Finding The Fall Guy

The Saudis tee someone up.

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[Bernardo de la paZ]

Bringing Barbara lee anywhere in little havana is akin to bringing a pig to Mecca, versailles is the civic center, the agora if you will.

[Captain Hate]

American Thinker keeps redirecting me to some trash site. Between that and the clickbait shit that increasingly infests it, the content is extremely difficult to read.

[Old Lurker]

That AT article even put a smile on MY face.

[henry]

CH, clear cookies... you got malware from something.

[Miss Marple]

Captain Hate,

I have the same problem with The Daily Caller. Without an ad block program (which I don't have on this iPad) it's impossible to read.

[Bernardo de la paZ]

Ah Seth you still haven't figured out this dog and pony show:

https://mobile.twitter.com/sfrantzman/status/1053247995586756608

[Beasts of England]

I'm at the shop getting some new tars for my car, so I'll take the phrase of the day...

Nothing is faster than rumor.

[Jane]

How many tars does your car use?

[Captain Hate]

I cleared cookies and still have the same problem. Fuck that site.

[Beasts of England]

Fer, Jane. ;)

[Old Lurker]

How come guys in the South need so much tar?

Where do they get the feathers?

[henry]

That sucks. I wonder if out of control adware & malware on conservative sites is a feature to Goolag / FB (controllers of 95% of online ad placement).

[henry]

From chokin chikins OL.

[Beasts of England]

Four P-Zero's will buy a lot of tar, OL. :)

[Old Lurker]

chokin chickens from chattanooga?

[Bernardo de la paZ]

Cnn proudly cheers for minitrue, so thwyve been borrowing from lethal weapon and rasputins diaoatching next they'll have thrown in a chemical vat like the joker.

[Old Lurker]

You got THAT right, Beasts. Hope you have a high limit on your Visa Card.

[Beasts of England]

Chattanooga is to Alabama as Nantucket is to Connecticut, OL. 😎

[Bernardo de la paZ]

Oh bow the head of interpol might be mostly dead.

[Miss Marple]

Test post.

[Beasts of England]

You raise an interesting thought, OL. I don't have any credit cards, but I guess there's a daily limit on my debit cards. Maybe I should call my banker or broker... lol

[Miss Marple]

http://www.floppingaces.net/2018/10/16/trumps-rising-black-support-not-kanye-west-scares-and-angers-democrats/

[Bernardo de la paZ]

Btw the Turks admitted officially this time, they didn't show pompeo any vekakte tape, because there is no tape.

[henry]

everybody has excuses these days:

Vicki McKenna @VickiMcKenna

Brewers reportedly suspect Dodgers may be using video to steal signs

[Miss Marple]

I now have to type in my screen name and email for every post.

Grrrr.

[henry]

allow cookies in your browser settings Miss M

[henry]

The "Free Trade" NAFTA allowed this:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/19/canada-protectionist-dairy-policies-milk-trump-nafta-usmca-tariffs.html?__source=twitter%7Cmain

[rse]

Beasts-butler tires is not far from my house and I probably drive by for some reason 4 days or so a week. Red tells me that is where everyone with a high-end or customized car, especially athletes and entmt moguls, gets their tires. The vehicles we have seen there in just the past 12 months or so are truly ridiculous.

Last week it was a customized, two-tone rolls coupe of some kind.

[rse]

"Political Lawyering for the 21st Century"--

"Legal education purports to prepare the next generation of lawyers capable of tackling the urgent and complex social justice challenges of our time. But law schools are failing in that public promise. Clinical education offers the best opportunity to overcome those failings by teaching the skills lawyers need to tackle systemic and interlocking legal and social problems. But too often even clinical education falls short: it adheres to conventional pedagogical methodologies that are overly narrow and, in the end, limit students’ abilities to manage today’s complex racial and social justice issues. This article contends that clinical education needs to embrace and reimagine political lawyering for the 21st century in order to prepare aspiring lawyers to tackle both new and chronic issues of injustice through a broad array of advocacy strategies. "

Yikes!! https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3164868

[caro]

MM, on iPad when you put the curser in the box to type in your login, look carefully at the band on top of the pop up keyboard. In white letters in the grey you should be able to see your login and just touch it to fill in. It is small and easy to miss if you are not looking for it.

[Old Lurker]

rse, I have been disgusted as exactly that SJW trend has overtaken all the formerly great MBA programs. Their catch phrase is "multiple bottom lines".

F that.

[henry]

Chinese planning to launch own "moon" as a replacement for street lights.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/new-moon--china-to-launch-lunar-lighting-in-outer-space-10844096

[Old Lurker]

Caro!

Still married?

[henry]

Caro, from Chitown Lurker:

Ask Caro how her Bloody Mary was yesterday! Had a lot of fun at lunch.

[Captain Hate]

Strangely enough, using a Dolphin browser, which allows you to just dump cookies without trashing your history a la Safari, I can read AT.

[Captain Hate]

Is Beta O'Dork the new Sandra Fluke?

[Beasts of England]

Lots of nice rides in your area, rse - I see some every time I'm in there...

[Miss Marple]

caro,

Thank you!

[Miss Marple]

Captain Hate,

A lot of black conservatives think he's the white Obama!

[Extraneus]

Depressing but good Codevilla piece linked by a-mom at 3:45AM.

https://americanmind.org/essays/our-revolutions-logic/

[Thomas Collins]

Thanks, Sue. Luckily for me, I watched the game in a bar only a half a block from where I live, so I didn't have far to go after the game. Late start to game plus bar plus length of games these days=tired fan!

[henry]

Frances Townsend @FranTownsend
1d

How to Kill a Fake #Fiancée: The #Khashoggi Case - The Herald Report - Plus: she knew him only 5 months; didn’t know his correct birthday & his family had never heard of her should taken together lead us to be skeptical #Turkey #SaudiArabia

https://twitter.com/FranTownsend/status/1052683527903485952

[Bernardi Dr la paz]

Wendy Davis with loafers, alarabiya says miss cenguz is deep in the Turkish Islamic orbit.

[Jim Eagle]

A lot of black conservatives think he's the white Obama!

Another reason Cruz needs to beat him like a drum.

As Jim Messina would say "So they don't rise again."

[sbwaters]

Chinese planning to launch own "moon" as a replacement for street lights.

Government hubris.

[Captain Hate]

O'Dork isn't running for his congressional seat so I guess it's the Senate, or higher, for him.

[Fithian]

rse:

You should pass your 9:16 along to Instapundit and the Volkh Conspiracy for comment. Glenn Reynolds, in particular, is always commenting on the state of legal education, but not from that angle at all. It deserves more attention.

[Jim Eagle]

JMH,

The Philip Vickers Fithian?

[Tom R]

We love coloring books, cathyf!! :)

Record books as well.

RTR

[Miss Marple]

Diamond and Silk are starting a new social media site which is in beta testing right now. They had a bunch of stuff pulled off of Facebook without warning and no one from the company would even talk to them.

The name of the site is Chitchatme. And the web address is www.chitchatme.com.

I have wondered if competitors would start to spring up.

[maryrose]

Henry:
What did you mean about Baldwin getting thrown under the bus?

[maryrose]

RCP has Republicans plus 3 in the Senate.
MSNBC is lying about Marsha Blackburn only showing a fake poll that has Bresden up 2 points on her.

[henry]

maryrose... when the troll posted gibberish from 5 year old WI stuff, I knew Baldwin's internal polls were tanking. just snark.

[henry]

Mueller preparing to lay an egg. Plus report won't be made public.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/19/mueller-investigation-findings-914754

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--He also says we are no longer one people.
And has a short discussion of partition as one of three options.--

I'm sick of reading that. If these commie, anti American creeps can invite half the world here illegally and so hate our country that they tear it in two in either a bloodless or bloody rebellion against everything it stands for, why are they entitled to any of it?
If they think Europa and Canada are so great and they absolutely love migrants to death then they can take their sorry prop asses and do what they're always threatening to do and become migrants and go live among their like minded co-suicidals.

[jimmyk]

I wonder what the MSM's motivation is for the fake poll stuff. Do they think it actually influences the vote? I think it's just clickbait for their increasingly selective audience. Their credibility is in shreds anyway. I'm looking forward to the lamentations of their women on November 7th.

[Threadkiller]

I wonder what the MSM's motivation is for the fake poll stuff. 

It fills the campaign coffers. Post something negative and the supply gets cut.

[matt - deplore me if you must]

Frau, I heard that Elizabeth Warren's favorite author is Karl Friedrich May.

[henry]

Tom Elliott
‏ @tomselliott

This seems irresponsible ... Raul Castro said on CNN that Kushner delivered MBS a "hit list" that included Khashoggi, and MBS acted on it.

https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1053283445345042432

[Captain Hate]

All the polls are fake.

[matt - deplore me if you must]

Jamal Kashoggi to the white courtesy telephone!

[Miss Marple]

jimmyk,

I think in some cases it is to depress GOP voters. I vividly remembe radio and TV quoting polls saying that Trump had no chance of winning. The last week it was almost constant, to the point that I felt a wave of gloom sweep over me. I went to the polls determined to cast my vote as a lost cause effort.

I don't think that trick will work again. Peopl no longer believe polling. They are wise to weighted samples and how many people refuse to participate. They also look at who pays for the poll.

I can only think it is done to get donors although one would think that donors would be skeptical, too.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Consider the prog;
Through half-wit anti American Barry's incompetence, fecklessness and disgraceful unconcern about protecting this country the Chinese rolled up our entire spy network in China and murdered many of the spies working on our country's behalf.
About this the progs gave less than a shit or in some cases probably approved.

Some muslim-fundamentalist, MB-whoring, anti-American, Qatari-paid Saudi may or may not have been killed and it may have been someone who may or may not be connected to the Saudi's, and all of which had nothing to do with the US, and they try to make it into a gigantic affair.

To save this country, in the end, will evnetually require killing many of these people. As Subotai says at Wretchard's they are TWANLOC; those who are no longer our countrymen.

[Bernardi Dr la paz]

Camilo cienfuegos says hi, he's the genuine revolutionary that died in a plane crash in 1959, the only real rival Fidel had for leadership.

You see why you can't concede with these bastards for one moment?

[Eye Doctor .]

Rep. Meadows Calls For Rosenstein to “Resign Immediately” Following James Baker Testimony He Plotted to Oust Trump From Office
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/10/rep-meadows-calls-for-rosenstein-to-resign-immediately-following-james-baker-testimony-he-plotted-to-oust-trump-from-office-video/

[Miss Marple]

Ignatz,

And why hasn't John Brennan been called on the carpet over this?

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Ordinarily I find Codevilla a paragon of concise writing but, and I'm only half way through it, I have to agree with CH. Regardless of the merits of the ideas, the writing is convoluted, turgid and hard to follow.

[henry]

what a tool:

Jim Acosta
@Acosta

Tonight the Trump campaign/WH turned up the music so loud the press risers were vibrating. Nearly impossible to do live TV. I suppose the WH loves those kinds of shenanigans. But I wonder if it’s a security concern for USSS or local law enforcement. They can’t hear either.

https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/1053113406629265409

[Eye Doctor .]

Federal Judge Says State Department Provided False Statements to Derail Lawsuits Over Hillary Clinton’s Private Server

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/10/federal-judge-says-state-department-provided-false-statements-to-derail-lawsuits-over-hillary-clintons-private-server/

[Bernardi Dr la paz]

One forgets, but codevilla saw the entrails of the deep state about 40 years ago, when they eviscerated David sullivan, the former marine turned corporate analyst that told Robert Novak what a fraud salt 2 was based on. Of course the paste eater of Scranton reassured the senators there was nothing to worry about.

[Extraneus]

Codevilla's point about federalism, at the end of the piece, is the best-case scenario, and even that probably can't happen without some bloodshed.

[maryrose]

Henry:
I just read that Politico article before you cited it.Trying to let the DEms down easily.
It is and always was a nothingburger.
Because of recent polls and President Trump’s excellent rallies I give this week to the Repubs.
I still want FISA and McCabe info released next week.
I also want info about Rosenstein testimony and Ohr’s today.
Nellie is testifying as we speak,

[Old Lurker]

.I endorse every single word, sentiment and prediction made in that Codevilla piece. Indeed he said in more elegant words and phrases and in more thoroughness pretty much what I have inartfully been shouting since 2016.

If he left anything out, I would say it was not laying as much blame on our church(es) as they deserve.

As to "The altar of Trump" the man, not the movement, this quote from page 10 nails it:

"...what happens in our revolution's third turn depends less on what Trump will do than on what millions of people on all sides will do..."

EXACTLY why I point to these midterms in such a binary manner.

[Miss Marple]

Whine, whine, whine, Acosta has a million complaints.

Did anyone else complain?

[JM Hanes]

JiB:

"The Philip Vickers Fithian?"

How in the world did that come up??? I used Fithian as my screen name for quite awhile, elsewhere on the web. I picked it up, when I was on the board of Stratford Hall (the Plantation, not the school), where I was always far more interested in its Colonial/Revolutionary War history, than its connection to Rbt E. Lee. You didn't happen to be visiting when we provided a night of Colonial doggerel, which I wrote & narrated as the famous tutor himself? I was active at Stratford for quite some time.

[jimmyk on iPhone]

“I can only think it is done to get donors although one would think that donors would be skeptical, too.”

You’d think, either to generate donors or audience, the bias would be to make the contests closer than they really are, not favoring the Ds. But I suppose the really rich donors give to the front runners with the expectation of a quid pro quo.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Having read the whole thing, Codevilla did finally hit his stride after the first quarter or so of the essay.
The first few paragraphs had me blinking but he got back to much clearer writing later.
Hard to fault anything he said.

[maryrose]

Iggy:
Some people get caught up in style rather than substance and judge a piece accordingly.
If I can glean some truth or fact that is new to me than I enjoy the essay.
I was in choirs in high school and college both at the undergraduate and graduate level.
I also sang in numerous church choirs as an alto or second soprano.
Every year at Christmas the Trinity Cathedral On 30th Street in Cleveland holds a Messiah sing in.
You sit in your section and people come on their lunch hour and some of the voices are spectacular.My husband and I have done it numerous times.

[maryrose]

Kushner story is fake news and the Castro needs to be sued for slander.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

I was just a bit too slow in hushing Ben's latest Ignazi comment.
There's no wig or Whig being flipped, retard.

Remember someday that I told you the following; if you and your like minded statists continue on your present course you will force the millions of decent normal Americans to defend themselves and their country against you and to kill you by the thousands or the millions if you persist in your project to turn this country upside down.
It is very slightly possible your kind will lose enough political power to dissolve as the Whigs did before you force a conflagration but if one occurs your kind will be devoured by the whirlwind you'll reap.
Your reply to this will be your typical, arrogant, retarded, snide, blind brick of shit but in the end you and your kind will be dead, in exile or in a political wilderness akin to your child, the KKK, and your fathers, the communists and fascists.
Period.

[Extraneus]

Christmas coming early this year? https://t.co/eO4RYOTwtZ

— Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) October 19, 2018

In response to...

Hillary Aide: She Could Run A Third Time https://t.co/jdtcEYWbMk pic.twitter.com/i3xaU1x7ai

— The Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) October 19, 2018

(Click to open, if you dare.)

[Extraneus]

NEW THREAD (of course)

[Old Lurker]

The nice thing about knowing each other as much as we do, Iggy, is we can spot a sock from a mile away. I usually give a generic troll half a line if that before moving on and at most an Iggy-Wannabee gets one whole line before I am sure.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Iggy:
Some people get caught up in style rather than substance and judge a piece accordingly.--

Style isn't the question. The first duty of a writer is to write clearly enough that someone is willing to read it and if they do, that they can understand it.
That has long been George Gilder's problem. His ideas would have been far more influential if he wasn't such an idiosyncratic [read, awful] writer. He used to be very good but for whatever reason might as well be speaking his own language half the time now.

[Old Lurker]

Ext, I am removing your "click to enlarge" privilege for ten days.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

His Ignazi comments aren't sockpuppeting; it's just the affectionate nickname by which he refers to me, OL.
It's actually relatively clever, for him, but unfortunately the usual brown shirt projection as well.
Or perhaps, considering what a caricature of a nutjob prog he is, he engages in black shorts projection.
SemanticSpode.

[pagar, a bacon, ham and sausage supporter]

" But I wonder if it’s a security concern for USSS or local law enforcement. "

IMO, Jim Acosta would be the major security.

[pagar, a bacon, ham and sausage supporter]

the 12:00 message should show the last word as----- Problem.

[Old Lurker]

I hear you Iggy but in my cranky mood I suffer fools less and less these days. Bring me a decent debate any day, but not that stuff.

[daddy on iPad]

Headline at The Hill:

"Mueller report PSA: Prepare for disappointment"

Those sonsuvbitches ought to be shot for such a headline. it refers to trump haters being disappointed, as if those are the only people who matter. Why not,"Prepare for Elation" instead of "Prepare for disappointment?" Rotten press bastards.

[Jack is Back!]

Yet the right are the crazies. Add this guy to the list of demented left.

Just an hour away down island in Smithtown.

https://patch.com/new-york/smithtown/smithtown-man-threatened-murder-assault-2-u-s-senators-feds