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Open Thread 5/11

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– Any civil libertarian who counts on gun nuts to stand with them against government authority is a fool.

– So in a completely imaginary world where nearly half the jobs at the city are wiped out, pay is pretty equitable and the gender hiring disparity is pretty small! In the real world, meanwhile, pay isn’t equitable and the gender disparity is significant.

– God, how little sense of humor must Mike Huckabee have now if he was upset about Life Of Brian in his early 20’s?

– Anti-vaxxers are more dangerous than you thought

– What the fuck, Rick Scott?

Comments

  1. 1

    Given that the city theoretically has to pay all employees in the same position equally (every Strategic Advisor II is in the same pay band, for example), is it noteworthy that men and women with the same jobs are paid about the same?

    From the ACLU:

    The Paycheck Fairness Act will help secure equal pay for equal work for all Americans.

    https://www.aclu.org/equal-pay-equal-work-pass-paycheck-fairness-act

    So, yeah, I’d say somewhat noteworthy.

  2. 2

    Tweet du jour:

    Bill KristolVerified account ‏@BillKristol
    Six years ago, Obama goes to Cairo. Proclaims a new era. Today, Arab leaders won’t come to Camp David.

    They’re probably attending their domestic nuclear weapons proliferation meetings instead.

  4. 4

    Bernie Sanders has called for the break up of big banks. What a wonderful idea! The silence is deafening. This is an idea the left should embrace.

  5. 5

    Given how much he hates the government he wants to run and his near life-long handwringing over the moral decay of America, I doubt Mike Huckabee has ever looked on the bright side of life.

  6. 6

    Poster Boy for all Conservatives and the NRA, George Zimmerman, involved in another shooting in Florida.

    The crazies sure know how to pick some winners. Shine them bad apples.

  7. 7

    @5 his kids must be a bundle of joy. Bunch of overweight under achievers, because daddy doesn’t have any aspirations for them.

  8. 8

    @1,

    Ms Barnett is simply pointing out that, given that local law compels the city to pay employees in the same position the same (pay banding and steps are fixed and applied to all employees equally), why does the DCI report devote so much space to pointing this out. Allow me to introduce you to Captain Obvious.

    We can probably assume that the report’s authors are motivated to provide the City with plenty of good data, while as much as possible, simultaneously providing data points that make the city look good. That’s enlightened self interest for any firm doing this kind of work. But some credit is due to any journalist who, recognizing this interest, takes the trouble to look for deeper inferences and ask the questions that don’t necessarily make the city look good.

    Given the legal framework within which the city operates, it probably is not noteworthy that “every Strategic Advisor II” is paid about the same regardless of race or gender. The study’s authors might be doing better work if instead they focused on why there are lower percentages of women or minorities among the ranks of Strategic Advisor II, when compared to Strategic Advisor I (if in fact that is true, which it may not be).

  9. 9

    Now this is the type of wasteful taxpayers money that Boob likes to support and can defend. You know a guy gets hungry once in a while, has to put on his feed bag.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....56268.html

    No wonder republicans are passing laws on what can be purchased on food stamps, they know how it eactly works, and they want to corner the market. Do as I say and not as I do! Shut up and sit down! Gail, none of your Fucking business!

  10. 10

    Great, now the Bible is going to dictate our tax policy. Except it’s Robin Hood in reverse.

    Dr. Ben Carson, now a Republican presidential candidate, has long proposed a “flat tax” for the country, citing the Bible’s tithing as his inspiration. As he reiterated Sunday morning on Fox News Sunday, he supports the idea of a “proportional tax,” one in which “you pay according to your ability.” A flat tax would require everybody in the country to pay the same percentage of their income as tax, regardless of how much or how little they make, and most variations include eliminating deductions and loopholes. Carson thinks it’s “condescending” to suggest it’s not fair that poor people can’t afford to pay their share because “poor people have pride, too” and “don’t want to be just taken care of.”

    http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141089797

  11. 11

    NRA poster boy George Zimmerman has gotten himself into another gunfight. He narrowly avoided getting shot in the head in a road rage incident in Lake Mary, Florida, today.

  14. 14

    @5 Huckabee was on TV yesterday saying he doesn’t have to defend the fact he’s been making money as a pitchman for quack diabetes cures.

  16. 16

    @13 Without a doubt the Kenyan Kommunist sicced those tornadoes on Oklahoma and Texas as retaliation for their climate denying. Florida, you’re next.

  19. 19

    “An employee at a nearby business, Kenneth Cornell, said he was exiting his car after lunch when a man drove up and started yelling about the shooting. The man shouted to Cornell: ‘I shot George Zimmerman, call 911. I don’t have a phone.’ Cornell said the man didn’t know whether Zimmerman was hurt. He called 911. According to Cornell, the man told him that he and Zimmerman have had three disputes. This time, Zimmerman waved a gun and the man shot at him, according to Cornell.”

    http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/11/.....index.html

  22. 22

    Meanwhile more documentation never covered by clueless LIV DUMMOCRETINS… http://nymag.com/daily/intelli.....chdog.html

    Last Wednesday, Bill Clinton ratcheted up Clintonworld’s counter assault on Clinton Cash, the book by conservative author Peter Schweizer that ignited the latest media frenzy over the former First Couple’s $2 billion foundation. “There’s just no evidence,” Clinton defiantly told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour during an interview at the Foundation’s confab in Morocco. “Even the guy that wrote the book apparently had to admit under questioning that we didn’t have a shred of evidence for this, we just sort of thought we would throw it out there and see if it flies, and it won’t fly.”

    Clinton’s analysis is flawed in at least one regard. As my colleague Jonathan Chait recently wrote, the Clintons’ web of murky relationships and opaque finances exacts a political cost whether or not their critics ever find a there there. The Clintons, more than anyone, should know that negative press — true or not — can have potentially catastrophic consequences. Remember, it was David Brock’s 1993 American Spectator article alleging that Arkansas state troopers arranged Bill’s trysts, which sparked Paula Jones’s sexual harassment lawsuit, which led to the Supreme Court case, which led to Monica Lewinsky lying under oath about the affair, which led Linda Tripp to turn the tapes over to Ken Starr, which led to impeachment.

    And that’s just the two opening paragraphs. Yeah baby! Intimidation!

  23. 23

    Zimmerman was armed with Tea and Skittles.

    The perpetrator was standing his ground.

  24. 24

    “See Obama and the Federal government are taking over Texas.”

    The Muslim Kenyan usurper’s laying some Jade Helm 15 weather war on those secessionist mofo’s!

  25. 25

    Heightened security all week at VA facilities, I just learned. They’re checking ID on everyone.

    No doubt one of those scares ginned up by the GWB43 administration to keep us concerned about national security.

    This weekend a Highway Patrol officer was walking between the cars waiting in line for a ferry. No dog, just the officer. Although she wasn’t very good-looking.

  27. 27

    A prominent black broadcast journalist who knows Holt told The Daily Beast: “If Brian does not come back and Lester does not get the job, it’s going to get ugly. You can only imagine.”

    http://www.thedailybeast.com/a.....-sure.html

    Was that Al Sharpton making threats again? Could be butt probably not…

    Al not prominent
    Al not a broadcast journalist
    Al does know race baiting

  28. 28

    @12

    And those commie leaning leftists at WSJ are already knocking it down.

    BTW, The Boston Globe did not break this story. They are reporting on a report in the London Review of Books. But if you want to go with your….”See! The librul media isn’t reporting X” fantasy again, go right ahead.

    But since you’re totally excited about this Hersch scoop then I assume you agree that the Reagan White House was ultimately responsible for the downing of KAL007. Rumsfeld and Cheney made up the intelligence to go to war with Iraq in 2003. You agree with his report that Sadam Hussein’s regime would have fallen within six months under an enhanced sactions program but James Baker and George W. Bush declined that option and spent billions and thousands of lives unneccesarily just for fun.

    I’m not dismissing Hersh’s reporting right-off, I haven’t read it and it’s really long but I’ll get to it.

  29. 29

    Puddy not excited about Seymour Hirsh checkmate… Puddy just reports when libtards call other libtards liars!

    FACTS, plain and simple always lost on your battleship!

  30. 30

    @29

    Facts, “You keep using that word, i donah theeenk you know what eet means.”

  31. 31

    Hersh used a single anonymous source.

    Which doesn’t sound convincing.

    Unless you’re Harry Reid in 2012 and you are trying to convince the country that Romney went a decade without paying taxes.

    Hersh has been on Democracy Now! 16 times. The left seems to have loved him up until now.

  33. 33

    Remember when DUMMOCRETINS had control of the House and Senate and when Republicans gave suggestions to DUMMOCRETINS on how to improve Obummercare 1.0 Nancy Pelosi claimed they had that covered, they didn’t need help. PuddyLinks are in the crazed databaze!

    Now DUMMOCRETINS are upset Republicans are treating them the same way Republicans were treated in 2009… http://thehill.com/policy/heal.....-arent-you

    Awww…!

  34. 34

    Unless you’re Harry Reid in 2012 and you are trying to convince the country that Romney went a decade without paying taxes.

    DAYUM Travis Bickle… Stop helping morons like checkmate. Puddy wanted checkmate to figger that out. Harry Reid said that was good enough for him so now Hirsh has an anonymous source why ask?

  35. 35

    @31

    What Hersch is really alleging is that George Bush was holding Osama bin Laden in 2006, and rather than put him on trial or execute him, he merely turned him over to Obama so that he could take credit. Yea, right.

  36. 36

    Wow, those Canadians are really “progressive”.

    The Harper government is signalling its intention to use hate crime laws against Canadian advocacy groups that encourage boycotts of Israel.

    http://www.cbc.ca/news/politic.....-1.3067497

    He conflated boycotts of Israel with anti-Semitic hate speech and violence, including the deadly attacks that had just taken place in Paris on the Charlie Hebdo magazine and a kosher supermarket.

    Wow something DUMMOCRETINS should really love… What WILL happen to libtards when the state gains the power to criminalize “hate”, something they have been screaming for a long long time. Butt this time it’s just up north and it’s “Israeli hate” and the targets are libtards!

    In Canada we’re about to view the outcome of Bibi Derangement Syndrome from Canadian libtards. What’s more wonderful is that, hopefully, the more you libtards determine those screamed about pet causes being targeted abroad as “hate speech” y’all love to use here in America, the quicker the cacophony of white noise will die out!

    Imagine how Canadian law would treat a boycott of a Christian-owned pizza business organized by gay-rights activists if the proprietor refused to cater a gay wedding.

    Imagine how Canadian law would treat a boycott of a Christian-owned cake business organized by gay-rights activists if the proprietor refused to cater a gay wedding.

    Imagine how Canadian law would treat a boycott of a Christian-owned flower business organized by gay-rights activists if the proprietor refused to cater a gay wedding.

    This is an outcome of the Canadian libtard attacks on Mark Steyn, a Rush Limbaugh fill-in host! http://www.thecommentator.com/.....speech_law You see., if the foo shits you have to clean up the mess! Seems Canada is starting the cleanup processes!

    See you HA DUMMOCRETINS. You may just get what you scream for; aimed right at yourselves!

    ROTFLRHMBBAO!

  37. 37

    @ 31

    From one anonymous source to three, now:

    The NBC News sources who confirm that a Pakistani intelligence official became a “walk in” asset include the special operations officer and a CIA officer who had served in Pakistan. These two sources and a third source, a very senior former U.S. intelligence official, also say that elements of the ISI were aware of bin Laden’s presence in Abbottabad. The former official was emphatic about the ISI’s awareness, saying twice, “They knew.”

    http://www.nbcnews.com/news/wo.....es-n357306

    NBC’s me-too report.

  38. 38

    Meanwhile this is what is called HA DUMMOCRETIN libtard thought… Direct from the teabaggin buttbusting BULLSHITTIUM buttbigot gorilla

    Poster Boy for all Conservatives and the NRA, George Zimmerman, involved in another shooting in Florida. The crazies sure know how to pick some winners. Shine them bad apples.

    Nevermind Zimmerman was the victim! Nevermind someone shot at George Zimmerman Just like this CNN freakazoid:

    David Daniel ✔@CNNLADavid
    I read something wrong, and tweeted a bit of snark with a news item about George Zimmerman. I apologize. Lesson learned.
    12:02 PM – 11 May 2015

    or this libtard news station…
    WESH 2 News ✔@WESH
    George Zimmerman involved in shooting, police say http://on.wesh.com/1Ix9klv #breaking
    10:33 AM – 11 May 2015

    The twitter crowd was upset he survived.
    Yeah and Julius Caesar was involved in a stabbing. It resulted in his loss of life. News at 5 at the Coliseum!

    Yeah and Jesse Jackson was involved in baby making. The illicit child was found by the National Enquirer.

    Yeah and Boston Marathon spectators were involved in a pressure cooker event. Three died. Many more maimed.

    Yeah and Al Sharpton found a girl covered in dung by police. Oh never mind… that never happened!

    Or this moron:
    Jade Fischer @JadeFischer
    .@AP Was he wearing a hoodie? PLEASE tell me he was wearing a hoodie.
    11:25 AM – 11 May 2015

    The libtard mind is a diseased mind.

  39. 39

    DAYUM shame and nuthin from HA DUMMOCRETINS on this… Because it doesn’t fit the hands up don’t shoot narrative!
    http://www.washingtontimes.com.....Cs.twitter

    As Puddy said before, now it’s open season on police. Sooooooooooo when you need that cop in the high crime area it may take a while to arrive!

  40. 40

    Tom Brady suspended without pay for four games next year!

  41. 41

    @39 Well she can now kiss her drug addict son’s ass goodbye, because killing a cop in Mississippi is a sure way to get fitted for angel wings.

  43. 43

    @38 yeah Zimerman is always the victim…..except trouble seems to follow him.

    In my decades of being on this planet, I have once had a police officer over my house, to get my statement and complete a police report on fraudulent use of my credit card. And I’m probably twice as old as the fuck.

    Keep spitin on that apple.

  44. 44

    @22

    And just in the first two paragraphs the author proves that Piddles will swallow any line as long as it fits his blinders.

    Clintons’ web of murky relationships and opaque finances exacts a political cost whether or not their critics ever find a there there.

    Yep, took an electoral cost so high that the Dole administration was a rousing success after coasting to an electoral college shellacking 379-159.

    Vince Foster, Travelgate, Whitewater et al had a juge political cost for Hillary. So huge she won her first Senate campaign by 12 percentage points and her second by 36%

    All those bubbling scandals took such a toll. Each one magnifying the last and costing the Clintons…um…what…oh.

    Step 1, SCREAM SCANDAL…step 2 (shoulder shrug)…step 3 Republican VICTORY!

    BENGHAZI! FOUNDATION MONEY! If only all the voters knew what we know we wouldn’t be watching Hillary get sworn in. Why didn’t they listen to our howls THIS time? WE HAD HER!

  45. 45

    Puffy must be taking a math course. All data and equations are based on S&P500 data.

  46. 46

    Puffy – Rachel Maddow did a little five minute clip on Benjamin O’Davis (spelling?) – nothing but facts. She put it very nicely.

    Just curious, I want even do a google search, but did Fox News do a televised clip in his honor? Maybe you can prove me wrong. I’ll roll the dice and not look into it, you can prove me wrong, I don’t mind the embarassment to be wrong.

    Shameful.

  49. 49

    @39 Well she can now kiss her drug addict son’s ass goodbye, because killing a cop in Mississippi is a sure way to get fitted for angel wings.

    Did senile schismatic IDIOT Wabbit comment on the cops and their deaths? NOPE! Doesn’t fit the DUMMOCRETIN hands up don’t shoot narrative which the senile schismatic IDIOT Wabbit was a big cheerleader on!

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