The Seattle Chapter of Drinking liberally meets this evening. Please join us in conversations about politics from local to international. New ideas and insights are welcomed!
We meet every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us in the small room at the back of the tavern. Our starting time is 8:00 pm, but some folks stop by even earlier for dinner.
Can’t make it to Seattle tonight? Check out one of the other DL meetings happening this week. Tonight the Tri-Cities, Vancouver, WA, and Shelton chapters also meet. The Lakewood chapter meets on Wednesday. On Thursday, the Tacoma chapter meets. And next Monday, the Aberdeen and Yakima chapters meet.
There are 184 chapters of Living Liberally, including seventeen in Washington state, four in Oregon and two in Idaho. Chances are good there’s a chapter meeting near you.
Well it looks like the public isn’t buying the horsesASS manure spewing from the sadministration’s sphincter. http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....ppears-so/
Even after Obummer’s Hollyweird friends are touting the deal! http://www.people.com/article/.....deal-video
Apparently, the US public is NOT buying the video public relations campaigns of Obummer’s celebrity friends whom kiss his ASS every day! Strange to see this in People Magazine and Time or Newsweek! It seems the public truly understands that the most hostile regimes on the planet can’t be trusted with $150 Billion for terrorism!
Must be the pukemeisters at PMSNBC don’t hold sway over the LIVs anymore. Butt, they are still watched by the LIVs on HA DUMMOCRETINS!
@GoldyHA
.@DangeRussWilson signed $87 million contract. Does he really need to shill for @AlaskaAir as it sues to deny SeaTac workers a living wage?
This from the guy who shills for the billionaire who donated $1 million to a recent successful charter schools initiative.
@1
Oh Noes….
AFTER it’s a done deal and Congress has failed to stop it and the deal will happen, support is slipping.
All that and a bus pass will get Obama a ride out of the White House.
“Oh Noes….”
Too funny. The barshit crazy loon’s fear-mongering fearless leaders are all running around screaming to America that we’re all gonna die. Hell, just a week ago Ted Cruz was telling America that a single Iranian bomb exploded high in the atmosphere would emit an EMP that would instantly kill tens of millions of us. Heh. Our batshit crazy loon laps that shit up.
Tesla seems to have got the attention of a high end sports car manufacturer.
Nah, no one wants electric cars.
@ 5
Next up for Tesla: Trying to get the attention of people like YLB.
http://www.marketwatch.com/sto.....2015-09-14
Because wingnuts love America more than we do…
“Texas Nationalist Movement group wants secession on GOP primary ballot”
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/0.....ry-ballot/
@2 I agree, let’s do away with billionaires, and have everybody work in cooperatives. That’s pretty much what doctors do already, isn’t it?
@7 Sure, let the Texassians have their own country, sandwiched between the U.S. and Mexico. And when Mexico invades them to get lebensraum, and they ask us to save their butts …
Speaking of batshit crazy fear-mongering. What, you mean there never were any underground tunnels to Kenyan usurper’s Walmart detention centers??
“Jade Helm ends with no takeover — and these 6 nutters hope you forget their idiotic fear-mongering”
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/0.....mongering/
Heh. I see one of the six went on to fear-monger over tens of millions of Americans dying from an Iranian EMP nuke. And he wants to be president. Too funny!
@ 5
Nah, no one wants electric cars.
Our Nissan LEAF lease ends in just over six months. Earlier this month we received a letter from Nissan offering us to sell the car for $6,500 less than the residual value stated in the lease document.
Overall math:
On a car that listed at $32k, we put down $2500 including destination and first month lease, and we’ll pay around $4400 more for the additional 23 months of lease. Residual just under $17k.
And they’ve offered to sell us a 2 year old car with maybe 23k miles on it, at lease end, for about $10,500. They’d probably take $9,500.
So on a car they’re listing at $32k, after two years of payments in total they’d get:
$7,500 from the US government
$7,000 from Team Bickle
$9,500 from some buyer somewhere
Total: $24,000
No one should want an electric car if something that costs around $30k (Government money isn’t free. Unless you’re YLB, in which case everything should be free.) can be had for $9,500 just two years later.
The best thing about the government $7,500 subsidy for EVs like the Tesla and other high-end models is that it goes to the people who are least in need of the money. Just think if that money were instead allocated as three $2,500 tax credits to people buying a Volt, Prius, or Ford hybrid. The money would be used by people earning middle-class salaries and it would actually result in a greater decrease in fossil fuel usage.
The Muslims are coming. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
“Tennessee pastor tells kids to ‘take an F’ because history class is part of an ‘Islamic invasion’”
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/0.....-invasion/
Squirm? Hell, Ben Carson and our batshit crazy loon believe the pope is the fucking Antichrist. That’ll be a busy week for those two, what with the Islamic invasion and the Antichrist’s arrival both going on at the same time.
“Why Pope Francis’ US visit is making the GOP squirm”
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/0.....op-squirm/
@5 solar very baddddddddddd…..Oil – yum, yum, yum, yummy!
Me like to plant trees!
Speaking of the anti-Christ, kudos to Bernie Sanders for speaking at Liberty University and telling his audience what it didn’t want to hear.
I’m sure Hillary will deign to speak in front of an audience not hand-picked in advance any day now.
A good debate question for GOP candidates might be why they oppose keeping American jobs in America.
“General Electric says it will move ~500 jobs from the U.S. to Europe and China, citing the expiration of authorization for the U.S. Export Import Bank, and signs an agreement for a line of credit for power projects from France’s export credit agency for customers of gas turbines used in aviation. GE says it is bidding on $11B of projects that require export financing, so it has started talks with several foreign export credit agencies to secure financing for its customers; GE says 80% of the gas turbines have been sold to countries where export credit agency sponsorship is required. GE says it had ‘done everything in our power to avoid making these moves at all, but Congress left us no choice when it failed to reauthorize the Ex-Im Bank this summer.’”
http://seekingalpha.com/news/2.....email_link
Roger Rabbit Commentary: That’s only the beginning. Eventually Boeing and a bunch of other big companies will be forced to do the same thing. Thanks for nothing, Republican assholes; America’s workers spit on you.
Since when did Republicans support instating a tax or tariff on good manufactured by American Companies in foreign countries. If Democrats called for that it would be Socialism and an attack on American capitalism. But Trump supporters ate it up last night and now are farting taxes.
@4 A huge EMP from an Iranian mega-burst in America’s skies* means our iPhones wouldn’t work. That’s worth going to war for, no?
* The fact they lack any ICBMs to deliver it is no problem; everyone knows Persia has flying carpets!
@ 16
A good question for Roger Rabbit is why he thinks it’s OK to point out that profitable companies like Boeing and GE haven’t regularly been paying federal taxes and yet to him seemingly it’s OK for the US to back Ex-Im to guarantee loans, rather than making the companies themselves do it.
You don’t get it both ways, RR. Shouldn’t those tax-dodging companies at least bear some risk in association with their sales of planes and other major equipment?
@11 didn’t calculators in the 60’s and 70’s cost hundreds of dollars? I wonder what you would have gotten for it if you tried to sell it after 5 years.
And didn’t computers cost Thousands of dollars in the early 80’s. I wonder what happens to computers now a days that get thrown out every 3-4 years.
How about iPhones that get tossed and sold about a year or two after use – got a flip phone?
Not comparing those items to electric cars….but renewable energy and electric products are investments with initial cost being high. Wait till technology improves, improving those items, if someone would actually make the investment in improving them – maybe someone without a greedy pocket.
@ 18
How many ICBMs does Space-X have, RR?
@16 The Duck will take care of that after he is President.
@12 We need stronger laws to keep people like that away from kids. Maybe a law that prohibits carrying a Bible within 1,000 feet of a school?
Speaking of the Anti-freedomers, they should have stayed home if they didn’t want to hear Bernie….were they forced again by their Nazi commanders?
I learn from Puffy – he gloats about a gay marriage going bad…..can’t wait for the world to blow up, halleluiah. Bob, how you going to protect those trees, they’re all going to die!
@19 Why isn’t it okay to point out that companies like Boeing and GE don’t pay taxes? Would you rather I didn’t mention it? My doctor (like other high-income people) probably doesn’t pay taxes, either, but does that mean I shouldn’t see him when I’m sick?
(Full disclosure: In keeping with my philosophy of investing in the greediest companies I can find, Roger Rabbit owns stock in both of these companies.)
@25 One of the advantages of non-traditional relationships is that if you murder your partner, you’ll get off with two months’ jail time and probation, at least in Texass.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/0.....-to-death/
@21 Beats me, my guess is none, but you probably believe Elon Musk would develop an ICBM and sell it to the Iranians if they waved some cash and asked him for one. And North Korea will get it the same way.
But you still haven’t explained why a country that’s had magic carpet technology for thousands of years needs ICBMs.
(And this guy has a medical license? Scary.)
@20 That’s nothing, color TVs used to cost thousands, and I remember when the word processing computer used where I worked in the 1980s cost the taxpayers more than my annual lawyer salary. Fortunately for the gal who operated the WPC, she died of cancer before the agency gave the lawyers cheap desktop computers, made them type their own damn documents, and eliminated the WPC and her job.
Hollyweird’s fearless leaders are all running around screaming to America that we’re all gonna die if we don’t pass this agreement Triple S.
That’s why you are known as Triple S… Triple S has triple the amount of shit between the ears of a normal DUMMOCRETIN!
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Triple S forgets who called the pope the antichrist… Butt he keeps screaming about it because Triple S loves to see that scream in pixels.
So did your hero Martin Luther Triple S.
So do many of these non-Adventists Triple S. http://www.charismanews.com/op.....antichrist
So did John Wesley – founder of the Methodist church! Called him “the Man of Sin”
So did Thomas Cranmer – the Archbishop of Canterbury
So did the Scottish reformer John Knox – made a slave for his beliefs
So did the “prince of preachers” Charles Spurgeon.
So did John Calvin.
Sux to be Triple S! Why? Triple S has triple the amount of shit between the ears of a normal DUMMOCRETIN!
But you still haven’t explained why a country that’s had magic carpet technology for thousands of years needs ICBMs.
Still drinking that BBC horsesASS manure after four years eh early onset senile schismatic IDIOT Wabbit? http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldserv.....nual.shtml
And this “guy” practiced law? OMGoodness! Quackery at it’s best!
Amazing…
crackerjack box doc dr checkmate…
crackerjack box lawyer early onset senile schismatic IDIOT Wabbit…
crackerjack box programmer clueless monomaniacal yellowishleakingbuttspigot arschloch with the crazed databaze
Want to be famous? One way to get your name and photo into the news is to get drunk, board a plane, create a ruckus and scream profanities, punch a fellow passenger and flight attendant, and kick one of the cops who remove you from the plane.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/unrul.....d=33763685
Roger Rabbit Commentaries: When she sobers up she’ll probably blink a few times and say something like, “Where am I? How did I get here?”
Boeing and GE don’t pay taxes?
Well we know why GE gets off. Jeffrey Immelt gets a pass from Obummer.
Boeing? WA State DUMMOCRETIN deals!
Want to be famous? One way to get your name and photo into the news is to get drunk, board a plane, create a ruckus and scream profanities, punch a fellow passenger and flight attendant, and kick one of the cops who remove you from the plane.
Sounds like a DUMMOCRETIN to Puddy!
@36 Sounds like a Republican convention delegate to me.
Because the middle-class and the working poor are America’s real enemies.
“Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker on Monday will call for sweeping restrictions on organized labor in the U.S., seeking to replicate nationwide his successful effort as Wisconsin’s governor to curb the power of unions.”
http://crooksandliars.com/2015.....an-workers
@33 Nice picture. The pilot’s uniform is a decent set of threads, too. Boeing is way behind the Persians.
Fucktard.
“We can’t surrender to the tyranny of the minority. There is no such thing as a separation of Church and state, it isn’t in the Constitution”
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/0.....e-prayers/
Maybe the batshit crazy loon will soon depart for Somalia. One can at least hope, anyway.
“Anti-LGBT lawyer urges Christians to ‘flee’ US because Ben Carson says the election will be canceled”
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/0.....-canceled/
“Remember all those times Ben Carson warned that President Barack Obama would cancel the 2016 election to maintain his grip on power? Anti-LGBT attorney John Price does, and he’s using the presidential candidate’s wild claims to urge Christians to “flee” the U.S. to “godly” Russia.”
Oh, it’s not Somalia, but Godly Russia. OMG! Too fucking funny!
Because batshit crazy wingnuts love America and you don’t.
“43% Of Republicans Say They Could Support A Military Overthrow Of The U.S. Government”
http://crooksandliars.com/2015.....ld-support
So, wingnuts, what’s the plan? Will you soon be fleeing to Godly Russia or are you gonna stick around and overthrow our nation’s government?
You stupid motherfuckers are so fucking funny!
LMAO!! Indeed we old liberal hands get loads of FREE entertainment from the trolls.
Keep it up Bobby and his sidekick the batshit insane babbling jackass cultist! No worries. You charge, we won’t pay. Lots of always wrong wing trolls and cretins out there who’ll gladly fill in the gap FOR FREE!
Damn! Could it be that Bobby’s obsession with yours truly is edging out its obsession with Goldy??
LOL! Glad to be of service.
Of course they did. Because they’re Godly, and you’re not!
“GOP lawmakers caught half-naked in car admit trying to smear cop who busted them”
“Mack and Kelly’s fling comes on the heels of two other GOP state lawmakers, Todd Courser and Cindy Gamrat, exiting the Michigan state legislature after their affair was uncovered under slightly more bizarre circumstances.”
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/0.....sted-them/
So what else is new from the always wrong wing?
WSJ lying about Bernie Sanders.
Republicans crawling over themselves to give more tax cuts to the rich.
Stupid media going stupid about a Republican billionaire klown.. A klown so freaking stupid it airs its disdain of its richer 0.1 percenters in public. The usual way a klown of that ilk does that is to file a lawsuit.
meh..
Guns Don’t Kill People Dep’t
The NRA tells us guns don’t kill people, and they’re absolutely right, people kill people. In fact, Americans with guns have killed more Americans than all our enemies in all our wars combined.
http://www.motherjones.com/moj.....es-us-wars
Roger Rabbit Commentary: What I’m curious about is whether fewer Americans would be killed by Americans if guns were harder to get in America and Americans had fewer guns. In any case, I think it’s time for Americans to realize the NRA is nothing more than a blowhard propaganda outfit for the gun manufacturers.
Wow this “cuckservative” shit is too freaking funny.
This is not merely a new way to shout “RINO.” It’s a call to make the GOP an explicitly racist party, devoted to the defense of whites. It’s no accident it’s taken off in the wake of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign launch/performance art, where he attacked illegal Mexican immigrants as “rapists” and “criminals.”
Any “cuckservatives” among our trolls? Bobby? LOL!
Swell tribe y’all identify with!
@45 What, TWO MORE Republican legislators caught making out with each other, instead of their spouses? (“Hey, let’s go to the park and talk about Senate Bill 0123!”) What makes GOP state legislators as horny as rabbits (with apologies to my relatives)? More importantly, what gives them the right to smear honest cops just doing their job? There really are lying cops out there, and these lying Republicans legitimize them by creating an impression that all cops are telling the truth, when only some of them are.
@49 Lust for power is inextricably linked with run of the mill lust. Especially among the always wrong wing crowd.
Why would any reasonable cop, court, or governor take the word of a meth addict with actual blood on his hands who trades testifying against his boss in exchange for his life, over that of a person against whom there is no other evidence? I’m not against the death penalty in appropriate cases, but this seems like a horribly flimsy basis on which to execute someone. Unfortunately Oklahoma is a Republican state, and Republican states don’t give a damn about innocent victims of their bloodthirsty criminal justice systems.
http://www.motherjones.com/pol.....-wednesday
“Any “cuckservatives” among our trolls? Bobby? LOL!”
“Hey, you black batshit crazy loon! I want to watch you to fuck my wife! It’ll give me a control freak power surge!”
Damn, YLB, toss in a black batshit crazy loon into the equation and this gets weird really fast. Sigh! I prefer to believe that’s a stretch for our Bob. God, at least, I hope it is. What would this world be coming to?
You absolutely have to love Fox News Sometimes…
Exclusive: Bill Clinton’s office checked with State Dept. on paid speech to group with Tehran ties
You can alomost hear the breathless fapping as they report
So the story here is the former President was approched about giving a paid speach. Unsure if giving that speach was a violation of Iranian Sanctions a representatvie of President Clinton asked the State Department about it. The speach was not given and President Clinton was not paid by Iranians interests.
The huge story here is that Presidnet Clinton acted totally appropirately in this situation, asked if it was O.K. and didn’t do it.
SCANDAL! VINCE FOSTER! WHITEWATER! TRAVELGATE! LEWINSKI! BENGHAAAAAAAAAAAAAZI!
And the less than 2% of Americans who watch Fox News on a Daily Basis are lapping it up…
Note that none of these people got as far as the 8th paragraph where Fox News conveniently burried the fact that no money was paid to President Clinton and HE DIDN’T GIVE THE SPEECH!
This is Trump’s world and they merely live in it.
“Poll: Nearly Half Of Florida Voters Say Jeb And Rubio Should Quit 2016 Race”
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/l.....rubio-quit
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Cuckservatives, no doubt.
“Small Group Of GOPers To Affirm Climate Change Ahead Of Pope’s Visit”
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/l.....hange-pope
Why do my fingers always type speach? As me how do you spell speach and I will spell it speech every single time. Ask me to type speech and it is always speach. Weird
I also can never type Corvallis right. It’s always Covrallis.
“Why do my fingers always type speach?”
rhp6033 used to do that. Intelligent and thoughtful posts, but every time it came out ‘speach’.
“Correct the Record” , a pro- Hillary super PAC, has attacked Bernie Sanders with a lot of nonsense about his record and comparing him to Jeremy Corbyn. They are not doing her any favors and may spark a backlash instead.
@ 53
Note that none of these people got as far as the 8th paragraph where Fox News conveniently burried the fact that no money was paid to President Clinton and HE DIDN’T GIVE THE SPEECH!
Perhaps review this in the context of the agreement between the Obama administration and Team Clinton as to what Bill Clinton was permitted to do while Hillary served as SOS.
Now ask yourself whether Clinton really needed to query in order to learn the answer.
@ 59
They are not doing her any favors and may spark a backlash instead.
They’re doing her bidding.
Google ‘Correct the Record David Brock’.
@55 check your ass, we know you like hiding things in it.
I think The Duck really want to say Ass in stead of ear, so even the Duck is getting a little too weak.
@ 55
Be nice to Steve. He was defending @ 52 me.
I think.
We need a new America. One where we can tell each other fuck-off in stead of good morning, or go fuck yourself in stead of fine thanks. Eat shit you dumb fuck instead of what would you like to eat. Just the way The Duck lives. You ugly face bleeding bitches, the hair is real!
@60
Good to see you are lapping it up too. Yep, there was an agreement. And the story does’t change. Representative for President Clinton asked the State Department if speaking to a group was O.K. Kind of what they were supposed to do.
Somehow this is a scandal only to those who…something…something…Clinton….evil…something…Chelsea is ugly…something…
“He was defending @ 52 me.
I think.”
Yup! No decoder ring required.
“You ugly face bleeding bitches, the hair is real!”
I liked how he went from eviscerating Karl Rove to his “the hair is real” routine. The other candidates don’t need political consultants so much right now as they need someone like Don Rickles, who is available, by the way. Don not only is still kicking, he’s still performing! I had no idea. I thought he was long gone.
https://twitter.com/DonRickles?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
Well, trickle me down. This ought to go over well.
“NEW BUSH TAX CUTS: 53% GOES TO TOP 1%!”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....8f6700fbbd
It’s unfortunate that there aren’t many trees around the Reagan Library. Thanks Bob. If you knew how to plant trees you could have planted a few around the sacred library.
If it had trees, then maybe there could have been the chance for it to catch fire tomorrow night with all the dumb fucks in it burned alive.
Opps, I’m sorry, I know it’s not politically correct, but I don’t apologize for anything. And it’s real hair, so go fuck yourself.
Once again Boob was counting his chickens before they hatch…..he claimed that with the drop in the stock market that people would not spend, well apparently fucking wrong again, Puffy might actually be correct more often than Boob – you know a broken clock is right once a day, except on leap year.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141207714
I didn’t read the whole article. Maybe I should have, cause I’m sure Bob or Puffy will tell me that I didn’t take into account that Trump has gotten all the bald men to go out and buy tupee and that’s what’s driving the results
HP is going to lay off 30,000 people. DUMMOCRETINS will blame this on Carly Fiorina!
Apparently tomorrows Rep. debate will be held with a bunch of RINO’s at the main RINO Ranch.
http://www.alan.com/2015/09/13.....ino-today/
I think yesterday I went out on a limb and said that Trump wins with 60-65% of the vote. I’m going further out on the limb, I think it could be as high as 70%.
Sounds like Steve Schmidt is trying to move his chips with The Donald.
“DUMMOCRETINS will blame this on Carly Fiorina!”
HP CEO and Republican failed politician Meg Whitman gets millions to add to her billions while dedicated, hard working HP workers get pink slips and see their dreams crushed. Shit like that probably gets the batshit crazy loon’s dick hard.
@68 tax cuts are no longer in style. The Republucans now like the idea of taxing hedge fund managers, and American Companies building things in foreign countries and then selling here in USA. And Trump thinks the middle class needs a break. And he’s going to lower the national debt and build bridges and a wall (oops that one is paid for by the Mexicans) and he’ll keep America strong fighting all the wars or else he’ll come across as the loser in the peace negotiations. How do we pay for all that while Robots are working? We tax the Boob. Sorry Bob, no more trees for you.
“Apparently tomorrows Rep. debate will be held with a bunch of RINO’s at the main RINO Ranch.”
I saw the headline the other day that “Reagan’s son says…” and assumed it was Ron Jr. Huh! Not so.
“Michael Reagan told me on radio Friday night that the more extreme elements of the Republican Party would call his father a “RINO” today–a Republican In Name Only. He also said Mike Huckbabee is acting like he’s running for “Pastor-In-Chief” not Commander-In-Chief. Reagan reiterated that his dad would be “appalled” by Donald Trump.”
The GOP has gotta be really fucked up to lose Michael Reagan.
If taxing hedge fund managers and forcing American companies to keep jobs in this Country (at the same time of paying a living wage) is the new definition of being a Teabagger, then I might consider myself to be one. If they T except gay people and marriage equality then I’m all in!
I find Donald Trump repulsive, but a lot of the others are even more repulsive than him, but if he can deliver what he says he can then I’d consider him. The most repulsive thing is the immigration remarks and his brash bullshit, but he has to do it to get elected, and the repukes, and more, are buying it.
I feel sorry for John Casick (I know I misspelled the last name)
And his climate change remarks. There is so much wrong with him, but I want to see hedge fund managers taxes to death. I’d prefer to see Bernie sanders.
The big problem that Trump could face is Congress. I don’t think he has many friends in Washington DC as far as the other repulsive pukes.
@77 I know, shocking. He called out Fuckabee pretty good too.
@71 HP laid off a lot of people while Carly was CEO. Who should we blame those layoffs on? Santa Claus? The Easter Bunny?
@70 What Bob doesn’t get is that when stocks are going up, people hang onto them, and don’t have that money to spend; it’s when stocks go down they sell them and spend the money.
Btw, a lot of rightwingers predicted a stock market crash when the Federal Reserve ended QE and ZIRP. Well, QE ended last year, and we got a mild dip lasting a few days that was a buying opportunity for intelligent folks. Now, with many investors believing the Fed will raise interest rates a touch this week, we’ve got a 10% correction which leaves the S&P 500 up only 146% since the socialist took office. And this correction is mostly because the Repukes are fixing to shut the government down again at the end of this month. I think it’s another buying opportunity; and I wish the stupid Republicans would do it more often. I’m too impatient to go 4 years between corrections!
@68 What will that do to deficits? Of course, the GOP answer is cut spending — but whose spending will get cut? I strongly suspect that after you net the tax cuts against middle class entitlement cuts, the non-rich end up with an even smaller share of the economic pie than they have now.
@67 You know, I could almost vote for someone who eviscerates Karl Rove, but I want it done properly, the Samurai way …
Finally. Cynthia Whitlatch, the Seattle cop who arrested an elderly black man for using a golf club as a cane, was fired today.
http://www.seattletimes.com/se.....golf-club/
A little love and empathy can go a long way to making a better world. Don’t let fear mongering get in the way. Fuck Puffy.
Danish Police Officer Shares Playful Moment With Syrian Refugee Child http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....43766.html
Nice picture. Police officer is sexy.
@ 83
Well, QE ended last year,
Wrong.
The Fed continues to hold trillions of dollars in US debt, most recently MBS. And it artificially supports that market by:
1. Not selling back what it bought, which increases demand for what is offered for sale by others, driving down interest rates.
2. Reinvesting the proceeds of what it bought into the purchase of more MBS.
http://www.newyorkfed.org/mark.....sults.html
QE isn’t what it used to be. Don’t mislead yourself into thinking that the Fed isn’t still actively using artificial means to prop up the market.
http://www.wired.com/brandlab/.....bs-humans/
“My proposed solution is to have some kind of a guaranteed income that incentivizes education. We don’t want people to get halfway through high school and say, ‘Well if I drop out I’m still going to get the same income as everyone else.’
Then I believe that a guaranteed income would actually result in more entrepreneurship. A lot of people would start businesses just as they do today. The problem with these types of businesses you can start online today is it’s hard to put enough together to generate a middle-class income.
If people had an income floor, and if the incentives were such that on top of that they could do other things and still keep that extra money, without having it all taxed away, then I think a lot of people would pursue those opportunities.”
But will those with any amount of money want to help pay for the income floor?
@88 when hasn’t the Feds or Government used artificial means to prop up the economy. Isn’t that pretty much their whole purpose.
@88 You’re full of shit. That isn’t QE, and doesn’t stimulate the economy or inflate asset values. And the Fed doesn’t have to sell Treasuries or MBSes to get them off its balance sheet; all it has to do is let them mature, which is its apparent strategy.
@89 I think the real question is how are people going to support themselves when technology replaces workers and humans can’t make a living from working anymore. The obvious answer is that we’ll need a different system for distributing economic output. Expect conservatives to opt for the Nazi solution: If you don’t produce (i.e., own the means of production), you die. The liberal solution will be to tax output and use the revenue to provide guaranteed incomes based on being a living, breathing, human being who has to be sheltered, clothed, and fed. And if 1,500 Americans end up owning all of the country’s productive assets, then they’ll get to support the other 350 million of us. Seems fair, because they’ll still live better than we will.
@67 They might as well invite Rickles. The last GOP debate did somewhat resemble one of those old “celebrity roasts”. Maybe tonight Carly will make some comment about how Trump could fuck a Cheerio.
“And if 1,500 Americans end up owning all of the country’s productive assets”
More like 1,500 people without allegiance to any nation and 90% of the world’s workers are replaced by robots.
“Expect conservatives to opt for the Nazi solution”
They’ll no doubt have robots suitable for that task as well.
I hate to say it Carly Fiorina is the only half smart one there. But they are all jokers.
Before Carly said it, I said to myself that we’ve been talking about Illegal Immigration for years, not because of Trump. Well maybe a little louder now because of Trump. But we’ve been talking about it for years but just haven’t been able to do anything, because Amnesty!
And Trump says it currently costs $200B, so where are they all proposing to get the money to do what they want when they want to cut taxes, even though I haven’t heard taxes come up yet.
Then Carson says some County in California (yeah Puffy, Liberal California) that catches 89 or 98 percent of the illegals coming over. So why hasn’t Texas (you know conservative Texas) done anything to stop them – why they waiting for the Feds to do it. Is it not there land? Is that not a FUCKING STATE ISSUE. FUCK YOU TEXANS.
So Cruz brings up Amensty – the stopper of any solution.
none of them have any solutions – only Carly. If she were pro marriage, I think I’d consider voting for her. And she has to have some solutions of other topics too that have to work.
Talk, Talk, Talk, Talk, Congress (republicans) aren’t going to do a FUCKING thing!
Oh fucking Rubio, my father didn’t talk English either when he came here at 18, or he may have even known it before leaving Italy, same with my mother.
So the party that doesn’t like special conditions for people or anyone, want a special condition for Kim Davis and her Bigots….oh this fucking party has to be the most hypocritical mother fuckers in the world….Putin and Iran could be trusted more than a Republican.
Oh now Carly is full of shit…..she wants to blame Democrats….Democrats don’t want is solved…..No Carly, Republicans don’t want it solved, you dumb bitch, she just lost my vote.
TEXAS didn’t secure shit!!!!