Month: October 2018

Tories Could F%$# Up a 2 Car Funeral – Stellar Parthenon

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The Tories are going to have an official conference, so they had an app for that.

Rather like Brexit negotiations, it was a complete fiasco:

A major flaw in the Conservatives’ official conference mobile phone application has made the private data of senior party members – including cabinet ministers – accessible to anyone that logged in as that particular conference attendee.

The data of hundreds of attendees to the Tory conference could be viewed by second guessing attendees’ email addresses, with Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, Gavin Williamson and others among those whose personal information – including their phone numbers – was made accessible.

Once logged into the app, users were able to both amend and make the personal details of prominent MPs public. Twitter users claimed Johnson’s picture had been briefly changed to one featuring a pornographic image.

Gove’s picture was changed to Rupert Murdoch, his previous employer at the Times. Anyone could log in as any attendee by providing an email with no password. Many MPs had registered with their public parliamentary email addresses, making it simple for any member of the public to access their mobile number via the app.

Commentators said the flaw raised questions over the ability of the government to harness technology to solve issues around the Irish border and customs checks. The app may also have breached data laws. Its privacy policy states that it “complies with … the European Union’s general data protection regulation (GDPR)”.

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It follows the gaffe that unfolded last year during Theresa May’s keynote speech when a comedian managed to get to the front of the stage and pass her a P45, [Layoff Form] which she accepted.

馬鹿につける薬はない (There is no medicine for stupidity.)

Yes, Supporting the Corrupt Son of a Bitch is Working Out Well

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OIt looks likely that Democrat Bob Menendez is in a tight race with Republican Bob Hugin for his New Jersey US Senate Seat.

Note that New Jersey has not voted for a Republican Presidential Candidate since 1988, and hasn’t elected a Republican Senator since 1978. (There have been some ‘Phant appointments)

But Hugins is in the margin of error, because he was tried for corruption and the jury hung, and because the Supreme Court made it next to impossible to prosecute corrupt politicians with the Bob “Governor Ultrasound” McDonnell decision.

The Democrats are not running against Wall Street, because they want the campaign cash, they are in hock up to their eyeballs to big pharma, (Jim Manchin’s kid is behind price gouging on the Epi-Pen), and now they are putting forward corrupt candidates.

This is the stupidest Democratic Party campaign strategy since ……… Well, 2016, but you get my point.

The Value That They Share Is a Dedication to Looting

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Neera Tanden, who has made a career out of supporting the worst that the Democratic Party has to offer in order to suck up corporate money, and Bill Kristol, who has made a career out of being Irving Kristol’s kid, are holding a mutual talk to discuss what they have in common.

📢 WATCH NOW! We are #live with @BillKristol & @NeeraTanden as they talk about shared #values on both sides in the latest #policytalks, part of the @WeListenUSA Fall Conference. Link to view: https://t.co/15pQ3OANcx 📺 pic.twitter.com/kplwJrJqds

— Ford School (@fordschool) September 30, 2018

What you have in common is that you are a bunch of contemptible parasites who make the world a profoundly worse place.

Yeah, the Fix is In on Kavanaugh

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No questions to Kavanaugh or Ford, Ramirez was barely intervieded and and corroborating witnesses were given the brush off.

The money quote here is, “No one who lived in Lawrance Hall (so far as I know) has been contacted by the FBI What a charade.”

The WaPo has a list of people that he FBI refused to interview despite their claims that Kavanaugh is a liar, which is a critical part of a background check, and another story from them about how the FBI refused to interview someone who had text messages showing that Kavanaugh was doing damage control on Ramirez before he told the Judiciary Committee he knew about the allegations.

Of course, Susan Collins has signed off on the sham, because her moderation only really applies when her vote does not count.

So, it looks like we are going to get a liar, gambling addict, alcoholic, rapist on the Supreme Court.

He has a pretty good shot at being a worse justice than Roger B. Taney.

Linkage

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Word is that Matt Damon nailed this in less than 24 hours:

F%$# the DNC

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Pathetic

Tom Perez, chair of the DNC says that here will be no consequences for Democratic Senators who vote for Kavanaugh.

Seriously, the only reason that the Democratic Party establishment gives to vote for them is, “The Supreme Court,” and Perez cannot even hold the line on that.

They are the problem, not the solution, and they are dedicated to the dystopian status quo.

Give to candidates, or give to state parties, but don’t give money, or your personal information, to the DNC, and do not refer friends to the DNC, because they are nothing more than a way for incompetent consultants to get paid.

Frat, Drunk, and Stupid Is No Way to Go through Life, Son.

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The drip, drip, drip of Kavanaugh revelations continue.

First, and most significantly, text messages have been revealed showing that Kavanaugh was marshalling a response to Deborah Ramirez before anyone had heard of her, which begs the question:  How could he know if, as he has testified, this had never happened?

Also, it appears that he started a bar fight in 1985:

As an undergraduate student at Yale, Brett M. Kavanaugh was involved in an altercation at a local bar during which he was accused of throwing ice on another patron, according to a police report.

The incident, which occurred in September 1985 during Mr. Kavanaugh’s junior year, resulted in Mr. Kavanaugh and four other men being questioned by the New Haven Police Department. Mr. Kavanaugh was not arrested, but the police report stated that a 21-year-old man accused Mr. Kavanaugh of throwing ice on him “for some unknown reason.”

A witness to the fight said that Chris Dudley, a Yale basketball player who is friends with Mr. Kavanaugh, then threw a glass that hit the man in the ear, according to the police report, which was obtained by The New York Times.

The report said that the victim, Dom Cozzolino, “was bleeding from the right ear” and was treated at a hospital. A detective was notified of the incident at 1:20 a.m.

Mr. Dudley denied the accusation, according to the report. For his part, speaking to the officers, Mr. Kavanaugh did not want “to say if he threw the ice or not,” the police report said.

Nope, no indication of a teen drinking problem there.

Neither is his letter to has friends in high school about their weekend getaway which stated that, “Warn the neighbors that we’re loud, obnoxious drunks with prolific pukers among us.”

Nope, no sign of out of control drinking there either.

Also, Chad Ludington Kavanaugh’s Yale roommate, has called him a liar about his drinking in college:

In recent days I have become deeply troubled by what has been a blatant mischaracterization by Brett himself of his drinking at Yale. When I watched Brett and his wife being interviewed on Fox News on Monday, and when I watched Brett deliver his testimony under oath to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, I cringed. For the fact is, at Yale, and I can speak to no other times, Brett was a frequent drinker, and a heavy drinker. I know, because, especially in our first two years of college, I often drank with him. On many occasions I heard Brett slur his words and saw him staggering from alcohol consumption, not all of which was beer. When Brett got drunk, he was often belligerent and aggressive. On one of the last occasions I purposely socialized with Brett, I witnessed him respond to a semi-hostile remark, not by defusing the situation, but by throwing his beer in the man’s face and starting a fight that ended with one of our mutual friends in jail.

I’m beginning to think that if he got drunk, and forcibly buggered Mitch McConnell over his desk on the floor of the Senate, he would still get at least 48 Republican votes, including Mitch McConnel, to confirm him to the Supreme Court.

Tru Dat

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I know that we are living in Bizarro world when Donald Trump is telling the truth.

In this case, he told the King of Saudi Arabia that they were dependent on the US for their continued survival.

Taking down the corrupt creeps in the House of Saud, even rhetorically, is a good thing:

President Donald Trump made an undiplomatic remark about close ally Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, saying he warned Saudi Arabia’s King Salman he would not last in power “for two weeks” without the backing of the U.S. military.

“We protect Saudi Arabia. Would you say they’re rich. And I love the King, King Salman. But I said ‘King — we’re protecting you — you might not be there for two weeks without us — you have to pay for your military,'” Trump said to cheers at a rally in Southaven, Mississippi.

I don’t know if  he actually said this to representatives of the House of Saud, Trump has a long history of blowing smoke up people’s asses, but the statement is pretty accurate with regard to the to the real value of the few thousand thieves who claim to be princes.