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Tuesday Open Comments

The following is a quote from the Diogenes’ Middle Finger blog:

Every once in a while a little ray of light will hit Bill Maher’s brain. It’s always brief and fleeting. As rare as it may be, it does occasionally happen.

“No wonder fake news resonates so much with Trump fans, because so much of it is fake. It’s just nonsense meant to keep you perpetually offended with an endless stream of controversies that aren’t controversial, and outrages that aren’t outrageous because places like the Huffington Post and Buzzfeed and Salon make their money by how many clicks they get. Yes, the people who see themselves as morally superior are are actually ignoring their sacred job of informing citizens of what’s important, and instead sowing division for their own selfish ends. Hey, wait, isn’t that what Russia was doing to us? Yeah, it is. And we have to stop both of them from using us as the cocks in their cock fights……”

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  1. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Hispanic shooter – non white victim – white hispanic.

    First!

  2. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Second!
    Mornin’ Gang

  3. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Oh yes, sign me up for that.
    Elon Musk Warns First Travelers to Mars: ‘Good Chance You’ll Die.

  4. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    File this under,”yes we’ve all lost our minds”.
    National Geographic acknowledges past racist coverage.
    This caught my eye;

    “People of color were often scantily clothed, people of color were usually not seen in cities, people of color were not often surrounded by technologies of automobiles, airplanes or trains or factories,” he said. “People of color were often pictured as living as if their ancestors might have lived several hundreds of years ago and that’s in contrast to westerners who are always fully clothed and often carrying technology.”

    So, you travel to Africa or some such place to find indigenous people living like they did a hundred years ago and you’re supposed to portray them driving cars and wearing suits?!?!

  5. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Re: OC chart

    How appropriate. I wake up to find that this morning’s narrative is that the Austin bombings MAY be racist.

  6. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good chilly morning Hamsters. Nippy 41 here on the moors of the Brazos, a bit colder than forecast on the 10 pm news last night. Obviously this is a real cold front that our friends the Canadians just had to share with us.

  7. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    He [President Polk] recalled Trist, intending to demand more Mexican territory. Trist, however, ignored his recall order. In fact, he took it to the Mexicans and said, in effect, “Negotiate with me, you idiots, because the next guy is gonna demand a lot more territory.” The Mexicans agreed with this logic and negotiated a treaty that more-or-less gave us the current border.

    Noel Maurer is a professor in the Boston area and has an entertaining blog entry on an imaginative alternate history. It’s fascinating to me how history could be greatly altered by the decision of one person.

    In comments, Will Baird asks what would have happened to Mexico had the United States taken even more territory in the Mexican-American War.

    The answer is that it depends.

    First things first: the current U.S.-Mexico border is improbable given the result of the war. The U.S. invaded Mexico hoping to take everything north and east of the Rio Grande, plus California down to somewhere around Monterrey. (Yes, that would have left Los Angeles in Mexico.) The U.S. won all the battles in the north and asked for a settlement. Mexico refused. So eventually General Scott pressed all the way to Mexico.

    The American envoy to the Mexican government, Nicholas Trist, was a member of the Whig Party and a vocal opponent of the war. President Polk had appointed him to negotiate with Mexico for precisely that reason; it gave him political cover against accusations that the war was just a land-grab for the slave states. (Northern Mexico was a good place to grow cotton.)

    and,

    Some history: France invaded Mexico in late 1861, ostensibly over unpaid debts. In reality, the French had struck a deal with disgruntled Conservatives in Mexico, who were angered by the anti-clericalism of the Second Mexican Republic. In our world, the French pushed the Republican forces under Benito Juárez back to El Paso de Norte. (El Paso de Norte is now called Ciudad Juárez.) They then established the Second Mexican Empire under Maximilian. But they were reluctant to obliterate Juárez’s forces so close to the United States. A year later, with the Civil War over, the U.S. began to give military support to Juárez. Slowly but surely, the Republicans pushed south, and by 1867 the Second Mexican Empire was no more.

    The red arrows on the map represent the movements of the Juárez government. It retreated across the Coahuila state line at the end of 1863. In our history, Juárez took refuge in El Paso de Norte. That city bordered Union-controlled territory, at least once troops from California occupied West Texas in 1862.

  8. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #5

    I was thinking this morning, watch what silly spin will get geared up on the Austin bombings. Looks like you already found it. I would think they would be calling for bomb control.

  9. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I have raged against the Chevron ruling and judicial deference for years (Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.). It’s just really bad law and has been used to ignore rampant abuse at the hands of the administrative state or in current terminology – the Deep State.

    There is hope for the future.

    Jonathan Adler at Reason:

    Justice Neil Gorsuch is not a fan of Chevron deference. As a federal appellate judge, Gorsuch questioned the wisdom of deferring to federal regulatory agencies’ interpretations of the statutes they are tasked to administer.

    It turns out Justice Gorsuch was not alone among appellate judges. According to a newly released survey of over three-dozen federal appellate judges, quite a few are skeptical of Chevron deference, and such views appear to be most prevalent among those appellate judges who, like Gorsuch, sit outside of the Beltway.

    That other judges are skeptical of Chevron deference is but one of the interesting findings from the survey of 42 sitting federal appellate judges conducted by Professor Abbe Gluck and former judge Richard Posner, just published in the Harvard Law Review. The focus of the survey is how federal appellate judges approach questions of statutory interpretation.

    this from Gluck and Posner,

    Although every judge we interviewed told us that he or she was bound by Chevron — and all but one of the judges did apply that rule in opinions — most of the judges we interviewed do not favor the Chevron rule. Here is where we see a “D.C. Circuit effect” in our study. All but one of the D.C. Circuit judges we interviewed — who were of different generations and political parties — were admirers of Chevron deference, whereas most other judges from the other courts of appeals were decidedly anti-Chevron.

  10. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Rexxon is gone.

    HEADLINE: Trump ousts Tillerson, will replace him as secretary of state with CIA chief Pompeo

    I think this should have happened a long time ago; particularly after Rexxon stated that he was in the gorebullwarmongering camp. Rexxon is an establishment globalist and is ultimately destructive to America. This is the good news. The bad news, particularly for El Gordo is this:

    Pompeo will replace him at the State Department, and Gina Haspel — the deputy director at the CIA — will succeed him at the CIA, becoming the first woman to run the spy agency, if confirmed.

    There was no indication as to how Nikki Haley felt about being passed over for SOS. She seems to be doing a great job as UN Ambassador so there is a future for her.

  11. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I remember a time when World Vision lived up to this.

    “A Christian relief, development and advocacy organisation dedicated to working with children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice.”

    Once upon a time, they had an impeccable reputation.

    Today though…

    Views “[a]dvocacy and communications… as a critical component of World Vision’s work in the region” and “advocates at the local, national, regional, and global levels,” including “building the capacity of local Palestinian NGOs, encouraging youth to document their history and surroundings, providing photography training to vulnerable communities across the West Bank and Gaza.”

    so while WV teaches youth how to back up Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades and Hamas propaganda they hire people like this,

    Raffoul Rofa, a board member since 2008 and chair since 2009, is also the director of the Society of St.Yves, a highly politicized Catholic NGO that is among the leaders of demonization campaigns, through allegations of “discriminatory policies” and “breach[ing] international law.” Founder Michel Sabbah authored (with Naim Ateek of Sabeel and Atallah Hanna) the 2009 Kairos Palestine document, which promotes BDS in chuches, compares Israel with the South African apartheid regime, and denies the Jewish historical connection to Israel

    and the WV denials on this are pretty smelly,

    On June 15, 2016, Mohammad El-Halabi, the manager of operations for World Vision in Gaza, was arrested by Israeli authorities.

    On August 4, after 50 days in administrative detention, El -Halabi was revealed by the Shabak, the Israeli security agency, to be a Hamas terrorist. He is accused of diverting approximately 60% of the World Vision’s Gaza budget to the terrorist organization to build tunnels and fund other terrorist activity. The siphoned funds amount to approximately $50 million.

    World Vision political advocacy includes (and this is a mild example),

    Promotes a highly politicized and biased agenda, placing sole blame for the continuation of the conflict on Israel and paying little attention to legitimate Israeli security concerns or Palestinian terrorism against Israeli civilians. This includes calling the security barrier “illegal,” ignoring the fact that the barrier was built in the wake of the second intifada in which Israeli civilians were the targets of near daily suicide bombings.

    NGOS and non-profits around the world have become a huge racket. Everything from PETA to the Humane Society to Human Rights Watch to World Vision. Leftists cannot resist resevoirs of other people’s money. The easiest way for them to get it is to quietly hijack an existing charity, take over the board, replace the administration and then seize the money for whatever deviant, evil purpose they can get away with.

  12. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    As a youth minister, we participated in World Vision’s 30 Hour Fast program.

    So sad to hear this about them.

  13. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Leftists cannot resist resevoirs of other people’s money.

    I think I’m gonna put that on a plaque and hang it over my headboard. Well, after talking to my wife.

  14. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    12 Tedtam

    This has been going on for years. They have been able to keep it under the radar because they don’t necessarily take donations directly from Ms. America Q. Public and give her money directly to a keffiyeh wearing jihadist murderer. They are far more clever than that and promote themselves universally with photos and videos of starving children in rags in Third World sh*tholes. It’s NGO SOP. The dumb, gullible Americans and the clueless, arrogant Europeans, you know.

  15. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    I’m starting a fund to protect alligators from the horrific slaughter suffered annually by millions of them simply to make Gatorade. Please donate to save the suffering alligators.

  16. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I would appreciate it if anyone so inclined posts my World Vision story and/or link to Facebook.

    I’d like to spread the word on their corruption.

    On another note, I have not donated to any charitable effort or organization that I’m not very familiar with and that usually means something local I can keep an eye on. If it is in Israel, it is small and I know plenty about them.

  17. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Morning, chickadees. I need to shake a leg today and get some things on my chore list checked off.

  18. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    On another legal matter, as Gerard describes it…

    The Advantages to Making A Plan Before Committing a Crime

    The greater escape.

  19. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Texpat

    Posted.

    You’re welcome.

  20. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #18

    I don’t normally root for criminals, but that was awesome!

  21. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    He might not have been a criminal. Maybe the fuzz was just out looking for someone upon whom to inflict a thorough beat down issued with great vigor.

  22. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #21

    Maybe – I couldn’t see what skin color the biker had.

  23. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Prayers for the Channelview band kids involved in the terrible bus crash in Alabama this morning. Maybe buses should be banned, or at least an age limit of at least 21 placed on riders. Why is the band taking a school sponsored trip to Disneyworld anyway?

  24. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    19 Tedtam

    Thanks.

  25. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Supposedly this is a general in one of our armed services. He is one that definitely needs to be broomed out. He looks like he has never fired a weapon in his life. Absolutely pathetic.

  26. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Dang. Where you been? That video has been the subject of discussion and derision for a couple weeks now

  27. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Mary Steyn relives the good old days of the hard boiled detective in this brief article.
    https://www.steynonline.com/8512/hammer-and-tongues

  28. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #26: It is possible that I missed a link to follow earlier. That being said, the “general” in question is a disgrace to the US Armed Services. He should prolly be working in a San Francisco bath house.

  29. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #s 20 & 18 – I’ve got a crisp ‘Grant’ (aka $50) that says that was STAGED

    no lights blazing on the LEO vehicles………………
    obvious well worn bike trail up the front side of that jump………….

    it WAS a nice jump I agree!

  30. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Went to get state inspection, but the nearby car place we use told me their machine wasn’t working this morning. I’ll call before I try again.

    I did get my Easter decor up. Very minimal, with a new cat in the house: 8 plush blue bunnies and one brown coconut husk carved bunny, up on the mantel. Swapped in my two favorite Spring wreaths for the fireplace wall. One craft wood sign.

    Also made a batch of my barbecue sausage and beans, eaten with toasted and buttered French bread, sliced at the Kroger bakery.

  31. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Great o/c chart. 🙂

    Super Dave #1: heh! 🙂

  32. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    What a week. We’ve de used to out down our swet Adarha dog. She’s the sweetest dog Niki or I have ever known. She’s 13, has had kidney failure and she struggles just to lay down. We’ve de used this in part before it gets worse and she starts vomiting which is symptom of chronic pain. Our entire family will miss her.

    I spoke to Mother yesterday and my Aunt / my father’s sister has a terminal brain tumor. Keep and radiation has resided it but it will grow back. There is an option of her to carry a battery and wear a cap which electronically said the cancer cells from forming but that’ll prologue her life by only 5 years and cost 20,000 dollars per month to use. I don’t think she’ll choose that route. Typically people with her type of tumor live about 16 months. She has no children of her own so she wznts to see sll her nieces and nephews and their kids at least one more time before the Lord calls her home. I can’t afford to travel to Ohio and I doubt she’ll be travelling so I’m thankful for Skype and FaceTime if she has an Apple device. She’s been an absolutely wonderful aunt to me and my kids and there’s been no shortage of no dness fron her towards Niki. She’ll be dearly missed.

  33. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    …but I don’t no more

  34. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    United scores another PR disaster.
    https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2018/03/13/are-you-fcking-kidding-me-united-will-need-a-miracle-to-recover-from-this-pr-disaster/?utm_campaign=twitchywidget

  35. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #34 El Gordo

    Good Lord, it is too late for even Gordon Bethune to come rescue United from its suicidal behavior. Are these idiot flight attendants really plants from other airlines to do these stupid things to ruin a competitor? Or is management really that stupid to manage ruination all on its own? Thanks be that we do not hold stock in UA. It is radioactive by now.

  36. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Thanks goodness for Southwest. I’ve about decided that if SWA doesn’t go there, then I don’t need to go there. American used to be the worst, but I think United works overtime at being bad. I used to think they sent Neiman Marcus sales clerks to rude school – I guess by now rude school has gone big time to serve UAL.

  37. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I hated when Mom took me into Neiman’s.
    Those beyotches in there were ghouls.

  38. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Never been in a Neiman Marcus, but I ain’t hatin’ on anyone who has.

  39. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I’m sorry, a freaking dog does not belong on an airline in the passenger cabin unless it’s a support animal. And I think that should be in the most severe circumstances. Flame on!

  40. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Hey, I’m really in a good mood. 😀

  41. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    GJT says:
    MARCH 13, 2018 AT 6:20 PM
    I’m sorry, a freaking dog does not belong on an airline in the passenger cabin unless it’s a support animal. And I think that should be in the most severe circumstances. Flame on!

    Yah, you’re right.

    The lady deserved it.

    And her little dog, too.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW_02k7LRMo

  42. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    37 Shannon

    The real Witches of the West were the heavily painted, bouffant bitches of Sakowitz. If I had any money as a twenty something young man, I would have hired a hit squad to put them all out of their misery. The most godforsaken, pompous bunch of geriatric females to ever crawl across the earth….or at least in Southeast Texas.

  43. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #42, 37 Johnson Brothers: One can usually smell the foulness in the particular brand of perfume. It is forever branded into my lizard brain as mean old lady b!tch stank and they all smelled the same. Just walk past them and it was wafting off them like a red flag. . . . which it was.

  44. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I’m not defending United Airlines by any means, but you gotta understand where I stand, I’m not opposed to banning kids on an airliner. I mean, putting them in the overhead compartment won’t do any good, unless they super soundproof ‘em. Dogs? No.

  45. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Ban dogs and kids from airliners?

    I love you, man.

  46. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    One can usually smell the foulness in the particular brand of perfume.

    When he was about 10, one of my nephews made a comment as a lady walked by: “Grandma aroma.”

    I had a boss recently, who wasn’t that old, that had an affinity for a particular brand of after shave. Every time he walked by my office I found myself singing (in my head) “There’s something about and Aqua Velva man.”

  47. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I think you can ship kids up to 70lbs via UPS.

  48. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Everything is an emotional support animal these days. Don’t you keep up. Why just the other day mean old UAL refused some poor person’s emotional support peacock. Same with kids.

  49. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I love you too Shannon. Don’t tell Phil.

  50. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Darren, so sorry to hear about your loss.

  51. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Of course you can

  52. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    The pup in the overhead bin made it on the 6 pm Channel 11 newscast, with more details at 10. This latest insanity will not quietly go away. The flight attendants will finger the guilty one among them on this or likely all suffer the blame and consequences.

    Wonder if the pilots had any idea this was happening. Perhaps it will be necessary for captains to walk through the passenger cabin to make sure nothing nutty is happening on their watch.

  53. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #32 Darren

    Condolences on your loss and the impending loss of your aunt.

  54. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Well, Aunt D is back home with her chiseling daughter. She’s been given a deadline to get all of the crap she’s packed up out of the house. She is supposed to have it out by the end of the month. She told us today that her transmission needs repair and she may be delayed. Her next trip wasn’t for at least a week anyway, but we don’t think she’s going to make the deadline, anyway.

    There’s an El Camino pickup in the garage. She’s packed it to the gills with stuff she wants from her sister’s – now Handsome Son’s – house. Beside it is a stack of picture frames, most of them cheap crap, but she wants. every. single. one. I sold two of them while she was there and the next thing I know the whole dang pile is in “her space” the garage so I can’t sell any more. I also found that almost a quarter of the floor space in the back bedroom is also “her pile”. It’s 2-3 feet high, depending upon which part you are measuring. I had to go through all of it and pull out stuff she wasn’t supposed to take – things I had wanted.

    The couple who bought the frames are really nice, fun folks. While I was busy, the man, “John,” wandered into the garage. He told me today that he looked over to see Aunt D watching him through a window in the back garage door. Gave him the willies. She also hovered over him while he unscrewed a special switchplate I told him I could have. The couple asked me today if Aunt D was going to be there when they came back by to buy a bed.

    There is no way Aunt D can haul off all of the stuff she wants in her itty bitty car. She says she has no access to a truck. It’s a six hour drive from her place to here, which limits the number of trips she can make. She insists she can get it all it in her car. We just roll our eyes. On top of that, she says she has to finance her gas money from her chiseling daughter so she can make the trip(s) down here. Hubby and I both had a WTH! reaction. It’s Aunt D’s money! “Finance”? What does that mean?

    Given Aunt D’s possessiveness over her pile, her limited ability to transport said pile, her financial straits, and her deadline, I have a feeling that this will not end well. We’ll be garage sale-ing and thrift shopping a lot of stuff. I had a buyer for some art pieces today that said he’d take the craft stuff and give it to his teachers who will put it to good use.

    Challenging these days are.

  55. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    GJT: 39, 44; Shannon: 45, 47;

    Bwahahahaha 😆

  56. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    TT #50; Adee # 53

    Thank you ladies. My daughter Breelahn just messaged me to get flour to make Adarha so.e special treats. I expect to stop udering around midnight and get some at the 24 hour Wal-Mart nearby. Niki will call the vet this week.

    My Aunt is a truly wonderful person. I saw her every Christmas at Grandma and Grandpa’s growing up. The news of these two together has been difficult to deal with, especially for Niki. Keep her especially in your prayers.

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