Florida State Seminoles

[Jungle Rat]

Bring in Mr. Conner

[hedge]

I wish you would lose my body weight being all proud and stuff only to be hit by a bus.

Van Nostrum would have to lose DS's body weight for the bus to even stand a chance in that scenario. But my money would still be on Van Nostrum...

[Professor Tiger]

Doc, your appearance is timely. I just drove past Tifton yesterday, on my way to Tampa from Atlanta. Yes, I still miss the Tifton Shoney’s. Long live ABAC.

I-75 between Macon and Gainesville still cracks me up. 49% of the billboards advertise “The Lion’s Den.” Another 49% advertise Jesus and opposition to abortion. The remaining 2% advertise everything else, including a place called “Machine Gun America” where you can “Shoot real machine guns!” and “Fun for the whole family!”

Truly a microcosm of the South.

[eCat]

In a nutshell, our visit to the tortured mind of a Trump hater explains everything from Saturday’s mass marches to why a Virginia restaurant owner declared No Soup for Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

Their loathing for Trump is bone-deep and all consuming. This is war and they take no prisoners.

For most marchers, border policies offer a chance to vent. They didn’t make a peep when Obama did the same thing.

If children are their main concern, they could help the 23,000 New York City kids living in shelters. Or they could have attended the funeral of Lesandro Guzman-Feliz, the innocent Bronx teen hacked to death by a Dominican gang.

Instead, they give in to Trump Derangement Syndrome, which causes them to immediately and absolutely adopt the opposite position of the president’s — facts and common sense be damned.

https://nypost.com/2018/06/30/the-left- ... s-winning/

[Professor Tiger]

All these loony leftist groups, including Antifa and BLM, totally consumed by Trump Derangement Syndrome and marching in the streets, are starting to remind me of these...

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[eCat]

Long but interesting read on New York losing its soul, mostly because of government screwing over the working class people in the city

https://harpers.org/archive/2018/07/the ... ification/

The great threat to the New York of the Sixties and Seventies—and many other cities in the Northeast and Midwest—was considered to be the flood of largely unskilled, uneducated African Americans from the South and Hispanics from the islands. “Stop the Puerto Ricans and the rural blacks from living in the city . . . reverse the role of the city. . . . It can no longer be the place of opportunity,” the racist apparatchik Roger Starr implored back in the day. “Our urban system is based on the theory of taking the peasant and turning him into an industrial worker. Now there are no industrial jobs. Why not keep him a peasant?”3

This sentiment was articulated, over and over again, by many of the would-be gentrifiers. But the “peasants” poured in just as the hopeful and the desperate had always come, though they encountered, for the first time in New York’s history, a city that no longer had many entry-level industrial jobs to offer them. The result was perverse, a New York that was home to more than a million welfare recipients and featured almost full employment for everyone else; a city where 7 million to 14 million square feet of office space—the size of the entire downtown of a metropolis such as Kansas City or Pittsburgh—was built in New York every year from 1967 to 1970, as Ric Burns and James Sanders noted in their history of the city.

In the success story that New York is considered today, the situation is just as perverse: the rents are driving people and commerce away, but some of the tallest residential towers ever built sit all but empty. The cause is once again a flood of outsiders, though this time they are not poor but among the richest people in the world. They have already proved themselves more destructive to the health of the city than the least-skilled poor, and their depredations will do incalculably more damage to New York over the decades and even the centuries ahead.

In the brutally Darwinian world of the poor, they usually got jobs, started families, became useful and productive citizens, or failed and were pushed back out of New York—back home or to another place—or ended up incarcerated or even dead. The rich, though, are with us always, and now for the first time as a purely rapacious force, consuming the city’s most valuable assets and contributing almost nothing in return. “If we could get every billionaire around the world to move here, it would be a godsend,” Bloomberg, the city’s billionaire mayor, said in a moment of typical frankness back in 2013. But these are not your grandfather’s billionaires

[eCat]

From the American Thinker on Cortez victory pretending to be a immigrant girl from the Bronx
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There perhaps has never been a time when the Democrats did a better job of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. After being well ahead in the generic congressional polls, those numbers collapsed early this year along with the Trump/Russia/Collusion narrative. Since then, leftists have been flailing around desperately searching for an issue.

The first act was stripping Second Amendment rights after the Parkland mass shooting, starring soy boy Camera Hogg; Democrats, infamous for short, childlike memories, obviously forgot that this issue might have cost Al Gore the 2000 election. And gun grabbing doesn’t poll any better today. The second act is the treatment of those invading our country (a.k.a. illegal migrants), starring a hapless little Honduran girl used as a human prop by Time magazine (never mind that her father has a good job back home as a boat captain). Now, related to this, Democrats have a new issue: abolishing the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency.

A week ago this was recognized as a fringe idea even among staunch Democrats, the fringiest fringe around, but then something happened: One Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shocked the Democrat establishment by defeating the favored 20-year incumbent, House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.), in last Tuesday’s Democrat primary in New York’s 14th district. She ran, in part, on abolishing ICE, so now this has become the “[n]ew rallying call for 2020 Democrats,” as the AP put it.

Now, I really shouldn’t say this — I mean, I really shouldn’t. I want nothing more than for the Democrats to continue marching toward their cliff, but, alas, honest commentary is my bag. And here’s reality: If you leftists think avowed socialist Cortez’s win had mainly to do with abolishing ICE, you’re putting your electoral chances on ice. Cortez won, largely, for a simple reason.

Bigotry.

She had the right profile: a young, female, Hispanic in a district 70 percent non-white — a figure no doubt even higher among its Democrat electorate — and in which the incumbent was a wizened old white fellow (Crowley is 56 and looks 66). It helped that she’s attractive and articulate, but she shamelessly played the group-identity card, too, sending a message that no one should vote for an old white male. She even retweeted the picture of an attorney who expressed the sentiment that “all white people are racist.”

The Washington Post pointed this phenomenon out, by the way, running a Wednesday article titled “The worst thing to be in many Democratic primaries? A white male candidate.” The paper writes, “Democratic voters have been picking women, racial minorities, and gay men and lesbians in races around the country at historic rates.”

[Professor Tiger]

Personally, I am quite pleased that the Democrats just nominated a 20-something self avowed socialist to be a US congressperson. I am also delighted that two of their 2020 front runners - Kamala Harris and Corey Booker - want to abolish ICE.

The 2020 election will look a lot like the 1972 election; a leftist loony vs a grownup, resulting a blowout of epic proportions.

[bluetick]

From the American Thinker on Cortez victory pretending to be a immigrant girl from the Bronx
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An article by Selwyn Duke. the same guy who, just a few years ago, talked about the “supposedly racist” apartheid regime in South Africa and its “so-called crimes” against black people. He also thinks states should secede over gay rights. The lesson, as always: There is no limit to how stupid, irrational or bigoted you can be while still being taken seriously by the right wing.

[Jungle Rat]

She played it perfect.

[eCat]

From the American Thinker on Cortez victory pretending to be a immigrant girl from the Bronx
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An article by Selwyn Duke. the same guy who, just a few years ago, talked about the “supposedly racist” apartheid regime in South Africa and its “so-called crimes” against black people. He also thinks states should secede over gay rights. The lesson, as always: There is no limit to how stupid, irrational or bigoted you can be while still being taken seriously by the right wing.

you're quoting Ed Brayton from Patheos as your critique of Selwyn and American Thinker?

regardless of past opinions, Selwyn is not wrong on this one.

[bluetick]

you're quoting Ed Brayton from Patheos as your critique of Selwyn and American Thinker?

regardless of past opinions, Selwyn is not wrong on this one.

Between the two, Brayton is the one NOT advocating states secede over gay marriage.

"Soy Boy" Camera Hogg? Something Duke appropriated from 4chan no doubt, yet he pats himself on the back for his own "honest commentary." Ocasio-Cortez is a bigot because she ""sent a message" not to vote for an old white male - yet he quotes the WaPo instead. Was it her body language that gave her "bigotry" away? What specific words of hers were the issue? Something akin to denying apartheid, or begging for a civil war to battle gay rights.

[eCat]

you're quoting Ed Brayton from Patheos as your critique of Selwyn and American Thinker?

regardless of past opinions, Selwyn is not wrong on this one.

Between the two, Brayton is the one NOT advocating states secede over gay marriage.


"Soy Boy" Camera Hogg? Something Duke appropriated from 4chan no doubt, yet he pats himself on the back for his own "honest commentary." Ocasio-Cortez is a bigot because she ""sent a message" not to vote for an old white male - yet he quotes the WaPo instead. Was it her body language that gave her "bigotry" away? What specific words of hers were the issue? Something akin to denying apartheid, or begging for a civil war to battle gay rights.

probably the part where she says she just a poor girl from the Bronx

[eCat]

In his last year as California’s governor, Jerry Brown—like his fellow Democrats—has embraced illegal aliens as part of the “resistance” to President Trump. Mr. Brown said Wednesday that the Justice Department was “basically going to war against the state of California.” The department has sued the state over three statutes designed to frustrate the enforcement of immigration laws, including one prohibiting private employers from cooperating with immigration authorities.

But in his first year as governor, Mr. Brown—like his fellow Democrats—strenuously opposed immigrants who received federal approval to come to the U.S. as refugees from their besieged homelands.

When South Vietnam and Cambodia fell to communists in April 1975, Gov. Brown, who had just succeeded Ronald Reagan, fought the arrival of hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees. In the process, Mr. Brown and other Democrats engaged in xenophobic rhetoric.

“There is something a little strange about saying, ‘Let’s bring in 500,000 more people,’ when we can’t take care of the one million out of work,” Mr. Brown said.

His point man on the issue, Mario Obledo, reflected the state’s ethnic politics. Obledo had helped found the Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund and was called the “Godfather of the Latino Movement” before joining Mr. Brown’s administration as secretary of health and welfare. Obledo created Project VIC, the Vietnamese Interagency Commission, to explore the possibility of suing the federal government to stop the exodus.

On April 23, Obledo called the State Department to ask for a meeting with Secretary Henry Kissinger within 48 hours. After following that call with a telegram, Obledo told reporters he would be ready to go to Guam, a transit point, “to insure that no refugees are brought into the state until some definitive relocation plans are announced by the federal government.”

Obledo and Mr. Brown even tried to prevent aircraft filled with refugees from landing at Travis Air Force Base near San Francisco. In another telegram, Obledo instructed Col. James T. Rock, the base commander, to “take no action of any kind with regard to Vietnamese refugees in California . . . until you personally hear from Secretary of State Kissinger. ” Mr. Brown said that unless Mr. Kissinger’s office supplied help—presumably financial—“I’ll direct my effort toward looking out for the interests of the people of this state.”

[Professor Tiger]

“You [LaBron James] should have held out for more money to pay for the Moonbeam Weather Tax.” - Devin Nunez, Peace Be Upon Him.

[Dr. Nostron]

Doc, your appearance is timely. I just drove past Tifton yesterday, on my way to Tampa from Atlanta. Yes, I still miss the Tifton Shoney’s. Long live ABAC.

I-75 between Macon and Gainesville still cracks me up. 49% of the billboards advertise “The Lion’s Den.” Another 49% advertise Jesus and opposition to abortion. The remaining 2% advertise everything else, including a place called “Machine Gun America” where you can “Shoot real machine guns!” and “Fun for the whole family!”

Truly a microcosm of the South.

The Shoneys was at least replaced by a Buffalo Wild Wings - their absence of a chocolate fudge cake is relayed to mgmt every time I am there.

Billboard watching is a favorite pasttime of mine

[Professor Tiger]

Glad that the tragic passing of the Shoney's left you some succor in the form of Asian zing and Carribean jerk. Come to think of it, I think those are also options at the Lion's Den.

I never realized that South GA peanut farmers were so horny.

[hedge]

So you got gang raped by some South GA peanut farmers? Cool...

[Professor Tiger]

It's always an honor to star in your homoerotic fantasies, hedge.

DS, if you are out there somewhere, I saw this and instantly thought of you (and to some extent, aTm):

https://me.me/i/fayetteville-police-rel ... k-23041148

Happy Fourth to all.

[hedge]

"Long but interesting read on New York losing its soul, mostly because of government screwing over the working class people in the city

https://harpers.org/archive/2018/07/the ... ification/"

I've been reading this article over the past few days, just came across this line: "New York University has torn down much of the historic West Village, including most of what was the landmark Provincetown Playhouse and a home that Edgar Allan Poe once lived in. (NYU partially re-created the facade of the Poe house. Quoth the raven: Fuck you.)"