening one. One was usually more conservative and the other more liberal.