March supposedly comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. If today was any indication, the lion part is true.
This March is filled with events: Super Tuesday, Daylight Saving Time, St. Patrick’s Day, the Vernal Equinox, Passover, and Easter to name just a few of the most notable.
Oh I left off a biggie–House of Cards returns on March 4. Time for a little binge watching. I just can’t wait. HoC’s political intrigue really is a blessing at this point in time.
I am looking forward to a little warmer weather. I need some deck time before the mosquitoes show up.
Both of the Reagan children, Patti Davis and Ron Reagan Jr. gave super eulogies to their parents–very real. I think Patti did an artist’s job. Ron was just himself.
I used to live on “Eye” Street in Foggy Bottom a long time ago.
Is it fixed for you…the “i” situation…
It’s OK now. Do we owe thanks to “DogBreath”?
Yes you do, Wolve. I will pass the message on.
ACC championship game is hysterically exciting.
Also, in the audience, Ralph Sampson. He is now 55 years old. Also, Terry Holland. Terry is 73 years old and sure doesn’t look it. Ralph looks old. I guess that is what the NBA does to you. Also being 7’4″ tall is exhausting.
Not sure who is going to win this one: UVA or UNC. Right now, UNC is ahead.
Tony Bennett is still delightfully good looking.
Jihadis strike again. Beach hotels at Grand Bassam on the Gulf of Guinea in Ivory Coast. 16 dead (14 civilians, including 4 Europeans; 2 Ivorian soldiers). Probably the same goon organization which hit major hotels in Bamako and Ouagadougou. Maybe as many as six of the cowardly bastards. They just raked the beaches at random with automatic weapons..
Bird in hand is better than 2 in the bush.
If Obama nominee is ignored and gets a recess appointment, expect Clinton to nominate a more liberal replacement. All bets are off on who Trump would nominate if elected. This strategy seems predicated on the gamble that an establishment white knight gets the R nomination and wins the election. That’s a extreme long shot chance at a Scalia clone as replacement. Better for Republicans to get a relatively old Kennedy clone than a really young Ginsburg clone.
I don’t think that Hillary would upstage Obama. I could be wrong but I would be very surprised if she did that.
There’s nothing at all wrong with a fair judge.
In my opinion, Katich is the only person left who is worthy to carry the GOP banner.
Talk about being left with fruits and nuts.
Good for Kasich for sticking with it. I might have to donate to his campaign.
Bernie and Hillary. Which one is the fruit and which one is the nut?
I was speaking of Trump and Cruz. I don’t know which is which. I just know they aren’t people I want leading my country.
Wolve, I can’t believe you would approve of either of those rude people being president.
Well, Moon, I can’t believe you would support a candidate for POTUS who is an obvious liar and is under FBI investigation for violation of national security laws. Or, as an alternative, an old retrograde hippy who still thinks socialism works. The Democrat roster is mighty thin this season. And the potential backups are whom? Mr. Joe Veep Gaffe and a left wing white women who got into Harvard by claiming she was an Native American? Now, that is what I call thin!
Vive la revolution!
You actually don’t know who I am supporting now the primary is over, do you? I don’t believe I have said.
Rest assured, whoever I support, will have decent manners and won’t be a thug.
Liar and old renegade hippy? Too funny. I wonder what they would think about you?
So, there was this anti-Trump protester who thought it would be a smart idea to go into the Trump campaign event in Tucson wearing a white KKK hood over his head. Well, it looks like some Black Trump supporter took umbrage at that costume and slugged the protester.
Meanwhile , more of the dingbats are parading in New York, refusing to heed police directions, and yelling “F**k the pigs!” and similar unpleasant utterances.
That should make liberals so darned proud.
Are you proud of the thugs beating them up? You know, regardless of how tasteless and stupid someone is being, you don’t have the right to kick them like dogs and punch them in the face. We are a nation of laws still, aren’t we?
You sound like you think this was a good idea.
I think both liberals, moderates and conservatives are embarrassed over this behavior, at least the ones I have talked to.
I intend to vote for the recitivist felon with good public manners. That is important. Now, it has been well established that her public and private personna are not in sync, but she believes that she should be President regardless of experience or success and that is enough. That leaves the Bernie, who you have to admit is committed having spent his honeymoon in soviet Russia and has attracted a large following by simply putting the word democrat in front of totalitarian socialist. Brilliant. He really is a classic facist encouraging his minions to disrupt our political process. Now the question is — are they less insulting to the mind than one who calls out the insanity of giving american social and citizenship benefits to those engaged in illegal activity. I ask you, if I steal a car and keep it hidden for a couple of years with no speeding tickets can I then keep it- is it now mine? And, if I cannot keep it am I the victim? Appears so.
Blue, I hope you know what you are talking about. No one else does.
Are you saying people who travel to Russia are communists? I seriously MUST speak to my former roommate and her aunt!
So you finally admitted to being a Trump-ite. I actually would not have admitted it.
@MoonHowler
“So you finally admitted to being a Trump-ite.”
Hmm, a choice between the lessor of two serious and dangerous evils on your side of the ledger and a self righteous snob on the other. Let me think about it.
Who is the self-righteous snob? That doesn’t fit Trump or Cruz. I don’t think Kasich is a snob.
Two year old shoots self with mothers gun – https://www.yahoo.com/news/two-old-us-boy-shoots-self-mothers-gun-181517321.html
Training Training Training – when are people going to learn to not leave a gun accessible to youngsters. Shame.
And then there is this question of who is doing the instigating of all the confrontations. Is it Trump through his exercise of free speech in a political campaign or is it the leftists who believe the proper response is to hang and decapitate effigies of a candidate, invade and try to disrupt his campaign events, insult his supporters, wear a KKK hood in front of a Black man, and call the cops “pigs” again? Where are the efforts by Bernie and Hillary or any other Dem to put a stop to the confrontations? Keep it up and the reactions will come, just like with that Black guy in Tucson. That is the way of human nature The bear will only stand for being baited for so long. You can take that to the bank from an old warhorse who has seen a lot of uprisings, sometimes from the side of those rising up, sometimes from the side of those trying to put it down, and sometimes just being caught in the middle.
It won’t be a “thug.” Well, that seems to eliminate Hillary.
Me an “old renegade hippy”?! That IS funny. During most of that era, I was in military uniform and, later, one of the increasing few fellows on campus who wore a coat and tie. Most of my campus contemporaries looked like they had dressed themselves out of the throw away bin behind the Good Will store. They couldn’t speak a sentence without an F bomb in it and thought Fidel Castro was God’s gift to democracy…or a gift of the mother goddess or some such creature. But I certainly did enjoy the bra burning time. That was a hoot. Or is that “hooter”…..? In any case, there was a lot of bounce to the ounce on campus around then.
There certainly is a sense of oddness about Hillary Clinton. If your dentist, your doctor, your car mechanic, your grocer, your druggist, your computer geek, or your whatever lied to you about something important, you would likely be upset and take some action to separate yourself and your business from the untruthful one. But liberals just cut Hillary a break, even though she lies to them just like she lies to everyone else. A Frank Luntz combined Repub-Dem focus group was asked recently about Hillary’s trustworthiness. As one member of the group exclaimed: Hillary even lies about lying. I’ve seen the videos. She does. And she is very bad at it, I must say.
Sad.
Well, I’ll be! Can you believe? But it must be so.
Bill Clinton in a very recent Hillary campaign speech spoke of the Obama presidency as “the awful legacy of the last eight years.”
@Wolve
You beat me to it.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/bill-clinton-slams-barack-obamas-awful-legacy/article/2586419
He’s a master in quietly slipping in the knife and the lies, all with a minimum of speaking.
“Now if you don’t believe we can all grow together again, if you don’t believe we’re ever going to grow again, if you believe it’s more important to re-litigate the past, there may be many reasons that you don’t want to support her,” Clinton told a Spokane, Wash., audience.
“But if you believe we can all rise together, if you believe we’ve finally come to the point where we can put the awful legacy of the last eight years behind us and the seven years before that where we were practicing trickle-down economics with no regulation in Washington, which is what caused the crash, then you should vote for her,” he added.
“if you believe it’s more important to re-litigate the past,” I wonder which scandal and criminal investigation he’s talking about.
“the awful legacy of the last eight years” Did he forget that she was an instrumental part of the last eight years?
“the seven years before that where we were practicing trickle-down economics with no regulation in Washington” And that the Democrats were part of the “no regulation” that caused the crashed……
“which is what caused the crash” and she was a Senator at the time, protecting Frank and Dodd’s Fannie Mae adventures and that is what caused the crash. Bush was trying to stop it. Also….the “trickle down economics” was still ongoing during the Clinton boom. Seemed to be working. GWB actually reduced Reagan’s legacy and Obama kept most of Bush’s economic policy but just added other regulatory crap to it.
there is an effort to have the GOP Convention be an open carry convention. This could be interesting (and I think a poor decision if it happens).
It will be the wild west.
I took the “awful legacy of the last 8 years” comment from Wild Bill to refer to the mindless obstructionism that set in pretty much on Day 1 from the Republicans in Congress. Did anyone take it to mean anything else? I think his point is that Hillary won’t encounter that degree of hostility (apparently he thinks her being a woman won’t be held against her to the same degree that whatever was being held against Obama was held against him. Alternatively, he may think that she’ll schmooze and cajole her way out of it). I’m not so sure. I think the habits of obstruction are now deeply embedded and won’t recede until we really collapse.
Spoiler alert. If you believe that Police are never racist in their treatment of black people and always professional and never drunk and disorderly or unjustly perform their jobs, or that BLM have no basis for complaining about mis-treatment by police, you definitely should not read this:
Glen Grays, a postal worker in Brooklyn, had his delivery route cut short on St. Patrick’s Day when he was handcuffed by four plainclothes police officers and placed in an unmarked car.
Cellphone video filmed by a bystander shows Grays in his postal service uniform, holding a package, when the officers approach him. The video doesn’t show what led up to the encounter.
The footage was released this week by Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams, who said Grays had been “carrying out his normal duties” as a mail carrier when he got out of his truck and “a vehicle passed by him, almost striking him.”
“He made comments to the vehicle, as any New Yorker would,” Adams said at a news conference Wednesday. “The occupants of the vehicle stopped, backed up when he was crossing the street delivering the package.”
Those occupants were the four plainclothes officers who followed Grays to his delivery stop, according to Adams. The video shows the officers tell Gray to “stop resisting.” They then take him away in handcuffs, leaving his mail truck unattended.
Yelling at the unmarked car about driving recklessly “is the only action that Glen did that day that caused those plainclothes officers to stop their vehicle and to show who’s the biggest and the baddest, and place handcuffs on an on-duty postal employee who is delivering the U.S. mail,” Adams said. “If they would do that to Glen, in his postal uniform, they would do it to any other person of color in this community.”
Asked about the incident, the New York Police Department said only that “the matter is under internal review.”
Mayor Bill de Blasio “will be in close touch” with New York Police Commissioner Bill Bratton “about this incident’s investigation and findings,” Monica Klein, the mayor’s deputy press secretary, said in a statement.
“We expect all members of NYPD to act professionally and respectfully,” Klein said.
Grays, who said he was issued a summons for disorderly conduct, is engaged to a New York police officer he met while on his delivery route, the New York Times reported.
“I don’t hate cops,” Grays told the newspaper. Pointing to his fiancee, he said: “I’m marrying one.”
Adams said the incident has “traumatized” Grays, who has never been arrested or received a summons from police before.
Adams said that Grays did nothing wrong in the video, adding: “It’s hard not the believe that the only reason Glen was handcuffed is because [of] the color of his skin.”
Grays is African American.
The police department in New York has come under fire in the past for policies that critics said disproportionately targeted people of color.
Fatal encounters with New York City police have brought additional scrutiny to the department: In 2014, an unarmed black man, Eric Garner, died after he was taken to the ground by officers and put in what appeared to be a chokehold. The incident was caught on tape and ignited protests across the country, with Garner’s last words, “I can’t breathe,” becoming a rallying cry.
That same year, a rookie officer fatally shot Akai Gurley, an unarmed black man, in the stairwell of a Brooklyn housing project. The officer, Peter Liang, was convicted of manslaughter and fired from the department.
In 1999, an unarmed African immigrant, Amadou Diallo, was gunned down by four New York City police officers in front of his apartment building, killed in a hail of 41 bullets.
Sonya Sapp, the mother of Glen Grays, said this week that she cried when she watched the video of her son’s arrest. He is the eldest of her six sons.
“I worry about all my boys, every minute, every second of every day,” Sapp said at a news conference Wednesday.
The video begins by showing plainclothes officers approaching Grays, who is holding a package. Not all of the words they exchange are clear.
“You want my ID? My ID is right there inside of the truck,” Grays tells the officers, pointing to the vehicle.
The officers tell him to get his ID. Grays is heard telling them he is delivering his postal route. Two officers physically pull him away from the door. The package, having fallen to the ground, is kicked away by an officer.
Grays is told to put his hands behind his back.
“Stop resisting,” officers tell him.
“He almost hit me,” Grays says. “I’m not resisting.”
“Put [your hands] behind your back, or you’re going to get f—— hurt,” one officer tells him.
Four officers surround Grays, who repeats, frustrated: “I’m not resisting.”
“Get off of me,” he says.
The four plainclothes officers eventually lead Grays, handcuffed, to their unmarked black car.
An officer frisks him and puts him in the car.
Bystanders yell at the officers throughout the encounter. Some recognize Grays and call out to him by name. The video ends there.
Adams, the borough president, said that after the police vehicle drove away, it rear-ended another car and that Grays, who wasn’t placed in a seatbelt, was injured in the crash.
From the New York Times:
The driver, who had turned around to taunt him, hit the vehicle in front of them, Mr. Grays said, causing him to bang his shoulder against the front seat. Mr. Grays was then taken to the 71st Precinct station, where he was issued a summons for disorderly conduct that will require him to appear in court. He was then released.
Adams denounced the actions of the officers, saying he was deeply troubled by the treatment of a federal employee and that the “major steps” taken by de Blasio and Bratton to reform police practices haven’t gotten “down to the street.”
“This could have been another Eric Garner situation if Glen had not responded as calmly as he did,” Adams said.
Ed, I don’t think anyone believes cops are all perfect. Yes, some are racist, some are on the take, and some do other bad things. However, I don’t assume that is their character. I think most cops are decent human beings, just not perfect.
…but police are rarely convicted or even punished which is by my measurement means that everything they do is considered acceptable and “perfect”. Also anyone who complains about police behavior is labeled “anti-cop” and pro-police voices threaten that chaos will ensue if society challenges the perfection and authoritarianism of police . That’s evidence that society tolerate this kind of behavior and the fact that police do not police their own encourages criminality under color of law.
I think you are broad brushing way too much.
Ever read Serpico?
I am not sure police should ever “police” their own ranks any more than the military should police its own ranks. There needs to be some independent policing of ranks.
I have heard nothing about civilization as we know it diminishing.
Whoa, Nellie. Bernie absolutely crushed Hillary in the Dem caucuses in Alaska, Washington, and Hawaii. And I mean crushed. Looks like Hillary is not as beloved as she thinks she is. Even the birds are coming to Bernie’s campaign events.
And, after calling Obama out on the “awful legacy” of the last eight years in one of the few sensible statements to come out of the Clinton campaign, Bill disappeared. Maybe the lamp hit him this time.
What’s the reference to Bill “calling Obama out”? I missed that entirely.
Bill Clinton was pretty aggressive in his opposition to Obama in 2008, but I hadn’t seen anything lately on that score. I did see his “Awful legacy” comment in relation to Congressional obstructionism. But attacking Obama now doesn’t make much sense, does it, at least from the Clinton camp.
It really doesn’t, especially since Bill Clinton isn’t running against Obama.
Might I suggest that this “legacy” statement slip could be one of the reasons why Bill suddenly disappeared? That, and some media observations lately that he has not been looking or acting as if he is in the best of health when on stage.
For a senior citizen, that Bernie Sanders is some fighter, isn’t he? He’s sticking in there real well and is always on the move. Up in Wisconsin already, I hear..
What was the “slip”, Wolve? I don’t think the Hillary people would “disappear” Bill for attacking Rs in Congress. If there were some new bimbo problems, maybe, but, if that’s the case, they’ve kept the lid on it pretty well so far.
Oh, Silly One, Bill’s comments were taken as a stab at the last eight years — that being precisely two consecutive presidential terms. He then added a stab at the previous POTUS. Now, everybody here with even a smattering of education should know that the last eight years did not feature Republican control of both houses of Congress. Or have we forgotten how ObamaCare was passed?
Incidentally, Chelsea is out there now talking about how the Hill will use executive authority to correct the problems of excessively high costs for ACA policy holders — which of course can be taken to say that Obama/Pelosi/Reid screwed the thing up and hurt those who couldn’t afford to be hurt. Therefore, they should vote for Mama Clinton, who will apply the ointment and bandages.
BTW, politics aside, I was serious about Bill Clinton’s health. I watched a video in which he stood behind Hillary on the stage while she was making a campaign speech. The look in his eyes and the expression on the face were kind of disturbing. It could have been alcohol and it could have been prescription drugs and it could have been lack of sleep; but the eyes and the entire expression, including the mouth, reminded me joltingly of my own late father’s look as he was being taken down by Alzheimer’s Disease. A very haunting reminder of when my own Dad no longer knew who I was.
Just sayin…… and sincerely hoping there is nothing there to worry about.
I hope it’s exhaustion. I needs to start eating meat again. Being a vegetarian is giving him bags under his eyes.
Your theory doesn’t make much sense, does it, Wolve? I think it obvious that Clinton was referring to the madness of McConnell’s “Job One” obstructionism. If those comments “were taken” by anyone as an attack on Obama’s presidency, I would say they are either extremely out of touch with events, or that it was the product of fevered anti-Obama antipathy of the sort that Clinton was criticizing.
@Scout
Now, how could I possibly disagree with your never ending and all powerful wisdom, O Mighty God of the Egosphere? However, if I might slither at thy feet and be allowed one simple interrogative: Gaffe?
Wolve: Of course it was a “gaffe” in the sense that if he had phrased it differently, it wouldn’t have allowed for silly mischaracterizations devoid of context. I’m sure Bill would have phrased it differently if he had paused for a moment to think that there were people either mischievous enough or uninformed enough to interpret it as an attack on the current Administration. But, my point is that it is not in Hillary’s interests, or Bill’s, to attack this Administration – they have to build on the massive support the incumbent has in the circles that constitute the Democratic base, and then add some to it. They’re going to be very selective and surgical about the issues on which they put distance between themselves and Barak Obama (see, e.g., TPP).
If Bill Clinton Gaffes, its real. If Ted Cruz gaffes, then its …well…the heat of politics. Now I get it.
Good. You are learning, blogmistress.
Here’s another one for you. Hillary is running a TV ad which says that Trump is not a “real New Yorker.”
Well, Huma did say in one of her emails that Hillary gets confused.
In other words, you are very biased. I have known that for a long time.
Heh, heh….And you, oh esteemed blogmistress, are what exactly when it comes to “sacred cows”? A Hindu?
I am very biased about certain things. I would say that I don’t broad brush nearly as much as you do.
I don’t despise all Republicans, for example.
Back to reality. Just heard a news snippet on radio that a Virginia state trooper has been shot at the Richmond bus station and is reportedly in critical condition.
News reports now coming out that the Virginia State Trooper has died. Shooting suspect is dead.
I put up a post about him. What do we know about the shooting suspect? Nut case or criminal?
Can’t be helped, I’d say. The liberals in this country are so very broadbrushable — like automatons fed the same script.
Well, you do know that it is offensive.
@MoonHowler
I just read the very lengthy Vanity Fair article about Al Sharpton. Rev. Al had kind words for Bernie Sanders, stating that Sanders has served well by forcing Hillary Clinton to the left.
In other words, Rev. Al is saying that Bernie and Hillary will soon be together in liberal broadbrush territory, if they aren’t there already. Sort of like an old melody: “Bernie and Hillary are lefties….”
I expect that Hillary will move back to a more central position. Finally, who listens to Al Sharpton?
I don’t dislike Bernie. I especially like his wife.