GOP Helpless Helpless Helpless https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99P3qXOsYRA
Paul Ryan must stand up(for idiots like you/GOPers) or the GOP has got to rely on Dems for their “Speaker of the House” 😆
Republican Congress In Such Disarray, It May[WILL] Need Democratic Help To Choose Speaker
The next House Speaker may have to be a coalition candidate, as not enough Republicans can agree on someone, should Paul Ryan not want the job. http://thehill.com/homenews/house/257167-gop-disarray-has-some-republicans-talking-about-dealing-with-dems
“Without a viable alternative to Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), some centrist Republicans say they’d have little choice but to seek Democratic help in electing a new Speaker.
The centrists have long chafed at House conservatives over their treatment of Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio). They blame the House Freedom Caucus and its antecedents for a series of government shutdown crises that have hurt the party…
“I don’t see a Plan B” if Ryan refuses the job, said Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.).
If it becomes clear that no other Republican can assemble 218 GOP votes, King added, “In that case, we would have to consider having a coalition Speaker.”
“It’s a very simple question of math,” said Rep. Charlie Dent (R-Pa.), who first floated the idea of Republicans and Democrats joining together on a Speaker candidate last week.
“If there are not 218 Republican votes on the House floor, then by necessity the Democrats will have a say in who the next Speaker will be,” he said. “I still think it’s a possibility.”
tbonetylr
9 years ago
Koch brothers freak out in response to Rolling Stone expose http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/30/1333457/-Kochs-brothers-freak-out-in-response-to-Rolling-Stone-expose#
“Tim Dickinson’s fantastic expose of the Koch brothers in the latest issue of Rolling Stone has gotten plenty of attention. For very good reason: it’s a well-sourced, deep dive into the very toxic—literally toxic—business that earned the Kochs enough money to buy up an entire political party. That and the wrongful death judgement, six felony and numerous misdemeanor convictions, the tens of millions of dollars in fines, and the trading with Iran are all included in the story, well worth your time.
No one has given it more attention, it seems, than the notoriously thin-skinned Kochs. In typical Koch fashion, they don’t argue the facts of Dickinson’s story. They attack Dickinson, who responds here. Here’s the nut of his detailed response.”
Read the Rest
And if you didn’t know about this Kock brother’s move…
Koch brothers summon Bush, Cruz, Walker, Rubio to SoCal confab
The crowded field of GOP contenders is competing aggressively for the support of uncommitted mega-donors.
Isn’t legal bribery great for the GOP ❓
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/koch-brothers-wealthy-donors-gop-2016-freedom-partners-seminar-california-120663
“Four leading GOP presidential candidates – Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Scott Walker – are traveling to a Southern California luxury hotel in coming days to make their cases directly to the Koch brothers and hundreds of other wealthy conservatives planning to spend close to $1 billion in the run-up to the 2016 election.
The gathering – which also will include former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, but notably not Sen. Rand Paul — is hosted by Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce, the umbrella group in the Kochs’ increasingly influential network of political and public policy outfits. It represents a major opportunity for the candidates at a pivotal moment in the presidential primary.”
This decision by the federal government necessarily requires the right wing to lose their collective minds, which they have done with aplomb.
Earlier this week, the Justice Department announced the creation of a new position for a “domestic terrorism counsel” to fight homegrown extremism, which DOJ national security head John Carlin said could be “motivated by any viewpoint on the full spectrum of hate – anti-government views, racism, bigotry, anarchy and other despicable beliefs” because “when it comes to hate and intolerance, no single ideology governs.”
So, naturally, WorldNetDaily reported on the story today with the headline “New Obama Czar Will Hunt ‘Right-Wing’ Extremists” and interviewed a pair of right-wing activists who warned that it is all a plot to “target” and “intimidate” political opponents in the “old Soviet model.”
Judicial Watch’s Tom Fitton told WND that the new position will “become the vehicle through which the Justice Department can target those who oppose the Obama agenda,” adding, “If a totalitarian leftist had to write a description for a government operation to suppress his enemies, this would be it.”
The Rutherford institute’s John Whitehead, meanwhile, warned that the DOJ will use the new position to go after gun owners, veterans, “abortion activists, tea-party activists [and] constitutionalists.”
“…a look at the funding sources of the New America Foundation show its financial support comes from billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Foundations and the Carnegie Corp. of New York, which has funded causes such as Common Core and mass immigration.
New America Foundation’s list of terror attacks since 9/11 includes the Charleston church shooting among 19 “right-wing” attacks, despite evidence that Roof has a history of severe mental health issues.
The study could find only seven “jihadist” attacks that killed 26 people since Sept. 11. Nowhere to be found on the foundation’s list is the Chattanooga shooter, Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, who killed five U.S. servicemen. Also absent on the list is John Muhammad, the Washington, D.C., sniper who killed at least 10 people in 2002 with his young accomplice, Lee Malvo.
“Among the attacks classified as “right wing” are multiple shootings of police officers by suspected “anti-government” perpetrators, a 2004 bank robbery in Oklahoma and an armed robbery of a man’s house in Arizona in 2009.”
Denny
9 years ago
Chinese man gets his genitals stuck in a steel nut for more than 10 hours… and has to be freed by firefighters using power tools
Archie Bunker on Gun Control
From the “All in the Family” Season 3 premiere, entitled (appropriately) “Archie and the Editorial.” It aired over 40 years ago. It’s amazing how stupid it was then but exactly what we hear today out of the NRA and most GOPers.
Archie Bunker’s Editorial on Gun Control https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lDb0Dn8OXE
Mika Brzezinski(Morning Joe, co-host) Says ‘Star Wars’ Is ‘So Stupid’
ChickenHead
9 years ago
Everybody knows there are no black people in Star Wars.
Those are just unimaginative aliens with lazy prosthetics.
tbonetylr
9 years ago
Exxon Mobile Investigation like Big Tobacco and its lying CEO’s. Go get the poisoners Loretta ❗
Congressmen want probe of Exxon Mobil ‘failing to disclose’ climate change data http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-investigation-exxonmobil-20151015-story.html
“Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Los Angeles) and Rep. Mark DeSaulnier (D-Walnut Creek) wrote a letter Wednesday to Atty. Gen. Loretta Lynch asking the Department of Justice whether the company violated the law by “failing to disclose truthful information” regarding climate change.
The letter cites recent investigations by the Los Angeles Times, Columbia University’s Energy and Environmental Reporting Project, and Inside Climate News, which showed the company incorporated climate change research into its operations while publicly casting doubt on that very same science.
“When I read the Times investigation it occurred to me that it is very similar to what the tobacco companies were doing decades ago,” Lieu said. “Evidence showed that what they were saying was incorrect and they kept spreading this disinformation campaign.”
“We unequivocally reject allegations contained in the letter to Atty. Gen. Lynch from Reps. Lieu and DeSaulnier,” said Richard Keil, a spokesman for Exxon. “Suggestions that ExxonMobil suppressed its climate research are completely without merit.”
The congressmen are asking the Department of Justice to investigate whether Exxon violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, known as RICO, as well as consumer protection, truth in advertising, public health, shareholder protection or other laws.
RICO was the same law used to prosecute tobacco companies, which allows a company’s higher-ups to be held responsible for the actions of those they supervise.
“Exxon’s situation is even worse,” said Lieu, comparing the company’s behavior with the tobacco industry. “It was taking advantage of the science … while denying the facts to the public.”
David Levy, a management and marketing professor at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, agreed. “What has come out now is the clear evidence that they [Exxon] knew about it.”
ChickenHead
9 years ago
“It was taking advantage of the science … while denying the facts to the public.”
One is curious just how Exxon “took advantage” of global warming science.
The only way it seems one can take advantage of global warming is by appropriating power and monitizing fear.
Anyway… reality is a little different than the article. Exxon’s concern was not global warming science… but the management of global warming politics which they saw as an up and coming issue which had potential to greatly affect business… which is done in 50-100 year time frames in their industry.
The articles about this are funny… claiming little was known about global warming until it became a political issue in 1988… yet claiming there was a scientific consensus dating back to the 1970s.
If one compares the “scoence” of gobal warming to how any other scientific field operates, the scam is so obvious.
I can actually agree with Tbone on something the new Star Wars looks awesome:
The whole racism thing is just more stupid manufactured Internet garbage to get people spun up. How can people forget that Lando is one of the most popular Star Wars characters and he is black.
tbonetylr
9 years ago
GI Korea not only has agreed with me here and now as though it’s a one off 🙄 he has also used my links for himself/blog. DUH ❗
tbonetylr
9 years ago
GOP Hatchet Intruders smash up Planned Parenthood clinics in New Hampshire and elsewhere
GOPer Wack-jobs are currently physically attacking Planned Parenthoods all over America
Earlier this month, an arsonist threw a container containing flammable liquid through the window of a Planned Parenthood office in Thousand Oaks, California, igniting a small fire. Last month, an arsonist threw a flammable object through the window of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Pullman, Washington, causing extensive damage.
The police chief noted that Planned Parenthood has operated a clinic without incident for 18 years in the city of about 13,000 in western New Hampshire…
… Scott said the flooding that resulted from the vandalism also damaged a business adjacent to the clinic. He said officials are still trying to assess the extent of the damage.
“To put a dollar value on it at this point in time would be difficult, but it’s going to be significant,” he said.
tbonetylr
9 years ago
Hillary Wins because the GOP Failed to show what Hillary email was illegal, or was the GOP suppose to prove how Hillary failed in caring for the 5 dead that died in Benghazi? 😆
Hillary won the Benghazi show before saying a word: How TV hearings drum up support for the accused
Viewers can’t help but root for the person — on the right or left — forced to defend themselves
Scott Timberg http://www.salon.com/2015/10/22/hillary_won_the_benghazi_show_before_saying_a_word_how_tv_hearings_drum_up_support_for_the_accused/
“…
Additionally, liberal commentators are mocking the GOP attackers in a way that bolsters ideological unity on the left. (“If Hillary Clinton does not know the name of every single person who has ever worked in the State Department,” Wonkette writes, “and is not familiar with every single email ever sent by a State Department employee — especially the incriminating one under tab 31!!! — doesn’t this prove she personally murdered Ambassador Chris Stevens?”) For once, the left side is not divided between Clinton voters and Sanders voters.
Should the GOP have avoided pursuing Hillary Clinton because of the way the hearings would play in public? That’s a separate question. But it looks like she may be the winner here, and it may have less to do with her than the way human empathy works. Anything could happen, but this could be her best day since her confident performance in the Democratic debate.”
johnnyboy
9 years ago
She’s passed all the tests. Now the only thing left is to see if the FBI will endorse her for President.
The Committee should have just pressed hard on the emails the whole time, or waited until they were sure they had all of them.
The claim that 90-95 percent of her emails were on State Department servers received scrutiny for probably being false, but it should also have received scrutiny that even if it were true, anyone trying to track down her emails on State servers would have to reference all the recipients’ email accounts instead of just looking at her logs. That would create more work and man hours just so she could disregard conventional record keeping practices.
I also like the live demonstration of a Clintonesque evolving answer when asked if she ever considered using private contractors to arm Libyan rebels. It’s become so natural to her it’s incredible.
I am still curious what the FBI digs up on her server and if it will ever see the light of day. I wonder if they found something indicating she perjured herself if they would release it for public consumption or keep it close to their chest.
Anywho
Clinton/Sanders 2016!
Liz
9 years ago
“Clinton/Sanders 2016!”
Extreme Unlikeability + Socialism FTW in 2016!
Denny
9 years ago
What will humans look like in 1,000 years? Video suggests we could develop RED eyes, have DARKER skin and have SMALLER penis
Who knew Tbone was ahead of the evolutionary curve?
tbonetylr
9 years ago
@22
When you rely on attacks via personal private parts/”your mother” then it’s obvious you got nothing but tears in your beer from losing you whining delusional EGGHEAD Aids/HIV spreading loser ❗
@13,
““It was taking advantage of the science … while denying the facts to the public.”
One is curious just how Exxon “took advantage” of global warming science.”
Don’t you understand English EGGHEAD ❓ You should learn to respond to a quote correctly. You see EGGHEAD…
EXXonMobile hid early climate change science and continued doing so… http://fuelfix.com/blog/2015/10/23/exxon-mobil-fights-claims-it-suppressed-early-climate-change-science/#33445101=0
“WASHINGTON — Exxon Mobil is hitting back hard against reports that the company sponsored cutting-edge research confirming the risks of climate change decades ago, before campaigning against efforts to clamp down on heat-trapping emissions that come from burning fossil fuels…”
Read the Rest dinasaurs are 3000 years old Dummies/EGGHEADS 😆
tbonetylr
9 years ago
6 Black Churches In St. Louis Area Burn, Arson Suspected
Five of the churches are predominantly black, and one is racially mixed. In each case, the front doors were set on fire, leaving damage that ranged from virtually nothing at one church to the near destruction of another.
EGGHEAD would have you believe that only black people burn buildings down via FIRE http://www.mintpressnews.com/6-black-churches-in-st-louis-area-burn-arson-suspected/210540/
In this Sunday, Oct. 18, 2015 photo, Deacon Clinton McMiller, left, and Pastor David Triggs carry a cabinet back into the church after an outdoor service due to a fire at the New Life Missionary Baptist Church in St. Louis. Someone has been setting fire to predominantly black churches in the St. Louis area, and investigators are trying to determine if the arsonist is targeting either religion or race. (J.B. Forbes/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)
ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis police are stepping up patrols and trying to develop profiles of possible suspects in a spate of fires that have damaged six churches in largely black neighborhoods during the past two weeks, the city’s police chief said.
Sam Dotson also told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1LEaWZi ) Tuesday that the churches damaged during the suspicious fires Oct. 8 through Oct. 18 vary denominationally and are within a few miles of each other.
Four are on St. Louis’ north side, and two are in nearby Jennings.
Dotson’s comments came the same day the reward for information leading to an arrest doubled to $4,000.
Five of the churches are predominantly black, and one is racially mixed. In each case, the front doors were set on fire, leaving damage that ranged from virtually nothing at one church to the near destruction of another.
St. Louis and federal authorities, including the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, are investigating, trying to determine whether the arsonist or suspects are targeting religion, race or both. St. Louis Fire Capt. Garon Mosby has said the possibility that the fires could be hate crimes — for religious or racial reasons — “is part of the dynamic” of the investigation.
The area is still reeling from the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown last year by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson(BECAUSE THE PROSECUTOR DIDN’T DO HIS JOB, INSTEAD ACTING AS A DEFENDANT ATTORNEY DEFENDING THE ACCUSED COP AS A PROSECUTOR WHO IS NOW UNDER INVESTIGATION AND WILL LOSE HIS JOB/BE DISBARRED) and a grand jury’s subsequent decision not to charge Wilson.”
ChickenHead
9 years ago
“When you rely on attacks via personal private parts/”your mother” then it’s obvious you got nothing but tears in your beer from losing you whining delusional EGGHEAD Aids/HIV spreading loser”
…or it could be the punch line of a clever joke needed a subject and you are the obvious choice.
…plus your mother is an easy target for Tbone’s Mom jokes.
…also, what is an “Aids/HIV spreading loser”? Technically speaking, HIV can be spread… but coming down with AIDS is all on the recipient.
Anyhoo…
“The GOPer freaks got no chance for decades to come, they’re done for, it’s already over. They can’t win because they’re too stupid ”
I agree with that, Tbone… and it may be beyond decades. One of the stupid thing the GOP is doing is opening the borders and populating the nation with a dependent class of Democratic voters. The old “A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury,” is coming true… not just from Democratic voters with an “it’s fo’ free, what is big guberment gonna do fo’ me” mentality but also Republican donors looking to openly loot public funds for “business”. Both parties are guilty of killing small business and actual production through tactics ranging from power-hungry over-regulation to greed-based offshoring.
As much as you gush over Democrats, even your little insect mind should be starting to get a suspicion the best ones allow well-meaning liberal ideals to sabotage practical real-world policy… and the worst ones are conspiring with GOP to screw over the country for corporate gain and increased government intrusiveness. None of them have your true best interests in mind.
…but keep fighting as if it is a Democrat/Republican issue. They like that.
“It was taking advantage of the science … while denying the facts to the public.
One is curious just how Exxon “took advantage” of global warming science.”
Again, one is curious how Exxon “took advantage” of global warming science.
Doing nothing is not really “taking advantage” of anything… especially when it is the same action one would expect if they had no idea there was even a global warming issue. Again, with a little further research, one finds they were quite concerned with understanding the politics of global warming rather than the science of global warming.
Due to the manufactured “crisis” of global warming and the history of agenda-based “research” rather than the same flow of unbiased scientific inquiry found in most other fields, the articles on this subject are rather funny to read… as the biased authors try to shoehorn conflicting concepts and timelines into coherent paragraphs blaming Exxon for… for… for conducting some sort of vague global warming “science”.
As for burning black churches, law enforcement, both local and federal, are enthusiastically all over that… as they should be. Sadly, there has not been the same enthusiasm over the prevention and following investigation of burning black (and Asian) businesses in the same area… as productivity and industriousness by any race is somewhat discouraged by media and government… while black (but not white) activist churches are supported.
I hope you feel good about your dose of daily attention, Tbone.
Robert has not been posting a whole lot over at the Hole so maybe he has finally decided to call it quits ❓ It would definitely be the end of quite an era of blogging if true. Let’s hope he gets the site back up.
tbonetylr
9 years ago
“As much as you gush over Democrats, even your little insect mind should be starting to get a suspicion the best ones allow well-meaning liberal ideals to sabotage practical real-world policy… and the worst ones are conspiring with GOP to screw over the country for corporate gain and increased government intrusiveness. None of them have your true best interests in mind.
…but keep fighting as if it is a Democrat/Republican issue. They like that.”
What is “it” in…”as if it is a Democrat/Republican issue.”
Blah, blah, blah ❗ ❗ ❗ No, the two parties are not the same you deaf & blind EGGHEAD. Why don’t you tell us all about who “the worst ones(democrates) are conspiring with GOP…” ❓
You’re a conspiracy theorist EGGHEAD freak now aye?
I kind of saw this coming (if the blog is down for good); for the last year, it’s been mainly guest bloggers here and there from what I saw, trying to keep the site going.
Setnaffa
9 years ago
The end of an era.
tbonetylr
9 years ago
Who cares about Marmotshole? The site was similar to DavesESL except that Koehler banned many native speakers and let Kyopo’s racist rants live on especially against Japan. That would make Koehler a racist or at least big time prejudice against native speakers.
tbonetylr
9 years ago
and Japan/Japanese 😯
tbonetylr
9 years ago
What were you saying again EGGHEAD in your blah, blah, blah,/EGGHEAD-Mushmouth #27 comment below from the Open Thread last week? No worries, I’ll quote it for you along with my response(comment #31) which of course you ignored since you’ve no doubt got nothing…The comments are there for all…but I’d also like to know which Democrats “conspired” with the rightwing members of the Supreme Court that voted for Citizens United? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC
My prior questions(comment #31) still are waiting to be answered by you EGGHEAD-Mushmouth…blah, blah, blah… https://www.rokdrop.net/2015/10/rok-drop-open-thread-october-18-2015/
EGGHEAD says(comment #27) “As much as you gush over Democrats, even your little insect mind should be starting to get a suspicion the best ones allow well-meaning liberal ideals to sabotage practical real-world policy… and the worst ones are conspiring with GOP to screw over the country for corporate gain and increased government intrusiveness. None of them have your true best interests in mind.
…but keep fighting as if it is a Democrat/Republican issue. They like that.”
ChickenHead
9 years ago
Take a look at how the Democrats have sold out labor unions and assisted the GOP in importing cheap labor.
After you make excuses, rationalizations, and denial… and they are easily shot down… we will go to the next example.
tbonetylr
9 years ago
“Take a look at how the Democrats have sold out labor unions and assisted the GOP in importing cheap labor.”
You said you knew the “ones”/democrats…”who sabotage practical real-world policy… and the worst ones are conspiring with GOP to screw over the country for corporate gain and increased government intrusiveness…”
Who are these Democrats?
ChickenHead
9 years ago
“Who are these Democrats?”
It would be easier to name who they aren’t.
Look at Democrats who support Amnesty and encourage illegal immigration.
Deeper yet…
“President Obama doesn’t go to union halls to host fundraisers; he goes to posh Wall Street townhomes, the Hollywood hills, or to Tom Steyer’s house in Pacific Heights.”
The Democratic party is increasingly catering to the limousine liberals and leaving unions behind… supporting fake Green demands over labor-intensive projects.
Average Democrats have been left behind.
Don’t worry, though… average Republicans have been left behind by their party as the two parties converge into a corporate-supporting uniparty with little interest in the needs or wants of average citizens.
But you keep championing the Democrats and blaming the Republicans… both sides want that.
tbonetylr
9 years ago
“Look at Democrats who support Amnesty and encourage illegal immigration.”
The GOP has for decades refused to act on illegal immigration you EGGHEAD 🙄
Right-wing talking head copy much ❓
George W. Bush is who “encouraged”/the reason why there was a wave of Central American(CA) immigration into USA and a reason for this “amnesty” talk. It took a few years for the human traffickers to catch on with but they finally did. “Amnesty” is just GOP right-wing propaganda.
CA parents sending/bringing their kids to America was caused by George W. Bush and the border security loopholes he created. George W. Bush signed the “William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 – 110th Congress, 2007–2009.”
That law says George W. Bush & the GOP is for “amnesty”…
“That law says the children cannot be sent back. They must instead be held humanely by the Department of Health and Human Services until the courts release them to a “suitable family member” in this country.
The child “shall be promptly placed in the least restrictive setting that is in the best interest of the child,” the law stipulates. “Placement of child trafficking victims may include placement in an Unaccompanied Refugee Minor program … if a suitable family member is not available to provide care.”
There, I gave you a GOP name before you gave me a democrates name even though you went on the dems/”ones”/names fake call out trip but failed miserably provide any democrat name thus far you EGGHEAD:lol:
Koreans don’t know bat-flipping
Korean Bat-Flipping Hero Might Come(I doubt it) To MLB
http://deadspin.com/korean-bat-flipping-hero-might-come-to-mlb-1737097631
Now this is bat-flipping
http://m.mlb.com/cutfour/2015/10/15/154571166/anthony-rizzo-does-jose-bautistas-bat-flip
GOP Helpless Helpless Helpless
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99P3qXOsYRA
Paul Ryan must stand up(for idiots like you/GOPers) or the GOP has got to rely on Dems for their “Speaker of the House” 😆
Republican Congress In Such Disarray, It May[WILL] Need Democratic Help To Choose Speaker
The next House Speaker may have to be a coalition candidate, as not enough Republicans can agree on someone, should Paul Ryan not want the job.
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/257167-gop-disarray-has-some-republicans-talking-about-dealing-with-dems
“Without a viable alternative to Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), some centrist Republicans say they’d have little choice but to seek Democratic help in electing a new Speaker.
The centrists have long chafed at House conservatives over their treatment of Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio). They blame the House Freedom Caucus and its antecedents for a series of government shutdown crises that have hurt the party…
“I don’t see a Plan B” if Ryan refuses the job, said Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.).
If it becomes clear that no other Republican can assemble 218 GOP votes, King added, “In that case, we would have to consider having a coalition Speaker.”
“It’s a very simple question of math,” said Rep. Charlie Dent (R-Pa.), who first floated the idea of Republicans and Democrats joining together on a Speaker candidate last week.
“If there are not 218 Republican votes on the House floor, then by necessity the Democrats will have a say in who the next Speaker will be,” he said. “I still think it’s a possibility.”
Koch brothers freak out in response to Rolling Stone expose
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/30/1333457/-Kochs-brothers-freak-out-in-response-to-Rolling-Stone-expose#
“Tim Dickinson’s fantastic expose of the Koch brothers in the latest issue of Rolling Stone has gotten plenty of attention. For very good reason: it’s a well-sourced, deep dive into the very toxic—literally toxic—business that earned the Kochs enough money to buy up an entire political party. That and the wrongful death judgement, six felony and numerous misdemeanor convictions, the tens of millions of dollars in fines, and the trading with Iran are all included in the story, well worth your time.
No one has given it more attention, it seems, than the notoriously thin-skinned Kochs. In typical Koch fashion, they don’t argue the facts of Dickinson’s story. They attack Dickinson, who responds here. Here’s the nut of his detailed response.”
Read the Rest
And if you didn’t know about this Kock brother’s move…
Koch brothers summon Bush, Cruz, Walker, Rubio to SoCal confab
The crowded field of GOP contenders is competing aggressively for the support of uncommitted mega-donors.
Isn’t legal bribery great for the GOP ❓
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/koch-brothers-wealthy-donors-gop-2016-freedom-partners-seminar-california-120663
“Four leading GOP presidential candidates – Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Scott Walker – are traveling to a Southern California luxury hotel in coming days to make their cases directly to the Koch brothers and hundreds of other wealthy conservatives planning to spend close to $1 billion in the run-up to the 2016 election.
The gathering – which also will include former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, but notably not Sen. Rand Paul — is hosted by Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce, the umbrella group in the Kochs’ increasingly influential network of political and public policy outfits. It represents a major opportunity for the candidates at a pivotal moment in the presidential primary.”
Right-Wing Goes ApeSh*t With Focus On Domestic Terrorism 😆
Because it’s better to go invade other contries(i.e. Iraq) and bomb mountain tops aye 😮 ❓
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/right-wing-activists-claim-doj-domestic-terrorism-chief-will-target-veterans-and-conservativ
“It’s about time the feds started paying special attention to the domestic terrorists in this country. After all, domestic terrorists have killed more people since 9-11-2001 than Islamic terrorists have.
This decision by the federal government necessarily requires the right wing to lose their collective minds, which they have done with aplomb.
Earlier this week, the Justice Department announced the creation of a new position for a “domestic terrorism counsel” to fight homegrown extremism, which DOJ national security head John Carlin said could be “motivated by any viewpoint on the full spectrum of hate – anti-government views, racism, bigotry, anarchy and other despicable beliefs” because “when it comes to hate and intolerance, no single ideology governs.”
So, naturally, WorldNetDaily reported on the story today with the headline “New Obama Czar Will Hunt ‘Right-Wing’ Extremists” and interviewed a pair of right-wing activists who warned that it is all a plot to “target” and “intimidate” political opponents in the “old Soviet model.”
Judicial Watch’s Tom Fitton told WND that the new position will “become the vehicle through which the Justice Department can target those who oppose the Obama agenda,” adding, “If a totalitarian leftist had to write a description for a government operation to suppress his enemies, this would be it.”
The Rutherford institute’s John Whitehead, meanwhile, warned that the DOJ will use the new position to go after gun owners, veterans, “abortion activists, tea-party activists [and] constitutionalists.”
http://www.wnd.com/2015/10/new-obama-czar-will-hunt-right-wing-extremists/
From the linked article:
“…a look at the funding sources of the New America Foundation show its financial support comes from billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Foundations and the Carnegie Corp. of New York, which has funded causes such as Common Core and mass immigration.
New America Foundation’s list of terror attacks since 9/11 includes the Charleston church shooting among 19 “right-wing” attacks, despite evidence that Roof has a history of severe mental health issues.
The study could find only seven “jihadist” attacks that killed 26 people since Sept. 11. Nowhere to be found on the foundation’s list is the Chattanooga shooter, Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, who killed five U.S. servicemen. Also absent on the list is John Muhammad, the Washington, D.C., sniper who killed at least 10 people in 2002 with his young accomplice, Lee Malvo.
“Among the attacks classified as “right wing” are multiple shootings of police officers by suspected “anti-government” perpetrators, a 2004 bank robbery in Oklahoma and an armed robbery of a man’s house in Arizona in 2009.”
Chinese man gets his genitals stuck in a steel nut for more than 10 hours… and has to be freed by firefighters using power tools
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/peoplesdaily/article-3279054/Chinese-man-gets-genitals-stuck-steel-nut-10-hours-freed-firefighters-using-power-tools.html
Typhoon Koppu ploughs into Philippines leaving 23,000 more without homes
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3278215/Typhoon-Koppu-ploughs-Philippines-killing-two-people-leaving-23-000-without-homes.html
1st Fukushima worker diagnosed with radiation-linked cancer
http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/1st-fukushima-worker-diagnosed-with-radiation-linked-cancer
Archie Bunker on Gun Control
From the “All in the Family” Season 3 premiere, entitled (appropriately) “Archie and the Editorial.” It aired over 40 years ago. It’s amazing how stupid it was then but exactly what we hear today out of the NRA and most GOPers.
Archie Bunker’s Editorial on Gun Control
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lDb0Dn8OXE
Star Wars Trailer is GREAT ❗
Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGbxmsDFVnE
GOP Racists/the Donald Trump type Lovers Urge Boycott of Star Wars: Episode VII Over its Promotion of “White Genocide” and the Black Lead,
http://www.themarysue.com/boycott-star-wars-vii-because-why-again/
Mika Brzezinski(Morning Joe, co-host) Says ‘Star Wars’ Is ‘So Stupid’
Everybody knows there are no black people in Star Wars.
Those are just unimaginative aliens with lazy prosthetics.
Exxon Mobile Investigation like Big Tobacco and its lying CEO’s. Go get the poisoners Loretta ❗
Congressmen want probe of Exxon Mobil ‘failing to disclose’ climate change data
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-investigation-exxonmobil-20151015-story.html
“Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Los Angeles) and Rep. Mark DeSaulnier (D-Walnut Creek) wrote a letter Wednesday to Atty. Gen. Loretta Lynch asking the Department of Justice whether the company violated the law by “failing to disclose truthful information” regarding climate change.
The letter cites recent investigations by the Los Angeles Times, Columbia University’s Energy and Environmental Reporting Project, and Inside Climate News, which showed the company incorporated climate change research into its operations while publicly casting doubt on that very same science.
“When I read the Times investigation it occurred to me that it is very similar to what the tobacco companies were doing decades ago,” Lieu said. “Evidence showed that what they were saying was incorrect and they kept spreading this disinformation campaign.”
“We unequivocally reject allegations contained in the letter to Atty. Gen. Lynch from Reps. Lieu and DeSaulnier,” said Richard Keil, a spokesman for Exxon. “Suggestions that ExxonMobil suppressed its climate research are completely without merit.”
The congressmen are asking the Department of Justice to investigate whether Exxon violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, known as RICO, as well as consumer protection, truth in advertising, public health, shareholder protection or other laws.
RICO was the same law used to prosecute tobacco companies, which allows a company’s higher-ups to be held responsible for the actions of those they supervise.
“Exxon’s situation is even worse,” said Lieu, comparing the company’s behavior with the tobacco industry. “It was taking advantage of the science … while denying the facts to the public.”
David Levy, a management and marketing professor at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, agreed. “What has come out now is the clear evidence that they [Exxon] knew about it.”
“It was taking advantage of the science … while denying the facts to the public.”
One is curious just how Exxon “took advantage” of global warming science.
The only way it seems one can take advantage of global warming is by appropriating power and monitizing fear.
Anyway… reality is a little different than the article. Exxon’s concern was not global warming science… but the management of global warming politics which they saw as an up and coming issue which had potential to greatly affect business… which is done in 50-100 year time frames in their industry.
The articles about this are funny… claiming little was known about global warming until it became a political issue in 1988… yet claiming there was a scientific consensus dating back to the 1970s.
If one compares the “scoence” of gobal warming to how any other scientific field operates, the scam is so obvious.
Science says to eat more steak: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3284505/Forget-red-meat-likely-bowel-cancer-eating-CHOCOLATE-Leading-colorectal-surgeon-eats-meat-regularly-sugar-true-culprit.html
I can actually agree with Tbone on something the new Star Wars looks awesome:
The whole racism thing is just more stupid manufactured Internet garbage to get people spun up. How can people forget that Lando is one of the most popular Star Wars characters and he is black.
GI Korea not only has agreed with me here and now as though it’s a one off 🙄 he has also used my links for himself/blog. DUH ❗
GOP Hatchet Intruders smash up Planned Parenthood clinics in New Hampshire and elsewhere
GOPer Wack-jobs are currently physically attacking Planned Parenthoods all over America
http://www.northjersey.com/news/intruder-with-hatchet-smashes-up-planned-parenthood-clinic-in-new-hampshire-1.1437714
” There has been a corresponding increase in vandalism and arson at clinics across the country.
Earlier this month, an arsonist threw a container containing flammable liquid through the window of a Planned Parenthood office in Thousand Oaks, California, igniting a small fire. Last month, an arsonist threw a flammable object through the window of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Pullman, Washington, causing extensive damage.
The police chief noted that Planned Parenthood has operated a clinic without incident for 18 years in the city of about 13,000 in western New Hampshire…
… Scott said the flooding that resulted from the vandalism also damaged a business adjacent to the clinic. He said officials are still trying to assess the extent of the damage.
“To put a dollar value on it at this point in time would be difficult, but it’s going to be significant,” he said.
Hillary Wins because the GOP Failed to show what Hillary email was illegal, or was the GOP suppose to prove how Hillary failed in caring for the 5 dead that died in Benghazi? 😆
Hillary won the Benghazi show before saying a word: How TV hearings drum up support for the accused
Viewers can’t help but root for the person — on the right or left — forced to defend themselves
Scott Timberg
http://www.salon.com/2015/10/22/hillary_won_the_benghazi_show_before_saying_a_word_how_tv_hearings_drum_up_support_for_the_accused/
“…
Additionally, liberal commentators are mocking the GOP attackers in a way that bolsters ideological unity on the left. (“If Hillary Clinton does not know the name of every single person who has ever worked in the State Department,” Wonkette writes, “and is not familiar with every single email ever sent by a State Department employee — especially the incriminating one under tab 31!!! — doesn’t this prove she personally murdered Ambassador Chris Stevens?”) For once, the left side is not divided between Clinton voters and Sanders voters.
Should the GOP have avoided pursuing Hillary Clinton because of the way the hearings would play in public? That’s a separate question. But it looks like she may be the winner here, and it may have less to do with her than the way human empathy works. Anything could happen, but this could be her best day since her confident performance in the Democratic debate.”
She’s passed all the tests. Now the only thing left is to see if the FBI will endorse her for President.
The Committee should have just pressed hard on the emails the whole time, or waited until they were sure they had all of them.
The claim that 90-95 percent of her emails were on State Department servers received scrutiny for probably being false, but it should also have received scrutiny that even if it were true, anyone trying to track down her emails on State servers would have to reference all the recipients’ email accounts instead of just looking at her logs. That would create more work and man hours just so she could disregard conventional record keeping practices.
I also like the live demonstration of a Clintonesque evolving answer when asked if she ever considered using private contractors to arm Libyan rebels. It’s become so natural to her it’s incredible.
I am still curious what the FBI digs up on her server and if it will ever see the light of day. I wonder if they found something indicating she perjured herself if they would release it for public consumption or keep it close to their chest.
Anywho
Clinton/Sanders 2016!
“Clinton/Sanders 2016!”
Extreme Unlikeability + Socialism FTW in 2016!
What will humans look like in 1,000 years? Video suggests we could develop RED eyes, have DARKER skin and have SMALLER penis
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3285381/What-humans-look-like-1-000-years-Video-suggests-develop-RED-eyes-darker-skin-better-looking.html
“and have SMALLER penis”
Who knew Tbone was ahead of the evolutionary curve?
@22
When you rely on attacks via personal private parts/”your mother” then it’s obvious you got nothing but tears in your beer from losing you whining delusional EGGHEAD Aids/HIV spreading loser ❗
@20,
Get off your Fiorina and Carson loving FoxNOTnews couch simpleton, it’s…
Clinton-Castro 2016: Hillary Clinton said to be grooming Obama official Julian Castro for vice president
DUH ❗ The GOPer freaks got no chance for decades to come, they’re done for, it’s already over. They can’t win because they’re too stupid 😎
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2726070/Clinton-Castro-2016-Hillary-Clinton-said-grooming-incoming-Obama-official-Julian-Castro-vice-president.html
@13,
““It was taking advantage of the science … while denying the facts to the public.”
One is curious just how Exxon “took advantage” of global warming science.”
Don’t you understand English EGGHEAD ❓ You should learn to respond to a quote correctly. You see EGGHEAD…
EXXonMobile hid early climate change science and continued doing so…
http://fuelfix.com/blog/2015/10/23/exxon-mobil-fights-claims-it-suppressed-early-climate-change-science/#33445101=0
“WASHINGTON — Exxon Mobil is hitting back hard against reports that the company sponsored cutting-edge research confirming the risks of climate change decades ago, before campaigning against efforts to clamp down on heat-trapping emissions that come from burning fossil fuels…”
Read the Rest dinasaurs are 3000 years old Dummies/EGGHEADS 😆
6 Black Churches In St. Louis Area Burn, Arson Suspected
Five of the churches are predominantly black, and one is racially mixed. In each case, the front doors were set on fire, leaving damage that ranged from virtually nothing at one church to the near destruction of another.
EGGHEAD would have you believe that only black people burn buildings down via FIRE
http://www.mintpressnews.com/6-black-churches-in-st-louis-area-burn-arson-suspected/210540/
In this Sunday, Oct. 18, 2015 photo, Deacon Clinton McMiller, left, and Pastor David Triggs carry a cabinet back into the church after an outdoor service due to a fire at the New Life Missionary Baptist Church in St. Louis. Someone has been setting fire to predominantly black churches in the St. Louis area, and investigators are trying to determine if the arsonist is targeting either religion or race. (J.B. Forbes/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)
ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis police are stepping up patrols and trying to develop profiles of possible suspects in a spate of fires that have damaged six churches in largely black neighborhoods during the past two weeks, the city’s police chief said.
Sam Dotson also told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1LEaWZi ) Tuesday that the churches damaged during the suspicious fires Oct. 8 through Oct. 18 vary denominationally and are within a few miles of each other.
Four are on St. Louis’ north side, and two are in nearby Jennings.
Dotson’s comments came the same day the reward for information leading to an arrest doubled to $4,000.
Five of the churches are predominantly black, and one is racially mixed. In each case, the front doors were set on fire, leaving damage that ranged from virtually nothing at one church to the near destruction of another.
St. Louis and federal authorities, including the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, are investigating, trying to determine whether the arsonist or suspects are targeting religion, race or both. St. Louis Fire Capt. Garon Mosby has said the possibility that the fires could be hate crimes — for religious or racial reasons — “is part of the dynamic” of the investigation.
The area is still reeling from the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown last year by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson(BECAUSE THE PROSECUTOR DIDN’T DO HIS JOB, INSTEAD ACTING AS A DEFENDANT ATTORNEY DEFENDING THE ACCUSED COP AS A PROSECUTOR WHO IS NOW UNDER INVESTIGATION AND WILL LOSE HIS JOB/BE DISBARRED) and a grand jury’s subsequent decision not to charge Wilson.”
“When you rely on attacks via personal private parts/”your mother” then it’s obvious you got nothing but tears in your beer from losing you whining delusional EGGHEAD Aids/HIV spreading loser”
…or it could be the punch line of a clever joke needed a subject and you are the obvious choice.
…plus your mother is an easy target for Tbone’s Mom jokes.
…also, what is an “Aids/HIV spreading loser”? Technically speaking, HIV can be spread… but coming down with AIDS is all on the recipient.
Anyhoo…
“The GOPer freaks got no chance for decades to come, they’re done for, it’s already over. They can’t win because they’re too stupid ”
I agree with that, Tbone… and it may be beyond decades. One of the stupid thing the GOP is doing is opening the borders and populating the nation with a dependent class of Democratic voters. The old “A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury,” is coming true… not just from Democratic voters with an “it’s fo’ free, what is big guberment gonna do fo’ me” mentality but also Republican donors looking to openly loot public funds for “business”. Both parties are guilty of killing small business and actual production through tactics ranging from power-hungry over-regulation to greed-based offshoring.
As much as you gush over Democrats, even your little insect mind should be starting to get a suspicion the best ones allow well-meaning liberal ideals to sabotage practical real-world policy… and the worst ones are conspiring with GOP to screw over the country for corporate gain and increased government intrusiveness. None of them have your true best interests in mind.
…but keep fighting as if it is a Democrat/Republican issue. They like that.
“It was taking advantage of the science … while denying the facts to the public.
One is curious just how Exxon “took advantage” of global warming science.”
Again, one is curious how Exxon “took advantage” of global warming science.
Doing nothing is not really “taking advantage” of anything… especially when it is the same action one would expect if they had no idea there was even a global warming issue. Again, with a little further research, one finds they were quite concerned with understanding the politics of global warming rather than the science of global warming.
Due to the manufactured “crisis” of global warming and the history of agenda-based “research” rather than the same flow of unbiased scientific inquiry found in most other fields, the articles on this subject are rather funny to read… as the biased authors try to shoehorn conflicting concepts and timelines into coherent paragraphs blaming Exxon for… for… for conducting some sort of vague global warming “science”.
As for burning black churches, law enforcement, both local and federal, are enthusiastically all over that… as they should be. Sadly, there has not been the same enthusiasm over the prevention and following investigation of burning black (and Asian) businesses in the same area… as productivity and industriousness by any race is somewhat discouraged by media and government… while black (but not white) activist churches are supported.
I hope you feel good about your dose of daily attention, Tbone.
…and say hi to your mom.
Does anyone know if Robert Koehler shut down the Marmot’s Hole blog? I tried going there for the first time in a long while and got an error.
Looks like down: http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.rjkoehler.com 🙁
@28: Nomad it is down for me too. 🙁
Robert has not been posting a whole lot over at the Hole so maybe he has finally decided to call it quits ❓ It would definitely be the end of quite an era of blogging if true. Let’s hope he gets the site back up.
“As much as you gush over Democrats, even your little insect mind should be starting to get a suspicion the best ones allow well-meaning liberal ideals to sabotage practical real-world policy… and the worst ones are conspiring with GOP to screw over the country for corporate gain and increased government intrusiveness. None of them have your true best interests in mind.
…but keep fighting as if it is a Democrat/Republican issue. They like that.”
What is “it” in…”as if it is a Democrat/Republican issue.”
Blah, blah, blah ❗ ❗ ❗ No, the two parties are not the same you deaf & blind EGGHEAD. Why don’t you tell us all about who “the worst ones(democrates) are conspiring with GOP…” ❓
You’re a conspiracy theorist EGGHEAD freak now aye?
@30
I kind of saw this coming (if the blog is down for good); for the last year, it’s been mainly guest bloggers here and there from what I saw, trying to keep the site going.
The end of an era.
Who cares about Marmotshole? The site was similar to DavesESL except that Koehler banned many native speakers and let Kyopo’s racist rants live on especially against Japan. That would make Koehler a racist or at least big time prejudice against native speakers.
and Japan/Japanese 😯
What were you saying again EGGHEAD in your blah, blah, blah,/EGGHEAD-Mushmouth #27 comment below from the Open Thread last week? No worries, I’ll quote it for you along with my response(comment #31) which of course you ignored since you’ve no doubt got nothing…The comments are there for all…but I’d also like to know which Democrats “conspired” with the rightwing members of the Supreme Court that voted for Citizens United?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC
My prior questions(comment #31) still are waiting to be answered by you EGGHEAD-Mushmouth…blah, blah, blah…
https://www.rokdrop.net/2015/10/rok-drop-open-thread-october-18-2015/
EGGHEAD says(comment #27) “As much as you gush over Democrats, even your little insect mind should be starting to get a suspicion the best ones allow well-meaning liberal ideals to sabotage practical real-world policy… and the worst ones are conspiring with GOP to screw over the country for corporate gain and increased government intrusiveness. None of them have your true best interests in mind.
…but keep fighting as if it is a Democrat/Republican issue. They like that.”
Take a look at how the Democrats have sold out labor unions and assisted the GOP in importing cheap labor.
After you make excuses, rationalizations, and denial… and they are easily shot down… we will go to the next example.
“Take a look at how the Democrats have sold out labor unions and assisted the GOP in importing cheap labor.”
You said you knew the “ones”/democrats…”who sabotage practical real-world policy… and the worst ones are conspiring with GOP to screw over the country for corporate gain and increased government intrusiveness…”
Who are these Democrats?
“Who are these Democrats?”
It would be easier to name who they aren’t.
Look at Democrats who support Amnesty and encourage illegal immigration.
Deeper yet…
“President Obama doesn’t go to union halls to host fundraisers; he goes to posh Wall Street townhomes, the Hollywood hills, or to Tom Steyer’s house in Pacific Heights.”
The Democratic party is increasingly catering to the limousine liberals and leaving unions behind… supporting fake Green demands over labor-intensive projects.
Average Democrats have been left behind.
Don’t worry, though… average Republicans have been left behind by their party as the two parties converge into a corporate-supporting uniparty with little interest in the needs or wants of average citizens.
But you keep championing the Democrats and blaming the Republicans… both sides want that.
“Look at Democrats who support Amnesty and encourage illegal immigration.”
The GOP has for decades refused to act on illegal immigration you EGGHEAD 🙄
Right-wing talking head copy much ❓
George W. Bush is who “encouraged”/the reason why there was a wave of Central American(CA) immigration into USA and a reason for this “amnesty” talk. It took a few years for the human traffickers to catch on with but they finally did. “Amnesty” is just GOP right-wing propaganda.
CA parents sending/bringing their kids to America was caused by George W. Bush and the border security loopholes he created. George W. Bush signed the “William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 – 110th Congress, 2007–2009.”
That law says George W. Bush & the GOP is for “amnesty”…
“That law says the children cannot be sent back. They must instead be held humanely by the Department of Health and Human Services until the courts release them to a “suitable family member” in this country.
The child “shall be promptly placed in the least restrictive setting that is in the best interest of the child,” the law stipulates. “Placement of child trafficking victims may include placement in an Unaccompanied Refugee Minor program … if a suitable family member is not available to provide care.”
There, I gave you a GOP name before you gave me a democrates name even though you went on the dems/”ones”/names fake call out trip but failed miserably provide any democrat name thus far you EGGHEAD:lol: