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The Point: Is the US ready for yet another Bush?

Equal Pay for Equal Work:

Ann Telnaes: Childless couples need not apply in Utah.

Jon on Sean Hannity’s Spring Break alarmism.

The Week in Scott Brown:

Mark Fiore: The United States of John Roberts.

Obama: Civil Rights.

This Week in Torture:

Thom: The Good, The Bad, and The Very, Very Ugly.

Sharpton: Eric Holder calls out Republican racism

Rep. Vance McAllister (R-LA) get Famous:

White House: West Wing Week.

Richard Fowler: Paul Ryan’s new pathway to prosperity.

Bill Maher: The G.O.P. has become talk radio (via Crooks and Liars).

Stephen Colbert News:

Young Turks: Hillary joins Shrub in the thrown shoe club.

Thom: Climate deniers use same tactics as tobacco companies.

Ari Melber: No escape for Christie as noose tightens.

The Travesty of Affordable Health Care:

John Boehner’s bullshit excuse for failure to extend unemployment benefits.

LBJ adviser on how Obama should handle Boehner.

This Week in Republican Voter Suppression:

Alex Wagner: Jim DeMint claims, “Big Government didn’t free the slaves”.

Young Turks: Republicans finally surrender on Benghazi.

Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.

Comments

  1. 1

    Looks like the federal transportation trust fund will go broke this summer. That means highway construction and repair, and federal transit funding, will come to a dead stop.

  2. 2

    1)Cue the usual ideological wrangling by politicians on both sides, meanwhile hundreds of thousands of jobs are at stake.

  3. 3

    Light Rail operations across state lines are rare in the US(St. Louis is an an example), and the last international streetcar ran between El Paso and Juarez about 40 years ago. Some in both San Diego, CA and Tijuana, Baja California del Norte are suggesting extending a light rail line across the border. I’ll believe this one when I see it. For now, the MTS Blue line ends at the San Yisidro Port of Entry.

    http://www.railwayage.com/inde.....channel=61

  6. 6

    Are self-righteous religious politicians full of shit?

    Do bears shit in woods? Do ducks cross the street?

    Kind of simple question with a simple answer. – Quite fucking frankly, Yes!

    Just ask Puffy Boy. He’s always right!

    The whole notion of religion is to be wrong, you are the sinner, and you should live a better way.

    Do we have murders? Do we have rapists? Do we have thieves? Do we have Adulterers? Do we have divorces? Do we have liars? Do we have vandals? Do we beat up people? I read the papers and all the answers to those questions are resoundingly, Yes, it is what we do best.

    Anyone preaching of how righteous they are is bullshit. Stick them in the oven, let them cook a little longer till they are done.

    Live Free or Die. Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. Don’t tread on me – the gay guy!

    Puffy go fuck yourself – stick that Bible right up your ass where it belongs!

    Anyone who preaches the Bible and doesn’t obey by it should be stoned – should be the 11th commandment.

  8. 8

    In Nevada, some jackass who thinks he has a right to graze his cattle on federal land free owes the government over $1 million in unpaid grazing fees. He ignores court orders. When the Bureau of Land Management began rounding up his cattle last week, rightwing militia nuts from all over the country showed up to “defend” his ranch with their guns. They even blocked an interstate highway for a while. The rancher says this is about “liberty.” Yeah, right. Looks to me like it’s about money. Taxpayers already subsidize ranchers by giving them grazing permits at one-third the cost of grazing fees on private land — that’s what welfare west of the Mississippi River looks like. I can guess what this yahoo would do to someone who trespassed on his land. Well, I have an idea. Let’s give him the BLM land. Then the county can collect taxes from him on it. Of course, you already know what this freeloading libertarian would say to that — NO!!! He expects us to let him use the land free, pay no grazing fees or taxes, and he probably claims the mineral rights, too. This isn’t about liberty, it’s straightforward looting. Well, at least the BLM got several hundred of his cows before they backed off. At $1,000 apiece, that’s enough to pay off part of his grazing bill.

  9. 9

    @6 “The whole notion of religion is to be wrong, you are the sinner, and you should live a better way.”

    I’m under the impression their notion of religion is that sinning is okay because they’ll be forgiven for it.

  14. 14

    LMAO! Been enjoying this writer a bit. His output is somewhat uneven but when he’s good, he’s good!

    Right wing pseudo-intellectualism is almost a risk-free scam. All you have to do is make up some crap about someone that right wingers love to hate, then pretend that your crap is having an impact outside of the right wing monkey cage, cackle when the piles of poop draw everyone’s attention, and then whine about partisan political persecution once your poo-flinging behavior lands you in trouble with the zookeepers. Not only will the grassroots take up your cause right away, but actual lawmakers will attempt to intervene. It is great work if you can get it.

    http://www.breitbartunmasked.c.....e-of-scam/

    I love it! This guy thoroughly understands the always wrong wing mentality.

  15. 15

    More fun from Breitbart Unmasked:

    The marks want Allen Baler to lie to them. His lies feel good to them. They will ignore stories and pitches that fail to resonate with this paranoid streak of apocalyptic fervor. Mark Steyn, the National Review writer who brought Mann’s libel suit down on the publication by comparing the climate scientist to a pedophile, was feeding that same appetite for red meat when he did it. The marks love it when Steyn lies to them about climate scientists, and a writer who does not attack the subject as aggressively will not excite them nearly as much. The Circle of Scam rewards its worst actors the most. To make a buck by selling the rubes food, you must decry “communist food brainwashing.” Nothing less will do.

    http://www.breitbartunmasked.c.....e-of-scam/

    Spot on!

  16. 16

    Meanwhile Obummer IRS scandal water carrier Elijah Cummings has some ‘splainin to do…

    Rutro Raggy…

    Seems Elijah the IRS Scandal Water Carrier’s letter contains similar questions that closely mirrored those posed to True to Vote by the Obummer’s IRS. Puddy loves how Issa displays those questions as facts!

    Can’t wait to hear Elijah’s excuse since he has two weeks to prepare it! He previously claimed his office didn’t do didly when questioned by True to Vote!

  22. 22

    Amtrak will be restoring service between Chicago and Rockford, IL by 2015. This is part of an expansion plan in Illinois that includes upgrades to 110MPH running on the Chicago-St. Louis Lincoln Service.
    http://www.masstransitmag.com/.....in-in-2015

    There is some discussion of a cross state service that avoids congested Chicago. The last service between Chicago and Rockford was in 1981, and there have been proposals to extend the service, once called the Black Hawk, to Dubuque, Iowa. If that happens, perhaps two former Illinois Central passenger train names could be resurrected, the Land of Corn, and the Hawkeye. Right now, only Springfield is funding the service.

  23. 23

    Fighting Erupts In Ukraine

    Shooting erupted between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian “anti-terrorist” forces today as the Ukrainian government launched operations against separatists who had seized government buildings in some eastern Ukrainian towns.

  25. 25

    @18 Well, well, look who’s an apologist for a thieving rancher who stole more than $1 million of grazing rights from taxpayers and the militia rabble who support him by blocking freeways.

  26. 26

    @19 But it’s okay to disrespect the law, ignore court orders, and threaten federal law enforcement officers, right?

  27. 27

    Just when you think puddypoop couldn’t possibly stoop any lower, he stoops lower.

  28. 28

    23)Looks like it begins. That’s how it starts and then spirals out of control.

  29. 29

    A little background on the historical example I mentioned in my post at number 3. Most local streetcar service in Juarez had ended in 1945, and National City Lines had converted local routes in El Paso in 1947. The International run continued up until 1973, because both American and Mexican authorities thought it was easier to control border crossings. Various construction closures starting in the mid 1960s’s tested Mexican authorities.
    http://www.tramz.com/mx/cj/cj.html

    The San Diego Trolley extension to Tijuana proposal, it arose from proposals to reactivate defunct rail trackage to the east of San Diego.

    http://pacificimperialrailroad.com/about-pir/

  31. 31

    GOP vote suppression

    Gotta love those DUMMOCRETIN code words… Florida NBC Station identified dozens of illegal aliens who illegally voted and it’s GOP vote suppression!

    North Carolina has determined many more voters voted more than one in the recent erections and it’s GOP vote suppression!

    Butt wait… it’s illegal GOP vote suppression! Puddy is glad HA DUMMOCRETINS don’t care if their votes don’t count! Puddy wants his vote to count!

  32. 32

    Obummer’s NSA… DUMMOCRETIN Scumbags!

    “Reports that NSA or any other part of the government were aware of the so-called Heartbleed vulnerability before 2014 are wrong,” according to an e-mailed statement from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

    Somehow this “statement” doesn’t ring true to Puddy. Remember the head of the NSA ABSOLUTELY AND PURPOSELY lied to A DUMMOCRETIN senator!

    Puddy used slate because the lean way DUMMOCRETIN!

    Puddy was busy last week in bay area! Networking can be tedious!

  33. 33

    And the NY Slimes backs Puddy!!!

    But Mr. Obama carved a broad exception for “a clear national security or law enforcement need,” the officials said, a loophole that is likely to allow the N.S.A. to continue to exploit security flaws both to crack encryption on the Internet and to design cyberweapons.

    The White House has never publicly detailed Mr. Obama’s decision, which he made in January as he began a three-month review of recommendations by a presidential advisory committee on what to do in response to recent disclosures about the National Security Agency.

    The more you know about Obummer the more you realize:

    .the. worst. .president. ever.

    See ya HA DUMMOCRETINS!

  34. 34

    Anyone else bored with this troll’s babbling as I am?

    Republicans,

    don’t want old people, who never miss an ELECTION, with perfect voting records to vote..

    don’t want college students and other young people to vote

    don’t want catholic nuns to vote..

    don’t want black churchogoers to vote..

    don’t want poor people to vote…

    they don’t want these people to vote because if they did, their moronic tools candidates would LOSE EVERY TIME!

  36. 36

    What happened to all the whining about “class warfare”???

    Wealthiest Pay Higher Taxes With Scant U.S. Economic Harm..

    “In advance one always hears the squeals of the oxen who would like everyone to think they are about to be gored,” said James Galbraith, an economist at the University of Texas at Austin. “Then it turns out that they are only nicked, and life goes on.”

    The U.S. government is projected to collect more than $3 trillion for the first time in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, a 9.2 percent increase over last year, according to the Congressional Budget Office. CBO forecasts another 9 percent rise in 2015 and estimates that more than half of the increases in revenue stem from tax law changes.

    Because of tax increases, spending cuts and economic growth, the federal budget deficit is projected to be 3 percent of gross domestic product this year. That’s less than half its 2012 level and the smallest budget deficit since 2007.

    http://www.businessweek.com/ne.....harm-taxes

    It was all right wing bullshit – nothing more.. The IRS should go hard after tax dodgers – creeps like R-Money and the Koch brothers and these ingrate corporations who profit handsomely off u.s. consumers and give next to nothing back!

  38. 38

    Occupy got it right. Capitalism is only working for the well-connected few. French economist Thomas Piketty is exploding right wing myths with his ground-breaking book:

    What have we learned? Capitalism is bad. Hooray! What’s the answer? Socialism? Hope so. “It is not quite so simple,” he says, disappointing this former teenage Marxist. “What I argue for is a progressive tax, a global tax, based on the taxation of private property. This is the only civilised solution. The other solutions are, I think, much more barbaric – by that I mean the oligarch system of Russia, which I don’t believe in, and inflation, which is really just a tax on the poor.” He explains that oligarchy, particularly in the present Russian model, is quite simply the rule of the very rich over the majority. This is both tyrannical and not much more than a form of gangsterism. He adds that the very rich are not usually hurt by inflation – their wealth increases anyway – but the poor suffer worst of all with a rising cost of living. A progressive tax on wealth is the only sane solution.

    http://www.theguardian.com/boo.....as-piketty

    “A form of gangsterism” – exactly what our local troll village idiots want for this country!

  39. 39

    31)I was just pointing out that the same code word seemed to be used. Election Administration in Canada is usually done by independent bodies, like Elections Canada at the Federal level, and a provincial version at the provincial level. I can see why Prime Minister Harper is hiding behind voter fraud. In 2011, the New Democratic Party’s meteoric rise into the official opposition came at the expense of the separatist Bloc Quebecois. Separatists made gains at the next provincial election, due to corruption scandals among the Liberals. That and a promise not to immediately seek independence.

    Around March of this year, the Parti Quebecois government announced a snap election for April 7. Many feared if the PQ’s got a majority, they would seek independence. The vote Monday was not even close, the voters chose the Liberals and all their faults, over a divisive sovereignty referendum. When the election was first announced, did Harper ask his provincial conservatives what the local mood was? No, the brand is as tarnished for the Blue side(Color for the Conservative Party of Canada) in Quebec(Only 5 Federal seats and no effective provincial party), as it is for the Red side in Alberta(No federal seats, only a handful of seats in the provincial legislature in Edmonton, but Liberal votes did prop up the Progressive Conservatives in the face of a challenge from the right). He asked Opposition leader Thomas Mulcair, and Liberal leader Justin Trudeau, what the situation on the ground in Quebec was, since both are from there. Both Harper and Mulcair should worry about next year, although I doubt 1993, will happen again, where the incumbent prime minister lost her seat.

  40. 40

    More Thomas Piketty:

    “One of the great divisive forces at work today,” he says, “is what I call meritocratic extremism. This is the conflict between billionaires, whose income comes from property and assets, such as a Saudi prince, and super-managers. Neither of these categories makes or produces anything but their wealth, which is really a super-wealth that has broken away from the everyday reality of the market, which determines how most ordinary people live. Worse still, they are competing with each other to increase their wealth, and the worst of all case scenarios is how super-managers, whose income is based effectively on greed, keep driving up their salaries regardless of the reality of the market. This is what happened to the banks in 2008, for example.”

    Same Guardian link.. Only problem with this guy is that he makes too much damn sense.

  41. 41

    In Australia, their independent commission did prove not to be perfect. In the 2013 election, they lost about 1500-2000 votes, and led to a rare do-over for the six Senate seats in Western Australia. The results of the do-over. On the initial count, 2 Liberals, 1 Labor, 1 Green, 1 Palmer United Party, and it appears that the last seat will go to a Liberal. Turnout was down despite compulsory voting, possibly because some thought they did not have to show up for a re-vote. The fine is $20.

    http://blogs.abc.net.au/antony......html#more

    Even with the proportional representation system used for the Australian Senate, Labor did not have a chance for 2 seats in a state like Western Australia.

  43. 43

    Capitalism is choking on its own vomit. When we defend capitalism we defend a system that will enslave our kid’s grandkids (that is if there’s an environment left that will support life).

    Here’s another example, as if we need any more:

    http://www.bostonglobe.com/bus.....story.html

    Bain Capital sees opportunity in methadone clinics

    …Governor Deval Patrick has declared it a public health emergency.

    For Bain Capital, it’s also a potential profit opportunity.

    The Boston-based private equity firm recently took over Habit OPCO Inc., the largest chain of substance treatment facilities in Massachusetts, with 13 locations from Boston to Springfield. Bain paid $58 million to acquire the for-profit centers through CRC Health Corp., a California company it has owned since 2006. CRC Health is the biggest provider of substance abuse treatment and behavioral health services in the country.

    This foray into one of the most challenging, and financially complex, areas of health care may seem contrary to the kind of dealmaking Bain Capital is best known for — investments in brand-name companies like Dunkin’ Donuts and Bright Horizons child care.

    But as opiates ravage communities from rural Vermont to Hollywood, treating addiction has become big business. The push for national health care, and recent changes to federal health insurance laws could make it even more attractive. Substance abuse treatment is a $7.7 billion industry, according to a recent report by IBISWorld Inc., a New York research firm, and growing at an annual rate of about 2 percent.

    This is the greedy fuck who wanted to be President. What kind of moral bankruptcy would lead a man to think that profitizing addiction services…preying on the very weakest of society at their most vulnerable point is ok. So much for that Romney prick’s thin veneer of being a caring man. This is just sick. It is unfettered and reckless capitalism that breeds this kind of moral depravity.

  45. 45

    This is why Puddy calls rujax the dumbest mofo dumb cinder block on HA. Even dumber than the crazed clueless databaze deala.

    This is the greedy fuck who wanted to be President.

    From WikiPedia…

    1999–2002: Romney departure and political legacy

    With this specific sentence…

    Although he had left open the possibility of returning to Bain after the Olympics, Romney made his crossover to politics permanent with an announcement in August 2001.[68] His separation from the firm was finalized in early 2002.[34][80]

    You are soooooooo silly, stoooooooooooopid, and moronic with your 24x7x365.25 hatred!

  46. 46

    The REPUBLICAN House of representatives is responsible for budget and oversight functions

    And Puddy mentions it all the time you useless blob of protoplasm. Check with the crazed clueless cretin databaze deala to verify. Puddy dares you to grow some marbuls. Every jobs and budget bill put forth by the House has basically died in Reid’s DUMMOCRETIN senate.

    All the facts presented by the NY Post are correct! Sux to be the dumb cinder block!

    You’re staying as stoooooooooopid as ever dumb cinder block rujax! The Prosecution Rests Your Honor!

  48. 48

    Puddy was busy last week in bay area! Networking can be tedious!

    Area troll imagines he is somebody.

  49. 49

    http://www.examiner.com/articl.....again-2016

    Increasing evidence that Mitt Romney will run again in 2016

    The key to preparing Romney to run in 2016 is making him appear “cool.” The Washington Post on its web site, published today an article by Philip Rucker titled “How Mitt Romney got cool.” This article, along with the Mitt Romney documentary discussed in it, are just the latest of what appears to be a campaign designed to rehabilitate the image of the former Massachusetts governor and prepare him for a third run at the presidency in 2016. Just recently, Romney appeared on NBC’s Late Night to “Slow Jam” the news with Jimmy Fallon.

    oink, oink, oink.

  51. 51

    Hans,

    Wanna see the airlines tickets? Oh yeah, Puddy can’t tell you where Puddy was! Confidentiality!

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Has da JACKASS!

  52. 52

    The response from @47 proves Puddy’s point again!

    Thanks for playing Rujax!

  54. 54

    That takes real talent.

    From da moron who scream racism when anyone criticized Obummer!

    Yeah, that’s the ticket!

  56. 56

    @32 “Somehow this “statement” doesn’t ring true to Puddy.”

    I understand — just like your statements @31 don’t ring true to me.

    C’mon, putz, the whole world knows what the GOP is up to. A GOP congressman even admitted last week the GOP would never win another presidential election if illegals get citizenship. It’s all about suppressing Democratic votes, because even with all their phony wedge issues and ad hominem attacks, the GOP can’t persuade a majority of Americans to vote for GOP incompetence and corruption.

  58. 58

    @46 “The REPUBLICAN House of representatives is responsible for budget and oversight functions”

    That’s why the economy is still so shitty. It’s well established that Democratic fiscal stimulus promotes recovery, while Republican austerity turns recessions into depressions.

  60. 60

    A white supremacist went on a shooting spree in Kansas, killing at least three. While the targets were two Jewish affiliated centers, it appears none of the victims were Jewish. The suspect is in custody, and has run as a write in candidate in Missouri in the past.
    http://www.usatoday.com/story/.....t/7689607/

    If this is the same guy who ran as a write in in 2010, I remember a controversy about his ads. He bought a few spots on a Kansas City radio station. The station had to air them despite the racist screed in them. So the station bracketed the ad with disclaimers, and donated the money to the local NAACP and a Jewish charity. They only ran the ads because it believed he was a candidate for office. Didn’t do much good, he only got 7 votes.

    http://www.allaccess.com/net-n.....buy-money-

  61. 61

    @55,

    Of course rujax forget his own moniker: Rujax! Reminding the puddypussy That a Black Person Voting Republican is Like a Chicken Voting for Col. Sanders Since 2004

    So stoooooopid he can’t remember to place the electrodes in the on position so it’s brain could actually engage!

    Wait for it… two stooooopid comments from the dumb brick and the cinder block will appear real soon!

    Nuff said SUCKA!

  62. 62

    C’mon, putz, the whole world knows what the GOP is up to. A GOP congressman even admitted last week the GOP would never win another presidential election if illegals get citizenship.

    Roger Idiot Wabbit, name for Puddy another country that would give illegal aliens blanket citizenship with them going through proper channels besides DUMMOCRETINS leading and “transforming” America?

    Go ahead and search!

  64. 64

    If this is the same guy who ran as a write in in 2010, I remember a controversy about his ads.

    Yes, he hated Republicans too!

  65. 65

    Wanna see the airlines tickets? Oh yeah, Puddy can’t tell you where Puddy was! Confidentiality!

    Does puddy ever know where puddy is?

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Has da JACKASS!

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