No Durant, No Problem

The Rockets can bite me. Maybe they'll make a roster move and add Beto.

Comments

[Another Bob]

Willowed.

“What do people do for 30 min or an hour while plugged in?”

Actually Jim, that’s been thought of. Nav systems in e-cars have features that include routing based on locations of charging stations, and inclusion of points of interest in the vicinity of charging stations.

SMH

[Buckeye]

Well I got my blood work results back and had Jr. evaluate.

Best numbers I have ever posted, "healthy as a horse".

Who knew sitting on your can for 4 months was so good for you?

I honestly don't know how to account for it, better find some wood to knock on:)

[Narciso79]

Good news buckeye:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2019-03-27/uber-adds-saudi-investors-as-pharo-branson-shun-kingdom-s-cash

[Another Bob]

I probably don’t want to know, but what’s with the cow replies on Devin Nunes’ twitter feed?

[Narciso79]

Hes a farmer, its what passes for wit.

[henry]

Go Blues!

[Buckeye]

I should add that while I think UBER is a crappy investment, I use them all the time when traveling.

Taxi cabs suck by comparison.

[Narciso79]

Probably they overvalued the share price,

[bubarooni]

I almost got willowed. Not quite a brush with death but...

GJ, I'm gonna try the French drain thing. I think it'll work based on what I've read do far. I think it could turn into a great dad-son project with my 15 y.o.

Monroe county says topography and gravity over rule all on certain grades so it's in my hands.

Bought my oldest a car last year as she graduated from college. She snuck home from Chicago last night to surprise her momma for mother's day.

Needless to say it needs an oil change, a check engine light cleared and a wash. I'm at the Kia dealership getting all that done. They are falling over themselves to get me coffee, snacks, etc.

Only way to improve their customer service would be to have girls working. Free coffee is just free coffee without a smile.

[Buckeye]

Go Blues!

Hockey? What's that?

[Extraneus]

Giuliani: ‘I’m Not Going’ to Ukraine

“I’m not going to go. Because I think I’m walking into a group of people that are enemies of the president, in some cases, enemies of the United States, and in one case, an already convicted person, who has been found to be involved in assisting the Democrats with the 2016 election.”

Giuliani further stated, “I believe I was walking into a bunch of people, one of whom already has been found to be involved in this, that I wasn’t aware of, and I think this was a setup.”

WTF? This after all the shrieking from the left?

[MissMarple2]

henry,

I found the wrapped version of that long Twitter thread on trade, so I am going to post it here:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1126902416492855297.html

It's a very good tutorial on what's going on with the China trade negotiations, plus it explains the importance of 5G and the Huwei case.

[Buckeye]

Bubarooni

Buckeyette is coming home next weekend. She has to work out of the Columbus office for 3 or 4 days.

She already let me know her car needs an oil change:)

[Narciso79]

Yes Kia is helpful, they are smart to know hoe to get good will, Mazda is a more bare bones operation.

[Captain Hate]

I probably don’t want to know, but what’s with the cow replies on Devin Nunes’ twitter feed?

Patterico hates Devin Nunes so he obviously triggers the retards.

[Captain Hate]

Sometimes Giuliani sounds really stupid, unless DJT is using him to drip out info to the masses about stuff we've been talking about for months.

[Narciso79]

Vogel is covering his own story with a pillow until like the 8ndian chief in cuckoo's nest

[Marlene]

Good Morning! Speaking of Beto,my morning perusal always includes the NH Union Leader.
Beto spoke at a house party in Salem and Gillibrand held an event at a cafe in Derry. NH is all about retail politics,but at some point,speaking to 30 or 40 people is a waste of everyone's time and money. I guess Beto has plenty of his wife's money to waste. Andrew Yang talked to the editorial board of the Seacoast Media Co. (Portsmouth) Does he even show up in polls?

[Marlene]

Wow,Yang has 1% in the Monmouth poll posted on TM's link.

[Melinda]

Have some quibbles with Mr. Townsend but all in all very excellent read, thanks Henry, and MM for the wrapped version, that got shipped on.

[Narciso79]

Even free money and circumcision doesn't get you anywhere.

[MissMarple2]

This is a very interesting thread about the social effects of Twitter:

https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/1127191914820841472

[Narciso79]

Steph reminds us that Jonathan winer worked with deripasha problem after he left the Clinton administration

[Gentlejim]

Bub,
Sounds like a project for sure. Great father/son time.

I’ve never had a problem with Kia/Hyundai. I’ve owned 3. I even got a notice in the mail this week that they are extending warranties for the struts on my daughter’s 2016 Elantra to 120,000 miles or 7 years. I believe those numbers are right. It’s still relatively early and I’ve only had 40 oz of coffee. :)

[MissMarple2]

https://realclimatescience.com/1500-years-of-heatwaves/

For the global warming hysterics, a handy piece for rebuttal.

I like to point out that the heat was so bad in the 1930's that my dad told the tale of the public pool where he lifeguarded bringing ice blocks from the ice house to float in the water and cool it.

[sbwaters]

Thanks, Mel...

Utterly brilliant thread on online behavior and the tools that have driven us to where we are today (hint: you better know what GameGate was about. It’s an inflection point.)::
Nick Monroe
Posted by: Melinda | May 10, 2019 at 10:39 PM

Whoa! They believed they could “commodify people’s feelings.” Hence the need to defend against words, words, words, as Dorothy Sayers advised in 1948.

And the need to check one’s thinking product through the Liberal Arts Trivium and regular re-validation of one’s principles.

[Jane]

Fire ant update (because I know you are all on the edge of your seats). Took benedryl and advil last night and slept for 12 hours. Swelling is down but still there. Put alcohol on the ones popping.

Took kiwi back to the park this AM carefully avoiding where I think the ants were in tall shoes and voila, ants bit my other foot!

This park is generally well taken care of, so I am really pissed off! If the swelling doesn't go down today my medical friends say we should go to a walk-in. But I'm hopeful.

And Steph I will buy that stuff - altho they aren't at my house. I think I will have to start wearing rubber boots.

[Extraneus]

Alyssa Milano calls for ‘sex strike’ to protest wave of anti-abortion bills

“Our reproductive rights are being erased,” the actress tweeted Friday. “Until women have legal control over our bodies we just cannot risk pregnancy. JOIN ME by not having sex until we get bodily autonomy back. I’m calling for a #SexStrike. Pass it on.”

She's actually on to something here.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dems-fume-as-trump-moves-to-amend-july-4-celebrations-address-the-nation

[Narciso79]

Right like she was really acting in those straight to video films in the 90s

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theepochtimes.com/is-mueller-probe-of-manafort-actually-looking-into-russian-oligarch-deripaska_2720188.html/amp

[Marlene]

Oh yeah,global warming. We drove to southern Maine yesterday to pick up hubby's Jeep at the truck carrier company. It was cold,rainy and foggy. I stopped in Bangor to do an errand on the way back and it was so cold I really thought it would snow last night. When I arrived at the cabin,hubby had the wood stove nice and hot. It is sunny this morning and should be warmer. The dog can't find any geckos. :)

[bubarooni]

GJim, I'm gonna rent something to the trenching with. It should be a hoot when I put the boy on it and say 'Dig!'

[Jane]

Wow who knew Alyssa was so sexist.

[Gentlejim]

Bub,
Too funny. Maybe attach a spare Xbox or PS controller to the machine to help familiarize him. :)

[henry]

Iowahawk:

I am going on a sex strike against uggos unless they buy me enough beer

[Narciso79]

Re that Ricket surgeon al green:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/browerreport/2019/05/07/dems-go-nutsno-sweets-on-ebtbidens-an-idiotdrano-cocktail-woman-marry-self?fbclid=IwAR1Q8VfC4LNVHs2z7F0D04Vo1jINTJQRiMwAoZmsSAjCjQ35idWwbkz9qb0

[Threadkiller]

How to trench:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=axgc5jiZxeg

[JM Hanes]

"JOIN ME by not having sex until we get bodily autonomy back."

Should be an interesting divorce. "But, Your Honor...." OTOH, surveys always find that Conservatives have better sex than liberals, so maybe it's not that much of a sacrifice.

[Threadkiller]

Fat fingered. YouTube automatically opened the next video and I copied its url.

Try this:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HM4oztgLLHQ

[MissMarple2]

Liberal women: “We’re going on a #SexStrike!”

Liberal men: pic.twitter.com/c8r2CQrJWf

— Matt Barber (@jmattbarber) May 11, 2019

You have to click to see the video punch line.

[Captain Hate]

Alyssa "you 'bout done yet?" Milano sounds like fun.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

From TWIP comments;

[Buckeye]

“Until women have legal control over our bodies we just cannot risk pregnancy. JOIN ME by not having sex until we get bodily autonomy back. I’m calling for a #SexStrike. Pass it on.”

Does this mean I should be glad I never fantasized about Ms. Milano???

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--You have to click to see the video punch line.--

The punch line was an old broad in the Simpsons giving the white supremacist sign...an old WHITE broad.
Well actually she was yellow, but it was a very pale shade.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Here's the pic lyle or someone refused to click on that let's us know SI thinks we should be celebrating morbid [as in death] obesity.
Right click for the whale, er, whole thing.


I'm guessing Ahab must be lashed to her starboard side since he isn't visible a-port.

I'm not trying to make fun of overweight people. Well, ok, maybe some, but I know it's a struggle. But to pretend it's healthy or should be normalized and celebrated is even more harmful and dangerous than the obsession with those gruesome, emaciated, breastless, hipless, stick-girl models. That's what I'm ridiculing; the perverse idea everything "diverse" should be celebrated.

[Narciso79]

What fresh hell, where did the branch timeline begin.

[Beasts of England]

I'm on a sex strike until the next time I have sex...

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump
33m33 minutes ago

Such an easy way to avoid Tariffs? Make or produce your goods and products in the good old USA. It’s very simple!

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

My 10:02 resized properly;

[Melinda]

Narciso-

If you want to see where the next wave of leftist “DOOM!” will be arriving from, go check out Nick Monroe’s overnight thread on Jared’s self-immolation.

Most amusing.

[MissMarple2]

I was going to go get some flowers to pot up but I will wait until next week.

The HIGH today is supposed to be 60!

Too cold for me to be digging in the dirt outside.

[clarice]

See how right I was when I said Iggy was definitely heteronormative?

[MissMarple2]

Roosh
‏Verified account @rooshv

This is a Toronto subway billboard that many children will see. Things are getting out of hand.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D6Io2bIV4AICamU.jpg

[sbwaters]

Alyssa was so sexist

Someone tell Alyssa there is a difference between sexist and sexy.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/10/trump-joe-biden-interview-1317599

Politico got a 15-minute interview which covered a LOT of stuff, but this is what they chose for their headline:

Trump: Biden 2020 reminds me of Trump 2016

[Extraneus]

WATCH: Putin scores 8 goals in an exhibition hockey game in Russia pic.twitter.com/efyZfN0YGv

— TicToc by Bloomberg (@tictoc) May 11, 2019

[sbwaters]

I always thought I skated well ...

... and then I saw the videos.

[MissMarple2]

https://twitter.com/themarketswork/status/1127204055334379520

I suggest going to this series of tweets. It's not a real thread, but several people chime in including a whistleblower.

It opens with this:

Jeff Carlson
‏ @themarketswork

James Baker, during his testimony, admitted the leaders of the FBI, with no actual evidence of collusion, began discussing a complete hypothetical as a means to possibly open an obstruction-of-justice investigation of the president of the United States after Comey's firing.

[Narciso79]

Oh well:
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/karen-townsend/2019/05/10/good-fight-uses-swatting-kill-stephen-miller

[Captain Hate]

I'm shallow enough to find Marie Harf attractive and ignore the stupid. Who's with me?

.....

I'm gonna pass.

She's Christine Blasey Ford waiting to happen.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 11, 2019 10:38 AM (zX0bZ)

[Narciso79]

Well shes joining the Moulton campaign 'so ahead will never be heard of again'

[MissMarple2]

Dan Bongino
‏Verified account @dbongino
5m5 minutes ago

You can ALWAYS gauge the destructive impact to the Democrats of a news story based on the hack media’s reaction to it. The media panic over the Joe Biden Ukrainian collusion story is directly proportional to the damage it’s going to do to him when the truth comes out. Bank on it.

[MissMarple2]

Daughter called me creeped out. She came in here right before she left to run errands and asked me if I wanted her to pick up my prescription at Kroger.

She got in her car and her phone popped up with a message "5 minutes to Kroger" and a map.

"Mom, I don't like this."

[MissMarple2]

https://www.dailywire.com/news/47081/media-ignores-valerie-plames-blatant-anti-semitism-ashe-schow

Valerie Plame is running for Congress in New Mexico.

If you go to the article you will first see a picture of her from when she was in the news.

The next graphic is the video of her announcement.

She has NOT aged well.

[Narciso79]

I told you some of the tedious Roman a clef she wrote the last had a dick Cheney manque trying to detonate a nuke in india

[Tom R]

Thanks for the link MM.

Any doubts still that Rosenstein protected Trump by appointing Mueller to get McCabe out of the picture? Likely one of the biggest reasons Trump knew he could trust Rosenstein (who btw is a civilian now and free to testify against McCabe and everyone else involved with the silent coup).

https://twitter.com/themarketswork/status/1127205329060519936?s=21

[Narciso79]

I think thanos had one of these:

https://mobile.twitter.com/alimhaider/status/1127060976770146304

[Tom R]

This Twitter Sleuth successfully connected dots between the 1MDB scandal, the Fugees rapper, and the connection to the Obamas and Clintons last year.

https://twitter.com/benktallmadge/status/1077861347856007169?s=21

[Narciso79]

Chicken and egg:

https://mobile.twitter.com/Nervana_1/status/1127218809104941056

[henry]

Do police have to become civilians to testify against crooks?

That is a perplexing claim I often see on twitter, circular validation of sleuth to sleuth analysis.

I retain all doubts on RR until evidence shows up. (Not opinions as above. Evidence).

[Beasts of England]

Have you seen this video, Tom R? You'll enjoy it...

https://youtu.be/sQl7pjddY9E

[Buckeye]

What I read suggests that RR found McCabe untrustworthy, little more.

[clarice]

Lynn Chu
15 hrs ·
57% off on Michelle Obama's book is a (near) remainder sale price.

[MissMarple2]

I would like to say that ChiTown sent that Jeff Carlson thread to me.

I didn't intend to provoke an argument about Rosenstein or Mueller.

[matt - deplore me if you must]

So we now find that Pras, one of the Fugees, was in it up to his eyeballs laundering millions in contributions from 1MDB into Obama's 2012 campaign.

This does not include all of the other fraud that took place.

A 1MBD-Obama connection sounds delicious. Let the mud fly!!

[Beasts of England]

Since Buckeye hasn't recently provided us with any hot chicks playing the bass videos, here's a girl (14 years old) covering the drum track of 'Radar Love'. Very impressive!!

https://youtu.be/QwvzeyI65xA?

[MissMarple2]

clarice,

I have long suspected that publishing houses (privately owned ones) serve as money-laundering mechanisms. When they went on and on about the "record breaking advances" that the Obamas got for their books I was positive.

No one wants to read it! I knew it!!

[Narciso79]

After what they did with guantanamera,

[MissMarple2]

https://mymodernmet.com/scale-model-ancient-rome/?fbclid=IwAR1d0O9gmPFlKm46Uqc0qLU4xdb-nhqW5kQyNFZLEIBZKaxqChERuQvTZq0

I didn't know this scale model even existed.

[Tom R]

MM @ 11:40

You don’t need to ever apologize for posting informative links. The fact that you feel the need to due to fear of upsetting the intolerant is a shame.

[Tom R]

Beasts @ 11:31

That link was pleasing to the eye. Iggy would approve. That video was Jeff Carlson’s detailed article about Rosenstein published earlier in the week. Smart of Epochtimes to choose someone like Gina Shakespear to narrate a long video like that.

[Beasts of England]

You got me, Tom R - the choice of presenter didn't hurt the argument!! :)

[Tom R]

Buckeye @ 11:33

I know you have to be aware of all the accusations about McCabe leading a “silent coup” against Trump. We’ve only been talking about it here for months. Who do you think was the first person to figure out that the Obama criminal cabal was involved in a silent coup against Trump?

There was a reason RR got an unprecedented retirement ceremony never given to previous DAGs at the DOJ this week.

[Beasts of England]

One of the reasons I was so impressed by the young lady covering 'Radar Love' is because it's such a difficult drum track. Typically on rock songs, the cymbal is crashed on the downbeat. On that song, it's done on the beat before the downbeat, with an unclutched high-hat splashed on the downbeat. Major props. 👊🏼

[Tom R]

Should access to social media platforms be a Constitutionally protected civil right? This would prevent leftwing social media giants from censoring conservatives they ideologically disagree with.

https://twitter.com/humanevents/status/1127229393171111944?s=21

[Extraneus]

I had a (beautiful) Hungarian girlfriend who's cousin Otto claimed to be the bass player on Radar Love. He taught me how to play the Stones' Wild Horses on guitar, and I believed the Radar Love story my entire life until I looked up the band around a year ago during a conversation here and found that a) the bass player wasn't Hungarian, and b) his name wasn't Otto.

[clarice]

Neil Chernoff (FB):he Australian diplomat at the center of the Papadopolous mess is covering himself, although that is not the way the mainstream media is covering what he said. Here is the cover:
"While Downer was critical of Papadopoulos, he said that there was no indication from his May 2016 conversation that the Trump campaign had colluded with Russia to steal or release any Clinton information.
“There was no suggestion from Papadopoulos nor in the record of the meeting that we sent back to Canberra, there was no suggestion that there was collusion between Donald Trump or Donald Trump’s campaign and the Russians,” Downer said."
In other words, I was not suggesting collusion. So why did the FBI jump all over it? Is there anything there that would justify the US government spying (sorry "conducting surveillance on") a US citizen who is part of an opposition Presidential campaign?

[Beasts of England]

You should have known if he wasn't wearing wooden shoes, Extraneus. ;)

[Extraneus]

She does a nice Sultans of Swing, too. (Different drum set.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q8s93klams

[Jane]

Beasts,

i know nothing about drums, and less about cymbols but that was amazing!

[Melinda]

Beasts & Ext,

You guys are going to make me link some Zutty Singleton clips if you don’t watch out. Then CH will really hate me.

[Extraneus]

Trump Campaign Staffer Attacked for Calling 9/11 Terror Supporters ‘Murderous Thugs’

The Talking Points Memo (TPM) article published Friday accuses Matt Wolking, a deputy director of communications for Rapid Response for the Trump campaign, of writing anti-Muslim comments on his personal blog in college.

The blog, “Wolking’s World,” featured mostly scraps of news followed by commentary and analysis, commonly found on blogs before the Twitter era.

TPM accuses Wolking of describing Muslims as “murderous thugs,” which stems from a post he wrote arguing that a poll showing that seven percent of Muslims supported the 9/11 attacks was alarming and not defensible.

Commenting on an article on the results of a Gallup poll of Muslims, Wolking criticized the tone and wrote, “They still can’t get around the fact that over 90 million Muslims are murderous thugs, a conservative estimate considering all of those who would rather not go on record as supporting terrorism, especially to a Western polling company.”

TPM also accused Wolking of describing Islam as a religion whose followers celebrated 9/11 by dancing in the streets, a fact that was documented by the media at the time.

The Friday night oppo dump prompted ridicule in Republican circles in Washington, and a source close to the campaign revealed to Breitbart News that both the Washington Post and The Daily Beast passed on the story before TPM published it.

[Melinda]

https://youtu.be/3VeN5BpUxdc

Anyone care to guess the piano player?

[Beasts of England]

Glad you liked it, Jane - serious talent! :)

[Melinda]

Shorter, but features Satchmo:

https://youtu.be/rTi9T39DpN4

[Extraneus]

Beto O'Rourke reveals plan to transfer wealth from rich, white Americans to poorer African-Americans

"One very obvious opportunity — but it will be insufficient. When we look at the fact that there's 10 times the wealth today in white America than there is in black America, and that families have been able to successfully pass on that wealth over time," O'Rourke said, according to The Examiner.

"We know from our history of redlining and excluding African Americans from the ability to build wealth through home purchases, that opportunity does not exist for much of the country," O'Rourke continued.

"What if in the tax code we did a better job of breaking down that accumulated wealth, of taxing it so it is not producing the greatest income and wealth inequality that we've seen in our lifetimes, unseen since the Gilded Age of the 19th century? What if we decided that we would use the proceeds to invest in people, in education?" the former Texas congressmen went on to say.

O'Rourke was also asked why he, as a white man, is qualified to lead "racial healing."

"I can choose to do this as a white man, to involve myself in this conversation. I can just as easily choose to back out of it," O'Rourke said.

[henry]

Ext, has Beto emptied his in-laws bank accounts? No?

[Beasts of England]

Is this the same Beto who donates less than one percent of his income to charity? 😜

[Beasts of England]

No idea on the pianist, Mel...

[Extraneus]

That must be him "choosing to back out of it," Beasts.

(While citing the infamous and bogus Boston Fed study that's done so much damage.)