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While the schiff storm peters out real things are being accomplished. Would anyone have thought an American President could get the Arab league on board for a plan much less the military exercises with Israeli air forces? -
https://www.wsj.com/articles/arab-leaders-support-for-mideast-peace-plan-marks-a-regional-shift-11580325868
;-)
Posted by: Don Bessee | 29 January 2020 at 01:31 PM
In case you missed it, WINNING -
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/trump-sign-north-american-trade-171003694.html
;-)
Posted by: Don Bessee | 29 January 2020 at 01:37 PM
Talk about being out of touch and putting an exclamation point on it! -
People wonder if Michael Bloomberg has ever pet a dog after awkward moment goes viral
https://www.yahoo.com/news/people-wonder-michael-bloomberg-ever-160026225.html
;-)
Posted by: Don Bessee | 29 January 2020 at 02:00 PM
Talk about deep state swamp creatures -
The Flynn filing also slammed former FBI Director James Comey's "bragging and laughing on national television about his own cleverness and violations of FBI/DOJ rules in dispatching agents to the White House to interview the President's National Security Advisor." (In 2018, Comey admitted on-air that sending agents to the White House was “something I probably wouldn't have done or maybe gotten away with in a more … organized administration.”)
Flynn's attorneys further asserted that his previous lawyers at Covington & Burling had "betrayed him" by advising that he plead guilty without providing adequate assistance of counsel. The Covington team was constitutionally deficient, and had not even informed him that the agents who interviewed him initially didn't think he was lying and "saw no indication of deception," Flynn's lead lawyer Sidney Powell said.
Nor did the Covington attorneys alert Flynn that Special Counsel Robert Mueller was focusing on Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) violations -- which created conflict of interest issues for Covington, which helped Flynn prepare his FARA filings. Even after government lawyers told Covington to tell Flynn about the issue, Covington "kept it all a secret" from Flynn and left him "defenseless," without urging Flynn to seek independent counsel.
Powell provided the court a bombshell internal email from Covington lawyers discussing whether some of Flynn's statements concerning FARA issues, which they advised him to admit were lies, were even made by Flynn at all.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/michael-flynn-motion-to-withdraw-guilty-plea-egregious-fbi-misconduct
;-)
Posted by: Don Bessee | 29 January 2020 at 02:30 PM
Don @ 2:30 pm
Yep. And the gov’t (Mueller) slapped an gag order on Flynn, which is still in effect, so the man can not defend himself in public while Punchy screams, “Liar, he’s a liar. He cannot be trusted, Flynn’s a LIAR!” Sad. Wonder if I am hauled off and our sock puppets attack me and my counsel first, facts be damned. They truly hate justice. They seek convictions, not the truth.
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Golden State News: California to ban flushable wipes from being flushed down the toilet. Oh, they are not banning the sales of flushable wipes, just making sure you don’t put them down the toilet.
So, what are they going to do? Send out a bunch of people to inspect your output? Maybe if Schiffilis ever comes back to CA without a camera rolling, he can go door to door and inspect your crapper. He is well versed on the topic. They are already regulating what we eat, now they are regulating the other end, lol.
https://www.kcra.com/article/california-could-limit-flushable-wipes-tied-to-sewer-clogs/30649156
Posted by: Bill Tozer | 29 January 2020 at 04:08 PM
Since the 'homelessness' crises is ongoing and a constant bullet point item in every Dem candidate's web page, I thought it pertinent to link to a person who might help.
https://californiaglobe.com/section-2/the-only-plan-to-end-homelessness/
Alas - he doesn't offer any of the sort of answers that the left wants to hear about. Most of the talk I see printed in newspapers and on-line is total blather. The 'cost' of housing has almost nothing to do with why there are so many homeless. But this is wrong-think and so we are going to have the homeless in large numbers for quite a while longer until the homeless shape up and become the people the left wants them to be.
Meanwhile the left postures and virtue-signals in order to elevate their own stock in the eyes of the non-thinkers.
The homeless be damned.
Posted by: Scott O | 29 January 2020 at 05:57 PM
Oh….to be a "Ward Heeler"…..like that dreamy Mr. Obama…….!
Trump Boosters Accused of Using Democratic Tactic of Handing Out Cash in Black Communities. “Walking around money” — it’s just a cute American tradition when Democrats do it, but it’s oh-so-wrong when the GOP starts.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/trump-boosters-accused-of-using-democratic-tactic-of-handing-out-cash-in-black-communities/
Posted by: fish | 29 January 2020 at 08:12 PM
The pathetic tiny "wall" that Trump has managed to build can't even stand up to a gentle breeze and fell into Mexico. What a hoot.
Trump’s border wall blew over in the wind — and landed on the Mexican side
"President Donald Trump’s much-hyped border wall suffered an embarrassing setback when newly installed panels in his fence blew over in the wind — and landed on the Mexican side of the border.
“Mexicali police have confirmed with News 11 that a portion of the new border wall fell on the Mexico side of the border, landing on several trees,” KYMA-TV reported Wednesday. “A portion of the wall landed on the trees, preventing it from hitting the ground. It runs about 130 feet in length.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/trumps-border-wall-blew-over-in-the-wind-and-landed-on-the-mexican-side/
Posted by: Paul Emery | 29 January 2020 at 08:57 PM
Those mutha mullas tagged us and i wonder if we will even hear about the response until long after?
Ransomware Linked to Iran, Targets Industrial Controls
Gwen Ackerman
January 28, 2020, 4:12 PM PST
(Bloomberg) -- An Israeli cybersecurity firm said it believes a new strain of ransomware was created by Iran and has the ability to lock up or even delete industrial control systems.
Tel Aviv-based Otorio, a cybersecurity firm which specializes in industrial control systems (ICS), said that the ransomware called “Snake,” like others of its kind, encrypts programs and documents on infected machines. But it also removes all file copies from infected stations, preventing the victims from recovering encrypted files.
Snake, which was recently discovered, searches for hundreds of specific programs -- including many industrial processes that belong to General Electric Co. -- in order to terminate them and allow it to encrypt the files, Otorio said.
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/snake-ransomware-linked-iran-targets-141730534.html
;-)
Posted by: Don Bessee | 29 January 2020 at 09:25 PM
Checking this month’s calendar. . It’s been quite a January with more to come. The trade agreement (Phase One) with China signed, USMCA signed, the second Terrorist sent to his virgin with 72 genders, New Jersey Hit it’s lowest unemployment rate in the state’s history, the Mid East deal, more records in the stock market, and the most people working in US history. I could go on and one, but I am trying to post shorter comments. :)
With all that is going on, let’s not forget my beloved Nigel Farage. Brexit! Great goodbye speech,p start to finish (5 minutes), but one can start the 2:50 for time restraints.
NIGEL FARAGE BIDS FAREWELL TO THE EU
“Populism turns out to be popular!” Heh.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/01/nigel-farage-bids-farewell-to-the-eu.php
Posted by: Bill Tozer | 29 January 2020 at 10:29 PM
The Road to the White House. Well, don’t need a road, we are already there. :)
Stunning Data From Trump’s Ohio Rally: 42.8% of Attendees Identified as Either Democratic or Independent....and more.
Battle Creek Michigan:
✅ 15% haven’t voted in last four elections, WOW!
✅ 15% have voted in only one of the last four elections
✅ 17% Democrats
and more.
https://www.redstate.com/elizabeth-vaughn/2020/01/13/stunning-data-from-trumps-ohio-rally-42.8-of-attendees-identified-as-either-democratic-or-independent
Posted by: Bill Tozer | 29 January 2020 at 10:46 PM
,,,President Bone Spurs says soldiers with traumatic brain injuries are sissies...
They just have headaches...
Posted by: odlaw | 30 January 2020 at 07:32 AM
,,,having fun with the impeachment questions...
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) posed a question that quoted from a line in the infamous Access Hollywood tape, in which Trump was caught on hot mic telling host Billy Bush that “when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.”
Harris’s question, read aloud by Chief Justice John Roberts, compared that remark to President Richard Nixon’s quote that “when the president does it, that means it is not illegal.”
“If the Senate fails to hold the president accountable for misconduct, how would that undermine the integrity of our system of justice?” Roberts, reading Harris’ question, asked.
Posted by: odlaw | 30 January 2020 at 08:58 AM
odlaw 858am - Is that a general purpose shibboleth you're quoting, or do you have in mind some specific presidential "misconduct" for which there is evidence? Or are you still offering allegations as evidence? In short, what again is your point?
Posted by: George Rebane | 30 January 2020 at 09:25 AM
re: GeorgeR@9:25AM
It's just another one of the unattributed quotes you get whilst checking out your favorite sites every morning. Perhaps from here:
https://deadline.com/2020/01/impeachment-donald-trump-john-bolton-2-1202845479/
Typically, comma-man reads like a highly specialized ELIZA program.
Posted by: scenes | 30 January 2020 at 09:34 AM
Posted by: scenes | 30 January 2020 at 09:34 AM
"Many academics believed that the program would be able to positively influence the lives of many people, particularly those suffering from psychological issues….."
Hasn't helped Comma Man or those forced to read his drivel!
Posted by: fish | 30 January 2020 at 09:48 AM
@ 9:25 am. & 9:34 am
Hunter’s quote has nothing to do with impeachment! Opps, strike that. Harris’s quote has nothing to do impeachment!
Looks like Bernie has learned a lesson Kamala. Sanders released this morning his new plan for 2020: Don’t die.
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Day Old Quotes
Political futures: “The problem with the [Doug] Collins [Georgia Senate] run is that it allows the Democrats to unite behind a single candidate while the GOP is divided and will also deprive other key races of money needed to win. There’s no primary in this special election. It’ll be two R’s against one D on one ballot.” —Erick Erickson
Grudge-in-chief: “I certainly feel the urge [to run] because I feel the 2016 election was a really odd time and an odd outcome. And the more we learn, the more that seems to be the case. But I’m going to support the people who are running now and do everything I can to help elect the Democratic nominee.” —Hillary Clinton
This. Changes. Everything. “I just think we have to win. I don’t think we can afford another four years by the current incumbent. I think that would be absolutely dangerous to our democracy, and I’ll do whatever I can to make sure the Democrats win this time.” —Hillary Clinton
Not sorry at all: “During an interview on Saturday night, one of my guests said something that made me laugh and while in the moment, I found that joke humorous. And I didn’t catch everything that was said. Just to make this perfectly clear, I was laughing at the joke and not at any group of people.” —CNN’s Don Lemon
Shooting yourself in the foot: “I can think of at least eight women, at least four or five people of color, that I think are totally qualified to be vice president of the United States. But for me, it has to be demonstrated that whoever I pick is two things. One, is capable of being president, because I’m an old guy. No, I’m serious.” —Joe Biden
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170,000 people tried on line to get tickets to the Trump rally in New Jersey. Wonder if the shockingly high number had anything to do with the above quotes.
Posted by: Bill Tozer | 30 January 2020 at 09:55 AM
,,,more fun with Impeachment quotes...
Reporter to Schumer...Did you ever take Alan Dershowitz's class at Harvard???
Schumer...No...[emphatically]...
Schumer...That is why I can make a cogent argument...
...Heard on C-Span
Posted by: odlaw | 30 January 2020 at 10:34 AM
Bill
Trump cannot even build a silly wall let alone be President
Posted by: Paul Emery | 30 January 2020 at 10:59 AM
Paul Emery | 30 January 2020 at 10:59 AM
Another comment from the Twilight Zone. I think you need some mental help.
Posted by: Todd Juvinall | 30 January 2020 at 11:08 AM
Somewher the Gaffe Master quietly weeps…………..
https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Bernie-Sanders-California-poll-Warren-Biden-new-15016831.php
Posted by: fish | 30 January 2020 at 11:09 AM
Hey Todd perhaps you can explain to the pony tail of ignorance the dynamics of concreate curing.
;-)
Posted by: Don Bessee | 30 January 2020 at 11:24 AM
Warren
Warren wears her ancestral headdress while vowing to criminalize election ‘disinformation’
https://genesiustimes.com/warren-wears-her-ancestral-headdress-while-vowing-to-criminalize-election-disinformation/
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An olive branch from CNN to Trump!!!!! Oh my, that so magmatic of them.
CNN Airs Free Commercial For Trump Campaign
https://babylonbee.com/news/don-lemon-stars-in-new-commercial-for-trump-campaign
Posted by: Bill Tozer | 30 January 2020 at 12:34 PM
Xi sneezes and the whole world gets sick.
Posted by: Bill Tozer | 30 January 2020 at 12:57 PM
Uh Oh........major narrative FAIL!
https://pjmedia.com/trending/feds-back-off-jailing-michael-flynn-after-stunning-new-evidence-that-govt-lied-and-framed-him/
Posted by: fish | 30 January 2020 at 05:15 PM
Meanwhile back at the Sandbox, Carter Page is going to sue the crap out of the DNC and whoever is in his signs. Every slithering reptile he can find. He has been done wrong.
If nothing else, it will be good gossip and reminder who was at the Jan 5 meeting in the WH...the Susan Rice CYA e-mails and Obama and Biden and Kerry CYA’s written two weeks later on Inauguration Day as Trump was being sworn in. They did him bad.
“Former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page filed a lawsuit Thursday in federal court against the Democratic National Committee, law firm Perkins Coie and its partners tied to the funding of the unverified dossier that served as the basis for highly controversial surveillance warrants against him.
The lawsuit is venued in the Federal District Court in Northern Illinois. More defendants are likely to be added:........
Finally, a fun fact: Page is represented by the same lawyers who are representing Tulsi Gabbard in her defamation case against Hillary Clinton, who called Gabbard a Russian asset. Which, of course, is what she and her minions also called Carter Page, an equally absurd lie.“
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/01/carter-page-sues.php
Posted by: Bill Tozer | 30 January 2020 at 06:01 PM
The Prez just told Iowa that they are going after the remittances from illegals to further fund the wall. About time! -
;-)
Posted by: Don Bessee | 30 January 2020 at 06:13 PM
Frisco has come to town. Blame a Liberal.
9:29 a.m. — A caller from a business in the 700 block of South Auburn Street reported a woman ripped signs off the building, left them in front and proceeded to defecate on top of them. A report was taken.
Posted by: Walt | 30 January 2020 at 07:09 PM
Must have been the news of Trump about to be acquitted.
4:11 a.m. — A caller from Cottage Street reported hearing a woman screaming who sounded like she had “internal suffering.”
Posted by: Walt | 30 January 2020 at 07:12 PM
Bet the socialist dem clown car didn't see this one coming -
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/01/30/exclusive-job-creators-network-trailing-democrat-candidates-in-iowa-with-anti-socialism-bus-tour/
;-)
Posted by: Don Bessee | 30 January 2020 at 07:25 PM
Tennessee State Rep Submits Bill to Recognize CNN, WaPo As ‘Fake News’
https://amgreatness.com/2020/01/30/tennessee-state-rep-submits-bill-to-recognize-cnn-wapo-as-fake-news/
Posted by: Bill Tozet | 30 January 2020 at 08:20 PM
Troll: We lose Kobe and you're still around wasting oxygen. Life is truly unfair.
Elder: Uncle Toms never die.
#ElderDerangementSyndrome
Posted by: Bill Tozer | 30 January 2020 at 08:23 PM
,,,BillyT and George were doing their '''see I knew it!!!''' dance yesterday because they thought they had proof that Fake News Lib Media was not reporting breathlessly that ARABS WERE IN ISRAEL!!! at Trump's real estate deal...
...But of course all media were reporting on it...
Now Scotto is saying on another thread... '''If the economy sours and the Dems can figure out how to run a candidate like Tulsi Gabbard, I think they can win.'''
But guess what???...The GDP is as it was in 2016 and worse than the GDP at the same time in Carter and Clinton's presidencies...
And this shitty GDP is the result of the biggest corporate and high income earner tax break in many years!!!
Where was cheerleader Donnie with this significant news??? Where were BIllT and George...Fox News not keeping you guys up to date???
Trickle Down Baby!!! ...yeah trickle down all right...trickle down to diddly squat for most people...
Posted by: odlaw | 31 January 2020 at 08:10 AM
Maybe you should do two wedding shoots a weekend instead of just one dugsKKKi!
C’mon man .....a little personal initiative could do wonders!
Posted by: fish | 31 January 2020 at 08:18 AM
Looks like Odlap woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning. Not feeling zero gravity, little buddy?
Helpful hint: You can always hop (crawl) back in bed, turn over, get up, and start your day over in the happy sunshine of life.
The Empire Strikes Back
“Trump Tells Iowa Crowd Dems ‘Want to Kill Your Cows’”
Well, that is true. Wonder why it was even a headline.
Posted by: Bill Tozer | 31 January 2020 at 08:27 AM
Year Zero keeps on keepin' on
https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/01/30/university-california-berkeley-removes-boalt-name-from-law-school-over-racist-past/
"Boalt Hall – home of the law school was built in 1911 — and actually named after John Boalt in respect for his wife, Elizabeth, who had made a large contribution to the university after he died in 1901."
Hopefully the school hands back the contribution (with a decent ROI) to his heirs.
Next thing you know, the Blue Mob will notice that libraries are filled with books written by meanies of yesteryear.
Posted by: scenes | 31 January 2020 at 08:28 AM
Finally.......the democrat on democrat violence inherent in the system.
After all the hours of grandstanding and preening for the camera upstaged at the end by somebody’s ventriloquist dummy!
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/05/the-week-in-pictures-nadlering-nabob-of-nihilism-edition.php
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/jerry-jerry-jerry-schiff-stunned-after-nadler-snatches-closing-remarks
Posted by: fish | 31 January 2020 at 08:30 AM
comma-man@8:10
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_States#/media/File:Real_median_US_household_income_through_2018.png
I expect that you are far removed from the world of people who go out and find full-time jobs in order to get their daily bread, but it really is better.
Why is that? Beyond my pay grade to really understand.
Posted by: scenes | 31 January 2020 at 08:33 AM
Scenes
,,,Comma-man,,,,always gets this way when he starts gathering together his papers for taxes. His taxes are too damned high!
Have you seen the price of deck screws lately??? Friggin Trump!!
Posted by: Bill Tozer | 31 January 2020 at 08:39 AM
Jerry...Jerry...Jerry!!
lol. Perfect.
Of course, that'll suck the air out of whatever words they bleated for this news cycle.
Central casting couldn't have come up with better characters than those guys.
Posted by: scenes | 31 January 2020 at 08:45 AM
Posted by: scenes | 31 January 2020 at 08:45 AM
Of course, that'll suck the air out of whatever words they bleated for this news cycle....
Looks like Jerry the Ventriloquist Dummy decided that at the very least he needed some footage to run for his next set of campaign commercials.
Be a shame to get absolutely nothing for all that effort!
Posted by: fish | 31 January 2020 at 08:58 AM
Now this is starting to piss me off.........! Democrat Primary season is only fun when democrat hacks (Biden, Harris) and crazies (Bernie, Beto, etc.) are featured prominently! If semi-serious candidates start getting traction.....well.....that's bad for everybody!
https://americanresearchgroup.com/pres2020/primary/dem/iadem.html
Posted by: fish | 31 January 2020 at 09:05 AM
What is there about historic low unemployment (especially for minorities), and rising wages for the low and mid-class worker, and high consumer confidence, and pension funds doing well in the markets, and ... do progressives like our odlaw not understand? However, it does sound like another Democrat whistling by the graveyard.
Posted by: George Rebane | 31 January 2020 at 09:12 AM
Scenes @ 8:48 AM
“Be a shame to get absolutely nothing for all that effort!”
Ah contraire, my fine fellow. Nadler The Penguin can get something for all that effort, but, in full transparency, it will cost him a mere $19.40.
https://ncrenegade.com/editorial/nancy-pelosi-sucks-commemorative-pen/
Video on the new Commemorative Nancy Pelosi Sucks Pen. Get your while supplies last!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONaNeNNmIpI
Posted by: Bill Tozer | 31 January 2020 at 09:50 AM
BillT@9:50 I wonder what it says on them?
I went to an _ATTEMPTED_COUP_ and all I got was this lousy pen.
Posted by: scenes | 31 January 2020 at 09:56 AM
Hits and Misses.....
“Two students at St John’s College wrote to Andrew Parker, the principal bursar, this week requesting a meeting to discuss the protesters’ demands, which are that the college “declares a climate emergency and immediately divests from fossil fuels”. They say that the college, the richest in Oxford, has £8 million of its £551 million endowment fund invested in BP and Shell.
Professor Parker responded with a provocative offer. “I am not able to arrange any divestment at short notice,” he wrote. “But I can arrange for the gas central heating in college to be switched off.”
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“The first ever drag queen? Seems altogether America-centric to me. I have a hunch this will run afoul of the intersectional/de-colonial matrix somewhere.”
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/01/loose-ends-107.php
Posted by: Bill Tozer | 31 January 2020 at 10:12 AM
Not looking good for the Chiefs this Sunday!
The story doesn't make clear if this a negative in Hippospeak! Wonder if there is someone who lurks on these boards who we could ask!
https://www.sfgate.com/49ers/article/Fiona-the-hippo-attempts-to-make-Super-Bowl-pick-15019802.php
Posted by: fish | 31 January 2020 at 10:26 AM
Posted by: scenes | 31 January 2020 at 09:56 AM
,,,BillT@9:50 I wonder what it says on them?
I went to an _ATTEMPTED_COUP_...
Wow!!!
A coup attempt by Pence.. who knew???
Posted by: odlaw | 31 January 2020 at 10:44 AM
,,,Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was formally indicted on corruption charges Tuesday, just hours before he was set to meet President Donald Trump for the unveiling of the US administration's long-anticipated Middle East plan.
,,,I guess Trump will be investigating...
BatBoy Rudy is probably end route...
Posted by: odlaw | 31 January 2020 at 10:56 AM
Finally, some news
JOHN DELANEY DROPS OUT OF THE 2020 DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY RACE AHEAD OF IOWA CAUCUSES
https://news.grabien.com/making-john-delaney-drops-out-2020-democratic-primary-race-ahead-io
How exciting. I did not know he was still in the race.
Posted by: Bill Tozer | 31 January 2020 at 11:05 AM
Sounds rather Biblical. Some of those swarms are 35 miles long.
Africa’s Worst Locust Plague in Decades Threatens Millions
https://www.wsj.com/articles/africas-worst-locust-plague-in-decades-threatens-millions-11580475600
Odd, I got around the paywall. Thank you President Trump.
Posted by: Bill Tozer | 31 January 2020 at 11:29 AM
I do miss her so........
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/hillary-tweets-no-one-above-law-then-refuses-accept-lawsuit-against-her
Posted by: fish | 31 January 2020 at 11:31 AM
Posted by: Bill Tozer | 31 January 2020 at 11:05 AM
How exciting. I did not know he was still in the race.
Hey...you're right! We need a presidential race update. I need to see just how far back I've fallen!
Posted by: fish | 31 January 2020 at 11:34 AM
....dugsKKKi?
https://www.ajc.com/news/health-med-fit-science/man-intense-headaches-caused-tapeworm-his-brain/0Xt8F4xmU0LcA2qlaxuVYM/
Posted by: fish | 31 January 2020 at 11:38 AM
Why did Trump go to Iowa? Why, why, why? To bring some life to the Dem funeral party!
Byron York: In Iowa, Trump dwarfs Democratic competition
“But Trump's appearance was for a higher purpose: To mess with his Democratic opponents. Just zoom in on Air Force One, stage a rally bigger than anything they could muster in their wildest dream and zoom back to Washington, having shown again that he is big and they are small.
Trump talked about many things — he spoke for 1 hour and 27 minutes. But he spent perhaps the most time on trade and the economy, touting his U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement and the recently completed first stage of his trade deal with China. Iowa farmers stuck with Trump through the tariff battles, and now both deals will improve the Iowa economy, he said over and over and over. Farmers will need bigger tractors. They'll need bigger harvests just to deal with all the new business.
Just to drive home the message, on either side of the giant blue "KEEP AMERICA GREAT" banner behind Trump were two red banners, nearly as big, with the same message: "JOBS! JOBS! JOBS!"
Amid all the talk of the drama of the day in Washington, in Iowa, Trump is pushing one big point, and that is: My presidency is making your lives better, and you would be crazy to vote for anybody else in November.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/in-iowa-trump-dwarfs-democratic-competition
Posted by: Bill Tozer | 31 January 2020 at 12:28 PM
The new red guard in full effect -
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/01/31/northwestern-u-student-government-refuses-to-adopt-free-speech-bill/
;-)
Posted by: Don Bessee | 31 January 2020 at 01:10 PM
I think I've found one of the reasons odd-law and his lefty friends don't like the current economy:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/income-inequality-in-america-how-98-trillion-of-household-wealth-is-distributed/
Money quote - "The gap between rich and poor in America is the worst it's been in more than a half century. It's a concern cited by every leading Democratic presidential candidate in the 2020 election, but many may not realize what it actually means."
Wow - "...every 'leading' Dem..."
So, it must be true.
Further - "The poorest Americans, people in the bottom 20%, wouldn't get any." Really? None? So how is it they are better off than 90% of the rest of the world?
Now - what sort of material goods did the 'poor' have 50 years ago vs today? Anyone thought about that?
Obviously not CBS News.
Posted by: Scott O | 31 January 2020 at 01:20 PM
Well, at least they didn't drop their pants and tell the EU to kiss their sovereign British asses on the way out!
Nigel Farage’s final speech to European Parliament cut short after he waves flag
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBMvZRf9Scs
Posted by: Walt | 31 January 2020 at 01:28 PM
,,,Racist!!!
'''Donald Trump Levels Travel Ban Against Foreign Travelers from China to Block Coronavirus'''
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/01/31/donald-trump-levels-travel-ban-against-foreign-travelers-from-china-to-block-coronavirus/
Posted by: odlaw | 31 January 2020 at 01:37 PM
Posted by: odlaw | 31 January 2020 at 01:37 PM
,,,Racist!!!
Hey dugsKKKi......you're the one who lets fly with the epithet "chink" in every other post!
Posted by: fish | 31 January 2020 at 01:40 PM
Posted by: fish | 31 January 2020 at 01:40 PM
,,,Dugskkki, and Trumpskkki are of a like mind...both very stable geniuses!!!
Posted by: odlaw | 31 January 2020 at 01:51 PM
Posted by: odlaw | 31 January 2020 at 01:51 PM
..both very stable geniuses!!!
Delusions of grandeur.......make a note to up dugsKKKis meds!
Posted by: fish | 31 January 2020 at 01:56 PM
Fish. Inform Dr. Emery of that. Emery claims to be the resident
authority on mental illness.(He's always accusing Trump of being insane.) I will take Trump's mental status over Dougy's(and Emery's) any day.
Posted by: Walt | 31 January 2020 at 02:09 PM
As usual, the world isn't All Trumphate all the Time.
Here's your chance to watch a bit of history, you can tell your grandchildren about it. Fifteen more minutes from now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-bXt8EewDA
Posted by: scenes | 31 January 2020 at 02:45 PM
Another one bites the dust -
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-killed-a-top-al-qaeda-leader-in-yemen-reports-say-215555178.html
;-)
Posted by: Don Bessee | 31 January 2020 at 02:53 PM
Posted by: Don Bessee | 31 January 2020 at 02:53 PM
'''U.S. forces had been tracking al-Raymi for months, and there was a $10 million price on his head.'''
I wonder how much was left of him??? Maybe a sandy head rolling around in the desert worth some bucks ;)
Posted by: odlaw | 31 January 2020 at 03:22 PM
Elizabeth Warren Vows to Let a ‘Young Trans Person’ Choose Her Education Secretary.
Big opportunity for work in the Warren Administration as a eunuch dugsKKKi! You used to be both in education and a Eunuchs programmer didn't you?
https://amgreatness.com/2020/01/31/elizabeth-warren-vows-to-let-a-young-trans-person-choose-her-education-secretary/
Posted by: fish | 31 January 2020 at 04:41 PM
Nigel Farage celebrates Brexit with an invitation to Trump’s big night.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/nigel-farage-celebrates-with-invitation-to-donald-trump-s-big-night-7j3m37gwh
Wait a minute. Did not Hillary say in her book that Nigel appeared at one of Citizen Trump’s campaign rallies and said bad things against My Gal? She place the blame of her most embarrassing loss squarely at the feet of Niguel. Well, at least on that page. You got to flip to page to find out who else she laid the blame on. Fills up a whole book.
Be that as it may (and forgive the regression into the dour topic), it’s just another reason to love Nigel. I ❤️ 💕 💗 Nigel. And there ain’t no leftist around that is going to wipe that smirk off Nigel’s face. He ain’t no little Covington school boy...a child they can bully.
Job well done, Nigel. You may join Trump in the winner’s circle Tuesday night.
Posted by: Bill Tozer | 31 January 2020 at 05:41 PM
a shot across the bow.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/zerohedge-suspended-twitter
Posted by: scenes | 31 January 2020 at 06:44 PM
Scenes @ 6:44 pm
Right on schedule. Dr. Evil’s diabolical plot hatched in his liar hidden beneath the bowels of the House basement has been to start ratcheting up the clamp down on social media sites. Put it out like a shoe on a cigarette butt grinding it into on the ground. Been waiting for it. We haven’t seen nothing yet....not by any means. No sireee, they are just doing little trail runs. It’s not just the warning from Twitter. It’s happening in increased frequency across a wider spectrum and only toe ones with a good sized following. I reckon it will be almost shut down the last week of the 2020 election. 85% maybe. They have ways to kill the mic.
Notice how Biden’is going nuts over one social media outlet is not going to police political speech by the campaigns for accuracy. Man, their melons are exploding over that. Can’t win on a level playing field. Gotta turn up the heat a bit and give it the Full Monty after Labor Day.
In preparation, some of the righty sites are joining together and forming their our sites...especially Youtube where that is their current platform and vulnerable. Blaze has already moved, Ben Shapiro and friends joined together, Levin making his move.
Think they are calling this new social media outlet ‘My Space.” Ok, I made that up.
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Just because and for no particular reason....a meme or something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS1xnfHYEgw
Posted by: Bill Tozer | 31 January 2020 at 07:12 PM
Collateral damage from the ill-advised sham in the house and the dems epic fail in the Senate -
After Bondi's presentation, Iowa Republican Senator Jodi Ernst was practically giddy as she suggested to reporters that Biden's presidential ambitions may have taken a hit.
"I'm really interested to see how this discussion today informs and influences the Iowa caucus voters, those Democratic caucus-goers," she said. "Will they be supporting Vice-President Biden at this point? Not certain about that."
Biden has tried to turn Republican interest in damaging his political prospects into a strength, tweeting last week that Ernst and Trump are "scared to death I'll be the nominee".
An October poll, however, showed that 40% of Democrats and majorities of Republicans and independents think Hunter Biden's Ukraine dealings are a valid campaign issue.
In a Democratic nomination contest that is close, as will be the general election in the fall, even a shadow doubt could tilt the scales.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51331363
;-)
Posted by: Don Bessee | 31 January 2020 at 08:06 PM
I guess we don't have enough terrorists gaining entry.
The swamp queen is pissed.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/top-democrats-fume-after-trump-expands-travel-restrictions-six-new-countries
Posted by: Walt | 01 February 2020 at 06:06 PM
Is it time for the 49ers to change their name to something less evil white devilish?
Think ‘The Chiefs’ Is a Bad Name? How About the White Male Prospectors?
“The franchise is named after those who participated in the California Gold Rush of 1849. They were avaricious speculators who heard “There’s gold in them thar hills!” and came like locusts to despoil pristine California wilderness and displace the indigenous people. They “staked claims” to land that wasn’t theirs and stripped it of resources. Some got wealthy from it. Most, just spent what they made on whiskey and prositutes, er, sex workers. And they were white men. While their beards would be to die for among today’s hipsters, can you imagine the toxic masculinity of the average mining camp?
Does the thoroughly modern, social justice-conscious city of San Francisco really want its NFL team named after such monsters? Surely, there are names that reflect more enlightened and inclusive aspects of SF’s history and culture.“
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/matt-philbin/2020/02/01/think-chiefs-bad-name-how-about-white-male-prospectors
Posted by: Bill Tozer | 01 February 2020 at 06:15 PM
Frisco GoogTweeters?? Maybe?
Posted by: Walt | 01 February 2020 at 06:24 PM
The Frisco They/Them? The Frisco High Steppers? I dunno. I will come up with something after I scrap the soles of my Birkenstocks.
More Football news and headlines:
https://i2.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2020/02/Screen-Shot-2020-01-31-at-7.46.43-PM.png?w=1160&ssl=1
https://i1.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2020/01/Screen-Shot-2020-01-29-at-10.34.27-AM.png?w=898&ssl=1
https://i0.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2020/02/Screen-Shot-2020-01-27-at-12.56.01-PM.png?w=1002&ssl=1
And, finally, just for Walt. (Rated G)
https://i0.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2020/02/82479271_855987884849119_3606600844381782016_o.jpg?w=698&ssl=1
Posted by: Bill Tozer | 01 February 2020 at 06:43 PM
Thank Bill,,,, thanks a lot.
Posted by: Walt | 01 February 2020 at 06:50 PM
Walt.
Was it too much? The Raider one was below the belt. Remember when they called the patch pirates around here the Oakland Raiders? Ok. Perhaps it was the pink volcano.Too much?
JOE BIDEN’S ACHILLES’ HEEL: “TOO DUMB TO BE PRESIDENT”
“Chaser: Why, on God’s green earth, would you plagiarize Neil Kinnock, one of the greatest losers ever in British electoral politics? I know Bernie Sanders channels Jeremy Corbyn, by my God man. . .. “
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/02/joe-bidens-achilles-heel-too-dumb-to-be-president.php
Oh, you are welcome. :)
Posted by: Bill Tozer | 01 February 2020 at 07:06 PM
Sounds eerily familiar.
“A glorious victory for democracy”
“We did it. Against all the odds. Against the barbs and defamations and underhand tactics of a hysterical establishment. Against a Remainer Parliament that had been hell-bent on reversing what we voted for. Against the best efforts of Remainer agitators at home and the bureaucratic machine in Brussels to prevent our democratic voice from being heard.
London mayor Sadiq Khan is even fretting that tonight’s Brexit bashes could give rise to xenophobic hate crimes.
Of course he is. That’s how they see us: as a pogrom-in-waiting. As a racist blob. As an unthinking mass driven almost entirely by hatred of the Other. They’ve been hurling these insults at us, at the millions of men and women who voted for Brexit, for three-and-a-half years now.“
https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/01/31/a-glorious-victory-for-democracy/
Posted by: Bill Tozer | 01 February 2020 at 07:21 PM
Yaa,,, that pink volcano was just too much.
Posted by: Walt | 01 February 2020 at 07:22 PM
"Does the thoroughly modern, social justice-conscious city of San Francisco really want its NFL team named after such monsters? Surely, there are names that reflect more enlightened and inclusive aspects of SF’s history and culture.“"
The San Francisco Poops?
Posted by: scenes | 01 February 2020 at 07:26 PM
The San Fransisco Gold Diggers? Nah, too much like the 49ers. The Frisc Scoopers? The Paper Straws? The Stink-Asses? Wharf Rats. Dock Denizens? Leather Teddies?
Posted by: Bill Tozer | 01 February 2020 at 07:38 PM
lol. I like the 'Stink-Asses', even Paul could root for that. Need to start working in a logo.
From the brexit article:
"Which is that it embodies the patient but determined assertion of ordinary people that they have as much right as the rich and the well-educated to determine the political fate of the nation. "
huh.
Posted by: scenes | 01 February 2020 at 07:44 PM
Coronavirus
“Coronavirus task force another example of Trump administration's lack of diversity”
But the visuals that have come to define the Trump administration say something else, too. They signal which people in a multi-racial, half-female country Trump values the opinions of: mostly white men who are mirror images of the President himself.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/30/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus-diversity-obama/index.html
Posted by: Bill Tozer | 01 February 2020 at 07:51 PM
Hillary fesses up. It wasn’t the Russians who cost her the election, it was Bernie and those awful Bernie Bros.
https://www.oann.com/hillary-clinton-says-bernie-sanders-worked-against-her-in-2016-lost-her-the-presidential-election/
Posted by: Bill Tozer | 01 February 2020 at 08:10 PM
Just sayin'
hile various forms of palindrome dates are fairly common, 02/02/2020 has the unique distinction of reading the same backward and forward when written out in eight digits in multiple date systems, according to University of Portland professor Aziz Inan.
“We are so lucky to have such a special palindrome date occurring in our lifetime because it’s so rare,” Inan told USA TODAY Saturday.
For starters, it's an eight-digit palindrome: 02022020. Many palindrome dates are only symmetrical if you write the date with seven digits (1-10-2011) — or in some cases even fewer (9-10-19).
But even more rare, according to Inan, is that Sunday's date is an international palindrome: It works whether you write the date as "Month/Day/Year" or "Day/Month/Year," as many countries do.
Inan calls such dates "ubiquitous palindromes," and there won't be another one for 101 years. After that, you'll have to wait until March 3, 3030.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/sundays-date-rare-palindrome-hasnt-215126981.html
;-)
Posted by: Don Bessee | 01 February 2020 at 09:43 PM
Well...an anagram for 'coronavirus' is 'carnivorous'. On the ironic side I'd say.
Posted by: scenes | 01 February 2020 at 10:32 PM
Coronaviorous.
https://i2.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2020/02/Virus-Masks.png?w=1086&ssl=1
https://i2.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2020/02/Eboila-beer.png?w=1082&ssl=1
Posted by: Bill Tozer | 01 February 2020 at 11:14 PM
GUILTY.......
.......as charged.
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2020/02/01/neera-tanden-rashida-tlaibs-booing-of-hillary-at-sanders-rally-just-another-example-of-white-male-rage-and-misogyny/
Posted by: fish | 02 February 2020 at 09:26 AM
Yup,, we love to elect idiots to pass laws. Especially ones about things they have no working knowledge of.
MAKE THE AR16 ILLEGAL!!
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/02/02/john-kerry-endorses-biden-to-fight-against-ar-16-with-long-clip/
Just stop the manufacturing of "long clips" and they will just be used up over time.
Posted by: Walt | 02 February 2020 at 10:47 AM
This is really going to screw up Emery's AGW argument.
https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/reykjanes/news/97289/Mt-Thorbjorn-volcano-Reykjanes-peninsula-Iceland-increasing-earthquake-intensity.html
You DO realize Buzzard man, Mamma nature has was of cooling things WAY down.
Oh That's right, you were stone silent on that Glacier national Park factoid I gave ya' as well. (same thing from your pal as well)
That's OK.. I understand.....
Posted by: Walt | 02 February 2020 at 10:57 AM
Administrivia - regarding the ongoing debate on relative smarts, I invite your kind attention to the 2feb20 update of Scattershots.
https://rebaneruminations.typepad.com/rebanes_ruminations/2020/01/scattershots-28jan20.html
Posted by: George Rebane | 02 February 2020 at 11:25 AM
As per usual:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/01/i-cant-believe-amount-people-here-over-3000-rally-sanders-influential-iowa-survey
""I Can't Believe the Amount of People Here": As Over 3,000 Rally for Sanders, Influential Iowa Survey Shelved"
Ya can't have Bernie do well, after all. Too funny.
It's one of those pure plays in contrast. At least in recent years, two separate philosophies:
1) Republican. Skeleton crew working for populist helps give speech-makin' guy the nomination. Scarcely any money spent, Republican establishment does their best but loses to the FNG.
2) Democrat. DNC old regime cheats and cheat and cheats to get their annoited one the nod. Steamrollers alternative candidates.
You can argue about which party is more corrupt, but in the primary process there really is no comparison.
Posted by: scenes | 02 February 2020 at 01:16 PM
Liz Warren’s plan to control online speech is straight out of Orwell
https://nypost.com/2020/01/29/liz-warrens-plan-to-control-online-speech-is-straight-out-of-orwell/
Posted by: Bill Tozer | 02 February 2020 at 02:04 PM
See the empty seats at the Superbowl? OUCH!
Posted by: Walt | 02 February 2020 at 02:58 PM