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Blowing up stuff in the name of science.

VOX: How this military explosive is poisoning American soil

Dotard Трамп and That Criminal Organization Running Out of the White House:

Ed Helms & Jack Black wrote a song to fix politics

How to ratify a 200 year old Constitutional amendment

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Comments

  2. 2

    The 27th Amendment just delays pay raises. The appointment amendment sounds good, but as proposed would be unworkable today. The 435 seats is something that was passed by Congress, it’s not set in the Constitution.

  4. 4

    So here’s This Guy, back from Iraq, hiding out in a third-rate Law school where he presumably cannot get on the school’s health care program because the Republicans wouldn’t expand Medicaid, and having voted for a Governor who had to flee office amid a torrid phone sex scandal. He’s sitting in the dark (probably in his mom’s houses basement) at his computer watching YouTube and he’s apparently thinking to himself, “I really want to vote for a religious lunatic and alleged pedophile, but I’m afraid everybody will know.”

    So he puts his concerns on Twitter.

    Sigh.

  5. 5

    Addendum to #4:

    This Guy.

    Stupidity as egregious as this should be fatal, or at least render people sterile. Fucking Community College indeed. I doubt this bozo could be trusted to dig a fucking latrine. Probably why they put him in the MPs.

    Hey, but at least he’s White, so he has that going for him I suppose.

  6. 6

    @5.
    “When I came back from Iraq I had been in an environment where leaders made decisions based on what was best for the people under them. They were able to put political differences aside,” Ransom said. “I support the governor in everything he’s done up to this point, but this is a time where he needs to stand up and make a decision that will benefit the people under him instead of playing political football with our insurance policies.”

    Summary: “I support the republicans when they make policies that hurt those undeserving Others, but this policy hurts me. This is unfair! ” Typical republican. Starts to care when it effects them personally.

  7. 7

    @ #6:

    I’ll bet three nickels that the man would rather see a more “military” form of Government and that’s why he’ll vote for Fat Donny come next election.

  8. 8

    This is amusing.
    “But for some erstwhile Republican voters, the experience of spending the Christmas season frantically trying to navigate state and local bureaucracies — because GOP lawmakers pared back their tax deductions to give giant breaks to the superrich, while leaving them virtually no time to adjust — will surely loom larger.
    These people aren’t used to feeling powerless. And that’s very dangerous for those in power.”
    http://nymag.com/daily/intelli.....fused.html
    Honestly, what did they expect? It’s not like they were not warned, repeatedly.

  9. 9

    @ #8:

    These are the same people who buy a vanilla ice cream cone, take several licks off of it, then try to return it because they were really thinking they wanted strawberry, then get violently irate when the clerk laughs in their face and tells them to go fuck themselves.

  11. 11

    A prank call resulted in Wichita, Kansas police killing a man at his home. While the prankster is primarily responsible for the shooting, police also are to blame, for shooting the man merely because “he moved his hands to his waistline.”

    http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/30/.....index.html

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: A waistline is not a weapon, and this is not a good enough reason to extinguish a human life, much less an innocent life. Washington, like other states, needs to tighten the criteria by which police may kill, and provide consequences for itchy-trigger-finger cops who violate the law, their training, and departmental policies. This week an initiative was submitted to the secretary of state to do just that. Next year, it will be up to us to vote for it. The epidemic of unjustified police violence must stop. When law-abiding citizens are more afraid of police than criminals, you’ve got a problem.

  12. 12

    I hope Boob has the decency to refrain from posting a snarky celebratory comment about the death of Eric Garner’s daughter. He seems to dislike activists unless they’re defending Confederate monuments or repressive regimes.

  13. 13

    @4 @5 Unfortunately, this law student likely will be a lawyer someday. As I’ve said before, I used to believe you had to be smart to become a lawyer, but after 40-plus years in the legal profession, I know better. Yes, there are some very smart (and very good) lawyers. But I’ve met too many stupid ones to believe anymore that’s an admission criterion.

  14. 14

    @8 Personally, I think people who vote Republican should live under the policies they voted for so they know what it’s like.

  18. 18

    @ 3

    Yo. ‘froggy.

    That was from March. In May it was determined to be a nothingburger.

    David A. Clarke, Jr.
    ✔
    @SheriffClarke
    Lib media did a drive-by hit job on me today with a FAKE NEWS STORY that I am under investigation by the FBI. It’s a LIE. Last MAY the US Atty’s office found NO EVIDENCE of wrongdoing for doing police work. Lying Lib media took a story from LAST MAY & reports this today as new.

    9:29 PM – Dec 29, 2017

    If you go to the tweet itself, it’s got the FBI’s letter to Clarke embedded.

    There’s no current story here.

    Oh, and on January 1, Trump will still be your president, ‘froggy.

  19. 19

    @ 16

    …because she’s black.

    When all you’ve got is a hammer, Steve, everything looks like a nail, eh?

    Had you a little more objectively read what I wrote, you might have inferred that Garner’s daughter’s death from heart disease might have been related in some familial way to pudgy papa Garner’s pre-existing conditions,:

    Garner’s acute and chronic bronchial asthma, obesity and hypertensive cardiovascular disease were contributing factors, the medical examiner determined.

    https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Eric-Garner-Chokehold-Police-Custody-Cause-of-Death-Staten-Island-Medical-Examiner-269396151.html

    Nowhere did I mention race. Nowhere did I infer race.

    Hammer away, Steve. It’s all you’ve got.

  20. 20

    FiveThirtyEight’s got a nice piece on WA marijuana economics. Hey, look at that: Big fish eat little fish, and the little guys are getting muscled out of the picture.

    Legal Weed Isn’t The Boon Small Businesses Thought It Would Be

    https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/legal-weed-isnt-the-boon-small-businesses-thought-it-would-be/

    But on the bright side, Carl’s got some really good product from which to choose.

    I’ll probably buy into Scott’s Miracle-Gro on the dip.

  21. 21

    @ 5

    Fucking Community College indeed. I doubt this bozo could be trusted to dig a fucking latrine.

    Ya know ‘froggy, I really expected some empathy from you here. You of all people.

    ’cause I’m guessing that the average prospective employer, upon review of your resume, probably thinks the same of your retraining and competence.

    Haven’t you admitted as much?

  22. 22

    “Nowhere did I mention race. Nowhere did I infer race.”

    So says the racist whose stock in trade before turning to treason was celebrating the deaths of blacks, including the needless killing of Eric Garner. And now he revels in the death of Garner’s daughter.

    Treason and racism. It’s all you’ve got.

  23. 23

    Some things I didn’t know about the Garner settlement:

    1. Erica received only $163,000 of a $5.9M settlement.

    https://nypost.com/2017/08/02/city-approves-4m-payment-to-eric-garners-family/

    2. Apparently things didn’t go so well when the EMTs arrived.

    Emergency workers arrive after officers call 911, check his pulse and make sure he’s breathing before placing him on the stretcher.

    “Sir, it’s EMS. We’re here to help you. We’re getting the stretcher, all right?” one worker says to Garner when they arrive at 3:36 p.m.

    He does not answer.

    Later, when a bystander asks why they aren’t trying to resuscitate him, an officer says it’s because Garner is breathing. Hospital records, also filed in the documents, say Garner went into cardiac arrest on the stretcher. At the emergency room, doctors again performed CPR. By 4:15, he had no pulse, and he was declared dead at 4:34 p.m.

    “The EMTS did not conduct the appropriate examination” of Garner and “failed to provide him with the necessary life-saving procedures,” according to the court documents.

    http://www.crainsnewyork.com/a.....ric-garner

    In addition to the $5.9M from the City, the Garner family received $1M from the Richmond University Medical Center, which dispatched the EMTs.

    3. When you watch the video, the police officer uses the chokehold restraint only in the takedown, and once Garner’s horizontal, he immediately stops. It’s well before the “I can’t breathe.” statements are made.

    4. No damage to the trachea or the hyoid apparatus found at autopsy.

  24. 24

    @18

    The more you post, the more I come to appreciate why people around here call you “Doctor Dumbfuck.” Some facts:

    1) We knew about the search warrant back in May. The actual contents of the search warrant and supporting affidavits weren’t made public until yesterday.

    2) There is still a pending civil lawsuit against Clarke.

    3) Information in the supporting affidavits will make it very difficult for Clarke to win that lawsuit.

    4) The letter from the US Attorney (not the FBI–the FBI doesn’t make prosecutorial decisions) didn’t actually exonerate Clarke.

  25. 25

    How to succeed at being a dumbfuck:

    “The Republican Party can’t live on the dollars of libertarian billionaires and the votes of downwardly mobile white reactionaries alone. Without the support of culturally moderate, but fiscally self-interested suburban homeowners, the GOP’s congressional majorities would cease to exist. Highly educated, highly affluent blue-state suburbs put the Speaker’s gavel in Paul Ryan’s hand — and he then used it to pare back one of their favorite tax deductions.”

    http://nymag.com/daily/intelli.....fused.html

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: Ryan isn’t a stupid man, or a political naif. He merely acts like one, because like other Republicans, he’s chained to the ideology of a dead novelist who created fantasy worlds in her fiction. This ideological slavery is what deprives Republicans like Ryan of any ability to think critically or solve real-world problems. It’s a lot like asylum inmates running the country. You get what you vote for.

    Note: Washington does not allow you to prepay your 2018 property taxes in 2017, and King County will not accept payments from homeowners who attempt to do so.

  26. 26

    @ 24

    Re 1: Doesn’t change the fact that it was a dead issue to the FBI in May. That much was known and yet ‘froggy @ 3 posted as if it was still an active FBI investigation.

    Re 2,3,4: My response to ‘froggy @ 3 pertained to his comment that Clarke is, not was, in “hot water” with the FBI. Whether or not there is any merit to a civil suit is irrelevant to the FBI’s conclusion.

    By your rationale in #4, I could state that #CrookedHillary wasn’t actually exonerated by Comey, couldn’t I?

    Step it up or Step Off, Don Joe.

  27. 27

    @18 Wherein Doctor Dumbfuck celebrates a bully getting off scot-free. Note, however, the FBI letter isn’t an exoneration:

    “Our decision is not meant to affirm the wisdom or propriety of what occurred. It only reflects our belief that it would be difficult or impossible to prove a violation of the only federal statute available to us … beyond a reasonable doubt.”

    http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-.....gation-for

    Of course, right after that letter was issued, Clarke’s mouthpiece denied there even was a federal investigation into his abuse of a fellow passenger’s civil rights.

    https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/investigations/daniel-bice/2017/05/25/bice-sheriff-clarke-directed-staff-hassle-plane-passenger-after-brief-exchange/342245001/

    And then, of course, there’s the civil lawsuit that undoubtedly will result in a settlement which Milwaukee taxpayers will end up paying for.

    https://www.scribd.com/document/338252333/Daniel-Black-v-David-Clark

    And then there are the further facts that (a) the investigations of Clarke’s other abuses of authority aren’t over, (b) Clarke is no longer sheriff, and (c) Clarke was denied a job in the Trump administration. His reputation in tatters, Clarke has been reduced to working for a dark-money PAC that supports pussygrabbers in high public offices.

  29. 29

    @23 He’s dead at the hands of the police. His “crime” was selling cigarettes without a license. And you expect us to be okay with your being okay with this?

    P.S., Most people will interpret a $5.9 million settlement as an admission of fault.

  30. 30

    Big fish eat little fish, and the little guys are getting muscled out of the picture.

    i.e. weak beer.. Budweisers and Millers emerging from the pot world.

    Yawwn.. Haven’t touched the stuff in over 20 years and I don’t expect to sample the cornucopia any time soon. I keep my alcohol consumption to a minimum as well. I value a clear head.

    After so many years of grossly self-interested police repression of cannabis, I can celebrate a new industry and the jobs that come with it.

    And its not just for getting high.. Many old folks are using various preparations for pain management and there’s therapies for maladies of the eye and controlling nausea.

    On the whole, a very positive thing.

  32. 32

    People like Trump, Moore, Clarke, and Bundy can count on Boob to stick with them to the end. It must be very comforting to know that.

  33. 33

    @30 Senator Grassley was right about one thing: Some people would rather spend their money on booze, pot, and lottery tickets than 401(k)s. He knows his constituents well.

    As for me, I’ll smoke a joint if someone gives me one, but I won’t waste my stock market money on the stuff.

  34. 34

    @26

    Still more Doctor Dumbfuckery.

    You said it was old news. It is, in fact, not old news. The new information being the fact that a Milwaukee County agency’s investigation determined the Clarke had, in fact, overstepped the bounds his authority. That’s not a “nothing burger.” It would, for example, be reasonable grounds for the Senate to refuse to confirm him for any appointment in the Executive branch.

    As for this:

    By your rationale in #4, I could state that #CrookedHillary wasn’t actually exonerated by Comey, couldn’t I?

    No, you couldn’t. According to Director Comey’s testimony before Congress, career prosecutors at the DoJ unanimously agreed that there was no reasonable legal basis to support a criminal prosecution. That’s very different from a US Attorney saying that they don’t think they can get a conviction based on the available evidence.

    Clearly, these subtle distinctions elude you, hence the name you’ve been given.

  35. 35

    I hate to leave Doctor Dumbfuck unsupervised, but you’ll be Puddy-free for several more hours, and yesterday was the last trading day of the year, so I need to go count my 2017 unearned income. There’s a lot of it. Sure glad I don’t have to work for a living. That sucks.

  36. 36

    @34 Only a dumbfuck thinks misusing law enforcement authority to bully a stranger on a plane is okay as long as you’re not prosecuted for it. He probably cheered when babies died in Clarke’s jail, too.

  37. 37

    @29 if ever in NYC and you are a smoker you can get cheaper cigarettes on 14th Street at either the corner of 6th Avenue or 7th Avenue, two head shops (that I know of) that are run by Middle Easterners, that sell loose cigarettes as well as smuggled duty free packs from Virginia. Storefront Shops. Police don’t bother with them – must be paying off someone.

    Rest in Peace Eric Garner.

  38. 38

    2017 wasn’t a bad year on the investment front:

    1. S&P 500 was up 21.72% (includes 2.3% dividend yield).

    2. DJIA was up 27.83% (includes 2.75% dividend yield).

    3. NASDAQ was up 30.34% (includes 2.1% dividend yield).

    4. My portfolio was up 23.82%. Not bad.

    In 2018, it’s probably a good idea to shift to value stocks/funds in a defensive move. The Black Swan Event is overdue, and it’s a good idea to be a little protective of the stellar gains from 2017.

  39. 39

    @ 30

    Yawwn.. Haven’t touched the stuff in over 20 years and I don’t expect to sample the cornucopia any time soon. I keep my alcohol consumption to a minimum as well. I value a clear head.

    Keep those ovaries out of the pickle jar. Never know when you’ll want another future chronically unemployed adult living in your basement, girlfriend.

  40. 40

    Anyone who depends on the hatesway pun-idjit, the washington always wrongist freak shriekin’ and the daily white nationalist whiner for their news and analysis has well earned the moniker..

    dumbfuck.

  41. 41

    Keep those ovaries out of the pickle jar.

    Spoken like a dishonorary member of the #ivebeenmetoodtoo club.

    Is there any good reading on the wa state court dockets I wonder?

  42. 42

    Anyone watching Iran this weekend? Internet being cut off so protesters can’t communicate with each other.

    Not a whole lot on CNN right now.

    So I guess it must not be happening.

  43. 43

    Speaking of protests in countries with abysmal human rights records @ 42, a week ago today this item hit the news:

    Tiananmen Square protest death toll ‘was 10,000’

    The Chinese army crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests killed at least 10,000 people, according to newly-released UK documents.

    The figure was given in a secret diplomatic cable from then British ambassador to China, Alan Donald.

    The original source was a friend of a member of China’s State Council, the envoy says.

    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-42465516

    This time, The Whole World isn’t Watching.

    Remember, Obama gave the Iranians cover. For years.


    The secret backstory of how Obama let Hezbollah off the hook

    https://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/obama-hezbollah-drug-trafficking-investigation/

  44. 44

    I’ll ask the HA moderators – OK, the one who edits me – to give me a little leeway here.

    This is NPR’s The Week In Review segment on their afternoon All Things Considered show, yesterday. Ari Shapiro, interviewer

    SHAPIRO: In our last minute, what do you each think was one overlooked political story of the year – Matt?

    YGLESIAS: I think the sort of success of the American military campaign against ISIS has gotten remarkably little attention if you think about how alarmed people were a few years ago and how much it’s really faded.

    SHAPIRO: And Rachael?

    LARIMORE: I’d like to go back to – there were – there have been a couple stories that came out in the past year that showed how the Obama administration kind of over – sugarcoated some things with Iran and kind of maybe knocked – there was the Politico story about…

    SHAPIRO: About Hezbollah, yeah.

    LARIMORE: About shutting down a – the Hezbollah investigation that I think would have put the Iran deal in a new light.

    https://www.npr.org/2017/12/29/574693565/a-look-at-the-first-year-of-trumps-presidency

    In the 30 seconds prior to the above exchange, there were some additional complimentary words about Trump’s first year from an unlikely source.

    In a few years we’ll be looking at Obama’s presidency differently than we do now. It’s why State and DOJ are fighting so hard to prevent document release – they might be Trump’s departments now, but they’re populated by Obama’s people.

    Eventually we’ll see far more than the Iran deal in a new light.

    Happy New Year, y’all.

  45. 45

    Godwin, I thought you were a Ayn Rand capitalist? “Big fish eat little fish, and the little guys are getting muscled out of the picture.” Unless society makes and enforces regulations that protects small business, this is what happens. Why are acting like what you called a big government socialist?

  46. 46

    45

    Nothing wrong with being an Ayn Rand capitalist!

    Capitalism has done more to lift people out of poverty than anything else.

  47. 47

    @39 Roger Rabbit gets under your skin and your attempt of a slur is calling him a woman or maybe that was a homophobic attempt. Is that attitude typical of all republicans? Is that an example of the compassion you were complaining you were not getting?

  48. 48

    @45 The only thing wrong with Ayn Rand is she was dead wrong about nearly everything. Let’s start with the “Top 10 Reasons Why Ayn Rand Was Wrong”:

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/top-10-reasons-ayn-rand-was-dead-wrong/

    And from there go to what’s missing from her philosophy. Using an analogy, a philosopher argues that entrepreneurship may be like watering a plant, but water alone is not enough to make a plant thrive, you also need soil and sunlight:

    http://crosscut.com/2012/08/ay.....professor/

    Her philosophy is morally bankrupt and sucks as a worldview because there’s no place in it for altruism or compassion:

    http://evonomics.com/ayn-rand-was-wrong-about/

    Her worldview is basically juvenile and immature in nature: “Most people read Rand when they are young and are deeply moved by her, only to outgrow her by mid-life. …: Her ideology of self-actualization speaks much more to the concerns of the young than the mature—again, because she ignores the ‘other-interested’ side of human nature.”

    http://reason.com/archives/200.....h-ayn-rand

    I could go on, by why bother trying to educate people who lack critical thinking skills, or reject the notion of critical thinking altogether? That’s who Randians are – people who never grew up, and can’t cope in a grownup world.

  49. 49

    @43. If “The secret backstory of how Obama let Hezbollah off the hook” really bothers you, then I’m glad to have your support getting to the bottom between the relationship between trump and Russians.

  50. 50

    @ 45

    Unless society makes and enforces regulations that protects small business, this is what happens.

    You’re kidding, right?

    Read the piece – it’s pretty interesting.

    It was the effect of the legislation – or at least the way it’s been carried out – to decrease the cost of product, so that the taxes on it wouldn’t be so noticeable.

    As far as government is concerned, Mission Accomplished. You can get a marijuana product all over the place, the taxes are substantial, and the price per gram is about a fourth of what it was when the law was passed.

    It’s collateral damage that the little guy was hurt, certainly, but it wasn’t society that caused it. It was government.

    As for me, I don’t give a shit – not in this case. If people want to waste their disposable income on weed, I’m no more interested in telling them they can’t than I am in telling them they can’t drink sugary soda or smoke Marlboros. I’m just glad that there’s no evidence that I’m aware of that people are getting killed due to others who choose to toke and drive. That was my big fear. Happy to admit it apparently was unfounded, at least so far.

    Now, about that 20% spirits tax…

    ‘splain me why Jefferson’s Reserve should be taxed more heavily than Jim Beam.

  51. 51

    @38 Looking at the events of this year, and market P/Es and those of many individual stocks, I think you should assume that a significant portion of future growth and earnings were pulled forward into 2017, which suggests 2018 should be a much flatter year for stocks, although if the fruits of corporate tax cuts flow into buybacks and dividend increases, instead of capital investment and wage raises, that should help sustain current valuations. A “Black Swan” market event seems improbable, given that stocks ignored geopolitical headlines all this year. The only advice I have for momentum chasers is that energy appears to offer the best value plays and crude pricing should continue to firm up throughout 2018 due to the impact of several years of weak capital spending on the supply side, along with a continued willingness of OPEC to maintain modest production cuts. So I would be buying, or at least holding, oil-related stocks instead of selling them right now; and there should be some further incremental recovery in 2018 for those already invested in that sector. Apple and Boeing won’t replicate their 2017 performances in 2018, but will do all right, and are not “sells” at this time, except I would consider taking profit on some Boeing shares in portfolios where that issue has become overweighted. Continued monetary policy normalization by the Fed shouldn’t be much of an issue next year, but the potential appearance of inflation could confuse investors who’ve become accustomed to operating in an inherently deflationary environment. Rising bond yields could put upward pressure on stock yields and corresponding downward pressure on stock prices, although I expect 2018 outcomes to be net-positive for stock investors. Overall, I believe holding high-quality dividend-growth stocks and compounding gains by reinvesting the dividends, and maintaining well-balanced portfolio and sector diversification (except I don’t like utilities, REITs, or MLPs at all), is a choice strategy for the next 12 months.

  53. 53

    @42 Who cares about food riots in Tehran? This is CNN’s headline story right now. Read it and weep:

    http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/30/.....index.html

    However, if you give a shit about what’s going on abroad, then try the websites of international news services. BBC, Reuters, and Al Jazeera are all leading with stories on Iran’s deadly riots:

    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-42524610

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-rallies/protests-hit-tehran-two-demonstrators-reported-killed-in-iran-town-idUSKBN1EO04M

    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/12/trump-warns-iran-world-watching-rare-protests-171230073658110.html

    You can find the information you’re looking for, Doc, if you pull your head out of Alex Jones long enough. Even Fox and Breitbart are frontpaging the Iran story, although I wouldn’t call those outlets information sources.

  54. 54

    @44 “I’ll ask the HA moderators – OK, the one who edits me – to give me a little leeway here.”

    This is a joke, right? You’re a joke. Why would anyone want to edit you? Please, no, let the clown put on his show! You’re most entertaining in your unexpurgated version.

  55. 55

    @50 “If people want to waste their disposable income on weed, I’m no more interested in telling them they can’t than I am in telling them they can’t drink sugary soda or smoke Marlboros.”

    The Randians will agree with you – until they get run over by a driver impaired by drugs or alcohol, and need someone to pay their emergency room bills, because they refused to buy insurance for the same reason they refuse to wear seatbelts. Same deal with smoking and obesity – it’s all about personal freedom until they have medical bills they can’t pay. That’s when transfer payments and transference in general, aka socialism, starts looking a lot better to them.

  56. 56

    @ 54

    Edited, as in the guy who sometimes snips me – partial deletion – when I paste three paragraphs of something while leaving your six-paragraph pastes untouched.

    You’re a real brave guy when it’s 20-on-1, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit.

  57. 57

    @52 Nobody’s making you do anything. Do whatever the fuck you want with your money. You can buy horse feed with it, for all I care. Btw, how much did you invest with Bernie Madoff? Just curious, that’s all.

  58. 58

    Eventually we’ll see…

    You are a Trumpanzee Roypublican now. Eventually you’ll see whatever the fuck it is your Orange Shitgibbon-in-Chief commands you to see:
    -Largest ever innag crowd.
    -6 million illegal votes.
    -Crazed Mooslims beating crippled kids.
    -Absolutely no Russian meetings.
    -Millions of new coal jobs.
    -The biggest tax cut in history.
    -Faked “short form” birth certificates.
    -Satanic cannibal pedo rings in Pizza parlors.
    -Magical blood splatters on Nazi windshields.
    -BLM assassin squads.
    -Flying pink elephants.
    -The most popular President in history.

    With all that baggage freighted behind you do you really think any of us are ever going to listen to what a Roypublican has to say about “what we’ll see”?

  59. 59

    @56 I once posted on a blog that had 10,000 Republicans and one Democrat. I used “The Democrat” as my screen name to make sure nobody had any trouble identifying which poster was the Democrat. That particular blog decided to ban political commenting altogether when the death threats against me got out of control. I guess they didn’t want to be held liable if someone hunted me down and shot me, as some of those Republicans were threatening to do.

    That’s my resume. What brave thing have YOU done online, besides volunteering to be a punching bag on HA? Which isn’t all that hard, because nobody here is threatening to kill you or do anything else to you beyond some creative name-calling.

    If you ever meet Goldy in person, ask him how it feels to get reported to the police as a child molester and have a load of manure dumped in his driveway. I would posit he’s at least as brave as you, and I won’t dispute that he’s braver than me. I didn’t take on Tim Eyman by promoting an initiative to have Eyman declared a “horse’s ass” in state law, and I never went on live radio to argue with Grover Norquist in person, either. What have you done for your country and local community besides pass gas on HA?

  61. 61

    Wait until a real crisis happens. Then the cabinet, led by Tillerson, will fire him to save the country. Or at least tell him to go upstairs and play with his blocks while they deal with the problem.

  62. 62

    then I’m glad to have your support getting to the bottom between the relationship between trump and Russians.

    And as we know this past week from a DUMMOCRETIN on the committee there’s still no smoke or fire YET!

    Butt don’t let that stop you from hyperventilating!

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

    Till Next Time!

  63. 63

    It appears for the interim, Amtrak Cascades will be going back to the old schedule, as there is no margin for error with equipment availability right now. One train back at the TALGO facility in Milwaukee, and the other one a total loss.

    Also, next month, Florida’s Brightline begins initial service between Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach, and then Miami within three months, and eventually phase 2 to Orlando. I hope this one succeeds, especially since it is a private venture.

    http://www.sun-sentinel.com/ne.....story.html

  64. 64

    Isn’t lying to the FBI a criminal offense? Ohhhhhhhhhhh, yeah only when a Republican does it! https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/weekly-updates/weekly-update-new-clinton-emails-weiner-laptop/

    PuddyCommentary: So now we know at least four classified documents were on the Weiner machine. They were labeled classified from creation. Don’t you all remember the HA DUMMOCRETINS here dancing on the pinhead spewing BULLSHITTIUM from #CrookedHillary campaign staph when the #CrookedHillary team insisted that anything not marked classified wasn’t really classified? Depends on the definition of IS is! YES you do. If forgotten just ask the clueless crazed databaze deala! It’s all there is the sucky blog no one reads. Why not HA DUMMOCETINS? Great place to “refresh memories” HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

    Now we see they weren’t just on the secret “unknown” bathroom server… they showed up on Carlos Danger’s private laptop, completely outside of the reach of the US government FOIA requests! Wasn’t that a cozy arrangement the #CrookedHillary team created?

    Isn’t that called gross negligence with CLASSIFIED materials HA DUMMOCRETINS? Well, now we know Peter Strzok, #CrookedHillary FBI plant #3, was “hard at work” changing that specific wording from gross negligence to extreme carelessness. And that’s what the FBI Director James Comey said July 2016. So Huma Abedin was extremely careless! HAHAHAHAHAHA! Such BULLSHITTIUM we now know!

    Butt we were told otherwise by Abedin and Mills per their FBI testimony! Try to remember FACTS HA DUMMOCRETINS! If PuddyMemory is accurate (which it usually is), both Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills were called in by the FBI (along with their lawyers and no notes were taken) and they told them that they didn’t even know about the existence of the “unknown” bathroom secret server. Puddy posted that BULLSHITTIUM. Ask the clueless crazed databaze deala. That FACT was delivered to the crazed databaze in 2016. Well we know the senile idiot wabbit has memory issues!

    So from this Judicial Watch post we NOW have the evidential knowledge from 2010 where Huma Abedin was forwarding classified documents from that “unknown” secret bathroom server to an account called “Anthony Campaign”. This is the same email account on her husband’s (Carlos Danger) laptop along with the DUMMOCRETIN porn the FBI found. So doesn’t that mean that Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills lied to the FBI during their “so called” probe of the case?

    YES Puddy it does!

    It seems to Puddy that Puddy has been reading about a lot dopey HA DUMMOCRETIN lying to the FBI commentary from the standard DOPES of HA DUMMOCRETINS! The Oregon moron hillbilly has been leading the charge because the senile idiot wabbit is no longer useful. Don Joe (Whom Puddy thinks is the alter ego of Friday Night Comix Perfessa) has been mixing it up trying to resurrect the mind of the senile idiot wabbit and has been piling on this Russian collusion crapola.

    We lately read about how Republican people who lie to the FBI are in a lot of trouble and could face jail time, even if the subject of the conversation they lied about wasn’t illegal. In this Judicial Watch instance above we’re talking about a clearly illegal act butt again, alas, they are DUMMOCRETINS. So specifically sending obviously marked classified State Department documents to a private laptop controlled by someone without a security clearance and then deflecting the conversation about it isn’t really lying when you lie to #CrookedHillary FBI plants. Just extreme carelessness!

    Soooooooooooooooooo, if lying to the FBI is REALLY such a big deal that the libtard press falls all over themselves about it, aren’t the FBI being a bit selective in prosecution if some DUMMOCRETIN body isn’t indicted over this Robert Mueller? Hmmm…?

    Till Next Time!

  66. 66

    “Multiple guilty pleas are not evidence of criminal wrong doing!”

    -some gullible Roypublican meat puppet… everywhere… always.

  67. 67

    Now it seems that libtard Dana Millbank is love with Mitt Romney… https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/run-mitt-run/2017/12/29/9cf9279c-ecbb-11e7-b698-91d4e35920a3_story.html

    Unfortunately Dana, the Internet has a very long memory! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-a-scrubbing-on-foreign-policy/2012/10/08/f9e34e78-118e-11e2-ba83-a7a396e6b2a7_story.html

    Or this Dana Millbank Romney hating beauty… https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-at-romney-headquarters-the-defeat-of-the-1-percent/2012/11/07/857d00f6-284a-11e2-96b6-8e6a7524553f_story.html?utm_term=.50e5b9760139

    Didn’t HA DUMMOCRETINS refer to these in their attack of “Rmoney”? YES THEY DID!

    EPIC FAYLE libtards. FACTS really suck to DUMMOCRETINS!

    Till Next Time!

  71. 71

    The babbling butthole is in a HATE FRENZY!!

    The freak “needs” HA HEROES FIRST so much ..

    The freak is DREADING the weekly obligation in the salt mines with its salt mining buddy!

  72. 72

    Too funny that the babbling butthole stops just short of going full stupid over republican appointee Robert Mueller..

    Former FBI head appointed by Dumbya..

    Special counsel appointed by republican Rosenstein..

    Lifelong republican..

    Stupid republican tools in the randroid ryan kook haus haven’t been so shy accusing Mueller of lots of kooky shit!

  74. 74

    Roypublicans must be conspiring with the Derp State against themselves. Everyone running every investigation is a devout Roypublican. And everyone preaching Derp State is alt-wrong.
    It’s JBS versus the Trumpnzees in a battle of wits!
    Score: nil – nil

  75. 75

    73,
    Don’t forget the babbling butthole has been tireless in his support for his best pal Pedo-Milo!

  76. 76

    Looks like post #71-73 are useless pixels. Especially post #73. Puddy delivers Minnesota female voter FACTS while the clueless crazed databaze cretin delivered lots of hate above!

    Sux to be the clueless crazed databaze cretin! A hero in its own femtometer sized mind! A jackASS to everyone else. No one even visits its stoooooooooooooopid loser blog.

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

    Till Next Time!

  78. 78

    Cretin @71-73,

    Here’s the simple truth. Did Puddy get on HA DUMMOCRETINS at 4:26 PM? NOPE!

    Puddy was busy doing something else!

    HAHAHAHAHAHA! FACTS!

    Something the clueless crazed databaze cretin never has on its side!

    Till Next Time!

  81. 81

    @77 No, I don’t know that officer, but I hope she’s going to be all right, and I’m glad they caught the suspect. One more dangerous shooter off the streets!

  82. 82

    79,
    My favorite part was this comment from Fuckface’s “lawyer”:
    “Out of respect for the Special Counsel and his process, we are not commenting on matters such as this, other than to scream BENGHAAAZIII!!!!”

  84. 84

    Especially post #73.

    Yawwn.. Who’d you vote for Preznit babbling butthole?

    An orange sex predator no doubt…

    The hate frenzy from the babbling tool continues!

  85. 85

    Mike Huckabee. The Rick Santorum of Sarah Palins.

    People are going to lose patience with Jeff Sessions, because he isn’t prosecuting certain Democrats on account of the tiny technicality that they haven’t committed any crimes.

    And SchizoPoodle, Judicial Watch?

    Really man?

  88. 88

    @ 87 The Loon:

    Gee, the Intelligence services discovered some seriously suspicious activity through their normal, standard channels, reported it to the appropriate Court, got warrants, followed procedure and actually found evidence of highly egregious Felonies, and the FBI and DOJ have expressed their intention of prosecuting those crimes to the fullest extent of the Law.

    How is this a problem?

    It isn’t those Democrats being investigated here, dumbass. Papadopolous plead GUILTY, remember? That means they had him dead to rights on a lot of shit, outside of what he was actually charged with. They probably have enough to put him away for 40 years.

  89. 89

    Judicial Watch?

    Absolutely vomit producing dead toad! Their dramatic posts really deliver the FACTS Media Moron DUMMOCRETINS want hidden from public view!

    FACTS, never a friend of HA DUMMOCRETINS!

    Till Next Time!

  90. 90

    The babbling butthole freak keeps on hating! Salt mining duty is an onerous burden for the babbling butthole troll. IT NEEDS HA HEROES FIRST!

    The babbling butthole troll RUNS from the FACT that IT VOTED FOR A SEX PREDATOR!

    HA HEROES on the other hand REJECTED the babbling butthole’s beloved ORANGE SEX PREDATOR!

  91. 91

    Republican Legal Logic goes like this:

    1. “Hillary was guilty of causing Benghazi while using Vince Foster’s corpse as a distraction from UraniumGate!”
    2. “What? Hillary was cleared of any wrongdoing despite being ‘prosecuted’ by partisan hacks like Trey Gowdy? He must really be a secret Liberal to let her get away with that!”
    3. “All that just proves is how guilty and evil she is! Look at what she got away with!”

    And so on.

  92. 92

    How about this vomit producer @88,

    Not if they used a FAKE report paid by DUMMOCRETINS vomit producing dead toad! This is why the FBI isn’t producing the requested information asked for by Congress! And if Andrew McCabeis sooooooooooooo clean why is he leaving? Hmmm…?

    Till Next Time!

  93. 93

    Did Puddy get on HA DUMMOCRETINS at 4:26 PM? NOPE!

    HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

    Notice the freak CONFUSES Friday and Saturday! It loves being STUPID about this.

    IT’S DOCUMENTED that the freak has put HA HEROES FIRST on fridays after sunset… IT puts HA HEROES FIRST AHEAD of the commandments of the skydaddy..

    ITS DOCUMENTED that the freak has put HA HEROES FIRST on the Saturdays after sunset…(IT IS DOING THIS NOW!) IT puts HA HEROES FIRST AHEAD of the weekly obligation to labor in the salt mines with its salt mining buddy!

    The FOOL IS TOO STUPID!

  94. 94

    @92 The Blithering Bafflizing Buffoon:

    Holy noodles and meatballs.

    Have you had a stroke or something? Seriously man. You need help. You’re so desperate to believe your own lies that you can’t keep your stories straight.

    I am not going to go into detail about what is wrong about that post. You just do not have the basic intelligence necessary to absorb the information. You’re so desperate to lie about shit, you cannot understand why people won’t listen to you so you keep frenetically typing and typing like your blather has any substance to it. You don’t even make a basic attempt to sound rational about things when you post. You’re a little kid who keeps being smacked for throwing mudballs at the adults, then start throwing dog turds to get your revenge for that.

    People don’t like it when you throw dog turds at them. It makes them cross, especially when the individual doing the throwing has some serious mental health issues and misdirected cogitation.

    You’re not the craziest individual I’ve ever seen, but boy howdy, you do give the Trolls a run for their money.

  95. 95

    Fox News, 24/7:
    “Hillary is corrupt, evil, runs the Deep State, and is a literal witch who eats live babies in the basement of the Pizza Parlor where they sell uranium to Russians!”

    Republican voters: “Oh noes, stop Hillary before she kills us all!”

    Republican Benghazi commission: “She has done nothing illegal.”

    Republican voters: “Replace the sekrit Liberal RINOS who are protecting the Clintons!”

    Republican FBI e-mail investigation: “Hillary Clinton has done nothing illegal.”

    Republican voters: “The FBI is corrupt! This proves it!”

    Republican DOJ: “We don’t think Uranium One is worth investigating, as procedures were followed to the letter and the relevant agencies gave their approval.”

    Republican voters: “Oh noes the Deep State got to the DOJ!”

    Fox News, 24/7:
    “People are saying the FBI and DOJ are controlled by the Deep State.”

    Then Fat Donny sees that on TV and twitters out the same thing almost word-for-word about 15 minutes after it was first broadcast, and then Fox News says, “See? He confirms our reporting!”

    And you fools just lap it up.

  97. 97

    How many times does the world need to see that Puddy PWNS the clueless crazed databaze deala @93? Almost every post is about Puddy. In almost every post it clings to the PuddyPantsLeg like a little child holds onto daddy when it senses fear. A sick little FOOL with no guidance from other libtards. Meandering in the flow with little or no mental capacity to deal with real topics so it repeats itself over and over and over. Puddy called it re-run. Well it still fits!

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

    Sad and so typical. It keeps a clock of Puddy’s time along with the shitstain underwear racetrack steve. Every Friday and Saturday one will find the clueless crazed databaze deala making time references. Every Friday and Saturday shitstain underwear racetrack steve is there with it. You’d think shitstain underwear racetrack steve would demonstrate a little more common sense. Butt, alas, that is not the case. When you hang with gutter dwellers you are one!

    Does it discuss the libtard politics of hate? NOPE. It’s focused on Puddy and what Puddy does.
    Does a real “hero” focus on its “enemy” that much? NOPE! A hero makes sense of itself. The clueless crazed databaze deala doesn’t make any sense whatsoever!

    TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

    DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUM

    FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNY

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    KAAAAAAAAAAAAAABLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

    Call Puddy a waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahambulance
    HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
    ROTFLRHMBBAO!
    Bwaaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaa bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

    Till Next Time!

  98. 98

    Regarding the vomit producing dead toad…

    One post will cover both of this moron’s farts.

    Post #1 – Who paid for the Christopher Steele dossier? When you figger that out return to the boxing arena. Even the NY Slimes finally admitted the TRUTH! Hint… It wasn’t any Republicans you moron! So if it is fake then the FISA warrants used from the dossier are questionable. Why is the FBI stonewalling the congressional committees? Why has Adam Schiff stopped talking? Why did your favrit site Talking Points Memo in their special beta site tell the world that Mueller is using the Steele dossier as his investigation basis. Puddy left the link for you to read before Christmas. Did you miss it? Well you can contact the clueless crazed databaze deala for a replay. It has all the needed PuddyMissives because as we all know the crazed databaze was created to track Puddy! It has never refuted Puddy’s assertion about the crazed databaze. So grow a set of marbuls and ax for that needed replay! It seems no one want to admit reading that sucky blog. Must be the stench sticks to you after a quick visit! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

    The Russia indictments/convictions could be overturned like the Andrew Weissman indictments/convictions against Enron leaders. Mueller hired the same FOOL as his chief prosecutor!

    Post #2 – So you went to a DUMMOCRETIN site and scarfed up some posts eh? You are so predictable. A Google search will tell Puddy which site because you are tooooooooooooooooooo stoooooooooooooooopid to change sentence structure. You copy and paste direct from the source. And we all know the sites you visit because, you, being the moron you are in real life, never ventures out of your comfort zone. Butt, alas there are other things in life that need immediate attention hence why Puddy is up so early today! Puddy has other bidness on New Years Eve. The wife wants a bigger party so off Puddy goes to round up the additional party stuff. What will you do sitting at the apartment with your thumb up yo ASS on New Years Eve vomit producer? Eh?

    Puddy can visit the DUmmies site and regurgitate useless leftist swill usually left by the hapless hanging human teabag licker. It is as predictable as you are!

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Gotta run. Party gonna be fun. Party on Garth. Party on Wayne! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe30habM0ls

    Till Next Time!

  99. 99

    It is amusing to watch Trumpanzees try to come to grips with reality, but the reality remains:

    Five years investigating Hillary: 0 indictments, 0 convictions
    Eighteen months investigating Trump: 4 indictments, 2 guilty pleas

  101. 101

    @88 It’s a problem because CNN isn’t shouting “Down with Khameini!” loud enough. Because CNN is, er, a news organization and their job is, um, to report news not make news. This is too complicated for the babbling loon to dope out.

  102. 102

    @89 No one should be surprised to see a loon nesting with a whole flock of loons. It’s nature’s way.

  103. 103

    @93 “The FOOL IS TOO STUPID!”

    We all know how stupid he is. We’re not shocked he can’t tell time.

  104. 104

    @98 “Who paid for the Christopher Steele dossier?”

    I dunno, but Goldy pays for the blog in which you spew babble, and that doesn’t make him a friend of yours or nuts like you.

  105. 105

    @99 More like 30 years investigating Hilary, but otherwise correct. Millions of taxpayer dollars spent, without even a parking ticket to show for it.

  108. 108

    “Millions of taxpayer dollars spent, thousands of Doctor Dumbfuck’s hashtags posted, without even a parking ticket to show for it.”

    Fixed.

  109. 109

    Speaking of Doctor Dumbfuck’s thousands upon thousands of debunked, repetitive, slanderous hashtags…

    “Deliberately repetitive comments, particularly those intended to repeat and a reinforce slander that has already been sufficiently debunked.”

    Not even a parking ticket.

  110. 110

    @109 Yeah, but how would we amuse ourselves around here if Goldy kicked Doctor Dumbfuck off the blog? That would leave us with only the loon to provide the entertainment.

  111. 111

    Littleton, CO has a last-day-of-2017 gift to Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit:

    DC Sheriff
    ‏
    Verified account

    @dcsheriff
    3m3 minutes ago

    **Copper Canyon OIS Update**- Deputies responded to a domestic disturbance resulting in shots fired. 5 deputies shot by suspect. 1 deputy confirmed deceased. 2 civilians also shot by suspect. Suspect shot & believed to be dead & no longer a threat. #CopperCanyonOIS

    Rejoice in it, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit. Another dream come true for you.

  112. 112

    “More like 30 years investigating Hilary…”

    True. I arbitrarily cut the time limit at Benghazi.

    Which brings me to:

    “Who paid for the Christopher Steele dossier?”

    Who bankrolled the Paula Jones lawsuit?

  113. 113

    #CrookedHillary is one lucky gal.

    Remember the draft indictment? Whitewater era. Turns out we might actually get to see it.

    Push to unseal the draft Whitewater indictment against Hillary Clinton gets court date

    http://www.mcclatchydc.com/new.....54791.html

    And then there was the word change in Comey’s statement about #CrookedHillary’s handling of State Department emails. “Grossly negligent” became “extremely careless”, a finding that changed an assessment with legal ramifications to one that could have been used to describe the #CrookedHillary 2016 campaign in general.

    What a lucky gal.

  114. 114

    @ 110

    That would leave us with only the loon to provide the entertainmentdrive comments.

    ftfy

  115. 115

    Hey, remember that chick almost nobody really likes, who was nearly indicted for dishonesty during Whitewater and then handled classified State Department documents like she was reading the National Enquirer while taking a dump?

    Yeah, her. Let’s make her our party’s candidate for president.

    Think on your sins.

  116. 116

    Oh, one more thing on the subject of “liberals must arm” …

    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/david-clarke-to-make-media-tasteblood_us_5a485540e4b025f99e1c09a8?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

    It seems CNN’s publication yesterday of an FBI application for a search warrant related to ex-Sheriff David Clarke’s official abuse of an airline passenger in retaliation for looking askance at his Dallas Cowboys fan gear has provoked a tweetstorm against CNN by a man who obviously is deranged.

    Let’s start with the picture. I can’t post graphical material in the HA comment threads, so you’ll have to click on the link — which, as far as I know, is safe and virus-free — and see for yourself. The picture speaks for itself.

    Moving on, Clarke tweets that he’s going to make the “liberal” media “taste their own blood,” and then says, “You come at me, libs you better bring a hard hat … because … I’m going to smack you around until you crawl ….”

    and then tweets again about “punching” the “lib” media.

    Whattaya think, Doc, is it possible that a nationally prominent conservative who boasts about hating “libs” going around inciting violence against “liberals” might provoke an obscure liberal poster on an obscure liberal blog to post a mostly tongue-in-cheek comment that “liberals must arm”? You know, to defend ourselves against crazy conservatives who openly talk about “civil war,” putting liberals in “concentration camps,” and “executing” liberals? Just maybe?

    Or, more to the point, should David Clarke be kicked off Twitter before Roger Rabbit is kicked off HorsesAss.org, or the other way around?

    If you don’t want me talking like that, then tell your conservative friends to stop talking about me and my liberal friends like that. When they stop, I’ll stop, but they have to stop first because they started it.

    Until then, go fuck yourself. If you don’t like that, complain to Goldy. It’s his blog and he can enforce any rules he wants to.

  117. 117

    If there should be any dead Christians it should be Mike Fuckabee first, first and foremost!

    Hahahaha!

    Till next time mother fucker!

  118. 118

    Not sure if there is any confusion here.

    Iranian Protesters Arm!

    Puffy should check his brain. “Seems the Iranian Guard act like antifa creeps”. Dude the Iranian Protesters are the Anitfa. You Conservative Nazis are the Iranian Government.

  119. 119

    @115 “nearly indicted for dishonesty”

    Is being “nearly indicted” of a piece with being “nearly pregnant”?

    As a doctor, you should be able to explain that one, hopefully in terms we laypeople can understand.

  120. 120

    @ 117

    Yes, gman, you are an embarrassment to your parents. And to your fellow liberals.

  121. 121

    Conservatives – Cop kills black man, Black Lives don’t mater but its the Blue Life that really matters more. White boy (Palin Son) disrespects cops, Free Speech. White Bundy Klanman(that’s where I would place my bet) kills in Colorodo, it’s don’t take my guns away because it’s all the liberals and black peoples fault.

  122. 122

    @111 “Rejoice in it, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit.”

    Which part? The suspect’s death? Yeah, good riddance.

    “Another dream come true for you.”

    To be real honest, I don’t ordinarily dream, either day or night, about disturbed people who never, ever should be allowed to have guns (that’s strictly a Republican thing) shooting their families, the cops, and themselves, usually in that order. But I can see how someone with a sick, twisted mind like yours would spend his Sunday mornings fantasizing about such things. You should go to church more.

  123. 123

    @120 why Thank You. Merry Christmas to you too, oh and Happy New Year.

    Here’s a little news for you – Fuckabee isn’t a Christian. He’s Lucifer….he is Roy Moore just much more in the closet about things. He likes his privacy – kind of like you.

  124. 124

    @121 I’ve never understood how conservatives can love cops and the Bundys at the same time, given that the Bundys made their chops by pointing guns at cops. I guess it’s not that hard when you’re inherently irrational to begin with. After all, illogic doesn’t require all that much computing power.

  125. 125

    @124 the distinction is Bundy Klan pointed guns at Federal Law Enforcement. The Cops Bob only cares about are the local police force, specifically his own local police force, because it keeps the boogie man away from him.

    Now don’t get me wrong – I really shouldn’t have to say this – I respect Cops very highly. I’ve bought NYC police officers lunch and coffee. But when any Cop (or even my own Mother) abuses their power and commits an unjust act that’s where it stops. Everyone is accountable. Just being a Veteran doesn’t make a Veteran a hero.

    But that Federal Law enforcement officer – he is a bad boy for being part of the big government in conservatives eyes.

    They don’t care about law enforcement – it is regulation. They only care about the boogie man that lurks them.

  126. 126

    Liberals – don’t fall into the Trap that is the Repuke Trap!

    They set Bear Traps more than they like to Bear Hunt….they are a bunch of pussies. And the Bears don’t even have guns.

    Liberals ARM!!!

  130. 130

    @120 careful Bob – it can be pretty embarrassing for your family to find out that you are fucking and blowing a horse…..and it will be really embarrassing when they find out that you like it more when the horse is fucking you.

  131. 131

    Interesting that conservatives’ two favorite sheriffs both have pathological personalities, histories of abusing inmates, have been investigated by federal authorities for official misconduct, and were run out of office by the press and/or voters.

  132. 132

    “Hey, remember that chick almost nobody really likes…”

    Yes, because in America, people will still like a man who’s a rich white asshole even if he is a complete buffoon. People hate the rich white bitch not despite the fact that she’s the smartest person in the room but because she’s the smartest person in the room.

    I’d ask you to think on your sins, but that would require you to do something that’s clearly beyond your capacity–to actually think.

  133. 133

    @ 132

    Oh, and we’re gonna stake her with twice as much money as the other guy will spend.

    What could go wrong?

  134. 134

    124,
    Thanks to teevee tropes permanently installed in the enfeebled mind of every free range sov cit “admiralty lawyer”, Roypublican Trumpanzees believe that there is fierce animosity between local LE and federal LE. When they see Bundy supporters pointing sniper rifles at federal LE they see FREEEEDUMB!!!

  136. 136

    “What could go wrong?”

    Queries the traitor who sold out his nation out to Putin with 4,000+ treasonous hashtags.

  137. 137

    “Spurlock said the suspect was “familiar” to local law enforcement officials, although he had no criminal history. He used a rifle to carry out an “ambush-type attack” against officers at the Copper Canyon Apartments in Highlands Ranch, a suburb roughly 13 miles south of Denver.”

    ““The suspect was just making a ton of noise and annoying everyone around him,” Spurlock said.”

    “The suspect shared the apartment with a male roommate who was uninjured and is cooperating with authorities. Officers were invited inside the apartment upon their arrival, but gunfire began shortly afterward and lasted nearly two hours.”

    “Officers attempted to engage the suspect in a dialogue before fatally shooting him, Spurlock said. Well over 100 rounds were fired during the incident, mainly by the suspect, he said.””

    I could be completely wrong. But something tells me White Boy, who knows, maybe even Palin’s Son.

  138. 138

    137,
    Highlands Ranch? You’re not wrong.
    Poor hillbilly, probably upset that mom and dad didn’t get him the battle simulator he was counting on.

    President Trump offered his condolences on Twitter, adding, “We love our police and law enforcement – God Bless them all! All except the crooked and badly compromised FBI”

  139. 139

    All except the crooked and badly compromised FBI — More Oregon moron hillbilly concocted BULLSHITTIUM from the south of the border FOOL!

    Till Next time!

  142. 142

    They may not deliver a tax cut to working poors, they may not deliver the border wall to protect hillbillies from rapists on drugs, they may not contain N. Korea, Russia, or China, they may not protect the hillbilly trailer parks from drinking lead and arsenic, they may not protect Medicare and Social Security from tax cuts for billionaires, they may not protect their own daughters from being groped and finger raped by their own elites, they may not be able to protect our election system from tampering by communist dictators, they may not protect workers from being fired for getting injured on the job, they may not create any factory jobs, they may not bring the troops home, they may not simplify tax filing, they may not reduce opiate addiction, and they may not “Make America Great Again”…
    but…
    Roypublicans sure are doing a damn fine job of keeping an eye on one 70-year-old wealthy retired lady living in a small town off the Hudson River. Keeping us all safe from dreaded pants suits. North Korean ICBMs? Meh. Canceled insurance? Fuck you. Klansmen driving fake muscle cars? Very. Fine. People.

  144. 144

    Hey senile idiot wabbit @79,

    About the CNN “report” cobbled from the NY Times. https://youtu.be/lHNavaZPIJw

    Unfortunately for you Roger senile idiot wabbit is you drink up the FAKE CNN NEWS! Butt you forget the Romanian Hacker Guccifer was shopping #CrookedHillary emailsfrom this article in April! http://www.foxnews.com/politic.....probe.html

    Also senile idiot wabbit you forgot that nowhere in the Joint Analysis Report from James Comey, John Brennan and James Clapper document construct is anything about George Papadopoulos even hinted or alluded to.

    Till Next Time!

  145. 145

    @141 Yeah, much better to let a toddler throw shit against the wall, and hope he doesn’t break anything fragile.

    Not!

  146. 146

    Puddy’s as good a poster bird as any for the squawking parrots of the right. They’re all a bunch of birdbrains who can repeat what they hear, but can’t think, and spend all day shitting from their perch.

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    @1 is again way off topic, and not what the list or blog exists for. This is for Washington state politics, or at least the Pacific Northwest. If you insist on forcing down my throat something about how the gangs of New York are alive and well, then please put something in your comments saying this has some connection to Washington State. Lie even and say the teenage hooligans hail from Everette, Washington and are a poor example of the wonderful people of Washington state. At lest there is one person on the list who is in New York, still if there is no connection to Washington state don’t fucking post it. I will try to do the same.

    Also telling me about some Representative in North Carolina, even if he is the Republican poster boy for a dick is a total waste. I don’t vote in North Carolina. To the best of my knowledge no one on the list is in North Carolina or is in the mans district. He’s probably in a safe seat, unless the Democrats are going with their new proven tactic of make child abuse accusations against the guy, and then wonder why you did not blow him out of the water, but make it sound like some great victory when no such mandate can be made. If anything Doug Jones will govern like a Republican. Vote Republican even. He won’t be able to do anything for the black voters who put him into office which will offer more fuel to the issue of Democrats making promises to minorities, women ect during election time that will be ignored when it comes to actually governing. It’s what they do right here in Washington state. Though a bill may be filed and then die in committee.

    The House member I want people to be talking about on this blog is Rick Larson. He is my representative. I have in the past voted for him, but I’m willing to vote for someone else. I think Rick does a pretty good job, but please talk about Rick on here. Call him a SOB. Call him an angel. Talk about our other US and State legislators. That would be talking about Washington State politics rather than most of the off topic stuff on here.

    I do reserve the right to respond to anything on the list.

    And just to be a jerk I claim copyright on the above and it can only be reposted in full or in part with my permission.

    Mark Adams

  148. 148

    The loon and Doctor Dumbfuck. There’s not even a sliver of daylight between them and Putin anymore. SAD!

    “RUSSIA WANTS AMERICANS TO DOUBT MUELLER, EXPERTS WARN”

    “Russian meddling in the 2016 election was apparently just the prequel.

    Now America’s former Cold War rival is using social media to undermine special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe, a former CIA official and a former Republican congressman said Monday night.”

    http://www.newsweek.com/russia.....arn-759195

    Thinking on my sins, treason isn’t one of them.

  149. 149

    @2 I support an amendment that would increase the size of the house. The current law passed by Congress is unconstitutional, and is just away around Congress doing it’s job.

    The situation in Puerto Rico is directly connected to having the number of house seats frozen at 435. Puerto Rico should be a state rather than a second or ever third class step child. Yet it will not become a state because of the frozen state of the house. The house is unresponsive to the voters. Which is anathema to how it’s supposed to operate. It should frankly be impossible to buy the house, while the Senate can be bought. Of course the current situation in the house is to the benefit of both major parties, still states could always pass that old amendment that is on the books, giving us a representative for every 50,000 residents and no state would just have one representative in the house. This would also mean our Presidential elections would be much more competitive. You would see strong regional candidates, and third parties getting some electoral votes. And if the House were properly apportioned as the Constitution states, then the electoral college would have worked properly and Hiliary Clinton would be the President, under that amendment if Congress had to do its job per the constitution after every census and add a number of Representatives as the population goes up. Of course Democrats would not be able to make as much noise over the Trump administrations plan to have census takers question immigrants abut their citizenship status. With a much larger house it would not member. This would also bring the US in line with most western nations who have much smaller populations and much larger lower houses, and then there is China that while it’s show legislature the National Peoples Congress has 2924 members which at least looks more Democratic than our Congress.

  150. 150

    In part, this blog exists to expose Republican goatfucking and child-molestation. It’s been a banner year for that.

    “Republican politician accused of molesting children resigns from Indianapolis City Council”

    http://www.nydailynews.com/new.....-1.3641202

    “Pastor, a GOP Official, Is Arraigned on Molestation Charges”

    https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rhode-island/articles/2017-03-08/providence-pastor-arraigned-on-child-molestation-charges

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    @149 PS The Washington state House should also be larger than it currently is. This would ensure a more representative lower house. Whether or not we really need an upper house is debatable, but since that would require a change to the States Constitution, such a change is only slightly less remote than a state income tax.

    (See I did bring it back to Washington state politics.)

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    Hey shitstain underwaear racetrack steve.

    2016 election. Obummer knew before hand FOOLish shit carrier. Puddy delivered this before; did you miss it? https://nypost.com/2017/10/17/team-obamas-stunning-coverup-of-russian-crimes/

    That’s back in 2013!

    http://thehill.com/homenews/ho.....ns-meddled

    And even Facebook knew BEFORE the election happened too shitstain. https://www.engadget.com/2017/09/25/facebook-russian-meddling-obama-zuckerberg/

    You can always ask for the replay from the clueless crazed databaze deala!

    FACTS, they always suck when you are a DUMMOCRETIN!

    Till Next Time!

  154. 154

    @147 Sounds like you should be reading some other blog. I can’t recommend one, as Stefan’s blog went out of business some time ago, so you’ll just have to shop around.

  155. 155

    The House member I want people to be talking about on this blog is Rick Larson. He is my representative. I have in the past voted for him, but I’m willing to vote for someone else. I think Rick does a pretty good job, but please talk about Rick on here. Call him a SOB. Call him an angel. Talk about our other US and State legislators. That would be talking about Washington State politics rather than most of the off topic stuff on here.

    So sue me, Shortbus. Really. Get a lawyer on retainer. Have ’em file a John Doe. Then you can subpoena the host and discover my identity.
    Or not.
    Since your claim to copyright does not provide the protection you think it does. And that’s why we call you Shortbus.

    PS: Rick Larson will be very easily re-elected without your vote. So don’t. Please don’t. No really. Anyone with any degree of intelligence unfortunate enough to have read your Wikidrivel comic book preachings is by now confident in your stupidity. Mike Rowe was right. America will be better off without your vote. People as dumb as you should never vote on anything more important than American Idol.

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    @133

    “What could go wrong?”

    Yes. It turns out that everyone vastly underestimated the number of Americans who still believe that white people are better than back and brown people. No one’s calling for a border wall between the United States and Canada. The only reason that you and Puddy keep dredging up the allegations against a 70 year old woman whose political career is over is to convince yourselves that supporting a guy who ran a campaign based on racism and xenophobia wasn’t a racist thing to do.

    That’s the funny part about all of this. You are so deluded as to think that Trump’s victory reflects badly on Democrats. Democrats didn’t nominate Trump. Republicans did. And, that’s the only reason that the election was even close. Had Republicans nominated a decent human being, the race would have been over before the campaign even started.

    You really are such an incredible dumbfuck.

  157. 157

    @7 You are going to have to make it much more than three nickels to make such a bet worth my time, and you are going to cover postage which may include using certified mail.

  158. 158

    @147 “And just to be a jerk I claim copyright on the above and it can only be reposted in full or in part with my permission.”

    Subject to fair use. If you’d like to read up on that you might start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use

    No one here will dispute your right to be a jerk. We respect your constitutional right to be a jerk. But frankly, I think you’re not smart enough to be a jerk, so maybe you should consider some other activity. Maybe knitting would be right for you.

  159. 159

    @ 147

    The House member I want people to be talking about on this blog is Rick Larson. He is my representative.

    As my father used to say, go ahead and want. Personally, I don’t give a shit about Rick Larson. He’s not my representative.

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    @159 If you are in Washington state then who is you Representative and what do you think about them? Did you vote for them? Or are you some 14 year old in your moms basement being a stupid shit hiding behind anonymity?

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    @149 “The situation in Puerto Rico is directly connected to having the number of house seats frozen at 435. Puerto Rico … will not become a state because of the frozen state of the house.”

    You probably don’t realize how much you embarrass yourself when you post nonsense like this.

    You’re entitled to your opinions, of course, but let’s not pretend there’s anything factual or accurate about this statement. It’s also ridiculously simplistic.

    There are many reasons why Puerto Rico isn’t a state. History plays a role, as do substantial language and cultural issues. Money has something to do with it, too.

    Possibly one reason the idea has limited popularity in Puerto Rico itself is because Puerto Ricans living in P.R. would have to pay federal income taxes if they became a state.

    Another possible reason is that Congress doesn’t want to subsidize P.R. or assume responsibility for its $70 billion debt.

    There are political factors in play, too. Ultimately, Puerto Rico statehood is up to Congress, not Puerto Ricans, and Congress can consider anything it wants to. So it’s not easy to pin down why Congress has never made P.R. a state, and the reasons probably change over time.

    But let’s look at how the current Congress might view the situation. First, it’s aware that in all 5 plebiscites held to date, statehood has never won the support of a majority of Puerto Rico’s registered voters. Second, Republicans may be reluctant to create two more Senate seats that very likely would be held by Democrats. Third, the issue is controversial, both inside and outside P.R., and it may be easier to just leave things as they are. Fourth, Congress has other priorities and isn’t real interested in grappling with it.

    Meanwhile, although P.R. hasn’t been granted statehood, Puerto Ricans were given citizenship decades ago, and any Puerto Rican who wants to enjoy the benefits of living in a state, including voting in elections, can do so simply by moving. No visa is required, there are no immigration quotas, and Trump can’t deport them back to P.R.

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    @33 Resisting getting in on what could be the next Starbucks from Washington state? Too much risk? Is the potential risk from the unknown as to what the Feds could do, and it’s not really a Democrat or Republican risk thing since Congress is as of yet not on the pot band wagon and legalized it?

  167. 167

    You are so deluded as to think that Trump’s victory reflects badly on Democrats. Democrats didn’t nominate Trump. Republicans did.

    How are we deluded John Doe? Your party offered the worst candidate evah. Did Republicans tell DUMMOCRETINS to make sure y’all coronated #CrookedHillary? Your party stacked the deck against The Bern. Stacked the deck!

    Nuff said sucka!

    Till Next Time!

  168. 168

    @157 He wasn’t talking to you, shrimp. And nobody wants your nickels. And if you don’t know what “nickel” means when used as a slang term, and you obviously don’t, then look it up.

  169. 169

    @160 If you don’t know what “Wichita, Kansas police” means, ask someone who does.

    Shortbus, indeed.

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    @161 “Or are you some 14 year old in your moms basement being a stupid shit hiding behind anonymity?”

    The closest you’ve ever come to revealing your identity. You probably should stop here, so you don’t screw up your future job prospects, if any.

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    @164 So exactly why isn’t Congress acting on the request for statehood that has been sent from Puerto Rico? It’s happened several times in the past couple of decades that Puerto Rican’s have voted and the majority have said we could like statehood and they submitted the request to Congress that never took it up. The primary reason behind Congress inaction is that it would mean reapportioning seats from multiple states to give Puerto Rico seats in the house. Congress could simply increase the number of seats in the house, but that requires opening that can of worms.

    Meanwhile the US has a major embarrassment in the current situation in Puerto Rico. And it’s not a situation created by the current President, but the solutions are either letting Puerto Rico go it’s own way, or become a state.

    Of course there is that little island of contentment called Gitmo from the same war that got the US into the colonization game. Maybe Congress should deal with that little situation and do the right thing and return Gitmo. I know Samual Clemens would agree with me.

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    @166 That’s right, pot is illegal in Washington state, plus I don’t know of any publicly traded companies selling pot and I don’t do private equity. Not yet, anyway.

  174. 174

    @167 “Your party offered the worst candidate evah.”

    That you consider Trump better than Hillary speaks for itself. Don’t forget that his supporters want you dead.

  175. 175

    @171 Goober is more like it….or maybe it actually is Abigail and therefor ashamed to say.

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    @45 Except this is not a regular market. First in Washington state you have to get a license to grow, manufacture of sell the pot. You can’t just go out to the north forty and grow some rope, harvest it, set up a stand by the road and sell it. The product is highly taxed, which according to Adam Smith is not something you do to a fledgling industry. In fact government should protect such an industry and have a low tax on it, until it’s established and the invisible hand of the market takes over. In this case the large producers have the state of Washington’s help in making them the winners.

    Real competition means legalizing the market in full, and eliminating the black market by allowing those in it to fully participate, and compete in the market.

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    @30 The creation of micro breweries and now micro distilleries are in in large part due to changes in Federal and State regulation in favor of smaller actors, A market was always there, but you have to be big enough and well funded enough in the past to be able to compete, and it was not possible to make small batches and compete legally, Yes it was always possible to make some bathtub gin and sell it on the side, and ignore the law and not pay the taxes ect, of course many people end up in Federal or State Prison for production and sale of white lightning or bathtub gin.

  178. 178

    @37 In New York city surely you jest that the proud boys in blue would lower themselves to accepting bribes or do anything other than uphold the high standards of the department.

  179. 179

    @36 That was quick. Only took you five minutes to count your unearned income from your stocks.

  180. 180

    my God I know I said I wouldn’t toss out insults anymore but damn @178 sure could use one.

    I’m with Roger – this Blog needs some new trolls, ones that have half a brain and aren’t smoking crack.

  181. 181

    @177 sounds like you been cooking up some bathroom gin now and have been breathing in the fumes.

  182. 182

    @172 “So exactly why isn’t Congress acting on the request for statehood that has been sent from Puerto Rico? It’s happened several times in the past couple of decades that Puerto Rican’s have voted and the majority have said we could like statehood and they submitted the request to Congress that never took it up.”

    First of all, a majority of Puerto Ricans did NOT vote for statehood in the June 2017 plebiscite. Statehood was supported by less than a quarter of the island’s registered voters in that vote. About 97% of those who voted favored statehood, but the election was boycotted by those opposed.

    Secondly, the plebiscite is nonbinding. P.R. statehood is up to Congress, not Puerto Ricans, which makes perfect sense; it’s up to Americans who can decide to be part of America, and Sudanese or Tahitians or Chileans or Australians or whoever can’t vote themselves in.

    Third, there’s an established process for a territory to become a state: “‘All 37 [entry] processes have followed the scheme set out way back in 1787 in the Northwest Ordinance,’ says Gorrín. ‘They were all annexed as part of the United States, designated from that moment to become states eventually.’ But Puerto Rico and the current U.S. territories have no such future statehood understanding. When Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines were added to the country after the 1898 Treaty of Paris ended the Spanish-American War, their status was as colonial possessions, not as future states.” If Puerto Rico became a statehood, it would do so by a different track than the ones followed by the 13 original states and the 37 later-admitted states.

    You might want to consider this, too:

    “‘Traditionally, Congress has used three political criteria to decide to finally admit a territory,’ says Gorrín. Those three criteria are the number of people in the territory who want statehood, the embrace of ‘the fundamental values of American democracy’ among the territory’s population, and the territory’s solvency.”

    So, you see, there’s more to it than what Puerto Ricans want, and money (i.e. solvency) is part of it. In the final analysis, “the final hurdle to Puerto Rico statehood is the fact that Congress simply doesn’t have to take up the matter at all, even with a referendum in hand,” and as I pointed out, “In today’s political climate, the Republican-dominated body won’t feel any pressure to add an island of millions of likely Democrats to the electorate.”

    https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/puerto-rico-statehood-plebiscite-congress/530136/

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    @176 “You can’t just go out to the north forty and grow some rope, harvest it, set up a stand by the road and sell it.”

    Sure you can, and lots of people do (except more by word of mouth), just don’t get caught.

  184. 184

    @161

    Or are you some 14 year old in your moms basement being a stupid shit hiding behind anonymity?

    First of all, possessive requires an apostrophe. If you don’t understand why that’s relevant to your comment, then kiss my ass. Secondly, if you’re too stupid to figure out that I’m just a tad older than age 14, then there really is no point in trying to engage you in intelligent conversation.

    Nevertheless, my Rep is Susan DelBene. She’s voted no on most of the idiotic Republican legislation like HR 1 and HR 10, and has voted in favor of more intelligent legislation such as HR 601 and HR 3364. She’ll likely get reelected for another term, and I have no problem with that.

    Do you even know what Rick Larson’s voting record is?

    @167

    How are we deluded John Doe?

    Well, you’ve managed to forget that I’m not a Democrat. That’s pretty delusional. Also, I can think of quite a number of candidates who were way worse than Hillary. In my lifetime, I’d say that the “worst” distinction probably goes to Ross Perot.

    And, I’ll remind you that, in the realm of “crooked,” the score remains:

    Hillary: 0 indictments and 0 convictions
    Trump: 4 indictments and 2 guilty pleas

    There is no better word to describe people who support Trump and rag on Hillary than “deluded.”

  185. 185

    I wonder what is taking so long for LLE to release the name of the deceased cop killer? Could it possibly be………the Palin Boy?

  186. 186

    John Doe is on the ball! Nice Job buddy!

    And with that – Happy New Year. I’ve got to go party it up!

  187. 187

    @179 Actually, there’s a 95-minute gap between that post (#36) and my next post (#48), and you also might want to consider that, like Scrooge McDuck, I don’t necessarily count all my sheckels in one sitting. Suffice to say I made more in the stock market this year than I ever made from an annual salary, and the taxes on it will be either nothing or almost nothing.

    As I’ve posted many times before, I think this is nuts. People who work, who build and produce things, who make the economy run, should get paid for it. Rabbits who sit on their ass should at least pay as much taxes as the productive elements of our society. I benefit hugely from the system Republicans have created, and I’m about to benefit even more. It isn’t fair, but I’ll take it. I’d be crazy not to.

    Even if you’re an ardent believer in capitalism, you should be concerned that the distribution of the economy’s output has flipped, from a majority going to labor, to a majority now going to capital. Some of our top capitalists, including Warren Buffett, have expressed concern about this. They believe it could eventually cause society to unravel like many before have. You can exploit people only so far before they revolt.

    Perhaps electing Trump was a revolt of sorts. Trump promised to revitalize the middle class, to bring back lost manufacturing jobs, to cut middle class taxes. None of those promises are being kept. He just signed a tax bill that gives 80% of its benefits to the top 5%, puts the country farther in debt, and his party will now use that debt as an excuse to cut health care, Social Security, and other middle class benefits.

    If you vote Republican, that’s what you voted for, and you’re partly to blame. The rest of us saw through this hustle from the beginning. If stupid people like you didn’t, that’s on you, not us.

  188. 188

    @168 Oh so he was blowing smoke, You think the man was blowing smoke. So you think unwilling to put his money up on the table. That he’s a liar and bullshit artist. Could be a politician or attorney.

  189. 189

    @187 You posted at @35 and then posted @36 five minutes later. Sorry if you posted 95 minute later you still did not have that much to count to be making such boosts at @35.

  190. 190

    @185 Probably still trying to notify his relatives. It would be bad form for them to find out he’s dead from the evening news broadcast.

  191. 191

    Don’t forget that his supporters want you dead.

    You keep saying that Roger senile idiot wabbit! And you continue to be wrong. Three of the founding leaders of the tea party are black. They are very alive and kicking. Tim Scott is a senator of South Carolina. He’s alive and kicking.

    FACTS… Continue to call BULLSHITTIUM on the insipid vile bile of Roger senile idiot wabbit!

    Till Next Time!

  192. 192

    @187

    Even if you’re an ardent believer in capitalism, you should be concerned that the distribution of the economy’s output has flipped, from a majority going to labor, to a majority now going to capital.

    Folks possessing a modicum of intelligence might want to read Thomas Piketty. Unfortunately, I’m afraid that the HA denizens who would most benefit from the information would find it way too confusing.

  193. 193

    That you consider Trump better than Hillary speaks for itself.

    Yes it does, and so did certain states that voted for Obummer did too. It told the world that certain people need to remember every state really does count and skipping some states because DUMMOCRETIN either thought they were in the bag or they didn’t count came back to bie y’all in de ASS!

    FACTS, not a friend of the senile idiot wabbit!

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

    Till Next Time!

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    @191

    Three of the founding leaders of the tea party are black. They are very alive and kicking. Tim Scott is senator of South Carolina. He’s alive and kicking.

    Has it not occurred to you that the reason they’re still alive and kicking is their willingness to throw you under the bus?

  195. 195

    @154 No self interest in your comment there RR. Right? Though frankly as far as blogs go except for Carl doing open threads and the usual weekly announcements there has not been a lot of blogging on this blog in the past year or years. Seems the only action going on is this. Will horsesass join the fallen blogs of Washington state?

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    And, I’ll remind you that, in the realm of “elected,” the score remains:

    Donald John Trump – 45th President of the United States
    Hillary Rodham Clinton – At home in Chappaqua, NY

    Mic drop!

  197. 197

    @155 So giving legal advice now? And sorry I will vote. I do not support this concept of safe seats. Gerrymandering for either major is wrong. I happen to like Dick Larson, and will likely vote for him, but he should be challenged and should not be a shoo in even if he is the incumbent and Democratic, That is corrupt and your comments are corrupt, and anti American, and sound a lot like the guys who ran Berlin in about 1936. Are you a closet NAZI after all they are socialists and as much on the left as the right.

  198. 198

    @142 Good old fashion American style politics. Pretty classic, usually works if unimaginative and more self serving than serving the public. Something the 70 year old lady is somewhat guilty of.

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    And John Doe, How did they “throw” Puddy under the bus? How can you ASSume what they think about when you are white and they are black? You seem to forget Obummer DID throw inner city blacks under the bus by stopping the DEA from interdicting Hezbollah drug deliveries for a $150 Billion payment to Iran for a nuclear deal!

    As the song goes “I’m doing fine fine up here on cloud nine”!

    Sux to be you!

    Till Next Time!

  200. 200

    @169 Reading what you say you seem convinced officers from somewhere in Washington went to Wichita and participated, and in any case are equally guilty of any police shootings anywhere in the US rather than their proper jurisdictions aside from a stray bullet flying into Oregon, Idaho or British Columbia. Or is that not what you are saying? Seems you paint all police with the same brush. Even though a very small number discharge a weapon or kill anyone in ant given year. And the police need for them to be armed all the time is highly exaggerated. They need to be armed as much as your average British Bobby, but our culture wins out over rational thought or facts.

  201. 201

    Are you a closet NAZI after all they are socialists and as much on the left as the right.

    No Mark Adams, he’s a moron and a closet hillbilly from the Klamath Mountains in southern Oregon! He acts like a NAZI on this blog, calling out people like you who are more moderate. A DUMMOCRETIN ASShole who is a real jerk in real life!

    FACTS… Gotta admit they make you think!

    Till Next Time!

  202. 202

    I can’t find the post now from RR asking me how many representatives Washington state should have in the statehouse. We ought to have at least 98 in the US house of representatives and each would represent about 78,000 Washingtonians which I think is too many but far better than current reality. I do think state reps should represent about 30,000 people so about 263 representatives would be the idea number. State representation has generally been much more based on geography in the past and only more recently on actual population. I’m ok with Ellensburg having as much power as Seattle as long as the rules of the political game are out in the open.

  203. 203

    So far no one from North Carolina has piped up and said they are on here. Anyone in North Carolina or just for fun South Carolina on here? Anyone?

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    @184 that is better actually talking about Washington state politics on a blog that exists for that reason. No I did not check Rick Larson’s voting record, but he is a Democrat and on all the bills you mentioned I doubt ant member of Washington state caucus voted differently, while all the members of the Republican caucus voted exactly opposite. Did you research this and find a representative voted otherwise? Perhaps Rick Larson? Are you suggesting fellow Democrat Rick Larson is rocking the boat?

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    @196

    And, I’ll remind you that, in the realm of “elected,” the score remains

    That’s true, and I can think of no more scathing indictment of Americans than the outcome of that election. Why do you hate Americans so much?

    @199

    How did they “throw” Puddy under the bus?

    Republicans have:

    Effectively repealed key features of the Voting Rights Act of 1965;

    Gerrymandered voting districts to dilute the political power of minority voters; and

    Reneged on the DoJ’s responsibility to protect the civil rights of citizens, particularly with respect to police violations of the 4 Amendment to the constitution.

    That’s just to name a few. Regarding Trump’s accomplishments, Adam Serwer summed it up rather nicely:

    Nearly a year into his presidency, Trump has reneged or faltered on many of his biggest campaign promises—on renegotiating nafta, punishing China, and replacing the Affordable Care Act with something that preserves all its popular provisions but with none of its drawbacks. But his commitment to endorsing state violence to remake the country into something resembling an idealized past has not wavered.

    As for “Project Cassandra,” you are, as usual, relying on a rather infertile imagination to fill in gaps where we don’t have all the facts. If one of our allies had been running an intelligence operation against Hezbollah, letting the DEA pursue their case would have had a lot of very negative consequences. But, you don’t think of these broader issues, because you’re more interested in partisan hackery than you are interested in getting at the truth.

    We can keep playing this “Democrats bad/Republicans worse” game that you insist on playing. I don’t know why you do, though, because you keep getting your ass kicked every time we play it. That’s why I generally don’t play it any more. Kicking your ass is not, and never has been, a challenge.

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    @183 So no road side stand like you can have for lemons or cucumbers? No license, but none needed for cucumbers and lemons and no need to prove you are a good citizen not that many participants in the legal pot were not pot dealers who did not get caught, and went legit? At least after the end of prohibition anyone could get into the market.

  208. 208

    Trolls, both liberal and conservative, it’s New Year’s Eve. Have a drink and smoke a bowl. You’ll all feel better.

  209. 209

    @204

    that is better actually talking about Washington state politics on a blog that exists for that reason

    Actually, this bog exists for whatever reasons Goldy, Darryl and Carl want it to exist. That does include politics in general, not just Washington state politics. Indeed, the post that put this blog on the map was Goldy’s exposé on Michael Brown’s lack of qualifications to head FEMA.

    Moreover, open threads, of which the FNME is one, people are allowed to comment on whatever the hell they want. You can choose not to read the comments if you wish. That’s entirely up to you.

    No I did not check Rick Larson’s voting record

    Let me get this straight. You want people here to talk about Rick Larson, but you don’t care to make the effort to look up his voting record? SMH.

    but he is a Democrat and on all the bills you mentioned I doubt ant member of Washington state caucus voted differently, while all the members of the Republican caucus voted exactly opposite

    Um. All of the bills I listed, HR 1, HR 10, HR 601 and HR 3364, were passed in Congress. Clearly, the Republican caucus didn’t vote the opposite on the latter two.

    So, rather than become informed enough to have an intelligent conversation on the subjects that interest you, you’d rather ask other people whether or not they’re 14 years old banging on a computer in their mother’s basement. Might I be so bold as to suggest that you make your own effort a little less underwhelming?

  210. 210

    @191 Trust me, Spudnuts, you don’t want to be alone in a dark woods with Trump’s “fine people.” Just take my word for it.

  212. 212

    @196 Only morons think that’s good for America. At least you can deny responsibility, because fortunately for you, you live in a state where people more intelligent than you ensured your vote didn’t matter.

  213. 213

    @197 “So giving legal advice now?”

    Probably not, unless you’ve signed a representation agreement, but I’m under the impression the poster @155 is qualified to give legal advice.

  214. 214

    @198 I’m pretty sure that 70-year-old lady would be more than willing to compare her public service with yours any day.

  215. 215

    @200 I never said Washington cops were involved in the Wichita incident. That’s you talking. All I said was we’re going to have a chance to vote for better police accountability here in Washington and I’m going to vote for it. I disagree with you that our police don’t “need to be armed all the time.” It’s nice that British police kill only 1 or 2 people a year, on average, compared to over 100 a month in the U.S., on average, but Britain has gun control whereas America has more guns than people and no restraints on who can get them, thanks to idiotic Republican gun policies that put rapid-firing military weapons in the hands of nutjobs who shouldn’t be trusted with a squirtgun.

  216. 216

    @201 Mark isn’t moderate, he’s ignorant. It would be hard to find someone with his head farther up his ass than you, but he’s a good candidate for that.

  217. 217

    @202 “State representation has generally been much more based on geography in the past and only more recently on actual population.”

    “More recently” means since 1962, when SCOTUS issued its decision in Baker v. Carr; subsequent decisions solidified the “one man, one vote” rule. The ONLY exception to this is the U.S. Senate. State legislative districts MUST be approximately equal in population. Any other scheme is unconstitutional.

    This is today’s civics lesson. You should have learned this in 9th grade, if you weren’t sleeping in class.

  218. 218

    @208

    “[I]t’s New Year’s Eve. Have a drink and smoke a bowl. You’ll all feel better.”

    I’m the designated driver. So, I’m splitting my time between people who are stupidly drunk and people who are just drunkenly stupid.

  219. 219

    @202 “I’m ok with Ellensburg having as much power as Seattle as long as the rules of the political game are out in the open.”

    Explain why the 20,000 people living in Ellensburg should have equal say with the 700,000 people living in Seattle in running our state. What’s your rationale or justification for that? Never mind that it’s unconstitutional, and would never survive a court challenge, just tell us why you think the vote of a person in Ellensburg should count 35 times as much as the vote of a person in Seattle.

  220. 220

    @207 “No license, but none needed for cucumbers and lemons”

    This WSDA handout explains when a license and/or inspections are required for a roadside produce stand here. Lemons don’t grow in Washington except on indoor hobby trees.

    https://agr.wa.gov/Marketing/SmallFarm/greenbook/docs/28.pdf

    “not that many participants in the legal pot were not pot dealers who did not get caught”

    I’m sure they’ll appreciate the assumptions you’re making about them.

    “At least after the end of prohibition anyone could get into the market.”

    I’m pretty sure you couldn’t if you had a conviction record.

  221. 221

    @209 “Might I be so bold as to suggest that you make your own effort a little less underwhelming?”

    That’s asking too much. Mark is a mental midget. I don’t think you can change this gnat’s spots by lecturing him about looking things up.

  223. 223

    Effectively repealed key features of the Voting Rights Act of 1965;

    So John Doe, asking someone to provide FREE identification that proves they are American citizens and not illegals has made it harder for my people to vote? Really?

    Gerrymandering districts… Golly Puddy remembers DUMMOCRETINS doing this for years. It seems whomever controls the House during census time WINS!

    Now there are some bad po-po 5-0 types in various police forces. But isn’t it strange most of these issues are in libtard controlled areas. Ferguson Mo. run by DUMMOCRETINS

    Chicago, run by DUMMOCRETINS!

    Houston, run by DUMMOCRETINS!

    LA, run by DUMMOCRETINS!

    etc. etc. etc.

    Try again!

  224. 224

    @221

    “That’s asking too much. Mark is a mental midget.”

    I was asking a foundational question. Now I’m certain that he knows it’s possible to look up the voting record of a Congressional Representative, I’m curious to see if he can figure out how. It’s good to know just how much of a mental midget this guy is.

    @222

    “You hang out with Republicans?”

    No. The people I hang out with fall, at least for tonight, into the stupidly drunk category. The drunkenly stupid folks are the trolls here.

  225. 225

    Police have identified the Colorado cop killer as Mathew Riehl, 37, an Iraq veteran and 2010 graduate of the University of Wyoming Law School who had a law practice in Rawlins, Wyoming. He had no rap sheet but was “known to police” throughout the Denver area, and had declared himself a Libertarian candidate for sheriff of Douglas County, a populous area between Denver and Colorado Spring.

    Sounds like a person who probably had mental issues being able to get a “rifle” capable of firing over 100 rounds in a couple minutes is part of the problem here. Weapons of war have no place in civilian society.

  227. 227

    @224 “It’s good to know just how much of a mental midget this guy is.”

    He never researches or fact-checks before posting. There are no links to sources in his comments, which are full of factual errors, and he doesn’t appear to use sources. He seems to just peel his thoughts off the wall and post them. There’s no intellectual rigor at work. He’s typically ignorant about the topics he posts about. His “work” on this blog, if you want to call it that, is a muddled mishmash of misinformed musings. Thus, “mental midget” is apropos.

  228. 228

    @227

    ‘Thus, “mental midget” is apropos.’

    I don’t disagree with you. Your observations are accurate, but apply equally to someone who is too lazy to do the work as they apply to someone who simply doesn’t know how to do the work.

    Let me put it this way. I’ll be sending him on his way. The question is whether I should kick him in the ass before sending him on his way or just pat him on the head before sending him on his way.

    I should say that this is solely for my own interests. If you decide to always kick him in the ass before sending him on his way, that won’t bother me.

  229. 229

    197,
    Shortbus, I want you to try to sue me for copyright infr. Really. I think the effort would do you a lot of good. I’m saying this for you, liddle buddy. Somehow, some way you need to be shaken out of your idiotic teevee induced fantasies about rights and power. You’re a fucking fool, and a victim. Maybe a shocking humiliation will turn your whole sad miserable life around. None of us here will ever know. Nor do we need to know. But you might really benefit by having at least a few of the shockingly stupid and simplistic assumptions that inform your lonely existence debunked. It’s very easy to see what a tool you are. It isn’t just people like Trump, or Dino Rossi who “utilize” you. You are the kind of dupe who gets routinely deflowered by cheap matchstick men in bars and hustling Uber drivers. Make a resolution tonight to fight back for once. Maybe you’ll bump up against the real world just enough to see at least how much you don’t really understand. That might help you stay safely out of the middle depths of the big scary pool.

  232. 232

    HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

    May 2018 be the year that Democrats win back Congress and rational people take back America!!!

  233. 233

    @231 Notice I didn’t say anything @232 about Putz having an epiphany, Doctor Dumbfuck a heart, or Mark a brain. I’m trying to keep my ambitions realistic.

  234. 234

    @229 Well done, my friend. I couldn’t have said it better myself. In fact, not nearly as well. Although I tried. Lord knows I’ve tried ….

  235. 235

    @223

    So John Doe, asking someone to provide FREE identification

    I wasn’t specifically thinking about voter ID laws. Voter suppression encompasses problems with voter registration, early voting and the number of available precincts as well. The ACLU’s web site is loaded with information on the subject, including facts that show how supposedly “free” voter IDs aren’t exactly free.

    Gerrymandering districts…

    I didn’t talk about gerrymandering in general. I spoke of gerrymandering that’s specifically designed to “dilute the political power of minority voters.” North Carolina is a recent example of this.

    But isn’t it strange most of these issues are in libtard controlled areas.

    First of all, the mayor of Ferguson Missouri is a Republican.

    And, no, it’s not at all surprising. America being a free country, we generally allow conservatives to live and work in areas where the majority of the population tends to be liberal. It also means that people are free to hold racist attitudes, which is why we often find documentation of racist attitudes in various police departments.

    Without the assistance of the DoJ, local and state political leaders have little hope of reigning in police departments that are rife with racism. Police departments themselves wield considerable amounts of political power. Only the DoJ remains outside the reach of their clout. Which is why the DoJ’s abdication of their responsibility under the Trump Administration is such a vile policy change.

    On all. three issues, voter suppression, gerrymandering and the DoJ, you have failed to respond to the points I actually raised. That effectively concedes the argument. I thank you for playing, but, really, kicking your ass is just too damn easy.

  237. 237

    Apparently, Roy Moore had a huge support base in the PizzaGate believers. Liz Crokin seems to be a predominant voice in making some rather tenuous connections between Crissy Teigen being annoyed by an 8-hour flight to nowhere, PizzaGate and the HollyWood sex scandal because she posted a pic of her kid dressed up in a hotdog outfit.

    Interesting.

  238. 238

    First of all, the mayor of Ferguson Missouri is a Republican.

    Yes and if you looked at the county demographic where the county police are from it is a DUMMOMCRETIN county. The DA on the case was DUMMOCRETIN too. So a Republican mayor in a DUMMOCRETIN county is like a brow rice grain among white rice kernels.

    Till Next TIme!

    Happy New Year!

  239. 239

    clueless useless databaze cretinous tool @231

    Suck on these FACTS! https://www.dailywire.com/news/7992/5-statistics-show-voter-id-not-racist-aaron-bandler#

    A 2012 Washington Post poll found that 65 percent of blacks support voter ID laws.
    A 2014 Fox News poll found that 55 percent of Democrats and 51 percent of blacks support voter ID laws.
    A 2015 Rasmussen poll found that 58 percent of Democrats support voter ID laws.

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

    Till Next Time!

  240. 240

    clueless useless databaze cretinous tool @231

    Suck on these FACTS! https://www.dailywire.com/news/7992/5-statistics-show-voter-id-not-racist-aaron-bandler#

    A 2012 Washington Post poll found that 65 percent of blacks support voter ID laws.
    A 2014 Fox News poll found that 55 percent of Democrats and 51 percent of blacks support voter ID laws.
    A 2015 Rasmussen poll found that 58 percent of Democrats support voter ID laws.

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

    Till Next Time!

  243. 243

    It’s Larsen.

    Rep. Rick Larsen.

    Not Larson.

    Good thing Rep. Pramila Jayapal hasn’t done anything worthy of HA discussion yet. Best refer to her as PJ until you can spell the basic words correctly.

  246. 246

    So another Obummer era SCUM, Daniel Love, was fired over illegal malfeasance (acts Roger senile idiot wabbit likes) by acting as a SCUMmy DUMMOCRETIN through Love’s overreaching, corrupt, and often criminal misconduct and ethics violations before the Bundy trial. http://dailycaller.com/2017/12.....ndy-trial/

    On September 18, Rob Bishop, Chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources, said this about Daniel Love’s firing: “The previous administration turned a blind eye to corruption and promoted a culture of mismanagement at the Department of the Interior. I applaud Interior for taking a strong stand and reasserting the basic principle that there are consequences for federal employees who blatantly disregard the law and steamroll elected officials and public trust. Love’s exit is welcome.”

    OMG…. If the Obummer sadministration acted ethically they may have had Bundy dead to rights? Nooooooooooooooooo! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

    DUMMOCRETINS are SCUM!

    Till Next Time

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    @ 244

    Offering $750,000 and the #CrookedHillary campaign didn’t know?

    Plausible deniability.

    #CrookedHillary had no earthly idea that Bill was gonna meet with Loretta Lynch in Phoenix.

    #CrookedHillary had no earthly idea that Huma was gonna email herself documents market classified so they could be printed out at home, using the laptop she shared with a careless pedophile, so that she could bring printed copies for #CrookedHillary to read.

    It’s how they roll.

    Rolled. #CrookedHillary will never, ever be president.

    And Fuck You, David Brock and Peter Daou.

  248. 248

    Oh yeah John Doe, Puddy didn’t mention Baltimore. Well here you go from the libtards running NPR… https://www.npr.org/2017/12/31/574824963/baltimore-residents-blame-record-high-murder-rate-on-lower-police-presence

    http://www.baltimoresun.com/ne.....story.html

    Yes another libtard city where police were accused by the mayor and her henchwoman and the city is losing its brightest black minds to DUMMOCRETIN actions!

    Cheer on Roger senile idiot wabbit! Libtard cities have the worst cops and also the worst criminals and some of the best minds wasted to crime! Yet we never see Roger senile idiot wabbit talk about the crime!

    Sad and so typical. Hey shitstain underwear racetrack stain steve… It’s from NPR well known DUMMOCRETIN leftists so its gotta be hate, right you FOOL?

    Till Next Time!

  249. 249

    I see Roypublicans are still keeping that dangerous old lady and her pant suits safely contained in 2018 while their beloved Russian Puppet is off playing golf again.

    We can all rest easy.

  250. 250

    I see Roypublicans are still keeping that dangerous old lady and her pant suits safely contained in 2018 while their beloved Russian Puppet is off playing golf again.

    We can all rest easy.

  251. 251

    Look at that. A double.
    I’m not sure it has the same impact without the verbal perseveration and random caps lock proclaiming improbable conspiracies in basements that dont exist. But I’ll take it.

  252. 252

    Oh no a double post from Lying Liars Shouldn’t Lie AKA Erectile Dysfunction McDotCom @249, 250. What will shitstain underwear racetrack stain steve think?

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! No random caps lock here! No basement conspiracies projected here. Just TRUTHS about shitstain steve and its exploding head every time specific double posts happen! Nuthin was mentioned when the hapless hanging human tea bag licker gave a double post either!

    Wait for the hate comment! It’s a coming!

    Till Next Time!

  254. 254

    The Chrome-challenged loon has as many double posts and head explosions as Doctor Dumbfuck has pro-Putin hashtags. And at the rate Doctor Dumbfuck is going, he’ll easily top 5,000 before the end of January. SAD!

  255. 255

    Where are the libtards when Al Gorebasm’s friends need them? https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/dec/28/global-warming-films-flop-box-office-2017/

    Libtards only want to spend other peoples money!

    Remember word sleuths, the only time you will want to use the word “peoples” is when you are referring to groups of people from multiple ethnic, cultural, racial, or national backgrounds.

    Libtards always want to rob all peoples of their money for their SCUMmy causes!

    Till Next Time!

  256. 256

    Only on CNN. Puddy only watches CNN for the comedy of Don Lemon or Anderson Cooper and that’s very seldom!

    http://www.thegatewaypundit.co.....broadcast/

    Obviously, they have no idea what to do with the show without that loser Kathy Griffin. Guess Kathy ran out of FAKE Trump heads!

    Till Next Time!

  257. 257

    Hey shitstain @254,

    Happy New Year! Please wipe up more this year; OK?

  258. 258

    Remember when shitstain underwear racetrack stain steve ran to it’s favrit site raw story to discuss brainwashing? Well

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvs.....ovies.html

    Well here’s a #CrookedHillary loving libtard complaing about them.

    And when Black Panther comes out will white libtards watch it?

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

    Till Next Time!

  261. 261

    Hey shitstain, It seems you don’t care about your double posting friends!

    Till Next Time!

  262. 262

    Hey shitstain, It seems you don’t care about your double posting friends!

    Till Next Time!

  263. 263

    A double post for shitstain steve’s latest head explosion!

    Now wait and watch!

    So funny!

    Till Next Time!

  265. 265

    Looks like the Chrome-challenged, double-posting loon @ 261, 262 didn’t watch the video I shared. SAD!

  266. 266

    @264,

    Puddy is Just a Vagina

    It’s Puddy LOVES a specific v j j…

    Fixed that for you!

    Till Next Time!

  268. 268

    No basement conspiracies projected here.

    That is priceless coming from a pedo-pimp Roypublican supporter of child molesting finger rapists and violent white supremacists who has engaged in every unhinged, ridiculous, bizarre, and unsupportable clownspiracy claim ever put forth. It’s the basis of his Derp State daily routine to distract from the multiple criminal conspiracies with foreign espionage agents.

  269. 269

    Lessons for Seattle, perhaps?

    In the new year, worry-free California has a lot to worry about

    It’s clear that period of tech-driven rapid growth is coming to an end. In the most recent quarter, BEA reports, California’s GDP growth ranked a meager 35th in the nation; just last year the state’s growth was twice the national average and among the highest in the nation.

    Two factors are driving this turnabout — the fading of Silicon Valley’s boom and a hyper-inflated real estate market.

    https://www.ocregister.com/2017/12/30/in-the-new-year-worry-free-california-has-a-lot-to-worry-about/

    Things that can’t go on forever, don’t. I read that somewhere, I think.

  270. 270

    @248

    Oh yeah John Doe, Puddy didn’t mention Baltimore.

    Yup. Puddy has proved:

    1) That Puddy still doesn’t understand the fallacy of division; and

    2) Why the DoJ is absolutely necessary in any effort to address the problems in police departments.

  271. 271

    Nice hijack John Doe. You’re almost as good as Roger senile idioto wabbit with that misdirectional TRAIN WRECK! Except that’s NOT the whole Puddy sentence. If the DOJ needed to interferevene, then they should look at who led the city and how the city was being legally covered. Two FOOLS in high places are the main reason this outcome has occurred. Butt then again you are one of those who wants a federal police force, just like Nazi Germany’s Ordnungspolizei! Yeah that’s right up your alley dude! Today they call them the Bundespolizei!

    And yet you claim to erudite in your blog posts. The fallacy of division? Apparently you forgot Cuyahoga County, Ohio, or Stafford Virginia or the meaning of IF; all brought to you by Roger senile idiot wabbit. There are many more of his “examples” you skip over! SO why is that? The fallacy of division is strong in Roger senile idiot wabbit!

    The fallacy of division? Almost every big DUMMOCRETIN city controlled by libtards has police issues.

    Above you reminded everyone you are not a DUMMOCRETIN [Democrat]! Well we know you are not a Republican. So are you a Libertarian? If so, then you are worthless in the eyes of many HA DUMMOCRETINS here! Roger senile idiot wabbit really “loves” libertarians. .NOT. Since you detested Ross Perot you must be one of those special case politicos! Sadly you are another libtard EPIC FAYLE!

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

    Till Next Time!

  272. 272

    pedo-pimp Roypublican supporter

    Puddy called out Roy Moore, butt, alas, you missed that too being in your dirt road located Ted Kaczynski-like cabin in the Klamath Mountains; being the Oregon moron hillbilly you really are!

    Till Next Time!

  274. 274

    @269. From godwin’s link:
    This doesn’t seem to be an unbiased source.
    The first couple of paragraphs:
    “Propped up by media idolatry, California is moving from denial to delusion. Case in point: […] the state “flush with cash from an expanding economy” would consider spending an additional billion dollars on health care for the undocumented, as well as a raft of new subsidies for housing and the working poor.
    All this wishful thinking and noble intentions ignores a slowing state economy, and a structural deficit, keyed largely to state worker pensions, that may now be headed towards a trillion dollars.”

    The writer seems pissed that the government might be spending money on undeserving brown people and poor people. and unions and retired people. Why do republicans hate the poor so much?

  275. 275

    Here’s another view, not from a greedy republican viewpoint.
    http://www.latimes.com/politic.....story.html
    “On the spending side, Democrats are calling for expanding the state’s earned-income tax credit for the working poor. Ting also urged restoration of cost-of-living increases for the aged, blind and disabled. And he said the state could afford to spend more on California’s middle-class scholarship program. Democrats also have hopes to fully implement a new law offering first-time students a free year of community college.

    That same law also requires estimates for revenues and expenses three years into the future. Critics may still believe the state spends too much, but budget negotiations now routinely involve a look at what’s over the horizon. That wasn’t always the case over the last decade.(When republicans were in charge)

    There also are what budget writers call “off-ramps” built into some of the most pricey policy efforts,.. If economic conditions deteriorate and money gets tight, the law says the governor can pause some of those future increases.”

    Seems that the democrats in charge are being fiscally wiser, even if they are spending the money on the those undesirable brown people. I can see why godwin hates it.

    It will be interesting to see if the greedy sadistic federal tax cuts cripple the California economy. It was designed to.

  276. 276

    Godwin, seems like the Governor of California has more financial sense than the republicans in Congress

    “Brown habitually warns about the inevitability of recession and the need to build reserves, and Taylor mirrors that caution in urging his bosses in the Legislature to set aside more money.”
    http://www.fresnobee.com/news/.....24584.html

  277. 277

    I read a trumper’s feed on facebook when I want to a window into their world. It’s amazing how much projection he reposts. It’s as if he posts enough memes it will make it true
    “I did not have any sex with underage sex slaves on Mr Epstien’s island on the 26 occasions I was there.”
    “Mueller is wasting 7 million on a witch hunt, when should be investigating the REAL corrupt criminals…Hillary and Obama”
    “But if we cut your taxes, who will pay for our sex crimes?”
    “Congress was intended to be servants of the people, not rulers of a kingdom.” – Pics of Schumer , Pelosi and McConnell
    “When 6 corporations own every single newspaper, radio and & TV station, it’s all fake news”
    “I’m donald trump, I”m fighting for ALL Americans”
    “Arguing with a liberal is like debating with a monkey, no matter how researched or rational your augment is, the money will just poop at everyone and strut around like it won.”
    “Happiness is pissing off a liberal”
    “Silly Americans, laws are for poor people”

  280. 280

    @243 There’s a project for you, Doc. As you’re the only Republican in America who can spell “to” and “too” correctly, you should set up a tutoring service for your less gifted pals; this would keep both you and them busy and out of mischief.

  282. 282

    Puddy’s having a hypocrisy moment @244. Now watch the squid go scuttling into his crevice in a could of ink.

  283. 283

    @246 Gee, what do we have here? Republicans who love cops, until they don’t? Love’s misconduct had nothing to do with the Bundy case.

    https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-nevada/agent-in-charge-during-2014-bundy-standoff-no-longer-with-blm/

    However, I agree that cops who steal evidence, delete emails, and use their position for personal advantage shouldn’t be cops. On the other hand, Love’s misbehavior doesn’t make the Bundys innocent victims. At best, they deserve each other.

    P.S., I didn’t know BLM agents are political appointees, or that POTUS appoints them; when did that start?

  284. 284

    @249, 250 “We can all rest easy.”

    At least until Trump tests his theory that North Korean missiles aren’t accurate enough to hit American cities and/or our anti-missile defenses are good enough to get them all.

  285. 285

    @252 “Wait for the hate comment! It’s a coming!”

    It didn’t take long, either. See #253.

    @253 Is that a death threat or merely wishing someone dead? I’m only asking for clarification, that’s all. I won’t turn you in.

  286. 286

    @255 “Libtards always want to rob all peoples of their money for their SCUMmy causes!”

    That’s nothing, Republicans want to give your Social Security to billionaires. They take poor kids’ lunch money, too. Just like the school bullies we grew up with.

    http://hechingerreport.org/tru.....st-scores/

  287. 287

    @ 282 RR:

    I often wonder if he ever actually reads some of the things he links to. I’ve long since been convinced that he just clicks on the first “conservative” website that pops up in his googellations of whatever subject he thinks he’s arguing about. It is also apparent that much of the shit that is linked to is just pure conjectural conspiracy theory bullshit written by and for the foil-hat and handgun-under-the-pillow crowd. It’s pretty much all about out-jonesing the Jonsers with everyone in the chain adding their own embellishments to the story.

    It’s how Religion works. It’s all bullshit, and every so often someone comes up with a new angle on the original story and retells it. It’s just a giant game of “Telephone”, where one person whispers in the next persons ear, and that person then leans over to the next guy and whispers in his ear, and so on. After eight or ten iterations of that, the original story has ceased to exist entirely.

    “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”

    Self-fulfilling prophecy?

  290. 290

    @271 How about if Ferguson fires its entire police force and starts over from scratch? It might not work, but they could hardly do worse than what they’ve got.

  291. 291

    @274 “Why do republicans hate the poor so much?”

    I’d guess for roughly the same psychological reasons that caused slaveowners to hate their slaves. In fact, it’s difficult to even distinguish the relationship between Republicans and the poor from that of slaveowners to slaves.

  292. 292

    @ 274

    Neither the Orange County Register nor Joel Kotkin lean left. This is not new information except, apparently, to you.

    Beyond that, if California’s economy is slowing and spending is increasing, either taxation or borrowing must increase.

    Decreasing spending is not part of the liberal playbook, unless it’s for military.

    My point wasn’t political, it was economic.

  294. 294

    @293 Republicans believe people like him should have access to military-type weapons without restriction. After all, he was an Iraq War veteran, and knew how to use them.

  295. 295

    Yeah commiereformed, Jerry Brown’s “austere” budgets are being fought tooth and nail by the Legislative Branch DUMMOCRETINS. https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2017-01-10/governor-pitches-1225b-california-budget-warns-of-deficit Oh yeah these are the same DUMMOCRETIN FOOLS embroiled in some sex scandals. So Puddy agrees with commiereformed to a point. DUMMOCRETINS in the US Congress want to spend spend spend! That’s correct. When has a DUMMOCRETIN ever suggested reduced spending besides Jerry Brown who saw the tax collection projections down by $1.6 Billion in 2017?

    —- Democratic legislative leaders gave Brown’s budget a tepid reception. Acknowledging the need for caution in the face of federal uncertainty, they nonetheless rejected Brown’s proposed cuts to college scholarships and child care while insisting they will still push to increase spending on social welfare programs. —-

    And that zero-energy mandate added 17-29% to the cost of buildings… http://www.sacbee.com/news/pol.....21553.html

    Till Next Time!

  296. 296

    Happy New Year. Looks like Carl has the day off, and no new years prognostications from Goldy.
    The billionaire he works for is not Jeff Bezos is it?

    OI was wondering why our Washington State Attorney General has not taken an interest in Amazon. Maybe this is why. Maybe it takes a guy in California to be critical of something in Seattle.

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

    Maybe the whole 2nd headquarters thing is just Jeff’s way to keep Washington State politicians in line. Does seem very CIAish if true. Maybe he’s learning from the CIA. Is this good for Washington state?

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    @296 “The billionaire he works for is not Jeff Bezos is it?”

    No, Nick Hanauer, a Seattle venture capitalist whose family’s business roots lie in Pacific Coast Feather Company. His brother is one of the owners of the Seattle Sounders pro soccer team.

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    @224 Actually I’m not going to bother as you clearly are making assumptions which make you an ass. Which is fitting for horses ass. I believe you mistakenly believe my Congressional representative is a Republican. He is not. And it’s very unlikely he voted differently than the Democratic caucus. Maybe on a bill, but he is probably in lockstep with the other Democrats. I would like to see him be more a maverick. Still it’s another 10 months before the congressional elections. Will the Republicans or independents even run against him? Without knowing who that person is looking up my representatives voting record is a total waste of my time at this point. You are welcome to do so, but you are a partisan, heck you may work in your Congressional representatives office since you came up with your talking points very quickly. And for your information if I think that I won’t bother Goldie, but I will write your bosses office and at least try to get you busted. Now you want to dance. lets dance, and oh out of fairness you should actually use your actual name, chickenshit.

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    @298 “you are a partisan”

    Aren’t we all? I’m a Democratic party hack and liberal propagandist. What are you, a freelance troll? I can’t visualize you working for anybody, certainly not the Russians. They have standards.

    “you should actually use your actual name, chickenshit”

    Do you? “Mark Adams” looks like a pseudonym. But if that’s your real name, then you should post as “Shortbus” so your employer can’t find you. You don’t want your boss to know how stupid you are, do you?

    “I will write your bosses office and at least try to get you busted”

    The legal term for this is “tortious interference with an employment relationship.” I recommend having a good lawyer lined up and a large personal liability insurance policy in place before proceeding down this path.

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    @221 And RR I might just want you to think I’m a mental midget and I may be thrilled you are putting that out for me. Think a little more Machiavellian. Or actually do your homework, sit down with me for coffee, or beer and actually figure out if I’m a mental midget. While at times you have said things that make me question your statements you are or have been an attorney who worked either in the city or county prosecutors office I do give you a bit of an out as you may have just internalized to a great degree what prosecutors have to; to be successful in the job, many are not great attorneys, and there is always a political element to the job, as they have to keep the voters happy to keep the themselves or the boss in office, and even if the boss is replaced by the voters the daily grind remains. Perhaps there is good reason behind Cicero telling his son to not always be on the prosecutorial side of arguments, and court cases. Occassionally you say dumb things, but that does not mean think you are dumb or stupid person, just human,. which is a very liberal idea. And the backbone of democracy. Perhaps you are too entrenched in your partisanship to come back out into the light of the public square, and have a beer or coffee. Perhaps you are scared to actually do diligence?

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    @301 Perhaps I should be horseasses crown Jester. Lot of power in being the fool. Of course this is only a position that the owner Goldie can infer upon me. Oh noble Goldie if you see fit to put this hat upon me please let me know! I will learn the Mandolin and sign praises of you as minstrels of the past. (Please disregard any depictions of minstrels from Monty Python as those are clearly too truthful for our youth of today.)

    It if your blog Goldie and I would be honored to be your jester of 2018. (I can think of a rabbit for the honor in 2019.)

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    @300 “you are or have been an attorney who worked either in the city or county prosecutors office”

    If by “city or county prosecutor’s office” you mean the Seattle City Attorney or King County Prosecuting Attorney, I never worked for either of those entities, and never said I did.

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    @301 “Of course this is only a position that the owner Goldie can infer upon me.”

    That’s not true. You can be anything you like on HA. For example, I chose to be a rabbit. Goldy didn’t make me a rabbit; I made myself a rabbit. If the role of HA jester suits you, nobody’s stopping you from wearing that mantle. For you, it’s not much of a segue.

    Btw, the word you want here is “confer,” not “infer.” You don’t “infer” something on someone, although you may “infer” something about someone. “Infer” is a deductive reasoning process; “confer” is a bestowing process.

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    @209 Still my inferring you maybe an adolescent in his moms basement has drawn you into the public square. You have not actually put anything down actually proving that you are not. Even 14 year olds are able to look up the voting records of politicians on the internet, or the official US government site. There was a time it was not so easy, but even 14 year olds were capable of doing it then.

    Are you inferring there is some difference in my representatives voting record compared to your Washington state representative, and there is some other Democrats concerned he is rocking the boat here in Washington? He is not Democratic enough for you is the only thing I can attribute your current antics to.

    Assuming you are not working in your representatives office then have you contacted your persons office and what did you think of the experience? Do Republicans who contact her office feel fairly treated and that their concerns were at least addressed, even if the response was a negative one. Were their concerns directly answered, or was the classic political two step used? Or are you merely a partisan in support of any Democrat running on the ticket, and you always vote a straight ticket. And are only slightly embarrassed by the former State Auditor being found guilty in Federal Court last week.

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    @302 “(I can think of a rabbit for the honor in 2019.)”

    I’m honored. I’ve been nominated many times on this blog to be the principal ingredient of a rabbit stew, but I’ve never been nominated to be the HA jester before. Thanks. Dressing up in a clown suit is better than being thrown into a pot of boiling water.

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    @213 I suggest counsel you pull your head out of your ass then and look up and review the bars ethics rules. Even if you are fully retired, you should know the rules of ethics on advice and who can give it in Washington state. Such statements occassionally make me wonder about your claims. A bar number would substantiate your statements, and presumable a real attorney would not make the claim you did unless they knew the other individual is a member of the Washington BAR or Oregon Bar if so please provide that individuals bar number.
    An ethical attorney would provide the requested information, even one who is retired.

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    @215 The police in Britain have never carried firearms, they did not carry before any alleged gun control was done in Britain, and gun control is more about class. There are plenty of firearms in Britain, particularly rural Britain. The culture is different which is why even you are on here saying our cops should always be armed. Even on desk duty? Doing parking tickets? Is there a level duty they don’t need a firearm or are you culturally acclimated that cops are to be armed, you can’t think of why they should normally be unarmed. Which is a shame because you boo hoo police shootings as horrible events, while not seeing that an officer with a bully club might have been the proper amount of force for the situation, or the officer maybe forced to use his head or common sense and call for assistance, and then arm themselves if such weapon is available in the vehicles trunk or when back up arrives. Of course we Americans are always in a hurry, time is money, ect. for such questions of life and death.

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    @305 “And are only slightly embarrassed by the former State Auditor being found guilty in Federal Court last week.”

    The embarrassment is strictly his.

    Kelley served several terms as a state representative before he won a competitive three-way primary for the Democratic nomination for state auditor in 2012, then defeated a less experienced Republican opponent in the general election by a fairly close margin (53%-47%).

    In the Voter’s Pamphlet, Kelley described his credentials as follows: “Business Owner, 1999-present; Lieutenant Colonel, Washington National Guard; Instructor, Army JAG School; Past President, Fortune 500 Company; Regulatory Audits, SEC; Department of Justice.”

    That resume probably impressed many voters, undoubtedly more than it would have if he had added, “Also, I got rich by embezzling money from my clients.” He did NOT tell voters that; you can see for yourself here:

    https://weiapplets.sos.wa.gov/MyVoteOLVR/onlinevotersguide?language=en&electionId=46&countyCode=xx&Group=Statewide

    Once it came to light, Democrats joined Republicans in demanding that he resign; see, e.g.:

    https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/legislative-leaders-urge-auditor-kelley-to-resign/

    http://www.peninsuladailynews......ld-resign/

    The Democratic Party, and individual Democratic office holders including Gov. Inslee, did NOT support this guy when it became known that he was a crook.

    Contrast that with Doc Hasting’s record as the House ethics chairman, or the GOP’s defense of Trump and Roy Moore, etc., etc., etc.

    One of the many differences between Democrats and Republicans is that Democrats don’t make excuses for, or cover up for, or tolerate the ethical misdeeds of their own. When their members commit ethical lapses, they put the public good above their partisan interests. I wish I could say the same for Republicans, but I can’t; the GOP’s track record in this regard sucks.

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    @215 I look forward to voting for or against the proposal. I’m not going to hold my breath as I expect there will be attempts to block the proposal (happened with Goldie’s, but the stakes are different), and if passed by the voters it will be challenged in the courts at least twice. The first time immediately after the vote in hopes the courts will prevent implementation. Should it survive that then when it’s first used against a police officer, though there maybe some amount of shopping for the best case to challenge the law.

    I’m not holding my breath. I’m willing to consider the unintended consequences of the effort, question whether removing the legislature from doing its job is really the best solution to the issues. This is why our legislators are there after all.

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    @306, 307 Explain? These comments bear no relationship to the content of @212 that I can discern.

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    @309 Feel free to ask WSBA whether it’s ethical for an attorney licensed in Washington to express his opinion on a public blog where everyone including him is posting anonymously that another poster he believes to be an attorney probably is not offering you legal advice unless you’ve signed a representation agreement with him/her. This information will get you started:

    https://www.wsba.org/for-legal-professionals/ethics/ethics-line

    I won’t provide you with my bar number because that would identify him. As for whether you believe I’m an attorney, I don’t care whether you do or not. Believe whatever you like.

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    @217 There are other exceptions such as state appeal judges.

    Of course creating the political behemoths such as Seattle was an unintended consequence of the courts decision. And the reasoning underlying the decision was about race, and not the rural and urban divide. It was a decision on an issue that were a much smaller divide in Washington state than others. Would Washington state on its own have implemented the crux of the decision on its own, or would politics in the state be more equal geographically? With Vancouver, Ellensburg, Spokane, Bellingham on a more equal footing with Seattle? And some votes in all these rural area being wasted, and is that really a bad thing? Is it only race that makes those wasted votes bad? Or it was not such a bad thing in Washington state in SCOTUS view, but race made the one man one vote of ultimate political power that Washington states rights as a state should be constitutionally subverted? Which is what happened, although not innocent of racial bias Washington does not have the same history as Alabama, Indiana or New York. It is different here as much of the racial hatred is against Asians and Native Americans historically. Blacks and Hispanics being extremely small minorities in a largely WASP population.

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    @310 “The police in Britain have never carried firearms”

    That’s not true.

    Setting aside Northern Ireland, which has always been an exception because of the civil strife there, and where all British police officers are armed, “In the rest of the United Kingdom, the majority of police officers do not carry firearms; that duty is instead carried out by specially-trained firearms officers.”

    Wikipedia gives the number of these officers as follows:

    “In relation to specialist firearms officers, in the year 2011–12, there were 6,756 Authorised Firearms Officers, [and] 12,550 police operations in which firearms were authorised throughout England and Wales …. ”

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_use_of_firearms_in_the_United_Kingdom

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    @310 ” … you are on here saying our cops should always be armed. Even on desk duty? Doing parking tickets? Is there a level duty they don’t need a firearm or are you culturally acclimated that cops are to be armed, you can’t think of why they should normally be unarmed.”

    You’re reading too much into what I said. Don’t overthink the situation. Let common sense be your guide.

    “Which is a shame because you boo hoo police shootings as horrible events”

    No, only police shootings that appear to be unnecessary and/or unjustified. I’ve never claimed that all police shootings are inappropriate. For example, based on what’s been reported about this weekend’s Colorado incident, the cops clearly had to use deadly force and were justified in doing so.

    ” … then arm themselves if such weapon is available in the vehicles trunk or when back up arrives”

    That’s nonsense on multiple levels.

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    @312 “I expect there will be attempts to block the proposal (happened with Goldie’s, but the stakes are different)”

    Goldy’s initiative was a stunt. God forbid we should live in a country or state where it’s possible to enact a statute declaring a specific person to be a “horse’s ass” by popular vote. Even he didn’t expect it to actually be voted on.

    It’s possible there could be a legal challenge to I-490. It has enough signatures, but it’s conceivable a drafting flaw or some other legal consideration could keep it off the ballot. I have no opinion on that at this time, Right now my gut sense is I-490 would survive a legality challenge, but we’ll see.

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    @219 As you have pointed out prior to 1963 that could be done, Though I don’t think at the time Seattle even as the largest city was demographically as dominant over other areas of the state. The state government has too be representative of all the citizens and all geographic areas. One cannot expect 350,000 to move to other areas of the state bringing things into a more even keel, but it could happen naturally. Another political solution, which is also unlikely is splitting the stat up into multiple states with state governments more representative of their regions. This is a problem to many western states. Not likely to happen, but there is a lot of resentment over the 900 pound gorilla Seattle has become and how that warps things. Seattle and King county do not exist for the rest of the state to bow to and supplicate to. As communities Bellingham, Everette, Spokane, Ellensburg are equal to Seattle and should not be shut out, yet they are sometimes due to interests of those in Seattle. Seattle is not the breadth and entirety of the State, and would continue without the resources it receives from these areas. Should the tide turn and Seattle loses population politicians representing Seattle should bear in mine pay back is a bitch, and pay back will be taken, it is human nature. Still nothing to worry about today for todays elite in Seattle and western Washington, just there is that thing called change.

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    @312 ” [I] … question whether removing the legislature from doing its job is really the best solution to the issues. This is why our legislators are there after all.”

    Goldy shares your antipathy to citizen initiatives. However, our state constitution has authorized them since 1912, and if you and Goldy want to get rid of them, you’ll have to change the state constitution or at least change the statutes to make it much tougher to qualify for the ballot.

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    @311 Which just goes to show that neither party has a way to keep the bad apples out. Neither do a comprehensive background check on their candidates before or after an individual announces they are running and identify with a party. Such background checks are expensive and it can be argued could be anti democratic. They could be used to party elites to keep qualified citizens from running. Also I think it could be argued that the voters sometimes like to vote in crooks. As they maybe a crook but they are our crook. Sometimes it takes a crooked man or woman who has walked a crooked mile to be the leader that is needed.

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    @303 Certainly I’m willing to meet at some neutral location. Hopefully one that servers coffee or something and is of relatively good cheer. My work schedule rather sucks, and we can air out any misconceptions we have about each other. Or be proven correct. And yes I would attend one of the weekly sessions on Tuesdays if I was not working Tuesday evenings.

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    So it turns out the Colorado cop-killer is the loon’s Obama-hating, Breitbart-loving, white nationalist kindred spirit. It figures.

    “Forbes writer J.J. MacNab discovered Riehl’s Facebook page, in which he identifies himself as “Matt Gonzo,” and where he has posted multiple memes featuring Pepe the Frog, the cartoon that has been appropriated as a symbol for white nationalists.”

    “Other of Riehl’s Facebook posts include calling former President Barack Obama a “lying piece of sh*t” and shared posts from alt-right website Breitbart News.”

    https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/colorado-shooting-suspect-was-an-iraq-war-vet-who-posted-alt-right-pepe-memes-on-social-media/

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    @315 Interestingly, Baker v. Carr, the first case to articulate the “one man, one vote” doctrine, was viewed as a contest between underrepresented urban constituencies and overrepresented rural constituencies, and some contemporary scholars argued the case “had nothing to do with racial discrimination”; but a recent law review note by a Notre Dame law student (now a corporate attorney with a global law firm) contended that focusing on the “the representative imbalance between urban and rural areas … is overly narrow” and overlooks the fact that when “the Court was deliberating over Baker, malapportionment regularly entailed racially discriminatory effects[.]”

    http://scholarship.law.nd.edu/.....ntext=jleg

    Question of race and urban vs. rural aside, “one man, one vote” is the law of the land, and the makeup of Washington’s legislature reflects the distribution of population in the state. King County has about a third of Washington’s total population, and three counties — King, Pierce, and Snohomish — have over half of all Washington residents. Eastern Washington has two-thirds of the state’s land area but only a fifth of its population; two-thirds of the state’s population live in counties bordering Puget Sound. Under these circumstances, it’s unrealistic and unreasonable to argue that the rural counties — most of which are east of the Cascades — should have majority control of the legislature. Such a districting scheme would be blatantly unconstitutional and would be thrown out by the courts.

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    @229 Apparently you missed the part where I stated I was being a jerk. Should have been a clue to you I was jerking your chain. I did so successfully. I don’t see where you reposted anything, but you don’t have my permission to do so.
    Who owns posts on a list like this is not a settled question of law. Though it could be argued Goldie owns them all, though looking at the bottom he claims copy right for everything on here, but specifically not what is said in the comments. Smart man.
    And yes I do know I would have to probably actually sue you and all that if I were to make a legal issue of it. Of course you are hiding behind your identity behind a mask thinking you can say anything on here and not get your balls in a bind. You could live by your own words and enter the public square as yourself. Do you fear your own self censure if you were to do so? Or the censure of others?

    Yanking the chain!!! This is fun!!! Yank Yank Yank!!!

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    @319 “there is a lot of resentment over the 900 pound gorilla Seattle has become”

    Fuck ’em. As far as I’m concerned, they can stop taking our money any time they choose. If eastern Washington wants to be a separate state, then let ’em pay for their own roads and schools.

    I’ve traveled in eastern Washington often enough to hear people over that griping about “supporting Seattle.” I don’t know whether that’s tongue-in-cheek or they actually believe that. I suspect the latter. In which case I would ask them, “Do you people really believe that your nice paved state highways and county roads are paid for by the gas taxes of people living in houses spaced a quarter mile apart? Do you think four families pay enough gas taxes to pave a mile of highway?” And what about all those fleets of school buses that gather up kids from miles around and transport them to and from school every day? Who’s paying for that? Not their property taxes.

    King County is the only one of Washington’s 39 counties that exports gas taxes to other counties, to the tune of over $125 million a year. Pierce County breaks even. The other 37 counties are all net recipients of transportation dollars, i.e., more money is spent in their counties than their residents pay in gas taxes.

    The fact is, the Puget Sound metro area is subsidizing the rest of the state, and has been for many years. The situation is parallel to “blue” states subsidizing “red” states. The red states, and in our state the red counties, excel at being ingrates. To hear them tell it, we’re “takers” and they’re “givers,” when in fact it’s markedly the other way around.

    If they want to secede and form their own country or a separate state, then as I said, let ’em go and support themselves. I don’t begrudge them their schools and roads, but I’m tired of listening to their whining that Seattle is stealing from them.

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    @321 “neither party has a way to keep the bad apples out”

    In a state like ours where candidates are nominated in primaries, the parties have little control over who the candidates are. It’s the voters’ responsibility to keep the bad apples out.

    It’s one thing for someone like Troy Kelley to get elected by voters who didn’t know he was embezzling from his business. It’s something else for votes to elect someone like Trump despite what was known about him before the election and the things he said during the campaign. Kelley voters can be forgiven for that ignorance because they didn’t know and had no way of knowing. Trump voters have no excuse. They knew what he was and voted for him anyway.

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    @322 I was thinking of Drinking Liberally sometime. They probably can do coffee. I usually opt for 7-Up; I don’t drink at all when I have to drive. Goldy may or may not show up; Darryl usually is there.

    They meet at a tavern in Seattle’s Eastlake neighborhood on Tuesdays at 8 p.m. It’s not real convenient — since moving to that location several years ago, I’ve gone there only once — but if you’re serious and that works for you, we probably can work out a date there.

    I once met Puddy in person, not at DL, but at a gathering at Seattle Jew’s private residence. It was just an introduction, but he was quite pleasant and there was none of his online gibberish in our very brief conversation. The online Puddy is an act. So is the online Roger Rabbit; I’m not really a rabbit, or if I am, I have a strikingly human-like physical appearance in person.

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    @325 Copyright stays with the writer unless assigned. Goldy owns the website, but every poster here has a common-law copyright to everything s/he posts, subject to fair use.

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    @325 “Of course you are hiding behind your identity behind a mask thinking you can say anything on here and not get your balls in a bind.”

    That’s not why we post anonymously. There are crazy people out there. Especially in today’s superheated political environment, it’s unsafe to expose yourself and your family to retaliation if you make a hobby of online political commentary. Even having a bumper sticker on your car might be asking for trouble.

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    @325 “Yanking the chain!!! This is fun!!! Yank Yank Yank!!!”

    I see you’re getting into the swing of things around here. What did you think the rest of us are doing? The HA comment threads are an outhouse, and pulling the flush chain is what we do in here. This is a society of intellectuals, but not an intellectual society, if you get my drift.

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    @235 City, county and state officials and politician generally are unable, unwilling, and do not have the cajones to go after just regular every day type corruption in Sheriff and police departments. Often it takes Federal involvement whether intentional or unintentional for just corruption to be dealt with, so why is anyone surprised there maybe racist cops, And there probably are whole police and Sheriff departments where the entire force should be fired, not likely to happen for a number of reasons. Imagine Seattle with the entire Police Department fired and told not to show up, and it will be weeks or months before the force is reconstituted and King County is handling the city. Maybe not be as bad as I’m imagining, but it could be worse than my imagination. We may want police who are not racist, ect, but that is not the real world. Real solutions and real politics happen in the real world, not in the SCA world of politics as we imagine they should be. There are limits to Plato’s cave and he never came up with a better solution than democracy in some form. His idea of philosopher kings was up against the real Earth and real human beings.

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    @328 I can take a Tuesday off from work. It will be few weeks, and I probably won’t drink anything either as I agree with you on that whole drinking and driving concept does not work well. They do have some parking, but I take from some comments on here it’s not a lot of parking for a really big crowd?

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    @335 It will be a few weeks for me, too. Right now I’m out of circulation with a winter bug. The one time I went there, I didn’t have any trouble finding street parking. It’s a small tavern and the DL crowd usually is about six people. Finding it is the main problem, unless you have one of those GPS gadgets that leads you to it. The street layout there isn’t the easiest to navigate.

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    Notice how Puddy @271 goes from “nice hijack” straight to Alex Jones conspiracy material. Head-exploding squid ink. Which basically means that my job is done here.

    But, for those interested in what’s actually going on in Baltimore, the police department has a long history of abuse and excessive use of force. Between 2011 and 2014, Baltimore paid nearly $6 million to settle complaints regarding excessive use of force. It would likely have been more were it not for the fact that municipal liability is limited to $200K per incident.

    Since the killing of Freddy Gray, civic leaders have made a concerted effort to hold police officers personally accountable for their misconduct. In response, police officers have effectively implemented a work slowdown. The problem isn’t civic leadership. The problem is the police culture.

    The basic point about police culture can be gleaned from the link Puddy posted at 248.

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    @298

    Actually I’m not going to bother as you clearly are making assumptions which make you an ass.

    You’re not going to bother…what? Looking up your Rep’s voting record? And you’re not going to do so, because you think that I’m making assumptions? SMFH.

    You made an assumption about my Rep’s voting record. You said you assume that she and Republicans always vote opposite each other, and I pointed to some facts which prove that assumption to be false.

    I made no assumptions whatsoever about your Rep’s voting record. I have no interest in your Rep’s voting record, because he’s not my Representative.

    The rest of your comment is mostly churlish name-calling. Not that you’re wrong on the chickenshit thing. Unlike you, I have a rather unusual name and a significant internet presence. My vanity search turns up five hits on the first page. Given just my name, it’s really easy to figure out where I live. If that makes me a a chickenshit, then I’m more than happy to assume the label. At least I get to sleep at night.

    But, you’re mostly wrong on just about everything else.

    @305

    @209 Still my inferring you maybe an adolescent in his moms basement has drawn you into the public square.

    No, it hasn’t. My first response to you was @159. Your reply to that comment is where you made your inference about my age. You also asked me some questions, which I answered politely and completely. I gave you those answers despite your inference, not because of it.

    For the record, my mother is dead. At the time she died, she was living in a condo that I bought for her. It didn’t have a basement.

    Are you inferring there is some difference in my representatives voting record compared to your Washington state representative, and there is some other Democrats concerned he is rocking the boat here in Washington?

    No. Let me repeat this for you, because you appear to have difficulty comprehending something the first time someone says it. I don’t care about your Rep’s voting record. He’s not my Representative. I can neither vote for nor against him. That’s your responsibility, and, while I’d appreciate it if you chose to be more informed about his record, there really isn’t anything more I can do about it except shame you into doing something about your ignorance.

    Surprise me. Stop making excuses for being deliberately ignorant. Become informed. Do your job as a citizen.

    Assuming you are not working in your representatives office then have you contacted your persons office and what did you think of the experience?

    Yes I have, and I have no complaints. You could have inferred this answer from the statement I made earlier to the effect that I expect her to get reelected to another term, and I would have no qualms with that result.

    Do Republicans who contact her office feel fairly treated and that their concerns were at least addressed, even if the response was a negative one. Were their concerns directly answered, or was the classic political two step used?

    I have no idea. Ask a Republican. I’m generally not interested in the opinions of Republicans. See below for an explantation as to why.

    Or are you merely a partisan in support of any Democrat running on the ticket, and you always vote a straight ticket.

    I’m an indépendant voter who believes that the Republican Party has become so ideologically rigid that it’s lost it’s soul. I’d seriously consider voting for a reasonable Republican if I ever had the opportunity to do so. Unfortunately, at the present, “reasonable Republican” is an oxymoron. The Republican Party has essentially kicked all the reasonable people out.

    And are only slightly embarrassed by the former State Auditor being found guilty in Federal Court last week.

    I’m not embarrassed at all. Not sure why you think I should be. I’m not a Democrat.

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    And yes I do know I would have to probably actually sue you and all that…

    Try filing a police report first. That’ll be pretty funny too.

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    @340 Reading your comments on here so you work in that Representatives office? That appears to be what you are saying. Am I misreading that or do you work for the Congressperson? From the looks of your statement I have to write a letter now. I think if Goldie sees he may take umbrage with you if you are working in her office. Maybe he will only raise an eyebrow or maybe more.

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    RR that police shooting I was giving you a hard time has taken a twist.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/charges-against-swatting-suspect-could-be-complicated/ar-BBHLFOc?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp

    I think the thin blue line is doing this to protect its own. Sure he sure be charged for making a false report, but beyond that is simply too far, it says more about the militarization of the police and tactics if people can use the police in this way as a prank or to get rid of rivals.

    Finding this guy guilty of murder or manslaughter would go against the public interest in if some one is killed by police because of you making a 911 you can be charged (if you are in Kansas).

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    @342

    Am I misreading that or do you work for the Congressperson?

    You are seriously misreading me. Do you think was lying when I said that I’m not a Democrat?

    No, I do not work for Susan DelBene, though I have worked with her husband, Kurt. I was never part of a group that reported to Kurt.

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    @331 It’s America and we have always had crazy people. Most of the founders were crazy people, especially if you asked King George yet they all wrote their names on the Declaration of Independence knowing doing so would get them hung if caught by the Kings men, so I find your excuse week tea. To make a difference you have to stand up as a real human being, a real person with foibles or greatness and most likely both.

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    @332 That is only because you cannot see my Voltaire smile as I post many of my missives, though occassionally it slips and I become too serious.

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    @345

    To make a difference you have to stand up as a real human being, a real person with foibles or greatness and most likely both.

    Bullshit. The Declaration of Independence wasn’t a seminal document because Thomas Jefferson wrote the initial draft. It was a seminal document, because of the words that were in it.

    To make a difference, you need a good idea and the ability to communicate that idea to others. Your identity is irrelevant.

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    @326 Apple orchards, dams, wheat fields have their place and benefit King county residents. and some of them like you use them to go other places in the state so you enjoy the benefit of your tax dollars even there. There is a rural and urban divide in Washington state and one thing more rural residents are the taxes they pay, since they are more likely to own property. And there is the regressive nature of our tax structure that means someone who drives for a living maybe paying far more in gas taxes that what RR pays in total taxes, and that is rather unfair, but this person could easily just be a renter in King county and not really be fully aware of all the taxes he or she pays indirectly.

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    @347 The signers would disagree, and many paid in gold and blood to support their ideas. All the signers put up, and not just because of words in that document.

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    @347 The signers would disagree, and many paid in gold and blood to support their ideas. All the signers put up, and not just because of words in that document.

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    @350

    First of all, now your argument has changed. First, you said that they made a difference because they signed their names to a document. Now you’re saying that they did more than just sign their names to a document.

    Secondly, your revised argument isn’t any better. According to your reasoning, I could pay for someone’s college tuition, but it would only make a difference if the person knew that I paid for it.

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    Baltimore a libtard voting city run by libtards. And John Doe has issues with that.

    Libtards will be libtards.

    Till Next Time!

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    SInce 1967 Baltimore has been dominated, trashed and pilfered by DUMMOCRETINS.

    Source: WIkiPedia, the leftist blog site

    Thomas D’Alesandro III
    Democratic

    William D. Schaefer
    Democratic

    Clarence H. Burns
    Democratic

    Kurt Schmoke
    Democratic

    Martin O’Malley
    Democratic

    Sheila Dixon
    Democratic

    Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
    Democratic

    Catherine E. Pugh
    Democratic

    And which DUMMOCRETIN Tool is their congressman… Elijah Cummings of course!

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

    Till Next Time!

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    SInce 1967 Baltimore has been dominated, trashed and pilfered by DUMMOCRETINS.

    Source: WIkiPedia, the leftist blog site

    Thomas D’Alesandro III
    Democratic

    William D. Schaefer
    Democratic

    Clarence H. Burns
    Democratic

    Kurt Schmoke
    Democratic

    Martin O’Malley
    Democratic

    Sheila Dixon
    Democratic

    Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
    Democratic

    Catherine E. Pugh
    Democratic

    And which DUMMOCRETIN Tool is their congressman… Elijah Cummings of course!

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

    Till Next Time!

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    Poor Puddy. He can’t help simply repeating the same facts over and over again, because he has no clue that the facts he’s citing don’t support the conclusion he wants to reach. Indeed, it’s likely he doesn’t even remember what conclusion he’s trying to reach. Puddy’s brain has a clear dysfunction by which facts go in and bullshit comes out.

    That’s largely because Puddy’s stuck in his right-wing echo chamber. Puddy won’t read this, because it’s from a “leftist blog site”, Salon.com. But, it’s written by D. Watkins, who, unlike Puddy, actually lives in Baltimore:

    Sohn and one of the film’s stars, Lt. Col. Melvin Russell, who heads the Baltimore Police Department’s Community Collaboration Unit, stopped by “Salon Talks” to discuss the impact of documenting a city on edge in real time. The conversation quickly turned to Trump’s law and order agenda advocating police aggression.

    Trump’s rhetoric on police brutality “almost, almost gives a stamp of approval on that deep rooted police culture,” Russell said. Sohn pointed to the militarization of police as well. “I think the real danger is that law enforcement in this country is now being woven into the military,” she said. “Law enforcement is actually in community with our folks and there should be a difference.”

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    John Doe doesn’t get it because he’s too dense to comprehend it. It has nothing to do with any right wing echo chamber. It’s FACT! When you look at police brutality it predominately occurs in DUMMOCRETIN controlled areas. It seems DUMMOCRETINS are loose with the law. Yet there is John Doe claiming Puddy is dysfunctional. It’s another of those libtard TRAIN WRECKS when a libtard can’t refute the facts.

    Puddy has not changed the PuddyTune on this subject since Puddy been here on HA DUMMOCRETINS! All one needs to do is ax the clueless crazed databaze cretin for a full review of Puddy and police brutality.

    Sooooooooooooooooo with Trump pro-police, maybe he is pro-police because Obummer was anti-police quick to blame the police for every American ill. It started with the Beer Summit. Of course John Doe forgot all about that. It was in the Wa Post, another libtard institution that captured it all… https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/obama-legacy/henry-louis-gates-jr-arrest-controversy.html

    Soooooooooooo John Doe, Obummer made a lasting impression on the police. Obummer was quick to send in Eric The Red Holder to look at Ferguson. Oh wait… The county was DUMMOCRETIN controlled. The prosecutor was DUMMOCRETIN. ANd what was the just us decision John Doe?

    Look at Seattle John Doe. Who put Seattle Police on notice? Who runs Seattle John Doe?

    Then there is Bill DiBlasio. So much angst with DiBlasio that the police turn their back on him many times last year!

    Puddy’s point is direct and FACTual! If there is police brutality

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    If there is police brutality, it’s probably in a DUMMOCRETIN city!

    Puddy had to answer the “bell”.

    Till Next Time!

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    @357

    Your bell got rung? I’m surprised you noticed.

    If there is police brutality, it’s probably in a city with a significant black population. And Republicans clearly aren’t any better on this; c.f. stop-and-frisk.

    By the way, crime is way down in NYC. At least one person at NRO will admit being wrong, but I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for anyone in the Trump administration to agree.

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