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New Scientist: How climate change can bring cold snaps.

VOX: How the US failed to rebuild Afghanistan.

The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: An even “specialer” prosecutor to stop Robert Mueller

Young Turks: Republican Governor tied woman up in his basement.

Samantha Bee: No one questions her dishonesty.

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

President Shithole Dotard Трамп And His Band of Treasonous, Lying Whiners Stable Geniuses:

Daily Show: The price of social change—Why California is paying gun offenders.

Minute Physics: How we know black holes exist.

VOX: The new US tax law, explained with cereal.

Sam Seder: Kansas lawmaker stupidly claims blacks abuse pot because it’s “in their character”

Full Frontal: Road to 2018—Stacey Abrams

The FISA bill in 60 seconds.

President Oprah:

VOX: The real reason Amelia Earhart is so famous.

Francesca Fiorentini: The powerful will erase you in 2020:

The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: A crash course in Breitbart’s conspiracy journalism, Pt. 1

The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: A crash course in Breitbart’s conspiracy journalism, Pt. 1

Samantha Bee: No country for pregnant women.

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

Comments

  1. 1

    It’s interesting to see the media trying to report the expletive. Cable can go verbatim, but broadcast news cannot.

  2. 2

    I wonder if Repukes tell their bitches to stop whining that they have to do the laundry….because you know, in this Country they are allowed to go to sports stadiums unlike in Saudia Arabia. And fuck, they get to drive a Car too, to the stadium.

    Shut up bitch and clean my clothes! Don’t make me slap you bitch!

    https://apnews.com/54adcc61344744f492c0710f75524523

  3. 3

    Bus Rapid Transit has been sold as a cheaper alternative to light rail, but sometimes when put into practice, it’s just a bus with a better shelter and a fancier paint job. Then there is the vehicle. Often it is an articulated bus with an extra door. The Albuquerque Rapid Transit has won many accolades, but the buses have turned out to be lemons. Battery electric buses have made great strides, but it appears that the city of Albuquerque bought an uncertified model from BYD Auto of China, and the chargers have also had issues.
    https://www.abqjournal.com/1116887/mayor-outlines-major-problems-with-art-including-inability-to-charge-buses.html

  4. 4

    I think Drumpf might be a Muslim – notice he didn’t call the Middle East a Shithole!

    Drumpf a Muslim!

  5. 5

    Not sure I need to know how climate change brings cold snaps, I just know it’s going to suck as it gets worse. I’m sure people aren’t going to like it much. Heck it might even result in comprehensive immigration formations.

  8. 8

    Huh! Alabama Republicans are redefining treason. Now it’s failure to support Trump, the Republican party and an unrepentant pedophile.

    “Alabama Republicans seek to censure GOP Senator Shelby for not supporting accused pedophile Roy Moore”

    “Tell Shelby you’ll never forget his disloyalty to President Trump and the Republican Party for his treasonous actions.”

    http://www.rawstory.com/2018/0.....roy-moore/

    I plead guilty.

  9. 9

    Steve, you’ve already redefined the term treason.

    By the time 2020 rolls around you’ll be reduced to a profane, testosterone-secreting version of YLB.

    Ah, but you’ll have a hashtag database that’ll be the envy of your peers, so there’s that.

  10. 10

    @ 5

    Not sure I need to know how climate change brings cold snaps…

    We’ve noticed you bring similar attitude to every topic about which you choose to post.

    It’s not a good look. Probably it is part of why your family abandoned you.

  11. 11

    Yeah, you’re right, Doc, I’ve redefined treason to include dumbfuck radiologists who post thousands of pro-Putin hashtags in blog comment threads. So, yeah, I can see how that might bother you.

  13. 13

    @10 hey, thanks for acknowledging me. But you can continue to debate stupidly, I on the other hand see what the future brings and will try to make a difference in life, while you take up space on earth thinking that it was made all for you.

    Merry Christmas. Why is the war on Christmas just held like for only two weeks of every year. Stop being part of the war on Cristmas Bob.

  14. 14

    Well someone else noticed what I posted about California (re:Feinstein primary) and it’s freaking out the GOP.

    “We have three excellent candidates running for governor,” (CA-GOP Chair) Brulte said the other day after Republican and former Sacramento congressman Doug Ose jumped in the race. “And if all three stay in, we run the risk of having an all-Democrat runoff.”
    …
    “One (GOP candidate) has to break 20 percent, and they will make it into a spot in the runoff,”
    …
    That leads to another problem. Republicans really need a GOP gubernatorial candidate on the November ballot because they’re unlikely to have anybody running for Senate. With no major GOP candidate in the race, the Senate campaign is shaping up to be a Democrat-versus-Democrat battle between incumbent Sen. Dianne Feinstein and state Senate President Pro Tem. Kevin de León, D-Los Angeles.

    How bad is it for the GOP? 53 house seats up for grabs and no Republican in either race at the top of the ballot?

  15. 15

    11,
    Little surprise that trumpanzees prefer terms like “collusion” that have no legal application to the RNC/Trump/Russia conspiracy and that the majority of WWCM voters are unable to spell. They are counting on being in a position to dismiss the results of Mueller’s investigation should Fuckface be unable to stop it. Lying during FBI interviews (18 U.S.C. § 1001), soliciting illegal contributions (52 U.S.C. § 30121), or even obstruction (18 U.S.C § 1503) are meant to sound like trivial technicalities instead of an organized conspiracy with a hostile foreign power.

    But to yet loyal American citizens such a conspiracy is treasonous, even if it does not meet the legal definition of treason. Even Steve Bannon agrees.

  16. 16

    “But, but, but, Donald Trump won’t be on the ballot in 2018!”

    Felling the heat from Joe Arpaio (R-Racist Felon) entering the race with a declaration of being a rubber stamp for the Trump agenda, the other GOP candidate went all “embrace the racist.”

    “I speak a little salty behind closed doors at times as well, so I’m not going to throw the first stone on using any language,” said McSally, who wants to be Arizona’s next U.S. senator. She added, “You better believe I will keep working with President Trump.”

    It’s not about the language. It’s the intent.

    “The people from these countries are worthless and we shouldn’t let them in here. We need more Europeans.” Same intent, no shit.

  17. 17

    It appears most Trump supporters think his “shithole” comment isn’t a big deal and a Republican running for Congress called it a “joke.”

    http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/12/.....index.html

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: I suspect if you walked up to these people and said, “your sister is a slut,” they would shrug and say, “everybody knows that,” and go back to shooting pool or working on cars or whatever they’re doing. In their circles it’s no big deal.

  18. 18

    @ 14

    How bad is it for the GOP? 53 house seats up for grabs and no Republican in either race at the top of the ballot?

    Perhaps you have not paid attention.

    Every two years there are 50+ House seats up for grabs in CA. Because every House member must stand for re-election every two years.

    The last GOP senator representing CA is, I believe, Pete Wilson. OK, last elected GOP senator. His replacement lost a special election to Feinstein. In 1992.

    So for 26 years the GOP has had no prayer of capturing a US Senate seat in CA. This is not new information.

    Let us summarize, shall we? In 2018, the party composition of the US Senate contingent from CA will not change. In 2018, there are 53 seats in the House of Representatives up for re-election, just as there were in 2016. And in 2014. etc.

    You are becoming indistinguishable from HA’s lower-tier inhabitants, Pilsner.

  19. 19

    @8 As your lawyer, I advise you to take the Fifth, while I arrange an Alford Plea for you. Don’t talk to the police, and don’t confess to anything. This may be more serious than you realize.

  21. 21

    @10 We were happy to adopt him. There’s always room in this blog for one more liberal.

  22. 22

    @ 16

    It’s not about the language. It’s the intent.

    Unless it’s Trump, speaking behind close doors.

    Then it’s about the language.

  24. 24

    @22 Language matters. If you don’t believe me, walk up to some couple you don’t know and call the wife a “slut” instead of a “lady,” and see what happens.

  25. 25

    A person now has to be willfully blind to ignore the plainly visible fact that the occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is a dodgy character with mobster connections and a lengthy history of shady dealings who isn’t nearly as financially successful as he claims to be and committed perjury in a sworn deposition .

    https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/13/trump-dossier-testimony-financial-ties.html

    A dumbfuck can ignore all this with minimal effort, though, simply by being a dumbfuck.

  26. 26

    @18

    Missing the point again?

    There are 4 current GOP held House seats in California that are a virtual lock to flip. Districts that went pretty solidly for Clinton. There are another 6 that were single digit victories for the GOP in 2016.

    What’s the effect of a deeply unpopular President and no GOP on the two Statewide races? Everyone except Trump knows (Primary for sneaky Feinstein) there isn’t a chance of a GOP Senator from California but they’re defending the house.

    No GOP candidate in the general for Governor? That’s embarrassing. Donor fleeing embarrassing. Base not voting embarrassing. Dems cakewalking to a 10-12 seat pickup in the house just in CA embarrassing.

  28. 28

    @myself

    I’d like to thank Governor Schwartzenegger for championing the open Primary Prop. 14 in CA. It was a GOP idea to wrestle back control of the State Senate by running two GOP candidates in Primaries in districts where 4-5 Dems go at it and try to steal a seat in a blue district by vote splitting.

    Working out great for them isn’t it.

  29. 29

    @22

    Yes because the few seconds saying the word Shit is unPresidential is the important part. Not the several minutes that follows talking about 45 being an outright racist.

    For a handful of, probably geriatric, voters the work itself is the problem. For everyone else, hey now, it really is true that he doesn’t like brown people but loves him some blue eyed bloond Scandinavians. Why could that be?

    Too Damn Funny

  30. 30

    @ 26

    There are 4 current GOP held House seats in California that are a virtual lock to flip.

    The day before the 2016 election, some guy I referred to thereafter as Cz-252 wrote on HA that #CrookedHillary had an “absolute lock” on 252 electoral votes.

    I think that guy goes by another user name nowadays, but ya gotta have a program to know the players. I don’t know who he morphed into, do you?

  31. 31

    @ 23

    Yes, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit, the 2018 midterm elections will be more historically in line wits those in 2006, 2010, and 2014, rather than like the 2002 mid-term election.

    The party holding the White House will lose House seats, in all likelihood. I completely agree.

    This is not new information.

    Of course, the only shit Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit shares around here that is new is subsequently proven to be incorrect as well.

  32. 32

    “But it diminishes you.”

    As though 4,000 hashtags don’t diminish you. And consider that what I’m doing is in response to what you’re doing. We’re both being diminished, but you started it! Neener-neener.

    I’d just like to see you stop the hashtags and the “…will never, ever be…” comments. It was fine early on, but this has become symbolic of the possibility of collusion and the probability of a cover-up associated with Russian interference in our nation’s elections, hence the “treason and borscht” replies. Stop that and I’ll gladly do likewise.

  33. 33

    A somewhat defensible position would be to say, “Why are we letting unskilled workers immigrate when we should be focusing on professionals like doctors and engineers?”

    But that would include a whole lot of brown people so he went with Norway. Because there’s something magic and productive about Norway. What is different in the mind of a racist about Norway over India. Or Japan. Or South Korea (#1 in world in people with advanced engineering degrees.) Did you know that Mexico has more STEM degree holders per capita than the U.S.? That’s unfathomable to 45 because Mexicans are fruit pickers and drug mules and bad hombres.

    We need Norway.

  34. 34

    “As though 4,000 hashtags don’t diminish you.”

    While his years long sustained efforts to prop up and defend the Russian/RNC/Trump conspiracy is indefensible, in my opinion it’s his full throated defense of #trumpcar that diminished him most.
    Shameful stuff.

  35. 35

    Run Joe Run

    He’s still defending the Pink jumpsuits thing on camera. “Because, ha ha, we’ll make them less manly by making them wear pink. Ha Ha. Gay dudes and chicks wear Pink.”

    #timesup

  36. 36

    @21 Thanks Rog. The good doctor thinks that being a doctor is some kind of miracle accomplishment – Who does he think he is? Some elitist or something?

    Ohh, and if any of the good people of HA Heroes could do me a favor and list Bob’s contributions to this blog then that would help me learn something, always room to learn.

  37. 37

    33,
    My guess is it has more to do with the class resentment living at the heart of the arm-fishing Roypublican base. They resent the educated. They resent anyone who hasn’t surrendered to rage-rally stupidity, mindless xenophobia, and lazy infotainment media tropes. He may not know much, but Fuckface knows his base.

  39. 39

    I find it interesting that nobody is really talking about what is happening in Kentucky and what will happen in other states to follow regarding Medicaid and the requirement to have to at least work 80 hours per month (in Kentucky).

    What are the implications? For every action there is a reaction – basic physics. The reaction shouldn’t just be – “They should have to” or “They shouldn’t have to”. Instead, think about what this means for the future.

    The idea of Medicaid is medical insurance for the poor or those with little to no income. Well now they have to work 80 hours per month – or 20 hours per week. Ok, great – everyone should work. But are there jobs for everyone? Is the answer yes? Is there really a job for every single individual over the age of 18? If so, why is there unemployment? I know there is a shortage of qualified workers – but does this mean a shift of the not so qualified shift to those open positions that are waiting for the qualified ones and then those that are completely unqualified people that will now have to work (I know this assumes that that lazy person is unqualified to do anything or dumber than dumb) at the positions opened up by the shift?

    Or do these people just don’t get any care and die on the side of the street or wait till they need emergency care, which the taxpayer pays at a greater cost?

    Or do Employers now take positions that are full time 40 hours a week positions and cut them in half and then fill the other half with those that are currently on medicaid that aren’t working??

    What about as jobs are automated? And there is a less need for people. WTF happens then? Do we all steal for a living to make ends meet? Or do we institute birth control to limit the population?

    Doesn’t sound like the Repukes really thought this one out – other than those shithole folks need to work.

    How about institute a training program? How about stop automation? Or do we do what Bob wants and lower the hourly wage to $2.00 an hour as medical needs and costs go up?

    I don’t know – All I know is Bob hasn’t really thought about it nor does he give a shit. Something tells me when people are murdering in the streets for food and medical care that maybe he’ll start to get concerned or do the Christian thing and toss them the death penalty (again – at a cost to the taxpayer).

    Ok – back to the regularly scheduled program…..

    #crookedHillary!

  41. 41

    @39 continued

    But something tells me that I worry for nothing….because I don’t think that earth survives another 50 years, possibly even less than 25 years. hehehehe.

  42. 42

    @36, 38 Sadly, political blogs need trolls, and Doctor Dumbfuck was HA’s best. The doctor has a point about diminishment, but for me to listen, he needs to be willing to look in the mirror.

  43. 43

    @32

    What diminishes Dr. Dumbfuck (and Piddles for that matter), is their lack of outright condemnation of a POTUS that is supported by racists and is a racist himself.

    MLK, Jr., while not perfect man by any means, had a great quote on Aug. 28, 1963: “”I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character.”

    Sadly that dream will never be realized in our country when people like Trump are elected President of the United States.

  45. 45

    39,
    We’re talking about Appalachia. Proud people. Many of these people would like to work. Problem is they want “sit down jobs”, and they really don’t qualify for those.

    Wanna know what really happens?

    The hillbillies suck it up hard for a few months and go get a job, usually in retail standing all day, working half time to meet the requirement, and as soon as they make it past the “probationary period” they “suffer an on-the-job injury”.

    Look for Kentucky’s workplace comp insurance system to collapse next. But lots of blue sky for employment comp fraud investigators. Too bad those aren’t “sit down jobs” either.

  46. 46

    Newt @ 43

    It matters not that I haven’t outrightly condemned Trump because it wouldn’t matter if I did.

    1. I didn’t vote for him in 2016, either time.

    2. There’s nothing to be gained from writing my congressional representatives about him because they’re all Democrats and they already are doing what one might expect a Trump opponent to do.

    3. There’s nothing for me to be gained from joining the HA echo chamber with reference to Trump. If I were to wear a pink pussy hat I would do nothing except warm my bald pate.

    4. This is supposed to be a local liberal blog and as a non-liberal local my role is to make you make better arguments to beat me, not blow liberal platitude sunshine up your ass about a guy I wish had lost in the primaries.

    I’m happier that the president is Trump rather than Hillary (Steve @ 32, 44 – already paying dividends). Doesn’t mean I like the man or that I like who he is or how he conducts himself. I appreciate most of the major changes that have occurred since he became president. I don’t appreciate many things he says, his tone-deafness in times he has an opportunity to say something more useful, or his too-close relationships with aspects of the right I think should have their First Amendment rights taken away.

    Newt, if I condemned Trump you’d find other reasons to be an asshole toward me. Because I choose to hang out with people who make me come up with better arguments, rather than hang out with people who think and say the same things I do.

    It’s been 20-to-1 against me on HA, nearly daily, for several years. I’m still here. Newt, have you spent any real time polishing your arguments in a conservatives’ lions’ den? Didn’t think so. It shows.

  47. 47

    Absolute proof-positive that Barack Obama is Hawaii-born.

    Noah Gray
    ✔
    @NoahGrayCNN
    HI Gov tells CNN “It was a mistake made during a standard procedure at the change over of a shift and an employee pushed the wrong button,”

    11:40 AM – Jan 13, 2018 · West Palm Beach, FL

  50. 50

    “Newt, have you spent any real time polishing your arguments in a conservatives’ lions’ den?”

    I don’t know about Newt, but I have yet to discover a “conservatives’ lions’ den”, local or otherwise, that doesn’t ban liberal commenters the moment they make any kind of effective arguments or even damage their fragile fee fees.

  52. 52

    “It matters not that I haven’t outrightly condemned Trump because it wouldn’t matter if I did.”

    Come on Bob – you tried really hard for it to matter with Obama. And it worked. The last 10 years are the result of what we have today.

    Oh, and by the way, don’t say I didn’t try. I tried to stop all this talk of Dumbfuck but it seems I am out numbered…but hope is still alive. I didn’t think you would accept Steve’s request…but I see I was wrong. Now, it’s ok to be wrong, once in a while. You’ll get there….again, I hope. Be a man.

  54. 54

    Ohh, and if any of the good people of HA Heroes could do me a favor and list Bob’s contributions to this blog then that would help me learn something, always room to learn.

    It posts worthless crap from the daily white nationalist whiner, the washington always wrongist freak shreikin’ and the hatestheonlyway pun-idjit..

    Stuff no one ever clicks on btw..

    Had a freak out over Menendez fucking from its blind devotion to the daily white nationalist whiner and his mancrush Tucker Carlson.. Why is Menendez still serving?

    Thought it had something with Rubio – Martinez and the inevitable latino demographic wave, only Rubio is a fucking idiot that even a Christie could make a fool of and Martinez is smart enough to know she’s way more unlikeable than boob could ever imagine Hillary to be.

    Oh it’s a fucking misogynist… What a prop that is for its political positions… It’s a lock the freak will be trolling here daily until the server goes cold. What else could it possibly have going for it for the rest of its miserable life?

  55. 55

    @47 Bob – really? Think about what you wrote here and how that relates to what you said here – ““It matters not that I haven’t outrightly condemned Trump because it wouldn’t matter if I did.”

    Come on – I know this is just an attempt to be a comedian, but really. Do we have to go there? What good is that comment going to make that something of similar nature that you could say about Trump but you wont, until no (kind of).

    Try to stick to policy. I mean if you really want to debate whether Obama is or isn’t a US citizen then go ahead, have an opinion, but just to make that type of comment accomplishes nothing. The same nothing that you are trying to make as you excuse for not denouncing Trump for the last year.

    Now I am just at fault, but I have the same excuse – I am pretty much 1 against 20 when it comes to being gay.

  56. 56

    But that would include a whole lot of brown people so he went with Norway. Because there’s something magic and productive about Norway.

    Norway is kinda special. It’s an oil state that actually freakin works..

    Some parts of its oil bounty it will never touch because it happens to be a productive fishery.

    It subsidies electric cars, penalizes fossil fuel driven ones.

    Generates all the electricity it will ever need from hydro resources. If it’s short, there’s Sweden and Denmark..

    Norway is blessed and takes full advantage. Compare/contrast with Chad whose dictator spends its new oil wealth on weapons and state repression thanks to Rex Tillerson and Exxon/Mobile.

    Weather is pretty miserable in Norway most of the year. There’s that.

  57. 57

    More from the prescient, late Richard Rorty:

    “One thing that is very likely to happen is that the gains made in the past forty years by black and brown Americans, and by homosexuals, will be wiped out. Jocular contempt for women will come back into fashion. The words ‘nigger’ and ‘kike’ will once again be heard in the workplace. All the sadism which the academic Left has tried to make unacceptable to its students will come flooding back. All the resentment which badly educated Americans feel about having their manners dictated to them by college graduates will find an outlet.”

    https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/2/9/14543938/donald-trump-richard-rorty-election-liberalism-conservatives

    Heh. Richard Rorty predicted boob…

  58. 58

    Not one mention of the Eagles in the Friday Night Extravaganza. They are a point down in the third quarter. Darryl must be a Seahawks fan. Or not a fan at all.

  59. 59

    Been reading the GPS Fusion testimony that Feinstein leaked..

    Tedious in spots but worth a look. Lots of colorful characters are discussed.

    Not through it all. Might have more to say tomorrow.

  60. 60

    @1 That is right just review George Carlin’s seven little word routine. Cable does not fall under the Federal Broadcast Regulations. IE not on the public airwaves. Technically no one can use those 7 little words on the airwaves, and NPR initially did not for about 12 hours. There is a possibility they maybe fined. If they are then they will have first amendment arguments and their mission to provide the public with news. Whereas cable is on co ax and fiber and owned usually by private corporations.

  61. 61

    @4 Only the actual countries he was referring to included three middle east countries Syria, Lebanon, and Yeman. The garden spots of the middle east. The other countries were afraid to send more tourists to these nations, they did not ant to cut into Egypt, Israel, and Turkey’s tourist industry.
    Maybe they agree these countries are shitholes, maybe not Lebanon. Still there are a lot of Lebanese in the US on temporary visas for decades.

  62. 62

    Trump just said out loud what a lot of guys and gals think about those shithole countries. He’s guilty of saying what most people think.

    The fun part is watching the predictable Kackling Klaven of Klowns (KKK) start getting their underwear in a knot about what Trump said. Very entertaining watching the CNN and MSNBC crews go ballistic!

  64. 64

    @5 Such as when Canada a climate change winner opens its borders to US an Mexican immigrants. Of course the climate change models used do not take into account the suns 60 year cycle. The sunspot cycle and possibility we are in a minimum. The climate model used assumes the suns output is a constant which is not true. Therefore you have garbage going into a computer model and therefor garbage coming out, based on a faulty assumption, on a chaotic climate system. If we are going into a mini ice age maybe some warming is a good thing, and warming is bound to improve the Western Washington climate, we are winners in the climate global warming model, and if we are rational creatures should act in our best interest…coal plants for the US, for China,,,you get a coal plant Senegal, you get a coal plant Micronesia, you get a coal plant Peoples Republik of Korea!

    As Mark Tain pointed out we complain about our weather, and we can improve it!

  65. 65

    @7 Rational retired human beings with a million dollars should retire in shithole countries where their million can go for decades. Yet human behavior does not match the expected behavior of rational economic actors. Are humans irrational economic actors?

  66. 66

    @32 Why are you negotiating with him? We don’t negotiate with the enemy around here.

  67. 67

    @19 A little late to the party counsel, he said it in public and it can be used in court, and there are multiple witnesses and he has broken attorney client privilege. And since you are saying yoy are an attorney what is your bar number? Are you just a jailhouse kind of attorney? If you pass the bar when you get out you hope to practice law?

  69. 69

    @39 It’s the only way they can get anyone to work for $7.25 an hour. Lord knows nobody can live on that, even working 40 hours a week. Of course, the best solution is to not live in Kentucky.

  71. 71

    One thing will be different in the 2018 Congressional elections. The President ill not be sitting on the sidelines doing nothing for his parties candidates. He’s going in the brawl. He is not going to keep iut of the fray. This may scare some Republicans, but the man will not be accused of not doing anything to help in the Congressional races, and kept the shellacking to a much smaller loss than if had stayed in the ivory tower throwing all under the train. (The President maybe discovering politics is not always about the winning, but wisely puts on the air it is, confidence can get your party votes, and votes is what counts. After all they almost got a guy smeared as a child molester into the Senate. (Trump’s first choice would have won, so the loss can’t be put at his door.)

  73. 73

    @46 “make you make better arguments”

    That’s what you think you do here? Whew. Maybe @47 is your idea of a “better argument”? Not even in a kindergarten.

    So please, Doctor, spare us your make-believe high-minded bullshit. Your regular bullshit is already enough to deal with.

  74. 74

    @50 That’s been my experience, too. We used to have a conservative blog here in Seattle but they had little interest in honest debate. Its founder used it primarily as a vehicle to propagate the WSRP myth that the 2004 governor’s election was stolen, and lost interest and disappeared after collecting $225,000 from local taxpayers because King County Elections inadvertently failed to give him 6 pages of the 500,000 public records he requested.

  75. 75

    @53 Whether they do or not, don’t worry about me, I don’t settle with dumbfuck aiders and abettors.

  76. 76

    @18 And they are forgetting the California primaries are late in the cycle June 5. So Republican’s still have a small bit of time to find a sacrificial lamb or go with showing a problem in the non partisan primary system, and hope that Democrats in all the top spots split the party literally. There is also the unexpected such as Feinstein dies, she is 77. The Republicans can win the governor ship if they get another Arnold. So not a lot of hope for Republicans in SA, but Republicans in Washington understand.

  77. 77

    @62 “what a lot of guys and gals think”

    They’re not President of the United States. They speak only for themselves, not all of us. They don’t conduct foreign relations. They don’t destroy decades of diplomatic efforts by opening their ignorant bigoted mouths. What do you think will happen the next time the CIA needs the cooperation of one of those governments?

    If Doc wants to see better arguments, well, there’s a better argument than yours.

  78. 78

    @75 One thing and Trump agree on is method. Loyalty is the coin of yours and his realm. Only he is President.

  79. 79

    He’s guilty of saying what most people think.

    HAHAHAHAHA!

    And if Obama said anything like Drumpf said? Talked about women the way Drumpf does?

    Oh excuse me! You’re the moron who called Obama “the milk chocolate messiah” as if that reflected well on your lack of intelligence.

    Klowns? You’re a fucking dumbshit.

  80. 80

    @64 I doubt that Canada’s indigenous peoples will see the loss of their way of life as a “win.” All that tundra melting and turning into methane-steaming swampland doesn’t look like a “win,” either. Hunters and fishermen probably won’t welcome Canada’s new tropical climate. The lumber industry won’t think much of increased forest fires. They won’t even be able to get to their tar sands if the lakes don’t freeze over. Why don’t you ask the Canadians what they think of global warming?

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

  81. 81

    And Goldie should be happy. HIs Eagles just won. They did not let me down today. Eagles all way to the Superbowl!!!

    Who me brown nose? Never. I’ve been to the city of brotherly love and I’ve even visited the mint, and I’ve been there is a blizzard. I think I may have called Philly a shithole a couple of times, I apologize, It’s really a nice place. Just ask anyone coming back from Iraq in uniform.

  82. 82

    If Doc wants to see better arguments, well, there’s a better argument than yours.

    “Doc” is in the same gutter as the dumbshit.

  83. 83

    “@44 and @48 – you guys going to continue to call each other the D word?”

    You mean like “Doctor Diminished”? Eh, I doubt it.

  86. 86

    No comments on the Hawaii missile oops. Someone somewhere made a mistake or a 50 cent fuse blew. Then the politicians got involved probably not familiar with the concept that their there is no missile announcement was way too late, as the original announcement would =d leave little to no wiggle room. It’s go to the shelter, or shelter in place once you get the announcement. Their question should be if this had been an actual missile how many people got the message. How many acted on it? How many acted on it correctly? In a manner they may survive? Did state officials and employees do the proper actions. Did county and city officials, Sure it’s disruptive, but less so than a real missile. A wonderful opportunity to see the effectiveness of civil defense. I suspect the accidental message reveals that civil defense is sub standard in Hawaii. Better a false missile warning than a real one to reveal the problems.

  88. 88

    Here’s a sample from the GPS Fusion testimony:

    Q. (from Patrick Davis, Republican counsel) And did you understand that your actions on behalf of Prevezon or Baker Hostetler would principally benefit the Russian government? Who did you believe the principal beneficiary to be?

    MR. LEVY (GPS Fusion lawyer): I’d like to note for the record that Patrick is smiling as he’s asking the question. You can answer.

    MR. MUSE (GPS Fusion lawyer): He’s trying to contain his laughter.

    A. (Glen Simpson) We did not believe that was being done on behalf of the Russian government.

    Q (Davis). What do you understand Prevezon’s relationship, if any, to be with the Russian government?

    A. (Simpson) Prevezon was introduced to me as the client and Denis Katsyv was the owner of Prevezon.

    i.e. Republicans are hell-bent on smearing GPS Fusion as working for Kremlin connected clients. Didn’t I just hear recently that Grassley and Graham want GPS Fusion bank records?

  89. 89

    77 – Given the past mistakes and outrght crimes committed by the CIA, any country that would deal with them is making a deal with the Devil. We need yo look at de-establishing that organization, along with the NSA, FBI and DIA. They’re all the biggest dangers around to our Constitution.

    79 – Yeah, I labeled Obama the Milk Chocolate Messiah, thanks for remembering. We can drop the ‘Messiah’ part, however, because he just turned out to be a milk chocolate guy in a nice suit. Likable, but not much else.

  90. 90

    We can drop the ‘Messiah’ part

    No one here ever used the word “messiah” to describe Obama..

    except for right wing dipshits..

    Obama was a breath of fresh air after the warmongering, divisive, servant to wealth, empty suit Bush.

  91. 91

    @46
    “It matters not that I haven’t outrightly condemned Trump because it wouldn’t matter if I did.”

    Actually it does matter if you condemn Trump, even if you didn’t vote for him. Why? Because silence equals consent in this case.

    “Better arguments” Seriously, that is what you think you bring to the blog? I guess you are entitled to your opinion on that but it is probably 15 to 1 against you on that comment.

    Like others have experienced, ‘conservative’ blogs really don’t allow and embrace dissent from their bleatings, this blog does. I don’t agree with everything Goldy has posted, but I’ll give him credit for allowing the bare-knuckled freedom of expressions that does go on here.

    I spent many years living in Eastern Washington, I found that that most folks over there simply had no intestinal fortitude to even consider a different viewpoint other than their God, Guns, and ‘Get Off My Lawn’ mentality. Clint Didier was a hero to them, yikes.

    Surprisingly, I can accept some Conservative viewpoints just like I can accept some Liberal viewpoints, I am neither a Conservative nor Liberal, I am an Independent through and through. I just find most of your “arguments” disingenuous and hypocritical. I get you just want to be the foil to the liberal blog.

    “Because I choose to hang out with people who make me come up with better arguments, rather than hang out with people who think and say the same things I do.” I do that all the time, but it doesn’t take much to counter your arguments and besides, it isn’t your inclination to agree with anyone on this blog unless it is a negotiation of terms of surrender.

    As far as “being an asshole” to you, don’t take it personally, I don’t discriminate when it comes to people that bring up BS arguments all the time. It isn’t like I have cut you off driving or shit in your driveway. We have at least one thing in common, I owned a yacht at one time, I know what it is like to throw money away on something that is a hobby or for fun.

    I will give you a little credit, as far as the trolls go, you hands-down bring more to the discussion that Piddles and Shortbus.

  92. 92

    @85 Yeah, I always wonder where conservatives get off thinking we’re their secretaries. Can’t they read or write?

  93. 93

    @89 Aren’t you the troll who’s always contending we should abandon our overseas bases, turn over our strategic positions to Moscow and Beijing, and hide in our holes?

  94. 94

    All these people worked up about Hawaii’s false alarm should instead feel grateful that Trump was either napping, playing golf, or didn’t give a damn. The outcome could have been much, much worse.

  95. 95

    “Yeah, I labeled Obama the Milk Chocolate Messiah”

    Of course you did. And that’s only one reason why you’re the dumbest fucking troll to ever post comments here.

  96. 96

    @94

    “Hawaii Gov. David Ige said human error caused the false alarm.
    “It was a mistake made during a standard procedure at the changeover of a shift and an employee pushed the wrong button,” Ige said.” http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/13/.....index.html

    Hmm, maybe this a a damn good reason a single person shouldn’t be allowed to press a single button to launch nukes.

  98. 98

    Some might recall that I used to be friends with the loon, but that was before his head started exploding with HATE!

  99. 99

    Bannon is out on the stump this weekend not only corroborating #pornstargate, but doubling down. He says the campaign paid off hundreds of women, including a number of prostitutes.

    In totally unrelated news the White House insists that Bannon had nothing to do with the campaign, might not have actually worked in the White House, never did more than run for Quarter Pounders, and oh, btw, Steve who?

    #Золотой душ

  100. 100

    Quinnipiac has it 2 to 1 Americans confident that the FBI and Special Prosecutor are conducting a fair investigation.

    Damn.

    Hashtag harder, Traitors!

  101. 101

    Same poll 3 to 2 already think Fuckface is guilty of obstruction.

    Double damn.

    Light the beacons! We need the Semen Stained Blue Dress of Power brought from the trailer park in the north!

  102. 102

    @71

    Nonsense. Lowest approval rating of any president after one year in history. The man’s presence in all but the safest of Red districts is a drag on the candidate.

    @76

    Utter Nonsense. Reagan comes back from the grave and gets shellacked by Gary the Dogcather with a D after his name in CA these days. In case you didn’t notice, since Arnold left the scene, but not so much that he didn’t campaign against Trump, a Republican Candidate for Governor got 41% (2010) and 40% (2014) 45 got 31% of the CA vote. But apparently the three lightweights in the CA Govs race are going to not only get enough primary votes to get to the general they will then upset any Democrat opponent? Where is this new Arnold in the wings? Peter Thiel? Kelsey Grammer? Scott Baio?

    Everything is breaking bad for the GOP in CA. From demographics to administration policies (Offshore drilling 65% CA Voters oppose, legal pot 57% just voted for it) to just the general anti-Trump wave in Blue states is not helpful.

    Want to tell me again about the Carpetbagger in Alabama who lived there all his life and won?

  103. 103

    6)I heard about the proposal awhile back, but thought nothing would come of it, with Connecticut ‘s issues, including GE moving to Boston. One aspect of the construction needed, putting the second track back in, although with the collapse of the freight base for the New Haven, and then Conrail, removing the second track seemed justified, at the time.

    Might be ironic if they use GE Locomotives, since GE is selling the division.

  104. 104

    @103 the move of GE to Boston not really related to any decision of go or no go. If anything, one of the reasons they are doing this is to keep the Hartford Region and the State (and Springfield MA) more competitive. Not sure about in the Seattle area or other parts of the Country, but it really is nothing for people to commute into NYC for work from 2 plus hours away from all directions.

    After NYC Mayor Deblasio’s recent decision to scuttle the incentive for Aetna to move its headquarters from Hartford to NYC, CVS (newly purchased Aetna) said they would stay put in Hartford with the statement that that is where the talent resides or something to those words. Heck now NYC is only 2 3/4 hours away and much more convenient via train.

    Tell me something – why don’t they just leave the 2nd track in even if they aren’t using? Why do they remove it? Your comment – “second track back in, although with the collapse of the freight base for the New Haven, and then Conrail, removing the second track seemed justified, at the time.”

  107. 107

    Little diddy about Jack and Diane –

    As some may know – I was a member of the Knights of Columbus up until last year. I joined because a friend of mine liked the cheap beer there. Some Councils of the KofC have bars (typically in the basement), and aside from good effort to keep up with the standing and values that Father McGivney set, this particular Council like the camaraderie to get shit faced on a daily night basis. Only a few years ago – a bottle of Bud was like $1.50.

    After moving to NYC I didn’t really see the need to continue dishing out the $50.00 annual membership dues, but more so that I felt conflicted that I was supporting an organization that didn’t support me as a gay individual. So last year I didn’t renew.

    I was very active at this club. I was there almost daily. Friday nights there is a Setback League, I was a bartender on the weekends and Monday nights. I was one of the Officers for a couple of years. The people were good people – a bit more on the conservative side – white macho masculine males. Woman (wives mostly) were allowed just not members (although some Councils have Women’s Auxiliaries). I am still active in scoring one of the fantasy sports leagues they run, but that too may end soon. I also created and maintained their website. The above might be too much information, because with enough digging one could possibly find out my identity. But anyways.

    Anyways – there were different factions of people at this Council that kind of jockeyed for “power” or control of the destiny of the Council. They took it serious, they didn’t want their “local pub” to go out of business and have to buy more expensive beer elsewhere (aside from the camaraderie and family that was).

    So while I was there, I witnessed a bit of bigotry in general….some towards race and of course there was always the anti gay or bigoted remarks that I put up with (for many years). There were a cast of characters – for the most part they were good people, but just people that were too influenced by societies ills that they were also just sheep. There was one guy in particular (let’s call him Jim) that was very vocal about gay people as well as always picking fights (physical or physical threatening remarks) with anyone and everyone – just wanted to be a real tough guy. Jim’s whole family was kind of like that.

    Over the last two years Jim was elected as top officer. It was a rotating position that nobody really wanted to fulfill.

    To make a long story short – About a couple of months ago he calls me because he is having problems with the website. The website is down and the members are getting restless. So I help him out. A couple of days later it is back up and running. When I left about 4 years ago I turned over the duties of the website to another individual (another member). Well apparently, Jim is butting heads with that other individual. So after I help him, he tells me that but he says he knows another person (outside of the Council) that is going to help him maintain it. Recently I visited the website. Apparently, he did in fact have this other person help him out. The new website is atrocious. It is the worst shithole I’ve ever seen.

    Moral of the story. Sometimes doing the right thing by helping out your enemy doesn’t always guarantee their success. If they are the jerk that they are, they will eventually fail…and if not, then really it is not due to you helping them.

  108. 108

    @107 Moral of the story: You were a good Christian by looking after a jerk, and at some point God will say, “You’ve done enough; I’ll take over from here.”

  109. 109

    @99 With friends like Bannon, Trump doesn’t even need a Mueller to do him in.

  111. 111

    Given Steve’s concern about traitors in elected office, he should be apoplectic that Bradley Manning is running for US Senate in Maryland.

    Remember Cindy Sheehan running against Pelosi? Yet y’all libbies continue to fawn over these leftist dumbasses. Each and every time. And Manning even gets to advertise that he’s a former Nobel Peace Prize nominee in his ads.

  112. 112

    For third-tier HA readers like The Fucking Moron, YLB, and Pilsner I should add @ 111 that Manning will be running as a Democrat, not as a Republican.

  113. 113

    @110

    They did the same to the federal building in San Francisco. RW blogs are all up in arms about it. “Treasonous, harumph.”

    Because stage lighting is magic

    I’ve got a couple ETCs and a large collection of corporate logo gobos. Maybe I should order a Shithole?

  114. 114

    @111 why use the word “fawn”? How do you know anyone is fawning over Chelsea Manning? Do you use the word negatively with the purpose of turning away any of the “fawners”?

    Why not just state your case regarding Manning and leave the “fawners” out of it? Debate whether Manning is a traitor. Let the voters decide – just like in Alabama, Tennessee and every Republican household.

    If Manning is a traitor, then I guess he will fit in perfectly now-a-days.

  119. 119

    Yet y’all libbies continue to fawn over these leftist dumbasses. Each and every time.

    Holding my breath waiting for Врач немой ебать to offer a few examples of us libbies on HA fawning over Cindy Sheehan* or Chelsea Manning.

    Any minute now…

    *Don’t live in the district so wouldn’t have been in a position to vote for her. But thanks at least in part to 4000 pro-Putin hashtags, Carrier layoffs (and many more), no “infrastructure” (now that Bannon is a coffee boy), tax giveaways to billionaires, and massive cuts to Pillbilly Medicaid in places like Kentucky, most of those dreadful socialist programs that Sheehan stumped for are now closer than ever. #youbuiltthattoo

  120. 120

    Unable to defend Trump’s “shithole” comment, Republicans have decided to deny he said it. But as Sen. Manchin points out, no senator would make up something like that.

    In any case, what he said is immaterial because (a) everyone knows he’s capable of saying it, (b) nobody’s going to believe he didn’t say it, and (c) even if he didn’t say it, he was thinking it.

  121. 121

    @111 So do you intend to endorse the Democrat if convicted contemnor Joe Arpaio wins the GOP senate nomination in Alabama, or will you fall back on your usual hypocrisy if he does?

    For the record, I have not endorsed Manning for U.S. Senate.

  122. 122

    @118 In other words, O’Reilly believes Richard Armitage should have faced a firing squad.

  123. 123

    @119 Yeah, why would we libbies fawn over a Gold Star mother who protested against a dumbass Republican president who threw away her son’s life by attacking the wrong country?

  124. 124

    120,
    In a way that’s more remarkable than Fuckface’s comment itself.

    Senate comity and respect have obviously declined rather appallingly under Yertle’s leadership. And clearly now partisanship trumps (no pun intended) Senate traditions. But if they want to call Durbin a liar I think now is the time to force their hand.

    Every intelligent voter in America believes that Fuckface said it. Roypublicans can deny it with every breath and that won’t change. So if Durbin and the rest of the Dems force them to double down and call a fellow member a liar that opens the door to character and other personal attacks between Senators. With Roypublicans likely to retain a narrow Senate majority through 2020, but with little hope of meeting cloture requirements, a breakdown of Senate decorum and respect might just usher in permanent simple majorities just in time for Majority Leader Schumer. RBG having hired clerks through 2020 is looking better all the time.

  126. 126

    I think this pretty much puts it to rest. But liars will continue to lie, and abettors will continue to abet and lie.

    “Jeff Flake: Meeting Attendees Told Me Trump Said Sh*thole Before Those Words Went Public”

    “Conservative writer: Trump called friends to brag about ‘s—hole countries’ remark”

    It would be nice if one question would be asked to any Politician that says they know that Trump didn’t say it…..and that would be, “Would you take a lie detector test”….end of story.

    But like everything else – this is what the GOP would rather us do to waste more time, instead of getting to the real issues. They can’t face real issues. Everything to them is deflect, avoid, delay, and accomplish nothing. Well paid individuals that stealing and fleecing the American Public, and not so much because they have to because they need the money, but because they don’t want others to have what they have.

    Everyone talks about term limits….fuck term limits….how about take away their pensions….I would like that a lot more.

  128. 128

    Visiting the FOOL asylum and notice shitstain steve has its own Puddy fetish; almost as strong as the clueless crazed databaze cretin!.

    Sheeeeeeeeeeeeesh! Puddy mind control is working just fine even on the mindless twins!

    Till Next Time!

  129. 129

    Visiting the FOOL asylum and notice shitstain steve has its own Puddy fetish; almost as strong as the clueless crazed databaze cretin!.

    Sheeeeeeeeeeeeesh! Puddy mind control is working just fine even on the mindless twins!

    Till Next Time!

  131. 131

    Naaaaah you’ve been posting all day Klamath Mountains hillbilly @130.

    Till Next Time!

  133. 133

    I’m so relieved to see the loon finally post a comment! I was afraid his friends had finally gotten around to lynching him. That would have made me…SAD!

  134. 134

    The only lynching peeps have (DUMMOCRETIN) after their name!

    Till Next Time shitstain steve!

  136. 136

    @135

    That only works if you clip the exchange which the very little read by sane people Gateway Pundit did.

    On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Doug Band wrote:
    > I just received a call from a close friend of wjcs who said that cvc told one of the bush 43 kids that she is conducting an internal investigation of money within the foundation from cgi to the foundation
    > The bush kid then told someone else who then told an operative within the republican party
    >
    > I have heard more and more chatter of cvc and bari talking about lots of what is going on internally to people
    >
    > Not smart

    Translated, A friend of Bill’s (wjcv) heard that Chelsea (cvc) was investigating where Clinton Foundation (cgi) funds are being spent and told either Babs or Jenna about the investigation and they told GOP people.

    Somehow this means it was being spent on her wedding because, well, there’s proof of that. Somewhere in these random sentences there’s a smoking gun that if you put on the right pair of glasses and are a complete lunatic you can see it. Why can’t everyone see it. It is clear. The word wedding is right there if you pull the letters out of other words and cross out the rest it says wedding.

    I just received a call from a close friend of wjcs who said that cvc told one of the bush 43 kids that she is conducting an internal investigation of money within the foundation from cgi to the foundation
    > The bush kid then told someone else who then told an operative within the republican party
    >
    > I have heard more and more chatter of cvc and bari talking about lots of what is going on internally to people
    >
    > Not smart

    What’s not smart is telling one of the BobseyBushes anything that will get reported back to GOP and can then be insinuated as unethical. Or manipulated by truncating an email string to only show one little bit of it.

    Even you can’t be this stupid. But Gateway Pundit is that stupid and you believe them so, Q.E.D. You stupid.

  137. 137

    104) To save on maintenence costs. Many railroads did that. some are still doing it, like with freight classification yards, partly because of trends. Double stack container cars don’t work well on the hump. In the long run, having the unused capacity would have been a plus. Translation warehouses are popping up on railroads, where boxcar and trucks interchange loads. There are warehouses in Seattle along little used rail lines, that shippers may not know they have.

  140. 140

    @137 sounds counter intuitive. Wouldn’t it be less costs to just leave in place instead of removing the track. Or does abandoning it cause more costs later on or problems for rails that remain in operation?

  141. 141

    Even you can’t be this stupid. But Gateway Pundit is that stupid and you believe them so, Q.E.D. You stupid.

    Easy Puddy Translation: Flat beer frothy can’t read or process FACTS! So here’s Puddy to the rescue… https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/952386677682638848

    That’s when Wikileaks jumped in to remind the world they have email proof that the Clintons did in fact pay for Chelsea’s wedding with Haiti relief funds.

    PuddyCommentary: This is the same HA DUMMOCRETIN FOOL who claimed The Washington Free Beacon was run by Steve Bannon. The moron flat beer frothy FORGOT that even Roger senile idiot wabbit figgered out who runs Washington Free Beacon.

    Stay really stooooooooooooooooopid flat beer frothy. flat beer frothy cannot decipher the reportage and the group that actually made the call! flat beer froth still can’t process real FACTS!

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

    Wait for shitstain steve to call this hate. FACTS are always hate to shitstain steve whom never wipes its butt.

    Till Next Time!

  144. 144

    Awww poor poor hapless hanging human tea bag licker…

    Real FACTS are so disheartening to a DUMMOCRETIN!

    Till Next Time!

  146. 146

    136,
    “Why can’t everyone see it.”

    That’d have to be the Derp State. No other way to explain it./s

  147. 147

    Too Damn Funny,

    Years later and where’s the ‘Proof” wikileaks says they have?

    Hmmm? Twets are now Facts for Piddles I well documented liar.

  148. 148

    “My god, what the fuck is wrong with Puffy?!”

    He’s got a score or two of psychological issues he’s not dealing with. That, and he’s full of HATE!

  149. 149

    This settles it for me – You anti-communists are a bunch of heathen sinning atheists!

    “Putin Says Communism Comes From the Bible, Compares Lenin to a Saint”

  150. 150

    If one is from a shithole country does that make that person a shithead?

    Just asking for someone.

  152. 152

    @141 I ran “FACTS!” through a computer program that simulates the Puddy Decoder Ring and this is what it spit out:

    “Any Clinton conspiracy theory currently embraced by tinfoil-hat idiots.” The briefest fact-checking makes short work of this one. See, e.g.,

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/01/04/did-the-clinton-foundation-pay-for-chelseas-wedding/?utm_term=.92674555a735

    But Puddy thinks if WikiLeaks says something, and Gateway Pundit repeats it, that makes it true because … Puddy is a tinfoil-hat idiot.

  154. 154

    In case no one here noticed, WTI crude is now above $65 and Brent crude is topping $70. Inventories of oil in storage are falling off a cliff. What’s going on? Disinvestment. After years of E&P companies slashing capital spending to survive, reserves haven’t been replaced and wells haven’t been drilled, and the world now faces an oil shortage that will last for years. Offshore, which supplies a third of the world’s oil, has been especially hard hit with many jackups scrapped and platforms cold stacked, and many contractors staring at bankruptcy. Some experts predict $80 crude by year end, and $100 crude isn’t out of the question. Brace yourselves for higher gas prices this summer.

  155. 155

    @154 I was just reading that oil had just broken $70..

    Heh. It’s all Drumpf’s fault – that “unpopular preznit”.. The freak and its miserable party will pay for it in November.

    With that said, higher oil prices won’t affect us much. Our car stays parked 5 days out of 7. We bought it new in 2003 and it has just over 60k miles on it.

    We adjusted to higher gas prices long ago but..

    we’ll vote the bastards out in November just the same.

  156. 156

    Heh. Why don’t the Democrats give Drumpf a win for DACA?

    After all isn’t Mexico supposed to pay for that fucking wall?

  157. 157

    @155 The oil majors essentially eliminated spending on developing new resources over the last 4 years. When demand overtakes existing production, a supply crunch will occur, and crude prices will skyrocket until new investment catches up with increased demand, which will take years.

    Not driving isn’t an option for commuters who can’t or won’t use public transportation. They’re about to give back all the money they saved on cheap gas over the last several years. For consumers in general, unless wages start to rise, higher gas prices will pressure already-stretched disposable incomes. The consumer problem isn’t severe enough yet to trigger a recession, but it likely will put a brake to some extent on growth.

    In the bigger picture, the consumer economy is burdened by still-high underemployment, sluggish wage growth, soaring housing and rent prices, high debt, and rising interest rates. Deteriorating credit quality and rising default rates on auto loans and credit cards signal trouble ahead for consumer demand, which is 70% of the domestic economy.

    The stock market is soaring despite, not because of, economic fundamentals, which is something for investors to keep in mind. In fact, the market’s response to fundamentals looks quite rational. Consumer stocks are actually declining. Since Jan. 1, 2018, Unilever is down -1.5%, Procter & Gamble is down -2.5%, Altria and Hershey are down -3.7%, Clorox is down -5.2%, and Kimberly Clark is down -6.4%. Stocks like McDonalds, Coca Cola, and Pepsi have gone nowhere.

  158. 158

    @157 Oh boob assures us that tax cuts for the rich will solve all that.

    Two tanks of gas a month!

    Oh excuse me! The benefits will be for “all levels”..

    *rolls eyes*

  159. 159

    @158 Tax cuts for rich = capital investment = robots = minimum wage worker layoffs. Boob’s wet dream.

  160. 160

    I wonder if Boob is a reincarnated slaveowner who’s having trouble adjusting to the 21st century?

  161. 161

    Advice for our wingnut friends: If you ever get invited to Mar-o-Lago, take a pass on the food and eat at a local McDonalds instead.

    http://www.foxnews.com/food-dr.....tions.html

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: I’ll bet that’s what The Donald does. I can’t visualize him eating the garbage he serves to his paying guests.

  162. 162

    @159 Capitalism is a simple system where’s there’s two beneficiaries: owners of capital and the laborers needed to produce the wealth or the surplus that’s left over when all is said and done.

    All the incentive for the distribution of the surplus is skewed to the benefit of the owners. Minimize the share to labor, maximize the share to owners.

    Labor is cost to owners; minimize the cost, externalize the cost (i.e. pollute, despoil), socialize the cost, privatize the profit.

    @160 Intriguing theory..

  165. 165

    @164 You bet there will be a flood of money to get that reopened if there is a slide due to the Yakima Training Center’s main access is from I-82.

  166. 166

    Apparently there are some Democratic Congress folks who are not planning to attend the State of the Union Address. Now they could ask the President to do a written report that would be read by a clerk as it was from Jefferson until Woodrow Wilson. I think if they are ill they have a r3eason not to be there. They could also go join the designated. If thy insist they will not attend just because they are using political reasoning and don’t want to be in the room with the President, they should resign from office. The Constitution requires the President to inform Congress, and as part of Congress they must be there. They can do their nails or whatever, but their presence is required, unless they are ill or attending a funeral something like that. And they still get to have a guest.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democrats-ramp-up-efforts-to-boycott-trumps-state-of-the-union-address/ar-AAuJlnj?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp

    And the Sergeant at Arms should be sent to tell them to get their ass into the chamber as the whole Congress is required to make a quorum.

  167. 167

    Re 164,
    A) Because not only does he drag up shit that Roger posted last week as if its new, but he links to a scintilating video consisting of some loser videoing his own computer display while reading webpages to his “audience” (we can only assume this is a sevice for the illiterate).

    Q) Why do we call him Shortbus?

  168. 168

    @167 The highway remains open. The video is new. You seem to agree there is an issue here. Is it being adequately addressed, And yes one Republican representative is on site. Are the Democratic ones waiting until after the slide? IE they don’t care.

  169. 169

    The Constitution requires the President to inform Congress, and as part of Congress they must be there.

    Dont worry citizens! You’ll find the article of the constitution requiring attendance right next to the article declaring it “treason” for an FBI agent to make fun of the Orange Shit-Gibbon.
    #derpstate

  170. 170

    @114 Of course if your first impression was oh please no, please be that she is not running. Of course during the primary Chelsea Manning is going to be called a tractor. Maryland voters should decide. Still you democrats have made a thing about how some candidates should step down because they are flawed., .And this candidate is gong to be the news, and unlike Roy Moore the criticism is going to be true and she was found guilty of crimes, though a whistleblower. Maybe some good discussion on the espionage act will come out of it, and what speech is for. If you are Democrat and find that you are bothered by Chelsea Manning running as a democrat you need to look at your issues. Also would you let your son or daughter marry Chelsea?

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    @166 Don’t you have to be convicted in a court of law before you can be confined in a cell against your will? I realize Congress is a criminal syndicate, but we should at least give them their due process, to discourage them from taking away ours.

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    @164 They should start excavating at the top of the mountain and knock down the mountain before it splits and slides. Of course you would have to do it gently. The railroad is right there – they could load the box cars and ship off to some shithole that needs to be filled.

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    Q) Would you let your daughter ride an elevator with Donald Trump?

    A) Only if she was “a fat pig”!

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    @168 Well, it happens to be in that Republican’s district, and it’s not in those Democrats’ districts, so he’s the most logical one to be there.

    Meanwhile, Rattlesnake Ridge is important, but something else in his district is even more important, and I hope he’s paying attention to this, too:

    http://www.tri-cityherald.com/.....27387.html

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    @170 “Of course during the primary Chelsea Manning is going to be called a tractor.”

    I haven’t heard that one before. Does Maryland have a farm vote?

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    @170 My first impression was – You go girl! It’s a free Country (at times). I’d actually put a bit of money on it that Chelsea Manning wins – and I wouldn’t even need any odds.

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    @170

    “Still you democrats have made a thing about how some candidates should step down because they are flawed”

    And Republicans have taught us that we are wrong, that any flawed and treasonous sexual predator can run. So thanks for teach us good behavior.

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    @170

    “And this candidate is gong to be the news, and unlike Roy Moore the criticism is going to be true”

    Unlike? Unlike? Really? I’ll say it again, unlike?

    Also, I don’t remember Roy Moore being in the news too much until the facts of his escapades coming out – although I knew of him. And yet – in the news – Chelsea Manning running for Senate. You want to change your statement from is gong (ding dong) to is in the news.

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    @170 – and last but not least.

    “Maybe some good discussion on the espionage act will come out of it, and what speech is for.”

    Really? – will it have anything related to Russia?

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    @170

    “Also would you let your son or daughter marry Chelsea?” Probably, but the question to ponder is – “Would anyone let their son or daughter marry you.”

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    @176 Among other things that rhyme with tractor, some word used fairly frequently. Sure it will be used in the primary. Just waiting to see if someone actually uses the somewhat appropriately. I think Chelsea is a whistleblower.

    Yes there are farms and agriculture in Maryland, and Chesapeake Bay.

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    @171 Hey if you do the time in Congress you gotta sit in your chair when the President speaks to both houses. Thomas Jefferson thought doing a speech and making the members sit there was too monarchial. Having a clerk read it instead was not so monarchial. Only Robin of the Hood would disagree, sure he thought the Monarch and Sheriff were much on the same team, and if the Sheriff read the edict might as well br the King doing it.

    The Congress person has a choice show up or resign. Folks in jail without bond have no such choice. And yes the Sergeant at arms instructed by the Speaker can be ordered to ascertain the whereabouts of members of the House, and the VP can make similar orders to the Sergeant of arms of the Senate. .

    Look up the Constitution and just think what fun a President can have in a Joint Session of Congress with no Democrats there. The Democratic leadership should be telling certain members if you ain.t sick and dying you will be there, or resign. And you will have competition in your primary if you do not comply. We have to sit there and listen to him, you will too, sure you heard something like that in the Army old rabbit

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    @175 He signed the letter as Senator Cantwell, of please send more money Uncle Sam. Could be a case where earmarks would make a difference. You support earmarks, long ears?

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    @181 I really don’t care about mom and dad, and perfectly able to be the cad or not speak with them, certainly simplifies dealing with in laws. I’m not marrying them after all. Still I’m all for good relations so no reason to upset the apple cart when a bit of being a gentle person with some knowledge of societies rules, as long as it’s both ways. And if some of you marry a cute Republican mom the in laws don’t need to see your donkey ears until after the wedding, keep em covered with a knit cap.

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    @180 None whatsoever since Russia was ostensible an ally when the act was written. Though we decided to support the white Russians and had people running around the Ukraine in the early days of the USSR, rather unofficial, and rarely mentioned in the history books.

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    @179 Chelsea Manning was convicted under the UCMJ. The complaints about Roy Moore for the most part did not violate Alabama law. He was never charged and convicted for any crime, and the Democrats who supported him in his early career had to know about some of this stuff before his first run for Prosecutor, so they covered it up, or kept people quiet. It was if anything an open secret. The only real question is whether the press sat on the story until after the Republican primary rather than allow Luther Strange and one Donald Trump a win. Yes that old question of what did they know and when they know it. Of course It could be that this fellow who has been in the news so much as a judge did not generate any reason for the press to cover the primary. The press just stumbled over this story after the Primary when there was no way for the Republican’s to change candidates, rather convenient, perhaps dirty pool, but that is politics. And Republicans have not taught anything a reader of Machiavelli or Socrates and Aristotle didn’t at least casually mention.

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    @178 I’ve been saying for years that Democrats should behave more like Republicans, but that was before Trump and Moore, and now I’m less sure that’s a good idea.

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    @181 Since when do parents decide who their sons and daughters marry? This isn’t Pakistan, at least not yet.

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    @183 “Hey if you do the time in Congress you gotta sit in your chair when the President speaks to both houses.”

    Who says? Besides you, I mean.

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    @185 You seem to assume there are still Democrats who’d marry into a Republican family. Being married, I don’t patronize dating websites, but I’ve been told the most common answer to the question, “What is your biggest deal breaker” is “Republicans.”

    The last time Nate Silver researched this, he found that interparty marriages still exist, but that was in early 2016 before Trump was elected, and even back then it was a pretty small percentage.

    https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-many-republicans-marry-democrats/

    The bottom line is Republicans and Democrats don’t marry each other anymore in significant numbers.

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    @ 179

    Also, I don’t remember Roy Moore being in the news too much…

    Google “Roy Moore The Ten Commandments”.

    You’re giving The Fucking Moron a run for his money, gman.

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    Idiot wabbit @152,

    Yeah just like all you DUMMOCRETINS claiming Bill Clinton didn’t have sex with those women, are now saying yeah he probably did!

    Just like #CrookedHillary didn’t fix the primaries after denying it all those months.

    Yeah, never trust anything from a DUMMOCRETIN

    Puddy will withold further commentary on your senile blatherings as the Post has been wrong before!

    Till Next Time!

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    @191 For there to be any money for any project Congress has to pass it. Now administrators have more power how the money is spent, and money can be slushed around. With earmarks directed by congress the money has to be spent as ordered by Congress. IE money earmarked for clean up at Hanford goes for that project, not clean up in Tennessee. Earmarks have a good and bad side, you want money from congress to go for cleanup at Hanford or the collapsed tunnel in the story then you should support earmarks. Sure you run into the bridge to nowhere sometimes.. but maybe for cleanup at Hanford earmarks are not so bad.

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    I used to think Pop Rabbit voted Democrat and Mom Rabbit voted Republican, but after they were both dead, I learned it was the other way around. Shows how little we actually know about our parents.

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    @196 You don’t understand what a congressional earmark is.

    While the Constitution gives Congress the power and responsibility to appropriate funds, federal courts have ruled that cleaning up Hanford is a legal and moral obligation of the federal government to the states of Oregon and Washington.

    https://www.governor.wa.gov/news-media/case-closed-hanford-cleanup-ruling-ups-accountability-feds-0

    Citing the exigencies of World War 2 and the Cold War, the federal government used our state to produce plutonium for nuclear weapons, leaving behind nuclear waste that now must be dealt with. You simply can’t consider this necessary task as in the same category as the pet projects funded via congressional earmarks. It is OWED to our state, and to Oregon, by the government that created the deadly pollution that now threatens our principal water supply. Congress may have the power to not fund the cleanup, but that would break faith with the people of the Pacific Northwest in a way that would have lasting repercussions.

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    @ 197

    I used to think Pop Rabbit voted Democrat and Mom Rabbit voted Republican, but after they were both dead, I learned it was the other way around. Shows how little we actually know about our parents.

    Pop wasn’t your parent.

    Weasel went ‘pop’ in your Mom.

    C’mon. You had to know you were half-weasel. You’re read your own posts.

    And as for Pop:

    I went a-hunting in the woods,
    It wasn’t very legal,
    The dog and I were caught with the goods,
    Pop! goes the weasel.

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    @193 “What is your biggest deal breaker” is “Republicans.”

    Any Republican on a dating website is most likely a scammer; as they are known for being liars and hypocrites. Republicans should be trolling their church’s congregation (aka flock of sheep) for their compatible mate.

    You know after all they just go there “for appearances sake”, they don’t really listen to what the preacher is saying.

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    @198 (continued) Certainly, this funding is a far greater imperative than Trump’s $40 billion wall. Any Congress that appropriates money for that has no excuse for cutting Hanford funding.

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    @199 I didn’t know my parents very well, but I knew them better than you do. Just because my mother was engaged to two other rabbits at the same time she was engaged to my pop* doesn’t mean she cheated on him with a weasel. Besides, I look like him. I have his ears. I’m a hare, not a lop.

    * My siblings found this out when they got into her old letters after they both were dead. The letters were in crates she nailed shut when they got married. Why she didn’t burn them is a mystery. In any case, there’s no mention of a weasel in any of her letters.

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    Unless you impute a weasel from her thing for doctors. Both of the other rabbits were doctors. Both jilted her. So I guess they were weasels in a metaphorical sense. But they weren’t my fathers, so it worked out okay from my point of view. Great Mother Rabbit Spirit forbid that you would’ve been my father.*

    * As far as I know, you never met my mother, but if you want to press your argument that my father was a weasel, then I suggest we settle it by both of us submitting DNA samples.

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    @198 And to meet these obligations still requires Congress to allocate the money. Allowing bureaucrats to have more say over how money is spent or whether earmarks would mean Congress does a better job allocating money to Hanford is the question, and like President Jackson said the courts can pay for clean up if they want it done. Ultimately it’s political, and the Republican Representative you suggested was out to lunh on the issue is in the thick of it while also finding time to visit Rattlesnake ridge. In spite of being a Republican on these two issues he’s being responsive and doing things you all support. He’s probably made sure the Army Corp of engineers has a heads up. If any f the slide area is Reservation land he an get some Federal assistance, and isn’t 97 also a US highway?
    Busy guy, and I bet he will be at the State of the Union. As part of his job, doubt he’s a fervent Trump republican.

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    @201 I don’t recall that Trump ran on cleaning up Hanford, but I’m sure he’s are of its importance, and he would be more aware if Washington were a little more competitive between Dems and Republicans. He has no reason to do more tha what the court has ordered, and neither party in Congress is going to bump Hanford up in the level of political expedience, unless radiation from Hanford falls all the way to Nebraska, or further, as that scares people, even if the individual risk is no more than a chest x-ray.

    Yes I’m saying Democratic leaders at the national level care about Hanford about as much as Ttump, so stay upwind of “Hanford.

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    @189 Whatever is left of genteel society. Ask WTF as he went down this road, not sure he really believes his own rhetoric, and some gay men will laugh in his face over the marriage thing. They want it how it used to be before aids, a sexual revolution, fuck marriage. No parental bullshit involved just hot sweaty lusty penguin sex. (por Opus of Bloomcounty).

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    Diversity is good and it’s a shame Republicans and Democrats cannot sit down together and even marry. This is why independents just roll their eyes at this kind of bs that usually only happens in shithole countries and some of the reason those places became shitholes.

    Well we used to go bowling as a country as well. Fewer and fewer bowling leagues these days, less social revenue and good will as well.

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    @204 “the Republican Representative you suggested was out to lunh on the issue”

    I didn’t say that. I didn’t suggest it, either. Rep. Newhouse has worked hard, and is still working hard, for full Hanford funding. It’s safe to say he won’t support Trump’s proposed Hanford spending cuts.

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    @205 “Yes I’m saying Democratic leaders at the national level care about Hanford about as much as Ttump, so stay upwind of ‘Hanford.'”

    This is just plain false, and is a prime example of why you have no credibility on this blog.

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    Chuck Hagel interview,

    Chuck Hagel believes we have entered “a defining year, a year of volatility and uncertainty and great danger” for the United States and the world.”

    A year that will determine whether America continues to “walk away from its indispensable leadership position” in the world.

    A year when Republicans in Congress may be called upon to choose country over party.

    A “rather significant political year” when voters will shape the next Congress.

    “Donald Trump is doing great damage to our country internationally,” Hagel said. “He’s an embarrassment.”

    http://journalstar.com/news/st.....2d709.html

    I’d say those things you “want” and are getting from having Trump in office, Doctor, probably aren’t worth sacrificing that which our damaged nation that in great danger desperately needs.

    Hagel, “In the end, you need to make a decision based on the right thing for the country,”

    First up, I’d say we need a hero on the right around whom patriotic Republicans could rally. If Mitt’s the best you’ve got, #GoMitt

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    @206 I’d like reply more but I am limited on time.

    “And some gay men will laugh in his face over the marriage thing.” Yeah, possibly. And then ask that same gay man about the sanctity of marriage as a defense to dis allowing same sex marriage and he will laugh again. Heck ask some straight people that same question and they will laugh in your face.

    Dude this isn’t, for me, about marriage. For me it’s about equality and freedom. If I should ever want to marry, and that may be a big never, I don’t need some fuck telling me I can’t because of their sanctity of bullshit and be discriminated against.

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    “What is ever left of a genteel society.” That’s a question that you should have been wondering a decade ok. But if that’s what you want ~ start with you own friends first before expecting that from anyone else, otherwise it’s not happening.

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