I saw a countdown clock to St. Patrick’s Day recently that had days, hours, and minutes. I realized that it’s counting down to Midnight on St. Pat’s. I may be a bit of a prude, but I suspect that if anyone is in a bar at 11:59 on an weekday, they’re not waiting on the holiday to start drinking. I mean, I get that it’s a big drinking day but I think there’s time enough to not have to be up to the minute.
Also, please don’t yell “wooooooooooo” right outside my apartment. What? You’ll yell “woooooooooo” wherever you damn well please? OK.
Remember that guy who sucker-punched a protester at a Trump rally? The five sheriff’s deputies who failed to arrest him, and instead tackled the already-in-custody (black) protester, have been disciplined with demotions and suspensions without pay. As for the sucker-puncher, he was arrested and charged the next day.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/16/.....index.html
Meanwhile, Donald Hitler predicts “riots” if he isn’t nominated. He’s not advocating that, you understanding, he’s only predicting it. Well, he oughta know his supporters better than the rest of us, you don’t suppose?
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/16/.....index.html
As for me, I’m laying in a supply of popcorn now, in case there are shortages this summer.
The Economist calls a Trump presidency a “global risk”:
“A British research organization has warned that a Donald Trump presidency could have a dangerous impact on the world economy, increasing the potential of Islamic terror attacks and of a trade war with Mexico and China. The Economist Intelligence Unit released its updated global risk assessment, ranking the election of Trump a 12 on a scale of one to 25 — the same number it assigned to the possibility that jihadi terrorism would destabilize the global economy.”
And the Washington Post editorial board calls Trump “a threat to American democracy”:
“Mr. Trump resembles other strongmen throughout history who have achieved power by manipulating democratic processes,” the editorial board wrote. “Their playbook includes a casual embrace of violence; a willingness to wield government powers against personal enemies; contempt for a free press; demonization of anyone who is not white and Christian; intimations of dark conspiracies; and the propagation of sweeping, ugly lies.”
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us.....ns-n540416
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Wow. Dark forces. Enemies lists. Scapegoats. Big lies. Where we have seen this before?
So what did they say about The Bern R senile?
Meanwhile the first Heilary ad is out… http://mashable.com/2016/03/16.....pjMXhdM8q7
@3 I’m glad you asked! I bet a lot of Republicans will vote for the socialist if their other choice is Donald Hitler.
@4 Exactly what you expect from a party that howls at the moon.
White Power!
“The way that I look at it, even if Donald Trump turns out not to be such a great President, we’re only looking at four years. “
-Dr. Ben Carson
There’s a campaign ad for you.
By the way Neil Cavuto went after Hatch it looks like the media are sniffing blood in the water over the SCOTUS nom.
http://mediamatters.org/video/.....rtl/209312
Hatch may have some kind of mouth breather logic going here.
If the current political climate is “too toxic” for the Republican Senate to do their job, maybe it’s best to wait.
Maybe everything should wait until we can elect Senators who can take a piss while someone is watching.
Jesus like behavior from the Jesus loving people who claim there is religious persecution.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141381391
Now I don’t know who killed Jesus, maybe it was the Jews, but does anyone really care? Bunch of fucking religious nuts who don’t even know or care what religion is, they only like being part of some cult that entitles them to some fucking privileges.
Religious Freedom Bigotry rings in Georgia!
Let’s see how that goes – should be great for the economy.
That can’t be helpful.
Former First Lady Laura Bush in an interview with USA Today when asked if she would support Trump, “Don’t Ask.”
Happy Tournament day everyone.
@12 and I’m sure that some of those that do “Don’t Tell”
was on the subway this morning in NYC, three fucking morons talking about how Democrats don’t want to vote for Hillary, more so than Republicans don’t want to vote for Drumpf. What fucking morons – I wanted to tell them that, but I said to myself it isn’t worth it….three fucking old men.
Congratulations go out to Roger – the dow is in positive territory for 2016.
Great Job Roger!
In a vote that was far too close the Senateyesterday rejected an amendment to invalidate local food labeling laws, local control and all.
I’m actually not concerned with GMOs but how anyone could disagree that knowing what you are eating isn’t your right…. And let’s be honest, very few people read labels but if you want to know what you’re eating that should be as easy to discover as possible.
There are 48 Senators who think you shouldn’t know what’s in your food.
It’s not trump, if vast swaths of the republican voters did not value what trump promotes, he would be nowhere in the polls. Republicans have to give a different message to the people voting for trump.
If republicans were serious, they would have fox news and every politician and every bit of conservative media and social media telling their audience to the wrongness of the trump message, to reject violence and promote non violence; reject government powers used against personal enemies; support a free press; promote acceptance of those who is not white and Christian; and reject conspiracies theories and stop rejecting what scientists tell them, and tell their audience to get an education and make informed decisions.
Make it so the trump message wasn’t considered acceptable.
@16 you are kidding yourself if you think that they would do that….the vast majority of the people you are expecting to denounce him or even have denounced him are people that are just like him but in the Closet. They are closeted bigots and Nazis.
Georgia passed discrimination law today – don’t you think the same should be done with respect to that? Till hell freezes over.
‘When You’re Accustomed to Privilege, Equality Feels Like Oppression’
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....60662.html
This makes sense “They’re angry about having to consider others who might be in their way, strangely exerting their right to exist.”
So it makes sense that the representatives of the voters of Georgia, angry that they are supposed be allowing others that are not them, to have equal rights, have thrown a tantrum and passed discriminatory laws. In their eyes, it’s oppression to be told that their discrimination is wrong.
@17, I had an AhHA moment writing that, if the republicans tried to repudiate the message that the trump voters are agreeing to, that would make the republicans sound liberal. I now understand the coded message the talking heads have been repeating over and over about the republicans painting them selves in a corner, the republicans have no way to change the message and avoid humiliation.
Ireland looks like a great place to live.
6 Places In Ireland You Should Visit, According To The Irish http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....63346.html
Real Home of the Free and the Brave.
Time for a recap.
About a month ago every “savvy” clownservative, not excluding our own idiot trolls, confidently reassured the universe at large that just as soon as the candidate field narrowed, Trump would begin losing these crucial winner-take-all States, because his “lane” was too narrow.
David Brooks, Bill Kristoll, Rushbo, Morning Joe, Rich Lowry, Charles Krauthammer, etc. The list goes on and on.
That’s it. Just felt it was important to point out how unbelievably stupid these people really are.
With regard to Bill Krystoll and Charles Krauthammer, they have been very pointedly and specifically and diametrically WRONG about absolutely everything they’ve ever pontificated on.
They don’t say the things they say to convince people of anything but the hardline rightist point of view.
Which leads to shit like this.
Which is really the purpose of keeping people stupid, uneducated and too confused to understand why. They just want to rob people blind and have them thank them for it.
Meanwhile Poor Bernie Sanders
Run a positive campaign and Heilary attacks attacks attacks!
The dumb WHITE PRIVILEGE guy doesn’t get it!
Looks like I-405 is changing…
Dear Good To Go! customer,
Changes are coming to the I-405 express toll lanes. Starting at 7 p.m. this Friday, March 18, I-405 express toll lanes will be free and open to all on weeknights, weekends, and some holidays.
Express toll lanes will continue to operate normally between 5 a.m. and 7 p.m. Monday through Friday. The rest of the time the lanes will be free, including:
Weeknights from 7 p.m. to 5 a.m.
All day on weekends
Holidays: New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, July Fourth, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day.
When the lanes are free you won’t need any kind of Good To Go! pass to drive in those lanes, and it doesn’t matter how many people you have in your car – even if you’re alone you can use the lanes. No tolls will be charged during those hours. Learn more about these changes by on our blog.
When the lanes are free and the signs above the roadway show ‘open to all’ please keep in mind:
It will still be illegal to cross the double white lines. Drivers will need to continue to use designated access points.
Solo drivers are not allowed to use the direct access ramps at NE 6th Street in downtown Bellevue and NE 128th Street in Totem Lake. During these times, solo drivers will need to follow roadway signage and use an alternative access point to enter and exit the lanes. Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) is looking for options to improve access and/or signing in these areas.
Trucks over 10,000 pounds gross vehicle weight are always restricted from using the I-405 express toll lanes.
Improvements to the I-405 express toll lanes
Since express toll lanes opened last September, regional drivers have made millions of trips in the express toll lanes, showing us how much they value reliability during the weekday commute. However, we’re also listening to the concerns and input we’ve received from drivers and are evaluating solutions to make the express toll lanes better for everyone.
In February, Governor Jay Inslee and the state legislature directed WSDOT to make changes to the I-405 express toll lanes. Changes to the hours of operations are part of more than a dozen adjustments to the I-405 express toll lanes corridor to increase capacity and improve operations including:
Improved striping and signage.
Longer access points, including changes to the northbound I-405 access point at SR 520 happening this weekend, that make it easier for drivers to merge into the toll lanes.
New merge-and-weave lanes and hard running shoulders at key northbound I-405 chokepoints near SR 520 and SR 527.
What happened to the vomit producer? It claimed blacks not welcomed at Donald Trump rallies. PMSNBC blew that BULLSHITTIUM right outta da water!
BULLSHITTIUM, heaviest “element” known to DUMMOCRETIN man. Each spoken letter by a DUMMOCRETIN contains 3X gravitational force!
@8 Hitler was in power for only 12 years, and did most of his damage in the last 4 years.
@14 The Great Mother Rabbit Spirit will do almost anything for you if you’re nice to her. I looked at my portfolio today and laughed at the mattress stuffers.
@18 Maybe they’ll figure it out when their paychecks disappear.
http://www.businessinsider.com.....ill-2016-3
Does the babbling jackass fiend mean the klownservatic voter who chose the lighter-skinned batshit kandidate over its beloved karson kook-a-nut?
Heh. Absolutely.
Hmmm. Not a peep yours truly ever saw from the trolls about the black kids poisoned and damaged for life by klownservatic policies and politics in Flynt, MI.
The babbling jackass seemed especially silent.
@16 The real problem for the Republicans is that many of those who are voting for Trump maybe close to realizing that voting Democratic particularly for progressives maybe in their best interests.
So your question should be how can the Democratic party or candidates capture some of these Trump supporters. Particularly if the Republicans go along this path and create the perfect storm, and split their party, rather than carry on and hold their noses. Trump getting the outright nomination if he goes into the convention with more votes than any other candidate.
Of course this is all President Obama’s master plan for a Biden presidency.
@10 Soldiers of the Tenth Roman Legion would have carried out the crucifixion of Jesus. If the stories in the bible are true. Arab tradition says the soldiers were bribed and Jesus was spared.
A post St Patrick’s day: WOOOOOO
please pass the water of life.
@24 Ok some local politics even of concern to some of us in Bellingham. So are in favor of these changes Puddy? I think most of what is said is from the highway department. Remember the true hippy liberals are all riding bikes. (Though frankly Peoria, Illinois is bike friendly. Need more goats to clear out the raspberry bushes along our highways.
@30 are you kidding. There’s a ton of nutrition and vitamins in Flint’s water. It’s a surprise that the people of Flint aren’t running around all pumped up like a bunch of steroid enhanced MLB players.
@31 you give the Republican voter too much credit in saying they’ll hold thier noses and vote for Drumpf. No it is more like ignorantly voting for him and destroy this Country, if it isn’t already destroyed by them and the Republican Party.
@32 who really gives a shit? This is like a similar question of whether Jesus had cloth diapers of cotton or wool.
White Power!
Boob must be aimlessly walking the neighborhood of _______, with his hand clutching an elongated spherical object wrapped in a very used, wrinkled and dirty, brown paper bag, recycled to save the trees, hiding the contents of which it holds. As he waddles, staggering from side to side he is muttering to himself the following words ______. He reminisces of when times were good, asking people if they would like cancer with that lump, but now life has little hope. (Fill in the blanks).
Boob drop the bottle, and get a job! White Power!
Is it contradictory to go around telling people to double side print to save paper if you also don’t believe in global warming?
What is it about them? Do they just like bark and leaves and acorns and want to save them from extinction? Do they look forward to the fall clean-up and raking of the leaves and could see life living without doing that?
@29 The brown-skinned guy didn’t really believe white power voters would choose him, did he?
@34 Half a dozen goats is plenty. Just give them time.
“His team includes people of multiple faiths (Muslim, Buddhists, atheists), single divorced parents, and members of the LGBT community, all of whom he fears could be targets of discrimination, or worse, in Georgia’s current political climate.”
The people of Georgia apparently too fragile and scared to tolerate different people, so they made an environment where the different people would be encouraged to leave. It will be an interesting experiment over the next decades to see if exclusionary mono-culture states thrive better in a changing world than accepting diverse culture states.
What worries Stern, and many officials in the labor movement, is that Trump’s appeal to working-class voters is more than just a byproduct of his master showmanship. Trump’s denunciations of trade deals, his condemnation of politicians who ushered in outsourcing, and his tough, often-xenophobic rants about immigrants taking domestic jobs all lay out a policy portfolio that, at the most basic level, can be attractive to the economically marginalized.
I think the key will be the Democratic Party has to show that it can be a populist party, not a party of the corporate elite or the establishment,”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....640a69c58d
It’s a common theme over at the Bernie camp, but it seems a majority of democrats would rather stay the course then risk more change.
I haven’t seen evidence in the exit polling data of Trump voters from large diverse States like Illinois, Ohio, and Florida that his appeal is rooted in economics. That’s just the working hypothesis favored by establishment Repukes. These Trump voters from large, diverse States are quite often very middle class and do not express economic frustration. The part of Trump’s bullshit that appeals to them most is the anti-immigrant and anti-muslim crap.
In other words, they are bigots.
@36 If the Republicans want the White House and to keep the Senate and the House they will circle their wagons around Trump if he goes into the convention with a majority.
At some point the light bulb will come on they can win in 2016 only by supporting whoever walks into that convention. If they don’t it splits and Hilleary waltzes into the white house. They hate her more than Trump.
@37 It’s the truth. If the man was crucified they followed their commanders orders and did it. Members of a Roman legion followed their orders. If they did not then every 10th member of the legion would have been put to the sword. According to lots. So if you imply the story of Jesus is true then it’s soldiers of the Roman 10th Legion who crucified him. Not Pilate, not the Jews, not the Pharisees.
It’s also illustrative of politics. Those who use the story to blame the Jews, blame Pilate, use the part about Pilate to bolster the story, rather than question why if it was the Jews they didn’t stone him to death. Why would Pilate crucify a man that according to the bible doesn’t deserve to be crucified? Is this a rewriting of the story? Was Jesus really a terrorist? Did he deserve to be crucified? What implications does this have for the foundation of the worlds largest religion. Is Christianity based on a lie?
Can I say that? I should be able to say that under our Constitution. Perhaps I should go back to just saying Soldiers of the 10th Legion crucified Jesus which is frankly blasphemy. Something the first largest religion still has some problems with and the 2nd largest religion really has conniption fits about.
So I think it fucking matters.