Posted on 07/06/2015 10:37:15 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Vernon, Calif., the notoriously corrupt, industrial city that inspired True Detective season two, is a far cry from the eerie swamplands of the Louisiana bayou, but we’re there for a reason — right?
In this week’s episode, “Maybe Tomorrow,” Det. Ani Bezzerides (Rachel McAdams) and California Highway Patrol officer Paul Woodrugh (Taylor Kitsch) search for the killer, leading them to ambush the home of Mayor Austin Chessani (Ritchie Coster), who was in close, questionable contact with the seedy city manager before his death. While in Chessani’s mansion, we catch a glimpse of a framed photo of the mayor and former President George W. Bush. (Wow, HBO shows like their odd Bush references, don’t they?)
To understand how weird this is, let’s take a look at the town that inspired Vinci. Vernon has a reputation for corruption, dating back decades to founder-cum-mayor John Baptiste Leonis, whose associates were found guilty of voter fraud, with incidents of sex crimes, rampant nepotism, misappropriations of public funds, and yes, more voter fraud on a regular basis. So if Vinci is Vernon, and Chessani is, as we’re led to believe, involved in some serious shade — what’s Bush doing hanging out with him?
Vanity Fair has a theory that the strange happenings in Vinci could be linked to a ritualistic secret society called the Bohemian Club. The typically wealthy, white, Republican members meet up to do who-knows-what every July at a heavily guarded 2,700 acre campground named the Bohemian Grove in Monte Rio, according to the Washington Post. Membership is by invitation only,
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1) HBO’s capacity to mess up a good thing with their childish political panderings is unlimited (hello Wire seasons 2, 3, and especially 5).
2) It never was likely that they could recreate the success they had in season 1. It was a brilliant horror-detective-film noir mixture that can only work once. I am struggling to get through the first episode, simply because they are clearly trying too hard.
I think I heard Rush say today that HBO will be doing a hit piece Movie about Justice Clarence Thomas’ Nomination to the Supreme Court.
They have to smear him before he Dies I guess.
Then again, I’m sure it will be accurate and without Bias. HAHAHAHAHAHA
Let me guess, they’ll have a Shot of Bush’s Head on a Spike like they did on Game of Thrones.
Justice Thomas' confirmation hearings contained enough smears for a lifetime.
No, they’re just trying to let the New Generation in on it.
Bush’s fault?
Try paying attention next time.
Test....which country did we invade in direct reply to 9/11?
A) Afganistan.
B) Iraq.
If you answered anything other than A you are a flaming libtard.
Test....which country did we invade in direct reply to 9/11?
A) Afganistan.
B) Iraq.
If you answered anything other than A you are a flaming libtard.
We did not invade Afganistan. You're a flaming maroon.
Oh really?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_invasion_of_Afghanistan
BTW...”maroon” is a color, moron.
Clarence Thomas underwent an electronic lynching and SHE is the victim.
Joe Biden lied.
Senator Biden was the first questioner. Instead of the softball questions he’d promised to ask, he threw a beanball straight at my head, quoting from a speech I’d given four years earlier at the Pacific Legal Foundation and challenging me to defend what I’d said. ”I find attractive the arguments of scholars such as Stephen Macedo, who defend an activist Supreme Court that would strike down laws restricting property rights.” That caught me off guard, and I had no recollection of making so atypical a statement, which shook me up even more. “Now, it would seem to me what you were talking about,” Senator Biden went on to say, “is you find it attractive the fact that they are activists and they would like to strike down existing laws that impact on restricting the use of property rights, because you know, that is what they write about.”pp 235-236 of "My Grandfather's Son" by Clarence ThomasSince I didn’t remember making the statement in the first place, I didn’t know how to respond to it. All I could say in reply was that “it has been some time since I have read Professor Macedo … But I don’t believe that in my writings I have indicated that we should have an activist Supreme Court.” It was, I knew, a weak answer. Fortunately, though, the young lawyers who had helped prepare me for the hearing had loaded all of my speeches into a computer and at the first break in the proceedings they looked this one up. The senator, they found, had wrenched my words out of context. I looked at the text and saw that the passage he’d read out loud had been immediately followed by two other sentences: “But the libertarian argument overlooks the place of the Supreme Court in a scheme of separation of powers. One does not strengthen self-government and the rule of law by having the non-democratic branch of the government make policy.” The point I’d been making was the opposite of the one that Senator Biden claimed I had made.
We didn’t immediately invade Iraq. The run up to war took a year and a half.
We’d been saber rattling since 1998. Saddam had been saber rattling even longer as he’d violated the peace agreement of the first Gulf War.
North Korea was also part of the Axis of Evil. They weren’t behind the 9-11 attack either.
Iraq WAS a state sponsor of foreign terrorism in Israel and elsewhere.
“AlKida has always been our bunch, CIA ‘made’ them in afganistan to fight USSR,”
Ah yes...another liberal myth:
The early foundations of al-Qaeda were allegedly built in part on relationships and weaponry that came from the billions of dollars in U.S. support for the Afghan mujahideen during the war to expel Soviet forces from that country. However, scholars such as Jason Burke, Steve Coll, Peter Bergen, Christopher Andrew, and Vasily Mitrokhin have argued that Osama Bin Laden was “outside of CIA eyesight” and that there is “no support” in any “reliable source” for “the claim that the CIA funded bin Laden or any of the other Arab volunteers who came to support the mujahideen.”
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