Men knew, part a billion in an infinity part series: Al Franken.
The photographer knew. The man sitting next to her knew. The picture was sent to God knows how many people. It wasn’t just men, but plenty of men did nothing. Men on that trip were literally sent photographic evidence and nothing happened for a decade.
Mea culpa,
Mea culpa,
Mea maxima culpa!
That photo is frat boy mentality. I think back to all the photos I’ve seen of bros passed out in the house with someone’s dick just inches from their lips.
It wasn’t funny then and it still isn’t.
So I’ve been following the Saudi power grab in Middle East press because I’m that nerd.
So driving home last night when I started the car I was hearing an unusually in depth report for American media that included some pretty sensational claims that I hadn’t heard before and I was really interested. Then it hit me.
I’m listening to ‘Coast to Coast’ so all this stuff I’ve never heard is 99% bullshit.
This is for you, Boob.
“Seattle is seeing a crazy restaurant boom.” and “Can you believe it?! 40 more restaurant openings in Seattle and on the Eastside!”
https://tinyurl.com/yagjl8r2
Union Gospel Mission is being sued for employment discrimination because it doesn’t hire gays. UGM says it provides services to gay people, but expects its employees to live according to its Biblical values.
https://tinyurl.com/ycqlzwdd
@1 At least you admit it and apologized for it. That’s more than any wronged woman will ever get from Roy Moore, Donald Trump, or any other Republican. In their world, exploitation confers bragging rights.
Wherein Orrin Hatch pretends to be for the working class.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/orrin-hatch-tax-cuts-rich_us_5a0eedbbe4b045cf4370fa91?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
6
Yes, I should probably resign in disgrace.
@8 Wait for Trump to resign first. Unilateral disarmament is a bad idea.
“While there are scores of tales of sexual harassment on the Hill, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin said that she hasn’t personally experienced any of those issues, saying ‘I think a whole lot of people know I’m probably packing so I don’t think there’s a whole lot of people who would necessarily mess with me.'”
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/11/17/sarah-palin-offers-a-cold-metal-reason-why-sexual-predators-dont-mess-with-me/23280791/
Roger Rabbit Commentary: I can think of at least three other reasons why nobody wants to be within rifle range of her: (1) Her looks, (2) her brains, (3) her personality.
#CrookedHillary knew, too, bitches.
What Hillary Knew
When Hayes’s tweet became a sensation, editors at the best shops gave marquee writers a radioactive assignment, which they gladly accepted. By midday Wednesday there was such a glut of “I Believe Juanita” pieces that Chelsea Clinton couldn’t have sold one.
Peter Baker of The New York Times wrote a story about this watershed moment that included the testimony of the liberal blogger Matthew Yglesias writing, “I think we got it wrong”; Jeff Greenfield of Politico observing that liberals could be having a “moral awakening”; and David Rothkopf, a former Clinton administration official, saying that even Monica Lewinsky—who never claimed she was abused in any way by Clinton—“deserves an apology from many of us she has never received.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/11/what-hillary-knew/546170/?utm_source=feed
Goldy certainly fucking knew.
Goldy @GoldyHA
I’m a big lefty too, but Jesus Christ, Twitter friends, Hillary is the nominee! Push her on policy, but stop attacking her credibility.
27 May
It was probably ineffective to cry shame over pussy-grabbing after eight years of Bill Clinton.
Think on your sins.
@ 4
This is for you, Boob.
“Seattle is seeing a crazy restaurant boom.” and “Can you believe it?! 40 more restaurant openings in Seattle and on the Eastside!”
This is for you, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit.
You and your wife can’t afford to eat at any of them.
Hey, could some HA libbie ask Goldy if it’s OK, now @ 11, to attack #CrookedHillary’s credibility?
@11 Speaking of “bitches,” I wonder how many people that Texas sheriff has arrested for having “Hillary bitch” bumper stickers on their cars.
@12 We like your garden better. Plus, it’s free.
@ 14
Featuring a redunancy on your bumper is a crime?
Boob, you seem to have missed the point. Would you like to explain again how Seattle’s $15/hr. minimum wage is eliminating all the restaurant jobs here? There appears to be a problem with the supporting empirical data.
The Onion couldn’t have done better than this headline from CBS:
Florida Democratic Party chairman Stephen Bittel resigns over creepiness
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-democratic-party-chairman-stephen-bittel-resigns-over-creepiness/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=44851966
Good morning, Senator Nelson. How are you feeling today?
@16 No more so than stating the obvious in the rear window of your pickup or when riding a bike.
Last I heard, the GoFundMe donations to the bicycle lady are well over $100k. Flipping off Trump wasn’t such a bad idea after all. She soon may have enough that she’ll never have to work again.
@18 Good riddance. What about your creepy party leader? Has he resigned yet? Didn’t think so. Republican values differ from ours.
@ 17
Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit, you seem to have missed my point.
Yes, overall restaurant numbers are up in Seattle but the number of restaurants affordable to miserly fucks such as yourself, and others of similarly pitifully low household income, has declined 10% since 2014.
Limited-service restaurant licenses in Seattle, 3/2014: 2,031
http://evansoltas.com/2015/03/.....r-seattle/
Limited-service restaurant licenses in Seattle, just searched: 1,804
That’s 200+ FEWER lower-priced Seattle restaurants than before the minimum wage increase took effect, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit.
So, yes, the number of restaurant jobs is increasing with the Seattle economy. Thank you, Amazon, for the growth driving this, as well as for the surge in area home valuations that hopefully will continue or at least plateau until I sell mine in the middle of next year.
The problem with this, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit, is that if you are in a lower income quintile you have a much harder time finding a Seattle restaurant at which you can afford to eat.
Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit, you are playing cheerleader to a widening economic inequality in Seattle. You’re YLB, only without the exclamation points and vitality.
Roy Moore’s wife is standing by him. How sweet.
Care to comment in light of today’s Hillary blather, Boob?
Does Melania know? How ’bout Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnel, the Mercer family, and Hope Hicks? Do they “know”?
Do any Radical Right Pusssy Grabbers think “Barbara Knew”?
What about JEB! and W?
What should that reckoning look like?
Long as we’re at it, is Doctor Fucking Dumbshit ever going to come to terms and deal with the “otter smooth, uncut 9 inches” sleeping over in the White House? Don’t ‘spose anyone “knew” about that. You’d have to be clairvoyant or some shit to figure out that a guy who just weeks earlier was advertising on Backpages probably isn’t qualified for a White House press pass.
Keep fuckin’ that chicken, Boob.
Aside to gman: That’s deriding white men, not riding white men.
UW-La Crosse student no longer vice chair of Wisconsin campus Dems after deriding ‘white men’
Junior and political science student Sarah Semrad was vice chair of the statewide organization when she drew attention last week by tweeting that “I (expletive) hate white men.” Screenshots from a now-defunct Twitter account also include a message sent last month in which Semrad celebrated removing fliers for Christian-based pregnancy counseling from the UW-L campus.
“My new bit is tearing down all the pro life Christian pregnancy resource center fliers that they put up around campus to try & trick people,” an October tweet read.
http://lacrossetribune.com/new.....9279f.html
My new bit Sarah Semrad is increasing the frequency with which your name Sarah Semrad comes up so that people who might otherwise hire you Sarah Semrad in the future will not want anything to do with a cunt like you Sarah Semrad.
@21
We’ve been over this. It’s a two year old post.
There is a nearly equal number of mobile food trucks and coffee shops (different category) that are new at the same time as there are ‘lost’ limited service spots.
Plus, post hoc ergo propter hoc.
Limited service, Wing Stop 9 wings $9.99
Safeway wing bar. 1lb, $4.99
Whole Foods hot food/salad bar. $7.99lb.
Quater Pounder meal McDonald’s $7.49
The very way people eat is changing. 10 years ago if I didn’t want to cook I would pick up something from a “limitted service” restaurant. Sometimes I still do. Not nearly as often.
The limited service restaurant is under pressure from grocery, truck, cofeeshop, even the gas station.
In the Wednesday threat Elijah was telling us that Franken’s behavior should be viewed in the context of his pre-Senate profession of being a comedian and asshole. Well, I suppose, but Franken’s behavior with that woman was in 2006 and he ran for office only two years later.
Trump’s pussy-grabbing comment was captured more than a decade before he ran for office, and was in the context of his role as a TV personality and speaking privately, not knowing he was being captured on A/V, rather than behaving poorly and expecting it to be captured and even published thereafter as was the case with Franken.
This is where Elijah’s rationale fails.
That horrifying photo of Franken will confront feminists every time they decry Trump’s boasts of grabbing women by the genitals. Democrats will have to worry about whether more damaging information will come out, and given the way scandals like this tend to unfold, it probably will.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/16/opinion/al-franken-sexual-harassment.html
Here’s the thing, HA libbies: If you expect to use Trump’s pre-political behavior to hang Trump, you need to advocate that the same apply to Franken.
@ 25
Oh, look, we see a libbie arguing that job losses due to obsolescence are a good thing. Who knew?
Funny thing about old arguments. Just as tastes in chicken wings may change, so might public perceptions.
Ask Bill and #CrookedHillary about that. They might agree.
@27
What job losses? Lower unemployment in the region as a while and SEA specifically.
You know that grocery stores now have many employees dedicated only to preparing grab and go fresh meals? The line cook at Applebee’s is now more likely to find better pay as a salad maker at PCC.
I know what part of Senator Franken’s former profession called upon him to make crude and often tasteless, sexist, and exploitative jokes (for more please see The Aristocrats), mug for the camera, and even grope women. Since Senator Franken was very open with Minnesota voters about his past, I suppose they know also.
I didn’t realize that was also part of 42’s job at CIA, or that covering for it was part of 44’s job. Or Barbara’s. Or JEB!’s.
We can learn so much from Hillbillies. Perhaps some day Boob will even reveal to us whose job it was to sneak “otter smooth, uncut 9 inches” past the Secret Service.
What is it about this thing that has you so out of your head and resorting to lying?* Anybody here can go back and read those comments. And they’ll see very clearly that I was referring to Senate investigations into a member’s conduct. And that I specifically agreed that Sen. Franken’s behavior in that photo aboard a USO transport, being in a professional capacity, was fair game for investigation.
You’re turning into a mirthless version of that superstitious cult worshiping troll. At least he’s oddly creative. As it is, you’re just a bad liar. And not at all creative.
*It’s Guckert, isn’t it? Something about that sordid episode sets Doctor Dumbfuck off.
24,
thanks to Doctor Dumbfuck’s timely and courageous efforts all the imperiled white men can now rest easy.
But damn, that was a close one!
@1 – If you’re sorry about anything at all, it’s sorry you got caught, you fucking asshole!
Carl “never told a crude joke” Ballard.
We have a great pub within walking distance. Amazing selection of micro-brews, very good food for pub fare.. Not cheap but affordable. It’s a once a month thing for us.
Incredible taco truck nearby.. Meditteraean hole in the wall with great sandwiches and other thai, indian, chinese, amazing ramen restaurant with excellent choice of sake..
Yours truly is very happy with the diversity of restaurants nearby to us in Seattle.
#fuckyouboob
Damn it’s a nice day outside! This sunbreak won’t last for long though..
Sunset in Everett, WA is 4:29 pm tonight..
Are we gonna have a countdown??
Watch the babbling butthole freak go *POOF* ??
Or not???
LMAO! I love this time of the year!
Former Democrat presidential candidate Jesse Jackson announced today that he has been diagnosed with adultery. His affliction is already documented to be a familial and Y-linked form.
Btw, I almost never go out to breakfast anymore unless it’s a really good Mexican breakfast..
On youtube, Gordon Ramsay taught me how to make terrific scrambled eggs..
Some mom in the south published a totally killer buttermilk pancakes recipe..
Some old dude who has to watch his pennies youtubed the best hash browns I’ve ever tasted.
Combine that with bacon, sausage, melon, grapes, berries, fresh squeezed OJ, coffee
There’s work involved but that just makes it taste so much better.
Scotty Walker got away with gutting Wisconsin’s teacher unions. The result is lower pay, less benefits, high turnover, low morale, teachers leaving the profession, and tanking student test scores.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/1.....index.html
Well, it doesn’t matter, because Wisconsin was a manufacturing state, but the GOP sent all those jobs away and they aren’t coming back, so the people there only need to read two words: “Disability Lawyer.”
@36 Being a doctor, I’m sure you know what’s crawling around in your system.
@21 Looks like Doctor Dumbfuck misses his favorite McDonald’s. Dick’s is expanding, though.
@24 Obviously a very passionate lady. You should try to get in touch with her. But only if your wife approves. She’ll probably be more than happy to be rid of you for a while.
@37
Get chickens. Game changer.
@26 I don’t see any Democrats glorifying Franken’s behavior. But most Republicans think Trump’s frat-boy behavior (at age 60) is something to be admired, and emulated if at all possible. That’s the difference between our tribe’s values and your tribe’s values.
I wonder if Dumbfuck has been dining on horseburgers recently? You know, after he fucks them to death.
I assume he’ll follow the usual Republican pattern and attack the 10 year-old girls, those little Lolitas! Sic Breitbart on those two tarts and give them hell!
“Indiana GOP councilman charged with 3 counts of child molestation after allegedly assaulting two ten-year-old girls”
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/indiana-gop-councilman-charged-with-3-counts-of-child-molestation-after-allegedly-assaulting-two-ten-year-old-girls/
Meanwhile, Doctor Dumbfuck, he who has posted 4,000+ hashtags in support of Putin’s pussygrabbing, child-raping, golden shower stooge, will go on and on about a Dem who fucked up with an adult woman, apologized for it and had his apology accepted. Both sides, obviously.
In other news, my investment portfolio is up 19.78 % (annualized) for 2017. Not bad. Not as good as previously this year, but still good.
People are asking me if it’s time to buy gold, and I always tell them that owning a little gold is OK, but it can be a volatile investment. Back in the 80s, my co-workers couldn’t wait to buy gold at over $800 per ounce. A few years later, they were quietly liquidating their positions at around $270 per ounce. Still, I support owning some gold, but never more that 5% or so of one’s funds. It’s just too volatile for most folks, but, under the right circumstances, it can be a good hedge against inflation.
https://g.co/kgs/vvK2JR
@24 Giddyup
It’s after sunset… on Friday..
It’s so nice right now.. Imagine an HA comments threads FREE of that babbling butthole freak..
This is what it’s like fellow HA HEROES… Fix yourselves a cocktail, pour a glass of wine, unbottle your favorite libation…
Savor…
This is nothing. Wait 20-30 years after the Oceans rise. The liberals will spread all over.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141917064
Not much of a video….hopefully there is a better one to be made.
But an awesome song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXr7NV6spKw
Thank goodness Huckabee-Sanders explained why Franken’s groping is worse than Trump’s, or we never would have gotten it:
“The senator has admitted it, and the president hasn’t, I think that’s a very clear distinction.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sarah-huckabee-sanders-trump-franken_us_5a0f489de4b0dd63b1aa3ee7?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
@46 Gold doesn’t pay dividends. You can’t eat it, or at least it doesn’t digest well. It doesn’t burn, so you can’t use it to heat your burrow. It’s basically useless. The case for owning gold is predicated entirely on the Bigger Fool theory working, i.e., some bigger fool than you will pay more for it than you did. That’s not what most rabbits consider an investment thesis.
Life is soooo good in the HA comment threads…
without the miserable noise from that babbling butthole freak…
Enjoying a decent red at the moment..
Sip..
We’ll it has an appearance unlike any other metal.. Yes that’s in most people’s heads but it’s a factor..
It is very malleable so it’s able to be fashioned into shapes that are convenient for exchange like coins.
But most importantly it is rare. More of it is dug from the earth every day, yes, but at a very slow rate compared to other metals..
So as a measuring stick of value, gold has properties that so far have been unequaled by any other earthly natural substance.
However cryptocurrencies are making an interesting play to emulate gold and in the age of the internet are potentially more safely storable and exchangable, the raft of recent hacks and thefts notwithstanding.
So I’d say accumulate some gold if you can safely secure it and especially if your reserves of fiat money buys more gold than it would in the past. It’ll continue to come in handy when the government currencies tumble in value. It’s a long term play that younger people should start working at as soon as they can – if they’re so lucky to begin their careers with a decent paying job and low to no debt.
And all the folks who’ve made a killing in cryptocurrencies in recent years should have converted a lot more than 5 percent of their holdings into gold.
@3 Sometimes Coast to Coast guests are people who live in the real world and what they are being interviewed for is not BS. It’s entirely the interviewee will actually be doing the circuit. Coast to Coast actually has a website and you look up the person being interviewed, and then decide if it’s total BS or just how far your BS meter should have registered. It’s entirely possible that what you were hearing was the facts jack. Now if you heard that the Saudis have Big Foot parachuting into Yeman then your BS meter should have been fully pegged, but it doesn’t sound like it was that kind of guest. I do listen to Coast to Coast just to exercise my skepticism. That can be fun. And yes people do see UFO’s all the time. Does not mean they are extraterrestrial, but until there is a explanation for what the person saw it’s a UFO.
How many USO tours in Afghanistan have you been on Carl? I assure you there was at least one male on the plane that wanted to toss Al Franken out the back end without a parachute. Perhaps the pilot, but frankly the guy determined the paperwork alone was not worth the hassle, nor the court martial. Keep in mind it’s also a USA tour, so perhaps the young lady should have a thicker skin. If for some reason the Afghanis had gotten their hands on her she would know exactly how sophomoric Al Franken is. ,
@6 Come on RR whoever did that post is no more Al Franken than you are the beloved Disney character Roger Rabbit, but you are both thieves. If there is suddenly morality in Horses Ass then speak openly and transparently under your own name. At least the real Al Franken did his bs openly.
@7 So then there is this going on, talk about some bipartisan bullshit going on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d42haxQfcg
Perhaps some Democratic politicians were hoping with all the uproar over stuff no would notice.
@10 RR you own a gun for much the same reason as Sarah Palin. And there are probably people out there who would like to shoot her. And some women would be better off getting a firearm, going to the range practicing, ect rater than filing a request to the court for an order of protection.
Down deep you know you agree with her. If she is packing well for the same reason you do. Only she probably has a body guard or two.
@19 Dunno DC is pretty expensive. Also she may have college loans.
52
Yes, that’s why I recommend to those who wish to own gold to do so in limited amounts. The same goes for works of art, Persian carpets, coins, antiques and other collectibles.
If we were still on the Gold Standard, owning gold and precious metals would make more sense. Unfortunately, we have fiat currency, which really has no intrinsic value. With the Fed inflating the dollar slowly, the purchasing power of the fiat currency is gradually eroding away. A return to the Gold Standard might help us maintain the value of a dollar, but we’re not likely to return to it any time soon.
Once a mother lode of gold is found on earth, the moon, mars, the asteroids what “intrinsic value” does gold have?
62 – I’ll let you know when you find that “mother lode of gold is found on earth, the moon, mars, the asteroids.” Suck my Dick Tracy, asshole.
What is the true value of paper money if it doesn’t represent anything tangible?
LOL! Again, if gold is somehow made as plentiful as silver what “instrinsic value” does it have???
Your silly reaction just shows shallowness on your part.
Paper currency like the dollar is backed by INSTITUTIONS which includes an established major economy like the U.S. backed by the rule of law and maybe some other factors like Saudi Arabia trading its oil for dollars. Same goes to a great extent for the Euro, the yen, etc.
A currency is just a measuring stick for real things of value, actual things that human beings need, a technology that makes real things of value much easier to exchange so you don’t have to barter. A paper bill in your wallet represents a social convention around value. Fetishizing something like gold gets in the way of understanding that.
What’s is gold’s “instrinsic value”? Its lustre? Its malleability? The amount of sweat, tears and environmental degradation it takes to get it out of the ground?
I prefer cryptocurrencies if you can mine them with renewable energy. Yes they are fiat currencies but they are governed to the greater degree by distributed, decentralized open systems and mathematics.