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Nearly a snow day! Snow turning to rain is the worst of both worlds - grey, damp and no chance to use the Greatest Toy Ever.

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[MissMarple2]

Trish Regan
‏Verified account @trish_regan
22h22 hours ago

.@madisongesiotto - thank you for flagging. I am just going to say it: #BERNIESANDERS is a SELFISH pathetic man that really ought to live out the rest of his years in Cuba. He and his Maduro style food rations will never be welcome here. He will NEVER be President

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump
7m7 minutes ago

Since my election as President the Dow Jones is up 43% and the NASDAQ Composite almost 50%. Great news for your 401(k)s as they continue to grow. We are bringing back America faster than anyone thought possible!

[Narciso79]

So McCabe makes up this baroque story, but when it comes to the pulse massacre he mentions it in a sentence and leaves hoe the father of the perpetrator had been a 15 year bureau asset, to no real effect.

[Dave (in MA)]

I think we need to send Anti-Biz Markey and Elle Jefe down to Venezuela. It's a perfect opportunity for them to sign up for El Dealio Nuevo Verde.

"I'm like, stop burning emergency aid trucks, cuz like, it makes, like, smoke 'n stuff."

[Narciso79]

I think it would rapidly become a ransom of red chief affair.

[MissMarple2]

Mark Knoller
‏Verified account @markknoller
3m3 minutes ago

At Colombia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Bogota, @VP confers about situation in Venezuela with opposition leader Juan Guaido and Colombian Pres Iván Duque Márquez.

====================================

I see that the VP is to give a speech in Colombia at 10:30, which C-SPAN says it will cover.

[henry]

narciso, who would pay a ransom?

[Threadkiller]

Am I the only person wondering why "smart conservative blogs" are spending so much time on a freshman Congress critter from some negligible ward in Queens and the Bronx?

Nope.

Highlighting her stupidity only makes the GOPe that lost to her look even dumber, IMO.

[Narciso79]

Well her gope opponent was only slightly smarter than this wombat cub.

[Narciso79]

The point they would be begging to send them back, they have their own home grown moochers

[Captain Hate]

Exactly, TK; that is the lesson that should be learned from that. She got elected because the incumbent was a worthless pile of shit who didn't do a fucking thing for the district and AOC, to her credit, flat out out worked him. That lesson is lost on Failure Theater, full of expense account padders like Rick Wilson and Rove, who excuse the lack of effort by quoting some dumbass comic strip as if they're reading Immanuel Kant.

[Narciso79]

I'm sure between the SJW signaling and make up tips they would have pointed this out:

https://babalublog.com/2019/02/25/maduro-dictatorships-navy-threatened-to-open-fire-on-ship-from-puerto-rico-carrying-humanitarian-aid-to-venezuela/

[President-Elect Jim,SunnyvaleCA]

"Posted by: Narciso79 | February 25, 2019 at 10:22 AM"

Heh. Yeah, no one would pay ransom. They'd have to pay us to take them back.

[MissMarple2]

Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought AOC beat a democrat incumbent during the primaries, and that she had no opponent in the general.

[Captain Hate]

So McCabe makes up this baroque story, but when it comes to the pulse massacre he mentions it in a sentence and leaves hoe the father of the perpetrator had been a 15 year bureau asset, to no real effect.

What does it say about the MFM that the only pushback an absolute traitorous failure like McCabe got was when Mega McCannzz briefly interrupted her eating binge (poor Ben Domenech)?

[Pinandpuller]

Catsmeat

Darwin has some interesting quotes about race mixing that sound a lot like Muhammad Ali. All conspicuously absent from the fossil record, if you will. Nobody seems interested in turning him into James Watson.

[Captain Hate]

No she beat sacrificial goat Anthony Pappas in the general

[Narciso79]

Nothing good, but it's the worst piece of claptrap since the last one.

[Threadkiller]

She had a wife beating deadbeat Republican run against her in the general, MM.

That is the best the GOPe had to offer. If no republican ran at all it would even better make the point of who is more stupid in the equation.

[MissMarple2]

Thanks, Captain Hate.

I thought the GOP was so lame they didn't even have a candidate. I guess that was not quite true.

[matt - deplore me if you must]

Luckily we had 2 episodes of Blacklist saved last night. Oscar who?

I understand it was quite the little temper tantrum. Trump is so deep in their heads that they just can't help themselves. The guy in the gown was classic.

The first mistake any poor scientist makes is to design their own biases into an experiment. If what was stated above is true, then Darwin is in a pickle. Larger gene pools lead to greater homogeneity within a species. In the Galapagos, the land species, and even some of the birds ha ugh smaller gene pools, which would have reinforced genetic commonalities.

Way back in the 1850's genetics was unknown until Mendel in the 50's and 60's, probably not concurrent with Darwin.

There is a lot more going on than we think and we don't know what we don't know.

Irreproducible results are common these days and yet we are so woke and progressive that it just can't be so!

I am looking forward to the banana harvest in Oregon in a few years.Probably genetically evolved cannabananas.

[MissMarple2]

Thanks, TK.

You amplified the stupidity they displayed, so now I am up to speed.

[Narciso79]

The last episode that was quite a twist, it echoes the Edwin Wilson parallel, Wilson spent 20 years in prison, while the folks who ordered him to get close to Gaddafi suffered no consequences.

[Captain Hate]

Miss Marple,

After Trump campaigned in an overwhelmingly black area a couple miles from me, I'm no longer excusing Mutt Rombley type approaches of only addressing sure things. Also isn't AOC's district hugely Hispanic, the ethnic group which Senors Yeb and Rove were telling us will trend for the GOP?

[Neo]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLyVCp0xqpo&feature=youtu.be

Probably the best piece with Don Lemon in years.

[Manuel Transmission]

Iggy,

That Mini project is too familiar to the nonsense I routinely jumped into with all the preplanning you could do in a carport in Phx. I rarely had to worry about rust and my Minis had those sliding side windows, not the relenting to modernarity of windup cranks. :)

[Narciso79]

Oh it really was memories news:
https://www.dailycaller.com/2019/02/24/misinformation-tech-democrats/

But they fooled beto into believing he could win.

[Manuel Transmission]

Anyone else having problems with AT flooding the page with unremovable junk until it is like peeping through a knothole to read one sentence at a time? (On a phone screen.)

[Neo]

Jussie Smollett told cops he has an untreated drug problem — raising questions about whether he might try to use the claim to at least get any potential prison sentence reduced, according to a report Friday.

The “Empire” star divulged his alleged drug problem after turning himself in Thursday morning on charges he filed a false police report involving a hate crime, TMZ reported.

https://pagesix.com/2019/02/22/jussie-smollett-claims-he-has-an-untreated-drug-problem/

I fully expect him to have a heart condition before sentencing.

[Narciso79]

Well that might explain why 1.4 mill a year wasnt enough,

[Narciso79]

In the real or memories column:

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/02/conservative-senator-has-reservation-about-neomi-rao.php

[Captain Hate]

Yes, MT.

[MissMarple2]

Captain Hate,

I actually think legal Hispanics will vote for Trump for 2 reasons:

1. Their neighborhoods are the ones hit by the crime and gangs due to illegals. (Who wants a 5-time convicted rapist moving in next door?)

2. Jobs.

Also, they won't vote for a female or wussified candidate, which seems to cover about all of the dem field.

[clarice]

I can't ever read much online from any source on my phone,MT, so I don't even try.I suppose there's ad blocker for iphones but I haven't looked into it as when traveling i usually have an Air Mac with me.

[MissMarple2]

Several sites I go to require closing ads and extra videos the site has added as pop-ups. Daily Caller is one which drives me crazy.

I disabled my ad blocker because so many sites weren't allowing me access unless I put them on the "allow ads" list, so I just gave up.

[Old Lurker]

I wish cell phones would go the way of fax machines.

Still trying to decide about touch tone phones.

[Old Lurker]

MM "I disabled my ad blocker because so many sites weren't allowing me access unless I put them on the "allow ads" list, so I just gave up."

I did the opposite. Won't let me in? Screw you. If I need to know it, JOM will tell me.

[Rocco]

I knew it!

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/25/book-robert-mueller-left-phone-inside-after-trump-oval-office-meeting/

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Jussie Smollett told cops he has an untreated drug problem --

Does it involve methamphetamine and his anus?
[There's a sentence I never thought I'd write. Thank you progs.]

[MissMarple2]

Captain Hate,

Look at this. (Discount the insults about Trump.)

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/02/24/2020-hispanic-voters-donald-trump-225192

[Extraneus]

I don't have an iPhone anymore, but on android Brave has a native ad blocker and Yandex can load Chrome extensions like Adblock.

[sbwaters]

daddy, take Catsmeat up on her pdf.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

One reason I dislike zerohedge is, if I go there, my computer starts constantly signaling "a website is slowing your computer down. What would you like to do?"

[MissMarple2]

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-campaign-staffer-alleges-president-kissed-without-consent-2016-2019-2

1. I don't believe her.

2. The horror, the horror. So what if he did?

3. Anyone who says that she cannot sleep because of this incident is a big drama queen and is being paid by someone.

[Captain Hate]

Miss Marple,

The more GOPe false memes DJT destroys the better.

[Rocco]

Same here Ig.

[MissMarple2]

Meet the Press
‏Verified account @MeetThePress
15m15 minutes ago

JUST IN: The Supreme Court ruled that if a judge dies after voting on a case but before the decision is announced, the judge's vote doesn't count

https://nbcnews.to/2TgF5wn

[henry]

Vicki McKenna @VickiMcKenna
22m

WHAT BIGOTS: MSNBC: Kamala Harris' White Husband "Won't Do"; She Needs 'Strong Black Man,'

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/mark-finkelstein/2019/02/24/joy-reid-guests-kamala-harris-find-strong-black-man%E2%80%94white?utm_source=su&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=su_sh

[Threadkiller]

If Alva is telling the truth, it sure hurts the Racist Trump meme.

[Manuel Transmission]

Just tried two thinks: 1) loaded AT on Brave on iPhone, that loaded the big screen format without any ads; and 2) discovered AT has an app, so loading that on the boss’s phone. See if she likes that.

[Manuel Transmission]

OK, just fired up their app and it delivers the same blocking ads as Safari. Pfft! Suicide by millennial idiots.

[Narciso79]

Why indeed?

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/02/a-redaction-mystery-solved.php

[MissMarple2]

https://dailycaller.com/2019/02/24/trump-china-trade-war/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=atdailycaller&utm_medium=Social

[matt - deplore me if you must]

So Kamala wants the black vote but has been especially harsh on working class black men. Sounds like another day in liberal la la land to me.

[Dave (in MA)]

MT, I find the whole WWW experience on a phone to be shitty and not worth using. I know some people whose only use of the web is via a phone, and they invariably type like a bunch of 11 year old imbeciles.

[Captain Hate]

Pretty harsh analysis of narc's misspellings, Dave.

[Dave (in MA)]

CH,
JOM excepted.

[MissMarple2]

https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/431429-melania-trump-announces-date-for-white-house-easter-egg-roll

[Captain Hate]

Dave,

I see that Torn/Berne/Smith concert is in support of an upcoming ECM release

[MissMarple2]

Forecast for Sunday, March 3:

High 24
Low 7

I am sick of being cold! You Florida people should thank your lucky stars you are down there!

[MissMarple2]

Rosie has been on the "unwanted kiss" case.

https://twitter.com/almostjingo/status/1100077122670944256

[rich]

the world is still trash i see.

>>>Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought AOC beat a democrat incumbent during the primaries, and that she had no opponent in the general.

Posted by: MissMarple2 | February 25, 2019 at 10:44 AM<<<

CH and others got to this above, but Pappas was unopposed in the Republican primary and is an economics professor. 1. i was able to find with about a five minute search his very ugly divorce (at least one) and 2. he didn't even have an operational website (that may have changed during the general, but remember writing about it at the time).

CH had it right-AOC just outworked her Dem opponent who was bitten with the Eric Cantor bug and the GOP wasn't going to compete in that district.

why we spend so much time on essentially a backbencher? idk.

[Buckeye]

Web surfing on an iPhone SE is about as bad as it can get.

Damn screen is so small barely can see it.

Just renewed my driver's license and passed the vision test without glasses by skin of my teeth.

Course I charmed the gal at the BMV bigtime.

She said I flubbed last two digits on right side but she was going to let me slide:)

[jimmyk]

I think AOC reflects worse on the Dems than the Repubs, so I don't mind "smart conservative websites" shining a light on her idiocies. As to her R opponent: I always think Rs should run strong conservative candidates even in a losing battle, but I don't think this is a district where Rs had a snowball's chance in hell of winning. Still a good opponent would have made the case against her, and paved the way for possibly unseating her in 2020.

If Rs were smart (ha), they'd be grooming some Hispanic conservative to run against her. Maybe if I did like Beto and called myself Jaime, I could do it. I even can speak a smidgen of Espanol.

[Dave (in MA)]

Captain Hate | February 25, 2019 at 12:07 PM,

Yes, I have the CD of it on pre-order from Berne's bandcamp. Probably will be slower than elsewhere but the artists get to keep more of the $.

[jimmyk]

sbw, sorry we won't see you in NYC. Hope Mrs sbw is doing better.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/02/25/gay-rights-leader-accused-burning-down-home/2816523002/

Another fake hate crime. This one also killed 5 pets. Grrrr.

[Captain Hate]

Maybe if I did like Beto and called myself Jaime, I could do it. I even can speak a smidgen of Espanol.

I hate to admit this because he's a good conservative but I think a lot of Blotto's "popularity" is just as much a reflection of the intangibles making Ted Cruz unappealing to a lot of voters.

[President-Elect Jim,SunnyvaleCA]

"Maybe if I ... called myself Jaime"

Does Diego also mean James?

[Extraneus]

The Mother Of All Economist Battles

[jimmyk]

Does Diego also mean James?

Yes, though a lot of people don't realize that.

[jimmyk]

a lot of Blotto's "popularity" is just as much a reflection of the intangibles making Ted Cruz unappealing to a lot of voters.

If so, maybe it would be a good strategy to get Cruz a spot in the Trump administration, and appoint an appealing conservative in his spot (or to run in a special election, however they do it there)--preferably in 2020 while Beto is preoccupied with his quixotic run for president.

[Extraneus]

Russian state TV shows US targets that it says could be hit by new Russian missiles

On Sunday's edition of Russia's weekly TV news show "Vesti Nedeli," host Dmitry Kiselyov showed a computer-generated map of the United States with several targets marked. These targets included the Pentagon, Camp David, the Jim Creek Navy communications base in Washington state, as well as a military training center in Maryland and a U.S. Air Force base in California that have both been closed for years. Kiselyov said that these targets were military or presidential command centers.

He then demonstrated the speed at which a Russian hypersonic missile could reach each of these targets if a nuclear war broke out between the U.S. and Russia.

"For now, we're not threatening anyone, but if such a deployment takes place, our response will be instant," Kiselyov said, according to a translation provided by Reuters. Reuters also said that Kiselyov is "close to the Kremlin."

[Ralph L]

Iago, Deigo, dago.

[Extraneus]

This is what Hillary and Obama and Perkins Coie, Brennan, Clapper, Comey and all the rest wanted.

[daddy]

Good Morning.

Here's a column on Winston Churchill making "Bad Optics" in WW2.

The article includes 2 images produced by the Nazi's to show how they used the image to portray Churchill as a War Criminal to the Germans.

Nazi propaganda minister Goebbels saw the image as a god send and used it extensively domestically, with the other Axis countries, and even in air drops over the Britain during the Battle of Britain with the text in English “WANTED,,” and at the bottom: “for incitement to MURDER.” The reverse of the leaflet is all text: This gangster, who you see in his element in the picture, incites you by his example to participate in a form of warfare in which women, children and ordinary citizens shall take the leading parts. This absolutely criminal form of warfare which is forbidden by the Hague Convention will be punished according to military law. Save at least your own families from the horrors of war!

So Joseph Goebbels and Admiral Kirby share the same world view as to what is "Bad Optics"---It must be a day ending in "Y."

[Dave (in MA)]

I think a lot of Blotto's "popularity" is just as much a reflection of the intangibles making Ted Cruz unappealing to a lot of voters.

Facial resemblance to Napoleon Dynamite good, Grandpa Munster bad.

[daddy]

Nazi poster with Churchill in an alley holding the Thomson with the German text, "Sniper."

[jimmyk]

So Joseph Goebbels and Admiral Kirby share the same world view as to what is "Bad Optics"

Is it even news when a former Obama flack criticizes Trump?

How about this?

Verified account @JordanSchachtel 3h3 hours ago

Okay I just did the numbers on this "nat sec" officials statement. 47 of 58 officials listed served in the Obama admin. Another 6 served in Clinton admin. A few Bush 43 staffers, all of whom signed Anti-Trump letters. Bipartisan? Fake news strikes again.

This was in response to:

The Associated Press
‏Verified account @AP

“There is no factual basis for the declaration of a national emergency.” That's what 58 former national security officials say about President Trump's latest effort to get funding for a border wall. #AP10Things

[Captain Hate]

Cruz as attorney general would get the deep state's attention.

[MissMarple2]

Got to run to the bank. Back in a bit.

[henry]

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
2m

It is my honor today to announce that Danny Burch, a United States citizen who has been held hostage in Yemen for 18 months, has been recovered and reunited with his wife and children. I appreciate the support of the United Arab Emirates in bringing Danny home...

...Danny’s recovery reflects the best of what the United States & its partners can accomplish. We work every day to bring Americans home. We maintain constant and intensive diplomatic, intelligence, and law enforcement cooperation within the United States Government and with...

...our foreign partners. Recovering American hostages is a priority of my Admin, and with Danny’s release, we have now secured freedom for 20 American captives since my election victory. We will not rest as we continue our work to bring the remaining American hostages back home!

[pagar]

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/02/24/harris-of-course-we-can-afford-trillion-dollars-of-spending-in-green-new-deal/

But the leftists claim we can't spend money to built a wall to protect our nation.

These leftists are insane! IMO.

[pagar]

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/02/is_it_noriega_time_for_venezuelas_drugdealing_hezballahedup_dictator_maduro.html

Making Venezuela safe for it's citizens.

[Narciso79]

So fara isnt really about disclosure but more than a prosecution memo.

[Narciso79]

Oh that's interesting:

http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=379954

[pagar]

Just a thought!

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/02/what_happens_to_raul_castro_if_cuban_agents_shoot_venezuelans.html

"Senator Rubio has reported in the last 48 hours that Cuban troops are involved:

We are receiving intercepted transmissions of Cuban agents present & directing repressive actions in Ureña. "

[Neo]

Beverley Owen, the actress who played the original Marilyn Munster on the iconic 1960s sitcom "The Munsters," has died. She was 81.

[pagar]

A figure has arrived:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-25/group-sees-ocasio-cortez-s-green-new-deal-costing-93-trillion

"Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s ambitious plan to fight climate change won’t be cheap, according to a Republican-aligned think tank led by a former Congressional Budget Office director."

[daddy]

Our brave new Governor just entered the hornets nets:

Dunleavy abolishes Alaska climate-change commission, removes roadblock for Knik Arm bridge

JUNEAU — Gov. Mike Dunleavy has abolished Alaska’s climate change strategy commission and has removed a procedural roadblock for several major construction projects, including the Knik Arm Crossing. Administrative Order No. 309, issued Friday, rescinds seven orders issued by former Gov. Bill Walker, including one from Oct. 31, 2017, that established the state’s climate change strategy and the Climate Action for Alaska Leadership Team. That team drafted a climate change policy and formally submitted it to the governor’s office in September. The plan has not been implemented. The governor’s office sent letters to the climate change team on Friday saying their work for the task force “has ended.” The state website for the team, including the draft strategy it created, has been removed...

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Special for Gentlejim;
Finally got enough of a break in the weather to fire off the Smith and Wesson hand cannon 500 Magnum.
What an anti climax. My old 44 mags seemed more punishing than the 500. Extremely effective compensator and ergonomic frame.
It did however crack the wood grips I had installed so it is not without serious recoil.

[MissMarple2]

Regarding Charlie Sykes and the rest of the Bulwark gang:

Does anyone remember them going so hot and hard after Obama? Clinton? (Insert sound of crickets here.)

They are acting hysterical and desperate. Why would that be?

I can only draw the conclusion that they are afraid of President Trump. Why would that be? Other than an occasional snipe at Kristol when he attacks, the President pretty much ignores them

I think those guys have been getting cash from libs for years, as well as certain lobbying groups (like those who profit from military expenditures). I wonder if they have been up to something illegal.

Just a thought, but they seem pretty desperate to me, as do those tech guys who are trying to silence conservatives on social media.

[Dave (in MA)]

This is a fun thread,

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/322742/#respond

DEAR TV NEWS: STOP IT. “Really. Stop it. You don’t call Germany ‘Deutschland,’ do you? Then stop trying to pronounce the names of places and people in the Americas as you and Associated Press fondly imagine they are pronounced in the original Spanish. Especially stop it when it comes to Brazil.” Where, you know, they don’t even speak Spanish.

[henry]

The ancient Babylonians studied the night skies for 700 years, making their work “arguably, the longest lasting scholarly science project that ever existed,” says Frahm. “Nowhere ever after has any civilization done anything like it,”

https://news.yale.edu/2019/02/22/yale-assyriologist-decodes-writing-heavens-ancient-stargazers?utm_source=YNemail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=yn-02-25-19

[daddy]

According to hysterical Liz on FOX she is reporting that Corbyn and the Labour Party have decided to support May's push to have another Referendum Vote in the UK to vote to not leave the EU.

If true, I don't think Sherwood Forest has enough trees left to be turned into pikes to hold all the heads that need to be spiked on top of them.

[jimmyk]

DEAR TV NEWS: STOP IT. “Really. Stop it. You don’t call Germany ‘Deutschland,’ do you?

Hah, that's the NPR style book. Roll those 'r's if it's Spanish or Italian, no matter how ridiculous it sounds.

[MissMarple2]

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/green-book-actor-thanks-america/

This is an actor who THANKS AMERICA as "the only place where dreams can come true."

[Dave (in MA)]

Neo | February 25, 2019 at 02:34 PM

Apparently she gave up her TV career after season one to get married, and didn't act again. Here's the opening of the never-aired Pilot episode. They went in a very different direction with the role of Herman's wife. Too similar to Morticia, I suppose.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVaHtPWAVi8

[Dave (in MA)]

daddy,

It was a "binding referendum" in the same sense as in Massachusetts... It's binding so long as it goes the way the powers that be want it to go.

[MissMarple2]

daddy,

My sister and I were over there for the Queen's Jubilee before the Brexit vote. Almost every sales clerk, tour guide, cab driver, etc. was fed up with the EU and had snarky comments about it.

My sister and I should have bet on Brexit, because we were NOT surprised when they voted to leave the EU.

Now, it's been years since the vote andMay's government has dragged its heels, doing nothing, and obviously ignoring the will of the people. I think if they try for another vote, the Brits will be infuriated.