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[wesw]

well the whole pot and kettle thing is just so overcooked.....

worse than starbucks coffee......

[Scooter]

[Scooter]

[wesw]

planned parenthood, the cradle of American eugenics....

...and they call us Nazis?

starbucks has more repeat customers than PP......


...and they are closing 150 stores.

[Scooter]

We certainly know what your messiah thinks about the place of disabled people in society, don't we, wes?



But sure, call it eugenics when women need a place to get screening for cervical cancer.

[wesw]

hey, disabled people are just like anyone else.

when they are full of shit, they should be made fun of too.

"oh, oh, I don t remember" said wes, as he flailed his hands about......

[Burning Petard]

There is a marvelous song called "I Don't Remember' on the cd "On the Journey" by Charlie King and Karen Brandow. It is a tribute to the most quotable words of President/Saint Reagan: I Don't Remember


Presidents know, though they come and they go,
the memories will always remain
Part of their art is to speak to the heart
while completely bypassing the brain
so when we rewind to the 80’s we find
amidst much that was shoddy and rotten
a tour de force of orator’s discourse
which by nature, cannot be forgotten
Oh, Ron may be gone, but his memory lives on
in that ever-enduring sound-bite
who could forget those three words he said?
I don’t remember — That’s right!

What were those meetings with Casey about? — I don’t remember
Was Mr. Poindexter present throughout? — I don’t remember
Strangely enough, the most memorable quote
ever to float from that rusty old throat
eight years of coaching, and that’s all she wrote — I don’t remember

So many pesky historical facts
swept away by those three little words
Throughout Iran Contra that magical mantra
steadfastly and staunchly recurred
Now no-one recalls that career of Fawn Hall’s
and the way she supported her boss
whenever she fed her day’s work through the shredder
to help with his memory loss
you’d fax her a memo, she’d say “no problemmo”
that lady could totally shred
always in tandem with some memorandum
Ron couldn’t recall if he’d read

Were you aware of the talks with Iran? — I don’t remember
don’t you have something to say other than: “I don’t remember”
facing posterity like Jack the Ripper
with fewer available gray cells than Flipper
what nicer words can one say of the Gipper than I don’t remember

A gallon of white-out the shape of his head
He couldn’t forget fast enough
Wasn’t it Abraham Lincoln who said
um, some really important stuff?

Someone who sells Reagan memorabilia
must laugh all the way to the bank
If there are books in the Reagan memorial library,
they must be blank
I hate to be rude, but we’re bound to conclude
as we flip through the history pages
Alzheimer’s is bad, but that’s not what he had
whatever he had was contagious!
Even today this disease trickles down
just ask Rumsfeld, just ask Condoleeza
The news media too, when the eulogy’s due,
know that nothing succeeds like amnesia!

Who kept the hostages trapped in Iran? — I don’t remember
Who funded bin Laden in Afghanistan? — I don’t remember
Who armed Khomeini while arming Saddam,
dropped little jokes about dropping the bomb,
busted up unions and called his wife mom? — I don’t remember

Who made the Arctic a temperate zone — I don’t remember
Who pilfered billions from Savings and Loan — I don’t remember
when half of his cabinet resigned in disgrace
who called his hard drive up, then hit erase
hanging a vacancy sign on his face — I don’t remember

who gutted welfare, though not for the rich — I don’t remember
who always stood up for principles which I don’t remember
Who made us pay for the money they stole
sent arms control down the memory hole
what was his greatest theatrical role? — I don’t remember

Who said pollution came mostly from trees? — I don’t remember
who thought the Marcoses were the bee’s knees? — I don’t remember
Who ignored AIDS and the greenhouse effect
supported Apartheid, and in retrospect
did a lot more that we can’t recollect
I mean, here was a guy who out-Scrooged Ebeneezer
vetoing funding for his own disease
now they’re treating this geezer like julius ceasar
oh please!!!
Ron, thanks for nothing!
thank you for nothing!
in other words, thanks for the memories!

So the present POTUS is just carrying on a fine GOP tradition.

snailgate

[Lord Jim]

Poor baby:

Alan Dershowitz Says Martha’s Vineyard Is ‘Shunning’ Him Over Trump

It was not the sort of complaint likely to draw public sympathy, and it did not.

Alan Dershowitz, the lawyer and professor emeritus at Harvard Law School, argued in an op-ed last week for The Hill that Americans have grown increasingly intolerant of opposing political views, focusing on a call by Representative Maxine Waters to harass Trump administration officials wherever they go.

But it was a personal note in the column that soon grabbed attention.

“I never thought I would see McCarthyism come to Martha’s Vineyard, but I have,” he wrote, of the elite island enclave off Cape Cod where he is a fixture.

Mr. Dershowitz, a self-professed “liberal Democrat,” said that friends on the Vineyard had snubbed him for publicly arguing against impeaching President Trump on television talk shows and in a forthcoming book.

“For them, it is enough that what I have said about the Constitution might help Trump,” said the lawyer, known for his fierce advocacy for civil liberties and his defense of famous clients like O.J. Simpson and Claus von Bulow. “So they are shunning me and trying to ban me from their social life on Martha’s Vineyard.”

This claim only seemed to draw a wave of mockery online that crested just as many of the nation’s media and political elites headed to the Cape for the Fourth of July.

“It is outrageous that people are now shunning Alan Dershowitz in their social lives,” one Twitter user wrote. “Really, what the heck took so long?”

Many rejected the comparison to McCarthyism, with its blacklists and smears that ruined careers. Countless people offered Mr. Dershowitz their thoughts and prayers. One enterprising troll even set up a crowdfunding campaign with a $5 million goal to “buy Alan some new friends.” But friends and acquaintances on the Vineyard confirmed that his outspoken defenses of President Trump had not been well received.

His name and the name of the resort were both trending on social media. There were jokes about fine “Vineyard whine.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/03/us/a ... eyard.html

Personally I see a world of difference between standing outside someone's house shouting while they're trying to sleep, or going up to them and getting in their face while they're out somewhere in public with their family, and simply choosing not to socialize with them...

So for Alan "A President Can't Obstruct Justice" Dershowitz, I say...

[Crackpot]

I’ve long considered Dershowitz to be more “ the law means what it want it at the moment” type than having any set legal philosophy.

[BoSoxGal]

Poor pathetic Alan Dershowitz, that while summering on Martha’s Vineyard he would even get his whitey-tighties in a twist over which fellow richie-riches won’t swill with him.

If I had a place on the Vineyard, I couldn’t care less about any other human beings on the island - I’d be focused on the sand and surf and sky and flora and fauna and a freaking big stack of good books - plus a sea kayak and maybe a small sailboat.

Rich, shallow peoples’ problems.

[rubato]

Most people understand that there is a difference between representing a defendant in a criminal trial and promoting and protecting an ongoing enterprise which is stripping children from their parents, bankrupting the country to give 1.4T to the rich, raping the environment and poisoning citizens. We all understand that in the former case defendants are entitled to representation and our system of justice is predicated on the idea that a vigorous defense in necessary to produce the most fair outcome possible. We also understand that supporting and defending an ongoing criminal enterprise is different.

Nor is this all that society may do. The acts of an individual may be hurtful to others, or wanting in due consideration for their welfare, without going the length of violating any of their constituted rights. The offender may then be justly punished by opinion, though not by law.

On Liberty Harriet and J.S. Mill

Dershowitz needs to grow a set and accept that his actions are discreditable, harmful, and he should be criticised for them

yrs,
rubato

[wesw]

nevermind......