Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

umm, okay, but I sort of feel like Iraqi dissidents after Gulf War I when Bush 1 said we'd be there?

This is your best work.

TM

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

But this is how you look, Joffrey:



TM

Slave gives advice to Hank (start at 0:20)

[Adder]

Originally Posted by SlaveNoMore

Obama made that idiotic "clinger" comment at a lovely house owned by some very fucking rich 0.001%ers just 3 blocks (and 2 houses in) over from us in PacHeights. The types of rich people you hiss at and disdain, yet run the DNC.

What makes you think he disdains rich liberals?

[SlaveNoMore]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

Slave gives advice to Hank (start at 0:20)

Wait, my voice sounds like Kermit the Frog?

SlaveNo(and no one ever told me)More

[SlaveNoMore]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

This is your best work.

TM

Seriously, that was POTY caliber.

SlaveNo(Hank's wit - building unity)More

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by SlaveNoMore

Wait, my voice sounds like Kermit the Frog?

SlaveNo(and no one ever told me)More

You have always sounded very green. Yes.

[Icky Thump]

Jump the gun much? Sanders slips out of camel clutch.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan

Well, given that the grand jury was convened under orders of the Lieutenant Governor to indict Planned Parenthood instead, I have no problem whatsoever with this one. And the average guy doesn't try to buy fetal tissue, so I'm good with that indictment.

Egg on my face. I assumed it was two separately convened juries. How in the hell does that sort of thing even happen?

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Adder

Also, she will not get indicted because she (probably) did not do anything indictable. But carry on.

That's irrelevant in politics.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by SlaveNoMore

Does Tyrone still post around here?

Sebby? SgtClub? Lit? Any of the old Republicans?

Tyrone and half of this Board for YEARS called for Cheney to be basically jailed (and shot) for TREASON because Richard Armitage somehow mentioned Valerie Plame's name.

Hillary - against policy, procedure and the law AND against the admonition of President Obama - set up an hackable unsecured server. We have no idea what was in those 30,000 emails that were deleted (although Russia and China do), but we all now do know that she deliberately had Intel tags deleted from emails by her subordinates and illegally had intel on her server so classified that the FBI investigators couldn't even LOOK at it without clearance.

Unlike the Plame joke, Hillary literally had the names of undercover agents on a hackable, unsecured server and put all their lives at risk.

And this is not indictable?

You lived in DC a while. I assume you know a few prosecutors there. Ask them how many felonies she triggered.

SlaveNo(she's goin' down like an intern on Bill)More

The Plame thing was total bullshit. 100% political nonsense.

What Hillary did is indictable. But what's depressing isn't that she did it, or that she's since lied about it (she can't open her mouth without lying). What's depressing is the "crime" is a grotesque overreach. Clearly, Hillary did not intend to put sensitive material in the hands of enemies. She intended only to enjoy truly private correspondence which could not be searched. She should go to jail for having the electronic equivalent of secret conversations behind closed doors?

It's said the average person accidentally commits three felonies a day, and the state, by criminalizing almost everything, and eliminating proof of bad intent, has set up a scenario where anyone it wants to put behind bars can be, upon investigation, found guilty of something. For politicians, I'd say that number jumps to 10 felonies a day.

It's an irritating game of "gotcha" enabled by legislators who think the cure for every problem is another law, and prosecutors who use their offices as political assassination squads.

I'm glad Cheney skated, and I hope she skates. (But... If you want to put Cheney on trial for the Iraq War, I'm all for it. That ought to be prosecuted instead of silly shit like the Plame affair.)

[Adder]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

That's irrelevant in politics.

Sure, but it's not irrelevant as to whether she will not be the candidate because she's been indicted.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

The Plame thing was total bullshit. 100% political nonsense.

O.K.

What Hillary did is indictable.

Sure doesn't sound like it, given that the materials in question were not marked as classified at the time and appear to have first been considered "classified" as intelligence reviewed them for disclosure now.

That sounds a pretty far cry from the "knowing" standard that the prosecution would need to meet.

She intended only to enjoy truly private correspondence which could not be searched. She should go to jail for having the electronic equivalent of secret conversations behind closed doors?

And you think this is going to be politically relevant? This is a DC insider and Fox News issue only. The rest of the world is not going to care (or conclude, ala Slave, that having received the same spam as everyone else means she was hacked).

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Egg on my face. I assumed it was two separately convened juries. How in the hell does that sort of thing even happen?

I have no idea. Apparently the Planned Parenthood defense treated it like a white collar investigation, throwing everything they could to the grand jury to demonstrate compliance with pretty much law and regulation written. The attorney was at the luncheon the other day and was treated like a rock star. I'm also guessing the jury was pretty pissed off at having to watch all of those videos. The DA is a Republican who swears up and down she's anti-choice.

Somewhat relatedly, there are eight cases so far of the Zika virus in my county here in Texas. I imagine by March, the rest of the US will have a case or two, and by May (or whenever the first mosquitoes start flying) we'll be in full panic mode. Are the Republicans going to remain so committed to their anti-choice position when babies with small brains that live for at most six horrible months start being born on a regular basis here?

[Hank Chinaski]

If Bernie is not the nominee I do hope he runs third party. His fresh ideas need to be heard.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan

I have no idea. Apparently the Planned Parenthood defense treated it like a white collar investigation, throwing everything they could to the grand jury to demonstrate compliance with pretty much law and regulation written. The attorney was at the luncheon the other day and was treated like a rock star. I'm also guessing the jury was pretty pissed off at having to watch all of those videos. The DA is a Republican who swears up and down she's anti-choice.

Somewhat relatedly, there are eight cases so far of the Zika virus in my county here in Texas. I imagine by March, the rest of the US will have a case or two, and by May (or whenever the first mosquitoes start flying) we'll be in full panic mode. Are the Republicans going to remain so committed to their anti-choice position when babies with small brains that live for at most six horrible months start being born on a regular basis here?

We've got a Boston case already today. The news is reporting tonight it can spread by sexual contact as well as via mosquito