tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post5612214467656060073..comments2024-03-28T06:32:24.557-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: If You Don't Know Where an Entire Aircraft Carrier Strike Fleet Is, How Can You Have No Doubt About a Chemical Weapon Attack in Syria?Deuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger91125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-11336994512256945632017-04-19T22:57:18.831-04:002017-04-19T22:57:18.831-04:00DesCartes was not a Hindu, to say the least.DesCartes was not a Hindu, to say the least.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-36037966141985788442017-04-19T22:54:41.274-04:002017-04-19T22:54:41.274-04:00I just provided the defense, didn't say whethe...I just provided the defense, didn't say whether the man should be charged with animal cruelty or not, given the highly irritating circumstances....Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-44182436864739339752017-04-19T22:52:15.051-04:002017-04-19T22:52:15.051-04:00DesCartes had it that God or the nature of things ...DesCartes had it that God or the nature of things had designed the animals to whine and make like hurt so we'd have sympathy and not harm or misuse our given helpers.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-69746905599928474212017-04-19T22:49:27.167-04:002017-04-19T22:49:27.167-04:00They guy from the Journal who called said I'd ...They guy from the Journal who called said I'd have won but they had chosen someone else right before my brilliance appeared, right before the bell.<br /><br />First place prize was a weekend at some resort in Florida !Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-37170747604977519342017-04-19T22:46:50.915-04:002017-04-19T22:46:50.915-04:00Make the jury prove beyond a reasonable doubt to a...Make the jury prove beyond a reasonable doubt to a moral certainty that DesCartes was wrong....fuck with their heads.....DesCartes was a father of western European modern philosophy, for goodness sakes.<br /><br />I think, therefore I am.<br /><br />I don't think, therefore I am not....dogs, horses, derps, that kind of stuff....Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-22280625988139161052017-04-19T22:43:30.994-04:002017-04-19T22:43:30.994-04:00What's wrong with having a copy of The Wall St...What's wrong with having a copy of The Wall Street Journal ?<br /><br />I like the Journal.<br /><br />I got published in The Times of India (2nd place consolation prize, yes there is a connection between the two) in a spur of the moment essay contest about a guy that killed a dog in a traffic jam in LA. The heat maddened dog had jumped out of a car ahead and went for his arm hanging out of the car. Beat the dog to death with a wrench.<br /><br />It was a slow news day....<br /><br />Should the man be charged with animal cruelty ?<br /><br />I said, use the DesCartes Defense.<br /><br />(animals are basically just machines)<br /><br />Offer to pay property damages, at most....<br /><br />You ought to read the Journal, Derp, you might learn some shit.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-36424434223676557592017-04-19T22:35:06.251-04:002017-04-19T22:35:06.251-04:00If I had to bet I'd probably bet Kim gets his,...If I <i>had to bet</i> I'd probably bet Kim gets his, sooner rather than later.<br /><br />I get to decide what is sooner and what is later, having learned from Rufus not to make idiotic predictions.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-49926303672719614002017-04-19T22:31:58.657-04:002017-04-19T22:31:58.657-04:00Hannity reports one Chinese newspaper, government ...Hannity reports one Chinese newspaper, government connected (I imagine they all toe the line), said China may take out N. Korea's nuke sites itself, for what that might be worth.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-163660737300347532017-04-19T22:10:19.010-04:002017-04-19T22:10:19.010-04:00Sure looks like he's dressed to crawl into a t...Sure looks like he's dressed to crawl into a tunnel and kill a jihadi to me.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-62175180519485328802017-04-19T21:26:39.250-04:002017-04-19T21:26:39.250-04:00.
Jared Kushner in Full Battle Dress
You can'....<br /><br /><a href="http://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/a9242408/jared-kushner-iraq-photo/" rel="nofollow">Jared Kushner in Full Battle Dress</a><br /><br />You can't see the walking stick in his right hand but that's a copy of the WSJ in the vest.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-53719966854859702112017-04-19T21:11:21.312-04:002017-04-19T21:11:21.312-04:00.
The Establishment will win in the ends unless w....<br /><br /><b>The Establishment will win in the ends unless we all lose big time.</b><br /><br /><a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/04/17/jared-kushner-will-be-eaten-by-the-blob/" rel="nofollow">Jared Kushner will be eaten by the Blob but no one will care not even Jared</a><br /><br /><i>The president empowered his son-in-law because he doesn't trust the foreign-policy establishment. But the establishment has a way of winning in the end...<br /><br />At last count, Kushner’s assignments include solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, leading a “SWAT team” of private consultants that will reorganize and streamline the federal government, and serving as an informal presidential envoy to China, Iraq, and anywhere else Trump decides to send him. He also seems to have acquired the job of keeping Steve Bannon in check (or maybe getting rid of him entirely). Kushner hasn’t made his situation any easier by coming across like a spoiled rich kid who’d rather go skiing than govern. But he’d have his work cut out for him even if he combined the cunning of a Henry Kissinger and the political skills of a Lyndon Johnson...<br /><br />Indeed, Kushner’s role in the White House actually reveals a deeper problem: Trump doesn’t actually care if his policies work or not. He doesn’t care if health care is ever fixed, if the climate warms up and millions of people die, if coal miners or autoworkers get new and better jobs, if the Islamic State is ever defeated, or if U.S. infrastructure is rebuilt. All he cares about is whether he can convince people that he’s responsible for anything good that happens and persuade them that adverse developments are someone else’s fault. It has been apparent from day one that Trump cares first and foremost about himself, his family, and his fortune. Full stop. <br /><br />Doing the people’s business — that is, actually governing — is hard work, and it really cuts into the time you can spend on the golf course.<br /><br />Not caring about getting anything done is also liberating: It means you can hire whomever you want, give them a thousand impossible things to do before breakfast, and then get back to correcting your slice. <br /><br />And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why Jared Kushner has a job in the White House that no one could possibly perform. It’s also why you don’t see him devoting much time or effort to trying to resist the Washington foreign-policy establishment his father-in-law once so vociferously maligned, as evidenced by the recent humanitarian intervention in Syria and discussion of sending tens of thousands of ground troops there. It is entirely predictable that Kushner, and Trump, would abdicate to the Blob, since their stated political beliefs, even when they contained a glimmer of insight, were never moored by practical knowledge. <br /><br />The Trump family’s essential interest in the jobs they’ve acquired is personal vanity; they’re happy — indeed, obliged — to outsource those jobs’ other aspects.<br /><br />But the fault ultimately lies not with Kushner (though a smarter person might have turned down the offer and concentrated on saving his own family’s business). The fault lies in the man from Mar-a-Lago.</i><br /><br />True dat.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-89658168019219800022017-04-19T20:37:09.534-04:002017-04-19T20:37:09.534-04:00The need for growth is driven by debt - ya gotta f...The need for growth is driven by debt - ya gotta feed the fractional beast. Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16688752302081088907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-85107938021373385522017-04-19T20:29:26.621-04:002017-04-19T20:29:26.621-04:00O'Reilly has proven himself to be an oaf, lout...O'Reilly has proven himself to be an oaf, lout, boor....Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-47890141329590374012017-04-19T20:26:43.252-04:002017-04-19T20:26:43.252-04:00'The Five', now the six, including Jesse W...'The Five', now the six, including Jesse Waters, is taking over his time slot, I think.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-23813415392303743732017-04-19T20:24:10.583-04:002017-04-19T20:24:10.583-04:00I buy into that to some degree.
He's now accu...I buy into that to some degree.<br /><br />He's now accused, among other things, of calling a good looking young black lady 'Hot Chocolate'.<br /><br />Is this sexual, or racial, harassment ?<br /><br />I don't know. What's the Law here anyway ?<br /><br />But I can't see he's ever been accused of touching anyone, though I may have missed it.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-36831242441440359632017-04-19T20:19:11.191-04:002017-04-19T20:19:11.191-04:00Iago with nuclear weapons.Iago with nuclear weapons.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-17875957052008813112017-04-19T20:12:28.416-04:002017-04-19T20:12:28.416-04:00Leaked Email Shows George Soros’ MEDIA MATTERS Orc...<b>Leaked Email Shows George Soros’ MEDIA MATTERS Orchestrated O’Reilly Smear Campaign</b><br /><br />http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/04/leaked-email-shows-george-soros-media-matters-orchestrated-oreilly-smear-campaign/Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-56583206904854830922017-04-19T20:05:41.745-04:002017-04-19T20:05:41.745-04:00"Earlier in the day, as press secretary Sean ...<br />"Earlier in the day, as press secretary Sean Spicer was giving his daily briefing, Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski interrupted, entering the press room from a side door.<br /><br />“Need some help?” Gronkowski asked Spicer.<br /><br />Spicer, who grew up in Rhode Island and is a huge Patriots fan, looked genuinely surprised.<br /><br />“I think I got this, but thank you,” Spicer said.<br /><br />“Are you sure?” Gronkowski asked.<br /><br />“All right, thanks, man. I’ll see you in a minute,” Spicer said.<br /><br />The press secretary smiled from the podium and added, “OK, that was cool."<br /><br />https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2017/04/19/overt-politicking-tom-brady-absence-undermine-stagecraft-patriots-white-house-visit/Vr5XHkZPYWKScdUgjK6OYO/story.htmlDoughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-35996507841157252602017-04-19T19:41:36.529-04:002017-04-19T19:41:36.529-04:00Iago comes to mind when thinking of Kim Jong un.Iago comes to mind when thinking of Kim Jong un.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-68557520368141221872017-04-19T19:39:24.893-04:002017-04-19T19:39:24.893-04:00Kim Fatso III killed a 'girlfriend' and he...Kim Fatso III killed a 'girlfriend' and her entire band, I read the other day, being upset over something or other.<br /><br />It might be fake news but I don't doubt it much.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-68969535589194714032017-04-19T19:36:25.160-04:002017-04-19T19:36:25.160-04:00Just hoping Derp will come through for us.Just hoping Derp will come through for us.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-42938750407514717622017-04-19T19:35:22.779-04:002017-04-19T19:35:22.779-04:00:)
:)<br />Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-39682757797069154052017-04-19T19:33:26.206-04:002017-04-19T19:33:26.206-04:00'Kim WILL push the nuclear button': North ...<b>'Kim WILL push the nuclear button': North Korean defector forced to watch her first public execution aged SEVEN claims mad dictator will stop at nothing to nuke US as a 'last stand'</b><br />North Korean defector Hyeonseo Lee was 17 when she escaped reclusive nation<br />She thought life was 'normal' until dead bodies littered the streets after famine <br />Says her home country is 'most horrible on earth' and its people 'brainwashed'<br />Hyeonseo, 37, is convinced its dictator Kim Jong-un does have nuclear weapons<br />'He would launch missiles at South Korea, Japan, America,' she told MailOnline<br />By Jay Akbar For Mailonline<br />PUBLISHED: 09:02 BST, 19 April 2017 | UPDATED: 15:50 BST, 19 April 2017<br /><br />http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4421034/North-Korean-defector.html#ixzz4ek1X2sxe <br />Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-70182626829787564552017-04-19T19:30:24.511-04:002017-04-19T19:30:24.511-04:00Indeed.
Sustainability, baby.
Gaia forever.Indeed.<br /><br />Sustainability, baby.<br /><br />Gaia forever.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-63359231259008961082017-04-19T19:26:49.648-04:002017-04-19T19:26:49.648-04:00Give it up:
There's no such thing as a "...Give it up:<br /><br />There's no such thing as a "Messreader"<br /><br />Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.com