Brexit: Endgame!

As the British Parliament strings out the Brexit drama they will be competing with Avengers: Endgame and the final season of Game of Thrones. So much drama!

In the lemons/lemonade department, it seems as if PM May managed to hold her most recent margin of defeat under 200 votes, so she has made progress since her first proposal was crushed. At a guess this is the second most lopsided loss in their Parliamentary history (bills doomed to fail normally get pulled), but there are more votes ahead and records are made to be broken.

Comments

[MissMarple2]

sbwaters,

Thanks so much for that photo of daddy!

Gosh, I will miss him!

[Buckeye]

None the less, NEVER means just that.

But I'll drink a sweet tea with you anytime Stephanie:)

[GUS]

Jane, we'll make it work. Looks like Jack might go fishing with us too. Sunday Monday or Tuesday. Sunday is the 31st.

[Beasts of England]

Thanks for that picture of daddy, sbw!! Not at all what I had imagined, but you can see the wit, wisdom, and love in his visage...

[lyle]

even wine

Gasp! 😬

[clarice]

https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Two-CEOs-A-wine-magnate-A-doctor-The-Bay-Area-13683029.php?fbclid=IwAR2IukwG6hRO_MCRIX2vOLlfDw0eokGRrxj50zQStehr_54Lg1qsElq4Mwc

[clarice]

The best part of the college scam was hiding the dough as charitable contributions for which they took deductions. That'll get these parents in a heap of trouble.

[Dave (in MA)]

I was hoping a prominent MSM name or two would be revealed.

[jim nj]

Odell Beckham Jr. trade deal confirmed. I have no idea what the Giants were thinking, but the Giants got some picks, including a first rounder and Jabrill Peppers, a Jersey kid with 4 state titles to his name

https://www.northjersey.com/story/sports/nfl/giants/2019/03/12/jabrill-peppers-ny-giants-odell-beckham-jr-trade-piece/3146621002/

[MissMarple2]

Captain Hate,

Have you seen this yet?

Victor Davis Hanson Responds to The Bulwark's Attack on Him
A Day After Charlie Sykes' Attack Site Smears His Colleague Hanson as a Nazi, The Very Virtuous David French Appears on Sykes' Podcast

http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=380189

Ace eviscerates Sykes, French, Murphy and Schoenfeld.

[MissMarple2]

I ran across RG on Twitter and let him know about Pagar and Frau.

[Narciso]

After the 8th name, it doesn't add any more details

[jimmyk]

The appropriately names Dick's to quit selling rifles now too.

They're getting renamed as Bag o' Dicks.

[MissMarple2]

Filthy Liberals
‏ @filthy_liberals
6m6 minutes ago

Cardinal Pell, 77, the highest-ranking Catholic cleric ever convicted of child sex abuse, was sentenced to 6 years in prison in his native Australia.

[MissMarple2]

A new all-time record may be set this week in Kansas as an intense blizzard blasts the central US: https://t.co/zvGOEAqOZU pic.twitter.com/X6kovTkfoo

— AccuWeather (@breakingweather) March 13, 2019

Map at the link. Regarding our Ice Age discussion this morning, I would point out it is March 12.

[Neo]

Page would later testify that the DOJ told the FBI that “the ‘gross negligence’ standard in 793(f), it was their assessment that it was unconstitutionally vague.”

I bet there are at least a couple of dozen lawyers preparing appeals based on that assessment at this moment.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.wthr.com/article/pilots-have-reported-issues-us-new-boeing-jet-1

Issue which causes the nose to pull down.

[Narciso]

Mcgashan was a pig wig at the world economic forum, a socially conscious hedge fund manager a co partner with participant media, that company underwrote much of those George Clooney vanity projects sometimes with Dubai investment cash originally.

[MissMarple2]

Time for me to head to bed.

Good night, everyone!

[Narciso]

Oh Jane Buckingham is a contributor to puffington and the spew I'm struck at how low profile they identify the defendants

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

Anyone with the initials LP request an add to the FB JOM page?

[Buckeye]

One thing for sure JimNJ.

The Browns need all the help they can get, even if they are on the right trajectory.

[sbwaters]

Hanson bitch-slapped the nevertrumpers:

Instead of shrill charges and exclamations, Schoenfeld might have explained why Trump got elected, and why the preferred candidates of The Bulwark did not. And why have Republicans not won 51 percent of the presidential vote since 1988, in an era when they've done well at the state and local level? And, most important, why exactly do Schoenfeld and his associates oppose a president who has enacted a conservative menu that was once mostly their own? Why do they attack a president who is trying to stop a neosocialist agenda that was once likewise anathema to them?

[clarice]

https://nypost.com/2019/03/12/mom-in-admissions-scandal-wrote-book-about-getting-out-of-sticky-situations/?utm_source=facebook_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site+buttons&utm_campaign=site+buttons&fbclid=IwAR1tD7lPNY3efNQ6N1ls1U7dzFwOhG9PKYXwdbLEITa1kLu9zE4xriyEP3I

[RattlerGator]

Tough week. Tough, tough week.

[lurkersusie]

ICE Officers Giving Up On Trump Over Catch And Release | The Daily Caller

https://dailycaller.com/2019/03/12/ice-union-catch-release/

[Narciso]

Like a real life desperate housewives

https://freebeacon.com/politics/democratic-donors-charged-in-college-admissions-scam/amp/&ved=2ahUKEwjh1qiahv7gAhURYK0KHfzsCsMQlO8DMAN6BAgKEBE&usg=AOvVaw2gnNbYN6zxRHFW4FmRpFYN

Reminds me of an episode of veronica mar

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--I bet there are at least a couple of dozen lawyers preparing appeals based on that assessment at this moment.--

Neo,
You missed the asterisk that notes it is only unconstitutionally vague as related to Hillary Rod-ham Clinton.
All others pay cash.

[sbwaters]

Yeah, RG, but I look at daddy’s smile, Frau’s name-isms, pagar’s indignation, and I’m grateful for it all ... even for you. ;-)

[Captain Hate]

Ace eviscerates Sykes, French, Murphy and Schoenfeld.

I'm too lazy to look back but I might have linked that previously unless I worried my links there were getting excessive. ace has been on an extended roll.

[Narciso]

Yes you did, schoenfeld freaked out over mittens going a little past splunge

[sbwaters]

Similarly, my Mom has sudden memory loss and is trying to reason her way to understand it. What is its purpose? It doesn’t need a purpose Mom. Your regular yardstick doesn’t apply.

Consciousness is special, in and of itself, I said, it is amazing and doesn’t need a purpose.

She paused her wheelchair beside an elderly lady, clearly just coping. “She has a wonderful smile”, Mom said. “Show him.” The lady, wrapped in a blanket, smiled, widely.

“Thank you,” I said. “That makes my day.”

And Mom thinks she has no purpose.

[Narciso]

My grandfather said he lost his memory over the shock of ending up in Spain for that one year, that would be from 10 terabytes to 8

https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2019/03/its-jeremiah-wrights-party-now.html?fbclid=IwAR1xIVnc6XmzOwCGTWMjUx3U4Q0OCClojSamw1VmzcP8fWY6Pry1UW7zBKY&m=1

[sbwaters]

Two pages in on “The Case for Trump” and it is already worthwhile. Thank you VDH.

[clarice]

Sorry to hear it was tough, RG.

[Sandy Daze]

Anyone with the initials LP request an add to the FB JOM page?

Posted by: Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma | March 12, 2019 at 10:07 PM

Yep.

[Sandy Daze]

Please.

[clarice]

rg, I don't know about how Pagar or frau spent their last days, but I am certain that daddy spent his in the way absolutely most enjoyable for him.

[DrJ]

And now for something completely different:

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

Keb' Mo', "Your Love." I needed something upbeat after this week's news, and this fits. Enjoy!

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

Added!

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

I feel like Mickey Ward after any of the Gotti fights... that is how bad this month has been.

Or Gotti after any of the Ward fights.

They both always looked like they fell down a trash chute in a NY high rise after a fight.

Regardless, We're all sick of the gut punches. NO MORE!!!

[Sandy Daze]

Regarding daddy...

I have reflected and prayed this last week.

What a sudden surprise, and yet, what do we really know about daddy? Even those of you who met him--even more than once, or who frequently communicated with him--how well did you really know him?

Was he

Smart? Very smart.

Personable? Very personable.

Well read? Very well read.

Great memory for people, places, and things?
Very great memory for people, places, and things.

International traveler, spanning the globe from one corner to another.

Originally started in the Navy, switched to the reserves. Soon joined an organization to provide a useful and necessary umbrella over all/ALL of his activities.

I don't think daddy has died, I think he has been necessarily 'disappeared' --could be that Xi Jinping's assets were getting too close, could be some other group some where else. He even alluded to the imminent change in status, telling (was it peter or jimnj) that he wouldn't be seeing him again.

Whatever.

I understand the official story. Just so. Probably better that way, to accept the official version. But my sense is, he'd been an extraordinary asset, and needed to be retired and withdrawn for his protection.

Fair winds, daddy.

BZ.

[Rocco]

Foreman said this should be the fight of the century.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM0bpk6pSBw

[Catsmeat]

RG, glad to see you, even in our time of grief--and frau too, how awful! I know we are not the youngest of cohorts but still...

This admissions scam is so ridiculous--I just can't see how all involved were so sure they wouldn't get caught. The usual path of admissions is scandalous enough--if you have to jump a quintile down to admit someone, perhaps that's not a good idea for anyone.

[Sandy Daze]

Added!

Posted by: Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma | March 12, 2019 at 10:37 PM

Thank you.

[lurkersusie]

Frau, daddy and pagar

Gone But Not Forgotten

Life is but a stopping place
A pause in what’s to be
A resting place along the road
to sweet eternity.
We all have different journeys
Different paths along the way
We all were meant to learn
some things
But never meant to stay.
Our destination is a place
Far greater than we know
For some the journey’s quicker
For some the journey’s slow
And when the journey finally ends
We’ll claim a great reward
And find an everlasting peace
Together with the Lord.

[jim nj]

https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-butterflies-desert-explosion-20190312-story.html

A boom or bust butterfly species has a really big BOOM.

[Narciso]

I linked some pictures of pagar from his vfw site, it was some years ago, last night.

[Sandy Daze]

sbw - I'm in Chapter Eight of VDH's Case for Trump, 'Never Hillary' --a very enjoyable, insightful chapter.

This is great, important work by Prof Hanson. In one of the earlier chapters he quotes from JD Vance's Hillbilly Eulogy. Hope you have had time for it, if not, I most strongly (continue to) recommend it.

Hillbilly Eulogy: https://www.amazon.com/Hillbilly-Elegy-Memoir-Family-Culture/dp/0062300547

Case for Trump: https://www.amazon.com/Case-Trump-Victor-Davis-Hanson/dp/1541673549

[jim nj]

Odd story

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-suffolk-47540621

"Professor Stephen Hawking's nurse struck off over his care"

[Narciso]

There goes the neighborhood:

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1099350/Justin-Trudeau-latest-news-canada-prime-minister-florida-snc-lavalin

[jim nj]

Remember the story of how over 2,000 illegal immigrants are quarantined due to outbreaks of Mumps.

Here's the headline from Esquire I won't link to.

Trump's ICE Uses Medical Quarantine to Strip People of Their Rights

[lurkersusie]

This is strange

Zoe Tillman on Twitter: "NEW: Michael Flynn's lawyers have asked to continue delaying his sentencing until the EDVA case involving his former business partners is done. Mueller's office isn't taking a position, and say that while he could testify or co...https://twitter.com/ZoeTillman/status/1105631957201969153

[lyle]

Watching our public tv fundraising “festival” tonight with a special session of Tony Bennett and Diana Krall being filmed in a tight studio setting singing Gershwin’s tunes with a quite capable trio. I get that he’s beyond legend but she’s half his age and I swear she’s about to fellate him. Seriously. Even the missus was laughing about the “intimacy.”

[D]

Buford Goich and Henry:
You guys are incredibly smart
Henry were you a Nstional Merit scholar as well?
Steph:
Excellent scores which would gain entrance to many schools but sometimes on the job and life experience are exactly what is needed for success.
As far as therapists giving letters for extended time, it depends on the state.
Ohio is very strict in demanding that a paper trail of intervention with the student is begun before the junior year.
I have had many brilliant students who were diagnosed with a legitimate disability take the test s with time and a half or some other designation.
This has to be approved by the state. I am sure California is much more loosy goosy.

[Narciso]

That's creepy specially the way I feel about diana krall.

[Narciso]

Seeing as the Turks wrote up that stupid OP ed they submitted under his name.

[JimNorCal]

My brother asked about Dissenter. While explaining the concept I logged on to Gab.ai and noticed that TitoPuraw is there!

He's the guy who puts all the cool memes into the PL "Week In Pictures" comment section. As Ig mentioned, the comments now have as many, or more!, memes as the base article and Tito posts the majority.

His Gab page is just like you would imagine it.

[Narciso]

Yes you're not kidding:

https://youtu.be/W1ztHGpHxaw

[jimmyk]

Tony Bennett is 92. If that was filmed even in the last 5 years he's pretty amazing.

[JimNorCal]

In an earlier discussion about Spotify, someone mentioned "BandCamp" which is an environment favored by musicians, I think because they get more of the revenue stream.

Anyway, if you buy music through BandCamp, how hard is it to import into your iTunes library?

[JimNorCal]

btw, thanks CH for the feedback on Nunes.
There are so many Repubs who make noise but then don't deliver ... anything.
Just as one example among many cf the comments on this blog about Trey Gowdy.

[jim nj]

I'm still confused about why they want to retire the aircraft carrier USS Truman early. I think we'll see more discussion in the future.

https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2019/03/does-uss-trumans-early-retirement-herald-new-war-carriers/155443/?oref=d-topstory

[jim nj]

Speaking of aircraft carriers, how about this proposal...

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/germany-proposes-european-aircraft-carrier/

I mean like what language would they speak?

[Narciso]

Here's a tip equip your army with real rifles, fully maintain your airforce then we'll get around to the other.

[Past is Prologue]

My husband had been at Claremont Men's College with Hans Ridder while Dawn was at Scripps. They married and remained in Claremont all these years and we lost touch. I was amazed to realize one day that Frau on JOM was Dawn, and I posted some remarks as Past is Prologue. We four had some good times together back in the day discussing, yes, politics--feistily! Or Hans would let me try my weak conversational German with him. Their 2 little boys were the same age approximately as our son. I'm very sad and will send condolences to Hans and the family. Thanks to all JOM people for their caring and loving remarks.

[jim nj]

Narciso,

I was thinking something similar. Before Germany engages in part ownership of an aircraft carrier it might want to get its' subs and surface ships seaworthy, its' air force airworthy, and its' armor ready to roll.

No, let's build a European aircraft carrier. Heh, maybe we can sell them the USS Truman.

[Manuel Transmission]

Re engineering schools, in my 5-1/2 decades in the tech world, I’ve worked for, with and over engineers from about every imaginable school. I never saw a measurable correlation to whether any of them were worth their salt and what school they came out of.

I think only two things matter: 1) do they have the intrinsic, curious mind that has to understand how something works, and 2) were they fortunate in having a mentor who saw their light and helped them shine it brighter.

The rest all become bureaucrats and paper shufflers.

[Narciso]

Well do they have the technical skill but also do they the vision I think thr second is as important, as long as you've assured the first

[Another Bob]

ManTran, I’m rolling up my fourth decade. I agree with you, but 1 is more important than 2.

My experience includes mid-level state school types who I wouldn’t trade for anybody, and MIT grads who were book smart as all hell but couldn’t engineer their way out of paper bags.

[jim nj]

http://www.hughhewitt.com/this-is-education/

John Schroeder commenting on today's education scandal and other things.

"I look at what is going on right now and I see kids being kids. The problem I see is adults not being adults – which in part means keeping the kids in their place. A little serious parenting would go a long way right now."

Students running the asylum. They have more power the cowering professors and administrators. And many of the students are in power plays led by professors and agitators with their own agendas.

[Pinandpuller]

Jane, we'll make it work. Looks like Jack might go fishing with us too. Sunday Monday or Tuesday. Sunday is the 31st.

Posted by: GUS | March 12, 2019 at 09:25 PM

Is Mr Uber going to be doing a lot of the driving?

[JimNorCal]

Is this the beer daddy has in his hand from sbw's photo back on page 1?
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/99/149346/

[Pinandpuller]

Aren't Liberty and Equality antagonists?

[jim nj]

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/03/12/unions-split-with-democrats-over-green-new-deal/

No biggie. Why would the unions participate in the destruction of their members' jobs?

[jim nj]

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/03/12/monster-solar-storm-that-hit-earth-discovered-in-the-past/

"Something this big today would surely fry electrical grids, GPS, and communications. It may be bigger than the Carrington Solar event of 1859.

Scientists have found evidence of a huge blast of radiation from the Sun that hit Earth more than 2,000 years ago. The result has important implications for the present, because solar storms can disrupt modern technology."

This is particularly interesting after reading the solar activity article somebody posted.

[Pinandpuller]

Larry David learns his great grandfather was a slave owner:

https://youtu.be/EjwMHduGEvk

[GUS]

Pin, I sure hope so.. I mean, I'm going to do little to NO driving. I haven't had a beer in weeks. I've had pneumonia, and I'm fully intending to enjoy my share of cold beer in Florida. St Pete and Sarasota aren't even an hour apart, so there should be a nice meet up and cocktails with Jane and Jack. And fresh fish.

[jim nj]

via Insty

https://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/president-evil/

On the collapse of the electrical system and its' knock-on effects in Venezuela. No electricity, no power for pumping systems like water distribution. This is getting very bad very fast.

I fear for the people of Venezuela. I hope our military are calling their counter-parties in Venezuela and telling them that they are targets if they don't step up and help their people.

[GUS]

It's amazing the KERNAL SEAN PENN SPICCOLI hasn't been asked to comment on VENEZUELA.

[Pinandpuller]

Somebody actually named their son Mujihad Deen...

AND HE BROKE THE LAW!!!

https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2019/03/06/8-arrested-investigation-2017-homicide-shooting-josh-shapiro-krasner-police/

[Pinandpuller]

I did some research and it turns out Mujihad's Godfather is Oliver North.

[jim nj]

via Insty - ugly story - the possible/probable subdudction earthquake in Oregon.

https://www.city-journal.org/pacific-earthquakes

[jim nj]

nytol

[MissMarple2]

Good morning!

jim nj, Thanks for that article on the earthquake potential in Oregon. Ugh.

[MissMarple2]

The President was up late last night, and these tweets are from last night.

This is the first, a retweet of someone who posted this election night. Graphic is at the link:

Dear God,
Thank you for answering our prayers.
A grateful Nation#GodBlessAmerica🇺🇸 #PresidentTrump #ElectionDay pic.twitter.com/xKopdEYNpe

— Linda Suhler, PhD (@LindaSuhler) November 9, 2016

[anonamom]

Sandy Daze's 10:54 explains things pretty much even if you are sure his body was cremated. ;-)
He definitely was "retired" from the keyboard; he IS an "extraordinary asset," without a doubt.

[MissMarple2]

This is a retweet of a comment by the GOP on the New York AG's investigation of all things Trump. Link goes to tweet:

All part of the Witch Hunt Hoax. Started by little Eric Schneiderman & Cuomo. So many leaving New York! https://t.co/5HCCNFZXFN

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 13, 2019

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump
6h6 hours ago

So many records being set with respect to our Economy. Unemployment numbers among BEST EVER. A beautiful thing to watch!

[MissMarple2]

You will notice that last tweet from President Trump was 5 hours ago, which means he was up after midnight.

[MissMarple2]

John Ratcliffe
‏Verified account @RepRatcliffe
15h15 hours ago

I'd like to thank President Trump for signing legislation I introduced with @JohnCornyn to restore the local control of 2,025 acres of Northeast Texas land.

https://ratcliffe.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=365

[MissMarple2]

https://www.businessinsider.com/here-are-the-brexit-amendments-mps-will-use-to-take-control-of-brexit-2019-3

[MissMarple2]

Steve Scalise
‏Verified account @SteveScalise
13h13 hours ago

Democrats are so out of step with reality that they're blocking legislation to protect babies born alive during abortions from being left to die. I'm working to bring @RepAnnWagner's bill to the Floor so they have to tell the American people on record if they support infanticide.

[MissMarple2]

Aaron Blake
‏Verified account @AaronBlake

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) approval/disapproval split: 59/17

Even Democrats like him 42/28

(Via @QuinnipiacPoll)

[MissMarple2]

http://www.veteranstales.org/2019/03/12/tootsie-rolls-and-the-chosin-few/

This is an account of the Chosin Few. I didn't know much about this battle, and this is worth reading to understand the hardships they endured.

[MissMarple2]

https://saraacarter.com/explosive-lisa-page-testimony-steele-timeline-contradictions-and-doj-interference/

This is an assessment of the Lisa Page testimony that Rep. Collins released, having become fed up with the DOJ foot-dragging.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.krgv.com/news/border-patrol-apprehends-largest-group-of-migrants-this-year?sfns=mo

Something has to be done. I would support the US military having more troops, plus legislation to stop catch and release.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/03/12/why-faa-ntsb-not-caving-political-public-pressure-editorials-debates/3145564002/

[rse]

https://www.businessinsider.com/pilots-complained-about-boeing-737-max-for-months-before-latest-crash-2019-3 is linked at the brexit article sidebar.

That MCAS sounds like what hubby was describing when we were talking about this crash sunday.

Interesting that this says boeing had to change how the engines were mounted because of their fuel efficient, larger size. That, in turn, changed the planes center of gravity.

[MissMarple2]

He's up!

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

I greatly appreciate Nancy Pelosi’s statement against impeachment, but everyone must remember the minor fact that I never did anything wrong, the Economy and Unemployment are the best ever, Military and Vets are great - and many other successes! How do you impeach....

..a man who is considered by many to be the President with the most successful first two years in history, especially when he has done nothing wrong and impeachment is for “high crimes and misdemeanors”?