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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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"Some of Jesus’ questions were rhetorical; others were meant to challenge or even provoke. In some cases, Jesus used questions to parry attacks by religious authorities who set traps for him. In others, he used questions to enter more fully into the lives of others and to help people look at the state of their hearts. He asked people about their fears and their faith. Jesus used questions to free a woman caught in adultery from condemnation and to inquire whether people considered him to be the Messiah. He probed deeply into questions not many had asked before him, like “For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”
---(Peter Wehner, long-time White House consultant and writer, in the NYT last week about Jesus Christ’s method of teaching by asking questions.)

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