What's in a Number?

Timothy Birdnow

Just a word on the phrase that has everyone all abuzz about James Comey.

The term "86" came from the hospitality industry and it meant to dump or discard. AT first (some time during the '30's) it was a term for out of stock, but later it became a verb for uneaten portions that would be thrown out. From there the term was applied to unruly or otherwise trouble-making customers being ejected from the restaurant.

But a dictionary of slang has this to say:

I've also found it said that the term comes out of the Korean war where the F-86 Sabre fighter jet would shoot down an enemy aircraft. It "86'd" them.

The phrase also may have begun at a Prohibition-era bar in New York where unruly patrons were tossed out through the door at 86 Barrow Street.

I would add this is not at all a new use of the phrase. I direct you to the 1987 film Angel Heart starring Mickey Roarke where Roarke is being interviewed by the Ne Orleans police about a dead musician " He was into voodoo, they 86 one another two a week." The film was set in the late forties, I might add. Not sure how much research went into that phrase, but I suspect they got it right.


Much like the Devil having many names the phrase has many meanings - and origins.

The phrase is rather like the term "5-oh" for cops; that has nothing to do with anything but a television show about police in Hawaii, but it's now urban slang for all police.

Whatever it's origin I would make two conclusions:

1.In the end the ambiguity of the phrase protects Comey from prosecution - which he undoubtedly understood at the time and

2.Comey knew damned good and well what he was saying and what the implications were. He was FBI Director, after all, and studied crime extensively - and criminals.

One can argue, given Comey's witch hunt to take out Trump, that he was signaling to his compadres to set an assassination effort in motion. I doubt it but it certainly can be and should be looked at.

Why? If nothing else we need to have mutual assured destruction and the Left has waged an assymetric war for decades now against us and we never respond. Comey himself was part of the plot to take Trump out. So there is reason to suspect him of plotting further "for the good of the country" but even if we think what he did was innocent (and if so why did he take it down?) he still deserves the measure of what he gave Trump. The Left often uses lawfare as punishment; they don't care about getting a conviction (the cherry on top) so much as draining the target financially and emotionally and every other way. So Comey deserves a touch of that. If the Left sees that happen enough they will stop pulling it themselves.

Mutual Assured Destruction.

Make Comey speak to the FBI just like he made others, and if there are any inconsistencies charge him with lying to them. He did it plenty. Put him on the witness stand before congress, before a grand jury, etc. and make him fear a perjury trap. Make him spend money defending himself. It's not unfair or wrong; he did this to others on many occasions.

What of Christian forgiveness, one asks. I reply with "what of justice". Comey cheated justice and this is just what he deserves. We needn't hate the man but he should answer for his crimes, just as Al Capone went to Alcatraz for a mickey-mouse crime of tax evasion. Capone went to prison not for his REAL crimes, but for what they could get him on. That is where we are with these Deep State guys like Comey.

If we make an example of him and some others than they will get the message; don't go there!

And by pressuring him we are shaking the tree, and who knows what fruit will fall to the ground? What has Comey hidden away? Who else can be exposed for REAL crimes?

Much like the harlot of Revelation, Comey has poured the wine of corruption and now must drink a bowl. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy!

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