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Open Thread 8/2

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– No scab drivers as Waste Management and the union reach an agreement.

– Finally, women have access to preventive care. Now let’s get the word out

– Kirby Wilbur thinks that because Rick Steves has taken positions on things that will be on the ballot, he can’t do a bland, nonpartisan PSA on voting in the top two primary.

– Steve King is awful and kind of stupid [h/t].

– It will not be like this forever. Progress is being made. At times the pace seems glacial when we’d rather it poured forth like the Niagara, but attitudes are changing.

– “Domestic violence protections for all women shouldn’t be a Democratic or a Republican issue”

– This represents the kind of country I want to live in!

– Crisis Diversion Center to open Monday.

– Get your tickets to the Liberty Ball.

Comments

  1. 1

    Here comes Solyndra back at obummer
    http://www.foxnews.com/politic.....-approval/

    Along with Fast & Furious and endless crazy spending by GSA and other government programs under the care, custody and control of the Obummer Regime.

    Romney has sat back and pretty much taken obummers best shot and the polls have barely quivered. Let’s see what happens when the reverse bitch-slappin starts.

  3. 3

    @1,2

    Today’s headline:
    A

    Obama Extends Electoral College Advantage
    By NATE SILVER
    Barack Obama’s standing in the FiveThirtyEight forecast reached its strongest position to date on Tuesday as a result of favorable polls in a set of swing states. The forecast model now gives Mr. Obama a 70.8 percent chance of winning the Electoral College, up from 69.0 percent on Monday and from 65.0 percent last Tuesday.
    http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/

    The stuff you’re posting is just nonsense. Why waste your, and everyone elses, time posting nonsense?

  4. 4

    Why waste your, and everyone elses, time posting nonsense?

    FUD.

    Propagandists shilling. They got nothin’. It’s the daily mainlining of ‘thug talking points, the inevitable FoxNoise spew, the doom-and-gloom. It sucks to be a Romney supporter.

    (I hope this had an acceptably low level of name-calling and vituperation, for czechsaaz’ sake) ;)

  5. 5

    ev, instead of FUD, can you list 5 reason that romney would be GOOD for the middle class?

  6. 6

    1) Jobs
    2) Jobs
    3) Jobs
    4) Jobs
    5) Jobs

    Five great reasons Romney would be great for the middle class!

  7. 7

    @1

    New Quinnipiac polls yesterday has Obama above the margin of error in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida.

    Explain again how Willard gets to 270 electoral votes.

    And the independent analysis of Willard’s tax pman is devestating. How many small consumer goods, meals out, job creating commer ial activity dries up when middle class families lose $2000 a year?

  8. 8

    @ 7

    You need to look at the poll crosstabs and compare the D/R/I distribution to the exit poll data in 2008 and 2010. See yesterday’s open thread.

    Adjust the poll data, say, to the 2010 turnout percentages for each party and Romney’s a lot closer to 270.

  9. 9

    How about a nice trip down memory lane:

    OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR
    Welcome to the Recovery
    By TIMOTHY F. GEITHNER
    Published: August 2, 2010

    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08.....20Research

    And now back to reality:

    August 2, 2012
    U.S. Unadjusted Unemployment Rate Increases in July
    Underemployment declines to 17.1%, the lowest since Gallup trend began in 2010

    http://www.gallup.com/poll/156.....-July.aspx

    Jesus, no wonder Harry Reid’s on the Senate floor claiming Romney’s a felonious tax dodger. Otherwise he might have to address today’s economic news. Wouldn’t want to have to do that, now, would we?

  11. 11

    Why do the Democrats talk about the 1%, dressage, magic underwear, and Romney’s tax bill?

    Because they’re doing everything possible to avoid talking about the economy.

    Gee, I wonder why that is:

    Economic forecasting model predicts Obama will lose in near-landslide

    http://www.douglas-hibbs.com/H.....ly2012.pdf

    Obama’s got the likability factor going for him, and I suppose that’s worth a point or two in the election. Which pushes him up very close to that 50% line in the first graph in the link, above.

    We get the president we deserve.

  12. 12

    “for czechsaaz’ sake”

    I’d say my overreaction was enough.

    “We get the president we deserve.”

    Thank God we didn’t end up with McCain and that half-term twit he chose for his VP. And thank God the sociopathic, dog-hating vulture capitalist is gonna lose as we deserve much better than that.

  13. 13

    @8

    The Republican loved Rasmussen poll shows identified Republicans declining slowly and steadily while Democrats hold steady. And you want to adjust to the 2010 Republican/tea wave exit polls of 2010?

    Cool.

  14. 14

    @11

    I’m happy to talk about the economy. How many straight quarters of GDP growth. You know what happens when employed middle class swinm voters open the IRA statemens when the market is humming along?

    Unemployment is high and Republicans are voting on abortion, English as official language, Obamacare 22 times and just about EVRYTHING except jobs. As I mentioned, taking $2000 out of the hands of people who are most.likely to spend it in goods and services isn’t a job growth policy. People arent that stupid.

    I’m off with the kids to the shores of the lake to watch the Blue Angels. The next few days are this hippie, peacenik’s, military hatin’ inner eight year-old’s, BEST WEEKEND OF THE YEAR.

  15. 15

    @ 13

    Since you provided no link I assume you meant this:

    http://www.rasmussenreports.co.....san_trends

    During July, 34.9% of Americans considered themselves Republicans. That’s down from 35.4% in June and from 35.7% in May.

    The number of Democrats held steady at 34.0%. That marks a partial recovery for the president’s party. In February, just 32.4% described themselves as Democrats, the lowest level ever measured by Rasmussen Reports. Still, while the 34.0% figure is the best for Democrats in 2012, it’s down from earlier years.

    As long as we’re talking about Rasmussen’s results (remember you brought it up), you should note that Dem identification is

    1. Lower than GOP.
    2. Lower than in previous years.
    3. National, not individual state data.

    So if Dem ID is lower than in previous years, you should look at any poll that has Dem respondents in percentages HIGHER than in the 2010 or 2008 turnout percentages with great skepticism.

    Glad to see Rasmussen is a useful source for HA types trying to make a point. Likely voter polls are the way to go.

  16. 16

    @ 14

    Unemployment is high and Republicans are voting on abortion, English as official language, Obamacare 22 times and just about EVRYTHING except jobs.

    What the fuck planet are you from, dude?

    All poll data shows the economy is the number one issue for all voters and you state that Republicans dismiss jobs as part of why they will vote this Fall?

    What the fuck planet. Not this one.

  17. 17

    16. Serial Conservative spews:

    @ 14

    Unemployment is high and Republicans are voting on abortion, English as official language, Obamacare 22 times and just about EVRYTHING except jobs.

    What the fuck planet are you from, dude?

    All poll data shows the economy is the number one issue for all voters and you state that Republicans dismiss jobs as part of why they will vote this Fall?

    What the fuck planet. Not this one.

    08/02/2012 at 10:59 am

    WTF planet are THESE assholes on?

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....ress-ever/

    print

    ——————————————————————————–

    14 reasons why this is the worst Congress ever
    By Ezra Klein , Updated: July 13, 2012

    Click to view gallery: The 112th Congress is a no good, very bad, terrible Congress. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

    This week, the House of Representatives voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act. On its own, such a vote would be unremarkable. Republicans control the House, they oppose President Obama’s health reform law, and so they voted to get rid of it.

    But here’s the punchline: This was the 33rd time they voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

    Holding that vote once makes sense. Republicans had promised that much during the 2010 campaign. But 33 times? If doing the same thing twice and expecting a different result makes you insane, what does doing the same thing 33 times and expecting a different result make you?

    Well, it makes you the 112th Congress.

    Hating on Congress is a beloved American tradition. Hence Mark Twain’s old joke, “Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.” But the 112th Congress is no ordinary congress. It’s a very bad, no good, terrible Congress. It is, in fact, one of the very worst congresses we have ever had. Here, I’ll prove it:

    Running against Raw-Money is relatively easy. Obama is beating the presumptive Republicam already.

    Running against the reactive, bigoted, homophobic, misogynistic, racist, worker-hatng corporate toadies in the 112th Congress, e.i. the House Republicans…THAT is the key.

  18. 18

    “What the fuck planet are you from, dude?” “What the fuck planet. Not this one.”

    This will probably be one of those threads where Serious Bob will come back and start whining about how someone swore at him.

    Damned hypocrite and racist. And whiner.

  19. 19

    @15

    Exactly, that’s a national poll number. I can’t imagine a scenario where Florida’s GOP is losing a larger % of voters than nationally. It’s not like two years of Rick Scott hasn’t shown a Republican Governor mandating drug testing (popular) only to turn out that it cost the state a bunch of money and ‘Suprise’ Rick Scott co-founded the company that got the money. It’s not like he gave away a couple billion in Stimulus money that would have created jobs building commuter rail. (hint, Even if “no one rides it,” which is an unknowable claim, after it’s built, the construction workers still get paid and spend those middle-class wages in Florida which creates….JOBS.) It’s not like his high profile voter role purge list turned out to be so incredibly inaccurate and included decorated veterans that county election officials regardless of party told him to go spit.

    It’s not like Rick Scott’s approval rating is in the low 30s.

    You did get one thing right. It’s not really fair to look at national polls.

  20. 20

    In the age discrimination suit, he claims that the 3.2 G.P.A. he earned in 1979 from Texas A&M University is equivalent to a 3.6 G.P.A. today because of grade inflation — a phenomenon that has been plaguing colleges in the past few decades. Kamps said he doesn’t think a legal challenge of this type has been brought in court before.

    http://www.insidehighered.com/.....admissions

    Makes sense to me. After all, in this day and age, four years in the Senate seems to be a qualification to be president, and a Nobel Peace Prize can be earned with no effort at all. Back in the day, presidents and Nobel winners actually had to have some accomplishments.

  21. 21

    1) Jobs
    2) Jobs
    3) Jobs
    4) Jobs
    5) Jobs

    And what’s his plan to do this?

    1) Tax cuts for the rich and the corporations
    2) Allow more pollution and cheating
    3) Tax cuts for the rich and the corporations
    4) Allow more pollution and cheating
    5) Tax cuts for the rich and the corporations.

    and

    6) Middle class/Poor income people pay more taxes!

    to pay for?

    7) A new war in the Middle East!

    i.e. more of the same right wing bullshit – ON STEROIDS! Should work out even worse than the last disaster.

  23. 23

    @ 19

    (hint, Even if “no one rides it” which is an unknowable claim, after it’s built, the construction workers still get paid and spend those middle-class wages in Florida which creates….JOBS.)

    In CA, they’re looking at spending more than $100B on a rail system that really won’t get much use.

    Ah, but you say the workers will still get paid and they’ll put the money back into the economy.

    If we didn’t build the rail system and just handed out $50K to each worker, annualized over the time they would have spent on the job, it likely would cost a very small fraction of what the taxpayer will spend on the whole thing.

    You make a very weak argument in your effort to justify spending stupidity. Stupid spending is stupid spending. It isn’t justified today because Bush did it, too (Doctor Steve). If we’re going to tax and spend, let’s spend it wisely. I don’t mind taxation at current levels and I don’t mind higher taxation if that additional burden is shared. I do expect the money to be spent wisely, not stupidly.

  25. 25

    This isn’t going away:

    “He didn’t pay taxes for 10 years! Now, do I know that that’s true? Well, I’m not certain,” he said. “But obviously he can’t release those tax returns. How would it look?”

    “You guys have said his wealth is $250 million,” he said. “Not a chance in the world. It’s a lot more than that. I mean, you do pretty well if you don’t pay taxes for 10 years when you’re making millions and millions of dollars.”

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....31371.html

    End it now Willard. Release the returns.

  26. 26

    The question of specifics, though, has been one that has plagued the Romney campaign — and it’s not only Democrats who have voiced this criticism.

    “The Romney campaign thinks it can play it safe and coast to the White House by saying the economy stinks and it’s Mr. Obama’s fault,” the Wall Street Journal’s right-leaning editorial board wrote in early July. “Thanks, guys, but Americans already know that. What they want to hear from the challenger is some understanding of why the President’s policies aren’t working and how Mr. Romney’s policies will do better.“

    http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_.....-fall?lite

    Heh. Good to see the right wing WSJ Editorial schmucks a little nervous.

  29. 29

    Oh this is too sweet:

    When Romney took the stage he never mentioned the middle class, but immediately launched an attack on President Obama that he called a report card. Over five minutes into his speech, and Romney still hasn’t mentioned the middle class. At the 12 minute mark of his middle class speech, Romney still hasn’t said the words middle class. At the 15 minute point of the speech, Romney claimed that building the Keystone XL pipeline would help the middle class.

    http://www.politicususa.com/mi.....class.html

  30. 30

    I love it when right wingers get together at right wing conventions, meetups, whatnot, puff out their man boobs and try to prove how much more “conservative” they are than the next right winger. It’s especially sweet to see them do this after they lose elections.

    Here’s one variation of that:

    http://thinkprogress.org/polit.....amophobic/

    They can’t help themselves. It’s too funny!

  31. 31

    @23

    Let’s assume that the lowest projected passenger level of California’s train comes true. 40million passengers per year. I’m well aware that getting conservatives to accept such things as ancilary costs exist so this might be like banging my head against the wall.

    What’s the medicare savings from that many cars off the road and the asthma and other lung diseases exacerbated by pollution? What’s the productivity gain from commute trips on a WiFi enabled train over a car? What’s the effect on tourism if a visitor can not only see Los Angeles but also San Francisco during a weekend trip? What’s the effect on tourism if say a Giants/Dodger/Padre fan can get to an out of town game in one day at relatively low cost?

    I’m drifting way off topic, BUT

    Did you learn anything about why Quinnepiac might only find 29% sample of Identified Republicans in a state where the hits for their Republican governor just keep on coming?

  32. 32

    @ 26

    A fair point to make.

    A counterpoint for Romney would be that with Obama making so many unforced errors and with the economy in decline, and in the early phase of the general with other things like summer vacations and the Olympics going on, he doesn’t need to do much right now.

    He’s got three months to make his case, and in those three months the economy is expected to decline further. All he needs to do is point it out in no uncertain terms, ask the ‘Are you better off than you were four years ago?’ question in a debate, and state in generalities what he’ll do differently. It probably will be to unshackle energy production and to eliminate the uncertainty of tax burden on those who are currently unwilling to spend and hire.

    Meanwhile, Obama’s spending like crazy, running ads, and his numbers are consistently below 50%.

    There’s the VP selection, then it’s two people hammering Obama.

    He’ll have Cruz, Sandoval, Martinez, and Rubio as surrogates. He’ll have Jindal and Haley as surrogates. Chris Christie. That’s some very serious, and diverse, firepower.

    I think Romney’s in good position. And he doesn’t have to ask John Boehner to go to the House floor and accuse Obama of a felony without the least bit of substantiation.

  33. 33

    “One of the things he talks about most is how he heroically showed up on the scene and bailed out and resolved the problems of the Salt Lake City Olympic Games,” Rick Santorum, now a Romney supporter, said in February when he opposed Romney for the GOP nomination. “He heroically bailed out the Salt Lake City Olympic Games by heroically going to Congress and asking them for tens of millions of dollars to bail out the Salt Lake Games — in an earmark.“

    http://www.kgw.com/home/Feds-b.....99746.html

    I thought right wingers didn’t like earmarks.

  35. 35

    @ 31

    Did you learn anything about why Quinnepiac might only find 29% sample of Identified Republicans in a state where the hits for their Republican governor just keep on coming?

    Er, selection bias?

    Curious that we each find that divergence from FL 2010 exit poll data helpful to our respective candidates. You go right on thinking it’s good for Obama. We’re counting on it.

  36. 36

    @ 33

    You need to look at it a different way.

    Romney was tasked to make the Games a success. He did so, and more.

    When he was governor of MA, his task was to do what was best for MA citizens.

    When he led Bain, his task was to enrich Bain investors.

    When tasks change, so does the approach of the executive.

    If Romney has been successful at one task after another, why would he not be successful as president?

    Yes, the GOP, supposedly, opposes earmarks. Except the ones we like or need. It’s hypocrisy. Absolutely.

    You can make all sorts of excuses for why Romney’s success hasn’t been angelic. Doesn’t change the fact that his record is one of consistent success. Sorry about that.

  37. 37

    @19

    http://www.publicpolicypolling.....llany.html

    -Several polls have shown now that Rick Scott would lose in 2014 if Charlie Crist became a Democrat and ran against him but our newest survey finds that Democrats might not need that high of a profile candidate to knock off Scott, at least if he remains this unpopular. 5% of voters in the state have a positive opinion of State Senator Nan Rich. Only 14% have even heard of her. And despite that she still leads Scott by 12 points in a hypothetical match up, 47-35.

    Obviously that finding has a lot more to do with Scott than it does with Rich. His approval rating has sunk back down to 31%, with 56% of voters disapproving of him. One thing that hasn’t done his popularity any favors lately is his push to eliminate some people from the voter rolls. Only 34% of voters approve of that effort to 50% who disagree with it.

    Holly shit Scott’s in bad shape. Florida’s a bit of shit hole so I haven’t been paying attention to what goes on there.

    To be fair, the high-speed rail plan in FL was a boondoggle and that money got spent else where on plans that actually made sense.

  39. 39

    “A Mississippi mother is accusing police in Jonesboro, Arkansas of killing her son after he was found shot in the head with his hands cuffed behind his back in a squad car.”

    Searched first, left handed, shot in the right temple.

    That’s gotta warm our racist Bob’s heart to know that another black “thug”, as he calls Trayvon Martin, was killed.

    Tell us again, Bob, how it was that you concluded that Trayvon was a “thug” who deserved to die? Wasn’t it because some wingnut hater posted some lies about Martin and that was and is good enough for you?

  41. 41

    “He didn’t pay taxes for 10 years! Now, do I know that that’s true? Well, I’m not certain,” he said. “But obviously he can’t release those tax returns. How would it look?”

    Hmmm… ylbuttspgot still dwelling on that useless speculation.

    Well dopes have to keep dope alive!

  42. 42

    @ 37

    2014 election is two+ years off. Scott’s fine.

    Crist wants to be Senator. He’s been governor.

    The bigger question might be: Do the Dems want to saddle their horse to a slimebucket like Crist?

  43. 43

    Did the WalMart family steal it ylbuttspigot?

    Seems class warfare is all the unemployed moron of HA ylbuttspigot has.

  44. 44

    @41

    2014 election is two+ years off. Scott’s fine.

    No, Scott’s a governor at 31%, he’s up shit creek. It’s hard to get much done when you’re at 31/56.

    Never said anything about the election.

  45. 45

    “Scott’s fine.”

    Yeah, just like the SCOTUS ACA decision was a slam dunk. You do know, don’t you, that you’re batting average is .000?

  46. 46

    @ 44

    His numbers stick in no small part due to the voter rolls thing.

    It’s hard to get much done when you’re at 31/56.

    He got DOJ to give him the database access they were refusing to provide to him. That was hard but not because he was unpopular. One might even be inclined to call him successful in that endeavor.

    Now that FL doesn’t have to use the outmoded data which were the source of the bad publicity, that issue (incorrect identification of voters as ineligible) will begin to recede.

  49. 49

    @ 45

    I’m at .500. I picked Walker. I was off by several percent.

    I’m wondering how many HAers correctly predicted that Roberts would vote with the conservatives, and then change his vote to one which in a tortured manner gave the liberals what they think they wanted.

    You’re right, Doctor Steve, I did not predict that. You got me.

  50. 50

    “I did not predict that.”

    I got a good laugh at how you immediately slithered away from HA after that one. Even funnier were your lame excuses for your disappearance when you came back.

  51. 51

    Hey Steve,

    Gabby won the invididual GOLD medal today! Nothing from the knuckledragging rujax!

  52. 52

    Wow 79th EPIC FAYLE from HA ylbuttspigot.

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    See ylbuttspigot!

  53. 53

    @ 50

    I got a good laugh at how you immediately slithered away from HA after that one. Even funnier were your lame excuses for your disappearance when you came back.

    I’m glad a death in my family played to your amusement. I’ll try to schedule those at more opportune times in the future.

  54. 54

    @51 That was absolutely wonderful, Puddy! As I’m sure you know, Gabby was also the first American to win both individual gold as well as team gold. Well done, Gabby!

  55. 55

    @ 48

    Busy here. Looked for the poll quickly and couldn’t find it.

    You are speaking of registered percentages. I refer to exit poll percentages of those who actually voted.

    There’s a difference. That’s my explanation.

    Have a good day, HA human-types. You, too, Doctor Steve.

  56. 56

    “I’m glad a death in my family played to your amusement. I’ll try to schedule those at more opportune times in the future.”

    Seeing as how at the same time a very good friend of mine was shot dead on a Seattle street for her car, yeah, I thought yours a just was a damned lame excuse, Bob, and likely pulled from your ass.

  59. 59

    @ 56

    Well, I’m a conservative. I’ve just got it coming, I guess.

    I’m sorry about your friend’s death, Steve.

  60. 60

    “Well, I’m a conservative. I’ve just got it coming, I guess.”

    No, you’re a racist, Bob. And yes, you do have it coming. You wrote not one word about the loss suffered by Trayvon’s parents. Instead of showing even an ounce of sympathy, you chose instead to dance on Trayvon’s grave and, based on lies spewed by another racist, pronounced him to be a black “thug” who deserved to die. And then, after hiding for a week, you had the nerve to talk about your own loss and use it as an excuse for a disappearance after your humiliating SCOTUS loss.

    “I’m sorry about your friend’s death, Steve.”

    Stuff it. Be sorry about Trayvon Martin’s death. But that will never happen because you’re a goddamned racist.

  61. 61

    Puddy looked at the Forbes 400…

    Warren Buffett
    Bill Gates
    Larry Ellison

    all love the DUMMOCRAPT! Nothing from the libtard MSM.

  62. 62

    Yes, Puddy, she was the one killed outside Virginia Mason Hospital. She was also a friend to my Dear Ms. Wingnut.

  63. 63

    @55

    And you cling to the belief that the exit polls of a wave election and serious buyer’s remorse over the results of that election means the exit polls of 2012 will be exactly like 2010.

    I admire your faith, even while I find it delusional.

  65. 65

    @61 I couldn’t count how many times members of the 1% helped me out when I was a teen, while the state was dropping the ball. To demonize the entire 1% would not only require me to demoonize them, but also very likely my friend, Gloria, the woman who was murdered.

    It wouldn’t be right.

  67. 67

    7. czechsaaz spews:
    @1

    New Quinnipiac polls yesterday has Obama above the margin of error in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida.

    Explain again how Willard gets to 270 electoral votes

    I’ve already been thru that.
    I acknowledge that without Ohio & Florida, it’s virtually impossible. however, one pollsters poll in early August hardly means Romney should fold up the tent. Other polls say it’s much closer. I do not acknowledge that Quinnipac is the end-all poll.

  69. 69

    Puddy doesn’t trust exit polls. Just look at Wisconsin. Exit poll used by CNN were biased! Scott won by the correct poll margin!

  71. 71

    So did most of us liberals on here…

    Really? Do I need to replay the comments up to the recall election?

    HAHAHAHAHA!

  72. 72

    I was thinkng about DeathFrogg’s post yesterday explaining his plight @ 48YO with dated skills and few prospects. I don’t think it’s funny but I do think it’s precisely what obama has in mind with his dependency class voting block. When people are voting for someone because they are in survival mode, I suppose listening to president jive-ass makes sense. After all, he’s promising you plenty of free shit and an illusion, only illusion of hope for a better tomorrow. The reality is, obama’s power comes from government dependent people.

  73. 73

    Damn if Puddy. I’ve been avoiding sports news all day since the streaming is pretty buggy for me. Would have been nice to see the World Champion in the finals. Don’t think it would have changed things as Gabby is the one on a roll right now. But one-two USA was possible.

    But thems the rules and I don’t want to be like a Hillary supporter bitching that if only they counted the primaries and not caucuses, blah, blah, blah..

  74. 74

    @72 “jive-ass”

    I can tell that you’re just itchin’ to spew out “jive-ass nigger”. Don’t be shy, you damned racist, go for it.

  75. 75

    @71
    Don’t know, do you? I figured on Walker winning, maybe I accidentally transfered my thinking to most of us. Or maybe I got that one wrong. I’m not really all that worried about it.

  76. 76

    I was thinkng about DeathFrogg’s post yesterday explaining his plight @ 48YO with dated skills and few prospects. I don’t think it’s funny but I do think it’s precisely what obama has in mind with his dependency class voting block.

    Personally, I think it’s exactly what Obama was thinking about when his admin helped employers get together with technical schools to start programs to update workers skills and get them working again.

    EV, you really are an idiot.

  78. 78

    While we’re on the subject of governors, we should probably note that John Kasich, the Republican governor of Ohio, hasn’t broke the 50% mark in about forever.

    Wednesday, August 01, 2012, 6:25 PM
    The Republican governor’s approval number shot up to 47 percent in the latest Quinnipiac University poll which was released on Wednesday, his highest number since taking office in January 2011.
    That is an improvement over the 41 percent mark Kasich had registered the entire year in this poll, and most recently in May. Last November, right after voters resoundingly repealed a new restrictive collective bargaining law backed by Kasich, the governor’s job approval also hit a low point at 36 percent.

  79. 79

    DOOCY: Remember, it wasn’t just people supporting Dan Cathy for his Christian values. … People not only supporting his Christian values, and they are closed on Sundays. But also just the CEO’s right to say what he thinks. You know, a lot of people wound up going — I was reading in the New York Post today about how a lot of people went over to New Jersey to a Chick-Fil-A, and it wasn’t to support the family-values thing, but to support his right to say something, because so many people on the left are so intolerant — you gotta be able to say in this country what you think!

    Say what you think? Well, unless you’re a company taking a progressive stance, of course. How many companies have wingnuts boycotted because they didn’t hate on gays? Issn’t it something like 28 of them so far? Oreo cookies was one of them, also GE. Maybe Bob or Ev can remind us exactly which companies wingnuts were intolerant of for not hating gays.

  80. 80

    Re: Willard vs. Harry Reid.

    Willard went on Hannity and said, “It’s time for Harry to put up or shut up.”

    Is it genetics or upbringing that have robbed Willard of any sense of irony?

  81. 81

    @80 I’d cross out genetics or upbringing. He doesn’t remind me of his parents one bit. The acorn called “Mitt” ended up a long ways from the tree.

  82. 82

    @79

    If all the Christians who went to Chick-Fil-A yesterday bought a sandwich and found a homeless person to feed it to, they’d actually be living The Word. Sadly, no.

  84. 84

    82. Czechsaaz spews:
    @79

    If all the Christians who went to Chick-Fil-A yesterday bought a sandwich and found a homeless person to feed it to, they’d actually be living The Word. Sadly, no.

    Actually, yes.

    I came across a photo of a woman who bought a few bags of sandwiches, which she took to a homeless shelter.

    There are sites which aggregate the Chick Fil-A gatherings photos and have mapped them. Don’t have the time to look for it right now but it might have been on legalinsurrection.com.

    Sorry the facts don’t fit your meme. That’s what really makes you sad…………………

  88. 88

    In its current form, the Watts paper contains little in the way of useful analysis. There are too many potential sources of bias which are not accounted for, too many apples-to-oranges comparisons, and they cannot draw any conclusions about urban heat influences until their data are homogenized and other non-climate influences are removed.

    The primary conclusion of the paper, aside from not being supported by the analysis, is simply implausible. The CONUS surface warming trend proposed by the Watts paper appears to be inconsistent with the satellite observations, and overall global trends in raw data do not differ dramatically from those in the adjusted data. Comparing raw to adjusted data globally shows a rather small difference in long-term trends; far smaller than a factor of two.

    The flaws we have identified entirely compromise the conclusions of the paper.

    http://www.skepticalscience.co.....tique.html

  89. 89

    “a woman”

    One? One woman? That’s all?? That’s it? In case you don’t know it, that’s another fail for you.

  90. 90

    Well, I suppose if “3” equals a “bazillion” in your mind, then “1” must be a damned huge number for you as well. Fail again.

  91. 91

    There is a war on Religion and the Republicans are leading it. They’ve hijacked the meaning of being a Christian. Remember the big Party of Freedom – opps they don’t always believe in Freedom.

    “We are very much supportive of the family — the biblical definition of the family unit. We are a family-owned business, a family-led business, and we are married to our first wives. We give God thanks for that,” Cathy is quoted as saying.

    To me I’d be more offended if I was a divorcee than a gay person.

  92. 92

    87. “little maxie” the asshat troll is just another right wing racist liar. spews:
    Will they finally wake up?

    http://www.businessweek.com/ap.....ed-in-july

    Hmmmm. Not likely…

    08/02/2012 AT 5:11 PM

    OH NOES! IT TEH GLOBULL WORMING!

    RUN FOR YUR LIVES!

    IFN WE PAYZ TEH SOOPERMAN ALGORE, HE CAN MAKE DEFEET TEH GLOBULL WORMING MONZTUR!

  93. 93

    @86 hey douche bag, I don’t need a photo of someone else lending a hand to a homeless person, I do it myself on many occasions.

  94. 94

    @84

    Oh dear. That picture you found? It’s from seven days ago. Not on stuff your face to hate the gays day.

    Good for them though. These are the kinds of Christians I respect. I’m sure the example you found was even 50%+1 of the folks dining yesterday?

  97. 97

    “Oh dear. That picture you found? It’s from seven days ago.”

    LMFAO!! Damn, now I have to change Bob’s “Fail” to “Epic Fucking Fail”.

  98. 98

    In a previous thread I exposed the magnitude of Dr. Butt’s 24x7x365.25 “love” for the HA community.

    Here’s what must be a source of this “love”:

    During the Under God Indivisible Conference at Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Love” rally, Caucus for America’s Aryeh Spero in a thinly-veiled attack on President Obama appeared to compare him to Ahab, the king of Israel who along with his wife Jezebel promoted Baal worship.

    http://www.rightwingwatch.org/.....lijah-ahab

  101. 101

    “Sorry the facts don’t fit your meme. That’s what really makes you sad…………………”

    You smarmy, snide bastard. You got that “fact” of yours shoved up your ass. How’s your own “sad” feel, Bob…………………?

  105. 105

    @ 94

    http://legalinsurrection.com/w.....-fil-a.jpg

    Although now that I look carefully I realize the motives might not be fully altruistic:

    Republican candidate for Illinois State Representative Kimberly Small, along with a friend who took up a collection at his office, bought bags of the chicken sandwiches to deliver to an area homeless shelter.

    Figured I should point out the political angle before I ended up with egg on my face again.

    Nonetheless, here’s the message you should be receiving from this Chick Fil-A thing:

    http://teresainfortworth.files.....-comin.jpg

  108. 108

    They’re nothing more than sheep.

    “We love you O-BAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH-MA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  109. 109

    I haven’t actually met Doctor Steve. In my mind he’s pretty much this guy:

    http://www.businessinsider.com.....-it-2012-8

    I wasn’t thinking about anyone until the dude uttered this line:

    ”I’m a nice guy, by the way … totally heterosexual,” he continues. “Not a gay in me, I just can’t stand the hate.”

    Liberals who hate who think they don’t hate. Gotta love ’em.

  111. 111

    I wonder why they all didn’t come with their American flags, you the people of the big party of freedom – oppps they only are for freedom sometimes, comes with an asterisk.

  112. 112

    @ 110

    I’m saying, and forgive my repetition (@ 105), this:

    http://teresainfortworth.files.....-comin.jpg

    Call those people whatever you wish. But you had better believe they’ll all be in the voting booths in November. This wasn’t some band of SEIU types bussed to Madison from Michigan, or teachers who took a paid day off from the classroom because some fraud MD would give them a note, or otherwise astroturfed demonstration.

    This was a boatload of people who, with little organized preconception, took time off in the middle of a workday to stand in long lines to make a point.

    Those are in-the-bag voters. Lots of them.

    No apology needed, Gman.

  114. 114

    @112 – not sure if there is much strength in numbers, bigots mobilized against blacks and lost. Eventually you will lose. Can’t be the party of freedom and also deny people at the same time, because if religious beliefs. Aren’t we also supposedly free to practice any religion or no religion. Completely hypocritical.

  115. 115

    Oh no repeat stupidity of ylbuttspigot.

    Still in useless diarrhea mode. Nothing significant was shitted out today!

  116. 116

    “I haven’t actually met Doctor Steve.”

    I’d call that your good fucking fortune, Bob, because I don’t cotton to racists like you.

  117. 117

    Bob’s sociopathic candidate says to Reid, “Put up or shut up”.

    Oops!.

    From Huffpo,

    A second source, said to be “close to Senator [Harry] Reid,” has told CNN’s Dana Bash that Reid’s original source for the claim that Mitt Romney “didn’t pay any taxes for 10 years” exists, is a “Bain investor” and a “credible person.” Dana Bash reported on this source, and the person’s willingness to corroborate the allegation to which the Senate majority leader repeated on Thursday’s airing of CNN’s AC360.

    You can settle this, Mitt. You just have to show us those tax returns.

  118. 118

    Just like obama can settle the issue about whether he lied on his college apps and transcripts..
    Just show us the college info Barry Soetoro.

  119. 119

    Ev,

    No President in us history has ever released their transcripts.

    So shove it up your teabagging ass until you get Bachmann, Cain, Perry, Santorum and Romney to release their, you racist, teabagging whiner.

  120. 120

    Oh course HA ylbuttspigot won’t want to see this…

    Jon Stewart very thoroughly ripped into Senator Harry Reid for not just claiming that Mitt Romney hasn’t paid taxes for ten years without caring about whether it is true or not, but for his unbelievable statement that Romney’s father would be “embarrassed” by how his son is running his campaign. Stewart said that if anyone ever admits they don’t know if something is true, especially when they say it right after they made the original charge, they should “shut up,” and then introduced the title of the segment: “You, Harry Reid, Are Terrible.”

  122. 122

    It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages. – Henry Ford

    The six walton heirs may have the same wealth as the bottom 40% of the population, but if the 40% doesn’t have disposable incomes, companies cannot sell their products.
    Why can’t conservative figure this out?

  124. 124

    @122,

    They can, but if they actually try to focus on policy to improve the economy right now it violates their oath to do everything they can to make sure Obama loses.

  126. 126

    Why can’t conservative figure this out?

    And the top three righest Americans vote DUMMOCRAPT… Why can’t a libtard figger that out?

  127. 127

    How much do the top three Americans have in their riches? $120Billion. Of course these three are not pariahs because they love the DUMMOCRAPTS!

    The Waltons have $92Billion.

    Hmmm…?

  129. 129

    Lessee $92Billion:40% of population – 6 Waltons
    Then $120Billion:52% of population – Three Richest DUMMOCRAPT lovers

  130. 130

    Hmmm… Politifact got it wrong on Olympic taxes

    Poltifact admits that after they checked with their own experts, it was confirmed that prizes awarded would be taxable.

    And

    Equipment purchased must be individually accounted for as a depreciable expense. Second, the athlete must itemize his deductions, rather than take the standard deduction. Third, the athlete must reduce his training expenses by 2 percent of his adjusted gross income. For an athlete earning $250,000, that means disallowing the first $5,000 of expenses. Finally, if the athlete finds himself in the alternative minimum tax (AMT), which many six-figure earners do, this deduction is disallowed completely.

  131. 131

    119. Meme1 spews:
    Ev,

    No President in us history has ever released their transcripts.

    no President has ever been accused of lying to get preference as a Foreign Student when he wasn’t.

    Just release the transcripts.
    Personally, I believe Romney has them.
    Romney has friends everywhere.
    LOOK OUT, HE’S UNDER YOUR BED.
    Dumbass.

  133. 133

    YLB seems to be diggin’ man-holes.

    switch hitter, eh?

    ewwwww…just…..ewwwwww…

  134. 134

    124. Meme1 spews:
    @122,

    They can, but if they actually try to focus on policy to improve the economy right now it violates their oath to do everything they can to make sure Obama loses.

    08/02/2012 AT 9:58 PM

    Yes, because handing out “free stuff” is the way to national prosperity.

    not.

  136. 136

    195,000 fewer Americans working.

    While the figures themselves have been gloomy enough, there is considerable debate over whether the Labor Department’s headline numbers present the true picture.

    A measure that takes into account those who have stopped looking for jobs as well as those working part-time for economic reasons has hovered near 15 percent. The so-called “real” unemployment rate, or U-6 measure, is above 20 percent in Nevada and California.

    On a national level, that more encompassing rate edged higher to 15.0 percent.

    http://www.cnbc.com/id/48480887

  137. 137

    And we have already covered, over and over, that joblessness is caused by the republicans.
    Republicans block Bring Jobs Home Act, protecting companies that outsource jobs

    As Reid pointed out, “It’s no surprise Republicans are on the side of corporations making big bucks sending American jobs to China and India. After all, their presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, made a fortune outsourcing jobs, too.”
    http://www.dailykos.com/story/.....ource-jobs

  138. 138

    I’m SHOCKED to learn that Solyndra’s collapse was not a complete surprise to our president.

    Buried in the treasure trove of White House emails related to Solyndra released Thursday by the House Energy and Commerce Committee is one suggesting that concerns about Solyndra’s viability were shared all the way up to then-White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley a full six months before the company went bust.

    http://hotair.com/archives/201.....ankruptcy/

    Explains how George Kaiser got paid off and how an illegal loan restructuring that handed the US taxpayer a larger loss came to be, doesn’t it?

  139. 139

    Did ylbuttspigot diarrhea again?

    Yes your honor! The Prosecution Rests for the 80th time.

    Such a ylbuttspigot!

  140. 140

    Hey Fascist one, acting like your preznit… Obummer and his sadministration rejected the The Domestic Energy and Jobs Act in June. Why… it opened the Keystone Pipeline. So Republicans gave fair play to Stabenow’s bill. WHile that bill would immediately help private US sector job growth, how would Stabenow’s bill immediately help private US sector job growth you scream and shout over?

    See how simple that was? And you run to Daily Kooks for your “information” like rujax, ylbuttspigot, and Lib da schmuck! All you need to do is look at Ohio and North Dakota and NUFF Said immediately pops to mind!

  141. 141

    Still waiting for the Fascist one to discuss how the top three on the Forbes 400 list have the same wealth as the bottom 52% of the population. Nary a peep about that!

    Why did he run away? BECAUSE those three jockstrap the DUMMOCRAPT!

  142. 142

    And you leftist morons run to this site all the time. Then look at the nitwit list the “<3".

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

    Oopsie! It was a dumpster fire near the light fixtures!

  144. 144

    @131

    No presidential candidate in history has ever been accused of being a pedophile. Why won’t Romeny release all the records of his Deaconship in the Mormon Church?

    Cue the Bachman…”I’m not saying Mitt Romney is a pedophile, I’m just asking the question.”

    Silly, silly, right wing radio meme.

  145. 145

    Cue the crybaby music

    The Prosecution Rests

    The Prosecution Rests The Prosecution Rests The Prosecution Rests The Prosecution Rests The Prosecution Rests The Prosecution Rests The Prosecution Rests The Prosecution Rests The Prosecution Rests The Prosecution Rests The Prosecution Rests The Prosecution Rests The Prosecution Rests The Prosecution Rests The Prosecution Rests The Prosecution Rests The Prosecution Rests The Prosecution Rests The Prosecution Rests The Prosecution Rests The Prosecution Rests

    DumbASS ylbuttspigot! Bestus name Puddy thought of in years!

  146. 146

    Why won’t Romeny release all the records of his Deaconship in the Mormon Church?

    What law precludes that release?

  147. 147

    @144

    Mitt Romney is a PEDOPHILE?!!

    REALLY?!

    I hadn’t heard that. Do you have links? Will that destroy his chances to be President? Why would the Republicans nominate a pedophile?

    How did the once proud and patriotic Republican party sink so low?

    Why do the right wingers around here, like puddles and ev, continue to support a pedophile for President? What’s wrong with these people???

  148. 148

    #140. You mean THIS fake jobs bill?

    Republicans claim it will produce more jobs and spur more domestic oil and gas production by authorizing more leasing of public land and relaxing eco-regulations. The White House strongly opposes the bill and says it will harm national security and undermine environmental rules and the public’s right to comment on decision-making about oil and gas development.
    http://www.dailykos.com/story/.....cans-today

    You gotta get more information than just fox news.

  149. 149

    Reposed here because I was off topic, in another thread.

    There is a photo of people lined up in front of Chick what’s it’s name restaurant.
    Caption:
    “You never see that many Christians lined up to help a food bank or a homeless shelter
    And that’s something Jesus actually said to do.”

    What I don’t understand is the so called Christians glee in supporting hate and bigotry. How does marriage equality cause their marriage to be diminished? How does a gay couple getting married, cause straight people’s marriage to unravel? You would think the so called Christians would want to promote couples in long term committed relationships.

  150. 150

    @ 149

    My response to NTfF’s initial text, also reposted for the same reason:

    The Chick Fil-A support events are a one-time thing, organized on short notice and largely word-of-mouth.

    One similarly might think of a disaster, such as a tornado or flood, as another type of one-time thing, in which responses are organized on short notice and through phone trees and electronic media.

    Google ‘church disaster relief’ and you’ll see a large number of organized religions with disaster response centers, ready to help.

    You seem to be suggesting that on Wednesday, homeless centers weren’t filled with Christians with sleeves rolled up, helping out, and criticizing religious types for being somewhere else. True, but those centers also weren’t filled with liberals, sleeves rolled up. They seemed to all be online, criticizing the Christians.

    When one-time events strike, churches frequently are the second to help out. They prepare to do so. Churches have food banks, domestic crisis centers (my mother had to use one in the 60s), and a lot of other sources of support for those in need.

    I’m somewhere between agnostic and atheist but your argument seems idiotic. Today is gay-kiss day at Chick Fil-A or something like that. Shouldn’t you be calling out the gay community for standing in line and putting on shows for the cameras, rather than spending that time at homeless centers?

    Just sayin’.

    I have no response to NTfF’s updated additional comment because I see little daylight between said comments and my own perspective in the matter.

  151. 151

    Another example of how he didn’t build this without help. Not that he notices or cares.
    http://i.imgur.com/4GD4T.jpg
    I never understand why these self made businessmen don’t move to Somalia and see how hard it is to run a business with no government infrastructure or support.

  152. 152

    @150. I see that these so called Christians are able to take time out of their day and give money, to support an company that spends money on causes that hurt gay people. It’s an interesting way to vote with one’s wallet and see where their priorities are.
    You don’t have a problem with that. I get that.

  153. 153

    @ 152

    I also don’t have a problem with flag burning. Unless it’s on my lawn.

    People believe what they believe. If they use their after-tax dollars and their lunch hour to engage in a First Amendment activity, that’s their choice.

    I actually have not looked at this carefully enough to know what you are referring to when you state that the company spends money on causes that hurt gay people. Specific, link, por favor.

  155. 155

    I never understand why these self made businessmen don’t move to Somalia

    Who needs Somalia when you’ve got American Samoa. Right now the “farm bill” is being held up in the senate, by amongst other things, a huge tax break for a StarKist Tuna cannery in American Samoa. Most US labor laws already don’t apply in American Samoa.

  156. 156

    @ 154

    Er, OK. He’s a Christian conservative and puts his money where his mouth is. I guess that’s hurtful to gays in much the same way that donations to Planned Parenthood are hurtful to evangelical Christians and Catholics.

    I don’t like the close relationship between GE’s chairman and the Obama administration. Doesn’t stop me from buying GE light bulbs.

  157. 157

    People believe what they believe… to engage in a First Amendment activity, that’s their choice.
    Just as it’s my First Amendment activity to point out that their actions are not in keeping with the teachings of Jesus.
    I also understand your point. It is their first Amendment right. I also understand your bias. You also thought it was funny to ridicule of the appearance of an African American girl.

  159. 159

    @155 Republicans fought tooth and nail to have “Made in USA” labels allowed for goods produced by the slave labor sweatshops in the Marianas. Like tax breaks for shipping American jobs overeseas, it’s something Republicans really believe in and fought for. It’s a crying shame that they never fight for American jobs like that. If they did, we might have actually seen a real jobs bill come out of the House these last couple of years. But jobs simply wasn’t a priority for them. Rather, they focused their energy on assaulting worker and women’s rights. Wingnut priorities on full display.

  160. 160

    donations to Planned Parenthood are hurtful to evangelical Christians and Catholics.

    I have never understood that logic.

    If evangelical Christians and Catholics don’t approve of birth control, don’t use it. What gives evangelical Christians and Catholics the right to force other people to live the way they demand?

    And Planned Parenthood is not the same thing as anti gay groups. Planned Parenthood is not telling people who don’t use Planned Parenthood how to live. They are not out there forcing Catholics to use birth control. They give people choices.
    Gay groups are not out there forcing straight people into gay relationships.

  161. 161

    “You also thought it was funny to ridicule of the appearance of an African American girl.”

    I might have missed it, but has Bob ridiculed the appearance of Gabby Douglas yet? If not yet, it’s coming, no doubt.

    Geez, I wonder why Bob has only ridiculed the appearance of blacks?

  162. 162

    Why then do evangelical Christians and Catholics fight sex ed and birth control which gives people the tools and skills they need so they don’t need abortions?

  163. 163

    @ 162

    Direct your question to someone who is religious and/or pro-life, as I am neither.

  165. 165

    Steve, let’s not put words in SerCon’s mouth. It’s better to let him hang himself. Besides I believe people can change if it something they want to do.

  166. 166

    My goodness! Do a search on “Gabby Douglas nigger” and you can see how people like Bob really feel about a black girl winning Olympic gold. But I warn you, when people like Bob start spewing unbridled race hate, it gets really fucking ugly.

  167. 167

    Direct your question to someone who is religious and/or pro-life, as I am neither.

    After using the religious and/or pro-life as a justification for your arguments, you now claim no knowledge of them. That’s pathetic.

  168. 168

    @ 164

    I started to read your link and then got to Southern Poverty Law Center, which:

    1. Made me laugh out loud (SPLC doesn’t think what 99+% of the rest of us think about Armenian genocide history), and

    2. Made me do a little googling about some stuff I recalled.

    I digress, but since people are asking why Mitt Romney needs an account in the Cayman Islands, I might also ask:

    Why does the Southern Poverty Law Center need an account in the Cayman Islands?

    http://mpetrelis.blogspot.com/.....ayman.html

  169. 169

    @ 167

    After using the religious and/or pro-life as a justification for your arguments, you now claim no knowledge of them. That’s pathetic.

    I did nothing of the sort. I stated that I was neither pro-life nor religious, and declined to respond to your question. They’re used to explaining who and what they are. They’re in the process of doing that right now as a result of recent HHS pronouncements.

    I’m fine letting them stand or fall on the basis of their arguments.

    I suspect that if you were to read their briefs, you would find the answer to your question, and suggest you do so.

  170. 170

    That was from 2010. From the SAME blog post if you bothered to read to the end.
    Asked and Answered.

    Michael,
    The Center has an endowment that was created both to cushion the Center from financial shocks and to provide a secure source of income to support our programs well into the future. The endowment is governed by an independent board of directors and overseen by an investment committee appointed by the board. The investment committee retains the services of a prominent and highly respected financial advisory group that is known in particular for its work with non-profit entities, including universities, hospitals, and foundations.
    The Center’s investment advisors recommend to the investment committee certain fund investments intended to provide the most security for the endowment, while achieving reasonable growth. Some of these funds include alternative equity investments that utilize “off-shore” accounts, for reasons that would be important to some investors for tax and privacy reasons, but not to many non-profits, such as the Center. These off-shore assets make up an small component of the endowment.
    Penny Weaver
    Public Affairs

    An interesting comment

    Reserves and Cayman Islands Account
    Posted by John Rose | January 6, 2011 7:38:35 AM
    I believe the high reserves and the Cayman Islands account can be seen as prudent measures for an organization that takes anti-oligarchical stands in defense of ordinary people. Indeed, this is the only way SPLC can have the confidence to continue.
    Remember what happened to Acorn. They were sabotaged with widely disseminated video footage that totally misrepresented the events that were shown and as a result the organization closed it’s doors within months because they had no money to operate.
    I had been observing with admiration Acorn’s operation for 30 years and suddenly it no longer existed. SPLC is wise to provide better for their survival.

  171. 171

    OH Fascist one…

    When you run to Daily Kooks, your credibility drops below rujax! He doesn’t give credit to the first black all-around female gymnast! Is that what you like?

    How about a libtard MSM site huh which reports the news without the useless bias?

  172. 172

    Nice diversion, and another fail per @170. In other words, you want to avoid even acknowledging the very unfortunate experiences of gay employees of Chick-Fil-A.

  173. 173

    Mr Cathy has no hiring bias. But the gays who work for Chick-Fil-A are getting slammed by left wrong progressive love!

  174. 174

    171. Puddybud spews:

    OH Fascist one…

    When you run to Daily Kooks, your credibility drops below rujax! He doesn’t give credit to the first black all-around female gymnast! Is that what you like?

    How about a libtard MSM site huh which reports the news without the useless bias?

    08/03/2012 at 11:07 am

    The puddywhippedpussy calls ‘Ol Rujax “not credible”.

    OK.

    The puddywhippedpussy never offers evidence… is neverevereverever wrong about ANYTHING…when the puddywhippedpussy does cite some new “liberal crime” the puddywhippedpussy twists and misrepresents anything and everything he can gets his hands on…the puddywhippedpussy endlessly quotes clownservative uncle tom jack-offs like Ward Connerly and Thomas Sowell…and whack-job right wing propaganda like wingnut daily, clown hall and faux news and…

    …pathologically hates anyone who doesn’t think like him, who doesn’t believe what he believes and/or who doesn’t do the he does.

    Right.

    He’s credible…

    …a fucking waste of band-width is what he is.

    PS he’s going to hell for wanking…per Ellen White.

  176. 176

    Hmm, I wonder which commie-Marxist-liberal spoke these treasonous words,

    Should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group of course that believes you can do these things. Among them are a few other Texas oil millionaires and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid.

    Any idea, Bob? Ev?

  177. 177

    SURFACE SURFACE SURFACE…

    rujax bullshit spotted floating down from the surface.

    Notice he still hasn’t congratulated Gabby Douglas. What kind of “black man” is this useless smelly turd?

  178. 178

    Cathy’s a fucking bigot.

    There’s a powerful comment from rujax. Did ya read that on the Daily Kooks page? Can you PROVE IT? Did Mr. Cathy say he HATED gays?

    Whatadumbcinderblockmoron rujax is.

    Why does rujax hate Gabby Douglas?

    It’s his natural nature your honor. The Prosecution Rests!

  179. 179

    The puddywhippedpussy never offers evidence

    Puddy posts the most links here ya idiot! And I don’t have to prove it!

    Such a sucka!

  181. 181

    The GOP – The Republican Party – The Big Party of American Freedom*

    *with limitations on civil liberties

  183. 183

    Mitt telling the USA Olympians, “You didn’t build that!”

    ROMNEY: You Olympians, however, know you didn’t get here solely on your own power. For most of you, loving parents, sisters or brothers, encouraged your hopes, coaches guided, communities built venues in order to organize competitions. All Olympians stand on the shoulders of those who lifted them.We’ve already cheered the Olympians, let’s also cheer the parents, coaches, and communities.

  184. 184

    177. ButtPutty spews:
    What kind of “black man” is this useless smelly turd?

    You looking in the mirror again ButtPutty?

    BTW ButtPutty, how much do the Kochs pay their whores these days? Inquiring minds want to know. Enough to keep you in goats?

  185. 185

    179. ButtPutty spews:
    ButtPutty posts the most links here ya idiot! And I don’t have to prove it!

    Too bad your links are seldom relevant.
    Of course the Kochs do not care.
    Quantity, not quality, is their motto for their whores.

  186. 186

    http://thinkprogress.org/justi.....er-purges/

    New Analysis: Voter Purges Disproportionately Remove Minorities, Seniors, Young People

    By Josh Israel on Aug 2, 2012 at 2:00 pm

    (see web page for picture)
    John Lewis being beaten by state troopers, March 7, 1965

    Catalist, a company that provides voting list data to progressive organizations, is among the closest observers of changes to voting rolls around the country. In analysis shared with ThinkProgress, the company observes that since November 2008, certain groups of living residents have been far more likely to be purged from the voting roles than others.

    Their data suggests that beyond the wide variation in purge rates across states, there is significant variation within states:

    This post starts off with a picture of John Lewis…a real American hero…getting beaten by state troopers on “Bloody Sunday” May 7th 1965 in Selma, Alabama.

    Little fucks like this puddybuddy character forget, conveniently, that this was just 47 years ago. Five minutes in historical context. They ignore the fact that bigotry and discrimination are making a comeback. Rights of women and workers are threatened, racial and gender minorities are facing new biases…working families are denied wages enough to live on.

    Ignorant, ungrateful pricks like this one parade around in their strutting peacock holier-than-thou finery and spit on the graves of those who fought and died to make their fine-ass lifestyle that they looooove to brag about possible.

    That puddybuddy is a real champion all right. A champion fucking phony.

  187. 187

    What is the difference between a hooker and a Koch whore?

    The hooker offers more value for the same dollar.
    Ask anyone at the Rethuglican Convention.

  189. 189

    @158

    I made no claims about any specific senators profiting from the bill and was discussing the current farm bill, not a past one.

    It could be that my information is wrong, it happens. But, your link has nothing to do with the current farm bill and nothing to do with my comment @155.

    It was supposed to be a first step toward tax reform. But as lawmakers tackled a list of 75 special-interest tax breaks, the special interests repeatedly won.

    An accelerated write-off for owners of NASCAR tracks: That has to stay.

    An economic development credit for a StarKist tuna cannery in American Samoa: That stays, too.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....ml?hpid=z1

    Actually, it looks like I did error as Starkist’s development credit isn’t part of the farm bill and and the farm bill has passed in the Senate.

    That’s what I get for typing before breakfast (I have Friday’s off).

    Also here:
    http://www.dailyyonder.com/gon.....08/03/4236

  190. 190

    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07.....ntion.html

    Strip Clubs in Tampa Are Ready to Cash In on G.O.P. Convention

    By LIZETTE ALVAREZ

    Published: July 26, 2012

    TAMPA, Fla. — Over at the back door of the 2001 Odyssey, a limo-size tent with flaps — especially designed for discretion and camera-shy guests — is ready to go up. Déjà Vu is welcoming extra “talent” from around the country in its V.I.P. rooms.

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    The 2001 Odyssey in Tampa. Strip club owners expect revenues to soar way past Super Bowl week levels when the Republicans are in town next month.

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    Brian Blanco for The New York Times

    The Tampa Bay Times has reported there are 20 strip clubs in Tampa and 50 in the Tampa Bay area.

    And Thee DollHouse is all Americana: women plan to slip out of red, white and blue corsets and offer red, white and blue vodka. The headliner that week is expected to bear an uncanny resemblance to a certain ex-governor from a wilderness state, known for her strong jaw and devotion to guns and God.

    “She’s a dead ringer for her,” said Warren Colazzo, co-owner of Thee DollHouse. “It’s just a really good gimmick to get publicity.”

    As Tampa gears up for the Republican National Convention, the biggest party it has ever held, the city and its businesses are primping and polishing for the August arrival of tens of thousands of visitors. Like it or not — mostly not, for city officials — Tampa’s well-known strip clubs have joined the welcome wagon.

    Club owners here say they have schmoozed with their counterparts in former host cities, like Denver, and have been told that revenue pours in during conventions, sometimes quadrupling earnings from a Super Bowl week. As for party affiliation, this is one place where the country’s caustic partisan differences fall away, owners say.

    Angelina Spencer, the executive director of the Association of Club Executives, which serves as a trade association for strip clubs, said an informal survey of convention business in New York and Denver had determined that Republicans dropped more money at clubs, by far.

    “Hands down, it was Republicans,” she said. “The average was $150 for Republicans and $50 for Democrats”.</blockquote>

    Well, that’s ONE business the Rethuglicants are good for!

    LOLOLOL

  191. 191

    how much do the Kochs pay their whores these days?

    Since you claim to know goatlover ekim, tell us! Since Charles and David are still married how do you know this? Still taking it up the hershey highway from geeeeeeeeeeeeman?

  192. 192

    Puddy is nothing more than ass gas.

    At least I can pass gas from my ASS! We know your problem!

  193. 193

    @186… ThinkProgress uses Catalist… A progressive group. Naturally biased!

    Yeah right rujax! Another EPIC FAYLE posting!

  194. 194

    191. Goat fucking ButtPutty the Koch whore spews:

    Since you claim to know goatlover ekim, tell us! Since Charles and David are still married how do you know this?

    Who is “goatlover ekim”? Your latest pet goat?
    As to the Kochs and whores. See @190.

  196. 196

    ButtPutty is taking his string of goats to the Rethuglican convention. $150 per hour per goat.
    His motto: “Have goat, will travel.”

  197. 197

    @195,

    I have to come to ButtPutty’s defense.
    He fucks goats, not women, so he can’t be a motherfucker.

  198. 198

    http://www.dailykos.com/story/.....aign-trail

    Fri Aug 03, 2012 at 12:30 PM PDT

    ‘Kiss my ass’ Romney staffer to take a break from campaign trail

    by Hunterfor Daily Kos

    Awkward:

    Spokesman Rick Gorka, whose curse-laden flap with the press in Poland rounded out the news reports culminating Romney’s trip, is “taking some time off the trail” after a week abroad, per a Romney aide. Gorka normally serves as the traveling spokesman for Romney on all his campaign trips.

    Gorka is the origin of the “Kiss my ass, this is a holy site” phrase, the single best excuse for dodging press questions that the Mitt campaign has ever come up with in a long history of dodging press questions.

    He probably just needs to spend more time with the family. People in politics always need to spend more time with their families.

    …and from the co-favorite puddywhippedpussy site…along with Media Matters for America.

    Precious.

  199. 199

    Who is “goatlover ekim”?

    Confused over your pronoun ekim? @197! That’s you bud! Projecting again ekim? It’s a Psych 101 thing!

  200. 200

    You’re a pathetic, chickenshit motherfucker.

    Projecting again rujax? It’s a Psych 101 thing!

  203. 203

    http://news.firedoglake.com/20.....overnment/

    Great News: Cass Sunstein Leaving Government

    By: David Dayen Friday August 3, 2012 10:10 am

    Regardless of what happens in November, we are guaranteed to have a much more functional federal government in the near future. That’s because Cass Sunstein is taking his boot off the neck of the federal regulatory state and leaving government. I couldn’t be happier.

    Cass Sunstein, a top adviser to President Obama who functions as a gatekeeper on federal regulations, is leaving the White House to return to Harvard Law School.

    Obama heralded Sunstein, administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, “for his friendship and for his years of exceptional service.” […]

    A specialist in administrative law and regulatory policy, Sunstein worked as a “regulatory czar” in the White House, looking to streamline government policies.

    Sunstein drew a fair amount of controversy from both the left and the right. His departure will bring a sigh of relief to some environmental and public health advocates, who alleged Sunstein was too willing to bend an ear to oil companies and other industries seeking to weaken regulations. And other liberals objected to his libertarian-leaning behavioral economics theories.

    In the interest of balance, the story also says that Glenn Beck yapped about Sunstein one time. But if I were to consider the rantings of a lunatic and the very real damage that Sunstein did to the regulatory state, I know where I would come down as far as my objections. I’ve chronicled Sunstein and OIRA before. Here’s a representative sample:

    OH NOES!!!!!!

    Poor puddywhippedpussy.

  205. 205

    Great News: Cass Sunstein Leaving Government

    Oh YES!

    rujax, a smelly diaper since the day he was born!

  207. 207

    So ButtPutty,

    So how much do the Kochs pay you for your posts?
    Enough to pay for your goats?

  208. 208

    Poor ButtPutty,

    He tries so hard to deflect his goat abuse on others.
    It must be he is ashamed of his perversions.

  210. 210

    The irony is that Watts is doing exactly what he accuses others of: tilting every aspect of the data and analysis to suit his ideology. The joke is that he actually thinks this is “science.”…

    It’s the latest move in Watts’ grand plan to minimize the amount of global warming we’ve witnessed. He would never claim that the earth isn’t warming, any more than he would say the earth is flat — just that it’s only half as round as the so-called “experts” claim…

    The impact of global warming is getting clearer, and will soon be obvious even to the hard-core deniers. Arctic sea ice continues its death spiral. Sea level continues to rise. The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets continue to lose mass at an alarming pace, and glaciers worldwide keep shrinking. Species continue to migrate to higher latitudes and altitudes. We’re also seeing more and more signs that the “man in the street” can’t ignore. Since the amazing heat wave in Europe in 2003, we’ve seen amazing heat waves in Australia, Russia, the USA (twice). We’ve seen enhanced drought and record-breaking floods. And to the statisticians at re-insurance giant Munich Re, the increase in weather-related disasters is both huge and certain. This is not normal — and it’s not natural.

    http://tamino.wordpress.com/20.....t-nothing/

  211. 211

    @206, 209

    At the federal level he’s donated once:

    Reshma Saujani is an Indian-American lawyer and politician. She lost the 2010 Democratic primary for the U.S. House of Representatives in New York’s 14th congressional district against incumbent Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney.[1] She was the first Indian-American woman (and the first South Asian American woman) to run for Congress.[2] Currently, she is the Deputy Advocate for Special Initiatives at the Office of the New York City Public Advocate.[3][4]
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reshma_Saujani

    Republican perv’s out number Democratic perv’s 3:1. Looks like Dr. Adam Levinson is one of our 1’s.

  212. 212

    Looks like one company that dropped Rush Limbaugh didn’t see the love from the libtards when they moved “forward”.

    OUCH!

  213. 213

    Looks like Dr. Adam Levinson is one of our 1’s.

    Well at least Michael is honest!

  214. 214

    So how much do the Kochs pay you for your posts?
    Enough to pay for your goats?

    Notice how ekim keeps projecting?

    Keep projecting ekim!

  215. 215

    @211 Like most things, it’s about money. People who take that kind of film sell it to porn sites.

  217. 217

    He tries so hard to deflect his goat abuse on others. It must be he is ashamed of his perversions.

    More of his perverted projections.

    Been with the same woman for 32 years ekim. No perversions except in your filthy mind!

    How cum you screw four legged animals ekim?

  219. 219

    No he’s just bait from a moronic troll.

    pink haired moronic troll!

    Bwaaaaaaa haaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaa haaaaaa haaaaaaaa haaaaaaaa haaaaaaa haaaaaaaa haaaaaaaa!

    Doesn’t even know when he’s being played by himself!

  221. 221

    Seriously Puddy,

    Save this stuff, when Romney decides to hire someone to suck the shit out of his ass, you’ll get the job.

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