Well, it’s pretty dispiriting that Inslee let the charter schools bill become law. I don’t know what I could add on the policy since the last time I wrote about charters. It would be nice if we could fund education before we start these sorts of things. This won’t take money directly out of public schools, but it will take it away from ancillary things.
If the legislature were serious about charters, they could have had a new revenue source rather than one that already goes to educational sources. But of course, charters were never about improving the quality of education so much as an attempt to break the unions.
Who would’ve guessed the world’s rich and powerful steal, launder money, hide assets, and dodge taxes?
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/pa.....data-dump/
http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/0.....index.html
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Humans are the most corrupt creatures on earth. This shit won’t happen anymore after your species disappears and rabbits take over this rock.
Now here’s an idea that’s right up Republicans’ alley and is something they all know how to do: Auctioning their party’s presidential nomination to the highest bidder.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/04/.....index.html
A charter school is a private school supported by taxpayers’ money with no public accountability for who can attend, what is taught, or whether children learn.
And, of course, candidates calling themselves Republicans aren’t above resorting to blackmail, either.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....f5c607fedd
58-39 in the state house. Inslee had help – none of them voted “Present.”. Not to mention majority support in a statewide ballot initiative.
Instead of mourning Inslee’s no-call, wouldn’t HA efforts be put to better use by shaming Rep. Eric Pettigrew? Can’t the slurs so often used against Clarence Thomas be repurposed to use against a black WA Democrat who cannot always be brought to heel by WEA?
@1 Hoarding is not exclusively human nor does it seem to be in contradiction to a successful survival tactic. If I hoard food, for example, I could survive better, attract mates better and feed my young better. Corruption is a social concept. One man’s corruption is another man’s power base. Putin won’t suffer any consequences.
Beyond that, however, the Constitution left matters open for the people of the States to decide. The Constitution says nothing about what type of republican government the States must follow. When the Framers wanted to deny powers to state governments, they did so explicitly.
Justice Thomas concurrence in Evenwel v. Abbott, decided today.
Goldy @GoldyHA
“best research now shows that large hikes in the local statutory wage floor has no discernible effect on employment”
http://prospect.org/article/wh.....nimum-wage …
So while continuing to claim no discernible effect on employment, the argument is now shifting from one in which there won’t be job losses to one in which the job losses that will occur aren’t discernible. This should make people like Better stop worrying about what will happen to those who lose jobs.
And why should Better not worry? Because Goldy tweets a piece which points to anecdotal situations in 1950. And in 1956.
What was the state of global trade in the 50s? How fast were computers then? What was the state of robotics?
No worries. Because
http://giphy.com/gifs/arrested.....zJp9a6Ajgk
Happy Days.
@9 “the argument is now shifting from one in which there won’t be job losses to one in which the job losses that will occur aren’t discernible.”
Basically you’re saying nobody notices when people trying to live on the GOP’s notion of a minimum wage starve to death after Republican politicians cut off their food stamps.
Today a unanimous Supreme Court said “fuck you” to Texas Republicans who argued suppressed voters shouldn’t count as persons when they hatch their nefarious redistricting schemes.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/su.....vote-rule/
And what did Clarence Thomas say? Although he joined in the Court’s opinion, he spat out this gem: “he said the high court ‘has never provided a sound basis for the one-person, one-vote principle.'”
This ought to drive a stake through the heart of GOP efforts to raise the Social Security retirement age.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/as.....aying-off/
“When the Framers wanted to deny powers to state governments, they did so explicitly…”
Huh. Seems like that oughta close the book on Lochner.
D’ya thing?
When you live in libtardland you must self censor… http://www.cbsnews.com/news/tv.....-comments/ or the libtards will get upset.
Republicans have the funniest celebs!
If it’s good enough for a patriotic Republican like Ted…
@16 White Trash for Trump.
@12 Naaaaaaaaah….They’ll just change their story to the claim that SS isn’t needed any more.
“Republicans have the funniest celebs!”
The NRA has the funniest board members.
Now there will be another lawsuit in the courts over all this and the courts will rap the legislators knuckles for being knuckleheads. As in you can’t read the last ruling, and probably say even more clearly under the Washington State Constitution the state can’t pay for charter schools.
And there may be a wicked comment about the inability of the legislature funding schools adequately.
But if it’s cool to pay for private schools through public money maybe it’s time to bring back the privately held police and fire department. Paid with state funds. May or may not be able to put out a fire, or make many arrests. More private jails. Lets run Western state as a private entity. Gotta be lots of ways to cut corners there. Bring in Doctor Gray who heals through the power of Jesus and we get the violent and difficult ones out in the public.
Then let the hoarding of riches begin! Might not want to use the same banks as Putin though. Have to go with a different Caribbean island with ummm banks on every corner.
@18 And dogfood has gotten much much better since the 1930’s. Papa and Mama have nothing to worry about. They might not know where the pet isle is at Walmart but they will. they will.
@1 Anyone familiar with politics. The question is always how much corruption. It’s all about who gets what, when and where. There is a problem when corruption disappears (as there is nothing worth stealing). Yes there are reasons why locations that have a elected dog catcher have competitive elections.
Politicians are either in to do good for the public ore themselves, or some combination of the two.
Now in some political systems the level of corruption is very high, to the point that the public good is clearly being sacrificed.
Sorry RR it will not be rabbits who take over but the mighty pika will come down out of it’s mountain homes to fill the newly opened ecological niches. Or maybe it will be cougars. I’m voting for cougars as they look like the Lyrans out of Star Trek. Sorry even in the Star Trek universe there is still corruption.
@7 I’m not sure if Putin will not suffer some consequences. Looks like the current government of Iceland though is in for some change. And then there is FIFA, as it FIFA didn’t have enough troubles, maybe Putin got some investment advice from those FIFA folks as we were all told there was no corruption going on between the Russians and FIFA. None what so ever. No judge from the former USSR judge ever allowed his or her bias to place the USSR competitor on top in ice skating or boxing.
@14 While this is a cautionary tale about making comments on face book or other media when you are the anchor. Nothing in the story states that the woman is liberal. Nothing in the story states that the station is liberal.
The facts are this station operates in an area with a large diverse population. I disagree with the stations call on first amendment grounds. I believe the anchor should be able to make comments on her own account on her time. Yet the station did the conservative and safe action rather than allowing an employee to learn and grow from the experience. I’m sure one of the stations competitors or a station in another market will be sending a thank you note to the station.
So Puddy did you find her comments racist or truthful?
@6 No HA should send the governor a giant card with a copy of the lawsuit once its filed to the governor and remind him he has a veto pen. Make the Republicans override the veto and then when the suit happens play pin the tail on the elephant.
@11 As the court drifts left, the absence of a certain justice is allowing other justices to read the Constitution in a new way. Will the Republicans step in and fill the missing judge or will they miss the slow drift to the left of the court and stand firm, and then who will they blame if a just elected Democratic President puts up for nomination a liberal justice.
Yep Alito and Thomas are without an anchor.
As a black man, Puddy never liked the word nigger as a greeting or other action. It reminds Puddy of inner city black kids who wear their pant waist around their thighs and have to hold them up with one hand as they walk. It denigrates who we are as a people. The sucka receives a free punch before one can defend.
When Snoop Dog or Lil Wayne or other rap morons use the term it is just as dumb! It’s a silly term of endearment! Do whiteys call each other “hey cracker, s’up”?
So when Nugent uses it, Puddy isn’t happy. Puddy can see how Ted can think it’s okay. Yet Media Morons never takes on those who use it, EVAH! So the Oregon moron glomming onto their attack is as stooooooooooopid as Media Morons is every day!
Nothing in the story states that the woman is liberal. Nothing in the story states that the station is liberal.
So where did Puddy claim either Mark Adams? Puddy claimed in libtardland. Pittsburgh IS LIBTARDLAND!
Allegheny
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B. Obama (i) Dem 56.6% 348,151
M. Romney GOP 42.2% 259,304
This is the latest in moronic commentary from HA DUMMOCRETINS. When the argument is lost change the subject. Like R senile EPIC FAYLE over the lack of special forces weaponry; instead talk about nuclear bombs. And, of course, the vomit producer and his two EPIC FAYLES on blacks not welcome at Trump rallies and unions not leaning DUMMOCRETIN!
– Yet the station did the conservative and safe action:
Because of the Mike Rowe Agreshuns claimed by callers into the station!
DAYUM you HA DUMMOCRETINS are a sad bunch on human biomASSes!
You shouldn’t believe anything in tabloids, but this is so funny I can’t contain myself …
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....rried.html
… i.e., Ted Cruz patronizing the DC Madam …
HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR
… no, I don’t believe it, but it’s a great story …
HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR
@22 You’re underestimating the reproductive power of rabbits. Check out Australia, for example.
@28 squid ink
@29,
why don’t you believe it? It makes just as much sense as the dozens of commercialized claims by Arkansas Republican FemBots that they had “long term” romantic affairs with Governor Clinton. Or the thousands of claims targeting any other elected official from either party. We know she serviced Senator Vitter. He’s admitted as much. Although he refuses to confirm the first hand reports about diaper-play. When it comes to successful politicians, my sense is the personal characteristics that make them successful politicians also tend to drive them to seek sexual conquest.
It’s getting pretty bad in NYC.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new.....-1.2588555
I’m sure the perpetrators are all black. And all heterosexuals too.
Truth,
Truly incomprehensible to R senile!
@33 It’s always been bad in NYC.
@34 I love the squishy sound squids make when you step on them.
SKWOOOOSSSHHHHH!!!!!
The babbling jackass is very happy reading and citing the white supremacist filth of Jared Taylor.
Jared Taylor wrote “The Color of Crime” back in the 1990s. You can read the pdf
Very happy indeed. And referring to latinos as “his” “panics”.. Freaking bigot.
An organization called “Media Matters” took on a demogogic idiot by the name of Glenn Beck for using “it”.
The same organization took on Laura Schlesinger.
That very informative organization’s mission is to examine the antics of klownservatic bullshit promulgators and misinformers. Not rappers or the man/woman in the street. That’s obvious to anyone with half a brain.
No not to a babbling jackass troll with two barely functioning synapses.
Ted Cruds pals. A bunch of open pussy sores.
Samantha Bee Takes Down Ted Cruz’s Appalling Friends http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....14826.html
@35. It’s all them blacks and straights.
New York City Murder Rate Drops To Historic Low http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....12764.html
Poor Boob.
Will this breakthrough see an electric car in every driveway? – The World Economic Forum https://apple.news/AcqrzqItSMTWFma6OwhHLow
Ahh yes a smelly diarrhea trail was left from the monomaniacal mindless neanderthal cranial orifice of the crazed databaze purveyor. Awww your pink lace panties are all twisted on that koro diseased scrote!
The arschloch is a “his panic”! A real freakazoid! It has to run and post every day Puddy does. Puddy PWNS the crazed databaze deala! Others are hispanics! You call blacks niggers at home monomaniacal fool just like the vomit producer does here! You just won’t admit it here! We’ve seen your racism in action with that lovely North Pasadena conversation where Marvin Stamn took your silly arschloch to the woodshed and delivered mighty blows side yo head. Need to revisit them again for the HA DUMMOCRETIN world to view the SMACKDOWN crazed databaze deala?
EPIC FAYLE #295 from the salt mining fetid clueless monomaniacal yellowishleakingbuttspigot arschloch jackASS with the crazed databaze! 1/295 now.
Media Morons (correctly named) never takes on all users of the word nigger! Why? Because Media Morons knows they will lose part of their insipid audience. And of course you give a pass to that personal use language bandied about in your house you idiot!
Wait for it… The crazed databaze attack will continue!
“It denigrates who we are as a people.”
As though the loon writing hate-filled unintelligible gibberish doesn’t denigrate blacks.
“Pittsburgh IS LIBTARDLAND!”
What a loon! The loon hates America more than any Islamic terrorist ever dreamed possible.
Puddy had to refind her link for the comments above. Found it. When you are a white DUMMOCRETIN you always get a pass from other DUMMOCRETINS like Media Morons! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA useless tool his panic above! http://conservativeblackchick......re-racist/
PuddyCommentariat: And the beatdown goes on, the beatdown goes on! No wonder the crazed databaze deala is messed up! Look what it probably learned at Catholic school like this “lady” did above!
Eric Deggans, black media CNN guest commentator and writer for the Tampa Bay Times said: “There’s plenty of black people who disapprove of the use of the N-word in any shape or form.” Puddy is one of them! HA’s crazed databaze his panic is A-OK with it, especially in its house at night! Maybe during the day too!
Roland Martin, ex-CNN black man who was kicked off CNN by his own DUMMOCRETIN stooooooooooopidity: “I have always made it clear that I do not believe that the N-word should be used. It is a word, a hateful word that has been used against black folks for a long time. When was the last time you saw Jews in this country having a debate, ‘hmmm should we use the K-word?’ or Hispanics debating, ‘should we use the W-word'”
When you are a WHITE PRIVILEGE DUMMOCRETIN, the world is your “oyster” and blacks are niggers!
@38,
Thanks to Trump, The Canadian, and the Tea Party, pure evil shitbags like Nugent, Beck, and Dr. Laura are in the conservitard Republican mainstream now. Which leaves the Fuckwad rather exposed. All the moralizing establishment scolds like David Brooks have been swept aside by the angry base. There are no fake moderate coded language skirts left for it to hide it’s self hatred behind. It’ll just have to go all-in. Dress and act like Bowfinger and it can join the vast army of radicalized angry Republican voters in their “nigger” laced rally chants. Have fun in Cleveland, Fuckwad!
That QPPS @43 is pressing harder inside tat neanderthal cranial orifice. Now all we see is gibberish pixels on the screen.
BTW, per the 2012 presidential results: “Pittsburgh IS LIBTARDLAND!”
FACTS suck and QPPS hears that great sucking sound!
QPPS @43 has slipped of the deep end! Senility isn’t kind to QPPS either!
@43 “As though the loon writing hate-filled unintelligible gibberish doesn’t denigrate blacks.”
He doesn’t. Really, he doesn’t. Even the most bigoted white supremacist can readily see his ravings are not a product of “black rage,” but of a rare stupidity unrelated to skin color. His unintelligible gibberish comes from being born a mega-idiot, not being born black.
@37,
“Puddy can see how Ted can think it’s okay.”
Wow. I’ll bet the rationalizing gymnastics that requires look like some kind of psycho-babble compendium of logical fallacies and outright delusions. So much self-loathing. Well, like I said before if it’s good enough for Ted…
And that Fuckwad says it’s okay! How sad. To be so owned and controlled by pure evil shitbags.
Oh the Oregon moron taking what Puddy wrote from another moron out of context and commenting on it. That’s exactly what DUMMOCRETINS do when they have no real point to make!
Makes the Oregon moron look more stooooooooooopid than ever!
@28 Pittsburg is FLASHDANCE! Home of Maniac! She danced her heart out and showed the heart of Pittsburg that steel town of Carnagie that built America! Pittsburg is America! Ride the rails that is Pittsburg! It’s an American city full of dreams!
@29 The Daily Mail how cool. So are they running the odds for the American Presidential election? Who they got as the candidates coming out of the primary? How many candidates do they have coming out of the Primaries?
@30 Sorry I’m declaring Calvin ball and I’m Calvin (though I’d prefer to be Hobbes as he is a cool tiger and definitely in the running for top contender to replace humans). Rabbit reproductively probably has led to an increase in the numbers of the common brown snake and fewer rabbits. And the fence worked. Of course it did we are playing Calvin ball!
@42 Well Mel Brooks has used the word nigger in comedy. I think some of the usage in “Blazing Saddles” pretty good. Gets to the heart of the matter really. So the word can be used.
I also believe the FBI may have recorded Stokely Carmichael using the word while involved with the Black Panthers. Those folks believed that co opting the word was power.
Nor can you erase the word from literature. Sorry you can’t make it disappear from “Huckleberry Finn”. I do believe one should be able to read a book as the author wrote it.