Comments on: In House testimony today, Loretta Lynch…

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 23:16:27 +0000

Neo,

Interesting.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 20:42:51 +0000

Artfldgr, just because the war you speak of is a probability, it does not diminish the threat of our own government. It is basically a horse race to see which one of the several threats will get us first; will it be the government threat from within, or one of the several possibilities from without, or a some combination of both? We don’t really know at the moment. This blog seems to focus more on conservatism and politics, there are other quality sites that highlight those topics such as strategypage and debkafile.

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 17:53:29 +0000

Eric:

If you follow the link I placed on the word “hangout“, you get the following historical reference to Nixon:

A limited hangout or partial hangout is, according to former special assistant to the Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Victor Marchetti, “spy jargon for a favorite and frequently used gimmick of the clandestine professionals. When their veil of secrecy is shredded and they can no longer rely on a phony cover story to misinform the public, they resort to admitting–sometimes even volunteering–some of the truth while still managing to withhold the key and damaging facts in the case. The public, however, is usually so intrigued by the new information that it never thinks to pursue the matter further.”…

In a March 22, 1973 meeting between Richard Nixon, John Dean, John Ehrlichman, John Mitchell, and H.R. Haldeman, Ehrlichman incorporated the term into a new and related one, “modified limited hangout.”

The phrase was coined in the following exchange:
“ PRESIDENT: You think, you think we want to, want to go this route now? And the–let it hang out, so to speak?

DEAN: Well, it’s, it isn’t really that–
HALDEMAN: It’s a limited hang out.
DEAN: It’s a limited hang out.
EHRLICHMAN: It’s a modified limited hang out.
PRESIDENT: Well, it’s only the questions of the thing hanging out publicly or privately.

So you see that there are no commas in the original, and I added the word “extremely” in order to modify the original, so I hyphenated it each time.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 15:49:46 +0000

Neo:
“…performs the extremely-limited extremely-modified hangout.”

Curious. Why did you hyphenate rather than use a comma – ‘extremely limited, extremely modified’?

By: Assistant Village Idiot

Assistant Village Idiot — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 15:49:27 +0000

@MDL – Politicians often criticize Supreme Court justices, in general and in specific. I think Ginsburg’s criticism of a presidential candidate is unprecedented.

Lawyers, you may recall, like to look to precedent as a guide to understanding things, for good reason. Not that precedent is always correct, but that it gives a person who may have thought about this more than you have a chance to weigh in.

By: OM

OM — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 15:26:31 +0000

Artfldgr:

Have you read this analysis on the recent legal events regarding China the Philippines and South China sea?

https://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2016/07/12/china-loses-court-case-of-the-south-china-sea/

By: Jacinto1

Jacinto1 — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 15:20:13 +0000

Re: Artfldgr above:
I think Chinese leaders may have put themselves into a box by underestimating the validity of the Philippine case when it was filed. They have stoked the nationalism of their people and they have some choices to make for what actions to take without “losing face”. Of course I agree that their long term belief and aim is to dominate the region, but in this particular case, they may have acted prematurely and too aggressively without serious considerations for the legal basis of their expansive claims.

By: Artfldgr

Artfldgr — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 14:36:37 +0000

On another note, the war that is coming is being ignored, and neo has turned down the position of being the first to track it and show how its building up… something she has applied to WWII… and wondered, but is not applying to the war that is coming

China threatens to impose air defence zone on disputed area of South China Sea
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/13/china-declares-right-to-set-up-air-defence-zone-in-south-china-s/

one conflict and our economy goes into the tank with people starving, riots, and more…

but thats ok..
lets cover the lynch thing which is not news, not much to comment about, and is quite robotic in its dialogue and outcomes…

enjoy…

nothing like a war your not prepared for and wasted the years of warnings to ignore…

Its coming because it has the most chance of winning right now, regardless of who is going to be in office…

or do you think once the conflict starts, even if small, they will continue to make stuff for us and give us replacement parts for our military equipment?

and people wonder how wars start…
hah
they start cause people dont want to believe or pay attention to the signs and stuff that happens way before they do, and do something.

as with obama and other things, you have to be in the sh*t to realize your in the sh*t… there is no avoiding it because there is no belief…

i explained this way back around 2008, that belief is everything… (which the dems know, and others dont believe! ergo their bs plays to beliefs, while logic cant do a thing about it any more than it can prove or disprove god… )

By: catl in atlanta

catl in atlanta — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 12:36:46 +0000

RBG has given a whole new meaning to the phrase, “The Full Ginsburg”.

By: Julie near Chicago

Julie near Chicago — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 07:55:54 +0000

Do I not recall that this is the same sitting Supreme Court Justice who went to Egypt and advised the Egyptians that they did not want a Constitution based on or inspired by ours, which is simply dreadful, or a disaster, or whatever the disrespectful put-down was.