Throwing caution to the wind, I put concern for my personal safety aside and accompanied my beloved child bride into the maelstrom known as the shopping mall during the holiday season. Our plan had some success, given our early arrival in an effort to complete the mission and retreat before the assault reached a fever pitch. Winding our way through the JC Penney store, we emerged onto the main battlefield and took evasive action, ducking into a Zales Jewelers. Always wanting to have my betrothed awash in finery, she picked out a nice sterling silver and topaz ring. It had to be sized, so she won’t get it until the first week of January. She pointed out our anniversary is in February so she rationalized it could commemorate our long ago nuptials. She has a mind like a steel trap.
After a trek into Bed Bath and Beyond for some smelly concoctions, we were off to the grown man’s Chuck E Cheese, Victoria’s Secret. One would have thought purchasing gift cards would be a rather simple process. As we neared the counter, much to my chagrin, there were two long lines at the checkout. It was reminiscent of a WalMart the day the welfare class get their food stamps. I gave her my bank card to pay with and found a bench outside the store. The longer I stood there, watching women peruse stacks of panties and demi bras, the dirtier I felt.
Our final mission was a lunch at the food court. We dined on mango chicken with fried rice, bang bang shrimp, and spring rolls. Billy club and mace at the ready, we elbowed our way through the frenzied throng back through the Penney store and emerged, bruised but unbroken, in the parking lot to beat a strategic retreat to the sanctity of our home territory. I don’t think I want to go through that hell again.
GOP senators hold back support for tax bill over child tax credit
THE SENATE HAS TO PASS A TAX CUT BILL BEFORE RECESS AND THEY KNOW IT… SO DO THE DEMOCRATS.
TRUE TO THE OLD CANARD ABOUT HERDING CATS, ALL THE USUAL SUSPECTS ARE PLAYING HARD TO GET WITH THEIR VOTE FOR THIS BILL. MURKOWSKI, FLAKE, McCAIN, COLLINS, AND RUBIO HAVE ALL SET CONDITIONS FOR THEIR APPROVAL. TO HELL WITH THE PEOPLE, WE WANT WHAT WE WANT.
“Senator Rubio has consistently communicated to the Senate tax negotiators that his vote on final passage would depend on whether the refundability of the child tax credit was increased in a meaningful way,” said Rubio spokeswoman Olivia Perez-Cubas.
Conn Carroll, a spokesman for Utah GOP Sen. Mike Lee, also said Lee is “undecided” on the bill in its current form.
Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker, the only Republican to vote against the original version of the tax bill passed by the Senate, also told Fox News he is undecided on whether he will vote for the final version of the bill
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/14/gop-senators-hold-back-support-for-tax-bill-over-child-tax-credit.html
Illness sidelines McCain, Cochran as tax vote nears
HERE WE HAVE THE COUNTRY’S LONGEST LIVING RINO AND THAT CADAVER WITH A PULSE WHO ARE DESPERATELY NEEDED TO PASS THE TAX CUTS. MCCAIN WILL SURELY ENJOY SOMEBODY BEGGING HIM TO DO SOMETHING FOR THE PEOPLE HE CLAIMS TO REPRESENT FOR ONCE, AND COCHRAN WILL HAVE TO BE STRAPPED TO A FURNITURE DOLLY AND WHEELED IN. REMEMBER, THIS WAS THE CORPSE THAT McCONNELL’S HIT SQUAD PAID VOTERS IN MISSISSIPPI TO VOTE FOR TO KEEP THE SEAT AWAY FROM A CONSERVATIVE.
I RECALL WHEN THE DEMOCRATS NEEDED A VOTE FROM KKK BYRD, THEY WHEELED HIM ONTO THE FLOOR OF THE SENATE TO VOTE… ONE SNOT BUBBLE FOR YEA, TWO BUBBLES FOR NAY.
Both men missed all Senate votes this week, but their presence will be crucial early next week as the GOP tries to pass the tax bill in the Senate with a razor-thin Republican majority of 52-48 — and all Democrats opposed to the legislation. Adding to the uncertainty on Thursday was Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., who said he would vote against the bill if negotiators failed to expand the child tax credit.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/illness-sidelines-mccain-cochran-as-tax-vote-nears/
When Reporter Asked What Trump Is Doing To Combat Gun Violence Sanders Flips The Script
She responded, “I don’t think there is any one thing that you could do that could have prevented both of those horrible, horrible tragedies.” The press secretary then flipped the script on the reporter, asking her to name “a single thing” that would have prevented the tragedies.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/12/14/when-reporter-asked-what-trump-is-doing-to-combat-gun-violence-sanders-flips-the-script/
“I’m Not Taking Another Question From You”
“You’re Vying To Replace Jerry Springer”: CNN’s Jim Acosta Roasted For Spreading #FakeNews About Gun Control
CNN‘s Jim Acosta is at it again. The White House correspondent spread fake news about gun control to his nearly 500,000 Twitter followers on Thursday.
Acosta was widely mocked for his tweet, as per usual.
“This is a lie. If a politician said this, Jim Acosta would interrupt the press conference to live-fact-check him with readily available FBI statistics,” pointed out National Review’s Charles C.W. Cooke.
Mike Huckabee Tells Mika Brzezinski To ‘Go Pound Sand’ After She Attacks His Daughter
Mike Huckabee told Mika Brzezinski to “go pound sand” after the “Morning Joe” co-host attacked his daughter, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Wednesday.
“My daughter stands strong and tough and walks into that lion’s den of a press room every day and represents women and represents the president and represents strength in an incredible way.”
On Wednesday’s “Morning Joe,” Brzezinski expressed disbelief that Sanders could stand by President Donald Trump’s tweet that suggested Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand would “do anything” for political donations. Some thought that Trump’s tweet implied Gillibrand exchanged sexual favors for political donations.
NO MATTER HOW OLD A WOMAN GETS, SHE WILL ALWAYS BE HER DADDY’S LITTLE GIRL. I EXPECT IT’S THAT WAY ALL OVER THE CIVILIZED WORLD.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/12/14/mike-huckabee-tells-mika-brzezinski-to-go-pound-sand-after-she-attacks-his-daughter-video/
Eric Trump: Kirsten Gillibrand visited my dad’s office ‘every three days’ to ask for campaign money
“I remember Kirsten Gillibrand when she came into his office every three days to ask him for money and asking for major campaign contributions,” Eric Trump, 33, told WABC radio host Rita Cosby in an interview Wednesday. “There is no one who wanted to get into his office more than Kirsten Gillibrand.
Mr. Trump lashed out at the senator on Twitter Tuesday, calling her a “lightweight,” who would “come to my office ‘begging’ for campaign contributions not so long ago (and would do anything for them).”
Mrs. Gillibrand on Tuesday called the tweet a “sexist smear” and accused the president of trying to silence his accusers.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/dec/14/eric-trump-kirsten-gillibrand-visited-my-dads-offi/
Thom Hartmann: Trump’s Tweet Slamming Gillibrand is ‘Impeachable’ Offense
BITCH, PLEASE
The perpetual outrage machine that is the left’s pathological loathing for President Trump keeps reaching new lows in absurdity, albeit only on an hourly basis.
Plenty of liberals have labeled Trump’s tweet slamming Democrat Senator and potential 2020 opponent Kirsten Gillibrand as “sexual harassment.” But liberal radio host Thom Hartmann went beyond that and described it — I’m not making this up — as grounds for impeachment.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/jack-coleman/2017/12/14/thom-hartmann-trumps-tweet-slamming-gillibrand-impeachable-offense
USA Today: Trump is ‘not fit to clean the toilets’ at Obama’s presidential library
The paper used this interpretation to argue the President is unfit for office.
NEVER IN THE HISTORY OF OUR NATION HAS A SITTING PRESIDENT BEEN TREATED WITH THE DISRESPECT AND OVERT LOATHING THAT THIS ONE HAS… AND ALL BECAUSE HE DEFEATED THEIR CORRUPT STANDARD BEARER.
“With his latest tweet, clearly implying that a United States senator would trade sexual favors for campaign cash, President Trump has shown he is not fit for office. Rock bottom is no impediment for a president who can always find room for a new low.”
They went on to say President Trump would be unworthy to do bathroom duty at the Obama library.
http://www.bizpacreview.com/2017/12/13/usa-today-trump-not-fit-clean-toilets-obamas-presidential-library-575471
‘Merry Christmas from the president and first lady!’
Melania stuns in a glittering black cocktail dress alongside The Donald in their first official holiday portrait
The 2017 Christmas portrait was revealed on Melania’s Twitter page on Thursday
Andrea Hanks photographed the couple standing in front of the White House Blue Room on December 5
The president and first lady are holding hands and smiling for the camera in the festive photo taken in the Cross Hall
Melania opted for a sleeveless Delpozo dress featuring a sparkling applique and a pair of classic black pumps, while Trump wore a tuxedo
Ivanka, who converted to Judaism when she married Jared Kushner in 2009, shared her own festive snap from the White House on Instagram
In the image, she can be seen posing with two friends in front of a Christmas tree; she wished everyone a very ‘Happy Holidays’ in her caption
FROM CURMUDGEON OVER AT PCP:
CNN Christmas Songs
On Tuesday, December 12th, someone started a hashtag #CNNChristmasSongs on Twitter. I thought some of them were pretty clever.
Do You Smear Who I Smear?
It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Fake News
Let Bias Show, Let Bias Show, Let Bias Show
O Come, All Ye Hateful
Rudolph the Red Nosed Anonymous Source
Deck The Halls With Tons Of Fake News
Rumors We Have Heard on High
I’ll Be Wrong For Christmas
Rockin’ Around The Mistakes We Make
O Holy Cow! Trump Is Tweeting Nightly!
Whose Aborted Child Is This
It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Bullshit
Acosty The Snowflake
O Whine All Ye Faithful
Silent The Right
All I Want For Christmas Is Some Russian Collusion
I Saw Daddy Drinking 12 Diet Cokes
Russians We Have Heard On High
Lemon Got Run Over By A Trump Tweet
The Lemon Dumber Boy
Little Tapper Boy
It Came Upon A Source Unclear
Acosta We Have Heard, Was High
Jingles Sell
I Saw Daddy Kissing Santa Claus
http://politicalclownparade.blogspot.com/2017/12/cnn-christmas-songs.html
“The DNC came in here — slipped in here — underneath the radar and did an amazing job of organizing — what’s my favorite word — ground game,” Bannon said.
Shelby, Alabama’s senior senator and the state’s most influential official, publicly opposed GOP nominee Roy Moore and declared before the election that “the state of Alabama deserves better” than a former judge accused of sexual contact with teenage girls decades ago.
Conservative commentator Tammy Bruce, in a discussion about Alabama Republican candidate for Senate Roy Moore, said the Republican establishment want the party to lose the majority in the Senate so the Trump agenda fails. Bruce cited Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL), who announced he did not vote for Moore, and Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ), who donated to the Democratic candidate Doug Jones, as examples.
But the president, who backed Moore’s primary opponent Luther Strange, wasn’t done commenting on the race, tweeting Wednesday:
Even with the loss of a seat to Jones, Republicans still retain enough of a majority to pass whatever legislation they want, provided all 51 Republican senators vote in lockstep. Senate Republicans passed a budget in October that allows leadership to pass legislation with only 51 “yes” votes and bypass filibusters from Democrats altogether.
The first segment was narrated by reporter Manuel Bojorquez, who declared that “Alabama voters rolled back the political tides yesterday.” He highlighted the efforts of the Jones campaign in the days leading up to the election: “Jones was able to energize a traditionally weak democratic network here … He was buoy by millions in outside money and outspent Moore on campaign ads by 5-1.”
These people have no commitment to the American people.
READ SOME OF THE COMMENTS AND YOU’LL GET A FEEL FOR WHAT THE NATIVES THINK OF THESE YANKEES DOWN THERE.
THE DEMOCRATS DON’T GET IT. THE PEOPLE OF ALABAMA WILL NOT BE BULLIED BY A MEALY-MOUTHED HALFRICAN FORMER MAYOR OF NEWARK WHO DEMANDS THEY BETRAY THEIR OWN CONSCIENCES TO PLEASE THE SAME PEOPLE WHO WILL ACCUSE THEM OF RACISM NO MATTER WHAT THEY DO.
OBAMA COULDN’T GET A GARBAGE COLLECTOR ELECTED DOWN THERE.
If Doug Jones prevails, Democrats expect it will further excite their base, bolster candidate recruitment and fuel fundraising heading into 2018, coming off their near-sweep of last month’s elections. They will revel in picking up a Senate seat in the Deep South, especially in a state so central to President Donald Trump’s political rise and where he earlier backed the loser of the GOP primary
YOU MEAN THE PEACE PROCESS WHERE YOUR HAMAS DOGS SAY ISRAEL HAS NO RIGHT TO EXIST?? THAT PEACE PROCESS??
COME HERE FOR THE INFORMATION THE MEDIA WHORES REFUSE TO TELL YOU.
In the wake of Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) stepping down from Congress, some disturbing stories have emerged from his former staffers. Namely, he offered one woman $5 million to serve as his surrogate, and his aides were worried that he wanted to have sex with them to impregnate them.
SENATOR MOORE AND SENATOR ARPAIO…HOW DELICIOUS WOULD THAT BE??
The poll claims 43% of Republicans believe the fairy tale… which is complete rubbish.
Katelyn Caralle of the Washington Free Beacon reports that a DNC sanctioned event intent on reforming the party after its disastrous 2016 election efforts was supposed to bring compromise on divisive issues such as the power of super delegates within their presidential primary.
SHE HAD THE NOMINATION SEWN UP BEFORE THE PRIMARY EVEN STARTED BECAUSE SHE HAD ALL THE SUPER DELEGATES IN HER POCKET.
The first of four Chicago suspects accused of beating and torturing a disabled teenager and broadcasting the attack on Facebook has pleaded guilty, but a judge let her off without prison time, a report says.
If the discredited American media have enjoyed even one good week this year, I cannot recall it. But what is not in doubt is that the establishment media have closed 2017 by proving President Trump 100 percent correct about their massive fake news problem.
Weigel was mocking a tweet by Trump posted at 7:41 a.m. EST about the rally crowd being “packed to the rafters”.
He was careful this morning not to admit to any wrongdoing, merely saying that he’d lost the confidence of his colleagues and therefore had to go. Imagine now that Moore wins and, as expected, McConnell’s caucus immediately starts hemming and hawing about whether he should be expelled.
You know, Al Franken is one of very few Democrats in Congress who can truly claim to have had a nationwide progressive profile, even before he came to the Senate in 2009, because of his Air America radio show. And that led to him having, you know, a true ability to raise money for other lawmakers.
Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton is expected to appoint his lieutenant governor and close ally, Tina Smith, to Al Franken’s seat, three people familiar with the Democratic governor’s thinking said.
Far left Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor dissented.
IT’S JUST KILLING HIM TO SEE ALL HIS DEVIL’S WORK BEING UNDONE.
Remember the big hurricane that wiped out Puerto Rico? The publisher of a newspaper in Puerto Rico is reporting that, by their count, 320,000 Puerto Ricans have immigrated to the United States. Seventy percent of them to Florida. Now, the publisher of the Puerto Rican newspaper says that all of these people are very disappointed in the response of the Trump administration to help Puerto Rico recover. She believes by the end of 2018 there will be nearly 400,000 to 500,000 immigrants — think illegal immigrants — in Florida, and, if 60% of them register Democrat, then Florida ever voting for a Republican presidential candidate may be lost for as long as we can see.
Officials stated that the New York Declaration, a non-binding political declaration unanimously approved in a non-binding resolution in September 2016, “contains numerous provisions that are inconsistent with U.S. immigration and refugee policies and the Trump Administration’s immigration principles.”
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue has been dismissing Michelle Obama’s signature school lunch rules all year.
THERE WAS A REASON FOR CHANGING THE WORDING.
In short, there’s no doubt the Logan Act, a law dismissed as a joke or an archaic irrelevancy or simply unconstitutional by many legal experts, played a central role in the Obama administration’s aggressive and enormously consequential investigation of its successor.
President Donald Trump stepped up his budget confrontation with Democratic leaders today and called their bluff on their mumbled threats to block the 2018 budget if it did not include the unpopular ‘Dreamer’ amnesty.
“Meeting with ‘Chuck and Nancy’ today about keeping government open and working. Problem is they want illegal immigrants flooding into our Country unchecked, are weak on Crime and want to substantially RAISE Taxes. I don’t see a deal!” Trump tweeted.
Black Lives Matter Los Angeles called on people to refuse to buy from white-owned businesses and take that money to invest in the black community from Nov. 25 to Jan. 1. 2018. The boycott serves as an attempt to resist President Donald Trump and his ties to white capitalism, the group added.
The majority of graduating students at a Washington, D.C. high school did not attend more than six weeks of high school, but still managed to get into college, an investigation into the students’ records found.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) may not have won the Democratic nomination for president, but he was just nominated for a Grammy Award. Sanders, along with actor Mark Ruffalo, received the nod for the audiobook recording of Sanders’ book “Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In” in the category of Best Spoken Word Album.
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