Over the weekend, I was walking around suburbia. It was the day after the storm, and I passed a rhododendron that had been toppled. I wasn’t sure if I should have pushed the root ball back into the ground. I decided not to wander onto some stranger’s property to do some half-assed landscaping. But I would prefer to live in a world where people did that, and it was OK.
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Billy Graham passed away. Whatever you think of his preaching, he wasn’t in it for money like the rest are.
“An aide to a Florida legislator was fired on Tuesday after claiming that two survivors of the mass shooting at a Parkland high school were ‘actors’ and not really students … [he] reportedly tweeted a quote from the Bible: ‘And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.'”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/benjamin-kelly-florida-aide-parkland-shooting-actors_us_5a8d1205e4b00a30a250aab5
Roger Rabbit Commentary: I would say, yes, the truth set him free to go fishing or look for another job.
CNN: But what part of this is a coverup? Are you saying that’s not true, or what?
FLORINE GRUEN GOLDFARB: Um, the Russians? I don’t care if they were involved or not. That’s to me is the least important thing
CNN: But they were involved with you. Did you guys know that?
GOLDFARB: They weren’t involved with us. Just make sure that you report it correctly that you know —
CNN: But you guys were involved with Being Patriotic, right?
GOLDFARB: Very. Very patriotic but not —
CNN: Being Patriotic was the group that contacted and helped to organize some of these activities that you posted on your own Facebook account.
GOLDFARB: Those were legitimate.
CNN: Those were Russians.
GOLDFARB: (Irritated) They were not Russians! I don’t go with the Russians. Come on! Give me a break.
CNN: That group was Russian.
GOLDFARB: I have nothing to do with the Russians. The group’s —
CNN: Well apparently you did.
GOLDFARB: No.
CNN: Maybe you didn’t know it, but you did.
GOLDFARB: Oh, please. When you are talking like this, I don’t want to have anything to do with you.
CNN: Well, I’m talking —
GOLDFARB: (emphatically) Those people who were with me were all Trump supporters. Very, very much so.
CNN: And all apparently following the direction of groups that were associated with Russians who were actually infiltrating —
GOLDFARB: BS! And please, please report that I don’t believe that. That is bullshit. I know all the people that were with me. Okay. They were at my meetings. They were all Trump supporters. Okay.
CNN: Mhm. But did you realize that you guys were in communication electronically with, with Russians?
GOLDFARB: Not me, not me. Hillary Clinton was, and so was all her bandits.
CNN: Some of the stuff…You were in charge of the Facebook account, right? You were posting and reposting almost word for word the information that was coming out of this Internet Research Agency in St. Petersburg.
GOLDFARB: No, goodbye.
CNN: You don’t believe that?
GOLDFARB: (walking away) Nope, It’s bullshit. Thank you.
CNN: Well, there you go.
You could take GOLDFARB and replace it with the name of any one of our troll-bot idiots, or almost any witless drooling Trump voter you like, and nothing else would change.
Each and every one of the HA troll-bots have allowed themselves to be used in this way repeatedly. Most of them continue to this day. Along with the entire “conservative movement” they are beyond the Russian Event Horizon and all perception of objective reality for them is now permanently distorted through a pimply Moldovan teenager’s culturally inept lens. Other than dismiss them for the gullible children they are, the only thing left for the rest of us is to laugh at their predicament while sweeping them aside into history’s dust bit.
@4 Even associating with Russians is more respectable than associating with Trump supporters, so why is the idiot insisting he only hangs out with Trump supporters?
Created by pimply Moldovan teens, but promoted into infamy by witless, drooling, ignorant, fearful, sister-fucking, trailer-billy trolls.
#youbuiltthattoo
The chances that Anglin, Kessler, Spencer, and the rest can escape criminal conviction for the violence they wrought in Charlottesville last August are not improved by things like this:
https://vimeo.com/256679477
Hard to say if that shit makes though pre-trial motions in a criminal trial. But the journey has only just begun for these “very fine people”. They are staring down a very long and costly road of civil litigation over what they set out to do that resulted in so many injuries and deaths. Their intentions are made abundantly clear and are impossible to deny.
And while they may go mostly unexpressed, those same intentions are clearly shared by the vast majority of Republican voters today. This is not new. This is not sudden. This not unforeseen nor unforeseeable. This is not “Trumpism”. This is movement conservatism as it has been fed and nurtured by mainstream Republicans for more than fifty years.
Geez, Bob, way to blow off the next generation of voters. Y’all already lost the millennials, and now this fiasco.
“‘These kids hate America’: Fox News fans spit venom at Parkland massacre survivors’ speeches”
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/kids-hate-america-fox-news-fans-spit-venom-parkland-students-speeches-calling-tougher-gun-laws/
Of course, y’all act like there will never be another election. Must be something y’all cooked up with Russia to install a totalitarian government in America, one subservient to Putin’s will.
“The White House would consider barring all firearms for some individuals, like those with mental illnesses, rather than guns like assault weapons for all Americans …. ”
Commentary: In other words, Trump is rethinking his decision last year to let mentally ill people buy guns.
“However, the Trump administration is skeptical Congress would vote to block assault weapons.”
Commentary: They’re probably right, but this is a fluid situation, and could change substantially by next January.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/21/trump-open-to-gun-restrictions-for-certain-individuals-according-to-white-house-official.html
Commentary: Don’t be fooled by Trump’s phony attempt to look like he’s supporting gun control in response to the Florida school shooting. He’s conceding nothing. Barring mentally ill people from possessing guns is already federal law, and the law in most or all states. What he’s actually doing is resisting renewed public pressure for an assault weapon ban. That’s the NRA position. He’s defending the NRA position and blaming Congress for doing so. This is vintage Trump bullshit.
The kids are all right..
The putin ass-kissin’ ha trolls are always wrong.
Heh. Even Rubio called out the “crisis actor” horseshit from the likes of the hatestheonlyway pun-idiot – an always wrongist propagandist the ha troll dumbasses LOVE!
If we’re not going to ban assault rifles, then at the very least we should limit their purchase, ownership, possession, and use to persons over age 25 or better yet age 30, although a total ban would be best of all.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/el-camino-high-school-thwarted-attack-plot-los-angeles-sheriff-officials-brief-media-live-updates/
Roger Rabbit Commentary: We must keep these weapons out of the hands of disturbed youths, even if that involves making them inaccessible to all youths. I personally think they should be banned altogether, because the imperatives of public safety outweigh any legitimate reasons for civilians to have these lethal military weapons.
@9
#FuckThemKids
Coming Soon, to a Theater near you.
10,
“He’s defending the NRA position and blaming Congress for doing so. This is vintage Trump bullshit.”
I for one can’t think of a better time for him to do it than when a RoyPutin Congress is nine months away from a dangerous midterm where 15% (so far) of their incumbents are declining to seek reelection and they have nothing to show for their total control of government other than a bunch of dead children, a billionaire tax cut, emergency room photos of beaten wives, and a rage-Tweeting, man-baby leader so thoroughly smeared in STD virions you wouldn’t shake his hand without a gallon of Purell to follow.
@14 Remember the short-lived poll bounce Trump got last week from the tax cuts? I don’t, either.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/21/politics/trump-approval-rate-poll/index.html
@9 Meanwhile, students are walking out of classes all over the country to protest against Republicans sacrificing their lives for “gun rights.”
“Two former Republican … candidates to fill a vacant U.S. House seat are embroiled in controversy as Tuesday’s special primary election looms. Former state Sen. Steve Montenegro reportedly received racy text messages from a Senate staffer who isn’t his wife. Former state Sen. Debbie Lesko is under fire for transferring $50,000 … to an independent group backing her congressional election bid.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/steve-montenegro-debbie-lesko-arizona-lawmakers-revelations/
Roger Rabbit Commentary: This is the seat vacated by disgraced Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ). There are 13 GOP candidates; Montenegro and Lesko lead in polls at 21% each. The Democratic candidate will be either a doctor (not Doctor Dumbfuck) or a civil rights activist. The primary is next week and the general election is in April.
11,
“…the hatestheonlyway pun-idiot – an always wrongist propagandist the ha troll dumbasses LOVE!”
You shouldn’t forget to mention that not only is Hoft “the dumbest human being on the internet” but that he also is in business with…
wait for it…
the pimply Moldovan teenagers.
And just because Rubio is willing to bend just the tiniest liddle bit to the pressure and denounce the Russian propaganda once in a while, don’t think for an instant that he won’t continue to give the Mercers and the NRA lap dances for cash.
This is a well rehearsed bit of political theater that sees regular revival year after year and slaughter after slaughter all thanks to the drooling, brainless, trailer-billies and EEEN-DEEE-PEN-DUNCE who reliably prop it up and hand over their cash every time. Take particular note that not a single one of our gun-fapping idiot trolls has produced even the slightest bit of nuance or evolution despite the mounting death toll. They just drink the blood and call for more.
10,
“The White House would consider barring all firearms for some individuals, like those with mental illnesses, rather than guns like assault weapons for all Americans …. ”
A sadistic bullies wet dream.
Every public school official, every teacher, every hall monitor, and every PTA mom on diet pills will be encouraged to be on the lookout for the next Napoleon Dynamite and every other “weirdo” so they can be identified, targeted, monitored, and jacked up on a delicious cocktail of mood-altering chemicals from big Pharma between beatings behind the gym.
Turns Nikolas Cruz into Stephen Paddock, a fifty fold increase in victim count. Increasing bloodshed is the only thing conservatives are good at.
This young “crisis actor” is really good at it. His fake tears had me going there for a while. Until I wised up. I’d bet his “crisis actor” training was funded by George Soros and the program was run by Chelsea Clinton and the FBI.
“‘It’s still happening’: Parkland survivor sobs in the White House during Trump’s mass shooting listening session”
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/still-happening-parkland-survivor-sobs-white-house-trumps-mass-shooting-listening-session/
Little doubt that the loon will soon be here to spew some HATE! at the kid. Bob will probably just toss some snide in his direction.
We Russians are still laughing our asses off at you simpleton Americans. We’re having such great fun that we will continue to interfere with your elections because it causes such dissention among you stupid people.
If you don’t like it, take a look at your CIA’s meddling in other countries’ elections since that organization was formed in 1947. You’re getting what you deserve!
Why does any civilian need an AR-15? Home protection? Yeah, I call bullshit on that. There are any number of other firearms that can be used: handgun or shotgun.
Hell, a can of wasp/hornet spray and a bat is pretty darn effective too.
Commentary: In other words, Trump is rethinking his decision last year to let mentally ill people buy guns.
And where and when did this decision happen Roger senile idiot wabbit?
Wait for it… It will be a whopper!
Till Next Time!
Notice how CNN didn’t ask Michael Moron about that rally led by Russians. Why didn’t they ask Moron if he was a Russian plant?
Till Next Time!
@21 “You’re getting what you deserve!”
Of course we are! Both our countries play these games. If we take out your leadership, naturally we expect your side to retaliate in kind. Thanks in advance.
@23 Here ya go, dummy.
http://fortune.com/2018/02/15/.....l-illness/
Now watch the squid squirt ink and >poot< into his crevice.
@24 Why don’t you ask him? Are you helpless? Why does CNN have to do everything for you?
25 – It’s even more funny when you and your ilk get your panties in a wad. We will continue to interfere because it’s so much fun! There is nothing you or any other American can do about it.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha !
@28 We think alike, Vlad. Of course you believe we can’t do anything about it. You won’t see us coming and won’t know what we did. That’s the whole idea. (snicker) Except your boys and girls were clumsy and got caught this time.
21, 28,
“We’re having such great fun that we will continue to interfere with your elections because it causes such dissention among you stupid people.”
Vladdy, aside from spelling errors you may also being making some serious attribution errors, comrade.
It may be true that over in the trailer park the Duke boys are beating the shit out of each other over who gets to be king Nazi dickhead.
But interestingly enough, in elite, healthy, well educated, affluent, coastal, progressive Real America (where your pimply Moldovan teenagers produce nothing more than mild laughter) we are growing more cohesive, more determined, and more motivated than ever to destroy the mindless, beer drunk meat robots you control.
Please continue to feed the RoyPutin Party TrailerBillies an endless supply of #PizzaGate/#JadeHelm/#crisisactor bullshit. I believe we enjoy it even more than you do. Watching those hapless gullible dupes drop trou and spread for you is some of the best political entertainment since Trigg Palin saw Russia from his momma’s vagine. Just keep doing you, and things will work out fine.
#youbuiltthattoo
Useless senile idiot FOOL @26
“There is no data to support a connection between the need for a representative payee to manage one’s Social Security disability benefits and a propensity toward gun violence.”
Vote YES on the Resolution of Disapproval, H. J. Res. 40 (Social Security Administration NICS Final Rule)
It’s only about Social Security you useless piece of biomASS! Did you get that from Vox or rawstory? It has no effect on other legislation. Senility has truly affected your silly ASS! Puddy already blew that argument out of the water the same day some other useless HA DUMMOCRETIN idiot posted it.
Don’t believe Puddy? Check the creepy clueless crazed cretin database! It’s already captured! All wonderful PuddyMissives are!
Till Next Time! There goes that silly “squid ink” argment for the 74 vigintillionth time!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Uh babbling butthole. The db is only for HA HEROES to laugh at you – even more.. Just the cherry on top..
Day to day you post horseshit from alex jones, matt sludge, hatestheonlyway, daily white nationalist whiner – most times that’s funny enough..
Keep entertaining HA HEROES.. – your desperation on Sat nights after sunset is too rich!
29,
“Except your boys and girls were clumsy and got caught this time.”
Can’t blame ’em for trying. How could they not? The Trump campaign was like some kind of foreign intelligence kompromat pornfest. If you could have designed from the ground up a major party Presidential campaign specifically for the purpose of facilitating unlawful foreign influence it wouldn’t look any different.
Chronically understaffed with vain, greedy, incompetent suck-ups completely out of their element yet infused with the kind of unshakable confidence and certainty that only pure ignorance can produce. All the shady financing and phony structuring deliberately built in to the business to conceal its true nature along with a self-contained orbiting galaxy of similarly unstable and corrupt associates must have seemed irresistible, not just to Putin but to at least a half dozen other foreign leaders. Like leaving a Lambo with the keys in it overnight in the trailer park. They were fighting each other to get their first.
They should have been more careful. But after all, these are Russians. They aren’t a clever people. Ruthless maybe. Determined. Infinitely corrupt for sure. But never particularly smart. Consider what that says about their victims – our idiot trolls and the average Republican voter in America today. These are people who should not be left alone with sharp objects.
Remember when Obummer spent $350,000 to try and replace Netanyahu in the Israeli election? Where were the libtard media then?
https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/michael-w-chapman/state-dept-350k-group-built-campaign-structure-used-against-election-israels
Till Next Time!
Awwwwwwwwwww poor creepy clueless crazed cretin. Admits to its name and the crazed databaze.
HA HEROES – Truly this FOOL is delusional!
Pavlov rules again! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Till Next Time!
Remember under Obummer, 21 million records from the Office of Personnel Management went missing, while the Whitey House, ObummerCare and the State Department were hacked! Butt we were told in October 2016 the elections were secure. Obummer said so!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Till Next Time!
In the vein of our resident loon…This is American conservatism.
In response to a live Facebook video of today’s Parkland Gun Safety rally the comments were flying fast.
These were teens they were talking about.
“Where’s a suicide bomber when you need one?”
“Run then over!”
“A snowplow would do the trick”
Very fine people.
@31 No, I got it from Fortune magazine, which you should know, because you obviously read the article.
Interesting to see you quoting the ACLU (you even used quote marks this time; how about also including an attribution next time?), which implies you’re too stupid to come up with an argument of your own. While I share their concern about stereotyping disabled people, if someone is mentally ill they shouldn’t have a gun. And, anyway, how can someone on a Social Security disability income afford an AR-15?
@32 The squid is channeling ACLU today. See #31.
@33 “But after all, these are Russians. They aren’t a clever people. Ruthless maybe. Determined. Infinitely corrupt for sure. But never particularly smart.”
YouTube videos of “Russian road rage” and “Russian double parking” are some of the best entertainment out there. Watch 2 or 3 of these shows and you’ll understand why Russia’s population is shrinking. Also, I suspect they’re too drunk on bootleg vodka to find the right hole most of the time.
“I got it from Fortune magazine”
If you must mention Fortune magazine around a Republican you can at least be a decent fellow and give the hapless pervert a chance to remove his belt, cinch it around his neck, and open his fly first.
@37 These are the people we want to take guns away from. This idea looks better every day.
Did I call it?
#FuckThemKids
Let them continue. Do whatever you can to encourage them to show their true colors. Moms and Dads throughout the Country will not sit while their kids are being attacked. Let them attack. Like I said, encourage it.
It’s when those type of people hide out is when we have a problem. Which will happen someday. They’ll learn from ISIS.
YouTube Gives “Actor” Video The Boot
“A top trending video on YouTube suggesting an outspoken survivor of the Parkland school shooting is actually a ‘crisis actor’ has been taken off the video platform. ‘This video has been removed for violating YouTube’s policy on harassment and bullying,’ a note replacing the clip read Wednesday afternoon.”
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2018/02/21/youtube-removes-video-saying-parkland-shooting-survivor-is-actor/23367870/
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Wham! You’re outta here! Ouch, right in the booty, that’s gotta hurt. With cleats, too.
Not sure the following link will work, but here is an interesting ENR article on a high rise building being built in Seattle that is unique in the way a typical steel framed high rise structure is built and a potential game changer on how high rise structures are built.
https://www.enr.com/articles/43671-rainier-square-towers-composite-steel-frame-called-a-game-changer
There is a video of a 4D simulation showing comparison between the more conventional way of constructing a steel framed high rise structure and this new method.
Demorat Open Borders War On America News-
http://dailycaller.com/2018/02.....shootings/
Snip-
As fun as it is to ridicule the FBI for devoting massive resources to chasing down Hillary Clinton’s oppo research while blowing off repeated, specific warnings about school shooter Nikolas Cruz, we’ve put a lot on the agency’s plate.
We’re hauling in nearly 2 million manifestly unvetted Third World immigrants every year, leading to a slew of FBI “Watch Lists” with a million names apiece. In 2015, Director James Comey said that there were ISIS investigations in all 50 states — even Idaho and Alaska! And that’s just one terrorist organization.
1) Omar Mateen, son of Afghan immigrants, killed 49 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando on June 12, 2016.
2) First- and second-generation Pakistani immigrants Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik opened fire at a community center Christmas party in San Bernardino, California, on Dec. 2, 2015, killing 14 people.
3) English immigrant Christopher Harper-Mercer killed 9 people at Umpqua Community College in southwest Oregon on Oct. 1, 2015.
4) Kuwaiti immigrant Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez shot and killed five people in attacks on two military installations in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on July 16, 2015.
5) Second-generation Malaysian immigrant Elliot Rodger killed six people on May 23, 2014, around the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara.
6) Second-generation immigrant John Zawahri opened fire at his Southern California home and later at the campus of Santa Monica College on June 7, 2013, killing five in all. (The New York Times never mentioned that he was the child of Lebanese immigrants. The Times didn’t even mention that his father used to beat up his mother, despite that paper’s usual heightened interest in stories about men being mean to women.)
7) Cuban immigrant Pedro Alberto Vargas fatally shot six people in his apartment complex in Hialeah, Florida, on July 26, 2013.
8) Probable Barbadian immigrant Aaron Alexis shot and killed 12 people inside the Washington Navy Yard on Sept. 16, 2013. (See this.)
9) South Korean immigrant One L. Goh opened fire at Oikos University in Oakland, California, killing seven people on April 2, 2012.
10) Mexican immigrant Eduardo Sencion shot up an IHOP in Carson City, Nevada, on Sept. 6, 2011, killing four people — three National Guardsmen and a 67-year-old woman.
11) Second-generation immigrant Nidal Malik Hasan, son of Palestinian immigrants, killed 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, on Nov. 5, 2009.
12) Vietnamese immigrant Jiverly Wong shot up the Binghamton, New York, American Civic Association on April 3, 2009, killing 13.
13) Bosnian immigrant Sulejman Talovic fatally shot five people at the Trolley Square Mall in Salt Lake City on Feb. 12, 2007.
14) Seung-Hui Cho, a South Korean immigrant, slaughtered 32 people at Virginia Tech on April 16, 2007.
15) Hmong immigrant Chai Soua Vang killed six hunters in northern Wisconsin on Nov. 21, 2004.
16) Mexican immigrant Salvador Tapia shot up the Windy City Core Supply warehouse in Chicago in 2003, killing six of his former co-workers.
If you missed your favorite immigrant mass shooting, please note that I excluded Jamaican immigrant Colin Ferguson (Long Island Railroad massacre in 1993); Nigerian immigrant Peter Odighizuwa (Appalachian School of Law shooting in 2002); Haitian illegal immigrant Kesler Dufrene (North Miami shooting in 2012); and Nigerian immigrant Henry Williams Obotetukudo (Bronx-Lebanon Hospital shooting in 2017). We are only counting mass shootings since 2000 that left at least four people dead.
First- and second-generation immigrants have committed more than 40 percent of all mass shootings since 2000. I know we’ve been admitting Third World immigrants at a breakneck pace, but I don’t think immigrants make up nearly half the population yet.
Once we exclude the immigrant mass shooters, a clearer pattern emerges. The typical American perpetrator is a young man with paranoid schizophrenia — or, as we’re now euphemistically calling it, “autism” — probably exacerbated by pot, a deadly combo platter.
An immigration moratorium and widespread deportations would not only cut mass shootings in half, but it would also free up the FBI’s time to focus on these delusional young men with the terrifying stare, who hear voices no one else hears.
Young men like Nikolas Cruz.
@45 Alas, paid subscription only. I walk by that site now and then. Everything is demoed except the existing tower. The consulting firm I was with at the time did the original project’s MEP design. NBBJ is the architect for the present project and my recollection is they did the original as well.
@46(1) Omar Matteen was a U.S.-born American citizen.
(2) Farook was a U.S.-born American citizen; Malik was a Pakistani who immigrated from Saudi Arabia.
(3) Harper-Mercer was a U.S.-born American citizen.
(4) Abdulazeez was born in Kuwait but lived in the U.S. from age 6 on, and was a naturalized U.S. citizen at the time of his crimes.
(5) Elliot Rodger was born in London but lived in the U.S. from age 5 on. He was not a “Malayasian immigrant.” His father was English, his mother Malaysian, but Rodger never lived in Malaysia.
(6) John Zawahri was a U.S.-born American citizen who never lived in any other country.
(7) Vargas was born in Cuba, immigrated to the U.S. with his mother while in his 20s, and became a naturalized U.S. citizen. He had lived in the U.S. for over 20 years before he committed his crimes.
(8) Aaron Alexis was born in Queens, grew up in Brooklyn, and lived in Fort Worth before joining the Navy. He was a U.S.-born American citizen who never lived in another country.
(9) One L. Goh, who was 48 years old when he committed his crimes, was born in South Korea, immigrated to the U.S. at an unspecified “young age,” and became a naturalized U.S. citizen. He apparently lived most of his life, and perhaps all of his adult life, in the U.S., where he was a drifter with mental problems.
(10) Eduardo Secion, who was 32 when he committed his crimes, was born in Mexico but his family owned a business in Carson City, he went to high school there, and was described as a “local resident” in news coverage of this shooting.
(11) Nidal Malik Hasan is a U.S.-born American citizen who has never lived in another country.
(12) Jiverly Wong was born in Vietnam in 1967 (during the war), came to the U.S. with his parents in the 1980s (boat people?), and became a naturalized U.S. citizen but spent some time in Canada.
(13) Sulejman Talovic was born in Bosnia, lived in Sarajevo for a time, and came to the U.S. with his family at age 10. It is unclear whether they were refugees, but he spent his early childhood in the region of the vicious Serb-Bosnia conflict. He had permanent resident status in the U.S. and was 19 when he committed his crimes.
(14) Seung-Hui Cho was brought to the U.S. by his parents and lived the rest of his life in the U.S. He was 23 when he committed his crimes and then killed himself. He had a long history of mental illness.
(15) Chai Soua Vang’s father fought for a CIA-organized secret army in Laos during the Vietnam War. His family fled to escape the post-war Pathet Lao genocide against the Hmong people and brought him to the U.S. when he was 12. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen and served in the California National Guard for 6 years. He was 36 when he committed his crimes.
(16) Salvador Tapia was a fired employee who committed a workplace shooting. He was 36 at the time, and had been arrested a dozen times previously. He probably was born in Mexico but little information about him is available on the internet. It appears he had lived in the U.S. for a long time and had legal status here
Six of the 17 persons on this list were U.S.-born American citizens who never lived in another country. The fact they have “foreign sounding” names doesn’t make them foreigners or immigrants. Most of the rest came to the U.S. in childhood, grew up here, socialized here, and spent most of their lives here. In other words, nearly all of them are products of American culture, not some other society’s castoffs.
Coulter is trying to make a point that legal immigration is a problem, too, based on the premise that legal immigrants and children of legal immigrants have committed mass shootings. In reality, the vast majority of mass shootings in the U.S. are committed by native-born U.S. citizens.
Law enforcement statistics show the crime rate of illegal immigrants is about half that of native-born American citizens. So, if you’re really serious about reducing violent crime in our country, then keep the immigrants and throw out the citizens.
Let’s face it, America is a violent culture, reflected in movies, TV shows, video games, etc. Children growing up in America are steeped in violent imagery. Essentially, they’re taught that violence is a normal aspect of life. Combine that with untreated mental health problems and easy access to guns, and you’ve got a problem. This really has nothing to do with immigrants, and everything to do with America’s culture of violence, failed mental health system, and stupid gun policies. Immigrants who come here are as susceptible to these influences as natives, and vice-versa.
The solution to our endemic violence is not racism, bigotry, or hating immigrants. There may not be a complete solution, but an obvious place to start is making guns more difficult to obtain and doing more to keep them out of the hands of people who shouldn’t have them.
@34
Swallowing hard eh?
Read your own story. But be sure not to think about any background information that Fox News and CSN “mysteriously” leave out.
The grant began in late 2013 and ended in Nov. 2014.
Maybe you don’t know much about Israeli Politics but elections must take place every four years though the Prime Minister can dissolve the government and call for early elections.
Israel had a full election in January 2013 (late 2013 grant starts) so no election was scheduled during the grant period and the earliest mandated would be 2017. Again, the grant ended in Nov. 2014. Netanyahu and Likud did dissolve the government in Dec. 2014 and called an election in 2015. (note those dates…)
I know you’re trying to score a “Obama meddled in the Israeli election” point but you’ve missed so badly as to be laughable. There’s a reason the only media figure peddling this story is Piro.
In a NYT every two years survey of professional Political scientists 45 is ranked #45 out of 45 presidents.
And before anyone screams “fake news” when broken out by party, declared REPUBLICAN poliSci professionals ranked 45 as #40 out of 45.
Heckuvajob!
@47 Yes, I think the article mentioned NBBJ as the architect for the original project.
New building superstructure is supposed to start in August.
@47 instead of having a leading reinforced concrete core the structure will have a composite steel and concrete core. They expect to reduce the project schedule by 40%.
The composite core requires no steel reinforcing – the core is constructed with steel plates and then later filled with concrete that is sandwiched by the steel plates. This steel core is prefabricated and delivered to the site and stacked as the building rises. Thus no time is needed to form the core walls and install the reinforcing steel, in addition to the core not needing to lead the steel framing that follows the core.
Pretty ingenious. It reminds me of the system that is sometime used to build house foundations where they stack styrofoam hollow blocks and then later fill in the blocks with concrete.
J.P. Morgan Chase is planning to knock down their 52 story office tower and replace it with another higher building almost twice as high in height. Where but NYC do they do this shit?
It will be interesting to see how they knock it down. I’ve been told that They don’t use explosives here in the city ever since 9/11. But I can’t imagine that they will not use explosives. Not unusual to see them tear down a bldg here by hand and mechanical means, but typically for existing buildings that are no higher than 10-15 stories high.
Maybe they should consider the new method of erecting the new tower that is going to be used in That Seattle project.
@48 nice rebuttal ~ funny how factual information can change a story instead of knee jerk hysteria.
After last night’s public humiliation it’s going to be tough for Liddle Marco to advance very far through a RoyPutin Pissidential primary. Live by the mouth breathing meathead trailerbilly, die by the mouth breathing meathead trailerbilly.
Carl, I’d prefer you leave the rootball exposed. I don’t need you to sweep leaves or pick up fallen branches, either.
I’d also prefer if next time you’d pick up after your dog when it shits on my lawn.
Oh, look: Newsweek working hard to cement its reputation.
Newsweek has retracted its story about a conservative botnet effort to force the resignation of Senator Al Franken.
The initial report was based on research conducted by Unhack The Vote, a group examining outside influence in U.S. elections and politics. It alleged that a “decidedly alt-right” botnet “weaponized” anti-Franken stories and amplified pressure on Franken to resign after allegations of sexual misconduct. Newsweek was unable to independently verify their claims after a further review of their work.
Biggest loser: Steve. I know that sounded redundant.
@56 “pick up after your dog when it shits on my lawn” sez the troll who comes to Goldy’s blog and shits in it all day long every day of the week and doesn’t clean up after himself.
@57 At least Newsweek has a reputation to lose, which is more than you can say for rightwing “sources.”
@myself
Of course the organization funded “with taxpayer dollars” advocates activism and candidates in favor of a peaceful, diplomatic two state solution.
The two state solution is consistent with the U.S. position from GHW Bush through the Obama administration. Only the rage monkey currently in the WH has blown that up.
So in other words, “The Obamunists gave financial aid to a group to further policy goals in place by the U.S. State Department for 25 years! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame!” – Piddles, a proven liar and shill for Likud.
@60 After all, there’s only one alternative to a peaceful solution, and it’s not one any sane person would want.
@ 60
I guess you’ve never heard of Dennis Ross.
Two-state option is open any time the Palestinians choose to get serious about one.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-.....e-got-your
Then there are some that have your back and then there are the #FuckThemKids people.
I love this shit.
Bernie blames Hillary for allowing Russian interference
The remarks showed Sanders, running for a third term and currently considered a front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020, deeply defensive in response to questions posed to him about what was laid out in the indictment. He attempted to thread a response that blasts Donald Trump for refusing to acknowledge that Russians helped his campaign — but then holds himself harmless for a nearly identical denial.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/21/bernie-sanders-trump-russia-interference-420528
And this sounds pretty much like it will sound coming out of Trump’s mouth next week or next month.
The Vermont senator was adamant that he did not benefit from Russian bots urging voters to support him. “I did not know that Russian bots were promoting my campaign. Russian bots were not promoting my campaign,” he said.
Yup. Like I said, Sanders and Trump have very similar defenses.
Sanders’ and Weaver’s argument mirrors that of Trump, who has argued in a days-long series of tweets that the Russians were not supporting him. The president has blamed his nemesis, Barack Obama, for not doing enough to stop Russian disruption in the campaign.
You know, this did all happen under Barack’s watch.
@62 Of course we’ve heard of Dennis Ross. So have a lot of other people who are interested in this issue.
“In their 2006 paper The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, John Mearsheimer, political science professor at the University of Chicago, and Stephen Walt, academic dean of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, named Ross as a member of the ‘Israeli lobby’ in the United States. …
“In 2008, Time reported that a former colleague of Ross, former ambassador Daniel Kurtzer published a think-tank monograph containing anonymous complaints from Arab and American negotiators saying Ross was seen as biased towards Israel and not ‘an honest broker’.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ross#Controversies
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Clearly, citing Ross isn’t offering a solution. Bigger picture, I’m not saying the Palestinians are innocent victims of oppression. They’ve brought many of their problems on themselves. Otoh, they’re a conquered and subjugated people, and no rational person expects anyone to accept that as a permanent status. The Allies didn’t even do that to Germany or Japan after WW2; they were smart enough not to. Also, if Israel hogs all the land and water, leaving the Palestinians without means to make a living, you can’t expect them to accede to that, either. The truth is that neither party is innocent and Israel pursues policies that are guaranteed to prolong the conflict, so a one-sided approach that backs Israel’s policies and which in effect tells the Palestinians to go to hell will never bring lasting Middle East peace. Any solution has to consider the needs and aspirations of both parties. In other words, voting for the GOP’s mindless pro-Israel partisanship is voting for more war and conflict. Until 1/20/17 there were grownups trying to mediate a resolution both sides could live with. Now there’s not even that. Adding Trump to this stew only makes it even more inedible and leaves an even more intractable problem for his successor(s) to solve.
What Commies! Let’s cut this off at the knees now before it’s too late. I hope Bernie Sanders doesn’t see this or Carl.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/free-transport-germany-tallinn_us_5a8d5f3ae4b00a30a25117a4
Jeezus that shit is ridiculous. The idea that Palestinians are responsible for the degraded state of their civic institutions is fun house mirror shit. Palestinian political, legal, and civic institutions have been appropriated and systematically infiltrated, destabilized and corrupted by foreign occupiers, their international sponsors, and their regional and global rivals for going on a century. For all of those 100 years the excuse has always been the same: “they can’t blame us if they can’t get their shit together”.
Let’s cut to the chase: they are brown, they are non-Xtian, and there is oil to be had. It pleases trailerbillies to see these people bleed and suffer. Full stop.
@66 Not only free electricity-powered transportation but no border walls either! Trump puked on the Resolute Desk when he saw this. Sure hope they can get the stains out or at least cover them.
@67 Well, they do need to stop hijacking planes, throwing Jews in wheelchairs off ships, murdering Olympic athletes, lobbing rockets into Israel, and shit like that. They can’t expect the world to smile upon those activities. They’re in a somewhat similar position to a kid who’s bullied at school; he won’t get sympathy or support from those who might be inclined help him by shooting up the school.
@ 65
Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit, you did not go back far enough. go back to the Clinton presidency, the Camp David meeting, and the Palestinians’ rejection of the best offer they will ever get, after which HIV boy Arafat launched the second intifada.
@70 This is here and now. What’s your plan for the future? Do you have one? You’re peddling Dennis Ross; I think my ideas are more likely to work.
@62
guess you haven’t heard of settlement construction.
No Roger. Instead go back to Deir Yassin.
No wait! Go back to Sykes-Picot.
No wait! Dumbfuck needs another down. Move the goal!
It is absolutely fucking stupid to debate this shit with these people.
It is all very simple. If they are brown, they must bleed.
@ 72
Why, yes, yes I have. Those settlements are in land which would become part of Israel under the proposal Arafat walked away from at the Camp David meeting in 1999.
Of course, to know that you would have to have some idea who Dennis Ross is.
I think it’s important to understand and acknowledge that the very same kind of blood drunk populism that has swept through conservative politics in the United States also swept through conservative politics in Israel twenty years earlier.
I’m sure Israel has its own version of Dukes of Hazzard, arm-fishing, and #JadeHelm/#PizzaGate/#FREECARTERPAGE.
Is Bob Jewish? I wouldn’t think so, but I just wanted to check.
Wow. Apparently owing to the fact that some Jr. Tumpanzee shot up his classmates in Florida, and the not insignificant fact that I scrupulously avoid consuming the brain addled conspiracy theories being daily fed into the wingnut mediasphere by pimply Moldovan teenagers, I missed the latest.
Following the routine filing of a Brady order in the Flynn case last week by Judge Sullivan, the other side of the Russian Event Horizon burst into flames with some brand new cogitatin’.
Supposedly the filing which instructs the prosecution team to fully disclose exculpatory information to the defense team is a big tipoff that Mueller is cheating and Judge Sullivan is on to him and his dirty-dirty. The trailerbilly braintrust goes on to conclude that the order was a secret signal (nudge – nudge, wink – wink) from the judge to Flynn’s def team to withdraw his guilty plea, cause Mueller’s goin’ down!
Sullivan files these in every case. Every damn one. Always. For some time he has been of the opinion that the Brady disclosure requirements ought to be included into the USC for criminal procedures. So in his court, for all intents and purposes, they are. He always makes the order just so there can be no debate about it later on. But none of that has stopped the entirely of the traillerbilly mediasphere from running wild with this latest Moldovan teenaged bullshit.
These are simply some of the dumbest human beings on earth.
#FREECARTERPAGE!
@74 “Those settlements are in land which would become part of Israel under the proposal Arafat walked away”
Yeah, I see why Arafat didn’t sign that. Try to visualize a United States pocked with Russian, Chinese, or Cuban settlements like this map
https://www.vox.com/world/2016/12/30/14088842/israeli-settlements-explained-in-5-charts
and you, too, might grasp why Arafat didn’t sign it. If you need help interpreting the map, let me know.
Looks like Manafart may lose his release conditions and be heading to jail. Mueller will probably go slow on this to use the delay as more leverage and build uncertainty. But it appears that Manafart and his lawyers may have falsified pleadings in his earlier bail hearings with respect to the financial structure of his bail offering and a series of suspicious loans that are part of a separate federal fraud investigation. It probably doesn’t help that Manafart may have bribed the lender by offering to secure a Fuckface administration appointment for him.
Manafart’s daughter described him as “sobbing daily” on the phone from his spa-resort rehab after he was caught cheating on his wife. What’s he gonna do when he gets trapped in the shower in a federal super-max?
Over the weekend, I was hipstering around suburbia. It was the day after the breeze, and I hipstered passed a rhododendron that had been toppled. I wasn’t sure if I should have hipstered the root ball back into the ground. I decided not to hipster onto some stranger’s property to do some half-assed hipstering. But I would prefer to live in a world where Hipsters did that, and it was hipsterific.
With Turkey gearing up for direct open military conflict with Syria over YPG in Afrin here’s something to destroy whatever faint confidence you might have had that the sadministration of Pissident Stupid-Motherfucking-PutinPuppet has got a handle on things:
Last Thursday Sec of State Tillerson met with Turkish PM Erdogan for more than 3 hours in a private session with only the Turkish Foreign Minister to interpret the exchange. No other parties were allowed to be present. There was no official statement following the meeting, nor any subsequent press release detailing what was discussed or agreed upon.
So, not only do the people of the United States have absolutely no idea what the Pissident Stupid sadminstration has agreed to, neither does the Secretary of State.
Good thing Fuckface is working on getting rid of McMaster right now.
@74
See @78
Then comb the interwebs and look for the wholesale rejection of a two state solution going back into the early 80s by Netanyahu.
It’s all Arafat’s fault. Arafat was probably right in knowing that Barak couldn’t deliver on the deal offered. The previous Prime Minister who offered about the same thing and shook his hand got assasinated by a right wing extremist.
There are few good actors in this play. Assigning blame to only one is, cough, problematic.
The mayor of Nashville is a Democrat. She’s in some trouble of late. She had an affair with the police sergeant who was in charge of her security detail, and who made more overtime than all of the other security officers combined, in doing his ‘duty’ shtupping Her Honor while on purportedly official business trips.
She has refused to resign. Fucking a subordinate is apparently not so bad when the genders are reversed.
Although there’s a snag to her survival plan. The sergeant’s phone was used to snap some nude photographs of a woman. While he was on duty. Protecting the mayor. And the Tennessee Board of Investigation has them.
Fuck. yeah.
Oh, I forgot. The Missouri governor, a Republican, is in some fairly serious trouble over a nude photo as well. This, and @ 83, are completely coincidental.
And both will be a lot of fun to follow.
83,
Somebody wake the Dumbfuk up. It’s not like Nashville is going to replace her with one of those half-wit, trailerbillie Tumpanzees. Trump, when he wasn’t preoccupied drinking Russian hooker pee and bathing himself in Porn star STD virions, couldn’t even win Davidson County.
With every wet fart, Doctor Dumbfuck runs a victory lap these days.
#owngoal
Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens Indicted On Invasion Of Privacy Charge https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/eric-greitens-indicted_us_5a8f423ce4b0ee6416a15103
#CrookedHillarrrrrry
@ 85
It’s not about Nashville. She was a rising star. So many were decimated in the down-ballot losses under Obama you don’t have so many left right now.
Jesus will someone hurry the hell up and
https://runtulsirun.org/
promote Tulsi Gabbard?
Wouldja lookit that.
There’s a WA Tulsi FB page. 98 uberhopefuls already.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/RunTulsiRunWashington/about/
Instead of pleading your case of innocence just demonize your opppnent. The Repukes favorite tactic.
Fake News!
#fuckThemKids
http://thehill.com/homenews/st.....ss-liberal
America’s ISIS is on the move.
Florida massacre survivor’s family has gotten death threats http://www.nydailynews.com/new.....-1.3836226
@79 “What’s he gonna do when he gets trapped in the shower in a federal super-max?”
Same as they all do, be a good little bitch.
@80 Should’ve done it. Your life isn’t too high a price to pay to save a rhodie.
No one should name their kid Scot(t) Peterson.
Sheriff: Armed officer at school never entered building during shooting
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-.....-went-into
Oh. And it’s time teachers should be packin’.
Indeed. The DNC should do this one presumes. So that a few hundred pimply Moldovan propeller heads armed with bot-accounts posing as Bernie Bros. can scream incessantly through Mike Cernovic’s pie hole about #DWSCORRUPTION!!!!!!!!!
No thanks. She’s a big gurl. If she wants promotion she can beg for it like everyone else. Better that than selling herself to a shirtless commie dictator.
#owngoal
Goldy
✔
@GoldyHA
Around 4 million 17-year-olds turn 18 this year. If they all register to vote—and vote—politicians will end up fearing them a helluva lot more than they fear a terrorist spokesperson like Dana Loesch. #18in18
Really Goldy? The sheriff didn’t react to all those visits to Cruz’ house and you have nothing to say about that?
Really Goldy? All those crying white moms are great for ratings but all those crying black mamas in the ghetto inner city don’t provide great teevee coverage!
Puddy been saying this for years. Check the creepy clueless crazed cretin databaze!
Till Next Time!
@83 Replace mayor, problem solved.
@94 “This, and @ 83, are completely coincidental.”
Unless she’s in the photo.
So Dumbfuck, if you can’t get an armed cop to go into a school building where a shooter is at work, what makes you think arming teachers will produce a better result? Ponder this for a minute, then ask yourself why we call you a dumbfuck.
after which HIV boy Arafat launched the second intifada.
Was that intifada after people started asking questions over Arafat’s missing $Billions? http://content.time.com/time/m.....41,00.html
Don’t need no stinking crazed databaze! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Google works wonderfully!
Till Next Time!
This is a “brain” on nra gun porn..
a “brain” baked in the owner’s ass.
We can only hope Bob is armed and in saddle near a school one day, so he can gidyup and save everyone.
@101
You’re kidding, right? You don’t think for a second he would do that sort of action? Remember, people like Bob never go to rescue others, they only think of saving themselves.
@99 “Don’t need no stinking crazed databaze!”
Don’t need no brains or thinking, either. Just keep taking all the land and water, building settlements, and treating the Palestinian people like concentration camp inmates, and there’ll never be any end to the intifadas, rocket attacks, or terrorism. You’ll never have peace, and half your population will be serving in the army at any given time. Makes it hard to build an economy or have much of a life, doesn’t it?
Hey, I’m not siding with the Palestinians; I think the two sides deserve each other. I’m just a pragmatic observer.
@101 You’ll be better off if he runs away and leaves you to your own resources, which undoubtedly are far superior to assistance he could offer even if he were inclined to help.
Dumbfuck would be like Sgt. O’Neill in Platoon, pulling the wounded bodies of his comrades into a pile on top of himsef.
@ 98
So Dumbfuck, if you can’t get an armed cop to go into a school building where a shooter is at work, what makes you think arming teachers will produce a better result?
1. Teachers are already in the building.
2. They’re being shot at, too.
3. Trump suggested paying teachers more if they’ll concealed-carry.
Hey, y’all libbies have been screamin’ for years to increase teacher pay. Payin’ ’em to concealed-carry boosts their wages and keeps them, and their students, safer.
Y’all want yer teachers to be safe and better-paid, right?
@ 106
I should add one more to the list.
Every one of those NEA-member teachers is fucking a minor student. There will be the natural desire to protect one’s sexual mate from harm.
@84
Fairly serious trouble is what boob calls it when the guy is indicted, arrested and led away in handcuffs for blackmailing his mistress with release of nude photos if she speaks of their, ahem, love.
@106
I’m all for paying teachers more to teach but not to carry guns. After all, they are teachers not law enforcement.
@107 “Every one of those NEA-member teachers is fucking a minor student. There will be the natural desire to protect one’s sexual mate from harm.”
Got proof of that? Even for you that is a stretch. In that vain, what happened to Gary Ridgway and Ted Bundy? They seemed to kill most of their sexual mates. Guess that ruins your pet theory.
Not sposed to notice that he didn’t suggest payin fer it?
And there we have it. Take already over stretched public school district budgets and burden them with some pointless mandate that drives the most highly qualified educators away and rewards gun-fapping gym rats. Fascist political genius if you could actually get anyone to go along with it. Get back to us when you can package it in slogan form, accompany it with inspirational poster art and maybe some soaring musical compositions.
109,
Proof? Roypublicans already proved exactly where they stand on fucking minor students when they went all in on Roy Moore.
#youbuiltthattoo
This will end well.
Search warrants executed against Mayor Megan Barry, former security chief
Barry vehemently denied knowledge of the photos, saying in a statement released Thursday evening, “if they were of me, they were taken without my knowledge or permission and a complete invasion of my privacy.”
http://www.wsmv.com/story/3756.....rity-chief
Honey @ 83, if I were you I’d start worrying about whether they make your tits look saggy and whether your clit ring is showing.
112,
Aaaaaand…
nuthin.
I know some time for adjustment will be needed. But sooner or later the gullible trailerbillies are going to have to face up to a few truths about the costs of giving themselves over to the mockery of pimply Moldovan teenagers. And certainly one of those is the permanent loss of any moralizing stature.
Whether it’s finger wagging about extra marital affairs, or mendacious claims about child molesting, they fall flat now against the monstrous reality that their own movement leaders are manifestly guilty of far, far worse every day. It is a reliable fact now that within a few days, if not a few hours, of one of our trolls dropping snark about a Weineresque episode, a top figure in their bot-account led movement of teh stoopid will be caught red handed punching out his spouse, skull fucking an adolescent, giving a Nazi salute (not ironically – is that even a thing?) sodomizing farm animals, golden showering with hookers, telling a “Rastus” joke on a hot mike, diaper training with dominatrices, or bragging on tape about forcible rape.
#owngoal
“Nothing concentrates a man’s mind so much as the knowledge he is to be hanged in the morning.”
@ 114
Not to mention the financial inability to mount a defense.
@112
I’m not sure but there’s a high probability Stormy Daniels has tattoos and one or more non-ear piercings.
116,
Not a connoisseur of her work either. We’ll have to defer to Dumbfuck’s superior expertise on that one.
It’s a criminal proceeding. For a truly innocent affluent white man, a defense is cheap and easy.
Just another frustrated racist deeply troubled by the criminal plight of any of “the very fine people” while simultaneously blood drunk and applauding summary execution without trial for any brown person who refuses to consent to a warrantless roadside cavity search.
Credibility much?
#FREECARTERPAGE! #FREERICKGATES!
Carl be still thy green thumb.
@106 Of course there is a reason why armies arm young men (sometimes women) often teenagers. So arm the students’ After all the young man making statements has yet to be asked the one question that undermines his position in total. Since he is 18 he should be asked if he is going to put his hand up and join the military. Or if he’s not does he think the age of enlistment should go up since he believes individuals his age are incapable of using a AR 15 responsible or any weapon for that matter.