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Seth Meyers: A Closer Look at Martin Shkreli and pharmaceutical price gouging.

Young Turks: Is Henry Kissinger a war criminal?

Obama’s Weekly Address: State of American politics.

David Pakman: MI Republicans “fix” flint water crisis by outlawing anal sex.

Farron Cousins: Have the Koch brothers finally been caught?

2016 Kkkraaaaazy Kkklown Show

Five crazy facts about lobbyists.

Mental Floss: Misconceptions about the wild west.

Young Turks: Oregon standoff ends; Cliven Bundy arrested.

Test Tube News: Should governments pay a basic income?

New Hampshire:

White House: West Wing Week.

Oregon siege ends.

Jimmy Dore: Dowd, Trump, Fiorina, Steinem & other jokes

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Featuring Jamila Woods: White Privilege II.

#MakeValentinesDayGreatAgain: Presidential Candidate V-Day Cards.

Thom: The Good, The Bad & The Very Very Brockedly Ugly!

Mental Floss: 26 facts about the science of love.

Minute Physics: Concrete does not dry out.

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

Comments

  2. 2

    They were able to avoid it because the perpetrators forgot to bring snacks. When they called out to the world, to “please PLEASE send us snacks” the world answered with dildos.

    And sugar-free gummy penises, cans of Surströmming and someone sent them a 55-gallon drum of strawberry-flavored sex lube.
    For the horses, of course.

  3. 3

    A little follow up to a conversation last week about Amtrak, a little dispute Amtrak is having with the Surface Transportation Board over on time performance. Of the six Class I railroads that host Amtrak trains(the 7th, Kansas City Southern, quit passenger service in 1969, 2 years prior to Amtrak start-up) Norfolk Southern is only above Canadian National Railway in performance ranking. Canadian Pacific and BNSF are near the top.
    http://www.railwayage.com/inde.....channel=41

  5. 5

    With Governor Christie out of the race, one of his first things to focus on, is a crisis of his own making, that could have affected him in NY and PA if he had stayed in. Commuter Rail employees at New Jersey Transit have not had a contract in 5 years, and the Rail Labor Coalition has followed what I call the strike calender of the Railway Labor Act. A recent amendment to the act affecting commuter rail operators may be in the DOC’s favor. The change is that the second Presidential Emergency Board is supposed to recommend a last, reasonable offer, and penalties are for the side that refuses. In the case of PEB 249, the second Presidential Emergency Board in this dispute, the RLC accepted the recommendations, since it did not treat the engineers, conductors, maintenance of way employees, mechanics, and electricians like other state employees, NJT and Governor Christie refused to accept the recommendations.
    http://www.railwayage.com/inde.....channel=55

    By the way, negotiations under the RLA do take a long time, the 1998 Amtrak contract amendment process, took 8 years.

  6. 6

    That Colbert clip mocking Doctor “Stabby” Ben Carson reminded me of Sklerini Pluroso. Remember her from Second City? Andrea Martin, one of the funniest characters ever created by anyone.

  9. 9

    Somebody’s worried.

    Priorities USA Action, the main super PAC supporting Clinton, unleashed a $5 million infusion of spending on her behalf, upending plans to hold its fire until the general election. The move calls attention to growing concern within the party’s leadership that her campaign may be in trouble, and it underscores how crucial several upcoming contests have become in Clinton’s battle with Sanders, a senator from Vermont.

    Money they wanted to use against the GOP instead has to be used against Bernie.

    Oh, and that tidal wave of ’08 campaign donations that permitted Obama to end PAC and lobbyist donations to the DNC probably won’t be showing up this year. Ergo:

    In addition, the Democratic National Committee announced that it had rolled back restrictions introduced by presidential candidate Barack Obama in 2008 that banned donations from federal lobbyists and political action committees.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/democratic-groups-move-to-ramp-up-financial-firepower-for-clinton/2016/02/12/23ca8e00-d1b1-11e5-abc9-ea152f0b9561_story.html?wpmm=1&wpisrc=nl_headlines

    Everything old is new again!

    Except Hillary.

  10. 10

    @1 The FBI played it well. They not only nabbed the Bundy brothers, but lured the old outlaw, Cliven, out of his hideout and snagged him, too. He’s probably looking at life in prison now. One of the blowhards who threatened to kill cops got sent to Boot Hill and the rest of the outlaw gang is behind bars. This will give all the other militia groups something to think about. The message is, if they make war against the government, they’ll end up like the biker gangs, dead or behind bars.

  11. 11

    YLB breathes a sign of relief; brimstone odor was in the air.

    Former secretary of State Madeline Albright is softening her controversial comment that there’s a “special place in hell for women who don’t help each other” in a New York Times opinion piece released Friday afternoon.

    Albright has received significant criticism for making the remark while campaigning for Hillary Clinton. In the op-ed, Albright said she now understands that she “came across as condemning those who disagree with my political preferences.”

    http://thehill.com/blogs/ballo.....wrong-time

  12. 12

    @ 10

    Apparently RR’s life consists of spewing on HA and reading Louis L’Amour.

    Pathetic.

  14. 14

    @9 I would say that all the campaigns and politicians are in trouble. The corrupt political system screwed the populace and now angry mobs are assembling on both sides of the partisan divide. The only remaining question is which revolutionary will be our next leader.

  16. 16

    @ 15

    I haven’t forgotten about your ability to spot “corporate lies”, Better.

    Even when they’re not there.

  22. 22

    A pretty good analysis of the points around the Dildo Rebellion.

    Basically, the Dildonista are so poorly educated and ignorant of the basic reasons behind the basic purpose of Federal grazing fees that they’ll deliberately repeat the mistakes of the past to prove the need to maintain them. But only when they utterly destroy the resource, as they did before.

    They don’t understand their own basic history, they don’t want to know any of it, and they really don’t give a shit about anyone but their own immediate wants in life.

    Talk about entitlement personalities.

  23. 23

    The Dailykos has an article about how Washington state’s legislature may be the most corrupt in history. Really. It’s bad and totally embarrassing and, sadly, all true.

  24. 24

    @22,
    Brilliant. Well done sir.
    Alas, we can already see that the carion crows are circling. And their noise will certainly drown out the truth.
    As usual, racist fools like Dildonista will be well used to promote the malign interests of the wealthy. All the sympathetic comparisons to the Sagebrush Rebellion will do is further advance the moneyed interest in selling off the public lands for private profit and ruin.

  26. 26

    Scalia death now headlining Drudge. Still nothing on CNN, nor CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox.

  27. 27

    Just broke on CBS News. Texas governor made the announcement. Way to go, networks.

  28. 28

    @25 No hoax. He’s really dead. The MSM are picking it up. I saw it on CBS News. This is earthshaking. It will change the Supreme Court majority from conservative to liberal.

  29. 29

    Outstanding opportunity for President Obama to name another Jew to the Supreme Court. You know, to improve religious balance.

  30. 30

    Guess Scalia now has a chance to find out if he was right about all that strict interpretation stuff.

  32. 32

    I wonder how long it will take for Republicans to start claiming the Clintons murdered him?

  33. 33

    Oh, today is a wonderful, glorious, splendid day! I’m so happy, I could just shit! The world is a better place today.

  35. 35

    @29 If he doesn’t go with Elizabeth Warren, I hope he picks a Muslim, preferably one versed in Sharia law. Some D.C. heads need to roll.

  36. 36

    1. President Obama resigns.

    2. President Biden nominates Barack Obama to the US Supreme Court.

    3. Keeping Biden’s promise to his GOP Senate colleagues, AG Lynch indicts former SoS Hillary Clinton.

    4. US Senate confirms the nomination of Martin O’Malley as Vice President.

    5. Elizabeth Warren announces her candidacy for President immediately after Biden’s announcement that he will not stand for election in the Fall, which occurs immediately after former WH Press Secretary Robert Gibbs leaks to Fox News a photograph of Biden hugging Malia a little too closely.

    6. Keeping their promise to Biden, Senate confirms Justice Obama. Justice Obama shows up in chambers the first Monday this October wearing rainbow stripes on his robe sleeves.

  38. 38

    @ 33

    Oh, today is a wonderful, glorious, splendid day! I’m so happy, I could just shit! The world is a better place today.

    OK, so the US Supreme Court balance shifts sometime in the Summer or early Fall.

    This helps Hillary’s efforts……

    How, exactly? SCOTUS is already rebalanced. Threats she was planning to run on neutralized before the general.

  39. 39

    @36 Machiavellian, but I can see why GOP Senators might vote to confirm those appointments, depending on how badly they don’t want Hillary choosing the next 2 or 3 justices. Putting Obama in a different set of robes might be an acceptable tradeoff for them.

  40. 40

    @36 A hilarious klownspiracy! The babbling jackass and its beloved Alex Jones crowd couldn’t improve on it to save their lives.

    Well done Boob! Any Vince Foster to go with that?

  41. 41

    Finally being rid of this man, is, in and of itself, all I need. Somebody in power who pushed a primitive and cruel view on this nation for thirty years is finally gone. He was a papist through and through, and I believe, only cared about imposing his religion on everyone else. That is, when he wasn’t shoring up a corrupt oligarchy. Who, I wonder, funded his little resort visit?

  42. 42

    All I can picture in my head is that republican congresswoman who was uncontrollably screaming and sobbing when the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Obamacare.

    The righties have to be crying right about now.

    I wonder if Obama had anything to do with his death, you know like how Putin, the great leader, takes care of his opposition.

  43. 43

    @38 No, I don’t think so. More likely it stays 4-4 until after the election. There probably are still some Republicans in the Senate who delude themselves into believing Rubio or Jeb! will be our next president.

  44. 44

    @42 That was Jean Schmidt, the plug-ugly pig who called Rep. Murtha a “coward” and was made to eat her words.

  45. 45

    @13 I don’t know who the chick was, I was wondering the same thing.

    Maybe it was some Republican woman who just dropped off her daughter for an abortion?

  46. 46

    Although I may not agree with his opinions, I feel bad for Justice Scalia’s family.

  47. 47

    It’s gonna make that fuckin’ troll’s head explode to have to wait until sundown to spew some hate over dead Nino.
    News like this shouldn’t be allowed to break on the Sabbath.
    Poor, sufferin’ troll.
    Hee, hee.

  48. 48

    Question: On the Cloture Motion (Motion to Invoke Cloture On The Nomination of Samuel A. Alito, Jr. of New Jersey, To Be An Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court )

    Anyone remember how then-Senator Obama voted?

  49. 49

    Supposedly McConnell has already tweeted out:
    “this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new President.”
    If true that’s the GOP Majority Leader advertising himself as a prostitute. Sick.

  50. 50

    Harriet Miers
    @HarrietupandBushyourarmsaroundme
    If anyone asks, I have no plans for the remainder of the year.
    Retweeted by notGoldynot

  51. 51

    It’s confirmed. Within only a couple of hours of learning of the court vacancy, the Republican Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell announced that he would use his Senate leadership position to put the vacancy up for auction into next year.
    He also added: “Me sooooo horny, Lockheed-Martin. Me love you looong time.”

  53. 53

    @ 52

    Good point. Friedrichs likely affirmed due to 4-4 split. Public sector unions win.

  54. 54

    Contemplating watching the GOP debate tonight. But not sure I can take a bunch of brainless idiots cut each other or Obama or Hollary down and not hear any ideas of anything new or how to invest int the future. But I’m sure it will be interesting.

  55. 55

    Jonathan Singer @jonathanhsinger
    Totally unacceptable for @Acosta not to correct this.

    GRASSLEY VOTED TO CONFIRM A. KENNEDY IN 1988 ELECTION YEAR. https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/698663653780951040 …
    Retweeted by Goldy

    Um, OK. So he did.

    But that was after Democrats rejected Reagan’s first nominee, Bork.

    Reagan’s second nominee withdrew under pressure.

    So if you want to argue that Obama’s third nominee to replace Scalia should be permitted an up-or-down vote by Grassley, feel free.

  56. 56

    @55 It took Raygun a couple of practice runs before he figured out how to pick someone who was qualified. Obama doesn’t have that problem.

  58. 58

    53)From my earlier post, Governor Christie was probably hoping Friedrichs would benefit him in his battle with the Rail Labor Coalition. It might have been in the next round, but the strike/lockout calender under the Railway Labor Act will run out next month, not June. The commuter rail employees at New Jersey Transit are employees of the agency, but governed under the RLA because the services cross state lines, and most are legacy operations from the fallen flags that were taken over by Conrail in the fallout of the bankruptcy of several Northeast railroads, including the PennCentral.

  60. 60

    @56 You’ve got a point, Raygun could’ve gotten it right on the first try if Liu had been available then.

  61. 61

    @ 5, 58

    Do you have comments that would help explain why negotiations have historically been so protracted?

  62. 62

    Go fuck yourself to death if you intend to cynically promote the awful pretense that this shit has anything to do with ideology or respect for process.

    This is about nothing more than a calculation of what Republican Congressional leadership believe they can get away with. And in this case that means cranking open a fire hose of dark money. Then straddleling and dry-humping it for all its worth.

  63. 63

    Hey, if you’re not watching tonight’s GOP debate, you’re missing a great show! The Republicans are calling each other liars! First time some of them have ever told the truth about anything!

  64. 64

    @ 62

    This is about nothing more than a calculation of what Republican Congressional leadership believe they can get away with.

    Which, of course, follows the calculation of what Democrat presidential administration believes it can get away with.

  67. 67

    I always said that you fight fire with fire but who would have thought that Trump would use fire against “his” own party.

  69. 69

    So, whooo will be gone after South Carolina votes? The SDA candidate is close to 0 in the polls.

  70. 70

    @64,
    Bullshit false equivalence. Again.

    As any near-idiot knows the President is the only party to this fucked up money circus not running, not fund raising, and not steering any of it.
    So I guess that means we have to explain this to the boob.
    Typical.

  72. 72

    @ 70

    Obama not fund-raising, you say. Any near-idiot would know that.

    President Obama Arrives in Los Angeles; Attends Fundraisers, Concert in Hancock Park
    KTLA‎ – 3 days ago
    President Barack Obama arrives at LAX on Feb. 11, 2016. (Credit: pool). Air Force One …
    Obama raises money with John Legend at Los Angeles fundraiser
    Los Angeles Times‎ – 2 days ago
    President Barack Obama wraps up two Bay Area fundraisers, heads to Los Angeles
    KGO-TV‎ – 2 days ago

    He might have even raised prices:

    With tickets up to $33,400 a pop, Obama’s out in L.A. for the 21st time since taking office to hover up more Hollywood cash for the Democrats – AKA, talk is cheap Bernie and Hillary, elections are expensive.

    http://deadline.com/2016/02/ba.....201700227/

    I’d like to think you are simply mistaken and not a fucking liar.

    It’s really hard to go for the former when Obama has done nothing but raise money since 2007.

    So I’ve got to go with you’re a fucking liar.

    And don’t even try to persist with your inane contention that Obama’s not directing the disbursement of the funds. He’s still party head.

  73. 73

    Fuck off.
    He can’t run.
    He’s got nothing to sell.
    This skeevy slaternish maneuver by the GOP will unleash a torrent of corporate and industry dark money spending of epic proportions. And a lame duck President will be involved in exactly fuck all of it.
    The more you protest the innocence of this the more you look like an asshole.

  74. 74

    Hey asshole. I’ve got an idea. If your moral piety is so upset about The President raising money off this eleven month circle jerk why don’t you write McConnell a long sincere letter. The sooner he unblocks the Constitutional process, the sooner the money swamp will be dried up.
    But you won’t do that now. Will you. So again go fuck yourself.

  75. 75

    Sure is amazing how the HA DUMMOCRETIN crowd was waiting for a Puddy Comment.

    More amazing was how the Oregon moron, claiming not to read PuddyCommentary was the first to fart on this!

    Anyway sad day today. Son from NYC called his father while we were visiting others to tell his father how the NYC legal profession was buzzing over Scalia’s death. Then Puddy read the ASSHOLE comments from the salt mining fetid clueless monomaniacal yellowishleakingbuttspigot arschloch jackASS! What a useless tool that crazed databaze moron is!

    ERF had class this evening. The family is mourning and the HA ASSHOLE class is cheering.

    Typical so typical!

    Nuff said suckas!

  76. 76

    The Antelope Valley Transit Authority in Los Angeles County is planning on an ambitious fleet strategy. Being the first to go completely battery-electric propulsion. It only take a few years, but being a small fleet, there is a faster conversion story. Sun Line Transit in Riverside County, they switched from Diesel to CNG overnight.
    http://www.masstransitmag.com/.....t-electric

  77. 77

    “I plan to fulfill my constitutional responsibilities to nominate a successor in due time,” Obama told reporters from a hotel in Rancho Mirage, where he is set to host a summit of Asian leaders this week.

    “These are responsibilities that I take seriously, as should everyone,” he continued. “They are bigger than any one party. They are about our democracy, and they’re about the institution to which Justice Scalia dedicated his professional life, and making sure it continues to function as the beacon of justice that our founders envisioned.”

  78. 78

    And of course, the Schizo chimes in at #77 to express his profound grief for the man who has repeatedly stated that people, especially black people, have no inherent rights to vote or own property in this country.

    On that note. Friend of yours, Schiz?

  79. 79

    @75 fuck you and fuck Scalia. There are tons of people that you would dis-respect or dis-honor if they died. Hell you do it when they are living.

    Nuff said Ape.

  80. 80

    And the lulz just keep coming….

    Love this one: “Antisemetic NaziJew Puppet master evildudes George Schwartz- Soros plan for his collapse of America and his dream utopia NewWorldOrder! Making his young apprentice darthvader HUSSEINobama dictator of the NewWorldOrder. For the islamcaliphate began with the illegal election of one of Islams own as president of US in 2008!”

    Thats gotta be SchizoPuddles.

  82. 82

    @81.. WTF? Was that an Onion site?
    ” Leonard Nimoy, who various leaked reports have identified as the newest leader of the Illuminati. ”

    Loved this headline “Does Gay Marriage Open the Door to Extraterrestrial Sex Tourism? ” That explains that octopus in a top hat at the last Pride Parade.

    More from that site, submitted for your consideration:
    “Are Militant Atheists Using Chemtrails to Poison the Angels in Heaven?”
    “The Healing Power of Potatoes May Ward Off Facebook Mind Parasites”
    “The Seductive Immorality of Telescopes ”
    (I am not making those headlines up)

  83. 83

    @81,
    Fantastic! I did a spit take!
    Gotta go. I need to get started on my underground bunker.

  85. 85

    There’s an obvious candidate for Supreme Court: Srikanth Srinivasan.

    (1) Currently a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for D.C. Circuit.
    (2) Was confirmed to that position by 97-0 Senate vote in 2013.
    (3) Previously worked for Solicitor General of the United States under both the Obama and G. W. Bush administrations.
    (4) Brilliant Harvard Law grad, a minority, and young (48 y.o.).
    (5) Considered a moderate; should be acceptable to Republicans.

  86. 86

    @85,
    Wont even be considered.
    Filling the seat now would only drain the money swamp.
    By engaging in this prostitution Republicans not only unleash a tidal wave of dirty money, but perhaps more importantly they stand to fix their general election turnout problem.
    Too much at stake.

  87. 87

    @ 85

    Why would he not be susceptible to the Miguel Estrada treatment?

    “Let’s see your draft communications while you were in the Obama Solicitor General’s office.”

    He’d have to have awfully clean hands. In this administration? Not likely.

  88. 88

    So, thusfar Mitch McConnell and Rafael Cruz have told us that:

    A Democratic president should not make any appointments or direct Congress to consider any legislation during the first year of his term because it takes time for Congress to get settled and organized.

    A Democratic president should not make any appointments or direct Congress to consider any legislation during the second year of his term because they would just turn midterm elections into partisan politics.

    A Democratic president should not make any appointments or direct Congress to consider any legislation during the third year of his term because any shift in balance of the Senate or the House are signs that he doesn’t have a mandate from the people.

    A Democratic president should not make any appointments or direct Congress to consider any legislation during the final year of his term because he must think about the future and not disrespect the potential direction of the president who follows him.

    Seems rather simple to me. Of course, the Republicans, being as simple as they are can see it clearly.

  89. 89

    Bruce Bartlett @BruceBartlett
    Eisenhower gave Earl Warren a recess appointment to SCOTUS while Senate was still considering his nomination so he could vote in Brown.
    Retweeted by Goldy

    Why, yes, yes he did. And the Democrats didn’t like that much at all.

    No one has written about this here yet so I’ll throw it out there. From Team Volokh:

    Flashback: Senate Democrats in 1960 pass resolution against election-year Supreme Court recess appointments

    in August 1960, the Democrat-controlled Senate passed a resolution, S.RES. 334, “Expressing the sense of the Senate that the president should not make recess appointments to the Supreme Court, except to prevent or end a breakdown in the administration of the Court’s business.”

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/02/13/flashback-senate-democrats-in-1960-pass-resolution-against-election-year-supreme-court-recess-appointments/

    Since both sides are now arguing the opposite of what they argued in 1960, this may not mean much, I suppose.

    Except it was a US Senate resolution, and it apparently was successfully passed. So precedent. I suppose.

  90. 90

    Vomit producer @78,

    You really are a dunce act, similar above to dunceman. Scalia was saying why does the court have to validate something “called a voting right” that was a God given right to black people stolen by racist DUMMOCRETIN?

    You always look for the simple racist way out of things instead of using that single celled femtometer sized brain (more like a pea in the big expanse of God’s universe) and reason something out.

    What does the second sentence of the Declaration of Independence mean vomit producer? Huh?

    We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

    Scalia was saying why does this have to be decided by courts. Because congresscritters are afraid of being called racists? The 15th Amendment protects everyone. Section 5 of the voting rights act should not have to be enforced, it should come naturally from the DoI as stated above and the 15th Amendment.

    Sheeeeesh you really are a moron! You prove it every day.

    Also when looking at blacks who attend prestigious universities due to quotas, do they do well? Was Dr Ben Carson a racial quota vomit producer? Or was he in the ivy league because he deserved it. Was he the best pediatric neurosurgeon of his time because of quotas vomit producer, OR, was it a God-gifted talent he expanded over the years?

    Of the 11 minority engineers in my undergraduate class, Puddy was the only graduate. Many came from prestigious high schools, while Puddy came from a standard high school. Scalia was asking are you putting them in a climate to fail? Puddy understood this as Puddy lived it 40 years ago!

    You are a moron of the highest order vomit producer! Keep it up since you and your WHITE PRIVILEGE will NEVER understand our side of the tracks, EVAH!

    Puddy realizes the Oregon moron will not comprehend this or even read it! Neither will many others!

  91. 91

    @ 90

    You always look for the simple racist way out of things…

    When all you’ve got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

    It’s all he’s got.

  94. 94

    vomit producer @80,

    NOPE you WHITE PRIVILEGE DOPE! Puddy brought you the $7 Million Self hater George Soros recently gave to Heilary’s campaign because he’s the puppeteer and she is his marionette!

    FACTS suck!

  95. 95

    Roger – last night I was doing some cleaning up and organizing, going thru my previous 25 years of tax returns so that I can shred what I don’t want and scan the rest and then shred them too.

    I came across my 2003 tax return, filed in 2004, that included loses for stocks. I thought I’d share my bad investing techniques with you.

    On 1/17/03 I dumped a bunch of stocks that I probably bought right before 9/11/2001, but I am not sure, maybe it was even after 9/11/2001.

    I invested $4.946 in 80 shares of Cisco, 3 shared of Caterpillar, 20 shares of Home Depot, and 140 shares in a Company called H Power (HPOW) and CS (which was split into two different companies, one called ETS and the one called RSTN. I know the last two (or three, however you consider them) probably mean nothing to you – I’d give you the full names but I ripped up and tossed out the paper I wrote them down on and would have to dig out the 2003 return again to state them and I don’t feel like it. But anyways, other than the last two, the other stock were ok. It was the last two that really were shitty picks.

    So, on 1/17/2003 I sold everything and they were only worth $1,720 – a loss of $3,226. But if I still had those stocks today, the Cisco, Cat and Home Depot stock alone would be worth $4, 525, without any consideration of any dividends that they may have paid, if they did – solely based on Today’s current price.

    But the two crappy stocks were 45% of the $4,946. If I had taken that 45% and invested it in one of those other stocks, then today the investment would be $7,723 (if all Cisco), or $9,909 (If Home Depot), and $7,094 (if all Cat). Again, not considering any dividends and I guess splits.

    That was the my first and last attempt to buy any stocks. I later played around with Mutual Fund Investments, but again with the same results.

    Although I learned the valuable less of just sticking with it in the long haul I still can’t do it.

    Currently, even my 401k is invested in the Stable Fund (earning a guaranteed +/- 3%). I did invest in other funds just recently, but again, I made the same mistake of selling as soon as a drop in the market.

    The only good thing I can say is that none of my 401K was invested in anything but the Stable fund before 9/11 and up until after 2008 crash. I was lucky enough not to take any of those loses which would have probably been compounded by me getting out if I was in, furthering no gain as the markets climbed.

    Not at all implying that you are putting yourself at risk, really just writing this to bolster your comments of hanging in there for the long haul.

  96. 96

    @ 95

    Not at all implying that you are putting yourself at risk…

    Really no need to. Roger Rabbit himself makes that very clear to all of us on a near-daily basis.

  97. 97

    Seems former Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli loves his some DUMMOCRETIN candidates. Maryland DUMMOCRETIN candidate Will Jawando, a former campaign staffer for preznit Obummer received over $28,000 from Shkreli and ASSociates! No wonder his disdain for the Republicans questioning him and his motives were met with tweet disdain after the hearings. And no wonder Da Perfessa didn’t pursue Shkreli’s giving on this blog page for the Friday Night Comix!

    Also DUMMOCRETIN candidates Rep. Gregory Meeks received $2,600 and Mr socialism presidential candidate Bernie Sanders received $2,700. Sure is amazing what NY bred DUMMOCRETINS do!

  98. 98

    Sigh. Alright, lets try this again.

    Vomit producer @78,

    You really are a dunce act, similar above to dunceman. Scalia was saying why does the court have to validate something “called a voting right” that was a God given right to black people stolen by racist DUMMOCRETIN?

    Like the voting rights acts passed in the 1960’s by Liberals in Congress, violently opposed by Conservatives who were literally murdering black people and the white people who publicly supported them, that was then signed into Law by a moderate-conservative Democratic President?

    You always look for the simple racist way out of things instead of using that single celled femtometer sized brain (more like a pea in the big expanse of God’s universe) and reason something out.

    What does the second sentence of the Declaration of Independence mean vomit producer? Huh?

    I know what it says. It is not enforceable under the Law. It is merely the Declaration of Independence, written by white slave owners, farmers and tea smugglers who had become extremely annoyed at the fact that the Crown had levied huge and utterly arbitrary tax burdens on the Colonies without permitting those Colonies to have any legal representation in the British Parliament.

    We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

    That what it says alright. Black people weren’t even considered properly Human to the men who wrote it, and the majority of slave importation to the United States occurred between 20 and 40 years after that document had been signed, sealed and delivered to the King of England. The 3/5 Compromise came over 11 years later and gave a huge advantage to the Southern slaveholding States in Congress until the end of the States War.

    You remember, the ones that wanted to keep slavery as a legally protected institution, and expand it as the number of States increased.

    That was the whole point of the 14th and 15th Amendments.

    Scalia was saying why does this have to be decided by courts. Because congresscritters are afraid of being called racists? The 15th Amendment protects everyone. Section 5 of the voting rights act should not have to be enforced, it should come naturally from the DoI as stated above and the 15th Amendment.

    Again, at the risk of repeating myself, the Declaration of Independence is not in any way, shape or form, a Legal document in the context of the Constitution. The Courts Scalia was referring to were the State Courts, who had either supported the Jim Crow Laws, or repeatedly refused to consider ruling on them. In other words, in Scalia’s opinion, the States do have the right to use legal means to restrict sufferage to certain demographics if they so choose to.

    The Declaration of Independence has no bearing whatsoever under the Law. It is merely the document written in as polite and succinct a manner possible to tell the King to go fuck himself.

    Sheeeeesh you really are a moron! You prove it every day.

    Also when looking at blacks who attend prestigious universities due to quotas, do they do well? Was Dr Ben Carson a racial quota vomit producer? Or was he in the ivy league because he deserved it. Was he the best pediatric neurosurgeon of his time because of quotas vomit producer, OR, was it a God-gifted talent he expanded over the years?

    What does that have to do with anything? He’s a neurosurgeon, apparently a highly qualified one. As a candidate for political office, he’s an absolute nobody. He is as inconsequential as a popcorn fart in a tornado.

    Of the 11 minority engineers in my undergraduate class, Puddy was the only graduate. Many came from prestigious high schools, while Puddy came from a standard high school. Scalia was asking are you putting them in a climate to fail? Puddy understood this as Puddy lived it 40 years ago!

    Seems to me that just goes to show that “Prestigious (meaning expensive, private and most likely religious) High Schools” don’t necessarily present a positive factor in educating the general public, and incidentally, that Public Schools aren’t as horribly mismanaged and inherently evil as the Conservatives have always claimed them to be.

    Of course, you spending a year at “ITT Tech” doesn’t make you an engineer in anything but the job title you put on your resume’.

    You are a moron of the highest order vomit producer! Keep it up since you and your WHITE PRIVILEGE will NEVER understand our side of the tracks, EVAH!

    Did you wake up in the morning and head off to school having to step over the bodies of murder victims to get out of your back door? Because I knew a few people when I was a kid who had to do exactly that. Black and White.

    How many of your friends were shot in the back by a Police Officer when you were a kid?

    What you call “the wrong side of the tracks” is my old neighborhood in San Diego from when I was a kid. The next door neighbor kid, his Pop robbed a bank and shot a man doing it. The standoff lasted for half the damn day. Right next door. The dude living in the little mother-in-law house in my back yard in Venice Beach was smuggling cocaine and probably heroin by stuffing it in the cardboard tubes they put in rolls of carpet he was importing from Ensenada. His little garage was full of that shit at one point. My mom hit the roof when she figured that shit out and we moved out a few weeks later.

    Don’t try to tell me about the wrong side of the tracks. I got a pretty good taste of that shit after my folks split up.

    Puddy realizes the Oregon moron will not comprehend this or even read it! Neither will many others!

    Zzzzz

  99. 99

    Ahhh yes Miguel Estrada, the Hispanic that caused Senate DUMMOCRETINS to his panic because he broke the mold of an uppity latino minority! DUMMOCRETINS always set the precedents and when Republicans follow in their footsteps HA DUMMOCRETINS take their “lede” from their national DUMMOCRETIN lieges and cry fowl!

    When you are a Republican minority the Senate DUMMOCRETIN as well as HA DUMMOCRETINS go apoplectic! Remember that old lion of the Senate Ted Kennedy went racist and led the filibuster. Butt, that’s A-OK when you stop a conservative minority, because the ENDS always JUSTIFIES the MEANS!

  100. 100

    The self-loathing black loon who hates blacks excrets, “You always look for the simple racist way out of things…”

    The good white Doctor for whom a conversation on any topic is an opportunity to put down blacks chimes in with, “When all you’ve got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. It’s all he’s got.”

    No, there’s nothing at all strange about that exchange!

  101. 101

    Vomit producer is no historical genius. He farted… that was then signed into Law by a moderate-conservative Democratic President?

    Do you realize that LBJ used the minority vote as his way of winning elections. When Harry Truman was trying to outlaw racism in federal hiring and LBJ voted against it.

    That leetle factoid is lacking in your comprehension of LBJ. And from his memoirs we learned LBJ only signed the VRA and CRA laws because he realized blacks would be swayed to vote DUMMOCRETIN ad nauseum!

    So that alone explodes the rest of your useless rant . You really need to understand black history before you start using it against PUDDY!

    One last thing… Puddy was discussing the attacks HA DUMMOCRETINS recently put forth on Scalia when Scalia mentioned about U of T-Austin and racial quotas and how minorities thrown into that environment and they are unprepared, they usually fail. HA DUMMOCRETINS went nutzo! Notice the vomit producer forgot about that. 24 hour moronic moonbattic malodorous memory malady is very strong in that one! Hence Puddy brought up the intelligence of Dr Ben Carson and how he deserved to be in an ivy league institution not due to racial quotas. So what did the vomit producer pull? It pulled a R senile moment, trying to change the subject.

    The rest of the rant is an EPIC FAYLE!

    DUMMOCRETINS are whores for big money
    DUMMOCRETINS are whores to the highest bidder
    DUMMOCRETINS are against rules that stop them from being naturally slimy
    DUMMOCRETINS are only into religion as needed
    DUMMOCRETINS are haters of people whom own guns
    DUMMOCRETINS are wife cheaters
    DUMMOCRETINS are chameleons
    DUMMOCRETINS are liars
    DUMMOCRETINS are reckless with top super secret documents

  102. 102

    @98,
    why on earth do you bother.
    It’s a fucking robot, ruled by some kind of faulty algorithm infused with recursive loops and superstition. The only thing it got right is that I don’t read its posts. And the only time I ever see any of it’s rantings are when one of you guys quotes it.

    And for what it’s worth, I think any post quoting that troll should be preceded by some kind of trigger warning, as if what is to follow describes in detail the most vulgar, despicable, unsanitary, and violent sexual violation of a human infant.

  103. 103

    Of course, you spending a year at “ITT Tech” doesn’t make you an engineer in anything but the job title you put on your resume’.

    Apparently you forgot where Puddy went to school! It wasn’t ITT Tech, where you went! More 24 hour moronic moonbattic malodorous memory malady!

  104. 104

    This is funny. Sen. Mitch McConnell, in 2005, defended the absolute right of a sitting president to nominate judges, back when a republican was president. But now that it’s a biracial Democrat that’s president (elected twice, I might add) , he’s a hypocrite and is all against the president nominating judges.

    http://www.dailykos.com/storie.....l=facebook

  105. 105

    Seems to me that just goes to show that “Prestigious (meaning expensive, private and most likely religious) High Schools” don’t necessarily present a positive factor in educating the general public, and incidentally, that Public Schools aren’t as horribly mismanaged and inherently evil as the Conservatives have always claimed them to be.

    So:
    The Bronx High School of Science
    Brooklyn Technical High School
    City Polytechnic High School of Engineering, Architecture, and Technology
    East & West Technical High Schools

    are all religious schools vomit producer?

    You do talk from your arschloch 24×7!

  106. 106

    But now that it’s a biracial Democrat that’s president (elected twice, I might add) , he’s a hypocrite and is all against the president nominating judges.

    Who is bringing race into the equation worser expect you and your putrid thoughts? Apparently post #89 went right over your head like most FACTS here on HA DUMMOCRETINS.

    R U really that stoooooooooooopid or is it an act? Most here vote U R really that stooooooooooopid! You get your “knowledge” from Daily Kooks!

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

  107. 107

    The Oregon moron @102 displays his fantasies again… <blockquote?violent sexual violation of a human infant.Where does that mind go when it has free time?

  108. 108

    @96 exactly but I wanted to be clear and not misunderstood. Sometime if not carefully worded, which sometimes I might be quick to say what I say, it could be misunderstood.

    I know Puffy has misunderstood me many times, but of course he’s a fucking moron.

    I more clear to Puffy if I just stick to calling him An Ape. He understands that.

  109. 109

    Oh Puddy understands Never rejecting a warm hanging human teabag @108.

    The hate oozes from every pore of your being! TPPS gives you big props!

  110. 110

    Heard that people want Anita Hill nominated to the Supreme Court, just see if she would cause Clarence Thomas to resign.

  112. 112

    @55 @56 Perhaps Democrats would have been happier with Bork or the other nominee than Scalia in hindsight? All three were qualified. That whole mess sets up the messiness of today. Even if Obama nominates a centrist…maybe a trial court judge there will be a royal fight rather than a process that does an up or down vote on the Presidents nominee. In the unusuall event the nominee isn’t confirmed the Senate should have plenty of time to confirm nominee two or three. Not goning to be a time for no drama Obama, going to need some fire and passion…ummm otherwise known as drama. Harry Truman a miswesterner mastered it.

  113. 113

    It’s Schumer. Of COURSE he said it.

    Schumer to fight new Bush high court picks

    New York Sen. Charles E. Schumer, a powerful member of the Democratic leadership, said Friday the Senate should not confirm another U.S. Supreme Court nominee under President Bush “except in extraordinary circumstances.”
    “We should reverse the presumption of confirmation,” Schumer told the American Constitution Society convention in Washington.

    Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/.....z40Ck17Ks9

    This is from July, 2007, with nearly 18 months left in GWB43’s term at the time. Naked partisan obstruction out of the mouth of Schumer. And whaddya know – it wasn’t because there was someone with a different skin color in the White House.

    Seems there can be serious differences between parties for reasons other than race. Who knew?

  114. 114

    @103 A school and a real name would be helpful in ascertaining if you are a real human being. Care to provide both and I’m sure someone will get around to at least checking the year books of whatever academic institution you list.

  115. 115

    @113 “Naked partisan obstruction out of the mouth of Schumer.”

    Yay! It’s about time our electeds got some balls! We need a lot more naked partisan obstruction from Democrats!

  116. 116

    @105 What is your point those are all public high schools. Yes some have some special aptitude requirements to get in but they are still public high schools. I think New York City has a high school or Rock…or at least music. They have a population that can support such specialized schools, though lets face it the kids have to take all those regular droll high school classes.

  118. 118

    Then PutridASSHOLE misread like the imbecile it is the profoundly balanced comments from a Scalia critic amongst the pantheon of HA HEROES.

    Heh. The worthless fart of a fiend must have really liked this part:

    To be fair, I understand his [Scalia’s] opinions are well worth reading.

    Heh. What a DUMB TROLL. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

    Oh wow! I hope the bookoo bucks legal beagle doesn’t read that and ESPECIALLY the time PutridASSHOLE gave Roberts the power to tax.

    That was a riot!

  121. 121

    @113. Bob, not that it will make a difference to you but from your link:
    “New York Sen. Charles E. Schumer, a powerful member of the Democratic leadership, said Friday the Senate should not confirm another U.S. Supreme Court nominee under President Bush “except in extraordinary circumstances.”
    “The Supreme Court is dangerously out of balance. We cannot afford to see Justice Stevens replaced by another Roberts, or Justice Ginsburg by another Alito.”

    Schumer gave himself wiggle room to confirm someone. McConnell didn’t. He wants the Democratic President to just sit on his hands and wait till they hopefully elect a republican. And if that doesn’t happen, what then?

    Let’s have a discussion of what is a “balanced” court. Why should 5 conservatives and extreme conservatives and 4 moderate liberals be considered balanced, but not the other way round?

  122. 122

    @120,
    I believe it was Joseph Stalin who once said:
    “You can fool all of the people some of the time. And you can fool some of the people all of the time. But that troll is a ridiculous Fuckwad.”

  123. 123

    Why American Students Are Flocking to Germany — and Staying
    http://www.nbcnews.com/news/wo.....ng-n515961

    “However, it still is “a win-win situation for Germany,” Rueland said, because nearly 50 percent of all visitors from abroad remain in the country after their degree, paying taxes and providing the labor market with skilled workers.
    That includes many American students, who view Germany as an attractive workplace.”

    Stupid, idiot, cheap ass conservatives don’t want pay a dime to educate other people’s children, even when it will pay dividends in the future of paying taxes and providing the labor market with skilled workers. Short sighted, greed driven fools.

  124. 124

    That troll releasing hate filled racist rant about Cologne in 3… 2… 1…

  125. 125

    “‘I strongly agree that the American people should decide the future direction of the Supreme Court by their votes for president and the majority party in the U.S. Senate,’ Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, a vulnerable incumbent, said in an email to CNN.”

    This, of course, is sheer nonsense — because the U.S. Senate does not represent the American people. It overrepresents people from small rural states who tend to be Republican, and underrepresents people from states like California and New York with large urban populations who tend to be Democratic. Alaska, with less than 750,000 people, has exactly the same amount of say in confirming Supreme Court nominees as California, with over 39 million people.

    Johnson’s contention is silly for another reason, too. Even if Democrats win the White House and a Senate majority in November, does anyone believe Republicans will let them appoint whoever they want to the Supreme Court? Even after the American people of spoken? Of course not, they’ll filibuster any nominee they don’t like, which is basically anyone even slightly to the left of Scalia. It takes a supermajority to confirm a Supreme Court nominee.

    So what’s the solution? There isn’t one. I think Democrats should do the same thing to Republicans they do to us. If Obama, who was chosen by the people twice, can’t appoint Scalia’s replacement then why should a Republican president, if they win in November, be allowed to do so? Democrats may not have enough votes to confirm an Obama nominee, but they sure as hell can block a GOP nominee, and that’s exactly what they should do if Republicans don’t allow a vote on Obama’s nominee.

    In other words, if Republicans want to put it off until the next presidential election, then Democrats should play that game, too. Let the Court operate with 8 justices and tie on every case of consequence until kingdom come! What goes around, comes around! It’ll be D.C. gridlock in its most perfect manifestation.

  126. 126

    I like the idea of putting forward a half dozen or so moderate, highly qualified, well liked nominees and giving the committee the option to hear them in whatever order they like. Give them the choice to either go through the motions of rejecting a whole slate of highly qualified nominees, or flat out refusing to consider even a single one of them. Either way, it’ll destroy Senate GOP approval ratings going into November. If the Senate GOP are going to whore themselves out like this, Dems should seek to make it cost more than it’s worth.
    A bunch of these pricks are already looking past November and plotting their next moves with all the money this will bring in. They should be made to reconsider. If Republicans actually manage to pull back from the brink on this, it’s a win for progressives. We drain a little out of the GOP money swamp, and we replace an authoritarian religious zealot on the court with a reasonable person. If they don’t pull back, they lose seats in November. The White House needs to see this as an opportunity to either punish Senate Republicans or bring them to heel.

  128. 128

    @127 Is Clarence Thomas still breathing? Has anyone checked his pulse in the last five years?

  129. 129

    Here’s how the Dems should play this, but it requires the cooperation of Sen. Schumer, their probable next Senate leader. The Democrats have already used the nuclear option to eliminate filibusters of lower-court judicial nominees. Schumer should tell McConnell that if Obama nominates a moderate and he doesn’t allow a vote on that nominee, then if our party wins the White House and Senate in November, we’ll go thermonuclear and also eliminate filibusters of SCOTUS nominees. So he’s running the risk that a President Sanders or Clinton will be able to confirm extremely liberal justices (even socialists!) with simple majorities if he’s unwilling to accept a moderate appointee from President Obama. Then we’ll find out what McConnell really thinks of Trump’s, Crud’s, or Robotio’s odds in November.

  130. 130

    @ 129

    And what would Schumer say if the White House goes GOP and the Senate is a hold by the GOP? You OK with President Cruz nominating four SCOTUS justices with no Democrat filibuster, should McConnell elect to put the Schumer plan into effect?

    Dumbfuck.

  133. 133

    As a thought experiment, if there was a republican president in the white house, you think she would wait a year and let the next president nominate someone? Can’t see that.

  135. 135

    @130 In that scenario, the GOP senators would shitcan the filibuster faster than an eye blink anyway, so why should Schumer worry about retaliation? The name of the game in politics is do your enemies before they do you. I remind you that our side didn’t start this shit, your side did, and if you guys want to turn politics into civil war then don’t complain about getting shot.

  136. 136

    @134 I can see that. And yet Obama will likely nominate a moderate. I hate that democrats have to be the grown ups

  137. 137

    @136,
    put it in perspective. Right now all across America, establishment Republicans are routinely referring to Roberts like he’s some kind of naked hippie in a tree playing a flute.

    The Constitution, the evolution of public opinion, and the march of history are all on the side of expanding legal protections to women, minorities, workers, children, and the disabled. Any moderate, however “moderate” will tend to move in that direction. When it’s allowed to, the law and the Constitution work pretty well to protect regular folks. We don’t necessarily need any avowed liberal justices on the court. Just competent moderates. While Senate Republicans debase themselves, President Obama gets to be the grown up here. And that’s good for everyone (except swing and blue state Senate Republicans).

  139. 139

    @ 138. You are wrong to make a blanket statement like that. Most Christians are good people, so are most Muslims, atheists, queers, radiologists, retired people, etc. There may be awful people at the fringe of any category, but most are not. Don’t be like puddy. Be better than that.

  140. 140

    Does anyone know, Bernie is is wildly more popular with younger voters. Of younger republicans, who is getting the most support and interest?

  142. 142

    “Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said on Sunday that he will filibuster a nominee no matter who it is…”

    Now you’ll see Trump, the Governors, and probably many of Cruz’ Senate colleagues begin to shift, anticipating the opportunity to tie Cruz up with this sort of foolish pledge.

  143. 143

    On Sunday on CNN, Leahy added that if Republicans don’t change direction it “is going to guarantee they lose control of the Senate.”

    Make it a dutch auction.
    Hand them a list of nominees with deadlines in ranked order from more conservative to more liberal. Every two weeks a nominee is removed from consideration until the last and only nominee remaining to be considered is the most liberal. McConnell will be overruled by his own members.

  144. 144

    “”The Constitutional standard for impeachment is high crimes and misdemeanors,” continued Cruz, saying a “mistake” is not reason enough to impeach.”

    Even a Canadian thinks Bush’s stupid war was a huge mistake.

  145. 145

    Speaking of Canadians:

    “One of the ways I can fight back is to bring a lawsuit against him relative to the fact that he was born in Canada and therefore cannot be President,” Trump said in the release. “If he doesn’t take down his false ads and retract his lies, I will do so immediately. Additionally, the RNC should intervene and if they don’t they are in default of their pledge to me.”

    Eeexxxcellent.

  147. 147

    I think it’s already been asked, but when Bernie/Hillary wins the presidency, will the republicans demand that they don’t pick a supreme court justice until the next president is elected? Since they want this Democratic president to wait a year, why not five? or nine?

  150. 150

    I figured I would post a bunch of stuff because typically when I do a new thread is born.

    Why no new Monday Open Thread? Is it because it is President’s Day?

  152. 152

    Not sure Trump can pull off any more stunts that voters will eventually turn in him, but I’m not to sure that he wouldn’t get some Democrats to vote for him as a third party over Hillary or Bernie. i think Bernie would have a better shot at him than Hillary in a three party race.

    If it is Hillary, Crud and Trump, I think Trump could possible come out ahead.

  153. 153

    The Dow is up 140 points this morning, and the mattress morons are missing out again.

  154. 154

    R senile farts with lumps again… The Dow is up 140 points this morning, and the mattress morons are missing out again.

    Can’t be Puddy because Puddy’s money is in the bank!

    Still senile!

  155. 155

    Being Teabagged Again is a effin KLOWN… It farted

    Why no new Monday Open Thread? Is it because it is President’s Day?

    Apparently 24 hour moronic moonbattic malodorous memory malady is strong in this Teabag licker… Apparently this moron can’t remember a simple sentence from Carl…

    – Since I usually skip holidays for Open Threads

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