BREAKING: Newly released screenshots of a Facebook conversation between #StormyDaniels and a friend shows she denied ever having sex with Donald Trump!

https://twitter.com/LauraLoomer/status/978454064013938689

Texas bill would fine men $100 each time they masturbate

https://www.cnn.com/2017/03/13/health/abortion-texas-lawmaker-trnd/index.html

As crid would say, we need to take into account the historical, cultural, economic, geographic, and political perspectives.

"Amid shouts of 'Allah Akbar' Koranic verses and insults, he beat Halimi before throwing her out of the window."

https://www.timesofisrael.com/holocaust-survivors-body-found-burnt-stabbed-in-paris-apartment/

Sixth grade is going to mean a lot to you. Remember to wear long pants.

Again, don't forget to take into account the historical, cultural, economic, geographic, and political perspectives.

Parents accused of choking, beating daughter for refusing arranged marriage -

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/san-antonio-texas-parents-choked-beat-daughter-for-refusing-arranged-marriage/

Judge in Noor Salman case denies defense motion to dismiss the case because of revelations regarding Omar Mateen's dad. "This trial is not about Seddique Mateen, it's about Noor Salman," Byron said.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/pulse-orlando-nightclub-shooting/os-noor-salman-pulse-trial-day-16-story.html

Here are some new and similarly trite friends for you to play with. Enjoy your years in Simpleton City!

Here's an example of a gender-bent version of Chelsea Handler:

https://twitter.com/michaelianblack/status/977988610963189760

What was that about running out of other people's money?

So, on authority of a “Progressive Revenue Task Force”, the solution to homelessness turns out to be other people’s money. Who coulda guessed? Yes, Seattle will “grant” said money in the form of “initiatives”, meaning handouts. Grip-and-grin photos will announce the Task Forces’s selfless heroism and certainty of success. Businesses and constructive citizens will enthusiastically agree. “We applaud Seattle for bravely supporting the homeless,” they’ll say, as they leave the city at the posted speed limit.

More vagrants, oops, homeless will move to Seattle. Because free stuff. The funds—they always say “funds”—will quickly be insufficient for the wave of new, um, clients. Gripe-and-groan photos of camps bigger and more squalid than before will announce a new “crisis”. Another Progressive Revenue Task Force will be formed.

http://americandigest.org/wp/homeless-seattle-drive-ol-remus-plus-footnote/

> Here are some new and similarly trite friends for
> you to play with. Enjoy your years in Simpleton City!

Impressive how you take into account the historical, cultural, economic, geographic, and political perspectives involved.

500 FPS. I remember that day

> Impressive

Simplify, Pilgrim... Make a trope out of learnedness. Not too many moving parts, okay? You need a condensed model of the world that you can carry in your head, where space is dear (if unloved).

Gun control I can get behind. Tho it should be noted that not all Marines are in a trigger pulling MOS, but all are trained riflemen.

This week, our organization at OpenTheBooks.com released our findings in an editorial at The Wall Street Journal that quantified the growing federal arsenal. The number of non-military federal officers with arrest and firearm authority (200,000+) now exceeds the number of U.S. Marines (182,000).

https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2016/06/21/an-assault-weapons-ban-for-the-irs-and-other-federal-regulatory-agencies/#4baf95133b9e

Who you gonna call? Snitchbusters!

http://dailycaller.com/2018/03/26/university-of-pittsburgh-anarchist-students/

This is a sweet clip, start @ 21:35

David Bowie.

https://twitter.com/zolaamode/status/977997812980961280

Here are some new and similarly trite friends for you to play with. Enjoy your years in Simpleton City! ~ Crid at March 27, 2018 5:04 AM

This is exactly why I was snarky in the other thread about having a 17-year-old lecturing the rest of us about government and politics. The perspective of a teenager is very shallow, by default, their emotional maturity not yet fully developed. Disastrous unintended consequences are the inevitable result of legislation designed by and for over-wrought teenagers.

If Harry Potter is your chief frame of reference in any argument or political discussion, please shut up and go read a book that does not have the word "magic" in it - preferably before you vote.

The absolute view of the world held and espoused by teenagers is why Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman had the Antichrist about to destroy the world in fit of petulance in Good Omens be a 13-year-old boy. No other age could see the world that is and the world that should be in such rigid parameters.

500 FPS. I remember that day ~ Crid at March 27, 2018 7:12 AM

I was there. Well, not actually at Kennedy, but across the Indian River with my parents and a large crowd, watching.

> BREAKING:

So what's going on here is that these Trump voters have built a context in which their taste in (utterly trivial) showbiz gossip sites affirms their most deeply-held (i.e., similarly shallow) political beliefs. They grew up insulated and oblivious on the couch, in little foot-jammies, nourished under the glow of a Trinitron. They were raised for two things— Petty chatter and watching television. So they've demanded that government and public affairs conform themselves to this horribly constrained skill set.

"BREAKING:"

...There's compelling, pivotal new information available about a game-show host's sex life, and all responsible American citizens should take heed! Breaking! Winning! Breaking!

And by "sex life," I mean, of course, infidelity. Eeeeeeven though that one friend said she was totally a liaaaarrr!!

!! ! !

There's compelling, pivotal new information available about a game-show host's sex life, and all responsible American citizens should take heed! Breaking! Winning! Breaking! ~ Crid at March 27, 2018 8:45 AM

I suspect the Dems are setting a perjury trap for Trump, much like the one set by Republicans for Bill Clinton. Build a politically-distasteful frenzy about an alleged affair, force the president to deny the affair publicly, roll the affair under an existing investigation by an opposition special prosecutor, get the president to deny the affair under oath, then roll out evidence of the affair. Gotcha!

This kind of dirty political infighting was dangerous to the country in 1996 and it's dangerous to the country today. Removing Trump with such shenanigans will have disastrous implications - the result will be a coup d'etat, not a lawful impeachment. As much as most of us dislike Trump's chaotic management and distasteful private life, he was rightfully elected and is the president.

And, with the Paula Jones lawsuit, the way was opened to a host of gold-diggers seeking fame, money, and attention by suing the president for actions not related to his presidency or his politics. Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal are merely the latest in what I fear will be a long line of attention whores destabilizing the presidency, lawsuits being used to remove elected officials for political and not legal reasons. These are the unintended consequences of Judge Royce Lambert's lack of foresight.

And before we have people telling us how much calmer things would be if Hillary had been elected, let us not forget that she was instrumental in covering up Bill's affairs, abetted in his crimes, and was willing to abet a coup in 1972.

> So what's going on here is that

Impressed that you can not only read my mind, but the mind of millions of others. While of course taking into account the historical, cultural, economic, geographic, and political perspectives.

Very large scale study attests to sex differences in personality, with women systematically scoring higher on Agreeableness and Neuroticism.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886918301521?_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_origin=gateway&_docanchor=&md5=b8429449ccfc9c30159a5f9aeaa92ffb

> Bowie

The thing about that clip posted just above your comment is that I can't readily get emotionally engaged for any Elon Musk venture... Cars, rockets, whatever. People talk about him as if he was magnificent tech innovator in the style of Edison or Hewlett/Packard or Jobs, but his real superpower is diverting taxpayer money (and regulatory forbearance) behind whatever goofy project he wants to do next, no many how many zeros are in the number.

So the boosters fall away. We hear the under-30 engineers in the hanger roaring their bliss at the top of their lungs (whether or not they can afford houses) and it's all very loud, and we start to hear music as they're showing the shots of that torpid little car in space. And I'll all like 'Rrrrrreeeeetch... They have to ruin the moment with some shitty piece of rock 'n roll....

...Then I realize it's Bowie, and start tearing up.





Davey himself wouldn't have been happy about it, unless he'd been given an explicit payment for the use of the tune.

They say Samuel Barber wouldn't have authorized Oliver Stone to use Adagio in "Platoon," but he died five years before it was made.

> Impressed

As well you ought be, having not done the reading.

> ...she denied having sex with Donald Trump!

That exclamation point is a nice touch. Important!

Attention: 'Sex with Donald Trump!'

> dangerous to the country
> in 1996 and it's dangerous
> to the country today

Well, we could always choose to elect candidates who, y'know, have their shit together.

> across the Indian River with
> my parents and a large crowd

Envy

Gentlemen, select your champion.

Contenders—

• Feb 7 fitness instructor convicted of running a prostitution ring out of her Zumba stuio


• Feb 8 sex with an underage student


• Feb 5 DUI accompanied with a minor, blood alcohol level above 0.15% and possession of cocaine

She's beautiful when she's angry.

> Attention: 'Sex with Donald Trump!'

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DZT5mwAVwAAkaOF.jpg

Al Sharpton's brother charged in shooting murder one day after he participated in anti-guns march -

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/al-sharptons-half-brother-charged-in-murder-after-marching-against-guns

Well, we could always choose to elect candidates who, y'know, have their shit together. ~ Crid at March 27, 2018 9:27 AM

Those days may be gone forever. Disfunction seems to be the flavor of the day.

As each party panders to its increasingly-extremist base, that being where its power and voters lie, don't expect thoughtful statesmen or deliberative politicians to be the norm anymore.

There was always room for a Ted Kennedy, Dennis Kucinich, or Jesse Helms, but they were residing at the lunatic fringes of their parties. Not anymore. They'd be mainstream today - even Ted and Jesse were willing to compromise to get 75-80% of what they wanted. Today, it's all or nothing, a politician's base will crucify him if he comes home with only 80%.

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Al Sharpton's brother charged in shooting murder one day after he participated in anti-guns march ~ Snoopy at March 27, 2018 11:02 AM

Et tu, Carl Rowan?

"I suspect the Dems are setting a perjury trap for Trump, much like the one set by Republicans for Bill Clinton."

The easy escape for Trump is to just not care. Let them ramble on over it and not really respond. Unlike with Clinton none of this happened while Trump was in office. And since Clinton happened no one really cares. Ignore it and it becomes a non-issue.

Swear to God, if I had a son, I'd have taught him to draw images of loathsome violence on line paper when he started grade school, just to rub their noses in it.

(Then I'd have killed him in him in his sleep during year eleven.)

(But to be fair, I'd probably have done that anyway. Some of us aren't cut out for family, y'know?)



I love the First Amendment more than any of the people who don't understand how it works. Than all of them put together.

> it becomes a non-issue.

Phew! Melania can relax, then.

Unlike with Clinton none of this happened while Trump was in office. ~ Ben at March 27, 2018 1:46 PM

If he's called to testify or give a deposition, like Clinton was, it will be while in office. That's the whole point of setting a perjury trap for a sitting president. Do it while in office and it's arguably a high crime or misdemeanor, not just perjury.

The behavior at the heart of Paula Jones' lawsuit, the precursor to Clinton's perjury problems, happened long before he was president. Judge Royce Lambert allowed a spurious lawsuit against Clinton to go forward. Jones alleged that the latest Starr report, which included a passage about "Paula C." being "acquired" by state troopers for Clinton's sexual use, actually constituted a new case of sexual harassment and was the grounds for her harassment claim, along with the earlier harassment being renewed by the Starr report. Lamber t agreed and we were treated to descriptions of the president's genitals and and the spectacle of a semen-stained dress.

Once the Jones lawsuit was rolled under Starr's investigation through a connection, however tenuous, with the Whitewater scandal, his behavior with Lewinsky was fair game. And when questioned in a deposition, Clinton lied. Then he sent his minions out to further his lie. That those minions were Cabinet officers made it an abuse of power and a cover-up.

Remember, Nixon was not brought down by a second-rate burglary by a group loosely associated with him, but by his orchestrating a cover-up from the Oval Office.

If Trump did have an affair with Daniels and testifies under oath that he did not, or if his attorney was legitimately a government official when he, with Trump's knowledge, paid her off, the Democratic Party's revenge for the Clinton impeachment is complete.

Something tells me if these were the men's lacrosee team doing the singing, the outcome would have been a much more different thing

https://lawandcrime.com/sports/coach-disappointed-after-virginia-tech-womens-lacrosse-team-sings-n-word-over-and-over-video/

Parkland student, Sinead O'Connor ... oops, I mean Emma Gonzalez admitted that the students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School ostracized and bulled the shooter, Nicholas Kruz. She made this admission at a rally blaming the guns for the shooting.

"Since he was in middle school, it was no surprise to anyone who knew him, that he was the shooter. Those talking about how we should have not ostracized him? You didn’t know this kid! OK? We did!"

No wonder these kids are so hostile to the idea that the shooter was lashing out in response to bullying. Since middle school? That's a lot of bullying to endure. But it was justified, 'cause he was weird, right?

Another student admitted after the shooting that Kruz was bullied "a lot" and expressed regret that he did not let the school administration know that Kruz needed help.

While at least one white paper shows that not every shooter was bullied, it's interesting how many were. Bullying cannot explain it all. So many kids who don't wind up killing their classmates were bullied. There are also mental health issues, anger issues, etc. to be factored in. And access to guns is also a factor to be considered.

Mind you, the fault is still Kruz's. He pulled the trigger. But until we start looking at all the issues (and being honest with ourselves), we're just spinning our wheels.

There's the walk of shame... Happens to all of us at some point... And then there's Dear Child, hie thee to the nunnery!

That is my point Conan, why would Trump testify? Why depose? They can call for him to but he doesn't have to comply. As a politician refusing to deal with this actually looks better than even discussing it. Just say it is a waste of tax payer money and not relevant to the running of the US government. The cultural forces that pushed Clinton to testify are gone. And the legal issues aren't there. Trump can easily just ignore the whole thing with zero consequences.