What I Learned from the Latest Debate

12/16/2015

Million of these on line. This from Michael-in-Norfolk.

If the Mets were playing, I wouldn’t have watched these mugs at all.
Trump has what the ball players used to call “the red ass.” He hears slights and does a quick sizzle. Just what we want in a chief executive.
Fiorina did not mention “body parts” or otherwise incite gun-toting lunatics. How statesmanlike of her.
Bush may have been put on earth to annoy Trump.
Rubio still looks like El Joven reaching for the water bottle.
Kasich remains the most adult person in that clown car. Not saying much.
I never believed in reincarnation until I saw Joe McCarthy back on earth as a sneering Texan.
I agree with about 12 percent of what Paul says. Otherwise, he’s a terrier yapping at the passing parade.
Christie still bragging about being a leader after blowing off a needed railroad tunnel years ago. No shame.
Carson declined to pick between two candidates’ points. Sounded like me when the teacher called on me in class. “Um, what?”
Come to think of it, if the Yankees had been playing, I would have watched them.

bruce

12/16/2015 09:17:56 am

George,

pretty much dead on.

I watched for a few minutes. quite incredible.

I made the same comment you did about cruz during a trip to paris a few years ago.

I was standing in line for sainte chapelle in paris talking to a guy from, I think, Alabama. he got very offended. I told him I didn't say he was like him, just looked and sounded like he could be a close relative.

on second thought tho. I was reminded of him when I saw Trumbo last week.

bruce

bruce

12/16/2015 09:35:32 am

looks like i need an editor in my dotage. pretty sure my first mention of paris would've sufficed.....

Brian Savin

12/16/2015 09:29:45 am

Kudos for staying with it, George. I lasted an hour. When they took a commercial break promising much more I got scared off to bed.

bruce

12/16/2015 09:54:13 am

George,

this'll show you that you've been wrong about the Donald.

and it's by a reputable source.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/428506/donald-trump-good-guy

bruce

George Vecsey

12/16/2015 11:50:39 am

You mean, this Conrad Black?

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2007/02/black200702

Birds of a feather.

GV

bruce

12/16/2015 12:38:42 pm

george,

that would be the one. the great canadian press baron who gave up his citizenship to become a lord, but then went to jail in the states and....ah. screw it.

i read the story when it was in VF, but i'll have another look later on.

bruce

Ed Martin

12/16/2015 11:44:32 pm

The Ringling Clown College is suing for defamation.

George Vecsey

12/17/2015 07:53:38 am

Ed, where are the great PR people of yesteryear? What a grand PR suit that would be -- for giving bozos a bad name. Some of the thousands of clown-car mockups on the web have great nicknames for these people. GV

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Welcome to World Cup 2022, the most absurd thing that the routinely absurd world of sports has ever produced.
Those extreme descriptions were what virtually the entire world, save for those who had walked off with bags of cash from Qatar, called the awarding of soccer’s greatest event to the incredibly tiny, incredibly wealthy country back in 2010.
Twelve years ago, many were convinced this event couldn’t possibly happen: staging the world’s biggest sporting event in a country the size of Connecticut, one with zero soccer culture and even less soccer infrastructure? The tournament couldn’t possibly take place in 120-degree heat, and FIFA, the governing body of soccer, most certainly wouldn’t upend football leagues around the world to change the traditional summer schedule, could it?
And, for God’s sake, what about the beer?
Those were just the logistical concerns. The moral concerns are far more distressing. FIFA, so busy paying lip service to equality, couldn’t possibly expect the world to embrace a country where you could go to prison for being gay, where women’s rights are severely curtailed and female victims of sexual assault could go to prison, charged with engaging in extramarital sex. And all those questions came before the global realization that the World Cup was being built on the backs of migrant labor: modern-day slaves held in Qatar with virtually no rights, low wages and no ability to leave. Migrants make up 90% of Qatar’s stated population of 3 million. The country’s native-born equal about 300,000, or roughly the size of Anaheim.
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