There’s a reason people watch far less women’s sports… (h/t Colonialista)
Oh, That Liberal Media!
Iger can either take the progressive politics out of ESPN and please his stockholders, or he can continue to use ESPN to please the Democratic base and help him win the nomination, but he likely can’t do both.
The Planet Has A Fever
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So Empowered, Yet Oppressed By Everything
A compendium of offerings from Everyday Feminism, where unhappy women scold their inferiors.
O, Cascadia Subduction Zone
Swamp, Draining
“Having refused to admit his errors, the Director cannot be expected to implement the necessary corrective actions.” — Full text of the Memorandum for the Attorney General on the firing of James Comey.
Related…
More: “The surprise is it took so long”.
Republicans have never bought into the story line that Comey cost Clinton the election. And they fault him for not recommending criminal prosecution of Clinton for her alleged misdeeds. But their main complaint was that he gave the Russia story more weight than it deserved. In March, Comey revealed that there had been an active counterintelligence investigation on “the nature of any links between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Russian government, and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and Russia’s efforts.”
This was an unprecedented admission, and it might have been an attempt on Comey’s part to make it politically difficult to fire him. Clearly, not difficult enough. And while Comey said he had “no information that supports” the idea that President Trump had been “wiretapped,” the full nature of the surveillance that Trump’s campaign and administration have been subjected to has yet to be revealed.
The bottom line was that Comey repeatedly made himself the issue. His mandate was to enforce the law fairly and impartially. Instead, he appeared time and again to be gaming the system.
Reader Tips
Thread open.
You’re Fired
Developing… Trump fires FBI director James Comey
Comey learned of firing as he addressed FBI employees in LA. TV screens in background flashed news of firing. Letter was then given to FBI.
— Michael S. Schmidt (@nytmike) May 9, 2017
I think he did it for Hillary.
Lots of links at Drudge, I’ll just send you there as the probable best source for developments.
Heh.
Very risky of Trump to fire Comey without first getting permission from a federal judge in Hawaii.
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) May 9, 2017
Those Moderate Muslims!
No different than Christianity.
An Indonesian court has sentenced the minority Christian governor of Jakarta to two years in prison for blaspheming the Koran
Except for that.
Killing O’Reilly
BC Provincial Election
Open thread. I’ll just watch, because I know you like that.*
The Children Are Our Future
And that’s why I’m investing in Depend® Underwear.
Renegade Regulator
Well, we researched. We found that prior to his appointment to the Federal Court, Michael Manson spent his career at the law firm of Smart & Biggar, eventually presiding over the place as Managing Partner. He arrived there in 1982 and left for the Bench in 2012. That’s thirty years, folks. And that’s important, because Smart & Biggar has a longstanding relationship with CSA.
Don’t miss this one. But take a gravol.
There Goes The Narrative!
Arrest made in case of homophobic pro-Trump vandalism…
Reader Tips
My days are still very hectic around here, with not much opportunity for screen time. Things should settle down soon and allow me more time for posting. Thanks for your patience, tips thread is open.
Firewall
Memo uncovered by @mindingottawa show feds may link climate policy to equalization transfers..this is not acceptable https://t.co/L0xu54YOaE pic.twitter.com/1T7y1NZYsj
— Brad Wall (@PremierBradWall) May 8, 2017
Fake Law
Those who try to police the relentlessly transformational projects of constitutional progressives had much to dread from the Obama administration, an inveterate ally of the legal left that did what it could to graft the aspirations of progressives onto the Constitution. But Trump’s presidency may be even worse, because too many judges now feel called to “resist” Trump and all his works–no matter the cost to the law’s authority and to the integrity of the judicial role.
Le Irony
France had a chance to elect a Trump-like candidate, but instead chose a rich, white businessman with no government experience. #Macron
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) May 8, 2017
The Jobs Americans Won’t Do
Would you like a sprinkle of blood on your salad?
The recent eruption of gang violence on Long Island — highlighted by the discovery of the mutilated bodies of four young men in a public park — fits what experts and sources say is a new and more deadly profile of MS-13.
At the heart of that profile are newcomers from Central America eager to make their mark within an immigrant gang already known for its code of brutality and its weapon of choice, the machete, the sources say.
[…] MS-13 members don’t typically have great financial resources. Recently arrested members of the gang have been employed as restaurant workers, car washers, landscapers, salad makers and sheet-metal platers…
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
CBC has taken down the Nazi SS icon they used to represent the CDN military. You can see the archived version here: https://t.co/puxtInYl6V
— Stephen Taylor (@stephen_taylor) May 7, 2017

