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December 16, 2017
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Kennedy went right to Daubert, which confused Mr. Petersen, who perhaps was thinking one had to go through Frye first.
The publication of the text messages of Peter Strzok and Lisa Page reminds me about how Barack Obama would publish all the sealed divorce records of his opponents when he ran for office.
The street sign says Cantwell.
After the Charlottesville incident, Christopher Cantwell was charged with two felony counts of illegal use of tear gas and one felony count of malicious bodily injury by means of a caustic substance.
Cantwell insisted that the protest against the removal of the Confederate statue be conducted peacefully, with a permit and police cooperation.
He has been denied his Constitutional right to bail.
In other words, he is a political prisoner.
http://www.unz.com/article/anarcho-tyranny-update/
Trees had ow?
I blame Trump.
Saw a mass delusion today. Everyone was merging out of the left lane in slow-moving traffic, but the left lane was not closed or blocked. There was absolutely no reason to merge. All lanes were blocked by a work convoy and escort. It was interesting. Back where people were merging and couldn't see the front, there was road rage going on, people yelling at each other, and people trying to block the irrationally shunned left lane.
Lisa Bloom was caught trying to pay women off with as much as $750,000 in exchange for accusing Trump of sexual assault. She also had an accuser's mortgage paid off in exchange for accusing @realDonaldTrump. Lisa Bloom + her mom Gloria Allred are frauds.. - Twitter
A long sail down the St Johns river contemplating tripled property values if Amazon HQ2 locates across the river on the 200 free acres of prime riverfront property offered by the City gov. 50,000 jobs and my Althous-ish home and neighborhood a walkable mile away. Dear God let this happen so I can cash out and move to Nine Palms, Baja Sur.
"Lisa Bloom was caught trying to pay women off with as much as $750,000 in exchange for accusing Trump of sexual assault. She also had an accuser's mortgage paid off in exchange for accusing."
Reverse ambulance chasing. Ms. Bloom driving the ambulance, throwing money out driver's side window. (Some) alleged victims in hot pursuit.
long sail down the St Johns river contemplating tripled property values if Amazon HQ2 locates across the river on the 200 free acres of prime riverfront property offered by the City gov. 50,000 jobs and my Althous-ish home and neighborhood a walkable mile away.
Back when earmarks were all the rage in Congress, what you did was buy a home in the district of a newly elected Speaker of the House and sell it when they lost the job.
Dems' latest coordinated talking point: take to the street if Trump fires Mueller.
So, civil demonstrations if Trump rightfully uses his executive power to fire a subordinate.
And somehow Trump is the threat to our constitutional order, not the Dem's feigned or reckless ignorance of our how our constitution actually works!
Surfed
I'm not familiar with Baja Sure but I'm in Quintana Roo right now. I've always loved this area but now I'm not sure. Today there was a police road block looking for tourist to shakedown. Cartel murders are way up. Several shootings at the resorts in the past few weeks. Mexico is going to hell.
I've always thought I'd retire to Caye Caulker in Belize but my European wife said no. No paved roads and an island in hurricane area.
Then I thought to retire in Playa del Carmen but wife wants to go back to Europe. Now the Mexican bullshit has convinced her to not live in Mexico.
So where to retire. Malta. Apulia. Scilia. Crimea. All cold sea and rocky beaches.
I was planning on selling my condo in Saranda but the area hasn't taken off like I thought it would.
Life is tough sitting on a beach (and drinking) and not knowing where to live out the final days of our lives.
surfed said...
"A long sail down the St Johns river contemplating tripled property values if Amazon HQ2 locates across the river"
Sorry, Dude, Amazon is not coming to Florida. Puerto Rico is.
What a Piece of Work is Woman! Man too! Still, sometimes we meet in the middle and sometimes not! Our edges can be quite rough, even when our insides are mellow.
I'm taking my kid and two of his teammates to Sacramento tonight for the state high school championship football game - Mater Dei v De La Salle. I've said it before, I'll say it again. Either of these dynamos would best any Texas, Georgia or Florida high school team. Yes, they are that good! They got kids lined up to play at USC, Alabama, Michigan, Notre Dame, UCLA.
Saw this pit bull story on Drudge; wish I could say unbelievable.
Typically, I send stories like this to little sister who owns a pit bull she rescued, but its almost Christmas so leaving it here.
http://ktla.com/2017/12/15/woman-mauled-to-death-by-her-dogs-while-taking-them-for-a-walk/
@Bay Area Guy..good luck.
Catholic vs. Catholic boys schools?
Sniff, sniff. Treason is in the air.
What’s the building, Althouse? Too big and too brick to be a house but the windows seem wrong for apartments.
@Lars,
Sorry, I shoulda been more clear. My kids' team lost earlier in playoffs - they are dragging me out there as spectators to pay tribute to the kings. For now, we are De La Salle fans. But Next year!
On second thought it may have been a house at one time. That looks like a typical Midwest big house kitchen door there.
Mike Sylwester said...
Christopher Cantwell, known as the "Crying Nazi", has a lengthy criminal record that includes DWI, weapons and stolen property convictions.
Never mind, found it on Street View. Apartments over a business. I like the looks of the neighborhood. A nice mix of character and modernity. Like a somewhat upscale Centralia or a more orderly Olympia.
Hmm...
The story involves two Navy fighter pilots on a “routine training mission” off the coast of San Diego back in 2004. Cmdr. David Fravor and Lt. Cmdr. Jim Slaight were flying F/A-18F Super Hornets 100 miles off the coast when a radio operator on a Navy destroyer contacted them and asked them to check something out:
Navy pilots encountered strange object that was faster than an F/A-18 (Update: Video added)
“Well, we’ve got a real-world vector for you,” the radio operator said, according to Commander Fravor. For two weeks, the operator said, the Princeton had been tracking mysterious aircraft. The objects appeared suddenly at 80,000 feet, and then hurtled toward the sea, eventually stopping at 20,000 feet and hovering. Then they either dropped out of radar range or shot straight back up.
The two fighter pilots were told to investigate. As they arrived at the area in question, they didn’t see anything at first and there was nothing showing on their radar. Then they noticed something odd happening at sea level:
Full article:
https://hotair.com/archives/2017/12/16/video-navy-pilots-encountered-strange-object-faster-fa-18/
Guys.
You're all missing the point!
That's a total wall covered with stamped metal, originally used in the waning days of the 19th Century (I believe.) Used on ceilings, walls, wherever. Very versatile. Now enjoying a renaissance.
Someone should write a book. Perhaps someone has.
Plasma.
@Jupiter: PR goes to NYC. And if they do come to Florida they don't come to the bigest city in Southeast Georgia. Three cities in the running for Amazon HQ2: Aystin, TX, Atlanta, Ga and Jacksonville, Florida and only one of them is giving away 200 acres of beautiful downtown prime riverfront property.
Driving home today my CPA/MST passenger discovered in the new tax law that business owners still get to deduct SALT for their 2018 returns, and beyond. Looks like a provision from the House proposal either didn't get squared or it was deliberately left in.
CNN/WaPo/MSM too stupid and lazy to figure it out, otherwise they'd be all over it...
ARM: "Christopher Cantwell, known as the "Crying Nazi", has a lengthy criminal record that includes DWI, weapons and stolen property convictions"
Sounds like just the kind of guy that obama and Holder handed assault weapons to with a US agent ending up dead because of it.
Not to worry though, LLR Chuck says obama was "magnificent".
Well, it's been 17 days since the NYTimes gleefully reported that Tillerson was going to shoved out perhaps within the next several weeks.
Why does any thinking person believe anything printed in the Times or the Washington Post?
Bill Priestap.
Today is Beethoven's birthday. Take a few minutes and listen to any of his music.
You mean this guy,
www.cc.com/video-clips/dvppp6/the-colbert-report-difference-makers---the-free-keene-squad
Yeah, that guy.
What a guy.
Now it wee just a coincidence that he had let vice news, a den of scum and villainy, into his organization, that the leader had recently been with occupy.
Add Chris Matthews (MSLSD) to your sexual harassment bingo card.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/12/16/nbc-made-payment-to-staffer-after-sexual-harassment-claim-against-chris-matthews/
Three cities in the running for Amazon HQ2: Aystin, TX, Atlanta, Ga and Jacksonville, Florida
Where'dja hear that? That's an awfully short list.
There is a lot of land outside Austin but it can't be anywhere near the city itself. There is simply not room on the freeway system. 35 is the bane of central Texas as it is. Atlanta also doesn't have the infrastructure to deal with that many people. Jacksonville seems too farm league ~ no offense. Does their airport have any direct flights to any real cities? Can they get tech people interested in living in a swamp?
My money is still on somewhere outside DFW, unless I missed a news story or something where they are officially not interested anymore.
Charlottesville reminds of the provocation mentioned here:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/aug/01/baader-meinhof-gang-founder-stasi
A Reasonable Man at 7:23 PM
Christopher Cantwell, known as the "Crying Nazi", has a lengthy criminal record that includes DWI, weapons and stolen property convictions.
He is charged with three felonies for using tear gas in a riot.
He is denied bail.
He is a political prisoner.
Michael - today I listened to the C sharp minor quartet by Beethoven. Wonderful music.
C sharp minor was a big deal for Rachmaninoff, a very musical person, and I think the only other non-Beethoven composer most people listen to with any frequency who composed in C sharp minor wss Chopin.
Back in the day (the 1960s), Schroeder, who was introduced as a toddler to the Peanuts universe, quickly ended up, within a year or two, as a Beethoven aficionado.
Who knows how well anyone else would be as a musician if the impediments to musicianship were dissolved? It is nice to think about.
And who would explain, if they understood? It is nice to think about.
Amazon will pick ATL for the airport and interstate highway infrastructure. And the lifestyle amenities are top notch. They have all the money on earth already. They want convenience.
John Smith Smith
There is an article in today's Financial Times on the 12 year old prodigy Alma Deutscher. Fantastic child. Began writing an Opera when she was 8. Zubin Mehta conducted it in Vienna last year. There is hope.
Whatcha mean Great Scot? It was only weeks ago I heard wags on WGN Chicago waxing on how irresistible the Windy City must be to Bezos.
Michael - yes, there is hope. I have recently heard teenagers play Mozart - for a few moments, never for more than that - as well as Mozart can be played. I assume that half a century from now, long after i am gone, they will be better musicians. Maybe much better!
Why does any thinking person believe anything printed in the Times or the Washington Post?
They maintain a position to carry out bullhorn prosecutions. Since their foreign collusion story was deemed nonviable due to overwhelming contradictory evidence, they have moved onto more fertile pastures, hoping to exploit Americans morality to condemn them. To condemn us. If anyone ever wondered how a minority faction could ever seize control of a country, of a culture, this is it.
Pretty much, n.n.,
Moving goal posts limits to a single axis.
They've decide on nets.
David Foster Wallace had a collection of short stories entitled "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men"; at times, this seems like a perfectly reasonable title for conversations that happen with some people at the bar. Maybe not truly hideous; I could check a thesaurus for a synonym that seems somewhat lighter, but it is just easier to say I could check a thesaurus for a synonym that seems somewhat lighter, and you'll know what I mean.
I have mentioned the broken men before, and those that instill distaste.They are usually obvious as losers: poor posture, poor bodies, questionable hygiene, enervated, isolated. The broken men who inspire fear -- sometimes it is just a vibe that says prison, or possible serial killer. The kind of guy most women instinctively know to never get in a car with.
But there are also the broken losers who look like winners. They show up in a fashionable suit and tie; they wear an expensive watch, expensive shoes. Maybe mid-twenties; maybe early thirties. They often show up via Uber. Uber doesn't really have anything to do with them being deceptively broken; it is just a detail I have noticed. Maybe it means something to you, I don't know.
These men apprise the women and the college girls, and look for the combination of looks and low self-esteem. A surprising number of women and college girls fit this description; a lot of them occasionally look for cocaine. I could probably make a connection between low self-esteem and the desire for cocaine, but it would likely fall apart under a few moments' scrutiny. Still: the idea.
As I said, these men show up in a fashionable suit and tie; they wear an expensive watch, expensive shoes. Youngish. They seem like the kind of guys who enjoy a party. Which is shorthand for coke. They often tell the women and the college girls they have coke: they don't need to find someone that has it: they already do. And it is back at their place.
So some of these guys go with the guy back to his place. Where the cocaine is. And, I assume, a small party. Sometimes you hear rumors afterwards, but usually no one is talking.
If the woman or college girl does come back to the bar they are noticeably quieter upon their return. Connecting dots, it seems like the party was not a positive experience, with the youngish guy with the fashionable suit and tie and the expensive watch, expensive shoes. Sometimes the women never come back.
By saying they never come back I am not implying that something hideous happened to them, like murder. Probably not even drunken rape, although that might indeed be the case sometimes. For them, a sense of shame and regret is now associated with the bar, and it is a place they no longer feel comfortable going to. Maybe they don't feel safe. Conjecture on my part, yes.
As I said, these guys look like winners. And they no doubt believe that they are winning. But even the other losers -- the ones that instill distaste, not fear -- know what these guys are about. They probably think that if they had the looks, the fashionable suits and ties and the expensive watches, the expensive shoes, that they would be winners, but winners who would treat women better.
Maybe they would, maybe they wouldn't. Perhaps some of the losers have kind souls. That would be nice. And sad, given their current circumstances.
- james james
NBC proves to be a cesspit. Is anyone surprised?
Bezos will end up in Austin. Progressives are herd animals and the herd lives in Silicone Valley and Austin. No way will the employees allow them venture into the land of deplorables that not have already been colonized by other tech companies.
Either of these dynamos would best any Texas, Georgia or Florida high school team.
In any given year, Valdosta (ga.) could beat a few college teams.
The Upper St. John's River is beautiful place
Mike Sylwester said...
He is charged with three felonies for using tear gas in a riot.
Cantwell is charged with three felonies - two counts of illegal use of tear gas and other gases, and one count of malicious bodily injury.
He is a self-promoting drama queen and ex-felon, not a political prisoner.
Mater Dei v De La Salle.
They're both basically all star teams. They scout all of Southern California and offer scholarships to everyone else's best players. Most parents jump at the opportunity for a private school education and guaranteed college scouting.
Just got home. Mater Dei wins 51-21. Totally unstoppable- they are essentially a college team beating up on high school team.
Looks like Mater Dei plays basketball, too. They're one of the headliners at the upcoming City of Palms Classic here in Fort Myers, Florida.
If you’re looking for a Justice Department scandal regarding Robert Mueller´s investigation into Russia´s influence of the 2016 election, it´s hiding in plain sight. Look no further than the government´s release of the private texts between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page. Both Strzok, an FBI counter-intelligence agent, and Page, an FBI lawyer, were involved in the 2016 investigation into Hillary Clinton´s private email server, and were both briefly on Mueller´s team investigating Russia´s influence of the 2016 election. - Bloomberg
Yes, giving true information to the American people is always the real scandal! Leaked emails! Leaking them was the crime! No matter that everything in them was true. What the real problem is that somebody somewhere is usurping the media's power to selective leak little snippets that, deprived of context, can be twisted to mean whatever they want!
Bloomberg should stick to finance, economics, and the stock market. A week ago they wrote a story that could have been written by one of the trolls here. As soon as they got to where they should have brought the meat to the table, it's all Magic Eight Ball stuff about how bad it will be when they undercover the real wrongdoing which we all know (wink wink) must be there!
If there is this much horse shit, there has to be a pony! <-- Bloomberg logic.
You think that Bloomberg has noticed the economy, BTW?
A new report by Amnesty International says that European governments have been “knowingly complicit in the torture and abuses of tens of thousands of refugees and migrants detained by Libyan immigration authorities …by actively supporting the Libyan authorities in stopping sea crossings and containing people in Libya.”
"We came! We saw! He died!” - HRC, who made Libya safe for the slave trade again. (Hey, you could put that on a blue hat!)
Would Amazon pick HQ near a city in need, like Detroit? Or is the city too poorly managed for this shot in the arm?
You think that Bloomberg has noticed the economy, BTW?
You. Had. ONE. JOB!!!
and, it's another green wall.
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