November 22, 2013
— Gabriel Malor Happy Friday!
Politico: filibuster change could expand field of future nominees. Yeah, that's kinda the problem. No one in their right minds wants the judiciary to become as partisan as the legislative and executive branches have become.
The trial for the Aurora, Colorado shooter will be delayed again. It was supposed to start in February. Prosecutors had sought additional psychiatric evaluation, suggesting that the first evaluations found him to be insane.
Gov. Christie takes the reins of the RGA. And there was a surprise appearance.
Alright, ya'll have a good weekend. Also, I'll be gone all next week, so be good to Andy.
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Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 22, 2013 02:56 AM (olDqf)
Posted by: Golfman in NC at November 22, 2013 02:57 AM (gHDMy)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 22, 2013 02:57 AM (olDqf)
Posted by: President For Life Obama at November 22, 2013 02:58 AM (F58x4)
Posted by: Golfman in NC at November 22, 2013 02:58 AM (gHDMy)
Posted by: blogforce one at November 22, 2013 03:00 AM (ATki/)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 22, 2013 03:00 AM (olDqf)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 22, 2013 03:01 AM (t3UFN)
Just use the Searchlight Strangler's earlier quotes and interviews where he was against this action to paint him with the same brush as President Subeffective -- a liar.
Make the point to the public that whenever a Democrat is speaking, they are lying.
Posted by: acethepug at November 22, 2013 03:01 AM (LjAC2)
I've had a glandular problem for years, and it has nothing to do with excessive consumption as detailed by Rand Paul and others. Who does he think he is, a doctor?
Posted by: Christi Cream at November 22, 2013 03:01 AM (pJF+c)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 22, 2013 03:02 AM (olDqf)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at November 22, 2013 03:02 AM (60Vyp)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 22, 2013 03:04 AM (t3UFN)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at November 22, 2013 03:04 AM (60Vyp)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 22, 2013 03:05 AM (olDqf)
Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at November 22, 2013 03:05 AM (QR7wx)
Posted by: Captain Hate on the iPhone at November 22, 2013 03:05 AM (v0ewh)
Posted by: soothsayer at November 22, 2013 03:07 AM (qqEdf)
Conservatives are always hating on daddy and raging on me about my butt. My friends don't have a problem with my ass, so it must be you with the problem?
Posted by: Meggy McCain at November 22, 2013 03:08 AM (pJF+c)
Posted by: Captain Hate on the iPhone at November 22, 2013 03:08 AM (v0ewh)
Posted by: Lace Wigs [/i] at November 22, 2013 03:10 AM (UL/Aj)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at November 22, 2013 03:10 AM (60Vyp)
Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at November 22, 2013 07:05 AM (QR7wx)
Yes.
And then when the Repubs change it back on the first day of the new Congress, the Dems will wail about "partisanship"
Because they are incapable of shame.
Posted by: Sean Bannion[/s][/i][/u][/b] at November 22, 2013 03:10 AM (JpC1K)
Posted by: USA at November 22, 2013 03:11 AM (VIaw0)
Posted by: MTF at November 22, 2013 03:11 AM (F58x4)
Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at November 22, 2013 03:12 AM (QR7wx)
Posted by: Sockpuppet Czar at November 22, 2013 03:13 AM (619ya)
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Someone tell me something I dont know.
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Did you know that scientists have developed a way to make cheese from bacteria found on humans? Bacteria from feet, armpits and bellybuttons. I just read that over at Drudge and am all of a sudden not feeling well at all.
Posted by: Molly k. at November 22, 2013 03:13 AM (MjXTb)
Posted by: Pttdu Apiptix at November 22, 2013 03:14 AM (+jyzN)
The republican version of Nuclear Option should include the Supreme Court for the express purpose of packing it with conservatives judges to anally probe the democrat machine.
Posted by: Doctor Fish at November 22, 2013 03:14 AM (pJF+c)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 22, 2013 03:15 AM (olDqf)
Posted by: rickb223 at November 22, 2013 03:15 AM (pHivF)
Exactly! And the same thing happened when the Republicans had their majority decades ago. They excluded Democrats from their meetings, exactly as the Dems had done to them all the time THEY were in the majority -- in short, business as usual.
But the Dems went whining to the media about those mean, exclusive Republicans, and the partisan, shill media backed them to the hilt, never mentioning that the whiny Libs had been doing the same thing!
I don't know who to hate more, the Searchlight Strangler for doing what he did, the Media for going out of their way NOT to explain any of this to the public, or a stupid and unengaged public who can't be assed to look any of this up despite having all the information of the world at their fingertips online.
I only have so much hate, have to make sure those who are truly worthy get their share of it.
Posted by: acethepug at November 22, 2013 03:17 AM (LjAC2)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 22, 2013 03:17 AM (olDqf)
Posted by: toby928© at November 22, 2013 03:17 AM (QupBk)
I am tired of fair and balanced, sick of listening to all the libs on Fox .... I want an all-right-wing-death-beast-all-the-time-24/7 network.
Posted by: Pttdu Apiptix at November 22, 2013 07:14 AM (+jyzN)
I'm fair and balanced and have proven it on numerous occasions. O'Reilly and I play act on TV, but eat lunch and tell dick jokes two or three times a month.
Posted by: Juan Williams at November 22, 2013 03:19 AM (pJF+c)
Posted by: Countrysquire at November 22, 2013 03:20 AM (gKs8d)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 22, 2013 03:21 AM (t3UFN)
Posted by: rickb223 at November 22, 2013 07:17 AM (pHivF)
Oh, I am SO down with that.
I made a comment here yesterday that the sweetest thing that could happen now is that Reid's move stands, AND the Republicans take a veto-proof majority in the House AND Senate in November.
At which point I will run round my (VERY liberal) office screaming, "How's my ass taste now, bitches!"
Right before I die of my schadenboner.
To paraphrase King Barky I, "If you like your one party government, you can keep your one-party government."
Posted by: Sean Bannion[/s][/i][/u][/b] at November 22, 2013 03:21 AM (6T8Ay)
Posted by: Sockpuppet Czar
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We've had this discussion many times here.. Gabe insists his way is correct, even with everyone telling him he's wrong.
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at November 22, 2013 03:21 AM (b/lt+)
But.. if Reid can change the rules for nominations, why can't we change it for everything come next Jan when a GOP majority takes over?
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at November 22, 2013 03:23 AM (b/lt+)
...........
But, keep your eyes on the pastry table..
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at November 22, 2013 03:24 AM (b/lt+)
What makes you think there will be a "Republican version" of anything in the future?
We now have a 1.5-party system: There are Democrats and almost-Democrats (Bitch McConnell, Boner, McCain, Cantor, Ryan, and the "conservative" bloggers).
Oh, and a couple of people who don't agree with leaving the Prophets of Choom in eternal control, but they are rare. To mix metaphors, their bark is worse than their bite, and they will soon join the Passenger Pigeon in forgotten limbo....
Posted by: MrScribbler at November 22, 2013 03:24 AM (kaGpp)
Posted by: Boone at November 22, 2013 03:24 AM (tIyK2)
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at November 22, 2013 07:23 AM (b/lt+)
Yeah, I know.
Still bad business. He did this to pack the DC Circuit.
Posted by: Sean Bannion[/s][/i][/u][/b] at November 22, 2013 03:25 AM (6T8Ay)
Morning, ‘rons and ‘ronettes. I’m back.
In order to forestall any future banning, allow me to paraphrase Sherlock Holmes in The Adventure of the Yellow Face: if it should ever strike the Horde that IÂ’m getting a little too intemperate in my remarks, kindly post the words Princesse de Lamballe, and I will be eternally grateful.
Now, with that out of the way, a story for Friday:
Have you ever heard of the actress Dina Merrill? Born in 1925, she was the only child of Post Cereals heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post and grew up in an atmosphere of WASP comfort and privilege. After a year at George Washington University, she left the school to apply at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
In due time she made her way to Hollywood. Several months before signing her first contract, she met Buddy Adler, who at the time was the new production head of Twentieth Century-Fox. Impressed by her elegant look, Adler set up a photo test for her. Merrill was confused, and asked why. “Obviously to see whether you photograph well, Miss Merrill,” Adler responded. “Mr. Adler, I was a model at eighteen,” the patrician beauty replied. “Clearly I do quite well in that department. Aren’t you interested in whether I can act?”
Adler told her, “No,” which astonished the stage-trained actress. “Then why do we study acting?” she asked.
“That’s your problem, honey,” Adler shrugged. “Set up the test.”
So Merrill tested. The Fox makeup department, thinking in formula terms, made her up to look like a combination of Joan Crawford and Betty Grable, and she failed the test. But she did eventually sign with Fox and became a popular – if never quite first rank – leading lady, appearing in Operation Petticoat, Butterfield 8 and The Courtship of Eddie’s Father, among other films. She even appeared in Batman as the villainess Calamity Jan.
SheÂ’s still alive today, and through wise investments as well as family money, is worth an estimated five billion dollars (John Kerry, call your office!).
And here she is, in 1960Â’s The Sundowners:
Hope you all have a wonderful day.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 22, 2013 03:25 AM (zF6Iw)
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at November 22, 2013 03:25 AM (sslZH)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 22, 2013 03:26 AM (t3UFN)
Your Hollywood stories rank right up with the Vic-cast as harbingers of teh New Day!
Posted by: MrScribbler at November 22, 2013 03:28 AM (kaGpp)
He did it the other way yesterday. I'm beginning to think maybe Gabe does some stuff here just to mess with us.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2013 03:28 AM (BeSEI)
Posted by: MTF at November 22, 2013 03:29 AM (F58x4)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 22, 2013 03:29 AM (t3UFN)
The Aurora shooter? Bugsh*t insane.
You're welcome. Now where do I send my bill?
Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2013 03:29 AM (BeSEI)
What's all this talk about banning? I miss a lot not being around here evenings, I guess.
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at November 22, 2013 03:30 AM (b/lt+)
Posted by: rickl at November 22, 2013 03:30 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Boone at November 22, 2013 03:30 AM (tIyK2)
Posted by: soothsayer at November 22, 2013 03:30 AM (qqEdf)
What's all this talk about banning? I miss a lot not being around here evenings, I guess.
I pissed off Ace. Let's leave it at that.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 22, 2013 03:31 AM (zF6Iw)
What makes you think there will be a "Republican version" of anything in the future?
posted by: MrScribbler at November 22, 2013 07:24 AM (kaGpp)
The Republican Party can resort to the Bob Michel form of business by playing golf most days and letting the liberal machine do it's thing. It's a prescription many of the dunderheads would prefer.
Draw a paycheck, and live the good life compliments of the taxpayer.
Oh, and the occasional blowjob from a petite staffer seeking to move up the ladder.
Posted by: Doctor Fish at November 22, 2013 03:32 AM (pJF+c)
Posted by: Chilling the most at November 22, 2013 03:32 AM (gxtMZ)
Posted by: Bruce at November 22, 2013 03:33 AM (GfhVO)
50 years ago, 11/22/63...
My wife had her tonsils removed.
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Wow, bet you can still remember where you were when you heard the news...innocence lost
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at November 22, 2013 03:34 AM (FpHdx)
So, the NYT wants me to believe that not only did the city of Dallas killed JFK but their damn football team too. Seems to me the "stop the hate" crowd sure knows how to spread it.
Good Morning, Weed, California! (...seems apropo)
Posted by: Case at November 22, 2013 03:35 AM (tjj0w)
The trial for the Aurora, Colorado shooter will be delayed again. It was supposed to start in February. Prosecutors had sought additional psychiatric evaluation, suggesting that the first evaluations found him to be insane.
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Dennis Miller has a great opinion on this in one of his epic Rants from back in the 90s. We should change the law from "Not-Guilty by reason of insanity" to "Guilty by reason of insanity".
Posted by: Darth Randall at November 22, 2013 03:35 AM (KlVdw)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 22, 2013 07:29 AM (t3UFN
While I take a back seat to no one when it comes to my loathing of Dems...this is not DoD's fault.
I actually sit in these "POM Build" meetings every week. DoD is pinned in a corner. It's got to cut, thanks to the BCA (aka "sequester"), and Congress has taken away flexibility to pick and choose which accounts they cut.
There's story on Bloomberg this morning about Boehner being OK with the BCA level cuts so there's plenty of blame to go around here. It's just that the Dems will get the blame because Obama is in charge.
But I'm also OK with Obama taking blame for everything from Obamacare, to DoD cuts, to the "heartbreak of psoriasis."
Posted by: Sean Bannion[/s][/i][/u][/b] at November 22, 2013 03:35 AM (6T8Ay)
It isn't an actual word so your nonsense about rules is moot.
Posted by: Typo Dynamofo at November 22, 2013 03:37 AM (FtCW+)
I'm afraid there won't be a ****** (that word that scares Poppin' Fresh so much). If this happens, there will be some bitching in the ranks and a lot of new Wal-Marts built adjacent to military bases.
The Democrat plan -- as much as they have one, as opposed to their a-circle-jerk-a-day policy -- is to use the patriotism of the military against them. They will serve, and not complain.
That's what made it possible for Bubba and Hitlery Clinton to pull all the hate-the-military shit they got away with. Choom Boy is worse, but nobody's gonna rise up against him just because he wants to destroy the country.
Posted by: MrScribbler at November 22, 2013 03:38 AM (kaGpp)
Not a perfect president?
Bush was a complete flipping disaster for the Republican Party and for the larger cause of conservatism.
In office, he was the second coming of Lyndon Baines Johnson. Exploding domestic spending on the homefront and boneheadedly micromanaged military engagements abroad. Wasting blood and treasure for nothing. Copiously so. Capping it all off with a huge financial crash on his watch. Ruining the brand of the GOP for a decade.
All of us get up every day with a shitty taste in our mouths because of the current regime. Let's remember a cold hard fact. There is essentially zero chance that we would ever even have had Barack Obama in the Oval Office if it were not for the guy who preceded Obama in there.
We might have a Democratic president at the moment, to be sure, but no one as frankly radical and anti-American as Obama. For Americans to be ready to embrace such a profound change as someone like Obama represented, they had to first be utterly nauseated with the guy who preceded Obama.
G.W. Bush provided the nausea. In convulsing, dry heaving quantities.
Posted by: torquewrench at November 22, 2013 03:38 AM (gqT4g)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 at November 22, 2013 03:38 AM (XIxXP)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 22, 2013 03:39 AM (t3UFN)
Posted by: torquewrench at November 22, 2013 07:38 AM (gqT4g)
Point of order, Mr. Charmian! If it is a dry heave, there can be no quantity to be measured!
....
Otherwise, you're probably spot on.
Posted by: Sean Bannion[/s][/i][/u][/b] at November 22, 2013 03:40 AM (6T8Ay)
It isn't an actual word so your nonsense about rules is moot.
Posted by: Typo Dynamofo
Around these parts, we don't use the lazy mans Yall, or however you spell it. We use chew for plural or cha for singular.
What cha think about that?
Posted by: Bruce at November 22, 2013 03:40 AM (GfhVO)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 22, 2013 07:39 AM (t3UFN)
Yeah, I'm really looking forward to having my TRICARE fees tripled. That's next to be sure.
Posted by: Sean Bannion[/s][/i][/u][/b] at November 22, 2013 03:41 AM (6T8Ay)
Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 22, 2013 07:25 AM (zF6Iw)
Very very glad you're back.
Posted by: @JohnTant at November 22, 2013 03:41 AM (PFy0L)
Arguing with southerners about how to abbreviate Yall strikes me as akin to telling someone how they should pronounce their name.
It isn't an actual word so your nonsense about rules is moot.
It's a perfectly cromulent word.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 22, 2013 03:43 AM (zF6Iw)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 22, 2013 03:43 AM (t3UFN)
Posted by: Kreplach at November 22, 2013 03:44 AM (3zlTf)
Posted by: Captain Hate on the iPhone at November 22, 2013 03:44 AM (v0ewh)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 22, 2013 03:45 AM (t3UFN)
Philosophical question for today...
Would Kennedy today be considered too conservative to get the GOP nomination?
Posted by: @JohnTant at November 22, 2013 03:45 AM (PFy0L)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 22, 2013 03:46 AM (t3UFN)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 22, 2013 03:47 AM (t3UFN)
Posted by: Darth Randall at November 22, 2013 03:47 AM (KlVdw)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 22, 2013 07:43 AM (t3UFN)
Yup
Posted by: Sean Bannion[/s][/i][/u][/b] at November 22, 2013 03:48 AM (6T8Ay)
>>"Are you suggesting that, on the last day of a Dem lame duck session with an R majority taking over, there will be a part-line vote to re-instate the filibuster?"
It would not be beyond the realm of possibility; you know because the Pederast is a reflective, kind-hearted, apolotical creature who had come to realize the acrimony and discontent he had created by just trying to get something done for the good of the Senate and the nation....
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.You know it is going to happen. The exact same thing as when Massachusetts tried to change the way senators are replaced because their was a Republican Governor. It's all about power period. The one with the most power makes the most money.
Posted by: Registered voter at November 22, 2013 03:48 AM (AiKJm)
Posted by: Kreplach at November 22, 2013 03:48 AM (3zlTf)
Posted by: Bigby's Thumb at November 22, 2013 03:48 AM (wKNBG)
Let's not forget that worthless fuckwit Bitch McConnell, who yesterday stopped Hairy Reed in his tracks with a barrage of Brave Words (earning himself breathless admiration from some blogger-types).
He's two-for-two now, giving a perfect follow-up performance to his "I wanna be home for Christmas" cave-in on ChoomCare.
Posted by: MrScribbler at November 22, 2013 03:49 AM (kaGpp)
Posted by: DangerGirl at November 22, 2013 03:51 AM (Lo5Rt)
Wondering if we're going to see a 14th Amendment equal-protection challenge at some point as a result of these Obamacare shenanigans.
In which plaintiffs who are individual insurance plan purchasers aver that they have been unfairly forced to shoulder burdens not inflicted upon those covered by employer plans.
Posted by: torquewrench at November 22, 2013 03:52 AM (gqT4g)
I'm not going to sit here and take advice from someone who has the audacity to CAPITALIZE the word in the middle of a sentence!
Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2013 03:52 AM (BeSEI)
Posted by: Captain Hate on the iPhone at November 22, 2013 03:52 AM (v0ewh)
Posted by: Kreplach at November 22, 2013 03:52 AM (3zlTf)
Posted by: Lace Wigs [/i] at November 22, 2013 03:52 AM (UL/Aj)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 22, 2013 03:53 AM (olDqf)
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at November 22, 2013 03:53 AM (sslZH)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 22, 2013 03:54 AM (olDqf)
Posted by: Kreplach at November 22, 2013 03:55 AM (3zlTf)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 22, 2013 03:55 AM (olDqf)
I guess we should be so hard on poor widdle Bitch McConnell...I see that Poppin' Fresh informed his vast Tepid Air readership (or is that half-vast?) that Teh Bitch brought the best possible weapon to his confrontation with Hairy Reid: RIDICULE!
Jeebus Crisco, is that rotund Kouch Kommando really that stupid?
Posted by: MrScribbler at November 22, 2013 03:55 AM (kaGpp)
106@94 and thanks to yesterday, the day after the party line vote to reinstate the filibuster there can be another party line vote to get rid of the filibuster.
Never gonna happen. The GOP doesn't have the stomach or the balls to fight back. Though I wish in my darkest of hearts they would have the fight in them but it's a pipedream.
Posted by: Talibill at November 22, 2013 03:56 AM (WEWGu)
That was Beltway establishment GOP thinking at its finest.
-- Adopt a plan originally proposed by Obama.
-- A plan that disproportionately hurts the military.
-- Then have Obama successfully blame the whole mess on them.
Genius, I tell you, sheer genius.
Posted by: torquewrench at November 22, 2013 03:57 AM (gqT4g)
I didn't read the damn thing, and I kinda like that CAC dude, but gosh darnit I do not understand the fuss over this. Trying to predict electoral outcomes in 2016 is about as useful as trying to predict the weather.
Or what Santa Claws is going to bring you that year. You don't know, and frankly, whatever giddiness you are creating for yourself with your anticipation, the fat guy isn't real. He doesn't actually exist. But go ahead and pretend he does, if it makes you feel good in the latter days of 2013.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2013 03:57 AM (BeSEI)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 22, 2013 03:57 AM (olDqf)
Posted by: WalrusRex at November 22, 2013 03:57 AM (PjgvN)
Posted by: panzernashorn at November 22, 2013 03:57 AM (MhA4j)
Posted by: panzernashorn at November 22, 2013 03:57 AM (MhA4j)
..........
But.. but.. SOMETHING has to be done!
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at November 22, 2013 03:58 AM (b/lt+)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 22, 2013 03:58 AM (olDqf)
Posted by: Captain Hate on the iPhone at November 22, 2013 03:58 AM (v0ewh)
Posted by: Stu-22 at November 22, 2013 03:58 AM (k4bdL)
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Can someone put me some knowledge? Would these judicial nominees be subject to firing by an R president? Are they lifetime appointments or what?
Posted by: Lady in Black at November 22, 2013 04:00 AM (XB5Ak)
Now where's Vic? Did he have an excused absence?
They announced over the PA system that the president had been shot and being a Catholic the nuns led the classes in saying the rosary. An hour or so later they announced he was dead.
When we got home and told Mom, she didn't believe us. "But, Mom, they announced it over the PA system!" In those days that was the equivalent of coming straight from God.
Posted by: Retread at November 22, 2013 04:00 AM (G+w7R)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 22, 2013 04:01 AM (olDqf)
Posted by: LIVs Anonymous at November 22, 2013 04:01 AM (k4bdL)
Posted by: panzernashorn at November 22, 2013 04:02 AM (MhA4j)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 22, 2013 04:02 AM (IXrOn)
Posted by: Kreplach at November 22, 2013 04:03 AM (3zlTf)
Posted by: Gran at November 22, 2013 04:03 AM (nPMjI)
Perhaps you're thinking of Ming the Merciless.
The clobbered congresswoman was Meng.
Meng the Witless.
Posted by: torquewrench at November 22, 2013 04:04 AM (gqT4g)
Posted by: Old Dog at November 22, 2013 04:04 AM (tQYJH)
Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl at November 22, 2013 04:06 AM (8JJ6O)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 22, 2013 04:06 AM (olDqf)
Which is exactly what McConnell and the Stalwart Republicans did!
Stood up there and acted like whatever they had to say mattered, when they and everyone else knew it didn't. It's easy to be brave, when you have nothing of value at risk.
Your Republican party is broken. It probably can't be fixed. That's the point.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2013 04:06 AM (BeSEI)
Posted by: panzernashorn at November 22, 2013 04:06 AM (MhA4j)
Posted by: --- at November 22, 2013 04:06 AM (MMC8r)
Posted by: WalrusRex at November 22, 2013 04:06 AM (PjgvN)
Posted by: Generalissimo Taco at November 22, 2013 04:07 AM (kkbgQ)
It was that he refused to sign on to the suit against Obamacare with the other 26 Republican governors, even when he was offered a free ride. That's when I realized early on that he was a big fat poseur and a huge Obama suck-up.
Posted by: jeannebodine at November 22, 2013 04:07 AM (2LJqa)
Posted by: panzernashorn at November 22, 2013 04:08 AM (MhA4j)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 22, 2013 04:08 AM (IXrOn)
Well, we're past 100 comments, so O/T:
I've been reading a wonderful book called The Reach of Rome by Alberto Angela. It's a journey through the Empire during the reign of Trajan, embodied in a single coin as it travels from the mint to Britannia and then as far away as India as it changes hands. The last third of the book seems rushed, as if the editor told Angela to cut things, but it's very well written, with characters (all drawn from actual archeological finds or ancient writings) so vivid you wish they would travel along with the coin instead of using it in commerce.
Highly recommended.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 22, 2013 04:08 AM (zF6Iw)
Posted by: Retread at November 22, 2013 04:08 AM (G+w7R)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 22, 2013 04:08 AM (olDqf)
You guys realize Reid's move only goes for judicial nominations, right? Legislation can still be filibustered.
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Can someone put me some knowledge? Would these judicial nominees be subject to firing by an R president? Are they lifetime appointments or what?
-- Judicial and Executive
The appointments are lifetime
Posted by: Velvet Ambition at November 22, 2013 04:08 AM (R8hU8)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 22, 2013 04:10 AM (olDqf)
Posted by: --- at November 22, 2013 04:11 AM (MMC8r)
Now where the heck is Jones of CO?
Posted by: jeannebodine at November 22, 2013 04:11 AM (2LJqa)
Posted by: Editor at November 22, 2013 04:12 AM (Q8Wa9)
I am on the road again this week-end. This time for a funeral. I will be back on Mon.
Posted by: Vic[/i] at November 22, 2013 04:12 AM (FTQyq)
Anyway, Dina Merrill was married to Cliff Robertson. Not sure if they still. Last time I saw him was in the first Spiderman as Peter Parker's uncle.
No, they divorced in 1986. She's married to Ted Hartley, the CEO of RKO pictures.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 22, 2013 04:12 AM (zF6Iw)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 22, 2013 04:13 AM (olDqf)
Posted by: mindful webworker - and it's not even that cold yet! at November 22, 2013 04:14 AM (qG1i2)
Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at November 22, 2013 04:14 AM (j91Mj)
Posted by: Generalissimo Taco at November 22, 2013 04:14 AM (kkbgQ)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 22, 2013 04:14 AM (zF6Iw)
Posted by: --- at November 22, 2013 04:14 AM (MMC8r)
Posted by: panzernashorn at November 22, 2013 04:15 AM (MhA4j)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 22, 2013 04:15 AM (olDqf)
So here we go...
Did I see correctly that Kalifornia has chosen to tell Barky McDogeater (PBUH) that they will not allow VasaCare extentions in accordance with his Imperial decree?
Do any of the Horde predict any type of fallout from this?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 22, 2013 04:15 AM (NDA7a)
Still bad business. He did this to pack the DC Circuit.
Levin pointed out that these are where all the ZeroCare challenges will go first. So we'll have4 a fighting chance! /s
And as for Deputy Dawg McConnell, there may not have been anything procedural he could've done to thwart the Searchlight Strangler, but he and his party went quietly to the slaughter. No threats, no insinuations about coming congresses, nothing. Taxation without representation.
I don't want the Repubes to sweep the senate in '16. I want TEA types elected en masse.
Posted by: RushBabe at November 22, 2013 04:15 AM (hrIP5)
My hypothetical side loves Reids decision to do this. The GOP has never been particularly effective at blocking loathesome Leftist nominees. So let 'em through.
The problem is that the GOP is just too darn nice to use this tactic to drive a stick in the Dems' eye when a Republican is in office. The Democrats are owed multiple kicks to the teeth from a steel toed boot -- for Bork, for Thomas, for Brown, for Pickering.
FWIW... a President Cruz would understand this and appoint accordingly. None of the rest would.
Posted by: Sam In VA at November 22, 2013 04:15 AM (Q52VH)
Posted by: Andy at November 22, 2013 04:16 AM (0ZQCB)
If judicial appointments are lifetime appointments, can Congress now pass a law changing that and imposing a mandatory retirement age?
Posted by: biancaneve at November 22, 2013 04:16 AM (2sR50)
Posted by: Captain Hate on the iPhone at November 22, 2013 04:17 AM (v0ewh)
Jenny- my point is you as a southerner can do as you please
Cha guy- yup, do as you please
Posted by: Typo Dynamofo at November 22, 2013 04:18 AM (FtCW+)
Posted by: MTF at November 22, 2013 04:18 AM (F58x4)
Posted by: biancaneve at November 22, 2013 04:18 AM (2sR50)
Posted by: blaster at November 22, 2013 04:18 AM (4+AaH)
With all the revisionism, alter duration definition.Posted by: panzernashorn at November 22, 2013 04:18 AM (MhA4j)
Posted by: Gran at November 22, 2013 04:18 AM (nPMjI)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 22, 2013 04:19 AM (olDqf)
Posted by: mindful webworker - loves his mother at November 22, 2013 04:19 AM (kUq7A)
Posted by: Harrison Bergeron at November 22, 2013 04:19 AM (JQuNB)
Good morning, pixel people.
No word yet on the job front. I'ma guessing that last night was the "sleep on it" night for the Head Dude after the second candidate was interviewed yesterday.
Confidence is not quite as high as yesterday, and there's still a Plan B, but a real, live job would be more immediate income. We shall see.
SNAFU, y'all.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit[/i][/o][/s] at November 22, 2013 04:20 AM (0HooB)
151: "Operation Petticoat is a VIA family favorite.
Can you imagine filming it in today's environment?"
Submarine pr0n?
Posted by: Azenogoth at November 22, 2013 04:20 AM (Kh+vp)
Posted by: Bigby's Thumb at November 22, 2013 07:48 AM (wKNBG)
Pick up sword.
Posted by: joncelli at November 22, 2013 04:21 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 22, 2013 04:21 AM (olDqf)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 22, 2013 04:21 AM (IXrOn)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 22, 2013 04:22 AM (olDqf)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b] at November 22, 2013 04:22 AM (0HooB)
Posted by: Andy at November 22, 2013 04:22 AM (0ZQCB)
Posted by: Kreplach at November 22, 2013 08:03 AM (3zlTf)
TX historian David Barton addressed this once and said it was NOT the Founders' intention that judges should sit for life. They were to be immediately dismissed for "bad behavior." Also, the Surpreme Court originally met for a few weeks out of the year, and most figured it would never amount to a full-time salary!
Posted by: RushBabe at November 22, 2013 04:22 AM (hrIP5)
Does Governor Shamu think Bush will anoint him the 2016 next in line loser candidate of the RINO establishment? Good luck with that plan lard butt.
Bush also allowed Greenspan to blow a real estate bubble in 2001 leaving us with the mess we face now.
Posted by: Larsen E. Whipsnade at November 22, 2013 04:23 AM (rXcBX)
Posted by: panzernashorn at November 22, 2013 04:23 AM (MhA4j)
Posted by: real joe at November 22, 2013 04:24 AM (xXhgd)
Posted by: Larsen E. Whipsnade at November 22, 2013 04:24 AM (rXcBX)
It's so cute when Southerners try to spell.....
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 22, 2013 04:25 AM (oJ5Fd)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 22, 2013 04:25 AM (olDqf)
Gary Cooper takes time daily to pen a letter to his husband, back in the states.
The rescued nurses all seem to have a much more intimate relationship with each other.
And the pig roast becomes a goat roast.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 22, 2013 04:27 AM (NDA7a)
Posted by: panzernashorn at November 22, 2013 04:28 AM (MhA4j)
Posted by: Lace Wigs [/i] at November 22, 2013 04:28 AM (UL/Aj)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 22, 2013 04:28 AM (olDqf)
I was in line in gym class when I heard about Kennedy. Fourth grade.
Back when we had gym class.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b] at November 22, 2013 04:29 AM (0HooB)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 22, 2013 04:29 AM (IXrOn)
Morning, all!
Well, it appears that the little monster who murdered that teacher in Danvers, MA, also sexually assaulted her. I was really, REALLY hoping that wouldn't be the case, because her family didn't need to know their sister and daughter was raped in addition to being murdered. That's salt in a very painful, unhealing wound.
Boston.com: http://tinyurl.com/mf4k57r
If it's true, string the bastard up by his balls. If it's not, do it anyway.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/b][/i][/u] at November 22, 2013 04:29 AM (4df7R)
Had to.
Required.
Your estimated annual emissions are 1.88 MT CO2e *(Metric Tons of Carbon Dioxide Equivalent)
I'm thinking I can do better...
Posted by: Washington Nearsider at November 22, 2013 04:29 AM (fwARV)
--
You really know you've made it when the horde misses your presence. Welcome back, MPPPP.
Posted by: Lady in Black at November 22, 2013 04:29 AM (XB5Ak)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 22, 2013 04:30 AM (olDqf)
I think Gabe is from Oklahoma.....
Now of course he is firmly in the grasp of the ruling elite in DC.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 22, 2013 04:30 AM (oJ5Fd)
Boston.com: http://tinyurl.com/mf4k57r
If it's true, string the bastard up by his balls. If it's not, do it anyway.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at November 22, 2013 08:29 AM (4df7R)
See, that's why we didn't tell anyone what happened to Ambassador Stevens. Didn't want to salt the wound.
Posted by: Barky O'DoucheNozzle at November 22, 2013 04:30 AM (fwARV)
Posted by: Registered voter at November 22, 2013 04:31 AM (Hdbf3)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 22, 2013 04:31 AM (IXrOn)
osted by: J.J. Sefton at November 22, 2013 08:30 AM (olDqf)
During the rut, bucks sometimes charge when they're spooked or nervous or confused.
I watched a woman be killed by a deer doing the same thing at Pax River. We were stacked up at a stop sign, and he charged her driver side. Put his tines into her lungs.
Posted by: Barky O'DoucheNozzle at November 22, 2013 04:32 AM (fwARV)
Posted by: RushBabe at November 22, 2013 04:32 AM (hrIP5)
Just had to take a GSA Carbon Footprint Survey to see how much CO2 I'm pumping into the atmosphere while getting to and from work every year
Had to.
Required.
FFS. What bullshit.
I'm thinking I can do better...
Posted by: Washington Nearsider at November 22, 2013 08:29 AM (fwARV)
Might I recommend taking the long way to work? Like, via Florida?
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/b][/i][/u] at November 22, 2013 04:32 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: LiV at November 22, 2013 04:32 AM (MMC8r)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider at November 22, 2013 08:29 AM (fwARV)
Anything under 2 MT makes you ineligible for the platinum membership.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 22, 2013 04:32 AM (oJ5Fd)
I'm thinking I can do better..."
You could be doing worse....far worse.
http://tinyurl.com/kbmtclh
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 22, 2013 04:32 AM (NDA7a)
Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at November 22, 2013 04:33 AM (N/cFh)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b] at November 22, 2013 04:33 AM (0HooB)
Posted by: LiV at November 22, 2013 08:32 AM (MMC8r)
WE LANDED ON THE MOON!!!
Posted by: Lloyd Christmas at November 22, 2013 04:33 AM (fwARV)
Posted by: Registered voter at November 22, 2013 08:31 AM (Hdbf3)
It won't do any good. The letters are going to go out well ahead of that.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/b][/i][/u] at November 22, 2013 04:33 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 22, 2013 08:08 AM
Trivia alert, JJ: It was Columbia Pictures, not UA. Begelman was the head of Columbia when he started writing himself company checks.... Quite the scandal, it was.
I had some small connections to certain parties peripherally involved in the whole mess. It was fun to watch. But not surprising -- those people were (and, for all I know, still are) as unfettered by The Rules as Choom Boy.
Posted by: MrScribbler at November 22, 2013 04:34 AM (kaGpp)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 22, 2013 08:32 AM (oJ5Fd)
I'm set to renew next month... I need to step the fuck up...
Anyone have an M1-A they aren't using?
Posted by: Washington Nearsider at November 22, 2013 04:34 AM (fwARV)
Posted by: Captain Hate on the iPhone at November 22, 2013 04:34 AM (v0ewh)
Posted by: jwest at November 22, 2013 04:34 AM (u2a4R)
Posted by: RushBabe at November 22, 2013 04:34 AM (hrIP5)
Gary Cooper takes time daily to pen a letter to his husband, back in the states.
The rescued nurses all seem to have a much more intimate relationship with each other.
And the pig roast becomes a
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 22, 2013 08:27 AM (NDA7a)
-----------
Fixed that for you.
Posted by: Darth Randall at November 22, 2013 04:35 AM (Zswg6)
Posted by: jwest at November 22, 2013 08:34 AM (u2a4R)
Sarah Palin. Helicopters. High-powered rifles.
Some assembly required.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider at November 22, 2013 04:36 AM (fwARV)
Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at November 22, 2013 04:36 AM (bCEmE)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 22, 2013 08:25 AM (olDqf)
The Harvard MBA President let Greenspan blow that bubble in response to the 1999 Tech bubble crash. Instead of letting the system reset. You'd think someone with a Harvard MBA would know what happens to economic bubbles. Of course, Greenspan is trying cover his ass now claiming he didn't think people would abuse the excess credit he pumped into the system.
Posted by: Larsen E. Whipsnade at November 22, 2013 04:37 AM (rXcBX)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 22, 2013 04:37 AM (IXrOn)
Posted by: Epobirs at November 22, 2013 04:37 AM (bPxS6)
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at November 22, 2013 08:29 AM (4df7R)
You must not be as cynical as I am. If you're committing murder at 14, why not rape the helpless, MILF-y 24 year old teacher for a little aded spice?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 22, 2013 04:37 AM (zF6Iw)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 22, 2013 04:37 AM (t3UFN)
Anyone have an M1-A they aren't using?
No, but in the interim you could drag a flaming tire behind your car. Or two.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b] at November 22, 2013 04:37 AM (0HooB)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 22, 2013 04:38 AM (IXrOn)
Posted by: Generalissimo Taco at November 22, 2013 04:38 AM (kkbgQ)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at November 22, 2013 08:37 AM (0HooB)
I'd have to hook up to the metro... in which case, I should probably go for fifty. That thing could pull them.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider at November 22, 2013 04:39 AM (fwARV)
Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at November 22, 2013 04:39 AM (bCEmE)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 22, 2013 04:40 AM (t3UFN)
heh
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 22, 2013 08:38 AM (IXrOn)
Try the veal, tip your waitress. But first, you will ...*debates how big his balls are*
First, you will smile broadly and giggle at my jokes.
*not quite that big*
Posted by: Washington Nearsider at November 22, 2013 04:40 AM (fwARV)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 22, 2013 04:41 AM (IXrOn)
Posted by: Voice from the grave of Steve Jobs at November 22, 2013 04:42 AM (CMlD4)
This is excellent.
Right now, far more Americans are detecting political bullshit then ever before.
That is a fact that is reflected in Choom boy's plummeting poll numbers.
They were lied to, and they know they were lied to.
All the Republicans need to do is put forth that the Dems are lying again.
I do a lot of Community level political and project development activity in our community.
Just had another community meeting last night concerning a development proposal.
And the local liberal leaning population is PISSED at being lied to by this administration.
And, I try to use the phrase "So if we like XXX, we can keep XXX" in a conversation at least five times per day.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 22, 2013 04:42 AM (NDA7a)
Posted by: Laughing in Texas at November 22, 2013 04:42 AM (eFYNk)
Posted by: NCKate at November 22, 2013 04:43 AM (vjZKo)
--
Not to mention, it's the Law of the Land and is getting changed by whim and for nothing other than naked political reasoning. You'd think there would be some way to stop us from living under TFG's arbitrary magic wand of law enforcement. Some protection, some clause, someone with enough balls to stand up and say no.
Posted by: Lady in Black at November 22, 2013 04:43 AM (XB5Ak)
Posted by: Mainah at November 22, 2013 04:43 AM (659DL)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 22, 2013 04:44 AM (IXrOn)
Posted by: USA at November 22, 2013 04:45 AM (VIaw0)
Anyone have an M1-A they aren't using?
Actually, I believe their is one sitting over at the PM Robots shop getting hooked up for SkyNet ops. What could go wrong with a remote controlled tank.
Posted by: Voice from the grave of Steve Jobs at November 22, 2013 04:45 AM (CMlD4)
Republicans will never control all three branches. Ever.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider at November 22, 2013 04:45 AM (fwARV)
Posted by: panzernashorn at November 22, 2013 08:18 AM (MhA4j)
-- Article V time
Posted by: Velvet Ambition at November 22, 2013 04:45 AM (R8hU8)
Actually, I believe their is one sitting over at the PM Robots shop getting hooked up for SkyNet ops. What could go wrong with a remote controlled tank.
Posted by: Voice from the grave of Steve Jobs at November 22, 2013 08:45 AM (CMlD4)
I'm just thinking about the last time a guy drove a tank down the road in America... didn't he end up shot?
Posted by: Washington Nearsider at November 22, 2013 04:46 AM (fwARV)
Posted by: Jean at November 22, 2013 04:47 AM (CMlD4)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 22, 2013 04:47 AM (IXrOn)
A lotta good that's gonna do.....
In light of Fritzworth's post below, that may really spook a lot of people. This is no longer some abstract argument waged in Foggy Bottom. Real folk are losing out as a direct result of BenghaziCare. That horse has already left the barn.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b] at November 22, 2013 04:47 AM (0HooB)
Posted by: Seaman Hornsby at November 22, 2013 04:48 AM (NDA7a)
Rush had a good point. The filibuster change means the Democrats have abandoned rules in the Senate. If they are obstructed in something they want, they change the rule.
^^^^ this.
Ezra Klein (yeah, yeah, I know) was saying this yesterday in his column about the filibuster ... except he was crowing about it, as opposed to Rush's warning about it:
The filibuster now exists in what you might call an unstable equilibrium. It theoretically forces a 60-vote threshold on important legislation. But it can - and now, in part, has — been undone with 51 votes. Its only protection was the perceived norm against using the 51-vote option. Democrats just blew that norm apart. The moment one party or the other filibusters a consequential and popular bill, that's likely the end of the filibuster, permanently.
Just think ... with the Marxists in the White House, radical-left court-packing now inevitable, and the filibuster for all practical purposes in a coma for the next year, we're only 17 RINO squishes in the House away from one-party rule. Yay!
Posted by: crisis du jour at November 22, 2013 04:48 AM (QHUpb)
Yeah, but if your driving it from your iPad at Starbucks ...
Posted by: Jean at November 22, 2013 04:49 AM (CMlD4)
Posted by: Velvet Ambition at November 22, 2013 08:45 AM (R8hU
I really don't think that's the best idea. The left will get the words "abortion is a fundamental right" written into any new constitution. God knows what else they'll get.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider at November 22, 2013 04:50 AM (fwARV)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 22, 2013 04:50 AM (IXrOn)
Posted by: Socalcon at November 22, 2013 04:50 AM (K6CHr)
Posted by: panzernashorn at November 22, 2013 04:51 AM (MhA4j)
Yeah, but if your driving it from your iPad at Starbucks ...
Posted by: Jean at November 22, 2013 08:49 AM (CMlD4)
Two problems:
1 - No Ipad
2 - I won't go in Starbucks. Ever.
My phone from say... a gun store, however...
Posted by: Washington Nearsider at November 22, 2013 04:51 AM (fwARV)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider at November 22, 2013 08:50 AM (fwARV)
--Each state has one vote
Posted by: Velvet Ambition at November 22, 2013 04:52 AM (R8hU8)
Posted by: Jean at November 22, 2013 04:52 AM (CMlD4)
Posted by: Lincolntf at November 22, 2013 04:53 AM (ZshNr)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 22, 2013 04:56 AM (zF6Iw)
Family member of thug upset saying guy with gun should have just left the store. But when confronted with the fact her precious relative was holding up his second store in two months while out on bond for the first robbery did the Sgt Schultz defense of 'I know nothing!'
http://tinyurl.com/o4ufywq
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at November 22, 2013 04:57 AM (fWOX0)
Posted by: Velvet Ambition at November 22, 2013 08:52 AM (R8hU
Obama won 26 states in 2012... I just think it's a HUGE risk. People like us wouldn't be writing it. People like Mitch and Boener would be.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider at November 22, 2013 04:57 AM (fwARV)
We are going to have to have a Constitutional Amendment to fix the Senate: 1) repeal the 17th, 2) incorporate Federalist 62 and TJeff's rules, and 3) kibosh the practice of stripping House bills so they make their own spending bills.
Yep. It's well past time to strip power from Washington. Our DoI spells out the right to alter our government should it fail to serve the people (we have that right naturally, but it's still nice to see it in print).
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b] at November 22, 2013 04:57 AM (0HooB)
Posted by: panzernashorn at November 22, 2013 04:57 AM (MhA4j)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 22, 2013 08:37 AM (zF6Iw)
My cynicism is off the charts, so I can only imagine what yours is like, MP4.
According to the article, the sexual assault was committed with a foreign object. I just don't even want to think about that. Good Lord.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at November 22, 2013 04:58 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at November 22, 2013 04:59 AM (fWOX0)
Same thing with members of Congress. Public service meant you did your stint in Washington, then went back to being a farmer or whatever you were before. You didn't go to Washington for a career.
The Supremes met on the second floor of the senate until Justice Taft agitated sufficiently for the court to have its own structure, which opened in 1935.
Posted by: RushBabe at November 22, 2013 04:59 AM (hrIP5)
Posted by: panzernashorn at November 22, 2013 04:59 AM (MhA4j)
It's well past time to strip power from Washington.
Power, perks and unelected little Eichmanns need to be wiped out. DC needs to be so hobbled and restricted that even so much as passing a resolution saying that apple pie is tasty would be impossible.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 22, 2013 05:00 AM (zF6Iw)
Posted by: NCKate at November 22, 2013 05:01 AM (vjZKo)
The GOP could still hold up nominations by not letting them get out of the judicial committee by placing a hold.
The Dems would probably change the rules again but they are playing a dangerous game.
Posted by: Kreplach at November 22, 2013 05:01 AM (yoLfR)
Posted by: panzernashorn at November 22, 2013 08:59 AM (MhA4j)
I think that's why a lot of people advocate for an amicable divorce...
It might be the best, and safest, option.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider at November 22, 2013 05:01 AM (fwARV)
Oh, and thanks for all the kind words. Didn't realize I was missed that much.
Time for tea. brb.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 22, 2013 05:02 AM (zF6Iw)
Only nearly half? Sounds low and here's why? The question was:
"As you may know, a health reform bill was signed into law in 2010. Given what you know about the health reform law, do you have a generally favorable or generally unfavorable opinion of it?"
Could they have made it any more vague?
Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 22, 2013 05:02 AM (1Jaio)
also robbery. Stole her panties, iPhone and credit cards.
And then went to a Woody Allen movie. Automatic death sentence right there.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 22, 2013 05:03 AM (zF6Iw)
Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at November 22, 2013 05:04 AM (j91Mj)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider at November 22, 2013 09:01 AM (fwARV)
How do you envision a no fault divorce?
Posted by: Velvet Ambition at November 22, 2013 05:05 AM (R8hU8)
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at November 22, 2013 05:05 AM (+OJlx)
Posted by: NCKate at November 22, 2013 09:01 AM (vjZKo)
And if this had been a white boy who had raped and killed a young black teacher...The news media needs to be destroyed.
Posted by: Havedash at November 22, 2013 05:05 AM (BMEZ0)
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at November 22, 2013 05:07 AM (+OJlx)
Posted by: panzernashorn at November 22, 2013 05:07 AM (MhA4j)
Posted by: Velvet Ambition at November 22, 2013 09:05 AM (R8hU
I don't have a vision for 'how'. I'm not a policy maker though. People much smarter than I are - I'm sure - debating that very idea as we speak.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider at November 22, 2013 05:07 AM (fwARV)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at November 22, 2013 05:07 AM (fWOX0)
Posted by: Gran at November 22, 2013 05:08 AM (nPMjI)
I really don't think that's the best idea. The left will get the words "abortion is a fundamental right" written into any new constitution. God knows what else they'll get.
There are actual rules to follow in an Article V. All participants are given a list of the most pressing things that will be discussed and previously agreed upon at the convention. Nothing else. The talk of a "runaway convention" isn't a reality.
Posted by: RushBabe at November 22, 2013 05:08 AM (hrIP5)
Posted by: NCKate at November 22, 2013 09:01 AM (vjZKo)
Sick as it is to say, I can understand taking the iPhone and credit cards. He could use them to try and escape. But stealing her panties just makes him even MORE of a creep and a fucking stain on humanity. Not that he counts as human, IMO. Rapists and murderers forfeit their right to be called human.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at November 22, 2013 05:09 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at November 22, 2013 05:09 AM (fWOX0)
Posted by: mindful webworker - late but accurate-ish at November 22, 2013 05:10 AM (wPzgV)
Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at November 22, 2013 05:10 AM (bCEmE)
Posted by: RushBabe at November 22, 2013 09:08 AM (hrIP5)
You're assuming that those in charge would follow the rules. I would posit that only those sympathetic to our side would do so; anyone sympathetic to the left would say, "Fuck the rules," and cheat, lie, steal and prevaricate.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at November 22, 2013 05:11 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: Mama AJ at November 22, 2013 05:11 AM (SUKHu)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at November 22, 2013 05:11 AM (32Ze2)
Term limits are, IMO, one of the most necessary steps in returning to constitutional governance. Term limit everyone, from the most senior Justice to the newest dewy-eyed intern with a fresh set of kneepads and mouthwash.
And I don't like the argument "the government's too big and complex! We need people who know how to work it!" The government is big and complex because it has been made so, deliberately. Strip it back to Coolidge levels, at least.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 22, 2013 05:12 AM (zF6Iw)
A deer on a skateboard!
You don't see that every day.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 22, 2013 05:12 AM (oJ5Fd)
At our community meeting last night,I asked the Precinct Police Captain if there was any trend showing the Knockout game might be getting close to our little slice of heaven.
His response that he had heard something about the game, but it was a Philadelphia "thing" and gang initiation based left me less than confident
that our local Police Department is tuned into current events.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 22, 2013 05:12 AM (NDA7a)
http://tinyurl.com/q4h4k4p
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at November 22, 2013 05:13 AM (fWOX0)
Posted by: steevy at November 22, 2013 05:14 AM (zqvg6)
You're assuming that those in charge would follow the rules. I would posit that only those sympathetic to our side would do so; anyone sympathetic to the left would say, "Fuck the rules," and cheat, lie, steal and prevaricate.
Who do you think is organizing the Article V? It isn't the Left. The first meeting to get the ball rolling is set for 12/7 at Mount Vernon. Supporters of the Article V believe the time is right because the majority of states have R legislatures. The representatives will be selected by state legislatures.
Posted by: RushBabe at November 22, 2013 05:15 AM (hrIP5)
Posted by: Mama AJ at November 22, 2013 05:15 AM (SUKHu)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b] at November 22, 2013 05:15 AM (0HooB)
Posted by: steevy at November 22, 2013 05:15 AM (zqvg6)
Why don't we get coverage like this for the D-Day anniversary? For the anniversary of Pearl Harbor? Hell, we barely get this much coverage about 9/11 anymore, and that was less than fifteen years ago.
So what I would like to do today is commemorate another moment in history: the Butt Fumble.
Yes, on this day in 2012, Mark Sanchez, quarterback of the NY Jets, ran headlong into one of his own teammate's blubbery hindquarters, fumbling the football and leading to a scoring spree by my New England Patriots.
Thank you, Mark Sanchez.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at November 22, 2013 05:15 AM (4df7R)
Because we're too militaristic. Because the left worshipped Kennedy and despises the military.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider at November 22, 2013 05:17 AM (fwARV)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at November 22, 2013 05:17 AM (fWOX0)
Posted by: RushBabe at November 22, 2013 09:15 AM (hrIP5)
It really doesn't matter who is in charge, who organizes it, or who gets sent from what states. The left will lie, cheat, and steal to get their way.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at November 22, 2013 05:17 AM (4df7R)
Because we're too militaristic. Because the left worshipped Kennedy and despises the military.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider at November 22, 2013 09:17 AM (fwARV)
*spits on the left*
*spits on them again for good measure*
Fucking Kennedy. Appointed his own damn brother to be AG and no one said, "Um, nepotism much?"
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at November 22, 2013 05:18 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: USA at November 22, 2013 05:19 AM (VIaw0)
???
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at November 22, 2013 09:17 AM (fWOX0)
Whatever he got paid, Pats fans would gladly have doubled it for him.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at November 22, 2013 05:19 AM (4df7R)
Welcome back, MPPP! I've missed your stories.
For anyone who ventures into the wretched hive of scum and villainy that is D.C., I highly recommend a visit to Hillwood, Marjorie Merriweather Post's estate-turned-museum. Amazing collection of art, antiques, jewelry, etc.
Posted by: Hoplite Housewife at November 22, 2013 05:20 AM (7Y+gf)
Posted by: Generalissimo Taco at November 22, 2013 05:24 AM (kkbgQ)
Posted by: mindful webworker - blood and glass showers at November 22, 2013 05:25 AM (VV7s1)
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at November 22, 2013 05:26 AM (+OJlx)
Posted by: panzernashorn at November 22, 2013 05:28 AM (MhA4j)
Posted by: panzernashorn at November 22, 2013 05:30 AM (MhA4j)
Posted by: panzernashorn at November 22, 2013 05:34 AM (MhA4j)
The Brittany Murphy story is creepy, still haven't decided if I'm on board with it yet, need to watch the HHS chick's video.
Posted by: dan a nj con formerly known as dana nj con at November 22, 2013 05:35 AM (wmU4G)
Posted by: Generalissimo Taco at November 22, 2013 05:44 AM (kkbgQ)
#291, different world. Kennedy got shot and you guys went home. Us? Reagan got shot and it was "Get back to your math papers." The Challenger blew up and it was "Yeah, the Shuttle had an accident, here's your biology exam."
Then again we also coped differently. Mom still cries thinking about where she was when she heard about Kennedy. My class, a day later we're in the hallway and the eighth graders are asking us "Hey, what were Christa McAuliffe's last words?" "Hey, what does this button do?"
Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein from Brattleboro, VT at November 22, 2013 05:56 AM (jCQ+I)
Posted by: SGT Dan's Cat at November 22, 2013 05:56 AM (jCQ+I)
Posted by: bicentennialguy at November 22, 2013 06:10 AM (vg8iE)
Posted by: mindful webworker - more turkey, anyone? at November 22, 2013 06:30 AM (YLiN/)
Had some John Bircher done the shooting (which is what the media really wanted to happen in that awful place Dallas) there would be no conspiracy theories, and anyone who said it was a set up would be treated like a Holocaust-denier.
Posted by: McAdams at November 22, 2013 06:53 AM (2TMCu)
Posted by: Anachronda at November 22, 2013 07:14 AM (U82Km)
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