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Open Thread 10/2

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– I’m not sure there’s all that much that the state can do about oil trains, but good on Governor Inslee for doing what he can.

– The problem isn’t that people don’t have enough guns. The problem is that police are too often using the guns they have. That won’t be solved by a bunch of average suburban white people wandering around public spaces with their rifles slung over their backs. Those aren’t the people most likely to be shot by police –whether they’re armed or not. They’re missing the point entirely.

– Washington state is dotted with landslide-prone slopes, and many counties and cities do less than Snohomish County to keep homes away from harm.

– What marijuana shops will open are slowly working themselves out.

– That’s cute and all, but maybe an income tax would be a better way to solve the budget hole than taxing political contributions?

Comments

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    Republicans are People.

    If you haven’t heard, Republican messaging guru, late of the I’m a Mormon campaign, has launched a series of images on twitter Republicans are people who look just like you! (gasp) Problem is, they aren’t aware that things like Google image search and Tineye exist so they are caught using stock images of random people who are probably not Rebulican. (“Quick, get me a guy with tattoos and a beard that is NOT a goatee but not a full on ZZTop and if he can be standing in front of a flag, even better! Shit, just a guy with a goatee, well all right as long as he doesn’t look Hipster.”)

    Internet Hilarity has ensued…

    Yes, I picked the link that is most likely to enrage our resident troll on purpose…

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    Over in the last open thread our local village idiot troll had this to say about the FACT that fewer African Americans live in the inner core of Philadelphia:

    They lost population but it’s still more than 50% you brilliant HA HERO!

    Damn! We’re making “progress” here.

    Now add up all those losses of African Americans from all the big city counties across the country and what do you get klownservative dope?

    The share of blacks in large metro areas living in suburbs rose from 37 percent in 1990, to 44 percent in 2000, to 51 percent in 2010.

    http://www.brookings.edu/~/med.....y_frey.pdf

    Your miserable “reservation” only exists in the vacuum between your ears, fool!

    Let’s repeat it a few times for our village idiot troll:

    MOST BLACKS NOW LIVE IN SUBURBS!
    MOST BLACKS NOW LIVE IN SUBURBS!
    MOST BLACKS NOW LIVE IN SUBURBS!
    MOST BLACKS NOW LIVE IN SUBURBS!

    Since AT LEAST 2010!

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    @7 Yeah…but are we talking about “suburbs” like Medina or “suburbs” like Furguson, MO?

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    but are we talking about “suburbs” like Medina or “suburbs” like Furguson, MO?

    My guess is we are talking about the typical American suburb. African Americans want what everyone wants when they move to the ‘burbs: bigger house, better school district. safer neighborhoods among other amenities.

    Although there exists probably more than a handful of nearly all-black wealthy suburbs maybe even approaching or surpassing Medina in per capita wealth, Medina is far from typical.

    And I hope Ferguson, MO, being majority African American and having nearly all-white governance and policing with oppressive speed traps, stop and frisks and whatever designed to shake down the poorer residents for whatever they can – I can only hope that’s a complete aberration.

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    The fantasy of the village idiot troll and all other klownservatives:

    Steve Wynn, founder of the Wynn Resorts Ltd. (WYNN) casino empire, once called President Barack Obama’s administration “the greatest wet blanket to business and progress and job creation in my lifetime.” Barry Sternlicht, chief executive officer of Starwood Property Trust Inc. (STWD), said Obamacare was driving down wage growth and “affecting spending and the desire to buy houses and everything else.”

    Now here’s the reality:

    Companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 (SPX) Index are the healthiest in decades, with the lowest net debt to earnings ratio in at least 24 years, $3.59 trillion in cash and marketable securities, and record earnings per share. They are headed this year toward the fastest average monthly job creation since 1999, manufacturing is recovering and the U.S. has returned as an engine for global growth. The recovery, which stands in contrast to weak growth in Europe and Asia, has underpinned an almost threefold gain in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index since March 2009.

    Wynn has been part of that recovery. Since Obama first took the oath on Jan. 21, 2009, the shares of his luxury hotel company have surged fivefold while the S&P 500 Index more than doubled. Starwood Property Trust, Sternlicht’s Greenwich, Connecticut-based real estate company, has risen 36 percent since its August 2009 initial public offering, while an index of real estate investment trusts declined.

    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/.....-debt.html

    So the rich are getting richer. Big bidness is booming! What are klownservatives complaining about?

    Oh yeah! There’s a black Dem in the Oval office.

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    Whoa! Alabama is klownservative WHACKO land!

    On Tuesday, the ACLU sued to halt an extreme new Alabama law targeting minors who are seeking abortions. The measure is very clearly designed to degrade and humiliate teenage girls, far beyond what any state has previously attempted (and what the Supreme Court has allowed).

    Alabama already requires a minor to secure parental consent before obtaining an abortion, but if she cannot—if, for instance, it was her parent who raped and impregnated her—she can ask a judge to bypass this requirement. The new law takes that judicial bypass and turns it on its head, permitting the judge to appoint a lawyer to represent the minor’s fetus and advocate for its best interests. The judge may bring the district attorney into court to question the minor. And, worst of all, the district attorney can call witnesses to testify against the minor—and in favor of her fetus.

    All of this is quite heinous. But it gets much worse. If the judge rules in favor of the minor, the district attorney is now permitted by law to appeal the ruling and make his case all over again to a higher court.

    Damn! There’s just nothing that klownservatives will stop at to impose their most DEGENERATE impulses.

    Interestingly our moronic village idiot troll says he supports abortion in the cases of rape and incest..

    But I bet he LOVES lawyers being appointed to represent the “interests of the fetus”. And I bet he LOVES the humiliation and degradation of teenage girls through klownservative laws.

    Too freaking sick.

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    It’s so good to know that the monomaniacal clueless crazed cretin is obsessed with Puddy. Don’t worry crazed clueless monomaniacal cretin, Puddy will be in the air again and you can follow Puddy on another PuddyAdventure; going somewhere you won’t see!

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    going somewhere you won’t see!

    The inside of a sewer pipe? No interest in seeing the fetid abomination that’s between your ears fool.. Different place, same old “toilet”.

    Hmmm.. Nice to see the village idiot troll is too tiiiiired for any more klownservative propaganda for one night.

    Mission accomplished.

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    @17 Uh-oh, looks like Goldy got burglarized. Well, shit happens. I was burgled several times, too, back in the good ol’ days when I didn’t own anything worth stealing.

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    9)The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority has helped get Diesel emissions under control. About 4 years ago, their last diesel bus was retired and towed off into the sunset. Metrolink and Amtrak California are joining the fray, replacing F59PHI locomotives, which are Tier 0, with Tier 4 locomotives.

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    Hey Puffy you are always griping about gay people causing someone to lose their job – the gay mafia. What about the heterosexual mafia (bigots)? You bigots don’t know what the Constitution is nor do you know what freedom is.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....22644.html

    I recently was offered a job, paying $30,000 more than I currently make, but the individual offering it is a bigot. On occasion, in my presence, he has used the N word and has made fun of gay people. Needless to say, I wouldn’t work for the guy, not even for $30,000 more. I am too dedicated to my current employer where I’ve worked for the last 26 years, and I don’t feel like working for a bigot, such as yourself.

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    Champions of the “free market” and laissez-faire capitalism tell us to trust business and distrust government. Uh-huh. This is what happens when business isn’t regulated and can do as it pleases (and even sometimes when it IS regulated and CAN’T do as it pleases):

    “Think hotels are deliberately blocking your personal Wi-Fi networks so you’ll buy theirs? No, it’s not just a conspiracy theory. … Marriott has agreed to pay a $600,000 fine after the Federal Communications Commission found the company blocked consumer Wi-Fi networks last year during an event at a hotel and conference center in Nashville. At the same time, Marriott was charging exhibitors and others as much as $1,000 per device to access the hotel’s wireless network, the FCC announced Friday.”

    http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/03/.....?hpt=hp_t2

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: Distrusting government regulators is irrational enough; but why do conservatives trust business? They must be nuts. Or maybe it’s because they own these dishonest businesses and want a free hand to steal from their customers? Listening to conservatives talk about defunding and disbanding government regulation is like listening to crooks demand that police departments be defunded and disbanded.

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    What our resident village idiot troll would call “REAL AMERICANS”:

    More than one-third of Americans cannot name a single branch of the United States government, according to a recent poll.

    The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania released a poll on Wednesday that shows 35 percent of those polled could not name one branch of the U.S. government.

    http://www.politico.com/story/.....11108.html

    Such minds are easily manipulated by klownservative propaganda.

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    Job growth keeps plodding along:

    Employers have added 226,000 jobs per month, on average, this year — a healthy pace that more than keeps up with natural population growth.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....22146.html

    Yeah on average they still don’t pay worth crap but according to klownservative fools, we’re supposed to be losing jobs because of ACA..

    Anytime it can demonstrated that always wrong wing aka klownservative propaganda is just so much horseshit is good times for this country.

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    Awww. Another klownservative “jawb cweatoh” craves political power:

    During a July 2005 deposition, a transcript of which was provided to POLITICO, Perdue spoke at length about his role in Pillowtex’s collapse, which led to the loss of more than 7,600 jobs. Perdue was asked about his “experience with outsourcing,” and his response was blunt.

    “Yeah, I spent most of my career doing that,” Perdue said, according to the 186-page transcript of his sworn testimony.

    http://www.politico.com/story/.....11589.html

    Doesn’t it warm your heart? Such dynamic “jawb kweashun” from a Georgia klownservative!

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    @24 Oh my, Obamacare has caused the official unemployment rate to jump to 5.9%!

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    “While Cooney didn’t have a paying job, she’d become a Republican Party volunteer. She said she’d recently worked a fund-raiser at crooner Wayne Newton’s place and was headed to D.C. for the second inauguration of President George W. Bush.”

    http://www.cbsnews.com/news/pa.....ars-apart/

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: The sort of people the GOP attracts …

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    @26 – he might even be doing it better than Regan did during the Reagan years, and Reagan didn’t have today’s economy, it is totally different. More global, and less do more with less business minded companies, if they even exist today and are not in some third world country trying to make more profit at the expense of the middle class in this country.

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    @27 but per Republicans she was a responsible law abiding gun owner, until she committed the crime, then she was a criminal and a whack job, but not before hand, before she did it she was protected under the 2nd amendment.

    All gun owners are responsible until they decide to either shoot themselves or some other human being or a an animal, at which time they then become the crazies.

    Falls in line with the complete hypocrisy of the Republican Party.

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