Althouse: I went to the White House because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach...

January 26, 2019

I went to the White House because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach...

150 comments:

Inga...Allie Oop said...: Not a Trump quote, I suspect.; 1/26/19, 2:48 PM
traditionalguy said...: Maybe Meade wrote that when Althouse called her place a White House.; 1/26/19, 2:52 PM
Achilles said...: Trump is up against the globalist billionaires and their pet media.

The entire dc establishment is infested by people who hate American workers and wants to replace them with people from other countries that are happy on welfare and voting illegally.

The Democrats own open borders.

They have no where to go now.

This will happen again in 3 weeks.

This is not a short conflict. The enemies of freedom and our country will not stop.; 1/26/19, 2:52 PM
Achilles said...: I notice there are no polls about what Americans think about the shut down.

Hm.; 1/26/19, 2:53 PM
Ralph L said...: I would call that "Colonnaded in", but then I'm full of shit.; 1/26/19, 2:58 PM
Ralph L said...: Trump wanted more ecstatic modes of being.
Sorry, that was Hillary.; 1/26/19, 3:01 PM
Inga...Allie Oop said...: “I notice there are no polls about what Americans think about the shut down.”
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“Poll of the week: An ABC News/Washington Post poll finds that only 37% of Americans approve of the job President Donald Trump is doing. A significantly higher 58% disapprove. This makes for a net approval rating of -21 points.

The previous ABC/Washington Post poll put Trump's net approval rating at -13 points, so his net approval rating fell by 8 points.

Trump's decline occurred during a time when Americans clearly blamed Trump and the Republicans for the shutdown. The ABC News/Washington Post, for instance, found that 53% thought Trump and the Republicans in Congress were to blame compared to 34% for Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats in Congress. Other polls, depending on their wording, found a similar 20-point margin advantage for congressional Democrats vs. Trump and congressional Republicans on the shutdown.

Indeed, at the same time Trump's approval rating was declining, Pelosi's ratings were actually increasing. In an average of the five most recent polls taken, Pelosi's net favorability rose 3 points compared to where she was before the shutdown began. The average poll now consistently has Pelosi more popular than Trump.“; 1/26/19, 3:04 PM
Richard Dillman said...: Nice use of Thoreau and Walden. What depths is he plumbing? Will he learn the deep secrets of banality? Is the White House a
microcosm for something larger?; 1/26/19, 3:04 PM
Darrell said...: Walden and Civil Disobedience.

It's a quote.; 1/26/19, 3:07 PM
Darrell said...: Inga quotes phony polls.

Cute.; 1/26/19, 3:08 PM
Inga...Allie Oop said...: “A Politico/Morning Consult poll released Wednesday showed that voters blamed Trump and Republicans more than congressional Democrats, 54–35. In a CBS poll, seven in 10 voters said a border wall was not worth the shutdown, and respondents rated House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s handling of negotiations higher than Trump’s, 47–35. An Associated Press/NORC poll found that 60 percent held Trump responsible for the shutdown, versus 31 percent who blamed Democrats.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/01/trump-approval-polls-shutdown/581215/; 1/26/19, 3:08 PM
Darrell said...: No Borders, no Walls, no America at all!

Your 2020 Democrats. Choke on them.; 1/26/19, 3:10 PM
traditionalguy said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 1/26/19, 3:10 PM
traditionalguy said...: The security for the Trumps is 3 layered, so only an anti-tank missile or a cruise missile can get at Trump in that citadel. Trouble is the British Crown is out to depose or kill our President.And they had shared intel on 5eye until Trump’s guys cut it off.Collusion with the Brits , NOT Putin, has been the danger we faced all along.; 1/26/19, 3:11 PM
Darrell said...: Poll shows 87% of U.S. people want to beat Democrats into paste and feed it to zoo animals.; 1/26/19, 3:11 PM
Ralph L said...: Funny that "If I could not learn" and "If I could learn" mean essentially the same thing.
Trollope uses a lot of double negatives for emphasis, not unlike the reason "not" is here.; 1/26/19, 3:13 PM
Inga...Allie Oop said...: “But perhaps the ultimate diss to Trump is what Fox News polling discovered. Voters think that Pelosi is better than Trump at "Washington gamesmanship" by 6 points, according to the latest Fox News poll. That has to hurt for Trump who is said to "relish" the gamesmanship with congressional Democrats.

Put another way, the shutdown turned Trump's strengths into weaknesses.”

http://www.wicz.com/story/39856362/the-numbers-show-trump-lost-the-shutdown-and-pelosi-won; 1/26/19, 3:19 PM
Darrell said...: Pelosi is better than Trump at "Washington gamesmanship"

Wait until the next time she submits a $150k booze bill for payment--from her government-supplied aircraft.; 1/26/19, 3:23 PM
Hagar said...: Here in New Mexico the Democrats made a clean sweep in the late election: Governor, both houses of the legislature, and all statewide offices.
Oh, Happy Days are here again, tra la la dah!!!
So, now they are acting like cartoon caricatures of themselves.
They are counting on untold riches from the new discoveries in the oilpatch, but on top of that they still want to raise taxes on both income and gasoline. On income it looks like they even want to go lower, so that some people will now owe state tax, though no U.S. tax.
And spend, spend, spend. The Governor's proposed budget is for a 10% increase over Martinez' last, including a 40% increase for her own office.
They also want to declare New Mexico a "sanctuary state" and pass "common sense gun laws."
Etc. and so forth; on and on.

They keep this up, things will look very good for the Republicans in 2020.; 1/26/19, 3:26 PM
Wince said...: Burn, baby, burn.

Before Henry David Thoreau lived in the Concord woods, he nearly burned them to the ground in a massive forest fire.

Thoreau had kindled campfires numerous times without incident, but this time strong spring winds whipped the flames, and cascading sparks set ablaze the long, wiry grasses around the stump. Thoreau and Hoar furiously stomped the burning grass and beat the fire with a board they hauled from the boat. In spite of their efforts, the fire tore through the dry grass and in the direction of one of the last pristine patches of woodlands remaining in Concord.

The fire “went leaping and crackling wildly and irreclaimably toward the wood,” Thoreau recounted in his journal in 1850. Flames shot up to the tops of pine trees “as if they were powder,” and squirrels and pigeons fled the forest as dense clouds of smoke billowed into the skies. “We felt that we had no control over the demonic creature to which we had given birth,” Thoreau wrote.

Fearing the conflagration could threaten their historic town, Hoar set off in the boat to warn his neighbors while Thoreau ran for help. After alerting nearby property owners, an exhausted Thoreau rested on a rock on a cliff and watched the Concord woods burn.

As he listened to the alarm bells ring, Thoreau wrote that he initially “felt like a guilty person—nothing but shame and regret.” However, any feelings of remorse quickly passed, he recalled, as he told himself that he had done nothing different than nature itself does on a regular basis. “I have set fire to the forest, but I have done no wrong therein, and now it is as if the lightning had done it,” he wrote. “These flames are but consuming their natural food.”

The citizens of Concord responded to the alarm bells. Wielding hoes and shovels, they beat the fire with pine branches, lit backfires and dug firebreaks to prevent it from spreading any further. By late afternoon, the blaze had finally been tamed, but not before it had torched more than 300 acres, according to The Concord Freeman. Around midnight, as small segments of the fire continued to smolder, Thoreau wandered through the wasteland to the tree stump where he had started the blaze 14 hours earlier and discovered his “now broiled fish—which had been dressed.” His meal had been cooked, just not in the way he had intended.

The Concord Freeman reported the fire set “through the thoughtlessness of two of our citizens” destroyed considerable property of three landowners and caused approximately $2,000 in damages. While Thoreau emerged from the inferno unscathed physically, for years to come he was scalded by the comments from his fellow townsfolk who called him a “damned rascal” and “a flibbertigibbet.” “For years Thoreau had to endure the whispers of ‘woods-burner’ behind his back,” wrote Walter Harding in his biography “The Days of Henry Thoreau.”

A little more than a year later, in the summer of 1845, Thoreau built a cabin on the shores of Walden Pond in the woods that he had nearly reduced to ash. “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,” Thoreau wrote. Some scholars have speculated, however, that he also decided to make his new address amid the solitude of Walden Pond to retreat from the sharp tongues and critical eyes of his neighbors.

In his journal, Thoreau compared a forest fire to a broom that “sweeps and ventilates the forest floor, and makes it clear and clean.” His time at Walden following the mantra “simplify, simplify,” had much the same effect. The previously aimless Thoreau found his purpose during the two years he spent in his 10-by-15-foot shack. His immersion in nature provided the fodder for his 1854 memoir, “Walden; or, Life in the Woods,” a seminal text in the American environmental movement that inspired conservationists from John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt to Rachel Carson.; 1/26/19, 3:28 PM
Fen said...: Drudge has gone wobbly last few years.; 1/26/19, 3:28 PM
alanc709 said...: 'Common sense' gun laws make me laugh, as if any politician had common sense. A politician is someone who finds a way to break things that work, and then sell you the idea that only government can fix it.; 1/26/19, 3:29 PM
Wince said...: Dana Parino said Trump should get out of DC and back on the road doing his thing.

One of the rare times I'd follow her advice.; 1/26/19, 3:29 PM
rcocean said...: You can't get away from the fact that 55% of the USA public are dumbfucks and they always have been. No doubt they'll elect some left-wing Bozo in 2020, she's screw everything up, all the Dumbo's will wonder what happened.; 1/26/19, 3:36 PM
MadTownGuy said...: Southern NM has been a no-go zone for a while.

Another large group of migrants apprehended near the Mexico-NM border; 1/26/19, 3:40 PM
rcocean said...: Trump can't do it by himself and he's getting no support - even from the people who voted for him!

Jones wins in Alabama. Utah nominates Romney. Arz replaces Flake with some Lesbian left-wing lower case flake, who won't even touch a bible. Meanwhile, WV re-elects a phony "moderate" and MT re-elects some Asshole who votes with Schumer 88% of the time.

Do any of these voters understand that they're voting for Chuck Schumer when they vote for their D Senator? No matter what they SAY, all these D Senators follow Chuck Schumer in Everything.; 1/26/19, 3:43 PM
Michael K said...: Arz replaces Flake with some Lesbian left-wing lower case flake, who won't even touch a bible.

Vote harvesting and the GOP better figure it out by 2020. Probably the only way to stop it is to go back to in-person voting.; 1/26/19, 3:50 PM
Eleanor said...: Thoreau's cabin at Walden was an easy walk to downtown Concord. The train to Boston was close enough to his cabin, he could hear it rumble by. Walden Pond is lovely, but it's hardly the wilderness, and it wasn't in Thoreau's day, either. The guy was a fraud.; 1/26/19, 3:51 PM
n.n said...: 55%... No doubt they'll elect some left-wing Bozo in 2020

They're looking for a quick fix, and will compromise with diversity, political congruence, redistributive change, immigration reform, social justice adventures, selective-child, and other left-of-center policies.; 1/26/19, 3:55 PM
Hagar said...: As for the border thing, NM is 40% "Hispanic," but:

The "Hispanics" I know, whose families have been U.S. citizens since General Kearny first came down the Santa Fe Trail and informed their greatgreatgrandpappys that they now were and forever more would be U.S. citizens, wonder why all these Johnny-come-latelys are accorded free grants and privileges that are not available to themselves and their children.

They do realize that the first to feel the economic competition from these "undocumented immigrants" are the youth from the farms and ranches around New Mexico, who now find it difficult to "move to town" and find work to support a family.

They are also embarrassed by the behavior of these hordes invading our borders, which they find rather embarrassing and do not wish to be associated with.

And they are not at all pleased with the U.S. government being held in contempt and made to to look helplessly incompetent by our own fellow citizens.

This is something I think this generation of Democrat "ruling classes" totally miss; a large part of their own voting blocs - and not just "Hispanics" - are strongly inclined to traditional patriotism - and in no way wish to see the country split up into 50 or more "banana republics."; 1/26/19, 3:59 PM
Jon Burack said...: The judgement that Trump caved is as sound as the judgement about the kid's smirk or Cohen's lies. Maybe wait a fay or two to see? Naw; 1/26/19, 4:02 PM
Mr. O. Possum said...: And Thoreau--and Emerson--were accessories after the fact to John Brown's Harpers Ferry raid. They both helped one of his men flee to Canada. This was a man who gave Brown a large sum of money and bought weapons for Brown. He stayed at a nearby farm when Brown and others made their attack. After making his way back to New England, Thoreau put him on a train to Canada. Thoreau denied knowing at the time who the man was. A bad man, that Thoreau.; 1/26/19, 4:15 PM
mccullough said...: Trump’s job is to finish off the GOP and watch the Dem civil war.; 1/26/19, 4:29 PM
rightguy said...: I think a caller to Rush yesterday had the reason for this temporary reopening of the government ; TSI and the air traffic controllers could seriously disrupt air service to Atlanta this next weekend and the (possible) resulting Super Bowl catastrophe would be blamed on President Trump. I wouldn't doubt that there were plans being made to that effect.; 1/26/19, 4:40 PM
narciso said...: well California is the counter, how about new York, anyone heard of this cliff sims person before,; 1/26/19, 4:41 PM
Robert Cook said...: "I notice there are no polls about what Americans think about the shut down."; 1/26/19, 4:51 PM
narciso said...: no they do a fine impression of the whigs on their own, take one minor note of the fool who desantis had to fire, well this one who ignored voter fraud concerns, all through out the bush and scott years, in a swing county, that is beside his faux pau from 13 years ago.; 1/26/19, 4:52 PM
chickelit said...: From Cook's link:

The 47-year-old has been furloughed for more than a month. He said he’d need to start drawing on his retirement savings next week to pay his bills if the shutdown continues.

'I do support a wall, but not the way he’s handling it,' Rabalais added. 'Trump guaranteed everybody that Mexico would pay for the wall. Now he’s holding American workers like me hostage.'

He didn't get Nancy's memo that the Wall -- not all walls -- but this Wall -- is immoral.; 1/26/19, 4:55 PM
Robert Cook said...: "I think a caller to Rush yesterday had the reason for this temporary reopening of the government ; TSI and the air traffic controllers could seriously disrupt air service to Atlanta this next weekend and the (possible) resulting Super Bowl catastrophe would be blamed on President Trump."

Does anyone really give a shit about the Super Bowl?; 1/26/19, 4:55 PM
chickelit said...: I'm still waiting for a good preachy lecture on the morality of the Wall. Nathan's attempt didn't cut it.; 1/26/19, 4:56 PM
chickelit said...: Does anyone really give a shit about the Super Bowl?

I look forward every year to getting together with family to watch it. Are you for taking that away as well?; 1/26/19, 4:58 PM
chickelit said...: Robert Cook is now on record for dissing mom, apple pie, and the Super Bowl.; 1/26/19, 4:59 PM
chickelit said...: He didn't get Nancy's memo that the Wall -- not all walls -- but this Wall -- is immoral.

After Venezuela was in the news again, I saw multiple references to American past meddling in Latin America, with the distinct message that all past conflicts -- Cuba, Panama, Mexico, etc. -- were immoral on the part of the US. Let's go there, shall we?; 1/26/19, 5:02 PM
Birkel said...: Robert Cook is an ass hole commie.; 1/26/19, 5:03 PM
chickelit said...: Birkel said...
Robert Cook is an ass hole commie..

That's hyperbolic, but I get your drift.; 1/26/19, 5:06 PM
Anonymous said...: chickenlittle: I look forward every year to getting together with family to watch it. Are you for taking that away as well?

He didn't say anything about taking it away. He just asked if anybody gave a shit. Not an unreasonable question, considering recent NFL shenaningans.

I come from a family full of fanatical football fans (college, professional, you name it, they'd be watching it raptly), people who have been known to drop large amounts of money every year on home-team season tickets, on getting Super Bowl tickets, and traveling thereto, and they're souring on all of it.

They're sad about it, they loves loves loves them their football, but, yeah, "I'm getting sick of this shit, fuck it" is a pretty commonly expressed sentiment among my sportsball lovin' relatives and friends these days.

I'm pretty sure none of 'em are commies who want to deprive anybody else of the right to watch the Super Bowl if they want.

Robert Cook is now on record for dissing mom, apple pie, and the Super Bowl.

I will defend to the death your right to watch sportsball to your heart's content, and Cookie's (and my) right to diss it.; 1/26/19, 5:14 PM
Gk1 said...: There is not as much liberal chortiling over this as I had expected. My typical lefty FB posts are actually quite subdued because its a temporary cessation and they want to see if there are any trump defections (too early to tell); 1/26/19, 5:16 PM
traditionalguy said...: Atlanta gives a shit about the Super Bowl. Four former UGA Dogs are playing in the game.

DJT did the right thing. He will order the wall built in three weeks whether Pelosi gives permission or not. She plans to Impeach him anyway. A Senate one third+1 is all he needs.; 1/26/19, 5:20 PM
Robert Cook said...: "Robert Cook is now on record for dissing mom, apple pie, and the Super Bowl."

Especially mom. FUCK mom!!; 1/26/19, 5:20 PM
chickelit said...: Angle-Dyne, Samurai Buzzard said...He didn't say anything about taking it away. He just asked if anybody gave a shit. Not an unreasonable question, considering recent NFL shenaningans.

I put my rhetoric in question form.

The shenanigans were mostly about the kneeling protests. Did those go away? I don't actually watch football -- or any sports -- and haven't since I was I kid. But the Super Bowl is an American tradition for many and that's why I attempted to query Cook. That was based on my long time observation that he looks down upon many American traditions.; 1/26/19, 5:25 PM
chickelit said...: Robert Cook wrote: Especially mom. FUCK mom!!

Now he's doing his Rashida Tlaib impression. :); 1/26/19, 5:26 PM
Robert Cook said...: My comment was my way of scoffing at the idea posited by rightguy that the shutdown was ended for any reason having to do with the Super Bowl.

(Personally, I've never cared in the least for or about the Super Bowl, football, or team sports in general.); 1/26/19, 5:52 PM
Gahrie said...: Robert Cook is an amalgam of Lenin and Marvin from The Hitchhiker's Guide.; 1/26/19, 5:58 PM
steve uhr said...: I don’t understand why the left of center media finds it nec to gloat. I give trump credit for reopening the government. He did what they said they wanted so they should play nice.; 1/26/19, 5:58 PM
WintersTale said...: I don’t understand why the left of center media finds it nec to gloat. I give trump credit for reopening the government. He did what they said they wanted so they should play nice.

You must have missed the whole previous month and a half. But yeah, nobody should gloat.; 1/26/19, 6:15 PM
Fen said...: Cook: "Does anyone really give a shit about the Super Bowl?"

I don't. And that was before the 3rd string primadonnas began disrespecting the anthem, flag, and fans.

They don't even believe their own bullshit. Think about it - if you honestly believed tbe Police were executing your people in the street would you:

A) take a knee or

B) quit the NFL and pick up a rifle

And that's forgetting that professional football is just tbe modern Collosseum. Black athletes destroying each other to amuse and entertain the public.

But no, I stopped watching the NFL when I realized I couldn't recall who won last year's Superbowl and what tbe score was.

Try it without Googling.
Last year:
2018?
2017?
2016?

It was like coming back to an old Soap Opera. Different cast, same plot. Nothing has changed.

Plus, I'm a native Texan. I was immersed in tbe NFL when the Cowboys ran Troy Aikman, Emmmitt Smith and Michael Irving. 3 Superhowl wins in 4 years. So I've already lived tbe dream of most football fans.; 1/26/19, 6:19 PM
Fen said...: "I think a caller to Rush yesterday had the reason for this temporary reopening of the government ; TSI and the air traffic controllers could seriously disrupt air service to Atlanta this next weekend "

Close. There was an increasing risk of a major air disaster.; 1/26/19, 6:22 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: https://apnews.com/ffe4245e7e9a46709b96fe4fd87a34bb

They even named the storm Barney, after my dog.

After the great Dean Barnett whom Hugh Hewitt, **** extraordinary, figured "oh Dean's dead why not retroactivley cuck why not rub it in just a little bit more as that is the modus operandi.

Ultimately like you've paid Tony, I will garner your money.; 1/26/19, 6:23 PM
madAsHell said...: (Personally, I've never cared in the least for or about the Super Bowl, football, or team sports in general.)

Color me surprised!?!! All kidding aside, I CAN see Trump using the Super Bowl as a consideration for the un-shutdown.

Come on, Cookie!! Super Bowl fans are his constituency!!; 1/26/19, 6:23 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: I'll vouchsafe the best have come.; 1/26/19, 6:26 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: So no devolved:

Nancy Pelosi the Catholic is correct in assuming since she has no Christianity whatsoever and yet has made billions, and lost hundreds of millions, but made billions then duh: gender is only in your mind.

Maybe, maybe, Nancy understands we can't all be billioniare's overlooking our nuculear family rapes that are a part of our history, until Nancy declares that history Nazi talk worthy of the flame.

Nancy has the power, the argument has been won. This battle is over. The war is mid-stage after Linconln the great Lincoln who ended America as the Founders (silly and ignora Lincoln" determined what slow end America shall abyssly never recover from, as if it were a normal situation needing means to return to.

America, buywaya, needs you so so so much. Like the next place will need you, but different. The difference is they will all, even your a latter day John McAfee, and you ain't, but even if you were, this utopia outside America you seek sir is our gain.

You won't last more than months before your regrets, manifest, make people hate you there as much as I assume they did here.

Love the fact you have all that capital and talent, hate I could't make money for me from it.; 1/26/19, 6:41 PM
Unknown said...: @Robert Cook
Of course the shutdown was ended due to the Superbowl. The most watched spectacle in American culture would be saturated with commentary blaming Trump for everything, because now sports are political. Or haven't you been paying attention?; 1/26/19, 6:52 PM
Earnest Prole said...: Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.; 1/26/19, 6:54 PM
Aussie Pundit said...: McConnell could remove the 'cloture' 60 vote hurdle (a Senate procedure which frankly sounds unconstitutional), and pass Trump's budget.
If the shutdown resumes, it will be on McConnell.; 1/26/19, 7:02 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: The thousands year war against Catholics is the most inspiring aspect unDivine.

Divine aspects are limitless and undefinable.

Since men like Traditional Guy have reasons to hate Catholics, let it be known forever their bigotry will be absolved, for reasons that make people who believe that believe that.

Maybe, maybe not, we own circular, yet never can originally it be stated that which already has been deemed not tread upon, and, oh yeah, stated too.; 1/26/19, 7:15 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: It's fair to say that for decades the anti-Catholicism inherent in Althouse-like personas has been well-hidden.

That sentence contains within itself, eo ipso, all the keys to understanding what victory can be.

It lacks much how and by what but not the most essential element: why?; 1/26/19, 7:20 PM
The Cracker Emcee Refulgent said...: “My comment was my way of scoffing at the idea posited by rightguy that the shutdown was ended for any reason having to do with the Super Bowl.”

Not far fetched at all. It isn’t a question of whether anyone gives a shit, it’s a question of how exploitable the optics are.; 1/26/19, 7:20 PM
Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...: I'm still waiting for a good preachy lecture on the morality of the Wall.

How about the morality of telling the TRUTH, you little lying piece of shit? No wall will stop:

1. Terrorists. They don't come through Mexico.
2. Undocumented immigrants. They enter legally and overstay their visas.
3. Contraband. That's smuggled in through the bridges and roads that "walls" are not going to stop - unless you build a wall over the bridge and roads through which customs agents control entry.

Everyone who wants to knows all this. You'd have to be an autistic moron to pretend not to.

Or just a liar who refuses to accept the truth.; 1/26/19, 7:30 PM
robother said...: Trump should acknowledge that the Democrats are right-- high tech offers cheaper, better border security. Deploy drones with stinger missiles and land mines, both of which technologies the US military os familiar with, indeed are the ideal installers. Call it the Pelosi Line.; 1/26/19, 7:32 PM
chickelit said...: Still evading the question, PPPT, that I put to you weeks ago.

I wanted a fire-breathing lecture based on human rights and on the right to migrate. Maybe with a little anti-gringo jingoism thrown in?; 1/26/19, 7:33 PM
Earnest Prole said...: a Senate procedure which frankly sounds unconstitutional

In Australia perhaps.; 1/26/19, 7:35 PM
Birkel said...: 1. Terrorists. They don't come through Mexico.
Other places are easier to get here as a terrorist has no bearing on whether they can quite easily get here through the southern border.
ANALYSIS: TIC is a failure.

2. Undocumented immigrants. They enter legally and overstay their visas.
The suggestion is that 40% of the 11 million have overstayed visas. Since the real number is closer to 35 million, that leaves 30 million illegals crossing the southern border. That means about 9% of the people in this country have invaded in contravention of the laws.
ANALYSIS: TIC is a failure.

3. Contraband. That's smuggled in through the bridges and roads that "walls" are not going to stop - unless you build a wall over the bridge and roads through which customs agents control entry.
Contraband is found where people are looking to stop it. This is equivalent to the drunk looking under the street lamp for his keys because that is where the light is better.
ANALYSIS: TIC is a failure.; 1/26/19, 7:44 PM
FullMoon said...: Dems want illegals as voters.
Dems say Wall will not stop illegals

So, what is the problem ?
Dems hate poorly educated American citizens who could do jobs of illegals.; 1/26/19, 8:05 PM
John henry said...: Blogger traditionalguy said...
Trouble is the British Crown is out to depose or kill our President.

The British Crown? I'll buy the British government being out to get PDJT. Or at least parts of the govt.

Not fully convinced but it is certainly a strong possibility.

But Queen whatsername? Really?

Could you elaborate?

John Henry; 1/26/19, 8:13 PM
Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...: Dems want illegals as voters.

Right. Sure.

No one ever gave the poorly educated shyster contractor the memo on the real aim behind voter ID: Stopping BLACK AMERICANS from voting. It has nothing to do with Mexicans let alone "illegals."

Moron.

Stick to measuring two by fours and stop pretending that anything factual that intelligent people know about is anything you're actually interested in.; 1/26/19, 8:13 PM
FullMoon said...: Dems assume black people are inferior and are too stupid to get an ID.; 1/26/19, 8:15 PM
John henry said...: Blogger Hagar said...

As for the border thing, NM is 40% "Hispanic," but:

Why you say "hispanic" 'what do you mean by it?

Define Hispanic.

John Henry; 1/26/19, 8:16 PM
Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...: Contraband is found where people are looking to stop it. This is equivalent to the drunk looking under the street lamp for his keys because that is where the light is better.

This comment is equivalent to inventing the existence of something because evidence of its non-existence (or never discovered evidence of its existence - same thing) somehow isn't "good enough."

The rest of that moron's comments can't be backed up by a single reference source.; 1/26/19, 8:20 PM
Jay Elink said...: Robert Cook said...
"I think a caller to Rush yesterday had the reason for this temporary reopening of the government ; TSI and the air traffic controllers could seriously disrupt air service to Atlanta this next weekend and the (possible) resulting Super Bowl catastrophe would be blamed on President Trump."

Does anyone really give a shit about the Super Bowl?
************
Says stoop-shouldered, concave-chested Robert Cook, living in bubbles inside bubbles inside bubbles.....

With Cookie, it's bubbles all the way down.; 1/26/19, 8:21 PM
Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...: Dems assume black people are inferior and are too stupid to get an ID.

Here's what's stupid: You don't know:

The voter ID laws really echo what we saw in 1890. For instance, if you’re poor and you’re in Alabama and you’re over 50, you probably weren’t born in a hospital, which means you don’t have a birth certificate. You didn’t need to have that to vote before, but now you do.

You don't know that because you didn't read the article and because you don't know what the facts are.

People who can't read shouldn't lecture everyone else on what they guess the facts to be.

This all results from revoking pre-certification of the Voting Rights Act. Watch Full Moon stumble and struggle and fumble and twist at trying to yank an opinion out of his ass without even doing the research on what that landmark piece of legislation even was and what the impact of that SCOTUS decision had.

But hey. He's prides himself on being "poorly educated". Probably never took a civics course, hated school, doesn't know shit about the history of his own country - but he sure has a big mouth and a huge chip on his shoulder, the same chip that compels him to vote against his own family's interests - and he will yammer and yammer and yammer on with more ignorant nonsense that FOX Noise brainwashed him into spouting than anyone intelligent or decent would ever have the time or the anger or the resentment to listen to.; 1/26/19, 8:24 PM
John henry said...: Blogger Aussie Pundit said...

McConnell could remove the 'cloture' 60 vote hurdle

Actually, if you remove the 60 cloture rule, 1 Senator could shut down the Senate forever.

The original senate rules call for unlimited debate. Any senator, or groups of senators, can talk forever (assuming they are physically able)

Originally, there was no way to stop a filibuster and it was designed that way on purpose. The Senate is designed to be "The saucer that cools the coffee" (Jefferson? Hamilton?) The Senate was designed to be the roadblock in the way of precipitous action.

We went along with no cloture at all for 50-60 years then with 75 votes for cloture for another 100 or so.

The real problem is not cloture or even filibusters. It is that one can filibuster without the need to take any physical action. We need to get back to requiring senators to hold the floor in a filibuster as the Democrats did for 63 days trying to prevent the Civil Rights bill in 63.

OTOH, there are some of us who think that the fucks things up most times it acts and the absolute, no cloture, filibuster would be a good thing.

John Henry; 1/26/19, 8:27 PM
FullMoon said...: Good news regarding fossil fuel hysteria

Bill Gates said in his year-end letter last month that he planned to work to persuade U.S. leaders to embrace advanced nuclear technologies as a solution to curbing climate change. That work appears to have begun as The Washington Post reported Friday that Gates is making the rounds on Capitol Hill looking for support — and billions of dollars.; 1/26/19, 8:30 PM
John henry said...: Pelosi said this week that dogs on the border might be part of the solution.

Oh, Nancy, bless your heart.

You really don't know the history of Democrats, dogs and darkskin folks?

Here's a picture of Birmingham Bull Connor's cops siccing dogs on black marchers. Bull Connor was a DEMOCRAT national committeeman.

https://usercontent1.hubstatic.com/12917122_f520.jpg

Never forget. Never forgive.; 1/26/19, 8:35 PM
FullMoon said...: Personally, the thing that I find the most absurd about RB's points is his apparently claim that solar activity doesn't affect the global temperature.; 1/26/19, 8:36 PM
John henry said...: And yet, in Puerto Rico, you not only need a voter ID card, you need to show up in person to vote with a paper ballot on election day.

The ID card is issued by the govt ONLY for electoral purposes.

We have a higher registration rate, with no motor voter or other gimmicks that all other states. We have a higher turn out rate on election day that most or all other states.

But upper 50 Americans are too stupid to get ID.

John Henry; 1/26/19, 8:38 PM
Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...: What does a contractor care whether power is derived from uranium, gas, wind or a dam? That's the utility company's choice.

Oh right. Because he's a FOX Noise Nation clone and thinks that mouthing their donors' priorities makes him "sound smart." And passionate.

Finally he can get back at those classmates of his who didn't drop out! You tell 'em!; 1/26/19, 8:40 PM
John henry said...: Amen, FullMoon and again I say Amen!

Anyone who does not embrace nuclear, anyone who thinks solar or wind are feasible (other than some very limited applications) is a dunderheaded fool.

John Henry; 1/26/19, 8:41 PM
Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...: Personally, the thing that I find the most absurd about FM's points is his apparently (sic) claim that atmosphere doesn't affect the global temperature.; 1/26/19, 8:41 PM
FullMoon said...: Med school dropout believes people born in 1965 were not born in hospital and have no birth certificate.

The voter ID laws really echo what we saw in 1890. For instance, if you’re poor and you’re in Alabama and you’re over 50, you probably weren’t born in a hospital; 1/26/19, 8:41 PM
FullMoon said...: "Until I see it definitively proven to the contrary, I will go with the theory that the factors most responsible for our global temperature are solar radiation levels, earth orbit wobble, and rotational wobble. These later seem to be key to the long range cooling and warming periods (including ice ages)."; 1/26/19, 8:42 PM
Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...: I fully favor john henry spaceport's embrace of uranium. Specifically U235. With both arms. No leaded smock. And rubbed down on his genitals and all over his bald buzz cut head.

Hell, it might make his voice even higher!; 1/26/19, 8:44 PM
Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...: More quotes without attribution.

That's good evidence in itself that the guy is basically like one of those drawstring talking dolls that you pull the cord for to produce the noises he parrots.

He doesn't even know who invented his own programming. He just knows he sounds rebellious parroting it.

The irony. A ventriloquist's puppet doing more parroting to feel smart and rebellious. Hilarious.; 1/26/19, 8:46 PM
John henry said...: On the other hand, Squeamish, I do know something about how nuclear power works, the dangers of radiation and how to remediate them. How 'bout you?

The former Roosevelt Roads walking distance from my house. Lot of available space to put a nuke plant. I'd be quite content to see one there.

And I would see it. Right from my back door. And a beautiful sight it would be too. Clean, reliable power? What's not to like?

John Henry; 1/26/19, 8:49 PM
Molly said...: If we are to be serious about present day political discussion, we need to recognize that (for close to a majority of the American populace) there is only one principle: Orange Man Bad. If you accept this principle, your attitude on any issue becomes clear. For example, in the discussion/debate over the past few weeks about whether or not the government should be shut down in order to get a border wall, the single most important question is not "don't you care about the plight of government employees?" or "don't you think it is important to protect the border?" -- the single most important question is "will this embarrass the orange man?" ll the answer is yes, then it's a good decision; if the answer it no, then it's a bad decision.

So don't tell me that we should discuss income inequality, or peace in the mid-east, or immigration policy, or the budget deficit. None of these are important: Our single compelling decision point on anything is simply OMB.; 1/26/19, 8:50 PM
FullMoon said...: Less than 4% Alabamabirths outside of hospitals,1955-1970

https://www.adph.org/healthstats/assets/13AVS_rev.pdf; 1/26/19, 8:51 PM
FullMoon said...: Bill Gates champions Nuclear Energy.
Med school dropout disagrees.

Who is smarter?; 1/26/19, 8:54 PM
Michael said...: PPPT
Are you with me to get the wall in San Diego torn down? The immoral wall?

LOL; 1/26/19, 8:55 PM
John henry said...: World News
January 24, 2019 / 4:15 PM / 2 days ago
U.S. to start returning asylum seekers to Mexico on Friday
Frank Jack Daniel, Mica Rosenberg

MEXICO CITY/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. government will return the first group of migrants seeking asylum in the United States to the Mexican border city of Tijuana on Friday, U.S. and Mexican officials said, marking the start of a major policy shift by the Trump administration.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-mexico-exclusive/exclusive-u-s-to-begin-returning-asylum-seekers-to-mexico-on-friday-official-idUSKCN1PI2VV

Not bad, not bad at all. I wonder how PDJT got Mexico to go along with this? Is is possible that he actually has a decent relationship with Mexico?

John Henry; 1/26/19, 8:55 PM
Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...: How many of them were black? THat's kind of the point, dumb-dumb.

How many of them were poor?

You know the way poverty changes circumstances. You were one of those yourself, once. Still could be. And the rest of your family still is.

More fact/reasoning fails by a guy who doesn't understand the importance of measuring twice and cutting once.

This is what happens when undereducated contractors pretend like they're college professors. You know, because they resent people who actually know stuff and who get paid well for knowing (and figuring out) stuff.; 1/26/19, 8:57 PM
FullMoon said...: johnhenry100 said...

On the other hand, Squeamish, I do know something about how nuclear power works, the dangers of radiation and how to remediate them. How 'bout you?

He will not engage you.
You are one of several who chase him away with superior knowledge of particular subjects.

Many commenters have mentioned it.; 1/26/19, 8:57 PM
Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...: Oh yes. Bill Gates is always good at stealing ideas and technology.

The real question is, what does his right-hand man Steve Balmer think? What would Steve do?

Steve Balmer. The guy who predicted the failure of the iPhone.; 1/26/19, 8:59 PM
FullMoon said...: Ignorant poor people with out birth certificates somehow get SS numbers , jobs and drivers licenses but Dems sa they cannot possibly get voter ID's. Or, retroactive Birth Certificates.
Dems do not care about poor people.; 1/26/19, 9:00 PM
narciso said...: You can make some deals with Lopez obrador, they share similar concerns but different solutions, Trudeau is like talking to a block of wood.; 1/26/19, 9:01 PM
Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...: He will not engage you.

True. I don't have conversations with belligerent crazy lunatics who talk to themselves.

Maybe you can talk with him about Puerto Rican spaceports or some shit. Hell, impress all your contracting job clients with that stuff.

They'll be dazzled.

Tell 'em you heard it from the horse's mouth. A pseudonymous expat old fart who builds spaceports in Puerto Rico.

To commune with the grays.

They probed him once and now he's coming for them!; 1/26/19, 9:01 PM
FullMoon said...: Failed Med student knows better about helping the poor and solving problems than Bill Gates who has donated billions to end polio and malaria in Africa.

Failed pre Med student does nothing buy complain; 1/26/19, 9:03 PM
Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...: Dems do not care about poor people.

We're not the ones depressing their vote, particularly if they're black.

Why are you so afraid of black people voting? DIdn't "PDJT" have his very own "African American" supporter, after all? One of his very own!

LOL!!!; 1/26/19, 9:03 PM
narciso said...: Well that's not exactly true:

https://t.co/TyQrlGscEY?amp=1; 1/26/19, 9:04 PM
FullMoon said...: True. I don't have conversations with belligerent crazy lunatics who talk to themselves.

Oh, sure. Ok then.
Haha.; 1/26/19, 9:05 PM
Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...: So now the thread is about polio and malaria.

We get it. Bill Gates tells you all you need to know.

Does the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have a division for teaching know-it-all contractors?

LOL!!!

Dude, you're like the construction trades version of Cliff Clavin. Just go into a bar and talk it off.

Dazzle them with your Gatesitude.; 1/26/19, 9:05 PM
FullMoon said...: @ John henry.

Told ya so, lol!.; 1/26/19, 9:14 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: Oh and to comfort my fragiel lil' Iowa boy:

Yeah, you have gained your prominence: You observed not all Righties are alway right, and thy, well, Iowanawk, it ois infrr a tautalogy, RIghties are right.

Boomm. Booooom; 1/26/19, 9:15 PM
FullMoon said...: The consensus is that there hasn't been any warming since 1998; 1/26/19, 9:16 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: Hey let's all thaj Iowayagje fkir ketungg y jibw ya know we ani"tm not even one of us, Juses.

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I AINT OLD; 1/26/19, 9:17 PM
FullMoon said...: Record cold in Minnisota. Global Warming is a lie.; 1/26/19, 9:17 PM
Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...: Unsurprisingly, the Cliff Clavin of housing contractors spouts more of his unattributed nonsense at 9:16 PM.

He gets off on it. Hell, if no one listens to the jerkoffs at the back of the class, at least they can throw spit balls! (Before getting thrown out).

Why can't the Cliff Clavin of housing contractors get any respect? Is he not as intellekshull as he feels?

LOL!; 1/26/19, 9:18 PM
FullMoon said...: "SMRs are the future of non-Gen IV nuclear power for all of the world. If the US wants it to happen quickly, Bill Gates, Congress and the big investment institutions need to get behind GE-Hitachi's BWRX-300 SMR.

The BWRX-300 is the simplest ever possible design of a utility sized npp and is therefore the cheapest. The USA uses 4,142 TWh of electricity every year. At $2,000/kW overnight cost, 1750 BWRX-300s would supply 100% of this use, as 24/7 electricity, without any need for backup, for $1,050 billion - for 60 years.

A mixture of solar-pv, onshore and offshore wind with CCGT backup, would cost between 6X and 8X more, use 6X or 8X more resources and energy and cause 100X more scenic degredation, ecosystem destruction and species wipe-out.

Do the obvious and get your asses into gear US and give the UK a fighting chance of hanging on to your coat tails."; 1/26/19, 9:20 PM
Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...: Housing contractors who think NASA and NOAA are running a conspiracy are so boring and old hat. There have been morons saying the moon landing was faked the moment it happened.

Anyway, I'm waiting for Cliff Clavin Moon's opinion on string theory. Everyone wants to know what housing contractors think about THAT.

LOL!!!; 1/26/19, 9:20 PM
Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...: So go build a nuclear power plant. Who's stopping you?

Oh, that's right. Reality.

If Moon were more intelligent than the Cliff Clavin character he takes after, perhaps he could have been more like David Hahn.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn; 1/26/19, 9:22 PM
narciso said...: Have they made any more progress restoring infrastructure down there, John Henry, now that my paisan Menendez was um supervising.; 1/26/19, 9:22 PM
FullMoon said...: pre med dropoutAnyway, I'm waiting for Cliff Clavin Moon's opinion on string theory

There is a string on your tampon.; 1/26/19, 9:23 PM
FullMoon said...: Facts:
Climate change is a scam
Nuclear power is the future; 1/26/19, 9:24 PM
narciso said...: Should we explain the hack in 2009, that gave away the hide ths decline.; 1/26/19, 9:26 PM
Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...: "Anyway, I'm waiting for Cliff Clavin Moon's opinion on string theory

There is a string on your tampon.

Lol. That Cliff Clavin comment really got to you, eh Cliff?

Hahaha. Your mother gave birth to a bar-yammering faux know-it-all mail carrier. I mean housing contractor.

Too funny.; 1/26/19, 9:31 PM
Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...: Facts:
Climate change is a scam
Nuclear power is the future

Right!

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Cliff Clavin of housing contractors has spoken! He's now an astrophysicist.

What do you care about carbonization of the atmosphere and sustainable weather? What do you care if the utility gets their fuel from an energy resource of the future (renewable) or the 1950s (nuclear)?

You seem to have a lot of pride or something invested in things you don't know shit about and are actively hostile to. It's not even like you have a financial stake in any of this. At least the fossil fuel companies do.

Maybe you like pretending you're one of them. But you're not.; 1/26/19, 9:34 PM
John henry said...: For a bit more on the former naval station Roosevelt Roads as a potential spaceport you can go here:

https://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Spaceinnova%20LLC.pdf

or here

http://americasaerospacesummit.com/puertorico.php

I attended that conference. Very interesting. There are lots of good reasons to locate a spaceport at Roosey.

Nothing seems to be happening at present and I wonder if anything ever will.

But if it does, and you want to advertise, I do own 6-7 domain names around PR Spaceport and similar.

Ditto if the Mexicans ever let Roosey be developed as an international airport. I own a half dozen domains around that, too.

For sale if anyone is interested. if not, $6-7/year seems like a cheap, if longshot, investment.

John Henry; 1/26/19, 9:34 PM
Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...: Wow, everyone. He went to a conference!

Impressive.

PR spaceport, here we come!

For shits and giggles, PDJT was told by NASA that a Mars expedition wouldn't be ready until the 2030s. And his immediate response was to see how much money he could throw at them to get it done by the end of his first term!

Ladies and Gentlemen, the president of the poorly educated science haters.

Money Grubbing Republican Science Haters.; 1/26/19, 9:37 PM
John henry said...: Blogger Trump International Crime Syndicate said...

What do you care about carbonization of the atmosphere

"Carbonization"?

Really?

You know so little about the climate change debate that you think carbon is a problem?

Do you know there is a difference between carbon and carbon dioxide? One is a solid, the other is a gas, for one thing.

John Henry; 1/26/19, 9:39 PM
Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...: Hey John, why stop there?

You should start buying web domains with the name "Mars" in them, as well.

Go for it, John! Only you can market these things. Only you.

You are a citizen astronaut. Or a citizen astronaut wanna-be, anyway.; 1/26/19, 9:40 PM
Birkel said...: TIC wonders why more drugs are caught where the police are.
Facts are curious things when no logic is available to a "person" like TIC.
You are bad at everything beyond your assigned talking points.; 1/26/19, 9:41 PM
John henry said...: Yeah, Squeamish, I did go to a conference.

Conferences, books, journals, talking to knowledgeable people,it's how normal people learn new things as well as new ways of thinking about old things.

So where do you get your knowledge?

Oh, yeah....

Sorry, forget I asked.

John Henry; 1/26/19, 9:42 PM
Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...: Do you know there is a difference between carbon and carbon dioxide? One is a solid, the other is a gas, for one thing.

Oh wow, John. You so smart. My little brain is no match for your word games!

I really didn't know that you could add oxygen to carbon atoms. No clue.

Thanks for reminding me, John! I'll go ask my organic chemistry professors if they can hire you out to lecture those classes on Puerto Rican spaceports.; 1/26/19, 9:44 PM
Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...: So where do you get your knowledge?

FOX Noise and the Phillip Morris PR firm hired by the fossil fuels industries doesn't count?; 1/26/19, 9:45 PM
chickelit said...: @PPPT: You should use the term "carbonation" instead of "carbonization." The "ate" in carbonation gets carbon's oxidation state correct; "carbonization" does not because the word lacks the "ate" suffix/morpheme. John Henry is correct in that "carbonization" means to turn something carbon-containing into carbon.

Everybody knows what carbonated water is, why not carbonated air or clouds? Makes chemical sense to me, though I've never heard it. Interesting piece of science, PPPT, thanks!; 1/26/19, 10:03 PM
FullMoon said...: FOX Noise and the Phillip Morris PR firm hired by the fossil fuels industries doesn't count?

Fossil fuel industries and hysterics are against Nuclear Power.; 1/26/19, 10:09 PM
FullMoon said...: @PPPT: You should use the term "carbonation" instead of "carbonization." The "ate" in carbonation gets carbon's oxidation state correct; "carbonization" does not because the word lacks the "ate" suffix/morpheme. John Henry is correct in that "carbonization" means to turn something carbon-containing into carbon.

HaHa!; 1/26/19, 10:10 PM
chickelit said...: Anyways, I just popped back in to catch any follow-up.

Off to watch "A Very English Scandal" with "Honeymoon" cocktails.; 1/26/19, 10:14 PM
Unknown said...: All Dems, many Pubs, and even some of his supporters see Trump capitulating on The Wall. I don't. Trump promised us energy independence, jobs, judges, deregulation, better trade deals, less foreign entanglements, UN reform, and The Wall. He's delivered on all of them but one. So he's focused like a laser beam on that one unfulfilled promise. He'll get his wall in some form or fashion in the next 6 months. Write it down.; 1/26/19, 10:40 PM
Terry di Tufo said...: 👏; 1/26/19, 11:26 PM
rightguy said...: Oh well, P3T has hijacked another thread.
Responding to his ranting, disputatious posts is pointless- he's not interested in learning anything. Reading them is a fool's game; a post number and a total word count are all you need to know.

As the cliche' goes, if you wrestle with a pig, you both get covered with poop. And the pig likes it.; 1/27/19, 1:03 AM
Aussie Pundit said...: Trump hasn't caved because it's not actually over. The shutdown will re-start again in three weeks. He'll win the shutdown, in the end.
The battle he's at most risk of losing is the one against Mueller.; 1/27/19, 1:57 AM
Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...: Everybody knows what carbonated water is, why not carbonated air or clouds? Makes chemical sense to me, though I've never heard it. Interesting piece of science, PPPT, thanks!

One way or another a proper term will obviously have to be found and I trust you're closer to the right path on that than Gray Alien Spaceport or poorly educated chip-on-his-shoulder contractor are.; 1/27/19, 3:26 AM
Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...: Responding to his ranting, disputatious posts is pointless- he's not interested in learning anything.

Old Puerto Rican Spaceman and Bay Area Shyster Contractor Cliff Clavin have lessons to teach? Who knew!

All I hear from those two douchebags are disputatious rants, but if you can find anything informative in their opinionated nonsense do tell.

chickenlittle OTOH actually has something relevant and informative in what he has to say every now and then. But they are not him. And neither are you, or any blatantly partisan-named hack (i.e. "rightguy"). You might as well just name yourself "right-wing politics are my religion and my science."

LOL!; 1/27/19, 3:30 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: The only figure I've heard about the cost of illegals is $106 Billion. Where is the analysis of the return on investment? Crickets x2. Canada must be ENTIRELY FASCIST with their laws.; 1/27/19, 4:12 AM
Rusty said...: I see Ritmo morphed again.
Meanwhile the solar minimum continues and temps continue to decline.; 1/27/19, 8:20 AM
Pokerone said...: I thought the thread was going to be about Thoreau? What happened? Thread hijacking should be a crime and the Althouse staff should prosecute.; 1/27/19, 11:12 AM
FullMoon said...: I see Ritmo morphed again.
He got up at 3:26 a.m. to dribble.
Looked here to make sure no one was around.
Dropped a couple of brilliancies,
smirked and went back to his wagonwheel bunkbed.; 1/27/19, 1:24 PM
Birkel said...: TIC,
Have you yet reasoned why more drugs are found crossing the border where the cops are?
I know this is a tough one for you.; 1/27/19, 1:24 PM
FullMoon said...: I thought the thread was going to be about Thoreau? What happened? Thread hijacking should be a crime and the Althouse staff should prosecute.

Inga made it about Trump with first comment.Send 29 FBI agents to her house.; 1/27/19, 1:25 PM
FullMoon said...: TIC,
Have you yet reasoned why more drugs are found crossing the border where the cops are?
I know this is a tough one for you.

Maybe Jim Acosta knows?; 1/27/19, 1:27 PM
Birkel said...: FullMoon,
Jim Acosta is a great analogue.
Perfect, in fact.; 1/27/19, 1:41 PM