Trouble For Trump

This Sondland testimony doesn't sound as bad as the headline but its not helpful for Trump.

And another brutal poll, this time from Gallup, showing a slim majority in favor of "Impeach/Remove". The increase is driven by Democrats and Independents, but still.

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[Dave (in MA)]

Hillary Clinton@HillaryClinton·
When I was a little girl, I wrote to NASA
and told them I dreamed of being an astronaut.

They wrote back and said they weren't taking girls.

A new generation of little girls watched today's historic
spacewalk. May their dreams of reaching the stars
have no bounds.

The Morning Spew@TheMorningSpew
#WhenHillaryWasALittleGirl while on a road trip with 
her parents,they skipped right past Wisconsin.
She never got over it.

[Narciso]

Heh dave.

Norma desmond the real one seemed even keeled.

[Narciso]

Heh, hope he didnt make off with the buffet:

https://mobile.twitter.com/proteinwisdom/status/1185305875256205312

[Manuel Transmission]

Matt, one of my besties up here used to be pals with Shelby. They played golf a lot at Belair CC when my bud was president there. He had a lot of great stories from that. I met Shelby right after the Ford GT came out and Ford had a big display tent at Oshkosh with one of those cut in half exhibits. He was in a wheelchair by then and I don’t think he was with us very long afterwards.

Back in the day, I was around a ton of Mustangs of about every flavor. Saw the very first one at the Palladium (?) in LA in April, 64 on the way to UCSB for a shooting match. Over the next few years, must have had several buddies who raced them in SCCA events, including several GT350s. They were fun to drive and easy to wrench on, given that they were pretty basic machines.

[Melinda]

MT-

Warning of an incoming phone call over the weekend about a specific southern rail expenditure. FYI.

Not happening now.

G’night all.

[Pinandpuller]

Justin Trudeau is the first Canadian Prime Minister to be found guilty of four Ethnic Violations.

[Narciso]

Lol steph, its like he saw soul man and said thats the ticket.

[Narciso]

Sorry pin, but the same point obtains

[jim nj]

They were fun to drive and easy to wrench on, given that they were pretty basic machines.

Posted by: Manuel Transmission | October 19, 2019 at 12:36 AM
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MT, I was never a Ford fan. I preferred Chevy and Mopar. I rebuilt a 64 Nova engine in one car and later bought, in 73, a 68 Camaro. Had to replace the camshaft two months later. Only 55,000 miles on it, the previous owner said. After looking at the wear on the cam I suspected the odometer had already rolled over once before.

With a little mechanical sense and reference books those older cars were easy to fix.

It was even a basic part of the economy back then. People who paid professionals to fix their cars sold them when the repair costs got too high. Those with the skills to fix them themselves bought them cheap and did the repairs themselves.

[Narciso]

Oh thats different

https://mobile.twitter.com/leithfadel/status/1185213939669450760

[Narciso]

Yes but it now like apes before the monolith:

[jim nj]

Then California and the FEDs stepped in with all kinds of new regulations.

And Detroit lost their way on quality control in the 70's.

Cars became nuisances. I mean color-coded vacuum lines?

And nowadays most of the cars look alike and are mostly painted in muted neutral colors.

[Narciso]

No, next question.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/10/17/2020-democratic-debate-candidates-michael-bennet-229856

[GUS]

Jim Nj. What and Why on earth, would nominally intelligent TAX PAYERS, give an ounce of CREDENCE to GOVERNMENT CLOWNS, who are PROTECTED and in NO WAY REQUIRED to show any SEMBLANCE of accountability for ANYTHING.
Seriously. The same CLOWNS work for the FBI.

[GUS]

It's SCARY. Canada, actually ELECTED.....Trudeau.
Maybe they thought his SKILL SET was being a CELEBRETARD on, the MATCH GAME.

What other LOGICAL, thought out REASON, could there be???

[Pinandpuller]

My mom is going to a refugee camp in Lebanon for the dedication of a new building. Between that and PDJT pulling troops out of the ME Ben Shapiru must be roiling his Boll and Branch sheets every night.

[Narciso]

Whata clear is eventially (look at the map) the syrians will say, 'dont let me get up there'

[Narciso]

The syrian army kill most everything in their path, like the cobra zombie squad.

[GUS]

I said so earlier this evening, but it bears repeating.
FIRST. Who the FUCK is the GIN SOAKED BITCH Hillary RODHAM?????
My intention is not to be crude and offensive, HOWEVER, this bloated CARPET MUNCHING and CARPET BAGGING LOSER and PIG, has somehow escaped the even nominal notice of the DISGUSTINGLY DISHONEST MFM.
Otherwise known as the AMERICAN MAIN STREAM MEDIA.
RODHAM, whom ANYONE, even paying an ounce of ATTENTION, should see, is trying to TRIP and FALL into the LIBTARD.....FRAY
To not recognize and/or understand the MONIED and CALCULATED nonsense is SCARY. Hillary Rodham like PORNOGRAPHY, has ZERO SOCIAL REDEEMING VALUE. THE PIG, that I am referring to, is a DISGUSTING shit pile.

[GUS]

Pin, do you remember the British Medal of Honour on my wall in my living room???
My GREAT GRANDFATHER, whom I and my Son are both named for??? My Great Grandad, whom both Me and my Son are named for, died OCT 23 1918. Buried in a BRITISH war graves cemetery in DAMASCUS, SYRIA.
That war, and many others is/are over.

[Narciso]

The dems dispatched rutnik quick enougb they are letting salad shooter klobuchar hang on, harria and warner, winning the future. Now gabbard just came from workinv with the insinesians, probably kopassus which may be part crocodile.

[mike in houston]

Speaking of Lebanon, I was looking at some of my dad's slides the other day which were of my folks having lunch on the balcony of a beautiful hotel overlooking the Mediterranean in Beirut. Also beautiful pictures of the Beqaa Valley and the ancient ruins at Baalbek. This was back in the early '50s when Lebanon was the Switzerland of the ME. Also had a good friend who taught at the American University there. So sad what has happened to that country. Of course they mostly brought it on themselves.

[GUS]

Narciso, I'm voting for JOE BIDEN!!!!
He's JUST LIKE ME!!!! He went into POLITICS 45 YEARS AGO, and after being OUT of POLITICS for 3 years, he's POOOOOR. He needs Obamacare, and he is dead broke.
Personally, I would love to meet this FUCKWAD, and I would goad him into running his blustering CAKE HOLE.

[jim nj]

Gus,

My disdain for government regulation started in my late teens or early twenties when I saw what they did to Detroit's automakers in the name of ostensibly cleaning the air.

It's just continued to grow since then.

Some nebulous enabling law is passed. Then the regulations get "built" by "experts." Then courts pass weird judgements on those regs or order the departments to issue new ones because of some liberal interpretation of the underlying law.

It's a perverse version of "eminent d
domain," they aren't directly taking our property, but they do remove consumer choice.

Consumer choice, not the government, yields the greatest benefit.

[Pinandpuller]

mr narciso

You do remember that ABC owns Disney right?

I’m amazed at how PDJT treats allies. Imagine him not dropping bombs on Turkey.

[Pinandpuller]

GUS

If I don’t see you till later, fuck the Kurds.

[jim nj]

When government dictates that something is the "right" way to solve a problem it crowds out possibly better ideas.

Betamax vs. VHS, the consumers decided.

And various industries use the process for "rent-seeking" either to protect a product or to make a move to a new standard that they can dominate.

GE was a good example. They were no longer the low-cost producer of incandescent light bulbs, so they lobby-ed for new regs that would favor the new technology they had developed.

[jim nj]

Boom!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/viral/watch-this-missouri-bridge-be-demolished-after-90-years/vi-AAJ1kHY

[Pinandpuller]

1916: Re-elect Wilson, he kept us out of war.

2020: Impeach Trump, he kept us out of war.

[jim nj]

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/18/scotus-to-rule-on-illegal-alien-exemption-from-state-identity-theft-prosecution/

[Pinandpuller]

With Epstein and Cummings dropping dead the FBI must have a lot more time to investigate the Executive Branch.

Did anybody see the video putting an M 240 side by side with the Las Vegas shooting and comparing the cyclic rate? Weird huh. They ought to be able to solve that one in an afternoon.

https://youtu.be/_mXe9dk77bk

[Pinandpuller]

You know, I’ve heard a lot about fedposting but I never really saw it till I scrolled back a page or two. Oof!

[Pinandpuller]

You guys are saying things I wouldn’t say with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer.

[jim nj]

PIN,

Care to explain "fedposting?" The Urban Dictionary describes that as a Federal Agent trying to entrap someone.

[Pinandpuller]

I got spam for California District 3.

Hi, I’m Sean Feucht.

Yes, you certainly are.

[Pinandpuller]

Fedposting can either be a fed entering a board trying to entrap someone or a person who seems to be heedlessly commenting to draw fed attention. It’s a little like flammable/inflammable but different.

Just don’t ask me about “dabbing”, I am unable to grock that term.

[Pinandpuller]

Fedposting is trolling but not all trolling is fedposting. Dana was really close to a fedposter in this neighborhood.

[rse]

This sounds like a tragedy in the making.

https://www.city-journal.org/frick-collection-expansion

[Jack is Back!]

Up early. 2nd day of family weekend and homecoming starts at 8:30 at Canterbury.

Big day for Boris. First time Parliament has sat on a Saturday since the Falklands war in 1982. They are already at it and voting starts around 10 EST or 3 PM GMT. They are going to miss the England v Australia Rugby World Cup quarterfinal.

Priorities👏👍😀

[rse]

henry--

https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=25156&LangID=E

"As humankind moves, perhaps inexorably, towards the digital welfare future it needs to alter course significantly and rapidly to avoid stumbling zombie-like into a digital welfare dystopia," the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Philip Alston, says in a report to be presented to the General Assembly on Friday.

The digital welfare state is commonly presented as an altruistic and noble enterprise designed to ensure that citizens benefit from new technologies, experience more efficient government, and enjoy higher levels of well-being. But, Alston said, the digitization of welfare systems has very often been used to promote deep reductions in the overall welfare budget, a narrowing of the beneficiary pool, the elimination of some services, the introduction of demanding and intrusive forms of conditionality, the pursuit of behavioural modification goals, the imposition of stronger sanctions regimes, and a complete reversal of the traditional notion that the state should be accountable to the individual.

"Digital welfare states thereby risk becoming Trojan Horses for neoliberal hostility towards social protection and regulation," said the UN Special Rapporteur. "Moreover, empowering governments in countries with significant rule of law deficits by endowing them with the level of control and the potential for abuse provided by these biometric ID systems should send shudders down the spine of anyone even vaguely concerned to ensure that the digital age will be a human rights friendly one".

[Captain Hate]

This sounds like a tragedy in the making.

Ugh

[Captain Hate]

https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/hong-kong-lakers/

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
·
7h
Susan Rice, who was a disaster to President Obama as National Security Advisor, is now telling us her opinion on what to do in Syria. Remember RED LINE IN THE SAND? That was Obama. Millions killed! No thanks Susan, you were a disaster.
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This is from last night.

[MissMarple2]

Wyatt
@SayWhenLA
·
17m
You know what would be cool? If we got answers about the $520 BILLION B Carson found in misaccounted HUD funds, billions missing from SoS Dept/HRC, if we're totally cool with elite traffickers wandering around, & why 0bama hasn't answered for launching a coup. That would be nice.
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I would like to know about those misaccounteed funds, which I had not heard about.

[MissMarple2]

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1185488360959291393.html

This is a thread on Mifsud's Blackberry phones.

[jimmyk]

And Detroit lost their way on quality control in the 70's.

I watched the Motown documentary "Hitsville USA" the other night. It emphasized how Berry Gordy's experience working at Ford Motor in the 50s, after his record store failed, taught him about the assembly line and quality control, and how he applied that to Motown.

I'd highly recommend it. It's a feel-good documentary, and glosses over some things like Gordy's messy personal life, but it really shows what a remarkable genius he was. Also he had no racial agenda or resentment--for his management team he hired whoever he thought was best for the job, white or black, ignoring pressure and protests from the black community.

He also tried to push back against songs that promoted drug use or were political, feeling it was bad for the brand, though eventually he gave in ("Cloud Nine," etc.). Basically he just wanted to make money, so he groomed the product to appeal to as broad an audience as possible.

[jimmyk]

This sounds like a tragedy in the making.

Ugh

You'd think they'd have learned from the destruction of the old Penn Station.

[jim nj]

rse,

Makes one wonder where the preservationists are on the Frick.

Turn of the last century architecture is marvelous. You really can't improve upon it. That level of craftsmanship no longer exits.

[rse]

jim-I like architecture so much I looked up what makes a certain type of scrolling on columns scamozzi and had the sidelights on the georgian revival plan we built designed to replicate a brown mansion design from the relevant time period in providence that I had found in an old Colonial Homes magazine.

It was an exciting time for me when my girls were finally old enough to go to the frick and the met instead of dragging me to see the natural history dinosaurs for the umpteenth time.

[Another Bob]

“most of the cars look alike”

Thank CAFE standards.

[Jack is Back!]

Live blog of Boris Johnson Brexit debate and vote. Behind a paywall but go to comments. Very interesting.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/10/19/brexit-deal-latest-news-super-saturday-vote-boris-johnson-result/?WT.mc_id=e_DM1120868&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Loy_Dig_Sol_191019_ParliSit_SUB_VERB&utmsource=email&utm_medium=Loy_Dig_Sol_191019_ParliSit_SUB_VERB20191019&utm_campaign=DM1120868

[MissMarple2]

https://nypost.com/2019/10/18/the-secret-might-actually-work-neuroscientist/

This is review of a book on brain function. I don't think it's got enough information, but it is enough to make me go search for other reviews later today.

[jim nj]

jimmyk,

Those older cars were built better than the 70's cars.

The UAW was in revolt mode in the 70's. In the very early 70's I was still in car mode working for a Pontiac dealer. One of my responsibilities was accepting new car deliveries. I'd have to write up a report on each car.

I'd get in a car and look at the front passenger floor and it would have loose bolts, nuts, washers and screws lying on the floor.

We would report that back to the factory and wonder if they were excess or not used properly in the manufacturing process.

[Jane]

Big storm here. We were on tornado watch til 6;30 AM. Expected to pour all day. Kiwi told me to stop it, but my super powers have greatly diminished.

[jim nj]

rse,

Back in those days of legal immigration we had some incredibly gifted craftsman who worked cheaply.

That kind of work can't be duplicated today.

[jim nj]

AB,

Yes, "CAFE" standards and other directives.

[Captain Hate]

I watched the Motown documentary "Hitsville USA" the other night. It emphasized how Berry Gordy's experience working at Ford Motor in the 50s, after his record store failed, taught him about the assembly line and quality control, and how he applied that to Motown.

"Standing in the Shadow of Motown" is another good documentary about The Funk Brothers, the studio band of local musicians that was Motown's version of The Wrecking Crew who developed the trademark sounds. Ironically concert footage interspersed through the storyline has them backing up contemporary singers.

[Captain Hate]

The Johnnycakes fan club

Kasich is a snake and has always been a snake, it was him and Boehner that knifed Newt in the back.

Also Kasich has claimed that all of the partisan rancor we see today can be traced back to Newt and his prosecution of the Clinton impeachement among other things he accuses Newt of.

Again, Kasich is a snake.
Posted by: Gossamer Penguin at October 19, 2019 07:31 AM (+a5lJ)

[jim nj]

MM,

Audits are a relatively new idea in government, even though corporations have been doing them for decades per government rules.

This new look at government audits doesn't mean that government is corrupt. It just means that their accounting systems suck so bad that the SEC would fine them if they were public corporations.

And if you think about it, those government accounting systems can hide a multitude of sins. So the departments have no incentive to fix them. We might be able to figure out which programs are a waste of money.

[rse]

In case anyone wants tome light weekend reading--

https://assets.rockefellerfoundation.org/app/uploads/20190925214914/Getting-to-the-Global-Goals.pdf

[MissMarple2]

jim nj,

I get a bit overwhelmed some days with how much hidden stuff goes on in DC. Money, hidden associations, secret groups, etc.

On top of that, the media is functioning like Pravda, the universities have turned into indoctrination centers, many of the churches are leftist, etc.

[jim nj]

nytol

[Marlene]

Good Morning! We also are on the edge of Tropical Storm Nestor. Jane,did you get a huge thunderstorm last night? Very impressive and a bit scary!

[Buckeye]

Back in those days of legal immigration we had some incredibly gifted craftsman who worked cheaply.

Nothing compared to the craftsman that built Versailles, and not nearly as cheap either.

Our economic freedom should never be discounted, but the current crop of Libtard Dem candidates will do just that.

[henry]

A recent report highlighting questionable ethics practices by “Illinois’ top political power couple” suggests the woman about to become Illinois’ top judge could have used her seat on the Illinois Supreme Court to benefit her indicted husband’s private law practice.

https://www.illinoispolicy.org/report-justice-anne-burke-ruled-on-10-supreme-court-cases-involving-clients-of-her-indicted-husband/

[Jane]

Marlene,

If we got thunder I slept thru it. But it will probably come again given the radar.

[Jane]

Still under tornado alert until noon. You hide in the bathroom, right?

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
·
5m
#StopTheCoup

[matt - deplore me if you must]

Up early because I went to bed early.

That billboard in Times Square really pisses me off. Some unknown sportswear company has a wonder. woman type hogtying Trump with her foot on his face.

I think they just lost @ 70% of their potential customer base forever. These people are so emotionally invested in resistance that I think that we have lost a generatio or two. The people who preached tolerance are filled with hate.

rse, there are several good books on Palladio, who was one of the prime movers of the Georgian style. Jefferson studied him when he built Monticello and there are many examples in this country. We are the better for it.

[Marlene]

Jane,yeah the little bathroom is our safe space. Two people and a dog in the bathtub! :)

[Buckeye]

I think they just lost @ 70% of their potential customer base forever.

It'll sell in flyover country in the "going out of business" aisle at TJ Maxx:)

[mike in houston]

Hillary Clinton Asked To Leave Costco After Repeatedly Accusing Sample Lady Of Being A Russian Asset

https://babylonbee.com/news/hillary-clinton-asked-to-leave-costco-after-repeatedly-accusing-sample-lady-of-being-a-russian-agent

LOL

[MissMarple2]

matt,

Don Jr. posted a picture of that billboard on Twitter with scathing comments a couple of days ago. He was PO'd as well.

I detest the campaigns of personal attacks by movie stars, corporations, and other formerly non-political entities. I think it has caused more division than necessary in our country.

[Jane]

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/category/the-week-in-pictures

[Captain Hate]

https://mobile.twitter.com/Stephe96/status/1185365661352185856

[Marlene]

New thread

[MissMarple2]

https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/14/the-first-illegal-alien-to-commit-a-north-american-terrorist-attack-is-on-trial-but-dont-expect-the-media-to-cover-it/#.Xar5obpHpL8.twitter

[Melinda]

henry,

10 is all they could find? If you’re going to really put your thumb on the scales, you do it in the rules. The IL Supremes run the enforcement arm of ALL the officers of the court, via the ARDC. That’s where you look, and its rulings.

[President-Elect Jim,SunnyvaleCA]

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