This week 3 of my dinners have been Rainier cherries. I don’t think it’s good for me, but it’s still pretty great. I was talking to one of the people selling them at Pike Place, and she said they were not from Washington yet. I may be done with them by the time the Washington crop is selling, but I doubt it. Hopefully the price comes down a bit.
I did have a minor ethical issue. On Tuesday night I had 2 pounds of cherries before going to Drinking Liberally. I wasn’t hungry. I don’t normally drink on weekdays. So I wasn’t going to spend money. Is it ethical to do that in a group if you’re a regular who normally gets food? I eventually felt bad and got the smallest thing on the menu, and over tipped.
Fortunately, liberals have an arbiter for ethics and morality.
Turns out he’s even in the news this morning.
Anthony Weiner to Plead Guilty to Resolve Sexting Inquiry
Mr. Weiner will plead guilty to a single charge of transferring obscene material to a minor, pursuant to a plea agreement with the United States attorney’s office in Manhattan, one of the people said. Mr. Weiner surrendered to the F.B.I. early Friday morning.
The federal authorities have been investigating reports that, beginning in January 2016, Mr. Weiner, then 51, exchanged sexually explicit messages with a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/nyregion/anthony-weiner-guilty-plea-sexting.html
Alas, no popped cherry for the Weiner.
And no presidency for #CrookedHillary.
Yes, the crime of Passing Obscene Matetials to A Minor While Not Being A Republican merits serious punishment. The party of Dennis Hastert and Mark Foley could not possibly agree more.
And no presidency for [the winner of New York State’s electoral votes].
Well, not this term, anyway.
There’s still so much fun to be had:
LOCK HER UP!!
LOCK HER UP!!
LOCK HER UP!!
Feeling played yet?
Of course not.
Live on your knees.
@2 even better yet be a Republican and call Russia your best friend and have great personal relations with them while trying to hold them accountable for anything public or to hold them to standards that have to do with this Country’s national security, and get away with it without any shame or criticism.
LONG LIVE RUSSIA!!!!
DOWN with the Penis Head!
I usually tip 15 to 20 percent, but if the service is bad, I take that into account when it comes time for the tip. Once, I was at a place and was going to use one of their coupons. I told the waitress so she would know.
I made my order and ate. When the bill came, the manager informed me the coupon was no good because I had ordered my dinner from the wrong side of the menu. (The waitress didn’t have the guts to tell me.) Heck, had the waitress told me that, I would have gladly ordered from the right menu items. I wasn’t locked into any particular menu choice.
I paid the bill and left the unused coupon as the waitress’s tip. She should have told me about the restrictions before I ordered. So, no tip for her!
Overtipping to a liberal, in theory: 30%
Overtipping to a liberal, in practice: 15%
I had dinner with a friend, who selected Tarzan i Jane in Frelard, and asked me to make reservations.
I made them online. One must pay for dinner in advance, including tax and the 20% service charge, at the time the reservation is made. So, two days before we had dinner, my card was charged $386. Two bottles of wine were additional.
The beet sorbet was outstanding and is my second most deeply ingrained memory of the evening.
$636 for a business dinner tops it. Ain’t goin’ back. I don’t care if it made GQ’s list of the top 10 best new restaurants in America.
1,
From the Department of Now It Can Be Said:
Biden disses Clinton: ‘I never thought she was a great candidate. I thought I was a great candidate.’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/19/biden-disses-clinton-i-never-thought-she-was-a-great-candidate-i-thought-i-was-a-great-candidate/?utm_term=.8276ea5b06c5
Choosing her wasn’t all that bad a decision, really. Cost Dems the White House and quite possibly the Senate, but coulda been worse.
Couldn’t it?
@ I bet the service from you would be shitty, so I’d probably leave you no tip.
@1 The difference is that among Democrats, a Weiner is the exception, whereas among Republicans, Weiners are the rule. See, e.g., the entire male staff of Fox News.
@5 Do Republicans tip? I usually see them walking out with the dinnerware stuffed into their coat pockets.
@6 Trump would laugh at anyone who spends a measly $636 on a business dinner. That won’t get you invited to Mar-o-Lago. Hell, his weekend golf junkets cost taxpayers millions. Of course, being truly rich is all about making other people pay for everything. I mean, who in their right mind spends $10,000 on a bottle of wine if they’re paying for it themselves?
@8 yeah it could have even been worse – we probably would be enemies with Russia if she were elected.
Now we can like Russia. And maybe even North Korea next.
LONG LIVE RUSSIA.
@12 just imagine that $636 dinner could have been cheaper if they allowed a lower minimum wage. Tsk, tsk, tsk.
@8 “Biden disses Clinton: ‘I never thought she was a great candidate. I thought I was a great candidate.’”
Then why didn’t he run?
10,
The difference is that we don’t defend it party wide, and top to bottom the way Republicans always have.
It’s not Fuckface treason. It’s Republican treason. We have to go after them not for what they do, but for who they are. They are Republicans. They are traitors. Thus it becomes a patriotic duty to destroy Republican politicians. And a patriotic imperative to stop voting for them.
@9 I’d charge him for the privilege of serving me.
@15 The Dumbfuck doesn’t care – it’s not like he would care if the one of the Repukes said anything good about themselves in comparison to Drumpf or bad about Drumpf (like they have).
Heck the cunt Coulter has said some really nice things about her buddy drumpf – does the dumbfuck care.
Unfortunately that the dinner he had wasn’t tainted with some Russian poison.
@ 15
Then why didn’t he run?
This is Beau’s brain.
This is Beau’s brain with cancer.
Any questions?
6,
@14 Don’t know how Boob missed this headline:
“13 Seattle restaurant closures”
Maybe because of this:
“And before you email us, let’s note that the owners of these places have attributed the closures to many different factors, but none of them blamed the minimum wage.”
and this:
“13 new restaurants to check out in Seattle and the Eastside”
http://www.seattletimes.com/li.....-121785541
Frats being brats, again.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/pi.....al-forest/
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Betcha all of ’em, every last one, will become Republican voters. Hell, a couple might even become Republican congressmen. Many of today’s Republican vandals in Congress and the administration started destroying public property during their frat house days.
@19 Not. http://www.newyorker.com/news/.....-didnt-run
The Putin-Traitor’s poll numbers continue to slide without letup.
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/05/19/poll-trumps-approval-rating-sinks-to-new-record-low-as-controversies-pile-up/22099337/
Remember when just a few months ago we progressive, affluent, healthy, well educated coastal elites were “completely irrelevant” because “FUCKFACE!”, and “aggrieved White Working Class Males!!”, and “Make me a burrito!!!”
Now, just three months after TraitorPuppet moved into the White House, Ailes is dead, Loofa Bill is moving into a refrigerator box, and we’re the Roman Fucking Empire bitches!
I guess that’s what comes from persistence.
I had dinner with a friend, who selected Tarzan i Jane in Frelard, and asked me to make reservations.
[…]
Ain’t goin’ back. I don’t care if it made GQ’s list of the top 10 best new restaurants in America.
So, do you need friends who make better restaurant recommendations?
Or maybe you just need
betterfriends?What could possibly go wrong?
Trump’s foreign hosts make unusual preparations for his visit
A source briefed extensively on the meeting’s preparations explained, “It’s kind of ridiculous how they are preparing to deal with Trump. It’s like they’re preparing to deal with a child – someone with a short attention span and mood who has no knowledge of NATO, no interest in in-depth policy issues, nothing…. They’re freaking out.”
First with Pence, and now Ryan knocked out of the line of succession, that leaves us with Orin Hatch?
None of these are very good options. And that more than anything else is why we must destroy The Republican Party of Traitors. The blast radius of the ComeyMemoFuckfacePeeHookerRussiaMoneyLaundering-a-LagoGate treason bomb continues to spread outward creating substantial gaps in the Constitutional Bomb Disposal Suit.
We have as President an ignorant man-child of limited attention span who is at the center of multiple investigations and who is yet to show he is even marginally capable of doing the most important job in our country.
Meanwhile DR DUMBFUCK focuses on a man who, if he was a RETHUG, would be considered a middle of the road RETHUG PERVERT.
Why am I not surprised…
But still… those emails.
@ 26
I offered him three options and Tarzan i Jane was one of them.
Ah, well.
At least it’s a write-off. If you categorize it under “Advertising and promotion” rather than as a meal expense, there isn’t a 50% limitation to the deduction.
Pointing that out for a friend.
Pointing that out for a friend.
So you won’t have to go to jail alone? That shouldn’t be a problem.
From link @28
Majority Leader (R-Calif.) told his leadership colleagues last June that there are two U.S. politicians on Russia’s payroll: President Trump and Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.), a vocal and unabashed defender of Russia.
Is this normal RETHUG paranoia or does Kevin McCarthy have real proof? If true then RETHUG leadership is aware of TRAITORS among their ranks.
Ryan quickly jumped in to stop McCarthy from going further, warning the small group of GOP leaders and senior staffers not to leak the discussion.
“What’s said in the family stays in the family,” Ryan said, according to the Post.
And so what happens next? They protect the TRAITORS instead of our country. This is what passes for RETHUG PATRIOTISM.
The Врач немой ебать Treason-Hashtag pimping laid bare.
Treason by a thousand hashtags.
Elections shouldn’t be influenced by foreigners. They should be influenced the good old-fashioned way.
By outspending your opponent 2-to-1 with money from rich people, including foreigners, expecting paybacks when you win.
33,
in the event that any of the allegations reported in the meeting result in criminal convictions, the follow up verbal agreement among the parties present to conceal the reports from their colleagues and the public probably constitutes a criminal conspiracy.
35,
which of course has precisely fuck-all to do with criminal conspiracies to obstruct justice.
You might just as well have said:
But hey, thanks for the open admission of collusion as well as acknowledging the precise equivalency. Much obliged, traitor!
Goldman Sachs executive Jim Donovan has pulled out of serving as President Trump’s deputy Treasury secretary, according to Politico.
Donovan told the White House this week he was unable to take the job because of family matters. President Trump nominated the Goldman Sachs alumnus in March.
The Hill
Family matters. Yeah, right. More like rats deserting a sinking ship.
Drone v. road bike.
http://www.marketwatch.com/sto.....2017-05-09
The slo-mo was very useful.
@ 38
Sounds more like an affair caught during vetting.
At least it’s a write-off.
How much are you planning to blow this year on tell-all books by former Clinton campaign staffers? Got a bogus business account lined up for those expenses, too?
At least Seattle restaurants and ghost-written Democrats are now getting a piece of the take from your reliably-gullible self.
(Mention Podesta’s password and get an additional 10% off your already-low price!)
39, 40,
Every so often it looks almost like Врач немой ебать and Mark Adams are one and the same – the Врач немой ебать version being somewhat mercifully more succinct in its inanity.
Liberals have nothing to worry about as far as getting rid of Trump goes. The Deep State is working behind the scenes to lay-out the appropriate evidence to get Trump impeached. And they know how to set Trump up. I’m talking about the secret agencies and others who would be harmed by Trump.
Those people know what “drain the swamp” means – it means government employees losing their jobs, pay and benefits. Also, for the high-roller government employees aren’t particularly interested in losing their perks and privleges.
The impeachment won’t happen until early 2019, after the 2018 mid-term election. Th House, currently, is too Republican to get a bill of impeachment passed. Also, the Senate, as it exists now, will never vote to oust Trump. After the next election, it may be earlier for Republicans senators (like Rand Paul) to vote to evict Trump from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Let’s face it – about half of the Old Guard Republicans hate Trump’s guts and would be thrilled to death to see him gone.
All you guys have to do is wait, and this will all come to pass.
@40
Vetting? When has this WH done any vetting?
Requiring loyalty pledges to the DRUMHP, sure, but not vetting.
43,
You’ve got the goods, hillbilly!
It’s Dina “Habib” Powell under the direction of that disloyal bastard McMaster with backing from JEB! The whole thing was plotted from last year by Brennan as long range payback. While Glenn Greenwald has been overseeing the psyops channel under the direction of Nicolas Maduro.
@ 44
When has this WH done any vetting?
Hey, remember when Team Obama told #CrookedHillary no dice on Sidney Blumenthal and she used him anyway?
Good times, good times.
The juicy revelation from the Blumenthal hack seemed to be that Clinton kept taking his advice, even after Obama told her not to. The private email appeared to be her way of concealing the relationship.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/07/05/the-weird-history-of-how-the-hillary-clinton-email-story-was-broken-and-buried/?utm_term=.b3d1c1a90f6f
Some of “the secret agencies”:
1) Office of the Comptroller of the Currency – tasked with putting the tracking dust on all the $100 bills
2) Millennium Challenge Corporation – installs monitoring devices in all the Star Wars® Millennium Falcon® models
3) Control – Where Max, 99, and The Chief work, of course
4) New World Order – selective breeding aimed at creating Hippie Master Race, fronted by Bill Gates
5) High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program – creates hurricanes to punish fags who won’t vote for more taxes
6) The Blaze – obviously Glenn Beck is a CIA deep cover… obviously
Elijah, you’re really a dick.
Hey Traitors!
You can relax about Fuckface Von Clownstick!
The Alt-Right Cavalry is riding to rescue him from The Derp State!
You’re going to get exactly what you want about March 15, 2019.
Beware the Ides of March, Donald!
48,
As a truly great man (well, actually puppet) once said:
Liberals have nothing to worry about as far as getting rid of Trump goes.
This liberal’s only worry is he’ll leave well before next year’s elections. I want him, his antics, and investigations into both all dragging down the Republicans in the mid-terms.
It’s already having an effect, as Dumbfuck generously demonstrates. He’s hiding in the good ol’ days of yesteryear, when Clinton’s e-mails and Podesta’s password were all the rage, and Michael Flynn could lead chants of
LOCK HER UP!!
LOCK HER UP!!
LOCK HER UP!!
Each new revelation of tawdry ties to the Russians will just make life easier for us liberals going forward.
This is all a lot more entertaining than his old reality TV show!
“Overtipping to a liberal, in theory: 30%”
You’re both a cheapskate and a traitor, Doctor Dumbfuck. For very good service, I tip 100 – 150%. Ordinary service gets 30 – 50%. They need the money. I don’t.
@29 Don’t you understand that the government-hating GOP’s theory of governing is to put incompetents in charge so everyone else will hate the government too?
@43 You’re missing the big picture. This guy has gained 60 lbs. since Jan. 20. He’s almost 71 years old and still living on junk food. He’ll never make it to 2019.
@46 Speaking of Sidney Blumenthal, this excerpt from his book is a classic:
“During the transition between administrations, National Security Adviser Sandy Berger arranged several extensive briefings on [terrorism] for Bush’s incoming national security adviser, Condoleeza Rice, and others on the Bush team, including Vice President Cheney. One briefing lasted half a day. Berger told them that Osama bin Laden was an ‘existential threat’ and told them that he wanted ‘to underscore how important this issue is.’ In another briefing, Richard Clarke, head of counterterrorism in the NSC, the single most knowledgeable expert in the government, gave them a complete tutorial on the subject. In yet another briefing, CIA officials were brought in to go over all the intelligence available on terrorism.
“Don Kerrick, a three-star general and outgoing deputy national security adviser, overlapped for four months with the new Bush people. He submitted a memo for the new National Security Council warning of the danger of terrorism. ‘We are going to be struck again,’ he wrote. But as Kerrick explained to me, he received no answer to his memo. ‘They didn’t respond,’ he said. ‘They never responded. It was not high on their priority list. I was never invited to one meeting. They never asked me to do anything. They were not focusing. They didn’t see terrorism as the big megaissue that the Clinton administration saw it as. They were concentrated on what they thought were higher priorities than terrorism.’ The Principals meeting of national security officials took up terrorism only once, after constant pressure from Clarke, on September 4, 2001, and at that meeting they discussed using unmanned Predator drone spy aircraft, but no decision was made. ‘Unfortunately,’ said Kerrick, ‘September 11 gave them something to focus on.’”
— Sidney Blumenthal, The Clinton Wars (New York: Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 2003), pp. 797-798.
@48 Aren’t we all? (Well, not exactly; one of us is a smartass rabbit.) This is HA, for god’s sake, man. Who were you expecting, Mother Teresa? This ain’t her blog.
Doctor Dumbfuck, cheap bitch and traitor, has nearly completed his inexorable slide to irrelevant, has-been, former laughingstock. About the only thing left of interest he has to offer would his trial and hanging. For my part, I’m not much interested in his trial, but his hanging would be something akin to “must see TV”, especially if we get to throw shit at him before he swings from the rope.
Something truthful this way comes…
Comey Agrees to Testify in Open Senate Hearing
Looks like another popcorn event.
While the treasonous Doctor Dumbfuck has been reduced to babbling about tipping, the week ends with…
“Trump-Russia probe now includes possible cover-up, Congress is told”
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/.....;ocid=iehp
I think Doctor Dumbfuck should go back to dropping hashtags from his ass. Only a few more to go before he shits his 4,000th.
Yup! Sure does!
“Conservative Amanda Carpenter: Trump’s ‘nut job’ comments sure sound like Russian collusion to me”
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/0.....ion-to-me/
I’d rather Trump didn’t swing from a rope. I’d prefer him dying in prison from rectal prolapse caused by being ass-fucked by every black Muslim in C Ward.
@56 Annnnnnnnnnnnd we had the Reichstag fire, 2001 edition. Kind of makes one wonder what sort of thing or other might…well, “happen” whilst Der Kätzchenhabgieriger happens to be out of not only the White House, but this entire hemisphere.
We are all Russians now! Especially the Dumbfuck Doctor.
Russia.
Called it!
How are Ed’s ball sac moles? The Dumbfuck doctor get to inspect them yet? Ohh I bet he’d love to with a bottle of fine wine.
@58 shove some of them blueprints up his ass!
That doesn’t make it sound like they own him at all.
Not one little bit.
@ 66:
Time for The Don to lawyer up.
It isn’t just about collusion with a hostile foreign power to shift an election. It’s also about how tens or hundreds of billions of dollars are being shifted around the world by Trumppp and the Russians and probably a lot of other people, off the books and left untaxed.
They’re running a huge black market currency market and are likely using illegal goods to keep it as profitable as possible. I read something years ago about how if all the money from illegal weapons, drugs and other goods were taken out of the stock markets, the whole system would collapse. The NYSE is basically just a giant money laundering operation at this point.
You want a real equivalent of a Reichstag fire? Watch the Saudis do away with The Don and blame Iran for it. The GOP would just love to dump a half a million or more young people into a real shootin’ war. Its the best, most lucrative business they know. It worked to get rid of Saddam Hussein.
On your ethical issue. Did you bring cherries for everyone at drinking liberal?
@1 And in two years the Weiner and the young lady will get married and start up a bed and breakfast in the Adirondacks. The name of the joint will be: “The Laptop.”
@2 At least he was actually texting a 15 year old, typically it’s texting Officer Joe. Making it just a thought crime. People going to jail for their thoughts.
@3 Why are you so worried about the Russians? They are bad neighbors, and have been for a long time. Still they have sovereignty. Which means any investigation is going to hit the proverbial wall. Or are there some Russian Stooges (What is Larry Moe and Curly in Russian?) I see a Democratic House member is demanding every note from the Russian meeting from the executive part of the Government. He may get them, or executive privilege maybe invoked. After all even attorneys have some notes that are privileged. Maybe he should demand any and all notes from the Russians. Is he going to subpoena them?
At some point all this congressional investigating will produce nothing or blow a lot of intelligence assets. As in just how far into Russian networks is the NSA? What do they know and when did they know it? They shared with the Obama white house communications between American citizens and the newly elected Trump team. That would seem a breach of ethics and very illegal. And should make us all wonder about our privacy. And could have a chilling effect, and make those attorneys, who have Russia clients in the Russian government sweat, and anyone who is a reporter sweat. After all Jeff Sessions has not said they won’t go after journalists.
@4 Oh you bastard. Are you Scottish?
@8 Little late now Joe. I know you had the white horse picked out, but you should have just run.
@9 Is that a pass? Wow romance here in horsesass!!!
@14 You do realize the wait staff at Mar Lar Go is paid very well for folks in Florida. Probably got people who would kill to work there and they work for Disney.
@15 Because Comey did not create the circumstances for the use of the white horse he had purchased.
@17 You are a Capitalist bunny and don’t work. You are a lazy bunny just hoping he will buy stuff from your portfolio. Then you screw him. You rent seeking rabbit!
@17 Besides you attorneys are supposed to provide proper service even if unpaid, and while you may accept a gift from a fretful clint no tips are allowed.
@24 He polls very well in Brighton Beach though. Wonder how Putin’s poll numbers are as he faces an election sooner than Trump. How are Mr. Putin’s numbers is President Trump helping or hindering those numbers?
@28 When one is planning a palace coup and the person who would replace is no more acceptable than the person you want to replace, either you need a Ceasar who will cross the Tier with his legions, or you don’t do the coup.
Yes it’s possible we could get a dictator,. The dictator is not Trump but who would replace him. Throw Trump out and you get Pence, and that should give pause to a lot of this, of course the Press loves this stuff as it sells papers or advertising, and we have some politicians putting their interests in font of the interest of the citizens of the United States.
@32 You do realize that President Trump is immune as long as he is President. Impeachment and removal from office just brings up the possibility of arrest and criminal action. So you are telling your bud here he’s safe from prosecution. Though what he is saying are perfectly legit under the tax code. Perhaps you have a problem with these write offs and should be writing your elected officials in the federal government,. Seems democrats have the opportunity to push against such tax write offs should the Republican effort to change the tax code goes forward Seems they will need some Democratic help at least in the Senate to move this forward.
@29 President is not the most important job in our country. Second seems the person in the office of President is the President. So maybe the real issue is the Democrats have yet to accept that fact. Though they have not yet gone so far as to start a Civil War they are doing a fine fine job of fucking things up as bad or worse than the person in the office of President. And we still have that little issue of North Korea that is likely to pop, so the timing really sucks. And if Trump succeeds there will that make you shut up and smell the coffee, and take a hard look at the Democratic party and ask how did we fuck so fucking badly? Why didn’t we call for Joe Biden to get into the race or come in on his white horse and hat at the end. Or run a socialist named Bernie? You did not and the Democratic party gave us Donald Trump as President. Thank you mother fuckers. Now pull your heads out of your asses.
@41 Remember if you don’t want dollars flowing into these Democratic pockets there is the public library. So you Republicans should support your local library, and some of you do. No need to spend money on this, and it’s even more fun to borrow the President Obama’s future book from the library., Going to make it hard to pay off that $400 million advance, Bloody outrageous and democrats should be pissed and speaking out. And 400K for a speech. He should be speaking for a nominal fee and it should be to all Americans.
Smells of oligarchy.
@44 Could be the President and his team are learning on the job.
Will Gordon Ramsay sneak into the White House kitchen? Mar Largo?
Dumbass above tldr,
Executive priv extends only to official acts and only protects while in office.
Patriotic, True Americans will be happy to gather in DC by the millions to watch the first ex-President in history transported away from the people’s White House clapped in irons to join the rest of his family in jail. You fucking traitors are exposed.
#nananana