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Cambridge University Library

The library in the United Kingdom contains more than 9 million books, maps, journals and sheet music.  These institutions of our civilization’s memory are the heart and soul of Western Culture, the western canon.  Long may they live and be useful.

Over the course of six centuries the University Library’s collections have grown from a few dozen volumes on a handful of subjects into an extraordinary accumulation of several million books, maps, manuscripts and journals, augmented by an ever-increasing range of electronic resources. They cover every conceivable aspect of human endeavour, across three thousand years and in over two thousand languages. From its beginnings as an asset for a tiny community of theologians and canon lawyers in the medieval university, the Library’s mission has expanded to serve the international scholarly community and now, through its digitisation projects, to reach new audiences across the world.

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103 responses to “Friday Open Comments”

  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    It’s Friday!….So, is there an animal in that picture?
    Mornin’ Gang

  2. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Only the mice and they’re hiding in the ancient history department.

  3. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    No animals or skinny wimmin.

  4. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    From The Intercept, a leftist news site:

    MIKE BLOOMBERG’S PRESIDENTIAL campaign plagiarized portions of its plans for maternal health, LGBTQ equality, the economy, tax policy, infrastructure, and mental health from research publications, media outlets, and a number of nonprofit, educational, and policy groups.

    The Intercept found that exact passages from at least eight Bloomberg plans or accompanying fact sheets were direct copies of material from media outlets including CNN, Time, and CBS, a research center at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the American Medical Association, Everytown for Gun Safety, Building America’s Future Educational Fund, and other organizations. Bloomberg co-founded Everytown for Gun Safety, a political organization focused on gun control, and Building America’s Future Educational Fund, a nonprofit working on infrastructure investment and reform, and has chaired them in the past, and he was listed as a co-author on the educational fund’s reports. He is not clearly affiliated with the other sources.  The plagiarized sections ranged in length from entire paragraphs to individual sentences and fragments in documents that were between five and 14 pages long.

    caught red-handed, the weasel words come forth,

    The Bloomberg campaign did not deny the plagiarism. In a statement, the campaign said, “Much of what you flagged were fact sheets that went out via MailChimp” — an online newsletter service — “which doesn’t support footnote formatting. When we announce policy platforms, we put together detailed fact sheets with context and supporting background, so that reporters understand the problem we’re trying to solve with our policy. For sourcing, we often look to the organizations that Mike has led or worked with in the past, like the City of New York and Building America’s Future. We have since added citations and links to these documents.”

    These people are unbelievable.

    “Hey, we used an email service that doesn’t allow for citation so we are innocent and free of responsibility !!!  But, now we’re gonna cite and link the people we stole from because you people are triggering us and hurting our feelings.  Little Mikey’s gonna be real mad at y’all !  See, when Mikey throws a bunch of money at some group, he automatically gets the rights to everything they produce forever as if he thought it all up by his ownself.  He’s the king, he can do that.”

    The Intercept is owned by the leftist billionaire founder of eBay.  It’s another gladiator battle of the socialist oligarchs.

     

     

  5. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I see on NewsMax that you can own your very own 2020 Chess set – all political figures. Pawns are donkeys for one side and elephants for the others. Past Presidents and VP’s sitting in chairs are rooks. Blank podiums for kings for now, since the candidates haven’t been decided. Supreme Court justices, including RBG, are part of the set.

    Interesting idea but I’d never have it in my home. The idea of RBG, Obama, and Biden in my house would be bad juju.

  6. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I didn’t know that! So, I walked by the TV and saw a skinny blonde on and thought is that Ann Coulter?

    Nope, Vanessa Bradford Kerry (born December 31, 1976) is an American physician and health care administrator. She is a founder of the non-profit Seed Global Health. Her father is John Kerry, who, BTW served in Viet Nam.

  7. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Morning Troubadours. I thought I was at Ace this morning when the OC photo popped up, so I immediately started looking for the “these pants” URL. You Ace readers will understand this. Waking up to mid 40’s and clear skies this morning, as spring type weather seems to be returning.

    I hear rumors that we can start looking for personnel changes over at NSC, and perhaps other places, today. The liars and leakers must be expunged from government. BTW, how does a mid-level government employee afford top shelf DC legal representation on a government salary? Finding out who is paying their legal bills might be a good place to look when trying to follow the thread to see who is behind all this.

    OK, gotta go across the street to the clinic this morning for another blood draw. You all have a great day. There is a chance, albiet a slim one, that the Dems will take a day off and not accuse Trump of another impeachable offense today, but I could be wrong on that one. More later.

  8. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Yea, let’s Impeach that Bastard!!

    January adds a much stronger-than-expected 225,000 jobs, with a boost from warm weather.

    Nonfarm payrolls surged 225,000 for the month, well above Wall Street estimates for a 158,000 gain.

    The unemployment rate ticked higher to 3.6%, but for the right reason as the labor force participation rate increased 0.2 percentage points to 63.4%, matching its highest level since June 2013.

    Average hourly earnings rose 3.1% over a year ago to $28.44, ahead of estimates for 3% growth.

  9. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday that she would not necessarily refuse if asked to be vice president.

    When Ellen DeGeneres, asked Clinton if she might consider accepting the position, the former first lady said that would likely never transpire.

    She would do absolutely anything imaginable to seize the presidency.  Would we be in for the first president in history to commit suicide in office ?

  10. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #9,….YES!!!!
    Oh, and that is funny right there, I don’t care who you are. 😀

  11. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Murder at 1600 has already claimed, they’d have come up with another name.

  12. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good chilly morning Hamsters. Only 40 this morning at 6 thanks to clouds moving in overnight, but we had mid 30s last night before we went to bed. Sunny, very windy, and 55 now, and the wind still has teeth. Warmup on the weekend is predicted so our weather rollercoaster continues.

    Still way too early to plant flowers no matter how nice the weekend turns out. 🙂

  13. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Ruby and Jessy are getting along very well in the back pasture. Seems that Ruby is showing Jessy around again today, probably the good grazing spots. They stick pretty much together most of the day but occasionally go off in opposite directions.
    So far this is working very well.

  14. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #39 Texpat
    Very likely several Hamsters are thinking the same thing. 🙂

  15. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Steady winds here in NJ/NYC to reach 35mph with gusts as high as 60 mph in midafternoon.  I hate driving around under all these old softwood trees in weather like this.  It’s a realistic danger.

  16. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    August 4th 2000 – The North East Chevy GMC Truck Club’s annual show in Wendell State Forest. This was always a great show and about the only action around 20 years ago when I took this picture.

  17. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Adee, good to see Ruby and Jessy getting along.

  18. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #13 Adee

    Glad to hear the mares are getting along, and hoping there will be pix to document it!

     

  19. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Bright and sunny 53* here, headed to 70* and here I am stuck at a desk. I make plenty excuses to go out in the yard though.

  20. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Sorry bout the lack of posts on my part.  I have been busy tending to my Mom ohhhhhh and BSue’s schedule has been changed for this week so i have had some much cherished time with her.  Loves y’all and all that but ummmm well yanno I loves being with her more.

    Here are a couple harbingers of spring to tide you over.  Birds are funny when preening and cleaning.  

  21. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Re:  Trump’s acquittal

    The democrats are so twisted I really do fear for Trump’s life.  The people have gone so far over the ledge that I believe they have plans to assassinate our president.

  22. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    If I have just one picture that reminds me of Schrillery Klinktone and Rancidly Botoxi it is this one. To get the full effect ya gotta click the pic for the larger version. I promise it really is the larger size of this bird.

     

  23. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    We must acknowledge those poor unfortunate souls that will acquiesce like the sheep they are to 2nd class citizen status for oats and a stall in the sh*t-infested barn they’re turning the west into.

    /sorry, neglected to make note of the source

  24. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Krugtron admits he may have been mistaken?

  25. HairSnifferJoe'sPiXXXaParlor-19.84aSlice Avatar
    HairSnifferJoe’sPiXXXaParlor-19.84aSlice

    Let everyone in.

    No Coronavirus carrier is illegal.

    No Borders
    No Walls
    No Brains

  26. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    A brief moment of lucidity and truth from Joy Behar

    “I’m crazy today, he’s made me crazy this week,” she said. “He’s winning because I’m getting nuttier and nuttier.”

  27. HairSnifferJoe'sPiXXXaParlor-19.84aSlice Avatar
    HairSnifferJoe’sPiXXXaParlor-19.84aSlice

    Nice pics Bro Squawk.

    I have to disagree with you on the green-eyed bird though.

    Much prettier than Nasty Nanzi and the CEO of Arkancide Inc.:)

  28. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Trump has just racked up another win as a federal appeals court unanimously threw out the emoluments case brought by House Democrats:

    POLITICO – A federal appeals court has rejected a lawsuit from Congressional Democrats who accused President Donald Trump of violating the Constitution by receiving profits from foreign governments’ spending at his luxury Washington hotel and other businesses.

  29. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Tell us something we DON’T know, Joy.

  30. HairSnifferJoe'sPiXXXaParlor-19.84aSlice Avatar
    HairSnifferJoe’sPiXXXaParlor-19.84aSlice

    Epidemiologist Warns, You Can’t Keep The Coronavirus Out Of The US

    HairSnifferJoe’sPiXXXaParlor-19.84aSlice  headline:

    Epidemiologist Warns, You Can’t Keep The Coronavirus Out Of The US when your Borders are Wide Open

  31. HairSnifferJoe'sPiXXXaParlor-19.84aSlice Avatar
    HairSnifferJoe’sPiXXXaParlor-19.84aSlice

    In case you missed it yesterday the Totalitariancrats want your mind, body, blood, country, soul and an iron boot on your face forever.

  32. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    New Texas election process has Democrats expecting a delay in Super Tuesday delegate totals

    https://www.texastribune.org/2020/02/05/texas-democrats-expect-delay-presidential-delegate-totals-super-tuesda/

    It may be the State’s fault, but it’ll still make the Dems look bad.

    What a shame.

  33. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Pierce Bush Likens Catholics, Other Christians to Taliban Terrorists

    https://texasscorecard.com/federal/pierce-bush-likens-catholics-other-christians-to-taliban-terrorists/

  34. HairSnifferJoe'sPiXXXaParlor-19.84aSlice Avatar
    HairSnifferJoe’sPiXXXaParlor-19.84aSlice

    stay outta duh Bushes!

  35. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #31

    Good post, phil.

    Whether the press cares or not, these are the stakes of the 2020 election. A growing wing of the Democratic Party views America as essentially illegitimate – a rogue state, in which everything must be destroyed and remade: our laws, our institutions, our freedoms, our history and our values. That’s the point of all this, of course. An entirely new country, in which resistance is crushed, and they’re in charge forever.

     

  36. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Done with the Bush clan forever!

  37. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The Daily Beast had a big article about a 160 page FoxNews internal report accusing many of the conservative, regular guests of spreading disinformation and lies – particularly singling out John Solomon.

    I went back to grab a link to post it here and it has been “disappeared”.

  38. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Ace may have it. It was on the front page a while ago.

  39. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    It’s still there

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-internal-document-bashes-john-solomon-joe-digenova-and-rudy-giuliani-for-spreading-disinformation

  40. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I saw it still online, and saved myself a copy in case I don’t get to finish reading it online.

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-internal-document-bashes-john-solomon-joe-digenova-and-rudy-giuliani-for-spreading-disinformation

  41. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #41

    Duplication

     

  42. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #42

    But everyone jumped on it!

     

  43. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    40 mharp
    Great!

  44. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    “DiGenova briefly stopped appearing on Fox after spewing on-air the anti-Semitic trope that liberal billionaire George Soros “controls” the U.S. State Department. ”

    The last thing I think of Soros as being is JEWISH. So why would I think any criticism of him is anti-Semitic?

     

     

  45. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    The State Department was infested with moles, mules, jackasses, and traitors. And I am never surprised to hear that Soros is funding any activity that harms the USA.

     

  46. HairSnifferJoe'sPiXXXaParlor-19.84aSlice Avatar
    HairSnifferJoe’sPiXXXaParlor-19.84aSlice

    The daily yeast infection and Fixed Newspeak spreads disinformation so they can discredit the hosts that aren’t totalitariancRats.

    but totalitariancRat disinformation spread by Chrissy Wallace, Juan the dumbest one of all Williams and Brett brairpatch is ok.

  47. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Attention!!! Joe Manchin is a partisan, lying, steaming pile of Dawg $#!T!!! But, you already knew that! That is all……

  48. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Krugtron admits he may have been mistaken?

    Well, it’s about time! I didn’t read the linky, but he has wrong 100% of the time, never, ever has he got basic economics right……SIGH

  49. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    My #48, As you know, Krugman is some sort of Economics Professor in one of those big, Ivy League Schools, BUT, he was apparently he was taught, Keynesian Economics, and it is all he knows, never mind that it has NEVER worked.

  50. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    FWIW; I meant to mention this but I’ve been busy. On Wednesday, the wife went down to the creek, in the rain, to see how high it was. When she got back, she said a small deer was dead, on the side of the road, near the bridge and hopped it wasn’t the little Doe that we see almost every day. Late yesterday, when the rain slacked up a little, all three of us loaded up in my old Mule to go down to the creek. Turns out the deer wasn’t so small at all, it was a mature Doe, that someone had murdered. Nothing wrong with that BUT, they skinned her to her shoulders, removed both hind quarters and the back straps, leaving the rest for the Coyotes. What a sorry excuse for a sportsman, throwing away, both shoulders and the neck. Of course, I’d have kept the heart and liver. This really Pi$$es me off.

  51. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    My #50, Yesterday, the deer wasn’t even touched by the scavengers but today, the carcass is, stripped clean, although the head is still intact, but it will not be tomorrow. I pointed out to the wife, that they left the stomach and intestines, but there was no sigh of the heart, liver, kidneys, or lungs. The coyotes, or any carnivore, for that matter, knows where all the vitamins are.
    One more thing, nothing wrong with leaving the carcass for the scavengers, but not trying to utilize all the meat is blasphemy.

  52. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    2:48 PM, ole Dave Kills the Blog Graveyard Dead!…..Dayaaam, I’m good! 😉

  53. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Up from my nap now. Did I miss anything? On my last trip to Marble Falls, I saw 3 dead deer on the road, but I lost count of the skunks again. The entire trip, instead of smelling like fresh spring air, smelled like run over skunk. Makes you appreciate the buzzards, at least a little bit. I’ve got a herd of Axis deer coming by every afternoon/evening here – must be 10 or so, does and yearlings. Those things don’t have a mating season, so they are all sizes. BTW, they do like deer corn.

    OK, more later as it develops. You all continue to enjoy this beautiful day.

  54. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I’m a Jew and I agree with everything Joe DiGenova has said.  The US State Dept. is crawling with leftists like cockroaches in a cellar.  The imbeciles at the Daily Beast didn’t bother to ask anyone except dogmatic Marxist organizations like the Anti-Defamation League, J-Street, IfNotNow, Open Society and Media Matters.  What a effing joke!

    Did they ask the following if they were offended…

    David Horowitz

    Mark Levin

    David Gelernter

    Daniel Greenfield

    Zionist Organization of America

    Richard Epstein

    Dennis Prager

    Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America

    Honest Reporting

    Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership

    Republican Jewish Coalition

    The Tikvah Fund

    The Zelman Partisans

    Legal Insurrection

    Jeff Dunetz at The Lid

    Michael Medved

    Act for America

    John Podhoretz

    Ben Shapiro

    Sheldon Adelson

    or…

    Texpat ?

    No, I didn’t think so.  They can go to hell.

     

  55. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Hey, wake up. It’s Flarada Man Friday https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/florida-man-friday-when-herpes-monkeys-attack/

  56. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Vindman escorted from White House.

  57. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Apparently both of the Vindman twins were frog marched out of the WH. Wonder if that Bolton book story was the set up to get the second one. And you can bet they did not make this move without good evidence where they were each caught in the act, because they know how loud the Dems will start screaming over this.

    So my predictions of personnel changes made earlier are coming true. Who knows if there will be more, but I can’t imagine that more changes are underway. Maybe a Friday night massacre? That might just be too much to ask for. But we can always hope.

  58. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Vindman escorted from White House.
     Film @ 11.

    BAWHAHAHAHA!!! What a Traitorous, Weasel!…The both of them!

    WASHINGTON — The White House on Friday fired Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman, whose testimony in the House impeachment hearings infuriated President Trump and his allies, escorting him out of the complex just days after the Senate trial ended in acquittal, his lawyer said.

    “There is no question in the mind of any American why this man’s job is over, why this country now has one less soldier serving it at the White House,” David Pressman, the lawyer, said in a statement. “Lt. Col. Vindman was asked to leave for telling the truth. His honor, his commitment to right, frightened the powerful.”

    Colonel Vindman’s twin brother, Yevgeny Vindman, also an Army lieutenant colonel who worked at the White House, was fired as well and escorted out at the same time, according to two people briefed on the developments.

    The dismissal was foreshadowed earlier in the day when Mr. Trump essentially confirmed to reporters before leaving on a trip to North Carolina that Colonel Alexander Vindman would be pushed out. “Well, I’m not happy with him,” the president said of Colonel Vindman. “You think I’m supposed to be happy with him? I’m not.”

    The president then reposted a Twitter message from a supporter advocating the colonel’s dismissal: “Vindman’s behavior is a scandal. He should be removed from the @RealDonaldTrump White House ASAP to protect our foreign policy from his machinations.”

    Both brothers, whose tours at the White House were scheduled to last until July, will retain their Army ranks and now return to military service. Alexander Vindman, who had been expecting the move and had begun removing personal items, was told he will go to the Pentagon before moving to the National War College in July as originally planned, according to one person close to the situation. Yevgeny Vindman, who goes by Eugene, was more surprised and told he will report to the office of the Army general counsel.

  59. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    HA! Katfish, the younger years,….. 😉

  60. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I was a very busy boy today; I assembled 19 new office chairs.

  61. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #23 Shannon
    Has to be referencing California, it just has to. 🙂

  62. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    That vindman dude looks like a serial child molester.

  63. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Has POTUS started to revoke security clearances yet? If no, then he is not being aggressive enough to stop the damage.

  64. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Mind boggling.

    Given the area’s steady growth, Lance LaCour, CEO/president of the Katy Area Economic Development Council, said, “In about two years, I think Katy will be larger than the city of Pittsburgh.”

  65. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #64

    My Sweetie was not overly impressed with my repeating that statement. You gotn’y thing else?

     

  66. HairSnifferJoe'sPiXXXaParlor-19.84aSlice Avatar
    HairSnifferJoe’sPiXXXaParlor-19.84aSlice

    WTFF?

    End all aid to all countries especially our enemies.

  67. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    My Sweetie was not overly impressed with my repeating that statement. You gotn’y thing else?

    Sure.
    How about this?

    After 6000 years of human progress, the Engineers still can’t design a machine that will give us eight hotdog buns in a package that are properly slit.

  68. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Both brothers, whose tours at the White House were scheduled to last until July, will retain their Army ranks and now return to military service.

    I do so very much want to see the orders that are being cut for the duty station these Gentlemen (by act of Congress) will be going to.

  69. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Perhaps she doesn’t remember when Katy was a rice dryer and a gas station in the middle of nowhere.

  70. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The Vindman boys have plenty of Lefty friends in the military.

    I’m sure they’ll be just fine until they get out and slide into a well paid civilian job.

  71. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    A book deal is a favored way to make loyal Commies wealthy.

  72. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Let the house cleaning continue: https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2020/02/07/new-ambassador-to-the-eu-gordon-sondland-also-booted/

    If you take a shot at the king, you best not miss.

  73. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Got a YES on the hot dog bun slits.

    We can put a man on the moon, we can run a cacaii in Iowa….oh wait…

  74. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    So danged annoying these people get to hang around so long and apparently nothing can be done. As some commentator said, anybody’s security clearances ever get revoked at least?? No!

  75. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Give him a little time.

  76. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Friday Night Massacrees are a lot more fun after an acquittal.

  77. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Superior to the original for obvious reasons.

    https://youtu.be/3Upd0jfnBc4

  78. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    From Gruene

    https://youtu.be/h50eAv9tjvA

  79. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    After 6000 years of human progress, the Engineers still can’t design a machine that will give us eight hotdog buns in a package that are properly slit.

    AMEN!!

  80. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    More proof country music ain’t dead.

  81. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    eight hotdog buns

    Ya’Butt. remember, not too many years ago, Hot Dogs came in packages of 8, buns 6, now we have 8 buns,…so there’s that. 😀

  82. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Don’t get me started on the 5, Bratwurst’s in a package,…AND the damn things are bent! You have to squeeze them and roll them between your palms, to get them straight enough to roll around in the cast iron, skillet.

  83. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    I predict Mittens will pull a Jeffords after the election.

  84. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #83 Hamous, Rush said that there was a rumor, floating around DC, that the Democrat’s wanted to get Mittens to run for President, as a Democrat,…..and sadly, he’d do it in a minute,…ZERO!! value’s only blind ambition. BUTT, you know what; He’ll NEVER, EVER be President!

  85. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Eighty Five,….Can Y’all do it? I gotta’ take Dawg, out in this freezing weather, but she’ll not be long…..Later

  86. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I Know Who Holds My Hand

    https://youtu.be/PKMRRFQvaRo

  87. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Incredibly, the guy is doing the rodeo.

    https://youtu.be/whCdxooLDpY

  88. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Country enough.

    https://youtu.be/KIJ0WOnCHHk

  89. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    OK, this news is unfounded but completely plausible. We all know that Lt. Col Vindman is a POS, and that he officed in the WH right next door to his twin brother who as a lawyer for NSA. So happens that brother is in charge of reading books authored by former senior level employees o be certain that no classified information is being released, etc. Now Bolton supposed wrote this book saying bad things about Trump, and the manuscript is passed to Vindman #2 to review for classified material. Next day Bolton’s scandalous representations show up in the New York Times. Now how could that possibly have happened? All of Bolton’s old friends are begging him to come forward, Trump is bashing him, etc.; yet Bolton, who is not known or keeping his mouth shut, does not appear anywhere or issue any statements at all about the revelation. When it appears that the weak sisters in the Senate are not going along with the Dems efforts to subpoena Bolton, a second claim appears in the NY Times. All parties claim that the only place holding a copy of the manuscript is the NSA.

    Vindman brother #1 testifies that he shared information with brother #2 about the Trump phone call to Ukraine, as well as to one other unnamed party, assumed to be the whistleblower Eric whatever. The Dems claim that the whistleblower has received his information from 2 sources presumably Vindman #1 and someone else who would know.

    I’m thinking the Bolton book story was the sting to out the NSA leaker, who turned out to be Vindman #2. I think that #1 and #2 were tag teaming information releases and providing back up to each other’s stories as needed. I suspect that Bolton was recruited to provide the story to which each of them bought in to and leaked to the press. It’s entirely plausible that Bolton would be mad at Trump for firing him, but maybe that was part of the deal as well. So, maybe Bolton is not a bad guy after all. And the Sting to out the leakers worked to perfection. That’s my best guess.

  90. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    In case you haven’t come across this story about Texas sailor Doris Miller and how the Navy has named an aircraft carrier for him:

    https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/columnists/native-texan/article/Holley-Waco-s-Pearl-Harbor-hero-was-a-15035498.php

  91. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    #89 Gordo

    Dang man! You need to get a job writing high level story board plots for daytime soaps. That is some very circuitous reasoning.

    25 years ago my then fiancee, now wife, had me watching Days of Our Lives. That was the last place I ever saw such convoluted plots.

    Now I’m not saying it isn’t possible… these days you never know.

  92. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    One of my favorite Rhonda Vincent songs.

  93. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Did you study under Professor Schiff?

  94. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    92
    Mighty fine.

  95. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Professor Schiff, Esq., House Script Writer.

  96. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    https://youtu.be/3Pvi4uKuawk

  97. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    El Gordo says:
    FEBRUARY 7, 2020 AT 9:06 PM
    OK, this news is unfounded but completely plausible. We all know that Lt. Col Vindman is a POS, and that he officed in the WH right next door to his twin brother who as a lawyer for NSA. So happens that brother is in charge of reading books authored by former senior level employees o be certain that no classified information is being released, etc. Now Bolton supposed wrote this book saying bad things about Trump, and the manuscript is passed to Vindman #2 to review for classified material. Next day Bolton’s scandalous representations show up in the New York Times. Now how could that possibly have happened? All of Bolton’s old friends

    et al

    More grist for your mill.

    I agree with you. I further believe that had the Senate voted to hear witnesses, Bolton would have said some things they didn’t want to hear— i.e. “Please don’t throwm Mr. Bolton in that briar patch Brer’ Schumer! Please, please don’t throw him there!”

  98. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    And the hits just keep on coming for the Astros.

  99. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Looks like the bluebonnets are going to get four days of rain.

  100. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    If Bootygag is the nominee Trump will get 25% of the black vote and 40% of the Hispanic vote.

  101. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    Greetings from beautiful downtown Kingsville Texas…….Pushing further south for more new HEROs tomorrow

  102. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy0RGsd2-JA

  103. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    30-50,000 Americans die EVERY YEAR from influenza.

    I’ll let you know when I’m worried about Corona virus.

    Don’t hold your breath.

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