– Boot ’em.
– I haven’t delved into this map of Metro’s possible service cuts too deeply, but the cursory look is pretty scary.
– A fundraiser for Bread and Roses coming up July 23.
– The Revolutionary War is probably a richer topic for a movie than Angry Birds.
Update [Darryl]: The dust storm that ate Phoenix – videos and images.
http://www.rawstory.com/rawrep.....otiations/
Now the dumbfucks have lost Chris Matthews.
First David Brooks, now Matthews. Who’s next…Chris Wallace?
I keep reading news stories of black mobs beating and robbing white people. A few weeks ago it was in Chicago. Now it’s happened in Milwaukee ..
http://www.jsonline.com/news/m.....27704.html
Why am I not seeing any news stories this summer of large mobs of white, asian, or hispanic people beating and robbing people?
Will a bout of “sanity” overcome the Republicans and allow them to do what they did 7 times under Bush?
With a man of the wrong skin color in the White House – highly unlikely.
… and 200 miles away on the same lake, a blacks beat a white kid who is now on life support.
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news.....39.html?dr
Yep, boot ’em.
The dust storm video is pretty amazing.
Recent black on black Chicago mob attack captured on video.
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/sto.....id=8233241
I feel fortunate I don’t live near this race of animal.
@6
Some of the stuff you post and manage to pull, like getting people to react to you as if you’re not a troll after going so far as to name you’re self Troll, is actually quite funny. But, the race baiting stuff is just lame. Please stop.
# 7: Troll conveniently forgets the kids in Pennsyvania, described as “decent kids from good families”, who beat a hispanic kid to death a few months ago. I think one of the kids was the son of a sheriff’s deputy, if my memory serves me correct.
“You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.”
Matthew 7:5, KJV
As for the absence of movies about the American Revolution, these things tend to go in cycles.
During the 1950’s & early 1960’s there was some interest in the frontier era, made popular by the movie Davy Crockett and the TV show Daniel Boone.
Right now we are probably at the end of a cycle of WWII movies, including “Band of Brothers” (a mini-series); Private Ryan, etc. After this cycle, I doubt we will see a lot of WWII movies for quite a while.
As for the American Revolution, there was an attempt at a very stupid TV series (which seemed to be an attempt to duplicate Hogan’s Heros but set during the Revolution, with Benjamin Franklin and a couple of kids as revolutionary sabateurs, which thankfully never made it past the pilot episode. But the broadway musical “1776”, and the movie it spawned, wasn’t that bad – it took a very boring topic (debates in the 2nd Continental Congress in the summer of 1776) and brought it to life in an entertaining fashion, even if the musical numbers were rather silly.
Attempts at a better movie about the American Revolution were stiffled for a generation by Al Pacino’s “Revolution”, which was a pretty bad movie and a box-office flop. Finally Mel Gibson’s “Patriot” broke open the topic again – it was entertaining for it’s battle scenes, but was incredibly inaccurate – if they had actually used the facts regarding “The Swamp Fox” Moultrie and British Col. Francis Tarleton, it would have been both accurate and much more interesting. But the most accurate movies have actually been TV productions: A&E’s “The Crossing” and HBO’s “John Adams” miniseries.
After seeing all of the more recent Civil War series, including Ted Turner’s production of two-thirds of Shara’s trilogy “Gettysburg” and “Gods and Generals”, I’ve pretty much come to the conclusion that the miniseries is the best format. A single three-hour movie simply leaves too much out, and “Band of Brothers” shows that you need at least ten hours to portray events over – in that case – about a year’s time. A good movie on the American Revolution would probably need at least that much time, and one of the most difficult parts would be to decide where to start – during the French and Indian war, when Americans and British fought together, or later? Anything which starts at Lexington and Concord would be misleading.
Of course, if you tried to do it now, you would lose half your potential audience due to politics. The Tea Partiers would want you to not only highlight the portions which suit their needs, they would probably insist that you not include anything to the contrary. If they are willing to edit Wikipedia to match Bachman’s mistakes, can you imagine what they would do to an entire script? You probably couldn’t even launch the project until after the 2012 elections.
Why The Rich Shoplift
One of the more intriguing psychological mysteries out there is why so many rich people shoplift. And I’m not just referring to the trillions of dollars they shoplift in the financial market and from government contracts, but also the penny-ante shoplifting that goes on in retail stores — you know, a person making over $100,000 a year who slips a $2 piece of costume jewelry into her Gucci handbag. The question I’m raising is this:
“[A] study.. finds Americans with incomes of $70,000 a year shoplift 30% more than those earning up to $20,000. Why is that?”
http://moneyland.time.com/2011.....?hpt=hp_t2
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Maybe it’s because the rich are, you know, less moral than poor people?
The dust storm in Arizona is pretty scary – it brings back images of the the Dust Bowl in the 1930’s. Back then, it was caused by a combination of draught and bad farming practices. This year we have a draught, but I wonder if the good farming practices had fallen into disuse?
Of course, we’ve had drought over the past few years throughout the southern states. A couple of years ago it was Georgia and Alabama, this year it is the Southwest, including Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, etc. You think there might be some kinda climate change thing going on????
From taking a quick look at the Metro stuff, I see right off the bat that one of the two bus routes I can conveniently take to work would be toast. The other one, which leaves me with a two-mile walk at the east end, is probably also in jeopardy, owing to Sound Transit’s financial problems. It’s mainly a question of whether Microsoft will choose to keep subsidizing the ST routes serving Overlake or cover the same territory with its own employees-only bus system.
From what I’ve read elsewhere, bus service in northeast Seattle takes a significant hit–the 71, 71 and 73 routes’ southern terminus will be in the U. district, so you’ll have to transfer to the 70 (or later, presumably the Link light rail) to get downtown. I don’t see anything about the 64 or the 76 rush-hour expresses–they’re generally packed, so if they went there’d be a lot more drivers keeping each other company on I-5.
# 10: I find it hillarious that the right wing rails against the poor exhibiting an “entitlement mentality”, when it’s the rich whom they support who exhibit it the most.
Sure, they may have learned to disguise their meanings when the talk about “working hard”, and “taking risks”, to justify their incomes. They may fool some of their followers, but the biggest people they fool is themselves – it’s an internal rationalization, and they keep repeating it until they believe it. But very, very few of the rich in this country got to be rich by hard work and risk-taking. They got their start by having either very rich parents to begin with, or at least well-off parents who gave them an initial boost up the ladder.
This latter point needs a bit more explanation. If you are an average working joe, and you have a good idea for a product or service, usually it stops right there. They can’t afford to take the time off work to develop the project, without losing their home in the process. they have no money to risk in a start-up venture, their relatives have no money to invest, and the banks just laugh at them. They can’t even afford to have a patent or trademark attorney do a quick search to see if they can protect their product. It takes a lifetime of work for the average middle-class family to be able to afford to simply exist and live comfortably in retirement, without being able to invest in such ventures. While Bill Gates Jr. did incredibly well in taking risks and working hard to make Microsoft a success, you have to ask how well he could have done if he didn’t have his father, a successful attorney, sending him to Lakeside School which had a computer program (when very few other schools did), and to support him during the early years of Microsoft’s existence before it got the IBM licensing agreement.
So the really rich and influential in this country don’t have the same challenges. Donald Trump gets a a job in the family real-estate business started by his father. George W. Bush gets set up in two oil leasing companies by his father, and gets rescued as both are going under, then gets set up again as the pro-forma owner of a baseball team, then again gets a paid-for campaign organization for Governor, and shortly after that to make him President.
One of the things I learned when my wife went to work for a major bockerage firm was that among those people, there was the pervasive attitidue that whatever anyone else had, they were entitled to. They felt that clients didn’t have the right to keep any of their assets out of their control, and once they were within their control, they used any number of fees, interest, and commissions to squeeze as much out of those assets as they could.
So it doesn’t surprise me to learn that the wealthy would shoplift more than the poor. The rich don’t feel they have a lot to lose – after all, if they are caught, they can always claim it was a mistake, why would they steal if they have enough money in their purse to pay for the item anyway? Don’t stores want them to wear their jewelry, and carry their expensive purses, etc., as advertisements to the rest of the people?
archduke ferdinand moment… the coming insurrection.. this isn’t a conspiracy… collapse the system… this isn’t a conspiracy theory.. the perfect storm… this isn’t a conspiracy theory.. bottom up… top down…
sound crazy?? if I get out of control.. I lose my job.. set us on fire… the country is on fire.. oh you will be… i can see things over the horizon.. do your own homework… I hope I’m wrong.. but I don’t think I am.. God, gold, guns… a rodeo clown with a tv show.. communists and marxists… global marxism.. huh… weird.. we surround them… I’m sorry.. I just love my country.. funded by George Soros.. Hillary Clinton created blogs.. I still have a job… Yeaaaahh… What???? Muuhahahahahahaha…
Pffffffft..
Man people are stupid…
I think I’ve wasted your time..
This is the worst show in the history of television
and I apologize for that…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....r_embedded
good riddance..
@8
Of course he does, he’s a troll!!!
News: A 7.8 earthquake in the South Pacific, off Raoul Island, has set of Tsunami alerts. It’s currently only two feet high, but that’s because the ocean floor is 30 miles deep. Once it hits shallower coastal slopes it might be considerably higher. At immediate risk is the north-east coast of New Zealand, which is expected to hit shortly before 2:00 p.m., Seattle time.
Wow, New Zealand has had more than it’s fair share of misfortune in the past year, with several serious eathquakes (mostly around Christchurch, on the South Island). I’ve got some friends there, I’ll take a moment to say a prayer for them.
@16
Of course they have, the place is full of socialist sodomites.
In all seriousness, I’m hoping the damage is minimal and the crazies are kept on a short leash.
Here is one of Puddy’s Family Values guys.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new.....a_in_.html
@17 It’s probably a blessing to the good people of New Zealand that you think such of them. They’re far better off if it prevents you from gracing them with your hallowed presence.
@19 – the guy looks like a child molester, par for the course of a heterosexual.
@21 – I know, I know, Jeffery Dahmer.
Thought I’d post this one for Troll.
Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaaa
Here is another from TheBlaze moronic idiot yelling loser Beta boi…
Sucks to be yelling loser beta boi!
Dumb Cinder Block rujax… Chris Matthews still has the tingle up his leg for Obummer… he was never part of any right-wing thought!
Ummm… Roger Dumb Rabbit, some many moons ago a leftist pinhead posted more of the rich are leftists than people who think right. So these thieves are probably like Winona Rider or Lindsay Lohan, lovers of leftist pinheads!
LMBBAO!
Oh my another disgraced liberal show bites da dust.
Now I wonder if TheBlaze has this…
Yes it does… just for yelling loser beta boi.
Really sucks to be you.
BTW beta blocker… I was visiting one of the most world renown museums last night while you were scraping the barrel of your databaze looking for my Glenn Beck posts.
LMBBAO! Life’s Priorities… Sucks to be you… MORON!
Just a bunch of racists…
LMBBAO!
Read the rest about how DUMMOCRAPTS act in 2011 like they did in the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s. Nothing new here!
So sad so sad… Wait it’s not on Fox NEWS!
Hey Gman… one of yours in action. Sadly Mr and Mrs Puddy personally know Willie Lightfoot from long ago.
@30 – no he’s one of yours, remember it’s a choice. At least the guy isn’t a hypocrite touting family values then going around with one if your whores.
Gman… Another one of yours in action…
No moron, he’s an Obummer jockstrap. Good try gman!
Oh my yelling loser moronic beta boi used Media Morons for his Glenn Beck video. HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEE HEE HEE HEE HEE HEE HO HO HO HO HO HO HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR
Bwaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaa
Where their vaulted leader David Brock recently admitted making stuff up?
Where they have a 501c rating and use federal funds to attack conservatives?
Where they are jockstrapped by spooky dude George Soros?
Man yelling loser moronic beta boi you love the whack job sites. Can you imagine what you’d amount to if you really applied yourself? Maybe mrs moronic beta boi could be having fun in another country right now.
LMBBAO!
The main reason we have few Revolutionary War films is the same reason I didn’t hear very many songs by The Beatles on oldies radio growing up in the 80s. People feel surrounded by it all the time already.
The other reason is, frankly, the “Founding Fathers” are far closer to today’s right than its left. The left today was born about 100 years ago, with the rise of the progressive movement in America culminating in the election of Woodrow Wilson, and has been a slow and steady march away from the “Founders.” As such, there’s a much stronger affinity to that period among those on the right, and somewhat of an aversion to it among many on the left … whom I don’t have to remind you, largely control Hollywood.
Hey Roger Dumb Rabbit… Looks like Obummer/Bernanke/Geithner processes benefited rich peeps. Butt we all know there are way more liberal DUMMOCRAPTIC rich peeps than people who think right rich peeps. Why do we know this? Some “rabbit” told us this on HA some time ago. Pavlov predicts the HA databaze craze will be validating this as soon as he awakes when he scratches that pink lace panty itch!
Now why was that Roger Dumb Rabbit?
@35
Oh, Pudge, you’re so precious, and so clueless…
Like this asshole?
Or this fool?
Or this pathetic twit?
Take you sneaking insinuations that you fascists are somehow patriotic, and your bad songwriting, and go back down the hole you came from.
Thanks for playing, chump.
Pudge @ 35 obviously doesn’t know anything about Thomas Paine.
Nor does he know anything about the revolution by the coalition of tradesmen & mechanics (as they were then called) in the spring of 1776. They forced the convening of a Pennsylvania convention to replace the original King’s charter to William Penn with a new constitution for the commonwealth. The new constitution divested the Penn family and the Quakers of their political monopoly in the colonial assembly, and diluted the influence of the Anglican merchant community in Philidelphia which was holding out for a negotiated settlement with Britain. The end result was the appointment of a new slate of delegates to the Second Continental Congress, with just enough votes for independence within the delegation to allow the Declaration of Independence to be adopted.
By the way, the beliefs of the “Founding Fathers” were so varied, just a little effort can yield up a quote to support any argument you care to make on any subject of government or commerce. This is especially true if you, like Pudge and many Tea Party types, prefer to simply wrap themselves in the mantle of the “Founding Fathers” without bothering to even go through the effort to determine whether they, as a whole or in part, really would support their positions.
Hint: John Adams and Robert Morris (the “Financier of the Revolution”) couldn’t stand each other, Benjamin Franklin had to serve as a mediator and courier of messages between them. Adams thought Morris was a greedy merchant taking advantage of the war to enrich himself, Morris thought Adams was a dangerously liberal firebrand who would destroy the economy of the country with his radical concept of egalitarianism.
Hmm, here is what a true idiot thinks:
Hmm, Ben Franklin might disagree:
“All the property that is necessary to a Man, for the Conservation of the Individual and the Propagation of the Species, is his natural Right, which none can justly deprive him of: But all Property superfluous to such purposes is the Property of the Publick, who, by their Laws, have created it, and who may therefore by other laws dispose of it, whenever the Welfare of the Publick shall demand such Disposition. He that does not like civil Society on these Terms, let him retire and live among Savages. He can have no right to the benefits of Society, who will not pay his Club towards the Support of it.
Benjamin Franklin, letter to Robert Morris, December 25, 1783”
Or Thomas Jefferson?
“Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should “make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” thus building a wall of separation between church and State.”
Is there a single republican candidate who reflects these views? Not one I have heard from yet….yet every Democrat is much closer to these sentiments than the far-right republican revisionists.
Update: The tsunami which was projected to hit the norther coast of New Zealand was, thankfully, a bust.
One of the over-riding themes over this past year, with the rise of the Tea Party and the corralling of it’s influence by the crazy faction of the Republican Party, is how little history these folks really know.
Sure, it’s fun to laugh at Sarah Palin’s attempt to describe Paul Revere’s ride as an attempt to warn the British that they shouldn’t take away our arms. Or at Michelle Bachman’s gaffe when she said the American Revolution started at Lexington and Concord in New Hampshire. Or Bachman’s statement that the Founding Fathers fought tirelessly to end slavery.
But that’s just the surface. The fact is that most of these people really don’t have more than a small smattering of knowledge of the history up to the middle of the last century. In it’s place, they have substituted their own vision of the way they wanted it to happen, their own disneyland-version of the American Frontier, the American Revolution, and even the Civil War. And they resist any effort to dig deeper, because to do so might uncover uncomfortable discrepencies between their belief systems and the truth.
It pleases me to see that the street corner loon is being ignored.
@35 pudge on 07/07/2011 at 5:10 am
I think you may be on to something here.
The “Founding Fathers” are all dead.
“today’s right” is brain dead.
Dead is dead, so therefore “today’s right” is closer than anyone else.
Where did you read that? In the The Protocols of the Elders of Zion?
“Hollywood” is controlled by multinational conglomerate corporations, like that right wing media conglomerate, Fox.
And this right wing leaning, Founding Father loving company, Fox, often releases wholesome Muriken movies like Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son
These clownservative asshats are positively giddy about really fucking up this country aren’t they?
Um, Pudge, delusions have a really lousy future. I thought you should know.
Yawwwwwwnnnn. I don’t like “The Blaze” you moron.
YOU DO!
And I PROVED IT! Here. So insane it’s pathetic.
Did Pudge confuse Carl with Goldy again?
@47 No, but he did get his delusions mixed up with reality again.
@48 Steve,
Now hold on just a dog gone minute. How can you possibly say pudge’s “The main reason we have few Revolutionary War films is the same reason I didn’t hear very many songs by The Beatles on oldies radio growing up in the 80s.” is mixing delusions with reality?
Every right thinking person understands and accepts how pudge’s not hearing enough Beatles (a rarely heard of band that never gets much radio air time) is analogous to many important questions of the day.
http://thinkprogress.org/polit.....son-labor/
HEY!!!! FINALLY!!!!!
The REPUBLICAN JOBS PROGRAM!!!!
Yay.
@35
LOL… Not even close.
From the declaration of independence:
Sounds like what your boys were doing! Matter of fact righties screamed their heads off when Obama wanted to give the folks being held at Gitmo jury trials.
@35
The King George’s of today are large corporations and the top couple 5 of wealthy people in America and it’s Republicans that are doing their bidding.
Well, this is lame. Looks like we’ll have monopolies and corporate control of our food and agricultural systems for the foreseeable future.
# 50: It’s happening in Georgia, too. They just passed a law making it a felony to be an undocumented worker in Georgia. Employers are already complaining that the “chilling effect” of the law is causing workers to flee the state, causing a labor shortage. But shortly after signing the law, the Georgia governor said he was looking at a way to use prison labor to pick cotton under contracts with the large farms.
Quite a deal, huh? Throw a bunch of workers in prison, then hire them out as virtual slave labor to their former employers. The big farms pay next to nothing for the labor, the workers can’t quit, and the prison gets an influx of money to handle all the new inmates. The only people who suffer are the workers, and in a Red State, who cares about them?
[A] study.. finds Americans with incomes of $70,000 a year shoplift 30% more than those earning up to $20,000. Why is that?”
http://moneyland.time.com/2011.....?hpt=hp_t2
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Maybe it’s because the rich are, you know, less moral than poor people?
ummm, since when is making $70k a year considered “rich”?…shit, thats barely middle class.
once again, rabbit turd shows how out of touch with the real world he is.
@ 16
It’s currently only two feet high, but that’s because the ocean floor is 30 miles deep
Well along with common sense, it seems you also flunked all your science classes too.
The deepest part of the ocean anywhere on the planet is just shy of 7 miles deep.
you seem to be like the idiot rabbit, where you just make shit up and hope to god that nobody calls you on it.
@ 16
“It’s currently only two feet high, but that’s because the ocean floor is 30 miles deep”
Well along with common sense, it seems you also flunked all your science classes too.
The deepest part of the ocean anywhere on the planet is just shy of 7 miles deep.
you seem to be like the idiot rabbit, where you just make shit up and hope to god that nobody calls you on it.
We’ve pretty much ignored the news from “across the pond”, where Rupert Murdock’s News of the World has gotten into trouble for hacking into the cell phones of royals, celebrities, families of soldiers who got killed in Afganistan and Iraq, and (revealed more recently) the families of schoolgirls who had gone missing.
But I was surprised to hear that the News of the World, which has been published since the 1840’s, will publish its last edition on Sunday, without advertising. The venerable newspaper will then close it’s doors.
Seems, at first glance, like good riddence to bad rubbish. But there’s more to the story.
Right-Wing media mogul Rupert Murdoch has accumulated an impressive stable of influential publications and media resources over the years, including in the U.S. Fox News and (more recently) the Wall Street Journal. Although he’s primarily in the business to make even more money than he already has, he’s not above putting his editorial leanings on the papers he owns, which as become more apparant over that past year with the Wall Street Journal.
But in Britian, the closure of the News of the World may merely be the sacrifice of a convenient scapegoat so that Murdoch’s media empire would actually grow even larger. The News of the World only published on Sundays, but it’s sister paper, The Sun, publishes the other days of the week. Reporters noted that several variations of “The Sun on Sundays” domain name was recently registered, indicating that the Sun may publish a Sunday edition in place of the News of the World.
More importantly for Murdoch, he is currently trying to finalize a purchase of the 60% of British Sky Broadcasting which he doesn’t already own. Doing so would effectively take the television network private, and remove it from any requirements to publically disclose it’s financial affairs. But that requires regulatory approval, and the News of the World scandal threatened to upset the deal. By every indication, Murdoch wants to turn Sky News into the British equivilent of Fox News, making it a major right-wing force in British politics.
Article: Murdoch tabloid to close amid voice-mail scandal
# 56: No, I don’t make stuff up. But sometimes I make a typographical error, or include a minor/background fact in a breaking news story which I don’t take the time to check. I freely confess that I don’t know how deep the ocean really is without checking, except I know that the Mariannas Trench is really, really, deep.
I tried to find the original article from yesterday, but it’s dissapeared from the web.
But in balance, I’m far, far, far more accurate than you, on any given day of the week. And you know it – that’s why you jump on such a minor point. You are kind of like the team that’s being behind in a football game 98 to nothing, and then spends five minutes doing a victory dance when the other team happens to get caught offside once.
56,57 – this moron is still smarting over his “u.s. importing iranian oil” gaffe…
Maybe he gets paid more for double posting?
Let’s play it one more time:
we buy iranian oil…
Continued from # 59: Okay, I found an updated version of the original article. It appears that the earthquake was 30 miles deep, not the water. I don’t know if the original article made the mistake, or whether I did in pulling the information from it, but I said the water was 30 miles deep, instead of the earthquake.
Updated Article: New Zealand cancels tsunami warning after quake.
Normally, I don’t go to this much trouble responding to Pudge and his ilk, but I do care about accuracy, despite his claims otherwise, and if I make a mistake I own up to it.
A few years ago I made a mistake in calculating the DJIA performance under Bush’s presidency, due to a calculation error in a spreadsheet. Piper pointed out that the numbers were wrong, and as soon as I determined the nature of the problem I posted a correction on this site, and admitted my error.
I can’t recall any time where Pudge has done the same. He just dives in, drops his bombs, and then moves on.
Will you support Obama if he promotes cuts to Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid?
Is that a fair trade off? an acceptable compromise? A pragmatic one?
No dickforbrains misogynist conservative woman hater rujax… It’s you people who are screwing up this world. All we are doing is identifying all those screwups.
This is what freaks you out moron!
LMBBAO!
1.Reagan tripled the national debt
2.Reagan raised taxes 11 times
3.Reagan expanded the size of government
4.Reagan supported the “socialist” Earned Income Tax Credit
5.Reagan negotiated with terrorists in Tehran
6.Reagan sought to eliminate nuclear weapons
7.Reagan gave amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants
8.Reagan approved protectionist trade barriers
9.Reagan signed abortion rights law in California
10.Reagan eventually debunked AIDS myths Republicans continued to perpetuate
(from CrooksandLiars.com How appropos)
Oh my did ASCJ Elena Kagan lie about her involvement with ObummerCare?
Did she lie about other things?
What will AG Holder do?
Is Clarence Thomas “conflicted”?
the only fallback that the failed wannabe awfull musician has is to go back to Reagan – who hasnt been prez in over 22 years…LMFAO.
and as many times as I have completely owned YLBleeder, the only thing he can continue to site is one example where I fucked up my wording.
the fact of the matter is that iran has as much to do with our oil prices as saudi arabia does – but YLB doesnt understand the world market, so I will let him pat himself on the back – even lifes losers like rujaxoff and ylb need to feel good about themselves once in a while
BTW Rujaxoff, have you reflected yet on your woeful life like I instructed you to? has the damning realization that you are an utter failure hit you yet? must be tough pill to swallow, knowing that more than half your life is over, and you have nothing to show for it.
bummer.
oops…I mean “cite”.
Holder will go after (Uncle)Clarence (T{h}OM)as’s wife first.
Then impeach the rat-bastard Thomas.
yet more racism from rujaxoff.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.c.....030514.php
Best Justice money can buy!
http://thinkprogress.org/justi.....homas-aei/
…hmmmmmmm.
GOP Senator Says Poor Should Pay More Taxes
GOP Sen. Orrin Hatch said yesterday the poor and middle class, not the rich, should pay more taxes to help reduce the deficit.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....92177.html
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Well, at least they’re bending on their no-tax-increases position …
LMAO!!! You can’t think your way out of a paper bag. You’re a miserable liar.
Since the beginning all you’ve done is call names..
If we don’t like a right wing politician we point to what they’ve done or said. The policies they support that do next to nothing for the vast majority of people.
When you don’t like something – it’s because Dori doesn’t like it or your macho asshole buddies don’t like it.
You’re just a dumbass hater who ties one on in the evening and comes here to vent his anger that’s he’s not a millionaire or in middle of the day when you’re bored to tears with your miserable life.
Keep it up. It’s obviously made life so much better for you. Gives me a laugh.
Wow – when I read that I thought you were referring to pudge. Especially the part about “awfull musician”.
36 – Another load of ignorant horseshit…
QE2 was a Federal Reserve policy action not a Federal Government play. Obama and Geithner had NOTHING to do with it.
Damn you’re a dumbass!
http://www.npr.org/templates/s.....Id=5604656
That was the date the destruction of the working middle-class began in this country.
@76
WOW…lotsa projecting going on there.
@77
nah, I think rujaxoff takes the cake when shitty music is at play.
80 – No pushback I see on my description of your hate agenda..
Keep on hating (81 is an example) – you’re incapable of anything else.
No one here will give a flip either way.
Okay, I have to admit, this one slipped by me, until now.
The first half of Sec. 4 of the 14th Amendment says: “4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned….”
I’m surprised I missed that, considering I’ve got a total of six quarters of Constitutional law and history under my belt, between undergraduate and graduate school. But in my own defense, all the attention in the 14th Amendment has on Sec. 1, and the only thing which would have caught my eye about sec. 4 was the second half, which basically told holders of Confederate bonds and currency that they were SOL.
And besides, why in the world would a situation ever arise where the lawful debts of the United States would ever be questioned? Our entire economy revolves around our credit rating, and surely nobody would put it into question by thinking about defaulting on our T-bills, would they?
But now the Republicans are threatening just that. They are saying that unless Democrats cave in on massive surgery on Social Security and Medicare benefits, then they won’t agree to raise the debt ceiling. Oh, and they won’t agree to any tax increases to pay those bills either, even if it’s removing corporate loopholes on company jets.
But now even on Republican Senator, Sen. Chuck Grassly, R-Iowa, is conceeding that the 14th Amendment trumps the debt ceiling legislation. In short, the President could continue to pay the already-authorized U.S. obligations even if they result in a total debt level above the debt ceiling legislation. This changes the dynamics of the negotiations quite a bit – the Republicans aren’t the only ones bringing a big gun to the table.
Article: 14th Amendment Option May Be Legit, Says Leading Senate Republican
Leading House Republicans argue otherwise, of course. They say the Treasury Dept. could pay the debt, and simply refuse to pay for other things instead. But since all were authorized by Congress in one form or another (budget bills, appropriations, etc.), that amounts to the Treasury Dept. making decisions over which appropriations it should honor and which ones it should not – an effective line-item veto, which is not authorized by either legislation or the Constitution.
In short, the Treasury Dept. has no choice but to continue to pay the bills which have already been lawfully incurred and authorized by the Congress, regardless of the debt ceiling. To the extent that the appropriations and the debt ceiling are inconsistent with one another, the general statutory rule of interpretation is that the specific overrides the general, so any specific appropriations would override the more general debt ceiling legislation.
In short, the House has no choice but to approve an increase of the debt ceiling. To do anything else would cause an economic and constitutional crisis which would be destructive in the long term to the nation, much more so than any symbolic drawing of a line in the sand regarding the debt ceiling.
But that doesn’t mean they won’t try to use it to partison advantage, even as they watch the country burn. Some House Republicans have even argued that they would bring impeachment resolutions against President Obama if he should dare to follow the Constitution.
Guns Don’t Kill People Dep’t
Seven people are dead in Grand Rapids, Michigan. As it’s unlikely they all died simultaneously from natural causes, it appears the deranged guy with the gun may have had something to do with it. But the gun is innocent! It’s just an inanimate object which is harmless until activated by a deranged human. So we should ban deranged humans, not guns! Just ask any Wisconsin Republican legislator who voted to let anyone in that state carry concealed weapons anywhere, including in kindergartens and daycares, without a background check or permit.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43.....nd_courts/
As mass murder is now commonplace in the U.S., eventually we’ll get used to it, and then all the reckless talk about regulating guns will die down.
Democratic lawmakers warned President Cave-In today that he could lose the support of congressional Democrats for a deficit reduction plan if it cuts Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITI.....?hpt=hp_t2
@83 Of course Republicans want to cut Social Security, Medicare, unemployment benefits, and food stamps — so we can afford to buy 2,443 of these for $323 billion:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi....._AA1_2.jpg
Full Disclosure: Roger Rabbit will make money from this airplane because he owns stock in the company that makes it. Go ahead, GOPers, make my Lockheed Martin stock tank by cutting defense spending! I dare you! I double dare you!! Bbrra-a-a-a-a-cckkk!!!
Skateboards Don’t Kill People Dep’t
In other news, an 83-year-old woman was run over and killed by a skateboarder in California.
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011.....?hpt=hp_t2
Roger Rabbit Commentary: But hey! We all know skateboards don’t kill people. After all, they’re inanimate objects. It’s the maniac on the skateboard that kills people. Maybe we should require skateboarders to have a license and carry liability insurance.
@36 You got something against liberals getting rich?
@36 (continued) What are you, a fucking communist?
re “you voted for the fools” @81 and elsewhere:
No, actually, I didn’t. You voted for them, not me.
@10. Roger Rabbit spews:
“[A] study.. finds Americans with incomes of $70,000 a year shoplift 30% more than those earning up to $20,000. Why is that?”
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It is sad to see you cite some unsourced and probably not remotely scientific study to support your childish conclusion.
@92 Where the fuck do you get the idea that it’s “unsourced”??! Do you know how to click on a fucking LINK??!!!
@92 (continued) It’s pretty much standard operating procedure for Republicans and their troll apologists to try DENYING when LYING doesn’t work.
I’m reading a hilarious book, written in 1940 but still current, about Wall Street called “Where Are The Customers’ Yachts?” It begins:
“‘Wall Street,’ reads the sinister old gag, ‘is a street with a river at one end and a graveyard at the other. This is striking, but incomplete. It omits the kindergarten in the middle[.]”
You get the idea. The author worked on Wall Street in the 1930s, and concluded that it’s a “kindergarten.” In view of recent WS shenanigans, it’s hard to argue with that conclusion, even today.
There’s more, much more, for example:
“For some time both corporations had flourished … on assets that simply weren’t there, but which everyone thought were there. … Presumably, these corporations’ securities would never have taken [a nosedive] if only the nonexistent assets had not been destroyed by having their nonexistency discovered.”
And:
“Lack of customers is a terrible occupational disease of brokers. First the commissions fall off while the overhead marches on. The next thing that almost always happens is even worse. The brokers have nothing much to do all day … so they begin to play the market themselves, using their own money instead of the customers’. It is like a saloonkeeper taking to drink in a slack season, and the results are about the same.”
All of this delightful commentary notwithstanding, I’ve made a hell of a lot of money in the stock market — my take on an original investment of less than $20,000 is now well into six figures. So, yes, it is possible for small investors like me to beat Wall Street at its own game. In fact, as I’ve argued previously on this blog, it’s rather easy … because the big money managers are hamstruck by the rules of their game. For example, when the sheeple who buy mutual funds pull their money out at the slightest whiff of panic, the mutual fund managers have no choice but to sell holdings at any price, no matter how low, to meet redemptions even though they know it’s insane to sell at that price. Just two short years ago, you could have bought many stocks for a tenth of what they’re worth today.
But now I want to throw in a very important caveat, one that most investors never think about. It’s this. Unless you are very good at playing the zero-sum game, i.e. beating other investors out of their money, your stock market gains must come from a growing economy. It’s true that stocks have consistently outperformed all other investments over the last 200 years, but that’s because Americans have lived in a growing economy for the last 200 years. If the economy ever stops growing for any reason the average person will not be able to make money in stocks. This could happen because population stops growing, or resources run out, or efficiency peaks and then backslides, or for any number of other reasons. There is no law of God, nature, or man that says the economic growth of the last two centuries can’t reverse and go backwards. If it ever does, corporate earnings and the value of their stocks will reverse direction and trend downward instead of upward. So you’ve got to keep your eye on the macroeconomic picture.
Don’t say you weren’t warned.
erratum @95: “hamstrung” not “hamstruck”
I got out of owning mutual funds about 2 years into my investing career. Why? Because 80% of mutual funds underperform the market. ‘Nuff said.
This is the great bugaboo — and weakness — of 401(k) schemes. Most 401(k) plans allow you to invest only in mutual funds. Because mutual funds are a severely underperforming asset, you should never put money into a 401(k) unless there’s employer matching money, in which case you’re a fool if you pass up the employer contribution. In the absence of an employer contribution, you are better off to put your retirement money into an IRA or Roth, which allows you to buy and sell individual stocks. If you know nothing about stockpicking, then place your account with a full-service broker and have him pick stocks for you.
Stock investing has been a serious hobby of mine for over 25 years now. I spend a lot of time reading financial information and studying stocks. Do you think I’m a short-term flipper? Wrong, I typically hold a stock for 2 to 5 years. Do you think I use an online brokerage that charges 10 bucks per trade? Wrong again, I use a full-service broker who charges me 10 times as much, and it’s worth it, because there are times when I want to run ideas by him, and also because I want someone giving me a second opinion on my trading decisions. I’m not so arrogant as to think that I’m always right; I’m not always right, and my broker has earned the extra money I pay him by saving me from mistakes more than once. Stockpicking is difficult and nobody gets it right all the time. He and I are about equally good at it; I spot some winners he misses, and we both choose duds from time to time. We respect each other and that’s the highest praise a broker can give his customer and vice versa.
Here’s the great and unsolvable conundrum of investing: A crucial — indispensable — portion of your winnings comes from compounding your winnings. This effectively means you can’t spend any of your winnings, and neither can your children, or your grandchildren. I’ve made a hell of a lot of FREE MONEY in the stock market, but I’ve never spent a penny of it, and I probably never will. The ONLY way you can pile up the kind of spectacular results I get (I typically make well over 100% of my original investment every year) is by reinvesting ALL of your gains. If you want to make serious money in stocks, you can’t spend ANY of your winnings.
So what good is the money you make in the stock market if you never spend it? Well, for me, it’s a game and the bottom line is my score. It’s like going bowling. It really doesn’t matter whether you bowl a score of 50 or 250 — or does it? Yeah, I do care what my bowling score is, even though it isn’t good for anything. It’s the same way with my stock market winnings, it’s a game and I’m simply racking up a score, and spending any of that money would lower my score, so I don’t. Which is okay because I don’t need to spend that money, I’ve gotten real good at living on next to nothing, so I don’t have to dip into my capital for living expenses. My IRONCLAD FUCKING RULE is NEVER SPEND YOUR CAPITAL. If you can’t do that, then my suggesting is borrow every fucking dime you can and live as high as you can and hope you die young so you don’t have to pay it back in your old age.
“suggestion” not “suggesting”
Here’s my secret. There’s tremendous pressure in our culture to put on a show, keep up with the Joneses, spend precious money on status symbols and flaunt success. My secret is that I don’t have an ego that needs status symbols. I killed that ego years ago. I resigned, you see, from the dominant culture when I realized that it’s an artificial culture created by advertising paid for by commercial interests who desperately need you to spend every dollar you have on consumption. Call me a maverick, or a contrarian, or just plain contrary, whatever you want. I’m a fucking skinflint. I’m a relentless saver. And I’m a millionaire. Well, that’s sort of debatable. It’s hard to put a value on some of my assets, such as my ownership of a small business, and my assets don’t add up to a million dollars unless you include the actuarially-based present value of future income that has already been earned. (Geez, that phrase is a mouthful.) My opinion is, by any fair measure, I’m already a millionaire; and in the future, I’m going to do nothing but get richer and richer. What I have in common with the majority of American millionaires is that I’m a fucking skinflint who lives at a lower-middle-class standard of living. Academic studies have demonstrated that people who live like millionaires usually have net worths of far less than a million dollars and sometimes none at all; and that the majority of people who have net worths over a million dollars live blue-collar lifestyles. This isn’t rocket science; you don’t accumulate money by spending it, you accumulate money by not spending it. Your income level doesn’t have much to do with it; what’s determinative is what you do with the income you do have. I like being a millionaire, even though I can’t (and don’t) live like one, because I want to be able to say I did it. There really isn’t anything money can buy that I don’t already have that I especially want, so it’s not that hard for me to just pile up money, which is the only way a shmuck like me can become a millionaire.
Oh, and one more thing, I don’t vote like a millionaire; I vote Democratic — old habits die hard, and sometimes they don’t die at all.
Having a conscience has nothing to do with how much money you have (or don’t have). Warren Buffet has a conscience; Mitch McConnell doesn’t. George Soros has a conscience (even if a somewhat truncated one); Paul Ryan maybe does (or at least well-meaning intentions), Michelle Bachmann doesn’t. Get my drift?
Not what the ‘Nets say stupido!
RR @ 97: I’m slowly coming to the conclusion that the rising stock market over the past thirty years probably has more to do with the emergence of IRA’s and 401(k)’s than the underlying value of the business the stock represents.
Back around the time Reagan came into office, you heard all sorts of cries of dispair that benefit-defined pensions were responsible for the decline of American business in the 1970’s, and the answer was to cast off the pensions and have Americans save for their own retirement. At the time, this seemed like nonsense, because the tax code penalized savers who’s returns were already being eaten away by inflation. So the tax code was used to encourage savings, creating over the years the IRA’s, the Roth IRA’s, and 401(K) plans.
Now, all this money has to go somewhere, and the finance industry was more than ready to handle it, in return for a regular “administrative” fee. And they would have to invest it in something, so they set up mutual funds catering to IRA’s and 401(k)s, which also took out a regular “administrative” fee. They also made sure that there were dis-incentives against taking the money out – 10% penalties for early withdrawals plus tax paid on withdrawals at the highest rates, and in many cased the employer Human Resources department had to approve the loan or “hardship” withdrawal – forcing the employee to divulge personal information which they would rather not make known to their employer.
So what we might be seeing is simple inflation in the stock market, as it takes in more and more money over the years, with few exits for the money to be taken out. But now that the Baby Boom generation is retiring, we will be seeing that mony drifing out to support their retirement – and possibly a gradual decline in stocik prices as a result.
But while this is all going on, the financial industry is still making a killing. They make money when the money comes in. They make money each year it stays there. And they make money as it leaves. And the executives are taking huge commissions for the “outstanding” job they are doing, as the amount of money rises in an inflationary market.
Richpeoplefirst should do some fucking research on his own.
@102 Come back after you read a book about it.
@103 “I’m slowly coming to the conclusion that the rising stock market over the past thirty years probably has more to do with the emergence of IRA’s and 401(k)’s than the underlying value of the business the stock represents.”
I would question that simply because, to the extent IRAs and 401(k)s are replacing defined benefit pensions, the infusion of individual retirement savings would be offset by a corresponding decline in pension asset investing.
“But now that the Baby Boom generation is retiring, we will be seeing that mony drifing out to support their retirement – and possibly a gradual decline in stocik prices as a result.”
Rising interest rates would lessen the need for baby boomers to withdraw and spend their capital, but would also push down stock prices as a result of investors demanding higher yields — share (and bond) prices always move in the opposite direction of interest rates and yields.
So, you’ll have these two factors somewhat canceling each other out; but there will be other pressures, independent of the direction of interest rates, on stocks in the future. One of these is likely to be demand for U.S. stocks from increasingly affluent emerging economies looking for a safe place to park their savings. Another issue is the sustainability of corporate profits, which will come under pressure as economic activity picks up and labor becomes scarcer and more expensive.
Inflation will be driven by both monetary policy and higher real costs of extracting resources needed by goods sectors of the economy, such as a long-term higher average cost for obtaining oil, although I think monetary inflation will be a much larger component of composite inflation than real inflation.
There are so many variables affecting stock prices that it’s hard to put them all together and try to see what the stock market might look like five, ten, or twenty years from now. About the safest rule of thumb is that the aggregate market for stocks can’t trend upward much faster than the rate of economic growth over long time periods. It’s worth keeping in mind that although we’ve recently seen some spectacular year-over-year gains in both the overall market and individual stocs, the market indexes are still below their pre-2007 levels. Which is where mathematical logic says they should be, because the economy still hasn’t fully recovered.
QE 2!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Queen_Elizabeth_2
@93. Roger Rabbit spews:
@92 Where the fuck do you get the idea that it’s “unsourced”??! Do you know how to click on a fucking LINK??!!!
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allright smartass, who is the author of the study, who published it; if you consider an unnamed study mentioned in a book review to be a source it’s even worse than I thought.
still LMFAO @ the rabbit who thinks $70k a year is “teh rich”….
how out of touch with reality are you?
Wee…
http://vimeo.com/26113217
Wee… #2
http://www.vimeo.com/9907237