We'll Always Have Paris

Diligent and creative posturing by bureaucrats whose careers are tied to climate change negotiations deliver more "progress" on climate change. Whew!

DO LET ME ADD: Good athleticism by Michal Kurtyka. the Polish deputy minister who jump-started these talks. OK, jump-ended them. Whatev.

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[henry]

My nieces went to that school. As a birthright Friend, I would recommend the father be shunned as an unreformable asshat.

[Account Deleted]

i gleaned from an article on the witchunt this morning that Big Jim Comey was in on Martha Stewart's railroading experience.

[Extraneus]

People are crying over that 8-year-old girl's loss. I'm serious. Go to the link at your own risk.

Oh, and if you don't?

Morales was declared vice president of her class, giving her the ability to serve as a tie-breaker between the House and Senate, and she will hold meetings with the class president.

[Account Deleted]

will Bezos continue to cave? how soon before his top management is infested with Muslim breeders of jihadi-lite?

do the right thing, Bezos.

[Pinandpuller]

The Media Blackout is to keep federal judges from finding out all this stuff.

[Account Deleted]

Get off your hind legs, Hillary, and go sit down. Think seriously about your life and what it has amounted before planting your pathetic sucker pod of a soul onto the back of a third grader.

She's innocent. Filled with light. You are a walking cadaver. Shoo!

[Account Deleted]

Elementary school riddled with parental meddlers reliving their failed lives through their spawn.

America's new blood sport?

[Pinandpuller]

Kev

Traditional Palestinian Garment

Suicide Vest?

[Account Deleted]

When Friends are shunned, henry, can they become Episcopalians?

[Account Deleted]

Pin:

with a smart "dead woman" switch nestled inside the flowing sleeve.

Kev

[daddy]

People are crying over that 8-year-old girl's loss.

Well what gets me is that we already have this:

Father of Deceased Migrant Girl Says Border Patrol Did All They Could...Guatemalan Consul Tekandi Paniagua tells CNN’s @edlavaCNN he met extensively with the father of 7-year-old Jakelin Caal Maquin Friday night in El Paso. Paniagua says the father of Jakelin has “no complaints about how Border Patrol agents treated him and his daughter.”

Yet we have reporters who travel all those thousands of miles away to Guatemala, dig up the distant relatives, yet somehow neglect to tell them what the father on location has already concluded about the situation. Instead they happily play this story as their lead:

CNN: Thousands of miles away, grieving family wants to know how 7-year-old girl died in US custody

It never ends.

[Jack is Back (Again)!]

When I was in 3rd grade at The Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, in Southampton, our biggest brouha-ha was not for class President but who got honors to pick first for the baseball game. Not only that but my best friend Al, who owns one of our large plumbing companies, complained that the batt had a Richie Ashburn grip and it allowed me to cover the butt end and win the first pick.

By the way, we won that game because we only had one ball, and after my other friend Eddie hit a homerun over the fence, some guy's dog grabbed it and ran away with it. 5-3 no ball.

[daddy]

Oops.I thought you were talking about the 7 year old dead Guatemalan gal, not the 8 year old Hillary wanna be.

[Account Deleted]

can we loose a pack of Roos to that Friends school on Parents Night to kick butt without taking names?

sniveling frauds. the aggrieved class burgeons as America teeters on the brink.

[Account Deleted]

so how much cash do CNN reporters carry on their Latin American beats?

"the bargains are unbelieveable down there!"

[daddy]

People are crying over that 8-year-old girl's loss.

On the plus side, the boy who won might someday change genders, which would render all of their sexist angst and sexist anger superfluous .

[Pinandpuller]

Could Mueller's grudge against Trump go back to the National Golf Club in Sterling,VA? First ive heard of that. He wears a white golf cap.

[henry]

Why would they want to? Probably are Episcopalian already.

Kev, very few of the staff or students of a modern Friends School are members of the Religious Society of Friends. The ratio has declined since the 1960’s to where the label “Friends” has no meaning beyond private any longer. By the 90s, proto SJWs adopted a cartoon version of our beliefs focused on “pacifism” and “unanimous consent” that have nothing to do with tending the inner light of our fellows. I saw it in grad school when the Organizational Behavior department PhD students set up a field trip to the Cleveland Meeting House. I was in that seminar, but refused to go... the prof (from India) was not pleased when I exposed her crapola.

[Account Deleted]

JiB, your story reminds me.

we had park ball games across the street from where i grew up in Califas. during the summer the games would go on "tied" for days.

we learned that if a dog ran off with the ball, we'd be chasing that sumbeench all day to get it back.

also learned that dog spit can dissolve old threads in just a few hours of chase. first batter to connect, once play was restored, would make that cover splat like a banana's peel.

good times.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

I didn't read this story because who the hell cares and worse, it's Hahvahd, but I did love the title juxtaposed with the picture they used;
Research: When Overconfidence Is an Asset, and When It’s a Liability.

[Account Deleted]

wonder if the elementary school parents will do the right thing: have their boys re-assigned so may claim they didn't further the oppression of the loser, er, i mean the witto geeerrrl.

[henry]

Excellent catch Ig!!!

LOL

[Jack is Back (Again)!]

BTW, in case Lyle is lurking, I am sitting outside in the dark by a lighted patio and pool, drinking a very nice 2010 Chateau Franke Mayne from St. Emilion. Friend of my BIL owns the vineyard. Highly recommended when waiting for you good buddy Beagles to show up. Starting to getting worried. Maybe why I am drinking some good stuff:)

[Account Deleted]

henry? you're the Devil.

[Captain Hate]

Regarding Mega McCannz badmouthing McSally, first of all she was retweeting something her husband initially sent. Second, there are a few members of the Horde from Arizona who are less than enamored with McSally after her loss to Kyrsten Sinema, claiming she ran a terrible campaign and should just go away.

[Jack is Back (Again)!]

HBR, the light at the end of the tunnel, and its the 3:08 out of Tulsa with a belly full of coal:)

[Catsmeat]

Thanks, Jack, for the Raj recommendations--I will look at them but more to the point I will make sure they were all on Rachel's lists (grad lists she had to read--if she's missing something good, I need to make sure she knows about them).

As for "Oh brother"--the comma or the non-comma is entirely a question of what effect the writer is after. I think it registers disgust better without the comma (appropriate disgust here, since we're talking about boys having periods, which they don't, and the prevailing cultursmog pressure to pretend they do) .

[henry]

Kev, I’m not even wearing Prada.

[Account Deleted]

Ig:

aint no one gonna tie that goat.

and, 2) this sounds like a finding from a Hillary or Obama focus group in March 2016---

"Some research has reported that being overconfident while participating in a group activity did not damage the person’s reputation.

Individuals who had acted confident about their task performance, but were later revealed to be worse at the task than they had claimed, did not suffer a severe drop in their social status in the group relative to someone who had been well-calibrated.

The researchers concluded that “the status benefits of overconfidence outweighed any possible status costs”.

[Pinandpuller]

I wonder if that form Mike Flynn's son didn't fill out is in a drawer with some 302's?

[Captain Hate]

Catsmeat,

A Moron of the printed word recommended Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds today. Any comment?

[daddy]

Peter,

Just caught up to the McLaughlin version of Cherokee. Beautiful!

I've been on and off listening to a few more short lessons of that jazz pianist Barry Harris, giving lessons on Cherokee and other famous standards---wonderfully tasty!

Man do I wish I hd had a chance to learn piano as a kid.

BTW,

How is son and how is cross country gal at Caltech doing? Hope you have positive updates on both.

[lurkersusie]

Including her husband

Newsweek on Twitter: "Michelle Obama: "I have been at every powerful table you can think of...They are not that smart" https://t.co/5q8r4iEQ1r https://t.co/w9NT4SPA5L" / Twitter

https://twitter.com/Newsweek/status/1074376643358191618

[lyle]

🍷JiB!

[Captain Hate]

Mooch dropping dimes on the Farsi Ferret and Mrs. Stedman?

[Pinandpuller]

You know why John Podesta likes twenty eight year olds?

There's twenty of them.

[Extraneus]

Thank you, Catsmeat. No comma it is.

[daddy]

Catsmeat,

I've read a couple by Jhumpa Lahiri which I thought were excellent. Maladies was great, and the one where she decided to spend a year immersed in Italian so that she could write and think in a different language was also a good read---well suited to my limited time and sensibilities.

[Extraneus]

Despite "Allah Supreme, Supreme," McLaughlin's Mahavishnu "Visions of the Emerald Beyond" is a sublime musical accomplishment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3Cwoz_JnyM

[Account Deleted]

(( As I know too well, it’s not easy when you stand up and put yourself in contention for a role that’s only been sought by boys,”))

Who cares if a girl wins....anything?
What's the big deal about being a girl?
ANYONE can be a girl.
That's what Democrats tell us.
So what is it? Is there a difference or not?

[lyle]

Mooch was at the table as well. What a fraud just like her “husband.”

[Jack is Back (Again)!]

I guess everyone who every listened to Mahavishnu was smoking something right? A glass of Bourdeaux does nothing for the music.

[daddy]

You know why John Podesta likes twenty eight year olds?

There's twenty of them.

Disney actor Stoney Westmoreland fired after arrest

Disney Channel actor Stoney Westmoreland has been fired after he was arrested in Salt Lake City for allegedly attempting to have a sexual relationship with an online acquaintance he believed was 13-years-old.

In a statement Saturday, Disney announced that the 48-year-old Westmoreland...

etc.

[daddy]

Despite "Allah Supreme, Supreme," McLaughlin's Mahavishnu "Visions of the Emerald Beyond" is a sublime musical accomplishment.

I agree, Ext. Long time McLaughlin fan here, though I haven't had a record player now to play my old albums of his on for 30-40 years. Saw him once in college, probably 1975, from about 3 feet off the stage, but thankfully didn't get tinnitus until 2009.

[Pinandpuller]

Ray McGovern-27 year CIA Veteran indicts Mueller:

https://youtu.be/ngIKjpucQh8

[lyle]

Since no one is around I might as well get this out there: Janet has always been my favorite. Entre nous, of course. 😙

[daddy]

"Michelle Obama: "I have been at every powerful table you can think of...They are not that smart"

Just a question---I am positive Michelle O has been at every powerful table full of Libs you can think of, but has she ever been at a table full of Conservatives?

There's a bit of a difference.

[Account Deleted]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/texas-new-hipsters-threaten-the-very-environment-that-lured-them-there?ref=home?ref=home

[Captain Hate]

Saw him once in college, probably 1975, from about 3 feet off the stage, but thankfully didn't get tinnitus until 2009.

There was no excuse for playing at such an ear ruining level.

[Account Deleted]

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/12/joy-reid-and-guest-fantasize-about-ivanka-being-arrested-only-way-were-really-going-to-get-to-trump-is-if-you-go-after-his-kids-video/

[Pinandpuller]

Mueller believed he had been given special authorities after 9/11. I think that went to his head. Or his soul since he sounds totally immoral.

[lyle]

Joe Pass took a request from me at a concert once. It was Just Friends . I was no more than ten feet from him. He had asked for requests. I was the only who spoke up.

[Pinandpuller]

daddy

You might like to listen to Ray McGovern on a long hike.

[Account Deleted]

Mahavishnu live: window pane!

[Pinandpuller]

I took a jazz guitar class. It was Pass/Fail.

[Account Deleted]

And Michelle Odious is THAT smart? Bovine Protrudis.

[Narciso79]

Well saul was a pharisee a student of gamaliel if memory serves, Mueller did serve as a prosecutor in. San Francisco, in the tail end of the Bush years,

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--"I have been at every powerful table you can think of...They are not that smart"--

I know there's a lot of pronoun confusion these days, but after 10 or more years sitting her fat arse at these tables how dumb does she have to be to not know the correct one is "we".

[lyle]

How many times did the fraud start a sentence with “me and Barack,” Ig?

[daddy]

Still doing catch-up:

If it was a Repub problem, I feel confident the media would be hammering on it 24x7.

Texas Republican Blake Farenthold ...ring a bell?

[Narciso79]

That seems like a really interesting project, catsmeat I believe mm Kayes thr far pavilions is in that vein although of later date.

[daddy]

And Michelle Odious is THAT smart?

Yes, she is so smart that after Obama won and they were headed to DC she left that $375K a year Hospital job, and because she had solved so many problems there there were none left needing anymore solving, so they eliminated her position. That's how smart she is!

[Narciso79]

Oh yes, Martha Stewart enemy of the people, that's when he seemed to go overboard.

[Account Deleted]

Make Califas Great Again:

Black Magic Woman_Live_Watsonville HS Stadium_1989

[Captain Hate]

WJOM

https://paalnilssen-love.bandcamp.com/album/19th-of-may-2016

[Account Deleted]

Interesting.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/39390/trump-pledges-review-case-former-green-beret-joseph-curl

[Captain Hate]

The breaking point has been reached:

https://voiceofeurope.com/2018/12/macron-accused-of-treason-by-french-generals-for-signing-un-migration-pact/

[Account Deleted]

Song X Part Deux, CH? wtf.

[Account Deleted]

so macron pays off the generals or gets hoisted by his squirrel parts?

[Pinandpuller]

37 minutes in McGivern tells a Bill Biney story.

BB goes to talk to CIA chief Pompeo and tell him his people are lying about the DNC breach. Pompeo asks him if he knows anyone at the FBI.

Yeah, eight years ago they kicked my door at 6AM and took me out of the shower. He and two people from the BSA and a congressional staffer.

The FBI knew he wasn't the leaker but they did it anyway. That would be Mueller's FBI right?

[jimmyk]

Texas Republican Blake Farenthold

I'm sure that blond was attracted to Blake for his good looks, and had no idea he was a powerful congressman.

[Pinandpuller]

NSA

[Account Deleted]

maybe this particular link dint make the cut today:

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2018/12/16/schools-eight-year-olds-boys-periods/

occurs to me that this is going to go all well and good until Laddy gets a snootful of this nonsense and snuffs the entire teachers lounge at age 12. with a crossbow.

[Rocco]

McGovern was a VIP and not to be trusted imo.

Wilson's EPIC Forum bio before he scrubbed it

[Catsmeat]

Clarice, you'll see I finally sent a response to Shawna and Opal--I hope Opal finds it useful!

[Rocco]

And after

[Account Deleted]

that picture of Blake reminds me of the exploding whale carcass.

she needs to stand back. way back.

[Narciso79]

Interesting general Villiers did not sign it,
Of course their allegiance is to Europe first and probably skydragons next.

[Captain Hate]

Ha, Cha! I sat right in front of Otomo when he played at a gallery a while back; mercifully he didn't go into the ear splitting mode. I bought that disc from PNL Wednesday night; he greets me as Captain Hate. Fantastic drummer; tied at the top of my faves with Hamid Drake.

[Account Deleted]

Is Joe Wilson still getting paid for anything?

[Narciso79]

He was on the board of that security contractor symbion but that was some years ago.

[MissMarple2]

Think I will head to bed.

Nytol!!

[Captain Hate]

Yeah, eight years ago they kicked my door at 6AM and took me out of the shower. He and two people from the BSA and a congressional staffer.

The FBI knew he wasn't the leaker but they did it anyway. That would be Mueller's FBI right?

2001-2013. The Wonder Years, as in I wonder if they solved anything.

[daddy]

Is Hillary's grandkid a boy? If so i feel for the poor bastard.

[Account Deleted]

((Is Joe Wilson still getting paid for anything?))

One thing...
He is on the board of the 'Military Religious Freedom Foundation'

https://www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/about/foundation-voices/

They sue & sue & sue & hunt down Christian anything in our military. Then they sue some more.
It seems like they pretty much call the shots at the Air Force Academy.

[henry]

Daddy, not for long.

[clarice]

I saw your wonderful email, catsmeat. You are a doll to take the time to write such a wonderful, thoughtful response!

[Catsmeat]

Thanks, narciso!!--I loved the whole M. M. Kaye Raj trilogy, though I was a dewy-eyed figure in my twenties (my student was reeled into her interest that way too). But I learned things from them, romance genre though they be--but I learned even more from Peter Hopkins (The Great Game and all the sequels, up to Stalin), and perhaps even more from Kipling, who was of course actually THERE.

[Account Deleted]

that's sick, Janet.

[Account Deleted]

Hillary's kid , Cheaslee, will re-assign her muttboy with "Mark" swearing it was the right thing to do.

[Account Deleted]

CH-

i can see you in a leather "cut" with "Captain Hate" on the back. lol it's "so not who you are."
(ducks)

kev

[Account Deleted]

ehya, Kidney Boy.... never asked so i will now. diddit hert?

[Account Deleted]

i'm so frickin sore....but it's time for evening yoga torture. "yet her kindness rays from every pore." my yogini IS the devil with a purpose. (make the Cha into play dough.) :D

nite everybody.

[Narciso79]

Yes particularly the short stories have a lot of material, I got on a kipling kick some years ago in part because of an appearance in one of Arthur c Clarke last series, which featured a Kipling displaced into our near future.

[Narciso79]

How do you evaluate a novel as a thesis, is it subject matter, fidelity to period detail,

[Pinandpuller]

"Pain don't hurt"-Dalton

[Catsmeat]

Short answer, narciso--I don't. Her advisor and the other committee members matter here, and they would just be glad of my pointing out any factual problems, which I'll do if I find any, but really they are judging it as a work of art (which of course I am also totally competent to judge, but that's not really why I'm there, though they'll listen to me, if I have any issues--my colleagues are actually great if you don't talk politics with them, which I never do). Sorry for the muddled writing.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Man tran from earlier;

--So, is there an inviolate rule that we are forbidden to correct the terminal state of this once great republic with the benefit of our 2nd Amendment until a sufficient number of us are fired upon?

If the proper recourse of the justice system is inop, what may we be allowed to use as a signal to know if now is the time? If not now, when?--

History shows there is no way of knowing. And it also shows things can't be forced.
Watch and wait.

[Narciso79]

That's fine I just thought it might be a challenge, most of the stuff that comes out of creative writing like Jonathan Franzen gag

[clarice]

Horrible story, but they have it backwards. It's not Europe's shutting down illegal immigration--it was allowing it in the first place and Hillary's role in destabilizing Libya:https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/monicamark/slavery-nigeria-libya?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc&fbclid=IwAR0Exne5kN3A3ajNIT5dDRFTUTkD93dD4GRWciEjznhE_rRyFAqHILLRZKo#4ldqpgc