Mental Floss: Why is ginger a palate cleanser?
Obama’s Greek debt crisis solution.
White House: West Wing Week.
Thom: The Good, The Bad, and The Very, Very Phemicly Ugly!
Political Stars and Bars:
- Maddow: Confederate flag to come down on Friday
- David Pakman: SC House votes to remove flag
- Young Turks: Racists furious over confederate flag removal.
- Rep. James E. Clyburn (D-SC) slams Confederate flag amendment
- The flag comes down for good.
- House explodes over Confederate flag resolution.
- Young Turks: Crowds cheer as traitor’s flag is removed
Young Turks: Beware of people preaching morality.
Liberal Viewer: FAUX News says Americans are jerks?!?
Maddow: Debate entry rules to limit participation.
Thom: The Koch brothers plot to kill our national parks.
Young Turks: George W. Bush speaks to wounded vets…and charges them $100K.
Forgotten Assholes of History: The Woman Who Helped Kill Lincoln:
Follow the Money: Droughts, lobbyists, and you.
Mark Fiore: Selective hearing of gun violence.
Pap: SCOTUS has fractured the Republican party.
The 2016 March of the Clowns:
- BuzzFeed: There are so many white guys running it’s hard to tell them apart
- Pap and Farron Cousins: Chris Christie slowly waddles into the race
- Sam Seder: Who’s distancing themselves from Donald Trump now?
- Homer Simpson examines Donald Trump’s hair:
- Young Turks: The Donald insists that he’ll win the Latino vote
- Feel the #TRUMPMENTUM!
- Maddow: Trump doubles down on anti-immigrant rhetoric.
- Young Turks: Trump tries to backpedal but can’t stop saying racist shit
- David Pakman: Donald Trump insults Mexicans…and his clothing line is made in Mexico
- Young Turks: Modern Family writer owns Trump in Twitter war
- David Pakman: Donald Trump construction project reportedly employing ‘illegal immigrants’.
- The Retrumplican Party:
- Thom and Pap: Donald Trump leads the GOP; is the apocalypse beginning?
- Young Turks: Ted Cruz, “I like Donald Trump….I salute Donald Trump.”
- Pap and Farron Cousins: Ted Cruz’s most cringeworthy moment.
- Young Turks: Ted Cruz’s sleazy book sales trick ISN’T FOOLING ANYONE.
- Pap and Farron Cousins: Did Rand Paul and Cliven Bundy just become BFF?
- Richard Fowler: Huckabee resists gay marriage and perverts MLK quote
- Pap and Farron Cousins: Marco Rubio thinks the world will end if he isn’t elected.
- Thom and Pap: Marco Rubio wants NASCAR-style college tuition sponsors
- David Pakman: Rick Santorum (ewwwww) thinks SCOTUS decision proves ‘Man on Dog’ warning was accurate
- Richard Fowler: Jeb Bush totally misunderstands the Baltimore riots
- Young Turks: Jeb Bush thinks you don’t work hard enough.
- Ari Melber with Bernie Sanders: On Jeb Bush’s ‘work longer hours’ comments.
- Thom and Pap: Jeb Bush is completely out of touch with society
Sam Seder with Cliff Schecter: How President Obama’s new rules on overtime pay will help any Americans.
Mental Floss: Misconceptions about video games.
Congressional Hits and Misses of the Week.
Harry Reid calls out Republican’s silence on Trump’s racist comments.
When not to correct someone’s grammer:
Liberal Viewer: FAUX News hawks fake “gag order” on Oregon bakery.
Rover-eye view of Mars.
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
I honestly thought that something would derail the flag removal. The remarks by state rep Horn were moving.
I honestly thought that something would derail the flag removal. The remarks by state rep Horn were moving.
Interesting flag debate of the past, and it happened a few years after the Confederate Flag was hoisted on the South Carolina state house dome. Canada’s flag debate, and the debate in parliament was a tough one, the audio was interesting, especially after the closure vote that brought the stalling tactics by Diefenbaker’ s Progressive Conservative party to an end.
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/rewind.....-1.2950696
Read this article this morning and realized that a major problem with self-identified “Conservatives” is that they just cannot fathom why anyone would consider institutional contempt for citizens who bear a visible differential of melanin from the perceived majority demographic, to be anything but a normal aspect of the human condition.
I’ll bet convicted War Criminal Allen West mutters “fuckin’ niggers” when he sees black teenagers out in public as he drives through their neighborhood. He was the sort of soldier that used to call in airstrikes on lone snipers hiding in refugee camps.
I see Ted Cruz is still whining about not being allowed to bully and buy his way onto the NYT best-seller list with bulk book buys which end with books being given away, donated to Goodwill or shipped to recycling centers.
“Presidential hopeful Cruz blasts NYT for keeping book off bestseller list”
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/0.....ller-list/
John Bush on Barack Obama’s foreign policy: “He uses too many big words for imbeciles like me to understand what he’s saying.”
Seems to me that openly touting one’s own profound ignorance of one’s native language should be an automatic disqualifier for a position of public trust. Openly demonstrating how stupid and uneducated one is, is not a positive factor, Mr Bush.
Noodles on a stick, is the whole GOP just the party of morons?
The goal of American foreign policy should be to force the Veterans of Foriegn Wars to change its name to The Descendants of Veterans of Foreign Wars. 100 years of foreign meddling have gotten us in over our heads.
@6 Twenty years ago, Bill Clinton stopped a genocide. Let us not forget that Republicans bitterly opposed that intervention — because the killers were “Christians” and the victims were Muslims.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/se.....in-bosnia/
@ 7 RR
Killing is what Christians do best. It’s how the British, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Germans, Belgians and Dutch managed to rationalize butchering probably half a billion people over the last 500 years in the names of Wealth and Profit.
@6 Why do you hate our veterans?
@3 Why does Allen West think we can solve our racial problems by raising the flag of white supremacy above them?
@5 Jeb! comes across as too dumb to be president. Even as dumb as his brother. Challenged intellect runs in that family.
@5 “Noodles on a stick, is…”
John Ellis Bush sez of President Obama, “He uses too many big words for imbeciles like me to understand what he’s saying.”
Apparently Jeb misses what became known as “Bushisms”, spewn by his smarter brother, and believes the nation needs more of same.
Let’s take a walk down memory lane…
“I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family.”
“You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.”
“And so, General, I want to thank you for your service. And I appreciate the fact that you really snatched defeat out of the jaws of those who are trying to defeat us in Iraq.”
“See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.”
“There’s an old saying in Tennessee—I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee—that says, fool me once, shame on—shame on you. Fool me—you can’t get fooled again.”
“And there is distrust in Washington. I am surprised, frankly, at the amount of distrust that exists in this town. And I’m sorry it’s the case, and I’ll work hard to try to elevate it.”
“We’ll let our friends be the peacekeepers and the great country called America will be the pacemakers.”
“One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.”
“Well, I think if you say you’re going to do something and don’t do it, that’s trustworthiness.”
“Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.”
“You know, when I campaigned here in 2000, I said, I want to be a war president. No president wants to be a war president, but I am one.”
“There’s a huge trust. I see it all the time when people come up to me and say, ‘I don’t want you to let me down again.’ ”
“They misunderestimated me.”
http://www.slate.com/articles/....._hits.html
@ 10 RR
PuddyLogic.
Find the stupidest concept one can muster out of one’s pure imagination, and then publicly stress the point in the most assholish manner possible. It is the method of the violent reactionary, and the liar. It works on some level because people aren’t really willing to personally confront an individual who is displaying some psychological instability, especially when that individual has a large social following.
It’s the standard Conservative method of public speaking. I’m sure their philosophical ancestors were saying similar bullshit when Washington’s Army were first really getting organized. They were “terrorists” too, as I recall.
Let me see if I can break this down for you.
“This guy — this president and Secretary Clinton and Secretary Kerry – when someone disagrees with their nuanced approach where it’s all kind of so sophisticated it makes no sense (to me). You know what I’m saying (I’m using 3rd grade level words)?” Bush continued, “Big syllable words (that I don’t understand) and lots of fancy conferences and meetings (with people I don’t understand) and – We’re not leading. That creates chaos (a simple word). It creates a more dangerous world (a simple concept). So restoring the alliances (with people that speak English) that have kept the world safer and our country safer (keeping their problems out of sight and out of mind) – getting back to a position in the Middle East (the Bible place) where there’s no light between Israel and the United States (God’s only countries).”
In other words, “We use small childish words around fancy conference tables. We’re leading you down the rabbit hole.”
@ 1:47 @StephenAtHome calls himself ColberT in his new “Message from the Supply Lord of The Afterscape”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2bg1zfD4_Q
Eric Holder is returning to the same law firm he left to become AG. The far left says he’s a sell out and going to Wall Street. The far right is fanning the flames of the liberal internecine purity war. Life must be so much simpler and less complex the further out you get from the center of the political divide.
“Life must be so much simpler and less complex the further out you get from the center of the political divide.”
Inverse-Square law works for me, and not just for DC, but for our I-5 corridor as well.
9
I don’t hate any veterans because I am one of those veterans.
I just hate the empire we’ve built because it is tearing us down and pissing away young lives and our treasury for nothing to be gained.
“I don’t hate any veterans because I am one of those veterans.”
The rabbit was just laying some oblique rabbit humor on us. He knows where you’re coming from as he’s a vet as well, having served in Vietnam.
Today’s Republican economics have their roots in Southern racism, worker exploitation, and class warfare against the poor.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/10/.....index.html
“Two Visions Of Governing”
“A border battle has already broken out between two neighboring Northern states that embody two different visions of governing: Minnesota and Wisconsin.
“Under Republican Gov. Scott Walker, Wisconsin has followed a script honed in the Old South: Walker reduced taxes for the wealthy, weakened unions, rejected Obamacare, opposed raising the minimum wage, and declared the state was ‘open for business’ to entice corporations.
“Under Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton, Minnesota took another route. Dayton raised taxes on the wealthy, raised the state’s minimum wage, accepted Obamacare, and signed an agreement with a union representing state homecare workers that gives them more money and more power.
“Both men were elected in 2010 in the wake of the Great Recession. Walker was facing a $3.6 billion deficit and 9.8% unemployment. Dayton had a $4.7 billion deficit and 7% joblessness.
“Today, Minnesota has a $1.3 billion surplus; Wisconsin has an estimated $2 billion deficit; Minnesota has the fifth lowest unemployment rate at 3.8%; Wisconsin’s is ranked 17th at 4.6%.”
http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/10/.....index.html
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Under the “Southern model” championed by Republicans, the South has lower life expectancy, higher child mortality, less literacy, more poverty, lower wages, and a lower quality of life. Is that what we want for the rest of the United States? Is that what you really want to vote for?
@ 21 RR
They want the entire country to look just like Mississippi. Louisiana and Kansas are the template they’re shooting for. Imagine, every State a “right to work” State. No laws about worker safety, no laws about wages, no laws about hours worked.
If the GOP had its way, they’d guarantee a constant 15%-18% unemployment rate and no minimum wage, and a flat tax of 20% of all income for the first $40,000 Above that it would go down of course.
They’re saboteurs and vandals. They’re still pissed off about the 13th and 14th Amendments to the Constitution.
“Today’s Republican economics have their roots in Southern racism, worker exploitation, and class warfare against the poor.”
Strangely enough, there are a number ways in which they seem to be emulating the Northern carpetbaggers whom the South once rightly detested. Indeed, as their economics of racism, worker exploitation and class warfare invades non-Southern states, we see once again the “opportunism and exploitation by outsiders… using manipulation or fraud to obtain an objective”, which is today’s Republican in a nutshell.
“The term came to be associated with opportunism and exploitation by outsiders. The term is still used today to refer to an outsider perceived as using manipulation or fraud to obtain an objective.
Together with Republicans, carpetbaggers were said to have politically manipulated and controlled former Confederate states for varying periods for their own financial and power gains. In sum, carpetbaggers were seen as insidious Northern outsiders with questionable objectives meddling in local politics, buying up plantations at fire-sale prices and taking advantage of Southern whites.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpetbagger
RR@7 Our conservatives have used Srebrenica to their advantage, in the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell repeal debate.
Puddy and the KKK are gonna have a sad tomorrow. They’re going to have a rally for the Confederate flag at the capitol in Charlotte but it’s already fucking gone! Stupes!
“The KKK would like to say hail victory to the young warrior in South Carolina, Dylann S. Roof who decided to do what the Bible told him,”
“If we had 10,000 more men like this young man, America would not be in the shape that it is in now.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/0.....eady-gone/
Hmm, “decided to do what the Bible told him”. Puddy may seem the harmless batshit crazy loon, but our dear unhinged friend damned well bears watching. While he went off the deep end a long time ago, lately he’s been ramping up the hate to a much higher level.
25
Charlotte is not the capital of South Carolina or North Carolina. Do you mean Columbia? That’s the capital of SC.
Seeing that rape is now becoming part of the political dialogue (at least you would think that that would be the concern) thanks to the Duck. So why hasn’t any reporter asked The Duck, as president, what does he plan to do to get American college “one menz” to stop raping American college “one womenz”? Why limit the subject of rape to that that has been committed by illegal immigrants?
You see the American public is short sighted. And they really don’t give a shit about anyone raping anyone so long is there is someone around that take the fall for it.
“Charlotte is not the capital of South Carolin”
One of those.
AP reporting that an announcement is to be made on Monday by negotiators in Iran nuclear talks that they have reached an agreement.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141144208
Oh, poor Puffy, he was getting his undies all wet at the joy of no agreement. Another defeat for Puffy. How about that Confederate Flag, it’s still alive, right Puffy.
28,
You’re geographically challenged.
Should be ” capitol,” not “capital” at 26. My bad.
@29 Maybe. Still a few details to work out. One thing you can count on is that Republicans won’t like the agreement no matter what it says. They can’t have any fun unless they’re dropping bombs on someone.
31)Senator Graham is roo much of a hawk, even if the deal could benefit his state.(Never thought I would say that, connecting the Boeing Plant there, but if it’s 737s and 777s, that would be working done in Renton and Everett) Sanctions have aged the fleets of airlines in Iran.
http://mobile.reuters.com/arti.....0?irpc=932
Didn’t know about this monument in a Seattle Cemetery.
http://www.komonews.com/news/l.....8;mobile=y
By the way, did they ever rename SR99, although might be a loophole, as it was US99 that was the Jefferson Davis Highway, and except for the Columbia St ramp, US99 no longer exists.
These people are nothing but no good instigating psychotic bat shit crazy terroristic mother fucking assholes. They are a threat to American society, and people are more worried about ISIS. I don’t get it.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/m.....-wednesday
What the fuck happen in Greece?….they stood defiant and now they bend over and take it up the ass.
# 34 TiD
Because they’re fucking whackadoos. Crazy bullshit sells, the fact that the traditional Murdock publications continue to make huge profits proves that. We have our own examples right here in this forum. They’d rather believe some crazy, bullshit fairytale than a rather innocuous truth. The fairytales are much more exciting and interesting to them.
An example of someone that evolves, moves forward and does something good in life, while American Southerner’s want to stick to culture.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....79388.html
Here’s a thought… Since we now have over 200 cities declaring themselves sanctuary cities, resulting in them not complying with federal law on immigration . . . isn’t it about time that various US counties begin declaring themselves sanctuary counties? This would enable them to not comply with the federal law redefining of marriage?
Since there is codified US law for illegal aliens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_immigration_laws and Obummer said over 25 times he didn’t have the power to change the law then has ignored it… Obummer’s actions are now in the courts… http://www.politico.com/story/.....19983.html. Why not create hetero marriage sanctuaries at the county level? In doing so, individuals would be able to have businesses in these counties without fearing retribution for adhering to their religious beliefs.
Use DUMMOCRETIN actions against DUMMOCRETINS for a change!
I’ll bet convicted the vomit producer mutters “fuckin’ niggers” when he sees black teenagers out in public as he drives through their neighborhood.
Why else would the vomit producer write that? Hmmm…?
traditional Murdock publications
The vomit producer can’t spell Roger Murdoch’s name correctly either! What a loser!
What the fuck happen in Greece?….they stood defiant and now they bend over and take it up the ass.
And you know this how?
@38 yeah, why not have race sanctuaries too? Sounds to me like you would like to divide the country instead of unite it.
There are sanctuaries for Hetero marriage. They are Uganda and Russia. I’m sure you would like it there.
“Charlotte is not the capital of South Carolin”
One of those.
Stupid Solution Steve… HA DUMMOCRETINS bark at the moon batshit crazy moonbats!
Stooooooooooooooooopid as evah and state capitol challenged!
Call Puddy a waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahambulance
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
ROTFLRHMBBAO!
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@38 yeah, why not have race sanctuaries too? Sounds to me like you would like to divide the country instead of unite it.
There goes the teabaggin buttbusting BULLSHITTIUM buttbigot gorilla bring race into it again!
That’s all you can do buttbuster… Use race as your only crutch. Hence you lost the argument again!
Call Puddy a waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahambulance
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ROTFLRHMBBAO!
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@44 and you with your Religious freedom. All that is is a loophole to discriminate.
@41 your mother told me.
“Stooooooooooooooooopid as evah and state capitol challenged!
Call Puddy a waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahambulance
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
ROTFLRHMBBAO!
Bwaaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaa bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahambulance
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
ROTFLRHMBBAO!
Bwaaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaa bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa”
There are few things worse than a boring troll whose act has grown tired and stale.
Ban him, Goldy. Consider it a mercy killing.
@46,
Now you channel dead people? Whatamoron!
Religious Freedom is where again teabaggin buttbusting BULLSHITTIUM buttbigot gorilla?
Ban him, Goldy
The FASCIST Pig strikes again!
Call Puddy a waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahambulance
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
ROTFLRHMBBAO!
Bwaaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaa bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
@ 40
No matter how you spell his name, he’s an asshole and lying propagandist in the tradition of Rudolph Hess and Joseph Goebbles.