– Plan B was just to not have the votes, I guess.
– Speaking of Plan B, Patty Murray made a funny.
– Speaking of Patty Murray, Reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act.
– King County wins the Brightwater lawsuit and so good news for ratepayers.
– This miserable little genus.
– The Sirens would have been a better name than Seattle Reign FC (although the lack of a creepy eagle logo is a plus).
– Speaking of Plan B, Patty Murray made a funny.
Buzzfeed made a funnier:
Paul Banuski
@Bangnowski
@BuzzFeedBen “GOP Forgoes Plan B; Pulls Out Instead”
@1 Republicans didn’t “pull out”, they couldn’t get it up. Same old same old impotent bullshit.
Lapierre is trying to have a press conference, and having a very bad day. he’s been interrupted twice by protesters with signs.
It’s TV’s fault.
It’s Movie’s fault.
It’s Video game’s fault.
It’s parent’s fault.
It’s corporation’s fault.
It’s the president’s fault.
It’s mental illness’s fault.
It’s evil monster’s fault.
Automatic Guns with large clips are apparently never never never part of the problem.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetw.....conference
Arm our schools, parents, teachers, everyone. Guns for everyone.
NRA answer for everything is more guns, especially in school. He’s tripling down. Armed police officers in every school, Armed Security, money is no object.
He will fight prudent reasonable gun regulation. What an evil lying bastard.
Isn’t the world supposed to end today?
Haven’t seen Puddymoron and Jerry the idiot Klown in a long time..
Poor fools must have bought that fud together with the old right wing bullshit.
National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre- “the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.”
We’re sure he’s not asking for one of his fellow NRA members to put a cap in his ass, right?
Speaker of the House, John Boehner:
“How we get there? God only knows.”
I think he was talking about the 6 day vacation he put the House on today after working a solid 3 days and producing … nothing.
Only Wednesday RR was bloviating about guarding school children
http://horsesass.org/?p=48336#comment-1206912
and dropping $50B of taxpayer dollars
http://horsesass.org/?p=48336#comment-1206914
to do so.
Seems as if the NRA has heard him:
In its first comments since last week’s massacre at a Connecticut elementary school, the National Rifle Association on Friday called for “armed security” at every school in the nation.
http://www.marketwatch.com/sto.....2012-12-21
In response to these developments, I have a couple of questions:
1. Does the fact that the NRA agrees with RR mean that RR is a total dumbfuck and deserves the same derision heaped on the NRA?
2. Does the fact that the NRA agrees with RR mean that the NRA is beginning to come around to accept liberal thought?
Or,
3. Is arming all schools actually a wise move, AND RR’s still a total dumbfuck?
Coming soon to every US school near you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzu0Y3x12xI
Paul Blart, unionized TSA School Cop.
Brought to you by the knee-jerk wisdom of Roger Rabbit and the NRA.
More from Republican Twits
Last week, on Friday, the Republican House Majority Leader, Eric Cantor, tweeted:
One week later, after putting in a solid 3 days work, the Republican House Majority Leader, Eric Cantor, tweeted
There’s a lot of talk about ‘lazy good for nothing takers’ from Republicans and their enablers. I think we’ve found out they are correct. They’re it.
Maybe the world did end… Barbara Boxer and the NRA agree on putting armed guards in schools: http://www.chicagotribune.com/.....7566.story
Is that idea where this is headed? Schools will look like airports did in the weeks immediately after 9/11, with stern looking men and women in battle gear patrolling elementary school hallways while carrying M4 carbines?
@ 9
I don’t think adjournment has occurred. And if it has, if the Dems object, they can prevent an adjournment of more than three days.
Go tell Harry Reid to bring back the House.
4 Dead, 2 State Troopers Injured in Blair County Shooting
@11 Kap’n Kornflake,
Go tell Harry Reid to bring back the House.
Yeah, I’ll get right on that cuz teh stoopid is what our side is about.
@ 10
This is what happens when people act before thinking.
Handguns are responsible for far more murders than rifles.
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cj.....0tbl20.xls
Handguns are easier to smuggle into schools.
If the point is to prevent mass murders, I suppose going after the assault weapons might make more sense. If the point is to prevent deaths due to gun violence, what’s being talked about is idiotic.
The thing is, when people calm down and act rationally, this push will die. Ergo, Dems and other liberals have to push it by fanning the flames, so they can influence public opinion while people are still irrational.
Never let a crisis go to waste.
@10 Moderate Man,
Look, there are more than a few parents that are scared shitless by the routine gun slaughter at our schools. Absent meaningful change – in laws, health care, societal norms – we could well get less meaningful change.
Turning our schools into fortresses to protect our children from the dangers the Merchants of Death have foisted on to us is not the best approach to providing an educational environment free from mass murderers, but unless our society makes the changes necessary it may be the best we can do.
@ 15
Turning our schools into fortresses to protect our children from the dangers the Merchants of Death have foisted on to us is not the best approach to providing an educational environment free from mass murderers, but unless our society makes the changes necessary it may be the best we can do.
I’m sure the Israelis were thinking similarly when debating the wisdom of walling themselves off from Gaza.
It’s too bad the Gazans won’t eliminate the mass murderers from their society so the wall can come down.
Oh, and since we’re talking about fortresses, as well as people proposing idiotic shit in the throes of our despair (that word for Lib Sci) over what happened, how about the abject wisdom of Sheila Jackson Lee, Democrat from the Great State of Texas?
Take, for instance, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee’s genius idea to install retractable steel walls in schools, designed to keep potential attackers out. She didn’t (but I’m assuming she meant to) mention how the security system will detect potential attackers and trigger the motorized steel walls to shut down the school before they can enter. I’m imagining some sort of Minority Report-like system that predicts crimes before they happen.
http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2.....r-schools/
@16 Kap’n Kornflake,
Look, I can’t take you serious when you direct something to me cuz you’ve proven yourself over and over again to be an idiot.
Israel & the Palestinians are at war. Have been at war for more than 60 years. You know this, right?
I don’t think comparing a society in a war zone to our schools (movie theaters, houses of worship, streets) is a valid comparison, and I suspect most American parents do not either.
So, why don’t you take your wingnut fox news ill informed opinions to a wingnut blog and have at it?
Financial News:
After a very modest fall, suddenly air shipping from China’s freight carriers jumped up (28%) in November. Since that’s too late for the Christmas season toys, and low-cost toys usually are shipped by sea, not air, that means China is shipping high-tech gizmos as fast as they can be produced. But European and U.S. domestic fright shipping (by air) continues to be down.
Last night an executive of a large local aerospace manufacturer (who shall remain nameless) told me that this week, over 300 airworthiness tickets were issued by the FAA, which has resulted in a big push for deliveries on the flight line and ferry flights this week, and spreading well into next week. I imagine a good number of them are for 737 NG’s, but others are for wide-bodies in Everett (maybe Chaleston?).
It will be interesting to see how the final delivery count works out for Boeing. Their fiscal year is the calendar year. Boeing wanted one major buyer of 787-8’s to take one more aircraft this week, but the airline refused – they want to make sure the re-work is done right the first time, rather than rush to speed up deliveries. This might mean that there will be a big surprise when 4Q deliveries are announced, but it could also mean that Boeing was behind in their delivery pace, and these final deliveries allow it to catch up to it’s previous advertised targets.
@ 15
MBS, do you think there are some parents of teenagers in inner-city Chicago that are also scared shitless about gun violence putting their kids at risk? In school or on the streets, it really shouldn’t matter (should it?).
Do we start earnestly protecting rich white kids before we protect the poor black ones?
If only we had a guy from an urban center, say like Chicago, maybe a minority who was raised by a single parent, who was in a position of power and could make the case that saving a black kid from a gang-violence death is as important as saving a white one from death cause by a mentally ill individual.
If only.
@ 18
Surprised you didn’t mention this:
Boeing delivers 6 787s in one day, exceed their 2012 high end estimate
Boeing gave a Christmas gift (an early one at that) to its shareholders by delivering 6 787s to 6 current operators of the aircraft. Boeing delviered one each to ANA, Air India, Japan Airlines, LOT Polish Airlines, Qatar Airways and United Airlines.
http://nyc787.blogspot.com/
I’m not in a position to verify the information but if they exceeded their high-end estimate for 2012 deliveries they wouldn’t be ‘behind in their delivery pace’.
@10 Moderate Man,
This is type of nonsense we will get if we don’t make meaningful change
Marine veteran outside Hughson school lied about his service record
@19 Kap’n Kornflake
It is statements like that which are what I’m talking about when I say you’ve proven yourself to be an idiot.
My answer is this. F*CK YOU!
@ 21
Why, people who lie about their service records shouldn’t be charged with protecting kids. They should be Democrat US Senators in states like Iowa and Connecticut.
@21 MikeBoyScout –
Wow. That is whacky.
I’m all for meaningful change. I eagerly await the proposals from the President that everyone says are coming soon, and I hope our new Governor will also choose to lead on this issue.
@ 22
Truth hurts, doesn’t it? Handgun deaths of inner city youth are far, far, far more numerous than assault-style weapon deaths of children anywhere.
And yet there’s no movement afoot on HA to do anything about it.
However, a bunch of little white kids in a Connecticut suburb are killed, about the same number of inner city youth killed in a couple of busy summer weekends in Chicago, and suddenly we’re having a national conversation.
I guess Jake Tapper deserves a F*UCK YOU for pointing it out to Obama earlier this week.
@24 Moderate Man,
If you or I or the people we know “wait”, once again nothing will happen.
I assume if you’re on this blog you’ve seen this, but maybe not.
@25 Kap’n Kornflake – racist troll
However, a bunch of little white kids in a Connecticut suburb are killed,
You’re a sick useless stoopid f*ck.
@ 26
I’m wondering why you didn’t pick this quote from your link:
We’re going to need to look more closely at a culture that all too often glorifies guns and violence.
I’d say that aspect of the discussion would focus primarily on inner city violence and death/incarceration of our black youth.
Isn’t that important enough to mention, MBS? Or do you plan to leave that to the Bill Cosbys of the world while you focus on saving the rich white kids?
# 20: You are talking about cramming six 787-8 deliveries into one day. I was talking about 300+ Airworthiness tickets being issued within a week, which has to happen before any deliveries take place. Surely you see that these are different measurements? There are a limited number of people that the Boeing Board of Directors has authorized to sign on behalf of Boeing for delivery of an aircraft, and they are working very long hours, seven days a week.
After three years of trying to get as many 787’s off the flight line as possible, and with the factory promising to crank out aircraft at higher rates, the folks in Everett are ready for a little time off. Most of the rest of Boeing takes the week off between Christmas and New Year’s, and the folks working deliveries want to do the same this year, as well. So they are trying to cram as many as possible into this week, so that there are only a smattering left next week.
I hear the LOTT delivery had lots of snags, they were still working on it two days after it was expected to be delivered.
One of Boeing’s biggest problems is that aircraft on the flight line are being canabalized for parts, often without a good record of what’s being dismanted and taken off. More than one 787 that’s been on the flight line for more than a year has had to be rolled back into the factory so it’s status could be documented, and then rebuilt from the skin & frame inward.
The world WAS destroyed last night while we slept….and then replaced with an exact duplicate, as defined in the warranty.
@ rhp6033, Like so many other things at today’s MBA led Boeing, it is all about delivering numbers by a date. Sadly, “cannibalization” in all things is becoming the norm.
Why is the NRA resisting prudent, common sense gun regulations?
While the NRA Was on TV Talking About the Need for More Guns Some Guy Was Walking Up and Down a Road in Pennsylvania Shooting People
Guns kill. On average every day, 270 people in America, 47 of them children and teens are shot in murders, assaults, suicides, accidents, and police intervention.
@25. Wow. who would have thought that Serial Conservative would be the person coming out in support of banning cheap handguns to lower inner city violence. Good on you. Glad to see you come to your senses.
I’d say that aspect of the discussion would focus primarily on inner city violence and death/incarceration of our black youth.
I am glad that Serial Conservative is so concerned about inner city violence and is advocating for review of our courts and laws and is willing spend money and resources to help black youth.
# 31: What I’ve seen is the “downward” approach to management, rather than the “upward” approach.
In this case, the leadership within the executive levels at Boeing in Chicago decide that to meet or exceed the analyst’s rosy projections (encouraged by their own comments), the simply tell their V.P’s that deliveries will increase by 10% this year. The V.P.s tell their program managers the same thing. The program managers tell the aircraft production managers, who then tell their shift managers. From program managers downward, careers will be effected if the goals aren’t met.
So the aircraft shift managers, finding themselves stymied for lack of a part, send out a crew on third shift to pull one off an airplane which no one has looked at for several months. No paperwork is written for the removal to avoid responsibility. But Q.C. signs off on the installation of the removed part, and the aircraft managaers go on to do other things before it becomes an issue.
But without the paperwork showing the removal, everything has to be re-done again and documented, which can take weeks (or longer). But that’s somebody else’s problem.
@ 35
…Serial Conservative is so concerned about inner city violence and is advocating for review of our courts and laws and is willing spend money and resources to help black youth.
I think that we should be having a conversation about this, about spending money here, and not about restricting access to assault weapons that are responsible for far, far fewer deaths.
I have little idea where to start. It’s probably one of those all-of-the-above projects.
@ 32
Why is the NRA resisting prudent, common sense gun regulations?
Same reason unions resist prudent, common-sense changes to work rules.
@38. That’s not an argument.
Whining that someone else is doing something too, is not an justification.
#37. Typical. Change the subject and avoid the issue.
@34 &35, Kap’n Kornflake is not advocating for anything for people.
Kap’n Kornflake is a racist troll.
Remember what he said about Trayvon Martin, the African American kid murdered by a gun nut down in Florida?
@ 40
Talking about black kids being killed instead of white kids being killed is changing the subject?
NTfF, I see I should have directed this
@ 28
at you instead.
I suppose the same kind of insulation in your life that has kept you from being exposed to people that have employment challenges also keeps you from seeing a black kid’s death from gun violence as being equal to a white kid’s death. ’cause otherwise, it would be racism.
While you are feeling blessed about your successes and those of nearly each and every person around you, maybe find some time to dwell on that.
@4 hopefully they couldn’t take waiting till today for the end of their lives, and took their own lives days ago. Good ridance.
Serial Conservative makes less sense today than he did before time leading up to the election. He should stick to planting trees and bushes.
@ 44
Not until the weekend, Gman. The digging’s easier this time of year, tho.
No, not here.
Now policymakers are left with with a depressing choice: renege on promises to workers or watch the system go broke.
http://blogs.the-american-inte.....-pensions/
Not yet.
@42. Refusing to consider responsible gun regulation as part of the solution is changing the subject.
…support for gun control remains lower than before Obama took office. In April 2008, 58% said it was more important to control gun ownership; just 37% prioritized protecting gun rights.
http://www.people-press.org/20.....n-control/
Pew indicates that you guys have an uphill climb ahead of you. I can see why you want to make it about white kids dying rather than ‘change the subject’ @ 40 to include mention of the many more numerous deaths of inner city youth as a result of gun violence, NTfF. Best to @ 40 ‘avoid the issue’ of black youth killing black youth. You’ve got an agenda to push, dammit.
@44. I await your demonizing of union members as the cause of inner city violence or some other equal BS.
Excerpts of what some are saying in response to the Merchants of Death “press conference” earlier today:
Mayor Bloomberg: “Their press conference was a shameful evasion of the crisis facing our country. Instead of offering solutions to a problem they have helped create, they offered a paranoid, dystopian vision of a more dangerous and violent America where everyone is armed and no place is safe.”
Astronaut and husband of Gabby Gifford, Mark Kelly: “The NRA could have chosen to be a voice for the vast majority of its own members who want common sense, reasonable safeguards on deadly firearms, but instead it chose to defend extreme pro-gun positions that aren’t even popular among the law abiding gun owners it represents. Today, the NRA chose narrow partisan concerns over the safety of our families and communities. The time for this kind of extreme rhetoric is over.“
@46. We are not the french.
@ 47
Refusing to consider responsible gun regulation as part of the solution is changing the subject.
Please point out said refusal in one of my prior posts.
I actually believe there’s a gun magazine capacity that has to be above anything reasonable for hunting, sport, or home protection, and that the average Joe Public shouldn’t possess. I just don’t know how to define that.
49. When we tried to enact sensible gun regulations and it’s about about black kids dying, you and your kind yawn and fight them tooth and nail. It’s only when white kids die that the issue gets any traction. It totally wrong, but racist people like you don’t care.
Keep crying those crocodile tears, you hypocrite.
@ 53
Ah. I see. You first accuse me specifically @ 40 @ 47, then when called on it @ 52 you decide that instead it’s me and my kind @ 53 instead of me specifically, but since I was the one that pointed out it’s not just white kids dying due to gun violence but minority inner city youth as well, I’m racist @ 53 for doing so.
It must be nice to feel you can argue whatever you want and vary your attack when your BS is pointed out to you.
Please. Go on and tell us how important it is to save the lives of rich white suburban kids, while being dismissive of others having the temerity to point out that it’s really not a rich suburban problem when one looks at the overall deaths due to gun violence in the US.
Again, NTfF. You are incredibly insulated. You probably spend your life shuffling between Starbucks, Nordstrom, and Whole Foods.
In 2009 at Fort Hood military base a single gunman killed 13 people and injured 29 others.
If soldiers who are trained in how to handle armed gunman cannot prevent a mass shooting in their own midst, I doubt having a few guards in a school will fare much better. In fact, many schools already have them. Columbine did.
Armed guards like George Zimmerman?
@55
If soldiers who are trained in how to handle armed gunman cannot prevent a mass shooting in their own midst,
Er, the shooter at Fort Hood had been identified in no uncertain terms as a problem, but it was not addressed because people were afraid of the blowback from dealing with the problem because he is Muslim. Those people died because people in the Army preferred political correctness to common sense necessity.
Awful example to have used, NTfF. Fully consistent with your other arguments so far, tho. Not at all a surprise.
@54. Typical Republican. Can’t win on the truth, can’t handle the loathsome truth of their own positions reflected back at them, so spin, twist, slant, attack, dismiss.
@ 58
You’re right. I should have bit hard on that asinine Fort Hood bait you cast. Instead, here I am, giving you an argument and interfering with your tunnel vision. How awful of me.
Kap’n Kornflake – Racist Troll, STFU.
@ 60
It’s a tougher argument, isn’t it, MBS, when one looks at the money that needs to be spent to make schools safer, while we ignore the deaths occurring on the streets in inner city neighborhoods? Shouldn’t we drop the $50B RR wants to spend on schools elsewhere, like to improve the lives of the least fortunate of us? Are we really going to put metal detectors and marshals in upstate NY and suburban CT schools, rather than spend the money somewhere in which it might do more good in actually curtailing violence?
Best to dismiss those who might point out that it isn’t something you can change quickly, cheaply, or simply by restricting gun ownership by the law-abiding portion of the public. Easier, anyway.
Ad hominems are easy. Working the problem as it truly exists is a good measure harder.
@57. doesn’t change the fact that once he started shooting….
In 2009 at Fort Hood military base a single gunman killed 13 people and injured 29 others.
If the trained and ready military who have people shot at them every day, cannot quickly, take down a gunman, how’s that bored, donut eating lackwater rent a cop supposed to do better?
BTW. I don’t hear Lapierre out there calling to raise taxes so we can afford all this gun largess. Another unfunded mandate. Will they further cut mental health funding to cover the costs of Gun Toting Bob at the After School Mathelete event? (Or mabye they will just cut out more school activities to cover Gun Toting Bob.)
Kap’n Kornflake – Racist Troll,
Nobody here has proposed ignoring any deaths.
Nobody here has said any part of reducing murders by guns would be “quick”, “cheap” or “simple”.
Your straw men are simply a vehicle for your weak pathetic racist trolling.
Now, STFU.
The problem is, Serial conservative, is that we don’t believe you when you suddenly seem concerned about inner city neighborhoods. You have a terrible record of posting rather nasty, racist things that contradict your sudden “compassionate” concern for inner city kids. It reads like you are a trying to divert attention away from the discussion of meaningful gun regulation, etc.
In the Republican Primary to fill the House seat of now US Senator Tim Scott(R-SC), there is an interesting battle shaping up. Among those who are considering a run, is the son of Strom Thurmond, and former Governor Mark Sanford is eying a return to politics and Congress, and so is Jenny Sanford, his ex-wife.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....-possible/
@63,
Everyone is racist in one way or another. It’s always with us.
The NRA’s press conference was a non-event, with Chief Gun Apologist Wayne LaPierre trying to shift blame from guns to the media, movie and music industries, and courts, and calling for vigilante action: “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.” Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
@ 64
How nice for you. You get to ignore it and concentrate on saving the white rich kids if I don’t speak up, and say you don’t believe me if I do.
Either way, you ignore it.
You sound increasingly like RR.
No, that wasn’t a compliment.
@68 Racist Troll, F*CK YOU ASS HOLE!
67) Some of the media and entertainment types are admitting responsibility, but will the NRA do the same? I guess not.
I see Cap’n Crunch the conservative radiologist is back with a vengence, spewing the stupid.
My only hope is that when he’s reading radiographs he doesn’t maintain the same cranio-rectal posture that he obviously does when writing the drivel he relentlessly posts here.
@ 71
Hey, Lib Sci. Happy Holidays.
I was wondering:
If one of your children referred to the conduct of a black person with whom they disagreed politically by using the term ‘minstrel’, would you correct them in any way?
Or would you realize that they were being ‘edgy’ and ‘provocative’ in a social setting in which they felt comfortable, and therefore it was OK for them to behave in that manner?
Well, DUH, that’s obviously his intent – his whole MO is slyly superficial, cynical posturing in an effort to derail any sort of intelligent discourse. It’s what he does.
@72
I’ve asked you repeatedly, Dr. Robert, to leave reference to my children out of your wheedling, smarmy posts.
You want to come at me, then do it, without hiding behind children.
Coward.
@ 75
I only bring your children into it as a means of questioning your morals and ethics, Lib Sci.
If you wouldn’t tolerate their use of a racially tinged word, why do you think you can get away with it? It isn’t tobacco, it isn’t alcohol. It’s not something unacceptable when used by a minor but OK once adulthood has been attained.
It’s wrong. Perhaps by creating a scenario in which it comes out of the mouth of your child, and you as a parent would have to respond (or not, I’ll grant you), you can see that.
I have come at you, directly. You didn’t engage. The cowardice is not mine, Lib Sci.
@ 74
Lib Sci, let me try it another way:
What racially tinged words do you think it is OK for you to use, because you’re an educated and mature adult, but not OK for, say, your children to use?
Is that any easier for you?
@75
Supercilious, preening asshole, I don’t care why you reference my children, and no explanation makes it ‘OK’.
Your whining about me not engaging your smarm is not exculpatory, either.
I’ll accept an apology from you anytime now, Robert.
@ 78
I’m sorry that you believe that there are situations in which you feel it’s appropriate to refer to the conduct of a black politician whose policies you disagree with as a ‘minstrel show’.
I’m sorry your kids are being raised by someone who thinks that’s OK.
Best I can do, Lib Sci.
@75
Your bitching, for any readers not up on your bullshit, is about my use of the term ‘minstrel show’ to describe Artur Davis switching to and publicly supporting the racist White Peoples’, er, Republican party, in a fit of self-aggrandizing treason.
Would it have been acceptible to your (newly found) racism sensitivities to instead quote Malcom X and call Davis a ‘house Negro’?
Serial Conservative get a grip. You are becoming a nut job, or maybe you’ve always have been.
Try being a part of a solution instead of being the problem.
@78
Cry me a fucking river, Robert.
No one believes you give a shit about racism or justice, Robert – you’ve written too much here that absolutely blows that notion out of the water. You’re a rather pedestrian well-off white guy looking for lower taxes to advance your personal wealth, fuck the poor and the working people, and you’ve been directly, obviously racist yourself on a number of topics, particularly the disenfranchisement of black communities in Michigan, and your fairly vile fantasies about armed militias bringing order to Detroit.
You’re about one thing with this ‘minstrel show’ attack – you want to make me back down because you see that as a ‘win’. You seem to think that pretending to care about racism and trying to call me out on something you’re trying to construe as a racist slur is somehow a ‘winning’ proposition for you.
Well, not gonna happen, asshole.
(I’m also not surprised that your quite masterful at the non-apology apology – it’s an important tool for a slimy fucker like yourself, Doctor.)
@ 81
You’re about one thing with this ‘minstrel show’ attack – you want to make me back down because you see that as a ‘win’.
Not quite.
I see you as having dropped your mask.
I believe that had it come out of the mouth of your child that child’s cheek would be immediately thereafter bright pink and stinging were you within earshot. Lesson quickly learned, maybe with a history lesson attached to it, as you would be correct to do. Teach your children well, so to speak.
Until, of course, they go online and feel comfortable with those around them. Then they drop their mask and repeat what they heard their father say when they were eight and he didn’t think he had to watch what he said.
Back to the “Fiscal Cliff” negotiations:
Okay Boener can’t round up enough votes for his “Plan B”, which was nothing more than a P.R./Propoganda move anyway (so that the Republicans could claim that they tried to cut taxes on the middle class).
So that means that even though the Republicans have a majoritity in the House, there is no one there who has enough gravitas with his own party with whom Obama can negotiate.
A number of the Tea Party Republicans were probably concerned that they couldn’t vote for anything which looked like a tax increase, even on the those earning more than a million dollars a year or so. They were probably looking over their shoulder at potential primary challenges from other Tea-Partiers.
So I guess as far as the President is concerned, it is time to start picking them off one-by-one. Identify those in swing states and threaten to throw all the Democratic resources as them to make sure they are defeated if they don’t go along with the President’s package. As for the extreme Tea Partiers, throw up the prospect of a creditable Democratic-centrist challenger. Show them polls showin that their district is incrasingly blaiming the Republicans in the House for the fiscal crisis.
Or do what Lyndon Johnson used to do as leader of the Senate – invade personal space, get up chest-to-shoulder with the other guy (he was pretty tall), and while talking with the other guy intentily, reach under his coat and grab his balls and start twisting. More than a few “aye” votes resulted from this tactic – no one wanted it repeated.
Off to Hawaii, damn the fiscal cliff, it can wait for my Vacation!
Stock market tanking (but their government paychecks still keeps a comin!)
Disgracefull!
Wrong again, asshole – I don’t strike my children.
You really are a little tinpot Rovian. Attack someone for what is actually your failing – in this case racism.
Bob is now playing the racism baiting card?
Again???
Yawwwwn.. ‘nother time.
A Tale Of Two Leaders
This afternoon we get these two headlines at NBC News:
Obama on cliff deal: ‘Still think we can get it done’
Boehner: ‘God only knows’ how fiscal cliff deal gets done
http://www.nbcnews.com/
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Speaks for itself, doesn’t it?
Minstrel show? Ha! Now there’s a term dripping with racial hatred. How about “charade”, that better?
“Pennsylvania gunman kills woman in church, two other people before dying in shootout with police”
“A gunman killed three people Friday in central Pennsylvania, including a woman in a church, before police shot him dead, authorities said. Three state troopers were injured, including one who was shot twice in the chest but survived thanks to his bulletproof vest. …
“About 9 a.m. ET, the gunman fired into the church, killing the woman, before shooting and killing a man at a private residence …. As the gunman fled, his pickup truck crashed into a second vehicle, and he shot and killed the other driver …. The truck subsequently crashed into a car driven by one of the troopers … and the gunman got out and began firing. The troopers returned fire, killing the suspect ….
“The woman … was struck by gunshots that flew through the window of a church hall as she was decorating for a children’s Christmas party. …
“The county sheriff’s office indicated that the gunman may have had more targets in mind, saying … the toll ‘could have been a lot worse’ had state troopers not responded as quickly as they did. As it was, investigators’ resources were stretched processing five separate crime scenes ….”
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Roger Rabbit Commentary: It doesn’t do any good to say, “Enough, this has to stop!” It won’t stop until society confiscate guns from people who shouldn’t have them.
I wonder if the NRA’s response to this latest shooting rampage will be that we should have cops guard our churches, too.
No, actually, I don’t think Wayne LaPierre will say that. I think he’ll say churchgoers should carry guns and shoot it out with these crazy people.
Yes, that’s how his mind works (if he has one). His “solution” to innocent people being killed by gunplay is not less gunplay but more gunplay.
@83 Yeah, and did it ever backfire! Now Democrats can claim Republicans refused to vote for a middle-class tax cut! That should play well for Democrats in 2014. I can see the TV ads.
This nation deserves to forfeit its Second Amendment privileges.
In other news:
“The compounding pharmacy blamed for 620 infections and 39 deaths in an outbreak of fungal meningitis and other infections caused by contaminated drugs filed for bankruptcy Friday ….
“The New England Compounding Center of Framingham, Mass., faces more than 400 lawsuits from patients who received epidural steroid injections later found to be tainted with fungus linked to serious and lethal infections ….
“The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the Massachusetts district bankruptcy court.”
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Roger Rabbit Commentary: Chapter 11?? Are you fucking kidding me?? Chapter 11 reorganizations are designed to enable companies to stay in business after stiffing their creditors. We need to change our bankruptcy laws to make Chapter 7 mandatory for businesses that injure people and then can’t (or won’t) pay their legal liabilities. Companies like this should undergo financial capital punishment, not reorganization.
It’s also time to start committing nutjobs who openly advocate assassinating elected officials, putting people in concentration camps, or starting a civil war. They belong in a looney bin.
But nah, we don’t have a gun problem in the US. And gee if only that poor woman had a gun on her when someone she knew and trusted walked up behind her in church and shot her…
Sorry Wayne, more guns wouldn’t help here.
Yeah, a concealed carry piece is really going to help her out. I hadn’t seen this bit when I posted above.
Serial “Cheap Shot” Conservative went on and on, about how insulated and sheltered and pampered I am, because I was not thinking about the the inner city violence, I was only thinking about about suburban white kids….
It took a while to bubble up, but I don’t see Serial “Cheap Shot” Conservative posting how that Wayne Lapierre is also insulated and sheltered and pampered because his solution to turn schools into armed compounds with a cop in every hallway ….
but not one word from Wayne Lapierre about putting an armed trained professional on every inner city street corner to stop violence there.
Where is Serial “Cheap Shot” Conservative’s equal outrage with Wayne Lapierre? Why in Lapierre’s press conference, does the AP Chem class rate a cop but not the poor kids on the sidewalk in Chicago?
SerCon, I’m waiting….
There will never be any because Serial “Cheap Shot” Conservative really doesn’t care one bit about inner city violence, it’s just a shill arguing point he trots out if he thinks it can spread liberal self doubt.
This is such an overly simplistic statement:
The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun, is a good guy with a gun.
These are equally true
The only way to stop a bad guy with a nuke, is a good guy with a nuke.
The only way to stop a bad guy with biological weapons, is a good guy with biological weapons.
The only way to stop a bad child molester with a penis, is a good child molester with a penis.
The only way to stop a bad mime with a hard boiled egg, is a good mime with a hard boiled egg.
The only way to stop a bad man playing the bagpipes is a good man playing…. Actually there is no good people who play bagpipes.
Dr. Bob merely takes his Hypocritical Oath very serially…
Whatever happened to the unlamented Piper Blovius?
I done been gone for a long time…
@101 I disagree. I’ve known good people who play bagpipes. There just are no good bagpipes.
@98 Wayne LaPierre assumes inner city street corners don’t need cops because everyone there already has guns.
You don’tplay bagpipes, you contend with them.