Friday Evening Thread: Lose Control

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AllState uses Sandy-destroyed house in ad, but won’t pay couple’s claim

A Staten Island couple isn’t super thrilled with a new AllState ad that thanks the company’s employees for putting customers first during the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. That’s because the home of Shelia and Dominic Traina is featured in the ad even though AllState is refusing to pay their full claim. Instead, the Trainas say that AllState offered them $10,000, suggesting that their house was destroyed by water, not wind. A neighbor reportedly witnessed the demise of the house and says it was knocked down by Sandy’s wind.

As the Traina’s story went viral, AllState issued a statement clarifying for everyone that its commercial was filmed in compliance with all advertising laws. Because that’s the point, right?
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/trending/AllState-Sandy-destroyed-house-ad-wont-pay-claim.html#ixzz2H39B3SIB

LOL @ “Missy Elliott (Where She At?)”

Why Jim Moran is a Congressman and PBO is President:

Congressman Jim Moran Explains Opposition To Fiscal Cliff Deal
By: Matt Laslo // January 2, 2013

“While all of the region’s Republicans opposed the deal to avert the fiscal cliff, most of the area’s Democrats got in line with the plan. There were a few, however, who chose to break ranks.

No one got all they wanted in the last minute deal to avoid another recession, but Northern Virginia Congressman Jim Moran was one of 16 Democrats who couldn’t swallow the compromise. He says he’s disappointed his party leaders lowered taxes on estates and changed the threshold for income taxes.

“Now there’s no leverage left,” Moran says. “Except perhaps the bully pulpit, but the bully pulpit that the president has doesn’t seem to have much resonance with the ideologically oriented majority of the House Republicans.”

http://wamu.org/news/13/01/02/congressman_jim_moran_explains_opposition_to_fiscal_cliff_deal

Deaniac today:

“2014 and 2016 are not going to be referenda on the president. If the Republicans were to force a shutdown, and the worldwide economy exploded, their party will be seen as solely to blame, and routed out of Washington as Wall Street withdraws their support from the crazy side for irreparably harming their business, and the American people take out their anger out on the Republicans.

There is another reason the president will not negotiate this time over the debt ceiling. When he cut the deal with the Republicans in 2011, he was getting something no Democrat thought was possible to get from a Republican House: a big cut in defense spending through the automatic cuts (half a trillion dollars’ worth), while he protected the most crucial programs for the poor, the middle class and the elderly. But the tax increases on the middle class at the end of 2012 were paired with that deal. So the only thing the president had to do to rescue that hostage is exactly what he did through the fiscal cliff deal: he severed the tax provisions (and made those policies permanent while raising taxes on the wealthy) from the spending cuts, thereby neutering all Republican leverage. That’s why Republicans are so hopping mad – they know exactly what happened to them.”

http://www.thepeoplesview.net/2013/01/why-republican-threats-on-debt-ceiling.html

I don’t care how much the Koch brothers, Big Biz and Wall Street hate this President they will not let anybody mess with their money. You better know they’re still angry about the first debt ceiling debacle. Oh yeah and if they want to go that route those automatic defense cuts will make them think twice. Red areas are going to be hit hard which is why Lindsay Graham has been pitching a fit for the last few months.

Game set match. Please proceed Republican leadership.

George Lucas Engaged to DreamWorks Animation Chairman Mellody Hobson

The duo has been romantically linked since 2006.

Just months after selling Lucasfilm Ltd. to Disney, George Lucas is ready for another big change: marriage.

The Star Wars writer-director is engaged to longtime girlfriend and DreamWorks Animation chairman Mellody Hobson, a rep for Lucasfilm confirms to The Hollywood Reporter. It will be the first marriage for Hobson, 43, and the second for Lucas, 68.

Read more: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/george-lucas-mellody-hobson-engaged-408012

Good Evenin’ miranda/POU FAM♥ ***BIG 2013 –HUG*** :>)

- — –LOSE CONTROL – - -Sounds IE the –RE-THUCKERS. – — STR8 in DISARRAY! –LOL – -

THIS gonna B a FUN YEAR watchin’ their DISARRAY — -move — -FORWARD!! – — -> LOL

Have a good evenin’ :>) – -

miranda – —-A BLACK HISTORY MOMENT – –

– –Slave’s Letter Reveals Pace of Freedom – -

— – -Your Take: Annie Davis’ plea speaks volumes on the 150th birthday of the Emancipation Proclamation.- –

—By the spring of 1864, Annie believed she was entitled to freedom. But in truth, Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation applied only to those secessionist Southern states “in rebellion.” As a slave-holding border state loyal to the Union, Maryland was not affected by the document. Annie and its other 87,000 enslaved residents remained in limbo.
THERE IS MORE

– — Sooo many of US —SHARE this STORY. – –

Annnd –SOMA “us” – –HAVE – -YET 2 DO –THIS!! [BLAH - -RE-THUGS!] – -
—Jus’ sayin’. . . . .

miransda – - – –F-I-N-A-L-L-Y!! – - -SOMEONE who is SERIOUS about – - –implementin’ – - – -GUN CONTROL!! - — -

– - — -A Connecticut Cop Halts Gun Shows After Newtown – - -

— – - – -Michael Gugliotti, chief of police in Waterbury, Conn., decided to stop issuing gun show permits on the day after the nearby Newtown massacre.

Gugliotti, who insisted his decision was “not about any gun control view that I have,” said that he still feels the way he did when he made the decision, but he acknowledged that the long-term decision will have to be made by the broader community in Connecticut’s fifth largest city.
THERE Is MORE.

– - -A GOOD MODEL!! – — Guess the nra –is –MAD!. HAH! – -

miranda — -UH! OH! – –Mr. BERNIE is “HOLDIN’ CLASS”!!! – - – - —

—-Bernie Sanders: 1 in 4 Profitable Corporations In America Pay 0 Federal Taxes – –

– - – -Bernie Sanders has a message for America. The battle over getting the wealthy and corporations to pay their fair share will continue as long as 1 in 4 corporations in America pay 0 federal taxes. —

Only through continued struggle will that first victory be translated into a real shift in policy that will result in the wealthy and big corporations paying their full fair share.

– - – —C U NEXT SESSION. LOL – - -

Ok.

So now it’s Joe Biden (who I quite admire and like) who’s now entirely responsible for every impressive and major legislative accomplishment the Obama presidency was previously said to have never had?

In one breath we’re told that President Obama and his administration has achieved nothing and has been unimpressive – but in the next breath, it’s all thanks to Joe Biden that so many amazing accomplishments has been wracked up under this administration.

So which is it?

And then there’s Bernie Sanders running around red in the face screaming at the top of his lungs that President Obama is dangerous and must be stopped before he follows through with his determination to cut Social Security.

According to Bernie Sanders, it’s President Obama who poses the greatest threat to our nation – not the republicans. Those poor congressional republicans says Bernie, aren’t really bad – it’s just those big bad Wall street guys who fund their campaigns who force the poor poor congressional republicans do some not so good things.

But that horrible, horrible President Obama, he must be stopped and Bernie intends to do so with a few media appearances with members of his fan club. Pronto.

I meant to share this yesterday. When I say that it’s time to push Jonathan Capeheart off the stage, I really mean it.

The guy is such an embarrassment. A cowardly, dishonest, peacocking, spotlight loving, shallow kiss arse. Last night he was on with Lawrence O’Donnell discussing the left’s latest right wing crush – the obnoxious, cowardly loudmouth bully Chris Christie.

And Jonathan Capeheart was all a-gush with how Christie is an “unbridled truth teller” who has no problem “taking it to President Obama” telling about President Obama “groping for leadership in the darkness”.

This is Jonathan Capeheart for you fam. He’ll shamelessly jig for a buck and lie boldfaced just to keep a marginal gig going. I

The time has come for the right-wing to just straight out purchase Jonathan Capeheart’s pathetic arse. He’s been auditioning for a while now and it’s time.

Or maybe he’s just shamelessly angling for the attention of some wealthy New York GOProud or Log Cabin republican.

There’s got to be a reason for this revved up non-stop shameless shilling for the most ridiculous and most unimpressive of right-wingers.