The rising taliban threat:

Quote :

"Liberals, regardless of their race, say that ethnic and racial diversity in their neighborhoods are important to them. They also express a strong preference for living in a place that has museums and theaters. Conservatives express little interest in either of those factors in a neighborhood, but more than half say it is important to them to live in a place where many share their religious faith."

http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/politicsnow/la-pn-partisan-polarization-20140611-story.html

6/12/2014 12:19:32 PM

That should go in the "Conservative Crusade for Christian Sharia Law" thread

6/12/2014 12:29:22 PM

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/06/12/perry-reportedly-compares-homosexuality-to-alcoholism-at-san-francisco-event/

6/12/2014 4:46:05 PM

That's an interesting use of 'reportedly'.

6/13/2014 7:24:30 PM

Maybe this will finally put a nail in the coffin of Benghazi-gate.....

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/18/world/middleeast/apprehension-of-ahmed-abu-khattala-may-begin-to-answer-questions-on-assault.html?hp&_r=0

Quote :

"Despite extensive speculation about the possible role of Al Qaeda in directing the attack, Mr. Abu Khattala is a local, small-time Islamist militant. He has no known connections to international terrorist groups, say American officials briefed on the criminal investigation and intelligence reporting, and other Benghazi Islamists and militia leaders who have known him for many years."

Quote :

"On the day of the attack, Islamists in Cairo had staged a demonstration outside the United States Embassy there to protest an American-made online video mocking Islam, and the protest culminated in a breach of the embassy’s walls — images that flashed through news coverage around the Arab world. As the attack in Benghazi was unfolding a few hours later, Mr. Abu Khattala told fellow Islamist fighters and others that the assault was retaliation for the same insulting video, according to people who heard him."

So what do you know, it was a spontaneous attack sparked by a video and had nothing to do with Al-Qaeda, exactly like Susan Rice said at the very beginning.

[Edited on June 18, 2014 at 11:21 AM. Reason : :]

6/18/2014 11:20:29 AM

You know damn well that nothing this guy says is going to convince the don Quixote faction.

6/18/2014 11:40:49 AM

lol of course he said that. Rush was the first one to predict that he would.

6/18/2014 12:24:02 PM

lol at trying to pretend like this guy doesn't work for Hillary and Obummer. of course he said that, it's what he is paid to say.

6/18/2014 12:44:50 PM

lol at people thinking this guy even exists. there's a reason he'll be tried on a ship in privacy... because he isn't a real person. Obummer made him up to deflect from his huge foreign policy failure in Iraq.

^^how do you know Rush was the first? I bet he wasn't.

[Edited on June 18, 2014 at 12:53 PM. Reason : ]

6/18/2014 12:51:44 PM

Smath is a 300lb neckbeard

(i predict that when I call Smath a 300lb neckbeard he will deny it and say that he's not that fat

which, because i predicted what he would say, will confirm my claim that Smath is a 300lb neckbeard)

6/18/2014 12:58:48 PM

you wouldn't say that to my face you fucking pussy.

[Edited on June 18, 2014 at 1:38 PM. Reason : or are we not middle school taunting?]

6/18/2014 1:34:36 PM

fat people are people too, and you're one of them

6/18/2014 1:46:24 PM

Isn't it time to let the fat thing go? You're nearly 30 for Christ's sake. Grow up.

6/18/2014 2:02:52 PM

i knew you would say that, therefore i can dismiss it and use it to affirm my statement

6/18/2014 2:22:13 PM

^^^^,^^Missing the point.

6/18/2014 5:40:28 PM

No, I get the point he's trying to make.

That still doesn't change the fact that he's being a childish dick while trying to make it. But he knew I was going to say that, so he can dismiss it and use it to affirm his statement.

6/18/2014 9:00:15 PM

i knew you were going to say that I knew you were going to say that

6/18/2014 9:05:07 PM

Rethuggishness at Work

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/06/19/how-the-state-of-wisconsin-alleges-scott-walker-aides-violated-the-law-in-1-chart/

6/19/2014 3:59:54 PM

^so many layers to this onion

IMO, this will be THE case that either gives teeth to the "no coordination" with super PACs rule or our current anything goes approach. Equally important is where the line is drawn between "issue advocacy" and "political advocacy."

It's definitely not just republicans with their hands in this cookie jar either. I

I've been following kinda closely via the Journal Sentinel:
http://m.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/john-doe-prosecutors-allege-scott-walker-at-center-of-criminal-scheme-263839791.html

6/19/2014 7:40:36 PM

I know this isn't the most appropriate thread, but this is pretty funny

http://uproxx.com/webculture/2014/06/ann-coulter-on-the-world-cup-growing-interest-in-soccer-a-sign-of-the-nations-moral-decay/
(sorry to give her attention)

6/27/2014 1:37:31 PM

Boehner's CNN oped is full of the lulz

Quote :

"After years of slow economic growth and high unemployment under President Obama, they are still asking, 'where are the jobs?' "

he says after we just went past the pre-recession jobs mark (cue the "BUT PART TIME JERBS")

what a clown

[Edited on July 6, 2014 at 10:40 AM. Reason : .]

7/6/2014 10:40:08 AM

^ I watched the video above the article and the guy defending Boehner had his nice deflection to supreme court rulings after each point of the op ed piece was refuted..

...the supreme court ruled unanimously that some executive orders were unconstitutional, so does that mean when a law that some state passes is ruled 9-0 unconstitutional that the president can sue all members of that state legislature and governor?

Or could it possibly be the system of checks and balances working....

7/6/2014 5:34:39 PM

What was unconsitutional, are recession appointments executive orders?

7/6/2014 6:16:12 PM

Doh! Boehner caught lying to public about ACA exemptions for congress.

Publicly he wanted a bill that would ban members of Congress from receiving thousands in subsidies that they were to receive by joining Obamacare, however new emails show that he was lobbying to keep those subsidies and even lobbied with Harry Reid and met with Obama to keep them.

7/7/2014 9:53:20 AM

Quote :

"he says after we just went past the pre-recession jobs mark (cue the "BUT PART TIME JERBS")"

Not defending boner... but part-time and underemployed are two major issues in this economy. We can talk about, and compare, these fake and/or misleading numbers for employment/unemployment all you want, but to say employment is back is false.

7/8/2014 2:10:03 PM

and we all know that before Obama everyone had full-time jobs and full hours

7/8/2014 2:20:32 PM

A lot of things didn't exist before Obama in the GOP's eyes. It's like everyone fell asleep in 1988 and woke up in 2009 with a black guy running the place.

7/8/2014 3:12:54 PM

^^not what I, or anyone else, is saying at all...

Are you implying that underemployment, full employment, and part-time employment are all back to pre-recession numbers? Not sure if you're trying to read more into my post or what, but I'm not making any statements on Obama's admin and its impacts on the economy, just pointing out that we are not truly back to pre-recession employment numbers.

7/8/2014 4:08:00 PM

Sorry, actually I got this conversation confused with one that was arguing about a graphic that compared today to 2008

7/8/2014 4:16:34 PM

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/08/brandon-smith-mars-climate-change_n_5568058.html

In a condemnatory speech last week against the Obama administration’s new Environmental Protection Agency carbon emission regulations, Kentucky state Sen. Brandon Smith (R) claimed that man-made climate change is scientifically implausible because Mars and Earth share “exactly” the same temperature.

Smith, the owner of a mining company called Mohawk Energy, argued that despite the fact that the red planet doesn’t have any coal mines, Mars and Earth share a temperature. Therefore, Smith reasoned, coal companies on Earth should be exempt from emission regulations.

7/9/2014 10:08:45 AM

Maybe they should start mining for coal on Mars.

7/9/2014 10:21:18 AM

too many Martians

7/9/2014 10:25:27 AM

Coal is the absolute worst. The fracking industry is filled with corrupt lobbyists aLready, but I would love to see natural gas supplant coal (and more nuclear, wind, solar, and hydro).

I'm Not sure why we haven't started phasing out coal legislatively already, when there are way more options.

7/9/2014 10:35:02 AM

I ask this acknowledging I've done no research...is coal not cheaper than any other power source right now?

If so, wouldn't moving away from coal eventually make energy more expensive?

BTW I'm not a fan of coal energy. I ride through VA and WVA and see holes where mountains used to be, and it makes me sick.

[Edited on July 9, 2014 at 10:48 AM. Reason : ada]

7/9/2014 10:48:23 AM

5^that is some fine trolling by that guy

[Edited on July 9, 2014 at 12:48 PM. Reason : +1]

7/9/2014 12:48:23 PM

so they're suing obama because he delayed the employer mandate...the very thing the republicans wanted to have happen.

suing the president because you won't do anything he wants...even if it's what you want...god damn some of the GOP voters are the most gullible fuckers around

7/10/2014 10:16:32 PM

I think there was evidence that the mandate may not even be needed, enough people wanted insurance on their own that they could technically ditch the mandate and the program would be fine.

And the mandate is literally the 1 thing most people I know hated the most.

7/10/2014 10:18:42 PM

the mandate was the most important part of the legislation

7/11/2014 8:59:51 AM

I guess Boehner figures this silly lawsuit is his best chance of continuing his Speakership.

Or perhaps that orange dye has finally leeched into his brain.

7/11/2014 3:57:19 PM

The most ridiculous part is the framing as a lawsuit. Even if they had a legitimate legal complaint about the implementation of the law, you can't just sue someone because they do something you don't like. It has to personally affect you or cause you some kind of loss. Exactly what harm can they claim the Obama WH did to them? They routinely vote to delay or repeal the law in it's entirety. We should be fucking outraged that Boehner is wasting tax dollars on this.

7/11/2014 5:15:23 PM

to sue someone can also mean simply instigating legal proceedings

its not like theyre going after him for brewing too-hot coffee

7/11/2014 5:55:24 PM

moron, I'm pretty sure the individual mandate is still necessary, to keep adverse selection from unravelling the exchanges; still, the employer mandate is counterproductive IMO: We need to end job-lock, not continue it, and although it was added in so the ACA's proponents could claim it wouldn't change most people's health insurance, it was a bad idea.

Anyway, the reason I entered this thread was to give anyone planning funny business around those new .gop domains a reminder: https://www.join.gop/registry-policies

Fellow liberals, watch out for Section 1.i. under "Prohibited Uses."

Conservatives also need to keep that in mind but they also need to remember to steer clear of 1.h.

7/12/2014 11:15:23 PM

Quote :

" We need to end job-lock"

Job lock sucks, but my employer puts in about 13k toward my health plan, and I'm still on the hook for about 500/month. I couldn't imagine what a plan like that would cost on the exchanges. And our deductible is still 1000/person.

I'd be so pissed if I got booted from that and was forced onto the exchanges.

7/13/2014 9:53:09 AM

Sounds like your job really sucks. If you're deserving, I'm sure you can look to the employment market to find yourself an employer that will provide you with adequate care.

7/13/2014 10:18:28 PM

^^ if our system weren't retarded, you would be given that 13k into your paycheck and you'd be able to purchase health insurance that fit your needs. Oh, and it probably wouldn't be 13k a year, either (so you wouldn't be getting an extra 13k, but you get the point)

7/14/2014 12:02:18 AM

One thing about that though - even if it were 13k, which it would probably end up being more like half, that half is now taxable income that I have to report. That is really the only benefit to the current system.

Now I don't know how the exchanges currently work, but that 6.5K that I would now get taxed on, do I get some type of tax break when I roll it up into my own healthcare plan that I purchased on the exchange?

7/14/2014 7:17:49 AM

I'm going to assume there are more than 3 children involved in that health insurance plan.

7/14/2014 7:24:13 AM

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/14/gop-self-destruction-millennials-conservatives-backlash

[Edited on July 16, 2014 at 2:49 PM. Reason : ]

7/16/2014 2:49:30 PM

Strangely enough your employer receives a tax break on what they spend on your healthcare, but you do not. If they changed that (either not giving the tax break or extending it to individuals) you'd probably see some decoupling of health insurance and employers, see more individuals buying plans, and generally end up with a better scenario all around.

It'll never happen though.

7/16/2014 2:54:00 PM

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/07/17/todd-akin-i-should-have-said-legitimate-case-of-rape/
How delusional can someone be?

7/17/2014 10:02:07 PM