Calls for Rep. Conyers to Resign, Rep. Barton to Retire Next Year, Jim Nabors Dead at 87: P.M. Links

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  Rep. Nancy Pelosi, leader of the Democrats in the House, is now calling for Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) to resign over the sexual harassment claims leveled against him. Conyers was hospitalized overnight, reportedly for stress.

• Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) announced he was going to retire from Congress next year in the wake of stories about him sending nude selfies to women.
• Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) says he's going to vote in favor of the GOP tax reform package.
• Legislation to recognize same-sex marriages under the law easily passed Australia's Senate and heads to the lower house. If it passes, Australia will become the 26th country to legally recognize gay marriages.
• Prosecutors have dropped all charges against a Virginia mother who had put a recording device in her daughter's backpack to try to find evidence she was being bullied at her elementary school. The mom faced felony wiretapping charges.
• Paul Manafort has agreed to an $11 million bail deal where he'll put up four of the properties he owns as collateral to guarantee that he won't skip out of the country to escape charges of money laundering and failing to register as a foreign agent.
• Sources say the White House is planning to dump Rex Tillerson as secretary of state and replace him with current CIA Director Mike Pompeo. Then they may try to move Sen. Tom Cotton to replace Pompeo to run the CIA.
• Jim Nabors, better known as the actor who portrayed Gomer Pyle, died today at the age of 87.

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[Fist of Etiquette]

Jim Nabors, better known as the actor who portrayed Gomer Pyle, died today at the age of 87.

Gomer’s a goner?

[MikeP]

Surprise, surprise, surprise!

[Rufus The Monocled]

Hello.

[Bacon-Magic glib reasonoid]

Gollllleeeeeee that sucks.

[Chipper Morning Truthjammer]

This day just keeps pyling on.

[Quo Usque Tandem]

Shazam!

[BestUsedCarSales]

Jim Nabors Was Way Cool

[CE]

One of the few actors to star on two top 10 shows in the Nielsen ratings.
The Andy Griffith Show never placed lower than 7th.
Gomer Pyle, USMC placed 10th one year and top 3 the other 4 years.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Sources say the White House is planning to dump Rex Tillerson as secretary of state and replace him with current CIA Director Mike Pompeo.

Always leave your employees guessing and hungry for your approval.

[Eidde]

Too complicated, just drop people you want to fire through a trapdoor leading to a shark tank. I mean a literal shark tank, not like some lame TV show which uses shark tanks as a metaphor.

This way they won’t write a snarky memoir making you look bad.

[BYODB]

Can you put laser beams on the frikkin’ head’s? Asking for a friend.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Rep. Nancy Pelosi, leader of the Democrats in the House, is now calling for Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) to resign…

Iconically resign.

[BestUsedCarSales]

It’s different for politicians. Why doesn’t Pelosi understand this?

[Scarecrow Repair & Chippering]

It’s also different among politicians. Why doesn’t BUCS understand this?

[BestUsedCarSales]

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) says he’s going to vote in favor of the GOP tax reform package.

I wish for a society where his refusal to step down ever was viewed as arrogance rather than honorable.

[CE]

I prefer my mavericks to ride away into the sunset, instead of hanging on to the bitter end.

[BYODB]

No joke, dude literally has brain cancer and no one seems upset that he’s still making decisions that affect millions of people.

[Chipper Morning Truthjammer]

I think McCain is 98% cancer and the tumor is actually the only tissue clinging on to normalcy.

[BYODB]

So, basically exactly the same as the Republican party overall?

[Pro Libertate]

The tumor came long after his odd behavior.

[Citizen X - #6]

Jim Nabors, better known as the actor who portrayed Gomer Pyle, died today at the age of 87.

Well, gollllee!

[Fist of Etiquette]

Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) announced he was going to retire from Congress next year in the wake of stories about him sending nude selfies to women.

Next year no one’s going to give a shite about dick pics.

[Libertarian]

Revenge porn is ok when women do it.

[Libertarian]

Revenge porn is already okay, as long as a woman does it.

[CE]

Perhaps you should rephrase that.

NVM, you already did. Or the squirrels have started editing stuff.

[Bubba Jones]

He will be selling copper fit before you know it.

[Fist of Etiquette]

If it passes, Australia will become the 26th country to legally recognize gay marriages.

Does Oz know this means they’ll be forced to toss gay shrimp on their barbies?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Prosecutors have dropped all charges against a Virginia mother who had put a recording device in her daughter’s backpack to try to find evidence she was being bullied at her elementary school.

Amazing what public ridicule will do to a politician masquerading as a prosecutor.

[Unicorn Abattoir]

Yet public ridicule of a pedophile judge running for Senate hasn’t seemed to change him much.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Well, changing what one is going to do is easier than changing what one has done.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Paul Manafort has agreed to an $11 million bail deal where he’ll put up four of the properties he owns as collateral to guarantee that he won’t skip out of the country…

And that’s what they wanted all along. All four properties are in great school districts.

[Citizen X - #6]

Paul Manafort has agreed to an $11 million bail deal where he’ll put up four of the properties he owns as collateral to guarantee that he won’t skip out of the country to escape charges of money laundering and failing to register as a foreign agent.

Yeah yeah yeah, but who did he molest?

[Fist of Etiquette]

He molested our qualified support for freedom of association and liberty of employment.

[Chipper Morning Truthjammer]

He molested Democracy herself. Not the stripper, but the female alpha of the American pantheon.

[Arizona_Guy]

It’s not as bad when we do it

Ladies, if a democratic molests you, take one for the team.

[BestUsedCarSales]

I’m embarrassed for her.

[Fist of Etiquette]

At least someone in the mix knows shame.

[Arizona_Guy]

*democrat

[BestUsedCarSales]

If a framework for assigning political offices DOES molest you though, you should probably just keep quiet on that one too.

[Arizona_Guy]

I know one of our own got raped by Hillary Clinton. I think it was Ken Shultz. I hope he found justice. Or at the very least, doesn’t commit suicide under questionable circumstances.

[Juice]

It doesn’t matter that Franken’s transgression wasn’t on the same level as the abuses that the Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore or Donald Trump have been accused of.

Really? Seems pretty similar to what Trump was accused of.

[lap83]

I spent all weekend feeling guilty that I’d called for the sacrifice of an otherwise decent man to make a political point.

Must we keep politicizing every little political thing that politicians do?!?

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

It’s possible that feminists, in trying to hold Democrats to standards that they wish were universal, risk unilateral disarmament.

There’s the money shot right there. Feminism, take a back seat to leftism.

[BYODB]

Yeah, no joke. They couldn’t have made it much more explicit that they’re willing to throw anyone or anything under the bus if they get in the way of Progressivism.

[BestUsedCarSales]

It also means that either feminism or leftism are not necessarily in women’s best interests.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Yet just as there’s a cost for cutting good but imperfect men loose, there’s a cost to defending them from consequences we’d demand if the politics were reversed. It forces feminists to treat our own standards as unrealistic, to undermine our own arguments. Ultimately, however these dilemmas play out, we lose: either the moral high ground or men whom we need, admire and maybe even love.

Ok then.

[BYODB]

It’s easy to condemn morally worthless men like Trump; it’s much harder to figure out what should happen to men who make valuable political and cultural contributions, and whose alleged misdeeds fall far short of criminal.

So, yeah, basically it’s not as bad when we do it. I was thinking this was somehow a joke, but nope. The whole thing is worth a read to understand how little reason these types of people actually have.

It’s not a coincidence that the post-Harvey Weinstein purge of sexual harassers has been largely confined to liberal-leaning fields like Hollywood, media and the Democratic Party. This isn’t because progressive institutions are more sexist than others ? I’m confident there’s at least as much sexual abuse in finance as in publishing. Rather, organizations with liberal values have suddenly become extremely responsive to claims of sexism.

So you see, it’s a good thing so many allegations are in Progressive circles. It’s because they care!

[BestUsedCarSales]

This isn’t because progressive institutions are more sexist than others ? I’m confident there’s at least as much sexual abuse in finance as in publishing.

What’s her evidence that finance is necessarily more conservative than progressive?

[BYODB]

Progressives don’t believe in making money, they believe in taking money.

[Scarecrow Repair & Chippering]

They believe very much in making money, ie printing. They don’t believe in earning it.

[BYODB]

True, although one could make the argument that by printing shit loads of money they’re stealing the value of my own cash.

[Arizona_Guy]

This isn’t because progressive institutions are more sexist than others ? I’m confident there’s at least as much sexual abuse in finance as in publishing.

Argument by assertion, or question begging?

[BYODB]

Or both, with a dash of non-sequitur?

[Eidde]

Here’s the NSFW proof.

[Eidde]

(I should have said it’s from Married With Children, then the NSFW part would be assumed)

[Telcontar the Wanderer]

Any professors or college administrators been caught up in this?

Hollywood, journalism and politics are getting hit because The People know their names and faces, making it easy to gin up social pressure. Left-leaning institutions outside of the spotlight aren’t being any better than finance.

[BYODB]

Put a bunch of nerds in charge of the futures of hot little things, don’t be surprised when revenge and opportunity occupy their minds.

[Bubba Jones]

College girls like the attention.

It has been a few years but my college dropped a ban on student-professor dating because the students complained.

[Telcontar the Wanderer]

I’m sure plenty of it is more-or-less consensual, but I’m also sure that there are at least some profs who use their influence and reputation to get away with a lot of less-than-consensual shit. I mean, I’d be willing to bet that for every woman sexually assaulted by a Weinstein or Lauer, there are a dozen or so women who had sex with a celebrity completely willingly because they were starstruck or ambitious. I imagine that applies to the academe as well: for every dozen girls that are down with it, there’s one who really, really isn’t.

[Quo Usque Tandem]

This is one of the best things about this sight; not just the articles but links posted by users that often lead to a lot more. Last week someone posted a link about a Matthew Dowd tweet that I would otherwise have never known about [amazing how the mass media just never picked up on it…]:

“Every leader (and each of us) is human and flawed and makes mistakes, but there is a difference between those who are flawed who work for the common good and those who are flawed who could care less about the common good. Huge difference.”

Translation: If you are a progressive liberal [aka “working for the common good”] you get a pass to grab ass.

[Quo Usque Tandem]

This is one of the best things about this sight; not just the articles but links posted by users that often lead to a lot more. Last week someone posted a link about a Matthew Dowd tweet that I would otherwise have never known about [amazing how the mass media just never picked up on it…]:

“Every leader (and each of us) is human and flawed and makes mistakes, but there is a difference between those who are flawed who work for the common good and those who are flawed who could care less about the common good. Huge difference.”

Translation: If you are a progressive liberal [aka “working for the common good”] you get a pass to grab ass.

[Quo Usque Tandem]

Guess squirrels agree some things are worth repeating

[Hank Stamper]

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) says he’s going to vote in favor of the GOP tax reform package.

If they want this to pass they need to steer clear of calling it a “package”. Might get confused with the Franken-Barton-Conyers package.

[Juice]

Anyone else having trouble commenting?

[Arizona_Guy]

yes

[BestUsedCarSales]

Sites slow today. I already took back this years and last years donations to teach them a lesson.

[Arizona_Guy]

I blame the FCC

[CE]

Maybe it’s net neutrality, or the lack thereof….

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

No, just having trouble submitting.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

In shit-you-can’t-make-up news, Scott Kubly, Seattle’s infamously corrupt and ethically convicted transportation chief and Vision Zero quisling, has created a phone app to help you drive more safely and stay off your phone… while driving.

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[BestUsedCarSales]

Huh, that’s what Jason Rantz looks like. Not how I imagined him at all.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

I heard Scott Kubly just got a job in some other state. I want to make sure everyone knows that I give him the highest job recommendation and to please, please hire him right away. Helluva job, Kubly.

[BestUsedCarSales]

He truly was a Vision Zero.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Jim Nabors, better known as the actor who portrayed Gomer Pyle, died today at the age of 87.

Surprise surprise surprise!

[creech]

Gomer must have been in the only Marine unit that never got deployed anywhere. He, and Sgt. Bilko, did a great job of convincing folks that most of our defense dollars were wasted on goldbrickers and goofballs. At least Hogan was fighting the Nazis while getting the laughs and the Resistance babes.

[Eidde]

Realistic military show or funny military show…you pretty much have to pick one or the other, don’t you?

[BYODB]

M*A*S*H*? But yeah, ‘realism’ not so much.

[Bra Ket]

Third category: political propaganda (one way or the other).