As Much As I Respect David French...

Normally David French does a terrific job at the National Review (I'm a HUGE fan of his Gun Violence Restraining Order piece) but... he is off the rails with his follow-up to this tweet:

By the way, the porn affairs and hush money payments by themselves are enough for me to never, ever vote for Trump. And that’s just one thing, of many. I remember the days, like way back in, say, May 2015, when that would have been a consensus Evangelical position.

That provoked this somewhat off-message response:

The difference is, unlike you, the evangelicals started thinking politically rather than moralistically. Moralism has its place, of course, but prudence must inform it and direct it. Aristotle (or even Aquinas!) should be our guide. You seem to prefer Kant.

Why is this off-message? Because it creates a false dichotomy between "thinking politically rather than moralistically".

Dealing with a lesser of two evils situation is a moral question that, believe it or not, precedes Trump. Here for example, is a Christian minister citing Aquinas and "the moral principle of double effect":

Saint Thomas Aquinas, in his Summa Theologiae, established the moral principle of double effect. (II-II.64.7) Four conditions must be met for someone to act righteously despite bad consequences. First, the act itself must be good or at least amoral. One could argue that voting is a good deed or at least morally indifferent. Secondly, the good effect cannot be achieved by means of the bad effect. The Machiavellian policy that the end justifies the means is wrong; nothing justifies sinful methods. Thirdly, one must intend only the good effect. The other is an involuntary repercussion.

To illustrate, physicians routinely prescribe medicines to patients notwithstanding unfortunate side-effects. Finally, the good effect must be proportionately greater than the evil effect. For instance, driving through a red light when there is no traffic in the middle of the night is better than waiting for it to turn green when rushing someone urgently to a hospital.

Do I need to tell you the station stop for this train? Evangelicals were not casting a 'pro-adultery' vote; they were casting an 'anti-abortion' vote. Can it be morally defensible to choose one bad thing over another?

 

We might be in an even better place if evangelical leaders would pound the table on this point, denouncing Trump's adultery while defending his policies. God sending flawed men to advance His designs is described here.

 

The WaPo went down to Alabama to describe how one congregation dealt with this. A snippet:

There was Terry Drew, who sat in the seventh pew on the left side, who knew and agreed with Trump’s position, and knew that supporting him involved a blatant moral compromise.

“I hate it,” he said. “My wife and I talk about it all the time. We rationalize the immoral things away. We don’t like it, but we look at the alternative, and think it could be worse than this.”

The only way to understand how a Christian like him could support a man who boasted about grabbing women’s crotches, Terry said, was to understand how he felt about the person Trump was still constantly bringing up in his speeches and who loomed large in Terry’s thoughts: Hillary Clinton, whom Terry saw as “sinister” and “evil” and “I’d say, of Satan.”

“She hates me,” Terry said, sitting in Crum’s office one day. “She has contempt for people like me, and Clay, and people who love God and believe in the Second Amendment. I think if she had her way it would be a dangerous country for the likes of me.”

Not a Hillary fan. The minister also wrestled with his support for Trump but settled on the notion that God sometimes uses flawed messengers:

The dilemma was that Trump was an immoral person doing what Crum considered to be moral things. The conservative judges. The antiabortion policies. And something else even more important to a small Southern Baptist congregation worried about their own annihilation.

“It encouraged them that we do still have some political power in this country,” said Crum.

When he prayed about it, that was what the voice of God had told him. The voice reminded Crum that God always had a hand in elections. The voice told him that God used all kinds of people to do his will.

“Nebuchadnezzar,” Crum said, citing the pagan king of Babylon who was advised by godly men to tear down an old corrupt order. “Even sometimes bad leaders are used by God.”

No spoiler on how the minister talked about Trump during the sermon.

 

Comments

[Narciso79]

A brief summary:

https://www.jns.org/opinion/the-netanyahu-indictments-unfair-and-inevitable/

[Narciso79]

Btw what up with this Bryce Harper fellow?

[Dave (in MA)]

Saw elsewhere...
Bryce Harper's contract with the Phillies is for 13 years. When it's done, the Mets will still have 4 years left on Bobby Bonilla's contract, and he last played for them in '99, and retired in '01.

[Narciso79]

Oh I didnt see crazy person Jamie raskin, son of ips founder mark was at the hearing

[Narciso79]

13 years that's a crazy contract.

[President-Elect Jim,SunnyvaleCA]

Bryce in a nutshell

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/02/bye-bye-bryce.php

[Narciso79]

Thanks so is he really worth 29 + million a year?

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Hindu Kush means Indian Mountains.

[Pinandpuller]

Orson Scott Card in Ender Addendum addressed a war in the Venn diagram of China and India but I don't remember Pakistan playing a role.

[Pinandpuller]

Pin, does the article say how many of their members are bushmen?

Posted by: henry | February 28, 2019 at 06:06 AM

Could be, there's a Brazilian of them.

[Pinandpuller]

Becapitated, Pin?

Posted by: Tom Bowler | February 28, 2019 at 07:30 AM

I like where your head is at. You probably do too.

[Pinandpuller]

Blind Squirrel Finds Nut

[Narciso79]

Apparently it's them against china:

http://www.sfreviews.net/osc_shadow_hegemon.html

[Pinandpuller]

Tiana Lowe
‏
@TianaTheFirst
Labor Secretary Alex Acosta, who brokered the illegal plea deal to protect serial predator Jeffrey Epstein, is taking the main stage at #CPAC

[Pinandpuller]

Is Rick Santorum shilling for paid family leave?

[Narciso79]

Ok I might not have had the whole atory:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.indiatoday.in/amp/education-today/gk-current-affairs/story/india-china-war-of-1962-839077-2016-11-21

[Pinandpuller]

The NHS is writing cervical checks his front hole can't cash

[Narciso79]

His name is brine shirley:

https://m.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/creator-star-trek-named-villian.html&ved=2ahUKEwj_qIPvnuDgAhXFT98KHTUXB1sQFjAMegQIBxAB&usg=AOvVaw0r7y5tBpKuqNovyZBQSlax

[Narciso79]

One of your favorite publications comes up captain
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/02/are-the-dems-committing-suicide.php

[Pinandpuller]

Occasio Chavez gets her Death Tax

[Pinandpuller]

Can someone define 'emerging economy' for me seeing as how Turkey has been around thousands of years and all that:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-02-28/orban-s-risky-plans-to-restrict-hungary-s-debt-to-nationals

Even when they start out with reasonable economic policies, nationalists tend to take their pursuit of sovereignty too far. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s handling of Hungary’s public debt is a case in point...

Lowering foreign currency-denominated debt is generally smart policy since it reduces a country’s exposure to exchange rate risks. Turkey’s recent economic troubles have revealed the danger of having a lot of dollar-denominated debt when the dollar is appreciating (and the lira plunging). And Turkey isn’t the only emerging economy that has become more dependent on foreign currency funding in the last decade: Malaysia, South Africa and Thailand have opened themselves up to the same kind of turbulence, as the European Central Bank showed in a December report focusing on emerging markets’ economic vulnerabilities.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Great Caesar's Ghost,
Orwell, Anthony Burgess and even Lewis Carroll couldn't conjure that 12:43 lunacy.
Do they require NHS docs to put the dude in the stirrups and have the poor saw bones take a gander up the guy's transmission tunnel to see if he can spot a cervix that has spontaneously sprouted due to the demented dude's fervent wishing upon a star he had one?
Gotta be a hoax, doesn't it?

[Ralph L]

those NJ, NY, CT, MA, IL, leavers are bringing their politics here.

We've had this problem locally since Marylanders came down to run a new Fairchild aircraft plant during WWII, and it just got worse after textiles collapsed and the Research Triangle got going. At least the Mexicans aren't voting yet.

NC would be nicely red but for all the Yankee leavers who came after the native whites began switching parties in the early 70's.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

And please pardon this comment in advance but a question just popped into my head thanks to the NHS;
When some guy who thinks he's a chick gets his plumbing rerouted and then subsequently has an encounter of the amorous variety does he, upon reaching a climactic crescendo...um, how to say this...still summon forth the male ejecta?

[Ralph L]

It almost sounds like a woman who says she's a man can't get her cervix checked--"not invited."

[Pinandpuller]

The first story was covered, the follow up was smothered:

LOS ANGELES -- A woman charged in the brutal attack on a 92-year-old grandfather out walking in Willowbrook, Calif., was sentenced to 15 years in prison Thursday.

Laquisha Jones, 30, of Los Angeles was charged with felony elder abuse in December.

Witnesses said Jones pummeled Rodolfo Rodriguez with a brick. He suffered a shattered jaw and broken ribs.

https://abc7chicago.com/woman-sentenced-for-brutally-beating-92-year-old-man-with-brick/5161442/

[Pinandpuller]

Does a newly minted chick require a prostate exam is where I think you're going. I haven't gone that deep into that nightmare. Can you imagine if a radiologist was forced to take an X-Ray of a limb a guy had amputated just because he felt like it was still there?

[Pinandpuller]

Going around barriers seems to have caught up to them:

The three victims who were killed in a pickup truck that was destroyed when it was struck by two LIRR trains traveling in opposite directions were fathers who all worked at a Long Island supermarket located roughly half a mile from the crash scene, co-workers said Thursday.

https://nypost.com/2019/02/28/victims-killed-in-lirr-crash-identified-as-supermarket-workers/

[Pinandpuller]

I wonder if Bill Maher knows that there's a place in NY called Hicksville?

Without jim here tonight I feel like the National Anthem should be playing about now...

[anonamom]

Who was the blond questioning Cohen? Straight blond hair, resembled Blackburn a bit but in Congress.

pin, if you google House Oversight Committee, and you'll find a link that will show you all the pictures and you can solve this mystery for yourself.
I used it a couple of times yesterday. They are sorted by party affiliation, so based on the craziness of the question, you know where to start!
If she was berating Cohen, it's the R rep from W VA.
I don't know if the more preferred sites work or not.

[anonamom]

Now I know why I never watch the news.

Will you explain why you then posted what followed?

If it's to engender empathy for the complete lowest of the low that our LEOs have to deal with, I get it, you have been successful, and you don't need to persist on my behalf.
My brother is a retired cop. I've known for a long time these people exist, often on our dime.

[anonamom]

My thanks to whomever posted the link to Tucker's open yesterday, as he confirmed my take away form the four hours or so of testimony I caught on Wednesday in bits in pieces.

I told my husband yesterday that I thought Cohen been brought on to soften the blow to the Lefties from the Mueller report--that that was my take away.To my hear, Cohen completely discredited any collusion, usually in response to Ds very specific questions. It so undermined the "Russia, Russia, Russia" story that I thought it had to be intentional on their part.

You know , that "Never ask a question you don't already know the answer to.
Plus, he testified that he met with Schiff and Cummings to prep!
Yes, he said that.
No, NYT did not headline it...

And as Tucker notes, that "conversion" experience was not only incredible---as NOT Credible---but not in Cohen's "voice" either. Kind like Obama's book that Ayers supposedly wrote, which doesn't sound Obama in the least. .Catsmeat or CH can better explain that voice. Seemed like very slack effort to me. But why good playwrites and screen writers are good --they capture the different characters voice.
That did NOT happen yesterday

But I am grateful for this confirmation, because you'd never know the above from what I caught of the standard source news yesterday.

[peter]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXDiJS29JRM

[peter]

It's the first day of meteorological spring.

[hoyden]

Minneapolis is forecast to get 6" of meteorological spring snow starting this morning and continuing throughout the day.

[rse]

Just wanted to respond to mm's link about 6 last night on cruz offering up federal tax credits involving voluntary contributions to a scholarship funds. Georgia has something similar with a cap, and private school teachers tell me its passage was the end of their autonomy in teaching, especially with a traditional emphasis. Even one of those students accepted binds the entire school to oversight in a different way.

I would be very surprised if ted does not know that. Right now there are still some ports in the storm, but the template is that all types of school will be on similar, student-centered aims, beyond the superficial level that gets pitched to parents as 'choice'.

It's not just that I believe it is coordinated. It's that I watch the heritage or homeschool defense fund employees attending unesco or oecd conferences that I shouldn't be aware of.

Anyone else ever had their cats do an eowyn and the hobbit vs the big elephant seen as they were simply going down the stairs? Cats assumed I was going down to feed them last night and darted to the side of one leg and then in front of me. Good thing I was holding the railing.

Special moment. My next door neighbor in Fla kept a morgan in her garage purchased on a family trip to england where I guess they toured the factory. My girls loved that car. It seemed like a toy to them and their size when they were young.

[henry]

The metabolic syndrome government / industrial complex:

http://roguehealthandfitness.com/metabolic-syndrome-how-food-companies-and-health-officials-made-us-sick/

[rse]

Interesting note on what I just said about that federal deduction Cruz offered up, it coincides with this article http://oecdeducationtoday.blogspot.com/2019/02/un-sustainable-development-goal-education-sdg-4-oecd.html that came out yesterday.

That kind of federal tax provision, like the state programs it is tied to will pull those schools into these SDG outcomes, but parents won't see that if they even notice the changes. I was just reading the underlying brief and the necessary competencies and character traits students must come to exhibit.

[rse]

On a much more fun note https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-6743157/Photographer-captures-Northern-Lights-PLANE-WINDOW.html

We were talking last night about the southern lights as my youngest is somewhere they will be visible later in the spring. Of course it also means she will be getting about as much sunlight as daddy gets in the winter as school rolls on.

[MissMarple2]

Good morning!

We have ab inch of meteorological spring on the ground.

rse, Thanks for that link about the Northern Lights. Beautiful pictures!

[MissMarple2]

The President has put up 2 clips of hhis news conference, each around 45 seconds. I assume he wants to emphasize these statements, so I am posting the links to both.

pic.twitter.com/hUK9dSBM3M

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 1, 2019

pic.twitter.com/ywNk8EhOh0

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 1, 2019

[MissMarple2]

Today in Alaska, it was my great honor to visit with our brave men and women of the United States Military at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. We are forever grateful for their service and sacrifice. THANK YOU! pic.twitter.com/4REVxKUsHT

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 1, 2019

Four photos at the link.

[MissMarple2]

Another indication the pirate guy is leadership material:

Dan Crenshaw
‏Verified account @DanCrenshawTX
1m1 minute ago

Trump’s critics are desperately trying to frame the North Korea summit as a Trump failure. This is reactionary, disingenuous, and predictable.

Denuclearization will take time, more talks, and incremental steps. I’m grateful that we have a leader willing to do that.

[MissMarple2]

New York City Experienced Worst Decline in Restaurant Jobs since 9/11 After $15 Minimum Wage Win | Jon Miltimore https://t.co/sS7iANYOZk

— LCInstitute (@LCIOfficial) March 1, 2019

Article at link.

[MissMarple2]

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/432131-exclusive-inside-joe-bidens-campaign-in-waiting

[rse]

https://grist.org/article/you-cant-take-on-climate-change-without-tackling-sprawl/

Supposedly the great failing of the Green New Deal.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/28/democrat-led-states-to-sue-trump-over-blocking-funds-to-planned-parenthood/

[Another Bob]

“On this day 26 years ago, four ATF agents were killed in the line of duty in a mission outside of Waco, Texas. We honor all the Special Agents present that day who persisted in the face of danger. Their bravery and brotherhood continues to unite our organization.”

https://twitter.com/atfhq/status/1101168946873593857?s=21

That tweet is, to say the least, pretty distasteful.

[MissMarple2]

Mark Knoller
‏Verified account @markknoller
1m1 minute ago

Back from Hanoi, Pres Trump has no public or press events on his schedule today, at this writing. @VP addresses conservative supporters this morning at @CPAC. ther WH speakers there today include @KellyannePolls, Peter Navarro, @SecretaryRoss and Chief of Staff @MickMulvaneyOMB.
=================================
I don't know if there is a live stream, but I saw this and wanted people to know some of the speakers today.

[MissMarple2]

https://dailycaller.com/2019/03/01/jay-inslee-2020-presidential-race/?utm_campaign=atdailycaller&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter

Governor Jay Inslee of Washington state will announce today.

How many are we up to now?

[Captain Hate]

That tweet is, to say the least, pretty distasteful.

Another Sleepy Jeff swamp draining success story. Eliminate the entire DOJ!

[hoyden]

Democrats seem to believe anyone can grow up to become President. Democrats want to skip the growing up part.

[MissMarple2]

CPAC Conservatives Now Embracing Trump. He Has 93% Support But In 2015 It Was 3% At CPAC.

After considerable initial skepticism about Donald Trump’s credentials, the Conservative Political Action... https://t.co/znwEq8uvfH

— Rep Security Council (@RSCGOP) March 1, 2019

Link goes to a good WND article with some quotes from CPAC attendees, but I warn you that it is jam-packed with ads and pop-ups.

To go from 3% to 93% support has to be the most amazing story of salesmanship and performance that I have ever seen.

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump
3m3 minutes ago

Great to be back from Vietnam, an amazing place. We had very substantive negotiations with Kim Jong Un - we know what they want and they know what we must have. Relationship very good, let’s see what happens!

[MissMarple2]

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cuomo-appeals-to-bezos-to-bring-amazon-back-to-nyc-report

He's penned a "full-page letter" (I assume this means it will be a newspaper ad) appealing to Bezos.

Given the restaurant job decline due to the minimum wage and this fiasco, New York is well on its way to demonstrating the destructive power of leftist policies in real life.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/unrepentant-ilhan-omar-suggests-jews-who-criticize-her-anti-semitic-statements-are-doing-so-because-shes-muslim-revives-dual-loyalty-smear

[MissMarple2]

Nikki Haley
‏Verified account @NikkiHaley

Six Presidential candidates voted in favor of murdering babies who survive abortion. I don’t believe this to be a partisan issue. I believe every day Americans would see a baby surviving an abortion as a miracle and blessing. Our country needs a serious gut check on this issue.

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump
5m5 minutes ago

Wow, just revealed that Michael Cohen wrote a “love letter to Trump” manuscript for a new book that he was pushing. Written and submitted long after Charlottesville and Helsinki, his phony reasons for going rogue. Book is exact opposite of his fake testimony, which now is a lie!

[jimmyk]

New York is well on its way to demonstrating the destructive power of leftist policies in real life.

As if we haven't had enough evidence over the last fifty years. For some reason every new generation has to keep learning the hard way. I guess that's to be expected given the state of our education system.

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump
3m3 minutes ago

Congress must demand the transcript of Michael Cohen’s new book, given to publishers a short time ago. Your heads will spin when you see the lies, misrepresentations and contradictions against his Thursday testimony. Like a different person! He is totally discredited!

[MissMarple2]

The Daily Caller
‏Verified account @DailyCaller
3m3 minutes ago

Peyton Manning Favored To Replace Jason Witten On ‘Monday Night Football’ https://trib.al/dTkKy2C

[jimmyk]

And I see Bernie wants to legalize marijuana everywhere. I see this as similar to immigration policy, in a way: What might have been reasonable when we didn't have a welfare state is not a great idea now. The prospect of a bunch of potheads on the dole, and making babies, is not appealing.

[Neo]

CBS: Will the President finish his term ?

McCabe: There is the overwhelming likelihood he will

[MissMarple2]

https://theresurgent.com/2019/03/01/conservative-institutions-are-failing-jeremiah-29-conservatives/

Eric Erickson makes the case that local conservatism is the answer and that a lot of conservatives are ignoring DC.

I think this is a load of BS. For example, if you are concerned about your local scools you MUST care about immigration policy, DOE rules, etc. You cannot just sit passively and hope that a few schoolboard candidates will make a difference.

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump
2m2 minutes ago

Oh’ I see! Now that the 2 year Russian Collusion case has fallen apart, there was no Collusion except bye Crooked Hillary and the Democrats, they say, “gee, I have an idea, let’s look at Trump’s finances and every deal he has ever done. Let’s follow discredited Michael Cohen.....
=======================================

(I assume Part 2 will eventually pop up.)

[MissMarple2]

AOC claims she's fighting dark money and corruption in politics but then she made a decision that allowed her chief of staff and senior employees avoid public transparency laws that would require them to reveal outside income, gifts, stock trading activityhttps://t.co/oXLTZ6TU5B

— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) March 1, 2019

Link goes to story in the Washington Examiner.

[MissMarple2]

Here's Part 2!

Donald J. Trump
‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump
56s57 seconds ago

...and the fraudulent and dishonest statements he made on Wednesday. No way, it’s time to stop this corrupt and illegally brought Witch Hunt. Time to start looking at the other side where real crimes were committed. Republicans have been abused long enough. Must end now!

[MissMarple2]

https://www.wishtv.com/news/local-news/keeping-pets-safe-from-coyotes/1819965875

We have coyotes around here even into well-populated areas. The tips on this article apply to anyone who has them lurking around their area.

[henry]

Dems will be Dems:

Jay Weber @JayWeber3
37m

Evers' budget would spend another 3 to 3.5 billion dollars per year, would raise taxes about 550-million each year, and create a structural deficit of over 800-million dollars each year that we'd just sorta have to work out or hope new revenues would fill in.
Very irresponsible.

[Narciso79]

What I was referring to last night:

https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2019/02/us-offers-1-million-reward-for-information-on-hamza-bin-laden.php

[henry]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

Michael Cohen’s book manuscript shows that he committed perjury on a scale not seen before. He must have forgotten about his book when he testified. What does Hillary Clinton’s lawyer, Lanny Davis, say about this one. Is he being paid by Crooked Hillary. Using her lawyer?
7:37am · 1 Mar 2019 · Twitter for iPhone

[MissMarple2]

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/432160-women-say-ny-state-agency-allowed-sexual-harassment-for-years-report

I would say a guy exposing himself is a little bit more than sexual harassment.

[MissMarple2]

https://climatechangedispatch.com/white-house-to-create-red-team-to-counter-green-team-climate-hysteria/

[Narciso79]

Not the earth shattering kaboom they exoected:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/us/politics/impeachment-democrats-trump.html?fbclid=IwAR1uuVKumg5PxrLkTOpYPJwAQuh16-dnPIFHaPsWzPiVTmA_SUpwAUaf33U

[MissMarple2]

https://twitter.com/Doc_0/status/1101473925438078978

An excellent thread by John Hayward in reponse to Eric Erickson's "Jeremiah 29" brand of conservatism.

[MissMarple2]

http://fortune.com/2019/02/28/us-toilet-paper-consumption-canada-forests/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=fortunemagazine&xid=soc_socialflow_twitter_FORTUNE

"an average American uses 3 rolls of toilet paper a week and it's devastating forests."

[henry]

Nifty device here:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6752787/Boeing-unveils-38ft-long-autonomous-Loyal-Wingman-fighter-jet-uses-AI-fly-alongside-pilots.html

[Buckeye]

"an average American uses 3 rolls of toilet paper a week and it's devastating forests."

I am calling total BS on this.

I have always been very prolific in the "cable laying" activity and I don't go through 3 rolls a week.

Maybe 2:)

[Narciso79]

So are we switching to the three shells.

In the already tried and true way of selecting your audience Larson uses intersectional feminism in an interview.

[President-Elect Jim,SunnyvaleCA]

"We have coyotes around here even into well-populated areas"

Back in our former house, not only did we have coyotes, the HOA vocally refused to do anything because coyotes are natural.

Instead, don't leave pet food out, don't leave pets, kids or elders out alone in the evening was their advice.

[Extraneus]

...and the fraudulent and dishonest statements he made on Wednesday. No way, it’s time to stop this corrupt and illegally brought Witch Hunt. Time to start looking at the other side where real crimes were committed. Republicans have been abused long enough. Must end now!

That sounds less like whining and more like a threat.

[Narciso79]

So are grimsley bears

[henry]

the HOA vocally refused to do anything because coyotes are natural

My neighbors, "lets shoot some squirrels, make a pile, then shoot some coyotes. Plenty of beer for after."

[henry]

F35 now ready to rumble, per Navy:

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/28/the-navy-just-declared-americas-most-expensive-weapons-system-ready-for-war.html?__source=twitter%7Cmain

[rse]

https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/03/project-veritas-video-political-targeting-at-facebook/#more-275307

Not a surprise. but still useful, especially since the EU has FB working with media to help define what is Fake News and disinformation. Talk about the fox and the hen house.

[hoyden]

3 rolls per week? No way. I use Northern thousand sheet roll and it lasts all week.

[henry]

Evers told AOC to hold his beer:

Vicki McKenna @VickiMcKenna
14s

LOL: @GovEvers declares a carbon free WI by 2050 in his so-called budget! It's not even technologically POSSIBLE. @SenFitzgerald said it best: It's a 1000 page press release, not a budget.

https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/environment/tony-evers-proposes-carbon-free-electricity-by/article_47e58324-d301-537f-adf6-61cddf6760cc.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=user-share

[Extraneus]

Hey Jim, I found your Dissenter comment. (I used a bad URL when I tried it the first time.)

link

[President-Elect Jim,SunnyvaleCA]

henry on coyotes: "My neighbors, "lets shoot some squirrels, make a pile, then shoot some coyotes. Plenty of beer for after.""

I'm guessing WI houses have a bit more space between them, LOL

[President-Elect Jim,SunnyvaleCA]

It DOES sound like fun, though!

[Extraneus]

Using the Dissenter extension, it looks like you have to click it on the main page of a thread, not one of the comment pages. (Needs the .html at the end.)

[henry]

Jim, You can de-sprawl into pod bays with the rest of the left. Here in the dairy state we let cows have room to fart.

[henry]

reasons not to buy a new car:

If you drive a Subaru, you may want to avoid wearing perfume or a sweater treated with fabric softener—they could prevent the engine from starting.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/subaru-says-its-cars-and-fabric-softener-dont-mix-11551442945?mod=e2tw

[Narciso79]

I stand corrected we are in even stranger territory than demolition man

[Extraneus]

Oh no.

Butt implants linked to cancer in rare first reported case

[Buckeye]

I'm guessing WI houses have a bit more space between them, LOL

Jim,Sunnyvale

I live less than 20 miles from the center of Columbus. It is far suburbia. I can walk across the main east-west road that is the entrance to our development and be on a farm where hunting is legal.

Henry is even more remote. I think he has ~ 50 acres.

God's country for us "regular guys":)

[henry]

Jim, forgot to add, you are welcome to join us... bring your own AR. ;)

[James D.]

Re the photo Pin posted (from CPAC?) @ 1:29 - “It’s time for conservatives to support paid family leave.”

No, it is absolutely, positively fucking NOT. It is one for college servatives to vocally, aggressively, unapologetically support radically lower taxes, smaller government and reduced regulations, and to oppose government policies and social pressures that dramatically increase the costs of raising children, while reducing the rights of parents to raise children according to their values and conscience.

Doing that would make it far easier for families to raise children on one salary, so the other parent can stay home wit the children, which of course eliminates the need for paid parental leave.

Why is this complicated?

[henry]

Buckeye, I'm 30 miles from the center of Milwaukee.

[President-Elect Jim,SunnyvaleCA]

Ext, now I see yours, too.
Next we get TM to ditch TypePad and just everyone posts comments directly to dissenter instead! TK would be saddened though, since he has honed his comment search skills over the years.

(TK, hope your flu is abating!)