What’s there to talk about in politics? Shell Oil got the go-ahead from the feds to drill in the Arctic, but will the Port of Seattle give them a base? Another week, another batch of G.O.P. Presidential candidate announcements to ponder. And Jeb Bush would still invade Iraq…even “knowing what we know now.” Please join us for drinks and conversation at this week’s meeting of the Seattle Chapter of Drinking liberally.
We meet tonight and every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. Our starting time is 8:00 pm, but some folks stop by earlier for dinner.
Can’t make it to Seattle on Tuesday night? Check out one of the other DL meetings this week. The Tri-Cities and Redmond chapters also meet tonight. On Wednesday the Bellingham chapter meets. The Bremerton, Spokane, and Kent chapters meet on Thursday. And next Monday, the Aberdeen and Yakima chapters meet.
There are 191 chapters of Living Liberally, including eighteen in Washington state, four in Oregon and two in Idaho. Chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.
Soooooooooooooo four of the six invited Arab nations are expected to skip Obummer’s latest attempt at appeasement! Can you say foreign policy gone awry? http://www.foxnews.com/politic.....mit-in-us/ The sadministration mouthpieces really sat down to discuss spin cycle mode!
Over at PMSNBC Andrea Mitchell said
http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe
DAYUM Funny! This is what you get with a community organizer. Unfortunately the world isn’t a community Obummer understands or cares to understand. ISIS is still the JV of al qaeda!
Foreign Policy Gone Awry!
Obummer’s sadministration foreign policy is so in yo face no one wants to talk to you in public… So this snub is so in your face to not only not come, to say you’re coming and then not come, but to have reconfirmed at the highest levels.
You’d think the DUMMOCRETINS who voted for him would be ashamed and embarrassed. Butt alas, no, you morons are doubling down and drooling at the thought of voting for another Clinton in 2016!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! ROTFLRHMBBAO!
Muhammad art contest winner to be added to SPLC hate list
http://www.washingtontimes.com.....-to-be-ad/
I suppose it is only a matter of time before David Goldstein, himself a noted artist
http://horsesass.org/in-which-.....-muhammad/
of The Prophet, also is added to SPLC’s hate list.
Southern Poverty Law Center is a clown show. Has been for quite awhile now.
@3…
Oh no….it’s Bickle that is the fucking clown show. I sent his name in to SPLC for nomination. What a feather for him in his greedy, fascist neo-liberal trans-national corporatist anti-democratic asshole hat! What a way to burnish his cred at the 19th hole!
This fuck is ‘white privilege writ large…born on third base and thought he hit a triple kind of entitlement.
I notice that Bickle’s hero George ‘The Fellow Brain Surgeon’ Zimmerman got his face shot up in an ‘ongoing dispute’ with another mentally stable individual…or maybe Bickle’s hero Georgie Z.’s documented assholery pushed the other slob over the edge. Anyway the dude was white so as Bickle would say, it’s just two sons of the South defending their honor. No nigra’s involved? It’s all good!
“voting for another Clinton in 2016”
Because we love America, bitch. You, on the other hand, are so full of hate, now you want to string up John McCain and hang him until he’s dead.
“we will give him a trial for jury, and then after we convict him, he should be hung by the neck until dead”
http://crooksandliars.com/2015.....nvicts-and
Such a fair judicial process you have in mind for McCain that you already know he’s guilty. Of something. So he has to be killed, of course. Because that’s how you freaks roll.
“Southern Poverty Law Center is a clown show.”
So says our hate-filled fucking racist clown.
Working Washington @workingwa
Tom Douglas likes to say higher wages could mean closing restaurants. But he keeps opening new ones. Next up: July 1. http://seattle.eater.com/2015/.....pen-july-1 …
Retweeted by Goldy
Well, yes, yes he does. And so do others at the higher end.
If one takes a link-clicking trip from HA to civicskunkworks to some dude named Invictus and then to a guy named Evan Soltas, one finds this piece:
http://esoltas.blogspot.com/20.....attle.html
Soltas, who apparently has been following Ezra Klein around for awhile, breaks down the Seattle food service businesses into categories. Most of them are doing well enough, or at least their numbers are increasing. However, when looking at the fast-food (limited service) category, one finds that the number of licenses has decreased quite a bit over the past year.
In March, 2014, there were 2031 licenses in this category.
As of April 21st of this year that number is down to 1911, or more than 5%.
And that is essentially BEFORE the new minimum wage law took effect.
So the fast-food restaurants, like the one Goldy likes to mock, are already in decline.
The lower-paid workers, who can’t afford Tom Douglas’ latest interpretation of Seattle cuisine, have fewer options of the places they CAN afford.
The fast-food workers are seeing their potential places of employment shrink. And when rushing to or from their place of employment, if they need to feed their kids some relatively inexpensive restaurant food they are less and less likely to be able to do that within the Seattle city limits.
For those fast-food places that are left, their production costs are going up, quite a bit.
It’s really popular around here to talk about the upside of wage increases. New restaurants at the upper end are exciting and fun – if you work at Amazon and can afford them.
But what about the effects on the restaurants that, say, make banh mi, which Goldy just assumes will have no trouble increasing their sandwich price by 50 cents so as to cover their wage cost increases?
They’re in decline, Goldy.
Perhaps as you begin your next 11 years of blogging you can talk about that a bit more.
@1 So who do you want to bomb this week? Do you have a reason for bombing them, or is it just for recreation again?
@6 “And that is essentially BEFORE the new minimum wage law took effect. So the fast-food restaurants, like the one Goldy likes to mock, are already in decline.”
Well then, I guess you can’t blame that on workers wanting wages they can live on, can you?
Of course, it’s easy for a multimillionaire radiologist to say other people should work for below-subsistence wages so his patients can keep gorging on $1 cheeseburgers.
@6
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
You ignored a few columns in suggesting that the minimum wage hike is the issue.
Mobile food sources 334 then, 415 now.
Non-Alcoholic Snack or Beverage (think Jamba Juice or Coffee House) 219 then 246 now.
These are direct competition to “limited service” restaurants. Let’s do a quick bit of math…
86+25=131, 2013-1917=106 closed limited service places with no data on how many were mom-and-pop operating Teriyaki joints or other employer O&O no employees family businesses and you get…hang on…
25 more businesses in the city from the start of the data set in the quick/no service food sector than before.
But yeah, post hoc ergo propter hoc, the minimum wage increase that hasn’t even taken effect yet for likely 90% of those closed businesses is THE CAUSE of their closure as The Brilliant Sloppy has demonstrated, Q.E.D. to keep up with the Latin.
Funny thing about “free market” capitalists blog commenters is they don’t understand the free market in any way. Econ 101 uses terms like “all things being equal”… and that’s as far as they got and add a copy of Atlas Shrugged and they think they’re a Wharton MBA.
@10 It increasingly appears the housing market, not wages, will drive fast food and other minimum-wage businesses out of the Seattle area. Everywhere you go, people talking are about Seattle’s housing crisis. That crisis is already here, and it’s now clear $15 an hour isn’t going to be enough to live in this city. Seattle is rapidly transforming into a suburb of San Francisco, it’s being called “Silicon Valley North,” where six-figure incomes will be the norm and high-paid tech workers will displace everyone else. Heck, even top-of-scale public school teachers make $90,000 a year here, according to the Seattle Times, and the median home price in King County will soon surpass half a million dollars. How will $15-an-hour workers live here? Answer: They won’t, and low-paying businesses won’t be able to hire workers. Either pay $70,000 a year, or do without workers, that’s what a free market looks like.
Uh, no she’s not.
Her appearances on the one network that still offers her a platform are few and far between these days as a non-paid guest and the lecture circuit isn’t as lucrative as she thought, “America by Heart” bombed and there have been no new book offers.
She’s interested in a million Rubes parting with $5 each to keep her lifestyle going.
senile schismatic IDIOT Wabbit,
Bomb whom? Where is any mention of bombing except the early onset Alzheimer’s time bomb ticking in yo head?
Travis Bickle,
When you’ve earned the scorn of rujaxoffallthetimestillprovingnuthinappears, notice nuthin ever appears in any thread all of the time with all that “screaming”! Empty vacuous screaming from rujaxoffallthetimestillprovingnuthinappears!
Meanwhile on CNBC the Uranium Investor was getting grilled. Seems the Clinton team taught him how to obfuscate! http://www.nbcnews.com/watch/c.....3836995958
The beginning of the CNBC Graphics…
“Frank Holmes donated between $250-$500k to the Clinton Foundation
U.S. Global Investors held $4.7 million in Uranium Ones shares in Q1 of 2011.” at the 15 second mark… Then listen closely HA DUMMOCRETINS…
Frank claimed… “We were long gone before 2008.”
Watch more of the CNBC graphics and listen to Frank’s words.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
That Clinton Cash book by Peter Schweitzer has more legs left in it than the senile schismatic IDIOT Wabbit has brain cells left! And Schweitzer did it without any crazed email server too!
Wow, even the left wrong glamour girl Alex Wagner has issues with Hillary claiming to be progressive… https://youtu.be/HRPDYx2_P54
Wow even PMSNBC is trying to be fair and balanced? Naaaaaaah this is during the day when most left wrong LIVs are at work or something!
Oh my a libtard suing libtards… http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us.....er-n357736
Very interestink! – UVA Dean Nicole Eramo Sues Rolling Stone for $7.85M Over ‘Jackie’ Rape Story
The suit seeks at least $7.5 million in compensatory damages, at least $350,000 in punitive damages and attorney fees.
Good for her. Maybe libtards will think twice about their slimy hit pieces without checking the facts.
Wait for it… Some moronic HA DUMMOCRETIN is going to claim Puddy cheers rape. Now who will be the first idiot to step up to the plate!
Watch!
Still waiting for Stupid Solution Steve to castigate, to castigate, to castigate the vomit producer on calling blacks “niggers”, “uneducated disrespectful and unmotivated.” 3X = Shakespearean logic!
Keep screaming there Stupid Solution Steve about Travis Bickle when your own glass house has many broken windows!
Holy Special treatment Batman… http://abcnews.go.com/Politics.....ePage=true
PuddyCommentary: Of course they quickly signed off on them. What else do you think would happen? DUMMOCRETINS don’t care if there are questions on certain DUMMOCRETIN actions. The end always justifies the means!
This is from ABC News DUMMOCRETINS… The Fox News story was “better” butt might as well use DUMMOCRETINS to attack DUMMOCRETINS!
With 60 percent of the vote among Iowa likely Democratic Caucus participants, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has an early lock on the first-in-the-nation presidential test, apparently undamaged by a nationwide flood of negative publicity, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.
http://www.quinnipiac.edu/news.....aseID=2224
Yep, Clinton is the locked and loaded DUMMOCRETIN candidate! So where did Elizabeth Warren’s 19% in February go? Well they didn’t like Hillary! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
@20
And what doesn’t occur to you is that her number moved only 1% which is statistically insignificant.
Once again. Everyone’s mind is already made up about Hillary. She has been in one public office or another for 20 years.
These new “scandals” have cost her what?
Whitewater, she murdered Vince Foster, she fired some travel agents, she lost her billing, BENGHAZZZZZZZZIIIIIIIII!, CASH! Why if only everybody knew Hillary they wouldn’t vote for her.
At some point Piddles, you need to come to grips with the fact that as the Democratic nominee there is no scandal that the right can dream up that will keep people from voting for her.
And those people comprise more than 50% in enough states that Hillary will be your next president.
Thanks for trying though. Hope that all consuming hate doesn’t give you an ulcer. Maybe you should pray on it. I hear it is very calming.
@ 10
Interesting response.
I didn’t suggest the minimum wage hike is the issue. It has barely taken effect, as I inferred.
What I did point out is that there is a subset of the restaurant industry in Seattle that is under pressure, insofar as the number of licenses is concerned, already.
I ‘ignored’ the other categories because they don’t seem to be under pressure as measured by the number of licenses.
If I suggested anything, it is that restaurants already under pressure, for whatever reason, won’t be helped by the new increase in their labor costs.
Your response was apparently to broaden the fast-food category by equating it with food trucks and Jamba Juice outlets as if to suggest that they
• provide similar food products as fast-food restaurants
• employ a similar number of people as fast-food restaurants
and then add up the categories to make the decline in fast-food restaurants go away.
Which doesn’t do so.
If a fast-food restaurant employing 15-20 is bulldozed and in the same month a newly built multistory four blocks away installs a Starbucks, do lower-wage workers still have a place to take their kids for a meal? Because the number of licenses doesn’t change in this example.
If Goldy’s fave Ethiopian restaurant were to go tits up and a Jiggles espresso stand pops up (see what I did with the mammaries there?) on a vacant lot down the street from it, does Goldy’s daughter benefit in any way from that the way she used to benefit from dinner out with Dad? What about the Ethiopian family who lives in the back of the restaurant? The number of licenses doesn’t change, after all, so in your example there’s no difference.
All I am doing is pointing out a potential downside to the minimum wage increase. Businesses already under pressure rather suddenly (a year or so notice) have more, and if they are a franchisee that pressure is going to ramp up much faster, going forward, than if they are not.
The irony here is that unions and leftists cheering the minimum wage increase because they think it will help fast-food workers may, in fact, see that it helps the ones who remain, while increasing the number who need to find a new job. The inequality they purport to address by increasing wages will likely contribute to fewer lower-priced restaurants and more, relatively speaking, upper-end establishments.
In other words, an increase in social inequality as the poorer have fewer in-city choices for meals, fewer jobs for the unskilled, and the richer have a greater number of craft cocktail bars from which to choose.
There’s a downside. If Nguyen’s pho establishment is replaced by a Tom Douglas gourmet food truck, that’s not a wash, CZ. Someone comes out a loser.
@22 “If I suggested anything, it is that restaurants already under pressure, for whatever reason, won’t be helped by the new increase in their labor costs.”
Why do you assume it’s socially desirable to “help” a few marginal restaurants stay in business by keeping the incomes of thousands of minimum-wage workers below basic subsistence?
Breaking News — A bill giving President Obama so-called “fast-track” authority for his proposed TPP trade agreement, which is opposed by labor and environmental groups, failed to pass a Senate procedural hurdle today.
@ 23
That’s been debated multiple times and minds aren’t going to be changed.
Some will lose their jobs. Others will be pulled out of poverty.
Here’s the thing – a decade from inception of an increase, CBO can’t figure out whether an increase in minimum wage to $10.10 will be a net positive, or a net negative, for the national economy.
So whether society, overall, does or does not benefit is far from clear.
There’s a downside to what has been done in Seattle and there certainly is a downside to a $12 national minimum wage.
I look forward to Senator Patty Murray’s call for CBO scoring of the effects of a $12/hr federal minimum wage.
I’m pointing out the downside, RR. So people like Better don’t think it’s all just a corporate lie.
@22
Yep, “All things being equal” is rarely equal.
As an example, a mom & pop Ethiopian restaurant (or Teriyaki place) where one is in the kitchen and one is front of house of which there are hundreds around King County that operate thus employs how many people?
A drive through espresso stand that is open seven days a week from 5am to 6pm will require at absolute minimum three employees given that it would be illegal to make your employees work seven days a week 56 weeks a year. One of those employees may or may not be the owner.
So just from you example you would lose two jobs (mom and pop) but gain three (owner plus two hires). And you did so using an example of a place that will not be effected by a wage increase. The family owner/operators of a restaurant with them as sole employees does not pay an hourly wage to anyone.
The rest is you just trying to sound smart.
But in a classic moving the goalposts you went from number of jobs to quality of life. Some people would want that Jiggles near their house or job and go there more than they would go to an Ethiopian restaurant. Who am I to judge?
Colombia will stop spraying Monsanto poison Roundup on cocaine. Monsanto can’t profit from the drug war like the old days. The gun hucksters still can. The prison/industrial complex racists are hanging on. Could the times be changing?
puddy and Bickle sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g…and allegedly fucking goats.
Puddy wrote… So where did Elizabeth Warren’s 19% in February go? Well they didn’t like Hillary! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
And checkmate writing his standard train wreck style… And what doesn’t occur to you is that her number moved only 1% which is statistically insignificant.
The people who like Elizabeth Warren have spoken… They don’t like Hillary!
DAYUM U B really stoooooooooooooopid!
rujaxoffallthetimestillprovingnuthinappears delivers another “cogent” response @28.Useless as tits on a bull!
Yet rujaxoffallthetimestillprovingnuthinappears and Stupid Solution Steve find no problem with the way vomit producer describes blacks. Butt, they’ll rail on Travis Bickle… H Y O P C R I T E S!
Don’t do cocaine dunceman no problem right?
senile schismatic IDIOT Wabbit @24,
blocked by DUMMOCRETINS!
senile schismatic IDIOT Wabbit @24,
blocked by DUMMOCRETINS!
@29
They went to Bernie Sanders. Do you really thing that Democratic primary voters who would prefer Sanders/Warren over Hillary are going to vote Governor Walker in the General?
There’s a Christian Taliban wing of the Republican party who LOVES them some Santorum. And when he flames out in the primaries they will vote Clinton. So assumeth the mind of the Piddles.
I’m SHOCKED that there is a left wing of the Democratic party that likes someone other than Hillary. They will SPEAK! And then they will vote for a RW Republican because they don’t like Hillary. So assumeth the mind of the Piddles.
“member all those Democratic Women who were going to stay home if Hillary wasn’t the nominee and hand the win to McCain/Palin or even vote that ticket because of the female on it? How’d that work out?
More evidence, RR, that Jeb Bush doesn’t give a shit about what Iowa’s caucus-goers think:
Jeb Bush to skip Iowa Straw Poll
http://www.desmoinesregister.c.....b1d0%27%5D
How important could it be? The 2011 winner was Michelle Bachmann.
Barack Obama, misogynist.
Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, one of the top Democratic opponents of President Barack Obama’s trade agenda, criticized Obama on Tuesday for what the senator saw as “disrespectful” comments toward Sen. Elizabeth Warren and indicated that Warren’s gender may have played a role.
“I think by just calling her ‘another politician’,” Brown told reporters Tuesday when asked how Obama was being disrespectful to Warren. “I’m not going to get into more details. I think referring to her as first name, when he might not have done that for a male senator, perhaps? I’ve said enough.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/.....z3ZxoaWuxf
You’re likable enough, Hillary.
Oh boy the freakazoids at Mother Jones are all a twitter… http://www.motherjones.com/moj.....s-of-wrath
Here are a few things about Obummer missed by Mother Jones:
1) Obummer is a little crybaby… Obummer hates Fox News. Valerie Jarrett already showed us that with her boycott that fell flat! Obummer looks at the opposition as the enemy. This is especially true of Fox News, because they tell the truth about Obummer policies where the libtard left wrong DUMMOCRETIN loving msm is forced to cover the story, begrudgingly.
2) He’s created more poor people than other president in history. Almost 13 million of them left the workforce since Obummer has been preznit and the recession ended! Values are from bls.gov! PuddyLinks previously PuddySupplied. Obummer really loves the poor so much Obummer implements policies to create more of them each month.
3) Obummer uses the poor as political paeans! Plain and simple.
4) Obummer really loves the poor so much Obummer does everything in Obummer’s sadministration to keep them poor. Obummer did nuthin for the poor for how many years again HA DUMMOCRETINS? Obummer’s whole sadministration duration! And Mrs Obummer will tell you how you need government to stay poor!
5) Obummer only wants peeps to worship at the feet of Obummer. That’s why they called him “the messiah” back in 2008. Oh please don’t make me display the multiple links of this commentary again. Remember the last two attacks from the senile schismatic IDIOT Wabbit and the teabaggin buttbusting BULLSHITTIUM buttbigot gorilla? HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Another train wreck at 34. Where is Puddy claiming any BULLSHITTIUM you wrote checkmate? A left wrong DUMMOCRETIN is more diseased than a center left one!
Too bad the Saudis are miffed at us. Times like these call for context. Sure, getting snubbed by a few foreign leaders attempting to establish their political bona fides by “going their own way” is a bummer. And maybe it might have been avoided. But I’m not sure how. What’s going on in Yemen is damn close to genocide. I’m not sure how well Americans would stomach cheering that on while ratifying the House of Saud’s view of their role among Arab states.
But really? How does that compare with destabilizing an entire region, starting two civil wars, and fomenting global political and religious insurrection just because you wanted to look commanding and gain your father’s respect? I’m not sure where these sorts of things sit on history’s scale of foreign policy boo boos. But I’m inclined to think not very close together. I’ll take the community organizer behind door number one, and skip Jay Stewart dressed up like a fighter pilot sitting on a donkey behind the curtain. Thanks.
“Obummer looks at the opposition as the enemy. This is especially true of Fox News…”
Thanks. We can finally put to rest the ridiculous contention that Fox News is objective, or “fair and balanced”. As this quote so ably points out, Fox News does not merely report factually on the White House. Rather, Fox News actively opposes this administration.
It’s so tacky when they let their tin foil slip show.
@32 Good!
@33 Good!
@25 The main downside is that people who can’t survive in business without nearly-free labor will have to get day jobs like the rest of us. I don’t see that as much of a loss to society.
What’s going on in Yemen is damn close to genocide. I’m not sure how well Americans would stomach cheering that on while ratifying the House of Saud’s view of their role among Arab states.
Because Obummer is afraid to call Iran on it for this “nuke deal”. What a joke! So how are they stomaching how the Houthis are performing this genocide!
Obummer pulled out American troops, destabilized the region and ISIS appeared!
See ya!
@6,
pump the brakes a bit.
Wouldn’t it make more sense to infer that the decline of licensees at the lower price range reflects the impact of rapid escalation of rents? I know a few people in the business (including Tom Douglas), and long before this issue emerged, what had them all worried was rising rents. Like all good business owners they bitch about everything they have to pay for. But chapter and verse on the sudden disappointing closure of every favorite joint has always been the lease renewal. This is why Portland has a more dynamic bar scene right now. It’s like Seattle in the 90s. The rents are still affordable… ish.
There are more than a million ways to lose everything in that business. From skeevy investors screwing you over, to coke nosed over-serving bar tenders who bleed you a shot at a time. But the leading contender has always been the greedy landlord with a lease up for renewal. Successful, higher end properties seldom have this problem. Their cash flow and status make them very desirable tenants. Not so much for the mom-and-pop teriyaki stores. In a market like Seattle’s, they get driven out to strip malls in the burbs. And they get replaced by places that pay more in rent and in wages.
Sigh. I guess I have to explain how water comes down from the sky and washes the leaves, flows into fields, then into streams and rivers. Rivers are where animals and people get fresh water to survive. When you poison plants, you poison all life. Is that too difficult?
@22,
practically nobody lives in the back of their restaurant in Seattle. It might be possible under health codes to have an attached separate dwelling, with its own separate entrance, etc. But the cost of the improvement to accommodate that, combined with the loss of revenue from the reduction in rent generating business activity makes it wildly unfeasible. In short, its much cheaper to live elsewhere.
So your hypothetical tells us very little about how small restaurant owners operate. But maybe just more than a little about how you imagine Ethiopian small restaurant owners live.
Well, here’s the truth: they live pretty much just like you and me. Amazing.
@ 47
Practically no one does, I’ll agree. It isn’t common, but it isn’t a hypothetical, either. An Indian place I’m familiar with
The dining room’s sparsely ornamented with a mirror and a coat stand, although a back room that a fancier restaurant might make its storage closet is crammed with cots, games, and a huge plastic tub of salty snacks. In addition to being a takeout hub, Mehak is a home.
http://www.seattleweekly.com/2.....e-sputter/
is one of them. Some people have it rough, for whatever reason.
Higher rents, fewer locales due to demolitions and rebuilds, higher food costs – all of that factors in.
For those restaurants that can afford to hire staff, it’s now tougher.
Oh poor dunceman,
The glyphosate compound is made by many companies. Why stop at Monsanto? How about:
Dow AgroSciences – Glyphomax, Glypro, Rodeo
Du Pont – Glyphosate Herbicide
Cenex/Land O’Lakes – Silhouette
Helena – Rattler
Platte – MirageR
Riverside/Terra – JuryR
Zeneca – Touchdown
Monsanto loses the US military contract and someone comes in and takes over! You should read more than just Reddit!
@25. Humm. The economists cannot tell if a pay raise would be good in 10 years so the cheap labor conservatives response is do nothing, don’t try. Because after all, they do know what profits would be in 10 years if they don’t raise wages
@35 yeah and if Jeb Bush thought that he could be poplular in Iowa he wouldn’t be skipping it. He is skipping it to avoid an embarrassing loss. So according to Boob, he’s doing it willing because going would be worse than not going
China R&D on 1800 mph trains and in the USA we can’t even get a train to go 60 mph without a derailment!
Maybe if we didn’t consume ourselves with fighting abortions and gay marriage and voter suppression maybe we could, but probably not even then. Those topics are the only thing that keeps republicans in office
@35 always pretending that third is a silver lining to they gray cloud. Jen Bush is skipping Iowa because the Republicans are so fucked up. If Jen Bush could go to Iowa and win there then maybe one could say that republicans have their act together, somewhat. But you are right maybe Ben will win that one.
Look on the bright side of USA trains derailing at 60mph, it’s going to keep lawyers and doctors employed, American capitalism at its best!
Oh and don’t forget the rescue squads. And even pastors can get in on the act, they are calling for prayers.
No wonder why solar power isn’t popular, you don’t need a doctor, lawyer, rescue crews or pastors to go along with it.
teabaggin buttbusting BULLSHITTIUM buttbigot gorilla, We are one of the few countries that have freight and passenger on the same rails. Hence passenger derailments happen!
Jen Bush? Who dat?
Five dead so far and the teabaggin buttbusting BULLSHITTIUM buttbigot gorilla posts that BULLSHITTIUM above!
“Arizona Senate president takes part in event where speaker called for John McCain to be hanged as traitor”
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/0.....s-traitor/
Puddy has become sick beyond words with his calls to eliminate those he hates. He’s reached the point where he not only wants all of us put to death, he wants those in his party who fail his purity test to be executed as well.
test
Ok, my posts that include links are being eaten. This isn’t fun.
Another Psych 101 event @60 from Stupid Solution Steve!
Stupid Solution Steve still missing in action on vomit producer’s calling blacks “niggers”, “uneducated, disrespectful, and unmotivated”. Puddy guesses Stupid Solution Steve agrees!
It’s a fascinating perspective
“The difference between understanding oneself as a citizen and understanding oneself as a taxpayer is not merely wide; it is antagonistic. A citizen thinks primarily about his or her community and is preoccupied with the safety of the neighborhood, the health of the elderly and disabled, the well-being of the young. A taxpayer thinks mostly about himself or herself, about who or what is taxing — that is to say “taking” — his hard-earned money to give to some undeserving body or some other distant, wasteful thing.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....65416.html
Never thought of it that way.
I think the link limit is three per post
Mike Royko said it best, “It’s harder to be a Liberal than a Conservative because it is easier to give someone the finger than a helping hand.”
How are you posting your links vomit producer? Sometimes embedding them fails. Puddy realizes you need to hide the left wrong sites you cruise, and some are identified as spam links!
See ya!
@ 65
Only trying to post one.
@ 67
Fuck off Schitzo. I didn’t address you.
Fucking freak.
“Fuck off Schitzo.”
Talk about schitzo, in 2008 Puddy voted for John McCain and only five years later, he wanted McCain executed for treason.
“calls for John McCain to be arrested and tried for treason at town hall meeting”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5TSmkOEijI
Schitzo doesn’t quite convey just how fucked up a mind like Puddy’s has to be to want everybody who disagrees with him to die.
Yes, John McCain, who Puddy and his ilk believe should be tried and executed for failing his party’s purity test.
http://eaglerising.com/14952/p.....d-treason/
@60 and then he wants to school me in what I say. It’s ok for his political friends to say what the fuck he wants, regardless of its bullshitis, it’s totally acceptable unexcuses behavior. Maybe he accepts that satan made them people say what they say.
But he has no problem telling me what is unacceptable, regardless of what I say I say and what I truly believe, when I say stuff just to make a point of something.
What about that free speech that he talks about all the time? Lola like Puffy wants some of the people to be as free as they want and they he wants to take away the same freedom from others.
Fucking schizophrenic asshole. Knows nothing about freedom, fucking Nazi.
Lawsuits are coming to an Amtrack near you. How can you not blame them. After the Monkey GWB sets precedence to get in the middle of life and death, you know the way a little government does, and decides to handout out money to the families that had relative that died on 9-11, all because an airline is supposed to keep you safe from even a terrorist. Bailout for the airline industry. As if money is going to bring back the dead. What happens to the middle class family who has a bread winner die? Don’t they go through the same problems as one of the 9-11 family members, no sympathy for them? As a matter of fact the attitude is more like “fuck you” you don’t even deserve social security benefits. The world doesn’t stop for them. What they aren’t as special?
Amtrack should be able to keep a train from derailing.
@64 it is unpatriotic not to want to pay taxes, and hypocritical. “I love my Country (USA) but I can’t sacrifice a little, due to my greediness, to make it how great it is. Praise Jesus, Amen”.
Why are religious people so fucking worried about whether someone else is going to heaven or hell? Why don’t they ever worry about whether they are going to heaven or hell? Stay out of my business, where I land will be my problem, not yours. You worry about where you are going.
73)Unfortunately, that is a given.
The infrastructure of the Northeast Corridor is ageing, from the Hudson River Tunnels, to the overhead wire. The coaches used on the Northeast Regionals are another example. The Anfleet Coaches were built in the late 1970s and early 1980s, by the Budd Company.
Talk about schitzo, in 2008 Puddy voted for John McCain and only five years later, he wanted McCain executed for treason.
Got proof?
Oh poor vomit producer… No where did the vomit producer specifically address anyone…And then the vomit producer calls other schizo!
That’s the diseased libtard mind!
I’ve been living in NYC for a year now, and now that I’ve been here for a year it is pretty easy to spot a gay guy. And this pastor, he’d fit right in. This guy is 99% gay or a homo as he the so called hetero likes to think of himself.
Vehemently Anti-Gay Pastor Says Anti-Gay Businesses Aren’t Anti-Gay Enough http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....59316.html
I could see why someone like him would do what he does -it’s easy money.
Hey, if you continue to fail a class.. sue… http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com.....c=obinsite
Ahhh yes another DUMMOCRETIN led city having junk bonds… http://www.chicagotribune.com/.....story.html
Used toilet paper will be worth more than Chicago bonds now! Now which party kisses the ASS of unions and their union thugs? Now maybe Boeing corporate will move back to WA State? Yeah right!
How long might it take before the Chicago situation goes into complete crisis mode? How long might it take before Rahmbo Dead Fish Emanuel calls for a Obummer bailout? How long might it take before Obummer tries an executive action because the Obummer library will be located in South Chicago?
Did you catch the libtard editorial board statement? Your DUMMOCRETIN cousins in charge of the Chicago political machinery and the DUMMOCRETIN jock strapping union thug bosses who rule with an iron fist drawing those large salaries are identified as the culprits. HAHAHAHAHAHA!
BTW HA DUMMOCRETINS, can you remember and name the state where the Wisconsin Legislative DUMMOCRETIN ran to when they threw a fit over three time winner Gov Scott Walker’s budget?
No? Well 24 hour moronic moonbattic memory malady is very strong in y’all! Puddy remembers! http://www.jsonline.com/news/s.....81289.html
And yet inner city peeps continue to elect these fiscally inept DUMMOCRETIN morons.
How much you want to bet this woman is a DUMMOCRETIN… http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....-died.html
Right after he’s done invading and taking over TexAss.
Goldy retweeted
Will Bunch @Will_Bunch · 16h 16 hours ago
Shorter Jeb Bush: I would have gone to Iraq but I’m afraid of going to Iowa
Shorter Hillary: I want to have a national conversation but I’m afraid to open my mouth in public. Or in private unless I’ve confiscated all recording devices.
Goldy retweeted
Seattlish @seattlish · 19h 19 hours ago
When it takes a socialist to do all the things that Dems are supposed to do, it would be wise for Dems to be on her side.
Unless you’re Bernie Sanders. Then you find yourself running a distant third to an ethically challenged mute and a Dem who isn’t in the race.
Because only hundreds of millions of additional taxpayer dollars
invested indumped into Amtrak can keep conductors from going twice the speed limit.PHILADELPHIA—An Amtrak train involved in a fatal crash here appears to have been traveling at more than 100 miles an hour as it entered a sharp curve where it derailed Tuesday night, killing at least seven people, according to two people with knowledge of the investigation.
The speed limit in that section of track drops to 50 miles per hour, according to the Federal Railroad Administration.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/de.....1431499608
Ask a Republican candidate, “Who is America’s greatest living president?” and most will answer, “Ronald Reagan.”
http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/13/.....index.html
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Why not? All of these folks believe in resurrection.
@ 87
Ask most Americans whether a felon killed while charging a cop is ‘fleeing’, and they’ll say No.
Go figure.
Facebook Adopts $15 Minimum Wage
Facebook will now require its contractors to pay their workers at least $15/hr.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/102675085
@88 So you were there and saw what happened? Yes, you’re good eyewitness material, Bob. In the sense of, ask 20 eyewitnesses what they saw, and you’ll get 20 different stories. But your version is true, right, Bob? Because, well, because you’re Bob. I shudder to visualize you reading patient x-rays.
@ 90
But your version is true, right, Bob? Because, well, because you’re Bob.
Well, that, and because the entrance wounds weren’t in Brown’s back, RR.
I want to find out WHY the crash happened, why was the train going so fast. Was it driver error, was it a failure of infrastructure? Was it an accident?
Joke: “If a tree falls in the forest, and bickle is not there to hear it, is it still the liberal union’s fault?”
@ 93
Depends on how much the tree’s CEO makes.
Poor Boob and the Puffed one….there hearts must be broken.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....75810.html
http://upload.democraticunderg.....deeper.jpg
Shit Happens!
I think Puffy is Satan….I believe two of his posts say “train wreck” just prior to the amtrak train accident.
Satan is at work!
This Republican doesn’t believe in Obamacare. Or paying for health insurance. Now he has a firsthand opportunity to learn how well (or not) the Republican system of relying on charity works.
http://www.charlotteobserver.c.....96283.html
At post 30 he used the word “rail”
DAYUM funny… http://www.thespoof.com/spoof-.....speechless
Why not? All of these folks believe in resurrection.
And you don’t believe in Jesus rising from the dead?
@100 why do you have to conscern yourself with what other people believe? Shouldn’t you mind your own business or are you tryting to shove down people’s throats religion and beliefs. Are you Mao?
You like a small government but you want religon to be bigger than government. You raidcal freak – Satan you, Satan!
Lookie, Lookie here. Did he consult with the lord Jesus?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141092684
Oh my the poor teabaggin buttbusting BULLSHITTIUM buttbigot gorilla is getting self-conscious about its rotten comments on the train derailment. The engineer was speeding butt it’s those wascally Repubwicans that caused the problem!
All those words were before the accident teabaggin buttbusting BULLSHITTIUM buttbigot gorilla!
Sux to be so nasty all the time!
senile schismatic IDIOT Wabbit @90,
So sez Eric Holder’s Just Us department earlier this year!
Sux to be the senile schismatic IDIOT Wabbit!
This is http://www.nleomf.org/programs/policeweek/
HA DUMMOCRETINS are pizzed this is happening!
Seems ABC is planning to produce a television sitcom based on Dan Savage’s life… http://youtu.be/SRzc1F9OByM
Now that the presidential season is back again here is a HA DUMMOCRETIN hero in action…
No problem from the HA DUMMOCRETIN crowd back then!
“I wish they were all f–king dead”
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/bil.....-santorum/
“I hope [he] takes all that rage that comes from repression and denial into the bedroom with her…and I hope he fucks her angrily, because that’s how I would.”
“I sometimes think about fucking the shit out of Rick Santorum…I’m up for whipping up some Santorum in Santorum.”
Even though Dan’s remarks are odious, he has every right to say them.
Even though Pam Geller’s remarks are odious, she has no right to say them per DUMMOCRETINS!
Wait for it…
Cheering from the HA DUMMOCRETIN crowd!
Meanwhile seems this guy must be a HA DUMMOCRETIN friend… http://www.dailymail.co.uk/vid.....e-man.html
http://www.nationalreview.com/.....h-goldberg
That bundle was $1 Trillion!
The train was going approximately 107 MPH!
And so it begins from the LIV crowd. http://youtu.be/3BmbeAaWRWw
Can you DUMMOCRETINS explain the Porkulus and Son of Porkulus bill money supposedly spent to improve infrastructure?
Do any of you guys ever click on his links?
http://media.hotair.com/wp/wp-.....nGirls.jpg
Search Bill Clinton’s Girls… DAYUM Funny!
http://www.chicagotribune.com/.....tml#page=1
Only 3 people have been fired by Obummer’s sadministration based on the NY Slimes!
Once again the most transparent sadministration evah is hiding da facts!
@106 freedom of speech and as you call it odious. But your characterization that democrat didn’t think she had the right to say it is wrong.
It is you that likes to stifle free speech, and the nazis you defend.
@106. And your pea brain can’t comprehend the difference between encoding violence or in essence saying something with all serious and trying to influence others and taking some of the things that Dan savage has said but with sarcasm for lack of a better word. Or do you really believe he wants to have sex with Santorum?
The apes head has little ability to put things into context
Do you EFFIN read moronic teabaggin buttbusting BULLSHITTIUM buttbigot gorilla?
Puddy replayed every libtard attack against Geller. Go back and look at the Friday Night Media Comedy link!
Man you really are stoooooooooooopid!
Dan savage has said but with sarcasm for lack of a better word.
Ummm no he didn’t. There was no smiling he was pizzed. Once again the teabaggin buttbusting BULLSHITTIUM buttbigot gorilla is a looooooooony person!
@116 so inciting people to uprise against something like Islam and saying something mean or bad or disgusting to one person WHO YOU felt was personally offensive to you are two equal comparisons? Yes or
No?
Where was she inciting anyone teabaggin buttbusting BULLSHITTIUM buttbigot gorilla? It was a closed event in a nondescript location!
Man U really R dangerous!
This type of action is cheered by HA DUMMOCRETINS!
https://www.facebook.com/mediatakeout/videos/972005032831444/
@118 and you are just a nut, if you can’t distinguish between her actions and the action of Dan savage, as being at different levels for lack of a better word. Ones, Dan’s, pretty much harmless, and hers that left two people killed with the potential for it to be worse than it was.
Who is dangerous? Look in a fucking mirror.