Just because the National Enquirer was right about John Edwards doesn't mean it's right about Ted Cruz being 5 weasels in a man skin suit.
— Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) March 25, 2016
So the National Enquirer claims Ted Cruz had immoral congress with at least five women who are not his wife (which is a nasty enough image over breakfast, for sure). Some people say the story was planted by Donald Trump, and even claim that one of those women might just be Donald Trump’s current campaign spokesperson. This after personally insulting Mrs. Ted Cruz! Surely a Godly and publicly uxorious man like Ted Cruz would be righteously outraged by any hint that his most potent political rival would stoop so low! Surely a gentleman like Ted Cruz would repudiate any possible further working relationship with… oh, wait:
.
.@tedcruz calls @realdonaldtrump "sniveling coward" – but won't say he won't back him as GOP nominee. Our exchange: pic.twitter.com/ACZMBvr4aS
— Hallie Jackson (@HallieJackson) March 24, 2016
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Anybody else as glad to wrap up this week as I am? What’s on the agenda while we do so?
To quote Churchill – a Cruz favorite – "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." https://t.co/iAJnkaQ6PN
— Wyeth Ruthven (@wyethwire) March 24, 2016
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
Meanwhile:
Gallup Poll — March 24 — President Obama Rating
Approve…………..52%
Disapprove……..45%
But, but…… Tango!
But, but……. baseball game!
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
More fun:
One of his affairs was with his employee (wingnut spokesperson) Amanda Carpenter .
Another was with a hooker (move over, David Vitter).
Obviously, this is Obama’s fault.
Baud
Baud! has never cheated!
As president, I will be loyal to you too.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
HA! these people…
defending the sanctity of marriage.
hahahahahhahahah
Baud
Holy cow. I just watched this video. His “outrage” sounded so canned.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
NBC/WSJ Poll – March 2016 — Trump Rating
Women Only:
Approve…………21%
Disapprove…….70%
They must not like short fingers.
Baud
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch:
On Rachel last night, they said that Trump was less popular than Congress.
RedDirtGirl
I’m shocked that even one woman will sleep with that oleaginous douchenozzle!
Amir Khalid
@Baud:
I guess it’s hard to work a lot of passion or outrage into that nasal voice of his.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
@Baud: even worse, the idiot was so stoopid he plagiarized Aaron Sorkin (video)
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
@Baud: currently, Ebola is more popular than Trump
EconWatcher
The young woman in the picture does seem to be looking at Cruz with dreamy eyes…
But wait–how do you get dreamy-eyed for Ted Cruz? He looks like the evil Cuban twin of the Pillsbury doughboy.
Ladies, can you help me out here? Is power that big of an aphrodisiac?
Baud
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: Hahahaha.
I wish Obama could stay president and GOP campaign could go on forever.
Baud
@EconWatcher:
Take it from me. It is.
Tinare
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch:
OMG that’s hysterical.
Amir Khalid
@EconWatcher:
For some, it’s the right aphrodisiac.
different-church-lady
Wait… you’ve already had breakfast?
Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class
Paraphrasing myself from other web spaces, he’s a greasy-faced, weirdly featured dude with tiny little stick arms, a pear shape, a tinny nasally voice and an obnoxiously abrasive personality. He doesn’t carry his fat like a man, clearly has spent zero time in the gym and has zero athletic skill or masculine drive.
And he’s basically called out Donald Trump to a slap fight, LOL.
Look, I hate Trump, but at least the dude carries himself and acts like a man – we all know he’s a loud narcissist. Cruz, though, presents the personality of somebody who is a secret pedophile or kitten torturer. In contesting Trump, he comes off as weak and out of his depth. Like I said – it looks like a challenge to a slap fight, and Trump has to be laughing his ass off. I know I am.
Texas conservatives must be beaming with pride that this shitweasel is their public face.
AdamK
Every right-thinking amerrican patriot needs to sign this petition: https://www.change.org/p/quicken-loans-arena-allow-open-carry-of-firearms-at-the-quicken-loans-arena-during-the-rnc-convention-in-july-2
EconWatcher
I don’t want to sound greedy and ungrateful. But so far this scandal, even if it pans out and involves multiple women, is missing that certain je ne sais quoi….
Ok, actually I know what the missing quoi is–something really weird and twisted, that makes Diaper Dave’s habits sound normal and healthy.
Richard Mayhew
@RedDirtGirl: everyone makes a bad decision every now and then
Or beer goggles
Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class
Lemme add – I love that this young woman asked direct questions and pressed for him to answer.
Chuck Todd, Wolf Blitzer, Andrea Greenspan and the rest of the elite political press could learn something from that young woman.
bystander
@RedDirtGirl:
Money changing hands seems to be a theme in Ted’s outreach to women program.
All I can say is, Schadenfreude, where is thy sting?
BR
I’m thinking of putting Bernie and Hillary stickers on my car. I don’t care which of them wins and I want dems to unite.
Richard Mayhew
@EconWatcher: do we need to send the Cruz campaign some Green Balloons?
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
Patricia Kayden
@Baud: I have a feeling you’ll get the second wish after Trump loses badly and drags the entire GOP down with him in November. There will be finger pointing galore and Trump will let the insults fly against his fellow Republicans. He will not be a dignified loser.
Patricia Kayden
@AdamK: Don’t you think that that petition is a hoax to highlight Republican hypocrisy on access to guns? When I read it yesterday, all I could think was that someone was trolling and doing a pretty good job of it.
Big Ol Hound
One can only hope there are no offspring from these rolls in the sheets. I cannot imagine a slimier lineage.
MomSense
This doesn’t seem believable to me and that’s not because of the sources. Let me say this another way. Eeeeeewwww.
If true, it’s another reason I can’t understand Republicans.
bystander
Imagine the restraint on Moanin’ Joe had this story been about Bill…or worse, Hillary.
Baud
@bystander: Or emails!
MomSense
@Richard Mayhew:
I think the public needs green balloons. I certainly do.
bystander
Only in Florida would this woman not have been charged with assault with a deadly weapon.
Baud
@Patricia Kayden: If guns are allowed at the RNC, someone gonna die.
debbie
@Baud:
He always sounds rehearsed, some say, because of his spectacular audiographic memory. Don’t blame him ’cause he’s gifted!
Listened to Glenn Beck a couple days ago, and he referred to Trump’s tawdry sexual past more times than seemed comfortable. Perhaps he knew what the Enquirer was going to publish.
BruceFromOhio
Even a dull, grey Friday morning is better than any other weekday mornings. The weather gadgets were all a-flutter about SNOW! in the forecast. There is no snow in this zip code, fershur. One more slog through a workday and it’s Miller time!
M31
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch:
I couldn’t resist:
@Jane_Malave
It’s so funny that #Cruzsexscandal is trending on #GoodFriday
? the irony hurts.
M31 @TicktockM31
@Jane_Malave It’s all about a guy getting nailed
BruceFromOhio
@Baud: My first thought is, Please, please, please, let it be so. Let it be a stain on the nation’s conscious memory for a generation or two. But Gaia whispers that she loves all her children, even the ones that are two-bit ratfucking criminals, and violence is never an answer to any question.
Waldo
@Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class:
To be fair, Perry set the bar kinda low.
Immanentize
@BR: Not quite the same “Berlary”, but when Bill Clinton first ran (against George Bush) a guy in Austin Texas cut both their bumper stickers in half so he had “George Clinton” in red and blue on his car. Wouldn’t that have been funky.
OzarkHillbilly
@Patricia Kayden: That’s exactly what it is. Is that a problem?
Baud
@debbie: I like to think it’s because he has zero sincerity.
Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class
@debbie:
To me, he sounds like somebody who would have been beaten on a daily basis at my high school, that sense of snide superiority he has sent back to the hell it slimed forth from.
debbie
@Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class:
Ah, a smug prick.
Dmbeaster
@Immanentize: I like the sound of “Bill Bush” better.
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone :)
Immanentize
@debbie: just so. I teach at a law school and every year there are a couple of incoming 1L’s that sound just like him. But my law school has a lot of first generation students and older folks from the workplace (we have a night program). Most students get that sound beat (figuratively) out of them in the first year. Some hold on to it but really don’t succeed these days in the market without a patron. I think at places like Harvard (down the road from me) there are enough such men (and they are all men) that they get to keep their attitude which is smarmy yet obsequious. Insecure yet arrogant. In other words, smug pricks. And the “H” on the transcript helps move people forward.
JPL
If he had only three affairs, the news media would report that the story was false and both sides.
Schlemazel (parmesan rancor)
Finishing another week of pointless”training” at the hands of an organization whose reputation far outstrips its actual value. More like water torture than training as the material is out dated – 13 years old in many cases, an eternity in IT – and not vetted so much does not work.
But it became apparent last night that one of my married co-workers is having sex with women he is picking up around here. I like the guy and am having a problem now because I find this behavior beneath contempt. I read Savage and get that some couples are ok with a more open relationship but the conversation made it clear his SO is not and has left him in the past over this but came back because he said he would not do it again.
I get that some guys need the power or the affirmation that they are desirable but I don’t want to know about it and I hate that I have to work with a guy I don’t respect and does not deserve my trust
MattF
I’m pretty sure Cruz practiced that outrage in front of a mirror. Repeatedly. “I’m outraged,” he said. “I’m outraged,” he said. “I’m outraged,” he said. “I’m outraged,” he said. Et cetera.
Peale
I do think sex scandals are for the heathen, so as long as he forgives himself publicly, after claiming that he’s prayed sufficiently, he’ll continue to be able to be the most self-righteous of all of the candidates. Evangelicals have an infinite capacity for forgiving their own kind.
NonyNony
I don’t think I believe this story. Because if its true that the man has had 5 extramarital affairs, then he’s either really, really good at hiding that behavior or it was an open secret that people around him knew about.
If anyone had dirt on Ted Cruz do you really think that they would not stick the knife in and twist? I would think this would have gotten dumped to the tabloids prior to Iowa somehow because he is so widely hated – especially if any Bush loyalists had gotten ahold of the rumors. And if not prior to Iowa, then immediately afterward as he started moving up the ranks someone would have wanted to stick a shiv in. And yet there weren’t any rumors about this until just prior to Florida. I don’t think Cruz has enough friends to actually keep this a secret.
So that leaves that he’s really good at hiding his affair. Nobody is actually good at this. Especially if we’re talking 5 different women – that leaves a trail. He might be able to hide it from his wife and family, but with that many affairs at least one person involved is going to leave a trail. Nobody is that good.
So this is one of those stories that I’m thinking really is too good to be true. If it turns out I’m wrong and he’s actually a serial adulterer then I’m going to be very, very sorry that I didn’t invest more heavily in popcorn futures.
Schlemazel (parmesan rancor)
@BruceFromOhio:
I used to believe that violence was never the right answer but in all honesty the wingnuts are making me want to reconsider that opinion
Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class
@debbie:
It was to my advantage to attend a working class, blue collar Catholic high school. You could be smart, you just had to have sense about how to present yourself. The surest way to get mocked or bullied was if you got smug. Everybody learned quick, and most of us were pretty savvy about fixing the pecking order with fists, shoves and derisive laughter.
About half the faculty was clerical, but they were oddly nondogmatic, heavily into economic and racial justice. Of course, this was just prior to mendacious shitheel JPII.
NonyNony
@Peale:
If this story turns out to have legs, then if Cruz and Clinton are the nominees, then Cruz has lost his ability to attack Hillary Clinton via Bill’s infidelities. And so have his SuperPACs.
Which is kind of glorious if you think about it. It’s the one thing that Republicans cling to as a totem of how they took down a President and they aren’t going to be able to remind anyone of their past glory days if Cruz is their nominee. Or if Trump is. Rubio apparently was going to have the same problem.
It’s part of why I think this story is phony. Because it’s just too damn good to be true.
Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class
@MattF:
I’d have been far more impressed had Cruz displayed some fire and told the young woman “you’re damn straight I won’t support him if he’s the nominee. He personally attacked my wife, and I can’t call myself a man if a forgive or forget that. Fuck that guy.”
THAT would be a normal male reaction, not building in a backdoor in rhetoric.
Baud
@Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class: It’s what killed Dukakis.
Patricia Kayden
@Big Ol Hound: Actually Cruz’ two daughters are lovely. Too bad Reublicans have dragged this election cycle down to the point where we are now talking about spouses and children of the candidates.
Patricia Kayden
@Baud: That’s why they won’t be allowed. Republicans love guns but they’re not that crazy.
C.V. Danes
Really? Only if you consider him to represent a caricature of men’s worse traits.
lollipopguild
@Peale: As long as he hits the right notes in public and attacks/blames the right people-Obama/dems, he could be having sex with animals in public and it would be ignored.
lollipopguild
@Schlemazel (parmesan rancor): 2nd Amendments solutions have become much more attractive-Trump and Cruz. Just borrowing from that great american Sarah Palin.
Patricia Kayden
@OzarkHillbilly: Not at all. Just that I initially thought it was for real and was going to sign it. LOL.
OzarkHillbilly
@NonyNony:
Does anybody really think that is a line of attack that has even a prayer of working? The backfire would kill them.
Schlemazel (parmesan rancor)
@lollipopguild: I hate that they make me think this way, it is not healthy. They are opening the gates of hell
OzarkHillbilly
@lollipopguild: I think it was Sharon Angle who offered “2nd Amendment solutions” were a viable way to sort things out..
Peale
@OzarkHillbilly: yes. Because Bill’s affairs were caused by his liberalism and demonstrated that he couldn’t be loyal to his country. Cruz’s affairs are the result of an otherwise good man surrounded by Bill Clinton’s liberal values. A momentary weakness that’s all Bill Clinton’s fault.
Schlemazel (parmesan rancor)
@bystander:
And people ask me why I would move from Florida to Minnesota!
Princess
Wait….Ted Cruz has had sex? I thought he just hired those kids when he ran for Senate. Whoa, this changes everything.
You’ve got to have it to Trump. He is ignorant and incompetent in most areas, but he sure knows how to play the media. Perfect timing.
OzarkHillbilly
@Patricia Kayden: I happily signed it. As my reason for signing it I stated “rooting for injuries”.
lollipopguild
@Schlemazel (parmesan rancor): I truly hope nothing happens but they talk all the time this way and I am afraid that one or more of the followers will try something.But it would be funny to see 50% of the people at the cleveland Con openly armed.
C.V. Danes
@efgoldman: Ah, but you see, even denial implies some capability for thinking. The conservative herd specifically does not think. Indeed, it abhors thinking. It merely reacts without thought.
MattF
@Peale: By Jove, I think you’ve got it. I’ve been expecting to see a shift from ‘blame Obama’ to ‘blame Clinton’– maybe this is the moment.
lollipopguild
@OzarkHillbilly: You are correct but Sarah has done the same and she has a much bigger public profile.
Schlemazel (parmesan rancor)
@lollipopguild:
SIGN THE PETITION!!
https://www.change.org/p/quicken-loans-arena-allow-open-carry-of-firearms-at-the-quicken-loans-arena-during-the-rnc-convention-in-july-2#petition-letter
demand these strong supporters of open carry be allowed to carry at their convention in Cleveland!
I am seriously rooting for serious injuries.
Just One More Canuck
@efgoldman: A couple of more comments:
this is why you don’t bring a burrito to a fork fight
It takes a good guy with a burrito to stop a bad guy with a burrito
OzarkHillbilly
@lollipopguild: OK.
Paul in KY
@Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class: Holy Cross?
FlipYrWhig
Doesn’t it seem like Ted Cruz’s entire body would be clammy?
Paul in KY
@NonyNony: They will attack still. Hypocrisy is the stew they marinate in.
It might hurt them, but they will still do it. Like the scorpion, it’s in their nature.
Paul in KY
@Baud: That and that stupid tank helmet.
OzarkHillbilly
@Just One More Canuck: It takes a bad guy with a fork to stop a bad girl with a burrito.
Schlemazel (parmesan rancor)
It is fitting in a way that I discovered a new saint today, good friday. Saint Fu is the patron saint of silence. I wish all the GOP nut jobs running for office would follow the teachings of St.Fu
Patricia Kayden
@OzarkHillbilly: LOL!! Perhaps I’ll do the same.
What a wild election cycle. I thought we would never have another cycle as exciting as 2008 but boy was I wrong. This one is exciting for all the wrong reasons though.
Baud
@Paul in KY: How hard do you have to work to make George H.W. Bush look like the cool one?
Jeez.
Paul in KY
@Princess: I can’t believe he had 5 affairs with 5 different, apparently willing, women!?
Eeeeeyick!!!!
FlipYrWhig
@Schlemazel (parmesan rancor): ZING!
Paul in KY
@efgoldman: I’m talking about a Louisville HS.
Baud
@efgoldman: The only truly lasting negative effect of Bush I is Clarence Thomas.
A reminder for any readers thinking of staying home in November.
Paul in KY
@Baud: As hard as Gov. Dukakis & his crack campaign team worked!! Oy vey, I thought at beginning of that one that we were going to win…
OzarkHillbilly
@Patricia Kayden:
I have tried to avoid as much of the BS as possible and even still I am reaching overload. Feeling more and more like just checking out of it entirely for the sake of my sanity.
FlipYrWhig
@efgoldman: Hey, it’s not about competence, it’s about ideology!
p.a.
It’s
turtlesslime all the way down.Kay
The title of this Red State piece is “Everyone Hates John Kasich”
Best GOP primary ever.
Kathleen
@Big Ol Hound: slimy lineage is great name for heavy metal band.
Baud
@Kay: Hey, I don’t know if you saw my comment yesterday, but I was wondering if you had any thoughts on the recent DOL wage rules.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: Whatever else one says about GHWB, what he did in the South Pacific gave him permanent cool.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class:
Weird you would say that because that pretty my instant reaction when I see pictures of him before I realize who he is. It’s like with Glen Beck the instant reaction when I see his swarmy smile is “this guy is lying”
Kathleen
@Baud: obama should warn them.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly: No doubt.
MomSense
@FlipYrWhig:
GREEN BALLOONS! GREEN BALLOONS NOW!
Kay
@Baud:
The only thing I read was a “concern” piece on how they might mean firing preschool teachers. Are they finalized?
Baud
@Kay: I don’t know the status. I’ve just noticed an uptick in the reporting about it. I thought you might be tracking it.
Baud
@Kay: @Baud:
I looked at DOL’s website, and saw nothing new.
Elizabelle
I think this is funny. Launching sex scandal allegations at someone, and having people disbelieve the story because it’s hard to imagine three, never mind five, women willing to bang the guy.
That’s kind of 11 dimension chess for Trump.
Also, why would the National Enquirer take such a risk? Big judgement against Gawker this week (the Hulk Hogan case).
Kay
@Baud:
I was and it looked like they were settling on 50k for the new rule but they were “taking comments” and of course they’re being heavily lobbied. The big news out of the DOL this week is a new silica rule, which they have been trying to get since 1970.
It’s such a shame major media doesn’t cover this stuff. It’s relegated to “labor reporters”- it’s like they have decided all income and workplace issues must be discussed at 30,000 feet, by economists.
The overtime rule is HUGE, for millions and millions of people. There’s this big gaping hole in the media coverage- it’s economists and the “soft side” of employment- quality of life- there’s no WAGE people. “Labor reporters” have filled the hole to a certain extent but why would it be limited to just them?
They would be doing a service just to explain overtime, and who is salaried and who is exempt.
NonyNony
@Elizabelle:
I haven’t read the Enquirer story, but from the excerpts it sounds like they’re caging it as “private detectives doing oppo research are investigating allegations”.
Which means its a non-story to anyone but a tabloid because they have no evidence or people on the record that they’re willing to commit to. But its enough to throw up some mud and probably sell some eyeballs.
Aimai
Im thinking of havin buttons made up that say “I’m with Sane.”
Gin & Tonic
@efgoldman: He said high school, not law school.
Betty Cracker
@Kay:
Yep. Can’t recall enjoying another one half so much. Watching Jebbie and Marco crash and burn was worth the price of admission for me! :)
OzarkHillbilly
@Kay:
That IS a big deal. I have no idea how much silica I inhaled over the years and the damage it is responsible for. (as an ex smoker I know I am responsible for most of my lung issues but one wonders about the other stuff too.)
Glidwrith
@Kay: Wait, what is going on? Links?
Kay
@Baud:
I think people would understand the whole workplace scheme we’ve put together over the last 100 years if they knew more about how these things originated, that there were actions and then reactions. It makes more sense. You start to get why teachers have tight union contracts when you realize they’re exempt from certain workplace rules, for example. They really would be vulnerable to unpaid overtime, because they’re not managers- they have so many requirements and often so little discretion- but they also fit within the exemption for “learned”.
I think the Right has been really successful portraying these things as irrational, stupid rules that no one needs, because the understanding of how it all fits together, how it evolved over time, just isn’t there.
MomSense
@Aimai:
To incorporate the Clinton logo you could also do buttons that say H(logo)ell Yes I’m with Sane. Or Hill Yes I’m With Sane!
rikyrah
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch:
Your posts are cracking me up this morning
PurpleGirl
@FlipYrWhig: You had to go there… Now I need a LOT of brain bleach to get that image out of my mind.
Kay
@Glidwrith:
The easiest way to follow the USDOL is to follow their Twitter account. They link everything they do and (as I was just complaining about!) no one covers this stuff :)
MomSense
@Kay:
There is a big problem in a lot of school districts that are saving money by hiring educational technicians instead of certified teachers even if the ed tech is a certified teacher. They are only paid for class time which means they don’t get paid for prep time, grading, meetings, and all the special education compliance work. In Maine, Ed Techs are not covered by union contracts so it sets up a tiered system in the schools where the techs spend just as much time but do not get paid for much of their work. They also do not qualify for benefits. I don’t know how this situation is handled in other states.
rikyrah
You expected more from those clowns?
FRIDAY, MAR 25, 2016 05:00 AM CDT
“Morning Joe” childishness: The show’s inane demand that President Obama treat Americans like children
Obama’s response to the terrorist attack in Brussels was measured and serious. Of course, “Morning Joe” hated it
ELIAS ISQUITH
Earlier this week, a series of coordinated terror bombings in Brussels, which ISIS claims it planned, left 34 human beings (including three perpetrators) dead. The terrorists bombed the city’s airport and one of its metro stations. Taken altogether, the real target of the attack was clear. It was the European project itself; and the modern cosmopolitanism that, to many, it represents.
At the risk of stating the obvious: These are serious issues. And they deserve a serious response. President Barack Obama, who was on a diplomatic trip in Cuba and elsewhere in South America, provided that serious response. And this made some of the media’s self-designated stewards of American empire very, very mad.
To be fair, their anger stemmed from a profoundly different assessment of Obama’s behavior than the one I just gave you. Their criticism had little to do with Obama’s official statement, which promised to “stand in solidarity” with Brussels; it was the other things that Obama did — and that he didn’t do — that had them so upset.
What were his transgressions? He didn’t respond to the attack by dropping his plans and zooming in Air Force One to Europe or Washington. He stuck to his plans — which included attending a symbolically important baseball match in Cuba, as well as a state dinner in Argentina, which featured dancing — instead.
Elizabelle
@MomSense:
I like that. For the general. Casting no aspersions on Bernie.
Would make a great bumper sticker.
p.a.
@MomSense: Virtual ‘contract workers’. The newest wave in the ‘shit some unions survived!’ movement of AmConTarianism.
PurpleGirl
@Kay: Talk about workplace issues and understanding them: Today is the anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. The actual building still stands and is owned by NYU. They have classrooms and chemistry labs in it. The elevator is condemned and they have never done anything to renovate it. To get to the classrooms/labs you have to take a staircase in Main Building and go through a doorway or take the elevator in the Waverly Building and go through a different set of doors. (ETA: I began at NYU as a Chemistry major.)
Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class
@Paul in KY:
DeSales. Back when I went, Holy Cross was all male and went by the name Bishop David. They were also our main rivals.
The highlight of the annual football game was the alumni fight in the parking lot afterward. It was funny as hell to see.
People take those things way too seriously. There was a neighborhood bar I used to go to on a pretty frequent basis back before I was married. There were two guys that were best buds, in their 40s and in there all the time – one went to St X and the other to Trinity. They drank together, ate at each other’s homes, took their families on vacation together. Any night of the week you went in, these two sat together. One year right after the game let out and they came into the bar (just as Trinity was really solidifying their football dynasty), something got said and these two were at it, knocked over a couple of tables. Rest of us were laughing pretty hard.
They got barred a couple of weeks for that, and never made that mistake again. They were pretty sheepish and bought rounds for everybody the night they got to come back in.
bemused
Corporate big bucks getting to name arenas named after themselves is about as unamerican as it gets, imo. Quicken Loans Arena really makes me gag. What a travesty. Arenas should be named for places, events or people that are unique and special to the cities and states they are located in.
It’s like driving across country on interstates and stopping for gas/food and the franchises, fast food places are all the same. As a passenger taking a long nap, you can wake up and not know where the hell you are.
My teeth grind when I hear “homeland” too.
rikyrah
OF COURSE, it was by design.
THURSDAY, MAR 24, 2016 12:37 PM CDT
What happened in Arizona wasn’t an accident: When states make voting impossible, it’s for a very clear reason
Arizona residents were forced to wait hours on line in order to vote in this week’s primary. Some were turned away. VIDEO
BOB CESCA
Once again, an American election was unnecessarily thwarted by long lines and not enough ballots. To say there’s no excuse for such nonsense, especially in a nation that prides itself on its representative democracy and, yes, its exceptionalism, is understating the problem. This time around, it happened during the Arizona primary where countless voters were forced to stand in lines for hours, while others were told they weren’t registered in the first place.
In Maricopa County alone, election officials infuriatingly reduced the number of polling places by 70 percent. Such a drastic reduction meant there was only one polling place per 21,000 residents of the highly populated Phoenix metroplex. Officials including County Recorder Helen Purcell (a Republican) said the cutbacks were due to budgetary concerns. Uh-huh. Of course, I doubt members of either party who were forced to wait in five-hour lines would’ve minded the additional expense to facilitate our most basic right as Americans. Elsewhere, independent voters who switched their registration to the Democratic Party were allegedly told they hadn’t registered at all, forcing them to sit out the closed primary.
Loviatar
I’ve recently starting asking this question of my conservative colleagues; when does supporting evil make you evil?
There is no neutrality between good and evil.
MattF
@Kay: I’m pleased to say that a local politician (Tom Perez) is in charge at DoL. I’ve always liked Perez– one instantly gets the very strong impression that’s he’s a good, straightforward guy.
bystander
@Schlemazel (parmesan rancor): @Just One More Canuck:
I didn’t read all the comments but just scanned to make sure nobody used the “deadly weapon” hook before I posted. Any charges of plagiarism are without merit or my name’s not Ben Dom…..er, bystander.
Just now on MSNBC they’re announcing a wave of arrests in Belgium and that the Number Two man in ISIS has been killed. Because the news lately was that ISIS was being driven back in Syria and the arrest of the guy wanted for the Paris attack, I wonder if we are experiencing, if not, a last effort, at least a wounded animal lashing out.
OzarkHillbilly
@bemused:
They can be, they just have to come up with the big bucks for our corporate betters…. But yeah, in total agreement. Everytime I hear the “H” word I gag.
Paul in KY
@Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class: Forgot DeSales was coed (you have IDed as female, I think). I went as a guest to 78 Trinity/St. X game & I couldn’t believe the fights in parking lot after game. I was just hangin back, saying I didn’t go to either school, etc.
Good times….
Paul in KY
@Loviatar: When you start supporting it.
Lurking Canadian
@OzarkHillbilly: I think open carry at the RNC could solve a lot of America’s problems, as long as they let the arena staff leave then lock the doors from the outside.
Randy P
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
When I see Glenn Beck, I always go with “clinically insane”. His blackboards make me immediately think of the scene in “Beautiful Mind” where you see what Nash has actually been posting on his walls when he thought he was sussing out secret spy plans.
@Elizabelle:
Nitpick: That’s six since he’s married and has reproduced.
Randy P
@rikyrah: So now that it’s part of the standard Republican vote-suppression playbook, how do we fight it? We know they’re going to do it in every state where Republicans control elections this November.
WereBear
Yes. Henry Kissenger got laid.
Elizabelle
@Randy P: Maybe the Justice Department steps in, hard, and soon, on Arizona, and asks the new Supreme Court (no Scalia!) for temporary power to review states’ election plans through the 2016 presidential election, and through 2018 in event no new Justice is confirmed?
(All states, if need be, although actual emphasis is on those states formerly affected by the Voting Rights Act, which the Chief Justice
Roger B. TaneyJohn Roberts Supreme Court smartly struck down.)I can see the North Carolina bathroom law standing, for a brief while, as a rallying cry for Democrats and other moderates.
Screwing with voting access on the pretext of “budget.” No. Make Arizona a painful example.
Paul in KY
@Randy P: Well, their ‘excuse’ was primary & low turnout, etc. Now we have firm evidence of large turnout in the primary, we should hammer them over & over that turnout in this momentous election will be huge & classy & many more machines will be needed, etc.
Will be hard for them to publically disavow this.
Paul in KY
@WereBear: Is it really an actual aphrodisiac (thinking of Cruz/Kissenger) or are these females just doing some quid pro quo stuff?
Edit: Guess we would never know, unless those females in question gave candid answers.
Shell
As Charlie Pierce puts it “Nobody Wants to Think About Ted Cruz Having Sex
So let’s not.”
The involuntary shudder is mine.
lollipopguild
@Betty Cracker: What ever happened to the DEEP BENCH?
lollipopguild
@Paul in KY: Not possible that there would be fights at a Catholic school football game. Fights only happen at the evil public schools.
Amaranthine RBG
@Paul in KY: power absolutely causes panties to drop, at least in a certain subset of the gender. I have two friends, both attractive, in their thirties, both professionals, one with two Ivy degrees and both of them have been with unattractive, powerful guys 20-30 years older more than once.
No judgement here, if sex with powerful guys or amputees or whatever is what gets you off and it’s all consensual, go for it. But I cannot pretend to understand it.
Chris
@Peale:
I dabbled in fundiegelical groups for a little while in college.
One of the biggest dealbreakers between their philosophy and the one I was raised with: the belief in “faith” not “acts.” The basic belief is that since all humans are fallen and sinful and incapable of saving themselves, nothing we *do* really matters in the grand scheme of things – even the best of us are, from a God’s eye POV, only a few inches less deep in the much than Hitler and Mao and company. Luckily, Jesus died for your sins to give you an out, and all you have to do is accept him as your personal savior, and if you do, you go to heaven, and if you don’t, you go to hell. Your actions, however good or bad, have no bearing on that outcome.
So the line between good and bad ends up being between people not actions. Not surprisingly, that mentality maps easily onto other forms of tribalism – racism, nationalism, etc.
Lurking Canadian
@Chris: That idea has a long pedigree. The fundies got it from Luther. Luther got it from Paul.
There are even some gospel passages that suggest Paul got it from Jesus, though others point the other way.
Chris
@Amaranthine RBG:
The same thing with the genders reversed is a thing too, I think. Maybe less so, but then women dating older men is more socially acceptable in general than the other way around.
Shana
@Elizabelle: Didn’t Anonymous put out a video last week threatening to spill the beans about Cruz if he didn’t drop out of the race? They dropped all sorts of hints about hookers. A month or so ago the lawyer for the DC madam (who has since committed suicide – the madam, not the lawyer) petitioned to have the files for the case opened because he said there was info that was pertinent to the current presidential election campaign. This was the case where David Vitter’s name showed up in her files.
I could believe, I suppose, that there might be women willing to sleep with Cruz because of power. I find it much more likely that most of those 5 women were paid instead.
Amaranthine RBG
@Chris: yes, I guess the larger point is that, as repugnant as it is to me, it is certainly possible that Cruz has knocked boots with plenty of women in the past few years.
‘Read Green Eggs and Ham again to me Ted! Read it! Read it!”
Kay
@PurpleGirl:
I made my 13 year old watch a documentary on it with me this week, although I didn’t know there was an anniversary – part of his mandatory indoctrination :)
I learned a lot. I didn’t know they had been “striking” (walking off the job) for two years prior to the fire or that the women who worked there formed an alliance with wealthy women who were working for the vote.
The most interesting part of these stories to me is always the alliances- how it’s never just one group.
Chris
@Lurking Canadian:
Oh yes. Jerry Falwell didn’t invent the concept. Unfortunately, it’s got a long pedigree, though there’ve been other schools of thought from the beginning too.
@Amaranthine RBG:
Well, thanks for the image! :D
WereBear
They don’t have to be. From what I can tell, the whole GOP leadership tends to be a cesspit of sins by their own lights. When everyone does it, it is not exceptional, and they would have a tendency to keep each other’s secrets.
And if Diaper Dave can be re-elected, and they shrug off Huckabee’s family history of animal torture, and W’s decades long cocaine use is forgiven by gawd… I mean really, what would make a dent?
Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class
@Paul in KY:
Nah – all male, still. And I’m a total dude, with some dudebro tendencies.
Elizabelle
@Shana: Ah so. More believable. And somewhat more fundagelically “forgivable” if Ted was sinning with paid painted wimmens. Sinning aginst the Goldman Sachs blonde wife.
@Amaranthine RBG: Laughing. That’s perfect.
Among all the bizarro world stuff we’ve seen this GOP primary season, I cannot believe the Senator they hope will Save Their Party is an Ivy educated stiff who did not get the message of “Green Eggs and Ham.”
But using it as coded sex talk. Well that’s funny.
Miss Bianca
This is what I don’t get. For me, “power” sans basic sex appeal means nothing. In fact, if anything it repels me.
Could this be why I’ve never been able to SLEEP MY WAY TO POWER?
Honesty and modesty alike compel me to add, however, that offers from politicians to “get into my big black car” have not exactly been thick on the ground for petite moi. Easy for me to say I’d never sell out if no one’s been offering to buy! ; )
Miss Bianca
So, FYWP/Hacker Ghost in the Machine has apparently decided that any comment I try to edit means “spam” and apparently deletes the comment. Anyone else noticed this this morning?
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Kay:
Always.
Goblue72
@NonyNony: Candidate Bill Clinton managed to convince a nation that Gennifer Flowers was a one time thing, as opposed to the reality that he was a serial adulterer. And it took a special prosecutor and Linda Tripp’s tape recorder to unearth the truth about the Lewinsky blowjob.
This might all blow over but I won’t. I won’t be shocked if it doesn’t.
sukabi
@Randy P: I demand a DNA test… his daughters clearly don’t want to be touched by him, they got that attitude from somewhere, pretty sure it was their mother…. she’s probably pushing the presidency angle so she’s free to claim he has more important duties than being a “husband”.
sukabi
@Paul in KY: you’re not likely to get candid answers from the women… “I did it for the access, power, money, bling” is tantamount to admitting you’re a common prostitute.
M. Bouffant
Sure, but doesn’t it seem as if every wk. is worse than the previous one?