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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Matthew Filipowicz: Wall Street reacts to TPP agreement.

Both sides of the Clinton email scandal make their case.

David Pakman: Alabama passes voter ID, then closes ID offices in black Counties

The 2016 Clown Festival:

Mental Floss: Misconceptions about the ocean.

Farron Cousins: Racist right wingers are the biggest threat to America today.

Vladimir Putin can do anything he wants to do.

Congressional hits and misses of the week.

Tom Hartman: California to vote on Citizens United.

The New (Anti-)McCarthyism:

Roy Zimmerman: Roy’s birthday AND the end of the world.

Young Turks: Brisol Palin needs to STFU about free birth control.

David Pakman: Legal group representing Kim Davis is declared a hate group.

Thom: ALEC’s 2016 agenda.

Matthew Filipowicz with Julianna Forlano: The problem with gerrymandering.

Honest Political Ads: Health Care costs.

Gunz:

Ann Telnaes: Which way will the Supreme Court swing this term?

Mental Floss: 24 ridiculous lawsuits.

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

Comments

  1. 1

    So with McCarthy out, it’s going to get interesting. Too bad there are no moderate Republicans that can get crossover votes free Democrats.

  3. 3

    Why Ben Carson would be the first black president for white conservatives
    http://thegrio.com/2015/10/09/.....ervatives/
    “Ben Carson would be the anti-Obama, the first black president designed especially for white conservatives. For the white right wing, he would be their useful Negro in Washington — better yet, their magical Negro.”

    “Carson is on the scene in order to make white conservatives feel comfortable in their skin and to validate them and their racism, Islamophobia, sexism, homophobia, their desire to return to the 1950s, and everything else. “A black man said it, so it must be alright,” they’ll say. A trail of outlandish, offensive comments is the only way a black man will get ahead in today’s GOP, the de facto party of white nationalism, for all of their lip service to outreach and the so-called big tent.”

    puddy complains vociferously that not all blacks are liberals…..
    ” No one is saying black people should be monolithic and think the same way, but Carson is not for black interests, nor is he intended for a black audience.”

  4. 4

    Valeant Pharmaceuticals CEO: We’re in Business of Shareholder Profit, not Helping the Sick
    http://ringoffireradio.com/201.....-the-sick/

    “The bottom line, however, is that pharmaceutical companies will charge whatever they think they can squeeze out of patients and government programs.”

    “The ironic aspect here is that, instead of increasing shareholder returns, government scrutiny over those obscene price increases is having the opposite effect. Valeant’s stock price has dropped by 27% since mid-September, partially because of the impending investigation.”

    That’s one of the purposes of a liberal government, regulations for the good of the people, all the people. To act for the community when fierce individualism is not enough.

  6. 6

    California Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation allowing the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority to put a ballot measure seeking a sales tax hike in Los Angeles County next year. Mostly for rail expansion, suggested lines include Sepulveda Pass, Mid-City, and the San Fernando Valley. It will help that the next phase of the Expo Line to Santa Monica should be operational by then.
    http://www.latimes.com/local/l.....story.html

  9. 9

    @3 Reading between the lines, Carson really is saying, “Look at how white I’ve become!”

  10. 10

    “Reading between the lines, Carson really is saying, “Look at how white I’ve become!””

    Thinking of the commenter here who keeps referring to the president as the left’s “Milk Chocolate Messiah”, wouldn’t that make Carson the right’s “White Chocolate Messiah”?

  11. 11

    “Puffy is not black.”

    He’s a batshit fucking insane stain on humanity and so boringly fucking predictable. He’ll be amped up after he and his cult fuck some goats tonight and then he’ll be back here like clockwork spewing more of his tired hate-saturated, babbling jackass bullshit.

  12. 12

    Speaking of predictable, before the week is over, Bob and the batshit crazy loon will each in their own unique way explain to us how it was that this woman had this beating coming to her.

    http://www.rawstory.com/2015/1.....r-husband/

    A black woman who was punched and tackled to the ground by two white Jacksonville policemen for filming the arrest of her husband claims the cops stole her phone with a recording on the incident, reports NewsJax4.”

    According to Kelli Wilson, she went down to a local convenience store to record the arrest of her husband and retrieve their car when she was assaulted by the two cops who demanded her name and told her to put her phone away and stop recording.

    “I was beaten, and then falsely arrested, my phone was stolen, my car was taken. It was a traumatic experience. It was definitely an experience you never think you would be going through,” said Wilson.

    Although police confiscated her phone, video of her arrest was captured by surveillance cameras that showed the unarmed woman talking to the police before they charged, attempting to grab her phone with one officer seen punching her while the other one held her arms.

    According to Wilson, one of the policemen demanded she stop filming and she asked him “why?”

    “He asked for it, he demanded it again, and I gave him the same, ‘Why do you want my phone? What do you need my phone for?’ He told me he would punch me in my face,”Wilson explained. “I eventually got punched and beaten and the sergeant that was on the scene joined in the beating.”

    According to the police report, officers at the scene said Wilson repeatedly refused to identify herself and she was arrested for interfering with the arrest, although in the video she can be seen backing away from the officers.

  13. 13

    @10 I don’t think even the right sees him as a messiah. (Trump is a different story.) He’s a transparent panderer, and being an amateur, isn’t very good at it.

    Shifting gears for a moment (discussion of Carson resumes below), why is Trump so effective a pied piper? For starters, you have to be feeble-minded to swallow his glib promises, although much of the GOP electorate satisfies this qualifier. (Putin will roll over on Syria and Ukraine if Trump asks him to, etc.) Serious people won’t, which means he’s not really electable, even if he manages to cop the nomination. Of course, the serious people in the GOP establishment understand this, which is one of the reasons they’re determined to stop him.

    Trump excels at telling people what they want to hear and making it sound easily attainable. No difficulties in cutting taxes and deficits at the same time, eh what? The economy will grow so fast it’ll happen automatically, etc. Notice he never explains HOW all these good things will come about, or why, if it’s so easy, other politicians haven’t already accomplished them, nor do his campaign promises come with any warranty, express or implied — caveat emptor.

    Intelligent people will, of course, digest the caveats and then reject this nonsense. But it’s hard to find intelligent people in the GOP, so there’s still a line of children following the piper along the path leading out of town. I have a feeling, though, that at some point people will want proof and when it’s not forthcoming the piper’s game may be over.

    If you read the Bible literally, the biblical messiah convinced his audiences with miracles that no ordinary mortal could perform, leaving no doubt among the masses that he was the real deal — a son of God imbued with divine powers. Trump promises to turn stones into loaves of bread, but he can’t actually do it, and that will be his downfall.

    Returning to Dr. Carson, some might argue that what he accomplished in the OR was truly miraculous, although the case for divine intervention is weak. The evidence of his ability to transfer his miracle-working to politics is much, much weaker. It’s already painfully apparent that chewing on his “bread” will break all your teeth — it turns his loaves are still rocks. So are Trump’s, but in Carson’s case, it’s becoming visible far quicker, because Carson lacks Trump’s gift for glibness, which can hide the fakery for a while.

    The real question is whether the GOP base is terminally gullible, or still has a glimmer of perception left. That will determine how long the flutes keep playing.

  14. 14

    @12 Another civil rights lawsuit, another six-figure settlement at taxpayers’ expense, and nothing will happen to the cops. Nothing ever changes. Btw, do you notice how these slimebuckets keep getting caught by surveillance cameras or their own dashcams? But that doesn’t deter their ilk an iota. Because there are no consequences, there’s no accountability; society gives these police bullies a free ride.

  15. 15

    @13,
    Take a minute to read Kai Ryssdal’s interview with Carson for Marketplace.
    http://www.marketplace.org/top.....on-economy
    It takes your breath away. Even Ryssdal, who may be the most even tempered interviewer you could hope for, becomes noticeably alarmed by how Carson’s basic ignorance of the federal government leaves him unable to answer the simplest questions.

    But more alarming to me is Carson’s utter arrogance. Soft spoken perhaps, but dangerously arrogant nonetheless. He seems to sincerely believe that he stands apart from the rest of us. Without knowing precisely how the federal government works, he is supremely confidant that unlike all the other tens of thousands of really smart people before him, he can make government so efficient that no program cuts or tax increases would ever be needed. And he knows this apparently not because he knows something about government, but because he knows himself and his abilities. He believes he is just that much smarter than everyone else who ever toiled in government. It’s frightening if you think about it.

  16. 16

    Anybody read the doomsday caucus questionnaire yet?
    http://www.politico.com/f/?id=.....bf7cd70000
    Sets the record straight. Aside from the much discussed procedural reforms of the speakership, they are demanding a series of government shutdown fights over their right to smash Obama’s toys. Otherwise nothing gets done and the treasury defaults. Brilliant.

  17. 17

    “he’s not really electable”

    My God, I hope not. The world’s biggest megalomaniac in the White House and a dysfunctional Congress. At the very least, that ought to be interesting.

    Separating those who are merely crazy from the acute batshit insane for a moment, Bush, Christie, Graham, Pataki, Kasich and Rubio can muster only 25.2% of the national GOP poll average between the lot of them. The batshit insane candidates, Trump, Carson, Paul, Fiorina, Huckabee, Santorum, Jindal and Cruz – 63.4%.

    http://www.realclearpolitics.c.....-3823.html

  19. 19

    “And he knows this apparently not because he knows something about government, but because he knows himself and his abilities.”

    Blend in the beliefs of SDA, and it’s more disturbing still.

    Deep insight into Trump and spawn can be gleaned from a very fine Scottish documentary called You’ve been Trumped, about a Trump golf course development in Scotland.

    Full length version.

    http://www.hulu.com/watch/697241

    Here’s the trailer.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk-MHQE2xPQ

  20. 20

    It’ll get batshit crazy here tonight, little doubt. After getting together with his SDA cult to fuck goats and sacrifice puppies and kittens, the loon just loves to come here to share the hate. Peak Hate arrives on Sunday, tapering off until Saturday night when the batshit nsanity ramps up again.

  21. 21

    @15 “Ryssdal: You have said more than once you want to run the government as a business. You want the president to be the CEO of that business. And I wonder, other than running a medical office, or sitting on corporate boards of Kellog’s and Costco, how do you know the government ought to be run like a business? How do you know the president ought to be the CEO? Carson’s failure to understand this should disqualify him from a city council position, much less the U.S. presidency.

    “Carson: Well I know what efficiency looks like, and I know what inefficiency looks like. I’ve had an opportunity to work in universities, sit on university boards, as opposed to working with corporate boards, and noticing the rapidity and the efficiency with which things are done in one area versus the other area.”

    In a college-level first course in political science, I would give this answer a failing grade. Efficiency is NOT the primary function or goal of government. Government’s role in society is to mediate the competing demands of citizens on public resources and how public authority is used. A participatory democratic process necessarily is slow, inefficient, and produces compromises. If you want to get things done quickly and efficiently, dictatorships are ideal for that. Every attempt in this country to transplant business values into the public sector has been a miserable failure, because that approach is incompatible with the basic premise of democracy, which is to accommodate everyone by making tradeoffs within the available resources, while protecting individual rights from encroachment by the majority. The President of the United States is not a CEO and can’t think like one. His job is not administrative or marketing, it’s leading and making tough decisions. Decisions of war and peace, Supreme Court appointments, and federal spending priorities are not business decisions. They are political and social decisions of the sort that CEOs and people from business aren’t trained or qualified to make. Carson’s inability to comprehend this should disqualify him from a city council position, not to mention the U.S. presidency.

  22. 22

    @15 (continued) “Ryssdal: OK, so let’s talk about Ben Carson as president of the United States. You have said you want a balanced budget amendment. You’ve said that debt is a problem, it’s a cancer on this society, so let me ask you a couple of questions about that. First of all, if we’re gonna have a balanced budget amendment, government’s gonna have to spend less, we’re gonna have to get more money. What will you not provide in the way of government services? What entitlements will you not provide as president that will help get the budget balanced? What are you not gonna give the people?

    Carson: Well, first of all, recognize that it’s not that difficult. If we simply refuse to extend the budget by one penny for three to four years, you got a balanced budget. Just like that. So this is not pie in the sky, very difficult thing to accomplish. Having said that, one of the bugaboos that has kept us from reducing government in the past is sacred cows. What I would do is first of all, allow the government to shrink by attrition. Don’t replace the people who are retiring, thousands of them each year. And No. 2: Take every departmental head, or sub-department head and tell them, “I want a 3 to 4 percent reduction.” Now anybody who tells me there’s not 3 to 4 percent fat in virtually everything that we do is fibbing to themselves.”

    Oh brother, this guy isn’t even qualified to run a small business. Let’s say you own a small restaurant. Your employees are the cashier, the cook, and the waitress. If the cashier quits, you don’t hire another one? If the cook quits, you don’t replace him? If the waitress quits, you ask the customers to serve themselves?* See what bullshit this is? The guy doesn’t have a fucking clue. Would you want him sitting on a hospital board saying to the rest of the board, don’t replace doctors? don’t replace nurses? don’t replace janitors? I wouldn’t allow my loved ones to be taken to that hospital. If you agree, then why would you elect this idiot to run the federal government?

    * This, btw, is a great metaphor for cutting entitlements, eliminating government services, etc. When you do that, you’re telling people in effect that “you’re on your own.” We have these programs precisely because we don’t want to be at the mercy of our own luck or life’s misfortunes. What a jackass.

  23. 23

    Sigh! Wingnut Christians. Love Israel, hate the Jews. They might as well, I suppose, seeing as how Carson and the loon believe Jews are all going to hell anyway for not accepting Jesus as their savior.

    “Fox Commentator: Jews Let The Nazis Exterminate Them”

    “Keith Ablow backs Ben Carson’s horrible comments about Jews, guns and Nazis.”

    http://crooksandliars.com/2015.....xterminate

  24. 24

    @23 Given how much Republicans love playing the role of victim, they may want to give more thought to the ramifications of their strategy of always blaming the victims.

  25. 25

    Bowe Bergdahl’s case appears to be moving toward a bad conduct discharge based on the military equivalent of a misdemeanor. His lawyer argued Bergdahl is guilty of a “one-day AWOL.” I don’t think I’d agree with that; going AWOL in a combat zone, if that’s what he did, is materially different and more serious than sneaking off a peacetime Army post. I wouldn’t want to serve with this guy, wouldn’t want him in my unit, and don’t think he belongs in the Army, but I also think the evidence needs to be heard before anyone decides whether his conduct warrants a prison sentence. (I’m talking to YOU, Puddy Jackass!) But it looks like the Army may be content to rid itself of him. It’s a good thing Trump can only fire his apprentices, and his sponsors don’t let him use firing squads. I hate to think what might happen if Trump became El Presidente of Guatemala or someplace like that.

    http://www.cbsnews.com/news/bo.....jail-time/

    Btw, Bergdahl has already served 5 years in Taliban jails, so it’s not like he’s getting off lightly. A less than honorable discharge would mean getting no POW or other veteran’s benefits, no recognition from his country or fellow citizens, no honors of any kind; a bad conduct discharge is a very big deal that you live with for the rest of your life.

  26. 26

    @21,
    I reject his basic premise. Most of the time when the ass hats drone on about “efficiency” they really mean “waste”. I’ve worked in the federal government and I’ve worked in the private sector, large and small. I’ve never seen government waste approach the levels of depravity I’ve seen in the private sector. Most boards rig the game, leaving honest shareholders to settle for less or go fuck themselves. People like Fiorina have an unlimited capacity for deception, brazenly insisting that all the gold plating and feather bedding is “crucial” to their “competitive advantages”. The record speaks for itself.

  27. 27

    It isn’t just the GOP Majority Leader who’s saying the House Benghazi investigation is a partisan witch hunt. Now a former staffer is joining the chorus.

    “A former investigator with the House Select Committee on Benghazi is accusing the Republican-led panel of carrying out a politically motivated investigation targeting former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton instead of the thorough and objective fact-finding mission it was set up to pursue.

    “Major Bradley Podliska, an intelligence officer in the Air Force Reserve who describes himself as a conservative Republican, told CNN that the committee trained its sights almost exclusively on Clinton after the revelation last March that she used a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state. That new focus flipped a broad-based probe of the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi on September 11, 2012, into what Podliska described as ‘a partisan investigation.'”

    http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/10/.....index.html

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: What Issa and his confederates are doing is so rank that honorable Republicans can’t stomach it. The GOP thugs may have overplayed their hand. A lot of swing voters potentially could be repulsed by this if they come to see it as the dirty politics it is.

  28. 28

    @26 In this instance I took his words at face value, but you’re right, there’s probably some code-talking going on there.

  29. 29

    Just received my Barrons magazine. Barrons, if you don’t know, is a weekly magazine for investors with a conservative, capitalist, free-market political orientation. This is their 10/12/2015 issue’s cover:

    http://www.barrons.com/this_we....._MAG_other

    In case you can’t read it (click on “view larger”), it says:

    “Trump, The Art of Baloney

    “Donald Trump’s career is riddled with examples of bullying and bluster. One egregious case: He got a securities analyst fired for daring to write that Trump’s Taj Mahal casino was headed for trouble. Before long, the Taj filed for bankruptcy and investors lost millions, proving the fired analyst right. Is Trump really the kind of guy we want to be president?”

    Looks like he won’t get their endorsement. By the way, Barrons usually talks about companies and stocks, a little bit about the economy, and it’s pretty unusual for them (although not unheard of) to use their cover to promote or criticize a candidate.

  30. 30

    @28,
    take your pick.
    Either way he’s a fraud. Pandering to beer guts by pretending that federal bureaucrats steal a trillion dollars a year worth of paper clips. Or delusional by claiming he can save a trillion dollars a year using both sides of the paper.

  31. 31

    I believe this shit is going to get worse before it gets better. But if we’re going to start kicking people out, I vote we start with confederate dickwads. Heh. Or maybe Obama’s been patiently waiting for Peak Wingnuttia to arrive before unleashing his FEMA camp thing these fuckers.

    http://www.rawstory.com/2015/1.....az-mosque/

    “They say they’re standing for the second amendment but what they’re really trying to do is intimidate peaceful worshippers,” she said.

    There was a flashpoint about 70 minutes into the rally, when two anti-Islam protesters crossed the barriers, leading to a brief moment of pushing and shoving that was swiftly quelled by the arrival of riot police.

    Several demonstrators – one draped in the Confederate flag – were asked by police to leave. The event broke up after three hours, without further incident.

  35. 35

    Thanks worser for being close to closeted foreplay… The Grio… what a joke!

    Of course you forget it was LA Times Obummer ASS kissing black man David Ehrenstein. From Wikipedia

    “Barack the Magic Negro”[2] is a song by American political satirist Paul Shanklin who wrote and recorded it for the Rush Limbaugh Show as satire after the title phrase was first applied to presidential candidate Obama by movie and culture critic David Ehrenstein in a Los Angeles Times op ed column of March 19, 2007.

    So Obummer was the magic negro to the libtard whities of 2008 and 2012 so The Grio has to stick that libtard moniker on Dr Carson because Dr Carson explodes libtard thought on how a poor inner city black boy could overcome all odds and become the best pediatric neurosurgeon ever and not be libtard and hold Jesus dear to his heart.

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    KAAAAAAAAAAAAABLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

  36. 36

    I sincerely wish Dr. Ben Carson the best good luck in his campaign for the Republican Presidential nomination. His ascendancy to become his party’s standard bearer would truly delight me.

  37. 37

    “Renee Ellmers Calls McCarthy Affair Rumors ‘Batsh*t Crazy’”

    Ohhh Triple S… The DHS IP 216.81.81.85, made them on Thursday from DHS’ offices in Springfield, Va. Seems Obummer’s gang is at it again. First Jason Chaffetz not Kevin McCarthy and Renee Ellmers!

    So much for being stoooooooooooooopid as EVAH! DUMB doesn’t describe your ASS anymore!

    http://dailycaller.com/2015/10.....e-ellmers/

  38. 38

    @34 As Douthat and Mark Cuban point out, you don’t have to be a member of the House (or even of Congress) to be Speaker. They could elect a mailman if they wanted to, although this House majority seems to prefer a (real, not symbolic) jackass.

    Douthat advocates a Tea Party Speaker representing a minority of the majority who will shepherd “small government” bills through the House, only to be blocked in the Senate or vetoed by the president. To hell with negotiation or compromise!

    Going this route would guarantee (a) deadlock, (b) government shutdowns, and (c) debt defaults. That’s some vision of governing, Ross.

  39. 39

    @35 “Dr Carson explodes libtard thought on how a poor inner city black boy could overcome all odds and become the best pediatric neurosurgeon ever and not be libtard and hold Jesus dear to his heart.”

    I think it’s great that he accomplished that and remained true to himself. But you remember the Peter Principle, right? Ben has met the limits of his competence. I get that Republicans like his honesty, which is in short supply in their party. But just because someone says what he actually thinks doesn’t make it good policy or something our nation should act on. On that basis, I wouldn’t vote for him.

  40. 40

    @37 I don’t give any credence to the McCarthy-Ellmers rumor, and I don’t know anyone who does, but I’m not gonna ask the loon why he thinks it’s an issue because all I’d get is some incoherent screeching even the decoder ring can’t make heads or tails of. For the same reason, I’ll also pass on asking the loon why he’s dragging Obama into this, in the absence of any evidence whatsoever that the White House has anything to do with this. Besides, I know the answer to that one: The loon is trying to start his own baseless rumor.

    At this point, no one knows who originated the rumor. It’s been widely reported that it’s been traced to a Department of Homeland Security computer. That could be anybody — some disgruntled DHS employee, the janitor, a burglar. MarketWatch also said, “Republicans had been inundated with daily emails from a GOP donor in Chicago, Steven Baer, claiming the two married legislators were romantically involved,” so it seems like one of their own supporters is dipping his fingers into this pie. They’ll probably take his money anyway.

    http://www.marketwatch.com/sto.....2015-10-10

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: You know, I wouldn’t put it past the Republicans to do this themselves to two of their own. They’re famous for manufacturing fake scandals, and with their partisan Benghazi investigation now blowing up in their faces, they could use a new one. But this is merely my idle conjecture; I have no evidence. It’s merely a thought exercise. I’m not trying to start a baseless rumor; all I’m saying is I wouldn’t put it past them.

  41. 41

    A new CBS poll shows Jeb! dropping even farther in GOP primary voters’ esteem. These voters, as a lot, still favor Trump over the other clowns, but quite a few of them have reservations. Meanwhile, Fiorina’s numbers are floating back down to earth. Carson is the big story; he sails ever higher on the strength of his plainspoken honesty, even though he hasn’t a clue what he’s talking about. The most interesting thing about this poll is that Republican voters want ideological purity and don’t seem to give a damn about winning; only 2% say nominating an electable candidate is their top priority.

    http://www.cbsnews.com/news/wh.....tion-2016/

  42. 42

    Social Security recipients won’t get a COLA next year even though elderly renters are being hit with double-digit rent increases and food prices are rising in grocery stores again. This is offset by a huge decline in the price of flatscreen TVs, so there’s no inflation.

  47. 47

    If you read the article Bickle sends us to @44 its last line says: “Then-Senator Obama left Trinity United in 2008, denouncing anti-American sermons made by Wright which had surfaced online.” I guess Bickle didn’t read that far. Must be too busy or something.

  48. 48

    @40,
    … I’ll also pass on asking the loon why he’s dragging Obama into this…

    Somebody somewhere claims the edits came from a gubmint ip addy. Obummer is in charge of the gubmint. Ergo propter hoc KABLOOOOOOWEEEEEEEE!!!

  49. 49

    The article notes Obama attended Wright’s church “intermittently” from 1988 to 2008. It doesn’t say Wright’s church is a mosque. By all accounts, whatever else Wright is, he’s a Christian pastor. So dragging Wright into the conversation doesn’t exactly make a case that Obama is a Muslim. If he’s a Muslim, why did he attend a Christian church for 20 years? Now, of course, I realize Bickle didn’t bring up the Muslim thing @44. I’m bringing it up in my response to #44 because I think it’s material that Bickle aligns himself with people who call Obama a Muslim. Whether he intended to or not, Bickle is arguing against Obama being a Muslim @44. Has he thought this through? This could get him kicked out of the Tea Party balloon factory. How would he live that down?

  50. 50

    @38 If I had to lay a bet, this looks like GOP intercine warfare to me. They love doing this to each other. It’s interesting that “Steve Baer, a Chicago-based GOP donor known for mass-emailing conservative figures and Republican lawmakers,” sent an email to McCarthy urging him to “spare his family.” A lot of people are interpreting that as a threat, an “or else.” The Tea Partiers didn’t want McCarthy to become speaker; they wanted him out of the way. This has all the earmarks of a Made-In-GOP hit operation. First they got Boehner, then McCarthy; to get a Tea Party speaker, first they had to take out these guys. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out what’s going on.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....2030a1e0a8

  51. 51

    But you remember the Peter Principle… Sure do early onset senile schismatic IDIOT Wabbit!

    We have seen this in big time with Obummer. Thanks for bringing up this well known FACT!

  52. 52

    but I’m not gonna ask the Puddy why he thinks it’s an issue…

    Puddy doesn’t think it’s an issue early onset senile schismatic IDIOT Wabbit! Ask Triple S @32 why did it run to raw story make it an issue?

    Well early onset senile schismatic IDIOT Wabbit? Oh wait… that senility forces memory issues and you forget who submitted what on any thread on any given day!

    Sux to be you early onset senile schismatic IDIOT Wabbit!

  53. 53

    @51 Yeah, Obama merely saved us from another Great Depression, got us out of two Republican wars, didn’t get us into any new ones, killed bin Laden, passed the most significant health care reform in 50 years, tripled the stock market, and reduced the growth rate of federal spending more than any president since Eisenhower. If that’s incompetence, I’ll vote for it.

  54. 54

    @52 I don’t see anything in #32 that drags Obama into it. That would be #37. Whooo posted #37, mmm?

  55. 55

    Puddy @ all: Catch you later, dumbass. I have a veterans meeting to attend this afternoon.

  56. 56

    Yeah, Obama merely gave the middle east back to Russia early onset senile schismatic IDIOT Wabbit! Nixon and Kissinger kicked them out back in 1973.

    Way to go Obummer!

  57. 57

    Where did Puddy claim Puddy brought Obummer into it? That was the racist moron closeted foreplay! Puddy claimed the DHS did. The IP address proved it.

    Sux to be HA DUMMOCRETIN loooonacy!

  59. 59

    It isn’t just the GOP Majority Leader who’s saying the House Benghazi investigation is a partisan witch hunt. Now a former staffer is joining the chorus.

    So? Y’all forget all the investigations you did on Bush? Awww cry Puddy a river!

  61. 61

    @56 Last time I checked, the Middle East was still occupied by Middle Easterners. Frankly, I don’t know why we, the Russians, or anyone else wants the Middle East. As a colony, it would be much more trouble than it’s worth. Russia doesn’t need their oil, and frankly, neither do we. The people there constantly fight among themselves. If Putin wants to assume our headaches there, that’s an opportunity Obama shouldn’t pass up.

  62. 62

    @57 “Where did Puddy claim Puddy brought Obummer into it?”

    You were the first one to mention Obama’s name in connection with that rumor, but that probably requires deeper comprehension than you’re capable of.

  63. 63

    @59 Unlike your witch hunters, the Democrats had real scandals to investigate, such as the deliberate outing of a covert CIA agent for partisan gain. Were the Democrats supposed to turn a blind eye to all the incompetence, corruption, misfeasance, and malfeasance of the Chimp Administration? Apparently you think so!

  65. 65

    @57 “Where did Puddy claim Puddy brought Obummer into it?”

    Senility at its best. Puddy mentioned Obummer in #35 not #37!

    DAYUM U B whack!

  67. 67

    The scandal is how the Obummer sadministration blamed the Benghazi attack on a video and continued to do so when we learned the Consulate asked of additional protection and Heilary denied it!

    Sux to be you early onset senile schismatic IDIOT Wabbit!

  68. 68

    Meanwhile Harvard study on guns sez this…

    In other words, more firearms, less crime, concludes the virtually unpublicized research report by attorney Don B. Kates and Dr. Gary Mauser. But the key is firearms in the hands of private citizens.

  69. 69

    @65 “Puddy mentioned Obummer in #35 not #37!”

    If you want to move this comment

    “Seems Obummer’s gang is at it again.”

    from #37 to #35, you’ll have to contact Goldy or Darryl, because I can’t do that for you. N.B., in your case I don’t think we can attribute this to senility, so it must be inability to read your own crap.

  70. 70

    @ Schizo @ 60:

    FTFA: “Carson lashed out at the press, citing several instances where he believes his views have been misrepresented.”

    In other words, they make him look bad by quoting him directly.

    Typical nutball Conservative.

  71. 71

    @67 How’s that investigation going for you so far? Even your own people think it’s baseless. (snicker)

  72. 72

    @70 Puddykins has the same problem. See e.g. #69. In his case, I think it’s malicious.

  73. 73

    And when asked what he thought about Magary’s use of the word “stupid” to describe a neurosurgeon like himself, Carson had this to say: “I wonder what his accomplishments are. I suspect that they probably pale in significance.”

    PuddyCommentary: Well done Dr. Carson… Another slapdown of DUMMOCRETIN libtards! http://insider.foxnews.com/201.....rew-magary

  74. 74

    Ummm no vomit producer… Dr. Carson said one thing and then the libtards claimed he meant something else. That’s why he’s getting many dollars into his campaign!

  76. 76

    @75 Given 30% of that is gas taxes, gas is a bargain. That leaves only $1.46 per gallon for exploration, production, refining, transportation, and marketing. Works out to about $61 per barrel. With WTI crude just under $50, that leaves $11 + change for processing and distributing. Hard to see how anyone is makes a profit in this business. Certainly not gas station owners, who get about a dime per gallon, if that much. They have to sell beer and coffee to survive.

  77. 77

    Why Our Consumption-Based Economy Is So Weak

    “Many studies have found that younger generations have positive financial habits already, even though many are facing financial challenges that are exacerbated by overwhelming student loan debt. … Saving for retirement is actually their top priority, tied with paying down debt.”

    http://www.cnbc.com/2015/10/08.....-well.html

    Stagnant wages – (student loan repayment + retirement saving + soaring rent) = no money for discretionary spending

  78. 78

    @75,

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    The economy is the reason. See #77! So if you want to thank Obummer for the sagging US economy, OK!

  79. 79

    Why The Economy Sucks, Part 2

    “Since World War II, new cars and suburban houses have powered the economy and propelled recoveries. Millennials may have lost interest in both.”

    Millennials are a tough sell. No doubt about it: “Millennials have turned against both cars and houses in dramatic and historic fashion. Just as car sales have plummeted among their age cohort, the share of young people getting their first mortgage between 2009 and 2011 is half what it was just 10 years ago, according to a Federal Reserve study.”

    http://www.theatlantic.com/mag.....on/309060/

    In short, massive demographic and cultural changes are reshaping the U.S. economy away from its traditional underpinnings of housing and autos. Let’s see Puddy try to spin that into somehow being Obama’s fault …

  82. 82

    Meanwhile, Charlie Koch came out of seclusion and gave a rare media interview this weekend. Even he’s worried the Tea Party is spinning out of control. (It seems he and his brother created a monster!) After all, he’s a businessman who needs a functioning government and economy to stay in business.

    http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ch.....interests/

  84. 84

    @25 ON the Berghdahl thing the Colonel is signaling the base Commander at the Army cannot win the case. It certainly cannot get jail time nor a bad conduct discharge. It could be a special courts martial or an Article 15. Which is pretty typical for AWOL even in a combat zone. Though didn’t we declare victory in Afghanistan. So has the statute of limitations run? He was held for 5 years, but were the people holding him the enemy as in didn’t we declare victory in Afghanistan and install a friendly government and we could make arrests of Americans there.

  85. 85

    “HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    KAAAAAAAAAAAAABLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”

    Nice. A psycho-laugh followed by a 15-megaton head explosion.

  86. 86

    @29 There is a unicorn on the cover. Where is the blood? The blood, fat and sand? Where?

  88. 88

    @61 The reason as any real estate person will tell you is: Location! Location! Location!

    And so far the French have stayed out, and while I think they are close the Turks have refrained from dealing with the Arabs. Which they would do as efficiently and brutally as the Russians.
    Now if the Turks aren’t happy with the Russians being in Syria we need to pay attention. Turkey is in NATO.

  89. 89

    Here’s a question to ponder: How could a country that ran up a trillion dollars of student debt end up with so many ignorant, ill-informed, and gullible voters?

  92. 92

    Did you libtards know the Alabama DMV offices that will close are all part-time facilities and only handled 5% or less all driver’s license transactions in Alabama in 2014? Did you know there will be an alternative to their closures? It’s called the Registrars department and they are not closing! No? Well you’d never know that from the horsesASS manure from above or the horsesASS manure from Triple S from raw story.

    Triple S loves raw story because they never tell the whole story!

  93. 93

    Isn’t it great to see Heilary repudiate just about everyone of her husband’s positions with her 2016 run?

    But now Secretary Clinton has found an issue where she can evolve faster than President Obama: trade. He is committed to the TPP, a deal which is deeply Clintonian. The TPP promotes free trade and it is an exercise in American leadership. It is also, despite some ugly crony flaws, an exercise in economic liberalization and pro-capitalist policy. But unfettered from office, Hillary can turn against a very Clintonian agreement she once supported, driving a wedge between Biden, should he run, and the unions and leftist groups whose importance in Democratic politics has grown.
    This may not be the end of the story. American politicians excel at throwing chum to the base while running for office, without feeling in any way bound by their rhetoric when it comes to actual governing. A President Hillary Clinton could throw interest groups under the bus with the best of them, and few people in the U.S. understand the importance of TPP to U.S. Asia policy as well as she does. Her new opposition to the deal, then, is less a predictor of what she will do in office than an expression of the political calculations she and her campaign has made. The Democratic Party is running left, and presidential candidates need to run fast enough to stay at the head of the parade.

    http://www.the-american-intere.....ant-block/

    PuddyCommentary: It’s amazing to see how left you DUMMOCRETINS run. Blabbermouth Schultzie could not comment on Sander’s socialism today because that’s where Heilary is heading at warp speed!

  95. 95

    “Who was President then babbling jackass?”

    The batshit crazy loon longs for the good old days of Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld – a missed Presidential Daily Briefing, the falling towers, invading the wrong country and leaving behind a trashed economy.

  97. 97

    In 2008, The EPA handed down the Tier 4 Diesel emissions, and with the Locomotive builders took different paths. GE was able to modify it’s Evolution series locomotive to meet it. Electro Motive Diesel, thought that it’s two-stroke, 710 series engine could be modified, last year, they admitted, just before the deadline, they were wrong. Last week, they debuted the prototype SD70ACE-T4, using a new version of an earlier attempt at a four stroke design. They wasted valuable time, but GE did not entirely rub it in, they only just started ramping up production of the ET44AC locomotive, since the Tier 3 compliant model exceeded Tier 3, GE had credits to use up.
    http://www.railwaygazette.com/.....otive.html

  98. 98

    “ISIS doesn’t have aircraft. So what would that no-fly zone really accomplish? When has it really worked?”

    The no fly zone is for Assad and his barrel helicopters you moronic twit Triple S! Assad is attacking civilians indiscriminately! https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/10/07/why-putin-should-stop-assads-barrel-bomb-attacks

    Vladimir Putin’s rescue plan for Bashar al-Assad provides plenty of cause for alarm. Russia is reinforcing a man — and a regime — whose forces have indiscriminately and deliberately attacked civilians in opposition-held areas. Airstrikes alone have killed an estimated 20,000 civilians and are a major reason why 4 million Syrians have fled their country.

    Puddy realizes you have to be really stooooooooooopid to believe everything postulated by raw story. You can’t comprehend real news being a LIV on HA DUMMOCRETINS! Hence gotta read the raw story lies and truth deflections! This is why you are now more stooooooooooopid than the salt mining fetid clueless monomaniacal yellowishleakingbuttspigot arschloch jackASS or rujaxoffallthetimestillprovingnuthinappears or the teabaggin buttbusting BULLSHITTIUM buttbigot gorilla!

    Congratulations!

    DAYUM U R stooooooopid reading raw story every day!

    Wait for it…. something stooooooooooopid about a head blowing up. The only head blowing up is Triple S because of triple the manure pressure between the ears and behind the eyes!

    KAAAAAAAAAAAAABLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

  99. 99

    Oh salt mining fetid clueless monomaniacal yellowishleakingbuttspigot arschloch jackASS… Oil prices since Obummer been wrecking the US economy! http://moneymorning.com/2014/1.....4-to-2008/

    What an idiot… Obummer/BiteMe claimed to create 500,000 jobs a month with their “powerful economic plan”. The Recession ended in June 2009. And how many low paying jobs were created since then? Not many of them either since the number of not working continues to increase every year Obummer is in da whitey house!

    So… how many people are now permanently unemployed? 94,610,000 salt mining fetid clueless monomaniacal yellowishleakingbuttspigot arschloch jackASS! Another 579,000 jobless people were added in September 2015 due to this booming Obummer economy. Hence the smack down delivered by the early onset senile schismatic IDIOT Wabbit @77! Per http://www.bls.gov, another 7.915 million were unemployed, and 5.955 million people were looking for a job.

    The stooooooooooopid is very strong in this one too!

    DAYUM U are still racing for the cesspool bottom like Triple S!

  100. 100

    “KAAAAAAAAAAAAABLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”

    The loon starts his day with head explosion. A pretty good one, too. It must have gotten to him when I suggested he’d make a great sidekick for Bobby Jindal – dumb and dumber.

  101. 101

    “Ben Carson said the motto, “In God We Trust” — which was adopted in 1956 — proves that the United States was founded as a Christian nation.”

    http://www.rawstory.com/2015/1.....an-nation/

    The batshit crazy loon’s batshit crazy hero thinks the pledge of allegiance is one of our founding documents and that America is a Christian nation. What a fucking loon.

  102. 102

    Puddy called it @98

    Wait for it…. something stooooooooooopid about a head blowing up. The only head blowing up is Triple S because of triple the manure pressure between the ears and behind the eyes!

    with the slobbering babbling Triple S in 100 & 101. Triple S has to copy Puddy’s tag line…

    KAAAAAAAAAAAAABLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

    Above Radditz forgets the complaint about Assad are about the barrel bombings from Assad’s helicopters. Human Rights Watch doesn’t forget that reason and Triple S is too stoooooooooopid to read Human Rights Watch because that would force Triple S to think. And we all know Triple S doesn’t think… it’s copy and paste from raw story ASAP!

    Nothing original with Triple S except the original diagnosis of triple the amount of horsesASS manure between the ears, behind the eyes!

    Oh yeah still using raw story… the e-rag for the uninformed! Stay stoooooooooopid Triple S! Ben Carson never said the founding fathers created the Pledge, only you and the LIV morons at raw story do!

    Sux to be Triple S!

    Wait for it… Puddy PWNS this moron too!

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

  103. 103

    “HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA”

    Early morning psycho-laugh. Not a good sign.

  104. 104

    @102

    The shrieking loon doesn’t know the difference between “copying” and “mocking.”

    “But but but, show me where I said mocking. Ask YLB to look it up. Arsloch. Feckless posts by you. TOOOOO DAMMMMMMN FUUUUUNNNNNNYYY!” Piddles

  105. 105

    Oh my another dr checkmate sighting and nothing was written for consumption.

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