May 19, 2013

Tuesday Afternoon Thread: Happy Birthday Mr. Vice President! Its a BFD!

November 20, 2012 by 164 Comments

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  • GreenLadyHere

    Good Afternoon miranda/POU FAM♥ —**BIG HUG*** :>)

    — -GR8 COMMEMORATION! – - –YES – -THIS is a BFD! LOL – -

    - —LOL – –2 FUNNY. – — LOL — -

    ***tears*** annnd ***smiles*** 4 LUTHA — RIHEP. AMEN.

    Have a good afternoon. :>)

    • Alma98

      So hilarious, I love Joe lol.

      • GreenLadyHere

        Alma – — -LOL – - –I KNOW – -HUH! :>)

    • isonprize

      This IS a big effin’ deal. INDEED!!!

      LOVE ME SOME JOEY!!! Ride or Die, baby, RIDE OR DIE!!!!

      • GreenLadyHere

        HEEY isonprize. ***BIG HUG*** :>)

        - – - -***HAPPY fist bump**** :>) — –

        Annnd might I add that – -U did a “RIDE or DIE” — -of your OWN —in PA!! – - –THANK U. :>) ***HUGS*** :>)

        Good 2 C U. isonprize. :>)

  • Alma98

    Happy Birthday Vice President Biden!

    • rikyrah

      HAPPY B-DAY ,

      RIDE OR DIE JOE!!

  • nellcote

    After complaining to a local news station about not getting paid after Election Day, workers for Connecticut Senate candidate Linda McMahon’s campaign say they were given checks that bounced. One worker says he got a bad check and a condom.

    “Checks have been mailed to campaign workers. Replacement checks were issued for those who did not want to wait for the mail,” campaign spokeswoman Kate Duffy told WTNH. ”The original checks were then voided once replacement checks were issued.” They plan to follow up with staffers who reported receiving bad checks.

    But one staffer says she only got the mail check, which no longer works. Another says he was handed a check that bounced — along with something else.

    “Basically [a campaign staffer] handed me a check with a condom in it, told me I was screwed,” Twaine Don Gomes told the station. “That’s the rudest gesture you can ever do to a person, it’s like spitting in a person’s face.”

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/wp/2012/11/20/linda-mcmahon-campaign-worker-i-got-condom-and-bad-check/?wprss=rss_politics

    • Alma98

      A bad check and a condom, huh?

    • Kennymack1971

      Damn that’s cold man.

    • rikyrah

      checks that bounced…

      BWA HA HA HA AH HA

    • GreenLadyHere

      nellcote – - – -Ooooooweeee! – - -Da imagery — -Brrrrrrrrrr!! – - -

      The INCIDENT – - -SAD!! – — annnnd COLD!! – –geesh!! – -So sorry.

      -THIS — -> -The original checks were then voided once replacement checks were issued.” They plan to follow up with staffers who reported receiving bad checks. – - –

      I’m believin’ that THEY KNEW that they di-ent have funds 2 cover the FIRST checks!! – — Prolly hopin that there wouldn’t B many complaints annnd people would go away. — –GEESH!!

      Thanks 4 sharin’. nellcote. :>)

    • Miranda

      I find this hysterical. Just like the Romney staffers standing outside the Boston Convention Ctr in the cold and thumbing for rides back to the hotel hoping the hotel hadn’t packed up their stuff and sat it out on the street since the credit cards were about as good as a confederate $2 bill.

      You work for a snake, don’t be shocked when snakes do what snakes do.

      • AxelFoley

        Rightchere.

    • Admiral_Komack

      “One worker says he got a bad check and a condom.”
      -So, I guess he was screwed twice.
      Damn, Republicans ARE efficient!

      • TyrenM

        With No Vaseline (That was for Rubio.)

  • GreenLadyHere

    miranda – - – -On da – -WAL-MART FRONT – - – BEYOND SHAKEY – –SPIN –

    – - -CNN Confronts Walmart Spokesperson Over Retailer’s Low Wages, Poor Working Conditions – –

    - – - – -As Walmart workers across the country coordinate a Black Friday walkout in an effort to build awareness about the national retailer’s low wages and poor working conditions, the company is on a media offensive to downplay their associates’ concerns and reassure shoppers.

    During an appearance on CNN Tuesday morning, Vice President of Communications David Tovar sought to brush aside the fact that Walmart is paying its associates salaries that are just slightly above the poverty line, even as the company reported a 9 percent increase in third-quarter net income, earning $3.63 billion. He insisted that the company has “got great associates” who are “going to do a great job for us this holiday season.”

    But when host Carol Costello pressed Tovar on the growing wealth gap in America and Walmart’s role in insuring a robust middle class, he dodged the question, but not before suggesting that the store offers associates a discount to buy Walmart products (and invest their pay checks back into the company):

    WATCH: – — –

    – - – -[NOW Mr. Tovar -- -EXPLAIN DIS!!!] –

    – - -Walmart CEO Michael Duke has a total compensation of $18.1 million, and is the second highest paid executive in the Fortune 500. According to CNN Money, it would take more than 700 employees’ salaries to match his total compensation package. — -

    I! – — THOUGHT! – - -SO!! –humph!!!

    • Aquagranny911

      I wish every Walmart employees would walk out on Friday! I know this probably won’t happen but I have been telling everyone I can to not shop at Walmart on Thursday night or all day Friday, as if there are invisible picket lines even at stores that did not strike. I know some people have limited choices & do their shopping at Walmart but for 48 hours they can keep their $ in their pockets & send these goatfiggers a strong message!

      Walmart reminds me of the stories I heard from an aunt & uncle who were union organizers in the 1930′s. They worked mostly with miners who lived & worked in mine owned towns for whatever the owners wanted to pay. They OWNERS owned EVERYTHING, the houses people lived in & the stores where the people bought the food & other things they needed. The owners even ran the schools. The mine owners fought the unions with goons & thugs who beat the strikers and starved the families. It was brutal.

      Walmart is the same even if they have not yet brought out the goons & thugs to terrorize the workers.

      • GreenLadyHere

        HEEY Aquagranny911 — -***BIG HUG** :>)

        – –***fist bump*** — -My Sista-in Texas –SLAVES –errr —works there part time. She hs been tellin’ me ’bout them!!

        U KNOW that their — -CEO salaries R BEYOND OUTRAGEOUS!! – —

        Good 2 hear from U on this. :>)

        • Aquagranny911

          Sorry for your Sis. Walmart is just plain evil & that’s a Fact, imo!

          If your Sis is anything like you, I hope she is ‘organizing’ & doing the “Green Lady” thing on those goatfiggers!

          • GreenLadyHere

            LOL Thank U. :>) – - -She WILL B in da skreets. :LOL – - -

  • rikyrah

    Chris Christie’s other clean-up effort

    By Steve Benen
    Tue Nov 20, 2012 11:36 AM EST.

    Two weeks ago, as New Jersey was still very much in the midst of a post-Sandy crisis, Fox News’ Rupert Murdoch insisted that Gov. Chris Christie (R) “re-declare” his support for Mitt Romney. The New York Times reports today that the governor took this quite seriously.

    A few days after Hurricane Sandy shattered the shores of New Jersey, Gov. Chris Christie picked up the phone to take on a different kind of recovery work: taming the Republican Party fury over his effusive embrace of President Obama.

    On Nov. 3, Mr. Christie called Rupert Murdoch, the influential News Corporation chief and would-be kingmaker, who had warned in a biting post on Twitter that the governor might be responsible for Mr. Obama’s re-election.

    Mr. Christie told Mr. Murdoch that amid the devastation, New Jersey needed friends, no matter their political party, according to people briefed on the discussion. But Mr. Murdoch was blunt: Mr. Christie risked looking like a spoiler unless he publicly affirmed his support for Mitt Romney, something the governor did the next day.

    http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2012/11/20/15308816-chris-christies-other-clean-up-effort?lite

  • rikyrah

    What GOP governors hope to accomplish on health care
    By Steve Benen
    Tue Nov 20, 2012 2:28 PM EST

    Following up on an item from last week, a variety of governors are still making decisions on how (and whether) to create state-based health care exchanges under the Affordable Care Act. States that refuse invite the Obama administration to create exchanges for them.

    The latest announcement came from Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin (R), who announced yesterday that her state would also refuse to create a health insurance exchange, leaving the job up to federal officials. Oklahoma is now the 17th state to make this decision, and that number may yet grow.

    As a rule, when I cover this, I marvel at the irony: many far-right governors who claim to oppose federal control are making a conscious decision to invite more federal control. But let’s take the next step and consider why they’re doing it.

    Some are eyeing higher office and have been warned that cooperating with the Obama administration on health care would ruin their careers. But Jonathan Cohn raises an even more salient point about the larger sabotage strategy.

    The subsidies are in the form of tax credits. So Oklahoma officials and everybody else making this argument are essentially calling upon states to block their citizens from receiving federal tax breaks, worth as much as several thousand dollars per person. Aren’t conservatives and libertarians supposed to be the party that likes giving tax money back to the people?

    Of course, Obamacare critics believe that, by blocking the subsidies, they’ll undermine the law’s effectiveness and eventually erode support to the point that people clamor for a conservative alternative.

    http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2012/11/20/15311603-what-gop-governors-hope-to-accomplish-on-health-care?lite

  • rikyrah

    Avoiding Cliff Not That Important

    by BooMan
    Tue Nov 20th, 2012 at 12:43:14 PM EST

    I’m getting pretty bored with stories about the Fiscal Cliff. The administration can insist on what it wants and give some face-saving measures to Speaker Boehner. The ultimate deal has to be something that the vast majority of Democratic senators support, and that means that it has to be something that a very significant percentage of House Democrats support. Here is what Speaker Boehner should be presented with.
    He should be presented with a deal that he can only pass with most of the Democratic caucus and a minority of the Republican one. This will break him on the rack and he’ll either force the thing though and lose his influence or he will refuse to try and get blamed for taking us over the cliff.

    A deal is preferable to going over the cliff, but we have little reason to pay much of a premium for that. A small face-saving premium? Yes. A premium that most House Republicans support and most House Democrats oppose? Hell no.

    In that case, let’s go over the cliff and talk again once we have more congressional members in both Houses in January

    http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2012/11/20/124314/66

  • rikyrah

    Posted at 01:03 PM ET, 11/20/2012
    No surrender? The GOP’s latest tactic to undermine Obamacare
    By Jonathan Bernstein

    Republicans failed to block Obamacare from passing Congress. They failed to get it overturned by the Supreme Court. They failed to repeal it by electing a Republican president.

    And now, with the law apparently here to stay, they’re rolling out their latest strategy to undermine it: Make it work badly, so the public wants to repeal it later.

    Obamacare is moving forward. The administration is rolling out new regulations today under the Affordable Care Act — regulations that will finally eliminate “pre-existing condition” from the vocabulary of insurance-seeking Americans.

    But Republicans are committed to ensuring that the law’s implementation fails. Right now, as Jonathan Cohn notes, Republican governors are trying to accomplish this by turning down the chance to run state-based exchanges. Remember that under the health law, state governments will set up on-line insurance marketplaces so that those without insurance can easily compare and purchase the private-market package best for them. The law did allow for states to opt out, in which case the federal government would do it for them. Now, normally Republicans would assure us that the states do a better job of running things than the federal government in Washington, especially states with Republican governments. The key, however, is that they simply don’t want this policy to work, so they’re simply refusing to implement it: The latest in the GOP scorched earth policy on health care, now that it’s been defeated everywhere else.

    This effort to undermine the law by undermining implementation may be unprecedented. Can anyone think of a similar historical example?

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line

    • Aquagranny911

      They are totally warped & very ignorant. This estupido behavior will take us just that much closer to universal single payer health care. They are so brainwashed with the idea that the Fed can’t run effective programs that they fail to see all the programs that work quite successfully & have for a long time, mucho gracias!

      • isonprize

        This estupido behavior will take us just that much closer to universal single payer health care.

        Do you think the lefty, whiny, fussy, SINGLE PAYER or BUST!! “progressives” will give PBO credit for thinking this long range??? Probably not….

        • Aquagranny911

          They won’t but history WILL! As well as all the people who will be blessing Obamacare for their health needs. PBO owns this!

      • Ebogan63

        See Papa Johns and Denny’s walk back their bs after folks clapped back at their azz? Same thing’s gonna happen to those GOP govenors.

  • GreenLadyHere

    miranda – — -Some – –GOOD NEWS – –

    – — –HHS releases rules requiring pre-existing conditions coverage – - -

    – – -The Obama administration issued new rules Tuesday that require insurance companies to cover people with preexisting medical conditions — one of the most popular provisions of President Obama’s healthcare law.

    The Health and Human Services Department also began to implement other popular, but expensive, parts of the Affordable Care Act.

    Regulations released Tuesday will prohibit insurers from charging women a higher premium than men, and will require plans in every state to cover certain services.

    – - – -SNIP – –

    While the new rules don’t answer some questions for states, they do provide much-needed specifics for insurance companies that must prepare for new mandates set to take effect in 2014.

    “We welcome the release of the proposed regulations on exchanges, essential health benefits and insurance reforms, which are critical to implementing the healthcare reform law,” the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association said in a statement. “With open enrollment less than a year away, having final rules is critical.”
    THERE IS MORE.

    MR.. PRESIDENT – -is SUCH A GR8 –LEADER!! :>)

    • TyrenM

      Thanks for sharing. Capitalize the BS when you say bcbs. They aren’t happy at all despite their quick comments.

      • GreenLadyHere

        LOL – -HEEY TyrenM. ***BIG HUG** :>)

        ***fist bump*** – - -I KNOW -HUH!! :>) Their costs R — EXORBITANT!! – - Jus’ trynta — FRONT!! — gesh.

        Good 2 C U TyrenM. :>)

  • GN

    The sole patrol and fauxgressives are about to lose it. Negros actually in charge aint what they signed up for lol.

    @Keethers:
    So we’re about to have a black President, a black AG, and a black Secretary of State at the same time. Sumbody tell Cornell and Tavis.

    • Miranda

      HA! See the plan for the sole patrol was to hustle off “why ain’t no brothas on the wall!”……..but now that a brutha bought the restaurant, hired a black manager and a black chef, all the sole patrol can do is holler that the food don’t taste the same like it used to when Mista Charlie was runnin ere thang.

      • GN

        ________________over and out________________

      • Tx_Girl_in_LA

        ok…see..I had to come out of hiding and bow down to you
        That was funny!!

      • BoomerGal

        You know their water is always colder.

    • GreenLadyHere

      HEEY GN. – - -***BIG HUG*** :>)

      – — – –Sumbody tell Cornell and Tavis.

      - – - -DEY HEARD! -LOL

      Good 2 C U —GN

    • isonprize

      Send bofe of ‘em a bottle of whine with the note…

    • http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia
      • MsKitty

        Damn, they even suck with the scowly faces. Mckayla has them beat by a country mile.

        • Admiral_Komack

          I don’t think they need a scowly face to do that…

      • GN

        FTFO..Why Sepia, whyyyy.

      • Miranda

        ROFLMAO!!!

      • TyrenM

        I’m still cracking up over “juicy moufed.”

        • GN

          “Juicymoufded Tavis” came from conlakappa’s crazy self and indeed, instant classic!

    • Daltex82

      So we’re about to have a black President, a black AG, and a black Secretary of State at the same timee
      ~~
      That is so awesome!

    • rikyrah

      YEAH YEAH YEAH

  • Aquagranny911

    Hola POU & Feliz Cumpleanos to our so good Vice President Biden!!!

    And awww, Joe you have my own Papi’s birthday. I missed that in the past somehow. No wonder I always like you so much. My Papi was the best, sweetest & kindest man but also could be tough just like you.

    From my heart to yours Happiest of Birthdays & tell Jill I said to give you some extra special loving today ♥

    • GN

      OT-Thanksgiving: Aquagranny, I’m not making the big spread this year, but I’m doing some sides, probably an apple pie (I usually cut a pear into them for flavor), and I’m definitely making these brownies. Someone at work made them and they are just unbelievable (I’m copying in the gluten free recipe because that’s how he made them {I think he has a food allergy} but they can be made with regular flour in the same amounts as well}):

      Brownies:
      http://glutenfreegirl.com/brownies-gluten-free/

      8 tablespoons unsalted butter
      4 ounces bittersweet chocolate (or as dark as you can stand it)
      1 cup sugar
      2 eggs
      1 teaspoon vanilla extract
      1/4 teaspoon salt
      1/4 cup brown rice flour
      1/4 cup tapioca flour

      Preparing. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Grease an 8-inch square metal baking pan. Chop the chocolate into small slivers. Slice the butter into one-inch pieces. Combine the two flours together.

      Melting the chocolate. Bring a saucepan of water to a boil, and then turn it down to a simmer. Place a large metal bowl over the top of the saucepan. Put the chocolate and butter into the metal bowl and stir, occasionally, as they both begin to melt. As they come to a full melt, stir and stir, vigorously, until you have a cohesive mixture.

      Making the brownies. In a medium-sized bowl, combine the sugar and eggs, whisking vigorously until they are creamed together, with a silky consistency. Add the vanilla extract and salt and stir well. Add in the gluten-free flours and stir. Finally, pour in the melted chocolate-butter mixture and stir, carefully, with a rubber spatula, until the mixture has become smooth.

      Baking the brownies. Pour the mixture into the prepared baking pan. Smooth the top with the spatula. Slide the baking pan into the oven and set the timer for 25 minutes.

      Finishing the brownies. As the brownies are baking, fill the sink with ice cubes and 1 inch of water. When the brownies are finished baking, remove the pan from the oven and place it immediately into the ice-water bath. (Don’t let any water splash up onto the brownies!) Let the brownies stay there until they have cooled completely.

      These brownies taste best the next day, after an entire night of refrigeration. That makes the top crunchy, the insides decadently chewy. However, I’m sure no one would suffer if you ate the brownies immediately, either.

      FYI: It says at the site to NOT use a glass dish for these.

      • Aquagranny911

        Bookmarking & I will try these maybe for Christmas. I love a good brownie. I have Mama’s recipe which calls for good dark Mexican chocolate which you can hardly get anymore. We use to get a big solid chunk in Nogales for about one dollar.

        I will also be passing this to a niece who has a child with a lot of food allergies. He can’t have anything wheat, nuts or dairy but Niece is a genius at substituting for things like butter. I bet this would work for her.

        Gracias! I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

      • sagittarius

        Hi, GN

        These sound good. Copied and pasted into the recipe file

        • Aquagranny911

          Hola Sag! A most happy Thanksgiving to you!

          • sagittarius

            Hola, AG! A most happy Thanksgiving to you, too!

      • GreenLadyHere

        GN — –YUMMY!!! – –:>) THANK U. :>)

  • http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia

    LOL at that pic!

    Ah…I miss Looffa. :-(

    • BoomerGal

      We all do! Hell, I still miss Marvin!

  • http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia

    @AJentleson: AP: “An increase in hiring helped lower unemployment rates in 37 states last mo.”

    Jack Welch weeps into his bowl of jell-o.

    • Miranda

      While Suzy eyeballs the pool boy.

      • http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia

        So. much. shade!

      • Admiral_Komack

        You sure she’s just eyeballing him?

        • BoomerGal

          Thought you were in the lounge!!!

  • http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia

    “See, what had happened was….”

    Denny’s, Papa John’s, walk back criticism of Obamacare
    Ned Resnikoff, @resnikoff
    3:31 pm on 11/20/2012

    Conservative restauranteurs are discovering that retaliation against the Affordable Care Act is bad for business.

    Papa John’s CEO John Schnatter took to the Huffington Post to clarify his earlier suggestion that some restaurants might need to increase prices and cut employee hours in order to deal with the cost of Obamacare.

    “Many in the media reported that I said Papa John’s is going to close stores and cut jobs because of Obamacare,” he wrote in a blog post. “I never said that. The fact is we are going to open over hundreds of stores this year and next and increase employment by over 5,000 jobs worldwide. And, we have no plans to cut team hours as a result of the Affordable Care Act.”

    MORE: http://tv.msnbc.com/2012/11/20/dennys-papa-johns-walk-back-criticism-of-obamacare/

    • Miranda

      Oh…..you forgot that most of your business comes from what we refer to as President Obama’s…. “BASE”.

      There IS no Papa John’s in rural Alabama and Mississippi!

      • Aquagranny911

        No lie! When I lived in rural Mississippi the only “delivery” pizza I could get happened only on Saturday night & was from the local gas station, bar & grill. The owner’s teenage sons would throw together some very creative stuff (depending on what herb they were smoking that night) & very happily deliver it to your door!

        • edp4bho

          LOL. Aquagranny, seems you have lived a very interesting life. Too funny !!

          • Aquagranny911

            LMAO! GO NAVY!

            Those guys take you all kinds of “interesting” places & then after they retire in 20 years they still find even more “interesting” places to drag you off to, thus rural Mississippi for a couple of years. It was an experience but not always interesting…

            I did try to keep my sense of humor, though.

    • angee

      What happen is that Shaq, peyton, Serena and those other high profile athletes that have papa john franchises said, “Your azz need to fix this cause you fixn to mess up my coins!”
      Especially since mr. manning will probably be the governor of LA after football. They don’t need the headache

  • MsKitty

    Happy Birthday Uncle Joe!

  • GN

    We’re already seeing McCain show his behind re: Susan Rice, but here’s a blast from the past in terms of what to expect from the GOP’s “top bench” upon the ascendance of a brilliant woman of color to a well-deserved appointment:

    Newt Gingrich: Sonia Sotomayor a ‘racist’

    Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) on Wednesday charged that Judge Sonia Sotomayor is a “racist.”

    “Imagine a judicial nominee said ‘my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.’ Wouldn’t they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism,” Gingrich wrote in a post on his blog.

    “A white man racist nominee would be forced to withdraw. Latina woman racist should also withdraw,” he added.

    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/23024.html

    • Aquagranny911

      Would it be terribly evil of me to wish that the newt would choke on Callista’s plastic hair?

      • GN

        lmao, not at all!

      • MsKitty

        Well, the Bad Lounge is comfortably furnished and well stocked with gourmet goodies.

      • Miranda

        BWA HAHAHAHAHAHA

      • PBomb

        Chair’s over there ———–>

        • GreenLadyHere

          HEYY PBOMB – –***BIG HUG** :>)

          - — -YA MEAN – –LIKE THIS 1? – –LOL – - -I PURCHASED a “NEW ONE”. LOL

          Good 2 c U PBOMB!! :>) [GR8 SERIES :>)]

          • TyrenM

            Save a corner for me to sign.

          • GreenLadyHere

            LOL — -TyrenM —–U posta —SIT – –NOT SGN. — –.

            But – — ifff U believe that U will – - -”VISIT” – -it OFTEN – — theeen – — -maybe U should SIGN. LOL — -

            — –Seeeeeee – —:>) – —***shakin’ my head***

      • Admiral_Komack

        (Loading suitcase for long vacation in The Bad Lounge)
        I’m sure he has…at one time or another… ;-)

        • BoomerGal

          Whuuut??? LOL!!!

        • AxelFoley

          Beat. me. to. it.

      • Daltex82

        No! LOL!!

      • http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia

        LOL!

  • Miranda

    GQ: Your three favorite rap songs?
    Marco Rubio: “Straight Outta Compton” by N.W.A. “Killuminati” by Tupac. Eminem’s “Lose Yourself.”
    http://www.gq.com/news-politics/politics/201212/marco-rubio-interview-gq-december-2012?printable=true&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitte
    ______________________________________

    Imma sit over here and wait for the same rwnjs on Faux News that bashed Common and swore the President was inviting a “gangbanging hoodlum” up into the White House to decry Rubio’s song choices.

    *won’t be holding my breath…just gonna sit here and read the new issue of Vogue*

    • nellcote

      IF it’s true, I wonder what he hears when he listens to N.W.A. and Tupac. Does he listen to the words? Does he agree with the words?

  • sagittarius

    Afternoon, POU Fam!

    • Alma98

      Hey sag!

      • sagittarius

        Hey Alma!

  • GN

    Popcorn post of the day:

    @Green_Footballs:
    Romney Camp Blames NJ Gov. Christie for Election Loss http://lgf.bz/XxXAKq

    • Miranda

      So hold up…this list is growing too fast for me..LOL..Romney lost because of:

      1. Gifts to the blahs, spics, horny young sluts and “da gayz”
      2. CNN and NBC doing Romney dirty in the GOP Primaries by showing the GOP Primary debates unedited.
      3. The blahs from outerspace or somewhere, showing up and voting when they hadn’t in 2008.

      and now:
      4. The keynote speaker to the 2012 GOP Convention didn’t call PBO a Kenyan Marxist Socialist Usurper at the press conference when PBO visited after Hurricane Sandy.

      mmmkay!!

      • Miranda

        Oh geez…I just read the New Yorker piece on their whining, can y’all believe this shit:

        “Christie,” said a Romney adviser, “allowed Obama to be president, not a politician.”
        http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/11/romney-camp-blames-christie-for-election-loss.html
        _______________________________

        He ALLOWED him? He ALLOWED President Obama…to BE PRESIDENT OBAMA??

        ROFLMAO…watching the “denial” stage of grief is HILARIOUS!

        • morphus

          *** blink ***

        • Kennymack1971

          It’s so pathetic… but funny as hell.

        • jds09

          A white man HAS to be the center of the universe. Classic. lol

          CSPAN has a video of Plouffle and Schmitt breaking down the race. Plouffle DESTROYS this talking point.

        • http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia

          LOL! They have lost their damn minds!

        • rikyrah

          He ALLOWED him? He ALLOWED President Obama…to BE PRESIDENT OBAMA??

          they can’t help themselves.

          WHITE ENTITLEMENT is a helluva drug, isn’t it?

    • Admiral_Komack

      Two-Face blames FatMan.

  • sagittarius

    Fam – let me get this out there in case life happens tomorrow:

    I wish you and yours a blessed, loving and Happy Thanksgiving!

    • Kennymack1971

      Right back at ya Sag. (That goes for the rest of ya’ll too.)

      • GreenLadyHere

        Dear Kennymack1971. – –***BIG – -HAPPY THANKSGIVING —HUG*** –2 U/YOURS. – –B BLESSED –AMEN. :>)

    • GreenLadyHere

      Dear sagittarius♥. – –***BIG – -HAPPY THANKSGIVING— -HUG*** :>)

      MAY U annnd YOURs B BLESSED. :>) – -AMEN. :>)

    • http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia

      Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours, and to all the POU fam! :-)

    • Alma98

      A Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family sag.

    • rikyrah

      HAPPY THANKSGIVING, SAG!!

      enjoy the time with your family and friends.

    • TyrenM

      Happy Thanksgiving Sagittarius.

  • Miranda

    Ere day I’m hustlin, hustlin

    Shorter Unskewed Polls founder: OK, so really, I WASN’T wrong about the polls being skewed! Voter fraud! Voter fraud!!

    Unskewed Polls’ founder claims Obama stole election

    Dean Chambers, the conservative blogger who vaulted from obscurity to fame in the last few weeks of the presidential election by “unskewing” polls he found to favorable to President Obama, has a new Web site claiming that Democrats stole the election.

    BarackOFraudo.com lists Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia as states “won by Voter Fraud.”
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/wp/2012/11/20/unskewed-polls-founder-accuses-obama-of-election-fraud/?wprss=rss_election-2012

    • Daltex82

      Unskewed Polls’ founder claims Obama stole election

      Sure, and the moon is made of cheese and unicorns that fart rainbows really exists! These people really need to get a life.

    • Kennymack1971

      HA HA *Tears *… They just can’t get over it.

    • rikyrah

      they hae lost their fucking minds.

  • GreenLadyHere

    –miranda – - –AHA!! – - -MR. PRESIDENT CONTINUES 2 B on his STRATEGIZIN’ GAME — – - -

    – - – -Takin’ It To The Streets – –da “FISCAL MATTER” –- – -

    – —Obama Plots Outside Game – -

    – — –President Obama “is preparing to expand the fiscal cliff fight beyond the confines of Washington, travelling the country and leaning on Democratic activist groups to help apply political pressure,” the Huffington Post reports.

    “The goal, organizers said, is to keep engaged the activists and followers who have stood with Obama through two campaigns, and to begin applying external pressure to the president’s negotiations with congressional Republicans.”

    “And so, top Obama operatives are gaming out ways to squeeze political capital out of the 2012 elections, aiming to affect the lame-duck session in Congress. Obama previewed the strategy in a conference call with activists after the election, saying that a second term that will include some barnstorming across the country.”
    THERE IS MORE.

    – - – — He’s – — -ON DA ROAD – -AGAIN!! – - — Woo! Hoo!! –

    Hope 2 C U – - -MR. PRESIDENT!! :>) – - – -

    • Aquagranny911

      I know he’s an old coot but my Kiddos & I use to sing this song every time Hubby got transferred or we went on any road trip back in the day…

      • GreenLadyHere

        OOPS! – — -I 4-got da SONG. – - – -THANKS :>)

        • Aquagranny911

          Not at all. I love that song! When ever we got ready to move again it was our theme song, lol.

      • nellcote

        We need more “old coots” like Willie :)

  • creolechild

    Good evening POU.

    Judge refuses to halt progress of California high-speed rail

    A judge on Friday denied a legal bid by farmers seeking to stall construction of the initial segment of California’s $68 billion high-speed rail project in the state’s agricultural heartland. Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Timothy Frawley denied a preliminary injunction motion filed by farmers who said they would be adversely affected by construction of the ambitious rail project.[....]

    Construction of the initial segment is expected to begin in the summer of 2013, Richard added. California’s bullet train network, expected to take decades to complete, would eventually connect Sacramento and San Francisco to Los Angeles, with stops along the 800-mile (1300-km) system.[....]

    Read more: http://newsandinsight.thomsonreuters.com/Legal/News/2012/11_-_November/Judge_refuses_to_halt_progress_of_California_high-speed_rail/

    H/T Mary Slosson

  • creolechild

    Mosque In Tennessee Holds Official Grand Opening |

    A Murfreesboro, Tennessee mosque, after fighting through two years of lawsuits, held a grand opening celebration on Sunday. The Murfreesboro, Tennessee Daily News Journal reported from the ceremony yesterday, where speakers included “Jerry Martin, U.S. attorney for Middle Tennessee, and Thomas Perez, U.S. assistant attorney general of the Department of Justice.”

    The Chairman of the Mosque said during the ceremony that, “today, Sunday, Nov. 18, marks the occasion of the opening of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro. I don’t know if you can tell how truly proud I am to say that. It was a long and bumpy road, a journey like no other. It was rough.” The opening comes after the mosque received a permanent occupancy permit because “the U.S. attorney argued that federal law required the county issue the certificate.” Previously, in August, the mosque had a prayer service after it was granted a temporary occupancy permit.

    http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/11/19/1216021/tennessee-mosque-finally-open/

    H/T Hamed Aleaziz

    • nellcote

      I’m so glad Holder is staying!

  • creolechild

    No, The United States Will Not Go Into A Debt Crisis, Not Now, Not Ever

    If there’s one article of faith in Washington (and elsewhere), it’s the idea that the United States might get into a debt crisis if it doesn’t get its fiscal house in order. This is not true. The reason why it’s not true is because we live in a fiat currency system, where the United States government can create an infinite number of dollars at no cost to meet its obligations.

    A Treasury bill is a promise that the government will give you US dollars–something that the United States government can produce infinitely and at no cost. That’s the reason why interest rates on United States debt have only gone down even as the debt has ballooned.[....]

    Read more: http://www.forbes.com/sites/pascalemmanuelgobry/2012/10/19/no-the-united-states-will-not-go-into-a-debt-crisis-not-now-not-ever/

    H/T Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry

  • nellcote

    Ken Burns Fights City Hall Over His New Film on the Central Park Jogger Case

    “They’re so full of shit,” says Ken Burns, railing against lawyers for New York, the city that’s been the glamorous star of so many of his documentaries. “The outrage that I feel comes from the fact that people were readily willing to sacrifice the lives of five young men, that they were expendable, that they’re still stuck in a lie, and that the institutional protectionism continues.”

    The master of languid still-photo pans and narration-heavy historical rambles seems to have metamorphosed into a firebrand—and not just in conversation. His new documentary, The Central Park Five, looks more like a Spike Lee joint or an Errol Morris exposé than anything in the Burns wheelhouse. It’s about five Harlem teens convicted of the infamous 1989 rape of Central Park jogger Trisha Meili only on the basis of shaky confessions. Those convictions were vacated in 2002 after a serial rapist, whose DNA matched some found at the scene, came clean as the sole attacker—and after the Five had been jailed for years and permanently branded as emblems of urban decay. The movie alternates between grainy, jump-cut archival footage, searing interviews of the men, and ticktock deconstruction of their interrogations. There is minimal music and no narration. An Oscar contender with a limited release this week, Five recently became part of its own news cycle when city lawyers subpoenaed the outtakes for their defense of a civil suit filed by the five men.
    [...]
    They reasoned that a film, especially a Ken Burns production, could help drive home the men’s innocence—which “never got the attention that their guilt did,” as a historian puts it in the movie. One of their most difficult tasks was explaining how five different teens could have confessed to something they knew nothing about. “I had to understand for myself how it happened,” says Sarah, who lives with McMahon in Park Slope. “It’s the hardest part, in some ways, to wrap your head around.” The film details the tricks detectives used—dangling the promise of food, sleep, and home in return for concocted scenes in which the suspects claimed to be minor players, but pointed fingers at each other. “It’s amazingly similar in all these cases,” Sarah says, “the same sort of techniques that are really effective even when you’re innocent.”

    read more:
    http://www.vulture.com/2012/11/ken-burns-on-the-central-park-jogger-case.html

    • GN

      God bless them for this:

      They reasoned that a film, especially a Ken Burns production, could help drive home the men’s innocence—which “never got the attention that their guilt did,” as a historian puts it in the movie.

      So utterly true. Those boys’ lives were completely destroyed by corrupt police and media hysteria. Teenage boys never stood a chance.

      • jds09

        The damage that the corrupt police and hysterical media lives on today. I’ve worked for a rape crisis center, if the prep is brown and the victim is white…it’s going to trail. White guy? Same scenario, he’s getting the benefit of the doubt and if it goes to trial the victim’s rep is under the microscope.

      • http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia

        Remember Trump taking out a full page ads in several papers asking for the death penalty to be reinstated? Racist bastard.

        • GN

          Yup; he’s a buffoon and POS.

        • AxelFoley

          YES, I remember that ratnested fucker doing that. 20-some years later, that bastard still shows his racist self. Any POC who works with this mofo needs to be checked.

          And I hope this movie brings Trump’s actions to light now and inspires the media to go after his ass. Yeah, yeah, I know, wishful thinking.

    • http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia

      I remember this case. *smh* The media put on their white sheets and hoods and proceeded to lynch those boys. It was disgusting! They showed no mercy.

      • GN

        “Wilding”–completely made-up accusation of supposed normal black and brown teen behavior, courtesy of media sensationalists and racists.

        • AxelFoley

          Yup, Nightline even had a segment on it back then.

    • AxelFoley

      I got to see this. I remember that case back in ’89 when I was 16. Those kids are about my age now, nearing 40.

  • creolechild

    Hostess May Avoid Bankruptcy

    CNBC and Reuters are reporting that Hostess and the bakers’ union have agreed to mediation, avoiding bankruptcy for the maker of Twinkies and Ho Hos. Bargaining will begin tomorrow, but if the talks don’t produce an agreement, liquidation will go forward on Wednesday.[....]

    Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/11/19/1217321/hostess-may-avoid-bankruptcy/

    H/T Igor Volsky

  • creolechild

    NFL Will Upgrade To Electronic Medical Records To Help Track Players’ Football Injuries

    Officials from the National Football League (NFL) announced on Monday that the organization will begin transitioning from the hand-written records it currently uses to keep track of players’s health to electronic medical records (EMRs) that will digitally record players’ injuries and general health histories.

    The new system will be phased in over two seasons and eventually implemented across all 32 professional football teams. While the NFL’s shift to EMRs won’t make football safer in and of itself, it will help ensure that team medics and private physicians can more easily share players’ medical histories, as well as allow doctors to monitor sensitive head injuries in real time:[....]

    Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/11/19/1215331/nfl-electionic-medical-records/

    H/T Sy Mukherjee

  • creolechild

    Top Three Things You Need To Know About The New Obamacare Rules

    [....] In a call with reporters, CMS and HHS outlined the new proposed rules, which instruct insurers, providers, and governmental institutions on how they must proceed in implementing Obamacare measures — ranging from a ban on discriminating against Americans with pre-existing medical conditions to public wellness initiatives such as coverage for employees’ gym use. Here are the three most important things you need to know about the new rules:

    1) Insurers will be prohibited from discriminating against Americans with pre-existing conditions.[....]

    2) State exchanges will establish a standard of “essential health benefits” that every plan will be required to cover.[....]

    3) Wellness programs will help promote public health and curb health care costs.[....]

    Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/11/20/1222291/three-things-obamacare-rule/

    H/T Sy Mukherjee

  • nellcote

    Tweety discovers Luther! Key and Peele on Hardball. LOL

    • rikyrah

      LOL

  • nellcote

    Petition at WH.gov:

    WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO:
    request that Sen. John McCain issue a public apology to UN Ambassador Susan Rice.

    Sen. John McCain has recently waged a very public campaign to call into question the professional integrity and competence of UN Ambassador Susan Rice. McCain’s criticisms fly in the face of official evidence and smack of a more personal vendetta against Ms. Rice and the Obama administration, not to mention that McCain has become an embarrassment to himself, the US Senate and his constituency.

    Sen. McCain needs to apologize and stand down, ASAP.

    https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/request-sen-john-mccain-issue-public-apology-un-ambassador-susan-rice/3LBdg7z5?utm_source=wh.gov&utm_medium=shorturl&utm_campaign=shorturl

    • http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia

      Instead of petitioning PBO, how about calling John McCain and demanding an apology? Here’s the contact info for all of his offices: http://www.mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.OfficeLocations

      • crazycanuck

        Really, why not go straight to the source?

    • jds09

      What I want to see is Rice sitting before the Senate in her confirmation hearings and laying them all to waste.

  • GN

    So so so so f-ing utterly sick and tired of the MASSIVE disrespect towards black people which is inherent in the fauxgressive tendency to claim that any and erryone relates to us as an “oppressed minority.” If black people do anything in term two, we need to stop the media onslaught against our history and our civil rights movement, because this is just getting fucking ridiculous:

    @mediaite PETA Asks Obama To Stop Turkey-Pardoning Ceremony, Compares Turkeys To Minorities http://bit.ly/T2e8mA

    …
    PETA sent out a letter to the Obama administration earlier today saying that the turkey-pardoning ceremony “makes light of the mass slaughter of some 46 million gentle, intelligent birds.” PETA president Ingrid Newkirk says this is the first time they have ever directly petitioned the White House about the ceremony itself, and criticized Obama for being a supposed “progressive standing there with an industry representative of factory farming.”

    The above image was used as part of PETA’s campaign to get people to go vegan on Thanksgiving, arguing that you would never eat a poor, defenseless little puppy, so why would you eat a turkey.

    In the letter, Newkirk compares the struggles of turkeys to the long history of minority groups being oppressed in the United States.

    “You understand so well that African-Americans, women, and members of the LGBT community have been poorly served throughout history, and now I am asking you to consider other living beings who are ridiculed, belittled, and treated as if their sentience, feelings, and very natures count for nothing.”

    • http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia

      She’s on twitter: @IngridNewkirk

      Twitter fam, please light her ass up! Enough is enough!

    • rikyrah

      I’ll say it again:

      FUCK PETA!

      • AxelFoley

        With a turkey leg.

    • AxelFoley

      These mofos here. I should go down to their Norfolk headquarters and egg the place. Seriously? Comparing our struggle to a damn turkey?

      Matter fact, didn’t they make some stupid ass comparison like this a few years back?

      • Miranda

        Yep, they compared the middle passage to chicken coops.

  • GreenLadyHere

    miranda – — –THIS TRUTH – –>TALKING = FAUX-change: – - – -WALKING – = NO CHANGE – - –

    DEY ain’t SLICK!! – -HAH! — -

    - — -Republicans Change Their Talk, but Still Walk Their Hateful Walk – –

    - —-There is a proverb, “actions speak louder than words” that many people refer to when they feel they are being scammed, and it means it is more effective to act directly than to speak of action. It also can be associated with a related adage that, “if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck” and it is very apropos to the Republican Party and their recent assertion they are changing to attract more voters as a response to their crushing defeat in the recent election, but they are adhering to same hateful agenda. The sad fact is regardless the GOP’s words that they heeded the voters’ message, they are plotting the same course with the same players the voters rejected two weeks ago.

    Republicans have lambasted Willard Romney for his comments in a call with donors that President Obama won because he gave gifts to women, minorities, and students, while they plod ahead with Romney and Ryan’s failed recipe to save the economy from “takers” by proposing harsh austerity measures to avoid the so-call fiscal cliff. They have also said they have to start reaching out to those groups and let them know they “like them,” but their actions belie their pathetic words. The Republican Party has tried this tactic before in 2010 when they promised their focus was on creating jobs, but like 2011, they are lying.
    THERE IS MORE.

    – - – –THEY WILL – - -DO THIS — 4-EVA!! – –

    – - –DEY R – - -PRECISELY — -WHO DEY R!! – –LIARS!! – - -

  • BoomerGal

    HAPPY THANKSGIVING, EVERYONE!! I am truly thankful for my health and that of my family. Amen.

    • GreenLadyHere

      HAPPY THANKSGIVING DAY — -BoomerGal♥ — – -***BIG HUG*** :>)

      Annnd the SAME 2 U annnd YOURS. – –:>) B BLESSED. :>)AMEN

  • GreenLadyHere

    miranda – — -Enters – - -KARMA!! – LOL- — -

    – — -Romney Likely to End Up at 47% – -

    – — -Greg Sargent: “When all the votes are counted, could Mitt Romney really end up achieving perfect poetic justice by finishing with 47 percent of the national vote? Yup. Dave Wasserman of the nonpartisan Cook Political Report says new votes in from Maryland put Romney at 47.56 percent. He predicts with certainty that with all of New York and California counted, Romney will end up below 47.5 percent of the vote. Rounded, of course, that would put the final tally at 51% to 47%.”

    – — -***Cheshire Cat —S-M-I-L-E!!*** LOL — -

    – - — –Annnnd a – - -BWAHAHAHA!! – -

  • angee

    Messina said that OFA will live to help the POTUS pass his policies. YAY!
    http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/11/20/obama-campaign-grassroots-organization-to-be-kept-alive/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_politicalticker+%28Blog%3A+Political+Ticker%29
    “But Messina was clear that while OFA will live on in some form, he was equally clear the campaign structure won’t be handed over to the next Democratic presidential nominee, saying “this organization was built for people who supported this president.”
    And billary weeps while screaming,”That MOFOer did it to us again!” Those clintonistas/PL/emoprogs better RECOGNIZE!

    • jds09

      I hope OFA stays intact, grows and PBO can bequeath it to Malia or Sasha if they want it.

  • GreenLadyHere

    — –REV AL is interviewin’ – - -REP. CLYBURN. Woo! Hoo! – - – -

    Callin on – –mcAncient 2 – -APOLOGIZE 2 DR. SUSAN RICE — NOW that he KNOWS – –DA TRUTH — -which he ADMITTED!! – - RACIST!!

    - — -He said : –☻ Still mad at – -”THAT 1″ – - -4 LOSING — in 2008! LOL

    Good INTERVIEW> :>) THANK U —GENTLEMAN. :>) B BLESSED. :>)

  • GreenLadyHere

    miranda – - -Luvin – –THESE – - -STATES – –STATS – - – -LOL – -

    – — – -Unemployment falls in 37 states – - -

    – — ->Blame Obama:

    (AP)–An increase in hiring helped lower unemployment rates in 37 U.S. states last month, the latest indication that the job market is slowly healing.

    Unemployment rates are now below 7 percent in 23 states. South Carolina had the biggest drop among states, a full percentage point in just two months.

    – —-C CHART!! – - –Woo! Hoo! – - -

    – –THANK U — -MR. PRESIDENT!! – - -

  • GreenLadyHere

    miranda – - -Luvin – –THESE – - -STATES – –STATS – - – -LOL – -

    – — – -Unemployment falls in 37 states – - -

    – — ->Blame Obama:

    (AP)–An increase in hiring helped lower unemployment rates in 37 U.S. states last month, the latest indication that the job market is slowly healing.

    Unemployment rates are now below 7 percent in 23 states. South Carolina had the biggest drop among states, a full percentage point in just two months.

    – —-C CHART!! – - –Woo! Hoo! – - -

    – –THANK U — -MR. PRESIDENT!! – - -

  • lamh36

    I’m heading on my way to NOLA with my sister Jessica. this dummy had to stop at TSA because she had a switchblade her pastor gave her for protection!!! I had to tell my whole fam so we could laugh at her dumb ass. She saw the picture of things u couldn’t bring on plane at the scanner & she notified the TSA guy. so they let her go but she had to leave the switchblade!!! she lucky they let her through. everybody wanted to know if she was arrested

    • http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia

      *dead*

      Have a safe trip, Lamh!

    • sagittarius

      All righty, then!

      Safe travels, lamh!

    • Alma98

      LOL! Have fun lamh and Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family.

    • AxelFoley

      I’m laughing at the thought that her pastor gave her the knife. What in the world? What’s next, pastors handing our guns to their congregation? LOLOLOLOL

    • Miranda

      A switchblade from her pastor?? ____________________*so gone*

  • Admiral_Komack

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JOE BIDEN!
    THIS IS A BIG FUCKING DEAL!

  • GreenLadyHere

    miranda – — –LOL – - –COMMENT: -Scott Christy ·
    I think it’s interesting that McCain thinks of Rhodes Scholar and Oxford PhD Rice as unqualified as a potential Secretary of State in light of his choice for Vice President.     – - -LOL – –Seeeee – -

    The ONLY SCHOLAR that she KNEW -OF – - -was the 1 in the S-section

    of da – -DICTIONARY!! – - –>SCHOLAR – –. a : a person
    who has done advanced study in a special field. b : a learned person.     -
    LOL – — -She always WONDERED WHO THAT was. – - -LOL – -

    - —McCain Backs Away From Benghazi Conspiracies – -

    - – - -Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) today issued a statement essentially conceding that he was wrong in accusing the White House of changing U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice’s talking points on Benghazi for political purposes.
    - – - -SNIP – —

    But Intelligence officials told CNN yesterday that the intelligence community was responsible for the changes made to Rice’s talking points. The Director of National Intelligence spokesperson said that the White House did not make any “substantive changes.”

    McCain responded today and instead of taking issue with the substance of the report, the Arizona Republican wondered why administration and intelligence officials didn’t offer this information in closed door sessions:
    THERE IS MORE

    — – –Annnnd NOW -ENJOY YER- – DINNER –WHILE U MAKE THAT – –APOLOGY!!- — -SAAAAAAA-LAP!!

    [Gotta "bounce" - 4 a minute. :>) Back soon. :>)]

  • GreenLadyHere

    miranda – — –LOL – - –COMMENT: -Scott Christy ·
    I think it’s interesting that McCain thinks of Rhodes Scholar and Oxford PhD Rice as unqualified as a potential Secretary of State in light of his choice for Vice President.     – - -LOL – –Seeeee – -

    The ONLY SCHOLAR that she KNEW -OF – - -was the 1 in the S-section

    of da – -DICTIONARY!! – - –>SCHOLAR – –. a : a person
    who has done advanced study in a special field. b : a learned person.     -
    LOL – — -She always WONDERED WHO THAT was. – - -LOL – -

    - —McCain Backs Away From Benghazi Conspiracies – -

    - – - -Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) today issued a statement essentially conceding that he was wrong in accusing the White House of changing U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice’s talking points on Benghazi for political purposes.
    - – - -SNIP – —

    But Intelligence officials told CNN yesterday that the intelligence community was responsible for the changes made to Rice’s talking points. The Director of National Intelligence spokesperson said that the White House did not make any “substantive changes.”

    McCain responded today and instead of taking issue with the substance of the report, the Arizona Republican wondered why administration and intelligence officials didn’t offer this information in closed door sessions:
    THERE IS MORE

    — – –Annnnd NOW -ENJOY YER- – DINNER –WHILE U MAKE THAT – –APOLOGY!!- — -SAAAAAAA-LAP!!

    [Gotta "bounce" - 4 a minute. :>) Back soon. :>)]

  • http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia

    Evening Thread is up!