– Leadership, sure. Courage, well, no, not in Seattle.
– A real charmer at KIRO.
– I thought Al Qaeda’s number 3’s were always killed. Did everyone step up a notch when Bin Laden died?
– But if storms aren’t Jesus telling us things, how could they possibly have happened?
– Bus branding is a concept that I hadn’t even thought of.
– Our smooth universe.
Looks like the Seattle Times is essentially calling Governor Gregoire a “racist”.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.c.....ty29m.html
I mean, just because she has zero minorities on her inner cabinet of 26 doesn’t mean that. She has hired a bunch of excessive staff members at the taxpayers expense to meet the “quota”.
1 – Wow Mr. Cynical’s “friend” you sure have a strong interest in Seattle.
Pretty strange. Two peas in a pod from Montana pasting Rasmussen, hating illegals (not a peep for your farming neighbors who hire them) and hating Christine Gregoire for not “deferring” to Dino Rossi – twice..
Nice try..
Messages from God:
“I don’t know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians. We’ve had an earthquake; we’ve had a hurricane. He said, ‘Are you going to start listening to me here?’ Listen to the American people because the American people are roaring right now. They know government is on a morbid obesity diet and we’ve got to rein in the spending.”
http://www.tampabay.com/news/p.....ry/1188559
I read the Seattle Times on-line occasionally. I also actually lived in Seattle for many years back when Wes Uhlmann was mayor and Charlie Royer for most of his 1st term before moving to God’s Country. Still have quite a few family members in Seattle, unlike Cynical who lived outside Seattle most of his time. Met him out here & took over the reins when he quit. To occasionally jab numbskulls like you who are addicted to government welfare. I know how much you hate Rasmussen. So why do Gallup & CNN have almost identical Disapproval Ratings for Obama with Rasmussen?? Pretending Obama isn’t in trouble is foolish. His silver tongue is mighty tarnished these days.
@4 “I read”
It took you only 2 words to tell your first lie …
Despite its homogeneity, the universe has rugosities.
re 1: I thought conservatives were against racial quotas. If so, then why aren’t you congratulating Gov. Gregoire (still NOT Rossi)for such a principled stand?
4 – Forgot, you two both suffer from Obama Derangement Syndrome.
Rasmussen was proved bought and paid for by Faux News in the last election by Nate Silver. Completely natural to “dislike” someone who purports to be reality based when they’re not.
Two peas in a pod indeed.
Are your elderly relatives “addicted to government welfare” or..
are they going to tea bagger rallies screaming that the “socialists” should keep their grubby paws off their social security and medicare?
@4 (continued) Of course Obama is in trouble. When he’s not behaving like a Republican, he’s caving in to Republicans. You can’t expect the 53% of Americans who voted for Obama to be happy about getting Boehner’s and McConnell’s policies.
In other news, Bachmann thinks we should drill for oil and gas in the Everglades.
The oil I understand but we already have more gas than we know what to do with.
And I sure hope we end up leaving a lot of it in the ground. Fracking is turning out to be an environmental disaster.
The really funny part about Wonka’s post @1 is he says it like we all love Gregoire.
@7
Good point!
@12
I’m betting that when you count up all the energy used in fracking and the energy used in cleaning up the mess left behind by fracking you get an EROEI that’s so low it’s not worth bothering with.
It works because the people extracting the gas don’t have to pay the full cost of what they’re doing.
Looks like Reagan Dunn has a new strategy for winning his election campaign. He hopes to sneak up on the voters, before they know that he’s actually running, or that there is actually an election.
Well, those weren’t his exact words. What he actually said was that the Republican Part shouldn’t make a serious challenge against Maria Cantwell, because that would cause money and volunteers to flow into Washington from the Democratic National party in order to “bring out the vote”. He believes that this was what happened with respect to Patty Murray’s campaign, and he believes that this was the cause of Dino Rossi’s loss in the last Guvenatorial election.
So, if we are all real quiet about the election, and the national Democratic Party doesn’t feel the need to focus on Washington State, then he hopes he can slide in under the radar and win his election. It’s just another example of Republicans relying upon voter suppression in order to win – that’s the only way they can do that, especially here in Western Washington.
But Kirvy Wilbur, Chairman of the Republican Party here in Washington State, promises that “There will be a serious and credible candidate”. The speculation in the Everett Herald is that Reichart is the leading contender, favored by the national party, but he’s waiting to see if the re-districting could give the 8th an easy path for another Republican to take over that seat. Wilbur’s philosophy is that even if Maria Cantwell still wins, they can force her to consume money and effort that could have been directed to make sure Jay Inslee becomes governor.
Source: Giving Cantwell a pass might boost 2 GOP hopefuls
Of course, this all strikes me as a bit like Stalin’s and Hitler’s insistence during WWII that when things were going against them, their retreats were actually “strategic movements” craftily designed to lure the enemy into a trap. Solzenitzen (sp?) was relegated to the Gulag when he unwisely made a joke about such “strategic movements” that in a letter.
In the case of the GOP, they aren’t well-served by admitting that they have NOBODY in the state who could defeat Cantwell, so they might as well make up a lie about how it’s a strategic decision to offer her only token opposition. Whether or not Reichart qualifies as “Token Opposition” or a “Credible Challenge” is going to be fun to watch.
re 15: Foisting their colateral damage onto society at large is a huge part of the corporate business model.
It’s like an ‘entitlement’ that they don’t even have to pay for (e.g, SS and medicare – we’re entitled to them because we paid for them. It would be like calling a car that you fully paid for an ‘entitlement’).
Another pet peeve is the corporate whining about the 35% tax rate on corporations. There are so many loopholes, tyhat the 35% income that they pay on is a lot less than their real income. Corporate income tax only accounts for 10% of all income tax collected.
Organizing a corporation to achieve a special goal is something that is endorsed by the constitution. When the goal is accomplished, the corporation is dissolved.
Dunn’s been sneaking hits off of Bobby Mac’s nitrous-oxide tank. Dino lost because he brought nothing to the table and ran a shitty campaign. Same reason the woman that ran for Ted Kennedy’s seat lost. Same reason Mike Lowrey lost when he ran for Commish Of Public Lands. And it’s the same reason that Dunn’s probably gonna lose as well.
re 17: That is the originalist interpretation. It is clearly what the founders intende. Oddly enough, the hypocritical conservative supreme court judge faction is willing to ignore the actual ORIGINAL constitution in favor of the 1886 Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company decision. That’s why originalist constitutionilts are completely full of it.
They favor the ‘original intent’ of the framers of the constitution — unles it’s inconvenient.
Total hypocrites.
It seems that the Republican presidential candidates were all creating enough hot air to blow Hurricane Irene eastward, just enough to spare Washington D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, and N.Y.C. from any significant damage. But not enough to spare upstate New York, New Hampshire, and Vermont from major flooding.
So, if Bachman is right and hurricane Irene is God trying to tell us something, is he trying to tell us that he doesn’t like Republican areas of New York and the New England states? After all, he spared Washington D.C. (even arriving while Congress was on vacation).
And what about Ron Paul’s campaign against FEMA, right before Irene hit? Do you think the New Hampshire Republican Primary voters are going to think kindly of him when they cast their ballots this next winter, while they are relying on FEMA assistance to recover from the flooding?
You’re just about all the way to a workable definition of corporate nirvana.
# 18: It seems a lot of Republicans are sniffing something or other these days. Let’s face it, Washington politics is rather unique to Washington. We don’t really need out-of-state money or volunteers, unless it’s first brought in by the other guy. Rossi was the one who brought in a lot of money to buy smear commercials during the last couple of weeks of the campaign, but it didn’t work. Washington voters are pretty well informed, and don’t react kindly to such tactics or robo-calls.
And Kirvy Wilbur insists that Maria Cantwell is vulnerable due to anti-incumbent ferver. That might work elsewhere, but that’s a pretty unrealistic analysis of voter’s opinion here of Maria Cantwell.
But hey, I say Republicans should give it there best shot. Throw in as much money as they can against Maria Cantwell. Or make a bonfire and burn the cash. Same difference. If Reichart joins the race, that gives us a chance to vote against him on a state-wide basis, create an open seat we can fight for in the 8th, and we still get another open seat due to redistricting. We can retire Reichart and possibly get two new Democratic seats by the time it’s over.
Gee, that’s twice I’ve typed “Kirby Wilbur”, and it’s come out as “Kirvy Wilbur”. Some sort of translation software in effect, I guess.
The dedication of the MLK memorial in Washington, D.C. was postponed due to hurricane Irene. In the meantime, we have this picture…
MLK memorial
From the Car Talk website:
The World’s 19 Shortest Books
19. Al Gore: The Wild Years
18. Amelia Earhart’s Guide to the Pacific Ocean
17. America’s Most Popular Lawyers
16. Career Opportunities for History Majors
15. Detroit – A Travel Guide
14. Different Ways to Spell “Bob”
13. Dr. Kevorkian’s Collection of Motivational Speeches
12. Easy UNIX
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10. Everything Men Know About Women
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8. French Hospitality
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5. Mike Tyson’s Guide to Dating Etiquette and Fine Dining
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And the number one World’s Shortest Book:
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Nineteen Shortest Books
Speaking of hurricanes…
Back when I was 18 years old and a freshman in college, I was a short-order cook, waiter, and bartender at a local campus hang-out. (The drinking age was 18 at the time). We sold “hurricanes” by the pitcher. The recipie:
Take one large beer pitcher, fill it about 2/3 full of ice.
Pour in a shot each of vodka, rum. and PGA. If the girls at the table are pretty and apparantly unattached, add another shot of each.
Pour in the “secret ingredient”, which was actually just a mixture of frozen orange juice, grapefruit juice, and passion fruit.
On top, pour a jigger of Baccardi 181, and a splash of grenadine. This makes it look a bit like a Tequila sunrise, with different levels of yellow, orange, brown, and red. If the girls at the table are pretty, add another dash of 181. If they are drop-dead gorgious, add yet another jigger of PGA.
“Scurvy” Wilbur…
How’s that?
re 26: So, this is the story of ‘hurricanes’ — the drinks the young ladies came to blame?
Sorry Bob.
Did you go to school in Louisiana??
Whenever I see the name ‘Wilbur’, I think of Mr. Ed.
‘A horse is a horse of course of course — unless of course it’s not a horse.’
http://washingtoncan.org/wordp.....sacrifice/
Read the rest…
The Politico asks a very timely question:
Is Rick Perry dumb?
http://www.politico.com/news/s.....62214.html
“He’s like Bush without the brains.”
LMAO!!
In an effort to lower the approval rating of Congress even lower than it currently is, Rep Steve Southerland (R-Fl) meant with a group of retirees how he has regrets about his $174k/year job. Link
# 28: No, I got my undergraduate degree in the state where I grew up – Tennessee. But it probably migrated there from either Louisiana or Florida.
Kirby Wilbur’s reliance on “anti-incumbent ferver” to oust our current Senator is rather misplaced. A recent Associated Press/GfK Roper poll showed the Tea Party favorability rating to have dropped in popularity to 28% nationally, down from 33-36% in June. It seems the Tea Party’s position on the debt ceiling debate has had a negative effect on their popularity.
Congressional approval ratings are in the dumps overall, with Democratic members of Congress receiving only a 30% approval rating. But it’s even worse for Republicans, with only a 24% approval rating.
re 34: The approval ratings are far too high for both parties. The Democrats by and large know what would be good for the country, but they pursue it with no intensity.
The Republicans, on the other hand, continue to slouch toward Bethlehem with great fervor and little understanding.
The Republicans want to keep the brain dead alive to deepen their bench for potential candidates who don’t suffer from psychopathology.
# 31: Perry likes to bragg that Bush went to Yale, but Perry was a Texas Aggie. I guess among some, that’s considered a good thing.
But if Bush maintained a “gentleman’s C” in Yale, he’s considerably brighter than Perry, who barely met minimal standards for remaining in college. He received “D”s or “F”s in every course that mattered, for one with hopes of becoming President, including Economics 101 (which isn’t that hard).
Look, I’ve got nothing against agricultural or technical colleges. They teach important skills to those who are interested in the science of those subjects. But let’s face it – Texas A&M isn’t MIT or Stanford. A person who barely passes enough courses to graduate from Texas A&M isn’t presidential timber.
@30 … and 70% of Washington’s voters said “no” to an initiative that would have taxed the richest 1% and lowered their own taxes.
The only reasonable thing to do in that situation is be one of the richest 1%.
@36 Look, don’t knock an Aggie with a D average, it means the GOP can boast they have a candidate with a college degree.
It still doesn’t change the fact 63 seats were lost by DUMMOCRAPTS so cry everyone a river arschloch!
Except it was a Yalie with a D average… John Effin Kerry freshman year! He had four D’s his freshman year – a 61 in geology, a 63 and a 68 in two history courses, and a 69 in political science and he still went on to become a useless DUMMOCRAPTIC senator. BTW GWBush only had 1 D!
Michael, did you vote for her or abstain? If you voted for her then you admit you are a yellow dog DUMMOCRAPT and you “love” her.
You see I didn’t vote for anyone for president in 2008. There is a big difference by voting or by abstaining which being DUMMOCRAPT passes you by!
I think it’s amazing if the Huffington Post illegally received Perry’s transcript how they just posted it. Didn’t McDimWitt do something stupid like that and it cost him?
Now if Obummer’s transcript was mysteriously released there would be weeping and gnashing of teeth [Biblical] by msm libtardos!
Where can I buy some of dat?
Did some ‘SEIU “jockstrap”‘ say something in this thread?
@ 49- actually, no they are not the same. McDermott released a taped call, subject to different telecommunications laws. But we know you don’t care about facts, you spew bits and use silly names. You go pud
No, nothing worth anyone’s time anyway..
Opened my IBT Link and damn what new tidbit did I learn?
So how would Al Gorebasm know about racism…? Well his daddy was a racist so he learned all about it at Daddy’s knee!
Al Gore, Sr. was the most vocal opponent of the Civil Rights Act. Searching the ‘Nets I can’t find Al Gore, Jr. renouncing his father’s actions. Here are some “small facts”:
– Al Gore Sr. participated in a 74 day filibuster to delay and weaken the Civil Rights Act legislation.
– Al Gore Jr went to private school. So did all of Al Gores kiddies include Al Gorebasm III. Can’t determine how many minorities attended either Al Gorebasm II or III’s private schools.
– Al Gore Sr. proposed a Civil Rights Act amendment that would have kept federal funds flowing to schools that defied court desegregation orders. 23 Democrats and 1 Republican voted for it. It was defeated by a vote of 74-25.
– Al Gore Sr. voted against the final Civil Rights Act of 1964.
So I guess Al knows about racism!
Pooor poooor serial plagiarizer arschloch… No links just lies!
Sucks to be him!
So was this one of those I should fear the arschloch links from his crazed databaze?
ROTFLMBBAO! Notice he still can’t tell anyone what the SEIU did in 2007 for me to positively comment on it!
That’s why he’s the dumbest of the dumbest HA libtardos!
And I assume we can hold you responsible for each and every act of your ancestors.
Pretty weak, pud
There’s hint of something foul in this thread..
Some SEIU “jockstrapping” troll must have passed gas.
@42 “I didn’t vote for anyone for president in 2008”
Most intelligible voting decision you ever made.
Didn’t some moronic libtardo complain about Glenn Beck and his comments about hurricane preparedness comments?
Well Puddy knows the libtardos didn’t see this in their morning fill of left wrong what job sites.
http://www.freep.com/article/2.....dyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|p
Now where is that stupid moron misogynist rujax…?
MIA of course!
@32 That’s funny — a GOP congressman whining to a roomful of senior citizens because he makes only $174K a year. I’ll bet every voter in that room was thinking, “Don’t worry, we won’t let you suffer much longer.”
Leave it to puttybutt to trivialize the struggle for civil rights in the South as only he can.
As always the world passes “K” by. If you are going to claim you are a civil right hero to the NAACP you renounce your father’s very well known acts. You tell everyone you didn’t agree with what he did! Show me where Al Gorebasm did this!
And where did I do this you moronic stupid Roger Dumb Rabbit? Alzheimer’s is arriving faster than we thought!
Oh you meant to say Al Gorebasm did that. My bad!
Did the serial plagiarizer fart a racetrack above@51?
Yes, your honor! The Prosecution Rests!
Damn, I forgot that pud sets the rules for all others to live by.
As if, you silly fool.
And I ignored @53 because it was an incoherent rambling
In case anyone has forgotten …
http://videos.nj.com/star-ledg.....ire_1.html
Calling people “plagiarizers” seems to be the latest wingnut fad. And because the word has more than one syllable they have no fucking idea what it means.
It was from a liberal Detroit Free Press columnist!
ROTFLMBBAO “K”!
P R I C E L E S S! Proving once again how stupid libtardos are in 2011!
Here Roger Dumb Rabbit… some Google help for your silly mentally deficient ASS!
What you drinking pud? I was referring to your construct, not the link.
Damn, I forgot again you set the rules
Nope you DOPE! That’s the progressive way!
And I’m several time zones away dealing with Irene aftermath, so I’ll have to miss the rest of puds “brilliance”
Another weakness of “K”‘s commentary. He makes his “rules” up on the fly!
More BS from “K”. It’s his strength!
I was just there Saturday. So at least you are doing something constructive!
Last random question- why are the post times off? Its 10:55 here and posts show as 7:07. I get the three hours, why the 48 minutes?
@64 Too many big words in that definition for you to understand.
Some miserable troll (Puddybud) in his FIRST mention of the SEUI in his comment history said he had NOTHING bad to say about SEIU.
Not one thing…
in at least 147 subsequent comments about SEIU he has little but ugly bile to express most probably inspired by the madness of Glenn Beck..
He himself in that first comment asked fellow commenters why? Why nothing?
Kind of hard to determine that if he NEVER mentioned SEIU up to that point. Yep no mention of “SEIU” or “Service Employees” by Puddybud or any of the sockpuppets I know about before May 17, 2007.
Prove me wrong. Former SEIU “jockstrap”.
@72 In the thread above this one, puddy says, and I (accurately) quote, “Worked in a union when I was younger Roger Dumb Rabbit. First hand experience on how they act!”
That tells you all you need to know! Puddy obviously puddy couldn’t make it in union employment and has been bitter ever since.
72. I worked in a unionized job also.
When it came to layoffs and budget/cut layoffs, it was based on productivity and whether the job was necessary. Yes, some union people were laid off and it had nothing to do with union or non-union, but based on job performance.
# 48: There was a big difference in the South between 1964 and 1968, and an even bigger difference between 1968 and 1972. I grew up in the south in that era, I know how fast things were changing. Generations split on the racial era, and by 1968 the Democratic party had pretty much purged themselves of the racists – they either converted or became Republicans. So I don’t see any reason to try to saddle Al Gore Jr. with his father’s mistakes.
Yes, and Al Gore Jr. did go to private school. Upon graduating college, he could have used his father’s influence to avoid Vietnam, like George W. Bush did. Instead, he volunteered, and ended up in Vietnam. True, he wasn’t in a combat position – he was using his journalism degree to write for the Stars and Stripes newspaper. But he spent much of his time “in-country”, instead of in Saigon.
Oh, and as usual Puddy jumps to the conclusion that Perry’s transcripts were “illigally obtained and published”. I saw the image of his transcript, and it looked like the old type-written transcript that I was accostomed to seeing in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s, before the records became computerized. So it didn’t come from someone hacking into the Texas A&M database.
During that era college transcripts were not considered to be private records, and were routinely requested and delivered to all manner of persons, including potential employers, graduate schools, draft boards, etc. Sometimes newspapers even printed a person’s GPA along with the notice of their graduation! Perry himself probably authorized the release of his transcript in response to a potential employment position, etc. Or it could have even been a family member with acccess to his parent’s papers! I suspect that one of these sources likely found the transcript in the file and made it public, which probably would not be illegal since the record was not private at the time it was originally released.
@76 Notice how puddy focuses on how we got the information about Perry’s academic performance, instead of what that performance was?
I wonder if puddy would hire a guy with a “D” average from a state college to be CEO of a major corporation? It appears he would hire that guy to be president of he USA …
http://crooksandliars.com/kenn.....ab-spring-
So the puddypussy’s gonna prove that West didn’t make the comment.
Right.