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The First Black President? Black Unemployment Levels Near All-Time Lows
This racist president is oppressing vulnerable communities of color with steady work.
Here's a story you were very unlikely to see on CNN, MSNBC, in the New York Times or the Washington Post. As much as low unemployment numbers are a non-story for much of the MSM as long as there’s a Republican in the White House, one specific segment of the employment forces is making inroads rarely, if ever, seen before. Unemployment among black Americans has been hovering at or just above seven percent for past couple of months. That's still shamefully worse than the overall unemployment figure, but to put it in context, it’s also very close to the best it’s been since Nixon was in office.It's nearing the low levels achieved during the tech-fueled Clinton Bubble in 2000, and even the very low rate reached under Nixon. As far as the general unemployment rate, that is also at a seventeen year low. Again, dating to about the time of the Clinton Bubble. Thirteen states have announced a record low unemployment rates, the lowest they've been since the BLS began tracking state figures in 1976.
The job market 'get much tighter. In October the U.S. unemployment rate dropped to 4.1%--the lowest level since December 2000, when it hit 3.9%. October also marked a record-setting 85th straight month of job gains, dating back to 2010. That job creation is reaching into virtually every corner of the country. This year a remarkable 12 states have recorded their lowest unemployment rates since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began tracking state figures in 1976, and California matched its previous low.By the way, remember when the unemployment rate fell under Bush, but the media would always dispute that figure citing the more "realistic" U-6 number (which includes people who have given up looking for work)? And then remember how many times I complained the media forgot all about the U-6 number under Obama, only citing the more-generous, better-looking U-3 rate? Well guess what: The U-6 number is back, baby! Now, this article was actually published in April -- I didn't notice it then. (Note the unemployment rate is listed as 4.5%; it's now 4.1%.) But look how fast the media went from ignoring the U-6 under Obama to crowing about it under Trump. It literally only took the media three months to rediscover the U-6.
The government reported a 4.5% unemployment rate, but here's the realistic number Nick Wells | @wellsangels The headline unemployment rate might not be the best measure of jobsIt was under Obama. Tell me, CNBC -- what's changed in just three months?
So you're saying this U-6 number, which you mentioned quite a bit when Bush was president and not at all when Obama was president, also fell a great deal? One more thing: If you search for "unemployment rate" under "news" on google, you will struggle to find much mention of the US' very low unemployment rate -- almost as if Google is hiding stories about it as #FakeNews which is also #Racist. And almost as if the media is simply not reporting much at all on the fact that not only have we fallen under the 5% figure generally cited as indicating "full employment," but are approaching the record-low 3.9% achieved for only a short time in the Clinton Tech Bubble.
The unemployment rate fell to 4.5 percent in March, according to the Labor Department. But relying on that one headline number as an indicator for the economy as a whole ignores important information just below the surface. Each month on "Jobs Friday," the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases a ton of economic data, each point providing its own perspective on the employment situation. Economists look past the official unemployment rate -- that 4.5 percent figure, also known as the "U-3" -- to other measures of jobs in this country. One of those measures is the U-6 rate, which has a broader definition than the U-3 rate. In March, that figure fell three-tenths of a point to 8.9 percent.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Trump makes negros work more!
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 20, 2017 05:37 PM (BtQd4)
Posted by: MSM at December 20, 2017 05:37 PM (cAXIk)
Posted by: steevy at December 20, 2017 05:38 PM (LiyEm)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2017 05:39 PM (mbhDw)
Good times good times..
Posted by: sven10077 at December 20, 2017 05:40 PM (SzZnW)
Posted by: garrett at December 20, 2017 05:41 PM (Qky80)
Honestly, and I've hocked this chainik to death over the years, if black America really understood what the Left has done to it since 1964, the Democrat Party would become extinct.
Donald Trump has the attention of the world and that would be a message only he can deliver and make stick.
Please God.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2017 05:41 PM (mbhDw)
Candidate Trump always said the "real numbers" were much higher -- and Fake News said he spreading lies!
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at December 20, 2017 05:41 PM (2SERm)
Posted by: Voice heard in MSM conference room at December 20, 2017 05:42 PM (iMxDC)
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at December 20, 2017 05:42 PM (0DVed)
Posted by: Country Singer at December 20, 2017 05:42 PM (yzxic)
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at December 20, 2017 05:42 PM (2SERm)
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at December 20, 2017 05:42 PM (2SERm)
Posted by: runner at December 20, 2017 05:43 PM (QC/4S)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 20, 2017 05:43 PM (hyuyC)
Posted by: Nominally A Lurker at December 20, 2017 05:43 PM (fS6xP)
Posted by: garrett at December 20, 2017 05:43 PM (Qky80)
Posted by: NFL at December 20, 2017 05:43 PM (r9UYA)
Posted by: runner at December 20, 2017 05:44 PM (QC/4S)
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at December 20, 2017 05:44 PM (2SERm)
chainik ? teapot ?
Posted by: runner at December 20, 2017 05:43 PM (QC/4S)
"Hock a chainki" is a Yiddish expression, literally translated as to beat a tea kettle over someone's head. It means to annoy or to say something so repetitively as to be an irritant.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2017 05:44 PM (mbhDw)
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2017 05:44 PM (/tuJf)
I can't think of a single thing Trump said that needed to be defended.
The man, truly, speaks for me.
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at December 20, 2017 05:45 PM (2SERm)
Posted by: Archer at December 20, 2017 05:45 PM (gbWkA)
Parakeets are baby parrots.
Capers are tiny pickles.
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at December 20, 2017 05:44 PM (2SERm)
Tiny pickle = Stetler pee-pee
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2017 05:45 PM (mbhDw)
Posted by: Under Fire at December 20, 2017 05:45 PM (r9UYA)
Posted by: t-bird at December 20, 2017 05:45 PM (2z74n)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 20, 2017 05:45 PM (xJa6I)
The U2 number just said, Achtung Baby
Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 20, 2017 05:45 PM (493sH)
Posted by: dagny at December 20, 2017 05:45 PM (eO5CB)
I warned Trump not to evict them all from the mansions your Chicago Jesus had put them all in....but did he listen?
NOOOO
Posted by: sven10077 at December 20, 2017 05:46 PM (SzZnW)
Posted by: bluebell ~ now we're cookin'! at December 20, 2017 05:46 PM (kNasr)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - High Speed Rail Denier at December 20, 2017 05:46 PM (T4n7S)
Posted by: dagny at December 20, 2017 05:45 PM (eO5CB)
Isn't this really the story of David Frum?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2017 05:47 PM (mbhDw)
#winning!
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 20, 2017 05:47 PM (5Yee7)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2017 05:47 PM (39g3+)
The AoS Caper Wars of 2017?
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at December 20, 2017 05:47 PM (2SERm)
Posted by: garrett at December 20, 2017 05:47 PM (SlZ+h)
Trump is trying to get the economy booming, and seems to be succeeding.
Yeah, 2018 is going to be a blue wave.
Yeah...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at December 20, 2017 05:47 PM (Jj43a)
Capers? Isn't that what Batman and Robin the Caper Crusaders wear?
Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 20, 2017 05:47 PM (493sH)
THEN WHAT TRUFFLES?
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at December 20, 2017 05:47 PM (2SERm)
It was double digits until early 2014 PERIOD IIRC....
Posted by: sven10077 at December 20, 2017 05:48 PM (SzZnW)
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at December 20, 2017 05:48 PM (2SERm)
Posted by: x at December 20, 2017 05:48 PM (nFwvY)
Posted by: runner at December 20, 2017 05:48 PM (QC/4S)
Inflation, But The Good Kind - a limerick
The result of this Trumpian goovernance
We're seeing irrational exuberance!
Employment rates are zooming
The economy is booming
And my trousers now exhibit grand protuberance
Posted by: Muldoon at December 20, 2017 05:48 PM (wPiJc)
Posted by: x at December 20, 2017 05:48 PM (nFwvY)
Probably straight out of Reggie's ass
Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 20, 2017 05:48 PM (493sH)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at December 20, 2017 05:48 PM (6Ll1u)
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at December 20, 2017 05:47 PM (2SERm)
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Either mushrooms or chocolates. You decide.
Posted by: bluebell ~ now we're cookin'! at December 20, 2017 05:49 PM (kNasr)
My toddler son is traditionally a picky eater. Something unexpected happened last night. He started pointing at random things in the fridge last night and asking for them.
He tried capers and pickles last night. The capers didn't receive the little bonhomme seal of approval, but the pickles did, then didn't, then did again.
Posted by: bonhomme at December 20, 2017 05:49 PM (zGsgt)
Posted by: Professor Chaos Gumdrop Gorilla at December 20, 2017 05:49 PM (NnN0z)
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at December 20, 2017 05:49 PM (2SERm)
I'd go with "steak"
Try to rapid dry age them with Kosher salt....
hmmmm
Posted by: sven10077 at December 20, 2017 05:50 PM (SzZnW)
--CNN
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2017 05:50 PM (39g3+)
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What a shocker... there's ONE black person there and sure enough they have him standing right next to the mic like a manipulated prop. Way to go @SenatorTimScott. #trump #taxscambill
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Uh probably because I helped write the bill for the past year, have multiple provisions included, got multiple Senators on board over the last week and have worked on tax reform my entire time in Congress. But if you'd rather just see my skin color, pls feel free.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 20, 2017 05:50 PM (cp1if)
Posted by: Charlie Gibson at December 20, 2017 05:50 PM (iMxDC)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at December 20, 2017 05:48 PM (6Ll1u)
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I think you should have steak with capers.
Posted by: grammie winger - O Come Let Us Adore Him at December 20, 2017 05:50 PM (lwiT4)
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at December 20, 2017 05:50 PM (LWu6U)
Posted by: Fred Sanford at December 20, 2017 05:50 PM (bc2Lc)
Posted by: Jennifer Rubin at December 20, 2017 05:51 PM (SkuXa)
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He's got a preacher's voice.
Posted by: grammie winger - O Come Let Us Adore Him at December 20, 2017 05:51 PM (lwiT4)
Looks like a mostly dehydrated English pea, but darker green in color.
Posted by: bonhomme at December 20, 2017 05:51 PM (zGsgt)
Posted by: Charles Winchester III at December 20, 2017 05:51 PM (r9UYA)
Posted by: steevy at December 20, 2017 05:51 PM (LiyEm)
Posted by: bluebell ~ now we're cookin'! at December 20, 2017 05:49 PM (kNasr)
lol
When I was young that always confused me. I do wonder why the heck they are named the same thing. I could probably bing it, but not curious enough to do all that work. But truffle salt is delicious and delectable.
Posted by: Professor Chaos Gumdrop Gorilla at December 20, 2017 05:51 PM (NnN0z)
What a shocker... there's ONE black person there and sure enough they have him standing right next to the mic like a manipulated prop.
BecauseThat'sWhatThey'dDo
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at December 20, 2017 05:51 PM (2SERm)
It was double digits until early 2014 PERIOD IIRC....
Posted by: sven10077 at December 20, 2017 05:48 PM (SzZnW)
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One thing to keep in mind:
The Republican Congress stopped Obama's agenda. The only thing keeping the government as a meddlesome actor in the evening ( increasing it's share of nuisance) was Obama's administration.
Trump is undoing that actively while we suddenly have a large corporate tax rate.
The economy has held back because of Obama and is gearing up because we have a federal government that wants economic growth instead of social justice.
Weird, huh?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at December 20, 2017 05:52 PM (Jj43a)
Posted by: garrett at December 20, 2017 05:52 PM (Y54Eh)
Posted by: bluebell
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*scratches head*
Hmm. Let's see, fungus...or chocolate. Tough call.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 20, 2017 05:52 PM (cp1if)
You know, at this pace the U3 could technically approach 0. I'm sure the economic experts at the paper of record will have a take telling how awful that is.
Oh and Ace, the media has also rediscovered homelessness.. And it's everywheres!
Posted by: Knaws at December 20, 2017 05:52 PM (EyDUy)
Expect more pop songs about how awful the economy is, Reagan's years were packed with them. It was hilarious how mopey and woeful the music portrayed life and how great everyone felt about the economy.
The big difference now though is that pop music has zero impact on anyone's life unless they are a 14 year old girl.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2017 05:53 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 20, 2017 05:53 PM (cp1if)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2017 05:54 PM (aC6Sd)
Let's see how MSNBC spins that....dipshits.
Posted by: Tami at December 20, 2017 05:54 PM (Enq6K)
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at December 20, 2017 05:54 PM (2SERm)
Blame the French. They came up with the chocolate treat and named it after the truffle because they looked similar.
Posted by: bonhomme at December 20, 2017 05:55 PM (zGsgt)
--Vox
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2017 05:55 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Chicken piccata at December 20, 2017 05:55 PM (dsMz4)
And yes that was sarcasm.
Posted by: Northernlurker, am I lurking or am I skulking at December 20, 2017 05:56 PM (nBr1j)
I have mp3's of a couple songs we did in the studio I'd love to get to you.
Have ya got a throw away email addy you can put up or something?
Or maybe someone here I could get em to that could get em to ya?
Posted by: teej at December 20, 2017 05:56 PM (5cCew)
The Rev will love it. Folks at church dinners and potlucks will love it. You will be praised for your culinary genius (trust me on this).
Do not let this Book, a Book which is literally infused with the love of The Horde, and most especially bluebell and Weasel, to sit, lonely and unused on your shelf.
As a famous Caseworker once said, "Start simply, do what you know, use your talents, practice!"
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 20, 2017 05:56 PM (ctuyM)
--Vox
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2017 05:55 PM (39g3+)
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Why economic growth over 4% leads to sexism and racism.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at December 20, 2017 05:56 PM (Jj43a)
A caper.
It's a rat turd..
Caper!
Eat it than...(name the movie)
Posted by: steevy
Ratatouille?
Posted by: rickb223 at December 20, 2017 05:56 PM (h6BP/)
Posted by: Dr. Jerome Adams at December 20, 2017 05:56 PM (bc2Lc)
And continued stories about Teh Homeless Crisis, which are always non-existent under Democrat presidents.
Also: The MSM will pivot to "increasing divide" type stories.
Posted by: hannitys_hybrid at December 20, 2017 05:56 PM (iMxDC)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at December 20, 2017 05:57 PM (6Ll1u)
Blame the French. They came up with the chocolate treat and named it after the truffle because they looked similar.
Posted by: bonhomme at December 20, 2017 05:55 PM (zGsgt)
Bwahahahaha. Figures. Actually, whether true or not, that is what I'm gonna tell people from now on. No chocolate truffle I have ever had reminds me of the mushroom variety. Maybe the shape has morphed over the years.
Posted by: Professor Chaos Gumdrop Gorilla at December 20, 2017 05:57 PM (NnN0z)
Posted by: hannitys_hybrid at December 20, 2017 05:56 PM (iMxDC)
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The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting... Richer, but not quite as much.
And it's terrible!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at December 20, 2017 05:57 PM (Jj43a)
The wii fit girl is not one of them. At all.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 20, 2017 05:58 PM (fuK7c)
*******
And a wheelbarrow...
...and a Holocaust cloak.
Posted by: Muldoon at December 20, 2017 05:58 PM (wPiJc)
Posted by: steevy at December 20, 2017 05:58 PM (LiyEm)
Posted by: lin-duh at December 20, 2017 05:58 PM (kufk0)
And continued stories about Teh Homeless Crisis, which are always non-existent under Democrat presidents.
Also: The MSM will pivot to "increasing divide" type stories.
Posted by: hannitys_hybrid at December 20, 2017 05:56 PM (iMxDC)
Heart-wrenching stories on homeless people will go through the roof.
Posted by: Northernlurker, am I lurking or am I skulking at December 20, 2017 05:58 PM (nBr1j)
Posted by: Professor Chaos Gumdrop Gorilla at December 20, 2017 05:59 PM (NnN0z)
Hilarious.
And let's start that meme here, and now.
Trump Bonus.
Surely, this only dooms the GOP to even a worse shellacking in the mid-terms.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 20, 2017 05:59 PM (fZlu3)
But she is mesmerizing. Round and round.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2017 05:59 PM (39g3+)
But hey, I get paid either way.
And those sweet sweet government benefits, too.
**for God's sake, please somebody, give me something productive to do**
Should have brought in my knitting.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 20, 2017 05:59 PM (7UW64)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 20, 2017 06:00 PM (Lqy/e)
Posted by: CNN Headline Spin at December 20, 2017 06:00 PM (lKs2v)
Posted by: Nancy Pelotski - Devout Catholic at December 20, 2017 06:00 PM (r9UYA)
Posted by: Northernlurker, am I lurking or am I skulking at December 20, 2017 05:58 PM (nBr1j)
Comic Relief specials!
Probably won't be though since Robin Williams went to the Chuckle Shack in the sky..
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at December 20, 2017 06:00 PM (4ErVI)
Posted by: steevy at December 20, 2017 06:00 PM (LiyEm)
Posted by: bonhomme at December 20, 2017 06:00 PM (zGsgt)
Posted by: runner at December 20, 2017 06:00 PM (QC/4S)
He's trying, and he's likeable enough if bland, but he needs a lot of work.
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at December 20, 2017 06:00 PM (ul9CR)
Posted by: Muldoon at December 20, 2017 05:58 PM (wPiJc)
Why didn't you mention that earlier?
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 20, 2017 06:00 PM (7UW64)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 20, 2017 06:00 PM (Lqy/e)
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It's Trump's fault California won't allow building new homes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at December 20, 2017 06:00 PM (Jj43a)
But she is mesmerizing. Round and round.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2017 05:59 PM (39g3+)
I think she's in her 20s, so relax. No jail bait guilt needed.
Posted by: Insomniac - Bah humbug! at December 20, 2017 06:01 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: not the mama at December 20, 2017 06:01 PM (mx7rN)
Tried 'em. OK, nothing special. Salty, as you'd expect. And basically just a somewhat diluted caper flavor (as you'd also expect).
FYI.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 20, 2017 06:01 PM (fZlu3)
Posted by: runner at December 20, 2017 06:01 PM (QC/4S)
Posted by: Jewells45can handle your jewels at December 20, 2017 06:01 PM (CNHr1)
But she is mesmerizing. Round and round.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2017 05:59 PM (39g3+)
She was 25 when that was recorded. I found that out last time you got all concerned about it.
Posted by: CNN Headline Spin at December 20, 2017 06:01 PM (lKs2v)
Posted by: dagny at December 20, 2017 05:45 PM (eO5CB)
Isn't this really the story of David Frum?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2017 05:47 PM
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This is why the horde is awesome.
/also, get your cookbook, it's better than you can imagine! Lots of pages! Personal recipes with Anecdotes!
Posted by: shibumi at December 20, 2017 06:01 PM (aT+Bx)
Posted by: Insomniac - Bah humbug! at December 20, 2017 06:02 PM (NWiLs)
==
aw
Posted by: runner at December 20, 2017 06:02 PM (QC/4S)
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I hope not too literally, Dunc.
And grammie, I don't know if you saw this at the bottom of the last thread, but one of our gentleman commenters actually wrote on his recipe "so easy, even grammie winger can do it!" Did you see that? I'm not telling you who; you'll have to find it.
Posted by: bluebell ~ now we're cookin'! at December 20, 2017 06:02 PM (kNasr)
Posted by: lin-duh at December 20, 2017 06:02 PM (kufk0)
Trump Bonus.
Having been the beneficiary of one, I'll be happy to meme away! And raises shall be Trump Bumps.
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at December 20, 2017 06:02 PM (ul9CR)
Posted by: Cheri at December 20, 2017 06:02 PM (oiNtH)
Posted by: Under Fire at December 20, 2017 06:02 PM (r9UYA)
Posted by: #neverskankles at December 20, 2017 06:02 PM (aBy1A)
Posted by: Katy Tur at December 20, 2017 06:02 PM (AMIL/)
Posted by: Professor Chaos Gumdrop Gorilla
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They are rooted up by pigs. I'll say no more than that.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 20, 2017 06:02 PM (y3sT9)
And it's terrible!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at December 20, 2017 05:57 PM (Jj43a)
I blame the education system. Somehow it's now a bad thing to be rich. I don't want what they have, I want my own. But...after galavanting to many places around the world, sleeping in places most Americans wouldn't visit while listening to fighter aircraft taking off and landing at all hours of the day, I'm comfortable being middle class and living a relatively easy life now.
Posted by: Bill R. at December 20, 2017 06:03 PM (IuYIh)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 20, 2017 06:02 PM (y3sT9)
or dogs..i think
Posted by: runner at December 20, 2017 06:03 PM (QC/4S)
Posted by: Katy Tur at December 20, 2017 06:02 PM (AMIL/)
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"It's true because I heard it on the TV!"
-very smart progressive
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at December 20, 2017 06:03 PM (Jj43a)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2017 06:03 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Jewells45can handle your jewels at December 20, 2017 06:01 PM (CNHr1)
That'll be hard....they're owned by Comcast.
But you're probably right...won't report it.
Posted by: Tami at December 20, 2017 06:03 PM (Enq6K)
Posted by: lin-duh at December 20, 2017 06:02 PM (kufk0)
You don't have to, but if your job is anything like mine, you'll spend some quality time looking out them, so you might as well.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 20, 2017 06:03 PM (7UW64)
And a wheelbarrow...
...and a Holocaust cloak.
Posted by: Muldoon at December 20, 2017 05:58 PM
But not a dollop of iocane.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 20, 2017 06:03 PM (ctuyM)
Posted by: hannitys_hybrid at December 20, 2017 06:03 PM (iMxDC)
Posted by: steevy at December 20, 2017 06:04 PM (LiyEm)
Posted by: #neverskankles at December 20, 2017 06:04 PM (aBy1A)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2017 06:04 PM (MVTSn)
Posted by: never enough caffeine at December 20, 2017 06:04 PM (N3JsI)
She seriously looks half that age. Cute but little.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2017 06:04 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: An Observation at December 20, 2017 06:04 PM (uFrcA)
Posted by: Insomniac
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The infection begins in the schools.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 20, 2017 06:05 PM (5OO3x)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at December 20, 2017 06:05 PM (6Ll1u)
That's my favorite, since they never tell you why meeting some unnamed person's expectations matter more than the actual numbers, and also, they always told us the predictably bad results of Obama's poor policies were "unexpected."
Posted by: Lizzy at December 20, 2017 06:05 PM (W+vEI)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at December 20, 2017 06:05 PM (4ErVI)
I think your spellcheckers forgot the "d" at the end of your name, dear.
Now, go lay down by your dish.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 20, 2017 06:05 PM (7UW64)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2017 06:03 PM (39g3+)
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"The rich just put their money in the bank!"
"The bank uses that cash to offer loans because that's how banks make money. More money in accounts means more loans."
"Predatory lending!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at December 20, 2017 06:05 PM (Jj43a)
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at December 20, 2017 06:05 PM (ul9CR)
Posted by: buzzion at December 20, 2017 06:05 PM (lKs2v)
Posted by: runner at December 20, 2017 06:05 PM (QC/4S)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at December 20, 2017 06:05 PM (6Ll1u)
"Crash musta called him a cocksucker."
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 20, 2017 06:06 PM (7UW64)
Explain to me what happens when you come home after a hard day's work to find that your best friend has broken into your home and is pounding your cheating sexbot. Is this a something?
Posted by: Fritz at December 20, 2017 06:06 PM (A1FgP)
*******
Who's a good boy!?
Trrrrrruffles have Scrrrrrrritches.
Posted by: Muldoon at December 20, 2017 06:06 PM (wPiJc)
Posted by: MISH McConnell at December 20, 2017 06:06 PM (y3aQB)
Good response by Tim Scott. I have to applaud some people such as Scott who choose the higher road and don't say something like, "Eff you, idiot."
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2017 06:06 PM (8+Ozj)
Posted by: Jewells45can handle your jewels at December 20, 2017 06:06 PM (CNHr1)
And somebody mentioned the (comparative) clamp-down on illegal migration.
Such things as actual "immigration law compliance" or various concepts of the state of mass illegal migration surely must figure in DHS's internal assessments and strategizing (if not, WTF).
Apart from border zone apprehensions, I have not seen any publicly announced numbers.
But it's as rock solid as gravity that if the borders are secured and rule of law returned to the labor market, wages and employment in the lowest quintiles will improve. If DHS (and Congress, under bludgeon blows from the WH) would get more serious, and esp. urgent, about this, the economic trends could make Trump's re-election as uncertain as Reagan's second one.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 20, 2017 06:06 PM (fZlu3)
They really loved the control that offered up.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at December 20, 2017 06:05 PM (4ErVI)
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A bunch of dumb lawsuits are going to come because of this law, but the ones against the mandate repeal will probably be the most fun to watch get smacked around.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at December 20, 2017 06:06 PM (Jj43a)
That's where their "people are going to die!!!!" line comes from: if you don't force everyone to sign up, there's not enough money to pay for the poor to have "free" health care, so it will be cut and the dead will pile up on the streets.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2017 06:07 PM (39g3+)
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valid question. he needs to pay you usage fees AND cleanup
Posted by: runner at December 20, 2017 06:07 PM (QC/4S)
"The bank uses that cash to offer loans because that's how banks make money. More money in accounts means more loans."
"Predatory lending!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at December 20, 2017 06:05 PM (Jj43a)
Those pay day loan lenders are definitely predatory and it's a goddamn disgrace they're allowed to operate the way they do.
Usury is bad and that's what it is.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at December 20, 2017 06:07 PM (4ErVI)
Posted by: buzzion at December 20, 2017 06:05 PM (lKs2v)
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And the cookbook, potentially. Still haven't verified the banana bread survivor reporting. But we do have one hermit survivor. He's hanging on, so far. But if the recipe itself doesn't kill him, the 15-year-old spices he used might.
Posted by: bluebell ~ now we're cookin'! at December 20, 2017 06:07 PM (kNasr)
Posted by: steevy at December 20, 2017 06:08 PM (LiyEm)
Posted by: mrp at December 20, 2017 06:08 PM (Pqytn)
Posted by: Jewells45can handle your jewels
They definitely live more than 10 miles away from me.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 20, 2017 06:09 PM (h6BP/)
Posted by: Bruce at December 20, 2017 06:09 PM (8ikIW)
http://youtu.be/0sclzuGmAkY
Posted by: steevy at December 20, 2017 06:08 PM (LiyEm)
nice pup
Posted by: runner at December 20, 2017 06:09 PM (QC/4S)
Pretty soon we'll get the elderly eating dog food stories.
Posted by: tu3031 at December 20, 2017 06:09 PM (O5Q3r)
Nah,they don't use pigs,pigs would eat them and they are way too valuable.They used dogs trained from puppies to find them,they rub truffle oil on the puppies noses to train them...
Posted by: steevy
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No doubt, but traditionally, bon appétit:
TRUFFLES: WHY PIGS CAN SNIFF THEM OUT
By WALTER SULLIVAN
Published: March 24, 1982
Truffles are rare and expensive as it is. They would be far more so, were it not for the remarkable ability of pigs to sniff them out from as deep as three feet underground.
Why are those animals so capable? Is it related to the omnivorous appetite that has given ''eating like a pig'' so bad a name? And what is the basis for the remarkable appeal of those fungi to gourmets?
The explanation, it seems, relates to the sex life of pigs - and perhaps of human beings as well. Researchers in West Germany have found that truffles contain large quantities of a substance also synthesized in the testes of boars. In the boars it is secreted into their saliva when they court females. The Germans report that the substance's musklike scent, ''emanating from the saliva foam, is smelled by the sow and prompts her standing reflex.'
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 20, 2017 06:10 PM (cp1if)
Posted by: Muldoon at December 20, 2017 06:10 PM (wPiJc)
Posted by: mrp at December 20, 2017 06:08 PM (Pqytn)
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Imagine if Hoover had done what his Secretary of the Treasury had recommended.
Remember FDR originally campaigned in the idea that the Hoover administration was too active in trying to manage the economy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at December 20, 2017 06:10 PM (Jj43a)
Is that a house bong near the TV set for the WiFi lady....mmmmmmm.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 20, 2017 06:10 PM (EoRCO)
Walmart greeters etc are usually available, but yeah gonna be a tough pull. As fast as electronics updates, not easy to get back into. My brother was in IT, he took a couple years off and tried to live on investments and his severence package (just as the stock market crashed) and when he got back looking for work he was already out of date.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2017 06:10 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Under Fire at December 20, 2017 06:10 PM (r9UYA)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 20, 2017 06:09 PM (h6BP/)
In Anchorage, there is a trailer park right next to a gated community of the loaded.
We just don't care much.
Keeps everybody sane, I suppose.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 20, 2017 06:10 PM (7UW64)
Posted by: mrp at December 20, 2017 06:08 PM (Pqytn)
You forget that there was a market crash in 1921. And what did President Coolidge do? NOTHING.
The result was something called The Roaring 20s.
Compare and contrast to Hoobert Heever and FDR, mirrored by Dubya and the Dog-Eater.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2017 06:10 PM (mbhDw)
Posted by: tu3031
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Young children dying, and being fed to the rich.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 20, 2017 06:11 PM (cp1if)
Posted by: Mike Hammer,
*******
I'm going to file this under 'TMI'.
Posted by: Muldoon at December 20, 2017 06:11 PM (wPiJc)
Well, in the agape sense ...
And grammie, I don't know if you saw this at the bottom of the last
thread, but one of our gentleman commenters actually wrote on his recipe
"so easy, even grammie winger can do it!" Did you see that? I'm not
telling you who; you'll have to find it.
Posted by: bluebell ~ now we're cookin'! at December 20, 2017 06:02 PM
See, grammie? It's not just a Book. It's not just a calling, like the Cubs. It's a mission. Your mission.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 20, 2017 06:11 PM (ctuyM)
Posted by: Deplorable Redneck Bitter Clinger at December 20, 2017 06:11 PM (iiixZ)
Now have to thank CBD for that recipe as well as the browned butter chocolate chip cookie recipe from one of the food threads.
Yummy!
Posted by: never enough caffeine at December 20, 2017 06:11 PM (N3JsI)
Whole thing hinges on the mandate. Remove that and the whole scheme collapses.
Killing Obama's legacy, piece by piece. Mic drop that, TFG!
Posted by: Lizzy at December 20, 2017 06:12 PM (W+vEI)
Posted by: tu3031
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Young children dying, and being fed to the rich.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 20, 2017 06:11 PM (cp1if)
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I look forward to some millennial discovering Soylent Green and calling it a prescient look at life under Trump.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at December 20, 2017 06:12 PM (Jj43a)
Now have to thank CBD for that recipe as well as the browned butter chocolate chip cookie recipe from one of the food threads.
Yummy!
Posted by: never enough caffeine at December 20, 2017 06:11 PM (N3JsI)
AHA !! it was YOU !
Posted by: runner at December 20, 2017 06:12 PM (QC/4S)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at December 20, 2017 06:12 PM (4ErVI)
Posted by: tu3031
Doubtful. Dog food is more expensive than people food these days.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 20, 2017 06:12 PM (8gDQu)
*polite cough*
I'd like to see the labor force participation rate go up some. It's been 62-63% for the last few years.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2017 06:12 PM (UJwFK)
If you can't have fun watching Bull Durham you've let the haters win.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 20, 2017 06:12 PM (fuK7c)
You best try my pasta recipe and rave about it.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2017 06:12 PM (mbhDw)
There's a fungus among us
Posted by: rickb223 at December 20, 2017 06:13 PM (h6BP/)
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me too
Posted by: runner at December 20, 2017 06:13 PM (QC/4S)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2017 06:03 PM (39g3+)
You Sir!, are a commun..... no. Not that.
You Sir!, are a social.....no. Not that.
Aw hell. You Sir!, are a racist! (This one applies to all situations)
Posted by: tbodie at December 20, 2017 06:13 PM (SCvwT)
Now have to thank CBD for that recipe as well as the browned butter chocolate chip cookie recipe from one of the food threads.
Yummy!
Posted by: never enough caffeine at December 20, 2017 06:11 PM (N3JsI)
Would you mind checking back in tomorrow around the same time. TIA.
Posted by: Under Fire at December 20, 2017 06:13 PM (r9UYA)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 20, 2017 06:13 PM (wmaTe)
Posted by: saf at December 20, 2017 06:13 PM (cS/ge)
His entire entire one-hour appearance is here: https://tinyurl.com/hgwrtnt
Pretty fascinating stuff. (and man, how things have changed. You could hardly tell the Dems from The Repubs.)
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at December 20, 2017 06:13 PM (ul9CR)
getting richer. Good for them. Rich people spend money, on things like
hiring folks like me. I grew up thinking that if someone did better
than me, it was something to aspire to, not bitterly hate.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2017 06:03 PM
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I used to have a boss who was very envious of other people's success. I think he took it as a personal comment on his shortfallings. My guess is a LOT of people feel that way.
Hence "keeping up with the Jones' to feel good about myself."
/external locus of control.
Posted by: shibumi at December 20, 2017 06:13 PM (aT+Bx)
Posted by: bluebell ~ now we're cookin'! at December 20, 2017 06:14 PM (kNasr)
What would be even better, now that the Palestinians have rhetorically dumped on the US and returned more/less to the pre-Oslo anti-US default mode, is to return fire, with nuclear payloads.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 20, 2017 06:14 PM (fZlu3)
Hence "keeping up with the Jones' to feel good about myself."
/external locus of control.
Posted by: shibumi at December 20, 2017 06:13 PM (aT+Bx)
Yep. One of the seven deadlies for a reason.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 20, 2017 06:15 PM (7UW64)
Posted by: navybrat at December 20, 2017 06:15 PM (w7KSn)
Yeah canned cat food has always been more expensive than beans and tuna. Nobody ate that crap instead of real food.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2017 06:15 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: teej at December 20, 2017 06:15 PM (5cCew)
Posted by: navybrat at December 20, 2017 06:15 PM (w7KSn)
Well, let's see if the deficit in 2018 (or any year, really) is higher than it was under Obama in, say, 2009.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 20, 2017 06:15 PM (wmaTe)
Without recourse to data, I'd guess it's more volatile.
I could talk about r^2 values to prove I went to school, but more volatile is a safe guess.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 20, 2017 06:16 PM (fuK7c)
*polite cough*
I'd like to see the labor force participation rate go up some. It's been 62-63% for the last few years.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2017 06:12 PM (UJwFK)
Build.The.Wall
(some assembly required)
Posted by: jwb7605 at December 20, 2017 06:16 PM (DofIg)
Posted by: geoffb at December 20, 2017 06:16 PM (zOpu5)
Posted by: never enough caffeine at December 20, 2017 06:16 PM (N3JsI)
Posted by: navybrat at December 20, 2017 06:15 PM (w7KSn)
Concern troll as a Lefty and promote a balanced budget amendment and an amendment that requires budget to be no more than 15% of GDP.
Heh.
Better yet, Flat or Fair tax because, fairness!!!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2017 06:16 PM (mbhDw)
............
When Silicon Valley went on a janitor hiring spree.
I denounce myself.
Posted by: wth at December 20, 2017 06:16 PM (HgMAr)
The demographic profile of a population will have some effect on it, so a proper baseline may need to be adjusted over time. But I've never seen such an adjustment that made me feel better about the structural employment problems.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 20, 2017 06:16 PM (fZlu3)
(some assembly required)
Posted by: jwb7605 at December 20, 2017 06:16 PM (DofIg)
well, that and the H1B visa flood
Posted by: runner at December 20, 2017 06:17 PM (QC/4S)
Posted by: never enough caffeine at December 20, 2017 06:16 PM (N3JsI)
Neither. But the beauty if it is it can be adapted for shrimp easily.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2017 06:17 PM (mbhDw)
Posted by: navybrat at December 20, 2017 06:15 PM (w7KSn)
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They open to remind entitlements? You know, the single largest driver of the debt?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at December 20, 2017 06:17 PM (Jj43a)
Posted by: #neverskankles at December 20, 2017 06:17 PM (aBy1A)
Posted by: wth at December 20, 2017 06:18 PM (HgMAr)
Heh.
Better yet, Flat or Fair tax because, fairness!!!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2017 06:16 PM (mbhDw)
I could balance the budget tomorrow.
Flat tax of 10-15% (would need to run numbers) and spending pegged to tax revenues, with a cap at, say 15%-17% GDP. Any additional spending above and beyond that (say, for a war) would require 2/3 of Congress to approve.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 20, 2017 06:18 PM (wmaTe)
I suspect that the rise of two-income families preclude any comparison of the numbers back to the Nixon days.
Just as illegals preclude any comparison back to the Clinton era.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 20, 2017 06:18 PM (7UW64)
Posted by: Mike Hammer,
*******
I'm going to file this under 'TMI'.
Posted by: Muldoon at December 20, 2017 06:11 PM (wPiJc)
Truffle Mining Information
Posted by: Insomniac - Bah humbug! at December 20, 2017 06:18 PM (NWiLs)
She really did a great job but I won't be satisfied until the UN is killed. It is a dangerous and destructive monster that should never have existed.
Personally, I'd like to put Haley to work doing something important and just put a sign saying "VETO" on our chair in the security council. Veto everything and kill that POS org. Short of leaving the UN that is really the only sensible thing to do. Veto every single thing, no matter what it's about. Kill the Security Council and the UN.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 20, 2017 06:18 PM (8gDQu)
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at December 20, 2017 06:18 PM (ul9CR)
I'm going to file this under 'TMI'.
Posted by: Muldoon
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Hold it...I would think that dealing with saliva would be your stock-in-trade. Oh, wait...maybe it's the other stuff.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 20, 2017 06:18 PM (5OO3x)
To one of those lofty FB statements that "Greed is no basis for an economy" my reply was "It's better than envy."
Now if you'll excuse me, I need to have my spats polished before diving into my vault.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2017 06:18 PM (eCEEf)
Seriously, when you have a media in full out meltdown about this Prez, a deep state planning/trying for a soft coup and posting about it openly, and 99 percent of Hollywood agitating for an overthrow, not to mention Mueller and all the other shenanigans, how the hell does anyone think Trump could become Hitler? He supposedly has Alzheimers when he drinks water. Hillary, however, fell and had to be thrown Into van, but she was perfectly healthy.
Now Obama, he had a chance. People loved him. Still do. He's the type who can become the leader he warns about. He already was skirting the Constitution and using the govt. for his own nefarious goals. Thankfully, he couldn't run again.
Posted by: Professor Chaos Gumdrop Gorilla at December 20, 2017 06:18 PM (NnN0z)
It really is an age of miracles and wonders when we can promote conservatism to leftists as a way to defeat/stymie Trump!!!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2017 06:19 PM (mbhDw)
Posted by: #neverskankles at December 20, 2017 06:17 PM (aBy1A)
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Only if they stay in the individual market.
The employer market is much larger and much less affected by the ACA ( not unaffected, but less affected).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at December 20, 2017 06:19 PM (Jj43a)
Well, let's see if the deficit in 2018 (or any year, really) is higher than it was under Obama in, say, 2009.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 20, 2017 06:15 PM (wmaTe)
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The Reagan tax cut created then record-breaking tax revenues in the following years. Unfortunately, the Dem-controlled Congress spent even more than the increased total revenue. Granted, defense spending increased, too. And that was important.
Posted by: mrp at December 20, 2017 06:19 PM (Pqytn)
I heard them today having a hissy fit about the deficit. Like they ever gave a shit about the deficit. I gotta say all the winning feels pretty good after 8 years of farting around with president cock curious.
Posted by: freaked at December 20, 2017 06:19 PM (UdKB7)
Posted by: runner at December 20, 2017 06:20 PM (QC/4S)
I'm going to file this under 'TMI'.
Posted by: Muldoon
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Hold it...I would think that dealing with saliva would be your stock-in-trade. Oh, wait...maybe it's the other stuff.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 20, 2017 06:18 PM (5OO3x)
He harvests hearts from children and sells them on the black market to wealthy patrons in need of transplants.
Posted by: Insomniac - Bah humbug! at December 20, 2017 06:20 PM (NWiLs)
Flat tax of 10-15% (would need to run numbers) and spending pegged to tax revenues, with a cap at, say 15%-17% GDP. Any additional spending above and beyond that (say, for a war) would require 2/3 of Congress to approve.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 20, 2017 06:18 PM (wmaTe)
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Dan Mitchell keeps saying to just limit government growth to be equal to it less than economic growth.
So crazy, it might work!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at December 20, 2017 06:20 PM (Jj43a)
Posted by: navybrat at December 20, 2017 06:15 PM (w7KSn)
Makes it easier to clean up your friends list.
Posted by: Tami at December 20, 2017 06:20 PM (Enq6K)
Any nation that votes against us in the UN and that gets our foreign aid, loses it for a period of 6 years.
Period. No appeals, no excuses.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2017 06:20 PM (mbhDw)
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It is really something to behold. The Kardashian era is the turning point of our republic. People just want to be famous for no apparent reason other than to satiate their need for attention.
Posted by: Concerned Peoples Front at December 20, 2017 06:20 PM (2X7pN)
Posted by: 2009Refugee at December 20, 2017 06:21 PM (JyFLk)
I love her! And I haven't said that about any govt. official ever. I also think Sarah Huckabee kicks ass. I would love to be like either of those two.
Posted by: Professor Chaos Gumdrop Gorilla at December 20, 2017 06:21 PM (NnN0z)
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at December 20, 2017 06:18 PM (ul9CR)
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I voted for her once. Met her once, and I have her autograph.
Who knows? Maybe I have the 47th president's signature already.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at December 20, 2017 06:21 PM (Jj43a)
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at December 20, 2017 06:18 PM (ul9CR)
So, how hard is it to keep saying "hell no" to a bunch of asshats?
Yeah, she's the schnitz.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 20, 2017 06:22 PM (7UW64)
Posted by: Richard T. Nixxon at December 20, 2017 06:22 PM (giT7q)
Posted by: freaked at December 20, 2017 06:22 PM (UdKB7)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 20, 2017 06:15 PM (wmaTe)
The deficits are still totally unsustainable. We have yet to even start paying off the debt built up under Barky but we're still piling even more debt on top of that. It's pretty much past the point-of-no-return ... which means that some serious ugliness awaits us. And I mean SERIOUS.
But we knew that was going to be the case from 2010 on ... and nothing has changed on that front.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 20, 2017 06:22 PM (8gDQu)
Posted by: navybrat
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"We'll return to the deficits of the Reagan years!", they shriek. "What deficits?" I always ask.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 20, 2017 06:22 PM (5OO3x)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2017 06:23 PM (mbhDw)
Posted by: 2009Refugee at December 20, 2017 06:21 PM (JyFLk)
Yeah, they play a dumbass and a manipulative nymphomaniac.
Typecast. So it works.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 20, 2017 06:23 PM (7UW64)
Grim milestone:
Death toll from the Net Neutrality repeal and "Tax Reform" is at 234,5467,128,679,398,684,484,890,456.
Posted by: This Is CNN at December 20, 2017 06:23 PM (t6XCL)
Posted by: Bubba Clintoon at December 20, 2017 06:23 PM (Tyii7)
The fact that the UN was formed by Communists, set up without recognition of a difference between free and dictator states, and is run by the hard left makes it basically worthless. One US Aircraft carrier does more good than the entire damned organization when help is needed.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2017 06:23 PM (39g3+)
I'll take that as a no thanks.
Sad.
booknlass and ALH seemed to really enjoy em.
Posted by: teej at December 20, 2017 06:15 PM (5cCew)
Dude you realize a comment like what you said can easily get lost in the shuffle. Just because you didn't get a response doesn't mean it's rejected. It probably means they didn't catch it.
Posted by: Buzzion at December 20, 2017 06:23 PM (FWtvl)
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Why six years? Why not base it on their actions? Do what we want or fuck off? Yeah, the Fuck Off Doctrine!
Posted by: Concerned Peoples Front at December 20, 2017 06:23 PM (2X7pN)
Posted by: 2009Refugee at December 20, 2017 06:21 PM (JyFLk)
And Kevin Costner gave a great speech about things he likes in that movie. Slow, deep, wet kisses...or something. *sigh* Or to quote Sarandon "oh my".
Posted by: Professor Chaos Gumdrop Gorilla at December 20, 2017 06:23 PM (NnN0z)
Posted by: mrp at December 20, 2017 06:19 PM (Pqytn)
I've showed the data to everyone who says "tax cuts add to the deficit" but they still don't believe it.
Go look at tax receipts going back as far as you want -- the only times you see even slight dips are during recessions, and the year immediately after a tax cut is passed. Then, shocker of shocks, tax receipts continue to increase and surpass the years prior to the tax cuts. In both the Reagan and Kennedy tax cuts, the rate of increase actually went up IIRC after tax cuts were passed. I don't think it did under Bush (probably a not big enough tax cut to really boost gdp growth), but still -- instead of "costing" TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS over a decade, at most the government lost out on a few billion before being right back on track to where they were without a tax cut.
And the people who earned the money go to keep more of it.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 20, 2017 06:23 PM (wmaTe)
That's where their "people are going to die!!!!" line comes from: if you don't force everyone to sign up, there's not enough money to pay for the poor to have "free" health care, so it will be cut and the dead will pile up on the streets.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
Just get some of those scooper trucks as used on Soylent Green.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 20, 2017 06:23 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2017 06:24 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at December 20, 2017 06:24 PM (ul9CR)
Posted by: Bubba Clintoon at December 20, 2017 06:23 PM (Tyii7)
oh yeah? and I was the first gay president !
Posted by: Barry Obama at December 20, 2017 06:24 PM (QC/4S)
On the Five today Gutfeld said "so when Nikki Haley is president in 2024 will we look back at today as the turning point?"
Even Juan Williams agreed.
She was awesome.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 20, 2017 06:24 PM (fuK7c)
Posted by: wooga at December 20, 2017 06:24 PM (GZx5h)
Posted by: CNN at December 20, 2017 06:24 PM (/qEW2)
Posted by: freaked at December 20, 2017 06:24 PM (UdKB7)
Electoral death for Dems.
Posted by: harry lime at December 20, 2017 06:25 PM (ALDN3)
Posted by: Professor Chaos Gumdrop Gorilla at December 20, 2017 06:23 PM (NnN0z)
I can quote the entire thing. Product of my wild single years, I think.
Probably best that I don't.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 20, 2017 06:25 PM (7UW64)
Posted by: Anachronda at December 20, 2017 06:25 PM (v3pYe)
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Why six years? Why not base it on their actions? Do what we want or fuck off? Yeah, the Fuck Off Doctrine!
Posted by: Concerned Peoples Front at December 20, 2017 06:23 PM (2X7pN)
I was just stealing Rush's UN/Ally Shit List idea. But your point is taken.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2017 06:25 PM (mbhDw)
None of us are immortal, cupcakes.
Posted by: navybrat at December 20, 2017 06:25 PM (w7KSn)
Period. No appeals, no excuses.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2017 06:20 PM (mbhDw)
That's a nice thought but it still doesn't go nearly far enough for me. I want the UN dead. DEAD. It is an unnatural monster that has no defense - theoretical or otherwise - for its existence. Nothing good ever comes out of an empowered peerless, competitionless entity.
We have to leave the UN or totally neuter it. One or the other. There is no other path, really.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 20, 2017 06:25 PM (8gDQu)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at December 20, 2017 06:25 PM (6Ll1u)
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at December 20, 2017 06:24 PM (ul9CR)
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It's not even that.
Think their open to the BBA?
No, they're not. It's pure political posturing. I don't begrudge then it. I'm just surprised anyone takes it remotely seriously.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at December 20, 2017 06:25 PM (Jj43a)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2017 06:26 PM (gCxLN)
_________
Nothing is going to stop it until there's a bond crisis.
If anything, I hope tax cuts speeds us up to that moment. Why prolong it?
But I hear "conservatives" try to make the point that we can't cut taxes until we cut spending. Its never going to happen until it's a gun to people's head.
Posted by: Maritime at December 20, 2017 06:26 PM (lKmt3)
Posted by: Asked No One Ever at December 20, 2017 06:26 PM (A1FgP)
Is it my imagination or did President Trump basically destroyed Obama legacy in less than a year?
Posted by: YIKES! at December 20, 2017 06:26 PM (t6XCL)
Kind of a big assumption to make that no changes will be made between now and 2019 given that Trump's DHS Secretary has enormous powers to make changes to the requirements of insurance plans, don't you think?
How long is it going to take for some people to realize that this administration the dreaded GOP in Congress might just be as smart as random people on the internet?
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2017 06:26 PM (/tuJf)
Ok. You talked me into your idea.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2017 06:26 PM (mbhDw)
Grim milestone:
Death toll from the Net Neutrality repeal and "Tax Reform" is at 234,5467,128,679,398,684,484,890,456.
Posted by: This Is CNN
The Bureau of Atomic Scientists have moved the doomsday clock up to 11:59:59
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 20, 2017 06:26 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: steevy at December 20, 2017 06:27 PM (LiyEm)
Is it my imagination or did President Trump basically destroyed Obama legacy in less than a year?
Posted by: YIKES! at December 20, 2017 06:26 PM (t6XCL)
Pretty much. I have not had a full time job since January of 2009, so if I do land one in the coming months, it would be karmic.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2017 06:27 PM (mbhDw)
Posted by: Dem Talking Point at December 20, 2017 06:27 PM (cOgFE)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2017 06:27 PM (gNwZ2)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 20, 2017 06:28 PM (w1zJX)
I get the logic of the argument but I'm, 75% convinced that they are actually people opposed to tax cuts.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2017 06:28 PM (39g3+)
The half-life of my legacy of destruction is 1000 years.
Posted by: Disgraced Ex-Prez'nit Toonces at December 20, 2017 06:28 PM (Tyii7)
Posted by: navybrat
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Right on cue. In my mind there is a video clip of a herd of sheep turning left or right as a group depending on how the sheepdog herds them. They don't know why they are doing what they do other than their fellow sheep also do it.
That's the dems. I guess the sheepdog is the MSM, shrieking what they should think. Since no shrieking during Obama, no worries about the deficit. Now it is a 5 alarm fire.
Posted by: Professor Chaos Gumdrop Gorilla at December 20, 2017 06:28 PM (NnN0z)
Jacobins.
Posted by: Dem Talking Point at December 20, 2017 06:27 PM (cOgFE)
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Except... Don't they like Jacobins? I mean I've read Marxists say that Robespierre didn't go far enough.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at December 20, 2017 06:28 PM (Jj43a)
@Bluebell
I am planning on doing either Mrs Ibguy's Challah or Delilah's rolls this Sat for the clan feast on Sun.
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at December 20, 2017 06:29 PM (di1hb)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2017 06:29 PM (39g3+)
someone's head. It means to annoy or to say something so repetitively as
to be an irritant.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2017 05:44 PM (mbhDw)
Point of Yiddishkeit Information.
It means don't rattle the teakettle at me.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 20, 2017 06:29 PM (wYseH)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
Obligatory:
youtube.com/watch?v=eXWhbUUE4ko
Posted by: Insomniac - Bah humbug! at December 20, 2017 06:29 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: harry lime at December 20, 2017 06:29 PM (ALDN3)
I get the logic of the argument but I'm, 75% convinced that they are actually people opposed to tax cuts.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2017 06:28 PM (39g3+)
Not really. When you cut taxes, per Art Laffer, you give incentive for business to hire employees and thereby create more tax-PAYERS, hence more revenue.
But the size of government must be cut and radically.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2017 06:30 PM (mbhDw)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 20, 2017 06:25 PM (8gDQu)
It's already neutered. A vote in the General Assembly means nothing, and there are always competing interests in the Security Council such that anything important gets vetoed.
The problem with the UN is the amount of money we put into it the fact that it takes up valuable Manhattan real estate that could be used for something else. If we must have the UN in our country, we should put it somewhere out in the Nevada desert.
Posted by: Ace's liver at December 20, 2017 06:30 PM (+azJs)
Boeing? That's odd. I thought they were one of the main beneficiaries of Obama's sell out to the Iranians. I thought they'd be sour grapes - I guess this deal is more beneficial on the whole for them?
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 20, 2017 06:30 PM (/qEW2)
Posted by: YIKES! at December 20, 2017 06:26 PM (t6XCL)
............
Bigly.
Posted by: Jefe El Donaldo at December 20, 2017 06:30 PM (HgMAr)
That was pre-internet and PDT Twitter.
Let's see how he handles it.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at December 20, 2017 06:31 PM (JyFLk)
Worth remembering: federal taxes as a percent of GDP almost never exceed 20%.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2017 06:26 PM (gCxLN)
Right, that's the other thing -- it seems that regardless of tax policy, the fed gov seems to always receive about 20% of gdp in tax revenues.
Whether marginal rates are 90% or 30%.
But GDP seems to grow faster at lower marginal rates.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 20, 2017 06:31 PM (wmaTe)
Good for them. Encourage them, don't mock them. Don't point out their hypocrisy and lack of honesty on the topic. Get them to commit to it. Cut the deficit, its a huge danger, its too big, it needs to come down!
...by cutting spending.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2017 06:31 PM (39g3+)
Point of Yiddishkeit Information.
It means don't rattle the teakettle at me.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 20, 2017 06:29 PM (wYseH)
Only if you say "quit hocking me a chainik."
Funny story; old coworker of mine kept malaproping it as "quit hocking me to China."
Something we were begging Clinton and Obama.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2017 06:31 PM (mbhDw)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 20, 2017 06:31 PM (apyCW)
Um.. The Shawshank Redemption?
Posted by: Jewells45can handle your jewels at December 20, 2017 06:31 PM (CNHr1)
Posted by: YIKES! at December 20, 2017 06:26 PM (t6XCL)
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Two words:
Dodd Frank.
Not til that goes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at December 20, 2017 06:31 PM (Jj43a)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2017 06:23 PM (39g3+)
It hasn't done anything good.
For the first 50 years of its existence the UN spent the majority of its time doing nothing but condemning, berating, and making resolutions against Israel. That was really the only thing the UN did. That was back in the Cold War days, of course, when power was between the US and the SOviets and the UN was little more than a bad joke.
Since the fall of the USSR, however, George Bush Sr. made one of the worst moves in human history by empowering the UN and it has tried to diversify its destructive nature a bit beyond just trying to exterminate Israel.
The UN cannot be left to exist. It is dangerous. Any peerless, competitionless empowered entity is guaranteed to grow in grotesque and destructive ways. That is how things always go. The only sensible action is either to end the UN, for us to leave it, or to totally neuter it. There is nothing else.
The UN is not well-intentioned and has never done any good of any measure.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 20, 2017 06:31 PM (8gDQu)
Electoral death for Dems.
Posted by: harry lime at December 20, 2017 06:25 PM (ALDN3) >>>
Yup. An I think that's what is pushing (from behind the scenes) the sexual harassment blizzard. It's only one part of another re-run of the "It's a War on Women!" plan by the Dems and their pals, to pump-up the women's vote for Democrats. I'm betting the Dem polling over the last 6 months shows there's low-hanging fruit there, or it's the only possible path they have, or both.
Posted by: Gref at December 20, 2017 06:31 PM (AMIL/)
Posted by: Les Kinetic at December 20, 2017 06:32 PM (oKaQ3)
Posted by: wooga at December 20, 2017 06:24 PM (GZx5h)
The best one is that the internet outage was 3 guys and minecraft, not the Russians. That one is hilarious.
Posted by: Professor Chaos Gumdrop Gorilla at December 20, 2017 06:32 PM (NnN0z)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 20, 2017 06:25 PM (8gDQu)
Agreed.
Start with this: Move it to The Hague or Geneva or some out of the way shithole that doesn't offer what NYC has to offer the diplomats.
All of a sudden a UN posting won't be so wonderful.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 20, 2017 06:32 PM (wYseH)
Posted by: Disgraced Ex-Prez'nit Toonces at December 20, 2017 06:32 PM (Tyii7)
Trump is going to split the black vote in 2020, gaining a significant amount of support from the northern rust-belt states.
Electoral death for Dems.
Posted by: harry lime at December 20, 2017 06:25 PM
The race baiting political ads will be brutal.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 20, 2017 06:32 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2017 06:30 PM (mbhDw)
.............
That makes sense, so forget it.
Posted by: your betters at December 20, 2017 06:32 PM (HgMAr)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2017 06:32 PM (/tuJf)
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Dammit. Can't wait for our cookbook to show up.
*ponders dish called 'Jezebel Dainties' *
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 20, 2017 06:32 PM (c/EDo)
Hell yes. Dodd-Fagg is Obamacare's evil twin. And ditch Sarbanes-Oxley while we're at it too.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2017 06:32 PM (mbhDw)
Posted by: bonhomme at December 20, 2017 06:00 PM (zGsgt)
The remake. Donald Sutherland in a restaurant kitchen. He was a health inspector.
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at December 20, 2017 06:33 PM (di1hb)
Trump Bonuses. It's what's for dinner.
Followed by two scoops washed down with a dozen diet cokes. Like. A. Boss.
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at December 20, 2017 06:33 PM (ul9CR)
Except... Don't they like Jacobins? I mean I've read Marxists say that Robespierre didn't go far enough.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at December 20, 2017 06:28 PM (Jj43a)
It's simply using a bashing tool for the time. Ends justifies the means. Don't worry, they'll go back to loving them.
Posted by: Dem Talking Point at December 20, 2017 06:33 PM (cOgFE)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2017 06:33 PM (baRZj)
When the government stops consuming so much, everyone else gets a lot more.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at December 20, 2017 06:33 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2017 06:28 PM (39g3+)
Of course. If you benefit from government largess and don't pay income taxes, tax cuts are not in your interest unless you believe they'll stimulate the economy enough to make up the difference.
95% of income taxes are paid by the top quintile. That leaves a lot of people getting far more from the government than they're putting in.
Posted by: Ace's liver at December 20, 2017 06:33 PM (+azJs)
Posted by: IanDeal at December 20, 2017 06:34 PM (qcIL3)
Sure, but their argument is that there's no leverage to cut spending if you don't have the carrot of tax cuts to bend people to that end. I get that, but the truth is, congress is willing to shrug at tax cuts not happening rather than cut any of their power, willingly.
When the parliament got this corrupt and worthless it almost took the king sending troops into the chambers to pass corruption bills in England. What will it take for congress to get their crap together? Something so dire, they fear it more than losing the money and power.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2017 06:34 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 20, 2017 06:34 PM (apyCW)
Electoral death for Dems.
Posted by: harry lime at December 20, 2017 06:25 PM (ALDN3) >>>
Yup. An I think that's what is pushing (from behind the scenes) the sexual harassment blizzard. It's only one part of another re-run of the "It's a War on Women!" plan by the Dems and their pals, to pump-up the women's vote for Democrats. I'm betting the Dem polling over the last 6 months shows there's low-hanging fruit there, or it's the only possible path they have, or both.
Posted by: Gref at December 20, 2017 06:31 PM (AMIL/)
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"Split" implies 50/50 in my mind.
It doesn't need to be that drastic.
Get black turnout back to 2004 levels and the vote goes from 95/5 to 85/15 and states such as Ohio are completely out of Democrats reach.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at December 20, 2017 06:34 PM (Jj43a)
Start with this: Move it to The Hague or Geneva or some out of the way shithole that doesn't offer what NYC has to offer the diplomats.
All of a sudden a UN posting won't be so wonderful.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 20, 2017 06:32 PM (wYseH)
I vote Kamchatskiy-Petropavlovsk or the Ross Ice Shelf.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2017 06:34 PM (mbhDw)
Posted by: Tuna at December 20, 2017 06:34 PM (jm1YL)
Posted by: Sharkman at December 20, 2017 06:34 PM (dDMQ9)
When the government stops consuming so much, everyone else gets a lot more.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at December 20, 2017 06:33 PM (oVJmc)
Well, the downside is twofold
1) tax base will probably shrink due to this tax deal, which is a huge moral hazard.
2) tax receipts will not dip in any meaningful way -- the treasury will continue to receive about the same amount of money as if no tax cut had ever happened.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 20, 2017 06:34 PM (wmaTe)
In short, we can't tax our way out of deficits.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
That will take a big ass war.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 20, 2017 06:34 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 20, 2017 06:34 PM (apyCW)
Yep. Our very own Lost Decade.
Posted by: Insomniac - Bah humbug! at December 20, 2017 06:34 PM (NWiLs)
Oy Vey zmir....Are you sure you are Jewish?
http://www.jewish-languages.org/jewish-english-lexicon/words/1525
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 20, 2017 06:35 PM (wYseH)
Posted by: Clenis at December 20, 2017 06:35 PM (r9UYA)
Posted by: Clenis at December 20, 2017 06:36 PM (r9UYA)
Posted by: Tuna at December 20, 2017 06:34 PM (jm1YL)
Sure. Go make me a sammich.
Posted by: Insomniac - Bah humbug! at December 20, 2017 06:36 PM (NWiLs)
Funny story; old coworker of mine kept malaproping it as "quit hocking me to China."
Something we were begging Clinton and Obama.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2017 06:31 PM (mbhDw)
My grandmother used to say something along the lines of "Hockmanishke chianik".
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 20, 2017 06:36 PM (8gDQu)
Posted by: Jewells45can handle your jewels
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I stand corrected
Posted by: 2009Refugee at December 20, 2017 06:36 PM (JyFLk)
Posted by: never enough caffeine at December 20, 2017 06:36 PM (N3JsI)
When the government stops consuming so much, everyone else gets a lot more.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at December 20, 2017 06:33 PM (oVJmc)
Sadly, there's no indication of a slacking on the consumption side. If they decide to make up the difference through more "QE", aka printing money, they're just shifting the tax burden from people who have income to people holding cash.
Posted by: Ace's liver at December 20, 2017 06:36 PM (+azJs)
Oy Vey zmir....Are you sure you are Jewish?
http://www.jewish-languages.org/jewish-english-lexicon/words/1525
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 20, 2017 06:35 PM (wYseH)
Um, that was my explanation essentially to the gentile Hordester in question.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2017 06:36 PM (mbhDw)
I think of it as the Dark Ages.
I'm just glad I survived it.
Posted by: harry lime at December 20, 2017 06:36 PM (ALDN3)
Now that Austria has put in very tough Immigration laws, the UN high council yadda, yadda, has made a harsh statement against it. It was Prince Aladdin something Arab something.
My thought...well, then Austria must be doing the right thing.
Posted by: Professor Chaos Gumdrop Gorilla at December 20, 2017 06:36 PM (NnN0z)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 20, 2017 06:25 PM (8gDQu)
It's already neutered. A vote in the General Assembly means nothing, and there are always competing interests in the Security Council such that anything important gets vetoed.
The problem with the UN is the amount of money we put into it the fact that it takes up valuable Manhattan real estate that could be used for something else. If we must have the UN in our country, we should put it somewhere out in the Nevada desert.
Posted by: Ace's liver at December 20, 2017 06:30 PM (+azJs)
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I think we should cede Chicago to them. That's what Chicago wants anyway, isn't it? Maybe Detroit and LA can follow suit in the fullness of time.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 20, 2017 06:37 PM (/qEW2)
Well, they also helped fight the North Koreans out of South Korea, they distributed food and supplies to famine, war-torn, and disaster suffering areas, and they did provide a place for angry opponents to yell at each other instead of launching attacks. All of which was as the organization was intended.
But its gotten hopelessly corrupt and incompetent, wasteful, and lost. When you have places like Syria on the Human Rights council, the entire organization has lost all meaning.
And every place the UN puts blue helmets, child prostitution rings pop up. Its like a festering disease, not a benefit to humanity.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2017 06:37 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 20, 2017 06:32 PM (wYseH)
I vote Kamchatskiy-Petropavlovsk or the Ross Ice Shelf.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2017 06:34 PM (mbhDw)
This is why education makes a difference.
Most of those reassigned would not know what happened until the dog sled arrived with them and their luggage.
Posted by: 80's music fan at December 20, 2017 06:37 PM (fXd4g)
Posted by: Anachronda at December 20, 2017 06:37 PM (sGtp+)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 20, 2017 06:34 PM (apyCW)
I am just happy were are past that, and not stuck with the same shit. When I think where we were 2 years ago, and no hope...yep, today is better. at least a future to look forward to.
Posted by: runner at December 20, 2017 06:37 PM (QC/4S)
Stopped by Jammie Wearing Fools, haven't been there in a while but Sonobi-tch has infiltrated there too.
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2017 06:37 PM (aC6Sd)
Posted by: Bander Yoda at December 20, 2017 06:37 PM (fuK7c)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2017 06:37 PM (mbhDw)
Suits me. The parasites can go there after Trump kicks them out of Turtle Bay.
Posted by: harry lime at December 20, 2017 06:38 PM (ALDN3)
Posted by: Tuna at December 20, 2017 06:34 PM (jm1YL)
Sure. Go make me a sammich.
Posted by: Insomniac - Bah humbug! at December 20, 2017 06:36 PM (NWiLs)
I will be putting lots of capers and brussel sprouts on it.
Posted by: Professor Chaos Gumdrop Gorilla at December 20, 2017 06:38 PM (NnN0z)
And it's terrible!
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Think about it, for Democrats, it is!
They are "The Party of the Poor". It's in their best interest to keep or make people poor, isn't it? Why would they want people rich so they will have things, and resent the gov taking those things to give to others. i.e. They lose power.
Posted by: I'm the Honey Badger, BITCH! at December 20, 2017 06:38 PM (3CRoX)
Nothing would make me happier than to see the UN ushered out of the U.S.
Posted by: Tuna at December 20, 2017 06:38 PM (jm1YL)
Posted by: never enough caffeine at December 20, 2017 06:38 PM (N3JsI)
Agreed. If someone asks I believe in institutional racism I say yes I do and it's all in the Democratic Party.
Specifically on the jobs report this is awesome and the sidebar news items are incredible.
Posted by: thathalfrican - the calm before the storm at December 20, 2017 06:38 PM (IYHxL)
Posted by: Professor Chaos Gumdrop Gorilla at December 20, 2017 06:38 PM (NnN0z)
Why would you do that? Then you'll have to start over from scratch.
Posted by: Insomniac - Bah humbug! at December 20, 2017 06:39 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: 80's music fan at December 20, 2017 06:39 PM (fXd4g)
Nothing would make me happier than to see the UN ushered out of the U.S.
Posted by: Tuna at December 20, 2017 06:38 PM (jm1YL)
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I liked the Nevada desert idea.
We could do Montana too. Just think of the harsh Winters in the middle of nowhere.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at December 20, 2017 06:39 PM (Jj43a)
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at December 20, 2017 05:42 PM (0DVed)
Stop trying to make 'Fetz happen.
It's Not. Going. To Happen.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2017 06:39 PM (hcyUh)
Start with this: Move it to The Hague or Geneva or some out of the way shithole that doesn't offer what NYC has to offer the diplomats.
All of a sudden a UN posting won't be so wonderful.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 20, 2017 06:32 PM (wYseH)
Conpare and contrast: New York vs. Swiss call girls.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2017 06:39 PM (baRZj)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2017 06:36 PM (mbhDw)
I think we need a Talmudic discussion here....
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 20, 2017 06:39 PM (wYseH)
Posted by: never enough caffeine at December 20, 2017 06:38 PM (N3JsI)
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Style guide violation!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at December 20, 2017 06:39 PM (Jj43a)
Posted by: 80's music fan at December 20, 2017 06:39 PM (fXd4g)
I like that idea. If not there though how about:
- Montana
- The Aleutian Islands
- Detroit
Posted by: freaked at December 20, 2017 06:40 PM (UdKB7)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at December 20, 2017 06:25 PM (6Ll1u)
...........
Oh. You got your copy of Deplorable Gourmet?
Posted by: wth at December 20, 2017 06:40 PM (HgMAr)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2017 06:36 PM (mbhDw)
I think we need a Talmudic discussion here....
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 20, 2017 06:39 PM (wYseH)
I gotta go get a get.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2017 06:40 PM (mbhDw)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2017 06:40 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Clenis at December 20, 2017 06:40 PM (r9UYA)
Posted by: Professor Chaos Gumdrop Gorilla at December 20, 2017 06:38 PM (NnN0z)
Why would you do that? Then you'll have to start over from scratch.
Posted by: Insomniac - Bah humbug! at December 20, 2017 06:39 PM (NWiLs)
lol
Always thinking of us 'ettes first and foremost.
Posted by: Professor Chaos Gumdrop Gorilla at December 20, 2017 06:40 PM (NnN0z)
I could handle Geneva.
Maybe Geneva, NY would be a better move.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2017 06:41 PM (/tuJf)
I like that idea. If not there though how about:
- Montana
- The Aleutian Islands
- Detroit
Posted by: freaked at December 20, 2017 06:40 PM (UdKB7)
Chernobyl or Gaza.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2017 06:41 PM (mbhDw)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 20, 2017 06:41 PM (apyCW)
Posted by: #neverskankles at December 20, 2017 06:41 PM (aBy1A)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2017 06:41 PM (39g3+)
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And when those young workers figure that out over the next 2-3 years, they will never look at a Dem the same.
This is The Thing That Cannot Happen for Dems. People who experience actual boom times get uppity.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at December 20, 2017 06:42 PM (JyFLk)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 20, 2017 06:41 PM (apyCW)
That would be a Rob Schneider-worthy Tweet.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2017 06:42 PM (mbhDw)
Posted by: freaked at December 20, 2017 06:42 PM (UdKB7)
Posted by: never enough caffeine at December 20, 2017 06:42 PM (N3JsI)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 20, 2017 06:42 PM (wmaTe)
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at December 20, 2017 06:42 PM (0DVed)
Um.. The Shawshank Redemption?"
Erik the Viking.
Posted by: Rob Crawford at December 20, 2017 06:42 PM (fXIMQ)
The Democrats are the champions of the poor and the helpless.
It's just that those who are poor aren't helpless and those who are helpless aren't poor.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2017 06:43 PM (mbhDw)
And it's terrible!
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Think about it, for Democrats, it is!
They are "The Party of the Poor". It's in their best interest to keep or make people poor, isn't it? Why would they want people rich so they will have things, and resent the gov taking those things to give to others. i.e. They lose power.
Posted by: I'm the Honey Badger, BITCH! at December 20, 2017 06:38 PM (3CRoX)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdR7WW3XR9c
Posted by: Ace's liver at December 20, 2017 06:43 PM (+azJs)
"Milk makes the bread more tender". She also suggests slashing the top of the loaf before baking. Two very valuable clues.
My bread has not been coming out right. The problem is a different batch of wheat flour and the water/flour ratio is not correct. The loaf over inflates and then collapses like a fallen souffle. And it has been coming out with a hard crust that I don't like.
I know what to do about it. It is just getting the numbers right.
The Moron Cookbook is worth every penny and I've only started looking through it.
Thank you all.
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at December 20, 2017 06:43 PM (KdDCu)
I think of it as the Dark Ages.
Posted by: harry lime
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And how. In the last year, my investments have increased in value a higher percentage than that of the 8 years of Obummer.
Thank God.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2017 06:44 PM (tr2D7)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 20, 2017 06:45 PM (apyCW)
noofd
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at December 20, 2017 06:45 PM (2SERm)
Still in an official state of war after almost 70 years.
I think that situation would have been much better handled without the UN. But it was cute how we waited for the Soviet ambassador to go take piss and then held the war vote while he was out. That was kind of funny.
they distributed food and supplies to famine, war-torn, and disaster suffering areas,
Meh. There are tons of Christian organizations (and some others) dying to do all that shit. And they probably would have done a 10 times better job with 1/10th the money that the UN pissed through.
and they did provide a place for angry opponents to yell at each other instead of launching attacks.
That is the only legitimate function of the UN. But all you need is a big hall to do that. And I don't think the yelling was ever in lieu of attacks. It was just yelling and screaming for the sake of it.
All of which was as the organization was intended.
Yeah ... not really. It was intended to be a global government but, as I mentioned before, that was derailed by the Cold War, thank G-d.
But its gotten hopelessly corrupt and incompetent, wasteful, and lost. When you have places like Syria on the Human Rights council, the entire organization has lost all meaning.
And every place the UN puts blue helmets, child prostitution rings pop up. Its like a festering disease, not a benefit to humanity.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2017 06:37 PM (39g3+)
This is what the UN is and what it was always going to be. The longer it's allowed to exist the worse it will get, because this is how empowered peerless, competitionless entities develop.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 20, 2017 06:46 PM (8gDQu)
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Yeah, but Bill Clinton did it all himself when he was in office.
Posted by: Concerned Peoples Front at December 20, 2017 06:56 PM (2X7pN)
That is the only legitimate function of the UN. But all you need is a big hall to do that.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2017 06:37 PM (39g3+)
Real peace negotiations always happen in regional conferences which only include the involved parties. And these conferences almost always happen someplace other than Turtle Bay.
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