Tuesday Open Thread (Temp)
I forgot to put up an Open Thread yesterday, so here’s something to start the day. Go on and chat amongst yourselves.
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FIRST!!!
2d Dammit
…only because I’ve been at work plotting new torments for students
You guys practicing for the WOT? The Book of Firsts is open only for the WOT.
you and your fact based reality….pffft
It’s not so much that as I relish crushing hopes and dreams.
I reject your reality and substitute my own.
You shouldn’t channel our Zampolit like that.
Yes, they are practicing. In fact, we should encourage them to hit it ASAP.
He who snoozes, loses.
Really Ex? “Hit it” when replying to IDC Sarc?
Really. 😉
“we should encourage them to hit it”; as in IDC Sarc “Hit it”? Inquiring minds want to know.
If you haven’t visited the White House website since President Trump assumed office, do yourself a favor and look it over. It is dramatically different in content than the one run by his immediate predecessor, what’s his name. And, BTW, the Air Force will be getting its first USAF Academy graduate as secretary. I don’t know whether the office has ever had a Rhodes scholar occupy it, but she’s that, too. Also, she’s not a lesbian, is married and has grown children.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/
I’d hit it.
duh.
Are not all of the things you listed disqualifies?
That’s “dis-qualifiers”.
Before noon last Friday, no question.
Top 3!!!
Top ten! SUCK IT DRG!
Know who President Trump nominated to head HUD? Dr. Ben Carson. The president also signed off on a hiring freeze for Federal employment, excluding the military, which he plans to strengthen and rebuild. You can bet he will not do so by accommodating transwhatevers or by lowering standards. And Israel? He already invited Bibi to the White House where, you can be sure, he will not be treated rudely as he was by President Trump’s immediate predecessor, what’s his name.
Let’s also not forget his announcement about moving the US Israeli Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem as well!
How’d you like that move by what’s his name to get millions to the Palestinians just before he got escorted from our White House?
Did that actually go through, or was it squelched?
Don’t those things take time?
The mechanics are that the funds (221 million) were approved by Congress but holds were placed on them. The holds are not legally binding but have always been honored by presidents, with one exception: what’s his name, the guy with the ears. He used Kerry to let Congress know on Thursday evening that the money was going and a couple of hrs before Ears was out, he signed off on the release of the money.
Bummer. That money could have gone into building roads and repairing a few bridges over here.
Ben Carson – great choice for HUD!
He was asked about his government experience. Um, none. Is that perfect or what?
Well let’s see, Dr. Ben Carson grew up poor while residing in Government Housing Projects before he got into college and made himself the successful Surgeon he is. just his having resided in HUD Projects puts him leagues ahead of any lifelong politician in my book!
Strong black woman = Dr. Ben Carson’s Mama
14th…
Let’s see if I can today 1) have a decent talk with my district manager 2) without pissing off my GM and then come home and 3) reset the better half’s computer back to where she can use it again.
Wish me luck.
May I suggest that you let them do the talking, and make mental notes as well as notes on paper, then set up a time to meet with them again to discuss what has been accomplished.
And always, always be calm, grasshopper.
The guy and his wife who just left our White House after eight years went to Palm Springs where it rained all weekend and ruined his golf hopes. God hates them, too. The bastard still has traffic stopped for him, though I have no idea why. He also has lifetime Secret Service protection, something HE resumed after a cap of 10 years was set on that. Nixon told his protectors to take off, the only ex-president to do so.
But everyone likes him so much. Why would he need bodyguards?
For the same reason Trotsky should have had them. The Left is very, very violent and unforgiving.
I agree, EX, I really feel sorry for the folks that draw that assignment! Can you imagine one of them having to take a bullet for that stupid bastard? I somehow think they would opt for self preservation in that case. Double down on that for the poor fuckers that have to protect the Clintoons!!
Then let’s hope that his presumptive recoup of seekrit squirrels protection is somehow defunded or something, or he has to pay for it out of his own pocket, or even better, his spot in Hawaii is on the ocean side of the Big Crack.
You mean the JEF and Mooch had a bad vacay? Couldn’t play golf? Got rained on all weekend?
Must be dreading having to go back and be a “citizen” once again…
Billionaire Sir Richard Branson flew the Obamas in his private jet to a swanky resort in the British Virgin Islands. Nuttin but the best for the Obamas I suppose.
Happy National Belly Laugh Day!
All of that Pussy Power stuff must have had a profound effect on President Trump. Yesterday, he signed an executive order reinstating the bar of US funds from going to international non-governmental organizations that perform or promote abortions. His immediate predecessor had removed the bar. It’s back. See, he has a pen, too.
The JEF “weaponized” the government in ways that would have made Nixon and others jealous… and Trump is gonna use it to unfuck what the JEF did.
Just wait until the Senate starts moving nominations and bills through – since the Donks used the nuclear option under Reid, payback is gonna be a bytch.
Linky to wiki on the Nuclear Option:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_option#Use_of_nuclear_option_during_Obama_presidency
Yesterday, our resident commie, Commissar, wrote hopefully about 2018, suggesting that the President Trump backlash will work its magic then and the Pussy Power standstill in DC will be given meaning. Ain’t gonna happen. It won’t because most of President Trump’s agenda will have been accomplished by 2018. By then he will have taken an axe to the regulatory tree and chopped it down to size, Congress has nothing to do with that. He will have gotten his Supreme Court nominee through the current Senate. He will have had implemented his tax reforms and, one hopes, effected the badly needed changes to the VA and other agencies. If—and this is a BIG IF—the Dems should again take control of one or the other critter station, he will have his veto. And to overcome his veto, the turnover in Congress would have to be fantastic. In the meantime, tax relief will make many Americans happy. There will be no more talk of effectively federalizing local and state police. Our military will necessarily be stronger and we will have a foreign policy, I am confident, that at least can be articulated. (I still don’t know what what’s his name’s was.) All in all, the left lean that Lars and his fellow travelers so hope for just won’t happen in 2018. This message brought to you by a happy fellow.
I’m hoping that he does… from what I’ve seen of his EO’s that he’s signed, it’s like he’s trying to get set up for a long run of prosperity.
I came across this little nugget today – here’s hoping he goes after the EPA to make things right for those that were effected by this EPA shitstorm of incompetence:
http://freerangereport.com/index.php/2017/01/22/trump-admin-to-hold-epa-accountable-for-massive-toxic-river-spill/
As for the USSS agent that posted her feelings – here’s hoping that you get the boot, Princess:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/article/2612814/
Considering that Ms. O’Grady knowingly violated the rules of her job, she can’t be trusted. As I understand it, the seekrit squirrels are supposed to keep their personal notions to themselves and not spout off in public, but she did that anyway and got public backlash for it.
Now, everyone knows she can’t be trusted, period. I hope she does get fired.
Doc,
I just noted in that article that you posted about the USSS agent that the ‘Princess’ refers to HRC as follows: ‘I am with Her’, capitalizing the ‘H’ in ‘Her’, as if HRC is some kind of Left Wing deity or something.
WTFO?
The Hatch Act prohibits a Federal employee from using his or her official title or
position while engaged in political activity. Her ass is grass. She said she would not take a bullet for him, referring to Trump. She needs to be shitcanned–yesterday. Then she can get a job as DNC security chick.
Chucklesnortburpfart!
She must have “forgotten” about that Hatch Act thingy… here’s hoping that the USSS shows her dumb ass the door.
I left a comment for him the other day on the Mattis post about wanting to e-mail with some of us off-line. I’d rather he insult me in public instead have my e-mail inbox full of insults and pontifications:
http://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=69900#comment-2947672
That ‘offer’ of his was too thinly disguised.
I’ll bet he’s no good a fishing, either.
How much can President Trump undo that his immediate predecessor did? If it wasn’t an act of Congress, everything. Any day now, we will hear of his nominee to the Supreme Court. He just might throw someone out there who will not be approved but would be great. That way, his #1 choice, nominee #2, will be approved. The man knows how to win.
I’m waiting for his first head-to-head with Vlad Putin.
Anything created by executive order can be removed by executive order. Sounds a little like “live by the sword, die by the sword”, doesn’t it?
SFC D. If this Congress were smart, it could protect against future legislation through regulation by restricting in law what an agency may and may not do with a particular piece of enacted legislation. It can also include gross detail in the legislation to take it away from the affected agency.
Um bye, Trans-Pacific Partnership.
And hello Keystone Pipeline.
Well, looks like the Left was correct in its fearing that Trump would undo what his predecessor did. Hallelujah. He’s wasting no time. This is what, day 2.5?
Trump is thoroughly wiping his ass with TP-P
>SNORT<
Speaking of B. Hussein 0bama aka JEF, here’s a link to an article claiming the JEF is THE FIRST POTUS in US History to have spent more on welfare than National Defense.
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/obama-was-first-president-spend-more-welfare-defense
This is too rich. Among the drug dealers and other repeat felony offenders whose sentences were commuted by the former community organizer was one Damarlon Thomas. (Damarlon? Okay. Whatever.) Anyway, Damarlon caught a 19-year sentence in 2008 but was preparing for release and was transferred to a halfway house. He had two visitors last night, both uninvited and both well armed. As one held the other halfway house residents at gunpoint, the other executed Damarlon. The two then departed, harming no one else.
I *hate* when that happens….
“Thomas was a former Sunnyside Gang member, according to Kaiser.”
http://www.wnem.com/story/34327962/police-investigate-late-night-shooting
And the family sues for wrongful death?
Sues whom? They haven’t caught nor identified the perps yet. The deceased was a gang member. I rather suspect a fair number of people wanted him dead and had the means to effect that end.
The really ignorant way folks see thing these days, wouldn’t his relatives be looking for someone to blame, like the guy who signed the order putting him into the place where he was killed?
I dunno. It is difficult get my head around how folks “think.” Besides, I was being mostly facetious. 😉
I hear you. Yeah, you’re right that they will probably look for someone to blame, but unfortunately they won’t blame Obama. Finding the ones who actually did the deed, though, will be pretty difficult, I imagine.
The guy who was executed was still, technically, in custody and serving his sentence. He was at a federal halfway house, a facility in which head counts are taken and disappearing inmates are escapees. So, actually, there just might be a suit brought against the halfway house and the Bureau of Prisons for failure to maintain a safe and secure facility.
A gangland execution? One more added to the body count of B. Hussein 0bama & Company.
Sally Boynton Brown says, shut up white people.
Y’all see this already?
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/01/24/dnc-chair-candidate-wants-to-shut-other-white-people-down.html
A lot of asshurt over on that side of the aisle… a whole lot of asshurt!
Could be worse – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhaKVu7a-xw
Excuse me, sir, but doesn’t that violate the 1964 Civil Rights Act?
Can I sue that bitch for doing that?
Yes, she’s from tater land, Idaho. Says she’s been looking for people of color there but they’re tough to find. She never thought of moving, say, to Oakland, I guess.
I say let her move to someplace like Harlem or Watts!
Compton has a few… south side of Chicago…
And this is why rebels of color get pissed at the white, paternalistic, overbearing libs. White Libs have now taken to claiming to hate themselves in order to pander to nonwhites. It’s a hoot, a veritable laugh riot.
See, e.g., Taylor, Lars
QED
You guys are probably going to stomp on me for saying this, and I don’t care.
The reason skanky crackpots like Ashley Judd and this quarrelsome crackpot Susan Bubblebutt say the things they do is that Mr. Trump is a normal adult male who likes women and is obvious about his sexual preference. That makes him a threat to them, no matter how vaporous it may be. He’s frequently rude and full of himself, and sometimes does say the wrong thing, but that applies to just about everyone on the planet.
No one is immune to faux pas of speech.
bodaprez, on the other hand, represents a ‘safe’ male figure, not necessarily an adult, that they can sit next to without worrying if he’s going to grab ass, or someone they can ‘safely’ have dinner with, and not expect to get hit on for sex, even though they want it.
It’s that old ‘choice’ thing, you see. They think that they really know how to make the choices, but their choices are almost always bad. They may be physically adult, but emotionally, they still want to hide under the bed until the bad man goes away.
It’s the same reason that they shy away from masculine men: those guys are an undefined threat over which they think they have no control. Any normal adult male is a threat to them, and it isn’t because they were abused as children.
They have no idea how to control their own emotions. They react oddly to normal humans like you or me, because we are somehow perceived as undefined threats, without any of us uttering a word.
The worse part of this is that they don’t know when to keep their mouths shut.
nope..stomping ya never crosses my mind.lol
Thank you, Doc.
How is it possible for so much idiocy to exist in a single person? That’s weapons-grade stoopid right there.
Whites, especially white males, are the enemy. H. Wide Load used it. Kaine used it. This is nothing new. It’s a symptom of the progressive disease. This gal’s statements just go to show that the disease is chronic. They learned not a thing from the election, which suits me just fine.
“I’m from Idaho, we are so white, so white, right? I have been reaching out and trying to connect to anybody of color I can find to be honest with me,” she said.
“I need schoolin’ … And I depend on you … to do that so I can go school the other white people.”
Racist comments ignored by the MSM. This is the future of the DNC, and I am ok with that.
I think I recall the King of the Telepromter saying “I have the potential to bring people together”, I’m your best hope for racial healing”.
There’s a name for that kind of mental disorder, but it escapes me. The more I hear/see about this behavior, the more convinced I am that most of these people getting so much media attention are just plain nuts. None of them make any sense.
I hope that some day, someone will explain it to me, but right now, they are nuts.
They are fucking nuts.
This is a rat race to convince the DNC who is the most “progressive” to lead the DNC.
They are imploding.
Like the Talk Radio Host Dr. Michael Savage said, “Liberalism is a Mental Disorder.” and liberals perpetually prove it to be true with their words and deeds.
In other silliness today, I had to take an active shooter training for work. It was really very good overall.
However, when the instructor (who had to follow his scripts, I know) came to the part of identifying in advance a potential perpetrator for an “active shooter event” – defined as “attempted mass murder” – one of the blatant flags that is ignored-because-not-universal is the faith of the shooter.
And the map of the 179 Active Shooter Events from 2000-2014 the “dots” showing location were said to be “random” but concentrated in the Northeast, California, and Florida.
I wonder what the NE and California share in common with Fort Hood? Florida just seems to be overall stupid – but what do I know?
Any bets on how soon the SCoaMF (JEF is good, too) starts squawking about Trump shit-canning his “legacy” EOs?
I give it a week.
I guess DU went out of business?
No, Claymore caught sympathetic pneumonia.
Guys we have a first (as far as I know) example of Stolen Valor ROTC style.
http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2017/01/15/uc-phony-soldier-scamming-campus-cash/96628554/
Time for some sunshine to illuminate this fraud.
I sent that to Dave Hardin to take a look at it.
Don’t know whether any of y’all are still reading this thread, but here’s a quote from an article in the medical publication MedScape regarding physicians involved in Medicare fraud. And people still think that ACA/Obamacare is a good idea:
“Medicare’s under full assault by fraudsters,” [case prosecutor] Gobena told Medscape Medical News in a recent interview. “It is really difficult to police a public health insurance system which has as many beneficiaries as it does while also trying to maintain its goal of paying physicians and other providers as quickly as possible.”
Link (quote is at the bottom of the 2nd page–you may have to be logged in, but accounts are free):
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/874737