DC Tom

Means "corporal."

Avenatti - "Creepy Porn Lawyer." Took me a good while to puzzle it out. Abbreviating it lessens the impact.

Rhetorical question, right?

And when they don't get the House, and lose seats in the Senate.

There was a reaction. You just never heard it because the media was too busy reporting on Kavanaugh's college beer consumption to notice.

If she can hold out that long, that's when RBG will retire. Just after the conventions in 2020, to test that.

No. This has been happening more frequently than you think, and almost never reported. Last media report I saw was about an immigrant kid who was united with his legally resident mother after six months in detention...the media left out the part where he was brought across the border by human traffickers, and it took six months' investigation to roll up the trafficking ring and determine the mother wasn't part of it.

In a couple weeks, you're going to read articles about these kids being unfairly detained by the Trump Administration.

That almost sounds like blackmail, or extortion. Or Nazis. "We'll be civil when we're in power, and no longer have to fight the extremist opposition in the streets."

You know who else had nearly monolithic support within his own party?

That's diffuse enough that you start to wonder how much control Soros can actually exert over it.

No...but that has less to do with slavery than it does state sovereignty. That's the piece everyone seems to miss in discussions of the country's history: state sovereignty was much stronger historically than it is today. Even as late as the '30s, it was much stronger. The Senate and the EC were recognition of that sovereignty. The House represents the sovereignty of the people, the Senate that of the states, the EC a mix of both. Both the latter serve to insulate the government from the whimsical nature of direct democracy (again: Thucydides. And even Athenian direct democracy had the boule to rein in the mob - and it was still disastrous.) And again: read the Constitution. The House - the people - originate laws and spending. The Senate - the sovereign states - approve the actions of the nation as a sovereign entity. While the people originate the laws, it's the sovereign nation that nominates the adjudicators of those laws, and the sovereign states that consent to the sovereign nation's nominations. It's called "checks and balances" - the people, the nation, and the states all get a say, and have to work together. And that is not a system that has outlived itself.

Most of the Democrats I know think it was necessary and justified to protect Obama's legacy.

In a Senate hearing, the Senate is the investigator. Not the FBI. #FFFFF is the color code for white. So...yes, White New Guy.

Same people, drill or combat, I'd imagine. Historically, in combat, the shells just pile up until either combat's over, or they become an actual impediment to combat, because during combat no one has time for that ****. And it would be the gun crew's responsibility to clean up, in most cases. Little difficult if the whales decide to get within 100 yards of you.

Read the Constitution, and note the difference in responsibilities between House and Senate. That's your answer.

"I'm Spartacus!"

Well, I just had three scoops. In my house at R'lyeh I wait dreaming...

President Harrison also highlighted the patriotic motivations for the holiday, and the shared “devout faith” -- Christianity -- of Columbus and the American people, so abundantly blessed by “Divine Providence”: As we celebrate Columbus Day -- for those of us still inoculated enough against cultural relativist depravity to do so -- it is also worth recapturing concretely the specific late 15th century religious motivations for Columbus’ voyage. Simply put, Columbus sought “eastern (even far eastern) alliances” to end a millennium of Islam’s jihad-imposed tyranny against Christendom. Louis Bertrand’s scholarly 1934 tome, The History of Spain, elegantly -- and unapologetically -- characterized the now well-nigh forgotten, or ignored, historical context. When the Spanish Christian monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella recaptured Granada on January 2, 1492, they ended almost eight centuries of jihad ravages (described by Bertrand in 1934, and in 2016 here) -- massacres, pillage, mass enslavement, and deportation -- and the grinding imposition of Sharia by Spain’s various pious Muslim conquerors, and rulers. Bertrand’s unsparing narrative describes the bitter, chronic fate of Spain’s Christians under Islam, both those fully subjugated and the populations never entirely subdued in the semi-autonomous northern regions: The religious Islamic jihad motivations for this devastation, and related “pious,” sadistic savagery of their triumphal execution, were underscored by Bertrand: Completely, stupidly false. Columbus sought a sea alternative to the Silk Road, and pitched it to everyone in Europe for ten years - even to the Portuguese, who lost interest when they developed the route around Africa. The Spanish court funded him because they needed trade with the Spice Islands to replenish their coffers after the Reconquista ended - not allies for it - and the Portuguese already claimed a monopoly on the only extant route. Columbus wasn't even Spanish - he was Genoan, and didn't give two ***** about Islam in Spain.

Seriously...Ignobel Prize...best troll EVER.

You don't even know how the government works. You have no chance of understanding how "us people" work. You can't even identify what "we" stand for.

Where are the protestors? They're on Twitter, screaming that he's trying to hide his racism and misogyny with empty gestures.

Doesn't matter what you buy. Your belief is irrelevant to the fact: the Constitution specifies "advice and consent," but the Supreme Court has ruled that the means of "advice and consent" is entirely up to the Senate, and it begins when the nomination hits the chair's desk. There is no requirement to advance it to committee or a vote. And I supported Garland's nomination, and thought McConnell was being petulant and childish. But he acted entirely within established Senate procedure and Constitutional law.

Difference is that McConnell worked within Senate procedure and the Constitution to block Garland. Feinstein went outside it and abused the rights of a rape victim to inflame the mob.

That is a future domestic abuser.