The Goat Pen

that was weak because you're exactly the type of person that would go research 2 years worth of posts to prove a point

If the Dems take control there will be so many investigations that it will be only a matter of time. This is why Trump has defaulted on his Presidential duties to spend these past few weeks on the trail. He knows the jig could be up if the Pubs lose control.

If the Dem’s take the House, they will indeed launch a dozen new investigations into Trump, including his role in the missing Malaysian airliner, his secret membership in the Manhattan chapter of the KKK, and his hair. And they will merely make fools of themselves, just like they did in the Kavanaugh hearings, which only succeeded in boosting Trump’s popularity and making the Senate redder. Just in time for 2020.

Tick, when you quote, “Go get your shine box tommy,” remember what happened to the guy who said it - Bily Batts.

Batts was a made guy. Tommy shoulda remembered that.

Tommy got his later. “Among the Italians it was greaseball shit. They even shot Tommy in the face so that his mother couldn’t even give him an open coffin at his funeral.”

We are both mobster movie enthusiasts. That’s one of the things I like about you.

Oh, I almost forgot,

hedge wrote: I wish somebody would shoot you in the face...etc

Even if the dems take the House, esp. if it's by a slim margin, the stock markets should continue to do well. Speculators will respond favorably to gridlock in DC. Might be a reaction downtick for a few days but then I would expect it to continue on an upward path...

I'm sure there is some "but Donald Trump..." response to this but on SNL, Pete Davidson made fun of a GOP congressman who lost his eye to an IED in Afghanistan.

I'm not sure how this shows you're a better person than the people in power.

economy continues trending and stocks don't fall drastically gridlock might be a good thing

throw in the dems soiling themselves with impeachment proceedings the next two years that go nowhere

throw in polosi as speaker, Schiff as inteliigence committee head and Maxine waters as finance head and we can all look forward to gridlock the next two years

the sad thing is all the BS of our intelligence services setting up poppadoupolous and page to try to get to trump using tic's hero halper --will be put on the back burner not to see the light of day. the precedent of a sitting political party using intelligence services to try to influence or even change and election is now set.

the sad thing is all the BS of our intelligence services setting up poppadoupolous and page to try to get to trump using tic's hero halper --will be put on the back burner not to see the light of day. the precedent of a sitting political party using intelligence services to try to influence or even change and election is now set.

Trey Gowdy for Attorney General. Like, starting day after tomorrow. He would get to the bottom of all that crap from the inside of that Swamp Beast, without the House. Send Mr. Magoo back to Alabama so that he can focus exclusively on his true passion - doing Civil War reenactments.

all I've seen from Trey Gowdy is all hat and no cattle. Guy is the biggest shit talker, but doesn't take action against anyone.

During "Weekend Update," Davidson described Crenshaw, a Republican, as "kind of cool."

"You may be surprised to hear that he's a congressional candidate from Texas and not a hitman in a porno movie," he said. "I'm sorry. I know he lost his eye in war or whatever."

Crenshaw, a former Navy SEAL who wears an eye patch having lost an eye to an IED blast in Afghanistan.

"I try hard not to offend; I try harder not to be offended," Crenshaw tweeted about Davidson's segment. He also said "SNL" should try to be more sensitive to veterans.
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The SNL "joke(?)" was pretty stupid, but it hardly ranks with other notable current political events - some mentioned here, most not. To wit:

RWNJ mails out 13 pipe bombs to dem pols and personalities
RWNJ kills 2 at Krogers ("Whites don't kill whites.")
RWNJs botch attempt to defame Mueller as sex predator
RWNJ kills 11, wounds 7 at Pittsburgh synagogue
RWNJ kills 2, wounds 5 at FL yoga center

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ ... li=BBnb7Kz

Fox News showing some backbone.

It actually shows that it doesn’t.

fwiw
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Weeks after Justice Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation -- and the sexual assault allegations against him -- captured the country's attention, the Senate Judiciary Committee has released a massive report on those accusations that's largely flown under the radar in the run-up to the midterms.

But the 414-page document, authored by the Republican majority and released over the weekend, contains a number of key revelations.

Among them: the report summarizes a statement from a man who believes he may have been involved in an encounter with Christine Blasey Ford around the time of her claim of sexual misconduct against Kavanaugh. Some of this emerged during the Supreme Court confirmation process, but the report provides more details.

Ford was the key witness against Kavanaugh. In detail, she said Kavanaugh tried to remove her clothing during a high school party, but had trouble because she was wearing a bathing suit underneath them. She said she ran off when Kavanaugh friend Mark Judge jumped on top of them and they fell off the bed. Kavanaugh denied the accusation and, on Oct. 6, the Senate confirmed him to the Supreme Court.

The man who claims he may have had the encounter with Ford was one of 40 people committee investigators interviewed as part of its probe into the sexual allegations against Kavanaugh, which was done alongside the FBI background check that was compiled in a matter of days.


Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, in releasing the report, said there “was no credible evidence to support the allegations against” Kavanaugh.

Ford testified she was 100 percent positive Kavanaugh assaulted her, rejecting the notion of a case of mistaken identity.

But the report gave details from the purported witness claiming exactly that scenario. The man told the investigators that when he was a 19-year-old college student, he had visited Washington over spring break and kissed a girl he believes was Kavanaugh’s accuser.

“He said that the kiss happened in the bedroom of a house which was about a 15-to-20 minute walk from the Van Ness Metro, that Dr. Ford was wearing a swimsuit under her clothing, and that the kissing ended when a friend jumped on them as a joke,” the report said.

The Van Ness Metro is in Northwest D.C. His name was redacted in the report but investigators interviewed him the day before Ford testified Sept 27.

The report also summarizes statements from another man who said that after graduating high school in Hampton, Virginia, in 1982 he made several trips to D.C. that summer.

During one trip, he attended a house party where he kissed and made out with a woman he met who he believes could have been Ford, the report says.

The man “said that based on old photographs of Justice Kavanaugh he has seen on the news, he believes the two of them share a similar appearance,” the report says. His name was also redacted.

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I wonder if this will matter to those people wearing I believe Ford buttons? naahhh...

I'm not sure if this is in line with my libertarian beliefs or not but if I were elected, one of my top priorities would be to make it illegal for states to compete with other states for business by creating tax relief and subsidies at the taxpayer expense in exchange for jobs, and secondly I'd demand that no tax dollars pay for any pro sports team venues. Any professional sports team that attempts to blackmail a community by asking for taxpayers to fund a stadium or other facilities would be disbanded.

This has got to stop

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/11 ... xconn-scam

But what if Rupp arena needs a facelift?

Professor Tiger wrote:But what if Rupp arena needs a facelift?

raise ticket prices, but that is college, not professional (well not legitimately professional anyways)

"I'm not sure if this is in line with my libertarian beliefs or not but..."

I'm pretty sure federal government dictating to states what they can and can't do in attracting business is anti-libertarian.

sardis wrote:"I'm not sure if this is in line with my libertarian beliefs or not but..."

I'm pretty sure federal government dictating to states what they can and can't do in attracting business is anti-libertarian.

yep, I figured that much, but its also anti libertarian to be fiscally irresponsible to the extent that you're running in the red as a government in support of a private enterprise - and if states can't be fiscally responsible, then I'm all for the federal government to mandate it. The problem with tax relief to attract business is that everyone is for it - libertarians and republicans because they don't want to address that it guts their revenue tax base. Instead they focus on the increases size of the tax base of taxpayers paying into the system

There is nothing libertarian about asking the taypayers to foot the bill to cover the obligations of a business...well, I should say not asking, but demanding