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Seems to me Lofton remarked that it may well have been on CB. Can't recall but I stopped blaming the guy I thought was in the wrong when suddenly it hit me I had no idea who was supposed to do what.

Sweet fancy Moses! Partisan? Bob, step back for a second and contemplate the meaning of the word 'partisan'. 'Partisan' is utilizing the rules of the Senate to block a nominee of the opposing political point of view when given the opportunity. Partisan is the raising of questions that everyone with a pulse knows will not be answered by a nominee because it gives the opposition the opportunity to wax eloquently as to all the hidden reasons why a nominee isn't answering the question that everyone with a pulse knows will not be answered. You've reached a point where you're comfortable with a buzzer beater allegation that has no basis in fact, that evolved over the 60 days or so it was in the public eye (and crashed and burned thereafter), and have decided as a matter of equity that Kavanaugh probably "lied" about his friziging high school days. Was it the choice of tater tots when he said he had French fries? You get the government you deserve, and in many ways, the people who stand by and wring their hands about Trumps approach and demeanor watch dispassionately as the no-holds barred public execution of Brett Kavanaugh played out have gotten what they deserve. I'd no more like to see this happen to Merrick Garland than I would Brett Kavanaugh. What Feinstein, Harris, Booker et al oversaw was horrific and amounted to the pimping of the narrative of a couple drunken cockroaches that scurried from the darkness for 30 seconds of fame before scurrying back. It doesn't have to be this way Bob, you don't have to sit by dispassionately and stretch to reconcile the incompetence of the IC and Obama admin, you don't have to accept that Trump is out-of-line pursuing American interests and that Good Ole Joe was just doing good VP work, or even that John Barleycorn Must Die. I will meet you halfway and acknowledge that the only way other than massive pallets of cash to Iran to settle up for the Obama treaty was sending the moolah for mullah 18,000,000 refundable bottles of Mountain Dew because of "sanctions", and that solution would have required more planes and the carbon footprint would have been massive. Obama is actually the hero of the pallets of cash story. Fair?

I’m still struggling with all those people giving you guff. There’s nothing worse than a section of guff givers.

Questions first: I know of no recordings where Brennan, Comey, Obama and Clinton spoke to a guy with a camear/microphone in a lapel pin and stated "So we all agree this is a coup, right?". On the other hand I never actually saw Ted Bundy murder a co-ed but believe that he did. You might require that, I see life as a bit more complicated. As for who is "they", I would suggest it's the left leaning wing of the democratic party. In this category goes Barrack Obama, Clinton Inc, Brennan, Comey and the money that funds the effort behind the scenes. The behind the scenes folks are harder to identify, but I'd primarily look at wealthy families that benefit on the March toward globalism--people like Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt, George Soros and so on. I would also look at foreign governments, and I've never been quite up to date on why planeloads of cash were sent to the middle east. Unless I'm mistaken, when I deposit $10k in cash into my bank account, all sorts of red flags are raised but maybe that's just me. I believe that the reasons for participation range from idealistic thoughts of a global government, to those who fundamentally believe they are right and everyone else is misguided to people who just don't like Trump. I don't understand your theory about "going to so much trouble on Ukraine" so I can't answer that question. I will say, however that it seems like the libs are trying to squeeze a battleship through a keyhole on the political diff between Biden as VP and Trump acting as president, but the mantra is the same: Trump is betraying our country and doing things never done before. I think it's a least common denominator argument for simpletons, but it seems to work. As for members of Congress, I'll answer a question with a question. How satisfied have you been with the evidence that Trump colluded with the Russians and is acting in simpatico with Vlad The Cad Putin, evidence brought into the light of day that is clear and obvious to all who would have upon it? Let's go with Shiff, Castro, Swallowell, Harris, Schumer, Sanders and Pelosi. Let's also go with the evidence documented and scrutinized from Brennan in his role as former CIA director. We can include Mueller as director of the FBI-KGB division who opted, oddly, not to exonerate Trump after 3 years and 30m dollars worth of door kicking and leg breaking with no other directive than to "find something". I'd add the additional members of Congress on the IC are complicit in that have access to all the material and allow this travesty to continue. I thought Muellers testimony revealed him to be a disintereted and uncomfortable hack who showed signs of dementia. Then again, maybe it was just a big misunderstanding. Questions for you: Using the Kavanaugh nomination as a microcosm of the current political climate, what are your thoughts on: Since it seems clear you're not a Trump fan, what are your thoughts on the nomination proceedings of Brett Kavanaugh? My assumption here is you would have preferred another justice, and if so, how did the nature/to be and questioning strike you? Can we desire something more than what we got as Americans, given the nature of the questions aand the tone with which they were asked? Given the totality of evidence presented against Kavanaugh by the liberal wing of the dem party, would it be fair to say that the intent was to destroy him personally, politically and financially and brand him as a serial rapist? Two more: Do you believe people like Harris, Booker and Blumenthal would have been disappointed if a person with mental health issues resolved the need for further hearings by taking the justice out of the equation, or might that have justified the means with which they attacked him? Finally, was Kavanaugh wrong to defend himself in the manner that he did? Should he have been confirmed to the sC in light of everything you have seen?

You're killing me here. You'd think there would be a lot of Bobisms to use but I've gone through em rather quickly with my friend from Michigan. I almost recycled Bob-Babaran. Where is the honor in that? I'm not bragging here but I used to be compared to Bobby Sherman back in the day, were Bobby Sherman a bit more homely and with literally no talent whatsoever.

You’re projecting here Bobby Sherman, teenage heartthrob. Lot’s of words strung together with “well if...” and “why would...” and “comey helped...”. Your faith in the governmental industrial machine is admirable. Suggesting “Comey helped Trump” in the Clinton unforced error(s) where a former Secretary of State was described by her allies as having played fast and loose with national security issues is akin to suggesting Comey helped Trump by investigating Whitey Bulger. She created her mess, she was dismissive of concerns about national security, and exposed her throat to her enemies. I’m in the camp that thinks children of a lesser god, guilty of far lesser crimes, do time and are financially ruined while the heiress apparent walks with a few hurtful words thrown her way. Comey had no choice but to opine here, not to help Trump, but to deal with a very messy situation. In a sense, he was a reluctant ******* here. The players here have access to the most sensitive information in the world. Brennan, Comey et al did not sit back and allow justice to take its course, they advanced a narrative that served the purpose of undermining the results of the election. In a sense, we were promised that the details would follow vindicating these American hero’s just looking out for our democracy. Grossly incompetent or fabricated and death by a thousand paper cuts. If they are the hero’s of your story, so be it. I don’t disagree with some of your characterizations of 45, but everybody has something to critique.

Bob, you go along for the ride if you want, and I take you at your word that you believe what you believe. In the simplest form Bob, the facts are pretty clear. The greatest intelligence gathering agency in the world simply does not miss as badly as it did on the Russia hoax. It defies logic that the opposition party would stumble into unmasking citizens, surveil members of the other party, selectively leak bad Intel through sources in the media, and start the ball rolling on the "Our President is Controlled By Russia!" Hill and have it end the way it did. If they come for the guy that 60m people believed in they better be right. When it was clear they were not, there are only two reasonable altentatives imo: 1. The IC, FBI and Obama admin was so grossly incompetent to have so totally misread the tea leaves and the players in the game that they missed spectacularly on front of the citizenry and is the laughingstock of the world; or 2. The goal was to undo the results of the election through leaks, intimidation, innuendo and a propaganda campaign that would impress Herr Goebels. In the meantime, the "investigation" would stall, impede or paralyze the administration and certainly impact the reputation of the president. 3 years in, the coup failed, though one can argue the damage done impacted the midterms and perhaps the next election. You simply do not imply a president is guilty or treason and "Ah, whoops no bigs" it when proven false. Screw that.

Well, there was a time I felt the way you did, but I’ve come to believe that the need to pay respects to someone simply because they held public office is unnecessary. IMO, many of these people work for one of the most un/underegulated ‘corporations’ in the human history. They come to live, breathe and work in their own interests as much as they ever work in the interests of their constituents, are extremely well-compensated in terms of salary, benefits and access to power. Often, when I look at net worth v. annual income, it seems there is a disconnect between what they make going in and what they take when they walk out. I reserve my moments of respect for very few in the political realm, and find myself much more impacted by the passing of folks of good character locally.

one of the more interesting parts of this attempted coup, imo, is how the entrenched govt lifers have convinced the liberal left to kneel at the glory hole of a corrupt big govt. people who for years railed against law enforcement, the military and widespread systemic and institutionalized racism are literally falling over themselves to defend those once labeled the enemy. it’s like they have no sense of what they believe in. you have to give the plotters credit—they know their crowd. When one “scandal” blows up, they simply shine the laser pointer somewhere else and the generally dim-witted lefties follow like Alice The Goon. P***** leads to “the children are more caged than when Obama caged ‘em” leads to Russia No Russia leads to It was never about Russia it was about Obstruction that ain’t obstruction leads to Ukrainamania leads to mental gymnastics of how a liberal VP bragging about withholding aid because his self-destructive and supremely addicted kid can make a few mill to blow on hookers and meth is really the definition of crackerjack governing but a president investigating known corruption is the REAL problem. Bobby I M, I can’t speak for the public schools everywhere, but in WNY in the 70s, we learned there is more than one type of coup. Nixon didn’t send his henchmen to round up he’s enemies, but it sure seems like what he did do got his tit in a ringer. this is a coup. damn you for making me use run on sentences here, Bob.

He is who they are? https://amp-businessinsider-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.businessinsider.com/barack-obama-michelle-obama-net-worth-2018-7?amp_js_v=a2&amp_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQCKAE%3D#aoh=15714303281206&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From %1%24s tried to link the article about bill and Hillary at a couple hundred mill but got bored.

Did it hurt when they put the leaches on Grampa?? ?

You've managed to spin a tale that starts with a defective thermocoupler, a hot single mom in a tasteful tube top and cutoff shorts heroically trying to save her child, a quick response by first responders while you are recklessly drinking shots of tequila out of the belly buttons of Mexican waitresses and evolves into a cautionary tale of the 911 system? In or about 2005, my son was choking on a piece of candy. I called 911, requested assistance but specificied neither fire nor police, and continued working trying to clear the obstruction. Well, we cleared his airway (or perhaps he just had an overload of chocolate and saliva) and all was well. The 911 system took the first responders to the wrong address, and about 30 minutes later they called to inquire where we lived. I shared my thoughts on the service provided, forcefully, and suggested they needed to do better, aggressively. Nearly 15 years later, I'd follow exactly the same process, though I'd be clear on where exactly the first responder would need to respond to. Sometimes luck is a good thing. True, I would take a chance that the individual who came out would not want to cleave my skull with an axe, or sneak into my backyard and fire upon me as I stood in my kitchen. Imo, however, the rewards outweigh the risk, and it's not even close. It's been estimated there are approximately 240m 911 calls per year, and I'm sure even you would agree that the vast majority do not end up as the horrible incident in Texas ended. Finally, your last paragraph about GGV (Government Gone Wild!) seems to be the argument that gun rights advocates offer when pointing to the need for personal ownership of firearms. I'll consider that. Oh--and I haven't seen anyone blaming the victim, where did you see that?

I think the lesson here is to slow walk the response to phone calls. Settle down, take some time, use the loudspeaker from the relative safety of the car. This will remove any confusion from the process, and keep both the public and the police safe. Also, the media will be able to accurately report on a story instead of running with the most inflammatory version possible.

Maybe. Trump though, is the wild card. I have no doubt the old adage of “mutually assured destruction” keeps a lot of dirty laundry hidden from the American people. I believe that Trump views this as exceptionally personal, and having not cut his teeth in the political realm, isn’t necessarily too concerned one way or the other what the collateral damage is. in addition, Barr seems quite perturbed with the swamp and I think he’s willing to kick a major player in the nuts with steel toed boots. At some point, I think a major player or two gets taken down. I think the reputation of several other players is tarnished, but a deal struck to minimize the real damage. Personally, I think Obama is up to his ears in scandalous behavior including trying to undo the election results of 2016. I think the analysis will be he is too big a fish to fry, and even if he was vulnerable, there’s a whole lot of downside to going after him too hard. then again, I often think that there really is just one major political power in the country, and photos like thus are why. Maybe you are right.

I spoke to a vet today, unrelated to the politics of the day. He volunteered how “amazing” his recent visits to the local VA have been the last couple years. Quite a change from years past, he said.

In any thread...holy crap. Thank God he took time off from terrorizing ordinary citizens to save one.

What does this mean? You wrote it on the 15th of October.

No, I think it's pretty clear it's an advance copy of the defense lawyer's summation before the jury. British. Possum. Swerved. Small road. Trauma. The British are obviously the next disenfranchised people on the list. FREE THE BRITS FREE THE BRITS FREE THE BRITS

Ah, thanks. Didn’t know ant of that. You can always go home again, but a bit of humility and introspection goes a long way.

He received in excess of 60 million votes, all from people wise enough to know his tax returns were irrelevant. Didn’t matter one way or the other, wouldn’t change anything. But now, of course, the opponent is seeking to rewrite the rules, and use every trick in the book to grab his returns. Big govt run amok. Falls right in line with Russiagate, Obstructiongate and ukraineamania. Let’s see how it plays out in the next election—when served up with a healthy dose of declassification of files targeting the enemy.

Or does it?? I’m not going to sleep tonight, that’s for sure.

Ok, now I need to know. Why would jb not make the wall of fame in his former high school? I don’t know much about him, but given that he’s one of the most recognizable names on the entire planet, I’d think he’d qualify. I mean if the guys from nickleback went there, or Alan Thicke is an alum he’d have to wait, but at face value it seems like he’d probably be more famous than the science teacher with the lazy eye who monitored the school dance/hoedown.

That one actually made me laugh pretty hard. It’s like a riddle that I feel like I can solve but it’s just....out......of...reach. I’ve tried rearranging the letters but can only come up with MONO BUT SHOWS PROMISE and ONO’S BUT SHOWS IROMSE and I don’t know what IROMSE means. It’s maddening.

What a horrible story. The officer should answer criminally as the law provides. On the other hand, some would consider it good news that the resistance is fighting back against the "jack booted govt thugs" in a consistent, methodical fashion at the rate of about 1 per week killed. I just sampled a few. https://abcnews.go.com/US/police-officer-shot-parking-garage-maryland-search-suspect/story?id=66261022 https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/01/11/us/female-police-officer-killed/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fduckduckgo.com%2F https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2019/08/14/6-philadelphia-police-officers-shot-in-philadelphias-nicetown-tioga-section-officials-say/ I don't know how a person who is a cop would ever trust, well, anyone who isn't a cop. *just in case my sarcasm was not clear, I think that Law enforcement officers across the country are under assault from politicians, members of the media and certainly from bad people in general. For every police officer who $%#@s something up there are tens of thousands doing a job most people simply could not do.