The Goat Pen

The homos were kicked out of the caravan and took a train instead. They are now climbing the fence in San Diego county.

I've never heard of London Lamar until just now, and certainly haven't seen any mention of her or her remarks on any local news station the past few days.

As for Memphis, racism is alive and well, and goes both ways...

As for Memphis, racism is alive and well, and goes both ways...

No no no...

It is impossible for black people to be racist. They can be something called, "racialist," which means they have negative attitudes about white white people, but in their case, it isn't bad at all, because black people are allowed to be that way. Understand?

in sharp contrast to Ms. Lamar, I have seen more than enough of Cindy Hyde-Smith's dumb ass and her dumber remarks on our local news the past few days...

Black folk racist?

That would cost the msm billions...never gonna happen.

Next thing you know, black people will start using the N word on each other.

I answer the door with a gun all of the time.

That's because you're afraid of people stealing your food.

Tomorrow is day 666 of Trump's presidency...

I hope his head explodes

hedge wrote:Tomorrow is day 666 of Trump's presidency...

And 717 days until the next POTUS election. Trump isn't even halfway through his first term yet.

heh heh

A neutered Trump has 717 more days of golf and klan rallies? Meh...we'll see.

eCat wrote:I don't think you can have it both ways.

I don't think you can fully support the second amendment but fight mental health laws designed to keep guns out of the hands of unstable people

That said, there has to be a better way than this

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Police officers in Anne Arundel County, Maryland arrived at a man’s home to confiscate his guns under the state’s Red Flag law. When he answered the door holding a gun, a fight ensued and they shot him dead.

For months, we have been warning you about the so-called “red flag” bills that are being passed in states around the country. These laws allow family members, friends, and even complete strangers to turn gun owners into police to have their firearms confiscated. It is then up to the gun owner to prove that he or she deserves the right to keep and bear arms. It completely turns the justice system on its head. Under these laws, gun owners are presumed guilty until proven innocent.

On Monday morning, police officers in Anne Arundel County, Maryland showed up confiscate 60-year-old Gary J Willis’ guns. A family member had called police and asked them to suspend Gary Willis’ gun rights, and the local police department was more than happy to oblige.

When the pounding on the door began at 5:17 am, Gary showed up to his door holding a firearm. When he saw it was police, he put the gun down to talk to them. But then, the officers informed him they were there to confiscate all of his weapons.

Imagine how you would feel. You wake up out of a sound sleep to pounding on your door. You grab a gun in case it is a criminal, but it turns out that the police are there to confiscate your guns without even accusing you of committing a crime…

Gary Willis refused to comply with the confiscation order. That is when the fight broke out. During the struggle, one of the weapons discharged. Police, fearing for their lives, opened fire on Gary Willis, killing the 60-year-old man in his own home.

Gary Willis was not charged or even accused of committing a crime. All of this happened because one extended family member told police she was worried that he was dangerous. No evidence, no proof… just one person’s word. And now, an innocent man is dead.

This is why you can't take guns away. Because cops have itchy trigger fingers. Fix that first. It kills more than the mass shootings that get liberals up in arms anyway.

bluetick wrote:A neutered Trump has 717 more days of golf and klan rallies? Meh...we'll see.

He's already got the economy booming after 8 years of doldrums, unemployment at record low levels (including that of blacks and Latinos), GDP growing, wages up, manufacturing jobs coming back, silly regulations trashed, taxes cut, war on the coal industry stopped, ANWAR being drilled, Keystone pipeline being built, fracking being unleashed, dependence on Middle Eastern oil at an all-time low, fraudulent Paris Climate Accords scrapped, NAFTA replaced, TPP canned, war on guns stopped, war on Christian bakers/florists/nuns ended, federal bathroom LGBTIGWZN regulations abolished, Obamacare individual mandate nullified, the MSM being given the middle finger daily right to their faces, ICE not being abolished, illegal aliens being called the illegal aliens that they are, Islamic terrorists being called the Islamic terrorists that they are, AGW being called the hoax that it is, Kim Jong Un dangerous missile launches and nuke tests halted, ISIS nearly annihilated, the Russians severely sanctioned, Europeans finally paying their NATO dues, Iranian Nuke Deal nuked, two new conservative SCOTUS judges seated (with a good chance for more soon), new conservative judges seated throughout the federal judiciary, Mueller's Russian Collusion witch hunt debunked, the criminality of the leaders of the DOJ/FBI/IC exposed, generally causing liberals' heads to explode on a daily basis...

Not bad for 666 days. Think of what more he can do in the next 717 (and maybe 2,177) days?

He appointed Gorsuch, who has the appearance of being another Roberts (thank God). Kavanaugh will do his bidding, so score one for Donnie. The corporate/1percenter tax giveaway is now seen for what it is. His EOs haven't done squat. His revolving-door cabinet has been rife with corruption and incompetence. His WH leaks like a sieve. He buddies up to Putin and tried to quash sanctions. The Helsinki disaster. He buddied up to Kim and got played like a chump. His Saudi Crown Prince is a confirmed murderer.
The caravan con. His Paris WWI commemoration trip was a disaster, where Macron busted his 'nationalism'. The cemetary blow-offs, the sulking. The Acosta decision. Bizarre tweets. Inspiring rwnjs to violence. Hate crimes up 17%.

Access Hollywood, the bimbos, the payoffs with campaign funds, the tapes. Rob Porter. Misogynist tweets. Shithole countries. Canada hate. Mexico hate. Nato denunciations.
TPP pullout angst. Tariff debacles. Burgeoning deficit. SS/Medicare warnings. Recession warnings. Whiffed on trumpcare. Whiffed on the wall. Gallup 38%. Big blue House.

The Russia probe. Unprecedented - the key players indicted, and all have flipped. His lawyers, past and present, reject testimony under oath -"over our dead body". The hidden taxes. The early denials about contacts. The Tower meeting, dad giving explanation order to son. Comey's firing over 'the Rusher thing'. The hectoring of Sessions and Rosenstein. The illegal appointment of Whitaker.

4200 lies since inauguration. Would that suggest 8500-9k by January 2021? Day-yum..

its funny to me that many politicians fully support Jim Acosta getting his press pass back under the guise of freedom of the press, freedom of speech,

but at the same time they are saying we can't trust facebook, twitter, whatever to regulate themselves to control hate speech

what is hate speech? I thought the whole reason freedom of speech existed was to support the idea of hate speech.

Voltaire's famous line "I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write." led to Patrick Henry giving his slight different take 'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" which I thought was the bedrock of this constitution.

I don't think for a minute Facebook would create policies that support my viewpoint however Facebook is its own thing. Its not a utility, its not a public meeting house or government entityt - its a corporation that has determined its best course of revenue is to allow certain types of speech while marginalizing others. The free market should utlimately determine whether that approach works for them or not.

Silence!

Tick, you forgot to include the words "collusion" and "emoluments." (I'm not exactly sure what "emoluments" are, but they sound really bad).

Now I'm beginning to understand why politicians have their knives out about "regulating" free speech on social media.

its because they found out facebook is just interested in making money

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But those tensions burst into open warfare this past week after revelations that Facebook executives had withheld evidence of Russian activity on the platform for far longer than previously disclosed, while employing a Republican-linked opposition research firm to discredit critics and billionaire George Soros, a major Democratic Party patron.

Democrats now face a painful reckoning with longtime friends in the tech industry, relationships girded by mutual interest in issues like immigration and cemented with millions of dollars in campaign contributions.

The news, reported in a New York Times investigation, elicited fury from Democrats, who demanded a Justice Department investigation into Facebook’s lobbying campaign, as well as new regulations that would cut to the core of Facebook and Google’s data-hungry business models.

It reinforced criticism from the left — by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., among others — that Amazon, Facebook and Google are unaccountable monopolies, digital analogues to the railroad trusts of the Gilded Age.

And it complicated life for tech’s remaining allies in the party, such as Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., a voracious fundraiser and a tech booster whose relationship with Facebook goes back almost a decade.

“I think 2016 exposed the dark side of technology,” said Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif. Widely considered friendly with the tech industry, Khanna criticized Facebook on Friday for its aggressive tactics, and said the company should “certainly fire the people who were in any way involved in the decision to peddle opposition research.”

“These companies are not credible,” Stoller added. “And it’s becoming clear to Democrats that they aren’t friends — they are the problem.”

I was watching CSPAN this weekend (as always) and this dude was on Washington Journal. It was just a general back and forth with another former House member and also, as always, fielding call-in questions, etc etc. It wasn't particularly any more (or less) interesting than most of the segments that they do like that, it's always a generally collegial discussion b/w two partisans who, taken out of the context of Fox or CNN, actually get along quite nicely and can discuss any number of issues civilly and thoughtfully. Obviously this sort of thing isn't terribly interesting to the majority of folks, if the ratings are any indication, anyway, but as always I google the two participants just to get some background on them.

The woman was a one term Rep from the 90's who is now Chelsea Clinton's mother in law, so obvious Dem and saying how Hilary is actually a lovely, intelligent, thoughtful, blahblahblah, person (several caller vehemently disagreed with that assessment, in very sharp terms, but she took it in stride). The other guy was a longer serving former republican House member by the name of Tom Davis, seemed like a nice, thoughtful guy. Certainly came across that way. I had never heard of him or certainly wasn't aware of anything concerning his time in Congress. Just check out his wikipedia page. The real tragedy of this is that when I read it, I was like "well, this isn't really THAT egregious," but this is the type of stuff that goes on in Washington every single day, and I'm sure nearly every congressman is involved in this type of shit to some degree or other. Like I said, this guy didn't even seem that bad, and that fact alone, that it doesn't even seem that bad in the grand scheme of things, that we have just accepted that this is how things are, is the real tragedy of the entire structure of "government."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Davis ... olitician)

Another item that on this guy's wiki page that got my partisan hackles up was this: He was the chairman of House Government Reform Committee, and, according to wikipedia, "The Committee was the chief investigative and oversight committee of the House, and was granted broad jurisdiction. This committee was very active during the Clinton administration. It issued 1,052 subpoenas to probe alleged misconduct by the administration and the Democratic Party between 1997 and 2002. By contrast, by the end of the 2005 session, Davis and the majority had only permitted three subpoenas to be issued to the George W. Bush administration, including one to the United States Department of Defense over documents related to Hurricane Katrina."

I know all the Trumpsters are getting set up to howl and whine about any investigations, much less subpoenas, that the now Dem controlled House might be getting ready to start churning out, but I guess what goes around comes around...