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On the surface I agree with you. I despise this sort of garbage on either side of the aisle. However, just as you point out the potential for a double standard where Harris is concerned, it seems to me that all bets are off and each party and much of the population wants it that way. Some very basic evidence: Clinton was 2 minutes into the first debate when she hit Trump with every imaginable bias-based insult in the English language. I'll just summarize them as every "-ist word". Where were the calls for restraint? Kamala Harris revealed herself as a full-on 100% committed political operative during the Kavanaugh hearing. Where were the calls for restraint? Was there concern for a man with three decades of exceptional public service, a husband and father or two girls when unproven allegations of deviant sexual behavior/serial rapist were advanced by Harris and her posse? How about the propagation of the #ibelieveher and the next version just over the horizon #hemustbedestroyedatallcosts. This all falls into the category of "it is what it is." and one could argue that if you want the equality of consequences, well, looks like we are getting there.

Andrew Cuomo once offered his deep intellectual analysis that "no one needs more than 10 bullets to hunt a deer", but as you contemplate a crowd of masked anarchists poised to beat you to death with the implied consent of the authorities, I'd bet a semi-automatic weapon would feel mightier than the pen. We've got a shiny new version of corruption that rivals the best type of political shenanigans ever offered during the Taminy Hall era. The streets of major cities in this country are overrun with garbage and human waste as we inch closer to a resurgence of some nasty diseases we thought were long since eradicated. In other places cowards in masks and hoods are attacking innocent people and assaulting them while law enforcement looks the other way. Amazing how history repeats itself.

Tom, you're a smart guy, but biology is a social construct.

Jimmy Carter should spend the two bits and send a letter to Vlad thanking him for restraint in the Iran situation. As president, he often said he had a mimeograph machine and was not afraid to use it.

Ah, I see now. Your suggestion was that his dem counterparts should play nice. I was on the Trump v Biden matchup should it come to pass. In retrospect your position makes much more sense to me, I though perhaps you were into the sauce early suggesting Trump beats Biden by honoring his service. My bad here. As for the 20 jackals scuffling in the street over the last two nights, seems to me there is always posturing, aligning with frenemies, focus grouping and the like so I don't pay much attention to who is more vicious than the next.

Trump has attacked Obamas record for nearly 5 years, and has been president for 3 of them. My point is simply attack Biden, don't kiss his ass as an elder statesmen, and point out the economic policies of Biden/Obama over 8 years v Trump after about 6 months. In the meantime, keep the public interested in Obamas part in the dirty Russia story, declassify where necessary. People will vote in their own best interest if you make the case.

No, I don't think so. He's a hardscrabble politician who ran the ridiculous "mularkey" outburts on Ryan, who threatened Trump with violence behind the school gym, who's got a history of racially insensitive comments, a history of assuming the real estate on a woman between her navel and her collarbone was Biden Country, some sketchy deals involving his son and The Ukraine. He also has a tendency to stand for nothing. Punch him back, remind voters that he's been in politics since the Great Depression and his own party never thought enough of him to nominate him when he was still vibrant in the early 80s. Point out he's establishment, point out he's just another entrenched politician who has been fiddling while the southern border has been burning for DECADES, all the while getting wealthy (Wall Street) while folks on both sides of the border die. And don't be afraid to hang the Obama-Biden near decade-long economic malaise squarely at his feet. Playing it soft with a bare knuckled brawler is a mistake.

Thank you for the compliment. I enjoy visiting PPP and appreciate the hard work many of you do in searching out data/stories/nuggets of judicial interest and of particular interest to me. I also find some of the commentary pretty damn funny, so that's a plus. As for Tibs, it's a mixed bag. I want to be open-minded, and while I disagree with pretty much everything he says, he strikes me as a likable guy who doesn't always take himself too seriously. He's been on a bit of a tear lately, and seems sincere about his belief that Putin was Trump's campaign manager. Regardless of that particular insanity, it does beg the question and DR hit it on the head. If he really feels that way, why would he be ok with a campaign conspiring with British intelligence (or worse, a rogue British operative)? I really do wonder about that sort of intellectual dysmorphia. It seems...complicated to me, and at my core I'm a pretty simple guy. So, I ask. Or wonder. Sometimes both. As for the other poster, I see no redeeming value there so why bother?

I don't understand why he would not want to engage in that discussion. It implies he is extremely comfortable in a foreign power interfering in our election process, when in fact he is on record shouting from the trees, shouting from the shadows and yelling at people in a supermarket that he is not. Or put another way, he thinks interference is unacceptable unless it's acceptable interference. Thats plumb loco. It makes it very tough to take anything he offers seriously, even when you might want to.

I would prefer a question like this: "Mr. Mueller, it has recently come to our attention that in your role as director of the FBI and continuing as Special Counsel, you conspired with high-ranking intelligence officers from the People's Republic of China to defraud the American people, and that you benefited financially from the relationship. Can you elaborate on your personal ties with the Chinese, and explain how the average American citizen should trust you in spite of these serious allegations??" i think if he objects to the questioning, it's evidence of guilt. I think if he gets upset or angry, it's evidence of guilt. I think if he remains cool nad calm, well, that's evidence of guilt too.

But, if he's really interested in sending a message of tolerance and respect for the community at large, it would be a bold and courageous move if he did. I think I'm only half kidding here.

She's Glenn Close "Fatal Attraction" crazy, not Anthony Hopkins "Silence of the Lambs" crazy. Anderson might lose a bunny or a lap dog, but chances are he'll be fine.

I know cash is king. I know that for every infamous mafia Don hiding pallets of cash under Fido's doghouse, there are always boatloads of regular folks who look the other way, who figure the ends justify the means because they benefit directly from the schemes that are run. I think that's where you fall in this cautionary tale of the Obama admin, complicit in the cause. If I have misread you, and you just don't Do the Dew, we can run with Plan B.

I agree with you--but how much should we send over this time? And to keep it honest, would you at least concur we should send the payoff in a way that we can trace it? How about we cash em out in recyclable plastic bottles? We could send them 10,000,000 Mountain Dews, you cant mistake the green (symbolism) and all the Ayatollah would have to do was visit a 7-11 in Tehran or Tabriz. Heck, they would help us save the planet in the process. I'm just spitballing here, I'm sure you have ideas as well.

Step off George.

Aren't we all busting out to Atlanta every Sunday on a private jet, or is it just me and Cam?

All things being equal, if the guy was friendly and nice, and 6'4" and could use the leg room, I'd prob just give him the seat. That assumes I wasnt flying with family and/or his seat wasn't next to a couple big ole chunkers splitting a tuna sandwich and eating Ice Blue Doritos. The $1500 would be sweet though.

The imagery the headline implies notwithstanding, this article seems spot on to me. The president, on the receiving end of lies and innuendo for 50%+ of his presidency, authorizes the AG to get to the bottom of how this all went down. CIA operatives suggest they will comply, but only when they want to. Gee, that doesn't sound like a recipe for disaster in a free society. As far as I'm concerned, this moment in time allows the people to reset the rules for the good of the country. Where there was wrongdoing, publicize. Where there were dirty ops, let's detail them. If Brennan deserves jail time, no better way to send a message to all that follow that you cannot #%*# over the American people and get away with it. And, if he does not deserve jail time but was incompetent boob who :/-#ed over the American people because he followed bread crumbs that did not exist, well, let's get that out as well.

Another good idea would be to mind your business, and let others mind theirs. Stop being so judgemental! But it is nice to see you recognize the dangers of a lustfuly duplicitous media. Welcome to that club.

Trump better not nominate himself for the Supreme Court. We can't have a Russian mole be president and Supreme Court justice, even though he would be great at it and everyone wants him to do it.

Manafort texts that the SC is pressuring him to create a phony narrative on the prez and JK, the SC eventually comes up with nothing, and the story is about...a radio host? There's news here, but it isn't about Paul Manafort or Sean Hannity.

$#@×!! Cold. Ice cold.

I'd like to say I'm playing it cool, keeping it on the down low, but truth is I really had no idea how to add one. Once I figured it out, I was racked with anxiety over what to choose.

On the flip side, the history of the league is littered with the carcasses of high performing collegiate QBs who did nothing, or worse, I'm the NFL. Personally, I'm not sure TB12 ever even becomes TB1 had he been drafted by the Bills, Browns or Jets. JA is our guy, the management of the team seems intent on building a team around him and as far as I'm concerned, that's ansolutely vital for the success of a rookie QB and enough for now. The rest takes care of itself one way or the other. The fact that he's so damn easy to cheer for is a bonus.

this sounds ominous, and you're in rhode island. we've been friends a long time--just tell me if the mob hit is on me.