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Open Thread 2/21

by Carl Ballard — Tuesday, 2/21/12, 8:01 am

– The wealthy aren’t like you and me.

– You guys, the urbaniest hell hole of all urban hell holes.

– If we’re getting a couple new sports teams, this would be the thing to do. Of course they would be existing teams rather than expansion teams so you’re not starting from scratch. And the NBA and NHL don’t, as far as I know, have the same sort of history of fan involvement as soccer, so I don’t know what the challenges would look like.

– Austerity doesn’t look so great.

– If there’s one thing we can all agree on, it’s that Darrell Isa is basically the MLK of hating women.

– As an expat Knicks fan, it’s nice to see the team doing well. On the other hand, the Lin puns have to stop.

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  1. 1

    YLB spews:

    Tuesday, 2/21/12 at 10:35 am

    The wealthy aren’t like you and me.

    Great story – of a right wing nut “job creator” who uses aggressive (to put it nicely) selling tactics of his questionable products and sues everyone who criticizes him into submission..

    We don’t see enough stories about these kinds of people. And now we know why.

  2. 2

    rhp6033 spews:

    Tuesday, 2/21/12 at 11:06 am

    Hmmm, isn’t Amway located in Michigan? And this Vandersloot character is pretty much peddling the same stuff – soap and nutrition supplements, using a similar marketing plan. The Amway people are usually big supporters of Republican politicians. I wonder if they’ve abandoned Romney, either because of his relationship with Vandersloot or for other reasons? That may be whey he’s having so much trouble in Michigan, which should be an easy win for him given his ties there.

  3. 3

    YLB spews:

    Tuesday, 2/21/12 at 11:20 am

    2 – I’m sure the reason has a bit to do with Mormonism.. The DeVos family is known for their very conservative mainline Christian beliefs.

    It wouldn’t surprise me if the DeVos family is concerned about support of Romney by what looks to be strong competitors like Melaleuca.

  4. 4

    isambard kingdom brunel spews:

    Tuesday, 2/21/12 at 12:10 pm

    @2

    Amway people are mostly republicans? Got any proof? Or are you just making shit up again..like you always do

  5. 5

    YLB spews:

    Tuesday, 2/21/12 at 12:41 pm

    4 – What the F do you care, Mr. “both parties teh suck”?

    You make up shit all the time. Remember the “well documented remarks about Southern blacks” that you never linked to? Or the brain fart about “we buy iranian oil”?

    Heh. We got you nailed moron. Your tribal identity is that of a racist, name-calling lying lout.

    That’s your true “success”.

  6. 6

    YLB spews:

    Tuesday, 2/21/12 at 12:46 pm

    Here’s something that’ll warm the heart of the asshat @4. This is what they have in store for women in Virginia and Iowa and at least one other state:

    http://images1.dailykos.com/i/user/30549/probe.jpg

    Love women? Yeah right.. Right wing nuts promoting state sanctioned rape.

  7. 7

    YLB spews:

    Tuesday, 2/21/12 at 12:53 pm

    The rapists aren’t going to get away with it:

    http://articles.boston.com/201.....en-protest

  8. 8

    YLB spews:

    Tuesday, 2/21/12 at 12:57 pm

    Right wingers teh fayle:

    Admit it. Just like the wingnuts claimed, you really wanted Obama to confiscate all guns (fail!), destroy capitalism (fail and fail!), you wanted him to raise taxes to record highs (fail!), and you thought his Detroit bailout would guarantee the demise of the American auto industry (fail!).
    And that wasn’t all! You expected Obama to surrender to the terrorists (fail!), stuff conservatives into FEMA concentration camps (fail!), create death panels (fail!) and impose Sharia law on all Americans (fail!).

    This is truly an administration that has failed …

    … to live up to every right-wing paranoid fantasy.

    http://www.dailykos.com/story/.....via=blog_1

  9. 9

    Michael spews:

    Tuesday, 2/21/12 at 1:05 pm

    @4
    The founders are pretty far right and fund a lot of right wing republican groups. As to the rest of the Amway folks, who knows.

  10. 10

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 2/21/12 at 1:27 pm

    Stoopid Nooz

    Item #1: Ricky Sanitarium thinks government shouldn’t tell insurance companies they have to cover contraceptives, but government should ban contraceptives — not just for Catholics and right-to-lifers, but for everybody. So it’s pretty clear he’s not trying to protect the religious freedom of people whose religion is against contraception; he’s trying to impose his own religious beliefs and values on the entire country.

    Item #2: Rev. Franklin Graham, Billy’s son, has joined the list of idiots who are calling President Obama a “Muslim.”

  11. 11

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 2/21/12 at 1:28 pm

    We need better wingnuts in this country.

  12. 12

    isambard kingdom brunel spews:

    Tuesday, 2/21/12 at 1:52 pm

    Awww….poor little handout hernandez ylb sounds like he is having a bad day……

    Taurus won’t start?

    After years of posting, you can only come back on one post that I had wrong…too funny…while I own your ass day in and day out….

    Now tell us again how you feel about southern blacks..cmon, you know you want to. My life just isn’t pathetic enough to go searching through some silly datubayze, I leave that for you.
    I’m too busy making money and paying for schleps like you.

  13. 13

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 2/21/12 at 2:17 pm

    @12 What’s wrong with a Taurus? It makes more financial sense than a BMW, Lexus, or Porsche.

  14. 14

    YLB spews:

    Tuesday, 2/21/12 at 2:18 pm

    12 – Heh. Little lying smarty pants is taunting me again about “southern blacks”..

    Where’s the link dumbass? Were you “making up shit” like you accuse rhp of doing?

    I don’t have to taunt you about your “remarks” about latinos.. I prove it..

    What’s next at your next happy hour? Watermelon jokes?

    one post that I had wrong

    Wrong?? WTF? I thought it was because you fucked up your “wording”?

    I thought racists like you are never “wrong”.

    Flail, fayle… Too funny.. Thanks for being our little pet know-nothing racist from northeast of Tacoma – you have a lot of company there in the bigot department.

  15. 15

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 2/21/12 at 2:22 pm

    Gee, Carl, can’t you think of anything to write about besides sports? There’s other stuff going on in the world. For example, here’s a question: If Iran’s hardened uranium processing facility at Fordow is impervious to conventional bombs, will Israel use a nuke to take it out?

    Let’s review:

    1. Iran thinks Israel shouldn’t exist.
    2. Israel thinks Iran means it.
    3. Iran not only is (obviously) trying to acquire nuclear weapons, but also is building missiles that can deliver them to Israel.
    4. If Israel has to fight a nuclear war, they’d probably rather do it now, when only their side has nuclear weapons.
    5. Sanctions have never stopped anybody.
    6. Fordow, which is buried inside a mountain, is the only facility Iran has that can process uranium to weapons-grade.

    So, what do you think the chances are that Israel will fire a nuclear-tipped cruise missile at Iran’s Fordow facility?

  16. 16

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 2/21/12 at 2:32 pm

    Mittens gets millions from a nasty billionaire bully. Reading about this guy will make your skin crawl.

    http://www.salon.com/2012/02/1.....singleton/

  17. 17

    rhp6033 spews:

    Tuesday, 2/21/12 at 2:34 pm

    Well, I guess we could also file this under “The wealthy aren’t like you and me” drawer:

    One of Strauss-Kahn’s lawyers has said that the former French presidential hopeful never knew that the women at orgies he attended were prostitutes.

    “He could easily not have known, because as you can imagine, at these kinds of parties you’re not always dressed, and I challenge you to distinguish a naked prostitute from any other naked woman,” Henri Leclerc told French radio Europe 1 in December.

    Gee, I guess the French authorities who are investigating a prostitution ring should just drop the query. I guess it’s natural that young attractive women are automatically enamoured of a balding, overweight man in his 60’s? And money has nothing to do with it?

  18. 18

    rhp6033 spews:

    Tuesday, 2/21/12 at 2:37 pm

    Oh, and as the troll who demands proof, just do a little research on the DeVoss family and how they spread their mony around. Among other things, the guy who ran Blackwater married into the family. They pretty much set him up with financing for his operations with intruductions to wall street money men, and their contacts with influential Republicans and within the Bush administration assured that he would win a large share of the no-bid contracts for work in Iraq, either as a direct contractor or as a sub-contractor for the winner.

  19. 19

    YLB spews:

    Tuesday, 2/21/12 at 2:43 pm

    I can’t help but chuckle over these from the asshat who hails northeast of Tacoma:

    and how am I racist? what have I posted that is racist?

    we also have an adopted child from Kenya…hhmmm, kinda hard to hating on black folk dont ya think?

    Heh. But hating on latino folk is ok.. What a moron! You did that child few favors asshat. Most likely you use her as cover for your own corruption that’s been drilled into you since you were born.

  20. 20

    YellowPup spews:

    Tuesday, 2/21/12 at 2:47 pm

    Watching the analysis of the polls in the WA governor’s race in the sidebar has been pretty troubling.

    Am not relishing the prospect of McKenna using the state as cannon fodder. Look at what T-Paw did to the formerly great state of Minnesota as a model for what can happen when you elect sensible moderate for governor. Or the kinds of banana-Republican administrations they have in MI, WI, OH, FL, etc.

  21. 21

    YLB spews:

    Tuesday, 2/21/12 at 2:52 pm

    20 – I’m thinking McKenna as a Governor might help the pitiful Dems in the legislature find their collective spine.

    Or they could cave which in that case, we progressives would then replace them with pols who’d give an F.

    Maybe sometimes things have to get worse before they can get better.

  22. 22

    YellowPup spews:

    Tuesday, 2/21/12 at 3:16 pm

    @21: The state/country is not in the best shape for “worse,” as nihilist Republicans go. How deep of a crater is needed?

    BTW, by “cannon fodder” I’m thinking of Goldy’s recent post:

    http://slog.thestranger.com/sl.....ors-matter

    In 2016, McKenna takes on Bobby Jindal (and Ron Paul) for the Repub nomination for POTUS! The clown car rolls on.

  23. 23

    isambard kingdom brunel spews:

    Tuesday, 2/21/12 at 3:23 pm

    @14

    Lol….you realize that I’m laughing my ass off at how bent out shapeyou are getting…you realize that don’t you?

    Oohhh, my little marionette, kicking and flailijng just as ordered.

    Throwing out the bait and watching ylbleeders head explode is easier than chumming for sharks.

    Not worry, little girlyman ylb, I’m working hard to support your, shall we say, unique lifestyle.

  24. 24

    rhp6033 spews:

    Tuesday, 2/21/12 at 3:24 pm

    # 21: I used to think that way, but then we had George W. Bush as President. Which answered the question: “How much damage could one President do?” I’d hate to see that played out on a local level.

  25. 25

    rhp6033 spews:

    Tuesday, 2/21/12 at 3:27 pm

    # 23 reminds me of the unfortunate knight in “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”. He gets completely dismembered (in this case, logically and on the facts), yet he still keeps crowing like he’s won the fight. Everyone else just ignores him and walks around him.

  26. 26

    YLB spews:

    Tuesday, 2/21/12 at 3:32 pm

    23 – You totally owned yourself as a racist moron..

    Oh and this is the funniest one of all:

    I dont hate anybody

    Mix in some watermelon jokes with the taco and burrito jokes at the next happy hour moron.

    I’m sure your bigot buddies will enjoy it.

  27. 27

    rhp6033 spews:

    Tuesday, 2/21/12 at 3:51 pm

    Boy, when Republican Tea-Party wingnuts get going, they really get insane. Rep. Bob Morris (GOP-Indiana) has attacked the Girl Scouts as a radical lesbian organization which supports abortion. His evidence? A quick “web-based research” (i.e., reading a fellow wingnut web site) making the assertions.

    The evidence? Michelle Obama is the “honorary chairwoman” (as has every first lady since the founding), and a supposed “partnership” (which doesn’t exist” with Planned Parenthood. From that, he concludes – well, his words best speak for themselves:

    Morris alleged that the Girl Scouts of America and the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts “have entered into a close strategic affiliation with Planned Parenthood,” which he claimed is trying to “sexualiz(e) young girls through the Girl Scouts.”

    Even worse, he wrote, only three of the 50 role models promoted by the Girl Scouts have even “a briefly-mentioned religious background.”

    “All the rest are feminists, lesbians, or Communists,” he wrote.

    Lawmaker: ‘Radical’ Girl Scouts out to destroy ‘American family values’

    It’s kind of interesting that he should bring this up right at the beginning of the Girl Scout’s annual cookie sale. He owns a chain of “nutrition stores”. Maybe he’s afraid that the Girl Scouts are cutting into his sales?

  28. 28

    isambard kingdom brunel spews:

    Tuesday, 2/21/12 at 4:12 pm

    @26

    I think I will stick with the taco and burrito jokes…they seem to be getting under your skin.

    And besides the usual child rapists, murderers, occasional communist, and the like, I don’t hate anybody accept lazy pieces of trash like you who would rather “live off the internet” all day insteadof working for a living. It really gets tiresome having to support people like you.

    I mean really..what working person has time to create a datubayze about a blog, surf dozens of whackamole sites daily, keep tabs and notes on people who post(don’t say don’t because we know you do), create blogs about blogs about people posting on blogs, post all…day….long.., etc?
    The answer nobody has time to do that..I mean nobody with a job that supports his family has time to do that.

    So just sit back, relax, shut the fuck up, and enjoy the fact that working joes like me are able to provide you with food stamps, WIC, subsidizedd housing, subsidized pse bill, and every other handout that our spend happy legislature can come up with in order to secure your vote every november.

    You…are…done….

  29. 29

    YLB spews:

    Tuesday, 2/21/12 at 4:26 pm

    I think I will stick with the taco and burrito jokes…

    LOL.. Like a good little racist tool.. Who trained you dumbass: mommy, daddy, uncle, auntie, gramps, grandma or all of the above?

    And pleeezz about the hate.. You’ve done nothing else since you’ve been here… And the lying.. You hate everything to the left of Dino Rossi and if it smells like a Rossi, you vote for it – all it has to do is bleat lower taxes and lock up the “castillians” or whatever you hate at the moment.

    You owned yourself moron. Your kind always does. And you find plenty of time to post here during the day from your “dumbphone” – time you could dedicating to your job – so that’s horseshit too.

  30. 30

    YLB spews:

    Tuesday, 2/21/12 at 4:35 pm

    SPH-D700 Sprint 4G.. Wow how slick is some asshat’s ‘dumbphone’!

    http://www.samsung.com/us/mobi.....D700ZKASPR

  31. 31

    YLB spews:

    Tuesday, 2/21/12 at 4:51 pm

    The state/country is not in the best shape for “worse,” as nihilist Republicans go. How deep of a crater is needed?

    Deeper so it would seem from the polls. And after the drift and stasis of the Locke/Gregoire years who can blame the electorate for wanting to try on something different?

    Yes McKenna will be a lockstep right wing Governor complete with pushing the ALEC agenda but unlike the rest of the Banana Republican states, he won’t have as compliant a legislature. At least I’m thinking at the moment he won’t.

    If McKenna is hell-bent to be insane he can be recalled:

    http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Does.....e_governor

  32. 32

    Broadway Joe spews:

    Tuesday, 2/21/12 at 5:19 pm

    4:

    I went to one of their ‘Free Enterprise Days’ seminars back in the 90’s at the Kingdome. The first man who came out onstage Friday night said that Amway was a ‘non-religious and non-political organization.’ Thirty-six hours later, the exact same person led a ‘non-religious and non-political’ fundamentalist Christian church service (attendance required) where he went on to proclaim that Amway was ‘the only thing that would save America from Bill Clinton’.

  33. 33

    Politically Incorrect spews:

    Tuesday, 2/21/12 at 10:43 pm

    “…the Girl Scouts as a radical lesbian organization…”

    Forget the damn cookies – the money is in the videos!

    Har, har, har, har…

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