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If so, as I said, good and honorable work. I still like the Godzilla angle though.

I'm not sure I'm reading you correctly here. You work in the aftermath of disasters, delivering some semblance of justice to people, yet you included a sad emoji. Sounds like good and honorable work. Either that or you're Godzilla, admittedly a misunderstood and decidedly tragic figure.

I'm happy with the tax cut and the impact it had on my business and personal financial plan. My personal financial plan starts with being willing to spot the Feds the fruits of my labor for what amounts to Jan, Feb and maybe March, but by April I'd like to keep more for myself. I've never understood why issues like infrastructure, border security, refugee housing and uninsured health care can't be addressed while taxes are reduced and hard-working Americans keep more of the money they earn. Too many sticky fingers as the money move through the system, I guess.

now come on, the guy is running the overcoming capitalism power point on an APPLE™ Mac Book and casting to what looks like a 4K television by Samsung. Whatever pronoun you use, these are some seriously imperceptive revolutionaries.

Your cookie analogy is preposterous, unless in your scenario: There is no evidence a cookie was stolen; The investigation that was undertaken was shackled by none of the tradition rules of appropriate law enforcement engagement, with an unlimited budget, overseen by one man who hand-selected his team of prosecutors based in least at part on their animus toward the boy; The investigation into the cookie that apparently was never stolen played out on a massive scale, with the friends of the boy spied upon with the tacit approval of the sitting president of the US, with their names selectively leaked to the press, with the former head of the CIA (one of 2 or 3 people out of nearly 7.8 billion with unrestricted access to every piece of intelligence available to the most powerful nation in the world) starting emphatically that the boy stole the cookie, with the former head of the FBI (one of the other 2 or 3 people out of the 7.8 billion citizens of the world) doing precisely the same; Prominent members of Congress claimed that they had specific, incontrovertible evidence that the boy stole the cookie, that they would release that evidence when the time was right, and never did; The investigation into the cookie included hauling known associates of the boy into interrogation rooms for questioning on issues totally unrelated to the cookie, with some of the most powerful people in the world threatening them with extended incarceration, looking for process crimes (You said the cookies were chocolate chips, but weren't they, IN FACT, OATMEAL RAISIN??), and offering sweetheart immunity deals to the friends of the boy in exchange for something, anything of value that could lead to the appearance of impropriety on the part of the boy; Sending a geared up SWAT team to the house where a kid who sat three seats behind the boy in homeroom (and who ate lunch with him after 3rd period math), to kick in the door if necessary to haul the kid away in the back of a police van--but not before calling the local media with an established pattern of publish anti-cookie-boy stories to tip them off about the late night/pre-dawn raid; Moving an associate of the boy to solitary confinement in a max security, ostensibly for his protection, where the vast majority of similarly accused criminals would be spending time in a much less dangerous facility; After a $35-40 million campaign of terror, and a 400+ page report that at be best summarized by the haters of the cookie boy as "Yeah, the DOJ/FBI/CIA, man, they were way off here, turns out we can't find enough here to say one way or the other"; After receiving and dissecting the 400+ page report, key members of Congress continued to sow the seeds of distrust against the cookie boy, claiming, in fact, that it was his denial of charges that he stole the cookie that was the REAL crime, and would impugn the reputation of the chief special cookie counsel and his minions because his report ultimately did not perpetuate the narrative that they--as sitting members of congress, perpetuated for nearly 3 years; In North Korea, the advantage folks like Obama, Clinton, Brennan, Schiff et al have is instead of having to laboriously create and perpetuate a story about a cookie that was never missing being stolen by a political adversary, they just make them disappear. As much as I despise it, Thank God for Twitter or the American people would never have heard directly from the accused and the narrative would have been entirely shaped by selective leaks and innuendo.

I can't get past "guy or gal" in your earlier post. You have this cutting edge avatar with a cleaved chef head and went 1950s Allan Freed on the narrative. You're a complicated soul, or "cat" as the gals might say (if they weren't retired and in assisted living in Boca). Otherwise, I agree with your general premise.

Whats stunning to me is the imbecile who waxes philosophically on people sleeping in front of their buildings while the city prohibits "camping" in public parks, or in front of city hall. what at a great message for business owners: Shut the #%*# up, pay your $&#%ing taxes, and never mind the foul-smelling douche on the sidewalk demanding your potential customers give him some money on the way in. You know where that doesn't happen? #%%#ing Disneyland, the happiest place on earth in part because your chances of stepping on someone's hand, leg or excrement as you approach the Buzz Lightyear ride is pretty low. austin < Disney world

serious question: does anyone know if that panel interview with Clinton was before she wasn't president, or after, when she really wasn't president? I'm wondering because if it was before she wasn't president, she had that resume booster of really :/-#ing up Libya and having those Americans die horrifically on her watch, giving her some real street cred. But, if it was from after she really wasn't president, I'm wondering why the ladies on the view were nodding their heads like she dispensing some insider knowledge when really she was just some old cat lady from chappaqua, prone to coughing fits, weak knees and wearing pastel pantsuits well past the spring fashion season had ended.

It wasn't not always because he had open receivers. It wasn't not always because he was impatient. Sometimes he ran because he could, and sometimes he was patient in the pocket. He does need to improve to be better though....and we can all agree he on that. It looks like the coaching staff was not happy with some of the other pieces around him and have made attempts to improve his opportunity to improve. What would make you happy to see out of JA in year two? Not ecstatic, btw, just cautiously optimistic that he has grown and has potential to step forward yet again in year 3?

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?