tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post2481600333442571453..comments2024-03-28T01:33:22.764-04:00Comments on The DiploMad 2.0: RINO Hunting on the MeadowlandsDiploMadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02316439950882822419noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-57301661212311009352014-01-12T17:11:12.720-05:002014-01-12T17:11:12.720-05:00I am no Christie fan but I was struck but how much...I am no Christie fan but I was struck but how much energy and vehemence the media put into "bridge-gate" compared to how little they put into Fast & Furious, Benghazi, IRS, Obamacare disaster etc.DiploMadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02316439950882822419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-43862912691208260502014-01-12T15:06:24.502-05:002014-01-12T15:06:24.502-05:00It may be petty urban politics but 5 years of a na...It may be petty urban politics but 5 years of a national version of petty urban politics should be enough to convince you that Chrisite needs to be stopped before he gets started.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-13713056342910514342014-01-12T12:23:31.964-05:002014-01-12T12:23:31.964-05:00(I was composing a post on this past week's go...(I was composing a post on this past week's goings-on and "Chrispygate™" slammed into what passes for my mind.<br /><br />I'd ask fellow Readers - but none necessarily of any of the three blog authors - to, immediately after the 'e' above, enter the alt-code for denoting the trademark. Just press and hold the 'alt' key, tap the numerical keys in this order, 0153 - release the alt key.<br /><br />If any of the regulars [provided there's an earlier comment posted] on the three sites notices a proceeding use of the term anywhere else, lemme know - I'd love to sue the NYT. We'll share the spoils.<br /><br />Arkie)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-21845483015050204422014-01-12T11:51:16.161-05:002014-01-12T11:51:16.161-05:00I considered doing such on the current post possib...I considered doing such on the current post possibly sullying (Diplomad's got a post bidding Sharon proper regards).<br />____________________________<br /><br />(Diplomad, Malcolm, David, fellow Readers, shall have free use):<br /><br />On my oath I've never seen the term in print nor, have I heard the word uttered. I hereby declare authorship and claim all rights (NYT, WSJ? etc, that includes monies but does not exclude anything other of value) to the following<br /><br /><strong>ChrispyGate™, Chrispygate™, ChrispyGate©, Chrispygate©</strong><br /><br />and any variations thereof derived from as of the above timestamp.<br /><br />Arkie, JK<br /><br />Gatesgate is fair-game.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-43731243380117714592014-01-11T19:44:58.942-05:002014-01-11T19:44:58.942-05:00That was exactly what I thought..how did the disco...That was exactly what I thought..how did the discovery of emails and texts come about?<br />It's funny to listen to the MSM reporters: how could he not know? If he can't keep his office under control, if he isn't aware of things that go on under his watch, how is he fit to be President? Blah blah blah.<br /><br /><br />VAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-49773568101655735562014-01-11T17:13:24.640-05:002014-01-11T17:13:24.640-05:00Sharon is dead.Sharon is dead.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13642228725661059539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-29967502456995800422014-01-11T15:37:47.856-05:002014-01-11T15:37:47.856-05:00I begin to observe a very interesting phenom: ord...I begin to observe a very interesting phenom: ordinary people are beginning to see that unbridled power in the hands of the govt can be a bad thing. It was one thing when the "dirty tricks" were mostly played on other pols -- a more or less intramural sport -- but when Govt dirty tricks affects non-combatants who expect their govt to leave them alone, things change. Interesting, unexpected things may come from this. Some might even get the idea that the govt is a threat to our liberties. Radical.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-79737209109027180632014-01-11T14:03:34.274-05:002014-01-11T14:03:34.274-05:00Perhaps not a large portion of "ordinary citi...Perhaps not a large portion of "ordinary citizens" realize a very valuable service has now gone the way of the dodo.<br /><br />Those of us who were, however hard we lobbied for it's continuation think a larger portion of "ordinary citizens" should know there once was such a thing - a source providing as close to a <strong>non-ideological info source</strong> (non-ideological in the sense of not filtered through a media company lens - whatever one's ideological leanings) from whence one could do for oneself, independent analysis.<br /><br />That this service has been discontinued during this, the Obama Administration or, as Diplomad so ably characterizes it - <strong>The Obama Misadministration</strong> is, at least to this reader of Diplomad 2.0, highly suspect.<br /><br />http://blogs.fas.org/secrecy/2014/01/fbis-wnc/<br /><br />ArkieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-19973828871966395912014-01-11T00:37:46.631-05:002014-01-11T00:37:46.631-05:00If I must stand...I will stand as if it's on m...If I must stand...I will stand as if it's on me alone.]<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wt8y18YFH70<br /><br />Never shall this nation go down if people with integrity fight.<br /><br />Hail! Hail our nation! Hail for the heroes who fight despite the terror they live.<br />Hail!<br /><br />leaperman<br />Proud to be an American.<br />God bless us and God bless you<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-84762798407424515272014-01-10T21:41:03.944-05:002014-01-10T21:41:03.944-05:00I miss Reagan more and more...
What he said is eve...I miss Reagan more and more...<br />What he said is even more relevant today.<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXBswFfh6AY<br /><br />leaperman<br /><br />Diplomad? Did you ever meet Reagan? Any stories?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-49129667872643283732014-01-10T19:50:06.646-05:002014-01-10T19:50:06.646-05:00I sense the Diplomad is not exactly enjoying the n...I sense the Diplomad is not exactly enjoying the new year.<br /><br />Allow me to try to cheer him, in a small way:<br /><br />http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/vivian-bercovici-named-canada-s-new-ambassador-to-israel-1.2488765<br /><br />The best news is at the end of the second paragraph.<br /><br />Oh, and the presstitutes-redundant! Smart people don't read newspapers and the dumb people can't. All the news is made on TV these days, mostly on entertainment tonight, thats where 50% of the electorate get their marching orders for who to vote for.Cascadiannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-57359732237056196612014-01-10T19:43:10.592-05:002014-01-10T19:43:10.592-05:00The mass media has a standard, a single standard. ...The mass media has a standard, a single standard. It is a red donkey rampant on a yellow field.geoffbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13938430350029694575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-617503558104877652014-01-10T17:54:23.851-05:002014-01-10T17:54:23.851-05:00Christie can always get work with hussein obama as...Christie can always get work with hussein obama as his personal beach docent. I just don't care for his policies. He is the ghost of elections past!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-12495491912177625112014-01-10T16:55:02.068-05:002014-01-10T16:55:02.068-05:00The money-quote from that latter link:
Fifth, alt...The money-quote from that latter link:<br /><br /><i>Fifth, although the fact the revisions were issued from prison have caused "some" [count me among them] to speculate coercion was involved, ...</i><br /><br />I "speculated" about coercion's likelihood especially since McCain (after he stopped being friends with Buddy Muammar) insisted the soon to be extinct fellow deserved what he wound up receiving.<br /><br />Fun read here in case anybody's forgot:<br /><br />http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/261063/libyas-makeover-andrew-c-mccarthy<br /><br />ArkAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-43808580907201872812014-01-10T16:28:02.400-05:002014-01-10T16:28:02.400-05:00Well now, vindication of sorts. Recall my "hy...Well now, vindication of sorts. Recall my "hypothetical" from<br /><br />November 23, 2012 at 1:58 AM<br /><br /><i>…figuring the Benghazi/Dernaa area was not to ever come to the attention of the US public-at-large. If forced to provide a guess, it'd be AQIM with a few AQAP guys providing the tactical stuff. ...</i><br /><br />Now comes today:<br /><br />"Ansar al-Sharia in Tunisia, which is ideologically aligned with al-Qaida and tied to its affiliates, including AQIM, represents the greatest threat to U.S. interests in Tunisia," the [State] department said."<br /><br />http://news.yahoo.com/us-names-militants-involved-benghazi-attack-150239275.html<br /><br />Of course the bozos continue to insist, "Not AQ" - but apparently they didn't get the memo from their own CTC detailing how, LIFG (which group's members were transferred into Sa'id Gaddafy's gentle ministrations from Gitmo, at which point they) experienced the always spiritual "jailhouse conversion."<br /><br />http://www.ctc.usma.edu/posts/lifg-revisions-posing-critical-challenge-to-al-qaida<br /><br />ArkieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-24520687707281123432014-01-10T16:10:54.996-05:002014-01-10T16:10:54.996-05:00pmc
Obama runs a tight ship. With Eric Holder th...pmc<br /><br />Obama runs a tight ship. With Eric Holder there is no longer any need for states rights, or laws, or the Constitution. The government bureaucrats carry out the fiats. <br /><br />And the mass media -- the all important mercenaries for the leftist progressive Demokrat leader and the cause. Without them this would have been much harder.<br /><br />And the Republicans -- they eat their own.<br /><br />Just us and the cannon fodder now.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-75546065120406931732014-01-10T14:57:31.849-05:002014-01-10T14:57:31.849-05:00Unfortunately the Republican leadership is full of...Unfortunately the Republican leadership is full of self serving cretins.<br /><br />leapermanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-62573884823691280742014-01-10T12:48:08.866-05:002014-01-10T12:48:08.866-05:00so true... was really sad to see a good friend of ...so true... was really sad to see a good friend of mine go from wanting to have voted for a mccain ticket in 2000 to branding mccain a horrible person when up against obama.<br />entirely manufactured anger... but he leapt through the logical conundrums to make it happen... <br />it happens everywhere.... christie will be getting 'the treatment' too, regardless of how many hollywood butts he kisses.<br /><br />- reader #1482Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-10610676316146359182014-01-10T12:26:54.642-05:002014-01-10T12:26:54.642-05:00The RINO position..act hurt, drop head, clasp hand...The RINO position..act hurt, drop head, clasp hands in front, adopt the look and actions of someone trying to manage a large gas bubble in front of others. Prostrate oneself before the media judges. Wait for round two of the same act just because it is expected. Rinse, Repeat. Some where, someday, somebody with an R attached to his name is going to say to the liberals/media "enough"! "Screw you"! America is in peril and YOU are the reason. whitewallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03469746790747742992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-73585066994272147012014-01-10T12:01:30.533-05:002014-01-10T12:01:30.533-05:00It is amazing seeing how many Republican Office ho...It is amazing seeing how many Republican Office holders turn away from the Conservative ideas that got them in Office as they seek the admiration of the MSM and the acceptance of the Georgetown soiree scene, then get blindsided by those very same admirers when they suddenly go up against a true Progressive/Liberal Candidate. <br />Regardless of how many "Gangs of whatever number" McCain joined (that always ended up advancing the Liberal agenda), the MSM was never going to give him a break when he went against Obama/Hillary/Pick-A-Dem. Overnight he goes from being THE Moderating force in the Republican Party to a spiteful, racist, hateful dolt who wants to drink the blood of children.<br />It happens every time and the current Party leadership continues to be clueless in the truth that while they are bending over trying to be liked (which they NEVER will be) the other side is only interested in crushing them completely and establishing a defacto one party State where the names may change with time, but the goal and ideology of The State being supreme to The Citizen is absolute.<br />Christie is just the latest example. A "Good Republican" with Presidential abilities...Right up to the point where he started polling higher than Hillary (the next anoited candidate of the MSM) last month. Suddenly, what would usually be a page 5 Saturday article about politicians using their Office to poke each other in the eye has become a National Crisis. I'm sure that the next set of polls will have Christie down to single digits and the MSM can check in with hillary to determine the next Republican that needs to be removed from the field.<br />Probably Walker or Cruz...always high on the current list...maybe Kasich should he start looking in that direction.KellyJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01342332734935313737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-65655130183082439382014-01-10T12:00:37.401-05:002014-01-10T12:00:37.401-05:00"I can't decide if we have a mass media o..."I can't decide if we have a mass media of double standards or one with no standards."<br /><br />Dip, I suspect that the constant employment of the former necessarily implies that the employer suffers from the latter.<br /><br /><br />Akakyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00187471562516416268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-24018770804438562772014-01-10T11:36:03.808-05:002014-01-10T11:36:03.808-05:00After reading the emails from his staff about this...After reading the emails from his staff about this, I can see how this scandal has a different quality than everything else.<br />This isn't just 'smoking gun' evidence, those emails portray clear ill intent.<br />Whereas a lot of scandals can be written off by partisans as 'accidental', 'unprovable', or 'yeah they're politicians, and privately the probably discussed these horrible things they were going to do, but we don't know for certain what they were thinking', in this case the ill intent is much more unambiguous.<br /><br /><br />Again, I'd be very disappointed in Christie if he hadn't already shown his extremely poor judgment by ordering flags flown at half staff for Whitney Houston.<br />He can claim incompetence in character judgment of his staff here... in the flag scandal, he owned the whole thing.<br />So in a way, par for the Christie course.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-25542687568038011022014-01-10T10:35:59.978-05:002014-01-10T10:35:59.978-05:00Called upon to solve the mystery of a missing gold...Called upon to solve the mystery of a missing gold coin in a family who had a normal toddler wont to putting any-and-everything it its mouth, Sherlock Holmes calmly asserted that the coin would show up in the next 24 hours.<br /><br />His trusty sidekick asked in wonderment, "I say, Holmes, how can you be so certain?"<br /><br />Holmes smiled and said, "It's alimentary, my dear Watson, alimentary."<br /><br />*********<br /><br />When one "follows the money" (and ideology) of the members of our media it's not too hard to discern in which "main stream" the media is usually found flowing...<br /><br />c'est la vie --- ces-la-pool...<br />Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10988194376723420616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-66342051442443586342014-01-10T09:33:45.434-05:002014-01-10T09:33:45.434-05:00Watching the GOV, I could only see John Belusi as ...Watching the GOV, I could only see John Belusi as Jake and his excuses to Carrie Fischer in "The Blues Brothers."<br />http://youtu.be/JFvujknrBuE<br />Jacquejethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00566737254976084503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-51192033880956588872014-01-10T09:27:19.543-05:002014-01-10T09:27:19.543-05:00As President, he has used the IRS, the National La...<i>As President, he has used the IRS, the National Labor Relations Board, National Park Service, and the EPA ... </i><br /><br />Don't forget moving the Census Bureau into the White House in order to pad the job numbers.<br /><br />ArkieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com