Thom: Politically correcting Bill-O on his crazy climate change statements.
Season’s Greetings:
- Roy Zimmerman: Christma-Hanu-Rama-Ka-Dona-Kwanzaa:
- Nick Offerman reads a more casual “Twas the Night Before Christmas”
- Mental Floss: 16 innovative origins of holiday traditions
- Slate: Pain and violence in Christmas movies
- Roy Zimmerman: Christmas is Pain.
- Sam Seder: Bill-O-The-Clown claim victory in the War on Christmas.
- Young Turks: Mission accomplished–the Grinch who SAVED Christmas
- James Rustad: The Bush’s 12 Days of Christmas
James Rustad: Ted Cruz…a rebel without a clue.
Thom: You don’t frack with New York.
Jon hits Hannity over referring to Jay Z as a “crack dealer”
The Cuban Mingle Crisis:
- Lawrence O’Donnell: Sen. Rubio’s blatant hypocrisy
- Stephen hits the Pope over Cuba
- Young Turks: New Cuba policy provokes nutburgers into a frenzy of nonsense
- Obama defends his actions over Cuba.
- Sam Seder: U.S. begins normalizing relations with Cuba
- Young Turks: Rand Paul and Marco Rubio have a Cuban missile crisis.
- Ann Telnaes: Sen Marco Rubio responds to normalizing relations with Cuba.
- Sam Seder shares his stories from Cuba
Congressional Hits and Misses.
Ed and Pap: Another corrupt Bush seeking White House?
Young Turks: Andrew Hawkins has some powerful words:
Megyn Kelly: When things go weird with Obama.
Torture in our Name:
- Jon: Dick Cheney’s mind is the scariest fucking place in the Universe
- Jimmy Dore: The torture report is so funny you’ll shit your hummus.
- Farron Cousins: The Bush Administration needs to stand trial. Period.
- Thom: Will Europe prosecute Bush or Cheney for torturing?
- Ann Telnaes: Dick has no regrets about torture.
- Stephen: Debates a formidable opponent on torture
- David Pakman: For 1st time Cheney admits some detainees were innocent. Doesn’t care.
- Jimmy Dore: Here’s what nobody understands about torture
- David Pakman: CIA didn’t just torture…they did human medical experiments
- Sam Seder and Cliff Schecter: Dick Cheney—The disgusting torture apologist
Larry Wilmore’s Nightly Show promo.
Sam Seder: Jeb Bush and the Republican clown car.
Obama talks about his own experience with racial profiling.
Thom: Is a climate disaster lurking off of the coast of Washington state?
Poison Pills:
- Jon: Look what Congress slipped into the spending bill.
- Mark Fiore: Citygroup Democracy
- Sam Seder: The argument for voting FOR the CRomnibus
- Ed O’Keefe: What’s inside the spending bill
White House: West Wing Week.
“Mom…you’re embarrassing us!”
Thom: The Good, The Bad, and The Very, Very Ugly.
Obama takes a swing at Keystone.
Sony and Kim-J:
- Lawrence O’Donnell: North Korea wages war on Sony.
- Obama: I am sympathetic…but Sony made a mistake
- Young Turks: FBI confirms the source….
- Jon: So now Kim Jong-un determines what movies get made?
- Ari Melber: Is canceling ‘The Interview’ caving to terrorists?
- Slate: The Interview, as reenacted with pencil puppets
Jimmy Dore: Ben Stein reveals his racist side talking about Ferguson.
Mental Floss: 13 inventions and innovations creating a better future for women.
Matt Binder: Ten Sandy Hook families sue gun maker.
Maddow: On Putin, GOP & FAUX News must eat their words:
Jimmy Kimmel: The YEAR in unnecessary censorship.
Does Stephen Commit Comicide?:
- Stephen: 12 very good moments from the Colbert Report.
- The final Colbert Report
- FAUX News dullard thinks Colbert should write a check to FAUX
- Slate: A tribute—Stephen’s music
- Stephen holds a yard sale.
- Stephen: 10 years of ALMOST staying in character
- Stephen’s final “Word”.
Thom: Is George Zimmerman right?
Sam Seder: Ted Cruz “own goals” the G.O.P..
Farron Cousins: Jeb Bush is the worst Republican traits on one package.
Not Mental Floss: 13 thing you think are true but aren’t.
Nutbag Republican state lawmaker proposes women have to ask men’s permission to have an abortion.
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
So, when previous Pope’ s spoke out on the social issues, that was ok, but it seems conservatives don’t like the current Pope.
CSX has re-opened the Chicago Locomotive Shop, shuttered since 1992. It will add 23 jobs, to a 1000 strong workforce.
http://www.railwayage.com/inde.....channel=35
In reference to the Hannity thing.
It could be said that ol’ Sean Hannity looks a little like an Irish Catholic Priest.
Fair is fair.
Back during the Metro funding debate Goldy expressed discomfort in relying on increasing sales tax revenues to fund Metro, because sooner or later a recession will come our way and then we’re in a pickle because sales tax revenues come in lower than expected, causing financial issues. I won’t search to find the specific thread but perhaps YLB can work some wayback machine magic and find it for us.
Yet Goldy said nothing about the volatility that WA would experience in capital gains collections if there is another economic disruption. As an example, federal revenues from capital gains decreased from
$137,000,000,000 in 2007 to only
$37,000,000,000 in 2009.
http://www.facethefactsusa.org.....-recession
That’s a 73% decrease in revenues from capital gains taxation, which is far, far, far greater as a percent than the decrease in King County sales tax revenues that occur during a recession. If one were to look at the capital gains taxes paid by the 1% during that period – remember those are the targets of Inslee’s proposed new tax – I suspect the drop in capital gains taxes paid would be even greater. Unless people were in trouble, why would they sell into a falling market, triggering capital gains by ridding themselves of undervalued assets? In fact, the smartest of them kept their powder dry and began buying when the market was at its worst, which is a huge reason why inequality is so much greater now than it was pre-Great Recession.
Now, sales taxes make up significantly greater proportion of Metro funding than proposed capital gains taxes would contribute to WA state funding, so it’s not an apples-to-apples comparison, I’ll admit.
But I think it’s still a reasonable question to ask:
Why is it not acceptable to Goldy to rely on sales tax collections for Metro due to their volatily, and yet he said nothing about the volatility of capital gains tax revenues insofar as increases in state spending are concerned?
@4 Are you really that daft?
1) Inslee has shown more spine than Locke or Gregoire could dream of. Whether that’s due to an unprecedented political opening or not is an open question.
2) Some new revenue to support education is better than NO NEW REVENUE which is all the right will ever want (combined with spending cuts of course).
3) All we here from the always wrong wing is that ALL taxes are volatile. Capital gains, income, sales.. Yes, they all go down during a recession. That’s what rainy day funds are for. The more sources of revenue the less rainy day funds are required.
4) All we here from you and your fellow travellers is DO NOTHING. Climate change? DO NOTHING. Schools underfunded? DO NOTHING. etc., etc. except cut spending of course.
“Anti-Gay Pastor Arrested For Grabbing Man’s Genitals, Soliciting Oral Sex”
http://crooksandliars.com/2014.....bing-man-s
“Police later found gay pornography in the pastor’s car.”
We hear about this kind of thing so often, it’s not even news anymore. Just throw it in the pile along with the rest of the right-wing hypocrites.
The shit don’t work Bob…
http://www.kansascity.com/opin.....68108.html
F all those who want to ape that krap here in this state and the nags they rode in on.
@ 5
YLB, see my comments in yesterday’s
Nick HanauerGoldy thread.1. You are correct that a rainy day fund is for recessionary times. Please explain to me why it is OK for Inslee to raid it in the next biennium to pay for part of what he wants.
2. Yes, all revenue streams are volatile but capital gains tax revenues are especially volatile. At the time you most need them @4, they aren’t there. Yet Inslee has made them the centerpiece of his funding for new spending.
3. You wrongly insinuate, perhaps intentionally so, that I advocate doing nothing. Read what I wrote in those thread comments. What I wrote is that the increased funding shouldn’t just come from people like me. It should come from people like you, too. Rather than admiring Inslee’s spine you could show you have one by stepping up and helping pay for what he wants.
4. I am stunned that you were able to pen a comment without employing at least three exclamation points. Did part of your keyboard break from overuse?
1) Because Inslee supports doing something as opposed to doing NOTHING.. Quibble with his methods all you want. At least he’s put a plan out there.. And the end result will probably be quite different than what he’s proposed. It’s how the game is played if you didn’t know. Hopefully it will turn out to be something better than NOTHING.
2) Volatile? So?? Again some new revenue is better than NO NEW REVENUE.. Do you get it?? Yet?
3) I see pretty weak support from you for income taxation which is fine. (And as it turns out, a political non-starter in this state.)
And sigh… that same old tired argument that people whose incomes and standards of living haven’t changed or stagnated for decades should take more pain all so the winners from Reaganomics should just feel a bit of a sting.
If you’re so disturbed about how the less well off has “skated” while the better off have paid through the nose – have you have thought about how much right wing politics have bought off lower income folks with everything from EITC, child and education credits to the current bracket structure?
4) LMAO @ you Bob!!!! Read Hot Air lately about the good news from the klowservative utopia of Kansas???? How do like that 250k jobs promises by Walker? HAHAHAHA!!!
@ 9
Hopefully it will turn out to be something better than NOTHING.
That’s one way of looking at it. Another is a concern that it could be worse than nothing, YLB.
Not all ideas are good ones. Some are bad. It’s one reason why supermajorities are required for some actions.
Enjoy your weekend. KS and WI still have GOP governors. Apparently you didn’t scream sufficiently loudly, YLB.
If the Republicans circle the wagons and get their way. Sure.. But there’s always the next election.
Like the TABOR.. I saw that miserable genuflection towards “inflation” in the last thread, yes…
Shit happens. I’m sure more hoops for the voters to jump through and more spending cuts will insure further broken promises from the GOP.
Another klownservative krackpot putting “legitimate rape” into law:
http://thinkprogress.org/healt.....rape-bill/
All that’s missing is “the body has a way of shutting that down”.. It’ll get there somehow I’m sure.
@1 Because he’s for the poor. As part of the power elite, his job is to instruct the poor on keeping their proper place, viz., working graveyard, weekend, and holiday shifts to line the pockets of their capitalist masters.
@2 Good! (Disclosure: Roger Rabbit owns CSX stock.)
@4 “Yet Goldy said nothing about the volatility that WA would experience in capital gains collections”
Volatility? Are you kidding? We can count on capital gains rolling in for the capitalist class as surely as it rains in Seattle in December. The rich making money from their investments is one of the few things in this world that’s a sure thing. Wage income, on the other hand, is volatile as we’ve seen in recent years.
Also, I love the example you use — a once-in-a-lifetime economic meltdown, the worst in 80 years — as if there’s another one like it just around the corner. Attaboy Bob! Way to game a debate!
Breaking News: 2 New York Cops Killed By Gunman
Two NYPD cops sitting in a patrol car in the Bronx were assassinated this afternoon by a shooter who ran into a subway and committed suicide. No other details, and no suggestion of terrorism or a link to the Eric Garner uproar, at this time.
@7 If you bought stocks 2 months after Bush took office, you lost your ass. If you bought stocks 2 months after Obama took office, you made a killing. As a greedy golddigging mercenary capitalist of the most avaricious sort, I want Democrats running things purely as a matter of aggrandizing self-interest.
@8 “1. You are correct that a rainy day fund is for recessionary times. Please explain to me why it is OK for Inslee to raid it in the next biennium to pay for part of what he wants.”
You think we’re in boom times now?
“2. Yes, all revenue streams are volatile but capital gains tax revenues are especially volatile. At the time you most need them @4, they aren’t there. Yet Inslee has made them the centerpiece of his funding for new spending.”
Got any empirical data to back up this horseshit?
“3. You wrongly insinuate, perhaps intentionally so, that I advocate doing nothing. Read what I wrote in those thread comments. What I wrote is that the increased funding shouldn’t just come from people like me.”
Yes it should, because people like you aren’t paying their fair share.
“It should come from people like you, too.”
If you mean me, Roger Rabbit, I have to plead nolo contendere, because quite frankly as a stock market capitalist I’m getting away with bloody murder when it comes to not paying taxes. I pay ZERO taxes on my capital gains and dividends, and it’s perfectly legal, thanks to Republicans!
“Rather than admiring Inslee’s spine you could show you have one by stepping up and helping pay for what he wants.”
After you, my dear Watson.
“4. I am stunned that you were able to pen a comment without employing at least three exclamation points. Did part of your keyboard break from overuse?”
You should’ve asked me instead. I’m not bashful. Here you go: !!!
@10 “Not all ideas are good ones. Some are bad. It’s one reason why supermajorities are required for some actions.”
If you want to go this route, then let’s require supermajorities for:
1) Declarations of war
2) Undeclared wars
3) Dirty wars and other black ops
4) Secret abductions, renditions, and detentions
5) Torture
6) Tax cuts (if we’re going to have them for tax increases, then why not also for tax cuts?)
7) Electing Republicans to anything, anywhere (this should require a permission slip from your mother, too, and a liability insurance policy)
@15 Bob is a fraud. Go Marco, go! Bob has your back.
Republican: A Democrat who has been mugged.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/.....story.html
@ 16
No other details, and no suggestion of terrorism or a link to the Eric Garner uproar, at this time.
Here, RR:
Let me help you out.
He used the hashtag #ShootThePolice, along with two other hashtags referencing Garner and Brown.
http://nypost.com/2014/12/20/2.....-brooklyn/
There are times, RR, during which silence may be your best option.
@22 Hey dumbass, know what “at this time” means? I posted at 3:09 pm, you posted 3 hours later, do you suppose this may be a developing story? Pull your head out of your ass. You look silly that way.
@ 21 TB
A libertarian is a Republican whose been convicted.
@ 23
As soon as news broke of the tragedy in Brooklyn, I spoke with both the families of Eric Garner and Michael Brown.
http://www.nydailynews.com/sha.....N+Facebook
Meanwhile, as soon as news broke of the tragedy in Brooklyn, Roger Rabbit took to horsesass.org to inform us @16 that there was no evidence of a link to Eric Garner.
Yes, you certainly have learned. You speak from experience. But then again, there are times you don’t even take your own advice. A little schizophrenic.
“Meanwhile, as soon as news broke of the tragedy in Brooklyn, Roger Rabbit took to horsesass.org to inform us @16 that there was no evidence of a link to Eric Garner.”
You left something out, Bob.
“at this time”
Really, Bob, if you’re going to resort to lies of omission, you might want to limit yourself to doing this when proof that you’re lying isn’t on the same page on which you’ve posted.
Another day, another dead police officer.
Police officer shot, killed in Tarpon Springs
http://www.wtsp.com/story/news...../20722929/
Anyone else get a sense that ‘Hands Up, Don’t Shoot’ balloon is deflating?
@ 27
Steve, if there was no reason to suspect a linkage, then why did Al Sharpton immediately contact the families of Brown and Garner as soon as the news broke? I mean, police officers die @28 in the line of duty awfully frequently, so what was different about yesterday’s killings that made Sharpton react the way he did?
I’m pretty sure that when the second plane hit a tower on 9/11, just at that time there was no objective evidence that there was intent to convey a message. Merely an unfortunate coincidence.
“link to Eric Garner”
Before you go off the rail, Bob, try to recall that there were two assassinated police officers in Las Vegas with assassin links to Cliven Bundy and Fox News.
Shorter @ 30:
“Hey, look over there!!”
What’s next, Steve? Ya gonna start talking about the death tax again?
“Hey, look over there!!”
No, it’s right here, buddy.
“what was different about yesterday’s killings that made Sharpton react the way he did”
Off the rails already. What was different about the NYC and Las Vegas murders of two officers that left Fox News and yourself to react with complete silence about the link to Cliven Bundy and Fox News?
@32
What was different about the NYC and Las Vegas murders of two officers that left Fox News and yourself to react with complete silence about the link to Cliven Bundy and Fox News?
1. Ignorance.
2. Shame.
Both side have their total fucking idiots, Steve. Bundy is one on the right. Some shit I see and just shut myself off from. Whatever happened in Nevada was that kind of shit. So I have some memory of a dispute over grazing rights and payment for same, a strong memory that Bundy is a horrible racist who made that quite clear, and that thereafter he became persona non grata to the mainstream right. Whatever else there might be, feel free to fill me in. I plead ignorance.
I’m as embarrassed and ashamed that my side hitched its wagon to the likes of Cliven Bundy as you should be that an Al Sharpton-supported march in NYC devolved into “What do we want?” “Dead cops!” “When do we want it?” “Now!” in the very, very recent past.
So I shut myself off from a lot of it.
Path, clearing.
In private, according to several Democrats who have talked with her, Ms. Warren, 65, has also indicated that she would not challenge Hillary Rodham Clinton.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12......html?_r=1
I’d actually be OK with a Clinton presidency and a GOP-held Congress, one house or two
And it’ll be fun recalling all the nasty things libbies said about her in 2008 and attempting to dismiss in 2016.
Biggest losers:
JudasBill Richardson, MSNBC.Goldy @GoldyHA
I’ve got the flu, and it totally sucks: fever, chills, headache, cough. Don’t be stupid like me—get your flu shot before it’s too late.
Really, why wouldn’t you get a shot? I’m picking up most of the tab.
I hope you feel well enough to catch up on some correspondence
http://horsesass.org/if-republ.....nt-1276604
sometime soon, Goldy.
Rap Video Under Fire For Encouraging Cop Killing
Bronx, New York (My9NJ) –
The rap video “Hands Up!” featuring rappers Maino and Uncle Murda has gone viral, but it’s the videos message that has many people up in arms. The video basically encourages people to kill police officers in retribution to what happened to Michael Brown and Eric Garner. The video portrays the recurring image of an actor dressed as a police officer with two guns pointed at his head, and some of the lyrics even encourage that type of behavior.
“For Mike Brown and Sean Bell, a cop gotta be killed,” the song says.
http://www.my9nj.com/story/276.....op-killing
My predicted RR response: “Hey, the video says nothing about Eric Garner.”
My predicted Steve response: “Remember when Sarah Palin targeted Gabby Giffords?”
Did Puddy get banned?
Republican politicians and police union fanatics are wasting no time trying to turn yesterday’s police murders by a convicted felon and prison gang member into a political weapon against Democratic office holders and peaceful protesters against police brutality. Fuck these assholes for their repulsive, divisive, incendiary rhetoric. They’re doing their fellow cops no favors by dividing the country into “you’re either for us or against us” camps. It merely confirms the already aroused public’s worst impressions of the police.
“Did Puddy get banned?”
He said he was going on vacation and would drop in occasionally.
Remember when Sarah Palin targeted Gabby Giffords?
Heh.
@37 I hope not. How can we play soccer without a soccer ball?
@28 “Anyone else get a sense that ‘Hands Up, Don’t Shoot’ balloon is deflating?”
No. With Puddy on vacation, you’re the only poster here anal enough to blame police deaths on protests against police brutality.
“So I shut myself off from a lot of it.”
Well, at least the right-wing transgressions. Until called on it.
@34 “I’d actually be OK with a Clinton presidency and a GOP-held Congress, one house or two”
It’s good to hear you’ve mentally and emotionally prepared yourself for what you’re probably going to get. Except if you think the GOP has a snowball’s chance of hanging onto the Senate in 2016, you haven’t looked at a map.
@36 “My predicted RR response: ‘Hey, the video says nothing about Eric Garner.'”
I’ve been a non-fan of rap music for, oh, about thirty years now. This helps explain why I never listen to that stuff. Do you make stock market predictions, too? You’re an idiot.
@33 “Both side have their total fucking idiots, Steve.”
Yeah, Bob, but your side has a lot more of them. At least you realize Cliven Bundy is a criminal and his supporters are terrorists. Very few of the neanderthals on the right have advanced that far out of their caves.
How convenient. Cop out.
How convenient. Cop out.
I haven’t notice that any cops got killed either. Some shit you just don’t notice and shut myself off from. How’s that sound Bob. Sounds pretty good, right.
You are a dick.
It’s not like there aren’t any dickwads on the left. But I don’t come here to talk about them. I come here to give shit to the right-wing dickwads who troll these threads, among whom I regard Solar Power Bob better than most.
Not much action in this thread today — nothing going on here but a few squeaks from Bloviating Bob — so I’m watching Russian road rage videos on You Tube to entertain myself.
Caught a segment on Melissa Harris Perry about the economy could be moving from jobs and careers with unions, protections, company health care, vacations and 401Ks where you have employment for at least a two week notice to the Uber economy of rootless freelancers where the serfs have to hustle every moment, where you have an income stream for only as long as you have a task, like an Uber fare. This Uber economy gives a pittance more to the worker and in return, strips off the infrastructure costs of vacations, and regulations and insurance and pensions and health care and takes the difference for themselves. It’s not like the uber serfs can realistically charge individually to cover their infrastructure like Rabbit has talked about the $200 an hour waitress, unless they unionize.
So what do we do?
Go to a fully socialist economy where one can get all the social infrastructure, like health care and pensions from the government at a cost of extremely high, and extremely hated taxes, or to a Somalia economy where the .0001% live like emperors and the rest, well, work like uber serfs.
Granted, I know HA does not always have the capacity to have a thoughtful intelligent dialogue on the changing economy, but I though I’d bring up the question.
@51 The Russians seem to have a surprising number of dash cams of an endless series of military vehicles rolling over and drunk people driving badly.
@ 38
Republican politicians and police union fanatics are wasting no time trying to turn yesterday’s police murders by a convicted felon and prison gang member into a political weapon against Democratic office holders …
Gabby Giffords much?
Let’s just switch some things around, RR. Rep/Dem switch. Swap Sharpton for Palin. Giffords for police murders. Mentally troubled young adult for convicted felon.
Does the resultant scenario sound familiar, RR?
Really, RR, from your immediate failed effort to dissociate the NYPD assassinations from the Eric Garner tragedy @ 16 to your failure to realize that your side did virtually the same thing after Tuscon with far less material to work with, I’m not sure how you can end up looking more stupid.
Fortunately, I know you’ll take the bait rather than the advice @ 22 I previously gave you.
In defense of RR, he’s not alone in his failure to recognize the similarities to Tuscon:
“To link the criminal insanity of a lone gunman to the peaceful protests and aspirations of many people across the country, including the attorney general, the mayor and even the president, is simply not fair,” NAACP President Cornell William Brooks said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
http://news.yahoo.com/killings.....06309.html
Brooks is right, of course, although while it similarly wasn’t fair to link the actions of a mentally disturbed individual to Palin and Second Amendment supporters, Democrats spared no mercy when they thought it was to their advantage.
Galatians 6:7, bitches.
@53 Not surprisingly, Russia’s population is declining.
@54 “Does the resultant scenario sound familiar, RR?”
No. How can you compare Sharpton with Palin? Sharpton is calm, rational, urges non-violence, and tells people not to hate police. And this is Palin …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_ybEbrQeOA
As this whole Michael Brown/Eric Garner thing blows up in your faces, you libbies must be wondering how it all went so wrong.
Understatement of the Winter Solstice by the NAACP president @55:
Brooks said the shootings were “certainly not a step forward” for the movement.
Now, with Giffords, it was awhile after her shooting before that video of her firing that AR-15 and having an awesome time while doing it surfaced. Took four years before her seat flipped GOP.
But with Brown, y’all knew from nearly the first instant that he was a thuggish bully and criminal. Was 2014 looking so awful that you really thought it was a good idea to go all in on him? Really?
@54 “Really, RR, from your immediate failed effort to dissociate the NYPD assassinations from the Eric Garner tragedy @ 16 …”
How does vegetable matter like you get through med school?
@ 57
What’s the over/under on the next time Sharpton shows up at the White House?
@55 ” … it similarly wasn’t fair to link the actions of a mentally disturbed individual to Palin and Second Amendment supporters … ”
Really? Brooks and Sharpton didn’t do this:
http://gawker.com/5728545/shot.....crosshairs
You’d have a point if Democrats ran political ads portraying crosshairs painted over their opponents. But they didn’t. Only rightwing assholes do that. And let’s not forget the rightwing assholes who aimed real guns at law enforcement officers at the Bundy Ranch. These are the kind of people you’re fellow traveling with, Bob.
@ 61
See, I knew you’d dismiss the First Rule of Holes. I just didn’t know how.
Enjoy the remainder of your weekend, everyone. I’m sure you’ll have just the right thing to say tomorrow morning.
@58 “But with Brown, y’all knew from nearly the first instant that he was a thuggish bully and criminal.”
Assuming, arguendo, he was … are you arguing that justifies the police carrying out street executions? And even if we assume the cop was justified in Brown’s case, where does this argument get you in the Eric Garner case? Or the Tamir Rice case? Or the John Crawford case?
@62 You’re too subtle for me, Bob. I don’t see a hole. But then, I don’t see you either.
I’m not going around saying this police assassination was a false flag by rightwingers to discredit the protests against police brutality. I ought to, because that sort of conspiracy theory is right up their alley, but I can’t make myself stoop to their level.
“As this whole Michael Brown/Eric Garner thing blows up in your faces, you libbies must be wondering how it all went so wrong.”
Good grief. The farcical grand jury wasn’t a “blows up in your faces” thing. With what’s been revealed about Witness #40, McCullough should consider himself damned lucky if he doesn’t get his own indictment handed to him.
As for Garner, I believe my own eyes. I see what the fuck went down.
I don’t cotton to shooting cops or any other acts of violence, but I certainly do understand why blacks in this country are fucking pissed off.
“he was a thuggish bully and criminal”
Want to see the reason why blacks are fed up and angry, Bob? Just look in the fucking mirror.
Brooklyn borough president Eric Adams, a former cop, has asked for a moratorium on Eric Garner protests until the two police officers slain yesterday are laid to rest. That seems like a very reasonable request and I think it should be honored.
Now if only the police union guy was half as civilized.
@66 “he was a thuggish bully and criminal”
Actually, that’s supposed to be for a jury to determine, but Bob must have played hooky from 9th grade civics class. He probably was rolling in the grass with some 13-year-old that day.
Remember, if conservatives do anything bad, it’s a lone gun man and an aberration. If liberals do anything bad, it’s a trend and a movement.
“Not much action in this thread today…”
Compared to the comatose (u)SP, this place is hopping. Nothing like a Jim Miller post to turn a blog into a zombie.
@58…
“you libbies” = bwaaak, bwaaak, bwaaak.
‘Bob’ the sloppy solipsist is a one trick pony, like his ideological doppelganger the puddyfuckwad.
71)I try to contribute, but I usually don’t get home from work until midnight or later, and it’s been busy.
The EPA Tier 4 deadline is days away, and for locomotive production, it will be interesting. EMD will not make the deadline, and their Muncie, Indiana plant will survive for about 2 years(they hope to have a compliant engine by 2017) on the order backlog for the SD70ACe that meets Tier 3, exports, and rebuilds. It’s interesting, because Tier 4 dates back to the Bush Administration!
http://www.csx.com/index.cfm/c.....ormat=true
I have heard that EMD might dust off stroke design that they abandoned back when General Motors owned the company, in the 1990’s. They tried it out with a 6000hp version, but it did not sell enough, and then went back to the 710 series engine, a two stroke engine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMD_265
For General Electric, it’s a different story, they were ready. In fact, the order book is filling up, and some workers laid off in the wake of the decision to shift domestic locomotive production to Fort Worth from Erie, after the union would not agree to contract concessions, have been called back to work. The plan was to keep Erie producing export locomotives.
http://www.goerie.com/article/.....-for-erie#
Ohh poor Marco Rubio, apparently he is softening his outcry on Cuba towards Obama and Rand Paul.
Bob you had a winner for all of about five minutes.
EvergreenRailfan, I’m not one to comment much on mass transportation, bus or rail, but I find your posts on the subject to be very interesting and informative.
My only association with public transportation, other than being a bus passenger, is to have once been a friend and business partner of the late Elmer E. Van Ness, the Washington State Engineer of the Year in 1970, awarded for being instrumental in saving the Seattle Transit electric trolley system in the late 1960s. In appreciation for his tireless efforts, Seattle Transit gave him a scale model of a Seattle electric trolley which Elmer proudly displayed on his fireplace mantle. I’m very proud to have known that guy.
@71 And all he does is cross-post from his own blog. By comparison, I typically write 3 or 4 original pieces a day, sometimes more, for SeattleJew’s blog.