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Open Thread 9/30

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– Happy probably a US Government shutdown because the GOP are horrible day!

– How was your storm experience? Did you see any lightning?

– A lot of ST alerts because of the storm.

– Georgetown and South Park are the Seattle neighborhoods with the worst air.

– (a) Don’t cross the grocery store picket lines. (b) I think we might be able to declare My Northwest’s trolls worse than HA’s. Step it up, you guys.

– Riding a bike (and unmentioned in the piece, but also walking) where there’s Viaduct/Tunnel construction is kind of scary.

– That’s not an education. That’s carefully nurtured stupidity.

Comments

  1. 1

    The GOP is desperately trying to deflect blame for the disaster it is bringing upon the nation. I saw some Tea Party GOP Congressmen speaking to the cameras, claiming that “they provided the compromise”, so any government shutdown is the Democrat’s fault. Of course, what he meant is that they would allow the government to pay the bills they already owe if everyone else agrees to erase the progress the President has made over the past four + years.

  2. 2

    The three conservative (and only) AM talk stations were in high gear this morning, blaming everything on the democrats and threatening to destroy any republican who was reasonable.

    We need to re instate the fairness doctrine, so stations loose their licenses if they lie repeatedly

  3. 3

    Wow the truth comes out…

    As I’ve chronicled at NewsBusters in the past, the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000, along with the Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999, were largely to blame for the housing and credit bubbles that eventually led to the 2008 financial collapse.

    Clinton, contrary to what he told Ferguson in June, was a strong proponent of both bills as was an overwhelming majority of Democrats.

    But as the financial markets along with the economy collapsed in 2008, the media withheld this inconvenient truth from the public opting instead to blame it all on President George W. Bush and the Republican Party.

    We also learned that libtards weren’t too happy that CNN was doing a Clinton Mockumentary either! Amazing when the light appears and the cockroaches scatter!

  7. 7

    From Derek Kilmer’s FB page

    Today I announced I will give up my pay for the duration of a government shutdown.

  8. 8

    Uh oh….pervy puddybigot is back for more flagellation…

    Notice he has not one word to say about the IPCC he was braying about last week, now that it is released and says none of what he was predicting it would say.

    Instead, we’re treated to a Breitbart quote of Mark Halperin (perhaps the hackiest hack of unmitigated wrongness inside the beltway) – that’s just a cheap hook up of wrong.

    Of course, that’s what passes for ‘proof’ in puddyworld.

  11. 11

    Notice he has not one word to say about the IPCC he was braying about last week, now that it is released and says none of what he was predicting it would say.

    Standard reactionary asininity from SCHMUCKO-MORON! That’s because Puddy was busy last week SCHMUCKO-MORON! Doing a intense job. In another city right now SCHMUCKO-MORON, but this job is not so intense for the moment. Puddy loves driving 8 speed Hyundai Genesis sedans! Ever driven one SCHMUCKO-MORON?

    Now we see the IPCC decided to spout off with the standard variability argument when the temperature drop previously predicted hasn’t been seen with East Anglia’s famous hockey stick! Oh no let’s rewrite the report so this is somehow massaged over.

  12. 12

    The Real Hunger Games

    Waiting lists for food aid have been growing for years—now almost 15 percent of the nation’s elderly don’t have enough to eat.

    Perdue tried to get help from Meals on Wheels Atlanta. In mid-April of 2012, she was twenty-seventh on a waiting list of 120. In November, she was still on the list, which had grown to 198.

    “Is it OK for the government to hand over its obligation to feed its people to the private sector?” he asked. “In most areas of the country, the dollar-for-dollar match from the private sector is not the same.” He means, of course, that richer programs like his can perhaps keep up with increasing need, but others, like the one in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, cannot. There, Barrie Hardin says, “we can’t raise $100,000 in our part of the state. We have no economic base. It’s difficult to get people to give.”

    So in San Francisco, 89-year-old Levi Harper gets a noon meal, but in Wabbeseka, Arkansas (pop. 255), 86-year-old William Hart is on a waiting list.
    http://www.thenation.com/artic.....nger-games

    Food poverty is worse in the red areas of the country. For all of the talk of some so called Christians on this board about the rate charitable giving, liberal areas are more likely to take care of the poor amongst them, because liberal areas are more likely to have living wage JOBS.

  14. 14

    Mark Halperin (perhaps the hackiest hack of unmitigated wrongness inside the beltway)

    He’s a libtard SCHMUCKO-MORON! Deal with your kind dude!

  15. 15

    While GOATBOY bleats away and amuses the voices in his head…

    Washington health insurance exchange gets ready for prime time

    It’s been two years and approaching $160 million in the making, but on Tuesday, Washington state’s online insurance marketplace will be up and running.

    President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) into law in March 2010. Since then, Washington state has been a leader among states when it comes to preparing for the law: establishing an exchange board, winning large federal grants (nearly $160 million through 2014) and eventually expanding Medicaid to offer free and subsidized care to more people.

    Puget Sound Business Journal

    In spite of everything the RETHUG “jackboot goose lock stepping in their brownshirts” have tried, our state is moving forward. Even the RETHUG GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN won’t stop it.

    Eat your heart out GOATBOY.

  16. 16

    14. GOATBOY spews:
    He’s a libtard SCHMUCKO-MORON! Deal with your kind dude!

    Prove it you GOAT HUMPING PSYCHO-MORON!

  17. 17

    goat loving ekimgoatmaster easily proved…

    Mark Evan Halperin is the senior political analyst for Time magazine, Time.com, and MSNBC

    His own words you jackASS!

    Damn, another day of sucking to be you ekimgoatmaster!

  18. 18

    This is priceless”

    Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) had choice words for fellow House Republicans who are willing to see the government shut down over their opposition to Obamacare: “Lemmings with suicide vests,” he called them.

    “You have this group saying somehow if you’re not with them, you’re with Obamcare. If you’re not with their plan — exactly what they want to do, you’re with Obamcare. It’s getting a little old,” he said.

    The result for his party? “You guys ever watch 16 Candles?” he asked a small group of reporters. “You guys remember Long Duk Dong at the end? That’s going to be us tomorrow, waking up on the grass, crashed automobile. That’s us.”

    I’m partially stunned that a politician is make a “16 candles” reference.

  19. 19

    “jackboot goose lock stepping in their brownshirts”

    Once again all can see ekimgoatmaster has taken over the re-run mantle from HA’s gone but not forgotten unemployed idioto with the crazed databaze! ekimgoatmaster can’t think for itself!

  20. 20

    Oh by the way, you think the CR is fun, just wait for the debt ceiling.

  21. 21

    Hey Fascist Pigsty… At least in the Republican Party there is disagreement. In the DUMMOCRAPT Pary we see what happens when you dissent…
    Just ask Zell Miller!
    Just ask Joe Lieberman!
    Just ask Harold Ford, Jr.! For example here’s one of your favrit sites… Salon

    Harold Ford Jr., sleazy corporatist and nepotist

    Now if a conservative site said that… Al NoSoSharpton and Jesse Hi-Jackson would be crying racist to the high heavens!

    The lunacy is strong in this one!

  22. 22

    Love it!

    The result for his party? “You guys ever watch 16 Candles?” he asked a small group of reporters. “You guys remember Long Duk Dong at the end? That’s going to be us tomorrow, waking up on the grass, crashed automobile. That’s us.”

  23. 23

    Be sure to tune in to C-SPAN to watch the teabagging Republican “party” march off the cliff.

  24. 24

    17. GOATBOY the GOATHUMPER spews:
    Mark Evan Halperin is the senior political analyst for Time magazine, Time.com, and MSNBC

    And this proves…what?

    His own words you jackASS!

    Damn, another day of sucking to be me!

    GOATBOY, you dumb fuck.
    Your link goes to a Drudge 404 – Not Found page.

    Time after time GOATBOY proves he is such a putz!

  25. 25

    The Seattle PI this morning was reporting on a Seattle sub-contractor that was charging kick-backs from it’s employees to the sum of $150 per week for the privilege of working on the job. If they complained, they were threated with being reported to “La Migra”. But some of them went to the general contractor for the building, who called in the police. Extortion charges won’t be far behind.

    We don’t know what party the perpetrators belong to, but we recognize the tactics: extort money for the priviledge of working. It’s a capitalist vison of heaven. Luckily, the general contractor and the police had enough sense not to haul off the complaining workers for deportation.

  26. 26

    Oh no… NBC canceled the Clinton mini-series… Puddy guesses the truth about Clinton

    As I’ve chronicled at NewsBusters in the past, the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000, along with the Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999, were largely to blame for the housing and credit bubbles that eventually led to the 2008 financial collapse.

    Clinton, contrary to what he told Ferguson in June, was a strong proponent of both bills as was an overwhelming majority of Democrats.

    Oh no gotta bury the truth!

    The truth    …

    The Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 (CFMA) is United States federal legislation that officially ensured the deregulation of financial products known as over-the-counter derivatives. It was signed into law on December 21, 2000 by President Bill Clinton. It clarified the law so that most over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives transactions between “sophisticated parties” would not be regulated as “futures” under the Commodity Exchange Act of 1936 (CEA) or as “securities” under the federal securities laws. Instead, the major dealers of those products (banks and securities firms) would continue to have their dealings in OTC derivatives supervised by their federal regulators under general “safety and soundness” standards. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) desire to have “Functional regulation” of the market was also rejected. Instead, the CFTC would continue to do “entity-based supervision of OTC derivatives dealers.” [1] These derivatives, including the credit default swap, are a few of the many causes of the financial crisis of 2008 and the subsequent 2008–2012 global recession.[2]

    And who were the players

    President’s Working Group on Financial Markets, November 1999:

    Richard Rubin started it at Treasury
    Lawrence Summers, Treasury
    Alan Greenspan, Fed
    Arthur Levitt, SEC
    Brooksley Born, CFTC Chair started it
    William J Rainer, CFTC

    Interesting take on the “Enron loophole”!

  27. 27

    Over at (un)SP dead ender pudge has made a prediction

    COMMENTER: The House can play back and forth all they want, they won’t get ACA delayed or defunded.

    pudge: I think you’re wrong. I think most likely there will be a delay of many key provisions, especially the individual and business mandates, which are currently unpopular even among many Democrats, and Obama has almost no leg to stand on even in public speeches since he arbitrarily (some say illegally) temporarily waived mandates for others.

    Damn that legless Obama!

  28. 28

    Your link goes to a Drudge 404 – Not Found page.

    Oh really?

    XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX FRI OCT 08, 2004 18:42:03 ET XXXXX

    ABCNEWS POLITICAL DIRECTOR MEMO SPARKS CONTROVERSY: BOTH SIDES NOT ‘EQUALLY ACCOUNTABLE’

    **Exclusive**

    An internal memo written by ABCNEWS Political Director Mark Halperin admonishes ABC staff: During coverage of Democrat Kerry and Republican Bush not to “reflexively and artificially hold both sides ‘equally’ accountable.”

    The controversial internal memo obtained by DRUDGE, captures Halperin stating how “Kerry distorts, takes out of context, and mistakes all the time, but these are not central to his efforts to win.”

    Can’t copy the whole thing ekimgoatmaster because Da Perfessa will remove it!

    Sux to be you another day….

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

  29. 29

    # 12: That reminds me of the days during the Great Depression when large farmers and distributors would hire thugs to run off aid workers and destroy their inventory. If they aren’t starving, they reasoned, then why would the work for pennies a day? That’s why the lack of funding for meals-on-wheels in red states makes sense (to them). In farm areas where there is plenty of produce, even the disabled and inventory must be made an example: work for us for whatever we decide to pay, or starve.

  30. 30

    Hey ekimgoatmaster, direct to King 5 TVHmmm…? King 5 TV bunch of libtards too!

    Under the Affordable Care Act, Congress defined “affordable” as 9.5 percent of an employee’s household income. So for a family with a $50,000 income, an affordable premium would be $4750.

    The problem is that this rule only applies to the insurance premium for the employee. According to a Kaiser Family Foundation 2013 survey, that average is $4,565.

    However, the same study revealed the average annual premium for an entire family is about $16,351.

  32. 32

    While RETHUGS take it in the shorts over Obamacare and need all the support they can get from GOATBAY.

    And what does GOATBOY do? GOATBOY goes after the 2000 CFMA.
    Way to go GOATBOY! Your KOCH MASTERS are proud of you.

  33. 33

    Poor ekimgoatmaster… can’t figger out how to view links and is as stupid as a wheelbarrow full of bricks! And we all know the elevator doesn’t make it to the top!

    CFMA is something the Clinton’s don’t want you to know about you moron. It was a prime part of why the 2009 recession happened. Butt, stay stupid abusing the animal appendages ekimgoatmaster!

  35. 35

    CBS News libtard ANALyst Jill Schlesinger:

    Look, this plan has to get young, healthy people in it, or else the math does not work.

    Yeah, butt you’ll never hear that cacophony from the libtard press.

  36. 36

    ekimgoatmaster…

    How come Puddy can copy direct from the captured page you fool?

    Halperin Memo Dated Friday October 8, 2004

    Must be you are as stoooooooooooopid as a truckload of cinder blocks!

  37. 37

    Aviation Daily is reporting that if we have a government shutdown, the FAA will lay off 1/3 of it’s staff.

    And you thought your last trip was bad?

  38. 38

    GOATBOY the GOAT HUMPER @35 quotes a reporter who he claims is a “CBS News libtard” and then claims it is not being reported by the “libtard press”.

    Is GOATBOY a GOAT ANAL-IST or what?

  39. 39

    Oh my a leftist moron in a leftist rag

    He is angry about the timidity of journalists in America, their failure to challenge the White House and be an unpopular messenger of truth.

    Don’t even get him started on the New York Times which, he says, spends “so much more time carrying water for Obama than I ever thought they would” – or the death of Osama bin Laden. “Nothing’s been done about that story, it’s one big lie, not one word of it is true,” he says of the dramatic US Navy Seals raid in 2011.

    and the best one is

    The Obama administration lies systematically, he claims, yet none of the leviathans of American media, the TV networks or big print titles, challenge him.

    So if a British libtard in a libtard rag can spot it over the ocean… why can’t HA libtards who live in America? Prolly cuz they jackboot goosestep in their brownshirts to their daily morning marching libtard twitter receipts!

  40. 40

    Verizon is trying to overturn the Federal Communications Commission’s Open Internet Order, which prevents Internet service providers from blocking, throttling or otherwise discriminating against online content.

    And in court last Monday, Verizon lawyer Helgi Walker made the company’s intentions all too clear, saying the company wants to prioritize those websites and services that are willing to shell out for better access.

    She also admitted that the company would like to block online content from those companies or individuals that don’t pay Verizon’s tolls.

    http://www.dailykos.com/story/.....neutrality

    Wow. Think this would destroy the internet age?

  41. 41

    36. GOATBOY spews:

    Massa Ekim
    How come GOATBOY can copy direct from the captured page?

    Could it be YOU POSTED A BROKEN LINK YOU FUCKING IDIOT?

  42. 42

    @38. Talk about a shared pain! That might even effect congressmen and the rich.

  43. 43

    he claims is a “CBS News libtard” and then claims it is not being reported by the “libtard press”

    Once again ekim goatmaster proves he’s as stooooooooooooooooopid as a hurricane blown house.

    cacophony… Try again you idiot!

  44. 44

    Man this ekimgoatmaster is one moronic twit. The 404 is the headline link you idiot. More from the same page…

    Kerry distorts, takes out of context, and mistakes all the time, but these are not central to his efforts to win.

    Golly HA libtards your animal appendage lover ekimgoatmaster has taken the mantle of abject lunacy from the unemployed idiot!

  45. 45

    Massa Ekim

    Delusions grandeur! Could ekimgoatmaster be HA’s unemployed idiot? Starting to see similar cadence and writing patterns. Or could it be libtarditis?

    Say it ain’t so.

  46. 46

    43. GOATBOY spews:

    cacophony… Try again you Massa Ekim

    Hokay. Try this.

    ca·coph·o·ny [kuh-kof-uh-nee]
    Harsh discordance of sound; dissonance: a cacophony of hoots, cackles, and wails. AKA the normal discourse coming from TEAHADIST IDIOTS like GOATBOY.

  47. 47

    This really sleazy scammer stole $100 million by posing as a charity for veterans. Here’s the money quote:

    “Hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations went to political contributions instead of to veterans, giving the fugitive access to the top echelons of power. While wanted by the FBI, Cody, aka Thompson, had his photo taken twice with President George W. Bush.”

    http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_new.....-vets?lite

  48. 48

    A super-sleazy scammer stole $100 million by posing as a charity for veterans. Here’s the “money quote”:

    “Hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations went to political contributions instead of to veterans, giving the fugitive access to the top echelons of power. While wanted by the FBI, Cody, aka Thompson, had his photo taken twice with President George W. Bush.”

    http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_new.....-vets?lite

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: I wonder if this scumbag is a Democrat? That doesn’t seem likely. I wonder what our friend Piddly will say about this? Probably nothing intelligible, because he usually writes his comments in some sort of weird unique code.

  49. 49

    44. GOATBOY spews:

    The 404 is the headline link.

    Sorry GOAT SEMEN BREATH, your links are broken so often that when I see a 404 at the top of the page I don’t bother to read any farther. In any event I don’t consider Drudge any more credible than you.

  52. 52

    48. Roger Rabbit spews:
    A super-sleazy scammer stole $100 million by posing as a charity for veterans.

    AKA regular RETHUG FUNDRAISER. Nothing new here. Only thing of note is how little he stole. Now if he was a RETHUG BANKER it would have been in the billions.

  54. 54

    Pelz Quits Post as WA Democratic Chairman

    “The Washington State Democratic Party will be in search of a new leader soon, as chairman Dwight Pelz says he’s stepping down from the post he’s held since 2006.

    “Pelz, 62, informed top elected Democrats and other party leaders of his decision this afternoon and said he’ll leave the position effective Feb. 1.”

    http://blogs.seattletimes.com/.....step-down/

  55. 55

    Here is the love of my life!

    Funny how Psych 101 Projection works in ekimgoatmaster!

    So ylb, why did you claim you were leaving? Apparently you didn’t!

  57. 57

    Uncle Puddles, glad you are back spewing your nonsense!

    Hey, if what you and your side is so …. true? then why the Fk weren’t you able to convince a majority of voters to oust Obama, the Democratic majority in the Senate and expand your gerrymandered majority in the House?

    Nevermind. I see those Obamacare chickens coming home to roost.

  58. 58

    Oh noze! The Senate is doing exactly what the Majority Leader said it would do if presented with an ammended (unclean, extortionate) continuing resolution from the House (again!!). Nobody could have predicted!

  59. 59

    FlubScout… Well lessee…

    1) IRS Tea Party Scandal suppressed the conservative vote. Lois Lerner did DUMMOCRAPT bidding very well
    2) Romney wasn’t a great candidate… establishment failure like McCain in 2008
    3) Obummer defined Romney and he never answered back… DUMMOCRAPT LIES
    4) Obummer loving msm media promulgated anything said from Obummer’s gang as gospel.

  60. 60

    @59 Excuses are like buttholes: everybody’s got one. Or two, or three, or four …

  65. 65

    Serious question
    Who will run against Reichert?
    Who wants my money and that of my friends to defeat this Republican A-hole?

  66. 66

    59. GOATBOY spews:

    2) Romney wasn’t a great candidate

    He was the best of your pack of RETHUG LOSERS.

    And now you’ve got that CRUZ idiot who is causing a RETHUG meltdown. Good luck with that loser GOATBOY.

  67. 67

    RETHUGS own this shutdown
    The longer it goes on the worse it will be for them.
    And 2014 is going to be a good year for Dems.

  68. 68

    Wait. What?
    Republicans are asking after they’ve shut down the government for a “conference” on the budget after refusing to appoint conferees to a budget bill since April?

    Republicans need special help.

  70. 70

    65. MikeBoyScout spews:
    Serious question
    Who will run against Reichert?

    I’d say too soon to say. But if the RETHUG SHUTDOWN goes on for too long, HAIRSPRAY(tm) won’t be able beat “none of the above” even if he were the only candidate on the ballot.

  71. 71

    Yep, it’s official, the gummint is SHUT DOWN! Why are Rethugs so desperate to stall Obamacare? Because they realize if it’s ever implemented, it will be impossible to get rid of it because the majority of Americans will like it too much, just like Social Security and Medicare.

    Just a couple years ago, the Greedy Old Plutocrats’ party thought they were riding high — so high they even had Social Security and Medicare in their sights. Then the market crash and wholesale destruction of 401(k)s threw a pail of cold water on their overheated dream of replacing Social Security with “personal accounts” entrusted to the tender mercies of Wall Street banksters. Romney’s “47 percent” remark provided the final nail in the coffin lid.

    The conservative wet dream of reversing the New Deal and Great Society, if not in one fell swoop then with a hundred or thousand small cuts, is in its death throes. Never mind that Obamacare is a conservative invention; once the Wingnut Noise Machine pasted the “socialism” label on it, it inevitably became a test of whether the conservative movement had the cojones to finally un-horse Big Government.

    That joust was, in fact, decided ages ago.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdhQWkTl1PQ

  75. 75

    The EPA Tier 4 mandate is just around the corner, but companies supplying railroads seem to be getting closer to meet it. Cummins is got an upgrade package for the biggest locomotives ready, a company in Washington State will be doing the conversion work on the prototype.
    http://www.railwaygazette.com/.....rator.html

  76. 76

    Isn’t it funny – the Teahaddists blew up the US Government over “Obamacare”, yet “Obamacare” goes live nonetheless on Oct 1. Websites are up, state exchanges are operative.

    It’s a lesson about infrastructure, and economics in general – decentralized, distributed sources of power or things of value are hard to destroy, hard to damage, hard to hoard – they’re robust.

    Suck on it, Teahaddists!

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