October 27, 2017 6:45 AM
Morning Reads for Friday, October 27, 2017
- That’s a mighty fine umbrella you got there. Shame if anything happened to it.
- Why don’t any of the mayors-in-waiting think this is important?
- “The Collective.” Really GT? Is that the best you could do? Does everyone get their own Borg alcove, too?
- There’s this football game this Saturday…
- Unbiased, my hind-parts.
- Best body armor ever? Make mine red. With a 50’s style fur collar.
- This comparison of Presidents is spot-on.
- What could go wrong?
- Progressive experiment pizza parlor Dudley Dough (Boston) is closing. Surprise. Not Surprised.
- Johnny Carson would have been 92 this week.
- Dumb Ideas, part 264.
- We’re all going to end up in granny-pods anyway, so why not?
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Ouch! Lol! Keeps getting better and better…Ginny’s link
https://pjmedia.com/trending/rewind-fbi-used-clinton-campaigns-steele-dossier-get-fisa-warrant-trump-campaign/
Well, it’s Ginny’s link first of all. And second, yor awful touchy. You’re afraid this Lib Collusion scandal has very long legs. Four words: Danbury Minimum Security Prison. LMAO!
I hope it does have long legs. Maybe a couple more committee investigations would help!
I’ll just wait for the Special Prosecutor. Much more effective! Any odds on how long that takes?
On the one hand you have a party and candidate paying for oppo research. That is not collusion.
On the other hand you have adversarial Russians reaching out to support a particular candidate, whose subsequent administration has very clearly and publicly done everything it can to “repay” them. That would be collusion.
Add to that all the contacts with Russia.
On the one hand:
Manafort
Flynn
Junior’s meeting
Tillerson/Exxon/sanctions
Multiple people failing to disclose meetings with Russians
On the other hand you have:
…….
So yeah, bring on another investigation. Even if there are Dems guilty of colluding I would welcome we find that out.
No spyware on pjmedia.com. Pajamas Media has been a leading conservative blog for over 10 years and it is mainstream, not far-right or alt-right or Trumpist like Breitbart or GatewayPundit.
Saudi Arabia grants citizenship to a robot named Sophia, proving that if you’re rich enough weirdness doesn’t matter.
On the Roxbury’s Dudley Dough thing … something like 60% of small businesses fail so blaming their failure on their progressive ideology is a bit of a reach. Also why bash entrepreneurs for innovating and trying something different? Entrepreneurs who try out novel ideas have a far higher failure rate than regular businesses. A lot of them keep trying – and failing – over and over again until they finally get it right. Also the idea that if you pay workers higher wages and train them, you will have a more productive, more loyal and better skilled workforce is precisely the mindset that our postwar economic boom was based on. The salary race to the bottom practice came along later and I really have trouble identifying who benefits from it beyond the CEOs and mutual funds. In this era there wasn’t much talk about living wages because a lot more employers paid them voluntarily.
Do not mistake me. I am not a progressive. I am very much capitalist and free market. But what I oppose is the government imposing ideas like this on businesses. But if within the free market system people want to try various experiments on how to run their business voluntarily, without the government forcing them to, it is perfectly fine. They shouldn’t be mocked, belittled and dismissed for trying, or for having the beliefs in the first place. Also someone else might come along and get it to work.
I remember when Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream was criticized for having a policy that limited the salary of the CEO to several multiples of the salary of the lowest paid employees. So if the CEO wanted a raise, he had to give everyone else a raise also. I would imagine that the “Hot Air” people would have been among their most vehement critics had they been around back then. Yet their leftist ideology didn’t prevent Ben & Jerry’s from being a very successful company. So maybe these pizza owners just need to learn from their failures and try again.
I’m not bashing anyone. I simply presented an article.
Not surprised.
I always enjoy a different OV, so you just keep doing whatcha doing.
I meant to attack Hot Air and not you. Nonetheless I apologize for what I wrote.
“Trump chooses not to deport illegal immigrant wanted for rape, bribery, and kidnapping because he’s a Mar-a-Lago member”
That is an outrage. But I ask you … what are your opinions on deporting illegal immigrants generally?
“I think we should be deporting individuals convicted of felonies and violent misdemeanors in the United States.”
So then you support open borders with unrestricted immigration? Meaning that anyone can come here when they want and leave when they want so long as they do not commit a felony while they are here? I submit that this is – in practice – what you are advocating. If you believe otherwise please correct me.
When are you going to ask how he feels about employers who hire undocumented workers?
1) better border control measures to prevent undocumented border crossings and
Kindly name what these would be. The border is vast – and there is one with Canada too.
2) locating and deporting the individuals that come here and commit felonies and violent misdemeanors.
They would only be deported after they serve their sentence right?
Please no wasted energy on businesses who hire and exploit the undocumented. It is only designed to divert from the fact that the undocumented violate the law by coming and continue to violate the law by staying. It is a law that you disagree with or have little regard for so it is no issue for you when they break it. But the laws that you support and feel are important you wish to see strictly enforced with lawbreakers punished correct?
1. So you oppose deporting people claiming that they should be interdicted at the border. Once they are in, they are in unless they commit a felony or violent misdemeanor.
2. And you oppose doing anything more at the border than we are now despite the fact that it cannot, will not and has not worked.
3. Which means that you essentially wish to decriminalize illegal immigration in and of itself , allow the undocumented to bring their family members over and significantly increase the number of visas to come here legally. And have absolutely no recourse if their visas expire and they refuse to leave. But we would allow those who overstay their visas – estimated to be a bigger set of illegal immigrants than border crossers – to bring their families over also.
Since it would be well nigh impossible to stop illegal immigration in practice – the border is rather easy to cross and nothing would be done to either border crossers or visa overstayers once they get here, and they would be able to bring their families over here with no impediments – I am sorry but an open immigration policy would be better. Eliminate the need to come here secretly and instead have them come here openly through channels designed to facilitate them. If we can’t control who gets to come here or do anything about it once they get here – and under your proposals both are true – we should at least know who they are, where in the U.S. they plan to go, what they plan to do while they are here and how long they plan to stay. That would be far better for our security situation than what exists now.
Speaking of reputable news sources…I’m pretty sure today is the 27th.
LOL. “I have missing time.”
MAGA!
http://news.gallup.com/poll/221060/americans-best-holiday-shopping-mood-years.aspx
Ohhhh, Merry Christmas!
If you ever make a pie using an actual pumpkin (which is how I learned as a child) you know it is much more fibrous -you needed to really stew it down and then mash it through a wire mesh colander. I just steam it and run through a Vitimix or a NutraNinja. You use less liquid when you make it too then the can version.
As to Cheesecake…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmer_cheese and don’t get me started on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neufch%C3%A2tel_cheese
Yay! Ask and ye shall receive: A Josh McKoon quote!
“Today’s AP report raises serious legal questions and is troubling to say the least. If it is true, conservatives should have serious concerns about the sanctity of their ballot,” McKoon wrote, adding that it “seriously erodes fundamental trust in our electoral process” at a time of shaky public confidence in the government. (Greg Bluestein)
http://politics.blog.myajc.com/2017/10/27/fallout-from-ksu-data-erasure-likely-to-be-political-rather-than-legal/
I’m glad non-conservatives don’t have to worry.
Reynolds isn’t continuing to make tin foil for nothing.
Manafort and Flynn are most exposed of course.
I don’t know how it plays out with the obstruction of justice charges though. Is that hard to prove? Trump basically admitted it.
What are the charges each might face? Manafort? Flynn? I say nothing to do with campaign. Not sure about Manafort but Flynn maybe not being truthful on security paperwork but nothing to do with Trump. Opinion?
This is leverage.
Manafort investigations have been on going since 2015 with illegal ties to Russian and Ukraine. That would explain the quickness of an indictment. He also has ties to the Russian banks that were about to tried for money laundering (Banks had ties to Trump and Kushner company projects or funding) by the NY federal AG when he was fired then Sessions settled a month later for a small fine. The New York state AG can also charge Manafort on any banking related issue, since the Russian banks have their US HQ in New York City – Trump can’t pardon state charges.
Flynn has federal issues about lying to the FBI about talking to Russian ambassadors during the campaign, his son has some possible issues, plus defense department protocol around his activities for Russian and Turkish interests, before and during the campaign.
Low hanging fruit that has connections to the campaign, but the two were present during some alleged issues, and can confirm or lead towards other campaign issues.
An instance where he didn’t follow through from BS through lies to attack.
I feel you, but I think you’re being played. A one sentence response the statement you support open borders in response to discussing deportation is that those that oppose additional gun control think the mentally unstable have the right to purchase guns.
Stir that pot! Stir that pot! Stir that pot!
Sanitize that history!!! Yessiree, Bob!!
Everything ‘z gonna be alllllllllll better now!
https://www.google.com/amp/thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/357608-george-washingtons-virginia-church-taking-down-his-memorial%3famp
They are taking down statues of Washington and Lee that flank an alter in a private church. Congregations move statuary all the time. The statue of St Frances has been moved 4 times in my lifetime at my home church in Wisconsin. It’s not even in the church anymore, it’s in the lobby of the school. Where is your outrage for St Frances?
This is a good read.
http://www.nationalreview.com/g-file/453210/trump-republican-snowflake-caucus-loyalty-not-agenda-important-trump?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=171027_G-File&utm_term=GFile
From the link: “Everyone’s talking about the civil war in the Republican Party. It seems more like a surrender to us.” — Weekly Standard
“And, finally, there’s the fact that, like Trump, many of these people don’t care about policy either. As Michael Brendan Dougherty recently pointed out, the culture-war spats and nasty personal fights are to a very real extent Trump’s true agenda, or at least it’s what people who love the Trump Show love about the Trump Show.”
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Can you ever trust any Republican for whom Trump’s “accomplishments” warrant complicit quiet? And with others there’s no conclusion beyond willful obliviousness.
Came across this while completing reading for the day and thought of the preceding Weekly Standard quote:
“I don’t know if you’re paying attention, but internal strife is tearing the Republican Party apart at the seams. It’s like a new Civil War, only neither side is trying to help black people.” —Stephen Colbert
Other news for The Libs: just saw Hannity movie!! Let There Be Light! Moving and inspirational!! Taking America back…one ticket at a time!!