swordfish

I know, right? According to the "woke" crowd, Republicans are the toothless intolerable Christian deplorables...... and NO, this concept s not the NEW normal, it has been the normal normal for a long time.....

This is one of the "informed" caucus - goers in the "all-inclusive" party just discovering Mayor Pete is gay for the first time last night.....

I'm surprised they haven't blamed Trump for this......

Absolutely funny.......Isn't this the most obvious coup taking place in the Democrat Party to oust Bernie and place Biden up? First the Polls from the weekend were not released citing "issues", then the "App" was flawed, and apparently the old "telephone" system didn't have all the bugs worked out yet either.......Personally I think Biden was almost completely off the radar.....

I would have to think so. My thought this morning was that there was a Bernie/Pete roll over the competition which (IMHO) is not what the DIP (Democrats In Power) wanted.

And - One of the "perps" actually apologized for the insensitivity of said remarks......

Since "New Math" didn't work.......(Or does anyone else think they didn't like the real results they got.....

https://www.foxnews.com/media/rush-limbaugh-advanced-lung-cancer?fbclid=IwAR1PV0qqTRsT_ZPv5339BgdUXGPIemFJBmCD2ynQ9H1SZkGJ8aLXFUXCGbA Talk radio king Rush Limbaugh stunned his 27-million member audience Monday with the announcement he's been diagnosed with "advanced lung cancer." The 69-year-old conservative talk pioneer closed his broadcast with the grim news, saying he will be leaving his golden EIB microphone for treatment, but hopes to return soon. “This day has been one of the most difficult days in recent memory, for me, because I’ve known this moment was coming,” Limbaugh said. “I’m sure that you all know by now that I really don’t like talking about myself and I don’t like making things about me… one thing that I know, that has happened over the 31-plus years of this program is that there has been an incredible bond that had developed between all of you and me.” Limbaugh then told his audience that his job has provided him with the “greatness satisfaction and happiness” of his life. “So, I have to tell you something today that I wish I didn’t have to tell you. It’s a struggle for me because I had to inform my staff earlier today,” he said. “I can’t help but feel that I’m letting everybody down. The upshot is that I have been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer.” Limbaugh told listeners that the cancer will keep him off the air on certain days when he receives treatment. He said the diagnosis has been confirmed by two medical institutions since he first realized something was wrong on January 12 when he experienced shortness of breath. “I thought about not telling anybody,” he said. “It is what it is. You know me, I’m the mayor of Realville. This has happened and my intention is to come here every day I can, and do this program as normally and competently and expertly as I do each and every day because that is the source of my greatest satisfaction professionally, personally.” “I told the staff today that I have a deeply personal relationship with God that I do not proselytize about, but I do, and I have been working that relationship tremendously,” he said. "I am, at the moment, experiencing zero symptoms." Was able to catch about a half hour today at lunch.....Didn't hear this though.....

Mostly ignored in 2016, not even mentioned yet this election......

We are not supposed to objectify women, so last night's halftime show with Shakira and J-Lo was very difficult to make sense of in many ways. 1 - Both women in their 40's and 50's are absolutely beautiful and are incredible entertainers. (What straight man wouldn't have died happy if there had been a wardrobe malfunction) 2 - Using stripper poles made not objectifying difficult to accomplish. (WTG A-Rod) 3 - SF doesn't speak Spanish, (and would have preferred English, this being the US Super Bowl after all) but kinda enjoyed the Latino spin, right up until Shakira did the "Jihadist" tongue thing right in the camera. I was thinking - in her outfit, what would the punishment be for her in a Jihadist camp? But then again - where did belly-dancing originate? IDK. Again - confusing..... 4 - In the end - Kudos to the hot old birds for pulling this off and staying in their tiny clothes for the entire show. The young impressionable kids watching I'm sure were inspired.

I can only imagine the response I would have gotten had I taken that tack with the nurse.......Possibly would have been typing this from my jail cell...... 🤣 Now that's funny right there.......Her brothers told me back while we were dating, you ever raise a hand to hurt her, they won't find your body......To which I responded, don't worry, I taught her how to use a gun......and after we were married, she actually out-shot me at trap shooting at my cousins house, in front of my relatives.....And I was a really good shot too.....I certainly wouldn't mess with Annie Oakley Jr.

The nurse, alone with my wife? If I were an abuser, my wife would feel safer telling her before I was allowed into the room. How is that out of line?

Unfortunate turn of events for those parents, brought to mind an event that just happened to me and my wife. My wife went in earlier this month for a "scope into the lungs for a biopsy" (endio-something or another - SF is not a doctor) and upon admitting her, I waited in the waiting room while they took her back to get settled in then the nurse came and got me to come on back. The nurse (who was a very lovely, cordial and professional person) explained - with my wife in the room - that they do that so they can ask the woman whether she was being abused (without me there) so she would feel safe telling them if I was an abuser. Fortunately I hadn't irritated her that morning, so it went well........ BTW - the biopsy was negative.....so she can continue to abuse me.....

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/01/democrats-schiff-impeachment/605803/ As the final sliver of daylight faded over the Capitol dome last night, it was clear that Democrats’ long, frustrated quest for a deus to save them from Donald Trump would produce no machina after all. Instead, there was only Representative Adam Schiff, the party’s tireless point man in the impeachment trial, who stood in the well of the Senate making an 11th-hour argument that Trump’s political-dirt-for-military-aid squeeze on Ukraine was too egregious to ignore.“If you accept the argument that the president of the United States can tell you to pound sand when you try to investigate his wrongdoing, there will be no force behind any Senate subpoena in the future,” Schiff warned the senators. It was his response to a long written statement cum question from his fellow Californian Kamala Harris, who had asked how Trump’s acquittal would “undermine the U.S. system of justice.” Since Election Night 2016, Democrats have been searching for a savior, no matter the party or rank of the individual. First there was James Comey, the self-righteous former FBI director impervious to Trump’s attempts to co-opt his investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Then there was Robert Mueller, the special counsel appointed by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to take over the Russia inquiry after Trump’s abrupt dismissal of Comey produced a furor, but whose final report was an inconclusive punt. Next came House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, who said last summer that Trump deserved to be impeached because he’d “violated the law six ways from Sunday.” There was House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose reluctant conversion to the impeachment cause put Trump in the dock in December. There was Chief Justice John Roberts, whose stated reverence for institutions and the rule of law raised hope that he might conduct the Senate trial with a firmer hand than what he has thus far shown. There was the Senate Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer, whose demand for additional witnesses and documents sparked a fleeting hope of persuading four moderate Republicans to join in seeking more evidence of Trump’s misdeeds. Now, with the defendant’s foregone acquittal in sight as soon as tomorrow, it’s all come down to Schiff, the terminally earnest chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. Schiff’s powers, while formidable, have proved just as un-super as everyone else’s in the near-lockstep partisan loyalty that fear of Trump has produced. In the House managers’ presentation of their case last week, Schiff spoke some 60,000 words over three days, nearly three times the amount uttered by his next-loquacious colleague, according to an analysis by National Journal Daily. Yesterday, he answered five of the first 13 questions directed to Democrats, usually with only the barest reference to prepared notes, almost always taking the full five-minute limit the chief justice has allotted—a pace he kept up as the evening dragged on. One of the president’s lawyers, the former Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, insisted, “If a president does something which he believes will help him get elected—in the public interest—that cannot be the kind of quid pro quo that results in impeachment.” Schumer immediately asked Schiff to respond to the claim. “All quid pro quos are not the same,” he said. “Some are legitimate and some are corrupt, and you don’t need to be a mind reader to figure out which is which.” By 6:30 p.m. ET, when he asked the senators if they really wanted a president “who can abuse his office” and “do so sacrificing national security and undermining integrity of elections and there’s nothing Congress can do about it,” Schiff had grown hoarse. The trial’s question-and-answer phase, which continues today, has injected some new energy—or at least some new motion—into the proceedings. Young pages in blue suits ferry each small buff-colored card of written questions to the chief justice in the presiding chair by marching solemnly down the chamber’s center aisle. Roberts then reads the questions aloud. But the trial’s semifinal stage has produced not a shred more bipartisan agreement on the gravity of the president’s conduct, as both Republicans and Democrats asked questions mostly of their own side in an effort to bolster arguments already endlessly rehearsed. The format nevertheless has played to Schiff’s strengths as a former prosecutor. While his fellow managers read scripted answers from prepared three-ring binders, in response to mostly friendly questions from Democrats that feel well prepared if not outright planted, Schiff has handled even the occasional hostile query from Republicans with extemporaneous aplomb. When Senators Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz submitted a somewhat tortured hypothetical query about whether it would have been acceptable for President Barack Obama to urge the Russian government to conduct an investigation into Mitt Romney’s son if he knew the younger Romney were being paid $1 million a year by a corrupt Russian company—a not-so-veiled reference to Hunter Biden’s service on the board of Ukrainian energy company—Schiff’s bottom line was simple: Presidents asking foreign governments “to target their political opponent is wrong and corrupt, period.” Trump’s acquittal has been a foregone conclusion since long before the trial began, and the chance that Democrats might garner the 51 votes required to call more witnesses had all but evaporated by yesterday afternoon, despite former National Security Adviser John Bolton’s reported corroboration that Trump told him he was withholding security assistance to Ukraine until it agreed to investigations into the president’s Democratic rival. “Probably no” was Schumer’s own assessment of the likelihood of witnesses after one potential GOP target after another either opposed the idea or signaled they might. That reality, and the political calculation behind it, was summed up neatly by Josh Holmes, a former aide to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who tweeted: “More witnesses = Hindenburg. None of it changes ultimate acquittal.” So as the hours ticked past, and senators on both sides of the aisle stood and stretched, Schiff appeared to be speaking not only to them but to posterity, as he argued that new information about Trump’s actions on Ukraine was continuing to surface almost daily, and would keep coming in the months and years ahead. “Don’t wait for the book!” he said, referring to Bolton’s memoir. Responding to a question from Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island about whether senators should consider the White House’s refusal to produce witnesses an “adverse inference” against the president’s innocence, under long-standing judicial practice, Schiff was emphatic. “Should you draw an adverse inference? You’re darn right you should!” But he added, “There is no need for inference here. There is just a need for a subpoena.” But throughout the Capitol all day yesterday, it grew ever clearer that embattled Republican senators such as Cory Gardner of Colorado would rather face the wrath of swing voters who think this truncated trial is unfair than risk prolonging it for even a week or two by calling witnesses and courting the president’s wrath. “I think we can all see what’s going on here,” Schiff said shortly after 8. “And that’s, If you want to hear from a single witness ... we are going to make this endless; we, the president’s lawyers, are going to make this endless. We promise you, we’re going to want Adam Schiff to testify, we want Joe Biden to testify, Hunter Biden … We will make you pay for it with endless delay.” But Schiff insisted, “We’re not here to indulge in fantasy or distraction. We’re here to talk about people with pertinent and probative evidence … So don’t be thrown off by this claim … You can’t have a fair trial without witnesses.” Indeed, the House managers have spent more than a week noting that no Senate impeachment trial has ever concluded without calling some witnesses. But in this, as in so many other matters involving the political ascendancy and presidency of Donald John Trump, Schiff and his colleagues, in invoking the power of history’s example, seem poised instead to suffer one more painful lesson in its limits. The impeachment funeral...... SF thinks the coffin will take a long time getting in the ground.