I had to get up early on Wednesday, and I’m still messed up today. Really feeling the lack of sleep, even an hour or so, is kind of an adult thing. I’m sure when I was a teenager and didn’t get home until super late, I’m sure it screwed me up just as bad. But I think I just pushed past it. I’m actually feeling it now. A couple days later.
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Here’s an idea on how to derail the next Tim Eyman bullshit taxes initiative. Why not compete with him for money and signature attention? We know for a fact that a 2/3 requirement for tax increases is unconstitutional, so let’s file five (or more) different initiatives with varying spins on a 2/3 (or 7/8, 3/4, etc.) requirement. We can fundraise for them all, thereby competing with and reducing Timmy’s income source. We can gather signatures for them all, with the aim of diluting his own effort. Hopefully the undiscerning voter (probably the majority of people who sign the petitions and vote for his initiatives in the first place) will respond to Timmy’s signature-gatherers with, “No, I’ve already signed this one.” And it would be too complicated to explain why Timmy’s should *also* be signed. The more of ours that make it onto the ballot, the more confusing it will become! If one (or more) of ours should pass, we can fail to defend it well when the inevitable (correct) court challenge appears.
Sounds like the flu.
Well the party of personal responsibility is doing great.
Sarah Palin says her sons domestic abuse is Obama’s fault.
Ted Cruz says missing the open enrollment period and getting dropped from his Health Plan is because of Obamacare.
One of these days you just need to take responsibility for your actions and not look to blame someone else.
Sleep deprivation isn’t a problem for capitalist leeches like me, who do no work and produce nothing of value to the economy, because we can sleep in as late as we like. This morning I rolled out of the hay at 11:30 am. All I have to do is own stock and cash the dividend checks.
@1 Nice idea, but the problem is these people sign everything, including the same initiative multiple times. Have you checked what the duplication rate is for Timmeh’s initiatives? Does he have to collect a million sigs to get 200,000 valid ones?
@2 The beautiful thing about old age is you can sleep all day without the flu. And because you snore, your significant other can tell whether you’re still alive without leaving the kitchen.
@5 Bill Gates tells the legislature how to fund charter schools for a thousand students and they jump through his hoops. Disgusting.
@3 “One of these days you just need to take responsibility for your actions and not look to blame someone else.”
That’s probably a bridge too far where Republicans are concerned.
Living in a country with the Kochs is a lot like living in a country that has a KGB.
http://www.dailykos.com/storie.....tail=email
The Oregon terrorists are going out of their way to disrespect Native Americans. Racism, anyone?
http://www.dailykos.com/story/.....tail=email
Roger Rabbit Commentary: The last laugh may come when (hopefully not “if”) these idiots are prosecuted (they prefer “persecuted”)* under some archaeological artifacts protection statute.
* Works for me. I don’t care what they call it, as long as they’re in jail.
Maybe the mic drop was a tad bit overdone.
Hillary Clinton angers Iowa fans who waited hours for five-minute speech
http://www.theguardian.com/us-.....ute-speech
So which ad is whiter? http://www.mediaite.com/online.....hty-white/
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! DUMMOCRETINS are the party of old white peeps!
Imagine if this is true… http://dailycaller.com/2016/01.....ver-video/
If Heilary was some low level puke she’d already be in the slammer! DUMMOCRETINS are lousy with secret data. Remember Pat Leahy?
http://dailycaller.com/2016/01.....p-fiascos/
Gotta love how Obummer’s gang will never take responsibility for anything!
Oh no white privilege in Hollyweird! DAYUM Funny!
http://www.hollywoodreporter.c.....led-858207
“As far as Michael Moore is concerned, he is a socialist always looking to insert his brand of racist hatred. Spike Lee — haven’t I heard this from him before?”
“In a liberal town like Hollywood, that makes about as much sense as saying all members of the Academy vote Republican,” he quipped.
And it’s now day 306 since the Absent Minded Canadian Wall Street Insider Raphael Cruz launched his campaign to become the first foreign-born person to become President since the Founders, and still no documentation supporting his citizenship status.
School shooting in Canada leaves 5 dead, 2 injured.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/22/.....index.html
Meanwhile, Trump promises to take better care of Soviet veterans.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/22/.....index.html
“Gotta love how Obummer’s gang will never take responsibility for anything!”
Love the irony. The loon and his disintegrating political party have never taken responsibility for one damned thing they’ve ever fucked up. Hell, the Wasilla hillbilly just blamed Obama for her divorced son abusing his girlfriend.
Personal responsibility – don’t bother looking for it in a wingnut.
@19 You gotta expect a few of your neighbors and relatives to be stupid, but when one of our two major political parties is this stupid, we should get a little nervous.
@17 Sad to hear of this. Note that when this happens in Canada, it’s actually news.
@ 19
“Hell, the Wasilla hillbilly just blamed Obama for her divorced son abusing his girlfriend.”
She still blames Obama for her losing the 2008 election fer chrissakes.
Wow. Notice how TPPS @19 cherry picked those items with more of its EPIC FAYLE attacks?
Well read and weep moron! http://www.wsj.com/articles/cl.....1453419158
The server also contained messages showing her contempt for classification procedures.
“Even in friendly settings we conducted business under strict security precautions, taking care where and how we read secret material and used our technology,” Mrs. Clinton tells readers. She even read classified material “inside an opaque tent in a hotel room. In less well-equipped settings, we were told to improvise by reading sensitive material with a blanket over our head.”
So mishandling of classified information. Where have we heard that before TPPS?
Butt as we now know these SAP documents were electronically available for hackers?
“So mishandling of classified information.”
The loon must be talking about the fucked up Bush 43 administration again.
“Report Describes Careless Handling of U.S. Secrets”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....01029.html
That’s the best you got TPPS?
HAHAHA!
Heilary has done way worse!
Bern notice.
The key takeaway from our model below: in order for Sanders to be “on track” to break even in pledged delegates nationally, he wouldn’t just need to win Iowa and New Hampshire by a hair. He would need to win 70 percent of Iowa’s delegates and 63 percent of New Hampshire’s delegates.
http://cookpolitical.com/story/9179
@19 not only is taking personal responsibility one of the greatest traits of a Republican so is believing that a person is innocent until proven guilty.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141322581
Can’t wait for England to not consider America as one of their allies.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141322462
Ahhhh yes, the Party of Prosperity knows all about how to keep home values high – or maybe it is not part of their economic plan.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141322426
Just think they say the City of Detroit was ruined by you know who….but Flint? I guess they really don’t need Flint to be like Des Moines, Iowa.
Not going to be easy to get along with China if they are friendly with Iran…….all Obama’s fault.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141322403
Maybe she had one of Sarah Palin’s fetuses to show them.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141322159
If he wants health insurance he should have kept his Canadian Citizenship. Poor guy, I feel for him.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/l.....-questions
@22 “She still blames Obama for her losing the 2008 election fer chrissakes.”
Well yeah, I think she can blame THAT on Obama, you know, the better team won.
@25 It’s not possible to do worse than the Bush fuckups.
@26,
so it’s that bad is it?
The appalling descent of the GOP into eminent dumbfuckery leaves Bob with no option but to campaign for a Clinton.
Well that just about says it all.
HMMM… Sanders and Clinton are toxic… https://www.nrcc.org/2016/01/20/hillary-clintons-email-scandal-deepens-threatening-house-democrats/
Y E S!
“It’s not possible to do worse than the Bush fuckups.”
Bush gave us a very nice loon head implosion @25.
“Sanders and Clinton are toxic…”
The NRCC. Yeah, right. Too funny. Chalk up another loon head implosion @36.
In other news, Carson has plummeted to a pathetic 2.6% in New Hampshire, and has fallen to a pathetic fifth place in South Carolina and Florida.
http://www.realclearpolitics.c.....-3350.html
Cue another loon head implosion.
Apparently TPPS Can’t deal with FBI facts and hasn’t come up with his own retort to:
KAAAAAAAAAAAAAABLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
So it makes up these fake “head explosions” comments!
TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUM
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNY
“Cue another loon head implosion.”
“KAAAAAAAAAAAAAABLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”
There he goes. Right on schedule.
Sometime last week I heard an interview of Hillary Clinton where she was questioned about the e-mails. Perhaps the reporter suffered from a lack of sleep or just doesn’t know shit about classification. The US government has publications on the subject. There is also information out on the internet, and just read a couple of Tom Clancy novels. Still the reporter nor any reporter has asked Hillary the two or three important questions. One: As Secretary of State were you the classification authority for the State Department. 2. As such could you have received information via e-mail before you deemed it should be classified. (Occasssionally a sotry appears in some magazine or university and then the research just disappears). 3. When you were Secretary how did you determine if information should be classified and at what level. Whether prepped or not these are questions she should be prepared to answer. As they will come up in the general election perhaps even at a debate.
@1 The problem with your suggestion is I generally sign any initiative that I get an opportunity to sign. Local or State. I do so in the belief that I get to vote against the measure if it makes it to the ballot. I have voted for some of Eyemen’s measures and against others. The more initiatives the merrier still it can be a pain in the butt when it comes time to vote as there can be initiatives that are on opposing sides of an issue and the voters can and have passed both or nearly passed both. Perhaps some initiative should require a supermajority such as 60 percent or two thirds. Do constitutional changes require a super majority or are they just a majority. Requiring 60 or 2/3 particularly on an issue that would force the legislature to pass tax hikes by supermajority would at least be ironic, and if it’s such a good idea the good people of Washington would have no problem voting for such a good idea. (Or would they?)
@5 It’s no where near that high, but most initiative sponsor shoot for about 1.3 to 1.5 signatures to have enough real voter signatures. If you need 1 million then they shoot for 1.3 to 1.5 million and hopefully they have enough time to verify the million they need and can go out for more if they need too. If your not on a budget you just keep getting signatures until you need to round up everything and turn it in to the Secretary of State or the appropriate county auditor or city rep.
@7 Bill Gates is wrong unless the legislature is going to change the constitution of Washington or Bill is writing the check.
@9 Well unlike you they don’t sleep in or perhaps don’t sleep at all. Wonder how many billions they have lost due to the plunge in oil. What no sympathy for the Koch’s? Well good.
@10 Of course if there is racism in that part of the country it’s more likely to be directed at Native Americans than any other group. Throw in the land issues between Native American’s and cattle men or even sheep ranchers you got volatile possibilities.
Fortunately the tribe isn’t likely to send in their young warriors to do the governments job. So where is Forge as this is a job for a superhero.
@13 Well some truth in that and I don’t know of anyone who has been in a position of classification authority to have been prosecuted. Many if not most have done some questionable things. It’s of course ironic that Mr. Gates would mention station chiefs as often the Secretary of States department might be the most upset with whatever his station chief is planning to do, and are most likely to be kept in the dark. Although the Station Chief works in the embassy his or her boss isn’t the Ambassador, yet they have to work together with that whole need to know thing being constantly batted back and forth.
Still the Soviets were right when they said all Ambassadors are spies as they are.
@18 The Russian veterans of the great war need love too. Especially the ones who ended up in Siberia after the war for many years in education programs before they returned home.
@16 That reminds me about the recent spate of the possibility that the Supreme Court could take this up. I think the court would punt and pass the issue of as one of politics that the electoral college is best able to deal with and most likely dealt with before the issue came before the court. If a candidate gets a majority then according to the electoral college the candidate meets the requirements of the US Constitution. Any other decision would mean a constitutional crises that the court would try to avoid. Of course there would be that constitutional issue of the electors being required to vote a certain way by state law, rather than be free to vote for any candidate or anyone for President and Vice President.
@23 Hey when you are the classification authority for the State Department you can set up the rules as you want them Puddy. If you want to use a transparent tent or transparent pillows that is ok. If you want to insist everything be done on typewriters and the typewriter ribbons be collected and put in a safe and or burned every day you can do that too. Or you could insist on everything being handwritten with quills, sometimes the old ways are the best ways and most secure.
@25 Political appointees of both parties often do things with classified material with no punishment or a slap on the hand that if an employee of the US government did the same thing they go to jail and both have signed the same paperwork on guarding the material.
The real challenge is when it’s the President and Vice President who reveals classified material. Every President has done just that at some point in their time in office. Maybe with the exceptions of Truman and Eisenhower. Ronal Reagan did it in some big ways and multiple times. Though he managed to forget the bit about the Contras, Iran weapon thing.
@26 While the report makes a lot of good points the thing is if Bernie wins the first two states and does well during Super Tuesday he will have momentum which has been much more of a key in the nomination process. If a candidate walks into the convention with a majority of delegates not including superdelagates and the party goes with the opposing candidate that candidate has a legtimatcy problem and it’s the very situation that you get a party split and both end up running for President.
Right now Bernie is improving as a candidate and his star is rising. Hillary star is static or even drooping a bit. It’s still a race that is about her not loosing as about Bernie willing. Bernie can win the first two primaries and she can still be inevitable, but Bernie does well or better than expected super Tuesday she will be hitting the panic button, at best her finger maybe showing a slight twitch toward the button. So far though she is showing strength and confidence which is what she must do as a candidate. If Bernie played sports in high school way back when that might be his true advantage in the next few months.