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Open Thread 10/24

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– There ain’t enough fuck you in the world for this guy.

– Nepotism on full view on TV.

– At what point do the R-71 people give up their court case to keep their signatures hidden?

– It is ridiculous — RIDICULOUS — that we live in a society where it’s a good guess that a shooting in a place often frequented by women is going to be an extension of a “domestic dispute.”

– Family values.

– Bikers and walkers spend more money than drivers over time.

– Anyone interested in seeing a MST3King of BIRDEMIC tomorrow?

Comments

  4. 4

    Re: the first item in this post…

    I don’t remember who it was who posited that if men could become pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament, but that contention never seemed more apropos than it does with reference to misogynistic shitheads like Akin and Murdouck.

  5. 5

    @ 4

    I have to wonder, whether after:

    Angle
    Miller
    O’Donnell

    Akin
    Mourdock

    and the lost opportunities the GOP has or will have had because of them,

    will the GOP try harder to interfere with the Tea Party in the future?

    MO and IN Senate races still seem to be close. If the GOP loses them both and the Dems hold the Senate because of it, the Tea Party really would be to blame.

  6. 6

    Off of Drudge:


    TRUMP TO OBAMA: Release college, passport applications, I’ll donate $5 million to charity of choice…

    This was the big scoop?

    I suppose if he ups it to $50M and specifies a charity like Greenpeace or NAACP there might be some pressure on The One.

  8. 8

    Like we are suppose to care.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....07232.html

    If this was an attack on a gay person there would be very little sympathy from the right wing trolls here and abraud, so why do they expect anyone to care.

    They fire bullets into Obama campaign headquarters and could have killed someone, good for these two guys for getting even.

  10. 10

    Here’s an open letter to Ann Coulter, from John Franklin Stephens, a Special Olympics ‘Global Messenger’…excerpted here, read the whole thing.

    I thought first of asking whether you meant to describe the President as someone who was bullied as a child by people like you, but rose above it to find a way to succeed in life as many of my fellow Special Olympians have.

    Then I wondered if you meant to describe him as someone who has to struggle to be thoughtful about everything he says, as everyone else races from one snarkey sound bite to the next.

    Finally, I wondered if you meant to degrade him as someone who is likely to receive bad health care, live in low grade housing with very little income and still manages to see life as a wonderful gift.

  11. 11

    If the GOP loses them both and the Dems hold the Senate because of it, the Tea Party really would be to blame.

    The first sensible thing you’ve said in a LONG time.

    You guys created this monster – built out of whole cloth by Dick Armey and friends – aimed at destroying intelligent discourse about fixing the healthcare mess. Designed to shout-down enemies and take over townhalls, Brownshirt style. Now it’s out of control and taking over your primary process. They’ve given the Senate to the Democrats, and made the House unworkable – you’re just very fortunate that the latter is not the general perception of the country as a whole.

    It’s your own damn fault.

  12. 12

    @ 10

    Hey, thanks for the trip down memory lane, Lib Pinocchio:

    By MichaelJames
    Mar 19, 2009 8:56pm
    President Obama Jokes About Being a Bad Bowler: ‘It’s Like the Special Olympics’

    http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/po.....t-ob-15-3/

    I guess it’s OK to attack when a talking head who gets paid for being confrontational.

    Were you first out of the gate to attack our president when he made a total fucking asshole out of himself while trying to be funny?

  13. 13

    I wonder if Todd Akin will find a way to attack and insult McCaskill for this…

    JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill on Tuesday canceled her campaign events for the remainder of the week in order to spend time with her critically ill mother.

    Just like a little lady to care about her mother and stop campaigning…how can we trust her in the Senate? Or something like that…can’t wait.

  15. 15

    Typical liberals, whining because free money wasn’t give to them.

    Oh, and they’re in decline. Boo frickin’ hoo.

    Although the Obama campaign raised a record amount of money online, they never quite made common cause with online activists.

    “It has been a very testy relationship,” said Peter Daou, a blogger in the early days of the movement and now a political consultant. “He didn’t reach out. That was complained about in 2008, and during his presidency there has been a very bad relationship. They have been dismissive, and you want to look for a reason why the progressive blogosphere has fractured, that is it.”

    http://www.thedailybeast.com/a.....vival.html

    Note the irony of a liberal publication in decline and struggling for survival, writing about liberal bloggers in decline and struggling for survival.

    Schadenfreude alert.

  16. 16

    4: If men could get pregnant, the right to have an abortion would be enshrined in the Constitution, and every town in the country would have a walk-in abortion parlor fitted out with comfy couches and wide-screen TVs.

  17. 17

    @12
    DING*DING*DING…Yes, we have a winner…in the category of false equivalence, his specialty, Dr. Robert takes the prize.

    What Obama said was bone-headed and wrong…but here’s where you might be tripping up…he said it in self deprecation, not in attacking someone. And he apologized.

    Coulter, darling of the right, used ‘retard’ to attack someone, as a slur. Surprise, surprise. And does not apologize. Also notable, no outrage from her allies – one must assume you all approve of this…anything fair if it allows you to attack and destroy.

    Hell of a moral compass you’ve got there, Robert.

    God, you’re an ass.

  18. 18

    @14
    ‘Godwin’ has become the last refuge of the incompetent.

  19. 19

    @15
    Oh, my goodness…thank you so much for that Daily Beast article…just don’t know what I would have done without that. Democrats in disarray!! What a novel meme.

  21. 21

    @5, @11 True, as long as one is willing to accept that todays’s GOP and the “Tea Party” aren’t different parts of the same entity.

  22. 22

    @13 See, that’s why the girlies need flex time and stuff like that. The binder has all kinds of useful info like “…needs time off for dying mom…” and “…kids want home-cooked meal, needs to be home by 5:30…”.

  23. 23

    Great observation:

    Have you noticed nobody ever calls Joe Biden a Marxist?

    Yeah Bob it is very much about racism..

    More:

    2. Romneycare is Obamacare, yet the latter is criticized…

    3. A white president would never be criticized for these statements about Trayvon Martin…

    4. America would neither ignore nor laugh off a young black male relative of Obama publicly fantasizing about violence against a presidential candidate…

    5. If one of Obama’s teenage daughters was unmarried and pregnant, it wouldn’t be considered a “private” matter.

  25. 25

    Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t think this….

    …is a photo of two guys that think they’re about to lose.

    It is just you.

    Two of the phoniest looking guys I’ve ever seen.

    (Cue Cap’n Crunch posting an embarrassing picture of a democrat, and riffing off some false equivalence, which seems to be his only rhetorical device)

  26. 26

    “Yeah Bob it is very much about racism..”

    Racism. Apparently one of only two reasons why Bob is a trolling wingnut, the other being greed.

  27. 27

    “Two of the phoniest looking guys I’ve ever seen.”

    Nah, more like two socialpaths sharing a psycho-laugh.

  28. 28

    @23

    PEARL CLUTCH ALERT!!

    You’re suggesting that there’s right wing RACISM directed at Obama??!!!

    I have never heard a nastier, more down-in-the gutter, desperate accusation than that. How dare you?!

    /snark

  30. 30

    @26
    I think that’s true.

    Bob talks about taxes and deficits (sometimes) and retiring soon and wanting to be taxed less…pretty garden variety low-tax greed-head.

    But the strains of anti-Obama antipathy independent of the greed are unmistakable, too. Either bob grew up in Hawaii and Barry beat him up regularly as a kid, or he really doesn’t think the black guy should be president.

    I’d guess the latter.

  31. 31

    I think I got it, HA libbies.

    When Barack gets his ass kicked in two weeks, it’s ’cause he’s black.

    Right now he’s got a higher percent of the white vote than Mondale got in 1984, and yet he’s being deserted by whites ’cause he’s black.

    One thing, tho: Since the GOP didn’t like him in 2008, the people who are deserting him this year are Democrats.

    Suck it, libbies.

  34. 34

    @31
    What is it about right-wingers that make them so good at whining?

  35. 35

    Thank you, Richard Mourdock, for reigniting the rape discussion, and by extension, the empowerment of women in all aspects of their lives.

    Will Willard cut him loose? He ‘disagrees’ with him, but hasn’t withdrawn his endorsement.

    And, Mourdock is the only Senate nominee that Romney has cut a specific TeeVee commercial for. Why hasn’t Willard pulled that ad? Why hasn’t Ryan asked for his money back.

    Because, ladies, ‘god’s’ desires about your urteri, and the magical functions thereof when it come to ‘legitimate rape’ are central to the belief systems of the right wing. This is one thing they’re being openly honest about.

  36. 36

    @34 As usual, Bob misses the point. We’re saying that he’s a greed-head racist, which is fucking obvious. But he’d rather talk about Mondale and the 1980’s. But don’t you dare mention how Romney seems intent on being Bush on steroids, because Bob will accuse you of living in the past, or some such bullshit.

  37. 37

    @5 & 6

    Note that ToupeeFraud insists that the transcripts.be released “to my satisfaction.” that’s code for, you release it, I’ll send my crack investigators to Hawaii and ill never write that check.

    Reminds me of another uneducated right wing punk. How many days has it been since Hannity offered to be waterboarded to prove its not torture?

  38. 38

    Sarah Palin decried President Obama’s handling of Libya on Wednesday in a Facebook post titled “Obama’s Shuck and Jive Ends With Benghazi Lies.”

    English is such a rich language largely due to its entomological impurity. There are so many ways of conveying a thought and in the considered written form it produces so many possible layers of meaning.

    So Sarah Palin isn’t going out of her way to remind everyone that the President is black, right?

  40. 40

    How’s that big Trump scoop working out for ya, Serial? Yesterday he was all, Obama beats his wife, Obama beats his wife. Idiot.

  42. 42

    Wasn’t someone saying that Willard had peaked? Sure looks like it here.

    Now comes the inexorable fade, and the recriminations. Then, I suppose, The Pain that Robert was talking about.

    Should we start a pool on how many days he lasts as a commenter around her, starting Nov 7?

  43. 43

    So…

    Yesterday Fox News was trumpeting Donald Trump’s Big Announcement (I noticed he didn’t say “huge”) which he claimed could change the Presidential contest. Serial picked right up on it, hypothesizing about how some dirty divorce paperwork would have all sorts of nasty things to say about Obama – even if it were never filed.

    Turns out that guess wasn’t even close. But Fox News (and Serial) ran with it anyway. All Trump had to announce was his rather sad attempt to regain relevence, by offering to make a donation in return for copies of documents (The President’s college transcripts and passport application) which he would immediately disclaim as false, and therefore refuse to pay as promised.

    The motives seem to be rather petty and predictable. Fox News got the media and bloggers to temporarily stop talking about Romney’s disasterous performance at the last debate. And Trump diverted attention (somewhat) from the story which hit the papers today – the board of the luxory condos at Trump Place tole the Trump organization “You’re fired!” as managers of the building, due to repeated complaints about poor service with no improvement.

  44. 44

    @ 42

    Well, I suppose that’s one way to look at the dKos chart, Lib Sci.

    Another way of looking at it would be to point out that there are 16 polls listed on that chart and in NONE of them is Barack at 50% or higher.

    Just sayin’.

  45. 45

    More on Romney’s plan to build up our Navy:

    Here is a quick-and-easy graph showing the number of aircraft carriers in existence around the world:

    World’s Aircraft Carriers – 2012

    (Note: some of the foreign carriers, such as the recently launched foreign carriers, don’t have ooperational aircraft wings and are a long way from having fixed-wing aircraft suitable for carrier operations).

    And here is what happens when a battleship, regardless of size, goes against carrier-operated aircraft:

    Yamato Battleship

    (Short story: the Yamato was the biggest battleship of WWII, with 18″ main guns and impressive armored anti-torpedo belts. But it never had a chance to fire it’s big guns in combat – it was damaged by a torpedo, then by carrier-based airplanes, and in it’s final (suicide) mission to attack the U.S. Navy at Okinawa, it was sunk far from it’s goal by U.S. carrier aircraft.)

    It’s unclear as to what Romney is proposing. More aircraft carriers and accompanying battle groups? It seems we have more than enough to meet our needs in any perceivable conflict. More battleships? The Japanese did us a favor in sinking our battleships at Pearl Harbor – most of the old Battleship admirals ended up in shore jobs while the carrier sailors won the war. Even impressive battleships which came on line late in the war (Missouri and Iowa) ended up being floating anti-aircraft batteries and ship-to-shore artillary. If he has something else in mind, he’s not saying what that is.

  46. 46

    Gee, I spoke to a friend last night, a lady who is about as anti-Democrat as you can get (because of the abortion and gay-life positions). I assumed she was going to vote for Romney. But she was in quite a bit of distress – she said she wasn’t sure who she would vote for this time around.

    If that’s the “undecideds” Romney is counting on, then he’s already lost. People like her should be a reliable base for him, one he doesn’t have to exert any effort to win over. Instead, quite a few like what he says (now), but just don’t feel they can trust him.

  47. 47

    @ 43

    And Trump diverted attention (somewhat) from the story which hit the papers today

    He also diverted attention from the Allred thing, which is a nothingburger anyway, but Obama’s desperate.

    Yup, the Trump thing was a big zilch.

  48. 48

    More on Romney’s plan to build up our Navy

    No, Romney’s call for more bayonets and battleships is all about appealing to low-information voters who think that you can build an invincible military with more GUN!!!, and with that military can do anything it wants in the world.
    It’s a very ‘little boy’ view of the world, and Romney is banking on getting lots of them to vote for him.

  49. 49

    @44
    Another way to look at it would be to note that even during Romney’s ‘bounce’ he never exceeded Obama’s highs as recently as September, and none of his individual poll highs are as high as Obama’s.

    And your guy is a squeaky clean rich white business guy running against a Kenyan Mooslum Soshulist Black Panther dead-set on raising your taxes and taking your guns.

    Speaks to the profound weakness of Willard Romney.

  50. 50

    @ 49

    Speaks to the profound weakness of Willard Romney.

    Which, I suppose, will also speak volumes about Obama, when he loses to this ‘profoundly weak’ guy.

    Hey, but you have good news from Time:

    Obama’s up 5 in OH. As long as you believe that turnout will be D +9 in that state. In a very bad year for the GOP – 2008 – turnout was D +5. It was D +1 in 2010.

    So good luck with that, Lib Pinocchio.

  51. 51

    @50
    You can tell when you’re getting testy and feeling the pressure when you refer to me with the (nonsensical) “Lib Pinocchio”.

    Sucks to be you, Robert!

  52. 52

    Which, I suppose, will also speak volumes about Obama, when he loses to this ‘profoundly weak’ guy.

    You would be wrong, again, Robert. (Have you considered commenting on a non-political blog – you don’t seem very good at this)

    As your side loves to point out, unemployment is horrifically high, food stamp use up, foreclosures, consumer confidence, jobs for recent college grads – all bad. The economy is unprecedentedly bad for an election year…and Willard the White Guy is still losing to the Marxist Black Panther with the middle name Hussein.

  53. 53

    @ 51

    And here I was thinking it would suck to be a child growing up in the household of a certain liberal scientist in Seattle.

    Pretty sure I’ll be having more fun in the next 13 days than you will.

  55. 55

    And here I was thinking it would suck to be a child growing up in the household of a certain liberal scientist in Seattle.

    What the fuck are you talking about?
    Your barbs don’t work especially well when they make no sense – you grow more like puddy by the day.

  56. 56

    # 49: What we need to work on is expanding our Democratic “base” before the next elections in 2014. Because with the nature of the Republicans running for office this time around, we should be doing much better at this time. If the Republicans ever cut their strings from the Tea Party and field some really electable candidates, it would be a battle.

    The problem so far, however, is that the “low-information voter” has been replaced by something even worse – the “low-educated voter”. This is a victory for Republican efforts to de-fund education and put it back into the hands of home-schoolers who teach only Republican-approved philosophy (have you seen the available curriculum?) and private schools (either church-based or elite acadamies). Those kids are being taught not to listen to any teachings beyond what they have already been programmed to believe, and to limit their sources of information to reliably Republican outlets – such as Fox News, A.M. Talk Radio, etc.

    Heck, a lot of evangelical churches even preach to “shield your mind” from negative influences, and then go on to disparage the “mainstream media” (which they interpreet as anyone other than Fox News, Murdoch publications, or A.M. Radio).

    So, how do we get people – especially young people – to open their minds, think critically, and be very suspicious whenever anyone tells them to listen only to certain sources of information? I think if we can win that battle, the Republican talking-points will disentegrate.

  57. 57

    “Your barbs don’t work especially well when they make no sense”

    Bob is more than a little bit odd that way.

  58. 58

    @ 56

    So, how do we get people – especially young people – to open their minds, think critically, and be very suspicious whenever anyone tells them to listen only to certain sources of information?

    Well, you might consider trying to gain their trust by implementing policies that will create jobs for them, rather than making them dependent on their government or on their parents.

    You know, like the GOP will do.

    Just a suggestion.

  59. 59

    …or on their parents.

    But…wasn’t it Mittster who told kids to go borrow money from their parents to start businesses?

  60. 60

    rather than making them dependent on their government

    Ah, yes, the double-secret Democratic plan to take control via the ‘culture of dependency’ – you’ve unmasked our diabolical plot!!

    We’d have gotten away with it if it weren’t for that meddling radiologist!

    Really, Robert, bring more next time.

  61. 61

    You know, like the GOP will do.

    Well, with all the Bush II retreads in the Romney operation, we do have a reasonable prediction of what a Romney administration will be like.

    I don’t remember the halcyon days of 2007 and 2008, as Bush II came to a close, as being particularly paradisiacal – stock market crashes, wars grinding on, jobless recoveries.

    Yeah, stuff that just gets the kids all aflutter, for sure.

  62. 62

    What would rally, really be funny is an electoral college tie – 269 votes each for Obama and Romney. In that unlikely case, the House of Representatives would elect Romney, and the Senate would elect Joe Biden. Now that’s a weird outcome in anybody’s book!

  63. 63

    @54
    LOL…

    Yeah, that shit happens. But, add up all the times it happens on the left and all the times it happens on the right and there’s no contest. The right pulls that kind of shit all the time, while it’s somewhat of an anomaly on the left. Plus, when it happens on the left the people who do it tend to be gone from campaigns rather quickly while on the right they tend to hang around until they have to leave.

    Plus, righties tend not to pull their endorsements from people who do things like call rape babies “gifts from God.” While the left tends to not endorse crazy fuckers like that in the first place.

    We really should change your name to “I Got Nothin.”

  64. 64

    @63
    Yeah, O’Keefe caught a guy talking about voter fraud. (if, big if, it’s not fraudulent itself – remember P;anned Parenthood or Shirley Sherrod)

    I can’t recall a single instance of O’Keefe putting out a film about actual vote manipulation, and certainly not one featuring Republicans throwing away registration forms, or intimidating or misleading legit voters – oh no, not that stuff that really happens in a widespread, systematic way.

  65. 65

    @64

    O’Keefe’s just like our friend I got Nothin, a windbag. There’s no there there.

    I’ve noticed that IGN claims to be one of the more sane, centrist, Republicans, but he keeps pulling shit out of rightwing land.

  66. 66

    Up @1 Kap’n Kornflake piped in

    “I don’t think CO will be flipping back in to the blue column this year.“

    What will make Kap’n Kornflake –Serially Wrong! more sad

    [ ] Losing his unRmoney size bet of $1,000 to me
    [ ] Now knowing that CO will be in the Blue column because I be there again next week ensuring we win that state

  67. 67

    # 58: I’m still laughing at that one. I made a post calling for young people to be better educated to think critically and, by inference, to get past the “talking points”, and you reply with…

    a talking point (which pretty much proves my point).

    How many times are Republicans going to keep stating the easily disprovable lie – that they will create more jobs (in this country)? While we are at it, how many times are they going to continue to try to blame Democrats for federal deficits? Both are easily disprovable by the actual results in the economy – and the federal finances – over the past thirty years

    Yet they keep saying them, sometimes even with a straight face. I keep waiting for them to crack up while doing so, they must take classes to avoid doing so.

  68. 68

    The Righties keep telling us that abortion and women’s health issues aren’t the issue in this election, that that’s not what people are focused on, so it must be true, right?

    Most Americans believe that abortion should be “safe, legal and rare.” And a stunning Gallup Poll taken earlier this month in 12 swing states found that 39% of women who are registered voters said that abortion was the most important issue for women in this election.
    http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/24/.....index.html

  69. 69

    Just a reminder to our Republican trolls:

    I grew up in the South. I learned to shoot when I was eight, attending a number of marksmanship competitions and earning medals in JROTC. I was an ROTC platoon sargeant in high school. I was also an Eagle Scout. I remain an Evangelical Christian. I oppose abortion on religious grounds.

    So why aren’t I a Republican? Because I learned to read and think critically, and develop a common-sense ability to perceive deception. I realized that Republicans are simply using the abortion debate to get votes and money – the worst thing that can happen to them is for them to win the abortion debate.

    If you can’t win me over, then that just shows how bankrupt your philosophy is.

  71. 71

    Some people are developmentally delayed or handicapped — but Republicans are just f7!king RETARDED.

  72. 72

    La PORTE[, IN] — Back in 2011, some 800 voters were supposed to be purged from the La Porte County voter registration system.

    Instead, more than 13,000 got the boot and now the voter registration office is scrambling to get them online before Nov. 6.

    “It’s an embarrassment,” said county election board member Amber Lapaich-Stalbrink during a meeting Monday at the county complex. There, officials discussed what to do about the 13,303 voters who were purged.

    http://www.thenewsdispatch.com.....162625.txt

    Embarrassing? It’s a freaking disaster in the typical right winger’s eyes.

    The worst crime a right winger can commit is getting caught.

  73. 73

    The problem so far, however, is that the “low-information voter” has been replaced by something even worse – the “low-educated voter”.

    Yeah rhpee6033… Puddy gave example after example of low-information and low-educated DUMMOCRAPT voter. Need to see them again rhpee6033?

  74. 74

    Hey Obummer lied over Benghazi… no YouTube video!

    Officials at the White House and State Department were advised two hours after attackers assaulted the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11 that an Islamic militant group had claimed credit for the attack, official emails show.

    Hello President Romney!

  76. 76

    And the Hillary Clinton reaction?

    Hillary Clinton said posting something on Facebook is not evidence . Posting something on YouTube however gets you solitary confinement

  77. 77

    Crazies send money to DUMMOCRAPTS!

    Washington State Republicans called Yelm spiritual leader JZ Knight “an intolerant bigot” Tuesday, after video of her surfaced online making a variety of insensitive remarks about Catholics, Jews and homosexuals.

    Knight, who claimes she channels the 35,000-year-old Ramtha at her School of Enlightenment, has stepped into politics this campaign season after donating $50,000 to the Democratic party and $8,100 to other candidates.

    Yes WA DUMMOCRAPTS are crazy. Libtardoism is a mental disorder!

  78. 78

    I don’t want signature names to go out. The only purpose is harassment. Besides, signing a petition is the same for an initiative measure as casting a ballot in a primary for a candidate, as it is the only way to get candidate/measure to the “real” election, the general election. Initiatives are different from traditional petitions from which the idea comes from, because the petitions are legally binding in that the initiative goes on the ballot if enough signatures are reached.

  79. 79

    LOL! Didya right wingers know that Dana Loesch the Lipton kid hasn’t written a screed at Breitbart.com for something like a month?

    E-mails and phone calls go unreturned for days, two sources said, and the people at the top of the masthead are so unresponsive that one employee sent a notarized letter to inform Pollak he was quitting.

    Death of a “happy cult”…

    Fuck! Scientology had its act more together after L. Ron.. Too funny!

  80. 80

    FBI Probes Voter Letters

    Dunno if anyone has posted about this, as I’ve been out all day and just got home and haven’t read this thread, but …

    “The FBI and U.S. Postal Service agents are investigating bogus official-looking letters sent to voters in at least 28 Florida counties questioning their citizenship and their eligibility to vote …. It’s not clear who sent the letters, which were machine postmarked in Seattle. Couvertier said the FBI in Tampa is working with its Seattle office to track down the perpetrator.”

    http://openchannel.nbcnews.com.....-vote?lite

  82. 82

    @67 “How many times are Republicans going to keep stating the easily disprovable lie – that they will create more jobs (in this country)?”

    From 1921 to 2003, Democrats held the White House for 40 years and Republicans held it for 42.5 years. During that time, Democrats created 75,820,000 net new jobs, Republicans 36,440,000.

    Sources-Bureau of Labor Statistics (www.BLS.gov); Economic Policy Institute (EPI.org), Global & World Almanacs from 1980 to 2003 (annual issues)

  83. 83

    @76 You can have that particular crazy if you want her. Her kind of crazy is right up your ally, puddles! Who are you channeling? An 8 million year-old precursor ape? Ookle! Ookle!

  85. 85

    Oh looky! The Randroids are hiring!

    Compensation:
    You will be paid based on true free market principles. The more traffic you create and the more profit your readership creates, the bigger the compensation.

    In this day and age, that means they’ll pay you when they feel damn well good and ready to believe you should be paid. Until then, suck dirt.

  86. 86

    well, this is reassuring…

    OHIO (Lake Research–D): Obama 46, Romney 44
    OHIO (Pharos Research): Obama 50, Romney 45
    OHIO (Rasmussen): Obama 48, Romney 48
    OHIO (SRBI for Time Magazine): Obama 49, Romney 44
    OHIO (SurveyUSA): Obama 47, Romney 44

  89. 89

    You can have that particular crazy if you want her. Her kind of crazy is right up your ally, puddles! Who are you channeling? An 8 million year-old precursor ape? Ookle! Ookle!

    Senility, a really sad disease… This crazy luvs the DUMMOCRAPT. Seems thiis crazy luv’d da DUMMOCRAPT for years SENILE Wabbit.

    Libtardoism is a mental disease SENILE Wabbit. You have it bad!

  90. 90

    Anyone tired of Puddyidiot’s silly babbling??

    How many of you just scroll past it like we did to JCH and Klake back in the day?

  93. 93

    Name me one White guy who has racked up 6.2 trillion in new debt in 4 years in office.

    I’m waiting!

  94. 94

    JAy CarneyBarker… what an ASS

    “The email you’re referring to was an open-source, unclassified email referring to an assertion made on a social media site that everyone in this room had access to and knew about instantaneously. – Jay CarneyBarker

    Instantaneously. Everyone had access in that room. Yet Obummer and his minions claimed for weeks that they were giving Real Americans the best available information. It was about a movie. This smells worse than SENILE Wabbit droppings and ylbuttspigot’s diarrhea stains!

  95. 95

    Anyone tired of ylbuttspigot’s diarrhea puddles??

    CORRECTED! Must really suck to be ylbuttspigot right now. His candidate is caught in a big lie about Benghazi and there is no way to get out from under the avalanche!

    So ylbuttspigot makes another stoooooooooooopid comment about nothingness, just like the vacuum between his ears behind his eyes!

  98. 98

    Name me one White guy

    Name any guy of any color with brains who buys birfer bullshit like you.

    Nice racism there by the way.

  101. 101

    LOL!!! All the trolls who glibly points to Staples as a “job creator” and then their beloved candidate testifies it isn’t worth much.

    Heh. He’s saying job creation has no value.

    PRICELESS!

  102. 102

    Obama says Romney would spend $2 trilllion that the military hasn’t asked for

    TRUE…

    But.. but… he “understands” [vulture] capitalism.. he’s a wise “job creator” [who testifies in court it isn’t worth much]… he’s “balanced budgets”.. [offshoring jobs, sending companies into bankruptcy court]…

  104. 104

    My candidate isn’t Willard Romney.

    Correct ylbuttspigot. Mitt didn’t lie about Benghazi being about some stupid unknown video. Your candidate Obummer did.

    Thanks for playing.

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

  105. 105

    Nice racism there by the way.

    Naaah ylbuttspigot… your North Pasadena comments live in racist infamy here at HA.

    Wait… some stooooooooooopid crazed databaze attack will appear!

  106. 106

    Well, well, well…

    One of our resident trolls was braying the other day about Colin Powell….

    …well, Powell endorses OBAMA!

    Suck on it, puddl, or bob, or whichever of you was SOOOOO sure this wasn’t going to happen.

  107. 107

    @ 106

    Not only did I not think this was going to happen, I speculated that Team Romney would blunt the Seal Team Six movie with an endorsement of him by Colin Powell on the Sunday news shows that morning.

    Maybe Doctor Steve is right about my batting average.

    I’ll settle for an infield scratch single on one race this Fall.

  109. 109

    The Commerce Department said on Thursday that non-defense capital goods orders excluding aircraft, a closely watched proxy for business spending plans, was unchanged last month at $60.3 billion. That was short of economists’ expectations for a 0.7 percent gain.

    Many economists believe companies are holding back investments due to fears the U.S. Congress could fail to avert sharp tax hikes and spending cuts in 2013, which threaten to send the U.S. economy back into recession.

    http://www.cnbc.com/id/49549215

    Seattle probably isn’t feeling it, because the one bright spot in durable goods orders is in the aircraft market.

    They don’t make many aircraft parts in Ohio, Iowa, Michigan, or Wisconsin, do they?

  110. 110

    WaPo points out what should be obvious: If you threaten investors who have the nerve to profit from risk-taking, they’re less willing to take risks.

    U.S. companies that rely on venture capital investment to expand their businesses and hire employees have struggled to raise money this year, new data show.

    The trend came to light in a pair of recent quarterly venture capital reports that used different data to arrive at the same conclusion: Investors aren’t pouring as much money into young companies as they were this time last year.

    The impending presidential election is likely weighing on some investors, industry insiders say, particularly because the outcome of the race could lead to higher tax rates on these types of investments.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....story.html

    No shit.

  111. 111

    There might not be enough pairs of clean boxer shorts on Air Force One today.

    In an e-mail to donors, Romney’s National Finance Chair Spencer Zwick wrote, “We are proud to announce that the Romney Victory Effort raised $111 million from Oct. 1-17.”

    and

    The Romney campaign says that it has approximately $169 million in cash on hand after October 17, and that more than 91 percent of the donations received during the time period were of $250 or less.

    http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/po.....8-million/

  112. 112

    93. Tea for everyone spews:
    Name me one White guy who has racked up 6.2 trillion in new debt in 4 years in office.
    I’m waiting!

    99. Serial Conservative spews:
    @ 93

    Name me one White guy who has racked up 6.2 trillion in new debt in 4 years in office.

    Harry Reid.
    Those spending bills don’t write themselves.

    To the guys asking about which ‘white guy’ exploded the deficit and debt…

    …look at this graph of debt ceiling by year.
    Reagan – from 1 trillion to 3 trillion – TRIPLED
    Bush 1 – 3 to 5 trillion – nearly DOUBLED
    Clinton – 5 to 6 trillion – incr only 20%
    Bush 2 – 6 to 12 trillion – DOUBLED
    Obama – 12 to 16 trillion – incr only 30%

    Here is a chart of aggregate US debt, relative to GDP, by president…

    …illustrating the explosion of debt under Republicans over the past 30 years. You know, ‘VOODOO ECONOMICS’ that you people are addicted to.

    And finally, of course, a handy illustration of how George W. Bush, whose name must never be spoken, turned Democratic surpluses into Republican deficits of monstrous proportion…

    …here.

    You guys really don’t seem very good at arithmetic.

  113. 113

    What would you do if you were Team Romney and had $169,000,000 to spend over a three-week period?

    Why, you might buy a half-hour of prime time just before the election in the battleground states, to tell people exactly what you will do, and why Obama hasn’t gotten the job done.

    Romney thinking of running 30-minute “closing argument” ad in battleground states?

    http://hotair.com/archives/201.....nd-states/

    Hey, Barack, thanks for setting that precedent four years ago.

  114. 114

    @49, 108

    I offer a graph with DATA plotted. You retort with a WSJ editorial by Karl Rove.

    You don’t understand data, do you?

  115. 115

    @ 112

    Obama – 12 to 16 trillion – incr only 30%

    Leave it to a liberal to minimize the relevance of four straight years of trillion dollar deficits.

    Although why should I care, really? It’s Lib Sci’s kids who will foot the bill for liberal idiocy.

    Seems fair.

  117. 117

    Wow, 30 minutes of face time with Willard Romney projected into living rooms across America – that would likely be one of the most effective pro-Obama maneuvers possible.

  118. 118

    @ 112, 115

    So, let’s say Obama is re-elected, and we continue to muddle on and the economy really doesn’t get much better. We have four more years of trillion dollar deficits.

    That would be a total increase in federal deficit from $16T to $20T.

    By Lib Sci’s logic, that’s actually an Obama success, because the increase would be only 25%.

    And a 25% increase in the total federal deficit is an improvement over the 30% increase under Obama that Lib Sci refers to in @ 112.

    Would four more years of trillion-dollar deficits be a sign of Obama success, Lib Sci?

    I believe, regarding my understanding of data, that I have answered your question.

  119. 119

    @115
    You seem not to understand English, either.

    “incr only 30%” came after doubling and tripling of debt under Republicans.

    Dipshit.

    The king of false equivalence is on a roll today – don’t you have a CT to read, or are your patients just going to have to wait while you post pithy nothings gleaned from RedState and the WSJ?

  120. 120

    @ 117

    Wow, 30 minutes of face time with Willard Romney projected into living rooms across America – that would likely be one of the most effective pro-Obama maneuvers possible.

    Romney had 90 minutes of face time with America on October 3rd. How’d that work out for your guy?

  121. 121

    I believe, regarding my understanding of data, that I have answered your question.

    A statement that only reinforces my original criticism of you.

    For the feeble minded, no, you have not.

  123. 123

    @ 122

    Wish granted?

    Judge UNSEALS Docs,
    Allred Gets Shut Down

    Mitt’s people have already said the Presidential hopeful doesn’t care if the testimony is released — he has nothing to hide.

    Things didn’t fare so well for Gloria Allred — her request to ungag her client was shut down by the hot judge … because Gloria never submitted an official motion to the court.

    Gloria was grasping at straws in a last ditch effort to get the judge to cut her a break — but she was shot down, hard.

    Read more: http://www.tmz.com/2012/10/25/.....z2AKBnGwiQ

    Malpractice?

    I just heard Allred say it was ‘a complete double-cross’.

    This is a good day so far.

  124. 124

    Political jailbait.

    Funny.

    Obama is largely reduced to trawling college campuses for political jailbait, stroking the shreds of his coalition in the increasingly desperate hope of getting at least a few salvageable video clips out of each day. Big Bird, binders, and bayonets don’t comprise a sweeping vision of a second Obama term and it shows. Vice-President Malaprop wanders Ohio diners, touching people’s food and getting biker chicks to sit in his lap. It’s a campaign in trouble, and they know it.

    http://ricochet.com/main-feed/The-Inflection-Point

  125. 125

    I think this @ 124 was written with YLB in mind:

    Hollywood endorsements once added to Obama’s aura of glamour and celebrity. Remember this absurdity of actors taking a blood oath to serve Barack Obama for the Ten Thousand Years of His Reign? Actors, rappers, athletes — especially Oprah — all bought Obama valuable, sometimes intense, news coverage. Now, he drags a few credulous press mentions out of his Jay-Z and Katy Perry media hits … but the people who would be moved now by a celebrity suck-up are already Obama voters.

  126. 126

    I am, of course, not surprised about Dr. Robert’s manifest dishonesty about budget deficits, and using superficialities to try to imagine that he is scoring cheap points.

    Fact: Aggregate debt in both absolute and relative terms has increased much more under Republicans than Democrats for 40 years.

    Fact: Prior to George W Bush, the US ran three years of increasing surpluses. Bush’s first year the surplus shrank and has not been seen since.

    Fact: The vast majority of the present deficit is directly attributable to Bush tax cuts, Bush wars and Bush depression, or, if your prefer, Republican disasters.

    Fact: Under Obama the deficit has been shrinking each year, despite manifest insanity in the Republican controlled House, and a Republican party determined to injure the country in order to take back power.

    Bob, we all know this. Your posturing is really rather transparent. You grew tiresome long ago, and I cannot wait for Nov 7 and your unceremonious disappearance from these threads.

    Now, back to the reading room, or do you have medical director duties that you’re ignoring?

  127. 127

    Remember this absurdity of actors taking a blood oath to serve Barack Obama for the Ten Thousand Years of His Reign?

    Um, no.

    You’ve moved on from the WSJ editorial page and Karl Rove, to….ricochet.com? Really? Scraping the bottom of the barrel this morning, I see.

  129. 129

    Awwwwwww…

    The ever-more irrelevant John McCain has a sad over Colin Powell endorsing Barack Obama.

    Love seeing Johnny boy stamping his feet and turning from pasty white to red.

    What got McCain so sad? Powell said this…

    According to Powell, he witnessed “the president get us of one war, start to get us out of a second war and did not get us into any new wars. And finally I think that the actions he has taken with respect to protecting us from terrorism have been very very solid. And so, I think we ought to keep on the track that we are on.”

    Suck on that.

  130. 130

    Probably too late to make much of an impact, but there ya go.

    WASHINGTON — Former secretary of state Colin Powell endorsed President Obama for reelection Thursday, saying he has been “very solid” on protecting the country during his watch.

    Speaking on CBS’ “This Morning,” Powell credited Obama with ending the war in Iraq, drawing down troops in Afghanistan and avoiding entanglement in new wars despite tensions around the globe.

    “I think that the actions he’s taken with respect to protecting us from terrorism have been very, very solid,” Powell said. “And so I think we ought to keep on the track that we are on.”
    http://www.latimes.com/news/po.....6508.story

    So, who to believe, some nut job that says Obama’s weak in defense or Colin Powell who says Obama’s “very strong” when it comes to protecting America.

  132. 132

    Just when you thought Democrats in Texas couldn’t get any more stupid, you’re proven wrong.

    Rep. Rubén Hinojosa (D-Texas) on Wednesday forgot what the Second Amendment was when asked about it during a debate in McAllen, Texas.

    “I’m drawing a blank on the Second Amendment, but I think it’s the weapons, isn’t it? The NRA?” he said, according to The Monitor.

    http://thehill.com/blogs/floor.....-amendment

    There was Kirk Watson.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jj4VK9wVAi0

    That was classic.

    There was Reyes, who ran the House Intel Committee.

    In a December 2006 interview with Congressional Quarterly, Reyes said that al-Qaeda, an exclusively Sunni group, was composed of “both” Sunni and Shi’te members. He then instead asserted al-Qaeda is “predominantly probably Shi’ite.” He also avoided answering the question whether Hezbollah, a Shi’ite organization, was Sunni or Shi’ite.[6]

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvestre_Reyes

    Fortunately for the nation, Reyes got his ass bounced out of Congress in the primary this year.

    Now this guy, who apparently only thinks the Bill of Rights contains nine items.

  133. 133

    I guess it was too late in the day for Obama to have had the sun in his eyes. Must be another reason. Ah, yes:


    Asked whether it surprised him that Obama gave such a lackluster performance in his first debate with Romney, Kerry said, “He knows he had a bad night. He just had a bad night. … I personally really do believe that the altitude may have had something to do with it.” That debate took place in Denver.

    http://www.santafenewmexican.c.....ImAQByt_qL

  134. 134

    I’ve been home with a cold the last few days – and today I turned on Fox several time to see what was on.

    EVERY SINGLE TIME was BENGHAZI!!!!!!11!! He didn’t say ‘TERRORISM’ correctly/in time/with enough venom!!

    Flop sweat, indeed.

  137. 137

    @134

    Consistent with my observations today about Fox, seems that the Romney-bot’s minions are trying to get the media to get hot-and-bothered about BENGHAZIIII!!!!!, while their fearless leader appears fearful about getting burned again…or was it won’t get fooled again?

    There this…

    As Serwer notes, the Right’s reaction provides a good example of why everyone should be careful when engaging in amateur intelligence analysis. Combine cherry-picking with ignorance of the big picture plus partisan motivation and you can come out looking like an ass. That’s exactly what happened to Mitt Romney in the second debate.

    Words you might want to consider, superspy bob.

  138. 138

    @136

    Oh my goodness…that changes EVERYTHING!! A rightwing bloviator with ‘sources’ says Bill and Hil are fighting!!

    /snark

    Puh-lezz…you’ve descended into the realm of the puddl. Congratulations.

  141. 141

    This probably isn’t a good sign for Mitt.

    Romney’s shift on foreign policy creates confusion

    Romney’s most serious foreign policy problem however, revealed itself in the foreign policy debate. He repudiated in one night the strong criticisms he had made of Obama over the past year on Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Russia. In trying to be all things to all people, he resurfaced doubts about the most important qualities we need in our presidents — the core beliefs and consistency of values that are the best predictors of how he would lead in a crisis. This may explain his erratic and excessively partisan reaction to the Benghazi attacks and his puzzling shifts in how to handle the Iran nuclear threat.
    http://bostonglobe.com/opinion.....story.html

    Fuck the Etch-A-Sketch, the man’s the Magic Eight Ball of presidential contenders.

  142. 142

    @140
    The Mitt-bot is trying to impersonate the most recent human to obtain what he’s been programmed to capture. It makes sense.

    He certainly doesn’t want to provoke thoughts of the last white guy to win the Presidency – what a failure, what a jackass that guy was.

    What was his name?

  143. 143

    @141

    Zelig…or Chauncey the Gardener.

    He’s trying to be a cipher in the hopes that people will project their desires onto him.

  145. 145

    Puh-lezz…you’ve descended into the realm of the puddl. Congratulations.

    dunceman idiot lunacy translation to English… “I can’t process your facts because my brain isn’t wired for facts. Puddy delivers too many facts so you are acting like Puddy now”.

    See? That’s simple.

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