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A surprisingly good unexpected joy in Seattle comes when you pick up a Lime Bike off the ground. Strangers will thank you. When there are several bikes, other people will often help. It’s great. There are a few seconds of community and then back to whatever we were doing. I know, it’s free labor for a private company, but still, can’t beat it.

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  1. 1

    It’s an increasingly expected joy in Seattle, and throughout the United States, to see the job picture improving, and the stock market is up for a second straight day on the news.

    Leider, it’s not enough good information to help out one of Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit’s fave stocks, GE. The Dow’s up 200+ as of this writing. GE? Down more than a half-percent.

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    Goldy✔
    @GoldyHA
    Just walked the Highline in NYC. Impressive. You know what else was impressive? The well maintained public restroom at the end. I know folks in Seattle itching to build our own “Highline,” but I’d settle for some public restrooms.
    56m

    We have them, now. They’re called Starbucks.

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    CNBC reporting today tha a JP Morgan analyst has concluded that another GE dividend cut is necessary.

    Hey, y’all, remember when Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit invoked the GE dividend as part of his basis for preferring it to Varian?

    After a 40+% stock price decline and two dividend cuts to one of Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit’s largest holdings, my Notadumbfuck Method of investing is really selling itself these days.

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    Good McCain bio here. An excerpt:

    “In an address last October at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, McCain said that it was wrong to ‘fear the world we have organized and led for three quarters of a century, to abandon the ideals we have advanced around the globe, to refuse the obligations of international leadership, and our duty to remain the last, best hope of Earth.’ He said it was wrong to abandon those principles ‘for the sake of some half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems.’ To do so was ‘as unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired dogma of the past that Americans consigned to the ash heap of history,’ McCain continued.”

    https://www.military.com/daily-news/2018/05/27/final-reckoning-memorial-day-and-legacy-john-mccain.html?ESRC=army_180529.nl

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: In 2008 Obama, not McCain, was the right choice to lead America out of an economic crisis that easily could have turned into a Great Depression 2.0. (McCain, by his own admission, wasn’t interested in, and didn’t know much about, economics.) But McCain has rendered salutary service as the sole conscience of a corrupt and heartless political party that has no conscience, has lost its way, and is now dancing to the pied piper screeching of a racist demagogue. McCain, for all his failings, which he’s big enough to admit to, is a giant compared to the louse in the White House. Unfortunately, it looks like the lottery of life is going to take the smart and decent man, and leave us stuck with the unintelligent louse.

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    @1 Roger Rabbit doesn’t have any attachment to his stocks, but you’re too dumbfuck to figure that out. The Rabbit bottom lines everything, including your intelligence when parsing your comments. How did you get into a medical school, even an offshore one that accepts anyone, and manage to graduate, albeit last in your class?

    In any case, you don’t need to feel sorry for me, dumbfuck. GE is only one of about three dozen stocks I own, is less than 2% of my total holdings, and a 0.5% decline in GE isn’t going to break me. In fact, it’s puny compared to just one of your screwed-up options trades. And the other 98.5% of my portfolio is doing quite well today, but thanks for your concern. Your dumbfuckery has no limits.

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    @ 6

    In 2008 the left portrayed McCain as Hitler. In 2012 it was Romney’s turn to wear the narrow ‘stache.

    Now it is Trump who is the left’s Hitler.

    The left’s problem after McCain’s passing will not be that it is stuck with Trump.

    It will be that it is still stuck with assholes who shill like Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit.

    Think on your sins. Steve.

  9. 9

    @2 Actually that lawsuit, if successful, won’t disenfranchise a single voter. They can still vote for candidates legitimately (under Montana law) on the ballot. But then, understanding legal stuff has never been your strong suit. You should stick to what you’re good at, i.e. fucking horses and goats. See last sentence of #7.

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    @3 Wherein a dumbfuck insinuates there’s something wrong with coffee shops letting African-Americans waiting for a meetup take a leak when needed. Note this dumbfuck, in all his time spent in this forum, has never made an issue of white people loitering in coffee shops or using restrooms without buying anything. Racism is a Republican thing.

    But hey, if Starbucks’ business practices offend you, then feel free to boycott their stock. (This won’t be the first time Starbucks has offended your ilk. Remember the Happy Holidays coffee cups? What kind of jackasses are against wishing people a happy holiday? Your kind, that’s who.) As for me, I’m quite happy with my SBUX stock, which is worth more than 50 times what I paid for it, and now pays an annual dividend in excess of what my shares cost me.

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    @4 Revel in your narrow procedural victory. No doubt it’s a big deal for you that the Colorado Civil Rights Commission will have to be less biased next time. As for a broad-brush ruling that businesses have a constitutional right to discriminate against gay people because of their religious beliefs, you and your ilk didn’t get that. The vote should have tipped you off; no liberal justice would vote to uphold homophobic discrimination. How did you miss that? This is the same* court that just three years ago ruled gay marriage is a constitutional right.

    * Substitute Gorsuch for Scalia and you get the same result.

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    @5 Yeah, I can see why dumbfuck is harping on GE the day after Trump’s lawyer said his client could shoot the FBI director and get away with it. GE is to dumbfuck what aspirin is to a drunk with a hangover. It’s what he resorts to when he’s having a bad morning.

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    From Seattle Times’ daily brief:

    “Facebook gave phone makers access to vast amounts of users’ personal information, including relationship status, religion, political leaning and upcoming events. And the deals are still in effect. This revelation follows the disclosure that Facebook likely shared the data of more than a million Washingtonians in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.”

    Full Disclosure: Roger Rabbit doesn’t have a Facebook account or own Facebook stock, and thinks no one else should either.

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    @ 11

    @4 Revel in your narrow procedural victory.

    It is a narrow procedural victory. Why did I compare it to Bush v. Gore? Because that 7-2 decision was equally narrow:

    “Our consideration is limited to the present circumstances…” was part of that decision. Kennedy’s opinion in the CO cake case was similarly narrow in its focus.

    In each case a lower arbitrating entity acted horribly, and SCOTUS ended up, with substantial majority, pointing it out in no uncertain terms.

    There is a lesson from these cases, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit, and that lesson is that ultimately, people who conduct themselves like assholes, such as yourself and ‘froggy, ultimately will be held to account and publicly smacked down for the assholes they are. The assholes that you and ‘froggy are. Assholes like you two are then left wondering what the fuck happened and why they lost yet again. And in ‘froggy’s case, wondering why he lost yet another job.

    And that’s enough. I’ll take it.

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    This hardly looks like a smashing victory for homophobes:

    “Our society has come to the recognition that gay persons
    and gay couples cannot be treated as social outcasts or as
    inferior in dignity and worth. For that reason the laws
    and the Constitution can, and in some instances must,
    protect them in the exercise of their civil rights. The
    exercise of their freedom on terms equal to others must be
    given great weight and respect by the courts. At the same
    time, the religious and philosophical objections to gay
    marriage are protected views and in some instances protected
    forms of expression. As this Court observed in
    Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U. S. ___ (2015), ‘[t]he First
    Amendment ensures that religious organizations and
    persons are given proper protection as they seek to teach
    the principles that are so fulfilling and so central to their
    lives and faiths.’ Id., at ___ (slip op., at 27). Nevertheless,
    while those religious and philosophical objections are
    protected, it is a general rule that such objections do not
    allow business owners and other actors in the economy
    and in society to deny protected persons equal access to
    goods and services under a neutral and generally applicable
    public accommodations law. …

    “When it comes to weddings, it can be assumed that a
    member of the clergy who objects to gay marriage on
    moral and religious grounds could not be compelled to
    perform the ceremony without denial of his or her right to
    the free exercise of religion. This refusal would be well
    understood in our constitutional order as an exercise of
    religion, an exercise that gay persons could recognize and
    accept without serious diminishment to their own dignity
    and worth. Yet if that exception were not confined, then a
    long list of persons who provide goods and services for
    marriages and weddings might refuse to do so for gay
    persons, thus resulting in a community-wide stigma inconsistent with the history and dynamics of civil rights
    laws that ensure equal access to goods, services, and
    public accommodations.

    “It is unexceptional that Colorado law can protect gay
    persons, just as it can protect other classes of individuals,
    in acquiring whatever products and services they choose
    on the same terms and conditions as are offered to other
    members of the public. And there are no doubt innumerable
    goods and services that no one could argue implicate
    the First Amendment. Petitioners conceded, moreover,
    that if a baker refused to sell any goods or any cakes for
    gay weddings, that would be a different matter and the
    State would have a strong case under this Court’s precedents
    that this would be a denial of goods and services
    that went beyond any protected rights of a baker who
    offers goods and services to the general public and is
    subject to a neutrally applied and generally applicable
    public accommodations law.”

    https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/16-111_j4el.pdf

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    More on Goldy’s @ 3 desire for public restrooms. I needed to choose between responses and went for the cheap joke, above. Goldy’s tweets, after all, seldom warrant more effort in reply.

    But seriously, Seattle has already had public restrooms, remember those?

    Seattle’s automated $5 million public toilets sold for $12,000

    https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/seattles-5-million-automated-public-toilets-sold-for-12000/

    After all that financial outlay for acquisition, and substantial maintenance costs, Seattle had to remove them because they became havens for shooting up and for fucking hookers.

    Next time you ask for public restrooms, Goldy, ask for them to be installed in front of your house. And in front of wherever it is your daughter might be living these days.

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    @17 “people who conduct themselves like assholes … ultimately will be held to account and publicly smacked down for the assholes they are”

    You are so right. Two examples:

    1. You.
    2. Giuliani.

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    @19 Obviously, if no restroom is available, anyone urgently needing to pee will have to seek recourse in the nearest available bushes, which may be in your front yard. Why not? We rabbits have been shitting and pissing on your lawn for years. It’s perfectly natural.

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    @ 18

    This hardly looks like a smashing victory for homophobes

    That might be because it’s not, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit. It’s merely a public smackdown of liberal assholes like yourself. See @ 17.

    That’s more than enough to suit me.

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    @ 21

    It’s perfectly natural.

    So are multifocal pathologic vertebral fractures due to bone metastases from prostatic carcinoma. Enjoy them.

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    You deserve your hours reduced todaaaaaaayyyyy…

    McDonald’s is making a big bet on self-service kiosks

    The self-service program is more advanced in international markets, and is fully complete in Canada, the U.K. and Australia, he said. Some locations in France and Germany are almost ready with the new technology.

    “We do know it helps grow the business, we know it’s the right route to go down. We can’t get there quick enough in the U.S.”

    https://www.marketwatch.com/story/mcdonalds-is-making-a-big-bet-on-self-service-kiosks-2018-06-04

    The best part is the angle that it will increase per-check revenue, and not that it will cut labor costs. The latter’s a freebie.

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    Apparently Bill Clinton said that Monica swallowed and liked it.

    “And so what you saw there, I think is the end of Bill Clinton’s life as a public figure in this country,” MSNBC political commentator Steve Schmidt said. “Because of that interview I don’t think he’s campaigning anywhere ever again unless he can clean it up and fix it pretty quickly.”

    Anchor Joe Scarborough said if Clinton wants to be on the campaign trail in 2018, he will need to take responsibility for his actions.

    “If he wants to go out and campaign in 2018 which he should, do you own up to the fact that Monica Lewinsky’s life has been ruined. That you still have Juanita Broaddrick suffering what she went through,” Scarborough said.

    “It has been for decades an unbelievable double standard that the Clintons have used and abused where nobody is allowed to go there on this issue and in the age of ‘Me Too,’ women are supposed to go there,” host Mika Brzezinski said.

    http://freebeacon.com/politics.....dont-need/

    Although if that were true, how did the blue dress get messy?

  26. 26

    Maybe they’re wrong, and PDNK is gonna assassinate Trump with gas or something at the summit.

    SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – North Korea’s top three military officials have been removed from their posts, a senior U.S. official said, a move analysts said on Monday could support efforts by the North’s young leader to jump-start economic development and engage with the world.
    …
    “If Kim Jong Un is set on making peace with the U.S. and South Korea and dealing away at least part of the nuclear program, he will have to put the KPA’s influence in a box and keep it there,” said Ken Gause, director of the International Affairs Group at CNA, a non-profit research and analysis organization.

    “This reshuffle has brought to the fore the officers who can do just that. They are loyal to Kim Jong Un and no one else.”

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-usa-military/north-korea-shakes-up-military-leadership-ahead-of-trump-summit-us-official-idUSKCN1IZ0XY

    ’cause otherwise this is how you get more Trump.

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    Today is the first day of the second 500 days of the Trump presidency.

    Only around 2421 days or so to go, Steve. Hell, that’s nothing. Roger Rabbit’s got less than half that left.

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    @28 SBUX paid a $1.20 dividend last Monday. I bought my shares for $1.10. More companies could use some of whatever Schultz puts in the frappuccinos.

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    @ 29

    Remember all those Inauguration Day protesters who were arrested and charged with felonies?

    I remember they didn’t stop the inauguration.

    And this didn’t make any difference, either.

    Tim Kaine’s Son Sentenced to Probation Over Post-Trump Rally Arrest

    http://insider.foxnews.com/201.....-minnesota

    Four days in jail. The pussy.

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    @23 Whoever’s x-rays you’re looking at, they’re not mine. Sounds like something a horse fucker might have after getting kicked. You’re not supposed to stand squarely behind them. Didn’t anyone tell you that?

  34. 34

    @24 Dumbfuck never misses an opportunity to gloat over minimum-wage workers — many of them single moms supporting children whose fathers don’t pay support — losing their miserable jobs and falling even further into penury. And, of course, he votes for people who want to cut off their food stamps.

    You’re such an asshat.

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    @25 What did Juanita Broaddrick go through?

    “In a sworn statement in 1997 with the placeholder name ‘Jane Doe #5′, Broaddrick filed an affidavit with Paula Jones’ lawyers stating there were unfounded rumors and stories circulating ‘that Mr. Clinton had made unwelcome sexual advances toward me in the late seventies… These allegations are untrue’.”

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juanita_Broaddrick##MeToo_and_re-evaluation_in_2017-18

    You do understand, don’t you, that the only way her later allegations hold water is if she’s a credible perjurer?

  36. 36

    @26 Have they been shot with anti-aircraft guns yet? And has it occurred to anyone besides me that if this is what unwavering loyalty earns NK’s top military brass, the next cadre might at some point stage a coup against Young Leader simply as a matter of self-preservation? And all we have to do is sit back and wait?

  37. 37

    @27 “Roger Rabbit’s got less than half that left.”

    I’ll remember that when I dance and piss on your grave.

    I’m not the horsefucker around here. If Mrs. Rabbit was going to kick me to death, she would’ve done it by now.

  38. 38

    @32 Wow. He got 4 days in jail and a $236 fine for not cooperating with being arrested for wearing black clothing in a state capitol building? They’re tough on crime in Minnesota.

    I wonder what they do to traitors who sell their country to hostile foreign powers, and the fellow travelers who support them?

    You probably shouldn’t book any vacation trips to Minnesota in the near future.

  40. 40

    @39 “GOLDBERG: Yeah. I mean, look, you know, Trey Gowdy recently – or somewhat recently, you know, said the president needs to stop acting like he’s guilty.”

    That’s hard to do if you’re guilty.

  41. 41

    @12

    Shorter Dr. Dumbfuck on just about everything (Hillary, GE, racism, women, gays): “These go to 11.”

    The confused blank stare at 0:46 is what I imagine his wife/horses see all the time.

    https://youtu.be/KOO5S4vxi0o

  42. 42

    “DECORAH, IOWA — Facing the potential of a loss in profits and closed foreign markets amid a U.S.-ignited trade war, farmers here are expressing anxiety about President Donald Trump’s negotiations with a growing number of foreign nations.”

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/iowa-farmers-are-uneasy-trade-wars-export-tariff-threats-mount-n879876

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: Boo-fucking-hoo. Sorry, snowflakes, but elections have consequences. Your county went for Trump. He promised tariffs. You got what you voted for. That’s your problem.

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    German rightwing leader sees Third Reich as “speck of bird poop” in his country’s history.

    https://tinyurl.com/y7p4jjw9

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: Thank goodness our rightwingers are more sensitive to Hitler’s slaughter and murder of millions of human beings and would never follow a demagogue with autocratic inclinations.

  44. 44

    @42

    When will the rubes ever learn that Trump doesn’t give a damn about them? Oh sure, he is like some two-bit hooker that tells them he loves them as long as they vote for him and as soon as he is Prez, well, so sorry, go away.

    Trump always has, and always will, look out for himself first, no matter what the cost. So when those farmers lose their farms, despite all the past government protectionism they have received, remember it was Trump and his ilk that really screwed them over.

  45. 45

    “When will the rubes ever learn that Trump doesn’t give a damn about them?”

    He does when they violate our espionage laws by taking unauthorized photos inside our submarines, then obstruct justice by destroying evidence, and then sue Obama for not prosecuting Hillary over her emails.

    http://www.foxnews.com/politic.....obama.html

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: This lawsuit isn’t going anywhere. His lawyer won’t even be allowed to argue his theory of the case, i.e., that his client shouldn’t have been prosecuted for the crimes he committed because Hillary wasn’t prosecuted. What she did or didn’t do isn’t admissible, not to mention irrelevant.

    Oh, and it’s kinda hard to win a malicious prosecution lawsuit when (a) you’re guilty and (b) pleaded guilty. But hey, Chelsea Manning got a pardon, so it’s hard to argue this asshole shouldn’t get a pardon, too.

    But I’ll bet the military wouldn’t take him back any more than it wants Manning back. The Navy has no jobs for dumbasses who don’t follow orders.

  46. 46

    @ #8

    In 2008 the left portrayed McCain as Hitler. In 2012 it was Romney’s turn to wear the narrow ‘stache.

    Now it is Trump who is the left’s Hitler.

    But this time around, he’s the Right’s Hitler too.

    Thats why they voted for him.

    That’s why you voted for him.

  47. 47

    Today is the day Goldy began to understand the symbolism of A Phone and A Pen.

    Goldy✔
    @GoldyHA
    Today is the day Trump became dictator.

    11h

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