Acosta Back, For Now

The judge has granted CNN's Jim Acosta a temporary restraining order restoring his hard pass to White House press conferences. Hard passes for the hard asses!

Apparently the judge was concerned that the unwritten rules of appropriate press conference behavior were, well, unwritten. Team Trump will now write up some rules and the whole exercise may be a Phyrric victory for the media:

“This could backfire,” said William L. Youmans, a professor of media law at George Washington University. Mr. Acosta “gets his credential now, but it empowers the Trump administration to come up with conduct-based criteria.”

“A ‘rudeness’ or ‘aggressive behavior’ policy would have a huge chilling effect, and would be much more damaging to the whole system,” Dr. Youmans added. “If it lowers the bar for pulling credentials, it’s a recipe for a more tepid press.”

Twitter has already lit up with leaked video of Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Jim Acosta discussing the rules for a press conference.

Comments

[henry]

If every potential violation of decency must first be written down, we need a shitload more paper and toner, plus we are doomed

[GUS]

All the laws and rules on planet GAIA don't stop JUDGES from imposing their own will.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Ig, that is President for Life Clintooon.--

Now I see it. Confused me for a minute because the nose wasn't bulbous and red.

[henry]

News Carver was better at journalism than Acosta.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Apparently the judge was concerned that the unwritten rules of appropriate press conference behavior were, well, unwritten.--

So?

[Pinandpuller]

Is Acosta on Double Secret Probation?

[Captain Hate]

The MFM doesn't do themselves any favors with letting Desi be their public face. Speaking of embarrassments, the Wide Latina will be entertaining Colbert's clapping seals tonight. Carb Maximus to the Green Room STAT.

[daddy]

Team Trump will now write up some rules and the whole exercise may be a Phyrric victory for the media:

Here's the top 10 from "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten"

1. Share everything.
2. Play fair.
3. Don't hit people.
4. Put things back where you found them.
5. CLEAN UP YOUR OWN MESS.
6. Don't take things that aren't yours.
7. Say you're SORRY when you HURT somebody.
8. Wash your hands before you eat.
9. Flush.
10. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.

I think that's a pretty good start, tho' in my book it can all be boiled down to the old Golden Rule---“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

If you can't do that, take a hike, Buster.

[Gentlejim]

Judge Timothy J. Kelly is just another black-robed tyrant.

[daddy]

I just hope Chief Justice John Robert's doesn't see these new written rules because he'll think it's a Tax.

[Pinandpuller]

GUS

Funny that you posted J&TS's. Somewhere I have Thunder and Fire on cassette. Great band.

As I brought up your link I was driving by World Famous Wayne's house. Former coworker and high maintenance acquaintance. The last time I was in his house he gave me some J&TS's merch that I have somewhere.

He got mad at me for not staying in touch after I jumped in the pool with my phone in my pocket and lost his number.

[Captain Hate]

Judge Timothy J. Kelly is just another black-robed tyrant.

Exactly. Does anybody think the Founders intended the judiciary to be micromanaging the conduct of the Executive branch?

[Gentlejim]

Captain,
I was just thinking about reiterating your hatred of Marburg v Madison. I share that hatred.

[bubarooni]

GentleJim,

Do you do Law Enforcement in Indiana or Illinois? I was thinking it was one or the other.

Just moved My Girl to Chicago a couple of weeks ago. She has a ten minute walk to the train in the morning and once she gets off the train in the evening.

Pepper spray okay?

[Gentlejim]

Where the hell did Marburg come from? Damn autocucumber....
Marbury v Madison fer cryin out loud.

[henry]

GentleJim, Marburg and that case are both virulent and deadly.

[GUS]

Constanza Acosta.

Was that wrong???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RvNS7JfcMM

[Gentlejim]

Bubarooni,
I’m in Indiana east end of the dunes. Not sure on IL statute, but I’d suggest pepper spray at a minimum. Without a firearm I’d at least have a small push knife.

[Gentlejim]

Got that right, henry.

[GUS]

Jason and the Scorchers, were almost a novelty act when they first "made it" Jason Ringenberg played the hayseed to the MAX. Warner Hodges fit perfectly as the foil to Jason. Kind of like Cheap Trick on their IN COLOR album. Nielsen and Bun E. are goofy and have mopeds, Robin and Tom have cool bikes and pretty boy hair.
Hodges can EFFFFING BRING IT, and Ringenberg can really sing and write.

I opened for them in the early 80's. It was awesome.

[Captain Hate]

Welcome to the club, Gentlejim; we have great beer.

[Gentlejim]

Captain,
Thanks. Appreciate the offer, but I’ll bring whiskey to lodge meetings. :)

[Frau Edith Steingehirn]

B-rooni --Yes to pepper spray. It's always easier to plead ignorance than end up in the ER.
Just my opinion...

If it's a knife--and I gave one to my younger granddaughter in college--here is a cutie.

https://www.duluthtrading.com/little-stubby-pocketknife-23287.html?&srccode=GPSHPMN&chnl=ps_prospect_pla_mn&region=out_region&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIlszNrbHa3gIVB9VkCh1RYAwJEAQYAiABEgLxe_D_BwE

[GUS]

Bubarooni, is your daughter on the near north side, south of Wrigley???

[bubarooni]

Thanks Gentlejim,

She brought it up to me the other day.

I went to google maps and found a great over watch position that provides a solid six minutes of surveillance.

My Better Half says it's 'unsustainable' or something.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Not being a Dylan guy is Blood on the Tracks his masterpiece?
Should I care?

[Frau Edith Steingehirn]

CH --"Does anybody think the Founders intended the judiciary to be micromanaging the conduct of the Executive branch?"

,,,or Whoopi and Joy Behar? [spit!]

[bubarooni]

GUS, just north of 'Downtown'...

[Captain Hate]

Blood on the Tracks is very good, Iggy. I liked every song on it, following a series of substandard releases after Nashville Skyline.

I knew that was Lou Gossett Jr on Hawaii 5-0. Didn't know that Gladys Knight was playing his wife.

[Gentlejim]

Bubarooni,
You never know until you try. Haha

[henry]

Need to check with Chitown. I’m not that familiar with Chicago street addresses. 2 hrs to the loop at rush hour, but rarely go there.

[Pinandpuller]

Gentlejim

Is that the Dunes they closed when they swallowed that kid? Took four hours to dig him out and he survived.

[bubarooni]

Gentlejim, longest shot worked at about 190 meters.

[daddy]

Alright daddy, I don't have a minion available till Monday morning. So I'm asking... how'd you post the pic?

Bubarooni,

If you were asking about the slightly enlarged icons, I simply get on Safari and click on the name of the poster at the bottom of the post, for example I will click on "Captain Hate" at the Captain's 09:20 post above. Then when that page opens I put my cursor on his puppy dog icon and with my left finger I hit and hold down "Control" on the lower left of the keyboard. When that new menu opens up I click on "Open Image in New Tab" with my right finger. Then I open that tab, click on the URL box until it turns blue, and then paste that into the standard few jibberish symbols we use to post regular pics:

Voila!

As for the Hockney I just opened Bing or Google pics of "Hockney's 90 Million swimmer", and chose a pic that had pixel number's of no more than 400 x 300, copied it's URL, and used the regular method to post it.

Here's Joan's dog

Jane's Cat:

and Catsmeat's half a pup:

[Pinandpuller]

Iron Maiden-For the Greater Good of God

https://youtu.be/r1_c8uJiSg8

[bubarooni]

Thanks daddy! That's'em!

[Pinandpuller]

Ghetto girls use hair spray. Uptown girls use Vidal Sassoon.

[GUS]

Ig!!!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eyv6TWeJu0Y

Jason and the Nashville Scorchers do DYLAN.

My band plays this tune.

[DrJ]

Blood on the Tracks is very good, Iggy.

I agree. Decent sound too.

[Gentlejim]

Pin,
That’s the one, Mt. Baldy.

Bubarooni,
190 meters... you got that all day.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Pessimistic and dryly humorous article that makes The Case Against Quantum Computing.

[Frau Edith Steingehirn]

Wearing an Andrea Mitchell mask makes a fem impervious to attack. It used to be a Helen Thomas mask but she moved on.

[Jane]

How rude Daddy!

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Wait; that NewYorker story says there are two versions of Bloody Tracks one of which isn't too common.
I'm assuming you guys are referring to the original release?

[Gentlejim]

Jane,
What’s your cat’s name? :)

[GUS]

Bubarooni. Geno's East on Superior St. NEAR NORTH SIDE, is my favorite pizza......Chicago deep dish.

[bubarooni]

Gentlejim, on iron sights it's iffy. I gotta scope though!

[Captain Hate]

I've been to the Indiana Dunes; they're huge. Mrs H's remnants of her nuclear family live in Highland, between Gary and Chicago.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Meters?
What is this Eurotrash talk I'm hearing?

[Pinandpuller]

Gentlejim

Were you in on that S&R? That's crazy story.

Do you recommend Aussi Purple pump spray for Al Gore and John Edward's daughter's self defense?

[Frau Edith Steingehirn]

Jane's Kiwi is a canine and has the DNA to prove it.

[DrJ]

I'm assuming you guys are referring to the original release?

Yes. I don't know the other version.

[GUS]

Uptown Boys, use VIDAL SASSOON too.

[Gentlejim]

Bubarooni,
Scope works. I’m zeroed at 200 on one rifle with aimpoint pro. Irons would make it a challenge along with crosswind off the lake.

[henry]

Thanks Ig, great article on quantum computing.

[Gentlejim]

Pin,
I was not out there. My shift partner and our reserve officers, who were completing training, were out there. My partner and I had a talk before they left and were almost positive they were going on a recovery not rescue. Many broken hearts were saved that evening.

[Old Geezer]

I figure somewhere along the line Trump will find a way to hand Acosta his hat and ship him out the door. And if Acosta is lucky, Trump won't have filled the hat full of molasses--or something else dark,sticky and stinky.

[Gentlejim]

Easy Frau, keep your pepper spray and little knife put away. :)

[Captain Hate]

Yes. I don't know the other version.

The Robber Barons of Columbia have released an expanded version of the original with, I assume, unreleased takes as part of their "Bootleg Series" aimed to drain every penny out of Dylan's output.

I agree with your comment on the sound quality; the acoustic guitars sounded gorgeous.

[bubarooni]

I hear you IG but thats what they do these days.

It took me for ever to get used to my older bro coming back from Germany in the early '80's and he measured everything in 'clicks'.

Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.

[Frau Edith Steingehirn]

Just watch yourself, Gentlejim.
I don't carry either but I used to carry a harmonica and kazoo in case I had to wait longer than expected. I never got good on the harmonica. The kazoo was for impromptu celebrations.

I had a cute little Beretta knife which I carried until the airlines gotfunny about such things.

[Frau Edith Steingehirn]

Heading for the comfy chair and a medieval mystery. Say hi! to jimnj for me, please.

[GUS]

Old Geezer, I don't see the ACOSTA thing as a TRUMP v ACOSTA spat. Acosta is a worthless FULL COMMIE, BIASED jerk wad. The ENTIRE MEDIA supports and allows this nonsense. Acosta represents a change in America that does not bode well for us.
I call it the FULL COMMIE!! Quite often in fact.
Seriously, I could see the WIMPISH LEFTIST wave coming for over a decade. We've raised man/boys, to be wimps, disrespectful, Jerry Springer wannabees, and in NO WAY PATRIOTIC. No respect for laws, mores, tradition, nor any sense of civility. And this is the MEDIA??

[Narciso79]

Anyone surprised:

https://mobile.twitter.com/davereaboi/status/1063600063799283712

Now anyone involved in this fustercluck should have walked onto the nearest scirocco to spare other persons embarassment

[GUS]

I always carry a COEXIST bumper sticker.

Just in case.

[MissMarple2]

Thank you @JerryBrownGov. Look forward to joining you and @GavinNewsom tomorrow in California. We are with you! https://t.co/UuXWAadmov

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 17, 2018

Link goes to a gracious statement from Governor Brown.

[bubarooni]

GUS, where do I go to get a 'Chicago Dog'.

If I'm ever gonna drive up there again, there has to be a payoff.

[clarice]

Have an early Flight out to Oahu. G'night. I'll be checking up on you when I can .Behave. Bubarooni, your kids are gorgeous, and everyone's pups are, too.

[Gentlejim]

GUS,
That’s funny. My sticker says RESIST.
I sometimes think to myself when I see a RESIST sticker, go ahead, resist, I’ve got a response for you. We can COEXIST on the way to the jail.

[MissMarple2]

Hoping you have a great trip, clarice!

Enjoy the sunshine and warm weather. Looks like we are in for a week's worth of gray skies.

[bubarooni]

Thanks Clarice! Pride, joy and all that stuff.

[Narciso79]

Have a great trip clarice.

[GUS]

Chi-Lurker would tell you.......WEINERS CIRCLE, south of Wrigley on Clark St. I also like this little place just 2 blocks north of Wrigley, on Clark Street as well. Just across the street from the METRO THEATER.

[MissMarple2]

Heading to bed. We are going to see my youngest granddaughter at a matinee tomorrow, where she is in the chorus for "My Fair Lady" at the high school.

So, I need sleep and the ability to get up and get ready tomorrow.

Nytol!

[GUS]

Gentlejim, I love the "pompous" bumper stickers the best. "HATE IS NOT A FAMILY VALUE". and "Celebrate the richness of DIVERSITY" And the best of all time..........

=

[GUS]

Clarice, when do I get to go with you and your Hubby???? Sooooon????

[bubarooni]

thanks GUS!

[GUS]

Bubarooni, if you drive up to visit, let me and Henry know. We'll get Chi-town out on the town.
Chi-town will pay!!!! But seriously, you're darling daughter will know more about Chicago in her first 2 months there, than you could possibly imagine.
Seriously, if you'd like company, I'm sure I can get Henry and Chi-town to make it a four-some.

[daddy]

From an earlier Miss M UK Spectator link about Brexit: Stopping Brexit means stopping democracy:

...some are dishonest about it. Like Theresa May and those sections of the Cabinet that capitulated to her deal that will strangle British sovereignty and reduce us to a craven vassal state that not only has to abide by EU rules but will also lack any mechanism for unilaterally withdrawing from them. A ‘Brexit deal’, they call it. Do not insult our intelligence. Voters are not as dim as you think. We know this deal represents the thwarting of Brexit, not the realisation of it. We voted to take back control from Brussels and you have ceded greater control to Brussels. We voted to wriggle free of unaccountable EU decision-making and you have tied us even tighter into unaccountable EU decision-making. Anyone who calls this a ‘Brexit deal’ is a liar or a fool.

It brings to mind that cynical but funny line from Tom Hanks in "The Simpson's Movie:"

"This is Tom Hanks saying, if you're going to pick a government to trust, why not this one?"

Yeah. As long as Britain is gonna surrender for 70 years to a bunch of foreign bureaucrats who hate their guts, why not just surrender to us instead? At least we sort'a speak the same language.

[GUS]

MY FAIR LADY. Wrong and unacceptable on so many counts. MY??? FAIR???? as in WHITE??? LADY???? Who is to judge???

Sleep well Lovely Miss M.

[GUS]

The PEOPLE the CITIZENS of the UNITED KINGDOM, voted to LEAVE the EUROPEAN UNION, in JUNE 2016.

The SWAMP on the THAMES does not agree.

It's the HOTEL CALIFORNIA. You can check out anytime you like. But you can never leave.

[Pinandpuller]

Hey what if I infused my prickly pear fruit into vodka? Bathtub Tequila?

[mike in houston]

Daddy,
You posted everybody's critter but mine. My icon is a picture of me and my horse, "Jack Daniels" back in the day

[Pinandpuller]

I think I remember a story Chet Atkins told about playing in rough clubs. A guy taught him to always keep a full unopened beer on the bar in front of him because it wouldn't break when you hit someone in the head with it.

I think Pelegrino fits a lady's hand.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

It is slightly hilarious that progs think they can coexist with people who would actually very gladly separate their heads from their pasty white bodies but resist a guy who, at his worst, says they're "sad".
An orange bouffant and a wise crack causes them to quiver with anti-Hitlerian rage but a poised, bloody scimitar elicits their bonhomie and a welcome mat.
Nuts.

[daddy]

My icon is a picture of me and my horse, "Jack Daniels"

Hi Mike!

Oops@#$

[mike in houston]

love it

[GUS]

Ig, they are sheep. They have been propagandized to follow the dear leader, and there are NO critical thinking skills.

Possibly they are goats.

[jimmyk]

“It's the HOTEL CALIFORNIA. You can check out anytime you like. But you can never leave.”

Or the Roach Motel. Like a lot of Democrat policies too. What was that temporary telephone tax that was enacted in 1896 and still there more than 100 years later?

[GUS]

JimmyK, the BRITISH version of the FULL COMMIE SWAMP, does not WANT to EXIT. What the will of the people is, does not matter to them. We are 2 and a half years in, and Theresa May is shoveling so much bull shit that it hurts 4 thousand miles away. It is no different than the FULL COMMIE HERE, playing this RUSSIA GAME, and the RANCID DISGUSTING MEDIA ignoring EXACTLY WHOM was playing MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR FOOT$IE with RUSSIAN$
THE FULL COMMIE, will rape and/or kill you, and not bat an eye. It's for your own good.

[Captain Hate]

Levin: why aren't there television cameras in federal district courts so black robed tyrants aren't forced to endure the same level of scrutiny as they demand of the executive branch?

[daddy]

Iggy,

You asked if Swalwell even knew what "The Shot Heard Round the World" was. This is the Peanut's cartoon I was referring to that applies.

[GUS]

Daddy, are you familiar with Smarmy Boy Swallow well??? I am. He is loose as a goose. I mean, he is a fully liberated to run his CAKE HOLE, FULL COMMIE goof.
If you've seen this douche bag, in "action", it doesn't take a genius to recognize that he's not playing with a full deck. In fact, you can actually SEE IT.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

I remember it well, daddy.

Good night everyone.

[GUS]

Good night Ig.

[Pinandpuller]

Theresa May banned Michael Savage from Britain as Home Secretary.

Goats actually spend 24/7 trying to get out of the pen.

[GUS]

Orange man "weeping Johnny Boehner is making FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND @ YEAR, lobbying for TOBACCO.

Weeping Johnny B, is also shilling for the MARIJUANA "INDUSTRY". Even if you or I had no compunctions vs the free market, CIGS or POT.........John Boner Mellencamp, has proven himself, as I have always suggested....to be a money grubbing prix. Using influence to get rich.
Or even more so, not using his influence and power/ability to affect change......FOR US.
Johnny Boner's ACT has always been transparent to me. For obvious reasons. Not a completely horrid criminal person, BONER, has enriched himself IMMENSELY, while also retiring from PUBLIC SERVICE as a MULTI-MILLIONAIRE and will have a HUGE PAYCHECK ......FROM US......for life.
OK...COOL..... but CIGARETTES and POT?????? Could this jerk not be "useful" to a CAUSE that is CLEAN CUT????

[Narciso79]

Yes, gus and dr. Savage can be a jackass ocassionally other times he obsesses too much about cute forest creatures but Theresa May takes the take some years after she did this we found she not only let loose Gitmo prisoner could gave them cash and brand spanking new appartments.

[GUS]

Pin, the level of thought and decision making that Mrs May implored, in banning Michael Savage from the UK is scary. It indicates a willingness to use power to silence people who merely have political or ideological differences from the person weilding the ban hammer. And in the years hence, The UK, has shrunken from it's duty to allow FREE EXPRESSION that does not agree with the STATES acquiesence to it's own CULTURAL SUICIDE. In the end, those whom THERESA MAY et al seek to CODDLE, will usher in a NATION that will ban THERESA MAY.

[GUS]

Narciso, May and most libtard cowards, believe that criticizing, punishing and excoriating the likes of SAVAGE, makes themselves virtuous, and accepting of other "cultures". Virtue Signaling for the purpose of gaining acceptance and TEMPORARY POWER.....at the NATION and CULTURES expense.
It happens HERE........BIG TIME. The MFM, is licking OCCASIONALLY COHERANTS ass, they slobber over any WYMYN especially a "Black" woman, who runs for office, without any regard to the qualifications, track record, criminal record, i.q. or accomplishments. I saw MISSSCCCCHHHHELLE Oblahblah on the cover of a GLOSSY magazine at the grocery checkout yesterday.
WHY?