Saturday Morning

I heard there was a ball game last night.

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[D]

MM:
No obligation by superdelegates to vote for a specific candidate on the first ballot.

[Marlene]

Ha,lyle. I was going to mention that I ordered a machine gun from the internet,but I decided to get a new watch instead. :)
The trees are (finally) green here. What a cold and rainy month since we've been back! I've been busy washing blankets and comforters,so I haven't been outside. The swarms of black flies would carry me away!

[henry]

They’ve come for Blazing Saddles. Someone set up a toll booth.

https://www.redstate.com/slee/2019/06/01/icymi-another-satirical-classic-blazing-saddles-gets-sjw-treatment/

[MissMarple2]

Rudy Giuliani
‏Verified account @RudyGiuliani
6h6 hours ago

The fraud which defamed John Dowd permeates the report. The investigation of the investigators should include the formation, and conduct, of the Special Counsel’s office. They felt empowered by a fawning media to do anything, proper or highly improper, to get Trump.

[Tom R]

Question for the handymen/women.

I have a gas powered push mower that starts within a couple of pulls of the pull cord attached. It does not matter how long I leave the mower running, 10 seconds or 10 minutes, but if I stop the engine and try to restart it it won’t start. It doesnt matter how many times I pull the pull cord. I have to wait 15-20 minutes before it will start again and then it starts within 1-2 pulls of the pull cord. Oil level is fine. Any idea what the problem could be?

[henry]

@realDonaldTrump

Emmet Flood, who came to the White House to help me with the Mueller Report, will be leaving service on June 14th. He has done an outstanding job – NO COLLUSION - NO OBSTRUCTION! Case Closed! Emmet is my friend, and I thank him for the GREAT JOB he has done.

[MissMarple2]

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

The United States stands ready to work with @NayibBukele to advance prosperity in El Salvador and the hemisphere. Congratulations President Bukele on your inauguration!

[GUS]

My fitty cal arrived yesterday, I think it's already killed a few peeps. I ordered it off of THE INTERWEBS. "Fitty Cals r US"

[D]

MM:
That quote from Guiliani matches what he was saying on Laura Ingraham’s
shoe last night.
Hannity’s show on the Deep State was excellent.
The guy from the Hill John Solomon says to watch in the next month how they deconstruct the Mueller Report for its inaccuracies and falsehoods.
TomR’s last post - words fail me.

[matt - deplore me if you must]

One of the issues with Noonan is living in Manhattan. It is sort of like living in Kinshasa with the Ebola virus in the water. A lot of folks there have gone full zombie and Peggy has been exposed to the virus.

[henry]

Tom R, two thoughts.

1) when did you last replace the spark plug?

2) clean the carburetor.

3)* wait for TK or someone competent to give advice.

* counting like Pelosi is fun. It’s been years since I had that problem. I don’t remember which fix was for what.

[D]

TomR:
We have s mower just like yours.
Do not turn it off.
Repeat do not turn it off until you are finished mowing the lawn.
We have an old mower that belonged to my father in law who passed away
In 1998.

[henry]

BTW. A modern push mower should start on one pull given the primer doodad. That was why I asked spark plug first.

[D]

Henry:
I don’t think the spark plugs or the carburetor have had any service recently on ours.

[henry]

It took a study to figure this out?

@CNBC

Majority of bitcoin trading is a hoax, a study finds.

[Buckeye]

If anyone is watching The Memorial, you can see how much rain we have had this spring. The course is about three miles away.

Everything is green and the grass is growing like crazy.

Three days after being cut, I see grass in the neighborhood going to seed.

[jimmyk]

One of the issues with Noonan is living in Manhattan.

Matt, as someone who lives in Manhattan, I think her issues run deeper. She's always been a smug elitist, who just benefited from her work with Reagan at the right time. Nothing she writes is of interest now.

Of course I'm not part of the cocktail party set, so maybe I have nothing to lose. The other day I met a British journalist on the tennis courts here and we were chatting about politics. He seemed like a reasonable guy, though left--anti-Brexit, likes Buttplug and Warren--but loathes Hillary. He still could hardly believe it when I said I voted for Trump. Probably he'd never met anyone who had.

[MJW]

Yesterday several people said that they didn’t think Mueller himself wrote the report and MJW even went so far as to agree with me that it was Weissman who wrote the Part 2 OOJ section.

But I also made clear that I dodn't think the fact that Weissman likely wrote it in any way insulates Mueller from blame.

This isn't just a case of "the captain is responsible for everything that happens under his command." (A proposition I often find to be dubious for very large organization.) Weissman was directly under Mueller -- his second in command, apparently. The report was Mueller's primary work product. Unless Mueller was totally incompetent, he would have read volume II, and discussed its conclusions in detail with its authors. If he disagreed with the obstruction analysis, it was his duty to correct it.

[henry]

Maryrose, if you always run the gas tank dry (especially over the winter), the carburetor should be ok (ethanol in fuels will damage them anyway). Spark plugs lose electrode with use. So I replace mine every year. (I also sand down the magneto surfaces (to get rust / film off), although that takes care of itself if you run the motor foe a while. Annual oil changes are a good idea. As is washing the air filter element.

If you have to, replacing the carburetor isn’t difficult (assuming you can find the correct replacement part). Gaskets aren’t difficult either. One riding mower blew the crankshaft — left it in situ for target practice.

[Jim Eagle]

matt,

I do believe Noonan is Brooklyn Heights as if that makes much difference in attitude but at least she has great views.

Spurs doing everything but score.

[GUS]

The Police Chief in Virginia Beach said that his department was not going to say the MURDERERS name but one time. WHY?
Not saying a dead murderers name, does WHAT??
Can we say John Wilkes Booths' name?
Hitler, is that ok to say??

[MissMarple2]

On odd glitch with Twitter. Usually I open a tab with President Trump's Twitter page and keep it open. WHenever he has a new tweet, a number shows up next to his name, in parentheses. So if there is one new tweet, it will read (1), three new tweets (3), etc.

Today I am getting NO numbers so have to keep checking. That's why I didn't post the Tweet that henry did. Now, on my regular Twitter feed the numbers showing how many tweets have appeared show up. So why not on the President's page?

[MissMarple2]

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/dan-gainor-left-wing-media-bias-galore-on-impeachment-abortion-and-immigration

[henry]

Miss M, perhaps that is what Twitter must do to stay off China’s double secret probation list.

[MissMarple2]

https://saraacarter.com/nunes-muellers-report-is-a-fraud-to-target-trump-transcripts-suggest-he-purposefully-left-out-information/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social-pug

More on Nunes comment.

[jimmyk]

Right, JiB, Brooklyn Heights is just an annex of Manhattan.

[MissMarple2]

IndyStar
‏Verified account @indystar
38s38 seconds ago

NWS: Sunny Saturday in Central Indiana could turn stormy, severe by nighttime http://dlvr.it/R5rhJM

Thankfully daughter got the front yard mowed.

[Buckeye]

When I was 11, I started my lawn mowing career by buying a mower that that needed repair.

Next door neighbor was a gear head so he supervised my tinkering. Float in the carb had a hole in it.

Replaced it and a few gaskets and I was in business:)

Spent $5 for the lawnmower and maybe $2 worth of parts (1964).

[henry]

Hmmmm.

@RaheemKassam

Holy crap. The Brexit Party is now topping the polls for a NATIONAL GENERAL ELECTION.

This is historic.

This would give BXP around 306 seats. 20 short of a MAJORITY in Parliament.

https://twitter.com/raheemkassam/status/1134898710041767937?s=21

Linking to:

@BritainElects

Westminster voting intention:

BREX: 26% (+1)
LAB: 22% (-4)
CON: 17% (-5)
LDEM: 16% (+4)
GRN: 11% (+7)
CHUK: 1% (-1)
UKIP: 1% (-1)

via @OpiniumResearch, 28 - 30 May
Chgs. w/ 20 May

First ever poll to put Brex ahead.

[GUS]

Miss M, it's prolly RUSSIA on sumpting.

[MJW]

I also tend to agree with Iggy's comment from a few days ago that suggested Mueller is a lantern-jawed empty suit, and Weissman was actually running the show. But Mueller chose Weissman for a reason. If one chooses a scorpion, it's likely one does so with the expectation it will do what scorpions do.

[MissMarple2]

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

Washington Post got it wrong, as usual. The U.S. is charging 25% against 250 Billion Dollars of goods shipped from China, not 200 BD. Also, China is paying a heavy cost in that they will subsidize goods to keep them coming, devalue their currency, yet companies are moving to.....

....U.S. in order to avoid paying the 25% Tariff. Like Mexican companies will move back to the United States once the Tariff reaches the higher levels. They took many of our companies & jobs, the foolish Pols let it happen, and now they will come back unless Mexico stops the.....

...travesty that is taking place in allowing millions of people to easily meander through their country and INVADE the U.S., not to mention the Drugs & Human Trafficking pouring in through Mexico. Are the Drug Lords, Cartels & Coyotes really running Mexico? We will soon find out!

[henry]

@realDonaldTrump

Washington Post got it wrong, as usual. The U.S. is charging 25% against 250 Billion Dollars of goods shipped from China, not 200 BD. Also, China is paying a heavy cost in that they will subsidize goods to keep them coming, devalue their currency, yet companies are moving to.....

....U.S. in order to avoid paying the 25% Tariff. Like Mexican companies will move back to the United States once the Tariff reaches the higher levels. They took many of our companies & jobs, the foolish Pols let it happen, and now they will come back unless Mexico stops the.....

...travesty that is taking place in allowing millions of people to easily meander through their country and INVADE the U.S., not to mention the Drugs & Human Trafficking pouring in through Mexico. Are the Drug Lords, Cartels & Coyotes really running Mexico? We will soon find out!

[henry]

I thought you would get that, but wasn’t sure. ;)

[jimmyk]

“ If one chooses a scorpion, it's likely one does so with the expectation it will do what scorpions do.”

Either that or Weissman is the Svengali who has Mueller in his thrall.

[Another Bob]

“Robert Mueller’s office deleted 19,000 text messages between Lisa Page and Peter Strzok”

I think Kirk is being a bit melodramatic. I have read that Mueller filtered out “personal” texts from that which was subject to examination as part of the investigation.

There is a point regarding the breadth of that filter. Purely Trump-hating texts could be considered “personal”, but IMO would speak to state of mind and should be considered.

[henry]

Classic Dem double standard at work:

https://www.wispolitics.com/2019/supreme-court-candidates-fallone-karofsky-to-address-dem-state-convention/

[MissMarple2]

Dan Bongino
‏Verified account @dbongino
6m6 minutes ago

A media friend of mine told me that most of the editors, “journalists,” & opinion staff quietly know that they’re sitting on the biggest political scandal of our time. They’re praying Trump isn’t re-elected,& the Spygate scandal disappears, so the media malfeasance isn’t exposed.

=================
I think we can assume no fair coverage from most of the major outlets, given Dan's tweet.

[GUS]

Liverpool!!

[MissMarple2]

henry,

Can't hurt to post it twice!

[Jim Eagle]

Spurs do all the work, all the possession, all the shots on goal and Liverpool just scored to make it 2-0. If you can't score but the other guys can it makes no difference how much possession and shots on goal you have.

Only 1 minute and stoppage time to go, so the Merseyside is going to be a riot tonight.

[GUS]

Were the phones govt property??

[MissMarple2]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7094549/New-York-community-leaders-WALK-closed-meeting-AOC-meeting-bashed-Trump.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailus

A few people from vets organizations walked out after she started bashing the President and the country. It was a closed meeting of community leaders.

[GUS]

Knowing what YOU know about Weissman. Under what circumstances would you hire him. And for what??

[Extraneus]

most of the editors, “journalists,” & opinion staff quietly know that they’re sitting on the biggest political scandal of our time

And none of them want the Pulitzer...

[GUS]

No penalty????? That was obvious. He took Kane down.

[Jim Eagle]

Its what the Boston Red Sox hired Kloop to do. Win the champions league:)

[Extraneus]

Comey denounces Barr after CBS interview: 'An AG should not be echoing conspiracy theories'

Bill Barr on CBS offers no facts. An AG should not be echoing conspiracy theories. He should gather facts and show them. That is what Justice is about.

— James Comey (@Comey) June 1, 2019

Nice comments on his tweet. Even Julie Kelly shows up. :-)

[Tom R]

MJW @ 4:19

You are using different words to make the same point I made.

You can blame Mueller for not providing oversight of his staff’s actions and signing his name to a report with major legal faults in it but the primary blame for being corrupt and dishonest and omitting the exculpatory evidence is squarely on Weissman’s shoulders.

We know Trump turned over 1.4+million documents to Mueller. No telling how many other pieces of evidence the SC collected. I don’t know how reasonable it is to claim Mueller should have caught the discrepancy between the voicemail recording and Weissman’s unethical transcript of it.

[GUS]

Oh their still getting their Pulitzers'.

https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/staffs-new-york-times-and-washington-post

[Rocco]

Now I'm no mechanic but a quick search found this.

And if you're mechanically inclined, you could try to adjust the valve lash.

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

If there's a vent in the gas tank cap, see if it's plugged up.

[Another Bob]

Yes they were GUS.

[peter]

What bloody channel is the soccer game on?

[Jim Eagle]

The Pulitzers are the most corrupt awards that can be awarded. If anyone deserves a Pulitzer is The Rome Sentinel:)

[Tom R]

MM asked:

Here are some questions I have about Weissman:

1. Did no one question his appointment given his past record of unethical behavior?

CH responded:

It's possible Trump has told party members "don't sweat it because my guys got this".

When I read “my guys” Rosenstein and Mueller are who came to mind.

[MissMarple2]

Mark Knoller
‏Verified account @markknoller
15m15 minutes ago

After 5 hours at his golf club in Sterling, VA., Pres Trump is back at the WH. On Sunday, attends Ford's Theater Gala, then departs on State Visit to the UK, D-Day Anniversary visit to Normandy, France and 1st visit as Pres to Ireland.

[Narciso79]

Is standard charter underwriting liverpool?

[MissMarple2]

Techno Fog
‏ @Techno_Fog
22h22 hours ago

EXCLUSIVE

We got a statement from former Trump lawyer John Dowd, responding to the Special Counsel's deceptive edits of his voicemail to Flynn's lawyer

"It is unfair and despicable. It was a friendly privileged call between counsel - with NO conflict. I think Flynn got screwed"

[clarice]

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/446394-dershowitz-supreme-court-could-overrule-an-unconstitutional-impeachment

[MissMarple2]

https://whotv.com/2019/05/31/extreme-violent-student-behavior-pushing-iowa-teachers-to-breaking-point/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

[henry]

Gus, I need raccoon shit cleared from my barn. I’d let Weissman pay me to take it off my hands. (With signed health waiver, natch).

[matt - deplore me if you must]

Congrats to Liverpool.

[GUS]

Peter, it's over 2-nil Liverpool Salah and Irigi.

It was on Univision so ILLEGALS could see it, and it was on TNT. Steve Nash was one of the commenters.

[Tom R]

Knowing what YOU know about Weissman. Under what circumstances would you hire him. And for what??

In the Spygate screenplay I am writing I hire Weissman and all the other Angry Democrats if I wanted to trick and distract the Democrats, leftwing media, and Progtard/SJWs into believing Mueller was trying to destroy Trump for Russian collusion and OOJ while the real investigations to bring the Obama criminal cabal and Clinton Foundation to justice were quietly going on behind the scenes.

[D]

Mueller should have caught any discrepancies in his report because it reflects badly on him if it is erroneous and false in any way.

[Another Bob]

“Majority of bitcoin trading is a hoax, a study finds.”

And there are numerous Twitter “experts” predicting China and/or DB bank failures yelling “BUY BITCOIN”.

No way in hell I’ll buy.

[D]

I get it now.
The ruminations Of TomR are part of a screenplay.
Now it all makes sense.

[GUS]

Narciso, Standard Chartered has 4 more years as primary sponsor of Liverpool.

[MissMarple2]

BREAKING: Donald Trump tells The Sunday Times that the government should send Nigel Farage to negotiate Brexit, refuse to pay the £39bn and go for no deal if they don’t budge pic.twitter.com/dHuo3zokJn

— Tim Shipman (@ShippersUnbound) June 1, 2019

Link goes to a picture of the front page.

[James D.]

It's time for Peggy to call it a day.

It was time for that a decade ago. If not longer.

[Extraneus]

He had a whole team of hand-picked top-notch Dem assassins. (And don't tell me he didn't have sign-off on who Weissman hired.) They knew the Dowd transcript was tampered with, purposely shading the truth. None of them told old Lantern Jaw, who was too busy playing Pokemon Go to pay attention to the details of what went into the "Mueller Report"?

#ProsecutorialMisconduct

[MissMarple2]

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/446479-obama-trudeau-meet-at-ottawa-brewery

Now he's in Canada. I think people should be paying attention to him and the rest of his pals like Kerry having these foreign meetings.

[MissMarple2]

Watters' World
‏Verified account @WattersWorld

.@VeritasSola shares her story on why she confronted Congressman Jason Amash at a recent Michigan townhall.

8PM on Fox.

[GUS]

Ext, the hilarious part of all of this, is that 2 fuktards...Comey and Mueller, both put their thumbs on the scale numerous times, only to end up HATED by the same SHIT STAINS that loved them at the start.
LIBERALS/THE FULL COMMIE knows only one thing....BY WHATEVER MEANS NECESSARY.
Mueller reminds me of Johnny McStain, he can't go out without cheap shots.

[Extraneus]

All Chairman Graham has to do is bring up that Dowd thing and say "Mueller needs to testify."

What does he do then? Resist? Force a subpoena?

Get that douchebag under the klieg lights.

[matt - deplore me if you must]

So was Trudeau dressed as a brewer?

[GUS]

Trudeau is no Christian Yelich.

[Jane]

Gis,

Not saying the killers name started because someone decided the killer wanted press so they weren't going to give it.

Do you know what his name is? I'd like to know.

[GUS]

DeWayne Antonio Craddock. Jane he's dead. Lead poisoning. It's virtue signaling. He's in hell, just like Hitler. Libs love saying HITLER.

[Jim Eagle]

MM,

Amash is a Pali. Enough said.

[henry]

So not a toxic white cis-male?

[MissMarple2]

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/05/31/brooks-federal-employees-engaging-in-coup-detat-against-trump-should-be-caught-jailed-to-the-maximum-term-allowed-by-law/

Representative Mo Brooks from Alabama.

[MissMarple2]

BREAKING: Fmr Obama Officials Caught Advising Iran How to Defeat U.S. Foreign Policy - @OANN pic.twitter.com/u6IyFebrin

— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) June 1, 2019

Video at link.

[Tom R]

He had a whole team of hand-picked top-notch Dem assassins. (And don't tell me he didn't have sign-off on who Weissman hired.)

A few days back someone, I thought you, linked to an article that said Mueller outsourced all hiring decisions to Weissman. IIRC the general consensus here of people who responded to the article is they believed it to be true.

[MissMarple2]

https://kdvr.com/2019/05/31/101-year-old-wwii-veteran-flew-1500-miles-to-commission-grandson-at-air-force-academy/?fbclid=IwAR1eSZDpSSi_YA38mDShCbkwGv0X8V8CJCoNXhpnzjBdIOnZ3XcQYmi1ieI

[Captain Hate]

When I read “my guys” Rosenstein and Mueller are who came to mind.

Batting .500. I'm convinced Rosenstein was riding herd on the whole bunch and was lied to about the obstruction claims. It doesn't matter because it doesn't hurt DJT no matter how many times the loon prosecutor claims otherwise.

Maybe Mueller was lied to by Weissmann (he looked really feeble reciting that nonsense) but he's still responsible for it.

[clarice]

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/01/mexican-president-hints-at-migration-concessions-to-defuse-trade-spat.html

[Extraneus]

Mexican President Hints At Migration Concessions To Defuse U.S. Trade Spat

“The main thing is to inform about what we’re already doing on the migration issue, and if it’s necessary to reinforce these measures without violating human rights, we could be prepared to reach that deal,” Lopez Obrador said.

...

Lopez Obrador said Mexico would not pursue trade wars with the United States, but noted that his government had a “plan” in case Trump did apply the tariffs to ensure the country was not impoverished. He did not provide details of the plan.

“We’re doing all we can to reach a deal through dialogue,” the veteran leftist said. “We’re not going to get into a trade war, a war of tariffs and of taxes.”

He nevertheless noted that Mexico reserved the right to seek international legal arbitration to resolve the dispute.

That doesn't seem like a very strong possibility.

[Extraneus]

Didn't see you there, Clarice.

[henry]

Hmmm. Are the tariffs a way to “save face” for Obrador so the cartels don’t whack him?

[Captain Hate]

Obrador needs to understand something well: his country is a client state of ours and all his self fluffing doesn't change that by one peso. Know your place, son, and STFU.

[Jane]

What is a "Pali"?

[Jane]

Mueller and Weismann have been hanging out forever. Mueller wasn't fooled. this is what he wanted.

[Captain Hate]

Dershowitz sounds disgusted by the impeachment nonsense, probably because it runs roughshod over the concept of due process about which he's been a consistent advocate.

[lyle]

Palestinian, Jane.

[Captain Hate]

Palistinian, Jane.

[Jane]

Thanks Lyle.

[Tom R]

The truth

https://twitter.com/dloesch/status/1133048016020156416?s=21

[clarice]

Palestinian,Jane

[Captain Hate]

lyle beat me by a minute *and* spelled it correctly.