Brexit Fog

I don't think I am alone in having lost the plot on Brexit. Exit day is slated for March 29, which hits the Regional Weekend of March Madness and is right after Opening Day in baseball. Then April is big: baseball settles in, the NBA Playoffs, Avengers: Endgame, Game of Thrones... who has time for Brexit? Pushing it back a few months (or years!) is a great idea.

Comments

[MissMarple2]

https://www.healthline.com/health/low-testosterone/anti-estrogen-diet-men#7.-pomegranates

[Another Bob]

Wouldn’t be so sure about that Cap’n...

“My code of modern Amazonism says that nature’s fascist scheme of menstruation and procreation should be defied, as a gross infringement of woman’s free will….As a libertarian, I support unrestricted access to abortion because I have reasoned that my absolute right to my body takes precedence over the brute claims of mother nature, who wants to reduce women to their animal function as breeders.”

https://www.salon.com/2016/04/07/camille_paglia_feminists_have_abortion_wrong_trump_and_hillary_miscues_highlight_a_frozen_national_debate/

[Buckeye]

A lot of people, such as I, were blond when young but go dark before they go gray like my chin white like my whole head.

Fixed it For Me:)

[Another Bob]

Now I would believe she thinks differently of the infanticide laws, though.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/former_nfl_star_charles_tillman_graduates_from_fbi_academy/s1_12680_28510856

His degree from Louisiana was in law enforcement. 12 years with the Chicago Bears, 1 with the Carolina Panthers.

[Manuel Transmission]

Dropped a note to the AT editor yesterday about the unreadable screen on phones. He responded and appears to have had it fixed. What a concept! Actually responding to a problem instead of blowing it off. I sent a TY note just now.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.republicanwhip.gov/radicaldemocrats/

Scalise is keeping track of crazy statements by democrats.

[Ralph L]

I can't tell you how thrilled I am that very little of my hair has grayed compared to my older siblings' at my age. Now if I only had more of it.

[henry]

religious test from John Doe victims? (They may be #nevertrumpers too, not sure). It won't help the WI SC stay conservative, that is certain.

https://rightwisconsin.com/2019/02/26/realtor-reality-and-the-supreme-court-race

[MissMarple2]

Mark Knoller
‏Verified account @markknoller
41m41 minutes ago

North Korea's Kim Jong Un arrived at his Hanoi hotel earlier Tuesday after a 60-hour train trip through China to Vietnam. He motorcaded the last 100 miles to his Hanoi hotel, where he was presented with flowers.

[Captain Hate]

Now I would believe she thinks differently of the infanticide laws, though.

Yes, I agree with that. And notice that she frames her prior argument in terms that the Gorioski Steinems never employ.

[henry]

Thread on WSJ claims of what Cohen will reveal (eg he's bringing Trump's taxes to Schiff's committee hearing)

https://twitter.com/TimOBrien/status/1100349030830346240

[Extraneus]

Jeff Carlson has reviewed more secret testimony.

DOJ Prevented FBI From Pursuing Gross Negligence Charges Against Clinton

Early in the Hillary Clinton email case, the Department of Justice reached a decision that would have far-reaching implications in the FBI’s investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server.

The Justice Department (DOJ), under then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch, decided to set an unusually high threshold for prosecution of Clinton, effectively ensuring from the outset that she would not be charged.

In order for Clinton to be prosecuted, the DOJ required the FBI to establish evidence of intent—even though the gross negligence statute explicitly does not require this.

This meant that the FBI would have needed to find a smoking gun, such as an email or an admission made during FBI questioning, revealing Clinton or her aides knowingly set up the private email server to send classified information.

...

Rep. Ratcliffe: Okay. And that’s — I think, when you talk about intent, that’s certainly true under part of 18 793(f), but it sounds like you all just blew over gross negligence.

Ms. Page: We did not blow over gross negligence. We, in fact — and, in fact, the Director — because on its face, it did seem like, well, maybe there’s a potential here for this to be the charge. And we had multiple conversations, multiple conversations with the Justice Department about charging gross negligence.

Page made clear during her testimony that the DOJ had decided that due to “constitutional vagueness” a charge of gross negligence would not be supported without accompanying proof of intent—a seemingly oxymoronic position:

Rep. Ratcliffe: Okay. So let me if I can, I know I’m testing your memory, but when you say advice you got from the Department, you’re making it sound like it was the Department that told you: You’re not going to charge gross negligence because we’re the prosecutors and we’re telling you we’re not going to —

Ms. Page: That is correct.

Rep. Ratcliffe: — bring a case based on that.

[Beasts of England]

Howdy, peeps!! Just checking in... 😎

[MissMarple2]

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-how-dumb-arrogant-ocasio-cortez-became-the-boss-of-the-democratic-party

This is actually pretty good analysis.

[Old Lurker]

Beasts!

Miss you Bro.

[Beasts of England]

Miss y'all, as well, OL. Although I still don't miss politics. ;)

[MissMarple2]

John Cardillo
‏Verified account @johncardillo
14m14 minutes ago

If you think Russia buying a few Facebook ads three years ago is a bigger threat to the soul of this nation than Planned Parenthood bribing Democrats so PP can kill even more babies, you need your head examined.

[MissMarple2]

Hi, Beasts!

Sorry you aren't here, but glad to see you are alive and well.

I am looking at politics these days more like a Tom Clancy novel. LOL!

[Captain Hate]

Beasts!

[MissMarple2]

Matt Couch
🎙
‏ @RealMattCouch
Feb 24

Mitt Romney is leading the charge to vote against Trump's National Emergency..

Anyone who sticks up for this traitor, please unfollow me.
====================

Wasn't there ANYONE who could have run in Utah besides Romney?

Seems to me he got elected because of money and being a famous Mormon.

[MissMarple2]

Today's Dilbert:

https://dilbert.com/strip/2019-02-26

[Beasts of England]

Sounds like a good approach, Miss Marple! And to be sure, I never claimed to be well!! 😂

Hey, Captain!

I've avoided politics so much that I'm only certain that Trump is still president because I figured anonamom would send me an email if he'd been impeached or shot. Seriously. I swiped my phone's home screen to the left the other day to check my calendar, and accidentally saw the top news feed and the phrase 'New Green Deal'. That's all I need to know about the state of affairs in our country...

[MissMarple2]

https://apnews.com/61a38cbfcd504bed8e2d159f4999d360?utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow

The Associated Press
‏Verified account @AP

An Amtrak train with 183 passengers on board has been stuck since Sunday after hitting a tree that fell on the tracks near Eugene, Oregon. Officials hope to clear the tracks and reach the train today.

[henry]

Sadly "new green deal" is not about Nevada allowing casinos to hand out pot at gaming tables.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--PIN, I agree. Looks like she had a rhinoplasty (nose job), aged a few years and lost some weight. The big difference though is the quality of the light.--

I'm just a humble amateur painter and sculptor but the biggest difference between the two pictures, and one which renders them largely impossible to compare, is the distortion in one or the other of width and height. No plastic surgeon stretched her head vertically and squeezed it on the horizontal plane or vice versa. Moreover, we don't know the ages of those shots so we don't know if she was even done maturing in the left hand photo.

[MissMarple2]

Spotted by a reporter in Hanoi:

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

I actually hate to say this but those who favor unrestricted abortion at any time and are now dabbling their toes in the infanticide waters are intellectually and morally more coherent than those like Paglia who favor unrestricted abortion but make some indefensible argument that the length of the birth canal is somehow the distance between life and death and humanity vs the property of the mother.

[Narciso79]

Skydragon sacrificial rite, the playoffs happened before he was in office; they are holding Cohen by the short one.

[MissMarple2]

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/warrior-mother-cancer-survivor-navy-cryptologist-killed-syria/story?id=61298431&cid=social_twitter_abcn

Please read this story about a young woman who served her country and was killed in Syria. What an inspiration and a tragic loss.

[Extraneus]

I wish I had that shirt. Perfect for a walk at the mall.

[Captain Hate]

AB, to be clear, Camille has her blind spots, on display every fucking presidential election (although maybe she was right to not vote for McRINO or Rombley; maybe she saw things clearer than I did in retrospect), particularly how she shills for the sixties being such a wonderful time except drugs ruined everything, which is like cheerleading for the French Revolution except for those icky guillotines.

[henry]

House Democrats want to make sweeping reforms to elections, campaign finance, and ethics laws.

https://www.graydc.com/content/news/Rep-Mark-Pocan-D-WI-pushing-for-sweeping-elections-reform-bill-506334921.html

[MissMarple2]

USAF refueling personnel take photo with some WH staffers including @MickMulvaneyOMB and @PressSec. (Pool photo by @W7VOA) pic.twitter.com/4fBCaN471S

— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) February 26, 2019

Photo at link.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

You know, if Bruce Jenner had his pee pee whacked about 45 years ago he could have won half a dozen gold medals.
Dope.

[Narciso79]

Yes she has a big blindspot, the 60s is the source for many of these problems we cannot return to the customs that built this country, instead we must push on this rough beast slouchung toward Jerusalem

[henry]

LOL, they are prepping the camps:

Vicki McKenna @VickiMcKenna
1m

SHOCK VIDEO: UCLA Students Support Putting Trump Supporters Into CONCENTRATION CAMPS

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/02/shock-video-ucla-students-support-putting-trump-supporters-into-concentration-camps/

[Buckeye]

Yo' Beasts!

I wanna know your secret.

Wish I could disengage from the ridiculousness of our current Political climate.

Would large amounts of whatever you serve at the watering hole work:)

[MissMarple2]

Trump arrives in Hanoi for a second summit with Kim Jong Un #TrumpKimSummit https://t.co/rghgG2BQtB

— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) February 26, 2019

Video at link.

[President-Elect Jim,SunnyvaleCA]

"Illinois is about to pass one of the most wide-reaching infanticide style abortion bill."

Dems planning ahead for RBGs demise.
GOPe can't be bothered to defend their voters.
The contrast is striking.

[henry]

100 years or so of Dem and Socialist (really) control:

Statistics show that Milwaukee's 53206 is the most incarcerated zip code in the entire country.

https://www.tmj4.com/news/local-news/poverty-level-in-53206-zip-code-more-than-3-times-higher-than-the-state-level

[henry]

Blue on Blue warning:

Vicki McKenna @VickiMcKenna
1m

Obama slammed by leftists as race traitor for calling on black men to take responsibility for themselves!

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/personal-responsibility-is-not-racist-and-barack-obama-is-no-race-traitor-for-endorsing-it

[James D.]

GOPe can't be bothered to defend their voters.

In other words, it's a day ending in "y"

[hoyden]

Comment at USAF refueling personnel picture referred to Press Sec as Incredible Huck. So sweet.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.commentarymagazine.com/politics-ideas/dianne-feinstein-vs-the-climate-kids/

"Conscripted into a campaign of emotional blackmail, these children are being robbed of their innocence and, ultimately, their childhoods."

[MissMarple2]

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/431541-kasich-to-push-republicans-for-policies-to-address-climate-change

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

John Mauldin; Modern Monetary Madness.

[henry]

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
1m

Just arrived in Vietnam. Thank you to all of the people for the great reception in Hanoi. Tremendous crowds, and so much love!

[MissMarple2]

Ignatz,

That is EXACTLY what AOC is proposing.

ALso, when I first looked at the article it said the theory was first known as "chartalism" but I read it as "charlatanism." LOL!

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

This guy and I are on the same page.
Bad, bad things dead ahead; mostly because of the last decade of global monetary and fiscal madness.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Gordon Chang;
The Militarization of Xi Jinping's China
"Recovering" Areas They Never Have Ruled

[Captain Hate]

Yes she has a big blindspot, the 60s is the source for many of these problems

I'm guessing it was a good time for her. She's only two years older than I am so I can understand how she became enamoured with the times, plus she had Harold Bloom as a mentor so I could see her getting so wrapped up in her pursuits that she was blind to the wreckage in progress around her and by the time that she recognized the rot in academia thought it was a separate unrelated phenomenon.

[Jane]

Happy Birthday Dave!

[Narciso79]

Happy birthday Dave.

[D]

Happy Birthday Dave!
You are one of the funniest guys on this blog!

[President-Elect Jim,SunnyvaleCA]

Yes, we can count on Dave(MA) to bring the funny!

[clarice]

Happy Birthday, Dave

[D]

Henry:
Would Lazar be a good candidate?

[henry]

who or what is Lazar?

[D]

He is a possible candidate that deferred running because of Hagedorn getting in.

[henry]

oh, judges. I really have no idea. I just see who the Dems like (when possible) and vote the other. I really don't know diddly about Hagedorn except the reasons the left doesn't like him.

[MissMarple2]

http://thefederalist.com/2019/02/26/train-dragon-3-illustrates-power-saying-goodbye-friends-yes-marriage/

This is a film review but also a thoughtful article about friendship and marriage.

[MissMarple2]

https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2019/02/25/hospice-buffalo-death-dreams-study/

Very interesting article. My question is what if they are really seeing these people?

[MissMarple2]

https://dailycaller.com/2019/02/26/donald-trump-jr-transgender-athletes-tweets/

The transgenders in women's sports has becaome a big issue on Twitter. Several people have pointed out how unfair it is to women athletes, and how this is a collision point between feminism and accepting transgenders.

[jimmyk]

those who favor unrestricted abortion at any time and are now dabbling their toes in the infanticide waters are intellectually and morally more coherent than those like Paglia

That may be so, if being 100% immoral qualifies as "morally more consistent" than someone who splits the difference between the two poles of good and evil. I think I might prefer the latter as being someone I could reason with and possibly persuade. And I'd prefer the morally inconsistent end result of, say, abortion allowed only in the first trimester to where we seem to be heading now, which is some sort of optional infanticide in the first week after birth.

[henry]

I blame Trump:

CNBC Now @CNBCnow
3m

BREAKING: Fiat Chrysler to hire 6,500 workers and invest $4.5 billion in adding a new assembly plant in Detroit while boosting production at five existing factories.

[D]

Eventually I see abortion and when is acceptable becoming a state’sissue.
Federal government will be out of it.
Pretty soon the federalist will be out of the marijuana issue as well.
If you want an abortion, you go to the states that provide them.
But beware.
Some states will have no on site doctors and no hospital privledge.

[D]

Henry:
Someone said the other night that the President is bringing back Detroit.
When is the judges’ election in Wisconsin?

[henry]

April 2.

https://elections.wi.gov/node/5790

[jimmyk]

If it's Tuesday, it's probably election day in Wisconsin.

[clarice]

D, I think you're right--that was how it went before Roe.

[jimmyk]

As long as we have Roberts as the swing vote, Roe v Wade will remain the law of the land. And should RBG or one of the liberals be replaced, it wouldn't surprise me if a second "conservative" somehow swings to the center. So I'm not holding my breath for Roe v Wade to be overturned.

[D]

Well we already know that New York is the modern day Sodom and Californiais Gomorrah.
And there continues to be nothing new under the sun.
Some lib today called President Trump rotten.
But he also said Dems have to stop this crazy talk of reparations and the New Green Deal.
Fat chance of that happening!

[Captain Hate]

I'm with jimmyk. Plus there are too many Repukes owned by Planned Genocide.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

I am a staunch Federalist but the right to life was the first Creator-derived right mentioned as to why this union was formed.
If the union can't, or worse, won't protect the first right, what chance does it have of protecting the others. and if it can't protect the first right by what manner do we presume it will survive or even deserves to?

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--And I'd prefer the morally inconsistent end result of, say, abortion allowed only in the first trimester to where we seem to be heading now, which is some sort of optional infanticide in the first week after birth.--

My point, which I didn't make too clearly is, the incoherent argument usually loses to the coherent one.
Slippery slopes aren't so much a matter of gravity as they are a slide the incoherent/thoughtless step on and are then thrust down by the ghouls operating the ride.

[MissMarple2]

https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/02/poll-dramatic-and-sudden-cultural-shift-as-more-americans-identifying-as-pro-life/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegalInsurrection+%28Le%C2%B7gal+In%C2%B7sur%C2%B7rec%C2%B7tion%29

I really hadn't given abortion much thought in recent years. I didn't know how many were done, so just sort of assumed that it was done out of health reasons or desperation, early in pregnancy. No one I knew had had abortions, no one would have thought of doing so, and that was pretty much where I was.

Then I found out about how many had been done, about the sale of baby parts, and then this late-term infanticide thing showed up.

THOSE got my attention, and I have been paying attention and concerned about it ever since. (About 4 years ago.)

I think those cheers in the New York Assembly got a lot of peoples' attention, too.

[jimmyk]

As to MM's point earlier, I actually don't think abortion is primarily about the Benjamins (as Ilhan Omar would put it). There is plenty of money from prenatal care, obstetrics, neonatal care, pediatrics, etc. Yes, there may be some vested financial interests in abortion mills, but I think it's unfortunately ideology-driven. Culture of death and selfishness.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Concur, jimmy at 12:17.

[MissMarple2]

https://nypost.com/2019/02/26/us-press-booted-from-vietnam-hotel-after-north-korean-officials-flipped-out/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow

Reporters in Hanoi, much like Jorge Ramos, are learning what living under a REAL dictator is like.

I am trying to gin up some sympathy for them, but it's a bit difficult. They will probably lodge a complaint with the White House and try to blame President Trump, who was still in the air when this happened.

It also occurs to me that the Norks know that a good portion of these reporters are about scuttling the talks by creating a controversy, and they are not interested in that.

[MissMarple2]

jimmyk, ignatz,

I think there is more money involved in this than you guys realize. PP makes a lot of money out of selling fetal tissue for research, umbilical cords for stem cell purposes, and (this is currently rumor but I would not be surprised) organs for transplant purposes.

I would like to point out that although selfishness is a motive, why in the heck isn't there a mechanism to put these late-term babies out for adoption with a fee? Why are they so interested in DEAD babies?

Birth control is readily available. Abortions in the first trimester are easily procured. Why wait until the 7th month (or later) to decide? Why not deliver the child by Caesarean and let it live? There are people all over the country willing to adopt.

Why the killing? Are the democrats moving towards child sacrifice?

[Buckeye]

Happy Birthday Dave!

[Account Deleted]

Years ago I was sorta the same, MM.

PP trying to destroy Komen opened my eyes too.

All pro-choice people should read pro-life sites, at least sometimes, so they can know what is really going on & what they are supporting. They have no idea.

Restaurants that had health code violations got listed in the local paper...but not abortion clinics.
It was "extremist" groups like Operation Rescue that let the public know what was going on. Dead babies in dumpsters, women dying from botched abortions, unlicensed workers, health code violations in the clinics, plumbing clogged up with dead baby parts,...

Anyway, I don't think most regular "normals" realize the awfulness of that Big business.

[henry]

sure, Rumbley wins strange new respect award:

James Hohmann
@jameshohmann

At a House intelligence committee hearing, Madeline Albright just formally apologized to Mitt Romney for making fun of him in 2012 when he said Russia was our biggest geopolitical foe. She says the now Utah senator was prescient.

[MissMarple2]

https://pjmedia.com/trending/were-all-becoming-robert-kraft-but-we-just-dont-realize-it/

This article revealed to me how much porn is available, how many "arrangements" for sex I didn't know about, and how much our culture has changed.

For some reason I think this sort of relates to the abortion controversy.

[Captain Hate]

I'm so old I can remember when sex ed was supposed to almost eliminate the need for abortion.

[pagar]

Happy Birthday Dave!

[Captain Hate]

Articles like in the 12:42 make me think that Patterico wasn't such an atypical PJM hire.

[Porchlight]

Happy birthday, Dave (in MA)! You make me laugh every day.

[Neo]

California’s ‘Big One’ Could Be A Volcanic Eruption

The 50-page report, California’s Exposure to Volcanic Hazards, released Monday, assigns threat levels to eight volcanoes in California — moderate, high, and very high. Most of them are located in the northern and central part of the state.

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2019/02/25/californias-big-one-volcanic-eruption/

[Neo]

Bernie Sanders staff shake-up: Top strategists leave his presidential campaign

Tad Devine, Mark Longabaugh and Julian Mulvey, colleagues in a political consulting firm who all played leading roles in Sanders' 2016 campaign for the White House, are parting ways with the senator, citing creative differences.

"The entire firm has stepped away. We're leaving the campaign," Longabaugh told NBC News on Tuesday. "We just didn't have a meeting of the minds."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/bernie-sanders-staff-shakeup-top-strategists-leave-his-presidential-campaign-n976221

[jimmyk]

Harvard has come a long way (and not a good way) since John Adams represented British troops from the Boston Massacre.

https://jonathanturley.org/2019/02/26/harvard-student-demand-dean-step-down-due-to-his-representations-of-harvey-weinstein/

[jimmyk]

And a happy birthday to Dave.

[anonamom]

I've seen this. Amazing work of man.

https://www.boredpanda.com/marble-sculpture-net-francesco-queirolo-release-from-deception/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=BPTwitter

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--At a House intelligence committee hearing, Madeline Albright just formally apologized to Mitt Romney for making fun of him in 2012 when he said Russia was our biggest geopolitical foe. She says the now Utah senator was prescient.--

Madeline Costanza; just do the opposite.
As Russia fades into a third rate power that can't even afford to build the new Potemkin weapons it threatens the world with and the Chinese dragon far eclipses the clumsy bear as a threat, this disgraceful and disgraced old toad suddenly can see Russia from her back porch.
Mor. On.

[jimmyk]

Apparently any enemy of Trump is a friend of Madeline.

[Captain Hate]

HB Dave. MOAR David Torn for you!

[henry]

Biden is a diva...

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/fl-ne-joe-biden-making-money-broward-20190225-story.html

[pagar]

So sad that we have a Sen Menendez in the US Senate where he is trashing President Trump instead of off chasing those underage girls.

Just trash, pure trash, IMO

https://twitter.com/SenatorMenendez/status/1100404705203675136/video/1

[rse]

https://www.stripes.com/news/army/west-point-sets-aside-day-to-confront-sexual-harassment-1.570317

Yesterday was the day.