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August 6, 2019

At the Road Ahead Café...

... keep the conversation going.

114 comments:

CWJ said...: At the bike path ahead?; 8/6/19, 8:27 PM
Big Mike said...: More bike path? I want rats!; 8/6/19, 8:30 PM
PluralThumb said...: I’ll take a Jack & Coke.
None for my horse, nor the buggy.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G7OERu8srQE; 8/6/19, 8:35 PM
n said...: Rolling down that ribbon of highway
I've gone another mile, another day
Going places I ain't never been
Seeing things I'll never see again
But, I'm gonna keep on keeping on
Til the memories leave me alone
And the pain I felt is finally gone
Then I'll make my way back home
Scooter Lee; 8/6/19, 8:54 PM
n said...: This Land Is Your Land
Words and Music by Woody Guthrie

This land is your land This land is my land
From California to the New York island;
From the red wood forest to the Gulf Stream waters
This land was made for you and Me.

As I was walking that ribbon of highway,
I saw above me that endless skyway:
I saw below me that golden valley:
This land was made for you and me.

I've roamed and rambled and I followed my footsteps
To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts;
And all around me a voice was sounding:
This land was made for you and me.

When the sun came shining, and I was strolling,
And the wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling,
As the fog was lifting a voice was chanting:
This land was made for you and me.

As I went walking I saw a sign there
And on the sign it said "No Trespassing."
But on the other side it didn't say nothing,
That side was made for you and me.

In the shadow of the steeple I saw my people,
By the relief office I seen my people;
As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking
Is this land made for you and me?

Nobody living can ever stop me,
As I go walking that freedom highway;
Nobody living can ever make me turn back
This land was made for you and me; 8/6/19, 8:57 PM
Big Mike said...: Frank Figliuzzi, the former Assistant Director for Counterintelligence at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, appeared on MSNBC Monday. Here's what he had to say about President Trump ordering the flags flown at half staff until August 8th:

"The numbers 8/8 are very significant in white supremacy and neo-Nazi movement. Why? Because the letter H is the eighth letter of the alphabet, and to them, the numbers 8/8 stand together for Heil Hitler."

Also have to watch out for a bunch of guys who played tight end and wide receiver in the NFL.

Do we actually pay these guys a salary to come up with this shit? Note to Michael K., tell Kate she works for morons.; 8/6/19, 9:01 PM
Narr said...: Rocket 88!

Narr
They're everywhere; 8/6/19, 9:09 PM
narciso said...: He was a cair favorite when he was special agent in charge In Miami and cleveland.; 8/6/19, 9:20 PM
Two-eyed Jack said...: Tom Lehrer asked us to pretend that he played an 88-string guitar.; 8/6/19, 9:31 PM
readering said...: So Gov. Palin's libel complaint against the NY Times has been revived by the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (as widely predicted after the oral argument last year). We're about to learn more about the Times's editorial practices (although we already learned some when the brother of the presidential candidate from Colorado testified in a mini-hearing before the district court).; 8/6/19, 9:32 PM
narciso said...: Crazy right:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/08/fbi-insider-el-paso-shooter-told-officials-it-was-the-democrat-debate-on-free-healthcare-to-illegals-not-trump-that-triggered-his-mass-shooting/; 8/6/19, 9:32 PM
readering said...: The Yale Daily News just spilled the beans on a minor college scandal. The Yale Mock Trial team had its national championship stripped (along with the stripping of individual awards and individual suspensions/ineligible status determinations) when it was held to have cheated by committing multiple egregious improper inventions of fact across multiple witnesses in the championship trial. Normally sanctions don't identify the offender, but when it's the final that's hardly possible.; 8/6/19, 9:39 PM
Churchy LaFemme: said...: Interesting profile of Boris Johnson by Mark Steyn. I think it's fairly clear Steyn does not like him, but thinks he *will* deliver Brexit.; 8/6/19, 9:46 PM
Bay Area Guy said...: Regarding Woody Guthrie's famous song up thread, here's what we used to sing in grade school circa 1973:

This land is my land, it is not your land
I got a shotgun, and you don't got one.
If you don't get off, I'll blow your head off
This land was made for you and Me.

Harsh in writing, Yes, but it seemed funny to us tots at the time. And we were all California Dems!

We also bastardized "Battle Hymn of the Republic:

"Glory, glory Hallejulah - teacher hit me with a ruler...."; 8/6/19, 9:50 PM
tim in vermont said...: Snopes picks what to fact-check based on reader emails. “We write about what the most people are asking about,” he explained. “The question you should be asking is not: ‘why is Snopes addressing material from a particular site so often?’ But, ‘what is it about that site that makes its content trigger the fact-check threshold?’” - BuzzFeedNews

It’s the incorrect opinions that are the problem! Not Snopes! Who can blame them for re-assuring their precious snowflake readers that CNN didn’t actually buy a giant washing machine to spin stories for five minutes before broadcasting them!; 8/6/19, 9:51 PM
buwaya said...: To be fair, Figliuzzi is a "former" whatever he was.
He is speaking for NBC now, his current employer.

Who pays the piper, and so forth.; 8/6/19, 9:52 PM
Big Mike said...: Speaking of the FBI, I see that Pete Strzok is suing to get his old job back, with back pay. Words fail me.; 8/6/19, 9:52 PM
readering said...: He's got high powered lawyers repping him.; 8/6/19, 9:54 PM
PluralThumb said...: "...Well you walk into a restaurant,
strung out from the road.
You pretend it doesn't bother you
but you just want to explode.
Most times you can't hear them talk,
other times you can..."

Bob Seger; 8/6/19, 9:54 PM
tim in vermont said...: "He's got high powered lawyers repping him.”

I bet he does. Clinton connected lawyers, like the lawyer who defended the guy who deleted Hillary’s emails and destroyed her phones with hammers who ran the Mueller Report team.; 8/6/19, 9:57 PM
Churchy LaFemme: said...: Saw him on his farewell tour. Epic show.; 8/6/19, 9:57 PM
narciso said...: Yes but he was a tool at the bureau, to foreign interests, it wouldn't surprise me if he was on the Russian payroll; 8/6/19, 9:58 PM
narciso said...: Carrying over from the other thread, the illiad deserved an epic treatment; 8/6/19, 10:00 PM
tim in vermont said...: Although it should have been obvious that the Babylon Bee piece was just a spoof of the ongoing political brouhaha over alleged news media “bias” and “fake news,” some readers missed that aspect of the article and interpreted it literally. - Snopes

This is probably an opportunity to troll Snopes by requesting fact checks.

“Is there really and intercontinental railroad?”
"Do they really speak Austrian in Austria?”
“Does the US have a zombi army of ‘corpse men’?"; 8/6/19, 10:03 PM
Churchy LaFemme: said...: Who dragged whom around what?; 8/6/19, 10:04 PM
narciso said...: Old news:
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-nyc-building-at-the-center-of-jeffrey-epsteins-web-2019-8?fbclid=IwAR05jHdZmTr_O1iGqZJr50StbyQzHV36uCwFtFx-ubpf37IAtWDbAQpajsI; 8/6/19, 10:08 PM
tim in vermont said...: " it wouldn't surprise me if he was on the Russian payroll”

It seems like, reading Strzok's roles at the Bureau, he was involved in Uranium One and sending those Russian spies back home without even doing jail time before they could talk about how they got close to Hillary and how they had infiltrated the uranium trucking industry in the US.

Hillary was Secretary of State and she arranged to deport those spies who had no immunity, whom we had dead to rights, in exchange for nothing. If anybody wants to call bullshit, I will dig up the links.; 8/6/19, 10:08 PM
John Zalewski said...: Bay Area Guy at 9:50
We (us kids) used to sing the fourth line as...
"this land is private prop-er-teee".; 8/6/19, 10:13 PM
chuck said...: Glen wants that flying car.; 8/6/19, 10:13 PM
narciso said...: Here's the fascinating thing, the Chapman rings handler (which inspired red sparrow) was a company asset, the bureau had nothing to do with it.

Strzok and page couldnt have done more damage to genuine counterintelligence if they were agents like Robert hannsen; 8/6/19, 10:14 PM
narciso said...: She was in charge of the firtash extradition but then weissman let it be known there was a deal and the Austrians claimed up.; 8/6/19, 10:15 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: I was shot in a drive-by shooting.outside a church function years ago.

Some crazy fired 10 rounds into a crowd of about 50 people gathered for a meeting, I was the only one hit, the bullet entering my chest between my heart and shoulder. Lot of blood lost.

Had the nutcase decided to ram his vehicle into the crowd, instead of using a gun, dozens could have been killed. We cited the terrorist attack in Nice, France in the other night's cafe and the 84 killed in minutes by one man in a truck to illustrate this point.

The goals and methods of these killers varies. A muslim terrorist, like the one in the Nice truck-ramming attack, is looking for a high body count, and not so interested in 'style points'. In the Middle East, car/suicide bombs that kill scores are not uncommon, and there is usually no 'manifesto' left behind (save the koran). And so far, no chemical/dirty bomb...yet. 'Big and Messy' seems like the preferred M.O.
We get more the "DC Sniper", they get an entire wedding hall blown to smithereens.

Here, the mass killer usually eschews these more lethal means, seemingly in favor of
incorporating some Hollywood-style 'Go-Out-In-A-Blaze-of-Glory' affectation.
This sort of ideation seams to be a problem. Our attacker absolutely displayed intent to harm/kill, but 'limited' his capability to do so. Why?
Is it because guns carry a certain cachet? (Does Hollywood share some blame?) Vehicles are easily to obtain by just about anyone, and can do huge damage if a high body count is the sole aim, but lack the status factor.

Because I was not left with a permanent debilitating injury, the whole thing is pretty much forgotten, and I dont really see myself as a "victim of gun violence", but sometimes curiously bemused to think I am in a small way part of this shit-show when events turn this way...
And pro-2A.

"Peace--something to shoot for!"; 8/6/19, 10:16 PM
readering said...: One of Strzok's two main lawyers is a former gang prosecutor who cut his teeth on the Oklahoma City bombing. The other is an employment specialist.; 8/6/19, 10:17 PM
madAsHell said...: Clinton connected lawyers

Discovery will be interesting, but do they really think they drag this out beyond Ttump??

This just reeks of desperation. This will become nothing more than a noise machine sowing fear, uncertainty and doubt. It's a talking points machine for the 6 o'clock news.

I'm really surprised no one has eaten-the-barrel. There has to be a couple of suicides in here.; 8/6/19, 10:20 PM
tim in vermont said...: Federal agents used a confidential U.S. witness working inside the Russian nuclear industry to gather extensive financial records, make secret recordings and intercept emails as early as 2009 that showed Moscow had compromised an American uranium trucking firm with bribes and kickbacks in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, FBI and court documents show.

They also obtained an eyewitness account — backed by documents — indicating Russian nuclear officials had routed millions of dollars to the U.S. designed to benefit former President Bill Clinton’s charitable foundation during the time Secretary of State Hillary Clinton served on a government body that provided a favorable decision to Moscow, sources told The Hill.; 8/6/19, 10:24 PM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: Strozk was going to stroke Hillary's cock for money.; 8/6/19, 10:24 PM
Drago said...: Can you imagine how bad the polling numbers for the dems in the black and hispanic community must be for the dems to go full speed with this moronic white supremacy ploy?

Kamala, the clear fav of the obama's and much of the media is polling at 1% in the black community.

1%!

LOL

And Biden is barely keeping his head above water and could limp into the nomination. The Bernie bros are going to walk in a huff if what they believe is happening to them again actually occurs.

We've got Nicole Wallace, a big favorite of LLR Chuck, asserting Trump wants to exterminate hispanics!!

The polls must be absolutely frightening from the dem point of view.; 8/6/19, 10:28 PM
tim in vermont said...: Bringing down a major Russian nuclear corruption scheme that had both compromised a sensitive uranium transportation asset inside the U.S. and facilitated international money laundering would seem a major feather in any law enforcement agency’s cap.

But the Justice Department and FBI took little credit in 2014 when Mikerin, the Russian financier and the trucking firm executives were arrested and charged.

The only public statement occurred a year later when the Justice Department put out a little-noticed press release in August 2015, just days before Labor Day. The release noted that the various defendants had reached plea deals.

By that time, the criminal cases against Mikerin had been narrowed to a single charge of money laundering for a scheme that officials admitted stretched from 2004 to 2014. And though agents had evidence of criminal wrongdoing they collected since at least 2009, federal prosecutors only cited in the plea agreement a handful of transactions that occurred in 2011 and 2012, well after the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States’s approval.

The final court case also made no mention of any connection to the influence peddling conversations the FBI undercover informant witnessed

This would have been Strzok’s purview and McCabe and Rosenstein were in charge of the Epstein style “make it all go away” type deal Democrats seem to favor for the well. connected.; 8/6/19, 10:29 PM
narciso said...: Dont get me started on wallace:

https://mobile.twitter.com/ElDomaine/status/1158754742912393217; 8/6/19, 10:30 PM
Churchy LaFemme: said...: Speaking of Hillary..

Maybe she really has gone away.

I'm sure she's had a lot to say over the past few days, but it seems nobody can be bothered to quote her anymore.; 8/6/19, 10:30 PM
Drago said...: AAT: "This would have been Strzok’s purview and McCabe and Rosenstein were in charge of the Epstein style “make it all go away” type deal Democrats seem to favor for the well. connected"

It was Bob Mueller himself who hid the fact of the investigations into these firms from Congress since those active investigations would have put the big kibosh on the Uranium One deal....and li'l Mr "Ethics" and "probity" Bobby Mueller wasn't about to give congress the info they required to conduct proper oversight.; 8/6/19, 10:32 PM
Drago said...: Unknown:"Speaking of Hillary..

Maybe she really has gone away."

Nope.

Operation Make Chelsea "Happen" is well underway.

After all, when the only business model the Clinton family has ever known is selling their office for Billions in "donations" and hundreds of millions in direct payments, well, somebody with the last name "Clinton" HAS to be in a position to trade influence for cash.; 8/6/19, 10:33 PM
readering said...: Strzok's case is not going to be about Uranium One and such things.; 8/6/19, 10:34 PM
narciso said...: Well the importance of uranium one, is with its counterpart firm translogistic run by a fmr south African diplomat rod Fisk he died around 2009 and his computer was trashed, south African companies worked in a number of places including the Libyan nuclear program.; 8/6/19, 10:35 PM
tim in vermont said...: What are you LOLing readering? Do you want links to news stories? Or is it a case of just blanket rejection while putting your fingers in your ears?; 8/6/19, 10:36 PM
Drago said...: readering, who completely bought into the russia collusion hoax AND the gang rape hoax against Kavanaugh, thinks it funny that Bob Mueller did not provide required info to Congress and quietly hushed up the investigations into relevant parties to allow the Uranium One deal to go thru!

Unexpectedly!; 8/6/19, 10:37 PM
PluralThumb said...: The thing with dead white guys.
They are much better inside my wallet.
You seen one mugshot, you’ve seen them all.

- On the road again......; 8/6/19, 10:38 PM
tim in vermont said...: “Strzok's case is not going to be about Uranium One and such things.”

No, that’s just more examples of the kind of fixes that he and his cronies in the FBI did for the Clintons. Getting Comey to change the wording of their finding from a legally culpable “Gross negligences” to “extreme carelessness” which means exactly the same thing except it was less obvious that Hillary should be thrown in the slammer was one of Strzok’s little fixes for Hillary.

I think his main problem was lying to people it is illegal to lie to.; 8/6/19, 10:39 PM
Drago said...: readering: "Strzok's case is not going to be about Uranium One and such things."

Well, then its a good thing no one is claiming it would!

Not that I blame you for throwing more chum into the water. What else are you going to do after your 3 year collusion/obstruction hoax has evaporated?; 8/6/19, 10:39 PM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: Strozk should lawyer up - but for other reasons.; 8/6/19, 10:41 PM
Bay Area Guy said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 8/6/19, 10:42 PM
tim in vermont said...: The Obama administration and the Clintons defended their actions at the time, insisting there was no evidence that any Russians or donors engaged in wrongdoing and there was no national security reason for any member of the committee to oppose the Uranium One deal.

But FBI, Energy Department and court documents reviewed by The Hill show the FBI in fact had gathered substantial evidence well before the committee’s decision that Vadim Mikerin — the main Russian overseeing Putin’s nuclear expansion inside the United States — was engaged in wrongdoing starting in 2009.

If I was readering and it was my guys doing this, I would rather the subject go away too. Facts are stubborn things, though. Clinton’s whole merry band of political fixers, the same ones who ended up running the investigation under the figurehead Meuller are mixed up in everything.; 8/6/19, 10:43 PM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: “insurance policy” to be sure he was not elected, and so on.

the texts “sound an awful lot like a coup—and it could well be treason and I think we need to know more”.; 8/6/19, 10:43 PM
narciso said...: In 2010 strzok takes credit for the Chapman roundup, but who were the contacts in 2013 Russian hacker access the health care exchanges designed by Michelle Obama's friend earlier that year Edward Snowden is allowed to exfil boat loads of data, the year before the Russians flagged the Tsarnaev boye; 8/6/19, 10:44 PM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: Strozk should be more than fired. He should be charged with criminal behavior. because he's a criminal.; 8/6/19, 10:44 PM
Bay Area Guy said...: Stork is a devious fuck-up. Frightening that he had massive investigative powers backed by hapless Comey and the DOJ.

I'm glad his ass was fired. Too bad he hasn't been indicted.; 8/6/19, 10:45 PM
narciso said...: The following year the spirit of the Budapest protocol is destroyed by the Ukraine invasion the next year we have thr deeming of the Malaysian jet in international airspace.; 8/6/19, 10:46 PM
narciso said...: It was ar the end of that year that Mikhail lesin a Kremlin defector died mysteriously in a waahijgton hotel:
https://mobile.twitter.com/watchful1/status/1158863858766733317; 8/6/19, 10:50 PM
narciso said...: Washington hotel this is probably the first time this happened since krivitsky who had been Whitaker chambers handler.; 8/6/19, 10:53 PM
PluralThumb said...: You can’t say you were shot.
Was it a white russian?
Maybe it was a vodka shot.

- 40%; 8/6/19, 10:53 PM
Arashi said...: From Then came Bronson:

Going down that long lonesome highway
Bound for the mountains and the plains
Sure ain't nothing here gonna tie me
And I got some friends I'd like to see again
One of these days I'm gonna settle down
But till I do I won't be hanging round
Going down that long lonesome highway
Gonna live life my way; 8/6/19, 10:55 PM
Achilles said...: readering said...
Strzok's case is not going to be about Uranium One and such things.

No.

But he is about to be indicted for lying to a FISA court.

He is just trying to prep the field.

Jail is too good for him in any case. He is a traitor and deserves to hang.; 8/6/19, 10:57 PM
narciso said...: These are just some of the interaction, leading up to the 2016 election, btw ambassador Kislyak was very popular with at least 30 Democrats because he was the key to the Iran deal; 8/6/19, 10:58 PM
PluralThumb said...: “...To go across the country without a bad blame dime
Montana in the cold cold fall
Found my father in the gambling hall...”

( My father was dead for almost a decade when I got to Montana )

On the Road
- Primus & Tom Waits; 8/6/19, 11:10 PM
Churchy LaFemme: said...: "My name is Sue! How do you do?"; 8/6/19, 11:14 PM
Drago said...: Strzok apparently didn't realize that the role of General James Mattoon Scott in "7 Days In May" was a fictional one and not a "How To Conduct A Coup In The United States of America" primer.

Of course, there were also clearly hundreds of Deep State personnel involved in this real life version of the "Preakness Stakes". No less than 40 senior career FBI investigators directly assigned to this coup attempt in addition the 19 hack democrat lawyers making up the lefty/LLR-left hack "Dream Team" whose job it was to transform a fake collusion narrative into a frame up obstruction case to realize "the insurance policy".

And we haven't even begun to plumb the depths of the number of CIA personnel and contractors (like Halper and Mifsud) along with the State Dept and NSA hacks.

Comey even allowed his pal Richman to have special access to raw 702 FISA database results!

Unbelieveable.; 8/6/19, 11:18 PM
Yancey Ward said...: "Frank Figliuzzi, the former Assistant Director for Counterintelligence at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, appeared on MSNBC Monday. Here's what he had to say about President Trump ordering the flags flown at half staff until August 8th:

"The numbers 8/8 are very significant in white supremacy and neo-Nazi movement. Why? Because the letter H is the eighth letter of the alphabet, and to them, the numbers 8/8 stand together for Heil Hitler."

Damn it! Now I have to get rid of my classic Oldsmobile and my fucking piano!; 8/6/19, 11:30 PM
Yancey Ward said...: If Durham's investigation is real, Strzok is on the firing line for prosecution. This suit is an attempt to make it look like retaliation for suing for reinstatement. If Strzok is indicted, I guarantee you his lawyers go before a camera at MSNBC and declare it is revenge for the lawsuit.; 8/6/19, 11:36 PM
Michael K said...: We've got Nicole Wallace, a big favorite of LLR Chuck, asserting Trump wants to exterminate hispanics!!

She was in charge of destroying Sarah Palin's use to the McCain campaign in 2008. Did a good job, too. Palin never felt the knife in her back.; 8/6/19, 11:40 PM
Yancey Ward said...: "Strzok's case is not going to be about Uranium One and such things."

No, the case is going to be whether or not he was derelict in his job and deserved to get fired. He isn't going to win- he was properly fired and was allowed to stay in that job a year longer than he should have. This lawsuit is damage control.; 8/6/19, 11:41 PM
Bay Area Guy said...: Stork is a fiendish little weasel. I hope Durham & Barr drop the hammer on him a la Avenatti.; 8/6/19, 11:47 PM
Fen said...: readering, who completely bought into the russia collusion hoax AND the gang rape hoax against Kavanaugh, thinks it funny that Bob Mueller did not provide required info to Congress and quietly hushed up the investigations into relevant parties to allow the Uranium One deal to go thru!

Why, it's almost as if the Left doesn't really believe in - oh you know the rest :); 8/6/19, 11:50 PM
gadfly said...: Did you know that Pete Strzok only worked on Robert Mueller's Special Counsel investigation during two months, June and July 2017? But the messages between Pete and Lisa Page are from 2016. And even so, a comprehensive review of Strzok messages by The Wall Street Journal concluded that "texts critical of Mr. Trump represent a fraction of the roughly 7,000 messages, which stretch across 384 pages and show no evidence of a conspiracy against Mr. Trump".; 8/6/19, 11:54 PM
narciso said...: Except the special counsels somehow had those emails deleted nice try, fly.; 8/7/19, 12:01 AM
Bay Area Guy said...: Has Mueller awoken from his nap yet? Don't wanna miss the Early Bird special at Denny's.; 8/7/19, 12:15 AM
StephenFearby said...: It wasn't the quantity of the Strzok messages that are material to showing his extreme bias, but the quality of the ones that surely reflected that state of mind.

When Mueller was informed of the damming text messages he had to let Strzok go. But instead of preserving the texts on the special phone issued to Strzok, Mueller allowed them to be deleted.

I can't say Mueller did this deliberately. That is because Mueller frequently came across in his Congressional testimony as being non compos mentis.; 8/7/19, 12:21 AM
Fen said...: Interesting how "White Supremacy" has been turned in Baba Yaga.

Guy says a bunch of white supremacists said something horrible. You ask him to link to it as proof he isn't just making it up, he says it would be unconscionable to link to such a white supremacist site, even to prove how sick those people are... he claims smugly as he sports a Che Guevera t-shirt...

Weird. There are black supremacists sites, there are antifa hate sites, there are even jew-hating democrats who still maintain their blue twitter checkmark. But a white supremacist site is beyond the pale?

Worse, the "anti" white people are just undermining their case. Which race can tolerate being demonized 24/7 and just shrug it off? Whites. Which race are the others always "attacking up" towards? Whites.

They are beginning to convince me that maybe Whites are indeed superior. Because they white-haters sure are treating them that way.; 8/7/19, 12:33 AM
Fen said...: Rush, The Trees:

There is unrest in the forest
There is trouble with the trees
For the maples want more sunlight
And the oaks ignore their pleas

The trouble with the maples
And they're quite convinced they're right
They say the oaks are just too lofty
And they grab up all the light

But the oaks can't help their feelings
If they like the way they're made
And they wonder why the maples
Can't be happy in their shade?

---

Who is inferior and who is superior there? Pretty obvious.

And I've never heard of Black Man's Burden. "Noblesse Oblige" originated in France, not China. If whites are not superior, why are they expected to act as if they were?; 8/7/19, 12:38 AM
readering said...: I've the patience to watch the Strzok case play out. By the way, I think a lot of the texting for which he has caught flak was idiotic, but then I'm not big on that kind of texting. I think a lot of comments on this site are idiotic, but I don't think anyone should lose their jobs over them. I suppose it's possible that the government will try a favorite employer tactic: even if I didn't have the right to fire him over x, if I had known about y I would have fired him anyway for that and been justified. We'll see.; 8/7/19, 12:39 AM
Fen said...: But we aren't allowed to have an honest discussion about it. When people like Derbyshire try, they are fired. And because other races that claim to be equal have lower impulse control and will "go ape" and riot at the mere suggestion they are inferior.

It's almost demonstrable.

And even I am required to provide a disclaimer, lest I be shunned from polite society - I consider myself a mutt and believe claims of racial superiority are ridiculous if not dangerous.

So here we are, watching the "White Supremacy Card" being played as we roll our eyes and allow an entire race to be demonized the way Hitler turned the Jews into monsters. Meet the new boss...; 8/7/19, 12:44 AM
Fen said...: I think a lot of the texting for which he has caught flak was idiotic,

IF a prosecutor has a personal bias against the man he is trying, is that not a conflict of interest over which he should recuse himself?

Should an agent for the Rule of Law admit he has an "insurance policy" that will go outside the law to prevent the accused from getting a fair trial?

Is it okay to frame someone with false evidence to ensure a conviction because you "know" he is guilty of something?

It's as if the Left has no foundational principles. No ethics, no morals. Just whatever means justifies the ends that particular day. And we know how that always turns out.; 8/7/19, 12:51 AM
readering said...: I don't feel demonized.; 8/7/19, 12:51 AM
readering said...: We're going to find out. The FBI Dep. Director fired him against the recommendation from below, it seems clearly to appease POTUS.; 8/7/19, 12:53 AM
Churchy LaFemme: said...: We're going to find out. The FBI Dep. Director fired him against the recommendation from below, it seems clearly to appease POTUS.

Isn't that why we have people who are not "below"? To make those calls?

More and more I like Reynolds idea of bringing back the "spoils system". At least that way we could avoid some of this "Yes, Minister!" bilge.; 8/7/19, 12:59 AM
Fen said...: I don't feel demonized.

No doubt many Jews would not choose you are their spokesman.

I wonder if any Jews aided Vichy France in the deportation of their fellow Jews?

I bet there were some.; 8/7/19, 1:07 AM
walter said...: Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said..I dont really see myself as a "victim of gun violence", but sometimes curiously bemused to think I am in a small way part of this shit-show when events turn this way...
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Yah..reliving that...but only every time.; 8/7/19, 1:24 AM
readering said...: So now I'm Jewish (not that there's anything wrong with it)?; 8/7/19, 2:15 AM
Fen said...: No. I think a Jew would have better reading comprehension.; 8/7/19, 2:24 AM
readering said...: Weird.; 8/7/19, 2:36 AM
Bruce Hayden said...: Blogger Big Mike said...
“Speaking of the FBI, I see that Pete Strzok is suing to get his old job back, with back pay. Words fail me”

Move. Countermove.

Apparently some senior FBI Agents were sleeping with CNN news babes, trading sex for leaks. It was apparently hushed up by Dirs Comey and Wray. And guess who is apparently prominently listed among the FBI Special Agents trading sex for leaks? You would be correct if you guessed the ubiquitous Peter Strzok.

We also found out that he has apparently been a frequent visitor to FBI HQ since he was fired there. Did he lose his security clearance then? Actually, last I knew Brennan and Clapper still had theirs, despite orders to the contrary by President Trump.; 8/7/19, 3:12 AM
Bruce Hayden said...: “We're going to find out. The FBI Dep. Director fired him against the recommendation from below, it seems clearly to appease POTUS.”

So, the guy is caught red handed intentionally politically helping one candidate, and harming the other, and continued to actively sabotage the latter after he was elected President. By then, Strzok had been moved to personnel, where he continues to receive status reports from all of the FBI agents working for Mueller. So, no surprise that his buddies in the bureaucracy, and probably in personnel, where he had been moved, said that he shouldn’t be fired. The absurdity is that Strzok has a decent chance at getting away with it, because of the possibility that not all of the i’s were dotted and t’s were crossed in his firing. This makes it look, to me, like the FBI Deep State has become highly dismissive and opposed to our Constitutional form of government.; 8/7/19, 3:24 AM
rehajm said...: Most of these losers are giddy to leak to the press but the ditzes at CNN think they have to pay the piper? (Intentional pun warning); 8/7/19, 4:26 AM
Anne in Rockwall, TX said...: If you don't know who Ken Levine is, he's a comedy writer who wrote for MASH, Cheers, Frazer, and a whole host of sit-coms along with his partner David Isaacs. He's a pretty funny guy and he has a blog with a daily post, and a podcast on Thursdays.

Anyway, he had a friend that was a contestant on Jeopardy and Ken got him to write two guest posts for his blog. I found it interesting as I do many of Ken's posts. I've been reading him for years.

Warning that Ken is a die-hard old time lib and a Trump hater, but he's still a pretty good guy.

Read him here Ken Levine; 8/7/19, 4:43 AM
Clyde said...: Interesting article in the L.A. Times about why housing is so expensive in California:

One reason housing is so expensive in California? Cities, counties charge developers high fees

In California, local government fees on housing construction, which can be used on parks, traffic control, water and sewer connections and other services, were nearly three times the national average in 2015, according to a 2018 Terner Center report. In some cities, researchers found, fees can amount to 18% of median home prices.

Costs also fluctuate from city to city. In the Bay Area suburb of Fremont, the study said, fees cost $22,000 per unit for apartment and condominium complexes and $35,000 per unit in single-family projects. In Sacramento, those same fees are $8,500 and $13,000 per unit, respectively.

The high cost of building housing is what has led to California's homelessness crisis. Blue state policies. I wonder if Californians feel like they're getting what they are paying for?; 8/7/19, 5:17 AM
rhhardin said...: I just deleted my Tim Blair bookmark. Paywall success.; 8/7/19, 5:52 AM
Mr. Forward said...: "The characterization of Baba Yaga is where much of the uncertainty surrounding her comes from. She varies between acting as a benefactor and a villain, either helping the hero of the Slavic myth or hindering him or her. Though it appears she never goes after anyone unprovoked—that is to say, without the person at least coming to the door of her hut—she appears to follow little or few morals. Nevertheless, whatever promise she makes to the hero after his completion of her tasks, she keeps. …"
See more on ancient-origins.net

"In Slavic folklore, Baba Yaga or Baba Jaga is a supernatural being who appears as a deformed and/or ferocious-looking woman. In Russian fairytales Baba Yaga flies around in a mortar, wields a pestle, and dwells deep in the forest in a hut usually described as standing on chicken legs. "
See more on en.wikipedia.org · Text under CC-BY-SA license; 8/7/19, 5:54 AM
Howard said...: I quit reading Tim Blair 12-years ago. He got boring. You people, however, are funny as fuck.; 8/7/19, 6:02 AM
rhhardin said...: You can't beat Blair's law covering the left.

Coined by Australian journalist, Tim Blair as the ongoing process by which the world's multiple idiocies become one giant, useless force.; 8/7/19, 6:08 AM
Howard said...: Healthcare. Blah blah couldn't listen, played freecell, which takes my full and complete attention.

Good gun back and forth. Assault weapon ban, enhanced licenses for existing owners of the 10-million in circulation, enhanced background checks for all, change gun show rules. He supports 2nd Amend, but everyone needs to give a little because crazy times.

Bernie Sanders on Joe Rogan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O-iLk1G_ng

Thats all I've heard so far 2/3 of the way in; 8/7/19, 6:20 AM
Howard said...: If it's a law, it's completely reversible. This is how I keep my liberal friends calmed down from TDS. Trumpers are "one giant, useless force"; 8/7/19, 6:23 AM
iowan2 said...: “We're going to find out. The FBI Dep. Director fired him against the recommendation from below, it seems clearly to appease POTUS.”

So, the guy is caught red handed intentionally politically helping one candidate, and harming the other, and continued to actively sabotage the latter after he was elected President. By then, Strzok had been moved to personnel, where he continues to receive status reports from all of the FBI agents working for Mueller. So, no surprise that his buddies in the bureaucracy, and probably in personnel, where he had been moved, said that he shouldn’t be fired. The absurdity is that Strzok has a decent chance at getting away with it, because of the possibility that not all of the i’s were dotted and t’s were crossed in his firing. This makes it look, to me, like the FBI Deep State has become highly dismissive and opposed to our Constitutional form of government.

8/7/19, 3:24 AM

Over at Conservative Treehouse, they are of the opinion, the lawsuit is pure PR. There is a civil service process to appeal unfair discharges. It is unheard of going to court. The suit will have a hard time advancing with Strzok hopscotcing over the internal system.; 8/7/19, 6:36 AM
rhhardin said...: An odd traffic noise turns out to be an AT-502 cropduster doing the cornfield across the street.

Old photo
https://rhhardin.blogspot.com/2015/07/rural-life.html; 8/7/19, 6:40 AM
tim in vermont said...: Tim Blair’s blog stopped being interesting when comment moderation slowed it down to a crawl, like maybe a decade ago.; 8/7/19, 6:48 AM
tim in vermont said...: “The high cost of building housing is what has led to California's homelessness crisis. “

On the other hand, they don’t have enough water to go around. Look at South Florida, you can build if you have the land, pretty much, and water is becoming an issue. Not every regulation is wrong or evil. It’s just that when you give them the power, it makes them drunk.; 8/7/19, 6:51 AM
tim in vermont said...: readering is right. It is stupid for non liberals to expect equal justice before the law. Government needs people like Strzok in places like the FBI to protect insiders and cronies from laws not meant for them.; 8/7/19, 7:00 AM
JML said...: iowan2, I read yesterday in the WSJ: "Mr. Strzok previously tried to appeal his firing before the Merit Systems Protection Board, but the panel determined it didn’t have jurisdiction over his dismissal, leaving Mr. Strzok with no options beyond the lawsuit, the complaint said."

https://www.wsj.com/articles/former-fbi-agent-sues-justice-department-over-firing-11565116096?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=1

There are strict rules on the use of Gvt phones. His firing was righteous.; 8/7/19, 7:03 AM
tim in vermont said...: Mueller lied to Congress.

Recently released court documents suggest Mueller may have made his surprise appearance before the press in Washington on May 29 as damage control after a federal judge privately threatened to hold his team in criminal contempt of court over what she called misleading language he included in his final report about Russian government interference in the 2016 election.

Under oath, Mueller denied the judge’s action had anything to do with his holding the press conference.

In the hastily arranged 9-minute press conference, Mueller announced that he was ending his investigation -- which was not news -- and concluded it without taking any questions. He made a point, however, to stress that the Russians he had indicted were “private” entities and "presumed innocent."

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/08/06/mueller_suspected_of_compound_deception_of_judge_congress_in_overstating_kremlin_role_119854.html

The judge was mollified that her order had been respected after the press conference.

But Mueller is anti-Trump, so his little strolls across the lines of ethics and legality matter not.; 8/7/19, 7:14 AM
Michael K said...: They are beginning to convince me that maybe Whites are indeed superior. Because they white-haters sure are treating them that way.

Why else would we have affirmative action ?

The left is certain that "people of color" are inferior. Once you understand that, the rest is clear. Harry Reid declares that all of Clarence Thomas's opinions are stupid. Hasn't read one of them.

Endless examples.; 8/7/19, 8:12 AM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: Sorry Gadfly - no sale,
Strozk is a hack and a criminal who helped set up the bogus Popodopoulous sting.; 8/7/19, 8:20 AM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: Oh, So That’s Why The Liberal Media Is Painfully Avoiding Dayton Shooter’s Political Beliefs; 8/7/19, 8:41 AM
Bruce Hayden said...: “Good gun back and forth. Assault weapon ban, enhanced licenses for existing owners of the 10-million in circulation, enhanced background checks for all, change gun show rules. He supports 2nd Amend, but everyone needs to give a little because crazy times.”

Giving a little would, in my view, mean reopening the machine gun registry. Now, most of the fully automatic weapons out there are either inj the hands of the police or military, or of criminals, smuggled into this country mostly over our southern border, along with the drugs and illegal immigrants.

There is, of course, no Gun Show Loophole. They are silly to think that there are only 10 million guns that would be affected by an AWB.

You very simply cannot support the 2nd Amdt and an AWB at the same time. I went into more depth yesterday, but to simplify, there are two interrelated purposes for the 2nd Amdt, corresponding to the first two unalienable rights listed in the Declaration of Independence: Life and Liberty. The unalienable right of Life requires the fundamental right of self defense. And that requires the availability of handguns outside the home, and shotguns, rifles, and carbines within. The unalienable right of Liberty is enforced by guaranteeing the people the ability to change or replace their government, by force, if necessary, if it becomes too oppressive. And that requires, at a minimum, the easy availability of modern semiautomatic rifles and carbines - precisely the guns that would be banned by an AWB. Moreover, this is reinforced by the Militia Clause, which becomes a nullify, or close thereof, if the civilian militia is denied modern firearms, or the closest guns to those used by our own military for the last almost sixty years.; 8/7/19, 9:32 AM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: @walter
no-- seldom-- it is something foreign.
Like this-- for a spell I was involved, in part, in the production of rap videos.
Rap videos! me-- the proverbial "whitest guy in America", involved in rap.
When rap is playing, or discussed, I never 're-live the experience', or see it as part of my life. But occasionally, the thought occurs. So similarly, with these shootings, and/or debates about gun-control, etc. It's viewed in the abstract, but occasionally I will think/realize: "hey! you know what? I was in that situation!"
Then the next thought is:"ok-- so what?", then mild bemusement at the oddity.
Long ago and far away, and too much going on in the present.; 8/7/19, 10:20 AM
Bruce Hayden said...: One of the problems with the 10 million figure of guns affected by a new AWB is that the most common type of “assault weapon” in the country are the AR variants, and, in particular AR-15 variants. Over all, they are superior, on a price/performance basis, to most of their competitors, and part of that is a result of synergy between their development and that of their military brethren (M16 and M4 Carbine), esp during a shooting war, like the ones we have been involved in, in the Middle East for most of the last two decades. The M16s and M4s used by our military today are not those of their grandfathers during the Vietnam War. Much improved.

One of the keys is that AR-15s are highly modular. They are built upon a lower receiver, which is A block of (most often) metal, to which the various parts are bolted on. This is the part with the serial number, if it needs one (you don’t need a serial number in most states if you take an 80% complete AR-15 lower, and finish it, typically by milling and drilling, to 100%). AR-15 lower receivers are highly standardized. This means that the parts attached are standardized, at least where the upper and lower assemblies are attached together - with two removable pins. Pop those two pins, and you can swap upper assemblies, in a minute or so, which potentially means switching calibers, barrel lengths, and accessories. The modularity is a good part of the allure of this type of firearms. You can build your own, from the ground (lower receiver) up, picking your trigger, barrel composition, length, twist rate, gas system, flash suppressor, top furniture or shroud, butt stock, optics, etc. None of it is that complicated. Very similar to what was done at one time with cars, then later with PCs.

One of the keys here to why these would be hard to regulate is that there is not a 1-to-1 correspondence between officially registered firearms, and all of the parts that go into a firearm. Far from it. Complete lower receivers have been selling briskly since the two shootings. But what have really been selling like hot cakes are 80% complete lower receivers. They are small blocks of typically aluminum, maybe a dozen of which can be buried in a large, sealed, ammo can. I fully expect north of a million serialized or 80% complete AR-15 lower receivers to have been buried around this very large country by the time that a new AWB could be enacted. But it doesn’t stop there. The parts are modular and standardized. That means that the specifications are well known. Hundreds of thousands, if not more, are capable building AR-15 lower receivers in their shops. But it doesn’t end there. They are now being built with composites. But worse, you can build one with a large enough 3D printer. Technology may not be here yet to make them sturdy enough for long hard usage. But it is advancing. And, the Feds have already lost the legal fight to keep the 3D models of the standard parts off the Internet. I have them, as, no doubt, do hundreds of thousands others. Maybe in the last half year, it is millions now. Not just on hard drives, or in the Cloud, but also on DVDs and Flash drives, even stored in some of those sealed and buried ammo cans. Along with millions of rounds of ammunition. Paranoid? Obviously not, given the manufactured stampede to re-enact an AWB.; 8/7/19, 10:44 AM
Bruce Hayden said...: Let me add to my last, that on a personal note, I had been planning on building several AR-15s over the winter. And for that I made several orders or AR-15 lower receivers. Alas, we had a tragic boating accident last night on the way back from dinner. You shouldn’t drive a boat after drinking several beers, but it may be safer than driving a car instead. We have a decently good idea where the mishap occurred, though it was pretty dark by then. Unfortunately, the lake is probably at least 500 feet deep there. Maybe deeper.

I only mention this because Google runs Blogger, and they don’t have a good privacy reputation.; 8/7/19, 10:58 AM