– Are you staying cool? I’m decidedly not.
– I’m glad to read Joel Connelly’s piece on sidewalk closures. Here’s hoping Scott Kubly is up to the task.
– Do better, Democrats.
– The Yakama Nation vs. Coal Pollution
– The DOJ will be on the right side of history in any marriage equality case in the Supreme Court.
WASHINGTON — Six weeks after being released from five years in Taliban captivity, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is expected to return to life as a regular Army soldier as early as Monday, Defense Department officials said late Sunday.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07.....&_r=0
Makes sense. You can’t court-martial a civilian.
Legendary comic book character Archie to be killed off saving gay best friend from gunman’s bullet
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....ullet.html
Another one bites the dust.
Sloppy Travis Bickle,
Makes sense. You can’t court-martial a civilian.
Hey, asshole, haven’t you shamed yourself enough as the FOX News lynch mob class clown? At least try to have your facts straight when you take a shit in these comment threads.
No…it makes sense to you because you have no idea what you are talking about.
Your claim that “you can’t court-martial a civilian” is laughably uninformed. There are many circumstance where civilians can be tried by court martial. These include contractors (and even their families) involved in military operations during conflicts, civilians during martial law if the regular courts are not available, and (germane to your bullshit) retired military personnel receiving retirement benefits of any kind.
Okay…PSA over. Back to your regular America-hating bullshit…
There They Go Again …
The Republican Times editorial board has endorsed yet another — you guessed it — Republican candidate in a legislative district represented by a Democratic incumbent.
http://seattletimes.com/html/e.....ment1.html
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Sure, the RT also endorsed DelBene and Larsen for re-election to Congress; but aren’t those gimmes?
@1 I used to believe you have to be smart to become a doctor, but …
@3 don’t expect a response from him, he can’t even answer simple question of why he went solar and why he has a change of heart or thinks that solar isn’t the way to go.
When he’s wrong he gets a little grumpy.
@5 I find it hard to believe he is a doctor. He has all this time to blow on this blog, and then he traps himself with his own facts. Can’t even answer why he decided to go solar, and why he now speaks out against solar. Did someone pull the wool over his eyes, like he claims they are doing to me?
Meanwhile, the mother of a soldier killed in Afghanistan who blames Bergdahl for her son’s death and publicly called him a “deserter” is “furious” that Bergdahl has returned to active duty.
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyli.....ty-n155356
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Another blockhead who never heard of “innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.” She’d damn well better hope he’s guilty of something, because if it turns out he’s innocent, he’s got a pretty good libel cause of action against her.
Sure, I understand her emotional reaction to the loss of her son, but when you’re talking about someone else’s guilt or innocence, we don’t let overwrought bystanders make those determinations. That’s what courts and juries are for. And as far as her free speech rights go, remember the old saying that “your freedom to swing your fist stops where my nose starts.”
Here are two facts about American law that someone should explain to her. (1) Bergdahl is entitled to a fair trial before anyone deems him guilty of desertion. (2) Publicly calling a specific, individual, named soldier a “deserter” is legally actionable if it isn’t true.
Of course, if I were Bergdahl, I would go after Fox News and the big money.
That’s something our friend Doctor Bob might want to remember, too. Watch your language, Bob. If you’re not careful with your choice of words, your sloppiness could bite you in the ass if Bergdahl manages to beat the rap. Just because you’re hiding behind a pseudonym doesn’t mean you can’t be sued. A lawyer could serve a subpoena on Goldy for your IP address, and from there a computer geek could find and ID you in about 10 seconds.
Killing The Ex-Im Bank
The Ex-Im Bank is of vital importance to Washington’s economy, because it finances many of the purchases of Boeing airplanes by foreign airlines. Yet conservatives, especially teabaggers, want to kill the Ex-Im Bank, labeling it “corporate welfare” even though it makes over $1 billion a year of profits that are paid to the U.S. government.
Why?
Because the Koch brothers told them to, that’s why, and Koch money pays for teabagger meetings, propaganda, and campaigns.
“The Citizens United decision means that groups like Americans for Prosperity, the political arm of the billionaire industrialist Koch brothers, can spend unlimited sums defending Ex-Im critics and putting out reams of critical material on the bank. The Kochs do not like the Ex-Im bank. So many conservatives no longer feel they have to roll over and vote to re-authorize the agency ….”
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101833482
Roger Rabbit Commentary: If you hate high-paying Boeing jobs and the money Boeing brings into our state, then go ahead, vote Republican.
Hey Travis please explain to me how you are being paid 54 cents per kwh, when no state in the union is even charging that much.
Maybe you should put a candle to your panels and collect on the homeowners insurance? By the way did you have to insure your panels or did your premium go up by having the panels? Mine didn’t
And you are complaining about solar? Either you are stupid or you are dumb liar.
This is the kind of discrimination Puffy likes! But don’t call him an Ape!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....84199.html
Here is one we can all laugh at. Solar Index for Washington State is 25th, dead last, a rating of .67. Bob, Travis, telling me his 3KW system is going to save him $2000/year (laugh). Now maybe I should have done some research too, the state I am in is ranked 21st (.79). Compared to the top state that has a rating of 1.19. And Bob claims he’s going to get paid .54 cents per kwh…..I don’t think so….he says he return on the system is 5 Years – I don’t think so, try maybe 12 years. Mabye that is why he frowns upon solar. He invested in it, don’t ask me why, because he can’t say why either.
He says there is one born every minute. Yeah must be me because I really at one time thought he might have some intelligence. Boy was I mistaken. Pretty much nothing but lies and stupidity from him.
Hey Bob, that’s could be one reason why you have a 3.4KW system as opposed to a 3.0KW system like me, becuase you got less sun in Washington. Meaning you have to pay more in the form of solar parts and peices than I do to produce the same amount of energy. Capisce
Travis (Bob) thinks that subsidizing renewable energy is fleecing America. I guess the type of fleecing that he likes are in the form of GWB tax cuts. See so long as everyone (probably not everyone) benefits from the fleecing, then it is ok. When you take a budget that is creating a surplus and then make it become a deficit, by giving all the money away and spending more, to me that is one good fucking fleece job, regardless if everyone was part of it.
Bail out the airlines, after 9/11, so that the airlines didn’t face bankruptcy due to the probability of the airline facing lawsuits. So we bail them out. How about telling the survivors of people that died on 9/11, sorry – you are suffering a tremendous loss, we feel your pain, but money isn’t going to bring back the dead.
There are a lot of little streams that run year-round in WA and you can by little hydroelectric generators to harvest the energy.
The Iraq war was one good fucking fleece job.
I know Bob likes to plant trees, highly commendable, but just a little advice to you Bob, don’t plant the tall ones next to your solar panels, they need all the sun they can get.
Schizos gonna schiz…
I understand why the mental hospitals were closed en masse the way they were back in the 80s. I know there were actually good reasons for it, but this is getting out of hand.
@13 “he says he return on the system is 5 Years”
Stock is better than solar panels. The return on my Walgreen stock was 143.95% in 24 months.
“Even Boeing – the bank’s biggest beneficiary – has admitted it doesn’t really need Ex-Im and could ‘arrange alternative financing’ without it,” Hensarling said at the hearing.
Sadly The IDIOT Wabbit is dropping smelly pellets again!
“Perhaps what is most disturbing about the Ex-Im Bank is its ideological and crony-based lending practices,” he added. “It has a ‘green’ energy quota. It permits no assistance for coal projects. It has a mandate to specifically support exports going to sub-Saharan Africa.”
After years of union-busting and unregulated capitalism in the airline industry, we now have new pilots coming out of flight schools with $200,000 of debt to qualify for jobs with starting pay barely above minimum wage. That’s right, the guys up in the cockpit may be making less than $25,000 a year.
http://www.theatlantic.com/bus.....ry/374171/
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Not to worry, the free market will take care of this, pretty soon no one will go into the profession, and that means there will be no flights. See? It always balances out in the end, if only you let free markets work their magic.
Meanwhile, Dick Cheney’s “solution” to the foreign policy disasters he concocted is starting half a dozen more wars.
http://www.theatlantic.com/int.....ce/374357/
Roger Rabbit Commentary: If we’re going to shoot people without trials, let’s start with this guy, not Sgt. Bergdahl. He’s far more dangerous than any Army deserter could ever be.
@21 So, Puddy, you’re against Boeing jobs. I’m not surprised. Why should I be? For you, that’s completely in character.
Well, if Boeing can finance its customers’ airplane purchases, then they don’t need handouts from Washington State taxpayers, do they?
Obummer makes all these nasty pronouncements against the House on a highway bill, but the DUMMOCRETIN led Senate hasn’t figgered out a highway bill either. Of course Obummer doesn’t say nuthin about Harry Reid!
So Roger IDIOT Wabbit, we know you hate Boeing@26 and Boeing workers… Don’t project your stoooooooooopidity on Puddy in post #25! You talk out both sides your mouth!
Typical DUMMOCRETIN!
IDIOT Wabbit,
Bergdahl admitted he deserted to his poppa. Even the NY Slimes no friend of conservatives wrote about it. That’s all everyone needs to know!
Sux to be you!
Shorter puddypussypissypants:
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HEY!!!!!
YOU GUYS NEED TO LISTEN TO THAT PUDDY PERSON!
HE’S SMART LIKE ME!!!!!
Once again, SchizoPoodle @ 27 demonstrates his total lack of knowledge of how the government functions and the wording of the Constitution:
Section. 7.
All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.
In other words, any highway bill, or any bill requiring an expenditure from the Treasury and the resultant revenue increase that is required to meet the costs must originate in the House of Representatives. The Senate exists to approve or disapprove any such bill before it is presented to the President for signing into Law. Their determination is solely that of the interest of their State Government. The Senate exists to represent the interests of the State Governments. The House exists to represent the interests of the citizenry within the States. If there is a conflict between the interests of the Citizenry and those of the State Governments, the Citizenry has the right to change their representation in the State Government through the voting process.
The 17th Amendment allowing for the direct election of Senators did not change this. It is extremely rare for a Senator to take a position that contravenes the interest of the State Government they are elected to represent. When it does happen, the State Government has the authority to remove that Senator or vote to call for an election. The six year term is not absolute. Senators can be replaced by the State at any time if that State’s legislature votes to do so. All the 17th Amendment did was permit the direct election of Senators by the common citizen and remove the State Legislators from the equation. But not entirely. F’r instance, if a Senator takes a position against his or her own State Government interest, such as confiscating land for a highway or an apportionment of taxes, that State is no longer being represented by the Senator they elected to represent the concerns of the State Government, and the Legislature has the authority to call for an election to replace the guy.
The primary example of this was the building of the Railroads. Railroad companies were given a totally blank check to do whatever they damn well pleased to develop rights of way and acquire materials for the construction. To an awful lot of people, that meant they had their land confiscated, their timber and cattle confiscated, the rivers and creeks dammed and their homes burned even though they didn’t live within miles of the right of way the railroad company decided to use.
Railroad companies were given the rights to all land and materials within 100 miles of the rights of way they mapped out for themselves even if title was held by a citizen. That means timber, minerals, water and in many cases labor. The Senate became a rubber stamp operation for the railroads even though the States were having their citizens literally burned out of their houses and summarily executed by railroad company mercenaries. If the railroad wanted your timber, you gave it up or lost your farm or ranch, period. The 17th Amendment was ratified in part because the Senate was not representing the interests of the State Governments in protecting the property rights of their own citizenry. The State legislatures were almost entirely bought out by the railroad companies and the related timber and mining concerns that grew out of them. Those mineral and water rights still exist, and the descendant corporations can still claim those rights. Thats why people are seeing the oil companies being allowed to drill fracking wells on their land even though they haven’t given permission or are making any money from them.
Such a bill cannot originate in the Senate. It must originate in the House of Representatives.
@ 3
Apples-to-oranges, Darryl.
Yes, civilians can be tried for acts committed as civilians, and contractors can be tried for acts committed as contractors.
If they’re going to try him under UCMJ section 802(c)(4) and if he isn’t going to receive pay after he is discharged, they need to try him while he’s on active duty.
I heard pretty much the same thing on NPR yesterday.
I did a little work online. Toth v. Quarles might be relevant.
http://law.jrank.org/pages/254.....ction.html
Happy Tuesday, Darryl.
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Furrealz? That’s malrsvouely good to know.