Merkel Out

The rolling wave of resistance to unfettered immigration finally takes down Angela Merkel. One might think, after Brexit, Trump, Macron, Sweden, eastern Europe and Merkel that the folks in favor of open borders would dial up better arguments than "Stop hating, you hate-filled hater". But maybe not.

MORE: Andrew Sullivan swings to starboard on this one:

Democrats Can’t Keep Dodging Immigration As a Real Issue

It’s the optics that are fatal. The image of that caravan, crammed with thousands of desperate brown human beings, winding its way tortuously through Central America and Mexico, headed to a showdown at the U.S. border, is a white nationalist’s twisted fantasy. The question is not if George Soros funded it, but if Steve Bannon did (I’m kidding, I’m kidding). It reminds me of that infamous poster in the Brexit campaign which showed a long, packed line of migrants, in theory waiting to enter Britain, with the slogan: “Breaking Point.”

...

I get all that. I’m an immigrant myself. But it doesn’t answer a simple question. What do we do when the caravan gets here? And more saliently: What do we do if many more caravans show up behind it? This is not an abstract question. It’s a pressing, practical, and in some ways existential one. It cuts to the core of whether the United States has to choose between being inhumane to the point of betraying some core moral principles and remaining a sovereign nation in control of who joins its population.

He does slide past a key point when he writes this:

The United States has long been a miraculous machine for immigrant assimilation. Which is why it’s easy to dismiss the appeal of anti-immigrant sentiment as nativist racism, waxing as it periodically does in America. 

Well, yes. There was an anti-immigrant backlash in the 1910-1920s, when the non-native born population was around 15%. Today? Projected to reach 14% by 2020.

There is a manageable pace of integration and change but we are moving well into a zone that has in the past led to significant social tension. (I'm thinking Japanese internment as I write ). Lots of history of immigration and the changing laws in the LA Times. And every picture tells a story.

Comments

[Buford Gooch]

Help me TM. You’re my last resort. You have blocked me, and I’m pretty sure you didn’t intend to. (I’m sending this from my phone)

[Jack is Back!]

Foist?

[Buford Gooch]

Please help me figure out how to get my ip unblocked.

[Jack is Back!]

Buford, you're in like Flynn!

Sent TM a tweet asking him to bounce our resident pest. I think his attacks on Clarice border on anti-semetic rhetoric. He is beyond an annoyance now.

[Buford Gooch]

Help from any other commenter would also be appreciated.

[Buford Gooch]

I’m not actually in yet. I hate typing on my phone, and my IP address seems to have been blocked, so I can’t comment from my desktop.

[Dave (in MA)]

OT: Portraits parade. https://imgur.com/5RSZyR7

The best is #3.

[Dave (in MA)]

Yeah, but Flynn has a totally different posting style.

[Dave (in MA)]

JiB, my guess is that TM only has the power to delete comments once they're posted. He's not some kind of super sysadmin; he just set up a blog using some off-the-shelf Typepad services.

[Bernardo de la paZ]

did you clear the cache on the lun.

So in the chutZpah department you have Nina burleigh with a book about the presidents women, projection on her part?

[cathyf]

Buford -- can you use your phone as a wireless hotspot and then connect with your desktop? (That would require you the have a wireless connection on your computer.)

That would give you a totally different IP through your cell phone provider, and would work until you get sorted out for real.

But I agree that you probably got your IP blocked in the skirmish with the troll. (Poor Frau lives in the same town as cleo, and would periodically get blocked, too!)

[Bernardo de la paZ]

And former?? MI 6 operative Frederick forsyth has a new book about Russian hacking the Iranians an the north Koreans, Jess the twist on the last part.

[Extraneus]

Hey, Buford. Try rebooting your modem. If you have dynamic IP like most people (who don't pay for static IP), that sometimes refreshes to a new IP.

[Old Lurker]

Good riddance to Merkle.

Now where are we with Brexit (serious question because it got so confusing)?

[Kevlar Kid]

the booting of character "Abu", the Indian (dot) character brought a ricochet laugh this morning.

College Man called to report an "A" score on his advanced Macroeconomics mid-term exam.

he went to pick up his test from the prof, a dot Indian, who said "You keeked ass mon!"

Popping the virtual champaign cork here. CM is workin his tukis off with basketball practices ramping up in this 3rd week of pre-season.

we're looking back at his first semester realizing maybe 1% of how much that young brain and spirit has GROWN!

[Miss Marple]

Buford,

Can you link through your history and then go to the latest thread? Daddy found that trick. Don' know what message you are receiving when you try to access JOM.

[Jane#walkaway]

Buford,

I have no idea how to help, but you have my sympathy because it would make me crazy.

[Extraneus]

Aw.

Terry McAuliffe: Hillary Clinton ‘Is Never Going to Be on a Ballot Again’

McAuliffe tampered down the speculation about Clinton launching another presidential bid on Monday after Clinton declared at an event in New York City Friday that she would “like to be president.”

“It’s hard for Hillary. She got three million more votes than Donald Trump did in the last presidential election. But I feel confident in saying I think Hillary is never going to be on the ballot again, I think she is done running for elected office,” McAuliffe said. “She’s going to be out helping candidates. But I feel very confident in saying she’s not going to run for president.”

Hillary Clinton is not the only Clinton raising speculation about future runs for office.

Her daughter, Chelsea Clinton, raised some eyebrows on Wednesday about her political future when she divulged in an interview she would not rule out running for office, but would only do so “if someone were to step down and retire.”

[daddy]

Merkel out? It's a miracle!

[Dave (in MA)]

Jane,

What doesn't?

[Jack is Back!]

This complaint by Dems about Hillary getting more votes (popular) than Trump tells you all you need to know about their commitment to the US Constitution. If it was up to them they would 86 it in a nano-second,and establish something that would make Tito, Lenin, Mao and Hugo Chavez proud.

[daddy]

Buford,

The smart tech guys here are Dave, Captain, Henry, and maybe Rick and one of the Jim's. Hopefully they'll show up soon.

Many if not all of us have had posting and site problems over the last week. Miss Marple and I kept getting 403 Forbidden messages when we tried to open JOM. That went away for me after 3 hours dealing with Apple MacBook tech guys and rebooting stuff and cleansing tons of junk, but that may have been coincidence since i think Captain and Henry think that was a fault on Typepads side of the equation.

I use 2 browsers, Firefox and Safari, and Firefox seems to be working better with JOM now than Safari. You might try using a different browser.

Also, if you keep getting that 403 Forbidden message when trying to access JOM, scroll thru your history back to before you were clobbered and open that JOM window, then simply update to the current thread. That worked for me as a quick fix to gain access. Wish I could offer you a real fix. Good luck.

[Porchlight]

Please help me figure out how to get my ip unblocked.

#MeToo

I can get in from my work computer and my old kindle, but not my new kindle. Have cleared cache and all that stuff.

[Porchlight]

I'll try the modem trick.

[Tom Maguire]

I’m not actually in yet. I hate typing on my phone, and my IP address seems to have been blocked, so I can’t comment from my desktop.

Responding from behind a secure remote curtain: In the course of passing my time watching the consequences of under-treated mental illness I have learned that the ill one uses a lot of IP addresses, some of which are used by also regular commenters here. My guess is that B Gooch is currently on an IP address I blocked a while ago.

Unfortunately IDK which one to unblock. However! Tech jockeys should chime in, but my guess is that restarting the computer *might* jog a new IP address out of the Internet Service provider.

Plan B would be to restart the modem - that, I am pretty sure, will lead to a new IP address being assigned.

Plan C would be to have someone DM me the IP address, I guess. Or email.

[Jack is Back!]

Been around before but a good reminder for the election:

"Sarah was in the fertilized egg business. She had several hundred young pullets and ten roosters to fertilize the eggs. She kept records and any rooster not performing went into the soup pot and was replaced.

This took a lot of time, so she bought some tiny bells and attached them to her roosters. Each bell had a different tone, so she could tell from a distance which rooster was performing. Now, she could sit on the porch and fill out an efficiency report by just listening to the bells.

Sarah's favorite rooster, old Butch, was a very fine specimen, but this morning she noticed old Butch's bell hadn't rung at all! When she went to investigate, she saw the other roosters were busy chasing pullets, bells-a-ringing, but the pullets hearing the roosters coming, would run for cover.

To Sarah's amazement, old Butch had his bell in his beak, so it couldn't ring. He'd sneak up on a pullet, do his job, and walk on to the next one.

Sarah was so proud of old Butch, she entered him in a Show and he became an overnight sensation among the judges. The result was the judges not only awarded old Butch the "No Bell Peace Prize" they also awarded him the "Pulletsurprise" as well.

Clearly old Butch was a politician in the making. Who else but a politician could figure out how to win two of the most coveted awards on our planet by being the best at sneaking up on the unsuspecting populace and screwing them when they weren't paying attention?

Vote carefully in the next election. You can't always hear the bells."

[Marlene]

Good afternoon! I have an OT question. Has anyone done the Kentucky Bourbon Trail? The daughter and son-in-law are taking a road trip after Christmas to a midwestern state where he will be working. They want to make the trip interesting.

[Tom Maguire]

Democrats recycled Adlai Stevenson for two losing runs and William Jennings Bryan for three, so who knows?

I woul dlove to see Hillary try again. At sa minimum, there should be a period of donor freeze and oxygen deprivation for the lesser candidates. That suggests Bernie and Joe should encourage her, Kamala, Spartacus et al should be deeply peeved.
OTOH, being a giant-killer is a plus - if she runs, whoever beats her can claim to have beat somebody.

[Old Lurker]

Jack re Constitution " If it was up to them they would 86 it in a nano-second, "

Hence the last fifty years of using their fellow travelers on the courts at all levels to do just that. If you don't like what the words say, well just make those words mean what you want them to mean. Says Humpty to Alice.

[Old Lurker]

Tom, you are a good man to put up with all of us.

[James D.]

Just did my civic duty and voted here in lovely Arlington, VA.

I imagine my vote for the GOP House candidate is pointless because crappy Don Beyer will win with 80% of the vote. But maybe Corey Stewart has a chance even though the disorganized and useless Virginia GOP doesn’t appear to be actively running a campaign against the vile Tim Kaine.

And for School Board, since I assume both candidates on the ballot are more or less communists, I wrote in our very own Janet.

[Dave Seville]

Interesting and well written story about the gigantic fires on the Great Plains in the spring of 2017.
Very little politics, not much about climate change and the author seems bewildered by but not completely dismissive of this thing the natives refer to as God. The author in fact is overall respectful, understanding and in seemingly very impressed by the rural people he meets and the generosity of Americans...and it's in the New Yorker! WTH?

[Dave Seville]

Since Hillary will never be president and will never serve any well deserved jail time I can't think of a better use for her than another comically befuddled narcissistic run for Top Banana.
The entertainment value of her spending countless hours attempting unsuccessfully to mimic human emotions and behavior alone is worth the price of admission.

[Dave Seville]

--In the course of passing my time watching the consequences of under-treated mental illness I have learned that the ill one uses a lot of IP addresses...--

That's funny. Tragic, but funny.

[Captain Hate]

Willowed

Good job Sarah Sanders!

You betcha! A well-raised child, indeed.
You know her daddy has to be proud!

Mike Huckabee was on Life, Liberty and Levin a couple months ago and yes, he's very proud.

A few minutes ago I was sitting at a six way stop sign (thank you very much, University Heights) and BOOM I get hit from behind. It was more than just a tap so I get out, unlike the FAB who drove into me. She slightly dented the bumper but I decided to let it slide, which in retrospect I'm really pissed off at myself for not inconveniencing everyone behind me because fuck every goddamn one of them. But at no time did the entitled scrunt hoist her fat ass out to apologize for running into me or check what damage she did. Sometimes I hate everybody.

On Topic:

Putting an East German in charge of a country is never a good idea.

[Porchlight]

Thanks, TM! Old Lurker is right, you are kind to put up with us.

[cathyf]

By accident posted this on the dead thread:

Just now it is obvious that he was murdered, that it was premeditated, and that it was by the Saudi's.

Wow I wish Sanders had replied (with a steely glare) "The only place that's 'obvious' [using fingers for air quotes] is in your teensy weensy tiny brain."

[JimNorCal]

TM: "Plan C would be to have someone DM me the IP address, I guess. Or email."

The email listed in the "email me" section is
[email protected]

Is that the one to use to reach you?

[jimmyk]

Thanks, TM! Old Lurker is right, you are kind to put up with us.

Yes, especially the "One Note Johnnys." :) Sorry the t****s louse up the place. There may be overwhelming sentiment for registration as a solution.

[Tom Maguire]

Has anyone done the Kentucky Bourbon Trail?

My Kentuck Bourbon Trail leads past the chips and dip to my big old easy chair and a re-run of Justified. But I bet that's no help...

[Dave (in MA)]

@Tom_Maguire on Twitter can be direct-messaged [DM], if you're on Twitter.

[anon]

undertreated implies there was some sort of treatment. Sorry counselor, arguing facts not in evidence.

[Tom Maguire]

There may be overwhelming sentiment for registration as a solution.

I'm leaning that way but let the people speak.The current situation seems like its fun for only one rather sad and lonely loser.

[jimmyk]

NewsBusters
‏Verified account @newsbusters
45m45 minutes ago

Pittsburgh synagogue member @louweiss scolds @mitchellreports: "Stop trying to politicize every aspect of this"

https://twitter.com/newsbusters/status/1056995625424900102

Meanwhile Haggie Maberman managed to find a self-anointed group of "Jewish leaders" saying that Trump isn't welcome in Pittsburgh. Turns out that it's a group of Democrat political activists. Classy.

[Dave (in MA)]

Here in the land of stupid rotaries, I'm having trouble imagining what a six way stop sign even looks like.

[cathyf]

The one problem with registration is when Typepad breaks access to the site for the registered like they did last week. As long as it's easy to toggle on and off it would be ok, I guess.

TM -- when everyone with a registered login was locked out and they were using JOM without login, were you still able to control the site with your login? Because if registration means the possibility that you could be locked out of your site for any significant period of time, then that kinda gives you pause...

[Porchlight]

Haggie Maberman

Lol.

[Rocco]

Space Force News

Operation Secure Line

Aircraft and personnel on the way

[Dave (in MA)]

fun for only one rather sad and lonely loser

Wonder what his van looks like.

[Clarice Feldman]

"experts" : https://legalinsurrection.com/2018/10/hamas-commander-killed-at-gaza-border-when-hand-grenade-exploded-prematurely/

[Clarice Feldman]

Tom Lipscomb
1 hr ·
A TAPE OF A GOOGLE EXECUTIVE EXPLAINING HOW HE HAS BRIBED NEVER TRUMPERS AT NR, WEAKLY STANDARD ETC TO WRITE SOME SPECFIC ARTICLES (BECAUSE THEY ARE SO DESPARATE FOR $$$) HAS APPARENTLY BEEN GIVEN TO THE WSJ FOR PUBLICATION.
GOOD LUCK!

[Pinandpuller]

"Democrat Leaders" is code for "Community Organizers".

[Buford Gooch]

Thanks for all of the tries at helping. I tried each of the things suggested. None of them worked. I type “test” and post a comment. It pops up with “Your comment has been posted. Post another comment.” And there is my comment, just like it always had been. Then I refresh, and the comment disappears. I don’t comment all that much anyway. Mostly I lurk. So, I can comment from my phone when I feel the need, and read the posts and comments on my desktop.

[Pinandpuller]

I know one #nevertrumper blog host who said he would write a blog post if you sent him a thousand bucks

[Pinandpuller]

You need a handler and some dead drops Mr Buford Gooch.

[Extraneus]

TM, at some point you may want to reconsider requiring people to log in. I don't think logging in is working for most people at the moment due to some sort of Typepad issue, but if and when it does work again, it would require the troll to use a real email addy to get a Typepad login, which could probably be banned with ease.

I know some may disagree but I think it's worth considering.

[Miss Marple]

Clarice,

A real bombshell but not something we haven't suspected. I hope the WSJ prints the transcript.

[daddy]

Me:

ANCHORAGE:

...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM AKDT THIS
EVENING...

I'm guessing there'll be over a hundred car wrecks this first real snow day of the season.

Posted by: daddy | October 29, 2018 at 12:56 PM

Local rag: First significant Anchorage snow brings slippery roads and collisions

With the first snow falling across the Anchorage area Monday morning, slick roads are creating hazardous conditions for driving.

By midmorning, Anchorage police had responded to 18 collisions, and 34 cars had skidded into ditches since midnight, said APD spokesman MJ Thim. Three people had minor injuries...

Those numbers aren't as high as usual for the first snow event of the season, Thim said.

"We take that as a good sign people are practicing those driving tips we put out."
[email protected]#$%

"Turn those machines Motor Vehicles back on!!!"

[Extraneus]

Ooops. I see I missed the discussion on that already started above. Well I'd vote for it. His sock-puppeting of Clarice a week or so ago, and others before that, would have been impossible.

[DCSCA]

In front of me is a copy of Life magazine, dated June 20, 1969. On the cover: Joe Namath. A feature story inside: images from Apollo 10's dress rehearsal flight to the moon; the Apollo 11 landing still a month off; Woodstock, two months away as well. And in an article about 'the future'- 'the Class of 1969' is a piece w/photo quilled by one Hillary Rodham.

Broadway Joe's long retired; two of the Apollo 10 astronauts have died; Neil Armstrong is dead as well and the many of the musicians who made Woodstock rock are gone, too-- and the groovy kids who freely loved in the rain are approaching their 70's now.

Yet the rancid stench of late 60s/early 70s feminism from that ancient Hillary Rodham still stinks up our politics.

Stop pushing yourself on us. Go away. Please, just go away. Like a bad Mexican, your time has passed.

[Bernardi Dr la paz]

You mean people are actually paid for that Drek and it's still a dogsbreakfast?

[Porchlight]

Buford,

That's the problem I have, too. It looks as if I've successfully posted a comment and then the comment never shows up on the thread.

[DCSCA]

Postscript- that should have read: Like a bad Mexican meal, your time has passed.

[Porchlight]

To be fair, Trump is a year or so older than Hillary. He has the wisdom and experience of his years with the energy and capacity of someone a third his age, and also his politics don't suck.

[Jack is Back!]

Its odd that some of you (Ex, BoE,) have your avatars up but I cannot retreive mine. I have been in touch with Typepad and they can't figure it out.
And I have a long ago abandoned website with them.

Weird.

[Tom Maguire]

Undertreated implies there was some sort of treatment. Sorry counselor, arguing facts not in evidence.

Good point but! My eternal optimist says the ill one will eventually find the right therapist with the right meds.

My eternal pedant says that, especially for those with a mathematical mind, "undertreatment" could include no treatment or even negative treatment, e.g., crystal meth. And the crystal meth notion makes "facts not in evidence" a bit harder to argue.

[JMHanes]

Dave:

"The best is #3."

Gadzooks!* I think it's Beast Jesus! Am I avant-garde, or what? And you are really observant! I'm surprised the Girl With a Pearl Earring isn't chewing gum, because she's definitely got that walk.

*h/t Alternative Cuss Words List

[Porchlight]

Fun fact: not one Democrat attended the new embassy opening in Jerusalem, even though they were all invited.

[daddy]

Personally I would prefer no logon but possibly as an alternative TM might give some very responsible person or 2 who spends all day here the ability to delete troll comments as they appear. Obviously I will happily defer to majority opinion and especially to TM since it's a great Blog and we are all thankful for the great Salon-JOM you've created for us freeloaders.

At the NewsMax news break on the Howie Carr Show we get this on the market movement today:

It looked like we were going to get a recovery rally on Wall Street, but a 350 point gain for the DOW turned into a 550 point loss at one point, before settling down about 250 points down at the close. Most of the turnaround was because of a report that the US was preparing more tariffs against China if talks next month between President Trump and President Xi fail to reach some sortof agreement.

[henry]

Sadly, it’s kind of moot until typepad gets the logins we have functional again.

[JMHanes]

"Hillary Clinton is not the only Clinton raising speculation about future runs for office."

They must be down to their last $40 million.

[Dave (in MA)]

JMHanes, my brother send me that link with only the comment "#3". So he's the observant one.

[Miss Marple]

Regarding disappearing posts: Since I do so many links, I have discovered that some site links are not accepted by Typepaad and disappear. These inlude American Greatness, Chicks on the Right, and various independent blogs.

I post the links, the post shows up, and when I refresh the link has disappeared.

I now know to use the tinyurl web site and create a new url, but I only do it if I feel the information is important.

[Pinandpuller]

One of the funniest observations Styxhexenhammer makes is most of the likely Dem frontrunners for 2020 might not even be alive to run. Not that that's stopped them before.

Bernie has effectively been pushed out unless he formally changes his affiliation to Democrat.

[Jack is Back!]

daddy,

I'll let jimmyk pipe in on this but I have always felt Wall St., and especially the Dow Jones average is cruel, inaccurate way to gauge the overall economy of the country. There are many metrics to score it but DJ is, in my opinion, like reading the odds out of Las Vegas. Only if you are gambler, and not an interested commercial citizen.

[anon]

crystal meth or bath salts. Either makes you a screaming loon so its hard to really differentiate isn't it...

[Beasts of England]

JiB: my avatar went missing from Typhuspad a few months ago and I reloaded it successfully. Have you tried adding a new image?

~ ~ ~

Having my official birthday dinner this evening... Interestingly, it's a first date, so it'll probably be an early evening. But just in case:

Nytol

[Miss Marple]

David Martosko
‏Verified account @dmartosko
1m1 minute ago

Trump has added a Nov. 5 rally in Cleveland, Oh.

[Porchlight]

TM might give some very responsible person or 2 who spends all day here the ability to delete troll comments as they appear.

This seems like a good solution to me if it works for TM. It would practically be an instant delete and TM wouldn't have to do anything.

[Jack is Back!]

For Stephanie when she shows up:)

A British man wakes up in the hospital bandaged from head to foot.

The doctor comes in and says,

"Ah, I see you've regained consciousness.

Now you probably won't remember,

but you were in a huge pile-up on the motorway.

You're going to be ok, you'll walk again and everything, but...

your penis was severed in the accident &... we couldn't find it.

The man groans, but the doctor goes on,

"You've got £9000 in insurance compensation coming

and we now have the technology to build a new penis.

" They work great but they don't come cheap. It's £1000 an inch."

The man perks up. "So," the doctor says,

"you must decide how many inches you want.

But this is something you should discuss with your wife.

If you had five inches before & get nine inches now she might be a bit put out.

If you had nine inches before & you decide to only invest in five inches now,

she might be disappointed.

It's important that she plays a role in helping you make a decision.

The man agrees to talk it over with his wife.

The doctor comes back the next day, "So, have you spoken with your wife?"

Yes I have," says the man.

"And has she helped you make a decision?"

Yes" says the man.

What is your decision?" asks the doctor.

“We're getting granite countertops for the kitchen” Smiling face with horns

[Porchlight]

Where's my Michigan rally! I was so sure he was going to do one.

Hmmm, he's really close in Cleveland.

Maybe he can do a late nite thing in MI like he did on election eve in 2016.

[Captain Hate]

I've seen a few Jimmy come lately Renacci signs. I'm not getting my hopes high but if the Restraining Order lost that would be the most MAGA thing yet.

[Dave (in MA)]

I guess our host has more capability to control things @JOM than I ever thought possible. Which means that the lengths to which the oily discharge goes to spew his mental mucus in here is an even more pathetic waste than I thought. Why doesn't it just take up playing candy crush?

[Clarice Feldman]

Is it possible to get disquis for this site? In which case you could easily control posting. OTOH who cares really? I just scroll on by..most of you have killfile installed. I consider this lovely place a public speakers' box and such things always draw some deranged hecklers.

[Jack is Back!]

Porchlight,

You're in Texas. Why are you interested in Michigan rallies?

[Kevlar Kid]

What good would "refrigeration" do here at JOM to controll trolls? :D

[Pinandpuller]

Huh

[Dave (in MA)]

Test: https://bit.ly/2OdW2Rq

[Kevlar Kid]

"Justified" re-runs....TM stock rises a hefty 18% on that reveal. :D

[Porchlight]

Here is Dov Fischer making sense as usual:

AmSpec: Don't Insult Me As A Rabbi By Blaming Your Political Enemies For Some Dirtbag Jew-Hater

[Kevlar Kid]

Marlene:

might i suggest the kiddies purchase a 1/2 case of their favorite brown booze and blaze a trail of their own.

yippi ki yay... :D

[GUS]

Dave, he's mentally ill. That's not a joke, it's a fact. He nearly 70 years old and he hate EVERYTHING that isn't FULL COMMIE.
Yet he tries to pretend he's on a higher moral plane. He even used Benghazi and Abortion in his twisted illness.

[Porchlight]

You're in Texas. Why are you interested in Michigan rallies?

Because I've been expecting/assuming he would campaign for John James, since he's campaigned in all the other Trump states with Dem Senate incumbents.

Granted, James is further behind than others, but I want him to campaign for everyone. Especially since he just spoke to the black conservatives in DC. It's really important to his message to support James, IMO.

[JMHanes]

I'm fine with registration, but hopefully not until Typepad starts letting me sign in again! I'm still having to fill in my name/email/URL each time I post a comment, because the info won't stick.

Are people able to sign in on their iPads? If so I may try that. I've got a bluetooth keyboard I can probably pair with it to help with the typing.

[Kevlar Kid]

Pin:

of that upper set in the defense pic, only Germany and Italy are in the top 15 of total defense expenditures. US and Communist China are 1-2, while Russia comes up 4th (distant).

not much in them other cookie jars. just sayin.

[henry]

JMH, my sign in is ignored by Typepad on the 4 devices I’ve attempted this past week.

[henry]

Giant colon returned:

https://twitter.com/kcpolice/status/1057009008064774144?s=21

[Kevlar Kid]

Are there any humanoids working at Typepad who can discuss these glitches?

[daddy]

Here's a link to last night's excellent Life, Liberty, and Levin, where Mark had on Newt Gingrich.

Gingrich had a funny but sarcastic comment about John Kerry which started after a discussion, about the 24 minute mark, where the 2 men discuss attacks on Trump's statement that he is a "Nationalist" and Newt brings in a bit of excellent Ben Franklin history by explanation, before quipping the following to Levin's amusement:

Newt: ...Trump is basically saying "Look, these guys on the Left want to sell our country out for some kind of Global Cause, whether its the Paris Accords, or the International Criminal Court, or the United Nations." You know I tell people the reason John Kerry runs all over the world the way he does and the reason he still sees the Iranians, is that in Kerry's mind he was never really the American Secretary of State. He was a World Secretary of State, doing good things on behalf of the World, which is why I don't think you could charge him with The Logan Act, because you'd have to be an American in order to be charged with The Logan Act and Kerry's not psychologically an American. He's psychologically a "person of the Globe," and with regard to people who care about America as sort of pygmies, obsolete.

[Miss Marple]

My name is stickied on each page. Once we move to a new page, I have to type in my name and email again.

It's interesting how the problems are randomly distributed.