Build The Compromise!

Jonah Goldberg contemplates the next government shutdown and makes a seemingly obvious point about Pelosi's power position:

Pelosi might be the first political adversary who is invulnerable to Trump’s attacks. Trump is dangerous to his preferred targets — other Republicans — precisely because he can sway his supporters, voters and MAGA media figures alike, to turn on those disloyal to him. He can’t do that with Pelosi.

Indeed, in an era of negative partisanship, Trump’s attacks make Pelosi stronger with her base and with many independents, who split evenly for Clinton and Trump in 2016, and who have largely turned against him and tuned out his appeals.

And because Pelosi controls a Democratic House, she is free to use her institutional powers against Trump in ways that Paul Ryan never could have, even if he had wanted to.

Well, yeah - Nancy is worried about tweets from Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, not Trump.

This does not bode well for a compromise, especially given Congress's long history of passing the buck on tough issues:

And while there are some Democrats and Republicans who would like to reach a compromise, both Pelosi and Trump have few incentives to do anything that will seem like capitulation. Many Republicans have already made peace with the idea of an emergency declaration, because it would let them off the hook for failing to pass wall funding.

Meanwhile, Trump is clearly enamored with the idea, believing it would convey strength and a willingness to fight. Yes, some court somewhere would instantly stay the order, but that would simply give everyone an issue to bleat about.

Trump would save face with his base and have a convenient bogeyman — runaway liberal judges! — to rail against. The move would divide the larger conservative movement while unifying Democrats, who’d scream “Dictator!” while quietly noodling about how a Democratic president could use the same powers for a “Green New Deal” or some other fantasy.

AllahPundit is on a similar page - the basis for a deal just isn't here:

Corralling Republicans is comparatively easy for Jared, though. All he needs to do is convince Trump and a critical mass of GOPers in Congress will surely follow. They live in fear for their political lives from him. Once Trump gave them cover by supporting the reform package, Jared knew he had the leverage to make a deal happen.

It’s conceivable that he’d duplicate that feat on immigration reform with Republicans. Get Trump to support a grand bargain and enough Senate GOPers will follow his lead to make passage viable. His problem is Democrats. And not just Democrats but Democrats who recently fought a month-long high-stakes political battle with Trump — and won. They’re less inclined to give him money for the wall right now than they would have been before the shutdown began. If either side is going to need extra concessions to make a deal, it’s Pelosi’s party, not Trump’s.

In fact, the big fight over the wall has made that particular plank of immigration enforcement a fetish for both sides. After going to the mat on it, Trump simply can’t accept a deal that lacks wall funding now. It doesn’t matter what else is in there — comprehensive e-Verify, some new limits to legal immigration (which Democrats will never agree to), etc. If he doesn’t get the wall, he loses, period. I don’t think the wall’s power as a fetish is *quite* as strong for Democrats, but it’s plenty strong. There are, I think, concessions that Trump might make that they’d seriously consider, like a permanent DREAM amnesty that includes a path to citizenship. But as I say, their “ask” now will be steeper than it was six weeks ago. It will take a major concession to make this happen.

So tell me: Is there any major concession Trump might make that the populist right would tolerate in the name of securing wall funding?

I can't elevate this to a Bold Prediction but do let me note that DC has a time-honored technique for resolving this sort of impasse - appoint a bipartisan commission to study the obvious and come back with a report telling us what we already knew, but let business continue as usual while we pretend we are learning something. As a recent example, the Simpson-Bowles deficit commission of 2010 was slated to report back after the 2010 elections. The commission was proposed in January 2010 as a fig leaf to break a debt-ceiling jam.

A Commission on Border Security could puzzle over all sorts of ideas to strengthen the border and in a calm debate there is no doubt in my mind that physical barriers would be a part of the solution for some parts of the border. The bigger problem is that the next real deadline past which both parties might want to kick this is the 2020 election. I don't see how Democrats on the panel could report favorably on physical barriers prior to the election.

Complicating the barrier question is the legal environment in the US. This Heritage report from 2009 sets the stage:

In some areas, erecting fences is the best way to tackle the illegal-entry problem. But the cost makes it important to use fencing only in areas with a low "melting point." The melting point is the time it takes for an individual to cross the border and "melt" into a landscape unnoticed. In urban border communities, spending money on physical barriers makes sense because individuals can easily cross the border and sneak quickly into the urban landscape (for example, one can hide in a building or steal a car and drive away). But in other areas, like the middle of the desert, the barren landscape makes it easy for Border Patrol agents to detect border crossers.

Well, yes but... Today, immigrants with children are happy to be detained in the US because they understand they won't be held for more than 20 days and our courts can't process their dubious asylum claims in that time frame. The Trump Administration is dealing with that by trying to keep asylum applicants on the Mexican side of the border.

Comments

[henry]

Tom R, Chitown Lurker said it was a boystown event start to finish in a private message this morning.

[Jack is Back!]

henry, Ohnsman twisted himself in knots to get that explanation out.

[Marlene]

Good afternoon! The first night we stayed here in Florida,the fire alarms in every room went off at 3 in the morning. We had taken a flight down to get everything set up and our first reaction was,thank goodness the dog isn't here. The Walmart is open 24 hours,so hubby was buying batteries at about 3:05 that morning.
The laundry room is my turf,but hubby does most of the cooking. We take turns grocery shopping,otherwise hubby despises shopping. I don't think he's bought underwear or socks during our marriage. :)

[Marlene]

The big joke is that his new underwear and socks magically appeared in his bureau.

[Old Lurker]

Marlene did you happen to see that youtube I posted a while ago about the magic coffee table?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_kXIGvB1uU

[Dave (in MA)]

I haven't caught up yet.
Buckeye cleans his underwear in the dishwasher?

[Marlene]

OL,LOL.

[MissMarple2]

On Twitter I am seeing that a protester and a Secret Service agent were struck by a vehicle in President Trump's motorcade when the protester tried to run into the motorcade and the agent tried to intervene.

President Trump is fine.

[henry]

Another "green" fiasco!

Vicki McKenna @VickiMcKenna
23m
Bankrupt California Utility Shedding More Than $40 Billion Worth Of Green Energy Contracts

https://twitter.com/VickiMcKenna/status/1090688386803908610

[Dave (in MA)]

<== This young lady learned how to imitate the guy across the street's truck backing up before she ever learned anything else, because her sleeping cage was in the front bedroom at the time, and the neighbor leaves for work around 5 AM.

My brother's golden retrievers were apparently traumatized by smoke detectors beeping last Summer in the middle of the night when 3 of them "expired" at their Cape house over the course of a couple of weeks.

Last time we visited, she was making her truck sound and the dogs were whimpering. She might get dis-invited next time.

[Jim,SunnyvaleCA,USA]

Dersh theorizes.
Notes that ACLU has slipped to slime mold status
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-30/dershowitz-why-was-stone-arrested-instead-being-asked-surrender

[henry]

Bolton:

My advice to bankers, brokers, traders, facilitators, and other businesses: don’t deal in gold, oil, or other Venezuelan commodities being stolen from the Venezuelan people by the Maduro mafia. We stand ready to continue to take action.

[The Infamous Ignatz]

--But somehow DrF and WonderBoy and WonderGirl can’t seem to master this--

Can't or won't?
There is always someone there to rescue them from their "incompetence". :)

[Old Lurker]

"Can't or won't?"

Don't go there, Iggy.

[Jim,SunnyvaleCA,USA]

Marlene, you are a perfect wife! :)

[Tom R]

I can’t stop watching this tweet.

https://twitter.com/georgefoster72/status/1090381575680917504?s=21

[Old Lurker]

Dems in Virginia wanting abortions up to the day of birth has Rush really mad...

You can't make this stuff up.

It is a fair observation that anybody willing to accept/support/promote NY or this is so far gone mentally, ethically, and logically, that how should those people be reliable enough to vote right on constitutional/monetary/taxation/liberty & rights/and so on or support the people they do.

Open House next week at the Ledge for people wanting to kick the tires...

:-)

[Jane]

All you great dishwashers are invited to my house to take care of things until my sink gets in. I'll feed you and serve you drinks - oh and it's a lot warmer here than there.

[MissMarple2]

Celine Dionne looking like a vampire. Seriously. Scared the heck out of me when it popped up on Twitter:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DyGEMEdWkAEwMjQ.jpg

[sbwaters]

So I installed a switch by the kitchen (lighted toggle when off) which would shut all the power off to all of them if triggered by the kitchen smoke.

When our house was built in NYS, no switches were allowed. Not even the lighted ones.

[cathyf]

Can't or won't? There is always someone there to rescue them from their "incompetence". :)

Or maybe I have Mad Skilz and they are incompetent in comparison...

WonderGirl does report that all of the other girls in the dorm are totally impressed by the room layout that I designed for her and her roommate. And last year I got 78 cases of Girl Scout cookies in the Jeep Liberty and could still see my mirrors to back up. It's almost like those bazillion hours I spent playing Tetris were not totally wasted!

[MissMarple2]

AP Central U.S.
‏Verified account @APCentralRegion

Chicago police say detectives have reviewed hundreds of hours of surveillance footage but haven’t found any yet that shows the alleged attack on “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett.

[Tom R]

It's odd how you never hear Democrats talking about the insane amounts of money Hollywood celebrities make.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/bryan-singer-stands-to-make-dollar40-million-from-bohemian-rhapsody-exclusive/ar-BBSWWxd?ocid=ientp

[daddy]

Nancy Pelosi today, on Tawana Smolette:

"No one should be attacked for who they are"

Every DEM on the planet last week:

"Attack the Covington Kids for who they are!"

Good Morning.

Man, Fed Chair Powell is dry as sawdust.

[cathyf]

One of my high school classmates tagged me in a FB meme: Some of y'all never endured an entire winter in a plaid Catholic school skirt and it shows. It sent me on a search for Chicago weather records, and lots of memories. https://www.weather.gov/lot/Chicago_Temperature_Records

DrF and I were discussing minus-mid-20s with minus-80s windchills on Sunday mornings in Jan '82 and we WALKED to church! It was a low of -24 last night, and everything is closed -- not just schools, but restaurants, banks, the freakin BARS are closed -- and I have to conclude that these people are wimps!

[daddy]

Apparently Joe Kennedy III is pontificating at Harvard Law on February 4 on the need to shift to 'moral capitalism'.

He's a Harvard 'Wall Banger.'

[Jack is Back!]

daddy,

In the latest Princeton Review rankings, CalTech is No. 1. Yale is 7th, and Harvard is 8th. What political correct, social justice, diversity, and lower standards (David Hogg's SAT for example), get you.

[daddy]

Eric Schneiderman, the former New York attorney general who resigned after multiple allegations of physically abusing women, used nearly $340,000 in political campaign funds to pay the law firm that represented him.

I think New Jersey needs a Wall to protect themselves from New Yorkers.

[daddy]

Speaking of New Jersey and Manhattan, I vaguely recall that Hamilton and Burr rowed across to Jersey for their duel because Burr claimed Hamilton was cucking him by making the moves on Burr's wife. Was that correct?

I ask because I still find it astounding that Bezos cucking that Movie Producers wife has elicited zero comments from the cucked hubby. I guess that sort of stuff was of a lot more interest to our Colonial forefathers than it is to today's news absorbers.

Day 24 of the Bezos Media silence continues.

[Extraneus]

Funny tweet, Tom R. I assume he was ok.

[Tom R]

According to this there are now more judicial vacancies than when Trump took office.

https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/01/trump-has-opportunity-to-flip-the-9th-circuit-so-why-isnt-he/

I don't recall reading anything during the Obama era regarding the number of judicial vacancies he filled. Are the number of vacancies Obama filled comparable to how many vacancies are occurring under Trump? I'm guessing under Obama the GOP cooperated and confirmed almost all of his judicial appointments with only a few exceptions while under Trump the Democrats are doing everything within their power to slow down the confirmation process.

[daddy]

At the very least Brokaw needs to NAME the Republicans that said they didn't want "brown grandbabies".

Correct, Janet. That's the lie of his that makes me the most angry.

[Momto2]

I can’t believe vice posted this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWam9FSRvGI&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3oyt2upP_KZ9YREoT1Z4tA3qREqYWmX0rQ6qvkBQHQ1LoYBWMCQDwlPNE

[Sandy Daze]

A bit brisk here in 49242 today, as denizens of the entire northern mid-west understand... In fact, I do not think I have even been in such cold temps in my life.

On recommendation, recently finished

Told a friend, who recommended:

(Both I most strongly recommend.)

I suppose I am like a few if not many who knew the name "Chosin" but did not know anything about the battles that took place there.

I am not worthy.

Today being the coldest day I have ever known, I thought I might, as a small way of memorializing in my own thoughts their extraordinary effort and sacrifice, take a walk in the minus 12 (wind chill too, give the 15+ steady and gusting much higher) degree temperature--which I understand is still much warmer than the minus 20s++ at Chosin.

I should be able to do this, right? I might be a bit older than they were, maybe much older, but still in all...I should be able to do this. Mrs Daze said, "No you are not." I said "yes I am." She said, "you're not taking the dogs" --which we were in agreement on.

I walked the mile to my neighbor's farm in just under an hour, a route that normally takes my dogs and me something shy of 30 minutes.

I had multiple layers, thinsulate boots (not the rubber boots those MARINES and GIs had that turned to iceblocks). I was outside for an hour, not the five or so days at Chosin. I was not fighting for my life against the Red Army ChiComs.

God Bless them All.

Requiescat In Pace

[daddy]

When officers showed up at the apartment, the rope was still around Smollett’s neck, said Guglielmi, who described the rope as a “thin, light rope.” Guglielmi said the rope didn’t necessarily resemble a noose.

I recall that when CNN's Reporter Richard Quest was arrested in Central Park with illegal drugs on his person, he had a dildo in his boot and a rope tied around his crank and around his neck. Perhap's we could get some comment from Dick Quest on why he thinks Tawana Smolett had a rope tied around his neck.

Richard Quest, CNN Reporter, Arrested On Drug Charges

The New York Post reports on new, lurid details regarding the arrest of CNN reporter Richard Quest.

CNN personality Richard Quest was busted in Central Park early yesterday with some drugs in his pocket, a rope around his neck that was tied to his genitals, and a sex toy in his boot, law-enforcement sources said.[...]

Quest was initially busted for loitering, the source said. Aside from the oddly configured rope, the search also turned up a sex toy inside of his boot, and a small bag of methamphetamine in his left jacket pocket.

It wasn’t immediately clear what the rope was for.

Well let's ask Dick and find out!

[daddy]

Here's Dick's mug shot on Meth:

[Narciso79]

Apparently Powell will be 'patient's with rate hikes, it looks like Alexander Hamilton made the statements about burr's character that he couldn't retract, otherwise the truth.

Re last night, it took me a bit of research to discover the nature of the dam emergency in brazil.

[lurkersusie]

Surprise

Joe Concha
@JoeConchaTV
Inbox: Fox News “has signed former South Carolina Congressman Trey Gowdy (R) as a contributor, the network announced today. In this role, he will offer political and legal analysis across both FNC and FOX Business Network’s (FBN) daytime and primetime programming.”

[Narciso79]

Furthermore they haven't gotten to the root of the last disaster in bento Rodriguez, four years ago.

[Jack is Back!]

Sandy,
l
I know Tom Clavin. He is Easthampton. Writes a weekly column for the Southampton Press, plus does another column on recent high value realestate sales. Great guy who does unbelevable amount of research.

[Jack is Back!]

...he is in Easthampton....

[Marlene]

Dave (in MA) does your bird talk? Does it sound like you? I smile every time I see the picture. My aunt had a mynah bird and it sounded just like her. My aunt and uncle lived in town near my high school. A few times when I missed the bus,I'd walk to their house to call my father to pick me up after work. I'd knock on the door and hear,"hello." I never knew if it was my aunt or the bird talking until she answered the door.

[daddy]

Really, this shouldn't be that hard. It appears that there is great confusion about the rope tied around Tawana Smolett's neck. Maxine Watters and others are claiming it is evidence of hate crimes by 2 White, anti-gay, anti-Black, anti-homosexual thugs, out on the streets of Chicago at 2 AM in -20 degree weather, just waiting to find a Black celebrity they beat up so, and in this case they got lucky.

We need to diffuse this situation as rapidly and as deftly as that Vietnam Vet 'Injun' diffused the situation of those aggressive White Chrustian kids on the DC mall who surrounded those peaceful Black Israelites that they wanted to lynch.

So c'mon "Light in the Loafers" Jake Tapper. C'mon "Tea-Bagger" Anderson Cooper. C'mon "Black Holer" Don Lemon. Let's leave Roger Stone alone, enjoying being in Prison, and lets bring your CNN colleague Richard Quest on your CNN panel so he can tell us what is the likely reason that gay guys like Tawana Smollett tie ropes around their necks, and lets get some solid questions and answers about what the rest of that rope was tied around. You guys at CNN owe that to the public, and to fans of David Carradine everywhere.

[Old Lurker]

Words fail.

I am ranted out (Gov of Virginia):

https://freebeacon.com/issues/northman-on-40-week-abortion-bill-infant-would-be-delivered-and-then-a-discussion-would-ensue-between-the-physicians-and-the-mother/

[MissMarple2]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/mueller-says-russians-using-his-discovery-materials-disinformation-effort-n964811

H/T CHiTown Lurker.

Mueller is now saying the Russians are after him!

[daddy]

Surprisingly the bulwinkle did not focus in this kerfluffle, not having apologized for throwing sandmann under the bus.

Well Narciso, Jonah tells is that "character is destiny," yet it appears that Jonah's inability to apologize for NRO's savaging of Sandmann's character is Jonah's destiny.

[henry]

Did he store them on Hillary’s closet server? Oh right, he indicted Russians and they showed up in court for discovery. Mueller, once again showing what a dumbass he is.

NBC report:

MUELLER: Russians using investigation materials in disinformation effort...

https://twitter.com/drudgefeed/status/1090720489608265746?s=21

[Jack is Back!]

OL,

It should be discussion between the Mother, and a homicide detective.

[daddy]

Mueller is now saying the Russians are after him!

Good. I don't care who offs the bastard, but I hope they also kneecap Weissmann when they catch up to Mueller. Spasebo!

[clarice]

http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=379502
Mrs Kristol's candidate opts in for infanticide.

[MissMarple2]

Old Lurker,

I listened to that video and posted it earlier today, but since we are on a new page I am glad you posted about it again.

I am particularly outraged because he talks about "babies with disabilities or abnormalities." My daughter was a cleft lip and palate baby. She had 3 surgeries by a pioneer is cosmetic surgery for these kids and she is stunningly beautiful and you would never know it.

Is it ok to crush these kids and tear them apart? How about Downs syndrome kids? What if the baby is missing a couple of fingers?

This whole thing is just horrifying.

Also, the people who are convinced that the human trafficking is for human organs and blood for the elite point out that these laws are being passed as Trump is getting child trafficking reduced.

[daddy]

3. No electronic device such as a smoke detector which includes a 9V battery shall be allowed to announce a dwindling charge by emitting any sort of "Beep" unless it lights up and leaves on a LED indicator light with the first such beep so men can locate the source of the beep.

We just got a new Jeep for one of the daughters yesterday. The damn dinging bell that goes off if you don't have on your seatbelt is the most G**D***ed irritating thing on the planet@#$%

Why the hell can't they make a bell that goes off when the 'frigerator door doesn't completely shut, instead of one that irritates the hell out of freedom loving, decent Americans who don't wannna' put on a damn seat belt.

Arghhhh!

[Account Deleted]

"Last time I did any laundry I shrunk one of her wool sweaters and caught holy hell over that:)"

Soaking a recently shrunk item in fabric softener wringing it and stretching it gently can get back up to a full size on most garments. Maw taught me. (I was a serial shrinker.)

Mrs Kid and i alternate kitchen duty. We do our respective laundries solo. When College Man comes home he does his own--- twice: when he lands and the night before he flies out. (Big suitcase)

[MissMarple2]

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/laurettabrown/2019/01/30/virginia-gov-ralph-northam-defends-infanticide-n2540495

[MissMarple2]

David Limbaugh
‏ @DavidLimbaugh
17h17 hours ago

Not intending to be dramatic but in some places we are approaching the kind of culture God ordered the Israelites to wipe out when He allowed them to enter the land He had given them. Rampant baby sacrifice and idolatry. Abject, pervasive, irreversible evil.

[MissMarple2]

Igor Bobic
‏Verified account @igorbobic

Lindsey Graham has written a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray inquiring about the “tactics” and “timing” of the bureau's arrest of Roger Stone

[Account Deleted]

Bankrupt California Utility Shedding More Than $40 Billion Worth Of Green Energy Contracts

"public interest" attorneys are crowing nightly on local news about the "immoral" intent of PG&E's efforts to do so.

but! it wasn't immoral for an appointed "green energy commish" to install a fixed percentage of green energy supplies to consumer bills without prior opt-in by consumers.

of course, the little notice PG&E sent out in December to "select counties" (our populous Alameda County among others) said basically 'you are free to opt out after the first month billing has been paid.

cancel the contracts. some of these so-called companies are SJW non-profits who produce nothing but re-sold capacity at a higher price. bet my bottom dollar there are federal subsidies for that scam too.

how much money does Communist China stand to lose if the green scam goes tits up? considering how much of the domestic solar fixture installation relies on Communist China's fixture production--- a butt-ton.

[daddy]

Howie Carr's current topic is illegal immigrants mooching off the system. He just mentioned Obama's illegal alien Aunt:

Howie: Tom, I used to get calls from people telling me "You don't know what you're talking about, Howie, illegal Aliens are not on Welfare." Do you remember a woman named Auntie Zatuni? She was the Aunt of President Barrack Obama. One of the local TV stations interviewed her. She was living in Public Housing in South Boston on Welfare, and she said on TV "God wanted me to have this Welfare." She was an illegal alien. And you know what Tom, I've never got a serious call disputing what I said about Illegal Aliens getting Welfare after Aunty Zatuni went on TV, the President's Aunt, and said she was collecting.

Reminds me of that song from West Side Story:

GIRLS
I like to be in America
Okay by me in America
Everything free in America

BERNARDO
For a small fee in America

Now if you'll excuse me I need to drive downtown (with my seat belt bell dinging) to apply for my 2019 PFD check.

[Jim,SunnyvaleCA,USA]

TomR: "According to this there are now more judicial vacancies than when Trump took office.

https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/01/trump-has-opportunity-to-flip-the-9th-circuit-so-why-isnt-he/"

PL was beating on that drum too.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/01/why-is-the-white-house-working-with-feinstein-and-harris-on-selecting-judges.php

[Account Deleted]

our latest lease dings a seat belt warning bell three beats then stops.

our 1998 Nissan Pathfinder (180,000 miles and going strong!) doesn't ding at all.

the $200 ticket for not wearing a seat belt (if caught--- and i got fingered for it in 2007) has me buckling up.

but what really got me to religiously buckle up was a traffic school video i watched 3 years ago: the impact in a 4 passenger scenario of a rear passenger not wearing a seatbelt at 45 MPH rear-ending a stopped car.

the unbelted passenger's body flew around the car killing the other three passengers and itself.

can't imagine what happens at typical Califas freeway speeds of 75 and 80 in those tiny jellybean rockets dominating the roads.

[Old Lurker]

SBW, bet you are right about the legality today of placing a switch, lighted or not, in a smoke detector circuit. Those codes change quickly and today you probably cannot do what I did.

Hopefully nobody will copy my setup without checking.

[MissMarple2]

https://twitter.com/MattWolking/status/1090649402606342146

This guy has ideas on how to fight these abortion aka murder people.

[Tom R]

Mueller, once again showing what a dumbass he is.

In the Spygate movie script I'm writing the bad guys are evil masterminds not incompetent dumbasses. It seems like once again Mueller is intentionally weakening the credibility of the SC investigation.

[MissMarple2]

Kev,

ChiTown says you have mail.

[MissMarple2]

I have never run across this site before, but it showed up on Twitter today so am posting the link. I am not vouching for its credibility.

http://www.usmessageboard.com/threads/nancy-pelosi-is-being-blackmailed-by-pakistan.736531/

[clarice]

My refrigerator beeps when the door is not shut in a hurry. Annoying. Makes it hard tofind things or clean it without that infernaldinging.

[daddy]

Just left my "Richard Quest rope around his neck" crime on Howie's ChumpLine.

Hopefully he'll play it in a minute.

[hoyden]

I'm way behind but the answer to the dishwasher dilemma is to have two and you move the dishes from one to the other as you use them.

[daddy]

Howie reports that the married 2 gay guys who were arrested today for raping some boy were "married" by Ruth Bader Ginsberg.

Chump line didn't play me:(

[anonamom]

So, it's been cold in the winter before.

I will echo cathy f's comment about wearing a wool skirt on such days being memorably nippy. Mine was houndstooth though, not plaid.
I could wear tights instead of knee socks though so that helped some.

I verified earlier this afternoon that winter 1976-77 followed by 1977-78 were southern Michigan's two coldest on record to date, and that Jan 16-18, 1977 had lows of -21, -24 and -23 recorded.

58 straight hours of sub zero temperatures.

[Old Lurker]

sbw, now you have me thinking about my Smoke Detector System and the safety of my switch cutoff. Granted my system was for my house with me as the overprotective OCD house master.

So I made sure that if the switch is ever off, it lights bright red to show that the switch is off and is clearly labeled so everybody knows what it means, and it is so central you walk by it wherever you go in the house. Secondly, I made sure that the AC only smokes I put in all have green leds when powered so there is that. Finally, not trusting myself completely, I did have my alarm guy install several office building grade smokes run off his system that can never be bypassed. Those suckers never beep and never have false alarms.

So I am covered but until you mentioned it I had not thought who else might see my idea but not do all the other things that make my setup safe for us.

Thanks for making me think about my post and be careful to warn copycats to do things by code!

OK, I feel better now.

[Old Lurker]

Anybody else want to come with us to Nantucket tomorrow for caterer tastings? 12F with high winds... The sad thing is since Mrs. OL is coming with me, this will erase the tiny tiny chance that I might have gotten her to agree to reduce our houses to just that one year round. :-)

[MissMarple2]

cathyf, anonamom,

Us public school kids had to wear skirts, too. You weren't allowed to wear slacks to school around here until some time in the 70's.

I can remember being forced to go outside for recess and a bunch of us would huddle together, crouched down on the playground with our skirts pulled over our legs!

[daddy]

Chris Christie is up on Howie next if anybody wants to listen to the fat man.

[Old Lurker]

"answer to the dishwasher dilemma is to have two and you move the dishes from one to the other as you use them."

Hoyden, nice try. Human nature defeats that seeming good idea.

I have three in one house and two in the other, and we have often found them all full and clean at the same time.

So there.

[Extraneus]

There are smoke detectors with 10-year lithium batteries.

Most people would be happy to have to change those 5 or 6 more times.

link

[Sandy Daze]

Younger daughter had RSD (Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome) when she was around 11 or 12 (that is, maybe a dozen+ years ago).

A variety of doctors couldn't figure out what was going on, none had the right diagnosis. Weeks turned to months and she was not getting any better. Eventually through the referral process we landed at the Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters (CHKD) in Norfolk, Virginia.

Ralph Northam was the physician.

He correctly diagnosed her, treated her, and successfully resolved the RSD. That he was a former Army doctor in a military town was no surprise. That he was a southern gentleman in the finest sense of the word was an unexpected pleasure. What a great doc.

I do not know what happens to some people. Is it power? Maybe he was always a leftist. Hard to come to terms with the gentle giant who successfully resolved younger daughter's RSD, with his heinous support and promotion of full term abortion.

Soon the demand will be for fourth trimester, fifth trimester, any trimester abortion.

When does it stop?

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Brother-in-law is a PA, started as a Navy Corpsman. Not to put too fine a point on it, but when he discusses medical procedures, he seems completely devoid of any sense of humanity.

[Old Lurker]

Ext, those 10 year things are great, actually. In truth the sensors themselves should be changed out from time to time anyway because they get dirty and less effective over time. Ten years I can live with, but 9v batteries with a shelf life of 1.3 years +/- is a killer.

[Old Lurker]

See. If we avoid politics, we can make this a happy Home Tool & Hardware blog and never fight.

[Captain Hate]

Greetings from non polar vortex Santa Cruz. At chez Hate I do the laundry and dry the dishes, if everyone is weighing in on who does what.

[Sandy Daze]

...I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrong-doing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.[dubious – discuss] But I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art. I will not use the knife, not even, verily, on sufferers from stone, but I will give place to such as are craftsmen therein.

Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession, as well as outside my profession in my intercourse with men, if it be what should not be published abroad, I will never divulge, holding such things to be holy secrets. ...

[Extraneus]

REP. OMAR: ‘I ALMOST CHUCKLE’ WHEN ISRAEL IS CALLED ‘A DEMOCRACY’

[Old Lurker]

Sandy "That he was a former Army doctor in a military town was no surprise."

Of all the friends of my daughters who are now doctors, the one who remains a Navy Doc at Bethesda had, hands down, the highest scores on the MCATs they have ever seen among all their contacts. He jokes that he went to Med School because it was the easiest thing he could do.

[JohnH]

OL,
my dishwasher has a quick dry setting. Take out desired item,push quick dry, start and close it up. Well at least theoretically. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

[Extraneus]

GRAHAM WANTS FBI BRIEFING ON ROGER STONE RAID

“I am concerned about the manner in which the arrest was effectuated, especially the number of agents involved, the tactics employed, the timing of the arrest, and whether the FBI released details of the arrest and the indictment to the press prior to providing this information to Mr. Stone’s attorneys,” Graham, a South Carolina Republican, wrote FBI Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday.

Graham is requesting a briefing from the FBI by Feb. 5 into the raid, which he asserted matched the tactics typically used to arrest a violent criminal.

He is also demanding to know whether the press was tipped off about Stone’s impending arrest. CNN cameras were rolling as a swarm of armed FBI agents and U.S. marshals stormed Stone’s property shortly before dawn on Jan. 25.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/01/30/gop-sen-cornyn-blames-former-colleague-jeff-flake-for-holding-up-trump-9th-circuit-judicial-appointments/

[The Infamous Ignatz]

I can guarantee you without checking anywhere that a switch in a smoke or CO2 detector circuit is not legal in any state in the union or territory thereof.

[Extraneus]

Obviously she was hired for her Russia expertise...

NELLIE OHR RESEARCHED TRUMP’S KIDS FOR FUSION GPS

The wife of a Justice Department official who worked for Fusion GPS during the 2016 campaign told Congress in 2018 that one of her tasks at the opposition research firm was to research President Donald Trump’s children, including their business activities and travel.

Nellie Ohr, a former contractor for Fusion GPS, also told lawmakers during an Oct. 19 deposition that she recalls that Christopher Steele gave her husband, Justice Department official Bruce Ohr, materials from the infamous anti-Trump dossier funded by Democrats.

Ohr said during the testimony that Steele, who like her was a contractor for Fusion GPS, hoped that her husband would pass the materials to the FBI.

“My understanding was that Chris Steele was hoping that Bruce could put in a word with the FBI to follow up in some way,” Ohr testified to members of the House Oversight and House Judiciary Committees, according to transcripts confirmed by The Daily Caller News Foundation.

[clarice]

We had to wear skirts in public school, but in winter we could wear slacks underneath to and from school.

[MissMarple2]

https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1090734468883800065

Lindsey Graham put up a thread with the list of questions he sent to Wray.

[The Infamous Ignatz]

--When does it stop?--

As I said yesterday; at the bottom of the slippery slope in a pile of baby corpses.

The alternative is in an insurrection and a pile of corpses of Moloch's tribal savages.

[Captain Hate]

Starve the RINOs:

Something I find humorous is the RNC sending me emails begging for money.

Posted by: BignJames at January 30, 2019 01:26 PM (cxHbL)

Send their shit back in the prepaid self addressed envelope and tell them to learn to code.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 30, 2019 01:37 PM (i0ykY)

[daddy]

Just caught up to this post from Ext. (Thanks Ext!)

Bezos Launches Investigation Into Leaked Texts With Lauren Sanchez That Killed His Marriage

The Amazon chief’s security consultants suspect the leak to the National Enquirer may have been politically motivated.

Well ain't that rich---The owner of the WaPo wonders if reporting that he personally doesn't like may have been politically motivated. Ha!

So what. If Bezos is trying to turn this into a thing where we're supposed to ignore the message of his slimy behavior and instead shoot the messenger then I'm onboard with having every "politically motivated" messenger in DC not only shot, but hung from the rafters of the soon to be vacant Newseum.

"I'm shocked, shocked, that there's politically motivated reporting going on in DC!"

[Extraneus]

Northam: Critics Are Taking My Late-Term Abortion Comments Out of Context

Northam said through a spokesperson that his controversial comments were meant to defend the right of women to obtain an abortion when facing "difficult circumstances" like nonviable pregnancies or severe fetal abnormalities. He blamed backlash to his comments on Republicans "trying to play politics."

"Republicans in Virginia and across the country are trying to play politics with women's health, and that is exactly why these decisions belong between a woman and her physician, not legislators, most of whom are men," a statement from a spokesman began.

"No woman seeks a third trimester abortion except in the case of tragic or difficult circumstances, such as a nonviable pregnancy or in the event of severe fetal abnormalities, and the governor's comments were limited to the actions physicians would take in the event that a woman in those circumstances went into labor. Attempts to extrapolate these comments otherwise is in bad faith and underscores exactly why the governor believes physicians and women, not legislators, should make these difficult and deeply personal medical decisions," the statement continued.

[The Infamous Ignatz]

I note that the link to Powerline's columnist amazed that the WH would show ANY deference to Feinstein and Harris's judicial nominee desires is to Mirengoff.
When you're not even hard-assed enough for Mirengoff...

[Account Deleted]

Lion King (NY Progressive Remaster, 2019)
#WalkAway

https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/alhzvb/lion_king_ny_progressive_remaster_2019/

[MissMarple2]

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/01/theres-a-revolt-against-parscale-amid-biden-west-wing?utm_source=twitter&utm_social-type=owned&utm_medium=social&mbid=social_twitter&utm_brand=vf

What this tells me is that the left is scared of Parscale.

[daddy]

Our expensive dishwasher is too high tech a piece of machinery for me to operate so I neither load nor unload it, but I do know how to operate our washing machine. Most of the time I just wash off whatever dish I left in the sink and use it again. #SaveThePlanet

[Captain Hate]

Too bad Katshit wasn't hauled off the flight like that whiney buck toothed Chinese fake doctor.

[henry]

Seems last night was just easing the cold in. Forecast is -30 or so by 7am tomorrow.

No dishwasher appliance here... but they dry really fast when humidity is 35%.