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[Brehvolution]

[TakingBackSunday]

 

[Oblivion]

It just keeps getting better and better with that not-a-racist NC Republican:

On a local radio program yesterday, Yelton said he "gladly" gave up his position as precinct chair because his party had "no guts."

"The heck with it, I don't want to be part of a group that is that mealy-mouthed and that gutless," he told Asheville radio host Pete Kaliner.

Yelton also reiterated his claim that The Daily Show edited his words out of context.
However, if there was any doubt left as to Yelton's true feelings on the subject of race, they were terminally settled this morning, when The Wrap's Tim Molloy contacted him to determine if he was being unfairly portrayed as a racist by the media.

"When a distinguished black fellow can use the word distinguished black fellow and it not be considered racist, that’s the utmost racism in the world, and it’s hypocrisy," Yelton told Molloy.

[brawndolicious]

I don't think even Archie Bunker ever even said the N word, so I guess he was racist against WASPs too?

[Human Snorenado]

The market has spoken!

http://deadstate.org/kentuckys-creation-museum-in-financial-trouble-due-to-declining-attendance-video/

[DCharlieJP]

and the authority of God’s word

the "MULTIPLY BY ZERO!" factor? really??

[Phoenix Dark]

not only is the chart x/y axis fuckery lol worthy, it's wrong

Fox's 108.6 million figure for the number of "people on welfare" comes from a Census Bureau's account (Table 2) of participation in means-tested programs, which include "anyone residing in a household in which one or more people received benefits" in the fourth quarter of 2011, thus including individuals who did not themselves receive government benefits. On the other hand, the "people with a full time job" figure Fox used included only individuals who worked, not individuals residing in a household where at least one person works.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/10/28/dishonest-fox-chart-overstates-comparison-of-we/196618

[Joe Molotov]

I made it up to Romney and Ryan - people of substance, depth and ideas

[Brehvolution]

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/RL33222.pdf

Israel is the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. foreign assistance since World War II. To date,
the United States has provided Israel $118 billion (current, or non-inflation-adjusted, dollars) in
bilateral assistance. Almost all U.S. bilateral aid to Israel is in the form of military assistance,
although in the past Israel also received significant economic assistance. Strong congressional
support for Israel has resulted in Israel receiving benefits not available to any other countries; for
example, Israel can use some U.S. military assistance both for research and development in the
United States and for military purchases from Israeli manufacturers. In addition, U.S. assistance
earmarked for Israel is generally delivered in the first 30 days of the fiscal year, while most other
recipients normally receive aid in installments. In addition to receiving U.S. State Department-
administered foreign assistance, Israel also receives funds from annual defense appropriations
bills for rocket and missile defense programs. Israel pursues some of those programs jointly with
the United States.
In 2007, the Bush Administration and the Israeli government agreed to a 10-year, $30 billion
military aid package spanning from Fiscal Year (FY) 2009 to Fiscal Year 2018. During his March
2013 visit to Israel, President Obama pledged that the United States would continue to provide
Israel with multi-year commitments of military aid subject to the approval of Congress. P.L. 113-
6, the Consolidated and Further Continuing Approp
riations Act, 2013 (informally referred to as
the full-year Continuing Resolution or CR) prov
ides the full FY2013 Administration request for
Israel of $3.1 billion in FMF, of which Israel is permitted $815.3 million in Off-Shore
Procurement. The Act also provides for $479.736 million in joint U.S.-Israeli missile defense
programs, including $211 million for Iron Dome, $149.679 million for David’s Sling, $74.692
million for Arrow III, and $44.365 million for Arrow II.

100% of Israel pays no US taxes yet gets Billions of dollars. Looks like Israel likes free stuff too.

[Trent Dole]

Dat chain mail. Would be hilarious if it weren't for the fact that a depressing number of people believe it to be true. I couldn't even post that to laugh at on facebook cause some of my relatives are evil and would post their agreement with it.

[Dickie Dee]

In a web feature titled "The Experts," the Wall Street Journal ran a column today called "The Affordable Care Act Is a Socialist Ponzi Scheme."

The author is Suzanne Somers ...

 

[Great Rumbler]

Philip Bump and Jonathan Chait have both written takedowns noting, politely, that the piece does not provide the sort of airtight argument you might expect from the star of the first five seasons of "Three's Company."

[Joe Molotov]

WSJ putting The Onion out of business.

[Great Rumbler]

http://www.patriotsurvivalplan.com/video.php?t=2&cid=102d6ff3a6264449a1f1f398dcd83e&affid=IX-1136&c1=&c2=&c3=

"For the low, low price of just $36.99, you, too can survive the coming Obamapocalpyse!"

[Phoenix Dark]

http://www.patriotsurvivalplan.com/video.php?t=2&cid=102d6ff3a6264449a1f1f398dcd83e&affid=IX-1136&c1=&c2=&c3=

"For the low, low price of just $36.99, you, too can survive the coming Obamapocalpyse!"

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/self-helping-the-armageddon

100 years from now Obama will probably be remembered as the guy who made white people jump the shark.

[Joe Molotov]

lol

http://www.buzzfeed.com/dorsey/rachel-maddow-rand-paul-plagiarized-gattacas-wikipedia-page

Without the hand gestures to sell it, the Wikipedia article just doesn't work for me.

[Mandark]

I read through a few dozen comments on a story about the House's recent ACA hearing, and my only consolation is that all of these people will die someday.

Good God, man.  Why?

[Mandark]

And people don't realize the extent of pre-ACA government intervention (employer-based insurance subsidies, COBRA and continuity-of-coverage rules, even Medicare), and they often don't realize what their plan costs if they get it through their job, and they don't know what their actual treatment costs are or why those prices are the way they are, etc.

It's a really complex issue that deals with maybe the most important aspect of people's day-to-day lives, their health.  So even though FUD already comprises like 80% of political discussion, health care policy is even more fertile ground for it.

[Phoenix Dark]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/29/1251569/-Congressman-Gives-GOP-A-Piece-Of-His-Mind-In-Obamacare-Hearing-VIDEO

holy shit

[Human Snorenado]

Watched that earlier today and was all

 

[Great Rumbler]

Bububub they can't fire up the base by cooperating with the enemy!!!

[Human Snorenado]

Just in time for Crimmus, almost 50 million people are getting their food stamps cut, including over 20 million shiftless, lazy children that need to pull themselves up by their own boostraps.  Why?  BECAUSE FREEDOM, MOTHERFUCKERS!

http://billmoyers.com/2013/10/29/no-time-to-wait-on-a-movement/

[Great Rumbler]

If those children want to eat so bad, maybe they should go out a get a job or something? Lazy bums.

[Human Snorenado]

Paul Ryan.

[Great Rumbler]

Rand Paul

[Great Rumbler]

Oh man, looks like CRACKGATE is starting to heat up again:

It turns out that while all of this stuff was going on the Toronto police were doing a major investigation not just into the notorious crack tape but also into the Ford's alleged drug dealing. And it seems like the investigation went pretty well.

And the big news, just announced moments ago in a police press conference, is that Toronto police now have the infamous video.

Perhaps even more shocking than the evidence of rampant crack use, there's this photo from the police investigation, showing Mayor Ford getting out of his official car to pee on a tree ...

[Great Rumbler]

That's assuming Ryan has any interest in hashing out differences, which I'm not so sure of.

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

at the very least you guys could talk shop about fitness regimes.

[Phoenix Dark]

Ryan would likely report Awesom-o to the authorities after a discussion on genetics and sterilization.

[Positive Touch]

Ryan would likely report hire Awesom-o to the authorities after a discussion on genetics and sterilization.

fixt

[Oblivion]

Okay, seriously mainstream media, enough with the crap about the Obamacare website. Yes, it's an important thing to point out, and there should be accountability. That's fine. But there's no goddamn reason to cover that issue every fricken day. The MSM has been going on about it nonstop since the shutdown ended, and it's hard to tell which has received more coverage by this point. It's like they're trying to make up for daring to go after the GOP during that period. I mean even South Park had a whole episode dedicated to it.

IT'S. NOT. THAT. CRITICAL.

[Trent Dole]

Website no worky health care faily! 

[Phoenix Dark]

It's very critical, given the amount of sign ups needed to make the law a success. The sicker people will call to get insurance, as will many on COBRA, but young people? The mobile version is fubar, and the regular site won't be ready until the end of November.

The good news is that many people tend to sign up for insurance at the last possible moment, so we should see a spike leading up to December 15th (for coverage that starts on January 1st), and later for the March 31st deadline.

[Mupepe]

As someone who is having a clusterfuck with the site, it is a big deal.  For 3 and a half weeks I wasn't able to submit my application.  And now because of a glitch it says my wife isn't eligible to purchase from the website and now I have to do all this correspondence by snail mail to fix shit.  I can definitely see how someone might say "fuck this" and just pay the penalty.  The website is fucking awful.

[Brehvolution]

You don't get it through your job?

[Mupepe]

I'm doing contract work currently.  I'm offered a health plan, but it's not the good shit.

[Human Snorenado]

Nothing to see here, move along, move along

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/11/01/60-minutes-benghazi-report-takes-a-huge-credibi/196705

[Joe Molotov]

Nothing to see here, move along, move along

Sounds like the subtitle of the Darrell Issa Story.

[Brehvolution]

I'm doing contract work currently.  I'm offered a health plan, but it's not the good shit.

I thought you worked for the big H.

[Mr. Gundam]

I'm doing contract work currently.  I'm offered a health plan, but it's not the good shit.

I thought you worked for the big H.

Contract work. I'm sure it's cheaper for them instead of having him on as a full-time employee.

[Brehvolution]

http://mediamatters.org/video/2013/10/31/foxs-stossel-argues-obamacare-should-let-insure/196684

"Women go to the doctor much more often than men! Maybe they're smarter or maybe they're hypochondriacs," Stossel continued. "They live longer. Who knows? But if it's insurance, you ought to be able to charge people who use the services more, more."

"But, John, you're not paying attention," Doocy said sarcastically. "This administration, this president wants to make everything fair. It's not fair if you pay less than she does... And as a number of Republicans have made the argument, why should I pay for -- I'm in my 60s, why should I pay for your maternity coverage?"

"Or why should women pay for men's Viagra?" Stossel asked. "This mandating all this stuff it has to cover just takes away consumer choice."

THese fucking morons have no idea how insurance works. At all! Why are they even allowed to talk about it?

[Phoenix Dark]

I'm doing contract work currently.  I'm offered a health plan, but it's not the good shit.

I thought you worked for the big H.

Himuro?

[Mupepe]

I'm doing contract work currently.  I'm offered a health plan, but it's not the good shit.

I thought you worked for the big H.

Contract work. I'm sure it's cheaper for them instead of having him on as a full-time employee.

Yep.  It'll be changing the near future, but for now I need something for my wife since we're planning on having a child soon.

[Mr. Gundam]

http://mediamatters.org/video/2013/10/31/foxs-stossel-argues-obamacare-should-let-insure/196684

"Women go to the doctor much more often than men! Maybe they're smarter or maybe they're hypochondriacs," Stossel continued. "They live longer. Who knows? But if it's insurance, you ought to be able to charge people who use the services more, more."

"But, John, you're not paying attention," Doocy said sarcastically. "This administration, this president wants to make everything fair. It's not fair if you pay less than she does... And as a number of Republicans have made the argument, why should I pay for -- I'm in my 60s, why should I pay for your maternity coverage?"

"Or why should women pay for men's Viagra?" Stossel asked. "This mandating all this stuff it has to cover just takes away consumer choice."

THese fucking morons have no idea how insurance works. At all! Why are they even allowed to talk about it?

Stossel is a fucking idiot.

[Fragamemnon]

I'm in my 60s, why should I pay for your maternity coverage?"

What a fuckface. Why the fuck should younger people have to pay for your Medicare you're going to get soon, by that logic?

[Phoenix Dark]

obligatory


that's my senator 

[CatsCatsCats]

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/02/saudi-protest-driving-ban-not-popular

[Joe Molotov]

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/02/saudi-protest-driving-ban-not-popular

Religious women love DAT PATRIARCHY.

[Boogie]

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/02/saudi-protest-driving-ban-not-popular

"Large-scale questionnaire"......170 respondants.

[Great Rumbler]

When Philadelphia schools opened this year, budget cuts left many students without new books, school nurses, guidance counselors, librarians, or even desks. Thousands of teachers were laid off and 23 schools were closed after the state cut $1 billion from the education budget and the governor jettisoned an initiative that equitably distributed school funding.

While Philadelphia's schools were reeling from a $300 million deficit, the state was bankrolling the construction of a "state of the art" prison complex less than an hour away in Skippack Township. The $400 million prison is expected to open in 2015 with a capacity of up to 4,000 prisoners. One of the reasons cited for the expansion is to house more prisoners closer to where they are from, Philadelphia. It's as though the state has given up on its largest city and is already lining up cells for Philadelphia's class of 2015.

Your modern Republican party, everyone.

[Trent Dole]

Keep 'em stupid and throw 'em in jail when they're unable to get ahead in life due to lack of education. Cool.

[Human Snorenado]

 

[Great Rumbler]

Meh, Red Dawn was better [not the remake, though].

[Phoenix Dark]

woe unto the tween girls who mis-spell the title of the upcoming Hunger Games film and come across that trailer on youtube.

[Oblivion]

85% reporting in Virginia, and the Cooch is winning by half a percentage per Daily Kos.

What the fuck??

[Joe Molotov]

85% reporting in Virginia, and the Cooch is winning by half a percentage per Daily Kos.

What the fuck??

McAuliffe is up in the current count and several outlets have already called it for him, but it was closer than most polls were showing.

[Oblivion]

85% reporting in Virginia, and the Cooch is winning by half a percentage per Daily Kos.

What the fuck??

McAuliffe is up in the current count and several outlets have already called it for him, but it was closer than most polls were showing.

Oh, thank Allah.

That was way too close for comfort.

With a Dem gov in Virginia, guess that means Republicans won't be carrying that state during the pres. elections since there won't be any voter ID laws being passed now.

[Phoenix Dark]

tldr: urban areas take longer to report their results.

The dem only received 35% of the white vote, and will likely win the election by 4 points. Welcome to the future, America.

[Great Rumbler]

McAuliffe is up by 1.3% with 97% reporting. And it looks like that nut EW Jackson [who said slavery wasn't all that bad, despite being black himself] will also lose.

[Mandark]

Lousy candidates on both sides, and a relentlessly negative campaign.  Never been more glad that technology's let me escape almost all TV commercials.