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Open Thread 9/26

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– Oh no, there might be housing literally in someone’s back yard.

– On a daily basis, working people in the Beacon Hill community come to that Bank of America to deposit their paychecks and probably to have confusing and infuriating conversations about their accounts and mortgages as well—in a word to get ripped off.

– Ted Cruz doesn’t understand Green Eggs and Ham. That’s over his head. But we should totally take him seriously.

– The Latest Anti-Obamacare Article To Go Viral Is Totally Wrong

– Oh, there’s a sensible treaty that the administration is supporting. Glad the right is freaking the fuck out.

– A mass shooting comic strip template

Comments

  1. 1

    Ted only spoke for 21 hours, pathetic for an [alleged] Texan, then in the end voted to cut himself off. Sounds as crazy as pud. Did you notice, though, that all the while that Ted was speaking there were no posts by pud. Do you suppose…..?

  2. 2

    In exchange for raising the debt ceiling until the end of 2014, according to a source close to the House GOP leadership, House Republicans plan to demand major perks for coal companies and Wall Street banks, alongside healthcare and social service cuts and a one-year delay in the implementation of Obamacare, tax reform on their terms, effectively eliminating the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Medicare means testing, blocking net neutrality, forcing approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, expanding offshore oil drilling, and and getting rid of every regulation that the Chamber of Commerce doesn’t like.

    http://www.dailykos.com/story/.....ebt-crisis

    Wow. What’s next. Demands that the president be replaced by anyone white? Just Re-affirming that one does not negotiate with extortionists and blackmailers.

  4. 4

    I’d love to see the estate of Ted Geisel sue the shit out of Ted Cruz like Bobby McFerrin’s publisher did to Pappy Bush’s campaign when they used “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” without permission or attribution.

  5. 5

    Time for BO to shoot the hostage….invoke the 14th, tell Boehner and the gang of half-wits to pound sand and give a map to the nearest courthouse if they don’t like it.

  6. 6

    Not that anyone’s missed me, but you’ve not seen much of me here lately because:
    1) Been racking up freq flier miles traveling pleasantly in Europe.
    2) There’s really nothing more to be argued or said about bat-shit insane teabagging Republicans.

    One of two things is going to happen, either this nation is going to slide into the abyss because our citizenry is incapable of self government or we’re going to throw the Republican assholes out wholesale in 2014.

    Any “party” whose only legislative governing strategy is to extort the nation into policies that it can’t win at the ballot box is plainly unfit. If an overwhelming number of voters don’t understand that, well ….

    Now to the sunny outdoors …while it lasts.

  10. 10

    Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego</strike? GOATBOY? (AKA SATAN'S SPAWN)

    My guess is that GOATBOY’S master has directed him to participate in the RETHUG FOOD FIGHT. But on which side? For the TEAHADISTS or for the CORPORTISTS?

  11. 11

    Matt Taibbi on the looting of public pension funds, by the Usual Suspects…read this, it will make your blood boil, again.

    Today, the same Wall Street crowd that caused the crash is not merely rolling in money again but aggressively counterattacking on the public-relations front. The battle increasingly centers around public funds like state and municipal pensions. This war isn’t just about money. Crucially, in ways invisible to most Americans, it’s also about blame. In state after state, politicians are following the Rhode Island playbook, using scare tactics and lavishly funded PR campaigns to cast teachers, firefighters and cops – not bankers – as the budget-devouring boogeymen responsible for the mounting fiscal problems of America’s states and cities.

    I expect mention of “pension fund” will bring some number of illiterate Teahaddist trolls out of the woodwork…

  12. 12

    More from Taibbi…

    Thanks to a deadly combination of unscrupulous states illegally borrowing from their pensioners, and unscrupulous banks whose mass sales of fraudulent toxic subprime products crashed the market, these funds were out some $930 billion. Yet the public was being told that the problem was state workers’ benefits were simply too expensive.

    Pitchfork time…

  14. 14

    Do you remember a week or so ago when the pervy puddybigot was braying about ‘leaks’ from the upcoming IPCC report that suggested a softening of the stance that humans are causing ongoing global warming? He also brayed that it was reported in the AP – as if that were a leftist news outlet (it isn’t)?

    Here’s this….

    STOCKHOLM (AP) — Scientists can now say with extreme confidence that human activity is the dominant cause of the global warming observed since the 1950s, a new report by an international scientific group said Friday.

  15. 15

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

    Walking bucket of resentments Allen West is “leaving his job” at wingnut media concern PJ Media after getting shouty at a female staff member and calling her a “Jewish American Princess,”…

  16. 16

    Liberal Scientist, I just want to give you fair warning. If you want the title of “Most vile leftist on this blog” you are going to have to fight me for it. And frankly, pal, you haven’t got a chance.
    Unless, of course, we could share the title.

  17. 17

    @15
    Back off, Mooser!

    I hold that title – notice it’s in quotes – because the puddybigot called me that the other day.

    When you get called that name, you can have the title – and not before!

    I was wondering if the title would cause contention – well, suck on it lefties!

    Of course, being a socialist, I’m always open to sharing!

  18. 18

    @13. There are still 2% of scientists who cannot prove beyond doubt that climate change is real, so we should do nothing till there is a consensus.

  19. 19

    @14, @15,

    And I’ve been trying real hard myself. I thought calling him a minion of Satan would do it, but nah. No such luck. Did get the title goatmaster though. :-)

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