... there’s still no new sunrise photo. I’m locked in by the subzero cold and waiting for Wednesday to get back to half-normal life. But there’s the indoor fun of a Saturday night café, so please join me in the long overnight conversation.
February 13, 2021
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We need to come together to fix a pressing national issue. It should be illegal for anyone to say “Oh my God” or “Oh my gosh” when they see their newly refurbished home on HGTV. Whose with me?
It's cold and I've nowhere to sleep
Is there somewhere you can tell me?
He walks on, doesn't look back
He pretends he can't hear her
Starts to whistle as he crosses the street
Seems embarrassed to be there
Oh, think twice,
It's another day for you and me in paradise
https://youtu.be/Qt2mbGP6vFI
Quayle, Agreed. "Holy Shit, that's fucking beautiful!" would be a refreshing change.
In regard to the tiny house/apartment thread, someone mentioned the availability of Central Park in NYC. My wife and I live on about 1/3 acre in Upstate NY. Across the road is a vacant area of State owned land, that is, public. It is 76,000 acres in size. No Broadway or fine dining but we get by.
Good Grammar rule for Feb. 13:
Write all adverbial forms correct.
Who killed Ashli Babbitt?
Stephen Cooper called it a mistake by an "untrained doofus.". Funny thing. I read the Daily Mail article that Cooper linked some days ago describing the shooter's side of the story. The only mistake he admitted was not that he shot, but that he wouldn't have shot if he had known that tactical officers were on scene. The shooting itself he did not disown. He also apparently gave no warning before opening fire. The article also said he had 31 rounds on him. Such specificity suggests to me that the officer volunteered that detail and that he was prepared to expend them all. Otherwise, why bring it up? Finally, the untrained doofus is a lieutenant. Doofus perhaps, but odd that an armed individual could obtain that rank untrained.
Leon Russell's "Song for You" is beautiful. I have no idea if he wrote it for his fans or a lover or what (Wiki says he wrote it for Rita Coolidge). In this version the setting is staged and contrived, but I love the rendition. From 1971, I was 14 and too young to appreciate its beauty at the time.
A Song for You
Not nearly as cold here in southern Maine, but then the nearby ocean keeps us from getting too cold. We've got 10-12 inches on the ground and another 6 to ten coming this week. I'm not one of those to complain about the weather. I love this time of year.
Mrs. stevew and I will be heading south for a week soon. MIL's 89th birthday is coming and we are headed her way to celebrate in person. She gets her first vaccine dose tomorrow or Monday. Which is nice.
On balance I am glad the impeachment nonsense is over and in the rearview. No we can focus our outrage on all the stupid and nasty shit Biden is up to. How about the fact that POS won't acknowledge Israel as an ally, and refuses to talk with Netanyahu? What's the play?
@Althouse: I sympathize with anyone who has to deal with sub-zero temperatures. I grew up in Connecticut -- not as cold as Madison right now, but plenty cold. I remember attending a pre-Christmas party while I was in college, and every half hour we drew straws to pick the guy who would go out and run everyone's car for a few minutes to keep it from freezing up. Now I live in North Carolina, which is not tropical, but it's quite balmy compared to Madison. You could do your morning run here 365 days (although the lakes are artificial, or at least enhanced).
How's that global warming working out?
We are having extreme cold. please advise others to seek shelter. global warming is not going to help you.
Meanwhile, in de Bolshevik's NYC, 2 people got stabbed to death on the A train
We've gotten about 6-inches of snow here in Bellevue, WA. It's still snowing and it'll be snowing tomorrow too. That's a lot of snow for the lowlands.
As for the doofus copy who shot Ashli Babbitt: He may have been trained on how to use his weapon, but was he trained to be cool under pressure? Did they train him in one of those simulations where not everyone is a bad guy, but the trainee must distinguish between good and bad in a split second? I bet not, since the Capitol Police report to overpaid politicians and are more concerned with looking good than performing well.
I've read my previous state of residence is suffering an ice storm tonight.
The play is Biden will fuck things up like Obama said he would.
Mr. Knightly and Emma are about to finally confess their love for each other.
The Romola Garai version, of course.
"As for the doofus copy who shot Ashli Babbitt"
Oh, so he MURDERED an unarmed woman and he's just a "doofus". Like he's a Klutz who just made a boo-boo. Really?
Do people really care about unarmed citizens being murdered? Or is just all fake when they were crying tears over George floyd, Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown, etc. I'm still outraged about this, but there's no reason to keep banging away at it in a comment section.
I'm supposed to give a shit that Mitt Romney was SCARED by Buffalo Robe Guy. I'm supposed to cry along with Jamie Raskin or whatever the fuck his name is, when Trump isn't railroaded in a fake impeachment. I'm supposed to be so CONCERNED that a person hears the N-word from a NYT's reporter in Peru 3 fucking years ago.
But no one gives a damn that an air force veteran was murdered by a Capital hill's cop on Jan 6th and one month we don't even know his name and he hasn't been charged. But Mitch the Bitch is STILL upset that the Buffalo Robe guy stole nancy's lectern.
The play is Biden will fuck things up like Obama said he would.
Not will, he's already screwing things up. Gas prices up 15% or more since Jan 20. Ending wall construction and welcoming the illegal aliens with open arms. Not saying that Israel is an ally and not calling Netanyahu. Talking tough to Russia while cutting oil and gas production. A strong leader would act strongly and talk softly, as Teddy Roosevelt said: "Talk softly, but carry a big stick." I'd say he's a traitor, but he's too dumb to know what that word means.
Hollywood is stuck in an endless loop of remaking time loop movies. They got it right the first time with Groundhog Day.so maybe it's not so much a loop as a downward spiral. The latest one is The Map of Tiny Perfect Things. It's no Edge of Tomorrow (the Tom Cruise one), but it's okay. The gimmick is that the guy stuck in the time loop meets a girl who's also stuck in the time loop. The two leads are pleasant enough to watch, but there's no way they could be high school students. Maybe they're stuck in a time loop and getting older while everyone else remains the same. The movie doesn't explore that possibility. Everyone just pretends that these two mid twenty year olds look like high school students.....If I ever get stuck in a time loop and have to infinitely watch the same time loop movie over and over again, this would not be my first choice. That remains Groundhog Dau.
Peasants are Peasants. You can bring to America, but can't keep them from tugging their forelocks and thinking "Them thar smart people up in the castle" get to rule us. That's why giving females the vote was the big mistake. You have plenty of smart women, but overall women's suffrage just increased the stupid vote. And letting in more 3rd world voters is making it even worse.
Oh sorry, I'm not supposed to write that. We're all supposed to pretend that's not true and sing a happy song. Pretty soon we can all sing about our great leader Kam Harris and how Big Sister will make us all happy and not to worry, she's got it all taken care of. Just watch that football game and have a beer. Its all OK, Grandpa Biden and Big Sister Kam will watch out for us. Comrade.
If I ... a better person than I am, the next time I walk into a pet store, I am gonna take a look at the ten or twenty betta fish in their little cups, I am gonna buy ten or twenty five gallon fish tanks and all the accessories - filters, testing equipment, java ferns and other plants, and I am gonna bring them all back home to live a good life. Other people have done similar things.
Hoarding animals is bad, but having ten or twenty five gallon fish tanks is not that big of a deal for any American who does not live paycheck to paycheck. Just saying.
Also, poor Nikki Haley. Trump 2024 is gonna be the end of her ambitions. Well, she is a little too much of a war monger, anyway.
Washington will be stuck in an endless loop of impeachment proceedings. Like Groundhog Day, the first one, the one that starred Bill Clinton, was the best one. That one had everything: sex, an actual crime, and Bill Clinton wagging his finger. They'll never top that.
"As for the doofus copy who shot Ashli Babbitt:"
I watched the video of A Babbit being shot. Where's the hole in the wall? A 9 mm will punch through skin just like my paper targets.
Time loop movies are just an idealized version of Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Every future day is pretty much like every past day and then you get old and die. It's pretty to think that as we re-enact the monotony we get better at it and then, when we perfect it, we move on to some kind of higher plane or a different tomorrow.
Blogger Quayle said...
We need to come together to fix a pressing national issue. It should be illegal for anyone to say “Oh my God” or “Oh my gosh” when they see their newly refurbished home on HGTV. Whose with me?
2/13/21, 8:24 PM
And, no more unexpected pipes in wall that need to be moved at extra cost. Should have a clue after the first fifty or so.
So I was watching this episode of Gunsmoke the other day and I was really puzzled when one character said to another that some folks up north were talking about abolishing slavery.
Odd, I thought, since the show is set in the post-Civil War era.
@Althouse: I went out skiing on the local frozen lake today (I'm near La Crosse), but I only lasted 20 minutes wearing my best sub-zero garb. It is really fuckin' cold here.
When I was a kid, sometimes I would make a few bucks, and I would get on my bike and head to the stamps and coin store five miles away, I would lock my bike on the bike stand, and I would greedily stare at the latest topical stamps ---- Gems and Minerals from Botswana, The Constellations from Nigeria, Herbs from France, but would usually wind up buying a cheap 99 cent pack of "world-wide commemoratives".
Fifty years later - well, more than that --- I sometimes dream of reentering those sad little stamp and coin stores, all of them long gone, and seeing all the beauty I had missed, fifty years previously.
It never overwhelms me ---- as a lifelong PTSD sufferer (car crashes, vicious tropical flesh-eating diseases, actual criminals trying to kill me and almost succeeding - that sort of thing - but let not your heart be troubled,all those criminals are long dead) I am really good at not getting overwhelmed by dreams
(if I did get overwhelmed I would have died a thousand times from a thousand cardiac arrests) ----
but I gotta say, I have some friends who are grandparents, and who were NOT the best of people when they were young, and when I see the look of love and pride in their eyes when they talk about their sons and daughters and their Amazing Grandchildren, I gotta say, even in this world, people sometimes get better with the years.
that was about time loop movies
That's why giving females the vote was the big mistake.
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The biggest mistake is giving people the vote when they do not pay for the consequences.
Women, being the lower earning sex that also craves financial security will ALWAYS tend to vote to put her hands on my big, thick, wallet.
No taxation without representation?
I say no representation without taxation.
Don't pay net taxes, don't get to vote.
Voting day is April 15th. Net positive tax bill over the year and you get to file your ballot with your taxes. Heck, can even be electronically.
(before you innumerate morons get on me about refunds, I'm saying net taxes. You make 50K, pay 10k in Social and Medicare and income taxes, get a 2k refund, you're still paying net taxes, you just overpaid the government during the year).
No net tax bill, you're a tax eater, you don't get to vote. Beggars can't be choosers.
Why is Ashlii Babbit's killer still not owning up to taking a human life? Who is covering for him and why?
won't acknowledge Israel as an ally, and refuses to talk with Netanyahu? What's the play?
The people manning his foreign policy in the ME have a pro-Palestinian/anti-Israel background. Some of them radically so. His admin will take a completely different tack than Trump did, which was to basically take Palistine out of the equation since they were never going to cooperate anyway. Biden? seems to be doing the exact opposite. Does anyone know who is getting the contract for the Saudis nuclear plant? Last I heard it was Russia, China or the US. And the Saudis won't accept the Gold Standard no matter who. Pretty sure Biden? wants back in the JCPOA, but since they are running IR8s now I'm not sure what kind of deal he can get. What's with the immediate troop movement into Syria? One thing's for sure though, the more Biden? gives to Iran the stonger the relationship between Israel and the Saudis will get.
Obama's plan on steroids.
rcocean wrote: But no one gives a damn that an air force veteran was murdered by a Capital hill's cop on Jan 6th and one month we don't even know his name and he hasn't been charged. But Mitch the Bitch is STILL upset that the Buffalo Robe guy stole nancy's lectern.
There are so many sensitive issues at play. The killer could have been a cowardly black man (watch the video). THAT would be volatile: A black man shoots and kills a white woman when that exact sort of interrracial dynamic is supposed to be friendlier?
Rt41Rebel said...
I've read my previous state of residence is suffering an ice storm tonight.
If it was Maryland (or maybe Virginia, Delaware or New Jersey) it is.
What do the following songs have in common?
"Another Day in Paradise" by Phil Collins
"The Pina Colada Song" by Rupert Holmes
"Someday We'll Be Together" by The Supremes
"Why" by Frankie Avalon
"Smoothe" by Santana
Does anyone know who is getting the contract for the Saudis nuclear plant?
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any chance Israel will do a solid for Saudi
@Fritz
Are you on the shithouse side of MD? (Fritz will get this reference, many of you won't.)
"Officers on the US Capitol Police force issued a no-confidence vote against several top leaders following the January 6 riot at the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob that led to dozens of officer injuries and the death of one officer, CNN reported.
According to the report, no-confidence votes of varying totals cast by members of the Capitol Police union were issued against acting Chief Yoganada Pittman, two assistant chiefs, three deputy chiefs, and a captain in the division that staffs the Capitol building following ongoing turmoil at the police agency.
Pittman assumed the role of acting chief after former Chief Steven Sund resigned following the siege, after lawmakers, and namely, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat from California, called for his resignation. The Sergeants-at-Arms for the US House and Senate also resigned after the attack.
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The insurrection is the subject of the second impeachment of the former president.
Five people died as a result of the riot, including Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, a 12-year veteran of the force, who died as a result of injuries he sustained during the insurrection. Dozens of other officers were injured. Another officer died by suicide days later.
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https://www.businessinsider.com/capitol-police-officers-no-confidence-vote-in-top-leaders-2021-2
By the way, I'm so old I remember a recent summer where mostly peaceful protest and unrest were the descriptions du jour.
Were they ever referred to as a "mob"?
"Unseasonably cold" here, according to the weather guy. How can cold be unseasonable in the middle of the winter?
That said, it really is cold for us--in the 20s now and highs below freezing for the next few days. The forecast includes 3-8" of snow starting tomorrow evening. Some older teenagers here have never seen a good snow even by our standards.
Narr
My work here is done
NC had ice last night and cold rain all day today, but my boxwoods are back upright.
That's why giving females the vote was the big mistake.
The Constitution did not, does not discriminate by sex. The 19th Amendment merely regularized the right to vote in several jurisdictions. The 14th Amendment was a statement of inclusion, not exclusion. The Twilight Amendment... well, that's something altogether different, not limited to legalizing Progressives' selective-child policy, and, in following, cannibalized-child under the religious ("ethical") pretense of planned parent/hood.
That's why giving females the vote was the big mistake.
Men and women are equal in rights and complementary in Nature/nature. Character (e.g. principles) are not sex dependent, and some of the most reliable conservatives (i.e. Pro-Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness under our constitutional framework) are women who are not prone to semantic games, conceptual corruption, nor conflation of logical domains. Sex is not a deficit in character or practice.
We don't have clear story on who shot Ashli Babbit and why.
We don't know what Officer Sicknick died of.
All we know for sure is that Big Tech and Big Media and the 7RatSide, all want only one side of the story told. Theirs.
And Trump is on the other side. With us.
stephen cooper said...
When I was a kid, sometimes I would make a few bucks, and I would get on my bike and head to the stamps and coin store five miles away, I would lock my bike on the bike stand, and I would greedily stare at the latest topical stamps ---- Gems and Minerals from Botswana, The Constellations from Nigeria, Herbs from France, but would usually wind up buying a cheap 99 cent pack of "world-wide commemoratives".
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And let's not forget them purty triangular Nicaraguan stamps, the ones I traded to unsuspecting newbies for those old and tired 1873 George Washington stamps with the funny perforations.....
Re Turley, sorry for posting here:
"Yet, there was a glaring omission in the substance of the House arguments. The managers... only briefly touched on proving any 'state of mind' needed for such a conviction."
And yet, 57 voted in favor. Shows their essential corruption.
And it also shows why the nice handwringing of the Turleys and the Althouses is so beside the point: it was a destructive prog stunt, nothing more. Of course, voting for it is worse.
wholelottasplainin' ---
the guys who ran the stamp and coin store, when I was a kid, made a lot of money knowing a lot about perforations. I know that now ---- but back then,it was just the place with the glass-covered counters under which were displayed those marvelous Sierra Leone "Constellation" stamps, those intoxicating Botswana "Gem and Mineral" stamps, et cetera. (by the way, I am having trouble remembering which African country had those great constellation stamps, but I am almost positive the gem and mineral stamps were Botswana stamps).
Every single Democratic Senator really thought that Trump deserved to be impeached?
Not likely, what is more likely is that they are all afraid of the truth.
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The problem isn't giving women the right to vote, it's giving a say to people who have no investment in an honest, responsible government.
SCHOOLBOY 'KILLERS' Thugs, 15 & 17, ‘filmed themselves gang raping woman, 36, and beating her to death in a park as other boys watched’
Ee Lee, 36, was brutally beaten and raped before being left for dead in a Wisconsin park in September
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Bail was set at $300,000 for Spencer and $275,000 for Lewis.
What was the bail for Rittenhouse? Two million ($2,000,000) dollars?
@pacwest:
The people manning his foreign policy in the ME have a pro-Palestinian/anti-Israel background. Some of them radically so.
Would you mind naming some names?
His admin will take a completely different tack than Trump did, which was to basically take Palistine out of the equation since they were never going to cooperate anyway.
What Trump did was to outsource US foreign policy in the middle east to Tel Aviv, Riyadh, and Abu Dhabi. Trump merely removed the last shred of pretense that the US was ever an honest broker in the conflict but is instead primarily concerned with defending the Israeli occupation.
wants back in the JCPOA, but since they are running IR8s now I'm not sure what kind of deal he can get.
The deal is already there. The US need only rejoin it.
One thing's for sure though, the more Biden? gives to Iran the stonger the relationship between Israel and the Saudis will get.
"Gives" is an interesting word choice there. The only concession required of the US to rejoin the deal is to cease its recent efforts at economically sabotage the country.
If Israeli and Saudi security cooperation increases, fine. It's no concern of ours. Still, it will likely continue through backchannels and informal contacts. Saudi normalization with Israel would send shockwaves through the kingdom and could easily ignite a crisis of legitimacy. Their legitimacy derives from their role as the custodian of the two holy mosques and the defender of the faith. This arrangement has been the primary impediment to Saudi modernization.
What was the bail for Rittenhouse? Two million ($2,000,000) dollars?
Yeah, but perverts and violent, wealthy white kids are Democrat protected classes. Middle-aged Asian women are not.
Tom Brady threw anther perfect pass when he threw the Super Bowl trophy to his teammates on another boat.
Hey, you guys don't know cold until you've been to LA and it's 60 degrees.
The other day I walked ten miles inside my house. Looking forward to warmer weather but will be happy to enjoy some snow.
Speaking of Kenosha, I remember being there for news coverage, random city dwellers coming up to me describing waking to what sounded like bombs going off as the various car lost were torched.
Poor Jamie Raskin would have shit his pants.
"Hey, you guys don't know cold until you've been to LA and it's 60 degrees."
There is truth here. The first Feb I worked in Miami, some mornings were in the mid 50s, and the guys I worked with showed up wearing mittens, wool hats, and puffy coats. I was comfortable in a short sleeve polo. I told them that where I came from, a Feb morning in the 50s is put your convertible top down weather.
There is truth here. The first Feb I worked in Miami, some mornings were in the mid 50s, and the guys I worked with showed up wearing mittens, wool hats, and puffy coats.
you adjust. Whether its hot or cold.
The other day I walked ten miles inside my house. Looking forward to warmer weather but will be happy to enjoy some snow.
Sometimes, its better to be 25 degrees with sun, then 55 degrees with Rain. Just sayin'
Blogger Bob said...
Hey, you guys don't know cold until you've been to LA and it's 60 degrees.
I hear ya, barely 58 tonight in Santa Clara County, 57 with wind chill.Brrrr.. Long johns and wool socks.
BTW, they still make electric blankets?
The other day I walked ten miles inside my house.
1950's Ranch style? Bathroom always 100 feet away from where you are?
"1950's Ranch style?"
Very close! Late 1960's. The layout of the middle part allows for a loop. I prefer the loop to down and back because I don't like the down and back turnarounds.
"you adjust. Whether its hot or cold."
Well yeah, but where I live now there is far less temp variation. MD has plenty of sub 20° days, and also quite a few +100° days. Summer days here are a consistent 91°, and there is not a single >99° day in the history of weather records here. Temps below 32° occur 2-3 times a decade.
J. Farmer: "Would you mind naming some names?"
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/02/anti-israeli-staffers-keep-joining-the-biden-administration.php
@Kassaar:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/02/anti-israeli-staffers-keep-joining-the-biden-administration.php
Exactly the kind of lame smear job that outfits like Power Line peddle to credulous readers looking to confirm preexisting biases.
I remember Matt Duss from the old Bloggingheads days. He's written on foreign policy from a left-wing perspective for years. But here's the evidence for his sinister anti-Israel position:
(1) "He allegedly was part of an incident in 2012 where several staffers at the center’s ThinkProgress website...alleged “pro-Israel Jews and members of Congress of being ‘Israel firsters,’ a term implying that those who support the Jewish state have dual loyalties.”
(2) "He also faced a backlash for publicizing Nazi-era propaganda posters in 2013." There's a hyperlink to a Free Beacon article that says: "Duss, a blogger at the CAP Action Fund’s ThinkProgress website, used the Nazi posters to substantiate his accusation that a political cartoon published by a right-leaning Israel group was "blatantly anti-Semitic." The article also helpfully informs us, "The comparison of Im Tirtzu’s parody posters to Nazi propaganda was completely unwarranted, anti-Semitism experts said."
(3) "In 2019, Duss also drew controversy for meeting with Hanan Ashrawi, a longtime aide to Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas."
(4) "More recently, Duss called the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh “terrorism.” "
(5) "He also criticized American Jewish Committee CEO David Harris for his comparison between Rep. Marjorie Greene Taylor (R-Ga.) and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) for their anti-Semitic rhetoric."
Wow...that's quite a damning case. Nine years ago Duss was "allegedly part of an incident" where "staffers' used the term "Israeli firsters," he once criticized posters from a right-wing Israeli NGO, and he once criticized something the CEO of a Jewish advocacy group said. He's practically Goebbels.
I guess at Power Line, "anti-Israel" means "criticized some Jewish guys a couple of times."
Here in Hong Kong it's a relatively balmy 21C.
I'm enjoying it while I can. It's my last winter here. Next winter will be spent back in Canada. It's been a great 20+ years here, but like all good things it must come to an end.
On the bright side, I will be able to smoke weed again. Oh, Canada! :)
Bad stuff happening in L.A. County where my sis lives.
Another Asian Senior Robbed in Broad Daylight After Being Followed
"My mother was robbed in broad daylight around 1:45 p.m. at Ni Ni Bakery on Colima. She was targeted and followed after making a withdrawal from Cathay Bank on 1250 Fullerton Rd, City of Industry,” explained the son, who would like to keep his identity confidential. We will refer to him as Victor.
“She went to Ni Ni Bakery after to buy bread for the family. My mother is in her 50s. She was thrown to the ground and had her purse snatched while her elbow was still interlocked. Please be on the lookout for a gray/ silver Honda Civic license plate ending in 907. The suspect is an African-American male who also had an accomplice driver. After the robbery, the suspect turned right on Colima heading towards Nogales.”
Victor continued to state, “Credit card was attempted to be used not long after at Ontario Footlocker.”
It was not far from the bakery in the article that my Dad and sister were grocery shopping and someone lifted his wallet. When he went to pay, it was gone. Sis had the presence of mind to call his bank right away which kept his debit card from being used at a Target about a mile west of there.
This might have a little to do with the uptick in criminal activity:
Los Angeles County prosecutors file lawsuit against new district attorney over justice reform efforts
"The union representing Los Angeles County prosecutors has sued their boss, newly elected District Attorney George Gascón, over his attempt to impose justice reforms.
The lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Wednesday aims to gut Gascón's platform by proposing to end his mandate to stop seeking prior felony conviction enhancements — including for gun possession, gang membership and violating the "three strikes" law — that lengthen sentences when suspects are convicted."
Get woke, other folks go broke.
"I guess at Power Line, 'anti-Israel' means 'criticized some Jewish guys a couple of times.'"
There is a difference between "criticizing some Jewish guys" and "criticizing some guys because they were Jewish."
Exactly the kind of lame smear job that outfits like Power Line peddle to credulous readers looking to confirm preexisting biases.
@Farmer, consider the likelihood (make that near certainty) that you’re the credulous one. Assuming you’ve done your usual cherry-picking this Duss character sounds like someone who should be nowhere near US foreign policy in the Middle East.
When I was young and lived up north, I learned this fact: gloves may look cool, but mittens help keep your hands warmer than gloves.
THEOLDMAN
I had a very large paper route in the 60s (185 daily, 350 Sundays); the only time I got help from my parents was when it snowed and the roads were not clear enough for my bike to ride on. It was then I delivered papers from the tailgate of the family station wagon
THIS is what the Democrats are all about. You don't see Republicans doing shit like this.. ..SHAMEFUL!!
Where are the Democrats to call off their little Brown Shirts or are they going to wait until something really bad happens first???
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/02/entire-family-law-firm-home-siege-right-now-trump-attorney-van-der-veen-chokes-talking-vicious-assaults-democrats-video/
The greatest song for this temperature ever.
"You know it's nine below zero people, and my love don't mean a thing"
Sonny Boy Williamson
I am not sure at all that it is the job of the US to act as an "honest broker" in disputes between a small, pro-Western democracy and a much larger America-hating theocracy.
And it also shows why the nice handwringing of the Turleys and the Althouses is so beside the point: it was a destructive prog stunt, nothing more.
@Sebastian, +1
I think Althouse — and Turley — talked themselves into believing Trump must be guilty, and the House impeachment managers blew it. This is irrational. Occam’s razor suggests to me that Trump is innocent and there never was any mens rea that could be proved. Althouse’s beloved Democrats were just playing a foolish and disgusting game that cost the House only a day or so of its time but cost the Senate much more than that. Neither Turley nor our blog hostess seems ready to accept that the invasion of the Capitol building itself was part of the game, using agent provocateurs,
Big Mike wrote:
. . .
Occam’s razor suggests to me that Trump is innocent and there never was any mens rea that could be proved.
. . .
Well, yes. The house managers would you believe that Trump was plotting to have people he had never met, whose names he did not know and the existence of whom he could not be certain, invade the capitol and stop the electoral certification process, all without giving anyone actual instructions.
Creighton beat #5 Villanova by 20. My team is now playing like I thought they could.
Blogger Rt41Rebel said...
@Fritz
Are you on the shithouse side of MD? (Fritz will get this reference, many of you won't.)
Nope. 40 miles south of DC on the Western Shore.
The shithouse is what Willie Don Schaefer, former Mayor of Baltimore and Gov. of Maryland called the Eastern Shore, when they refused to vote for him.
Schaefer tries to flush away his recent 'outhouse' remark Contrite governor gives public apology to Shore.
-18F here.
"you adjust. Whether it's hot or cold."
How well you can adjust might be adaptable.
I stood outside in -5F for five minutes yesterday, twice, wearing only a bathing suit and boots, while dripping wet. Let the sun give me some vitamin D. Felt great.
Each time, of course, I had just spent 15 minutes in a 180 degree sauna. One theory for why that is good for you is that you are teaching your body to regulate itself.
Happy VD all!!!
A good day now that Trump has been PROVEN INNOCENT!
Remember that one? They always come back to bite you in the ass, lefties. Hearts....
@Lewis Wetzel:
There is a difference between "criticizing some Jewish guys" and "criticizing some guys because they were Jewish."
So even if the criticisms are valid, he's guilty of having suspect motives? This is the exact rhetorical game the woke left plays--ignore the substance of the critique and go straight to impugning motives and intentions. If someone criticize some anti-racist program, call them racist.
I am not sure at all that it is the job of the US to act as an "honest broker" in disputes between a small, pro-Western democracy and a much larger America-hating theocracy.
I was referring to the US role in the peace process between the Israelis and the Palestinians. The US provides the diplomatic cover for Israel to ignore its obligations under the Fourth Geneva Convention and continue its de facto annexation of the Greater Jerusalem, the Golan, and the Jordan Valley.
@Big Mike:
@Farmer, consider the likelihood (make that near certainty) that you’re the credulous one. Assuming you’ve done your usual cherry-picking this Duss character sounds like someone who should be nowhere near US foreign policy in the Middle East.
The "usual cherry-picking" is precisely what I was responding to. If that had been a post on a left-wing blog about a right-wing writer and said "anti-black" instead of "anti-Israel," it would be decried as identity politics. Imagine they were calling someone racist and citing "once criticized a black person on Twitter" as part of the evidence. How convincing would you find that?
Everyone is subject to confirmation bias. I don't really care what people think so long as they can explain to me why they think it. The reason this can prove challenging for some is because a conclusion is not where they've ended up but where they've started.
What Trump did was to outsource US foreign policy in the middle east to Tel Aviv, Riyadh, and Abu Dhabi.
GM builds cars in China because that's where the customers are.
"Hey, you guys don't know cold until you've been to LA and it's 60 degrees."
And you don't now what a blizzard is until you've experience a one-half inch snowfall in Philadelphia.
@Skippy Tisdale:
GM builds cars in China because that's where the customers are.
The US has a distinct set of security interests and concerns. Instead of using our relationship with those states to advance our interests, we are adopting their security concerns as our own. The demand of "no daylight" is absurd.
And you don't now what a blizzard is until you've experience a one-half inch snowfall in Philadelphia.
And you don't now what a blizzard is until you've experienced a snowfall in Washington, DC, just two snowflakes deep.
Blizzard now in Austin.
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