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  5. 5.

    Tree With Water

    I’m with Billmon. I’d chip-in for both their air fairs to get them over yonder, that they might gloriously battle ISIS in my name. I’d even be willing to chip-in for first class tickets to get them there, with an airline(s) of their own choosing. I’d even be willing to spring for non-refundable, round trip tickets. The odds that neither might live to make a return journey- meaning the money I donate would be money wasted- is a risk I’d be more than willing to undertake.

  6. 6.

    MikeBoyScout

    “his lawyer, Timothy Parlatore …“He wants to move on with his life,” Parlatore said.”

    “Kerik has served only a little over a year of his ­court-ordered three years of supervised release after ­already catching a break in 2013 by being released roughly a year early on a four-year prison sentence.”

  7. 7.

    jl

    Speaking of Kerik, his mentor is still trying to… well, what he is trying to do is hard to tell. I don’t see how it helps the GOP, so maybe Kerik should go but Rudi should stay stateside.

    Giuliani: Obama Influenced By Communism At Young Age
    TPM blog
    ‘ “Look, this man was brought up basically in a white family, so whatever he learned or didn’t learn, I attribute this more to the influence of communism and socialism” than to his race, Giuliani said.

    “I don’t (see) this President as being particularly a product of African-American society or something like that,” he continued. “Logically, think about his background. . . The ideas that are troubling me – and are leading to this – come from communists with whom he associated when he was 9 years old.” ‘

    http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/giuliani-obama-communist

    Fine, Mayor G. You can smear Obama all you want but say it isn’t racism because you say so many whites involved with his upbringing. Hooo… Kayyy…. You can get halfway through the spectrum of white bigotry before people stop laughing at that. And COMMIE COMMIE COMMIE!

    I know a lot of people here will be infuriated as the GOP goes batshit insane on Obama, with the smears and racsim, and all sort filth they spout. On the other hand, for the sake of Obama’s legacy, and particularly with regard to health reform, for the sake of thousands of lives, it might be a good thing, since I do not see how it helps the GOP in 2016 to lose its shit over Obama.

    If the GOP wants to go apeshit on Obama just as the 2016 campaign starts to ramp up, and Obama is NOT running, again, might be a good thing. They won’t listen to those stupid RINOs bleating about the 2016 Dem candidates.

    And this will be all while Obama, not running again, will feel free to let his freak flag fly, have his way with our innocent country, and reveal himself to be somewhere between Bill Clinton and Harry Truman on the issues.

    Does the GOP understand that Obama is not running for president again? Don’t nobody here clue them in.

  9. 9.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @jl: I just finished watching Kornacki from this morning. It seems that the DNC has done their “autopsy of the 2014 midterms and has decided that they need to emphasize “values” to attract white southern voters. I now have a headache from banging my head on my desk(compounding the headache from reading api documentation from last night).

    @TooManyJens:

    rikyrah is in the hospital

    Yikes, hope it’s not too serious and wishing for a quick recovery.

  10. 10.

    jl

    Huh, now I see on TPM that after all the 2016 GOP prez hopefuls have to tiptoe, or stagger, or whatever, there way through having to answer all these brainteasers about Obama, Issa jumps in to enthusiastically defend Giuliani and adds his own weird.

    Keep it up Issa and Giuliani. Let your freak flags fly, just like Obama will. Let’s see who wins.

    Maybe Giuliani and Issa want to damage the GOP out of spite. Giuliani was the obvious presumptive candidate until his primary campaign was revealed to be vaporware, wherever GOP primary voters did not stomp on it like a bug (one of their very few wise decisions). And Issa humiliated himself as the Mother of All Fail, when he whiffed on all of his repeated investigations into the repeated Mother of All Scandals, His batting average is 0.000 if I am not mistaken.

  13. 13.

    jl

    @BillinGlendaleCA: That is sad. I thought that stupid Democratic Leadership whatever it was called dried up and blew away in the wind. Maybe the zombies wandered off and took over the DNC?

    Edit: Democratic Leadership Council, Conference, Committee… Anyway, I thought that stupidity was dead and buried.

  14. 14.

    Peale

    I predict that I. The year 2042, a best picture nominee called the Mimic Game will cover Bernie Kerrick’s essential role in defeating terrorists, unrecognized because his government unfairly persecuted him.

  15. 15.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @jl: Issa could always launch another recall, this time against Jerry; it worked so well for him last time.

  18. 18.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Don’t know whether Southern Beale will even see this, but she was wondering earlier about what happened to Ed at Gin & Tacos. I checked his FB page, and apparently the page is down for reasons he’s trying to sort out. Nine hours ago they told him it should be back up in 24 hours. I have a vague recollection this happened to G&T once before, a few months ago. And for that matter, it’s happened here at the Juice. Anyhow, just a temporary hiccup.

  20. 20.

    jl

    @Peale:

    ‘ The year 2042, a best picture nominee called the Mimic Game will cover Bernie Kerrick’s essential role in defeating terrorists, unrecognized because his government unfairly persecuted him. ‘

    wildly theatrical and over the top pics about delusional lunatics seem to really do well at the Oscars, so could be.

  23. 23.

    Redshift

    @Tree With Water: Aw, c’mon, haven’t those prime in the Middle East suffered enough? Not to mention that airfare alone won’t do it; unless they were personally escorted into the combat zone, they’d probably “fight ISIS” by getting hired as someone’s well-paid lobbyist or spokesman.

  24. 24.

    Tree With Water

    @BillinGlendaleCA: Banging your head over democratic strategists in 2015? A person can drive himself crazy doing that.

    For example, Bill Clinton stated this weekend, “This bill [Obamacare] has already produced a lot of good results,” Clinton explained. “Look, they are desperate for this bill to fail. Because, if it’s not a failure, everything they’ve been telling us since 1980, ‘big government’s bad,’ is wrong.”

    This from the guy who declared the era of big government dead as a doornail in 1993. Go figure.

  25. 25.

    jl

    Actually, if we could get some of these people inserted as financial moles to handle ISIS’ money, that would be a real blow.

  26. 26.

    Amir Khalid

    Speaking of clowns …
    I’m looking at the website for my local cineplex right now. I hope this is a mistake: it seems that the Malaysian Board of Film Censorship has put an 18-rating (no one under that age admitted) on, I shit you all not, The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out Of Water.

  31. 31.

    Redshift

    @jl: Guliani seems to be determined to reprise all of the greatest hits of the failed 2008 anti-Obama campaign. Remember the many weeks Rush and others spent on whether Obama was “really” black, and taking it upon themselves to decide what black people should think about him? Good times. If Rudy wants to proclaim that he gets to decide whether Obama is part of African American culture to exist his blatant racism, I’ll be happy to sit back and make some popcorn.

  34. 34.

    Mnemosyne

    @jl:

    I say we send Donald Trump over to make a few real estate deals on behalf of ISIS, maybe build them a ca$ino or two. They’ll be broke in six months, tops.

  36. 36.

    bago

    FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK Idera!!!!

    I installed one of their apps and it sneakily re-did the shell extension assignments for powershell scripts, so using ShellExecute to launch a script got fucked in a completely silent way.

    That’s like making .bat files launch excel. Not cool, very difficult to debug.

    Re-writing how your control your OS in the background is never cool.

  37. 37.

    jl

    @Amir Khalid: I think Trump will disappear asap after the ribbon cutting.at the Caliphate Ca*in* and Condo Complex. You gotta start putting a lot of distance between the cash and the operation long before the operation starts to fail.

    Have fun at that subversive (or is it just dirty?) Spongebob movie. Let us know when you go, so if the police raid the theater, someone can get over there and go your bail.

  39. 39.

    jl

    Slowly going through GOP madness reported at TPM blog.

    Now Erik E. is tweeting that Obama is not a Christian.

    Erik E says reporters are ducking the issue by not asking Obama whether JayeeeeSuss is the ONLY way to Heaven. If they tried I suppose Erik would say that they did not ask it right (“have you made the conscious decision to accept him as your personal Lord and Savior”?).

    Riiiigggghhhht.. Erik. That is exactly it. I’m sure the whole country believes in your reactionary dogmatic sect of Christianity.

    If Erik E. tweets that, I will have to get an account and tweet that then, reporters should ask Obama if he knows that to be a true Christian, he has to go to up to the high places at the temple and pray loudly in public that he is not like crummy non-Christians going to Hell.

    Keep it up Erik E. As a Democratic voter hoping the best for 2016, I thank you in advance.

    Edit: no links to Talkingpointsmemo blog, since I figure people can find the stories there on the front page. Lot of crazy GOP posts there to read through today.

  40. 40.

    Amir Khalid

    @jl:
    The Prophet once said that if a person calls another an apostate, then one of them definitely is — if the second person isn’t, then the first one is, for making the false accusation. It seems to me most un-Christian of Erick Erickson to call Obama a non-Christian.

  41. 41.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @jl: For people who proudly proclaim their fealty to the Constitution(written by Jeysus, of course), they sure don’t seem to have read the damn thing.

  43. 43.

    jl

    @Amir Khalid:

    @BillinGlendaleCA: and I are referring to the parable of the Pharisee and the Publican.
    Erik E., and his reactionary brand of Christianity, have taken the Pharisees’ part. And, not surprisingly, he seems very self-satisfied and proud of it.

    Thanks for the bit of wisdom from Islam. Charges of apostasy are serious, and shouldn’t be made so flippantly, certainly tweeter twits don’t seem a good forum.

    Parable of the Pharisee and the Publican, Luke 8:9-14 (I think OK for Khalid to read this… :-)

    And [Jesus] spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:
    Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican.

    The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, “God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.
    I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.”
    And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, ” God be merciful to me a sinner.”

    I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

  44. 44.

    scav

    @jl: Isn’t there also the parable or observation concerning the positive relationship twixt volume of declarations of Christianity and suggested rapidity of spoon counting?

  46. 46.

    Anne Laurie

    @scav:

    “The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.”

    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life: A Philosophical Reading

    (So: not Biblical, but Transcendential)

  47. 47.

    jl

    @scav:

    Could be a couple. Maybe you mean The Widow’s Mite?

    Wikipedia has a nice table.

    Parables of Jesus
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parables_of_Jesus

    Another parable that Erik E and very publicly pious Christians should ponder is the parable of The Two Sons. Matthew 21: 28-32

    But what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, “Son, go work to day in my vineyard.”
    He answered and said, “I will not”: but afterward he repented, and went.
    And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, “I go, sir”: and went not.

    Whether of them twain did the will of his father? They say unto him, “The first”. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.

    Edit: Ha! I forgot about Emerson counting his spoons when someone prated on and on in his house.

    Edit2: anyway, I am glad to see that some supposed movers and shakers in the GOP will be taking up Rudi’s cross and beating people over the head with it. As I see it, can’t hurt that GOP is getting snarled in this BS PC already. It should only get worse from here. OBAMA devil!!!

  48. 48.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @jl: Paraphrasing, Jesus also said: Do not pray loudly in the temple for all to hear, go into your room a pray to your father in secret. Those who pray loudly in public have received their reward.

  49. 49.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @jl: Again, there’s that Constitution thing the GOP seems to love so much. Doesn’t it say that Obama can’t run again?

    They should try reading the damn thing. But bash Obama, GOP. I’ll invest in popcorn.

  50. 50.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @jl

    Does the GOP understand that Obama is not running for president again?

    They’re at the point where the only thing they see is the color of his skin.

    Nothing else matters…not even that he cannot run again, thanks to the insistence of the GOP that the President be limited to two terms in reaction to FDR’s four terms.

  54. 54.

    Matt McIrvin

    @jl:

    Erik E says reporters are ducking the issue by not asking Obama whether JayeeeeSuss is the ONLY way to Heaven. If they tried I suppose Erik would say that they did not ask it right (“have you made the conscious decision to accept him as your personal Lord and Savior”?).

    Uh huh. How many of the last several Presidents would respond affirmatively on the record if asked whether all Jews are going to hell?

  57. 57.

    gelfling545

    @jl: I think they are going to be running against President Obama for a long time to come. He overturned their conception of what was possible (that a black man, no matter how intelligent & competent, could defeat any white man, no matter how ignorant & incompetent). They just can’t get over it and if a female gets elected next, well…..

  59. 59.

    Uncle Cosmo

    If Kerik wants to fight, let him jam his hydrocephalic head a half-mile up his arse & fight for air. And, hopefully, lose.

  61. 61.

    EconWatcher

    @Amir Khalid:

    In fairness, I had to go see that movie with my young kids, and I think it should be banned for all ages. Maybe your film board is just trying to be merciful.

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