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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Svetlana Lokhova: Money Trail of FBI Spy Will Expose Russia Hoax Origins
"Exposed".... that is if we can get anyone to follow the evidence and social network.
We’ve got it all in our archives, so as soon as someone does an internet search it will all pop up, with our commentary.
[Sara Carter] Lokhova, a Russian born British scholar, calls Halper "the dirty trickster." She says his past connections to these agencies and the FBI is a ’big tell’ as to why he was used to used to gather information on the Trump campaign.

"So you have 17 intelligence agencies in the United States with an $80 billion budget you have thousands if not tens of thousands of trained people working for your intelligence services and, yet, they seek out this complete outsider (Halper) right he’s not a trained investigator," she says, describing Halper as an overweight 74 year old.

"He’s somebody whose known...has a history of being involved in every single scandal for over forty years," said Lokhova. She says Halper’s money trail is the answer.

Lokhova isn’t the only one.

Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley’s sent a letter last year demanding answers on Halper’s contracts and the Office of Net Assessment. Grassley sent the request in a letter to Department of Defense Acting Secretary Mark Esper, after a Pentagon Inspector General investigation discovered that the office failed to conduct appropriate oversight of the contracts. Grassley urged Esper for the information.

According to Grassley’s office it is currently reviewing information sent from the Pentagon.

"The committee is currently reviewing information received recently from the Pentagon, in response to Grassley’s request," Taylor Foy, a spokesman for the committee, said in an earlier interview with this news site. Foy confirmed Grassley is continuing to investigate the matter.

According to the DoD Inspector General’s report the Office of Net Assessment (ONA)Contracting Officer’s Representatives (CORs) "did not maintain documentation of the work performed by Professor Halper or any communication that ONA personnel had with Professor Halper; therefore, ONA CORs could not provide sufficient documentation that Professor Halper conducted all of his work in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. We determined that while the ONA CORs established a file to maintain documents, they did not maintain sufficient documentation to comply with all the FAR requirements related to having a complete COR."

Lokhova tells me at length about the erroneous and inaccurate articles published about her and Flynn. She says it turned her life upside down. She also discusses the toll the lawsuits are taking on her family financially and why she intends to keep on fighting.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/03/2020 05:28 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This is sad. This woman, Flynn, Kavanaugh, Nick Sandmann and so many others are victims of the same M.O. that we see applied again and again by our Shitshow Clowns: lawfare + foreign agents + circle-jerk media planted stories, all of which convict innocent people before they even knew what hit them.

And then try to bankrupt them and/or destroy their careers in one shot.
Posted by: Lex || 02/03/2020 7:23 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Coronaidiot Outbreak in Canada
Posted by: Beau || 02/03/2020 00:29 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Not the Bee, but durn close.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 02/03/2020 2:50 Comments || Top||

#2  It's Canada.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/03/2020 4:12 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
'Is This The Man Behind The Global Coronavirus Pandemic?'
[ZeroHedge] In light of growing speculation, most of it within less than official circles, that the official theory for the spread of the Coronavirus epidemic, namely because someone ate bat soup at a Wuhan seafood and animal market...

... is a fabricated farce, and that the real reason behind the viral spread is because a weaponized version of the coronavirus (one which may have originally been obtained from Canada), was released by Wuhan's Institute of Virology (accidentally or not), a top, level-4 biohazard lab which was studying "the world's most dangerous pathogens", perhaps it would be a good idea for the same Wuhan Institute of Virology to remove the following "help wanted" notice, posted on November 18, 2019, according to which the institute is seeking to hire one or two post-doc fellows, who will use "bats to research the molecular mechanism that allows Ebola and SARS-associated coronaviruses to lie dormant for a long time without causing diseases."

Why is this notable? Because as it turns out, this is a job posting for the lab of Dr. Peng Zhou (周鹏), Ph.D., a researcher at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and Leader of the Bat Virus Infection and Immunization Group. Some more on Zhou's background from the Institute (google translated):

He received his PhD in Wuhan Virus Research Institute in 2010 and has worked on bat virus and immunology in Australia and Singapore. In 2009 , he took the lead in starting the research on the immune mechanism of bat long-term carrying and transmitting virus in the world. So far, he has published more than 30 SCI articles, including the first and corresponding author's Nature , Cell Host Microbe and PNAS . At present, research on bat virus and immunology is continuing, and it has received support from the National "You Qing" Fund, the pilot project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the major project of the Ministry of Science and Technology.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Bat soup.
Bat shit.
Bat shit crazy.
BatShitShow.
Posted by: Lex || 02/03/2020 1:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Okay
I told you so
I’ve been saying this was a release from a research lab
Still think it’s a bio weapon facility
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 02/03/2020 7:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Looks like good evidence they were working to get a strain with a long no-symptom incubation period to develop tests and a vaccine (not that we would actually, y’know, TRUST anything coming from China). Bioweapons? Given chinese ‘behavior in the past, not at all ruled out.

the next article after this one points out the real cause of this: commie totalitarian built in incompetence. I regard this as equivalent in causation to Chernobyl. They operate in a way that invites things to break, and when they do (cue Murphy), they don’t put the people that can fix them in authority to fix them. They just can’t bear to release control.
Posted by: Ptah || 02/03/2020 8:13 Comments || Top||

#4  it will take several years to examine the DNA sequencing of various strains of this virus

Now some 15+ years after the onset of the SARS virus there has been enough sequencing to have reasonable certainty that it came from bats. DNA sequencing is better than it used to be but we are still at least a year away from getting reasonable certainty of the origin of this new virus.

It is quite plausible that the Wuhan market is the source as there are a lot of live animals in close proximity and sanitary conditions that leave a lot of repositories for viruses.
Posted by: lord garth || 02/03/2020 12:22 Comments || Top||


The same sickness that spread the coronavirus threatens to bring Hong Kong to ruin: the Chinese Communist Party
[DMN - But, Claudia Rosett] The core problem is that China, for all its high-tech gloss and high-speed trains, remains saddled with a communist-structured political system.

Hong Kong's democracy protests have been overrun in the headlines by the new, and in some cases deadly, coronavirus now spreading from the Chinese city of Wuhan.

But to wave aside Hong Kong's massive democracy movement as last year's news would be a terrible mistake. That movement has been the healthiest and most clarion response of modern times, anywhere on the planet, to the basic ailment long amplifying out of China ‐ which, despite the current acute medical crisis, is not actually a viral disease, but instead the long-running tyranny of China's communist party.
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Posted by: Frank G || 02/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Yea verily! Communism is a virus which takes down its host.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/03/2020 12:27 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Gerhardt: The Entire White House Defense Team Will Face Bar Charges
They've lost their F'n minds
[JonathanTurley.org] There have been suggestions that the White House defense team could be brought up on bar charges for their arguments in the Senate. I have previously written that such statements by Speaker Nancy Pelosi and others are vindictive and ill-informed. The White House team were effective advocates for their clients and we do not disbar lawyers for making arguments or defending individuals that we do not like. I was surprised and disappointed therefore that my fellow witness from the Trump impeachment hearing, North Carolina Law Professor and CNN Legal Analyst Michael Gerhardt joined this dubious argument on CNN yesterday. The call for ethics charges seems dangerously close to the view of Lawrence O'Donnell that Trump defenders are barred from his MSNBC program because they are all "liars."

Obviously, Gerhardt and I have substantial disagreements. Gerhardt supported the articles of impeachment based on bribery and other crimes. I opposed those four articles, which were ultimately rejected by the Committee. The Committee went forward with the two articles that I said would be legitimate but remained unproven. We later disagreed when Gerhardt declared that this impeachment was the first time that the White House closely coordinated with his own party on the handling of the impeachment trial. Those however were academic differences over the history and interpretation of prior presidential impeachment cases.

This however is different. Proponents of the impeachment seem to be lashing out at counsel and suggesting that they were acting unethically in zealously advancing the President's defenses. After disagreeing with me that the impeachment was not "rushed" prematurely, Gerhardt asked to make a different point about the defense team. He declared
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Posted by: Frank G || 02/03/2020 06:34 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Dems lose, the Dems lash out. Repeat ad nauseam.
Posted by: Uleck Spererong9442 || 02/03/2020 7:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Through the Looking Glass now.

Mad Hatters, all of them, lying shamelessly brazenly and constantly, for YEARS-- and now accusing others of "lying."

F--- these morons. What an unbelievably sh!tty political class we have.
Posted by: Lex || 02/03/2020 7:07 Comments || Top||

#3  What's the difference between a good lawyer and a great lawyer?

A good lawyer knows the law. A great lawyer knows the judge.

Whats the difference between a great lawyer and Trump and the Republican Senate?

For the past three years Trump and the Republican Senate appointed and confirmed all of the judges.
Posted by: Varmint Splat1454 || 02/03/2020 7:48 Comments || Top||

#4  Moreover, bar associations are equally concerned about the ethics of impugning the conduct of other lawyers without sufficient support.

Bring up ethics charges against Gerhardt with the bar; we'll find out just how 'concerned' they are.
Posted by: Raj || 02/03/2020 7:58 Comments || Top||

#5  Scratch these people and find a totalitarian under the skin nearly every time. Power by any means necessary.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/03/2020 8:19 Comments || Top||

#6  Seems like the Shiffer Syndrome is spreading.
Posted by: Bobby || 02/03/2020 9:31 Comments || Top||

#7  They've lost their F'n minds

That right there is pretty much the epitaph for the 21st century so far. Pity. I had such high hopes.
Posted by: SteveS || 02/03/2020 10:57 Comments || Top||

#8  Gerhardt, Turn the mirror around and you will find the your culprits. Schiff, Pelosi, Nadler, and others of the House that created the sh!t show for the American people are the ones who ought to face charges before the bar. If there was lying, slander and ethics issues, it wasn't the prosecution who was responsible.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/03/2020 12:22 Comments || Top||

#9  They're evil, first and foremost.

Calling them crazy or merely stupid is going way too easy on them. (Although many of them are crazy and stupid)

Posted by: charger || 02/03/2020 16:04 Comments || Top||

#10  #7 They've lost their F'n minds

That right there is pretty much the epitaph for the 21st century so far. Pity. I had such high hopes.

Change your historical century marks, Steve. The postwar Global-Grifter regime just ended, and with it, the 20ccame to a close.

The Shitshow represents the death rattle of the old regime - not its apotheosis but its farcical end.

The real 21st century began just now: Brexit + Trump's Triumph over the corrupt, incompetent dump of the Globalist Deep State.

Sort of like how most historians mark the 19c as effectively the proof from 1815-1914: from the Concert of Vienna to the Guns of August.

The Global Grift era ran from 1945-2019. A new era has dawned.
Posted by: Lex || 02/03/2020 17:20 Comments || Top||

#11  #8 If there was lying, slander and ethics issues, it wasn't the prosecution who was responsible.

If there was lying, slander and ethics issues, it wasn't the prosecution defense lawyers who were responsible.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/03/2020 17:57 Comments || Top||

#12  Don’t the laws against slander and libel kick in at some point? Not all these people are “public figures”.
Posted by: KBK || 02/03/2020 22:51 Comments || Top||


Rep. Omar Trashes the U.S. for Not Living Up to Her 'American Dream'
[Townhall] Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is in Iowa doing last-minute campaigning on behalf of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). During an event in Clive Iowa, Omar explained how her idea of the "American Dream" were shattered once she came to America.

"When I first came to the United States, I remember one of the first things that I saw was homeless people sleeping on the sides of Manhattan when we arrived in New York. And I remember turning to my father and saying, 'This doesn't look like the America you promised.' And my father looked at me and said, 'Hush, child, we are going to get to our America,'" Omar recounted. "Because the America we were shown in the orientation tapes when we were coming here from the refugee camp in Kenya had beautiful homes with white picket fences, happy families eating a full meal in their beautiful living rooms. It had happy children getting on the bus to go to their beautiful schools. It had pictures of amazing malls, megamalls, and had pictures of beautifully built bridges and highways. It was a picture of abundance. Now that is the ideal."

"That is the America we all know we deserve but our reality is full of homeless people. Our reality is full of families who have moms and dads who are going without dinner or lunch or breakfast just so that they can have enough for their children," she explained. "Our reality is full of kids who are showing up to schools that are full of mold and leaking rooftops. Our reality has children who are facing drills every single day to learn about how they can escape being shot in our schools."

Omar seems to forget that the areas that are being overrun with homeless people ‐ like San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York City ‐ are all cities under Democratic mayors and legislators. Homelessness isn't a new phenomenon. L.A. has always had "Skid Row," an area in downtown that has become infamous because of its condensed homeless population. Democrats continually cite areas like Skid Row or even Downtown San Francisco as an area they want to "clean up" and "fix." What do they do? Throw our taxpayer dollars at the problem but they never get to the root cause of the issue and why people are homeless to begin with. Is it because people fell on hard times and couldn't afford a house or an apartment? Did someone get involved in drugs and they're living on the streets so the money they'd spend on housing can go towards their drug habit? Does mental illness play a role in a person's instable living conditions?
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/03/2020 06:11 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Giggle. Place your bets on how many days until this hijab-whackjob gets indicted.
Posted by: Lex || 02/03/2020 7:10 Comments || Top||

#2  'America is bad but not bad enough for me to move back to Somalia.'
Posted by: Raj || 02/03/2020 8:00 Comments || Top||

#3  Never compare the USA against other countries, always compare against a dream, ideal, or fantasy to ensure the US looks bad. Same goes for Communism but reversed.
Posted by: ruprecht || 02/03/2020 8:10 Comments || Top||

#4  Well, Ilhan, one of the (many) beauties of America is that you don't need an exit Visa to leave. Please find a batter country and go there.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 02/03/2020 8:58 Comments || Top||

#5  Somalia currently has a plague of locusts...

I thought that was it's major export.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 02/03/2020 9:17 Comments || Top||

#6  Then go back to the hellhole you came from, bitch.
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/03/2020 9:34 Comments || Top||


President Trump's Super Bowl ad was smart, to the point, and powerful (VIDEO)
[Right Scoop] President Trump’s ad during the Suepr Bowl didn’t focus on controversies. It didn’t talk about impeachment or witch hunts. It didn’t argue against socialist Democrats.

Instead it attacked the number one gaslighting narrative the media and Democrats are throwing at him: That he has done no good for this country.

Well Alice Marie Johnson has a different take. And her words, highlighting Trump’s success with criminal justice reform, made a powerful ad.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/03/2020 05:57 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Recent Rassmusan polls have Trump at 40+% with black community. I suspect a few blacks watched the Super Bowl. Hopefully some are rethinking the lies they've bene told about Trump and are willing to investigate.
Posted by: ruprecht || 02/03/2020 8:11 Comments || Top||

#2  And yet the Never-Trump Mrs. Bobby pooh-poohed the ad, saying something like, "Well, that's not all she did (wrong), so it's misleading."

I'm hoping the 50 million blacks who saw it are not as up to date on 'criminal justice news' as my spouse.
Posted by: Bobby || 02/03/2020 9:26 Comments || Top||


Orange Man Tells Hannity - ‘there's a REVOLUTION going on in this country'
[Right Scoop] It’s somewhat of a tradition, now, for the American president to sit down for an interview during the Super Bowl pregame show. (You may remember Barack Obama sitting with Bill O’Reilly a few years back.)

Well for today, the interview is with Fox again, and the interview of President Trump will be conducted by his biggest fan, and friend, at the network filled with them: Sean Hannity.

Hannity is also somewhat of an advice-giver to Trump, if not "adviser" per se, and also appears at MAGA events. As unfair and biased as that is, can y’all imagine him getting a fair interview conducted with any shred of common decency by anyone at CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC etc etc etc?
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/03/2020 05:54 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Wait till they break the leash. Then they'll really understand the revolution they started.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/03/2020 11:34 Comments || Top||


Democrats' Total Failure and Utter Humiliation Delights All Real Americans
Guess who?
[Town Hall] - Now that the Democrats’ dream of stealing the 2016 election through the power of MSNBCNN-fueled outrage, and through plots by fussy lib bureaucrats, lies in ruins, some people might argue that we should be gracious in our total victory and not mock the stinging pain that accompanied this latest agonizing failure. Some people are sissies. Hoist a stein overflowing with the tears of these losers and chug chug chug away.

Then tap another keg. This party is finally getting started, and it’s going to rage on until January 2025.

Maybe even longer, if you listen to the Bozos, Pennywises, and Krustys they find for those CNN panels. Their genius takeaway from their soul-crushing defeat in trying to impeach Donald Trump for the crime of revealing the massive corruption of Senile Joe and his son Snorty Strippertap is that Trump might decide to never leave office. That’s a good point. What would they do if he didn’t? Take up arms like real men would? Yeah, right.

...Perhaps the best thing about this ridiculous kabuki act was how it forced the unwoke Republicans to stop pretending that these antics are legitimate, that we need to treat this crap seriously, and that we need to act like these games are not just another bogus ploy designed to disenfranchise us and re-empower the sorry pack of weirdos, losers, and mutations that make up the Democratic Party. Even Senator Igloo (R?-Frigidaire) got tired of it. Of course, not all Republicans got it. We can forgive Susan Collins because she’s from Maine and maple syrup and moose make you weird.

But Mitt Romney, aka Thin Jeb!, that simpering goof...who else is about done with that carpetbagging preppie tool? What is Utah thinking? Give us back our 2012 votes. How can someone with so many kids ‐ I believe the nicknames of these Stepford sons are Skippy, Muffy, Bilbo, Tugg, Torpp, Ting, Jipper and Sneep ‐ be so incredibly impotent?

...Where do the Democrats go from here? Well, if they were not a hopeless pack of unmitigated failures masquerading as a political party, they might take stock in their situation and figure out a way to win by appealing to voters with policies the voters desire. But the Democrats are a hopeless pack of unmitigated failures masquerading as a political party, and they have no desire to appeal to voters with policies the voters desire. Instead, the Democrats, in the death grip of the weirdo SJW identity freaks and socialist Castro-wannabes, know that they can’t get what they want by winning elections based on their Marxy platform. They have to take out Trump via some extracurricular deus ex machina. Such is the dearth of options a party has when its own dummies totally alienate themselves from normal people by doing things like booing Deus on national TV.

...Let’s face it ‐ the Democrats in Congress have zilch to show their constituents next fall except videos of Adam the Anime-eyed Lollipop and Oompa Nadler losing in the Senate. And their primary is a disaster of epic proportions and it’s hilariously funny. Here’s how bad it is: Beto the Furry fell out and the stupidity/insanity axis actually rose.

Just last week, Chief Sitting Bolshevik assured her baffled audience that she would allow a trans nine-year-old to pick her Secretary of Education. Leaving aside that there are no "trans" nine-year-olds, only disturbed children egged on by terrible liberal parents who delight at how converting Kaden into Ashleigh will make themselves interesting, you at least gotta hand it to Pocahontas. That’s some incredible sucking up to the weirdo fringie set by the only person of color remaining in the race.

Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/03/2020 04:15 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


America's Coming Three-Party System
h/t Instapundit
[The Epoch Times] - Writing just before the Iowa Caucus, I am taking a risk in what I am going to say, but the handwriting seems to be on the proverbial wall. The United States will soon have three, not two, major political parties. The days of the two-party system, as we know it, are numbered.

You don’t have to be any kind of genius to see this. If, as predicted, Bernie Sanders wins big in Iowa and soon thereafter in New Hampshire and Nevada, we are on the road to having the most left-wing candidate in the history of the Democratic Party and are also well into the almost-certain break-up of that party.

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Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/03/2020 02:02 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Should Donald defeat Bernie really badly in the general election, McGovern badly or something similar‐in other words, a rout‐the Bolivarians will have to climb back on their old nag and ride back to Venezuela to lick their wounds, not to be seen hereabouts for a long time.

Not likely. Left-wingers and Identitarians are the Dems' base now. They gave up on the white working class and private-sector labor unions two decades ago.

The Global Grifter Party is an elitist imposition,, an alien graft, on a left-wing trunk. Without the Left and Identity-Politickers there is no mass Democratic Party.
Posted by: Lex || 02/03/2020 6:54 Comments || Top||

#2  At current trajectory the Democrats are going to be a regional party before long. Adding the #NeverTrumpers to that won't change anything. Dividing their numbers into two parties certainly won't.
Posted by: ruprecht || 02/03/2020 8:14 Comments || Top||

#3  They gave up on the white working class and private-sector labor unions two decades ago.
How can you have the Academia / GreenEcoWarriors in the same bed as the crass Labor/Farmer types I ask you? They are guilty of being "unconscious Deplorables™!!!" (/sarc)
Posted by: magpie || 02/03/2020 11:04 Comments || Top||

#4  I think Simon's analysis is ahistorical.

The American political system has always resolved itself into two main parties.

If a third party has a sufficiently large appeal/impact, it will either be absorbed into one of the two parties or it will replace one of them.
Posted by: charger || 02/03/2020 16:24 Comments || Top||

#5  the Democrats are going to be a regional party before long

If they actually get their wish and do away with the Electoral College, then the Dems would only have to control the voting in ~60 counties to win nationally every time.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 02/03/2020 16:50 Comments || Top||

#6  The Global Grifters are not representative of any broad social tendency, class, region or movement.

They're just a collection of maybe 40-50,000 whores who've glommed onto the administrative state and the upper reaches of corporations and Wall Street.

If - or when - the Left takes over the Democratic Party, they will turn on the Global Grifters in hopes of replacing them with their own, minor-league version of pilfering a la Omar, MadMaxine, Cummings et al.

But the days of Biden-Clinton-Kerry-Zero style global scams are over.
Posted by: Lex || 02/03/2020 17:11 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Desperate NFL Goes Full Caligula in Super Bowl Halftime Show
[Breitbart] The Super Bowl LIV halftime show in Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium saw pop megastar Jennifer Lopez, 50, swinging and hanging from a supersized stripper pole, a compilation of crotch-grabbing, and singer Shakira co-headlining.

Shakira hit the stage first performing her list of hits ‐ "She Wolf," "Empire," "Whenever, Wherever"‐ and even bust out a guitar, belted lyrics en español, and treated the 100 million worldwide viewers with a tongue wag in front of the camera.

But this show’s star was Jennifer Lopez. The Grammy-winner ran through some of her biggest hits ‐ "Jenny From the Block," "Get Right" and "Waiting for Tonight," ‐ launched into a duet with her 11-year-old daughter, brandishing the American flag on one side and the flag of Puerto Rico on the other. And then there was J-Lo on the stripper pole, siding down, a la her (Oscars snubbed) turn as a stripper in the blockbuster hit Hustlers.

Related: Sara Carter - ‘Mommy, what’s a stripper pole?’: How would the NFL answer that?

Related: The Hill - Jennifer Lopez sings 'Born in the USA' while wearing Puerto Rican flag during halftime show
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/03/2020 05:19 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ..well, technically, Puerto Rico is an American Commonwealth and has been since the Treaty of Paris. They've fully embraced the corrupt politics of the Donks on the mainland. What could be more American than that? (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/03/2020 6:17 Comments || Top||

#2  It's Miami. No big deal re waving the P.R. flag there.

That said, the show was really vulgar. The "music" was unlistenable and the "dancing" was spastic. The stripper pole was a low point. Too bad they couldn't have just done traditional salsa, etc numbers
Posted by: Lex || 02/03/2020 6:25 Comments || Top||

#3  The NFL is ghetto.
Posted by: Varmint Splat1454 || 02/03/2020 6:50 Comments || Top||

#4  Daddy, that stripper is almost as old as the Super Bowl!
Posted by: Huperesing Glains9539 || 02/03/2020 6:52 Comments || Top||

#5  She actually looks pretty good for her age. But she still can't sing, and the dancing was vile and vapid.
Posted by: Lex || 02/03/2020 7:13 Comments || Top||

#6  The guy who wrote this column did not watch the halftime show or is distorting it on purpose. There was no 'crotch grabbing' and it was J-Lo attempting to play the guitar, not Shakira. Furthermore it was J-Lo who went first, then Shakira. How do you miss that?

Other than that, it's a completely accurate column!

To me it was a typical Latin / South American (read - Brazilian or Argentinian) dance show where the chicks dance in slutty outfits and there were a few annoying guys with microphones running around like they're cool or something.
Posted by: Raj || 02/03/2020 8:08 Comments || Top||

#7  Looks like I was wrong on the crotch grab thingy; prolly getting a beer when it happened.

I still think this column is borderline ridiculous. Caligula? Really? Come on...
Posted by: Raj || 02/03/2020 8:19 Comments || Top||

#8  The NFL is ghetto.

The Oakland LA Oakland Raiders are now the Las Vegas Raiders. Seems about right for a half time show for Vegas. However, its suppose to stay there.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/03/2020 8:22 Comments || Top||

#9  Sorry Raj, but it was Shakira first on stage, playing the guitar (which she actually can do pretty well) and then later a drumset (where she's also fairly proficient).

How do I know? Well, I've been kind of a fan of her's since the late '90's.



Posted by: Mullah Richard || 02/03/2020 8:29 Comments || Top||

#10  The game was pretty good ... after I killed the sound on my TV so I was spared the color commentary drivel.
Posted by: magpie || 02/03/2020 8:58 Comments || Top||

#11  After watching the commercials thru the game, I came away with the conviction that the country is doomed.
Posted by: Mercutio || 02/03/2020 8:58 Comments || Top||

#12  Mullah - yeah, looks like I missed more of the halftime show than I thought. That's what I get for buying a bottle of vodka for the game. Still, I'm not gonna get bent out of shape because Latin dancing is closer to softcore than most Americans are used to, at least on TV.
Posted by: Raj || 02/03/2020 9:20 Comments || Top||

#13  As the halftime shows slid down from "Oops my top came off" To the twerking and stripping I always said that all we need is a stripper pole and glass bottomed floor. Well, we are there, but kids in cages??? I bet Bill loved it and Epstein would be proud. The NFL should be proud to be a role model to our youth, young men can be gang bangers and their sisters strippers... Keep it classy.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 02/03/2020 10:16 Comments || Top||

#14  Whole lot of tushy shakin goin on.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/03/2020 10:21 Comments || Top||

#15  If it had been actual Latin dancing that would have been nice. Instead there was spastic, ridiculous herky-jerking, some twerking and that stupid pole dance stunt.
Posted by: Lex || 02/03/2020 11:11 Comments || Top||

#16  They can shake their booties. Too bad they can't sing.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/03/2020 12:31 Comments || Top||

#17  Raj, if you were getting a beer or vodka instead of watching that booty show, you did the right thing.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/03/2020 12:35 Comments || Top||

#18  Ti**y bar stuff. They've devolved from 'wardrobe malfunction' to ti**y bar pole dance. Eros and Himeros are pleased.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/03/2020 12:46 Comments || Top||

#19  Super Bowl strip club...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 02/03/2020 12:48 Comments || Top||

#20  I taped a couple dollars to my big screen...
Posted by: Frank G || 02/03/2020 13:06 Comments || Top||

#21  Raj, if you were getting a beer or vodka instead of watching that booty show, you did the right thing.

I'm usually washing dishes at halftime, which is fine when real musical turds are onstage (Maroon 9 and Justin Timberlake, anybody?) but I watched this one at home because my buddy (who I've been watching the SB with for over twenty years) has a girlfriend who threw a ill-timed and fairly ugly tantrum during Christmas. I walked out and told him 'If I never see her or speak to her again, I'm fine with it'. So I caught a lot of this one. Katy Perry wasn't too bad, either, but I wasn't watching any of them for the choreography...
Posted by: Raj || 02/03/2020 13:41 Comments || Top||

#22  Old habits die hard Frank.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/03/2020 13:45 Comments || Top||

#23  The little one actually has some musical talent but she's totally ordinary looking. The bigger one has big league T&A but zero musical talent. Neither one can sing or dance worth a lick anything.
Posted by: Lex || 02/03/2020 14:27 Comments || Top||

#24  #11 After watching the commercials thru the game, I came away with the conviction that the country is doomed.

Thankfully, I never saw the one with the tranny in my sporadic viewing, but there seemed to be a lot of ads with celebs all hanging around together, like I'm supposed to give a shit.

Scorcese appearing in a drink commercial after his denunciation of "theme park ride" movies was unintentionally hilarious.

And the one with Yawn Legend-In-His-Own-Mind and his yapping chihuahua of a wife was just skin crawling levels of cringe.
Posted by: charger || 02/03/2020 16:17 Comments || Top||

#25 
I don't see the problem. The half-time show was full of cuties; Jenni-PURR Lopez and CAT-ira were adorable, and the only wardrobe malfunction I saw was when CAT-ira's wig fell off.

Oh, wait - we're not talking about the Puppy Bowl? :-D
Posted by: Barbara || 02/03/2020 16:30 Comments || Top||

#26  I don't care much about the show. The game was excellent.
Posted by: European Conservative || 02/03/2020 16:36 Comments || Top||

#27  Scorcese appearing in a drink commercial after his denunciation of "theme park ride" movies was unintentionally hilarious.

Forced penance for the Hollywood sinner. Corporate Father, forgive me, for I have sinned...
Posted by: Lex || 02/03/2020 17:02 Comments || Top||

#28  What is this "Super Bowl" you speak of?
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 02/03/2020 18:09 Comments || Top||

#29  It's something colonists watch instead of real football :-)
Posted by: European Conservative || 02/03/2020 18:16 Comments || Top||

#30  Not Metric Football
Posted by: Frank G || 02/03/2020 19:40 Comments || Top||

#31  I think I'm older than most of you . . . . but you people sound old! Like REALLY OLD! And get the hell off my lawn.
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper || 02/03/2020 20:36 Comments || Top||


Liberalism's 'cesspit'?: IAN BIRRELL says tech giants have turned San Francisco into a dystopian nightmare of addiction, homelessness and criminality
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Kakistan.

With billionaires. Dystopian indeed.
Posted by: Lex || 02/03/2020 1:15 Comments || Top||

#2  "But we meant well"

...should go down right next to "I was just obeying orders".

GIGO
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/03/2020 6:13 Comments || Top||

#3  To steal an idea from Insty:
Clockwork Orange + Blade Runner = Soylent Green
Posted by: Mercutio || 02/03/2020 8:39 Comments || Top||

#4  "But we meant well"

No, they did not mean well. If they had they would have had to admit by now that the experiment has failed and a new approach should be taken.

But no. Somebody is making money from all the drugs being sold and I would bet that the money trail leads back to city hall, Sacramento and Washington DC.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/03/2020 12:59 Comments || Top||

#5  I'm an expat San Franciscan. I lived there from 1988 to 2007; so nearly 20 years. And I'm here to tell you all that SF has always been a dystopian nightmare of addiction, homelessness and criminality. That's its natural state.

Oh, there was a brief window from the mid 90's to around the mid "zeros" or so where yuppies poured in from the Northeast, completely altered the place, and it became cleanish for a while. But I knew it wouldn't last. And it hasn't.

Nothing to do with tech giants. Just the city going back to being the weird cross between Berkeley and Detroit it was before.
Posted by: Secret Master || 02/03/2020 15:32 Comments || Top||

#6  I had just passed dealers selling drugs beside a police car parked outside government offices, and seen their customers openly smoke fentanyl, an opioid 50 times stronger than heroin, then collapse on the street.

Okay: a cross between Berkeley, Detroit, and New Orleans then!
Posted by: Secret Master || 02/03/2020 15:35 Comments || Top||

#7  You have to develop a thick skin,’ says Sonya Lee, 24, supervisor in a Starbucks branch surrounded by bustling boutiques, expensive hotels and smart restaurants. ‘Every day, people come in and take stuff. It’s dreadful but we don’t know what to do.’

Here's some free advice from the ol' Secret Master kid. Move.
Posted by: Secret Master || 02/03/2020 15:42 Comments || Top||



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