More good news: http://www.popjustice.com/interviewsandfeatures/a-lengthy-neil-tennant-interview/116349/
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 01:32 (ten years ago) link
lol and this: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/03/us/politics/obama-administration-to-delay-health-law-requirement-until-2015.html?ref=politics
(Tennant-Lowe thrilled too no doubt)
meanwhile north carolina going all in on crazy today
― balls, Wednesday, 3 July 2013 01:37 (ten years ago) link
North Carolina needs to end Sunday voting to stop voter fraud. Uh huh
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 3 July 2013 05:21 (ten years ago) link
rubio you fuck
― BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 05:46 (ten years ago) link
man you aren't kidding about NC
http://www.wral.com/senate-tacks-sweeping-abortion-legislation-onto-sharia-law-bill/12621503/
not the onion
― goole, Wednesday, 3 July 2013 14:25 (ten years ago) link
lol
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 3 July 2013 15:09 (ten years ago) link
In NC the Republicans are taking vengeance for being effectively shut out of state government for the past 20 years. Now that they control the House, Senate and the Governor's house the gloves have come off and they are trying to undo as much in the way of progressive legislation as they can through any means possible. Unemployment benefits, voter id laws, abortion, even attempting to put in place a new regressive tax code. The legislature has been attempting to further undermine city governments (which are almost always Democratic)by putting various municipal services (the Asheville water system, the Charlotte airport, etc.) under the control of ostensibly "independent authorities" which have boards composed largely of state appointees. The countryside has effectively declared war on the cities. The backlash has already started but a lot of damage has been done and I don't think we'll ever get some of these things back.
This might be too much information for this particular board, but it's really frustrating. I wrote to my state Senator and his reply was basically, well, hopefully the next election goes better for us once the people of the state realize what they really voted for.
― Gatemouth, Wednesday, 3 July 2013 17:09 (ten years ago) link
Hillary is a tough boss - so tough, my friend's husband who worked for her decided to throw himself behind Obama in '08. However I'd wager that while at SoS she seemed not to be as bad as she used to be, which suggests her First Lady years were probably more stressful.
― aldi young dudes (suzy), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 17:14 (ten years ago) link
she's quoted as saying 'fuck the white house correspondents dinner' in a new book so kudos on that front at least
― balls, Wednesday, 3 July 2013 17:41 (ten years ago) link
boehner and the hastert rule and how his hand was forced - http://www.nationalreview.com/node/352631/print
― balls, Wednesday, 3 July 2013 17:44 (ten years ago) link
The real horrors these days emerge from statehouses.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 17:47 (ten years ago) link
Yep, people can yuck all they want regarding the aging conservative white men party and their success in presidential elections, but in numerous statehouses they continue to have success
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 3 July 2013 18:39 (ten years ago) link
'pro life' people mishear a prochoice chant about 'the state' at tx lege as 'hail satan'
#hailsatan now trending nationally
― BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 18:54 (ten years ago) link
It's pretty transparent that the NC reps tacked the anti-abortion stuff onto a bill banning sharia law so that they can run ads claiming that anyone who votes against the anti-abortion stuff is secretly wanting to impose sharia law on NC.
I feel compelled to wonder whether sharia law allows for abortion rights. My hunch is that it would be even more restrictive of abortions than the stuff the republicans proposed. Irony?
― Aimless, Wednesday, 3 July 2013 18:57 (ten years ago) link
yeah, i was composing an onion-esque headline in my head: "NC-sen bans, imposes Sharia law in same bill"
― goole, Wednesday, 3 July 2013 18:59 (ten years ago) link
Ha, if only, but of course this would never be allowed in Obama's nanny state that wants to stomp out all religious expression.
First they took our Krampus, then they forced us to renounce our satanic overlord....
― Moodles, Wednesday, 3 July 2013 19:01 (ten years ago) link
As a fan of a certain Mr. Tyler my first reaction to the hail satan thing was "oh cool!"
― ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 19:36 (ten years ago) link
http://investigativereportingworkshop.org/investigations/the_koch_club/story/Koch_climate_pledge_strategy/
So Norquist isn't the only conservative activist requiring a pledge
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 3 July 2013 20:06 (ten years ago) link
haha was about to post it!
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 20:07 (ten years ago) link
The longer story is even more chilling.
if only it chilled the earth
― BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 20:22 (ten years ago) link
http://socioecohistory.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/time-magazine-april-1977.jpg
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 20:23 (ten years ago) link
lol at 'why we can't beat the soviets' on the same front page, suprised they didn't do the usual coy 'have we cured cancer?' hed for the other story, lol at 'if they killed col blake wtf are they gonna do to frank?' speculation
― balls, Wednesday, 3 July 2013 20:31 (ten years ago) link
haha that doesn't even attempt to look like a 1970's era magazine cover.
― chinavision!, Wednesday, 3 July 2013 20:38 (ten years ago) link
or read like one
― chinavision!, Wednesday, 3 July 2013 20:39 (ten years ago) link
51 things!
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 20:57 (ten years ago) link
http://img.timeinc.net/time/magazine/archive/covers/2007/1101070409_400.jpg
actual cover
― BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 20:58 (ten years ago) link
hoooooos`
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 21:09 (ten years ago) link
i am right here why are you yelling
― BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 21:14 (ten years ago) link
http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/charlieunicorn.jpg
I'M RIGHT HERE WADDYA WANT
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 21:15 (ten years ago) link
― BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 21:20 (ten years ago) link
from no climate tax pledge article:
On Feb. 5, Mary Hutzler, senior fellow at the Institute for Energy Research, told members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce that research shows America has an abundance of fossil fuel reserves that could power the nation for nearly 600 years.
no. noooooooo. even using really lenient assumptions about the possibilities for future discovery and production, the congressional research service estimates that the proven fossil fuel reserves of the united states are the equivalent of 973.1 billion barrels of oil (or about 5400 quadrillion Btus). the united states consumed about 80 quadrillion Btus in 2011. that works out to about 67 years of "powering the nation" on our domestic fossil fuel reserves, using the most cheerful of assumptions. oh yeah, and that's pretending that global warming doesn't exist, which of course is a prerequisite for working for these shitty institutions.
On Feb. 14, her colleague, Daniel Simmons, director of Regulatory and State Affairs at the Institute for Energy Research, told members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that environmental regulation of the oil industry is to blame for the rising cost of gasoline.
way to fucking go, daniel simmons, you have the mind of a dizzy neanderthal, and literally no one in the world agrees with you except for the people who work with you and the people that they drink white wine with while telling shitty stories and getting rich!
A month later, on March 13, Hutzler testified during a hearing of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology that federal subsidies of wind, solar and other renewable energy sources had failed to make America energy independent. She argued that the fuels receiving the most government money produced the least amount of energy.[ /q]
oh man, another ice burn from hutzler. i can't think of any reason why fossil fuels would be producing more energy than renewables! oh wait,
http://i.imgur.com/zG7qVcu.jpgthat's odd, it looks like oil, coal and natural gas received 70% of federal energy subsidies (about $600 billion) from 1950-2010, while renewables got 9%.
maybe the govt. is interested in funding renewable research because it helps to drive down the cost of renewable production...
http://i.imgur.com/pLZRWW0.gif(btw in 2013 we're at 50 cents/watt, and by 2017 we'll be at about 36 cents/watt)
...while the price of oil has nowhere to go but up?
i just can't believe that this kind of shit FLIES at a national level when it couldn't pass muster in a discussion section of a graduate level energy/environment class! to hell with these liars and everyone who believes them.
― Z S, Wednesday, 3 July 2013 22:20 (ten years ago) link
the NC stuff is so heartbreaking - the NC the legislature's trying to create isn't the place that a lot of people have moved to over the past 20 years. Went down to the statehouse today to be seen/heard, chanted "shame!" when the vote went through - 1 of us got arrested, pretty clearly a case of "arrest the young woman in the dress," it was gross.
― tight in the runs (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 23:51 (ten years ago) link
real good post z s,sorry you know enough about this that you have to be bummed out by it. maybe you should start a plainspoken globesplaining blog about this stuff? with bullshit in the title? I would read it & it could become a bill o'reilly esque safe space in which to express/understand dissent
― szarkasm (schlump), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 23:55 (ten years ago) link
heyletmedrunkenlyglobesplainawaysomebullshitin25to60days.tumblr.com
^would read
― discreet, Thursday, 4 July 2013 00:09 (ten years ago) link
the guy on Facebook who wishes death and dismemberment on all Republicans (we all have that guy, right?) posted a link to a story on the Evo Morales's plane being grounded and searched, yada yada yada.
http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18066-evo-morales-the-president-of-bolivia-accuses-the-white-house-of-kidnapping-him-by-getting-european-allies-to-force-land-his-plane-in-austria
then a second-level comment to someone wanting to boycott the countries involved:"Let's start with Israeli companies like SodaStream, Sabra, etc before going after countries that have at least a modicum of respect for Palestinian rights."
Guy who brings up Palestinians no matter what should be a square on Internet comment bingo.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 4 July 2013 07:35 (ten years ago) link
man is there already an internet comment bingo
― BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 5 July 2013 00:25 (ten years ago) link
bunch of ilxors on the edge of their seats waiting for that last hit
― mookieproof, Friday, 5 July 2013 00:37 (ten years ago) link
So, have there been any noticeable sequester effects yet? Besides the occasional curtailing of museum hours or canceling fireworks displays?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 5 July 2013 17:40 (ten years ago) link
A shitload of poor kids have been dropped from Headstart programs.
― Aimless, Friday, 5 July 2013 17:42 (ten years ago) link
The annual Cleveland Air Show was cancelled. (Not that I'll miss it, fuck a bunch of supersonic jets doing flybys for a week.)
― This amigurumi Jamaican octopus is ready to chill with you (Phil D.), Friday, 5 July 2013 17:44 (ten years ago) link
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-06-30/politics/40292466_1_sequestration-predictions-obama-administration
In 11 cases, sequestration turned out to be as bad as advertised, or worse.
The Labor Department had predicted that emergency unemployment benefits for the long-term unemployed would be cut by 9.4 percent. But in some states, the reductions have been larger: 11 percent. For an individual, that could mean $450 less in benefits this year.
At the Pentagon, officials had predicted that they would reduce training for the Army, flying time for the Air Force and ship deployments for the Navy. They did all three. “It’s extremely hard to show a degradation in our readiness, although we feel it deeply across the force,” Pentagon spokeswoman Beth Robbins said.
Across the government, more than 125,000 employees have been furloughed from the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Internal Revenue Service, and other agencies. About 650,000 Defense Department civilians will start taking 11 unpaid days next week. Public defenders are losing up to 15 days of pay.
In 24 cases, however, The Post’s review showed that the predictions were wrong — sequestration had not lived up to the administration’s alarms.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 5 July 2013 17:44 (ten years ago) link
one very noticeable effect for me is that i'm on mandatory furlough today! sadtrombone.wav
― Z S, Friday, 5 July 2013 17:46 (ten years ago) link
I know someone who is on furlough on Monday
― curmudgeon, Friday, 5 July 2013 17:49 (ten years ago) link
Good article in the N&O today about 'what happens next' with the new law in NC—both the House leader & Gov. McCrory (who made a pre-election pledge not to sign any legislation restricting abortion, fwiw) are moderate Republican big-business-types who seem reluctant to dirty their hands with divisive culture-war bullshit. So if you wanna call this the GOP's "revenge", just keep in mind that it's a very poorly-planned revenge.
― Excelsior twilight. Harpsichord wind through the trees. (bernard snowy), Friday, 5 July 2013 17:54 (ten years ago) link
Of course, McCrory can sit back and let the NC House/Senate overturn his veto, if he stands up to them (and I'm going to take a stab in the dark that he won't protest the end of early voting and voting ID restrictions they're bringing in...)
― carson dial, Friday, 5 July 2013 17:58 (ten years ago) link
It seems like the effects are diffuse enough that maybe they're just not overwhelming? I mean, I know people affected by it, most obviously gov workers, but maybe it's just too early to tell how damaging it will be.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 5 July 2013 18:06 (ten years ago) link
The most prevalent stories I've read about the sequester, apart from the Headstart enrollment hit, have been of the nature of -- 'here's this worthwhile program we're having to put in mothballs, but the irony is that keeping it suspended costs money, too, and starting it back up will be even more expensive than if we'd never cut it back.'
― Aimless, Friday, 5 July 2013 18:27 (ten years ago) link
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/history/2013/07/hillary_clinton_wesleyan_commencement_speech_robert_pinsky_on_the_politician.html
― Mordy , Saturday, 6 July 2013 23:14 (ten years ago) link
hah thats what you get for having a republican in your administration you fucking idiot
yeah, at least have someone who will think the same things but be a party soldier so Hil can succeed you as Drone Chief.
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 16:22 (ten years ago) link
now call her a bitch
― you are kind, I am (waterface), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 16:24 (ten years ago) link
no wait call Pelosi a bitch
― you are kind, I am (waterface), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 16:25 (ten years ago) link
you're a syphilitic cunt, how's that?
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 16:26 (ten years ago) link
i have Gonorrhea in my nose
― you are kind, I am (waterface), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 16:27 (ten years ago) link
Frankly, Morbs, I don't have a lot of time for gay men who use phrases like 'syphilitic cunt'.
― baked beings on toast (suzy), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 16:27 (ten years ago) link
v nice, you didn't even have to wave your diploma from PCU at me.
Maybe you should worry more about why an impacted colon like waterface is still in the playpen.
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 16:29 (ten years ago) link
right now i'm wondering what's taking them death panels so long
― balls, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 16:30 (ten years ago) link
What does where I went to college (or parody of same) have to do with your basic reflexive misogyny?
― baked beings on toast (suzy), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 16:33 (ten years ago) link
the gates 'revelations' seem like classic beltway disconnect - obama was skeptical the surge would work in afghanistan! - the kinda thinking that the al qaeda flareups in iraq recently are a disaster for obama cuz they show he shouldn't have cut and run in iraq. this isn't quite directly tied into that but the neocon revisionism and pushback on iraq recently has been out of control.
― balls, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 16:34 (ten years ago) link
misanthropy, dear, misanthropy xp
(you might look at who chimed in with "bitch" above; one speaks gutter to gutter)
also bye thread
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 16:35 (ten years ago) link
see you tomorrow
― SHAUN (DJP), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 16:36 (ten years ago) link
or IN HELL?
Time has possibly come to leave the board, bullshit is at an all-time high
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 16:36 (ten years ago) link
Ssh! Quiet, unless you have something to say relevant to the thread. Just take a break.
― badgers moved the goalposts (dowd), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 16:37 (ten years ago) link
Morbs, my post was about your conduct. Whining that other kids did it too doesn't cut it with me; you're the one reaching for the misogynist imagery at the slightest provocation.
The reaction to Gates here in the UK is basically "...", everyone's like 'of course Obama wanted to leave, didn't he campaign on that, stupid Republican is stupid...'
― baked beings on toast (suzy), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 16:38 (ten years ago) link
I didn't call anyone a bitch
― you are kind, I am (waterface), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 16:39 (ten years ago) link
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, January 8, 2014 10:36 AM (2 minutes ago)
Huh. Seems at an all-time low to me.
― oldbowie (WilliamC), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 16:43 (ten years ago) link
American Politics Thread 2014
― how's life, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 16:45 (ten years ago) link