presentation needed more star wipes?
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 19 November 2015 21:14 (eight years ago) link
my letter:
Rep. Curbelo -
Thank you for the splendid display of political expediency today. Without men like you taking easy stands, we wouldn't know how to raise our children in a world of tough decisions. I'm especially proud of how, like me, a product of Miami's boys Catholic high school system can ignore what he was taught about critical thinking.
Congratulations on making us a mockery for the terrorists who want to destroy us. And the Syrians who already found EXISTING laws difficult appreciate your devotion to their cause.
"Capitulation under duress" should be your next campaign slogan.
Best,
as
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 November 2015 21:14 (eight years ago) link
House Democrats’ messaging strategy = we're Republicans
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 November 2015 21:16 (eight years ago) link
The measure faces an uncertain future in the Senate. Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) pledged Thursday that the Syria bill won’t make it to Obama’s desk. Senators will likely attempt to tack the measure as a rider to the government spending bill that Congress has to address in December.
“We’ve explained here in some detail [that] the problem is not with refugees. I haven’t read the House language,” Reid said during a press conference on Thursday. “I don’t think we’re going to be dealing with it over here.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/syria-refugee-bill-vote-216053#ixzz3ryTNCZPI
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 November 2015 21:16 (eight years ago) link
To: Curbelo.house.govFrom: CurbeloIntern2.house.govSubject: RE: Latest version of constituent feedback summary doc?
http://i.imgur.com/MVasrLO.jpg
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 19 November 2015 21:22 (eight years ago) link
Automatically started looking for my Rep on that list of Democrats before remembering, oh yeah, we don't have any Democratic Reps anymore.
― pplains, Thursday, 19 November 2015 21:23 (eight years ago) link
appreciated finally calibrated irony
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 November 2015 21:23 (eight years ago) link
i avoid sarcasm when sending screeds to my representatives
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 19 November 2015 21:23 (eight years ago) link
my congressman is a graduate of a fine Jesuit academy – he understands being spread eagled
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 November 2015 21:24 (eight years ago) link
Only if he ever reads the text of your message. Presumably, he'll be flooded on the subject and no aide is likely to choose yours as a representative example to put in front of him. Too bad. It was ace.
― Aimless, Thursday, 19 November 2015 22:08 (eight years ago) link
http://dudespaper.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/statueoflibertyflipsthebird.jpg
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 19 November 2015 22:25 (eight years ago) link
democracy demagoguery in action
― carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 19 November 2015 22:42 (eight years ago) link
This again--- 5 items (largely House Republican riders to appropriations bills) that could cause a government shutdown
the biggest holdups are 1) funding for Syrian refugees; 2) Dividing up a $30 billion spending increase both sides have agreed to in principle; 3) Environmental policy riders; 4) Crop insurance subsidies; and 5) a GOP push roll back financial regulations.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2015/11/20/the-five-things-that-could-still-force-a-government-shutdown/?wpmm=1&wpisrc=nl_daily202
― curmudgeon, Friday, 20 November 2015 14:55 (eight years ago) link
Bbbbbbut what about repealing Obamacare???
― Οὖτις, Friday, 20 November 2015 15:16 (eight years ago) link
Re: the funding Syrian refugees option:
“I would be surprised if there are going to be a lot of Democrats who are going to object if we take a thoughtful, reasonable approach to this,” Thune said.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 20 November 2015 15:19 (eight years ago) link
Labott’s crime wasn’t that she expressed an opinion. It’s that she expressed the wrong opinion: after Paris, defending Muslims, even refugees, is strictly forbidden. I’ve spoken with friends who work at every cable network and they say the post-Paris climate is indescribably repressive in terms of what they can say and who they can put on air. When it comes to the Paris attacks, CNN has basically become state TV (to see just how subservient CNN is about everything relating to terrorism, watch this unbelievable “interview” of ex-CIA chief Jim Woolsey by CNN’s Brooke Baldwin; or consider that neither CNN nor MSNBC has put a single person on air to dispute the CIA’s blatant falsehoods about Paris despite how many journalists have documented those falsehoods).
https://theintercept.com/2015/11/20/cnns-punishment-of-refugee-defending-journalist-highlights-media-abdication/
https://twitter.com/sts10/status/667428763660115968
i would've like to hear Woolsey say, like William Campbell's Squire of Gothos on Star Trek TOS, that Snowden should be hanged until he is DEAD DEAD DEAD.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 November 2015 19:13 (eight years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CUHYXfuWsAAyhMg.jpg
― Say Goodbye To That Blood (Old Lunch), Sunday, 22 November 2015 03:52 (eight years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/john-edwards-claiming-win-over-david-vitter-in-louisiana-governors-race/2015/11/21/a583fc06-9070-11e5-ae1f-af46b7df8483_story.html?hpid=hp_rhp-top-table-high_louisiananew1018pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
A democratic win in the south! Although an old-school Southern Dem
From the start of his run, Edwards knew any chance of victory hinged on distinguishing himself from the prevailing image of Democrats among voters. In meetings with small groups in rural parishes, he touted his opposition to abortion and strong support for gun ownership. He had fellow members of West Point class speak about his character and values.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 22 November 2015 19:27 (eight years ago) link
So what exactly makes him a democrat?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 22 November 2015 20:06 (eight years ago) link
Louisiana gets Medicaid health care from the feds now.
― pplains, Sunday, 22 November 2015 20:13 (eight years ago) link
related to Obamacare, etc.
So he's pro gun and anti-abortion but ... pro Obamacare? He must have a lot of friends down there.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 23 November 2015 02:20 (eight years ago) link
Shows you how many friends David Vitter has!
― pplains, Monday, 23 November 2015 02:22 (eight years ago) link
haw. http://johnbelforobama.com/
― pplains, Monday, 23 November 2015 02:24 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/opinion/sunday/who-turned-my-blue-state-red.html
In eastern Kentucky and other former Democratic bastions that have swung Republican in the past several decades, the people who most rely on the safety-net programs secured by Democrats are, by and large, not voting against their own interests by electing Republicans. Rather, they are not voting, period.
Stay at home white poor folks not vote for Republican white poor folks....
― curmudgeon, Monday, 23 November 2015 20:01 (eight years ago) link
The people in these communities who are voting Republican in larger proportions are those who are a notch or two up the economic ladder — the sheriff’s deputy, the teacher, the highway worker, the motel clerk, the gas station owner and the coal miner. And their growing allegiance to the Republicans is, in part, a reaction against what they perceive, among those below them on the economic ladder, as a growing dependency on the safety net, the most visible manifestation of downward mobility in their declining towns.
what's it like to be from a small town and actually like small towns
― pizza rolls are a food that exists (silby), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 01:29 (eight years ago) link
global travel alert for US citizens til Feb 24
travel to Canada not included, right? free n' easy there
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 01:49 (eight years ago) link
it's Canadia.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 01:50 (eight years ago) link
godfuckalmighty
Avi Selk@aviselkThe anti-Islam group that took guns to an Irving mosque has published the home addresses of dozens of local Muslims
http://irvingblog.dallasnews.com/2015/11/group-that-brought-guns-to-irving-mosque-publishes-muslims-home-addresses.html/
Murtaza Hussain @MazMHussain I can see why Clock Boy and his family decided to move from this town to Qatar.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 November 2015 01:56 (eight years ago) link
yup.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 26 November 2015 05:13 (eight years ago) link
Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Sen. Chuck Schumer announced Tuesday that plans by aluminum giant Alcoa to close its North Country smelter have been averted due to a $70 million state aid package that will save its 600 jobs through at least early 2019.However, during a news conference at the Massena plant, Schumer also said he had earlier helped Alcoa get a scaled-back federal cleanup of toxic PCBs from the Grasse River to help the plant stay open, and felt "betrayed" when the corporation announced last month the smelter was to close by early next year."We worked hard to come to an agreement with the federal Environmental Protection Agency," Schumer said. Alcoa CEO Klaus Kleinfeld "told me you make sure we don't have to put up a billion dollars to clean up the Grasse River, and we will put it into this plant ... when I read in the newspaper that the plant was closing, I felt totally betrayed."
However, during a news conference at the Massena plant, Schumer also said he had earlier helped Alcoa get a scaled-back federal cleanup of toxic PCBs from the Grasse River to help the plant stay open, and felt "betrayed" when the corporation announced last month the smelter was to close by early next year.
"We worked hard to come to an agreement with the federal Environmental Protection Agency," Schumer said. Alcoa CEO Klaus Kleinfeld "told me you make sure we don't have to put up a billion dollars to clean up the Grasse River, and we will put it into this plant ... when I read in the newspaper that the plant was closing, I felt totally betrayed."
http://www.timesunion.com/business/article/Alcoa-jobs-saved-in-North-Country-6655805.php
Great job, Chuck Schumer
― Karl Malone, Monday, 30 November 2015 14:23 (eight years ago) link
i mean i know it's obvious to everyone here but like just employ those 600 people and have them clean up trash on the highways with that 70 million my fucking god...
― How Butch, I mean (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 30 November 2015 16:32 (eight years ago) link
i think politicians have a really reactionary response to this kind of stuff.... like as soon as any business threatens layoffs they start thinking "what concessions can i provide to keep that from happening?" just so they don't have to face those dozen people yelling at them about jobs... rather than step back and think about the bigger picture.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Monday, 30 November 2015 17:02 (eight years ago) link
this is one of the baselines of politics, it has nothing to do with party or ideology.
@jaketappertomorrow 11 am: Unveiling Ceremony of the Marble Bust of VP Dick Cheney at the United States Capitol Visitor Center, Emancipation Hall
@mattduss A great sign to the world of how seriously the US takes the ban on torture.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 17:15 (eight years ago) link
you're on Twitter?
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 17:16 (eight years ago) link
nope
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 17:19 (eight years ago) link
I find this fascinating: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/you-can-t-understand-american-politics-without-reading-this-study
― you're breaking the NAP (DJP), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 18:44 (eight years ago) link
Here's the followup: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/more-on-that-most-important-study
― you're breaking the NAP (DJP), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 18:48 (eight years ago) link
Yeah follow up (on Gelman's study) complicate things somewhat.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 18:57 (eight years ago) link
they complicate Marshall's primary conclusions quite a bit
― Thomas H. Handy (dandydonweiner), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 21:51 (eight years ago) link
what were Marshall's primary conclusions again?
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 21:52 (eight years ago) link
the way I read this part:
Beneath the often febrile and sometimes race-tinged Republican talk about Obama "radically tranforming" America, or being a socialist whose erasing American 'exceptionalism' or various other regular themes on Fox News, one fairly straightforward, clear message is almost always discernible: The country people know, their country, is being taken away from them.
...in summary is that white people are mad because Govmit and immigrants and Obama...and their coping mechanisms (or inability to cope physiologically) is bad for their life expectancy.
― Thomas H. Handy (dandydonweiner), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 21:56 (eight years ago) link
(and in fact, it's worse for white life expectancy for a certain demographic than other demos in the study.)
― Thomas H. Handy (dandydonweiner), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 21:57 (eight years ago) link
But Gelman et al pointed out that methodology and reporting had ignored some nuances--what was driving the life expectancy numbers in Marshall's conclusions was actually women in that demo.
I don't think many people would have ever guessed that.
― Thomas H. Handy (dandydonweiner), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 21:59 (eight years ago) link
"How many times do we have to learn not to fuck with banking laws from the 1930s?"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trust-indenture-act_5661c3f1e4b08e945fef2bbe
― flopson, Friday, 4 December 2015 19:40 (eight years ago) link
sounds like those middle age white red state takers need to pull themselves up by their bootstaps
― big fat rascal (will), Friday, 4 December 2015 19:57 (eight years ago) link
the point of the marshall article is pretty clear to me. these people are terrified because they're dying.
― mattresslessness, Friday, 4 December 2015 20:05 (eight years ago) link
I thought the point was, in addition, that racism paid off for these people, and now it's not paying off anymore, and they're stressed because it gave them enough of an edge to overcome their terrible habits.
― droit au butt (Euler), Friday, 4 December 2015 20:28 (eight years ago) link