September 25, 2018 6:00 AM
Morning Reads for Tuesday, September 25
Good morning! I don’t know how you numb the pain of living in this figurative lobster pot, but actual lobsters are dealing with it with the help of some kind bud.
- Several colleges are finding new ways to navigate the aftermath of on-campus sexual assaults.
- MEAG voted yesterday to forge ahead with Plant Vogtle.
- Many in Macon don’t have access to health care. 97 volunteers at the Macon Volunteer Clinic are helping bridge that gap.
- Upheaval in the Athens-Clarke County Police Department.
- A recent Pew survey basically confirms that women have what it takes to be better leaders than men.
- Gu’s Dumplings is returning to Buford Highway!
- How to be more likable (this is an essential click for many commenters).
- Five essential southern ingredients (I currently have all of these in either my fridge or the pantry).
- Mr. Rogers > any superhero you can think of.
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Teri
Teri Anulewicz is a Democrat who represents House District 42 in the Georgia General Assembly. She previously spent nearly a decade on the Smyrna City Council. A native New Orleanian and quasi-Texan, Teri graduated from Agnes Scott College in 1998. She's been a front page contributor since 2015, and she compiles each Tuesday's Morning Reads.
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More Dem Rent a Thugs!
https://dailycaller.com/2018/09/24/ted-cruz-protested-dc-restaurant/
Norway the correct term is Brown Shirts for the protestors.
You Libs ok with these tactics?
Of course they are. Part of the hateful playbook. If it were reversed and conservatives acted that way CNN would play it on a nonstop loop. More fair and balanced tactics. Par for the liberal golf course. I am glad I don’t play on that goat track…
And you show up with your RentaMobs and make him a sympathetic figure. And then he wins. Smart on yalls part! Ted by Ten!
So, you’d personally go to his table and start screaming and cussing at him?
I didn’t read the story, but I disagree with the tactic of anything beyond respectful conversation during a meal. But folks can do “citizen lobbying” and approach and converse, or even sit at the neighboring table and hold up a message. I think having to be available to the public is part of being a public servant. But I think the respectful approach, besides being more ethical, is also more effective in several ways.
A walk-by farting during dinner.
Ha!
and Cruz sounds like “Mr. Haney” from ‘Green Acres’.
PS the airline steward technical term for airplane-aisle-farting is “crop dusting”
Well Beto isn’t, and in Texas, that is all that really counts.
https://www.axios.com/2018-midterm-elections-beto-orourke-ted-cruz-11ab72e6-c514-400a-b339-ce9b559151e6.html
Noway, sure they are. Just read some of the posts by people who hold themselves forth on here as some kind of civilized adults. We are now seeing the arrival of campus culture (or lack thereof) into the world at large. Sick.
Pat. Right as rain.
http://buchanan.org/blog/the-huge-stakes-of-thursdays-confrontations-130241
Just a dang shame.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/sep/24/activist-federal-staffer-no-longer-at-doj/
Back when the Vogtle reactor expansion was proposed I wrote the PSC and my state reps opposing it. My reason was history proved that GA Power and the Southern Co. could not manage a project like this. I stated that since there were no safe guards in the contracts it would go way over budget and not be completed on time just like the last reactor project. What did the PSC do, passed it anyway. To make it more of an insult to GA citizens they allowed rate payers to be charged in advanced for it. I guess you could take 27 billion in cash and burn it to start up one of the coal power plant boilers. It might start up one of the steam generators for a few minutes. Now after 27 billion has been spent politicians are clamoring to shut it down. Give me a break. Put on your big boy pants and finish it because it is the only way anyone will see any return on the 27 billion already spent. Then write laws to stop allowing this kind of atrocity to happen again or this kind of history will be repeated again and again and again….
Because I don’t know, can someone tell me how these cost over runs are allowed on something like this or any gov’t project? Cost over runs that double or triple the original price of projects? Why should this be allowed as “the cost” of doing business? Seriously…
Because GP’s lobbying and campaign contributions allowed them to get a contract that deferred all the risk away from them onto rate payers.
To answer on the most basic level, all the risk of changes and adjustments to the work is embedded in the contract, and yes, having ratepayers pay the costs means GP is less accountable. Again, not my area of expertise, but when there are cost over-runs that are disproportionate to the size of the project and the known risks, it appears that the initial publicized costs were intentionally low-balled to make the deal more politically palatable. I imagine there may be info out there about this?
To expand on this for Norway
First it’s not a government project, it is government regulated as all reactors are, and it has some funding by federal loans which have a define set of building and inspection regs and standards depending on which cabinet level budget funds the loans. The owners are the three power companies. They would have a construction firm/owner contract, even if Southern Company is the main contractor since the other owners are not. Think of it as a huge public private project.
A contract can be a estimate or bid price allowing full change orders, or it can be a turn Key with caped price. Either could also have time limits and over schedule penalties added in. Every construction contract regardless of type will have different areas with unforeseen condition clauses, like bad soils, acts of God and or war, a contracted suppler going out of business, legal fees to place liens on said supplier, a federally mandated change in material use, finding the last know pair of UGA birds have a nest where spent rod storage pools go , ect. These are allowable change orders in any contract. A cap contract would force you to reduce the scope of work or materials to keep it to cost out side unforeseen issues or the owner allows it because they want the higher end material or additional area. With a build as highly regulated as a reactor, a cap contract is not possible in most cases since you can’t switch out mandatory safety related materials or reduce size of a recator. So the contractor is going to start charging the owner changer orders for stuff like, change in material costs, change in federally required local pay scales (Davis Bacon), upgrading security, it’s taco Tuesday for the crew (if they can justify it as a necessary change of course), ect…
I would bet they scoped this as a design/build to get it approved as fast as they did. I’m guessing the plans for secondary structures, civil work not involved in the running of the reactor and ground security packages were most likely not developed, just a projected cost per SF or unit (using 2009 pricing naturally -which were artificially low due to the crash).
Most large scale complex builds run over budget if they can’t cut costs through scope and size. You just don’t hear about it if it’s not owned by public tax collecting entity, requires some sort of access to a publically regulated right of way (like all the warehouse and the train lines integration into the ports or a regulated utility.
Gives you a whole new respect for the contractors that fixed the collapsed i-85 bridge
That was T & M “get it done”, using known design and units, unit price & labor plus 7% of cost, with a scaled time bonus.
Yes, ratepayers get stuck with the bill while Southern Co. shareholders get dividends and stock value goes up. Shareholders of a publicly traded co. should shoulder most of these costs, not the poor consumers who were sold ‘cheaper, reliable, environmentally friendly’ electricity.
I blame Stan Wise…he generally was the one who pushed these things through.
It also didnt help the Westinghouse went bankrupt well into the process
There has been a mess with the contractors on that job too. I think the original contractor was fired due to the delays and overruns, then Westinghouse took over, then they hired a couple other companies to help them manage it all, then Westinghouse went bankrupt, so I think one or both of the other contractors took over.
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Plus, there were extra protests and lawsuits because this was approved shortly after the Fukishima disaster and many wanted to try to make sure this design was safe.
The project will be finished and a nice 11th hour letter from the DOE saying “the $6B in federal loans will need to be repaid promptly if the project is abandoned” sure did help to get those muni’s on board. A little push from the eye-glasses wearing former Gov of Texas sure helped to move things along.
For all of bluster conservatives and Republicans give about being fiscally responsible and economic stewards, they will ALWAYS be SO MUCH EASIER to “lobby” than Democrats.
You can try to blame this on Republicans if you want but when Hatch and Vogtle were built in the 70’s with the same mismanagement and overruns guess who was in power in Georgia. Yes, that would be the Democrats. All Republicans can be blamed for on this is being just as stupid as Democrats.
Many (if not most) Dems back then were actually Republicans in all but name who didn’t have the courage to associate themselves with the party of Lincoln. They were called Blue Dog Democrats. It wasn’t until 130 years after The Late Unpleasantness that they began to change their affiliation. But whatever Party they were in, they were always conservative.
Of course I meant to say ‘Southern’ Dems.
Benev, can you guys simply cut and paste the “you are a racist and I hate you” comments that have not been changed for at least 50 years…and why no one believes it any more other than the radical 20% fringe.
OH no they were not Benevolus. Back then we had a Governor named Jimmy Carter. As far as the rest of them they were just Opportunistic Politicians who were there only to hold on to power as long as they could. Democratic or Republican labels are meaningless to them.
What was it about Jimmy Carter’s governorship that wasn’t conservative?
The first estimate for the project was less than $7B. It was up to nearly $15B when it was authorized for construction. My recollection is that according to a RAND corporation study the average cost overrun for nuclear plant construction is 150% , so if this project is average, it’s going to top out at over $36B.
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Raleigh, at this point approximately $15B, not $27B has been spent. Cost to complete using your figure is $12B more (or over $20B more if this is ultimately an average project). Is it worth it to spend $12B, your figure, to complete?
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Consider the most recent activity. Last year Southern Company said it would cost over $10B more and that cost to complete was under control in order to obtain PSC approval. There were no guarantees on the total cost. Then only couple of months later said oops, we missed another $2.2B. Not exactly a rounding error.
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Southern Company’s generosity was they would absorb $700M of that, which as I pointed out in a comment on another thread, amounts to one year’s interest on a $30B investment.
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It’s an easy call. Plug the plug unless the cost to be recovered from ratepayers is capped. Because there’s absolutely nothing in the record to indicate costs will not continue to balloon.
Not my figures. I was totally against it to start with but now that 27 B has been flushed down the drain if you stop it that money is a total waste. The only way you could ever recop anything is to suck it up and finish it.
You’re $27B was correct. I had it in my mind the total was closer to $29B.
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More money is being wasted if it’s not worth spending $12B to finish it, and if it is worth it, at what amount of money won’t it be worth it? There’s certainly no guarantee they’ll finish it for $27B.
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Using their misprojections to date to project into the future, they spent 80% of the budget to learn they needed 80% more. At that rate when they’ve spent over $20B we’ll be told it’ll take another $8B ($35B total) to complete.
This whole thing was a waste from the start but in for a penny, in for a pound. If you spend 35B to finish it you will start to get a return on your investment even if it never fully makes back 35b. If you stop it your 27B is just gone. All it boils down too is how much blood are you going to lose…At lease with a finished reactor it can put some of it back..
People would be at the Capitol with pitchforks if we spent $27B on alternative energy development.
Kudos to the Macon Volunteer Clinic. Our state government should be trying to make this a reality in every county in Georgia rather than be an impediment.
For the list of essential ingredients for southern cooking I would add:
1. Cornmeal- for baking and frying.
2. Duke Mayonnaise – tomato sandwiches
3. Grits
4. Pecans
5. Smoked ham hocks or country ham- especially for greens in the fall and winter.
I try to keep buttermilk on hand but I rarely use more than half a half-quart in a week so it seems like a waste of money.
I would also suggest some chili powder or cayenne pepper for seasoning.
Duke’s Mayo rules!
I dont have buttermilk (nasty)
Say it ain’t so…
https://www.mediaite.com/online/hearing-in-doubt-christine-fords-lawyer-rips-senate-plan-to-have-prosecutor-ask-questions-not-fair-and-respectful/
I would suggest this line of questioning for Kavanaugh:
“The more important, and curious, question is not how Kavanaugh accrued the debts attributed to the baseball tickets, but how he paid them down. It’s strange to imagine that a man of comparatively modest means would put tens of thousands of dollars on credit cards to buy baseball tickets, but even stranger that they would have been paid off so fast. The White House says that Kavanaugh’s friends reimbursed him for the tickets, and that he no longer buys them. The fact remains that Kavanaugh suddenly cleared at least $60,000 and as much as $200,000 in mysterious debt over one year—sums large enough that senators might well want to know who the sources of the payments were.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/07/new-strike-against-kavanaugh-season-tickets/565022/
Too bad that has nothing to do with Thursday’s subject matter and will not be asked or answered.
Or just maybe he didn’t do it and Democrats continue their dirty trick hit jobs year after year. Why would anyone believe the democrats after lying and crying wolf on almost every topic they touch? That includes their media buddies.
The entire Special Council and Russia investigation is a Democratic, FBI and media hit piece as well. Why would folks believe these last minute political plants?
The end is near climate change predictions are over the top nonsense. The pink hat brigade the day of the Inauguration was over the top. This is more of the same from the same folks.
Every other supreme court nomination of a conservative has been a fiasco. Why would anyone think this is any different?
You should just go ahead and save that as a text file so you don’t have to re-type it every time.
Yes little buddy SOME do.
Do you think there’s a pattern with any of those a—holes that you just listed… There’s no pattern here is there little buddy.
Those guys of been doing that crap all their life… you were making fun of Kavanaugh and called him a loser because he was not with a thousand girls… did not abuse them like Clinton….Which is it little buddy?
Are you really an attorney? If so, are you a good one?
No, you’ve got the wrong conspiracy. Ross Douhat names it for you: My feeling at the moment is that the New Yorker story is a brilliant play by liberals to get conservatives to stick with a nominee when they should be open to having him withdraw. (Even more brilliant to add Avenatti to the mix.)
Maybe somebody told her that hundreds have already testified to his integrity, and just last week 75+ women gathered in support of Judge Kavanaugh. Ford named multiple people she said were present for her accused behavior, yet all those named have testified under penalty of felony that it didn’t happen! Not one person has confirmed anything she said.
Now, Ford is claiming that after the alleged “attack”, which supposedly took place sometime around 1982, that she called a friend on her cell phone to tell her about it.
Somewhere in either Chicago, Baltimore or Washington, someone plunked down $3,995 to buy the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, the first handheld cellphone, on March 13, 1984.
Brett Kavanaugh graduated from high school in 1983.
Maybe Soros and his destructive cabal are not paying her enough to face all that in person.
Good point, my brutha!!! You need to post more!
Thanks, I try to find time to join the fray!
Seriously, DTM and I need you! I wish, Raleigh, Silver and Alpha got by more, too! Hell, I wish Konop and Harry were still here.
Do you post comments at Mediaite? Now, THAT is wild west no holds barred commenting there. You’d almost be considered a lib’ there…lol
Nope, Scott, I don’t know what that is. There are too many danged blogs and forums on the internet to figure them all out!
What is that, Scott? What’s their web site? How did you come to know of it?
Whispers that Christine will not show up to testify. If so, McConnell will call for the committee vote within minutes and the full senate vote Friday. If she doesn’t show to testify, Kav won’t utter a word.
“LONDON (Reuters) – The world’s wealthiest families plan to allocate more money to private equity after the asset class helped drive an average 15.5 percent rise in the value of their investments in 2017, according to a survey.
Some 311 family offices – set up to manage the wealth of one or more rich families – took part in the survey, conducted by Swiss bank UBS, whose wealth management arm manages around $2.5 trillion in assets, and Campden Wealth.
The strong gains in 2017 followed an average return of 7 percent in 2016 and were driven by developed and developing market listed equities, which returned 23 percent and 38 percent, respectively, and private equity, which returned 18 percent, the survey showed.
For 2018, the family offices expected their direct venture capital and private equity investments to deliver the best returns, of 13 percent, followed by private equity funds, at 11 percent, and direct real estate investments, at 8.4 percent.
“Family offices have delivered their strongest returns since we began measuring their performance five years ago,” Sara Ferrari, head of UBS’ Global Family Office Group, said.
“This reflects the bull market, as well as family offices’ ability to take a long-term approach and embrace illiquidity.”
Private equity investments typically involve locking money up in a venture for many years, as opposed to listed equity markets which can be sold quickly.”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-funds-family-ubs/worlds-wealthiest-eye-more-private-equity-after-bumper-2017-idUSKCN1M42Q7
It must be nice getting a 15% return on investments. I’m so jelly.
I dont know who is advising them, but that doesnt sound particularly smart (I havent read the article yet). I would want to keep my assets fluid right now. We are statistically due for a downturn . Then again, if they lost most of it that probably wouldnt phase them.
Prediction: Prof is a no show. Kav approved before lunch out of committee. Kav takes a warm seat on the bench Friday!
Noway, your predictions, including yesterday are impressive….I would bet your way. Maybe not on the bench by Friday but I hope so. My question is what is the next over the top circus will the libs will target next?
Certainly the midterms but haven’t they already screamed racism enough and I hate this and that? Well since there is nothing else to run on maybe we can make some money selling folks some ear plugs so they don’t have to listen to these folks.
I know, right? Oh, thanks for signing up to my stock web site. You won’t be sorry. At $500 a month, you’ll find that it’s a bargain!
Ohhhhh, yall remember when I made my 20k on shorting Nike stock right when they signed Kapernick? Well, Ol’ Noway wasn’t finished. Immediately thereafter I bought “calls!” Done sold ’em. Made me 40k! What is it about “catching a falling knife?” Ain’t hard… If you’re Noway! I may have to spot DTM a few hundred so he and His Posse can play at Druid Hills!
LOL! Don’t be hatin’, Sniv!
Noway you are a champ! Me and the home boys are going to playing at Druid Hills! Can you use your considerable heft and influence and gets us ons at East Lake?! How about it my dawg!?
Would you rather play Augusta?
Bless you NOWAY!
I know my crew will have to be on good behavior at Augusta, but sign us up!! Maybe we could get Snivler and Matt to caddy for us!! Maybe Caroline can whip us up some sammiches before we goes!
DTM, I’m pretty sure we don’t have to worry about their creative minds coming up with another public circus, some false accusations against somebody with R by their name.
You remember the list Trump put out during his campaign with his potential choices for the SC? Every damn one of them has been scrubbed for scandal by the Dims. Count on it. This type of filth has been scoped out for all of them. This type of behavior by the Dims ain’t nearly over.
Unfortunately for your sleezy side, wasn’t no dirt on Gorsch…
Yup, don’t cha know it? They have turned into a bunch of no-class anarchists instead of an actual political party. Burn the house down! seems to be their new motto.
On this board today, ACP has a particularly nasty potty mouth. Is he or she always that bad?
Hmm, so you’re basically saying Kavanaugh is guilty? I mean if there was no dirt on Gorsuch and Kavanaugh has a ton then it must be true. Right?
Sally, I think these liberal goobers picked out a few old Penthouse Forum letters from the 70s, they sounded salacious enough and just went out with the story!
They figured the young snowflake buffoons might just buy something that. I especially thought the one claiming Kavanaguh just pulled his britches down like Bill Clinton and “sunshined” her was especially creative!
Heck we already lived through the reign of Bill “Caligula” Clinton…so nothing they come up with could up top the real thing! And they defended him to the hilt!
To have good Ole Hillary leading the Bimbo eruption team…I personally think ole Bill lost it for the Hildabeast…although if she had not played Tammy Wynette so well, she would have never had a Senate Seat bequeathed to her or a chance at winning. She is a great role model!!
Bill and Hillary really live rent free in your head don’t they? I guess they won if they can control your mind and your life like that.
Advice for Libs…send cartons of Ensure and Geritol to Supreme Court. After Kav gets comfy, the next Trump Appointment overturns Roe!!!!! We got six more years! Might be a 7-2 conservative majority by then!!
Now Noway don’t dog whistle these wound up warrior’s… That aint gonna happen. No one is turning over Roe as these overzealous radicals keep prattling about to get their base fired up.
See I am trying to wave the Olive Branch of Truth and reason as always… That is another straw man they actually believe in their empty playbook.
I would encourage folks to learn how to swallow a birth control pill and put on a condom so they don’t have to make that very difficult decision. How hard is that? No pun intended.
Why are the Liberals Consumed with Hate…WSJ yesterday. Going to post this one on this thread. This explains this perfectly to me. Do any of you liberals disagree with this or is it pretty accurate?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-the-left-is-consumed-with-hate-1537723198
I am sure you know Shelby Steele. He is black and not an old white guy…you know ANOTHER group of folks that white liberals hate these days…It is confusing to try and figure out who is on the official hate list…
Here is the cut and pasted article if you are not a WSJ subscriber… Why the left is consumed with hate… Do you think this is accurate. It helps explain it to me.
Why the Left Is Consumed With Hate
Lacking worthy menaces to fight, it is driven to find a replacement for racism. Failing this, what is left?
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Protesters outside Trump Tower in New York the day after Election Day 2016.
Protesters outside Trump Tower in New York the day after Election Day 2016. Photo: LightRocket via Getty Images
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Even before President Trump’s election, hatred had begun to emerge on the American left—counterintuitively, as an assertion of guilelessness and moral superiority. At the Women’s March in Washington the weekend after Mr. Trump’s inauguration, the pop star Madonna said, “I have thought an awful lot of blowing up the White House.” Here hatred was a vanity, a braggadocio meant to signal her innocence of the sort of evil that, in her mind, the White House represented. (She later said the comment was “taken wildly out of context.”)
For many on the left a hateful anti-Americanism has become a self-congratulatory lifestyle. “America was never that great,” New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently said. For radical groups like Black Lives Matter, hatred of America is a theme of identity, a display of racial pride.
For other leftists, hate is a license. Conservative speakers can be shouted down, even assaulted, on university campuses. Republican officials can be harassed in restaurants, in the street, in front of their homes. Certain leaders of the left—Rep. Maxine Waters comes to mind—are self-appointed practitioners of hate, urging their followers to think of hatred as power itself.
How did the American left—conceived to bring more compassion and justice to the world—become so given to hate? It began in the 1960s, when America finally accepted that slavery and segregation were profound moral failings. That acceptance changed America forever. It imposed a new moral imperative: America would have to show itself redeemed of these immoralities in order to stand as a legitimate democracy.
The genius of the left in the ’60s was simply to perceive the new moral imperative, and then to identify itself with it. Thus the labor of redeeming the nation from its immoral past would fall on the left. This is how the left put itself in charge of America’s moral legitimacy. The left, not the right—not conservatism—would set the terms of this legitimacy and deliver America from shame to decency.
This bestowed enormous political and cultural power on the American left, and led to the greatest array of government-sponsored social programs in history—at an expense, by some estimates, of more than $22 trillion. But for the left to wield this power, there had to be a great menace to fight against—a tenacious menace that kept America uncertain of its legitimacy, afraid for its good name.
This amounted to a formula for power: The greater the menace to the nation’s moral legitimacy, the more power redounded to the left. And the ’60s handed the left a laundry list of menaces to be defeated. If racism was necessarily at the top of the list, it was quickly followed by a litany of bigotries ending in “ism” and “phobia.”
The left had important achievements. It did rescue America from an unsustainable moral illegitimacy. It also established the great menace of racism as America’s most intolerable disgrace. But the left’s success has plunged it into its greatest crisis since the ’60s. The Achilles’ heel of the left has been its dependence on menace for power. Think of all the things it can ask for in the name of fighting menaces like “systemic racism” and “structural inequality.” But what happens when the evils that menace us begin to fade, and then keep fading?
It is undeniable that America has achieved since the ’60s one of the greatest moral evolutions ever. That is a profound problem for the left, whose existence is threatened by the diminishment of racial oppression. The left’s unspoken terror is that racism is no longer menacing enough to support its own power. The great crisis for the left today—the source of its angst and hatefulness—is its own encroaching obsolescence. Today the left looks to be slowly dying from lack of racial menace.
A single white-on-black shooting in Ferguson, Mo., four years ago resulted in a prolonged media blitz and the involvement of the president of the United States. In that same four-year period, thousands of black-on-black shootings took place in Chicago, hometown of the then-president, yet they inspired very little media coverage and no serious presidential commentary.
White-on-black shootings evoke America’s history of racism and so carry an iconic payload of menace. Black-on-black shootings carry no such payload, although they are truly menacing to the black community. They evoke only despair. And the left gets power from fighting white evil, not black despair.
Today’s left lacks worthy menaces to fight. It is driven to find a replacement for racism, some sweeping historical wrongdoing that morally empowers those who oppose it. (Climate change?) Failing this, only hatred is left.
Hatred is a transformative power. It can make the innocuous into the menacing. So it has become a weapon of choice. The left has used hate to transform President Trump into a symbol of the new racism, not a flawed president but a systemic evil. And he must be opposed as one opposes racism, with a scorched-earth absolutism.
For Martin Luther King Jr., hatred was not necessary as a means to power. The actual details of oppression were enough. Power came to him because he rejected hate as a method of resisting menace. He called on blacks not to be defined by what menaced them. Today, because menace provides moral empowerment, blacks and their ostensible allies indulge in it. The menace of black victimization becomes the unarguable truth of the black identity. And here we are again, forever victims.
Yet the left is still stalked by obsolescence. There is simply not enough menace to service its demands for power. The voices that speak for the left have never been less convincing. It is hard for people to see the menace that drives millionaire football players to kneel before the flag. And then there is the failure of virtually every program the left has ever espoused—welfare, public housing, school busing, affirmative action, diversity programs, and so on.
For the American left today, the indulgence in hate is a death rattle.
Mr. Steele, a senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, is author of “Shame: How America’s Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country” (Basic Books, 2015).
You’re not really allowed to reprint copyrighted material like that. That’s why it’s behind a paywall. I think the generally accepted standard for an excerpt is no more than 4 paragraphs.
News to me and you are probably right. I printed it because I am a subscriber. Enjoy the article.
You can get the blog in trouble by posting an entire article.
Lock him up!
I hope that is not one of those copyright violations that cost you $5000.
DTM, you know any lawyers?
Balance, you are right! Like Kavanaugh and George Washington, I cannot tell a lie! I am going to turn myself in!!
I would think the permissible size of an excerpt depends on the nature of the usage. I would tend to be conservative, while DTM is clearly liberal.
Armani, do you think Andrew would bury the ole hatchet and represent DTM at his copywrite trial? We can see how good a lawyer he is if he can get me off!
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The Great Man. Speech. The UN. Soon. Get up and set your DVR.
And they all laughed at the carnival barker from the United States.
Hardly. They realize that we no longer have a gullible fool running the show.
You haven’t seen the clips then have you? It’s right there for you to see the audience laughing at Trump.
It seems Kavanaugh was a crude, aggressive, belligerent drunk as a young man. Sayonara.
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Be ready for Merrick Garland who’s he Republicans claiming that Democrats have completely upended the SCOUTS process for partisan gain to advocate for a lame duck approval of a new nominee.
The GOP has backed themselves into a corner here. It’s actually pretty fun to watch them squirm.
Hi Caroline who squirming here? The liars trying to dream up some crap to accuse him of, The protesting liberal fools or Kavanaugh!
Oh Caroline , I know you love looking at worthless polls… Especially liberal ones… But did you see where trumps numbers are up hugely over a year ago and more people now view the Republicans in a positive light than Democrats?
Ha ha!! Honestly could anyone other than a numb nut view Democrats in in a positive light at all? It looks like the little crybabies are just sniveling anarchists if you ask me.
DTM-all polls are worthless unless they show good news for the GOP. Trump’s numbers are in the basement. He’s heading into Nixon territory if he takes another slide.
The only sniveling crybabies I see are conservatives who are whining about how unfair it is everybody in the country doesn’t bow down before Trump. If we all acted like they do in North Korea life would be wonderful wouldn’t it? The fact that the majority of Americans don’t approve of Trump makes you really mad doesn’t it? You consider yourself better than anybody else and we should listen to our “betters” and obey them seems to be your goal.
I agree the polls are worthless. Why do YOU quote them all the freaking time?! Common sense tells me someone would have to be out of their mind to want to back to the pitiful liberal agenda when so many folks are working hard, doing well and not being rolled over a log!
Why would anyone want to be called a racist all day long, pay more taxes and have to listen to a bunch of negative screech owls?
Speaking of North Korea, you libs are so negative you would think that you guys would prefer living in North Korea instead of the horrible, unfair United States? Do you know how depressing it is to hang around or listen to a bunch of libs?
Don’t do it!
I did not say the polls were worthless. What I did say is you hate polls and don’t mention them unless they show something positive for the GOP which they rarely do these days.
The only person I’ve hard praising North Korea lately is Trump. Name the liberal that said North Korea was a wonderful place? Naw, we’re having a good time laughing at the carnival barker in the white house. Also remember you should be afraid of angry people because they vote and the fat dumb and happy Trump voters are probably complacent and will be sitting home in November.
“Trump voters are probably complacent and will be sitting home in November.”
No way you actually believe that. You’re just like Baghdad Bob, Saddam’s former spokesman, who constantly painted a rosy picture as Saddam was being decimated.
Well, dude, there’s more of us than there are of you. Women are sick of the GOP and we’re showing up to vote. Even Walker the Gov. of WI was freaking out about the massive defections from the GOP of women. So far the GOP has been basically getting creamed in voting.
“Why would anyone want to be called a racist all day long,”
It doesn’t matter whether racists want it or not.
1988:
Why is this piece worthy of linking to? It even says proceeds will be donated to charity. “Swing and a miss…” Try again.
I never saw it before and thought it was amusing.
Absolutely amusing. But as you saw, always thinking of the little people. Proceeds to charity.
I’m sure the Trump Foundation, as the only Trump-approved charity, appreciated the $20. Which it then used to buy décor for the Trump Org.
The charity is the Trump Foundation, which he used for worthy causes like the Don Jr. cub scout fee payment.
Trump also has a bridge he’d like to sell to you, Noway.
“It seems Kavanaugh was a crude, aggressive, belligerent drunk as a young man. Sayonara.” So, THAT, get him canned? LMAO! More fake accusations. “I saw Kav drunk one day and he told a dirty joke!!!!!”
y u mad?
The Republicans have the majority votes and the Kav will most likely be nominated.
But you seem really upset.
Were you upset when the Republicans kept bringing up women who claimed they screwed Clinton?
Were you upset when the Swiftboat folks claimed John Kerry was a coward in Viet Nam with no proof?
Were you upset when Saxby “Chickenhawk” Chambliss (who ducked military service with deferments) compared Max Cleland (who lost 3 limbs in the Viet Nam war ) to Osama Bin Ladin?
Were you upset when Donald (My Feet Are Flat) Trump called John McCain a coward for being captured in Viet Nam?
I don’t think so.
You Republicans have been living in a glass house for the past 30 years and we Democrats are fixing to throw a big rock through it.
You will be picking up the glass for a while.
Those things were the action of patriots. This is a conspiracy.
Seriously? There are a ton of people who can attest to the fact that he drank a lot and was a beligerent drunk. His partner in crime is hiding out in Delaware. Why doesn’t he want to testify? I would imagine the reason is that if he tells the truth of everything that went down Kav is DOA. If he lies for Kav he goes to jail.
His whole high school clique was apparently based on lies about sexual conquest.
Weak and sad.
So now he’ll be able to withstand political peer pressure, and make decisions independently?
Nah, he’ll tow the line of his bros.
But we knew this already.
Word from a buddy on The Hill. Senator’s phones, all senator’s phones are being lit up and being told to vote for Kav when it hits the floor!!! Whoaaaaaaaaa Nellie!!!!!!! LOL! Forget Collins and Murk. We won’t need ’em!
Heller knows if he votes for Kav he’s a dead duck. Collins said there are 7 that are wavering. Even Isakson is not all on board. He wants it all to play out before making a decision. And if you lose 2 votes it’s all over for Kav.
Speaking of dead ducks, any Republican senator that does not vote for him is toast and so are any lib senators in states that Trump won. How can you let an unruly mob derail a process like this? Again. And again. Don’t believe the antics are working. I think it caught up with the FBI and the press too.
Screaming fire, rape and racism over and over and over….it’s just plain old folks…its pitiful really. No one believes ole chicken little any mo’!
Yup, there will be some Demorats from Trump states who will have to vote to confirm this decent man who has been treated like a dog by the anarchists that used to be a Democrat Party. So he should have the votes in committee and on the floor.
Now for their next act, the unruly mob needs to take on Keith Ellison – keep him from being elected as Minnesota’s Attorney General! He’s a crook and the woman he’s beaten up brutally, hospitalized twice, has spoken out publicly, has pictures and hospital records to prove it.
Get your #MeToo on and protest that travesty, if you sincerely want to help an assaulted woman! Plus keep that slime bag from getting elected up there.
Trump has cratered in even the states he carried. This is not Gorsuch. Probably every Dem is going to vote against him along with at least 1 Republican. Even if Kavanaugh makes it on the court this is not over. The GOP has been hiding his records. Those are going to come out. If they were smart they would go ahead and dump him but they are stuck. Mitch hollering yesterday in the senate was an announcment he does not have the votes.
Not only does he have them, about three/four will be Dims!
Nope, Dude you need to get out your echo chamber and read. No Dems are going to vote for Kavanaugh. The question is how many Republicans are going to vote for him. This disaster is on your heads.
Well Flake doesn’t care because he’s retiring. So then there is Collins and Murkowski. Are you going to get both of them?
Corker also retiring but I expect he’ll vote yes anyway, but y’all better make sure!
Just got a tid-bit about the national celebrity Dim in GA. This past week Stacey Abrams took a swing through New York to raise more cash for her campaign for governor. She met with former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg and shared cookies with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo before hitting a fundraiser on billionaire Barry Diller’s yacht. Probably picked up some more $$ from Soros while she was up there too. She’s lovin’ the national stage and they are drowning her in money.
Maybe with all that money pouring into her from rich Dims in CA and NY, Abrams can pay some of her student loan debt, credit card debt, back taxes, etc. Nah, that won’t happen.
Dipping into money pots that were legally off-limits didn’t bother her the last few years. Oh, but that was not to pay her taxes or student loans, for which regular taxpayers were on the hook.
And “Kemp’s loan issues” is an Abrams campaign staff p/r tool. Last time I checked, signing to vouch for someone else’s loan was not an “issue”. And it was not his business.
Signing to vouch for someone else’s loan is like signing into it yourself. It is called cosigning and if the first person on the loan can’t pay it you are on the hook for the money.
Also, I seem to recall that he had some ownership or investment interests in the borrower?
The good book even has passages about never being a cosigner. One of the best finance books is the Bible and the more you learn about science, it is a great predictive science book as well. It pays to be a bible thumping gun- toting rube that actually reads the darn thing.
I am not commenting on anyone’s cosigning in terms of these candidates. I don’t know the details. I am just adding that cosigning a loan is a bad idea for almost anyone if you ask me.
Dang Caroline, we agree on something.
Yea, the libs like Blumberg, Diller, Cuomo really are looking out for the little people!! Hilarious.
I bet they wouldn’t even play golf with a big hitter like NoWay at Augusta. Talking about clueless limousines liberals… Soros and his nefarious goons….but that is who is running the libs these days.
Is that why no one in any part of the country other than a few coastal areas can stand the libs?
Looks like she’s backing off (maybe it’s that lying under oath thing) — Herman just posted this:
http://hermancain.com/blasey-ford-now-making-new-demands-may-not-testify-on-thursday-after-all/
She’s going to testify at 10:00 a.m. Thursday unless Avenatti blows up the entire GOP with his client. Herman 999 doesn’t understand what she is saying in her letter.
No she won’t. She’ll continue to bleat out unreasonable demands. Grassley will say no. She won’t show. Confirmation will be a go! Almost poetic there.
You were saying she had to testify Monday or that was it. She didn’t testify Monday and that was not it. She’s already scheduled to testify on Thursday. Why are Republicans so afraid of her? They seem to keep hoping she won’t testify.
Oh, here is the new lib hero, the crooked shyster of a lawyer, Michael “Stormy” Avenatti!
The poster boy for the new liberal snowflake!
Creepy porn lawyer, libs hero!! LOL!
Well, we shall see what he comes up with. Are you capable of speaking in any other language than Breitbart? Wait, I know the answer to that already.
Huh? In your world more than one person cannot have the same thought?
You should read the article about how they treated a girl named Renate.
Biden just cancelled on Abrams!!!! LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!
She probably told him not to come.
Yea, who in the hell wants to see Obama, Hillary or Biden in GA?
Well, considering that nobody wants to see Trump either I wouldn’t brag too much about that. Trump drags people down multiple points when he shows up.
New Gallup poll, Republicans favored by American voters! https://news.gallup.com/poll/242906/republican-party-favorability-highest-seven-years.aspx
Noway, does that get an awwwww nawwww??
Go ahead!!!!! I’m listening for your version!!!!
Uh, that was the best I could do…… Nobody does it like YOU!
Jeez, would you two get a room?
Listen, this nothing like the slobber parties you, carilina, b, and drew have. Y’all are truly disgusting!
If you say so, sweetie.
Benev, you goon! I’m pretty sure we both snore too loud to stand each other.
But I thought all polls were fake???
Good point. Don’t need polls. I just look at the turnout at TGM’s rallies. Yall are gonna get beat. Badly. And as was demonstrated in ’16 – they show up!
Turnout at Rallies. Yes, the carnival barker’s absolute measure of success.
It’s funny, y’all said that last time. Even dismissed their intent to turn out. Y’all got surprised.
We didn’t know the Russians stole data and gave it to Trump. And you all are still stuck on 2016. It’s not 2016 and Trump’s numbers have been cratering, his campaign team has been doing prison time and his lawyer turned states’ evidence. You act like none of this has happened. I understand why you focus on 2016 though. First of all Hillary lives rent free in your head all the time and secondly it has all been downhill for Trump since then.
Meanwhile in the world…
https://www.axios.com/china-supply-chain-trade-war-3ca7217e-648f-431d-988e-cffb43a84329.html
I say it here. It comes out there! I surprise myself sometimes.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/25/white-house-lashes-out-feinstein-838942
Caroline, do you know what a moonbat is?
Consumer confidence hit an 18 year high today. Why is that if things are so terrible…according to liberals and our dishonest press?
Help me liberals.
Do you have any evidence that ‘liberals’ think things are ‘terrible’?
I didn’t think so.
But what responsible people are concerned about is this:
Anyone can temporarily stimulate the economy with massive tax cuts. But you are betting that more growth will cover the cost, and tax cuts when the economy is already doing pretty well leaves little room for more growth. So there is concern that all we have really done is massively increase the deficit. So it’s not that things are terrible, it’s that it may be terrible for those planning to retire and our kids.
What you describes is terrible…Oh so paying twice in taxes and with much lower growth and an even more massive Federal bureaucracy is going to help you raise your freaking family? Do you mind explaining that one to the public here!! Good luck!
Well, we had to bail out farmers. Why did we need to do that then if things are so great as you say? What the data is showing is that people are losing income due to Trump’s policies. People are tired of someone who gets laughed at the UN. The whole carnival barker schtick is something the majority of Americans are so over. You however can keep apologizing for it since it’s a free country.
This really irks me:
This is a story about a guy who was a Republican until he had a health crisis. Now he understands what ‘safety net’ means and is going to vote Dem.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/25/politics/kentucky-blue-wave-mcgrath-barr/index.html
Why is it so hard for people see outside their own personal experience? To realize that there are a lot of people out there and not all of them are in the same situation or have the same resources? Why does it take a personal crisis to come to this realization?
How many times have we seen it?
The anti-gay person who finds out their daughter is gay?
Or the racist who finds out they have some African blood?
Or the anti-Semite who finds their ancestors were Jewish?
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Be bigger than yourself! We can build a society that is strong for all kinds of people.
How many straw men can you get in one post? How will radical socialists help any of this. Why don’t you take a look at the economies in Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba in this hemisphere.
Why do we pigeon hole anyone as whether Jewish, gay, black… we are all Americans. And the radical left agenda is horrible. How is paying even more taxes and being regulated to death and ridiculed at every turn going to help anyone?
I’m going to be nice to you because you are pretty obviously senile. And that’s OK. Many of us will be too someday. May I suggest sticking to N.A. beer. Maybe get a friend or family member to drive you around as necessary. Let someone you trust manage your money for you. Get a new recliner if you want.
Amy McGrath is a great candidate. I hope she wins.
Suh-prise, suh-prise, the CNN talking heads once again misrepresented the truth about POTUS at the UN today. Tapper talked over the Prez, cut the video and said “they laughed at him.” That was a flat-out LIE that has been picked up by other news media as if it were true. Truly fake “news.”
I just watched his speech with NO media people talking over him and telling us what happened. I saw and heard for myself. When he said this administration has accomplished more in less than 2 years than any other in US, someone can be heard commenting from the audience saying “Yes, MAGA” — which caused POTUS to turn and smile at him (like he does when people speak out at his rallies). Prez Trump laughed and said “I didn’t expect that!”, to which the audience joined him in laughing — it was a self-effacing moment of graciousness, and obviously appreciated by his colleagues in the UN. He then continued his address.
He was well-received both there in the hall, as well as at the formal lunch where he toasted the other nations’ leaders and the UN. But I’ll bet that won’t be reported by the haters in the MSM. Thanks DTM for giving us that WSJ article today; it is so true and puts this whole venemous mess into perspective. I guess anybody who wants truth has to hunt for un-narrated footage of POTUS Trump to ever get reality. The American press has become a branch of the hard-left liberals and does not provide true public information any more. It’s just attack, attack, attack — truth be damned.
goodnight, folks
It’s actually on unfiltered tape here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/people-actually-laughed-at-a-president-at-un-speech-trump-suffers-the-fate-he-always-feared/2018/09/25/990b1d52-c0eb-11e8-90c9-23f963eea204_story.html
Fox News cut out the laughter I read. Trump acted like he was at a stupid red hat rally claiming he’s done more than anyone in 2 years and the entire audience burst into laughter.
I watched it too. With headphones on, loud volume.
Sorry, lemming, no MAGA comment.
The diplomats were laughing at POTUS’ comments about his accomplishments.
Now, I don’t know if they were laughing at the substance (that he actually didn’t “accomplish” anything) or the form (his braggadocio), but probably both.
I will say that his response was self-effacing, though.
But in that moment, he also had a fake smile that covered up his real contempt.
But he got through it, and the moment doesn’t need an apologist or revisionist.
What always strikes me as most odd is a business who deals with multinational corporations and international dealings who doesn’t believe in “globalism”.
I think he’s actually just a pragmatist, but that Stephen Miller gets to write his toddler-bubble manifesto.
And the German delegation laughed at his idiotic comments about Germany:
https://mashable.com/video/donald-trump-un-assembly-laughs/#PNrDCYIgKiq5
Joe Biden talking about FBI investigations. Says they are worthless! And what do the lying lib nitwits want the FBI to investigate here? Kav already had 6 of them!!
We have no date, no witness, not sure where it was, who was there, how much alcohol and nothing else. So here is Joe skewering another black Kavanaugh. Just another high tech lynching. The libs are great at this.
Listen to Biden.
Oh, listen to Obama saying that if anyone thinks Russia can impact our elections is a nitwit. HEY CAROLINE! HE IS TALKING TO YOU!! And tells Trump to grow a pair and quit whining….And what have adults in this country been subjected to for 2 years. Liberal sniveling and whining.
Do any liberals get sick of listening to liberals whining or it is just me? Isnt it embarrassing for God’s sake?!
You’re just making me laugh. That is all.
Just like Trump does for the rest of the world.
I am glad as hell it makes you laugh Caroline! It makes my stomach hurt listen to it too! And how you YOU KEEP SNIVELING ABOUT RUSSIA like the idiots Obama is referring too!
Jesus this is too easy!
Right. There’s no indictments, no jail time, nothing has come out of the Russia investigation. Right? LOL. I find it funny also that you’re trying to hide behind Obama.
And if it’s clear the allegations are credible…
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– “It was only one girl, well maybe two, and it was 36 years ago.”
And……
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– “She said herself there was not penetration.”
Being right all the time. It’s a curse, really. But I’ll soldier on…
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/25/red-state-democrats-kavanaugh-841400
How do you do it Noway?!
Like Khan said in The Wrath of Khan, ‘It’s my superior intellect…:”
He died in the end…
So did Einstein…
But the ‘inferiors’ lived to fight another day…
By the way Khan, you asked about cost over runs on Vogel , and I did a nice Khan reading level write for you…
Not a word on it. So march your ‘intellect’ up there and read the damn thing.
I did read that, Sis! Thanks!
Sens. Scott, Kennedy, Corker, Flake, & Johnson have voiced the same ‘I am keeping and open mind, we need to hear both sides rhetoric as Manchin and Donnelly in the last 24 hours. If we use Noway logic of deciphering political spinnery, is one of those senators going to vote no since they have a wait and see answer too? Scott already tanked one federal nominee this year…
I have an open mind. Lets here all of it. Why did they wait till the last minute is a great question too don’t you think?
What if I said I was raped by someone 36 years ago and the accused had to prove they didn’t do it? How fair is that?
How many folks hate conservatives enough to do that? Even on this blog?!
Could you find someone that hated liberals enough to do this if it was flipped around? How about an ex- wife or husband?
Is this all you have to do to ruin someone? Is there a better way? The FBI has nothing to investigate. 36 years ago…and now….
As for the “last minute” thing, it’s clear that Mitch McConnell and Co. didn’t address it earlier despite their knowledge either. There was, in the hearing, some vague questions intended to obviate the issue, but it was clear they knew and did nothing. So dereliction of duty to fully disclose there. It was not just Feinstein’s job.
But even if you say, well, she was the opposition party, so it was just her job, you can go one of two ways. The first was that she was reluctant to disclose as she struggled with the accuser’s wish to not disclose. That’s fair.
The second possibility is that it was brazenly political. In other words, they wanted (want) to delay the hearings– arguably until after the midterms.
And to that, I would also say: So What? We gonna cry about politics now?
It’s the minority party’s way to invoke the Biden rule, as adopted and endorsed by McConnell.
It’s politics, and if you’re gonna whine and cry about things like this, you’re gonna be whining and crying a lot.
The most important thing is get things done right. And getting things done right means upholding the proper ethical and legal standards.
That said, I think they’ll vote on Kav before the midterms. But if they don’t uphold the ethical standards, that’s good info for folks to know before the elections.
How is my pointing out other senators have made non committal comments result in you proclaiming you have an open mind and asking an array of singularly pointed questions you’re not going to care about unless they fit in your Trumptopian world view?
Also, the FBI can still investigate, as can the State of Maryland, or even the local jurisdiction. There are known witnesses, still alive. You interview, follow leads, etc.
As for “Is it fair to be accused?”
It certainly is absolutely fair if the accused has a basis in fact to do so.
It would be wrong if she didn’t, imo.
As for the need to defend yourself, that’s life.
It’s not a court of law in this case, but even in every court case, there are usually broad and deep allegations that require defense, and the allegations by their nature give every benefit, and no doubt, to the “accuser”.
Yea balance when its you, lets just see you say its just life, bend over and take it!!
Oh it isn’t a court of law at all— lets turn it into a liberal kangaroo court. And they have.
Haven’t they done this EVERY Supreme Court hearing in the last 25 years? Where are their pink hats this time? No one can “act a fool” like a pack of jacked up liberals!
I have still not had anyone answer this. Who would you rather hang around, a pack of 25 liberals or a pack of 25 conservatives?
Which group is going to be miserable and whining and pulling you down and which one will be fun, buying you a beer and having a good time?
Which group would you trust if you found yourself in a foxhole or a tough situation? Who would stand behind you no matter what?
I don’t engage in groupthink.
I treat each person as an individual.
I find myself comfortable wherever I want to be comfortable.
And I certainly don’t pre-judge individuals based upon broad stereotypes as you apparently do.
But you do you, man.
And if you don’t want the scrutiny, don’t apply for the job.
I don’t think employers should be pulling credit reports of applicants, but they do. Etc. Etc. Can’t stand the heat?
This may be his last job interview ever.
Fwiw, I think Kav is doing just fine defending himself so far.
No need to whine about it.
Every Supreme Court hearing? No. Roberts sailed through pretty easily with a fair amount of Dem votes.
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Who would you rather hang around, a pack of 25 liberals or a pack of 25 conservatives?
Trick question, right? I have no problem with conservatives. It’s Trump cultists that not many wants to hang around with.
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After this mess I would think it would be difficult for most women to let you buy a beer for them.
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foxhole? There’s probably about 200 million people who wouldn’t want to be in a foxhole with Kavanaugh.
So, B, you wouldn’t come to lunch at Myrtle’s with me?!
No I’m not- you are!
My goodness, you’re so defensive.
I of course care about how this all plays out, but I am not whining about one thing. I don’t think there has been anything unfair, and even if I did, I wouldn’t interject feeling into that because it’s pointless to get worked up about something over which you have no power. It’s like that prayer asking G-d for the wisdom to know which things you can’t change…
So, Mitch can schedule votes as early as the party wishes, they can bring in prosecutors to question, etc., that’s all fair to me. It is in fact mostly SOP nowadays.
I think maybe the most important effect of how this plays out is in the midterm results. But unlike Noway or others, I am not a cheerleader, and don’t count chickens before they hatch.
I just opine on the politics and law and ethics.
If I did you might have to then come to Paschals with me.
Noway,
I am always down for good food.
Better when accompanied with good drink.
I don’t know where Myrtle’s is, but if it’s within the limits of time and money, and especially if drinks are on you, I’m not gonna rule out an invitation.
Wait, were you inviting me or Benev?
Bc if you weren’t inviting me, then there’s No Way I’m going anyways!
I think the truth is that everyone on this blog would probly get along fine (or at least better) if in-person. Even if they knew the others’ online alter-egos. Face-to-face communications are always more humanized.
Ellyn, your article and knowledge about Vogtle was stunning. Far more than mine! Thanks.
It’s my knowledge on regulations, grants, codes, P3, contracts and Title II funding, not Vogtle it’s self. Part of my job involves figuring out how to correctly spend your tax dollars.
Obama wears nice shoes, but I’ve never seen him in pumps.
By your definition (since I don’t agree with your Trumptopian world view 100% of the time) that would make me a ‘lib’. However, I am a centralist with a lean to the left. I don’t belong to a party or a platform. I can’t raise your taxes.
DTM,
You clearly do not know how government works.
You couldn’t even show appreciation for Ellynn’s objective knowledge without interjecting Obama.
Ya got problems, man.
I’m not with the government. Totally private sector. I just figure out the government regs and funding streams on the fed, state, and local level.
No heels today…
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00VKKGCUQ/ref=ox_sc_saved_title_2?smid=A7ULJO7NAWM0L&psc=1
I’m not in government either.
And I don’t support violent protests, but I do support free speech and the right to speak against Nazis.
But you can keep on stereotyping man.
You’ll just always be wrong.
Plus, my politics are a bit all over the place.
I am an equal-opportunity critic.
Feel free to keep on being wrong.
Now this mini-thread doesn’t make any sense.
It was a little weird because DTM hadn’t ever singled me out before.
Great, great idea! Keep the questioning professional!
https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/Arizona-prosecutor-emerges-as-GOP-choice-to-13258105.php
Great idea. They don’t care about want the truth… All they want to do Is have some old white men asking questions to this poor woman… Sorry. The optics aren’t going to work for your next little campaign commercial and fundraiser.
Maybe CNN or the New York Times can airbrush an old white guy asking the questions.
How about Miss June, Honey Boo Boo’s mom? Libs have already turned this and every other Supreme Court hearing into a circus!
The only reason they feel like they have to do this is because there are no GOP women on this committee! LOL.
Folks someone is posting things from Down the middle in the last hour or so and it is not me! Has anyone had this problem before?
Have you had any contact with anyone who looks or sounds Russian?
Did you give Noway your password?
How many fingers am I holding up?
Fwiw, nothing seems out of the ordinary about your posts on this site.
How could we tell? Proper spelling? Complete sentences?
Thankfully, your account was not compromised, but somehow someone was able to create a username that looked exactly like yours. They have been blacklisted and all their comments removed.
Lawton, were you able to find the same thing for my account? Thanks, Noway
Just an FYI…I sent an email to Charlie on the Tipline saying I was leaving. Just so you know!
Well if they were Russians trying to sow dissent, their plan will have backfired if N and D leave!
Yes. It was the exact same person. They were using the same email address and almost identical IP address. All of the comments made were removed. Our IT guy is looking into it.
Lawton, I give you a thousand thanks. I’m still gone, though. If it happened today, it might happen in the future with bad comments that might be attributed to me. Many thanks to folks like Ellynn, B and Balance and even Andrew. We basically politically hated each other but as I’ve said in the past, if you ever actually needed something I would have been there in real life. Let’s see what happens in November but I will not be there on election night. Hope Matt won’t be too disappointed.
Wait, so did you or didn’t you invite me or Benev to Myrtle’s?
Hey, Lawton! Pleeeeez fix my log-in, or wherever the problem is. I’ve not been receiving notifications of responses for a very long time, even though I checked the box beneath my comments requesting that.
Now I don’t even have the boxes beneath my comments, which used to be right above the red “Add Comment” until a couple of days ago! Will you please figure out what is wrong with my account/linkage, and make it work again? The only way I ever know is to keep refreshing and checking the recent comments at the top of the web page.
Folks on here probably think I’m ignoring their responses, but I never get any notifications. I appreciate your help.
I am not calling him FAKE so whoever it is is on here at the same time . Just another way to try and and stifle someone you disagree with. How do you cancel a user name?
If you see another post from Down the middle it is not me. I am not using it again.
How can giving a tattoo not be a license to publicize it? It’s not like LeBron can remove the tattoos when he gets a picture taken.
But video games could be different. And the tattoo artist- if they didn’t– should have been smarter and had a contract that required that they at least get mentioned in the credits or something.