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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) tells Jimmy Kimmel whether it is more fun being a Senator or a comedian.

Stephen: The worst campaign ad of the 2018 mid-terms has arrived

Bill Maher: New rule, city mouse, country mouse.

Minute Physics: Solar panels made with a particle accelerator?!?

Dotard Трамп and Friends:

Seth Meyers: Who the hell is Dana Rohrabacher?.

Adam ruins Mt. Rushmore.

VOX: The rise and fall of the American fallout shelter.

Hillary Clinton Won 3M Votes More Than Трамп:

Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

Samantha Bee: Is there any hope for the left?

Mental Floss: 26 facts about libraries.

VOX: How American Gothic became iconic.

Repeat Offenders—Republicans are Trying To Kill Americans, Again:

Dom Joy: 50 state word association .

Stephen: A very Ted Cruz porno.

Farron Cousins: Republican politicians launch their own fake news website to spread propaganda.

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

Comments

  1. 1

    Jimmy Kimmel seems to be taking a big risk, but comedians/talk showho’s to tend to live their lives on the air.

  2. 2

    Two elections this weekend . Germany on Sunday, New Zealand, right now. Both use Mixed Member Proportional Representation. In New Zealand, in 2011, the center-left Labor Party suffered a big loss, but it appears now they are within 10-11 points of the Center-Right National Party .On current seat projections, based on the party vote, National has 58 seats, Labor 45, and 61 are needed to government. The nationalist, anti-immigrant New Zealand First Party is set to be the Kingmaker, as National may have lost several coalition partners.
    https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/election-results

  4. 4

    It’s almost impossible to get rid of a bad cop because he shoots an unarmed black person, but statutory rape is another thing altogether.

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/officer-charged-with-sex-assault-after-girl-15-gives-birth-to-his-child/

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: I agree our communities shouldn’t have child-rapers policing their streets. This might be less obvious to some police unions, though. And Trump supporters won’t like this rule because it means half of them won’t be able to get police jobs. Extra demerits if the victim is their sister.

  5. 5

    3,
    There now appear to be more Tweeting days in the week than there are GOP Senate Working days.
    Fuckface and his racist mob are powerless to do anything about that.

  6. 6

    POTUS

    Protesting NFL players, “They should all be fired!”

    White Nationalists killing in Charlottesville, “I can see both sides of this issue.”

  7. 7

    @6
    Yet Puddy supports and defends these leaders despite knowing that given the chance, they would treat him poorly just because of the color of his skin. Piddles talks about facts all the time, I would think that this fact would scare the hell out of him. MLK, Jr.’s dream is no longer alive in this day and age in Murica.

  8. 8

    @7 Yeah, but Piddles can plead insanity, and that makes it difficult to hold him responsible for his idiocy.

  9. 9

    @7:

    SchizoPoodle would tell you that Dr. King was a communist who tried to destroy the country by helping the trash collectors stand up for themselves. He’ll tell you that the 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution shouldn’t exist because they allowed the children of immigrants the right to vote and own property even if they weren’t Calvinists.

    If Dr. King was doing his thing in the present time, SchizoPoodle would be siding with guys like Eugene Connor. He all but called Joe Arpaio a hero for building concentration camps for brown people even when they hadn’t been convicted of any crime.

    The Poodle is not a sane individual.

  10. 10

    If Republicans ever get around to taxes, they’ll probably try to pass a “tax holiday” on corporate profits stashed overseas. The excuse for this gift will be to bring that money home, where it will then be invested and used to create jobs. Let’s see how that actually works in practice.

    This last such “tax holiday” on overseas corporate earnings was in 2004-05. Then, companies were allowed to repatriate profits by paying a 5.25% tax, instead of the nominal 35% corporate tax rate (which nobody pays anyway). So what happened that time?

    Barrons magazine says it “didn’t bring enough money home, and what they did bring back was used for share buybacks, not investment.” (9/25/17 issue, p. M4) In other words, it didn’t accomplish a damn thing. All it did was cost the Treasury money.

    Why would it be different this time? There’s already a glut of capital, so where would this money go? Probably to shareholders again, which is okay with me, but don’t expect it to goose the economy. We already have a full-employment economy. We have employers struggling to hire qualified workers. Many companies still have more capacity than they can use.

    But don’t expect Republicans to understand middle-school economics.

  11. 11

    The world was supposed to end today, according to Bible thumpers. But, inconveniently for their belief system, we’re still here. Are Bible Belt cranks ever right about anything? Their politics suck, too. And, of course, they’re racists, and they want to refight the Civil War. The sort of idiots Trump loves to toy with.

  12. 12

    The amount by which Republicans want to cut taxes for the rich, $1.5 trillion, is approximately equal to outstanding student debt, $1.4 trillion.

    We already know cutting taxes for the rich doesn’t trickle down. We also know student debt is holding the economy back by preventing millennials from starting families and buying homes.

    Why not use that money to write off this generation’s student debts? Those debts were unfair to begin with. They resulted from states shifting the cost of education needed to participate in today’s economy from taxpayers to students.

    Millennials were forced into debt. What were they supposed to do, become a generation of unemployable high school graduates, and live on their parents’ social security forever? At least they’re working.

  13. 13

    @ RR @ 11.

    Are Bible Belt cranks ever right about anything?

    Yeah, they’re “Right” about everything, especially when it’s about their rights to your money. You go to one of their little Sunday sausage fests and they’ll shoot dirty looks at you if you even use the word “left” in a sentence.

  14. 14

    I read with interest the response of R Goodell to Presidents Trumps mention of kneeling players. I have one question regarding this line:”The NFL and our players are at our best when we help create a sense of unity in our country and our culture.” … REALLY? You think allowing overpaid, whining, pampered game players to insult half the country, most of whom make up your ever-shrinking audience creates “a sense of unity in our country and our culture”?

    You think allowing whining, overpaid, pampered game players to insult the men and women who protect the country, the NFL executives AND the athletes , creates “a sense of unity in our country and our culture”?

    Are you really that tone-deaf to the mood of the country? Evidently you are.

    The league, the owners and the advertisers seem to have forgotten who works for whom and more importantly who is their overhead and where their PROFIT comes from. Here’s hint: it comes from the same FANS of THIS COUNTRY whom you allow the whining, overpaid, pampered game players to insult.

    Goodell should be ashamed of that statement. He is excusing horrendous treatment of the fans with the excuse it’s OK because the whiny, overpaid, pampered game players threw some money at hurricane victims. (Yeah I’m talking to you measly 25K Bennett, $5 MILLION in 2016 – Hey brother could you spare that dime?) There is only one player that can make that claim: J.J. Watt who put action to his words and I don’t believe I have seen him insult the people who pay to see him play.

    This is not going to go away. We ex-fans have had enough. We’ve stopped buying tickets, paraphernalia, we’ve stopped flying and wearing the paraphernalia we own and we’re cutting the cord to the games. You and the advertisers will shortly feel the pain and the wrath that you deserve, that you allowed, that you fomented. How long do you think “America’s beer” or pizza will stand up to the heat of that hypocrisy.

  15. 15

    @14 What a stupid comment. If being “insulted” makes you feel bad, try being killed by police because of your race on for size. That’s what the kneelers are protesting. And you preach about tone deafness?

  16. 16

    So-called race killing by police have been debunked repeatedly by stats. Further the stats say white cops are targeted far more than black citizens. Unfortunately those cases don’t make for the “suits the narrative”, attention grabbing headlines to draw in the easily led sheep.

    I’m curious why you aren’t as incensed about black on black violence that harms, maims and kills more than police… oh that’s inconvenient to the narrative…

    Perhaps now you can stick to the subject….

    Once, pro athletes kneeled in a misguided act of civil disobedience. Now, pro athletes kneel at the behest of Donald Trump. And they don’t even realize it.

    The 2016 season saw an eye-opening eight-percent decline from the previous season overall.

    A recent study by J.D. Power found that the biggest reason fans said they had decided to turn off the NFL in 2016 was the national anthem protests. A little over a quarter (26%) of people who said they watched the NFL less last year cited the national anthem as the reason (around 24% cited the penalties and another 24% said domestic violence).

    And we all saw the picture of the stadium in San Francisco….

    So please, keep defending the millionaire America haters … Mr “American”, because guess what – they hates you too, even as you pretend to defend them!

  18. 18

    @realdonaldtrump

    Going to the White House is considered a great honor for a championship team.Stephen Curry is hesitating,therefore invitation is withdrawn!

    Maybe look in the mirror and wonder why it’s not really an honor to Steph?

    But the since deleted follow tweet…

    @realdonaldtrump

    Besides with a roomful of darkies you have to keep an eye on the silver. Those people will rob you.

  19. 19

    @16

    And of course you have some study you can show us on the facts of your stats? I have one.

    Black Americans make up 13 percent of the US population, but the FBI’s data shows that 32 percent of the felons killed by officers in 2012 where black.

    Keep reading and you’ll learn that though blacks and hispanics make up less than 18% of the population of the U.S. “Justifiable Homicide” by police reporting the victim was not attacking when killed is 59%.

    There’s also the less deadly racism of the average traffic stop.
    • Black drivers were on average 75 percent more likely to be searched than white drivers. Looking only at male drivers, the difference jumped to 97 percent.
    • Regarding the discovery of contraband, black men were 10 percent less likely to have illegal substances than white men in probable cause searches. In consent searches, they were 18 percent less likely.

    A black man was twice as likely to be asked to submit to a consent search as his white peer.

  20. 20

    @16 Trying to pretend we don’t have racist cops in this country, I see. You can take your snark and shove it up your ass.

    When black civilians kill each other, that’s called “crime.” Everyone wants less crime. Got answers? In fact, homicide rates are dropping. In Chicago, there are programs to divert young people away from gangs. We need more support for efforts like that, and also fewer guns on our streets.

    Police killing of citizens is different altogether. Sometimes it’s justified, but when it’s not, trigger-happy cops should be held accountable, and that’s not happening. Police departments all across the country need to do a better job of screening applicants, training recruits, and supervising officers. We need to remove racist cops from our police forces.

    Every year, police kill about 1,000 Americans. The number of cops gunned down by citizens is well under 100 per year — last year it was 64, the year before it was 41. Of course, any is too many, but there’s hardly an epidemic of civilians killing cops; if anything, it’s the other way around. And because cops kill in our name, under the guise of authority we entrust to them, that’s a problem.

    Your comment seems to suggest that declining attendance at NFL games is a more important issue than needless loss of human lives. That’s beyond stupid. Get your priorities straight.

    Also, if you don’t want to attend NFL games because black athletes are protesting the police killing black people, that’s your privilege. But understand that nobody else gives a shit whether you want to go to NFL games or not.

  21. 21

    @17 Still running against Clinton? Everybody else knows the election is over. Maybe something darker is going on. Maybe you’re stalking her.

  25. 25

    declining attendance at NFL games

    Really how can anyone of modest income afford an NFL ticket or a new car these days?

    A pox on the NFL..

    And this guy says no one will really need to buy a car in the not too distant future. If you’re a dinosaur who insists on driving, I guess you can maintain an old dinosaur like a Cuban does – if you can afford gas – you’ll all die out eventually. You can be buried in your car. It’s a free country.

    Both the NFL and car ownership going the way of the horse buggy is fine with me..

  26. 26

    @20 That’s stupid and a complete non sequitur. No one has never tried to “pretend we don’t have racist cops in this country”. Of course, when you can’t answer you follow Marx: accuse your opponent of that which you are most guilty: a certain political ideology pretty regularly declares all cops racist, evil and enjoy killing. Nah, that’s not an ugly and untrue generalization, is it? Personally, if I were a police officer I would refuse to respond to calls in areas where I’m treated like shit. They don’t want cops, cops won’t respond. See how that works out.

    The Browns caved with their team crap when the police unions, EMT’s and firefighter unions said they would no longer participate with the team. Boy, those kneelers sure stood up quick! I guess they figured out the difference between overhead and profit and who is responsible for each.

    A bunch of social justice fools insulting half the country isn’t going to change crime and/or policing policies/outcomes one iota. And those arm-chair social justice fools not only know that they don’t care. It’s so much easier and cheaper to pretend to virtue signal than it is to live virtuously.

    It’s kind of a hoot the way you libs clutched your pearls when Tebow took a knee to pray… You propensity for offense is so … situational and tolerant. Ha!

    I might respect the sanctimonious virtue signaling if they put some individual visible action behind it: visit with inner city schools, teach kids to RESPECT, talk to them about how vulgarity limits them, how gangs, drugs will lead them to jail or death. But nope, it’s so much easier (and cheaper) take a knee while they earn their millions. Because that will solve everything … or at least get them some PR.

    Personally, I hope they take that Dem (Donna Edwards) advice and all take a knee tomorrow and the rest of the season; I hope the NFL decides November is Social Justice* month; I hope Hollywood keeps lecturing and hectoring; I hope Seattle keeps electing pedophile socialists; I hope ANTIFA keeps rioting, beating people, destroying the businesses of innocent owners and their own neighborhoods; I hope college students keep declaring new micro-aggression offenses (because you know ‘the fabric of your life” hurts your feelings) and I hope Hillary keep on her loud ‘pity poor me’ tour.

    *Can anyone actually describe “social justice”? Does it have a definition or is it a feeling? Who mete’s out the justice? Who is it’s arbiter? Is it fluid depending upon who defines it? Certainly seems to be.

  27. 27

    Kapernick’s mother responded to Trump with “Guess that makes me a proud bitch!” on Twitter.

    Funny that. Trump never singled out a particular knee-taker by name.

    Unemployed Colin isn’t the only knee-taker in the NFL I wonder why she assumed it was her unemployed loser of a disrespectful son … / Ha! I wonder if she knows what she actually admitted?

  28. 28

    @14

    You ex-fans were fucking morons for ever being fans in the first place. Your as much as a Dumbfuck bully as Max.

  29. 29

    Funny… people upset about disrespect of the national anthem but I guess there is nothing disrespectful to this Country by turning it into a fascist racist bigot state. What’s the big fucking difference?

    Notning disrespectful about killing someone because of color. That is completely American, but to kneel during some symbolic song…that’s a no no.

    Give me a break – snowflakes.

  34. 34

    @31 and yet here you are. Gee, what could that possibly prove about you? Think about it.

  35. 35

    Yeah, the Russians did it!

    Keep it up. It’s too obvious you’re paid by the troll.. It’s funny.

    and yet here you are.

    Wow Sherlock. Figured that out all by yourself? Got a football game and a moron troll spewing glory to Vlad Putin.

    It’s an entertainment bonanza!

  36. 36

    @11

    To be fair, it’s not just the Bible Thumpers this time. It’s also the Coast-to-Coast listeners who believe there’s an invisible planet in our solar system that is going to throw our whole gravity out of whack and kill us all.

    I’m pissed ’cause just like the last World ending I blew my retirement on hookers and blow ’cause who will need it so why not go out with a big bang so to speak.

  40. 40

    @26

    Speaking of non-sequitur, bring up Tebow. No one suggested Tebow be benched for kneeling in prayer but that’s beside the point.

    You LIED about your “debunked stats” so pretend that it didn’t happen.

    Speaking of non-sequitur, Marx. Because only a Marxist would think that stopping, frisking and arresting 12% of the population at about 50% of the total stops is fine.

    You LIED about your “debunked stats” so pretend that it didn’t happen.

    Speaking of non-sequitur, suggest you’d believe it if it came with some action. Know Your Rights camps, Million dollars donated by Kaepernick, Inner City Gardens (Michael Bennet),.

    You LIED about your “debunked stats” so pretend that it didn’t happen.

    Speaking of non-sequitur, ANTIFA!

    You LIED about your “debunked stats” so pretend that it didn’t happen.

    Sit your ass down rookie. You’re out of your league here.

  42. 42

    I have always stood, removed my hat and, when the performance allowed it, sang the anthem. I have taught my sons the same because I will not give up on my country. But the next event I’m at, I think I’ll kneel.

  44. 44

    In today’s German election, the potential coalitions range from the status quo(CDU/SDP) to coalitions never tried before, the Jamaica, Kenya, and traffic light coalitions. At the state level, the right wing Alternative for Deutschland party has forced the last three to be tried. The Traffic Light coalition has the SPD (Red), Free Democrats (Yellow), and the Greens, had never been tried before, because usually the Yellow and Green are on opposite extremes. The results in the state election in Rhineland-Palentate, led to it actually happening.
    http://www.dw.com/en/german-el.....a-38756817

  45. 45

    @12 but means test it. If you can stay on your parents medical insurance until 26 then, if the parents have the means to pay back the loan or portion of the loan, they should have to contribute

    Fuck the rich – they are the only group that aren’t persecuted.

  46. 46

    @16. Man you are a fucking idiot like Max.

    “Police are targeted more…”. Really? And if so, It’s their job and unfortunately they work in a profession that is an eviornment of being the target. What does that have anything to do with a black individual being shot and killed by cop when you know if the person had. Even white they would haven’t been shot.

    Bad white dude gets dealt with with kit gloves and black guy shot for staring too meanly. It’s not like only black peoples shoot cops.

    If you don’t know how to be a good cop the. You don’t deserve the job.

    Construction can be a deadly job, 2 men just died in NYC last Thursday in separate accidents.

    Some jobs aren’t sugar and tea all the time.

  47. 47

    “…Black on black crime….”

    What about straight on gay crime?

    You are so compassionate – go fuck yourself.

    Gay people couldn’t serve in military. Not an insult.

    Gay people couldnt legally Mary. Not an insult.

    Transgender now can’t fight for thier country. Not an insult.

    Again, gggoooooooooooooooo fuck yourself.

  48. 48

    @26 you shouldn’t be a cop if you are a pussy. Get a new job. And if you are a cop that can’t feel a bit safe with backup and other fellow cops by your side then maybe management needs to do a better job protecting thier own.

    Or get a new fucking job. That job is not for you.

    In addition stop being pro proliferation of guns. And doing more for lowering crime through education.

  49. 49

    RESPECT. Yeah you disrespect and you breed disrespect. Now it’s coming back to bite you in the ass.

    One day you’ll probably whining about global warming after disrespecting it and science.

  50. 50

    Why do the blacks have to tell each other and teach about respect. I agree to some extent or the idea of any enbettermeant, but you don’t think whites need to do the same. Ohh your race (I am not black myself) is sooooo much better. Bravo.

    The whites obviously don’t tell the fucking hillbilly white boys. Are you white people special and get to disrespect. You Angel you.

    Again stop disrespecting gay people you fucking asshole and bully.

  51. 51

    Only democrats electing pedophiles…..????….ohhhh my god…..your label should be Nazi racist asshole bigot.

  52. 52

    @27 why are you assuming that she was assuming?

    You are a fucking deviant mental case like Drumpf, I’m sure the tie to white supremacy binds you together.

  53. 53

    This is the point where the asshole respect above starts to tell me that gays suck and are inferior.

  55. 55

    14,
    Pity he couldn’t summon any of that absurd “righteous” outrage when they were beating up women and children and killing dogs.

  56. 56

    “It’s too obvious you’re paid by the troll.”

    The troll posts like he’s paid a ruble per word.

  57. 57

    40,
    Well done. I think that put him down, for the night at least.
    Imagine, this half-wit’s whole point is predicated on the NFL going out of business because a few thin-skinned Archie Bunkers dont want to be reminded that their plantation is sown with blood.

  58. 58

    If you’re wondering whether Republicans represent average Americans …

    “Fewer than three in 10 Americans — 29% — hold a favorable view of the Republican Party according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS. That is down 13 percentage points from March and is the lowest mark for the GOP since CNN began asking the question in 1992. … Overall approval of the party’s leadership is down to 20%, a new low in CNN polling back to 2008.”

    http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/24/.....index.html

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: Makes you wonder what’s wrong with the 29%.

  59. 59

    @26 “a certain political ideology pretty regularly declares all cops racist, evil and enjoy killing”

    You must be new here. Obviously, you haven’t read the countless comments which I began with, “The vast majority of police officers are good people who do a professional job … ”

    The only poster who’s stereotyping is you. Marx? Yeah, if you have no brains, don’t know anything, and can’t think of anything intelligent to say, then call ’em Marxists or communists or whatever …

    By the way, twerp, I went to Vietnam to help our government kill communists because it’s an evil totalitarian system that has murdered millions and enslaved countless hundreds of millions of others. What are your anti-communist credentials? Besides a big mouth?

    “Can anyone actually describe “social justice”?”

    For starters, being able to walk down the street without being harassed because of your skin color.

  60. 60

    @28 Makes you wonder if this is LittleMaxie using a new moniker. Or maybe his reincarnation. This troll is every bit as stupid as Max, or very close.

  61. 61

    @29 “I guess there is nothing disrespectful to this Country by turning it into a fascist racist bigot state.”

    This totally flies over the heads of sanctimonious hypocrites who get on a high horse about flags, anthems, etc., at least half of whom like the Confederate flag better than ours.

  63. 63

    @46 Whose means would you test? The parents? Or the student? Plenty of well-to-do people don’t share with their offspring. They feel it builds character if their kids have to struggle like they did. It also leaves them more to spend on their own toys.

  64. 64

    @49 and @50 It’s been my experience that whites are every bit as disrespectful as blacks. Sometimes worse. As for historical perspective, we don’t have a tradition in this country of blacks lynching whites. Murder by racist mobs was always a one-way street.

  66. 66


    (((Goldy))) @GoldyHA
    We should offer North Korea a swap: their nuclear program for Donald Trump. Everyone wins.
    42m

    This from the guy who tried to assure us that a swap of #CrookedHillary for Bernie

    Goldy @GoldyHA
    I’m a big lefty too, but Jesus Christ, Twitter friends, Hillary is the nominee! Push her on policy, but stop attacking her credibility.
    27 May

    was going to turn out OK as well.

  67. 67

    Railfan @ 65

    Who would you consider to be the biggest winner, relatively speaking?

    AfD?

    Do you think Merkel is strengthened, or weakened?

    Looks to me as if immigration will be weakened further, and that Trump will have some sympathetic voices in the Bundestag.

  68. 68

    @66 It did turn out okay. Hillary got almost 3 million votes more than your mouth breathing traitor. But for the electoral college and Russian hackers, she would be president. Instead, you’ve got Trump. I hope you’re enjoying him. He fucks everybody, and he’s going to fuck you, too.

  69. 69

    @ 25

    Really how can anyone of modest income afford an NFL ticket or a new car these days?

    We have purchased only one new vehicle since 1997. Way too many really nice used ones out there. If I had the mentality that it had to be new, I’d have the brokerage account of a loser like Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit.

  70. 70

    (((Goldy))) @GoldyHA
    Wow. @Kaepernick7 has managed to transform the national anthem into the most exciting play in football. Now that’s effective advocacy!
    2m

    And this is ineffective advocacy!

    Goldy @GoldyHA
    I’m a big lefty too, but Jesus Christ, Twitter friends, Hillary is the nominee! Push her on policy, but stop attacking her credibility.
    27 May

    It was little more than a year ago that #CrookedHillary joined #7 by taking a knee herself:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVDyciOQCak

  71. 71

    Looks like the Steelers will show their respect for free speech and democracy the same way that too many Democrat voters did in November:

    Deadspin‏Verified account
    @Deadspin
    The Steelers will skip the national anthem today: http://deadsp.in/NbkNend
    8:52 AM – 24 Sep 2017

    You don’t win by scoring own-goals, libbies.

  72. 72

    @ 68

    But for the electoral college and Russian hackers, she would be president.

    It’s Electoral College. You’re otherwise partly correct, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit. But for that niggling United States Constitution, #CrookedHillary might, indeed, be president.

    And if not for ball-spiking

    http://www.azcentral.com/story...../93143352/

    on the 10 yard line, she most certainly would.

  75. 75

    Ha, ha, ha! ‘Dissent will not be tolerated’ says the censor.

    How perfectly definitive.

  76. 76

    More on the Steelers and own-goals.

    While the rest of the team huddled in the locker room out of camera range, one guy stood and was filmed.

    A former Army ranger.

    SportsCenter ✔ @SportsCenter
    Former Army Ranger Alejandro Villanueva stood outside the tunnel alone during the national anthem. pic.twitter.com/6KOZzSJj6q
    10:32 AM – Sep 24, 2017

    Trump wasn’t supposed to win Pennsylvania.

  77. 77


    (((Goldy))) @GoldyHA
    The people of Puerto Rico will never be treated like Americans until they get the statehood they deserve and need.
    3h

    They owe $70B they’ll never be able to pay. Plus all the shit they need to pay for due to storm damage.

    Hell, right about now they’ll be happy to be treated like Illini and Californians.

  78. 78

    I spewed @ 77 too soon. Too much of Puerto Rico is already treating itself like Illinois and California.

    For years, Prepa enjoyed easy access to bond markets and borrowed regularly, accumulating enormous debt. Yet it failed to make important capital investments, such as transitioning to natural gas from oil to generate power, analysts say. Analysts say the money went to a bloated payroll, among other things.

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/puerto-ricos-power-woes-are-decades-in-the-making-1506176140?cx_testId=17&cx_testVariant=cx&cx_artPos=0&cx_tag=personal?cx_campaign=poptart&mod=cx_poptart#cxrecs_s

  79. 79

    @63 Parents. But I guess maybe the Students who can afford it , although I don’t thinks it’s fair to single out those that can afford it. So parents.

  80. 80

    Philly couldn’t deliver PA to #CrookedHillary.

    But they can do this:

    Philadelphia Eagles‏Verified account
    @Eagles
    61 yards. An #Eagles franchise record. What a moment for Jake Elliott! #FlyEaglesFly
    #NYGvsPHI: Eagles WIN
    NFL
    1:31 PM – 24 Sep 2017

    That’s just as good, isn’t it, Goldy?

  81. 81

    Think how your husband must feel.

    Valerie Plame Wilson‏Verified account @ValeriePlame 6h6 hours ago

    In the past, I have also carelessly retweeted articles from this same site, the Unz Review, without closely examining content and authors.

    Valerie Plame Wilson‏Verified account
    @ValeriePlame

    Now that I have, I am horrified and ashamed.
    1:05 PM – 24 Sep 2017

  82. 82

    This is what a real man looks like… Alejandro Villanueva, Pittsburgh Steeler and U.S. Army Ranger stands alone for the national anthem

    Earlier today, the entire Pittsburgh Steelers team showed their disrespect to the American flag, the American people, and those serving in the military by boycotting the national anthem before their game against the Chicago Bears. It was a sickening display of misplaced arrogance by multimillionaires who have forgotten that they owe everything they have — those marvelous mansions, those awesome cars, those millions in their bank accounts — to their country.

    Thankfully, however, there was one Steeler who didn’t submit to peer pressure but who stood tall for his anthem and flag.

    … Villaneuva played in college at West Point Military Academy before going on to become an Army Ranger. He served three tours in Afghanistan and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for Valor.

    He served three tours in Afghanistan and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for Valor.

    He was signed by the Philadelphia Eagles in 2014 before eventually joining the Steelers.

    An NFL.com article earlier this year said that Villanueva first caught Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin’s eye “because of the way he stood during the national anthem.”

    A REAL MAN: go ahead, diss him, hypocrites and pajama boys fly those true colors.

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    Tweet of the Day:
    James Woods ✔
    @RealJamesWoods

    #Liberals have supported “taking a knee” from Colin Kaepernick back to Monica Lewinsky.
    8:52 AM – Sep 24, 2017

    1,310 1,310 Replies
    6,712 6,712 Retweets
    17,670 [Likes]

    And while the libs were frothing and kneeling, Trump extended and expanded the travel ban.

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    67) Probably the AFD, they almost got elected 4 years ago, barely missing the 5% threshold. The centrist faction of the Greens also gained, and some were worried having them as leaders would alienate their left wing base. Then there is the liberal Free Democrats, the kingmaker before the Greens came along back from the dead.

    Once again, the curse of being Merkel’s junior partner struck. Probably why the Social Democrats are choosing not to re-up.

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    @ #82

    Quit trying to rewrite the narrative. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the national anthem nor the flag. It has everything to do with protesting the fact that for far too long, Police Officers have had almost complete immunity for their ability to beat people half to death (or all the way), torture people with tasers and capsicum and murder people on a whim, for whatever reason their Union can think of after the fact. They always investigate themselves, and nearly always find some rationale for why it was justified. Shoot a six-year-old 5 times in the head? Perfectly within policy, his dad rolled through a stop sign. Use a military rifle to shoot a deaf man in the back from 100 feet away? That was to save an officers life, the suspect was flapping his hands around in the air and making weird noises at the Officer before he tried to run away. Beat a young schizophrenic to death? He was acting strangely and asking people for money on the street and resisted being arrested.

    Police Officers see themselves as the natural replacement for all the saber-toothed tigers and cave bears that humans wiped off the face of the Earth 15,000 years ago. People are attracted to working in Law Enforcement specifically because it gives them a near total license to hurt people and kill people at will, things that they would already be doing without that license. A Cop empties his service weapon, shooting his wife dead in her car in front of about 50 witnesses including a dozen fellow officers, and he gets pats on the back and sympathetic noises from them as they very gently put the handcuffs on him, and then he only gets charged with the lowest level felony. Meanwhile, a black 16 year old can be summarily executed for jaywalking and nobody is supposed to bat an eye.

    There is nothing under the sun that gets a Police Officer held to any standard of Law until the situation becomes public knowledge. Not burglary, not armed robbery, not child rape, not drunk driving, not cold-blooded first degree murder. That’s why they are allowed to beat the crap out of bystanders when they see a cell phone being pointed in their direction. Thats why every department in the Nation has no issue spending money paying cops overtime to sit in front of peoples houses to watch their every move when a complaint is filed against the department by said individual. The Police have the legal authority to just make up any “Law” they want to on the spot and make arrests based on that, court rulings and actual written Laws notwithstanding.

    You had better instantly obey that Officer, Citizen, the price for disobedience is whatever that Officer decides is an appropriate action to take in response. They do have the right and duty to shoot you dead for having a smart mouth.

    That is what the protests are about. Not your stupid flag, not your old German tavern beer drinking song rewritten to be a Patriotic anthem to a War that barely anyone remembers the reasons for happening.

    Neither of which are even mentioned in the Constitution as venerated objects under the Law.

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    The poem was written when slavery was the law of the land and everyone considered it to be a public right.

    O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
    What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming,
    Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
    O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
    And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
    Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
    O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
    O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

    On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
    Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
    What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
    As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
    Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
    In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
    ‘Tis the star-spangled banner, O long may it wave
    O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

    And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
    That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion,
    A home and a country, should leave us no more?
    Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps’ pollution.
    No refuge could save the hireling and slave
    From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
    And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave,
    O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

    O thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
    Between their loved homes and the war’s desolation.
    Blest with vict’ry and peace, may the Heav’n rescued land
    Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!
    Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
    And this be our motto: ‘In God is our trust.’
    And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
    O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

    In 1814 United States, one of the major marks of being a true gentleman was having the wealth to own slaves. If one did not, it was a sign of poverty and a reason for that gentleman to sneer at and denigrate such people. If you weren’t a gentleman, you were just a peon and not worth the time or effort to educate or associate with in public. Bear in mind that by the time of the War of 1812, England and France had outlawed slavery while the United States was codifying and strengthening the institution in Federal Law.

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