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– Oil, gas, coal industries want Washington, British Columbia as permanent home ports

– I get what Goldy’s point is here, but Goldman Sachs would be a lot more creditable if they hadn’t recently helped crash the world economy.

– Chart of the Day: Novels about men are more likely to win major literary awards

– There was a Comcast outage recently, and if you’re upset, here are some things you can do about it.

– Here’s hoping there’s some Safe Routes to School money in the final budget.

– Everyone keeps saying how good Daredevil is. I’ll have to check it out.

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  1. 1

    “In Seattle itself, a household’s housing and transportation costs consume 46 percent of the metro area’s median household income, according to the center.”

    http://www.seattletimes.com/bu.....e-sales05/

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: In Seattle, the new definition of “working poor” is a family earning median income and paying median rent.

  3. 3

    Your headline du jour:

    Everyone who works in the Baltimore mayor’s office is quitting

    http://baltimore.suntimes.com/.....-baltimore

    Why? Well, hard to tell, exactly, since none of them gave a reason. Maybe they read Jesse Hagopian’s FB post about a cop running up to him and dosing his face with pepper spray, and figured that if a Seattle cop could do that, so might a Baltimore cop.

    Or maybe it’s because if the protests riots before the cops were arrested cost Baltimore $20M, the protests riots when the cops there are exonerated by jury are going to cost far, far more. And who wants to clean up that mess? Or find the money to do it, for that matter.

    On the bright side: All those people leaving means more space for those who wish to destroy:

    http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/.....o-do-that/

  4. 4

    @3 Four people is “everyone”? The mayor of Baltimore has only four people employed by her administration?

  5. 5

    @3 “All those people leaving means more space for those who wish to destroy”

    The rest of that quote is: “And we worked very hard to keep that balance and to put ourselves in the best position to de-escalate.”

    Bickle and his ilk don’t want Baltimore’s protesters and police to de-escalate. Republicans enjoy violence. But strictly as a spectator sport, you must understand; they never put their own butts in harm’s way. They don’t volunteer to join the military or be black.

  7. 7

    @ 6

    Check out the video of the Black Lives Matter peeps who crashed Norm’s Eatery in Fremont on a recent Sunday morning. With perhaps one exception, they’re white.

    That’s volunteerism.

  8. 8

    What a bunch of BULLSHITTIUM offered by the early onset senile schismatic IDIOT Wabbit @2. Here is the garbage that the early sonset IDIOT Wabbit drank…

    The VA can’t help because conservative opponents in Congress 23 years ago passed a law blocking the VA from paying the costs of IVF treatment for veterans.

    PuddyCommentary: Patently obvious… 23 years ago, Hmmm…?

    Year 2015
    minus 23 years
    Year 1992.

    Always Visit WikiPedia to validate HA DUMMOCRETIN politics!

    Senate Pres. pro tem: Robert Byrd (D) 3 Sheets Grand Kleagle
    House Speaker: Tom Foley (D) I gotta deal for you
    Senate Majority: Democratic Party
    House Majority: Democratic Party

    Again you need to trust and verify everything the early onset senile schismatic IDIOT Wabbit delivers on HA DUMMOCRETINS!

    What a load of smelly BULLSHITTIUM!

  11. 11

    Recently, Airbnb was introduced to us by the teabaggin buttbusting BULLSHITTIUM buttbigot gorilla. http://www.nydailynews.com/new.....-1.2239905 There is a picture of the Airbnb person who rented the apartment and then trashed it. Soooooooooooo, is that you in the gray shirt and black jacket teabaggin buttbusting BULLSHITTIUM buttbigot gorilla?

  14. 14

    @3
    the…. riots when the cops there are exonerated by jury are going to cost far, far more.

    Since when is money an issue for you? What about all the money, time, energy involved in fighting gay marriage? You seem to not mind about the money here being used to fight freedom, because you like to spit in the face of freedom.

    Long live Ireland – home of the Free and the Brave.

  19. 19

    Shot:

    – Chart of the Day: Novels about men are more likely to win major literary awards

    Chaser:

    Kamila Shamsie: let’s have a year of publishing only women – a provocation

    It is clear that there is a gender bias in publishing houses and the world of books. Well, enough. Why not try something radical? Make 2018 the Year of Publishing Women, in which no new titles should be by men

    http://www.theguardian.com/boo.....ign=buffer

  20. 20

    @3 Four people is “everyone”? The mayor of Baltimore has only four people employed by her administration?

    It was four department heads early onset senile schismatic IDIOT Wabbit! Puddy realizes the department head leaving means someone of lesser caliber will be elevated to a higher level, more often than not above their mental capacity. We witness this with you and your “jurist experience”. We witness this with you and how you twist what someone says to mean something never contemplated!

    Meanwhile how did Baltimore’s Minority Rich Minority Led police department praised by Obummer http://news.investors.com/ibd-.....htm?p=full

    In a March White House report on police reforms, Obama and his Task Force on 21st Century Policing praised Baltimore’s force and its black chief for “implementing national best practices for policies and training,” including “use of force” reforms. His task force even quoted Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts, who said he changed “outdated procedures” that “put officers at odds with the community.”

    descend to this?

    http://www.wsj.com/articles/ba.....1430924534 Can you say DUMMOCRETINS in charge?

    DUMMOCRETINS in charge!

    Puddy realizes these articles will not be read. Why? Because the HA DUMMOCRETINS and their preconceived misconceptions will go

    KAAAAAAAAAAAAABLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

  21. 21

    What’s holding back wage growth, a key to an even stronger economy, is an unusually high number of people who still can’t find full-time work six years into a recovery.

    In May, some 17.3 million people were classified as unemployed, involuntary part-time workers or the marginally attached. If all those people are counted, the unemployment rate in May was actually unchanged at 10.8%, according to the so-called U6 rate.

    When the economy is really humming, there’s only a small gap between the higher U6 rate and the lower U3 that represents the official U.S. unemployment rate. Typically the two rates are separated by just 3 to 4 percentage points.

    As the accompanying chart shows, the gap has come down sharply from a record 7.3 points in 2011, but it’s still excessively high at 5.3 points.

    http://www.marketwatch.com/sto.....2015-06-05

    Seattle’s doing so well any increase in U6 that might occur as a result of the minimum wage increase would probably be hidden, or overcome, by all of the other economic good news.

    I’d hate to be a U6 in Yakima if the state minimum goes to $12, though.

  22. 22

    @8 Ah yes, and here’s Puddy peddling the spurious notion that you can pass legislation in this country if you have a simple voting majority in the legislative body. To plagiarize Puddy,

    BULLSHITTIUM!

  23. 23

    @22 (continued)

    The bullshitter @8 is trying to pretend that a law passed by Republicans to further their ideological agenda of controlling women’s bodies doesn’t matter because it was passed 23 years ago. It does matter, because it’s still in effect, but what matters even more is their refusal to change it.

    Republicans now control both houses of Congress. In addition, they would have a ton of Democratic votes for repealing this bullshit restriction on VA medical care, and the president would sign it in a heartbeat. So why is it still in effect. Because … Republicans.

    The obvious solution for these veterans, and those who support them, is to vote as many Republicans out of Congress as possible in 2016. If you vote Republican, you’re against our troops.

  24. 24

    @22, FACTS are immutable especially when you have these numbers IDIOT WABBIT…

    Democratic Party 270 62.1%
    Republican Party 164 37.7%
    Independent Party 1 0.2%

    56 Democratic Senators
    44 Republican Senators

  25. 25

    See Goldy’s tweet about Temple adjuncts.

    Academics of Philly ‏@UAPhilly 2h2 hours ago
    @billmon1 @Will_Bunch Apparently bc adjuncts can’t survive on one PT salary, the need for another job = disloyalty? Logic!

    I suspect that many of them would like to leave. However, they can’t survive in the private sector, either.

    There just isn’t a huge need for peeps with PhD’s in Critical Dance Studies.

  26. 26

    a law passed by Republicans to further their ideological agenda of controlling women’s bodies doesn’t matter because it was passed 23 years ago.

    BULLSHITTIUM and twisting the commntary as always… Train WRECK!

    Puddy wrote this so called conservative law was passed with 44 Republican senators (need 51 or 60 to stop debate) and 164 (218 to pass law) Republican house members.

    FACTS really suck when you are an early onset senile schismatic IDIOT Wabbit!

    Seems when DUMMOCRETINS pass laws that people now hate it’s blame those wascally wepublicans!

  27. 27

    I’ve seen lots of stories recently that say most Americans don’t have much retirement savings. Here’s another one.

    http://www.cbsnews.com/news/mo.....t-savings/

    It says half of Americans over 55 have NO retirement savings. That’s highly misleading, as most of these people have some sort of retirement plan through their work, and “studies” like this typically don’t count those savings. They also don’t count home equity, which is a form of savings. Older Americans aren’t as poor as these alarmists make out, which makes you wonder what their agenda is.

    Still, there’s no doubt in my mind that Americans collectively have lousy financial habits, and aren’t very good at managing money or their financial affairs. This country is full of dopes who walk onto a car lot, kick the tires of the convertible, and ask the lot shark how much the monthly payment is. Middle class neighbors hum with garage sales by people trying to get rid of all the junk they wasted money on that ended up gathering dust in the garage, attic, or basement.

    I’m a hoarder, too, but the only thing I hoard is stocks. Stocks are one of mankind’s most elegant inventions. They don’t take up any space, don’t have to be mowed, don’t require oil changes, pay dividends, and often can be sold for more than you paid for them (if you choose them intelligently). If you hoard enough stocks, you not only don’t have to worry about retirement, you don’t have to work either. Instead of your boss ordering you around, you can order him around, because you’re now HIS boss! So I hoard stocks, and my idea of a good time is shopping for stocks; I really don’t want anything else. You can have the overpriced convertible and the ripoff Puerto Vallerta timeshare. That stuff needs to exist because the world is full of suckers who need a way to throw their money away.

    As for me, I sleep until noon if I want to, never have to fight commuter traffic, don’t have to deal with office politics, can’t be fired or laid off, never get calls from bill collectors, and don’t have a garage full of junk I don’t know what to do with.

  28. 28

    I’ve seen lots of stories recently that say most Americans don’t have much retirement savings. Here’s another one.

    http://www.cbsnews.com/news/mo.....t-savings/

    It says half of Americans over 55 have NO retirement savings. That’s highly misleading, as most of these people have some sort of retirement plan through their work, and “studies” like this typically don’t count those savings. They also don’t count home equity, which is a form of savings. Older Americans aren’t as poor as these alarmists make out, which makes you wonder what their agenda is.

    Still, there’s no doubt in my mind that Americans collectively have lousy financial habits, and aren’t very good at managing money or their financial affairs. This country is full of dopes who walk onto a car lot, kick the tires of the convertible, and ask the lot shark how much the monthly payment is. Middle class neighbors hum with garage sales by people trying to get rid of all the junk they wasted money on that ended up gathering dust in the garage, attic, or basement.

    I’m a hoarder, too, but the only thing I hoard is stocks. Stocks are one of mankind’s most elegant inventions. They don’t take up any space, don’t have to be mowed, don’t require oil changes, pay dividends, and often can be sold for more than you paid for them (if you choose them intelligently). If you hoard enough stocks, you not only don’t have to worry about retirement, you don’t have to work either. Instead of your boss ordering you around, you can order him around, because you’re now HIS boss! So I hoard stocks, and my idea of a good time is shopping for stocks; I really don’t want anything else. You can have the overpriced convertible and the ripoff Puerto Vallerta timeshare. That stuff needs to exist because the world is full of suckers who need a way to throw their money away.

    As for me, I sleep until noon if I want to, never have to fight commuter traffic, don’t have to deal with office politics, can’t be fired or laid off, never get calls from bill collectors, and don’t have a garage full of junk I don’t know what to do with.

  29. 29

    RR, the reason your investments take up so little space is that you can afford so few of them.

    That unsolicited offer for your house you wrote about last week? They probably want to bulldoze and over-excavate your shithole, and replace it with something that isn’t a blight on the neighborhood.

  30. 30

    Ohhh early onset senile schismatic IDIOT Wabbit, once again FACTS place Lysol spray on your offered BULLSHITTIUM…

    https://www.congress.gov/bill/102nd-congress/house-bill/5193 Now who sponsored this bill? Representative G. V. (Sonny) Montgomery Party Democratic

    Sponsor: Rep. Montgomery, G. V. (Sonny) [D-MS-3] (Introduced 05/18/1992)
    Committees: House – Armed Services; Veterans’ Affairs | Senate – Veterans’ Affairs

    Passed by voice vote IDIOT Wabbit… https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/102/hr5193

    No DUMMOCRETIN objections to a bill introduced by DUMMOCRETINS!

  31. 31

    Now Puddy, it isn’t all RR’s fault. The article in his link blamed conservatives, and today he’s just being a dutiful little parrot.

    It’s when the article doesn’t do his job for him that he’s a shameless liar.

  32. 32

    Tweet du jour:

    Ben Shapiro @benshapiro
    Marco Rubio’s wife has traffic tickets. I wonder if Hillary Clinton’s spouse has ever done anything bad.
    7:24 AM – 5 Jun 2015

  34. 34

    @29 Relatively speaking, that’s true; I’m not a multimillionaire doctor feeding at the Medicare trough like you. I’m a mere millionaire with a low-six-figure income. I don’t doubt that our country’s system of socialized medicine* treats you quite well.

    * Government pays half the medical bills in the U.S.

  35. 35

    How Stupid Are Rightwingers?

    Man goes to White House twitter account, posts threat to lynch the president (helpfully including an image of Obama with a rope around his neck so his intent is perfectly clear), gets fired from his job, and now is outraged that people are calling him a racist.

    http://www.rawstory.com/2015/0.....ed-racist/

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: Maybe he thinks Obama is white? Just wondering.

  38. 38

    The Hillary Rasputin – Sidney Blumenthal (hero of the early onset senile schismatic IDIOT Wabbit) in action again! This time working again with the NY Slimes to attack Rubio!

  39. 39

    @ 36

    From your link:

    Even if Mr. Martinez did use drugs, two wrongs don’t make a right; it still does not justify the Indian River Sheriff’s Department refusing to come clean and bring closure to the public.

    Perhaps you can ask Ms. Mosby to release Freddie Gray’s autopsy report and bring some closure to the public.

  40. 40

    Is this another friend of rujaxoffallthetimestillprovingnuthinappears? Nothing sez you be crazy except admitting you killed two of your won children in court! Just like rujaxoffallthetimestillprovingnuthinappears writing crazy things here on HA DUMMOCRETINS!

    http://news.yahoo.com/mom-char.....30542.html

  41. 41

    @38 Rubio doesn’t need Hillary or Blumenthal ridiculing him. He does that quite nicely all by himself. (See #37) But for those of you not familiar with Blumenthal’s journalistic work, here it is again:

    “Bush’s approach in most situations seemed a reactive combination of calculations to avoid his father’s mistakes and to reject Clinton’s policies. This was especially clear in international affairs: in his first nine months he reversed Clinton’s policy toward China, proclaiming it no longer a ‘strategic partner’ but a ‘strategic competitor’; in the Middle East, by withdrawing U.S. involvement in the negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians; toward Korea, by abandoning the negotiated accord that had frozen the North’s nuclear program and by humiliating President Kim of South Korea, who was promoting North-South reconciliation, during his March 2001 visit to the White House, contributing to a wave of anti-Americanism in a country that was among the staunchest American allies; by withdrawing U.S. support from the Kyoto treaty on global warming; and by forsaking Clinton’s efforts to address the dangers of international terrorism.

    “During the transition between administrations, National Security Adviser Sandy Berger arranged several extensive briefings on this last subject for Bush’s incoming national security adviser, Condoleeza Rice, and others on the Bush team, including Vice President Cheney. One briefing lasted half a day. Berger told them that Osama bin Laden was an ‘existential threat’ and told them that he wanted ‘to underscore how important this issue is.’ In another briefing, Richard Clarke, head of counterterrorism in the NSC, the single most knowledgeable expert in the government, gave them a complete tutorial on the subject. In yet another briefing, CIA officials were brought in to go over all the intelligence available on terrorism.

    “Don Kerrick, a three-star general and outgoing deputy national security adviser, overlapped for four months with the new Bush people. He submitted a memo for the new National Security Council warning of the danger of terrorism. ‘We are going to be struck again,’ he wrote. But as Kerrick explained to me, he received no answer to his memo. ‘They didn’t respond,’ he said. ‘They never responded. It was not high on their priority list. I was never invited to one meeting. They never asked me to do anything. They were not focusing. They didn’t see terrorism as the big megaissue that the Clinton administration saw it as. They were concentrated on what they thought were higher priorities than terrorism.’ The Principals meeting of national security officials took up terrorism only once, after constant pressure from Clarke, on September 4, 2001, and at that meeting they discussed using unmanned Predator drone spy aircraft, but no decision was made. ‘Unfortunately,’ said Kerrick, ‘September 11 gave them something to focus on.’”

    — Sidney Blumenthal, The Clinton Wars (New York: Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 2003), pp. 797-798.

    If you want an idiot in the White House, vote for a Republican.

  42. 42

    Those of you not familiar with Sidney Blumenthal (hero of the early onset senile schismatic IDIOT Wabbit) work… follow the NY Times!

    http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05......html?_r=0

    Those of you not familiar with Sidney Blumenthal (hero of the early onset senile schismatic IDIOT Wabbit) work… follow Slate!

    http://www.slate.com/blogs/the.....n_act.html

    Those of you not familiar with Sidney Blumenthal (hero of the early onset senile schismatic IDIOT Wabbit) work… follow Washington Times!

    http://www.washingtontimes.com...../?page=all

    Mr. Blumenthal is the Clintons’ longtime and fiercely loyal political hit man. He orchestrated many of the sleaziest attacks on Clinton opponents, including smearing Monica Lewinsky as a “stalker” at Mrs. Clinton’s request. His mastery of the dark arts was so notorious that it may have been the reason Mr. Obama pointedly denied Mrs. Clinton’s request to appoint him to a special, official role in her State Department.

    Puddy already excerpted the Slate and NY Slimes articles from before. Read them again! Puddy doesn’t have early onset senility so there was no need to repeat myself ad nauseum like the early onset senile schismatic IDIOT Wabbit!

  43. 43

    Meanwhile Puddy realizes y’all with 24 hour moronic moonbattic memory malady mastery forgot about the real dunderhead regarding Osama Bin Laden… Wee Willy Vagina Flavored Cigar Clinton. http://www.forbes.com/sites/he.....l-clinton/

    Speaking of the military and also of Bill Clinton’s predilections, Patterson describes a sordid incident in which the president–the commander-in-chief–groped a female steward on Air Force One. As an enlisted member of the U.S. Air Force, she opted not to make an issue of it and settled for a personal apology from the president.

    This incident troubled Patterson: “I brooded over the fact that if our commander in chief had been actually serving in the armed services, he would have been jailed. His immunity struck me as completely unacceptable.”

    You can read how Clinton lost the nuclear launch codes twice. You can read how in 1998 Clinton claimed he missed Bin Laden by hours. Well he dithered around until after Bin Laden left. And Bin Laden lived to plot the Sept. 11 attacks that Sidney Blumenthal (hero of the early onset senile schismatic IDIOT Wabbit) forgets to remember 1998! So sad! Almost 3000 dead because Clinton dithered!

    Puddy covered this years ago. It’s all in the crazed databaze archives. In fact in July this post will be there too!

  44. 44

    Now Puddy realizes why you are all mental cases… Cat loving DUMMOCRETINS… http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ca.....zophrenia/

    Most people never suffer any symptoms at all. But in those with weaker immune systems, infection with T. gondii can cause an illness called toxoplasmosis, which can result in miscarriages, fetal development disorders, weeks of flu-like illness, blindness and even death. It has also been associated with mental disorders including schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Now two more studies explore the mental health issues in greater detail.

  45. 45

    From the VA system:

    As OPM continues working to determine the full impact of the recent cybersecurity incident, VA leadership will provide updates to staff as we learn more about the situation. Please bookmark http://vaww.va.gov and check it regularly for on-going and up-to-date information.

    We do know that as a result of the incident, OPM will be notifying at least 4 million individuals whose personally identifiable information (PII) may have been compromised. As mentioned in my email last night, OPM will also be offering 18 months of free credit monitoring and identity theft insurance to those affected individuals.

    IOW, there’s now essentially no difference between the US government and http://www.freecreditreport.com.

    Hey, no worries. I’m sure that single-payer insurance provided for the whole nation by the US government, whenever that occurs, will keep everyone’s personal information private, safe, and secure.

  48. 48

    Tons of Posts by The Ape and Boob, but none regarding the freedom of this country.

    Long live Ireland – Home of the Free and the Brave. Where true freedom rings!

  49. 49

    Tons of Posts by The Ape and Boob, but none regarding the freedom of this country.

    Long live Ireland – Home of the Free and the Brave. Where true freedom rings!

  51. 51

    @ 50

    Yeah, for assault. No bruises and no internal injuries.

    Hell, that’s just an average evening between Governor Bill Clinton and any woman within 30 feet of him, if no one else was around.

  52. 52

    @50,

    Another libtard city police force gone awry. Remember Ramparts?

  55. 55

    Of course, doctors hate the idea of single-payer insurance, because they won’t make $500k/yr. for doing the same thing a $29.95 software program will soon be able to do.

  56. 56

    Now that the Duggar girl children were outed by gleeful libtards what will future abuse victims do?

    Fear DUMMOCRETINS whom may leak the information for political gain!

    DUMMOCRETINS are scum!

  58. 58

    @51

    Yeah bob, we know you are all in favor of Duggary as opposed to two consenting adults.

  59. 59

    Once again the teabaggin buttbusting BULLSHITTIUM buttbigot gorilla conflates the law. The Arkansas law sez the juvenile records SHALL NOT be released!

    Puddy cares less what you do behind closed doors teabaggin buttbusting BULLSHITTIUM buttbigot gorilla!

  60. 60

    teabaggin buttbusting BULLSHITTIUM buttbigot gorilla misrepresents the Ben Carson article in #57.

    Good job libtard!

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