August is the month where everything starts to become ripe. August is the time of cicadas, frogs, and loud nature. August is a warning to school kids that their freedom is waning.
Watch for the dog days. They are upon us.
There is nothing quite like August in Virginia.
August is the time of sunflowers!
Another police officer shot and killed in Louisiana yesterday. Its almost a daily occurrence.
Cop lives matter!
Cops all over the country must be getting very, very nervous beyond the usual when making traffic stops. One has to hope and pray that the wrong move on the part of someone pulled over who is guilty only of a traffic violation does not result in a terrible tragedy because of that officer nervousness.
Wolve, I feel you are absolutely right about this.
Trump is being a pig. He just semi-threatened Megyn Kelly. I hope she eviscerates him.
Kudos to Jeb Bush for his understanding of illegal immigration.
I hope Trump either wins the nomination or runs as a third party. Either way he will help the democrats win another term.
@Moon-howler
You mean he finally admitted that “illegal” means “illegal”?
Rubio did well. I do like John Kasich!
Trump showed what a louse he really is.
Certainly didn’t make any points with his rant about the country being run by idiots.
Huckaby was funny with his clever twist from Trump to Hillary.
Yes he was funny. He is also a good musician. His politics suck though.
Carly Fiorina really a homerun out of the ball park during the “also ran” debate.
Poor Megyn.
On the other hand, I just saw a report which claims that ISIS recently executed 19 women/girls (likely Yazidi and Christian) for refusing to have sex when so ordered with jihadi fighters. Also some horrible and traumatic tales coming from escaped women about suffering jihadi sex slavery, including repeated rape. And I mean repeated rape on a daily basis. Some of the girls are trying to commit suicide to escape the slavery.
Latest assessments I’ve seen say that, despite all the Coalition bombing and drone strikes, we seem to be at a stalemate with ISIS. And it also appears that a 60-man special Syrian unit the U.S. trained to fight against ISIS may have been decimated and kidnapped by al-Nusra.
I don’t think things are going too well. Pity those girls.
I pity almost all women in the middle east. It’s a horrible place to live if you are female.
@Wolve
Are you making a comparison of some kind?
The more people I talk to, the more I feel he threatened her. That is simply unacceptable.
Never thought I would say this, but I think Fox News did a great job with the debate. The questions were thoughtful and the 3 hosts had put a lot of work and research into those questions. I wish Chris Wallace had not said “illegals.” He should know better. So many other choices that wouldn’t have indicated his political slant.
Are we as Americans proud of the 10 or so candidates that have enough credibility with us to be on stage on Cleveland? This is the best of us? The one with the best zinger wins? Or the one with the biggest loser for a father? Or the most pious of them all (self proclaimed of course)?
This must be a bad dream.
It pretty much is a bad dream. I liked Bush, Kasich, and Rubio. (on some issues) Period.
Nope. Just opining that there are bigger things to be concerned about than one brief TV exchange between Megyn and The Donald.
I am not sure there are things more important. Megyn’s concern was his treatment of females. Females are over half the USA population. She questioned him and he threatened her. I think that speaks volumes.
Would that people carefully examined who they elected to office and how those people felt like subgroups.
Well, at least none of the 10 or the 7 are subjects of an FBI criminal probe.
Neither is Hillary, if that is what you are implying.
New York Post says it is. What have you got?
I read they are investigating the practice but that she is not the subject of the investigation.
New York Post is saying it is. What have you got?
I think I already said that.
Threatened her? With what?
If Megyn wants to play in the big leagues, she will have to hit the fastballs.
It’s bad manners and its a threat. I don’t care if Megyn is a man or a woman. It was a fair question. I think Megyn Kelly has more than proved herself and she has hit many a fast ball. Not a fan, I just think she is a cut above some of the others on that station.
The threat was subtle…you mess with me, I will mess with you. Flip side of that…he agreed to come on to the debate. He knew the rules. I think it is he who cannot live with them.
The more important issue, at least to me, is his answer to her question. Let’s face it, in a civilized society, there are rules about how we conduct ourselves. Calling women dogs, sluts, fat slobs, and whatever else he chose is not part of those good manners. That behavior falls outside and is considered piggy and bullying. I don’t want someone as a national leader who doesn’t conduct himself any better than that.
FDR, Truman, Ike, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Clinton, all look good by comparison.
@Moon-howler
Mountain out of a molehill, I say. Again, threat to do what? Keel haul her?
Wolve, you may think that sexist remarks are a “mountain out of a mole hill” but I do not. I have spent a lifetime fighting for women’s equality and I absolutely will do everything within my power to make certain that a pig like Trump isn’t elected.
For the record, money talks and BS walks. Someone bragging out their billions? Who knows what he could do to her. I guess time will tell. Would you vote for someone who publically threatens a reporter?
Sorry, I don’t subscribe to the good ole boy school of behavior.
Splitting hairs. Think David Petraeus. Of course, this is Obama’s FBI and DOJ………..
I agree with Trump’s overnight tweet that Megyn Kelly is a bimbo.
Actually, she is one of the view on there that doesn’t act like a bimbo. Kelly has herself a set of stones.
Well. I cannot recall any connection between Megyn and the Clintons
@Wolve
ummm – Christie??
@Wolve
You really need to halt that general all Democrats are bad and all Republicans are good. You get caught 😎
Didn’t seem to bother the Democrats with Clinton. Talk about threatening…..
That’s a deflection. We aren’t talking about Clinton. We are talking about Trump. Clinton never talked about women like that in public, regardless.
So do I assume you would be comfortable with a president who talked about women in that manner and who threatens debate hosts because of the questions that she asks them?
Man, how low can we go here?
Well, Lyssa, if one wants to compare the current Hillary investigation over mishandling of national classified information and her pal Huma’s alleged actions with a private firm on the DepState time and dime with that old alleged Christie Hudson River bridge adventure that seems to have gone nowhere despite the best efforts of his Dem foes………..
You are stretching it, madam; and I object to that. I never said that all Dems are bad and all Repubs are good. You have got to stop putting words in my posts.
@Moon-howler
How low can we go here?!!! How about the support on this blog for a POTUS who called on his supporters to get in the faces of his opponents and whose hirelings have called many of us citizens “terrorists”? Not to mention something I seem to remember from 2008 about bringing a gun to a knife fight. And now the same feller is going around saying that his Republican opponents on the Iran nukes deal are no different than the hardliners in the Iranian leadership. Seems to me that we have down at the bottom for almost seven years now.
I suggest we cut the banter on Megyn Kelly and The Donald and go for some real substance. Megyn has made a certain reputation for herself as a prominent member of the FoxNews roster. In this instance, she had a choice spot in prime time before one of the biggest national TV audiences for a long time, if not ever. It was her chance to shine. In front of her the so-called 10 top contenders for the Republican nomination, all facing her with the need to look and sound good in responding to her questions.
And what repertoire of major national issues did she have available to her for this moment in the sun? Iran and nukes; the stalemate with ISIS; Israel; Assad and Syria; the Afghan war; fast track foreign trade deals; Chinese attempts at hegemony in the Western Pacific; the possible future of NSA operations blown by Snowden; Putin and Ukraine; Putin and Iran; Putin and China; Putin and his new Russian military emphasis and posturing; the slow U.S. economic recovery; ; taxes, especially capital gains taxes; the federal budget; the national debt; oil and gas production and exports; the Keystone pipeline; military spending and strength in a dangerous world; domestic crime; guns; immigration; border control; resettlement of Middle Eastern refugees and our true capability to adequately vet them; domestic security against both planned and lone wolf attacks; sex trafficking…etc., etc., etc. and so forth and so on.
So there is Megyn — the leadoff hitter in a crowded stadium with a chance to shine by getting us on the road to differentiating between the candidates on major national issues. And what sort of question does she ask?
Give me a break.
This might come as a shock to you commando types but having a president who doesn’t value over half the citizens as a bimbo, slut or ugly dog is pretty high on the food chain. She asked a critical question that dealt with common values, decency, and ability to lead.
Actually, I am shocked that you would trivialize the issue. You have a wife and daughters.
I expect Trump’s answers on your list would have been very short. I think Meghyn asked a series of really good questions to the candidates, as did the others. They were well thought out and tailored for the individual.
Limbaugh and Trump have had seven wives between them. ‘Nuff said.
Sorry, blogmeister; but I think you missed my main point. Megyn had a great chance to shine during this debate.—- in effect, to boost her professional rise to the top. But instead she blew some serious creds as a TV journalist by giving the impression that she was going after one of the candidates in a situation where all candidates are supposed to get even treatment. Now you have angry Trump supporters and others voicing suspicions that she was doing the business of the hated Rove machine in a scripted attempt to take Trump out, likely in favor of Jeb Bush. And the only Megyn reminder from this debate will be just that. Big mistake, in my opinion, for someone who had great promise at Fox and seemed to be busting strongly through the glass ceiling on brainpower, never mind the good looks.
Now we are seeing that her researchers shafted her. For instance, the supposedly”sexual” reference to a woman on her knees has been found by fact checkers in “The Apprentice” tapes and turns out to have had no sexual or gender context whatsoever. And I am waiting for the identities of those women (beyond the well-known give-and-take of the Rosie-Donald duel) who were supposedly slimed by Trump using the exact words out of Megyn’s mouth.
Megyn’s loss here, I say. A set back for her journalist creds, in my view……and with a potentially slam bang Oval Office election coming up, too. Pity.
I didn’t miss your point. I simply don’t agree with you. I think you missed mine.
Megyn didn’t ask any more pointed questions of Trump than any of the other candidates were asked. I doubt if Christie liked the references to Bridgegate. I also don’t think Bush liked dealing with his Iraq war question. Those tough, tailor-made questions were directed at all the candidates. Some folks had more baggage than others.
I don’t think Megyn Kelly has been hurt in the least. In whose world has she been hurt? She has a lot more progressive women supporting her than she used to have. She might have fewer men looking at her at a hottie. So tell me how that’s a loss to someone who is a serious journalist.
@Lyssa
Yeah, but, unlike Slick Willie, they at least married their women.
Some of their women. I am sure there were others. Welcome to the 21st century. Men and women sleep together. Good looking men and rich men and powerful men seem to score more. That’s hardly a new thing.
@Lyssa
Unlike JFK and LBJ as well.
You left off Ike and FDR also.
Do you really think she was operating without Roger Ailes full knowledge and support? These elections are bought long before the convention – in both parties.
And you say you’re equal opportunity….
@Moon-howler
BTW, you did have a point about “Trump’s answers on your list would have been very short.” Isn’t that the whole idea about asking questions of substance instead of Megyn Kelly’s leadoff querty? Find out what the candidates actually know about crucial national and international issues.
Were any of the candidates asked about crucial national and international issues? I don’t recall anyone being asked anything significant other than Bush being asked about the Iraq War. My memory is short though…..
All Trump really had to say was that he regretted making those kinds of remarks, issue a general apology and move on….
Of course not. Beyond Rove and even Ailes, I’d look at that old snake Murdoch before anyone.
Gingrich, Lukens, Packwood, Thurmond…is it even yet?
Henry Hyde, Livingston, Young (R-Fl),
That’s the bad part about debates like these. A waste of time if you are interested in substance. Everything political in this country seems to have turned into shallow show business.
I thought for a first debate, they were informative. The questions mainly dealt with what is perceived as the candidate’s weakness.
Perhaps it is a difference in what each person here feels is a point of interest.
Can anyone find a birther comment about Ted Cruz – anywhere (GOP/Conservative based org)? For all the standing for principle rhetoric – they sure are showing their anti-Obama colors.
Actually, I’m on record on THIS site saying that the statement “natural born” has to be clarified.
Good Lord, they are shootin’ and lootin’ in Ferguson, MO, again.
Who’s “they”, Wolve?
Today is Rick Bentley’s birthday. He would have been 50 years old.
A Moon-howlings toast to Rick Bentley. I send him a box of his favorite movies and popcorn.
@Moon-howler
Sure glad I didn’t marry a politician! 🙂
Bernie Sanders needs to spend his money on security. Once again, two women from Black Lives Matter accosted him, stole his mic, and continued to disrupt the rally.
Who do they think they are impressing? Whatever sympathy they are hoping to garner has absolutely gone the other way with me.
I believe those 2 are simply thugs and bullies.
S-t going on all night in Ferguson. Missouri.
What do the demonstrators really want?
I don’t think THEY know what they want. The demonstrators there and across the country have really worn out any sympathy many people had with them.
Ask George Soros and his Open Society Foundation, he has poured over $33 million into Ferguson ‘demonstrations’ over the past year.
Please provide proof for your allegations from reliable sources.
Was this money for rebuilding or was it to pay protesters?
I doubt very seriously if George Soros had anything to do with rioting.
His own foundations tax filing for one… but here are a few more:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/14/george-soros-funds-ferguson-protests-hopes-to-spur/?page=all
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2913625/Billionaire-George-Soros-spent-33MILLION-bankrolling-Ferguson-demonstrators-create-echo-chamber-drive-national-protests.html
Try reading the articles closely. Soros is not giving directly to groups that fan the flames of destruction in Ferguson.
I don’t care one way or the other about George Soros. He has enough money to defend himself. The titles of the articles are misleading. Foundations always have to be on guard that money isn’t used for incendiary reasons.
Shrug. Your answer was a total over simplification of Punchak’s question. The issues are far deeper than Soros’ foundations. I am not sure what the issues are but trying to sluff off the problem on some old rich white jewish liberal is absurd.
I have no problem with us talking about what is causing this movement. In fact, I think it is critical to discuss it. But blaming Soros or the Koch brothers is just partisan and accomplishes nothing.
Here are a few others….
http://www.theroot.com/articles/news/2015/01/report_george_soros_spent_33_000_000_to_bankroll_ferguson_protests.html
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/george-soros-funded-ferguson-protests/2015/01/15/id/618934/
Do you think if it weren’t for Soros, then Ferguson wouldn’t exist?
@Moon-howler
“Protestors” actually threatened to riot if he reneged on his promise to pay them.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/may/19/hired-black-lives-matter-protesters-start-cutthech/#ixzz3acmWpseK
Soros supports the disruption of US society.
Are you asking if the Ferguson riots and looting wouldn’t exist if Soros didn’t pump $33 million into ‘demonstrations’ as well as busing in THOUSANDS of professional ‘protesters’ and agitators?
Remember last year when things were really going off? The locals were all saying that it was mostly from people outside of Ferguson, who spent millions to bus in people from outside of Ferguson? George Soros.
Oh please. That is really conspiracy theory if I have ever heard it.
you are closing your eyes to an awful lot.
Actually you sound like Glenn Beck. That was not a compliment.