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As I’ve been pointing out for a long time, the current year Establishment wisdom is that the further the Bad Old Days recede into the past, the more they should control what we do in the future. For example:
https://twitter.com/matthewjdowd/status/1041785678785339392
From Wikipedia:
Matthew John Dowd (born May 29, 1961)[3] is an American political consultant. He was the chief strategist for the Bush-Cheney 2004 presidential campaign and is the current ABC News political analyst. …
Dowd was the strategist for Arnold Schwarzenegger during his 2006 reelection campaign. …
Since 2013 Dowd has been dating Maria Shriver, the ex-wife of former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.[17][18]
Arnold should issue a press release saying:
At least my Mexican maid baby momma doesn’t make me tweet embarrassing stuff like this.
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My girl AOC is lookin’ fiiiiiiiiine these days:
https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/09/17/socialist-candidate-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-sports-3500-outfit-photo-shoot/
But at least she’s an irrational, disloyal, extremist shrew.Replies: @The Wild Geese Howard
How can a country survive with such mediocre people running things? How did we ever let these people rule us? My god they are insane.
“For 250 years we have believed the he in these scenarios…”
Several lynched negroes would beg to disagree.
Embarrassing indeed!
I was wondering why Dowd was so hell bent on trashing Clarence Thomas and now we know. Can someone explain why he would want to date Maria Shriver in the first place? He had to do pretty well for himself as a failed GOP consultant so he can’t need the money that bad. Maybe he wanted to get into a better country club.
Imagine if right about now, a woman claims Matthew Dowd raped her…
‘Boy George ruined my life and never said sorry.'
https://cdn1.thr.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/landscape_928x523/2016/11/gettyimages-597619070-h_2016.jpg
https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/2624542.main_image.jpg?w=960
https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/2624545.main_image.jpg?w=960
:D
So Shriver, a democrat, sure likes those centrist Republicans.
Is this a fetish of hers?
Related.
https://twitter.com/lexcorvus/status/1040947506299850753?s=21
Arnold Schwarzenegger's genetics or mind set? Joseph has both PART 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2HPVWoJYzs
Arnold Schwarzenegger's generics or mind set? Joseph has both PART 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0do9qw1Rqk
My Southern ancestors may have been white slaves 350 years ago. I’m not going to work tomorrow. Enough is enough. Oh wait, I work for myself. D’oh!
Steve,
Maureen Dowd, Matthew Dowd….Am I beginning to see a pattern?
https://travsd.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/images6.jpg?w=723Replies: @ScarletNumber, @Olorin
That’s pretty much what ensued when Hillary declared we must always believe the women when they accuse a man of abuse. Those Clintons!
Or a man claims George O’Dowd raped him.
‘Boy George ruined my life and never said sorry.’
Dowd must be pretty whipped.
In the Governator days, Californians joked that Arnold married the only woman who was more masculine than he was.
Now, what kind of man dates her as sloppy seconds?
What does she have to lose? I’m sure she is being well compensated for this attempt to destroy an honorable man. Not to mention her 15 minutes of fame.
Maureen Dowd, Matthew Dowd....Am I beginning to see a pattern?Replies: @Reg Cæsar
Michael Douglas was born Michael Dowd. But he wasn’t as dowdy.
Obviously that is Gene Simmons of Kiss on the right, and this episode was famous because Totie Fields was a guest at the same time. Fields asked, "Wouldn't it be funny if under all this he was just a nice Jewish boy?"
Simmons sheepishly replied, "You should only know".
Fields then pulled out her trump card, "I do. You can't hide the hook".Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic
IIRC Mike went to LA around the time Andi went to DC. (He sold his 30-room/something-like-15-acre Gladwyne spread to Teddy Pendergrass.)To my knowledge Mrs. Alan Greenspan never interviewed her Tribe-kin Simmons. What this photo doesn't show is that to the left of the Israeli Hungarian shock rocker sits Totie Fields. I'm not even kidding how she brought the borscht bantz.Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @ScarletNumber
Shame about you and missus, Mr. Governor. Say, can I get her phone number……..
Maybe this guy Dowd should be campaign manager for Gavin Newsom.
Hah! Good point. I heard some real scores were made off of Jeb Bush’s 2016 presidential bid. His campaign staff ran the campaign much like Pauli and his crew ran that restaurant in Goodfellas.
https://twitter.com/lexcorvus/status/1040947506299850753?s=21Replies: @FKA Max, @ScarletNumber
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Arnold Schwarzenegger’s genetics or mind set? Joseph has both PART 1
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s generics or mind set? Joseph has both PART 2
Yes, I’m sure that a woman who lives in Palo Alto, California will suffer severe social ostracism for daring to derail the Supreme Court nomination put up by the President. After all, Trump is so wildly popular in the social circles in which upper-middle-class Bay Area psychologists move.
That was awesome. Trump deserves a lot of credit for doing it.
Inertia is how it survives. An airplane with the engines out will glide for a while and then it goes in.
Smaller light aircraft - such as the ubiquitous single engined piston Cessna 172 - typically glide at around 10:1. That still gives a disc of about a 5.5 mile from a 1,000 feet engine failure to find a field or golf course to plunk her down in.Replies: @Anonymous
Anyone is free to believe whatever he wants.
That doesn’t change due process, standards of evidence, or burden of proof in legal matters, however.
FIFY
Human 'fight or flight' instinct causes decisions and conclusions to be drawn from mere specs of information. Survival demanded it. Those who didn't survive didn't act quickly enough on the information--i.e. they were more contemplative gathering information, slower in pattern recognition, etc., and Darwinian selection took it's toll.
Due process, etc., are ways to introduce rational contemplation to human affairs and decision-making, but if the mob plunges ahead with complete disregard for those cultural and legal customs, there little that can be done to rectify the outcome.Replies: @Desiderius
https://twitter.com/lexcorvus/status/1040947506299850753?s=21Replies: @FKA Max, @ScarletNumber
To be fair, the other Shriver children look normal. It’s just this one who got his great-Uncle Teddy’s genes. Plus he is the baby of the family.
Remember when Gerald Ford said “Our long national nightmare is over”? — actually it was only just beginning — so is behavior at high school parties the new standard for the Supreme Court? — for anyone wondering how things sunk this low: you’re not alone.
https://travsd.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/images6.jpg?w=723Replies: @ScarletNumber, @Olorin
To be clear, that is Mike Douglas, the talk show host, not Michael Douglas, the actor.
Obviously that is Gene Simmons of Kiss on the right, and this episode was famous because Totie Fields was a guest at the same time. Fields asked, “Wouldn’t it be funny if under all this he was just a nice Jewish boy?”
Simmons sheepishly replied, “You should only know”.
Fields then pulled out her trump card, “I do. You can’t hide the hook”.
My girl AOC is lookin' fiiiiiiiiine these days:
https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/09/17/socialist-candidate-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-sports-3500-outfit-photo-shoot/Replies: @RadicalCenter, @Realist, @AndrewR, @Pericles
Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder, I guess.
But at least she’s an irrational, disloyal, extremist shrew.
Already a thing at 4ch/pol/, and I don’t advise going there because the details are ghastly.
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https://travsd.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/images6.jpg?w=723Replies: @ScarletNumber, @Olorin
And it was Kay Kyser who gave Dowd the stage name Douglas.
I believe that photo is in the then-muraltastically-hip remodeled studio at KYW-TV in Philly. Around ’74 or ’75. That interview and the subsequent KISS performance was a big deal locally.
Andrea Mitchell was still at KYW radio and sometimes TV at the time. She was called “Andi” and widely sotto-voce’ed to have a face made for radio.
IIRC Mike went to LA around the time Andi went to DC. (He sold his 30-room/something-like-15-acre Gladwyne spread to Teddy Pendergrass.)
To my knowledge Mrs. Alan Greenspan never interviewed her Tribe-kin Simmons.
What this photo doesn’t show is that to the left of the Israeli Hungarian shock rocker sits Totie Fields. I’m not even kidding how she brought the borscht bantz.
He was the only major bandleader who didn't play an instrument. After retiring, he became head of the Christian Scientists, though I it was "head of state" rather than "head of government", as with the NRA and Heston. They apparently cured him of something.
One can only hope this wretched cuck Dowd faces the same accusation some day by some mentally twisted rape fantasist.
My girl AOC is lookin' fiiiiiiiiine these days:
https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/09/17/socialist-candidate-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-sports-3500-outfit-photo-shoot/Replies: @RadicalCenter, @Realist, @AndrewR, @Pericles
A true woman of the people.
That doesn't change due process, standards of evidence, or burden of proof in legal matters, however.Replies: @Redneck farmer, @Forbes
That doesn’t change the things used to disproportionately incarcerate POC.
FIFY
My girl AOC is lookin' fiiiiiiiiine these days:
https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/09/17/socialist-candidate-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-sports-3500-outfit-photo-shoot/Replies: @RadicalCenter, @Realist, @AndrewR, @Pericles
I showed my friend that and he said “isn’t that Hillary Clinton’s aide?”
I guess Dowd also believes that if a black criminal accuses a white police officer of beating him up we should take the word of the black criminal even if there is no evidence to back him up?
With Republicans like this, who needs Democrats?
My girl AOC is lookin' fiiiiiiiiine these days:
https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/09/17/socialist-candidate-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-sports-3500-outfit-photo-shoot/Replies: @RadicalCenter, @Realist, @AndrewR, @Pericles
From latinx people’s socialist to Israel-loving champagne socialist in one smooth move.
A typical large jet has a glide ratio of around 15:1 which would give it a range of about 85 miles from a complete engine failure at 30,000 feet. Indeed when you descend and land in a large passenger jet the engines are idling and you are pretty much gliding in.
Smaller light aircraft – such as the ubiquitous single engined piston Cessna 172 – typically glide at around 10:1. That still gives a disc of about a 5.5 mile from a 1,000 feet engine failure to find a field or golf course to plunk her down in.
The second problem in dead sticking most light aircraft is that practicing power out engine off landings is discouraged because of shock cooling of engine cylinders and because after a long glide the engine may "load up" and stumble or quit on being opened up.
By contrast, the old WW1 and early 1920s biplanes had engine failures all the time and this was considered normal and off field precision landings were routine. They were very draggy and when the engine quit, you were landing pretty much on what you were over. They also had low stall speeds.Replies: @NickG
Is this a fetish of hers?Replies: @Sean
He banged her help, she banged his. Tit for tat. A bit like Jackie (shell shocked by Jack’s flagrant adultery|) going off to Greece and banging Onassis to get back at JFK . Despite Kennedy’s instructions, the secret service did as poor a job of protecting Kennedy from being cuckolded as they did in Dallas. And then Onassis came and stayed in the White House for the funeral: the final insult.
Obviously that is Gene Simmons of Kiss on the right, and this episode was famous because Totie Fields was a guest at the same time. Fields asked, "Wouldn't it be funny if under all this he was just a nice Jewish boy?"
Simmons sheepishly replied, "You should only know".
Fields then pulled out her trump card, "I do. You can't hide the hook".Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic
Even funnier was the Tom Snyder interview, with an extremely self-serious Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley competing with the fairly drunk Peter Criss and Ace Frehley yukking it up. “I’m the trout player.”
That doesn't change due process, standards of evidence, or burden of proof in legal matters, however.Replies: @Redneck farmer, @Forbes
What people believe will carry more weight than what can be proved–if only because people don’t wait for proof before committing to a belief.
Human ‘fight or flight’ instinct causes decisions and conclusions to be drawn from mere specs of information. Survival demanded it. Those who didn’t survive didn’t act quickly enough on the information–i.e. they were more contemplative gathering information, slower in pattern recognition, etc., and Darwinian selection took it’s toll.
Due process, etc., are ways to introduce rational contemplation to human affairs and decision-making, but if the mob plunges ahead with complete disregard for those cultural and legal customs, there little that can be done to rectify the outcome.
Human 'fight or flight' instinct causes decisions and conclusions to be drawn from mere specs of information. Survival demanded it. Those who didn't survive didn't act quickly enough on the information--i.e. they were more contemplative gathering information, slower in pattern recognition, etc., and Darwinian selection took it's toll.
Due process, etc., are ways to introduce rational contemplation to human affairs and decision-making, but if the mob plunges ahead with complete disregard for those cultural and legal customs, there little that can be done to rectify the outcome.Replies: @Desiderius
There is much that can be done given the will to do it.
The boomercons seem like they’re deteriorating.
Seriously, it’s like there’s a huge glut of 50 and 60-something Republicans who are falling over themselves to condemn their own work in the Gingrich and Bush eras and embrace the liberal Democratic line whole. It’s it midlife crisis? Genuine remorse for what they did? Simply just pure hatred for Trump and his ilk? All worthy questions.
The presumption of innocence should be thrown out whenever a woman charges a man with some type of sex crime? Do the cucks and the feminists ever stop to think this could happen to their brothers, fathers, children, husbands, etc.?
It’s hard to believe that this man is or ever was a Republican. Privileging preferred minorities based on their victim status is classing modern leftist thinking. So is situational ethics/double standards/historical amnesia – if the woman accuser is a white woman and the accused is say Emmett Till or Bill Clinton, then oops, the “always believe women” rule doesn’t apply because reasons. But THIS time, when the application of the rule is in your favor, then it’s a new rule that we should have now and should have always had and should have from now on, until the next time it hits the wrong person and then we shouldn’t have that rule after all.
If this is now mainstream Republican thought, we are doomed.
Here endeth the lesson.
If this is now mainstream Republican thought, we are doomed.Replies: @Alec Leamas (hard at work), @Johann Ricke
Jack, what if I told you that Republican strategists like Dowd, Wallace and Schmidt are no more to the right than Democratic strategists, and that they chose to offer their services to the GOP because there was less competition for those jobs and they’re on the whole much less adroit than Democratic strategists? They’re less competent and more craven, because their purpose is to help cucks lie to their base so that they can pursue globohomo priorities in office.
Here endeth the lesson.
IIRC Mike went to LA around the time Andi went to DC. (He sold his 30-room/something-like-15-acre Gladwyne spread to Teddy Pendergrass.)To my knowledge Mrs. Alan Greenspan never interviewed her Tribe-kin Simmons. What this photo doesn't show is that to the left of the Israeli Hungarian shock rocker sits Totie Fields. I'm not even kidding how she brought the borscht bantz.Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @ScarletNumber
Kay’s nickname at Chapel Hill– where at least four buildings are named after his relatives– was “Kike”. Obviously this was just a play on Isaac–>Ike. But he realized he’d have to change it before going on the road.
He was the only major bandleader who didn’t play an instrument. After retiring, he became head of the Christian Scientists, though I it was “head of state” rather than “head of government”, as with the NRA and Heston. They apparently cured him of something.
Many of them are counting on it. These aren’t well adjusted people.
Yes, it was Halloween night 1979, and it really showed the split between Gene/Paul and Ace/Peter. Of course Gene was the silly one dressed the way he was and trying to conduct a serious interview.
IIRC Mike went to LA around the time Andi went to DC. (He sold his 30-room/something-like-15-acre Gladwyne spread to Teddy Pendergrass.)To my knowledge Mrs. Alan Greenspan never interviewed her Tribe-kin Simmons. What this photo doesn't show is that to the left of the Israeli Hungarian shock rocker sits Totie Fields. I'm not even kidding how she brought the borscht bantz.Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @ScarletNumber
Please see my comment 25 about what Totie Fields said that day.
I sat on a date rape, he said, she said jury. Much to be desired by all the actors in the case, and drama, oh the drama. We didn’t convict, afterwards the Judge spoke to us and stated if he’d had been convicted, state law had a minimum 25 year sentence, that she had no control over. The guy was no saint but just 22 years old. His life would have been finished.
I won't recount the details of the entire circus here, but let's just say I spent that month learning a lot of hard lessons about the US "Just Us" system.
Hi honey, if you're reading this I hope you finally got the professional help you so badly needed!
I am not asked to be on juries in my city and county because the DA's office has me down as a FIJA supporter from my Libty days. In fact, I was told that anyone registered now or ever as a Libertarian Party member is simply not flagged for jury duty in this county, there being so few that it's easy enough to avoid them, on the principle is that they think weird anyway and might be inclined to nullify certain laws. I'm registered as a Republican now, but still never get bothered for jury duty.
If this is now mainstream Republican thought, we are doomed.Replies: @Alec Leamas (hard at work), @Johann Ricke
I have no doubt he might have been a Republican his entire life. A conservative? Not so much.
Or even them personally? It really is like something out of Stalin’s Russia. Anyone can be unpersonned at any time by the merest accusation, yet that doesn’t stop you (indeed, encourages you) from throwing denouncements and accusations around yourself.
But at least she’s an irrational, disloyal, extremist shrew.Replies: @The Wild Geese Howard
But who is mi carmelita AOC disloyal to?
https://twitter.com/Frexecution/status/1041908983248715776
I went through a similar episode, except I went to court in support of my BPD ex-fiancée was the accuser.
I won’t recount the details of the entire circus here, but let’s just say I spent that month learning a lot of hard lessons about the US “Just Us” system.
Hi honey, if you’re reading this I hope you finally got the professional help you so badly needed!
Smaller light aircraft - such as the ubiquitous single engined piston Cessna 172 - typically glide at around 10:1. That still gives a disc of about a 5.5 mile from a 1,000 feet engine failure to find a field or golf course to plunk her down in.Replies: @Anonymous
The biggest problem in dead-sticking a light aircraft is that you have no glide path control, so you have to be good at energy management. A sailplane has effective speed brakes or spoilers which act as a throttle in reverse, enabling you to get rid of energy.
The second problem in dead sticking most light aircraft is that practicing power out engine off landings is discouraged because of shock cooling of engine cylinders and because after a long glide the engine may “load up” and stumble or quit on being opened up.
By contrast, the old WW1 and early 1920s biplanes had engine failures all the time and this was considered normal and off field precision landings were routine. They were very draggy and when the engine quit, you were landing pretty much on what you were over. They also had low stall speeds.
One of the reasons I firmly believe in jury nullification is that there is not only no requirement, but even a seeming prohibition, of juries being told upfront the full consequences of a guilty verdict. Juries are not supposed to look up the law on their own and are, at least in a sequestered case, not able to do so.
I am not asked to be on juries in my city and county because the DA’s office has me down as a FIJA supporter from my Libty days. In fact, I was told that anyone registered now or ever as a Libertarian Party member is simply not flagged for jury duty in this county, there being so few that it’s easy enough to avoid them, on the principle is that they think weird anyway and might be inclined to nullify certain laws. I’m registered as a Republican now, but still never get bothered for jury duty.
The second problem in dead sticking most light aircraft is that practicing power out engine off landings is discouraged because of shock cooling of engine cylinders and because after a long glide the engine may "load up" and stumble or quit on being opened up.
By contrast, the old WW1 and early 1920s biplanes had engine failures all the time and this was considered normal and off field precision landings were routine. They were very draggy and when the engine quit, you were landing pretty much on what you were over. They also had low stall speeds.Replies: @NickG
In many aircraft you can side-slip to dump energy and steepen your glide effectively; though to be fair, the Cessna 172 manual forbids extended slips.
Yup, WW1 aircraft pretty glide pretty much like a Lewis gun. Also, in WW1 a ridiculously high percentage of trainee pilots were killed in training.
If I were on a jury like that I think I’d just make up my mind from the start not to convict. Many careful studies of rape accusation statistics show them to be over 40 per cent false, and it’s been shown that even professionally trained experts are not much better at spotting when someone is lying than a random sample of the population. Even if the guy is guilty, the 25 year sentence for date rape is ridiculously out of proportion with the punishment for similar crimes against the person. Feminists have intimidated judges into acting as if non-consensual sex with someone you know (and may have had consensual sex with before or even after the event) is as bad as being dragged down an alleyway and viciously raped at knife-point by a complete stranger.
Michelle Malkin has a good column out on believing evidence instead of accusers who may be lying. Someone on Twitter should post a link to it and tell Dowd that believing accusers instead of evidence is not who we are and he is on the wrong side of history.