tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post2222996583734583740..comments2024-03-28T06:32:24.557-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: Culture Wars: First They came for Confederate Memorials , Now Washington is in Their Crosshairs, Christ Will be NextDeuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger112125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-48715364272591708222017-10-29T01:14:22.698-04:002017-10-29T01:14:22.698-04:00This guy's genius and facility with the langua...This guy's genius and facility with the language is breathtaking:<br /><br />https://www.facebook.com/NowThisPolitics/videos/vb.908009612563863/1762564927108323/?type=2&theaterDoughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-52852909559916450242017-10-29T01:02:13.241-04:002017-10-29T01:02:13.241-04:00Bad news for Cosby and Hefner's ghost:
https:...Bad news for Cosby and Hefner's ghost:<br /><br />https://www.facebook.com/NowThisHer/videos/vb.879606075503602/1048979698566238/?type=2&theaterDoughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1878217121052517492017-10-29T00:57:49.273-04:002017-10-29T00:57:49.273-04:00.
America First?
Not quite...
Trump's $700 ....<br /><br /><b>America First?</b><br /><br />Not quite...<br /><br /><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/26/opinion/trump-taxes-wealthy-foreigners.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion" rel="nofollow">Trump's $700 Billion Gift to Wealthy Foreigners</a><br /><br /><b>At the heart of the Trump Tax-Cut plan is the huge corporate tax cuts which the <i>Tax Policy Center</i> estimates will cost $2 trillion over the next 10 years.</b><br /><br /><i>But one thing is true: These days there’s a lot of cross-border investment. In particular, as Steven M. Rosenthal of the Tax Policy Center notes — in a paper I found revelatory — around 35 percent of U.S. equities are now owned by foreigners, triple the level during the Reagan years.<br /><br />What this means is that around 35 percent of a tax cut from an administration that proudly uses the slogan “America first” — $700 billion over the next decade — wouldn’t even go to Americans. Instead, it would be a windfall to wealthy foreigners, who would probably gain a lot more from the tax cut than U.S. workers. Oh, and it makes all that talk about allies not paying their “fair share” sound kind of silly, doesn’t it?</i><br /><br />And who will be paying for this windfall for these foreigners? You guessed it, you and me. One big chunk will the big cuts in Medicare and Medicaid, $1 trillion from Medicare and $500 billion from Medicaid.<br /><br />And the Trumpettes say, "Thank you sir, may I have another."<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-7773660568490335272017-10-29T00:53:30.330-04:002017-10-29T00:53:30.330-04:00I always wait until the other guy makes a move fir...I always wait until the other guy makes a move first just to drive home the reality of my superior ability/agility with a revolver.<br /><br />...and to further piss off the dirtbag as he takes his last breath.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-41128638713423907852017-10-28T23:41:21.907-04:002017-10-28T23:41:21.907-04:0010 Gunfights That Defined The Old West
2 Gunfight...<b>10 Gunfights That Defined The Old West</b><br /><br />2 Gunfight At The OK Corral<br /><br />This is definitely the most famous Old West gunfight and one that turned Wyatt Earp into an icon. However, it involved eight other people who never attained the same level of fame. At the time, older brother Virgil was actually the leader of their group because he was town marshal in Tombstone. Yet Wyatt Earp captured American’s imagination, mostly by appearing in popular dime novels of the time.So, on one side, we have three Earp brothers: Wyatt, Virgil, and Morgan, and their friend, Doc Holliday. On the other we have five members of a notorious gang called “The Cowboys”: Ike and Billy Clanton, Billy Claiborne, and Tom and Frank McLaury. There was a lot of tension between these factions, and The Cowboys made numerous not-so-veiled threats at the Earps. On October 26, 1881, they had finally had enough, and the three Earp brothers and Holliday approached The Cowboys looking to settle the score.According to the Earps and witnesses, they didn’t go there looking to fight. They told The Cowboys to surrender their weapons, and the gunfight started when they refused. By the end, three Cowboys were dead, Virgil and Morgan were wounded, and Doc had been grazed by a bullet. It only lasted 30 seconds and didn’t actually take place at the OK Corral, but it was enough to secure its place in history. <br /><br />1 Earp Vendetta Ride<br /><br />Not many gunfight stories mention the consequences, but this one is the direct result of the infamous OK Corral shoot-out. The Cowboys gang was quite large, so other members naturally sought revenge on the Earp brothers for their fallen comrades. This resulted in an attack that maimed Virgil Earp and an ambush that killed Morgan. In response, Wyatt, now a US Marshal, formed a federal posse and went after the culprits in what would be known as the Earp Vendetta Ride.The posse rode from March 20 until April 15, 1882, tracking down The Cowboys. In Tucson, they killed Frank Stillwell, one of the suspects in Morgan’s murder. However, the highlight of the Ride was a large shoot-out near Iron Springs on March 24. The posse came upon nine members of The Cowboys, including William Brocius (aka “Curly Bill”), another participant in Morgan Earp’s assassination. Curly Bill saw the posse approaching and was the first to fire his shotgun at Wyatt, but he missed. Earp fired back and hit Bill square in the chest, killing him instantly. What followed was a gunfight between the two factions, but nobody else was killed except for a horse belonging to one of the lawmen, Texas Jack Vermillion. Eventually, The Cowboys made their escape. During the gunfight, Earp was shot numerous times through his clothes. One bullet hit his bootheel, and another hit his saddle horn, but he otherwise escaped unscathed once again.<br /><br />http://listverse.com/2014/11/10/10-gunfights-defined-old-west/Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-70772767026141148332017-10-28T23:35:06.067-04:002017-10-28T23:35:06.067-04:00I liked "don't shoot until you're sho...I liked "don't shoot until you're shot at first".<br /><br />That wasn't the rule of engagement that won the battle of <i>The Gunfight at the OK Corral.</i>Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-91262912073178594242017-10-28T23:25:15.316-04:002017-10-28T23:25:15.316-04:00Obama had my favorite rules of non-engagement.
.....Obama had my favorite rules of non-engagement.<br /><br />...like the time he let thousands of armed barbarians travel openly across the desert in Iraq with impunity.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-40559411561930631702017-10-28T22:41:47.079-04:002017-10-28T22:41:47.079-04:00October 28, 2017
Trump and the demise of ISIS
By P...October 28, 2017<br /><b>Trump and the demise of ISIS</b><br />By Peter Skurkiss<br /><br /><i>One of the many areas where the liberal media is loath to give President Trump credit is the demise of ISIS. <br /><br />To recall, this group of Islamic psychopaths expanded its domain in short order to include wide swathes of Iraq and Syria under the Obama administration. Showing his "sophisticate worldly" grasp of the situation, President Obama dismissed ISIS as a "junior varsity" and then watched impotently as ISIS gobbled up ever more ground and committed one unspeakable atrocity after another. The cancer of ISIS was spreading so fast back in 2014 that "informed opinion" had it that these fanatics would capture enough oil-producing parts of Iraq to make them a permanent fixture in the Middle East.<br /><br /><br />Back in those days, a dear friend of mine, a liberal and NPR devotee, was so upset by the continual outrages of ISIS that she asked in frustration, "Why doesn't God just destroy those barbarians?" It's an understandable sentiment. <br /><br />Now, nobody would mistake Donald Trump for God, but he seems to be the answer to my friend's prayers. In ten short months, the Trump administration has put ISIS on the verge of total collapse in Iraq and Syria. Just last week, ISIS lost its capital and stronghold at Raqqa. The tide has so completely turned that the International Red Cross is now concerned that all the captured ISIS militants might not receive humane treatment at the hands of their captors. </i><br /><br />Imagine that.<br /><br /><br /><br />One of the main reasons the U.S.-led coalition has had such success against ISIS is that President Trump and the staff he has assembled (like General James "Mad Dog" Mattis) have abandoned many of the asinine politically correct rules of engagement of his predecessor and made it open season on ISIS militants. Leadership counts. <br /><br />Don't get me wrong. The defeat of ISIS in Iraq and Syria does not fix the Middle East. Nor does it mean that remnants of ISIS won't pop up somewhere else. When President George W. Bush invaded Iraq and engaged in nation-building, this was like Humpty-Dumpty being pushed off the wall. And just as all the king's men couldn't put the splattered Humpty back together again, neither can all the American blood and taxpayer dollars bring stability and peace to that area of the Middle East. <br /><br />Problems will continue to beset the Middle East, some of which are seemingly intractable. ISIS will be a minor one of them, if one at all. But don't expect the liberal mainstream media to give Donald Trump any credit for this. The media will downplay the significance of the ISIS defeat, which is another form of how it peddles fake news. The Democrat narrative will be that ISIS collapsed under its own weight or that its defeat was inevitable. Is it any wonder, then, that fewer and fewer Americans trust either the Democrats or their lapdog media?<br /><br /><br /><br />http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/10/trump_and_the_demise_of_isis.html#ixzz4wrReSNJf <br />Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-10432853304424126072017-10-28T21:59:18.463-04:002017-10-28T21:59:18.463-04:00Sadly, no.
I did see Sandy Koufax in the lobby of...Sadly, no.<br /><br />I did see Sandy Koufax in the lobby of a theater in SLO, though.<br /><br />(San Luis Obispo)Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-79870236303427844162017-10-28T21:57:34.831-04:002017-10-28T21:57:34.831-04:00Leon Panetta: Donald Trump ‘undermining the credib...<b>Leon Panetta: Donald Trump ‘undermining the credibility’ of intel community with Twitter tirades</b><br /><br />Mueller and Comey always have and always will have complete credulity in my mind.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-19493503424609571492017-10-28T21:51:20.287-04:002017-10-28T21:51:20.287-04:00Did you ever speak with the fellow ?Did you ever speak with the fellow ?Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-38642164439379376402017-10-28T21:50:21.700-04:002017-10-28T21:50:21.700-04:00http://www.tabletmag.com/wp-content/files_mf/panet...http://www.tabletmag.com/wp-content/files_mf/panetta1.jpgDoughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-49044256300272996642017-10-28T21:49:31.807-04:002017-10-28T21:49:31.807-04:00Panetta used to be my congressperson.
Nice nose.Panetta used to be my congressperson.<br /><br />Nice nose.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-12624793320931058642017-10-28T21:47:40.001-04:002017-10-28T21:47:40.001-04:00Even Panetta wants Hillary investigated -
PANETTA...Even Panetta wants Hillary investigated -<br /><br /><b>PANETTA: Investigate Clinton, DNC Dossier Payment...<br /><br />CNN Undisclosed Ties To FUSION GPS...<br /><br />House panel secures access to bank records....DRUDGE</b>Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-4474311424363068922017-10-28T21:46:37.606-04:002017-10-28T21:46:37.606-04:00Everyone will buy my oversized classic lensless do...Everyone will buy my oversized classic lensless doorknob/peephole combo.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-77152219555136641832017-10-28T21:41:40.288-04:002017-10-28T21:41:40.288-04:00I think it's Quirk at the beach with MisDemeno...I think it's Quirk at the beach with MisDemenoir, Felony, Me-Me and Da Da LeBoeuf.<br /><br />I'd get jealous, so I'll pass.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-36659966068297530402017-10-28T21:41:34.045-04:002017-10-28T21:41:34.045-04:00Wish they'd make a dedicated camera.
His phon...Wish they'd make a dedicated camera.<br /><br />His phone shoots 240 frames per second!Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-63903905971045788502017-10-28T21:40:40.609-04:002017-10-28T21:40:40.609-04:00Google's Pixel 2 Camera view of granddaughter:...Google's Pixel 2 Camera view of granddaughter:<br /><br />https://scontent.fhnl1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/22815203_10155891431735152_2449407170409381025_n.jpg?oh=1a144d7b6886b034982473d66517df6b&oe=5A6D332FDoughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-16293865410464084822017-10-28T21:39:33.578-04:002017-10-28T21:39:33.578-04:00You can scroll back to 6:30 pm (top left of the sc...You can scroll back to 6:30 pm (top left of the screen) to see the show.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-14628255949387715082017-10-28T21:38:46.929-04:002017-10-28T21:38:46.929-04:00Does he have a T-shirt, a baseball cap, and a can ...Does he have a T-shirt, a baseball cap, and a can of Bud ?Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-71347057951672968702017-10-28T21:36:29.644-04:002017-10-28T21:36:29.644-04:00gogglesgogglesCharltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-88262797912605699302017-10-28T21:35:32.886-04:002017-10-28T21:35:32.886-04:00I need night googles.I need night googles.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-20340302564286085992017-10-28T21:34:01.069-04:002017-10-28T21:34:01.069-04:00Too dark to see anything now.Too dark to see anything now.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-3635343434290807602017-10-28T21:31:45.149-04:002017-10-28T21:31:45.149-04:00To the right, 1 of them is showering off in his bo...To the right, 1 of them is showering off in his boxers.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-53294134946589081392017-10-28T21:28:40.028-04:002017-10-28T21:28:40.028-04:00Cayucos Cam has some homoerotic footage of surfers...Cayucos Cam has some homoerotic footage of surfers in and out of their wetsuits.<br /><br />http://805webcams.com/cayucos-california-pier-webcam/Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.com